skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the formatters need to be so opinionated. The problem with older tools is that they don't have the capability to fix things even when it is easy to fix in an automated way. For example, I don't really care about fixing line length issues, but I really don't want to sort my imports by hand or fix the line breaks with my blocks.
Trees are quite hard to do well in a CLI app. Everything from the Unicode drawing to the sizing to the color choices. This one looks great.
Agreed with your sentiment that there needs to be some due process for these companies. Amazon has been holding $24,000 of my seller accounts proceeds for a year now stating that I "violated their TOS" by using the same IP address as my girlfriend uses (who was also an Amazon Seller). Both my and her accounts had perfect selling histories; weren't selling anything against tos, etc.

I've been wanting to take them to court over it; but most lawyers have quoted me at the process costing ~$8-9k; which, I'm terrified to be on the hook for if I lose. (I guess I did violate their TOS? But if that is their TOS, it's wildly stupid and should be illegal/not hold up in court).

So, they just have the money I use to buy food for me and my family and there is nothing I can do about it. The level of stress it's brought me over the last year...has been unimaginable for me if I were to ponder it before the situation occurred.

I still always have the hope that I'll recover it some time, some how, if consumer regulations change or if Elizabeth Warren gets her way. But for now it's me against them and they clearly are making whatever calls they want.
The Fraud Supply Chain
Wild thought here: how does changing demographics influence this? Retiring people in many cases literally can't be productive anymore, but demand capital returns. But because they, in aggregate, didn't have enough kids, there isn't enough productivity to service that demand.
Yes. Except. If I have a Python2 tool I paid $X for, and now I need to to change it for $Y because, because, because no reason. Tough luck! Stop "whining" and write a cheque!
The hardest problem is to adequately foresee the context and the background knowledge future maintainers will have.

* Context will change due to modifications and added features in the surrounding code.

* One tends to overestimate how much background knowledge a future maintainer will have.

* One tends to misjudge which parts of the necessary knowledge will be externally available / still "obvious" in the future.
Well Israel is a US ally that serves US interests, namely it is by the Suez canal one of the busiest shipping lanes on earth. One could argue that there is a lot of political support for Israel in the US but it really comes down to geopolitical interest.

The others, Russia is a US adversary as it seeks to challenge the US order without Russia in it. Iran is a geopolitical adversary, simply because Saudi Arabia is a US ally - enemy of enemy is friend. China is on that fine line between adversary and competitor but definitely not an ally.

So of course its not a big deal. The US knows Israel needs US support to maintain security along the canal and broader med.
To regrow forests the U.S. needs billions of seeds–and many more 'seed hunters'
I recently had to sell a MacBook Pro. Decided to open an eBay account because I never use eBay, and pretty much immediately had it banned.

I stripped the EXIF data from the laptop’s photos for fear of eBay not removing them for me - I didn’t want my GPS info exposed. I also accessed the website without a VPN and a fresh Firefox profile with only uBlock Origin. I own a clean email domain and used it for the account. I also verified my bank accounts the next morning.

I was banned 20 minutes after posting my listing and received the same message as OP - live chat is not currently available, and their fraud support line redirects to their discontinued phone number. Even after verifying my bank details the next day, nothing changed.

I wasn’t trying to scam anyone. I just wanted to try and sell something I legitimately owned. eBay locked me out completely with no recourse or proper justification. Truly awful company. Shocked that it’s even functioning with this level of “support”.
Have you tried to look and had no luck?
I mean, the vaccination measures now pile on top of the war on terror measures that a whole generation was already born, and normalized, to anyway.

So this trend into more authoritarian structures is very real in a very objective way.

And if everything keeps going as it does, there's a non zero probability this situation won't be of a temporary nature, just like there is a non zero probability that vaccines will need to be boosted/reapplied even more often.

Sum all of that up, and it's a quite dystopian scenario we are possibly heading into.
Paredit give you multiple ways to achieve one thing. Maybe it is fine for real-time collaborative editing but for a VC-type setup it seems to me that the challenge would be in determining the correct list of operations for a given diff so that the results are unsurprising. Consider how often something simple like standard diffs are wrong (where a new function adds the end to one function and the beginning to the following function as the functions all have a similar ending)
I’m not American. I opened a U.S. bank account with a major U.S. bank (I.e., presumed to be operating legally) without a SSN or US address. I have no other US identification or number.

There is no way around know your customer, but that doesn’t mean “requires SSN”. That’s just the easiest path from point A to point B and most businesses don’t care to support anything else.
Whoa. Do you have an examples of anything built with it?
A lot of screens are too bright even at 0% even at night. My LG 4K screen is such an example, I work on 0% during the day with 70% contrast and it's just about ok.

During the night it's wayy too bright though and I need to reduce contrast to almost 0% which helps but kills colour depth.

Screen manufacturers optimise for high brightness way too much. I guess because it looks good on the shop floor.

In summer I often work with the windows open at night but the lights off to avoid attracting bugs. All my displays are horrible in this scenario. Except my old amber vt520 which I can set so low I can barely read it in a dark room, or so bright it is easily readable in sunlight. It also has amazingly convenient brightness and contrast dials instead of a frustrating OSD menu. Some display qualities of CRTs have still not been matched.
It is easier to right than to read.

It is easier to talk than to listen.

It is easier to build new than adapt.

All three of those statements are false. But all three are seductive
Do you think that ~any of the productivity growth over the last 200 years has to do with increasing laborer motivation rather than increasing technology? There is scant evidence for the former and plenty for the latter.
Particularly seems to be especially prevalent in the UK. (I attribute that odd statistical outlier to a higher than average number of WWII projectiles laying around and a cultural propensity to walking around sans pants)
Parag may as well be the fall guy, i.e. Dorsey knew something bad is coming and wisely excused himself.
Python2 or Python3?

If you say "Python3 of course, is this 2002 or something?" what do I do with all my Python2 scripts?
I'm a big fan of the 12 Factor App, but I don't think prohibiting importing modules is one of the 12 Factors.
> The theft laws were changed to help reduce incarceration rates across the country, and some studies have found that the lower penalties have not led to more crime.

And then they link to a nearly 4-year-old study that would have been using at least 5-year-old data for outcomes immediately on the heels of the reforms. I was onboard with the data when it came out, because hard data is hard data and should be given considerable weight in the absence of substantive issues with the data. But to cling, years later, to those early studies as proof that reforms couldn't have contributed (even partially) to a rise in property crime despite incontrovertible increase in property crime today, seemingly conspicuously in reform-friendly areas, is simply indefensible. The honest thing to do is recognize that perhaps the reforms have had negative consequences, and reassess the situation--e.g. with new studies.
Are you sure the email actually came from eBay? I get lots of emails about “my”eBay account that I don’t have.
At least you hadn't shipped the MacBook out, to then get banned and lose the MacBook; which has certainly happened to a lot of people based on anecdotes I've read in the past.
If you want to know why the ratings are centred around 1500 it is simply because this is the value in the original glicko2 paper [1]. It doesn't seem unreasonable for them to implement the algorithm as the designer specified.

With rating systems, the absolute scale doesn't matter, all that matters is the predictive power of the system. Every time I have benchmarked, glicko does a better job in predicting win/loss/draw probabilities than ELO ratings used by FIDE.

If you want to know your rating relative to other players on the site, you can check the distributions here [2]. If you want to compare them to FIDE ELO, or chess.com, you can use this site although I am not sure about exactly what methodology they use [3].

I wouldn't agree that lichess ratings are inflated or unrealistic relative to FIDE Elo, or any other rating system any more than kilometers are unrealistic and inflated relative to miles. They are simply different measurement systems.

[1] http://glicko.net/glicko/glicko2.pdf

[2] https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/rapid

[3] https://chessgoals.com/rating-comparison/
Isn't the internet, at its core, a set of protocols we've all agreed to use? It's not for or against profit anymore than a hammer is.
I have lost work by recommanding on hiring experts to review sensitive code I would be tasked with writing.

Glad of that.
All communities including online ones take less outsiders over time and grow old and tired. Google and Facebook are no exceptions to the inevitable business lifecycle treadmill on which they could be on the downtrend. As the companies become dominated by decision-makers who are no longer agile and a user base who are ever more inert (read: old), their products lose mindshare and their companies lose vitality, to be replaced as a community by upstarts.
You make a good point. To bad there is no way to incentivize it. I hate wasting time on repair videos and get all the way through it and it really isn’t helpful. I hope we one day see people pivot away from YouTube.
I always ask a similar question. But a project card Zrythm had my attention. I have yet to give it a spin, though.
Unicode isn't necessary if the terminal supports ACS.
Whew, just started talking with them about a mortgage. Never mind!
I wonder if it would be a feasible to have some sort of internal compile-time variable in each binding that could make compile-time states not have to use hacky methods like this one.

Essentially, instead of the compile-time value attached to a binding only being a type (with generics, optionally), it could also have a regular Rust value attached to it.
Perhaps not just different use cases but different user types as well.

By that I mean for example, I knew of many people who were outraged and dismayed when RSS feeds started to disappear from websites. They belonged to a class of individual who prefers things to be categorized as granularly as possible. That kind of person is highly upset when their categorizing toolset is downsized.

But other people never bother with those tools, don't care if they're eliminated, and frankly find it hard to sympathize with their hypercategorizing comrades.
"ARMv8 code density is quite good for a fixed-length ISA and is of course much better than that of RISC-V."

not true

you could compile and compare, say, gcc (cc1) of the same version on arm64 and rv. arm64 has larger binaries
Everyone spies on everyone else.

Reminder that France vacuumed up messages on Enrochat after deploying malware globally, and they have clear text messages from users in any arbitrary country and have not disclosed what they will do with it or what they have.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aza95/how-police-took-over-...
Considering we have examples where people did notice? Without PCR tests the infection rate would have been higher. People would have noticed. Without masks and vaccines any more people would have died. And people would have noticed.

Why on earth are you so dismissive of the danger here?
It's not what I said; I didn't bring up Jason the serial killer.. my point was that you can't ask people to judge balance to risk when it comes to them..

That said, the false-negatives of people really being chased by serial killers is probably worth it compare to all real victims of dangerous or drunk drivers that could be saved.
Note that, if you coded these two Fibonacci functions in e.g. Python 3, the "naive" solution remains correct as n goes into triple digits, while the "fancy" one runs into floating point error and then range overflow...
I'm an evangelical Christian myself, and I think I understand why you characterize us this way, but it's not accurate based on what I know.

Along with those I associate with, I support Jews (and to a lesser extent the modern nation of Israel) only because I serve the God who made the sons of Jacob into a nation in the first place. The modern nation of Israel isn't perfect and my support for being their ally isn't unconditional. It also has nothing to do with end-times (except maybe for the fact that they exist as a nation, which is interesting but mostly inconsequential in terms of religion).

In terms of end-times events, the rise of widespread hatred for my religion is a far more reliable indicator of their proximity...
The specific claim here is that EU countries spy on the US. I do not believe they have that capability, so if you have some proof that would come in handy.
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I’ve wondered this myself. Boomers are 25+% of the population. That large of a percentage dropping out of the workforce is going to leave huge areas for younger people to move up and fill in, leaving tons of the bottommost jobs (most service jobs) unfilled. At some point the Republicans will have to come to grips with their xenophobia, since immigration seems like the only solution.
But that whole definition of friends of foe you've given is ridiculous though.

Russia is trying to resist US bullying and european expansionism near its border, Iran revolted against US-selected dictators, and China, the largest country on Earth, doesnt even understand why the US makes any rule in the first place.

I think this inflated US self importance is one of the biggest danger to world stability. This way to see everyone not immediately showing its ass to be sodomized to be an "adversary" is insane.

Israel by your definition very much became an adversary: they wanted to monitor and control US elected officials to guide policies towards its interest. I dont think the "Suez canal" should be more important than the soul of the american democracy, but that, you dont seem to care as much about :D
The person I'm talking with is young, healthy, and believes he is at very low risk of a serious case of COVID.

For society in general, the crux of his argument comes down to:

"Unvaccinated people are just as contagious as vaccinated, so why should I get vaccinated?"

I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to find unassailable evidence that vaccinated people are less likely to pass the virus on to someone else.
What is ACS?
That would have been horrifying.

I ended up selling the MacBook Pro locally via Facebook Marketplace, but only after rejecting 20+ people trying to get me to ship it across the country and paying me via PayPal.

I really do wonder often - at a certain point, does every company just simply become an anti-fraud service more than their original product? How much time and money do Google, eBay, Amazon, etc. spend fighting fraud? It’s unfortunate that businesses have to bake this kind of turmoil into their business model.
I'm having trouble following your logic, if productivity is defined as revenue per labor hour, and you're saying this is due to the anti-work movement and labor shortage, that's decreasing the denominator.

Or are you saying workers have become less engaged and less productive at work but maintain they're jobs? That might be plausible
Completely subjective answer, but I suspect it's borne out of a need or necessity. 3D modelling/animation prior to Blender was really dominated by a few key players who were seemingly not afraid to be user hostile, or charge huge sums of money for their software, etc.

In the music production space, you have many DAWs being given away for free, or coming with your OS, or not costing exorbitant amounts of money. My guess is nobody has been motivated enough yet to do what people like Ton Roosendaal or Linus Torvalds have done and devote years of their life to producing a viable open source alternative to the closed source (and moreover, non-free) behemoths.

I do expect that it's only a matter of time, though.
Thanks, I didn't know. It's weird to see this misinformation about glucose being the primary fuel for human bodies while it's quite obvious human biology is optimized for fat burning. Glucose is just dealt with in priority because it's only safe in a tight band, and chronically elevated glucose in particular is disastrous to blood vessels. Humans should spend a decent amount of time in fat burning mode with periods of fasting and adequate magnesium intake and exercise for optimal vascular health.
Oh I absolutely agree with you here that technology was the driving force for the last 200 years. But it was coupled with high motivation. As motivation decreases (see the current anti work movement and anti capitalist sentiment in this country), all the technology in the world will not make up the difference.
Wouldn’t it be significantly cheaper for a wholesaler to have a small number of B2B relationships selling to retailers than to have a ton of B2C relationships selling directly via the Amazon marketplace?

The immediate post sales support could be pretty huge and typically the retailer would handle most of that, wouldn’t they?

Your example made it more clear, so thanks.
This is all true; but importantly those vaccines didn't come with the sort of enforcement mechanisms COVID ones will.

The tools that will need to be deployed to enforce a COVID vaccine mandate are mass tracking, mass firings, ostracism and creation of artificial class systems. These are not tools that should be deployed as cheerfully as they are. This is dangerous.
I have worked with "simple" code. It was a terrible but interesting experience.

The main developer was an old mechanical engineer who learned coding by himself. And to be simple, his code was simple. There was a GUI with a 7x8 table of numbers. How to do this? 54 text fields, all with their own name with copy pasted initialization. Most variables were global, no class hierarchy, no fancy algorithms, juste nested loops, etc...

Because it was so straightforward, it was surprisingly easy to understand despite its complete disregard of any methodology. If it has to do A, you will see A, no surprise action at a distance, and if it has to do A ten times, you will see AAAAAAAAAA. But maintaining it is as bad as it may seem, and if you have to change A to B, you will need to change all ten of them, being careful that they may be slightly different, and forget about parallelism, security, undo, etc...

So yes, simple code is simple, but without at least some level of abstraction it will soon end up being terrible. What is too much or too little abstraction? Just hire a few world class developers and give them as much time as they need, because it may be the most difficult question a developer has to answer. In fact, one could argue that the mythical "10x developer" is one who answers right.
It's just flabbergasting how much YouTube has regressed.

I remember when YouTube comments still had a neat and convenient little "translate" feature. Made it actually possible to practically cross the language barriers in comment discussions.

That lead to many interesting insights and discussions, and then, it was suddenly just gone. Which in practice meant that a whole bunch of people that used to be able to communicate with each other, crossing language barriers (How wonderful!), now suddenly couldn't anymore..

It's like the exact opposite to what the web was supposed to do, and the trend has been steadily keeping up. Removing the downvotes is also removing a form of signaling, and thus communication.

And the trend is not just reserved to YouTube, it's even more and more of a thing in places where it absolutely doesn't belong; Many modern video games do not have an "all talk" function anymore, out of fear nasty things might be written and then read by too many people, possibly leading to controversy in the bored "gaming press".

At this rate I wouldn't be surprised to even see YouTube comments go away for good.
>I've been wanting to take them to court over it; but most lawyers have quoted me at the process costing ~$8-9k; which, I'm terrified to be on the hook for if I lose.

You could try to crowdfund a lawsuit (promise to donate the crowdfunding to a charity if you win and get costs). I suspect more than a few Sellers would like to get back at Amazon.
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Why would you apply these rules to Amazon and Wallmart and not countless other vertically integrated businesses?
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They do affect productivity and disproportionately one might say. The problem is that these things are very hard to measure. Say you have an article about how to generate Qr-codes and a few hundred people everyday use it to build Qr-code solutions for their businesses. The alternative is that they don't use Qr-codes because they can't afford to buy a solution.

How are you going to measure the productivity gains for that one? Many things were involved along the chain: Internet (and Cable networks), Search Engines, Publishing platform, somebody free time, etc...
I think Dorsey left because there is no web3 angle to Twitter. Instead, he renamed Square to Block and focuses all his energy there.
>I certainly don't think we would have went through the microservices fad if people understood the implications within that book.

Please explain? What's that book imply about microservices?
> What are you on about?

I guess what is commonly called sterilizing immunity. Immunity which is so effective that the illness doesn't occur and which makes it impossible to infect others.
You might like an extension such as Dark Background with Light Text.

Another tool that might help: zooming texts so you don't need them so bright in dark mode. It might help reduce eye fatigue too.
See also lddtree from pax-utils: https://cgit.gentoo.org/proj/pax-utils.git/tree/lddtree.py
I think there's a long graveyard of conceptually better architectures which died because people underestimated costs, from Transmeta, to all sorts of SIMD and MIMD systems, to VLIW.

I agree it's not too expensive to prototype, but it's super-expensive to do *right*.
Most terminals (even non-unicode-capable ones) offer a feature to switch into "alt charset mode" which provides glyphs for drawing lines.
At my old company, whenever anyone had a question about the system, we'd reply back with a link to a wiki page with the answer. It worked pretty well. We could either create the wiki page, update it, or refer to an existing one.
There are many Germans who would disagree with you, especially among those whose opinions actually matter.