skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd highly recommend the historical fiction "Red Plenty" which followed the trajectory of Academics in the soviet union trying to compute idealized prices - meanwhile administrators, consultants, and realists had to just make the system work.

At one point a quota increase leads a factory to sabotage it's old equipment, so that they may get a new machine to hit the quota. The administrator in charge of approval determines as much - and arranges for a new machine. Unfortunately a pricing reform introduced by the same plan leads to an inability to build the new piece of equipment as equipment was priced by the ton. Requiring the intervention of "well connected" individuals to solve the problem...

Systems adapt - any reform will introduce exploits, and pathologies. To pretend that MMT based central planning yields a different outcome in the long hall is folly.
Isn't the visual identification and jamming from other events?

Can you share where it is best thoroughly debunked? The stuff linked so far in this thread (Friedman podcast; pilot Lehto analysis) isn't good.
I got to wonder how 11 year old Einstein, Von Neuman, Russell or Dawin would have turned out if they had been subjected to all the extremely compelling distractions that modern day kids encounter, aristocratic tutors and all.

How much greek and latin would have been learned with a PS5 in the room? How much of Marcus Aurelius would have been read if young Russell had had a Instagram account and a magic glowing rectangle that streamed entertainment around the clock?
You're conflating some figures -- 820k new homes were sold[1] -- along with roughly 5.6 million existing homes[2].

[1] - https://www.housingwire.com/articles/new-home-sales-historic...

[2] - https://cdn.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/documents/ehs-01...
Technically, yes, but it's much easier to use Dockerfiles like normal (and have the build step is a good environment for development), and copy exactly the files you need for the release stage.
Largest Ever Psychedelics Study Maps Changes of Conscious Awareness
> The only thing you have to do to interact with the OS is make system calls. You can do that without going through the C library.

If by "the OS" you mean "Linux". On Windows, calling syscalls is explicitly unsupported and Microsoft will break you mercilessly by changing syscall IDs between versions. On macOS and iOS, libSystem.dylib is the only supported way to call syscalls; syscalls are SPI and Apple will break you if you try to call them directly. BSDs likewise discourage you from calling syscalls.

The "syscalls are stable API" principle that Linux is famous for is a weird Linux-specific thing; other OS's don't do it.
Knights of the Golden Circle
> Instead of thinking of this like a missile, instead think of it like a submarine

I'm former Air Force, so that sort of comes with the territory. Sorry. :)
Considering how quick this took place, it’s almost as if someone had actively interfered or otherwise prevented Ukraine from being in position to sell its excess/offpeak nuclear and gas electricity to countries further east!
CLIs (that read input from stdin and spit out results to stdout/stderr) are useful in an automation/data processing pipeline. But TUIs are a gimmick that should have been just GUIs. (And text selection is not a reason to resort to TUIs — it’s a reason to improve GUIs.) Unfortunately native GUI programming doesn’t have the coolness/geekiness factor of TUI apps…

Edit: Looks like I should clarify – I'm not saying that people should stop creating TUIs right now: in the current landscape, TUIs do have advantages like being usable over ssh, text selection, a simpler programming model in most languages... but I'm arguing that these advantages aren't inherent to TUIs. We should aim to improve GUIs, not stuck in a interface from the 70s. Unfortunately I've seen too many people (including a big chunk of HN) that argue that TUIs are just inherently superior.
Right, I mean that there is a (caveat-ridden) workaround as it stands. I agree that repository maintainers should have the option to restrict or disable pull requests, just like they can disable other features.
I'm convinced the vast majority of humanity's cultural output over the last 100 years will be permanently lost to time within the next hundred, due to most of it being stored in ephemeral digital form. The likelihood of the partial or total collapse of technological civilization, infrastructure and knowledge transfer following the pending collapse of our biosphere is simply too great, and that chain of infrastructure and education is necessary to keep copying and updating all of that digital information from generation to generation, and maintaining a cultural awareness of the necessary software and media used. Unlike the Rosetta stone, you can't just look at an SSD drive and glean language from it.

What will remain is plastic - toys and garbage. Maybe future archaeologists will think our anime figurines were ceremonial fetish objects.
> Factual is class of statements, opposed to normative statements.

They're asking for supporting evidence for MMT.
I can explain with all details:
Let's day you are an ecommerce store and you have your own Stripe connect. Now you need customers who likes to buy shoes, you signed up from bringshopper.com and we worked with you and started to bring shoppers you targeted through our dashboard. We did Fb ads, Google ads. When those shoppers come and pay from your website, it is your Stripe account that does transactions not ours. Our Stripe account takes application fees from your transactions due to us bringing all those shoppers. So we are not charging anyone, you connect your Stripe account to ours via stripe standard connect and we take application fee if we brought you shoppers you targeted. Our funds are coming from application fees we took from each transaction. If you check our Stripe account, it has 0 charges as we don't charge customers. So we have no charges to be refunded/disputed, additionally if you look at stripe.com/connect/pricing you will see Stripe Standard Connect platforms that use direct charges are not responsible for refunds/disputes of connected accounts. Which means, if you as a store did something wrong and Stripe should refund your charges, or you get disputes, this has nothing to do with our services, we are not financially responsible to cover your Stripe account
In my experience, it's not fruitful to argue with folks like you. You're just going to believe what you believe, as if politics and current events are football or religion. Best of luck.
Weapons on their own are dumb, stupid devices. Weapons in a system can be dangerous when deployed appropriately. For ASBM or hypersonic missiles, there are several steps in a successful engagement:

1. Detect the carrier. Sounds easy but they can move at 30+ knots, and can be quite difficult to detect when they want to hide.

2. Provide targeting data. This is needs to be much more accurate than just detecting that a carrier is operating "near" this point. Most weapons will require relatively precise data for this.

3. Transmit this data rapidly to the launch systems. Every minute counts as old targeting data is relatively useless.

4. Launch the weapon. This means keeping aircraft or missile batteries safe from attack, and getting the weapons in range of the carrier.

5. Have the weapon reach the target area. This means a reliable weapon with a low failure rate.

6. Have the weapon avoid any ECM or other countermeasures that might affect its targeting.

7. Have the weapon avoid any defenses, either the layered defenses (SAMS, point defence guns), fighters, etc.

8. Have the weapon detonate properly, in the best spot.

Lots of things to go wrong in this "kill-chain." Lots of places to interrupt, disrupt or out-right kill the weapon.

And sure we hear a lot about Russian super weapons like Zircon and the silly torpedoes. But as the Ukraine war is showing, a lot of Russian stuff sounds great until you see it in action. Or it's a Potemkin weapon, or too expensive.

Look at all the burning Russian tanks. These aren't monkey models sent to client states like Iraq. These are top of the line, with ERA etc. Yet most don't have Arena/Trophy, and are getting killed by a weapon designed 30 years ago.

Now perhaps the DF-21 deployed by the PLAN is more reliable than the Russian crap. But unless things get hot in the South China Sea we'll never know.
The question is what is the limit of the creative input? If you sit someone or something down and tell them to draw, do you own the copyright or who/whatever did the drawing?
> My position is that this is less of a burden than writing something that goes from the "glorious language" into machine code.

I disagree. Machine code has a small stable surface area. Compiling to a bootable image for a single-tasking machine is easier than compiling to a well-behaved userspace unix program that operates the way users expect.
As Russian Troop Deaths Climb, Morale Becomes an Issue, Officials Say
This is very unusual given the scarcity of more experienced candidates.

I interviewed a "principal" engineer once. It was supposed to be a technical interview over Zoom. The guy shows up 10 minutes late, no camera on, tells me he is out running errands, shopping and taking his kid to baseball practice, but can we still talk? Back then I put in more effort, so I tried to ask him some questions. He tells me he "didn't know it was going to be technical." These days, I'd probably just ask him to reschedule.

I'm not sure how he even passed the initial phone screen. Most interviewers are bad at it. I'm bad at it.
This. The intention for C was never to have an immutable, well defined super-portable ABI so that all the people who like to feel superior for not using C can paper over their C use in comfort. It just so happened that C is so simple that it is some 80% along the way to an ABI between systems.
> Actually, the current guidelines by health authorities do not allow irreversible treatments for minors.

Nonetheless, girls under the age of 18 are having their healthy breasts removed for reasons of 'gender affirmation'. With some bitterly regretting it when they become adults.

Here's one particularly shocking example of this being done, to a 13-year-old girl: https://4w.pub/tiktok-gender-doctor-per-breast-removal-on-13...

And here's a peer-reviewed paper describing a cohort who had such surgery, many of whom were minors: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abst... (see the figure titled "Age at Chest Surgery in the Postsurgical Cohort" - it shows that 33 of the 68 study participants were under the age of 18 when they had the surgery).

> They do allow puberty blockers, which are commonly used in cisgender children who experience precocious puberty, and are reversible.

It's only reversible up to a point. And the long-term side effects of using these drugs for children with a gender dysphoria diagnosis (who may be prescribed these at a later age range than children with precocious puberty) are unknown. There is currently much concern within the medical establishment about potentially damaging effects on teenage brain and bone development.

> Your claim of brainwashing is unhelpful to any conversation.

The commenter above used strong language, but that does indeed seem to be what is happening for many young people in this situation. Here's a fascinating account of one detransitioner about what she went through regarding this: https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name, well worth reading for anyone with a passing interest in this topic.
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There was an HN post a year or so back about the microwave oven used in the lunch room, of a SETI facility, or other radio astronomy setup, that befuddled everyone by interfering with the received signals.
No one could detect the source, which occurred at certain 'periodic' times of the day. Until it was tied in with coffee breaks and lunch time.
I found this with a quick search:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-ov...
> Right now the labor market is good for workers

It is good _nominally_. Real wages are basically flat. Meanwhile, for everyone who didn't get a raise or can't currently find a new job for whatever reason, they're losing purchasing power. On top of that, the housing market has been completely destroyed by the Fed printing money and shoving it into mortgage backed securities. In many nicer areas of Southern California you used to be able to get a starter home for $600k (manageable for someone in a working class profession like a nurse or mechanic), now nothing on the market is less than $1.2M.

Also you forget that a big reason the labor market is so tight is because a couple million Boomers retired early during the pandemic.
What you're saying isn't new.
Because valuations were low. Inflation is only good for asset pricing once that asset has been valued with an inflation appropriate discount rate.

e.g. a 100 PE stock that implies a 1% return/year logically should fall significantly in a 5%+ inflationary environment. Once bond yields adapt to this environment.
As well as a former engineer on the Swift team at Apple. Aria is more qualified to talk about compilers than 99% of HN.
> TUIs are a gimmick that should have been just GUIs.

I mostly agree. I use Midnight Commander a lot but I'd prefer a basically identical GUI version with the same keys. None of the Linux GUI orthodox file managers I looked at were comparable, though I didn't do a comprehensive search. (Edit: There are tons of GUI orthodox file managers for Linux. I was wrong.)

The main advantage of a TUI to me is that it is available over SSH more easily. X forwarding exists but I never recall it being particularly responsive.

As another commenter says, TUIs also have advantages in terms of coding.
Being an outsider gives you a different perspective, however at the end of the day you should have a "home culture" to go back to, and more importantly a home that will accept you. It is possible that you will end up neither here nor there which is frustrating.
A cynical take is that armchair architects who talk as if they can build Uber in a weekend are more likely to be junior than distinguished/fellow engineers
As sibling comment notes, yes Linux has a stable ABI, and amongst all operating systems that is incredibly rare.
The odds we have an average of 8% inflation (as measured by the Fed) over a 30-year horizon are ridiculously low.

Your spread is high now - but it likely won't be for the entire life of your 30-year fixed mortgage.
Most of the money printing has been reabsorbed by the Fed... banks would buy the treasury bonds and then loan them back to the Federal Reserve.

It isn't until recently that money was printed, sent out, and actually got out into the economy... (at the same time that China shuts down, etc).
I can make a TUI by just reading from stdin, writing to stdout, and some minimal parsing and emitting of VT codes that have mostly not changed in a few decades.

To make a GUI I have to pull in megabytes of libraries, learn their API, then update them every time they release a new version that will likely have breaking changes. They'll also have questionable bindings outside of one or two "first-class" languages, so reading docs and investigating why something isn't working is harder.

I'll stick with TUIs, thanks.
Good question, you should ask the maintainer that. I'm speculating about their possible motive for abusing the FLOSS ecosystem in such a destructive way, not trying to justify their behavior or anything.
Ah, yes—sorry, I remember now. And I see the team did re-review your account after that and we sent another email with the results of the investigation. I can't publicly share details of a Stripe account on HN, but that conversation we had in our email thread still stands—I'm afraid the way you use Stripe Connect and your business model are unsupportable.
We are not transacting $159k ourselves, we had connected other stripe accounts collectively generated $159k. Our business is B2B. For example, if you use our platform and your business makes 1M in a month, we will make similar amount
Seems to me if real wages are flat or mildly increasing and it’s WAY easier to get a job that’s a way better world to live in for the kind of people who apply for jobs.
Yeah, especially after having had it for years, business leaders just do not understand why the browser would remove such a useful feature. And then you get questions like “So? Can we just stick with IE 10 then?”

I still haven’t found a way to consistently send a request while the tab/browser is closing.
People look at the monetary policy side of things, but I think shortages have just as much to do with inflation.

If I see there are no eggs in the grocery store, I'm happy to pay whatever they cost next time I see them. If I can only get gasoline 3 days out of the week and I need gasoline, I'll pay whatever the asking price is for that gasoline.

Sure, maybe they flooded the zone with billions of dollars, but that's been going on for a long time. The difference now is that lots of stuff just isn't available.
But the guy answering there is talking about the Java clients.
Agreed. This seems like a rant from someone who perhaps never used anything but Linux and Darwin (macOS).

Windows went to substantial lengths to support non-C languages. It’s not obvious that the result was much of an improvement.
Data on the phone number doesn't mean anything unless (until?) spammers are forced to use phone nunbers they control.

I don't know if you can get registration dates; it's probably available somewhere, but not easily. Current carrier information is available, but expect to pay about one cent per query. You can lookup original assignment of the number through NANPA data files, but you'll need to download them, do some data massaging, and then index the prefixes however is convenient for you to do lookups.
1.that's not pretty good C# code. Though i can't comment on the quality of PHP

2.Programming languages are more then their syntax, they are entire ecosystems.
99% of the time its not the syntax/features/paradigms that make you move fast its the libraries
Just Asking Questions
> The one which is nobody's first stop for any given product.

Walgreens unfortunately is mine for many things, due to being the most walkable location for staples in my neighborhood, but they put zero focus into it here. The last few years have just been a steady stream of stopping into Walgreen for something only to realize that they ran out and never intend to restock.
Sorry, I meant between you and stripe
Fridge-size asteroid detected just 2 hours before it slammed into Earth
GUI's can be too slow and too heavy. Good TUI can be hyper fast user wise.
> My position is that this is less of a burden than writing something that goes from the "glorious language" into machine code.

It's only less of a burden if you're guaranteed to have a C compiler hanging around any time the C ABI breaks. If you aren't guaranteed to have a C compiler hanging around any time the C ABI breaks, then you are probably just as well off generating C-ABI compatible machine code from an ABI description written in "glorious language" and updating it when the C ABI breaks.

Non self-hosting languages distributed as source code can just lean on the C compiler for everything.

It's also quite feasible to target Linux without worrying about the C ABI, as the Linux system call interface is famously stable, but that is not true of any BSD.
This is correct.

What people often don't think about in the safe languages debate is that it's not about the skill of specific programmers. Yes, good programmers can write secure C or C++ code. That's not the problem.

The problem is what happens as code ages. What happens when bugs are fixed, refactors are done, code is ported to other platforms and OSes, multiple people work on it, and pull requests are merged. Bugs creep in when modifications are made without the full context, hastily, and by people who did not write the original code or when it was written so long ago that they've forgotten the deep details of it.

Safe languages will prevent, catch, or at least "nerf" the most dangerous sorts of bugs such as memory errors. Rust is very good at catching most of them at compile time. Unsafe languages won't and it's easy for bugs to creep in later and then result in catastrophic security failures long after they're released. Look at OpenSSL, a hoary old code base that continues to produce ugly security bugs.
Thanks! The post doesn’t cover fine tuning of the model which would be absolutely necessary (but out of scope for the post). Nils Reimers (the author of SBERT) has been on a speaking circuit covering Generative Pseudo Labelling to handle the vocabulary gap of new domains that a pretrained sbert model hasn’t seen yet.

https://youtu.be/qzQPbIcQu9Q
von Neumann did slightly more than that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_J...
> It's likely that identifying molecules suited only to become bioweapons or publishing how to synthesize them will also fall under the same strictures, as necessary to ensure public safety.

Certainly. However, here they have identified and published not the discovered molecules but only the identification process (and only in fairly broad strokes, at that), and shied away from working further on synthesis (we know enough to state that synthesis would be possible and practical for nearly any candidate molecule).

Sure, as a society we can expand ethical guidelines to some sort of "thou shall not optimize for toxicity", but enforcing it poses some serious challenges, not least of which is the fact that this has demonstrated that the process works even with fairly innocuous and public training data.

Expect to see a bunch of funding for research into technologies around toxin identification and detection, as well as the rapid creation and synthesis of antitoxins and other prophylactic measures (cheaper filtering, maybe). Perhaps even eventual (as in a decade out at least) "hardening" of organisms against toxicological weapons (possibly positioned as research into the mechanisms of acquiring pesticide resistance and similar).
A lot of companies do overnight batch processing so that could have been the case here.
Wikpedia's current events page is quite nice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
We increase volume of other stripe accounts connected to us. When there is high volume, Stripe makes higher revenue
The only way a quilter in a rich country could sell profitably is to approach it like art. Get the quilt into a gallery and sell it as a wall hanging. The instant you sell a mere bed covering, you’re competing with factory labor in poor countries. Their labor is way too cheap to compete with.

Many sellers of handmade items will have the same problem.
Compared to a Great Depression type cycle in the middle of the pandemic, what is the other alternative?
It’ll come down to parents wanting ST for light in the morning for their children vs. the childless wanting DST so they can enjoy sunlight after work, not science.
The US has a dedicated submunition for this mission called the BLU-114/B. It has been highly effective in past uses, though I imagine cleanup after the conclusion of hostilities was a serious pain. There's been research into even smaller conductors that would get inside fan-cooled equipment, though a.) one might imagine potentially negative health impacts on persons exposed to these materials, and b.) it might be difficult to occupy an area previously hit with these types of munitions given the proliferation of fan-cooled equipment in the military.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Graphite_bombs#/...