skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Debt financing is definitely not simply harder but entirely impossible. If you think otherwise, please explain how the borrower can be made to repay the debt with this technology.
I don't think NFTs inherently are, but how they are used by the get-rich-quick schemes definitely is.
Div Divisiveness
I have spent decades developing ideas around this very topic.

I have some take away highlights and a few concrete favorites.

Uncertainty is the natural disposition of Reality. Certainty is a self deception. One can only be less uncertain and make the most appropriate decision when necessary. It is the prerogative of fools to decide prematurely or without necessity.

Man is born fool, lives his entire life fool, and dies a fool; it is a determination that she be otherwise in between that may make it so.

No one is entitled to hold others responsible for their own ignorance and confusion.

A “Truth” is a perturbation in objective reality. The “truth” is the approximation in the human mind. Integrity is the measure of precision between these two.

Truth is not constrained by the horizon of ignorance. Truth does not need a reason, you do. Truth need not make sense, sense is what you make of it.

As for good general resources

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/art-of-critical-deci...

A whole range of prior discourse establishes that there are MULTIPLE successful cognitive strategies both learned and disposed at birth.

Gardener’s theories of multiple intelligences, some schools of psychological temperaments are cognitive strategies in behavioral disguise.

These legacy examples must be tolerated in their crude form. Our modern minds are only now becoming self aware.

To study our cognitive vulnerabilities, study how they have been exploited throughout history. Robert Green’s trilogy on war, power, and seduction are fine examples of effective exploitation.
Yep. This was my experience with WordPress as an employee. The marketing team was very loud about needing admin access to the WordPress instance, installed a file manager plugin, and that file manager plugin was shortly used to start serving malware from our domain.

Guess who got to clean it up? It wasn't the marketing team.

Yes, it's a people problem, not a technical problem. But I arrived at the same solution to the people problem as OP: don't set up a WordPress instance for someone who isn't capable of maintaining security themselves.
All of this is true. Its also weird to me that the evaluation of a boolean expression can return return a value that is neither True nor False (yes I know the value evaluates to true, that's why the trick works).

Which is why I just do `if param is None:... ` and not worry about the few extra lines of code and move on.

The trick does have the nice property of delaying execution for evaluating what the default parameter though. The only other way to do that would involve writing lambdas which is even more code? The sibling comment suggesting a package looks like even more code to write as a user. I think any really elegant fix would have to be done in the language itself.
This is wholly unsurprising. IBM's big play was to integrate data science methods into the workflow. But they approached it from a "we will replace your labor costs" versus "we will augment your labor costs." Besides their AI models being fairly poor in quality, technology doesn't replace people very well where extrapolation is needed. So the quality of service Watson brought was significantly lower than what these businesses offered prior to adoption. So keeping Watson became an exercise in how well the business understands sunk costs and switching costs.
Yup - we're using rich-markdown-editor for the content editor. Full support for code and syntax highlighting. GitHub: https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor, editor demo: https://rich-markdown-editor-demo.onrender.com/?path=/story/...
> It should absolutely be within my rights as a business owner to ban an unvaccinated or unmasked patron, and it is a violation of my civil liberties for the government to ban this.

Do you think it's also within your rights as a business owner to allow unmasked and unvaccinated patrons, or to ban masks? If so, then are you upset that these civil liberties have been violated? If not, then why do you think the opposite is?
While this is nice in a lot of ways, it also can make it harder for your callers to use more dynamic patterns. You can no longer call it with

process_data(**kwargs)

and have the data field pulled out of kwargs. Of course you can still do

data = kwargs.pop(“data”)
process_data(data, **kwargs)

but if you are the only library doing it, it can cause things to break when it breaks programmers expectations.
A long time ago, I had the mindset that I really didn't care about money: I wanted to live my "ideal" life, no matter what. So I frittered away my early twenties being a bum, trying to materialize what I felt was the "dream."

Then I got kicked out of my home and had to work back-breaking jobs, commute 2-4 hours either walking or biking, and at the end of the day barely earn enough money to make any progress (I was lucky that a family member let me sleep in their house, otherwise I would've been living paycheck to paycheck).

During that time I felt like my mind forced me to "withdraw inside myself," so my spirit wouldn't be completely broken. It had seemed that all of my thoughts, feelings, and emotions had been stripped away from me, and the only things left were those needed to "survive."

A little bit later I was lucky enough to get my first software job, making a very good salary, and lift myself out of poverty (and start "financially progressing"); but even though my life had been the best it ever was, I never regained the feelings that I lost.

I think what I lost was my naive worldview: one that was modeled by two decades worth of living upper middle class; where I survived by virtue of my birth, and not because I personally did anything -- detached from reality.

It was a very self-centered existence. I was only concerned about my own pleasure, and escaping from any displeasure ("fat FIRE" was an escape from the perceived displeasure of having to work, and not being able to partake in idle leisure). Other than this, I had no values, nor real "ideals" (but I did have an "ideal" life I wanted to build).

I think that's where my early "dreams" came from: a self-centered pursuit of personal gain and maximization of pleasure. I didn't really care about anything or anyone, nor was my existence driven by deeply-ingrained values that could serve as a bottomless well of direction and energy. I was simply living an animalistic life.

Being thrust into the "real world" destroyed all these notions; or rather, living in reality forced me to restrain myself: my emotions had no structure, and so I was fluttering about to wherever they took me. Having to "box" them in to do something useful and purposeful finally wrangled them in, and "molded" my personality to something other than "do the things I like, and get away from the things I don't like."

I would later have to rebuild my worldview and wrestle with the void in my soul that could no longer be filled with material distractions (a life-long process).

During this process, I realized putting financial considerations as my number one priority would not lead me to anywhere fulfilled (neither would idle retirement). The only thought that rang "true" at the time was that I needed to cultivate values, and those would dictate my purpose.

It's a never-ending process. And it always keeps me busy, but unlike focusing on material things, the fulfillment and sense of goodness I feel is not transient -- it lasts, and has built up through the years.

This is how I went from trying to live an ideal life, to one where I live by ideals.
I’m guessing all the major clouds provide this?
Dumb question I've had for a while: why isn't steady inflation stimulated by central bank actions functionally equivalent to demurrage?

I suppose the similarity depends on to whom the printed money goes?
Ironically, I don't know what "the subcontinent" refers to. Gatekeeping and in-speak happens naturally in every context.
I just tried to sign up for this after my failure to set up iCloud email, but the signup screen tells me my 100 character random password is weak and the continue button doesn't do anything. Starting to think I've been cursed by Google.
I think Maslow's hierarchy of needs [0] approximately explains what you're experiencing.

This is also covered in the Book of Eccliastes [1]. IMHO it's a good meditation on the issue regardless of one's views on Abrahamic religions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes
PhpMyAdmin 4.9.8, 5.1.2, and 5.2.0-rc1 are released
> GPs often make astounding amounts of money while leaning heavily on their staff to actually handle patients and keep the business running

I’ve seen this in Japan (ish), but in the Netherlands it’s definitely the GP’s doing most of the job. The assistant just does bookings and waves me in when it’s my turn.
Because our economic system only rewards those things that make money, and does not reward making the world a better place. Post-scarcity systems make the world a better place, but cause economic loss via market destruction, therefore they must be destroyed for the good of the market and the ill of society.
Thank you for clarifying the specifics. Sounds unnecessarily complex, to say the least.
Oh my, I saw a presentation of that. Dabbling is not even the word.
I believe it. There’s value in shared systems but not necessarily a special data store.
Oh I see, I misunderstood. Yep I like your way best so far although I didn't see the problem with rerolling
If I plan to use the knowledge then I either apply it immediately or take notes so I can apply it when ready.

If I don't plan to use the knowledge then I take away an over simplification of the topic and any thought provoking key points.
I agree with the overall point that e-bikes can hit higher speeds more easily. But those speeds on normal bikes aren't the sole domain of experienced riders. Going down a two or three percent grade at 20 or 25 mph is something that a normal bike rider experiences all the time and needs to learn to be comfortable with.
Increasing Politicization and Homogeneity in Scientific Funding
> The last thing they want is a computer that can actually diagnose people and provide effective solutions.

Intimately knowing the non-profit side of the healthcare system as well as the construction and operation of data science systems, I wholeheartedly disagree with your assertion and your conclusion as being a general takeaway.
We're a pretty small org, and not sure we have the organizational heft or resources to do so. That being said, the $1k discount they gave us for Nov based on the broken SLA (resources down) was kind of a slap in the face. We had our minimal core services up in 16hrs, but recorded about 100-120 internal engineering hours for config, testing, and other fallout +1 month.

When we opened the initial ticket, the IBM engineer kept saying "you should ask X why they deleted your stuff". Eventually after attaching the LinkedIn page for the IBM SRE in the audit logs, they realized something was screwed up on their side.
I first hard to deal with this when a bought a DSLR camera. It is a Nikon and works only Nikon batteries.
In a way it's supposed to be hard, because there will often be only a handful of options left.
> yeah, that’ll definitely consume quite a bit more power than a new MacBook Pro running macOS
Considering they're targeting (or at least ought to target) efficiency, I feel they should probably get the newer macs with the efficient M1 chips. That way they would probably be able to get more done using a given amount of power.

But then again (from what I understand) they're on a tight budget. And I read somewhere else that they're trying to reduce electronic waste. Hence they're on the old Macbook.

Here's their situation:

1. Keep using older Macbook, thereby contributing less to electronic waste. However, this consumes a lot of power.

2. Switch to the more efficient newer Macbook. However, then their older Macbook would be wasted.

This puts them in a bit of dilemma, doesn't it?
That means that country that will do that will not have competitive big tech companies and other countries will have.

Also, big companies are needed because there are technologies that cannot be produced by small companies. I do not understand recent tendency
to make them look bad. Big companies are good for country and economy. Punishing companies for success is harmful for the progress.

I think letting market decide is better choice. Overregulation leads to decrease in competition and production.

Also, what is bad in it of big companies need to compete for talents? This competition leads for better opportunities and bigger salaries. I think it is good that person has a freedom of choice were to go.
I’ve sat in an all hands like that before. Literally 50k$ an hour being wasted listening to some guy we’ll only ever see once talk about his sons 18th birthday.

Weird experience.
Is Star Trek’s Dream of a World Without Money Utopian or Dystopian?
I've been using Postmark for my personal email domain.

I was using Sparkpost, but I had problems. Specifically, some email help desks seemed to reject the emails - so I was unable to respond to some inquiries. Many friends reported that my emails were going to Spam, too.

With Postmark, I've had zero deliverability issues.

I recommend monitoring DMARC closely to ensure deliverability. I use this free tool from Postmark: https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/
But why buy the book, for any amount? It was already available scanned to everyone for free online. The purchase literally didn’t further any of their stated goals, unless they thought it would give them rights to the IP.
Medicine is a business. Its incentive is profit, not patient outcome. Everybody knows the problems with medicine and the solutions are straightforward. But they don't result in more profits, only better patient outcomes. So you only get advances when it increases profit.

Come up with a way for better patient outcomes to result in higher profits and you'll see advances in patient care real damn fast.
Same salesman, same lobbying, same results.
This isn’t a comment about clocks at all. You’re talking about being free from office culture and sticking the word “clock” in there.

If anything, clocks liberate hours from employers. I’m pretty sure that absent clocks (and legal restrictions to the contrary), employers would demand work from sunrise to sunset because that’s what they could measure.

> Folks on HN talk about resisting the clock all the time without realizing it.

This is a really stretched metaphor. This is like saying clocks kill is because “time catches up with us all”.
Are you saying that Google, Facebook, etc have not been innovating over the last years? What does the landscape look like if you remove these companies' contributions from the public sphere?
But are the complications from the intervention or from the reason-the-doctor-is-worried-and-intervening? You're implicitly comparing P(complication|intervene) with P(complication|not intervene) but you should probably be comparing P(complication|intervene and want_to_intervene) to P(complication|not intervene and want_to_intervene).
Do what makes you happy …. that’s what makes software development fun.
Clocks do indeed produce a culture of “time” where none such had existed before. This was observed very early:

The gods confound the man who first found out
how to distinguish hours! Confound him, too,
who in this place set up a sundial,
to cut and hack my days so wretchedly
into small portions! When I was a boy,
my belly was my sundial — one surer,
truer, and more exact than any of them.
This dial told me when ’twas proper time
to go to dinner, when I had aught to eat;
But nowadays, why even when I have,
I can’t fall-to unless the sun gives leave.
The town’s so full of these confounded dials
the greatest part of the inhabitants,
shrunk up with hunger, crawl along the street.

— Plautus (c.254-184 BC)
Fastmail has been great for both final deivery and outbound smtp for personal email.
I just cancelled my membership (was free with a credit card i already had).

They offered a "free membership" for 10 months "at a $120 value" (which used to be $60 a year), however I couldn't figure out how to activate it.

I can't figure out what the value is over other services/direct from restaurant. Like another poster, most of the suggestions were bad. "Do you want dairy queen?" Or "quick you can order free from Kwik Trip in the next 10 minutes".

The post makes the suggestions look good. My top recommendation is the cheesecake factory. Followed by McDonalds.
Who are they targeting? Who is getting McDonalds delivered?
Yes, but for addresses that are hosted by them.
Meanwhile Google is unfolding Google Health.
Wasn't there recently an article about bits of information per second, that all languages more or less are delivering the same information(tone differences, stress and other audial information also delivers information):

https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-hav...

Given the fact that Chinese writing is used for communication for various people, that each have their own language, the main component in learning Chinese is not about learning language - how to pronounce words, but what these characters mean - universally in all those languages - even English or Spanish people might communicate with Chinese if they knew meanings of Chinese "writing". This is big advantage when various people have to live together in one country, but the main disadvantage over alphabetic writing is that it is not easy to mass educate people to learn thousands of graphical representations and combinations of those "writings", than to learn 20-40 alphabetic letters, that(more or less) are related to sounds.

IMO, English is worst alphabetical language, and it is standing out, as it has not modernized it's alphabet(like rest of Europeans did 100-200 years ago) and most people learn English not from what they can read(it does not help, that various 20+ Brittish dialects can pronounce words differently), but binding to memory what is written - almost the same way how Chinese do. From my experience, there is staggering amount of written illiteracy among native British people, that I have never seen compared to other Europeans. Because of this experience, my English has become worse(some of the mistakes can not be blamed on keyboard), that what it used to be - also I don't care about errors anymore, because I have adapted to locals.

PS I think, that knowing different languages is like being different human. There are some languages, that makes you act very stressful and fast talking, and then there are some languages that are slower and where you can think before saying something. There is also difference between how jokes are present.
For your example I would do foo(Bar()) when I needed to run it without an existing object. Or make foo a method on the Bar class and do Bar().foo()

In general I just try my best to avoid immutable, or dynamic defaults, but sometimes they're necessary and I make that same if block at the top of the function. If I catch myself copy/pasting the same setup to multiple functions, then it might be time for a class or a decorator.
The biggest airline booking system, Amadeus, can actually run on Kubernetes and some airlines are migrating to it.

Fun fact: a few years back Amadeus employees were in the top 15 of k8s contributors by company.
Jargon is inevitable.

Have you ever listened to an investment banker in their native habitat?
This is why one reason why sensible Linux distros go though a multi-year process of release stabilization, assessment and testing.

While not impossible, the likelihood of, say, imagemagick doing this, while going through this process, is extremely improbable.

I agree that just downloading apps off random websites is every bit as risky as a browser app.

But who does that?!

(The last statement was sarcastic, and aimed at the curl | bash crowd, the nodejs crowd, the composer crowd... these things are the polar opposite of trusted, secured, audited, safe, sensible.)
Wotmate – Web of Trust Grapher
That business was spun off into Kyndryl.
Due to the nature of the DAO, their maximum bid was known beforehand, and I don’t know if there was a mechanism to bail out at that point, and with short notice.

Edit: Except the person/people tasked with doing the actual bidding making an executive decision to, but would that have been within their mandate?
> Voter ID in Europe, is entirely different from what is being pushed in the US.

How is it different?

> There is almost zero voter fraud in this country.

How can you be sure of this, since successful voter fraud doesn't get detected?

> For example states have allowed gun licenses for voter id, but not college student ID. These two groups traditionally vote for different parties.

Isn't a more reasonable explanation for this that gun licenses are issued by the government, and college student IDs are not?
Then why are the NSA and NRO postings always so uncompetitive? DoE research postings are even worse.
> Privacy-first, simplicity and speed are the core tenets. Export posts at any time, send posts via newsletters, and no feature-bloat.

Then why oh why would you jump on the web3/NFT train?
> On the other hand, there are hypochondriacs

That’s me. I really, really appreciate a GP that both understands that I’m not doing it on purpose, and can reassure me that nothing is wrong, or figure out that we actually do need more testing this time.

Unfortunately it’s been years since I had one like that :/
richmarkdown looks archived. do you know any active forks or an alternative?
> It was endless arguments from Go users that generics aren't needed

There was (and still is) a small minority of Go users that insist generics are bad, but in my observation it's nowhere near the majority view. As a concrete datapoint, the GitHub issue on this[1] has 2k upvotes and 150 downvotes. A sizeable minority, but a minority nonetheless.

As is often the case, "the Go community" is far from heterogeneous, and it's hard to really get an idea what "the average Go programmer" thinks, and easy to criticise the most extreme elements.

Certainly for the Go team itself the position was always that 1) generics are useful, but 2) we're not quite sure how to best implement them. Some people disagree with that viewpoint too, which is fair enough, but it's really quite a different one.

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292
Knowing the ontology of your patients and their risk is also a tenet of a doctor's job, but we can do it with AI too. Hell, ontological engineering had a revamp specifically so that we could have a standardized model to describe any and all "parts" of a "whole" in a way that machines could understand.
They also do a lot of reselling. They will pitch some sort of cyber security upgrade to their client and after the client signs they will ask Akamai to onboard that client
You need to convince a user to adopt in B2C. There needs to be a benefit to them and you need to understand them.

I run a large line of business in a big “E”. Our requirements may not even be known to the end users and may make their lives miserable. Nobody cares.

We have lots of money, but I can’t tell the taxing authority that we can’t comply with some demand in 3 months because our finance clerks will be miserable, and I can’t get the engineering resources allocated to some administrative process at the expense of the customer. We do look at process engineering and often find ways to fix things that are really bad — but end of the day making things pretty for enterprise users is at best a secondary priority.
According to Kahneman you can: ask standardised questions about experiences in a person's past that are indicative of these qualities, rate on a numeric scale, and aggregate. This is a much more stable measure than just ad hocing it.