skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> do we jail the autocorrect developers?

Google is liable for defamatory autocomplete suggestions (in Australia) [1], so that's not such a stretch of the imagination.

[1] https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/trkulja...
In the United States Gymnastics Association, "Elite" is a classification - in the old days it meant you were probably going to get a college scholarship, you'd be asked to invitational meets and might try out for the Olympic team.

There are no professional gymnasts (except perhaps retired gymnasts who are employed as sports commentators) so there's no confusion between paid versus unpaid.

https://usagym.org/
You are assuming you know what “distance” means in this context, and appear to have decided it means the same as mathematical subtraction. You are likely mistaken.
Technology is just a tool. Traditional banks have lots of technology too. The point being that technology is no more trustworthy than those using, controlling and manipulating it --- aka, the gate keepers.

As an example, what does your crypto "technology" say about Tether? Is it fully backed or blatant fraud? Please show the technology that provides a definitive "transparent" answer.
> GPL forces manufacturers to release the kernel source code

I wish that was true in the real world, looking at you Onyx.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735962
hnbad answered this much more thoroughly than I’m able. I would just like to add that in my experience stock options and grants has been an excellent way of pretending to pay me more then they actually pay. It feels like they are giving me a lot extra until you actually look at the numbers. And I bet a lot of workers get fooled by this. For me it feels like an exercise in cognitive dissonance, that is my employer is trying manufacture a cognitive dissonance in my brain which favors them.

Of course owning these stocks gives me nothing over their monitory value, so having them benefits me nothing over having an interest account with equal interest rate. So I just look at them as a bonus pay with additional headaches (moving money out of the stock market is harder then to cash in a normal check). And as while the power imbalance exists between workers and bosses, I would rather just get paid in regular salaries without the extra complexities.
Perl was my first language too! Believe it or not, there's a ton of b*ch work that still needs to be done by interns at legacy tech that involves the language (looking at you Veritas, although this was a long time ago so who knows).

I'm grateful Rust now exists and is able to match, and even beat, Perl in regex text surgery.
*when

every day is brighter than the next day, at least that's what you think
I actively resist putting sidewalks in my neighborhood, and actively bought into this neighborhood because it lacks them

Why? Because do not want to incur the costs of maintaining them, nor the liability that comes with them from either a city stand point, or injury standpoint

If sidewalks where maintained by the city, including snow removal, and repairs, then maybe. but the fact is in most location they are an imposition on the property owner that comes with large costs and liabilities.
The flipped text is doing a trick where you pick things from Unicode that merely look like upside down Latin letters. Some of them deliberately are exactly that for whatever reason, some aren't. So the effect isn't exactly perfect and shouldn't be. There isn't actually a plain text way to say "for some reason render this upside down" because like, why.
Ok. So then i should not check for bad blocks when formatting a new partition ?
I was enthralled by this. I took away a great parable about developing a plan from first principles rather than convention, dedicated himself to the grind, and came out with shocking results
Increased sales, when paid by the same entity that gets the rebate, are not a kickback.

If a doctor took money to steer you to a specific hospital, that would be a kickback.

If a hospital gives you a rebate and you're paying, that's not a kickback. But if a hospital gives you a rebate and your insurance is paying based on the non-rebated price, that's probably a kickback.
Someone in Indiana honked at me for using a crosswalk yesterday thinking I was supposed to yield to them for some reason. I think people from rural areas and suburbs just aren’t used to driving in smaller streets.
The market impact point doesn't cut both ways though, and it's crucial.
> it would be nice if we had more sidewalks, but they are financially unsustainable

I call bullshit.

The smallest 50 people village in the Netherlands has sidewalks. It’s not that it’s unsustainable, it’s that nobody wants to pay for it. Or that americans build too friggin big.
> it could even have for-profit companies participating

Why would they?

edit: "Old school people" don't "miss" convenience, they would love convenience. Instead they have standards and platforms that are sabotaged or abandoned when convenient by companied building lock-in. What we get was built by people in their spare time, or chiseled out of academic funding, and though it often sucks we should be thankful for it.

I think the chance that anything on Discord will exist in 10 years is probably about 2%. If Discord exists (25%?), they'll have blanket deleted old data multiple times by then. Not that it matters much, because finding anything old on Discord is impossible anyway.
No. Distances are high because of low density. Sidewalks are financially unsustainable because of low density. People are obese also because they don't walk because of low density.

Low density is caused by car culture pushed by car manufacturers and oil companies.
If you are curious, Clifford Adams and I originated the double brackets for UseModWiki to support Wikipedia’s initial roll out (on UseModWiki) and their need for “free links” instead of WikiWords. Prior to that I don’t know of any use of that syntax.

Systems following were cloning Wikipedia I assume.

I am glad I am still causing endless chittering about syntax choices twenty years on. I am sure my gravestone will be “[[RIP]]”.

Single brackets were used for numbered or named “footnotes” by the way.

Here is the design discussion.

http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/FreeLink
From my experience the 85+ year olds were mostly isolating at home, the 0-50 year olds out and about in schools, shops, restaurants etc. I'm not sure you needed regulations on the 85+ at all as most are not party animals and the risk of dying for them probably outweighs potential government fines.
Sometimes a blogpost can seem a lot like marketing
of a product with a story spun around it.
Sounds like meaningless intellectualization of what is essentially a subjective thing.
Morality is not an intellectually debatable or "optimally solvable" thing.

Ask yourself this - you have a watermelon in one hand and a puppy in the other - which will you be OK throwing from the 20th floor onto the ground, if it resulted in a meal for you?
Note that sometimes your account at Google is so secure that even you can't access it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30051054.
"but that's a different thing all together."

Only if by different you mean the same.
I served with a guy named Hung Wang. He complained that Microsoft thought it was an obscene name and couldn't make it his Xbox Live gamertag.
> If anyone reading doubts this, I can dredge up some examples. In any event, these folks like to focus on differences rather than similarities. There are similarities. Lots of them.
Here, PHK says Apple's platform is architected on an economy of surveillance, just like Google's. I must agree with PHK on this one.

Could you expand on this? Making such a statement, then not providing a modicum of evidence isn’t the best way to make a point.
The first two alternatives to reddit that come to mind for you are Gab & Getr? Interesting.
I can see how it's polarizing especially since it feels like CRM for some.

I'm, however, going to try this approach myself. Reason for that is that I'm all-or-nothing kind of person. I can nag you daily and overshare but then if our roads split (different job, environment etc.) I forget to reach out - simply because what's off my eyes is off my mind.

It's not like I don't care for people, sometimes I find myself thinking about some colleagues couple months later. I don't reach out though cause it would be weird and it feels like cold e-mail. Done this few time and people would drop some bomb (like, oh yeah, our life changed 180, why didn't you call?) which would - instead of keeping relation, chill it even further, as we both feel weird about not caring.

That reminds me that my grandma didn't get a call from me for past month or so (sigh).
Sadly, no, it is a generic.

https://imgur.com/a/JmRwtCT
We're likely going to need such programs to save thre North American ash species from the Emerald Ash Borer as well.
Spreadsheets can work quite well for this. I made an iOS app as side project inspired by this post from Derek Sivers.

https://amicu.app
Show HN: I made an app to help replace Taylor Swift songs on Spotify
I do something similar, and actually wrote an app to help recently. It goes one step further by allowing you to specify different messages that it can use at random. The landing page for the app is at http://communiqai.com.
The OP was not combative at all, they actually asked pretty nicely…

You’re the one who is actually being combative
My suspicion is that this article is looking at the problem through "HTTP"-colored glasses.

Just because that protocol is going through continuous development does not mean all other protocols are doing so as well.

The driving force here is the reluctance of the web community to use ports other than 80/443 for the newer versions of the HTTP protocols. While HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are superficially similar to HTTP/1, the fact is that the protocols are different and should have been given different port numbers.
Metaphysical Animals review – four women who changed philosophy
4d baby scans are actually a pretty good name because aside from being a marketing pitch by obviously contrasting against the 2d nature of traditional ultrasound, they actually are 4d if you include the time dimension - they can record clips of the baby. Under this scheme, traditional ultrasound would have to be called 3d, but nobody does this so it's a bit of a bait while still being technically accurate.
I blogged about how it came to be on my website: https://codakuma.com/look-what-you-made-me-do
> So to summarize, it is useful for variously exfiltrating money out of a country, laundering

Summarizing & paraphrasing :-) Greece instated capital controls virtually over night, likely illegally as there is freedom of capital movement in the EU [1]. The money on a bank account resides in a particular country, so its legislation applies. Which country's legislation applies to funds in a globally distributed blockchain, whose copies reside all over the globe?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-33303540

edited for spelling
I would say from business perspective it is really bad idea.

You become reseller of the "low code tool" and now what are you providing to your customers that they could not do themselves?

There is also problem that anything goes wrong and you are not able to properly support your customers. With SaaS you have the code you have the team, you built the tool that you support and features are providing value.

I don't think you can do "multi tenancy" on "low code" platforms you would have to make separate account per customer. Which means you only repeat the work as you probably won't be able to build once and provide stuff for multiple companies.

GDPR where you are not side in processing might be nice as you ditch responisbility - but then your customers need to know who has their data. If they know what is stopping them from simply using "low code" on their own.
"Forgetting" feature in notes would be pretty stressful for me.
I beg to differ. There may be millions of reasons why you grew disconnected from someone.

Don't you have situations where you think I wish I had more regular contact with this person, because he/she seemed like a genuine good egg? What's wrong with making the extra effort and actually create a reminder for yourself to at least say hi once in a while?

And vice versa - would you feel bad getting contacted by someone whom you worked with years ago, just asking how you're doing, and not actually wanting anything from you?
That is cultural. In Germany, crosswalks are very much adhered to.
To me a business relationship is a business where you don't really care about the person but about the business/work potential. Of course you can make personal relationships in business, but those are different things.

And yes, "relationship" technically includes any kind of relation between two persons, but I think the context makes it clear that I'm talking mostly about friendships. And I really don't think one can call a relationship a friendship when consistently the contact happens once a year because of a scheduled reminder.
Ice Bucket Challenge Accepted by Larry and Sergey
Germany IT Salaries
Surprisingly still not banned site-wide. Which given my previous political subreddit associations... that's exceptionally surprising.

The reality here, reddit did you a great favour. Just take this as a sign to move on.
There is more to it than just the direct cost of the concrete.

In most cities single family neighborhood sidewalks are "owned" by the property owner, not the city. However they are an "easement" which means the property owner has no control over the property, or ability to limit access to the property but assumes all costs in maintaining, and all liabilities for injury or other city ordinances (like snow removal, grass cutting, etc) basically all the downsides of ownership with none of the upside.

for some people this makes sidewalk undesirable
There is a concept in kinetics, the 'mean free path', which refers to the distance a particle travels before it hits another. With Covid = fewer cars on the road = longer MFP = higher speeds for the 'mean drivers' before they hit someone.
Holland has found that the true solution is separate bike paths with dimensional hindrances so cars cannot traverse them. Here in Toronto the road stripes were found ineffective - 2000 pound concrete walled earth filled square rectangles commanded instant respect, and also serve as planters. There has been a renaissance of biking here and the government is responding - they could do better with an increase of one way streets that would allow more segregated bike paths.
A perfect platform for python/textual like applications :D
...Hate to break it to you, but that's just Austin. Don't know what it is; but Travis County brings out some of the worst driving habits in people.
Thing is, sociopathic would be if they lacked empathy for other person, not that they automated reminders and notes to regularly connect with other people (at various degrees of acquaintance&friendship).

Do we put the same kind "yikes value" on couples that schedule weekly outing to cinema? If no, why not? It's essentially the same base mode of operation, setting up a regular reminder to make time for each other. Or a group of friends. Is it really "more genuine" just because you don't know one of them has 20 overlapping calendar appointments with reminders in order to ensure that the weekly meet works out?

And honestly, a lot of those reactions were downvoted to hell because apparently there's quite a lot of us who don't find it easy to "message someone on the toilet" and don't accept pithy, empathy impaired message that if we have issues communicating then we don't care.
It sounds good for business contacts or people that you might want to interact with for specific reason, but for anyone else?

Why would one force their interaction with people if it's not genuine.
Also urban areas tend to get destroyed very quickly because of the culture the media and politicians connected to it push to the people living there (a Marxist oppression ideology with no categorical imperative so why not steel? There’s nothing you can do to improve things.) As soon as decent transit and walkability shows up everyone leaves.
does retool even have hyperlinks and routing yet?
Some homemade chicken stock would be a great gift for me
Somehow it's perceived as a norm that you can't arrive at work, a restaurant, or the store, with any amount of sweat on you. There's a bit more to it than this, of course. Most American cities have more extreme climate, longer commutes, and more hills, than in the northern European cities that are held up as the gold standard of cycling culture, but people ride bikes in southern Europe too.

In turn, this makes it "necessary" to wear special cycling garb, change, and shower when you arrive at work. Vanishingly few workplaces provide a convenient place to shower and change.

But I ride my bike to work year-round in a city that gets (for instance) about 10 degrees hotter than Amsterdam, and I manage it.
Recitals play two roles in EU law:

1. They are the legal justification for legislating; The EU is not sovereign, so it cannot legislate of its own accord, the EU must show that the legal powers flow from the treaties. So recitals set out which provisions of the treaties apply, and why the legislators think the law is necessary under them.

2. They are an aid to interpretation; the main body of the law should be read "in the light of" the recitals to understand the legislators' intent and to help ensure there is a consistent application of the law between all of the different courts and tribunals in the EU. These recitals are, of course, not part of the actual legal text and are thus not binding, but they're not inoperative.
We used to have lovely speedbumps every 50 meters or so in our neighborhood. Can’t drive fast if it’ll make your car fly.
> It's sociopath behavior.

You say that out of the privilege of neurotypicallity.

"Sociopaths" (as you seem to call people who use this or similar approaches for keeping in touch) also need to live their lives.

Alternatively, is it your opinion they should be all locked up and put away with?
Does fb messenger have a profanity filter?
> Businesses outside EU are not bound by GDPR.

Business outside the EU, interacting with users in the EU are bound by the GDPR. There might not really be a way (currently) to impose penalties on those businesses for violations, but they are certainly bound by them.
> Software scales. People like to make money. Combine the two and its a real winner.

There were plenty of tech losers. You still had to pick the winners.

> Physics based thinking. I knew electric cars were going to work because the math checked out.

Electric cars were obvious, but Tesla was not an obvious play. In hindsight, it might seem so, but in the beginning it was far from clear that Tesla would dominate the space. Additionally, time will tell if Tesla's stock stays 8x higher than its pre-pandemic price.

> Sell when forward price to earnings after cash starts to look wonky. Which was 2007 and I think 2019.

This happened many more times than the two massive crashes. If you actually followed this advice, you'd probably be worse off than investing in the s&p - even if you did pick good stocks.

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As others have mentioned, beating the market with $1M invested is much easier than beating the market with $10B invested. Especially when your appetite for potentially losing money is much higher.

Let's naively assume that you actually can pick stocks. At $10Bn - you need to pick more stocks - otherwise you would drive up the price too much in buying that much of the stock - unless you only picked Apple and Google and MSFT and Amazon.
Billionaire Soros buys stake in EV startup Rivian
I would never argue with your success. And I do think you can pick solid companies and beat the market in the long run (mostly by avoiding the big losses).

But it’s not enough to pick winning industries. In every industry there are winners and losers. You have to pick winning industries and winning companies. And sometimes winners become losers. So there’s a timing aspect also.

EVs are going to succeed but I don’t think Tesla was ever a guaranteed success. And Tesla is not guaranteed to keep winning (though they have a great head start and very strong moat).
That's your opinion.

The fact that crypto is unregulated is not just my opinion --- and I think you know that --- or at least you should.

They don't maintain a firm peg. Tether trades on exchanges at market value, just like any other cryptocurrency.

Pure speculation and misplaced trust on your part. The truth is you really have no way to *know* what the exchanges do to set the "market value" of USDT.

Are you trying to say that I'm stupid?

No, I'm referring to the fact that you called Tether a fraud --- "the USDT fraud will collapse at some point" --- your words, not mine.
> "Crossing the road anywhere" is quite dumb, I think, and I guarantee you'll see a spike of pedestrians getting hit for a while

Wrong. It's the very opposite. Research shows that drivers increase their attention when they know that there can be obstacles and/or the road is not wide and straight.
People drive to the gym to run on a treadmill. I can allow for some circumstances where this makes sense, but that's not always the case.
I have my own theory on this.
Green-field projects are usually whipped up and rolled out by the experienced devs in the shop.
Once the boat is in the water and floating,
the senior devs are posted off to next new-dev initiative,
and the following maintenance/deployment work is assigned to less and less senior devs, and/or student programmers.
Within 2-3 years, those inexperienced devs have mangled the original design into unrecognisability, and the application accumulates instabilities from their bolted-on "fixes".
A different perspective is that the original creators are never allowed back to fix their design mistakes.
I don't know if it's universal, but I have sure seen it in a lot of places, and I have myself been in most of those roles hinted at.
Here is a single commit that shows what this library basically does:

https://github.com/peterhil/spellbook/commit/d3dd9626ef59792...
A fair amount of the use of these tools isn't as complex as a CRM, rather, just a better version of spreadsheets passed around via email or shared drives. But better, as they provide some amount of data validation, more granular roles, notifications, workflow, etc.
You've piqued my interest. Further reading?
> Buy S&P ETFs, most preferably by Vanguard, because they are a non-profit and thus have very low fees

Vanguard is certainly a for-profit organization [0]. What, I think you wanted to say, that many of the Vanguard funds are index funds that do not have exuberant management fees.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanguard_Group
How is having $1000 invested proving OP's point? There are lots of problems with this article if you take things in it at face value, but what you mentioned are not really. Why did you cherry-pick the 85k value?

I just posted this to show that at least the math can work even with extremely small amounts. Having lots of capital only buys you lower and lower risks.
Our software broke that.
Scientists unveil most accurate virtual representation of the Universe
Super Bowl Crypto Ads Feature Larry David, LeBron James, and QR Code
Love dbeaver. The cloud version is cloudbeaver.io
I had not heard the 28-day trailer yet. I imagine all this is the beginning of the penny pinching after the recently announced reduction to the BBC's funding. We should probably just be grateful any of these are available at all, they might not be around a few years from now.
You can't represent ! without being ambiguous with 1IL. You can't represent .,;:/+#(). You can't represent G, K, T, V, X, Z. The way you proposed to represent M and W is non-intuitive, to say the least. You cherry pick between lower and upper case letters, discarding half of them, only to shoehorn them into your model.
Seeing sidewalks called financially unsustainable made my day.