skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immigrants mainly just don't exist in Europe to the same degree. They are culturally more shat on there, but materially better off as they get more safety net, and aren't the backbone of the shitty service industry like here.

Letting in immigrants while you are trying to reduce working hours is a good idea because a) moral b) you are trying to show off you have the best society, let people vote with their feat c) you still need to make investments so being able to have total working hours go up while per-capita working hours goes down is good. Especially if there is a tech/productivity lag where you don't get fully automated dank shit for a few years after you make labor scarce

Letting in immigrants as beneath-the-table workers while trying to lower working hours means you get apartheid not utopia, so yeah, it's bad. The thing that makes America less bad is at least the elite likes to overwork itself for cultural reasons so the rat race is just as stupid but less unfair than it would otherwise be.
Funny, since the problem of “typing stuff into a text field and submitting it to a web site” was solved over 20 years ago, and without JavaScript. Yet web developers today still manage to try and fail to solve it using code. I guess when your only tool is a hammer…
I have the same thing, self-diagnosed as monomania. I had to train myself to stop thinking about my obsession when not at it, and the condition eventually subsided enough that it doesn't completely screw up my life anymore.

nb: looking it up on wikipedia, it seems that monomania was a 19th century psychiatric diagnosis, and is no longer considered a real condition.
https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=79313

Just need Apple to go down :)
A pitch deck that is music to the ears
Are Amazon Digital Tokens Real?
Gold was the world reserve currency for millennia and acted similarly to bitcoin and other crypto currencies. You can still have emergent government structures many of the bitcoin people would hate on top of a base store of value which is not centrally produced by governments.
Borrow the maximum you can and invest it. There's very little interest to pay on loans right now and has been for about 13 years now. In the meantime assets have skyrocketed in value. Unless there's a change in policy and a crash is allowed it won't change. Put all the money into old fashion shares and housing. No need to risk it on options or anything like that.

Hindsight shows the stock market has more than doubled in 10years and interest has been at <3% for even small players in that time. Those who borrowed after the 2008 crash needn't work today. Now this is of course hindsight. But the conditions that allowed this to continue for 13 years are still ongoing which is a cause for alarm.
Slack Introduces New Platform with Help from Deno
You can certainly make a lot of money on options, but the behavior may be non-obvious to someone who doesn't have experience with them. If you buy a 10% OOM call and the market stays flat, you end up losing the entire investment even though the underlying hasn't moved. Do you know how does that 10% relate to the current implied or realized volatilities, are you actually buying the optimal strikes or have just gotten lucky? If this was just a fraction of your portfolio, then it's no harm done, but if you repeatedly punt your entire portfolio into OOM options, you are running a serious tail risk of being completely wiped out even if the market goes up!

Options absolutely are rocket science. The actual pricing is anything but obvious and requires undergraduate level math. More advanced models require graduate level math and focused study. Yes, making money on stocks is easier than ever, but please for the love of God at least use something like levered ETFs or futures and don't bet the entire farm. The bubble is going to pop. Inflation is picking up, and the moment central banks step off the gas pedal (which they will have to), there's going to be a de-leveraging. Retail will almost always end up holding the bag one way or another.

You can generally get 2-3x leverage with futures or ETFs as well and they are a linear instrument with obvious payoff characteristics. Informed players absolutely know and track the amount of flows that these super leveraged retail traders are injecting. Make no mistake, you are being monitored and trades are being done in anticipation of the flows you'll generate. And once the bubble pops and you are forced to liquidate, you are going to be liquidating at a really bad price.
> gray area between incompetence and malice

Meaning there's enough incompetence going around to provide plausible deniability for routine malice.
Instagram Live widely releases a new way to support creators
GCP was today actually.
Very press-releasey, which I guess is fair given that it is, indeed, a press release. I'd love to hear more context from people knowledgeable in the field.
Yeah I think a model of computation set in Minkowski space time is novel compared to classic theory of computation, which is sort of set in Plato land.
Because it will be abused. Just like video game anti-cheating software used to periodically take and exfiltrate screenshots without the user's knowledge. Reading the privacy policies of those things was terrifying.
If I had a nickel for every time folks have suggested moving out to the country as a solution to the housing crisis...
It seems to me that the argument is kind of silly. The "Chinese Room" has failed to account for the actual processes of the system. The 'spoken response' is only a small part of the 'program' of a mind; the rest is the internal processes that constitute consciousness that can infer, compare, reinforce, and associate. Consciousness is the whole of the system, not a functional IO.
Robinhood was one that we (me + friends) were a bit on the fence about, since it does -- as you say -- get really close to the edge, but it seemed close-enough.
Ah, nice! I missed that. That definitely helps.
Modigliani: The Artist in Freefall
Certain recreational activities are in fact new as hobbies, at least at scale. Skiing, mountaineering, and camping were once things you did out of necessity, not for funsies.

For example, our records for recreational skiing stretch back basically 300 years. Mountaineering has been done practically forever, but as a mass hobby it’s also basically 250 or so years old. The idea that you’d do it for fun rather than as a spiritual quest or to catch a lost sheep is a fairly new idea.

Hiking is a bit more debatable. Humans have walked on local trails for practical and recreational purposes forever. Some European trails are clearly very old, so that’s hardly new. But I think the idea of backpacking deep into the woods for fun has exploded in popularity over the past century, and certainly got a huge kick in the pants with the creation of the national park system.
The Treasury sells savings bonds that are at 7.12% right now. It's not the same thing as a savings account and you can't put a million dollars in, but you can still get a good interest rate on smaller amounts.
>Firefox has turned anti-privacy, and aside from any technical issues, it seems it is being driven entirely by Google's agenda.

>It just seems to be wandering around and doesn't lead in any appreciable way anymore.

OK, but this is all speculation.

How is Firefox a much worse browser?
As someone who knows little about quantum computing, what is the significance of 127-qubits? (as opposed to classical computing's 128 bits, as a reference)
You are in a social media website
Canada is a special case: small population, huge area to cover. The infrastructure budget in Canada per square kilometer is very low.
>FF devtools is a pain to use compared to Chrome.

How so?
There was a GCP outage a few days ago, which is what Outage Bingo has linked. It sadly doesn't currently support multi-links per-card.
this subthread is about science, I'm responding to https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/17/the-alzheimer-photo/
> does the person just doing a "hash-table lookup"

But this is Searle's sleight-of-hand. The question isn't whether the person in the Chinese room understands Chinese, but whether the system as a whole understands Chinese. The man is analogous to the CPU in a computer, but the CPU is embedded in a larger system and it is the entire system that performs operations of the computer. You can't focus on one component to the exclusion of the rest of the system and expect to derive valid conclusions about the system.

>The challenge is to specify the environment computationally

I agree, but this presents no in principle challenge to a computational system reaching such a detailed description of the environment.

>The issue here is that if "computer" isnt just a trivial property it has to include, eg., measurability, determinism, etc. Properties that reality lacks. Reality isnt a computer.

I don't follow. The issues of measurability and determinism in QM (assuming that's what you are referring to) aren't necessarily problems at the scale of physical systems. Computational systems can certainly make distinctions to within some margin of error, which is sufficient as a substrate for gathering information about the external environment.
Well, is it better to be let in and provided with services (what the US does) or kept out and in an impoverished country?
The high level points in this blog post do a pretty good job of explaining why web3 is worth paying attention to instead of dismissing as "NFT scam stuff and crypto".

https://mirror.xyz/theodorachu.eth/TJU1w2Z49KvzcrKnPEwJodTvB...
I'd be happy to help out on the mongo side if you'd like. Maybe some github issues with a related label to help triage those issues would be helpful for folks to lend a hand.

I'll concede that no/low-code solutions have never historically worked out at my organization (context: I am cofounder and director of engineering at a wireless ISP). Theres always a set of tradeoffs that make it really hard to deliver value when you're dealing with business domain constraints that are hard to generalize.

That said, I am always willing to give things a fair shot and have a long list of small use cases that I use for prototyping when I go down that rabbit hole.
> Furthermore, they don't "help with teaching", they're basically paid tutors.

So they teach the class or just help the teacher (hence helping with teaching)?

> Yes I went to Lambda, and yes I'm employed as a Software Engineer.

Ahh, so there's an incentive to defend the brand here.
The black plague eventually broke feudalism, and if Manchin doesn't completely cuck us Covid-19 might eventually break neoliberalism.
you taking it too personally bro
Comparing it against the list of examples given in is-number, this solution does not properly handle numbers represented as strings, and it also recognizes Infinity as a number.
Also, in most teams, people who do external communication are different from those doing triage and troubleshooting.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/what-is-web3/
It doesn't seem particularly nonsensical to contend a concrete wall has some form of consciousness. Concrete walls don't spring up out of nowhere, they're built by humans who have a need to separate things (either for good or for bad). A single concrete wall might not seem like much, but in the greater scope of things, the rising and falling of all concrete walls seems to represent some sort of plane of humanity and its consciousness. Even think of the extremely complicated emotions evoked by different types of walls: i.e. the Berlin Wall, the U.S.-Mexico Wall, the Great Wall, etc. I know I'm probably reading way too much into this specific example, but I think this could generally apply to a lot of things.
Installing the budibase server from npm pulls in over a thousand transitive dependencies. The npm install command reports that there are 39 known vulnerabilities in budibase's dependencies, including 9 that are classed "high" and 3 that are "critical" severity.

The dependency graph includes a lot of crap, like packages containing trivial single-line functions like "is-object" and "is-stream". That's a very large attack surface considering the poor security practices in the npm ecosystem[0] and the growing frequency of attacks on transitive dependencies[1].

I'm interested in hearing from the creators what steps they take to audit their transitive dependencies in order to prevent this application from being compromised. Given that a tool like this would typically be given privileged access to internal data sources, it seems like a tempting target. I don't think I'd be comfortable using this in production.

[0]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/52-percent-of... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28962168
Let's just say that MySQL docs are not super helpful when you want to quickly refer to something.

Here's[1] an explain output that I ran just now. The row labeled "rows" is the actual number of rows scanned which as you can guess is bad because it's doing a full able scan.

I completely ignore the actual execution time and focus mostly on two things 1) indexes used; 2) number of rows scanned. If rows scanned is high it means I need to do something about it now even if the absolute query time is low. Either an index is missing or someone in the application code is querying the wrong way (random example, using a "like" on a full table).

[1] https://imgur.com/a/0Pj52QA
You switched the context from a unit test to something different.

Here, there I'd use something like this (changing some method names, too, since we're fixing names):

userInput := getUserInput()
validatedInput := validateUserInput()
ipAddress := parseIpAddress(validatedInput)
pathAddresses := getIpPathRouteTo(ipAddress)

I'm making some assumptions about what these methods do and return. E.g., if validate/validateUserInput does something more specific than general user input validation then it should have a more specific name and the variable its result is assigned to would too.
The article portrays a simple dichotomy: mental versus physical. But there is something interesting going on with psycho-social explanations. Given the epistemological difficulties one rather expects extended fights between the proponents of rival psycho-social theories. But the tendency is for one such theory to win and obliterate its rivals.

Consider ME/CFS. The human body has remarkable powers of recuperation. Feel ill with a cold? Just take two weeks off to rest and you will recover. Broken bone? That will need splinting, but again it will heal up in six weeks. Ah! Now we come to the difficulty. There are standard times, two weeks, six weeks; what happens if something goes wrong and healing takes a lot longer?

One psycho-social explanation of ME/CFS is that patients aren't patient. Something nasty has happened, bio-medically, and they need to take two year out of their hectic life to recover. After six months they cannot take resting and pacing any more and do too much, too soon, provoking a major relapse. That restarts the clock on two years to recover. Rinse and repeat indefinitely. Call that "trying too hard".

The rival psycho-social explanation is that patients are deconditioned due to too much rest and need to exercise and build up their stamina on a "normal" schedule. Call this "not trying hard enough". This doesn't really work as an explanation because some of the patients are ex-athletes and familiar with training and building back up systematically after time off for an injury or illness. They are going to the doctor because they have done what always worked in past, because it hasn't worked this time. The rival psycho-social explanation isn't relevant to the actual problem.

It is worse than that. NASA attempts to study the effects of weightless on the ground, in gravity, by having people lie in bed and get deconditioned. Deconditioning is a rather delicate effect. It depends on a rigid discipline of lying down all the time. The effects wear off rather quickly. Crucially the effect wears off monotonically. It is not like ME/CFS with its key symptom of Post-Exertional Malaise: sufferers think they are getting better, but a day or two later, wallop, they have a flare up of symptoms.

The natural expectation is for a fight between psychologists. "Trying to hard" versus "not trying hard enough". One expects it to be a one-sided fight. "not trying hard enough" is a much worse fit to what the patients experience.

Back in the real world "not trying hard enough" has won a total victory. When patients are angry about the "not trying hard enough" explanation, that is understood as anger about the psycho-social model, as if there were only one. The important question is "Why prefer the implausible psycho-social model over the plausible one?". And that question is difficult to ask.

The article manages to skip over the central issue with popular "all in your head" explanations. It is not that they compare unfavourably with "physical illness" explanations. The problem is that they compare unfavourably with less popular "all in your head" explanations. What is going on there?
I've driven that trip many, many times. Its a wonderful drive if you like peace and quiet.

Although as my cousin put it, all he saw was "A tree, a rock, a mountain, a river, and a bear."
PostgreSQLsify Everything with Babelfish and MangoDB
We sent them a pull request to remove mozmail.com now that the aliases should be "safe"r for relying parties to accept.

upvotes maybe?

https://github.com/disposable/disposable-email-domains/pull/...
Most of these smart phone apps are pretty bad at providing even driving directions in the back country. Plenty of times I’ve had either Apple or Google fail to recognize a forest service road, which I presume is in a freely available file somewhere, and tell me to park and walk miles to the trailhead. I’ve learned the hard lesson to have a backup plan just for navigating to the trailhead, let alone once I’m on the trail.
One advantage of autotools is that at least a lot of the skills are transferable. Shell scripts and Makefiles (and OK, M4 isn't so popular these days, but it was for a reasonably long time) are things I can learn and use everywhere, not just this project, not just C projects, not even just development.

I don't learn any transferable skills writing Webpack or Babel config. They don't even necessarily transfer to the next generation of the same tool.

I would also take a stable autotools over an unstable autotools, and I consider most of JS-land roughly equal in usability to unstable autotools. Autotools was also not that bad on the happy path where you were targeting, say, the top five POSIX systems over ten years - and maybe you didn't even need it at all, if you didn't need the performance from distinguishing each platform's best supported fd polling variant. Vs. JS, which is still bad even if you're only targeting evergreen browsers, because maybe you're stuck trying to integrate CSS modules with TypeScript or something. That kind of problem simply doesn't exist in autotools world.
> I Hate Password Rules

I hate passwords altogether.

In this day and age, nearly all instances of password usage can be replaced by public key cryptography for a vastly improved user experience. And, of course, for a net gain in security.
NFTs are just a standard. They can be a part of scams as much as they can function as an authorization scheme in dapps.
What if it is? You can drive to that person's house, park outside, and steal some Wifi?

(With the combination of SSID/password that is in the document, though, that's kind of like saying "I hope example@example.com isn't your real email address." Well no, it's an example.)
"A major cryptocurrency service" links to https://thehackernews.com/2021/11/robinhood-trading-app-suff..., not sure if it's on purpose or by mistake? Robinhood is not a major service in the cryptocurrency space.
I'm up to 47 people that have told me that their own CSF Leak started after taking a FQ based antibiotic.

I spoke about this subject at the first ever Spinal CSF Leak conference to the worlds leading doctors for the condition. They are well aware of the issues.

The EDS docs are also well aware of the dangers posed by these drugs. Sadly few others are.

Dr Schievink, at the top of the CSF Leak food chain (After him there is no places else to go) has stated "that just slightly less than 100% of the people with CSF Leaks, have some type of connective tissue disorder".
> It heralds the point in hardware development where quantum circuits cannot be reliably simulated exactly on a classical computer.
"Sign in with Google" also grants you access token you can use to access Google APIs on behalf of the user

sorry, but your concept doesn't
I actually kind of like TOTP, since I can choose the implementation I want to use, and make backups, and so on. I loathe having to use any kind of bespoke MFA app, and I just resent the use of SMS for MFA.
You wrote, "I was talking about import in JavaScript itself, not build tools or package managers," and keep mentioning things like "the import syntax of the language", so this feels like retconning.

The confounding details you bring up are entirely the result of that idiosyncratic tooling. JS itself has `import`, thus there is no problem of the sort that you describe—at least not as you've described it. (I.e., this isn't to say that there are no problems, only that the way that your characterization of the problem as being one with "JS itself" doesn't match the problem that actually exists.)

To say it again, if you see a problem with JS, that's because you're elevating the parastandard stuff to a higher level than it deserves. If you're able to meaningfully separate "Java" from "Maven and Gradle" in your mind, then you should be able to do the same with "JS" and the NodeJS derpitude.
Lists of "references" like these are worthless. Because larger companies tend to be fragmented, especially companies that have more complicated business lines and are used to departments and divisions acting independently.

You know what, our company uses both Snowflake and Databricks.

For Databricks, there's one or two projects that someone built on it running in production. For Snowflake, there's a sizeable use because we bought a smaller company that used it for reporting and warehousing. Neither of them are "the chosen tool" and will see any growth unless wind changes. But we could be (F50 company) counted as reference by both I guess.
Simplifying Geospatial Data Analysis with Python Using Databricks
>I need to start a list of companies with dumb password rules

You were heard: https://github.com/duffn/dumb-password-rules