skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My issue with your approach is your first time programer still needs to:

- install/update PHP or go with the outdated version that shipped with their system.

- have a hosting service that will accept random PHP files

- know what their hosting's PHP version/configuration is to match it locally. For instance their hosting will keep the most secure config possible, thus no out of the box fetching of URLs.

- endlessly fight to find syntax errors as they are too new to have a linter. Depending on the PHP version they settled on they won't have error logs in one place but two.

- fight the endless stream of out of date tips and tricks left by 2 decades of PHP programers of various pedigree.

All of these have different variations for different languages, they all have their barriers and dead bodies in the closet. My take is that PHP isn't specially beginner friendly at this point, at least not as friendly as it was when it began.

Making a public website from scratch will be complex anyway, so they might as well go with a saner setup that uses a templating language and not write code right into the HTML. It won't be much harder and they'll have a fighting chance to find up to date tutorial to host their project easily (hosting a rails project on Heroku for instance could be miles easier in that respect)
I think the article is conflating investment with governance, or at least it may read like that to a general audience.

The idea of raising money from the public isn't new. Kickstarter, GoFundme, Girl Scouts, and "crowdfunding" in general have all been around for a while. At a certain point, this is what stocks are too.

The difference is that without a DAO, the investors have no guaranteed say over the product itself. One could fund 100% of a Kickstarter project and yet it is the project owner who has final say over the product design and most business decisions.

A DAO is about distributing governance. For example, if Apple were organized as a DAO, then the stockholders would vote on whether or not the new MacBooks have a TouchBar. Or if McDonald's were a DAO stakers could vote on bringing the McRib back.

It's a scary but fascinating proposition. Are stakeholders qualified to get their hands dirty with product design? Does the general public really know what it wants?

One way to find out...
I think the author is making a fairly critical mistake here. If I understand correctly, they missed the fact that the -O2 and -O3 results are several orders of magnitude faster... Likely meaning the compiler optimized away the whole loop in those cases, rendering their results useless.

Edit: Yeah, looking at the godbolt link they provided, at least the execute_loop_basic function does essentially no work.
Sounds more like something with your instance. I didn't use my mastodon.social account for a couple years and when I went back a few weeks ago, everything was still there
Usually this op chain feature is used to allow `if a == b == c:`. This is resolved as (a==b) and (a==c). Following this logic the assignment statement is extended the same way as far as I understand. It's just more surprising.
I got access to their free API access about five months ago, and I liked it so much that I converted to a paid plan. I don’t really understand some of the negativity here: OpenAI is now a for profit company, their GPT-3 APIs solve many difficult use cases, and they charge a very reasonable fee for reliable access.

It is a little sad that just a few large AI focused companies in the USA and China have the financial resources to build very large models, and I don’t like that situation. I have slowly come to accept that these companies can make a profit selling access, and as long as the access is reliable and reasonably priced, then that is sort of OK.

Just today in the news Google announced an alpha TF-GNN that is likely something that I will eventually use. Also today Facebook announced a 2G parameter model that understands a few hundred languages and I think they are going to make the trained model available for free if I understood their press announcement correctly. I don’t have the hardware resources to stand up something like FB’s new model, so OpenAI’s approach of running their model on their servers to power their API is better for me. I added new GPT-3 example chapters to my Common Lisp and Clojure books, so it is good to know that readers can now get API access tokens without waiting.
This has been my experience using Sorbet.

I sometimes get annoyed when I get stuck screwing around with the RBI files. Then I get in the flow and remember how fast Sorbet allows me to move.
Agree. Gets lost in the decentralization memes? Strong, shared identity and auth for digital assets can't be overstated? This enables new models for digital ownership, value, trade, markets and storage of information.
It can mess up when you are dealing with global resources. ie. two different versions of the same package both attempting to initialize global state (memory, filesystem, databases, whatever) will usually conflict with itself. Often in ways that will crash or even cause data loss.
The loop un-rollers in the old Intel high performance C compiler used to emit code like this.

It was sometimes pure joy telling it to emit the assembly language and looking at the code to work out what it was doing. Intel must have had, and still probably has, some awesomely clever people in the basement writing that stuff.
On a similar note, I've heard that the words for animals, like cow or pig, tend to be Germanic while the words for their meat, like beef or pork tend to be Latin.
CSGO hysteria and forgotten TF2 design [video]
This echos my partner’s experience (the treat covid in an icu). This was almost a year un with some plausible evidence and several countries saying they thought aerosol transmission was likely. Yet the key agencies and experts here were aggressively saying aerosol transmission was very unlikely.
There's also arweave, which is similar to IPFS. I've been hoping to migrate my application to being hosted entirely on arweave, or at least test it out to see how it works in practice.

If it works how I think it works, then I can pay a one time fee to host my application, migrate the few APIs that my next.js app is using to be purely onchain Solana programs, then figure out some DNS solution to point it to the right place, and then I don't have to pay monthly hosting, and users can be sure that the value my app provides won't be taken down because I decided to no longer pay for hosting.

It's all theory at least for me right now, but I think it is possible.
What happens when:

- You don't get a "decisive majority" of verifications?

- Republicans decide it's better to cast doubt on an election by all saying their votes were counted incorrectly rather than accept the results?

- People don't remember who they voted for--they probably remember President; do they remember State Senator?

- A corrupt government allocates extra keys and says all those keys voted for them?

- Voters lose/misremember their key (how do you revoke the old key without mapping it to that person)?

- People gain/lose voting eligibility (they move, are imprisoned, etc.)?
Speaking of layers of protocols... that just feels like adding NAT to IPv4: A patch job solution for something that was deeply flawed to begin with.
Yes, IQ is important for tasks related to complex civilizations. There is a reason Africans don't have those.
"Outside of finance, I also struggle to see any application which can deliver a more desirable UX. "

Wow really? Let me ask you, what is it about finance that stands out to you opposed to other use-cases?

I won't name any yet. Looking to have an intelligent and educational banter, my wife seems to be lacking all sense of reason and I'm hoping to escape that reality for a bit. Lol

Please everyone, let us converse.

Also OP, be careful getting information from Twatter and other communities. Those places are echochambers and theyll corner you into buying someones pumped bags. Not always but there's illusions and manipulations in those spaces despite what they claim. Do your own research.
Hopefully this thread will lead to lots of ideas for you.
The status of Ruby memory trimming and how you can help with testing (2019)
it taking up more of an app's code doesn't mean that it suddenly has a need for typing. but even then, that assertion is incorrect, javascript has been making up a large majority of the codebase for quite some time now. Nodejs is 12 years old and jquery 15. That argument is one that could've been made like 9 years ago, but even then, multiple projects have tried adding typing and the javascript community strongly rejected it (heck typescript was pushing for it in 2014). Anecdotally, I've met considerably more and more developers coming from C# projects who are being made to do frontend work or find work in the javascript world, who seem to be very intent on pushing for typescript in their orgs.
> tribes around in Polynesia

Please refrain from this sort of imperialist language. Refer to the particular nations and peoples by their real names, not a catch-all concocted by a Frenchman.
Florida has a much older population so you’d need to adjust for that.

Plus Florida has moved on since 8 months ago. No everything is measured in only covid deaths.
"They're not remotely the same thing. The former drops to less than 50% effectiveness after six months, the latter eradicated the disease."

Would you only take the first Smallpox vaccine, or would you get the booster every 3 years?

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/smallpox/index.html

Adverse reactions (including myocarditis): https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/vaccine-basics/vaccination-effe...

It also eradicated small pox since the vaccine was mandated.
> Do you ever offer to extend free trial for people who want to cancel, and do you convert them back?

Yes - but that's the sales reps job. If they think we have a decent chance of converting "no" into a sale after they reach out to the customer to find out what, if anything, made the customer decide not to become a paying customer, they can extend the trial.

In my experience the vast majority of the convertable free trial expiration without conversion is lack of time on customer's side -- the customer did not really use the product. So now our sales people actively approach those customers.
It also depends on the suburb you were in in New York. If you were in "some" neighborhoods, the taxies would never come.

In New Orleans, when you wanted to get a ride home from a bar, you'd need to try calling taxi services for 30+ minutes, because most of them didn't answer, or their lines were busy. If you got in contact with one, you'd need to wait 30+ minutes for them to show up, if they ever did.

In San Francisco, when the bars would let out, none of the services answered their phones. You'd have to stand outside and try to flag one down, and most of the time they'd roll their window down and ask where you're going, and decide whether or not they want to take you. You could easily spend an hour outside waiting for a taxi.
They right clicked JPEG art associated with NFTs.

Who's upvoting this nontechnical propaganda? (Media conglomerates really don't want you to buy ETH/BTC)
Unfortunately this is the status quo, not shenanigans. The data the FDA relies on to approve drugs and vaccines is considered a trade secret and is generally never made public.
Smallpox: Threat or False Flag? A Telling Timeline
On November 16, 2021, it was reported that 15 vials of smallpox (variola) were found at Merck’s North Wales, PA laboratory
Something of a self-fulfilling prophecy, then, huh.
TypeORM has a lot of issues but in our case it hasn't caused any major blockers. Most of the time the issue is with documentation and sometimes you run into issues like this: https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/issues/316.

NestJS on the other hand is very solid. It has good documentation and a good community. We haven't faced any issues with NestJS yet.
A credit card for user validation is not necessarily a dark pattern. However, it has been abused by too many services to trick people into paying. Either by forgetting to cancel, or by having an automatic fee based on usage.
No, it’s actually illegal in the US, people have been penalized for doing it and if you are a victim of it there are ways to report it.

In Singapore it’s just tolerated.
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A bill like this probably has 0 complete readers and many distributed readers. About 1644 folks will read it (in part) to summarize for 538 folks... roughly split 50/50 (folks lookin to shoot it down versus folks that want to pass it).

There will untold numbers of folks with their own axes to grind, cherry-picking a sentence or two for/against their particular cause,

Democracy... a mess worth dying for?

edit: cause not clause.
> but even then, that assertion is incorrect, javascript has been making up a large majority of the codebase for quite some time now. Nodejs is 12 years old and jquery 15. That argument is one that could've been made like 9 years ago,

Typescript is 9 years old. React was still a project then and Angular was brand new. SPA's were still a new-ish concept then. JS was not used as widely 10 years ago as it is now, thanks to SPA's. The web was a drastically different place back then.

I am not at all saying that TypeScript should always be used, far from that. I just think it has a valid spot in the world of web development.
WHO isn't part of the US government though.
My prediction is much less wacky than predicting a colony by 2050.

I think everyone overestimates the public interest and "excitement" over going to Mars. The reason we haven't been back to the Moon in 50 years is that the public lost interest after the ~third or fourth launch, and stopped tuning in to the broadcasts. With ever-improving VR technology, I'd predict that more and more people would be satisfied enough with a VR experience of Mars, and be done with it. The need to physically "go" to a place and claim it for yourself will be a thing of the past.
Which the officials created, not the intelligent individuals who don’t think it wise to follow advice that is likely not accurate and for unknown reasons.
As far as I can tell the “side effects” are beneficial synergies - I love having shade in parking lots for example. You should also be saving on real estate costs if you already had a primary use for the real estate.

Maybe the solar cost efficiency taken alone is reduced, but the system efficiency of the real estate use goes up as does the ownership value for the property owner.
Maybe they shouldn't be derogatorily called "anti vaccine conspiracy theorists," then, but merely "observant."
Australian govt’s betrayal of Julian Assange and detail his prison torment
I've been brainstorming a lot honestly about the implications that simple proof of identity and proof of ownership can really imply. I honestly might try my hand at creating a full out replacement for existing authorization techniques sometime next year, I've got some ideas and frankly if it works it's so simple it's stupid lol.

It's so fascinating to me to realize that users being owners of their own private keys allows for us to create websites that don't rely on traditional registration flows, SSO, email addresses, password handling, or anything. It almost feels like cheating compared to the pain I've had to deal with in the corporate world implementing services like IdentityServer4 or Keycloak.
This is a perfectly valid thing to ask a user; it is part of a common dark pattern, but that does not mean it is itself bad; it is certainly sometimes necessary.
Oh, I get it. I've represented hacked companies and sat down with FBI agents in tedious, but educational sessions trying to find hackers. It's a real headache and ultimately fruitless.

The problem with hacking a bank is all they can really do is try to screw up the data or lock it down. Even people who work at the bank can't figure out how to move money around, much less where to wire it to to profit anonymously.
I didn't admonish you, I explained why you were getting downvoted and flagged. And you told me I was racist. What more is there to say?
> Shenanigans like this are what fuel the anti vaccine conspiracy theorists

What shenanigans? Per the OP:

> That’s how long the Food & Drug Administration in court papers this week proposes it should be given to review and release the trove of vaccine-related documents responsive to the request....

> The 1967 FOIA law requires federal agencies to respond to information requests within 20 business days. However, the time it takes to actually get the documents “will vary depending on the complexity of the request and any backlog of requests already pending at the agency,” according to the government’s central FOIA website.

> Justice Department lawyers representing the FDA note in court papers that the plaintiffs are seeking a huge amount of vaccine-related material – about 329,000 pages...

> But the FDA can’t simply turn the documents over wholesale. The records must be reviewed to redact “confidential business and trade secret information of Pfizer or BioNTech and personal privacy information of patients who participated in clinical trials,” wrote DOJ lawyers in a joint status report filed Monday.

> The FDA proposes releasing 500 pages per month on a rolling basis, noting that the branch that would handle the review has only 10 employees and is currently processing about 400 other FOIA requests.

How long would it take a team of 10 people to even read 329,000 pages of documents in addition to their current workload, let alone review those documents, which likely would frequently require back and forth consultations with others to do properly (e.g. the legal department or Pfizer's people)? How likely is is that they'll get money appropriated to beef up staffing levels of their FOIA team to get this done much more quickly?
This is a pretty interesting read. It looks like there are some exciting things happening in Ruby. I am new to Ruby, but I have been learning it after years of python and Java and Javascript, since I took a job at a Ruby shop. And I am falling in love with it. Its a really nice language, and I prefer ruby to Python personally. I like that Ruby has a small talk like sense of sending messages.
> Every FORTH primitive that we write has to be ended by NEXT. Think of it kind of like a return.

Interesting; it's "like a return" because it's a form of continuation: a tail call to the next thing.

I wonder if this could be done in C with function pointers? If we end a function like this:

typedef void (*fptr_t)(); // old-style, on purpose

void primitive(fptr_t *ppSelf) // pointer into array of fptr_t's
{
// ... perform primitive

(*++ppSelf)(); // increment to NEXT primitive and call
}

Will modern C compilers turn this indirect call in tail position into a tail call, like a direct call.
And dumb messaging such as telling people masks are ineffective and shouldn’t be worn by ordinary people.

I hope the important stuff is handled with more consideration than the way the pandemic has been handled. Specifically, hopefully the Fed knows what they are doing with this grand experiment that has been ongoing.
Look at option 3 in your link.
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Possible to return HTML/CSS/JS instead of a .straw page?

I know tons who would use it if that was possible.
1) Youtube was a winning brand name.

2) Google had at least one more video product.

3) Google became embroiled in lawsuits with Hollywood that cost at least $1 billion to litigate and settle. Keeping a separate brand name makes sense when it might have to be jettisoned at any time.
I feel like way too many engineers ca. 2005-2010 internalized the misconception that "asynchronous" is synonymous with "I don't need to care how long it takes". It turns out that the distinction isn't trivial.
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You can structure a DAO where the principals govern and the others are issued a worthless advisory token like the recent DAO to buy the paper Constitution.
The other commenter brought in the US relationship with China.

I agree my comment doesn't reply to stuff higher up in the thread.
I like your use case for your blog. I dabbled with something similar last month: I have had a sci-fi mini-book that I have been slowly writing for a long time. I tried using their text completion API on long snippets of my own prose. I got some interesting ideas. If I end up using ideas and generated text, I have no idea how to license the book, probably some form of Creative Commons license (I was the featured Creative Commoner about 20 years ago, BTW, and use one of their licenses for my AI related books). To be fair, the Copyright would belong to me and everyone who contributed any text in the web that the model was trained on. I wonder what Laurence Lessig’s take on this will be.

EDIT: I just asked Lessig on Twitter what his opinion is on this.
seems a little authoritarian. imagine you have to escape from a natural disaster, you were drinking prior and your car won’t let you get tf out of a tsunami, active shooter, whatever surprise moment you can think of where one minute you are listening to marvin gaye/otis redding sipping on some wine before bed.

the next moment a mob of violent criminals break out of jail, or one of your teenage daughters slips cracks her skull and the nearest ambulance is 30 minutes away, no uber but you are a little buzzed because you didn’t expect this was gonna happen?

are we gonna be banning alcohol again?

someone didn’t think through this regulation. contact me, i am good at this type of stuff.
Is there a reference you could share for how you did authentication / authorization?
Fortunately there was never any possibility of welding NY Metro area residents into their apartment as a reaction to COVID, like what happened in China.
Dupe.

Discussed 2 days ago, 208 comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29246128
Risk compensation was my excuse to not wear a helmet when I biked to work. My argument was that the false sense of security meant that I would bike more rashly increasing my chances of getting into an accident.

In reality, when I did wear a helmet, I did not bike more rashly. If anything, the helmet was a constant reminder of the dangers involved in city biking which meant I was possibly more alert than I would have been without it.
I know I'm going to take it on this chin for this but if I'm gonna be honest I hope "away, forever."
Shenanigans like this make the anti vaccine conspiracy theorists look pretty legit.
Per the OP

>To meet the plaintiffs’ proposed FOIA deadline, the FDA would have to process a daunting 80,000 pages a month. But the plaintiffs note that the FDA has 18,000 employees and a budget of $6 billion and “has itself said that there is nothing more important than the licensure of this vaccine and being transparent about this vaccine.”
It is folks using the network that are paying folks providing the network.

Take storage, for example, this is folks paying to rent space (perhaps to do backups) from folks that have excess space.
On the subject of electronic cigarettes / vaping also such thinking has propmpted policy making.
With a hosting provider that already has PHP installed, you can simply upload a file to a folder and serve it over the web with no special expertise.

PHP makes it easy for beginners and amateur programmers to get something working without knowing much.

Because of the low-barrier to entry and simple hosting setup people have written a lot of crap PHP code over the years. I know, I see it and work with it.

Amateurs and well-meaning power-users can get some web pages up and running easier with PHP than with almost anything else, so while inexperienced programmers can write bad code in any language a large number of them choose PHP.

None of those facts mean PHP is not suitable for "real" development and "real" programmers. It is not obsolete or dying. A professional programmer who knows how to build production-quality web sites can get great results from PHP. That requires putting in the same time and effort needed to learn any other language and set of tools.