skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Or that this wasn't the mainstream view amongst economists?

The myth is certainly taught by mainstream economists, here is one example:

http://www2.york.psu.edu/~dxl31/econ14/lecture18.html

>And Graber doesn't stop there. He pretends like somehow all of economics is hinged upon this Myth of Barter.

I think he was specifically targeting neoclassical economists. The idea of Homo Economicus is essentially rooted in a number of myths that depict humans as spherical cows, Adam Smith's story of money emerging from barter being just one.

>Adam Smith is not the supreme arbiter and law-giver of economics.

Nope, he just has an unusual take because his analysis is more rooted in historical and anthropological study and, of course, he's kind of left wing. This angers people who try to gatekeep economic thought, limiting it to the likes of neoliberal (but still somehow mainstream) ideologues like Mankiw or Milton Friedman.

I guarantee that when David Koch made an large donation to Florida State U economics department he didn't do it with the idea that they would teach more Graeber.
It's a wonderful time to be a gamer. I mainly avoid AAA and have found a lot of joy with things like Outer Wilds, Project Zomboid and Rimworld.

However, seeing my favorite franchises go down the drain when I would have loved to keep immersing myself in those worlds still makes me bitter over the direction the AAA gaming industry is taking. So I get that people complain.
I love projects like this. I've considered getting a smartwatch. Something like this makes the idea more appealing. Whats the most hackable watch? Is there a pinephone of smartwatches?
Gretel.ai: Open-Source AI Tool to Generate Synthetic Data
Can you elaborate? I mean, this is the people who came up with the idea, not some end user.
The raw_ptr/BackupRefPtr/MiraclePtr [1] mitigation will change the security industry. It is quite a feat what Chromium is doing.

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/ddc017f9569...
How does this lead to positive impact?
This paper investigated the existing artificial intelligence tool, the Gretel.ai, for generating synthetic data and intelligent data analysis and applications. Using the ASD Toddler dataset, which is publicly available, the proposed framework can generate synthetic data ranging from 1054 to 5000 records without changing the original features. By viewing the graphics using the ASD dataset, the tool also provides a quick report, namely the Gretel Synthetic Report, which can help quantify their utility on exploratory data analysis. With these benefits and the availability of synthetic data, it will likely become the future of Artificial Intelligence. In due course, the synthetic data will replace actual data to become primary data generation for future references.
Ah, the classic. I encourage everyone strolling through the comments to read it, even if you'll end up disagreeing with it.
Difference Between HTML and HTML5
At great expense to my carrier I have out and out refused to take part in creating these predatory practices. If you could hear the contempt that "some" game devs have for their customers, you might never buy a game ever again. It really is quite shocking...and the contempt exists from top to bottom, its everywhere. That isn't to say there's not a vast number of of honourable people in the industry, not at all.
It's only to say that we as a whole are allowing the demons run amok.

I have seen the damage that compulsive behaviour can do to our most vulnerable in society.
Lives ruined, homelessness, suicide, familial dissolution, the list goes on.
Children, people with mental dysfunctions, suffers of brain injuries, even people with Parkinson's disease (on l-dopa).

All the people in our society that can control themselves the least are the target. And these people are precisely the target, specifically these people, the 0.001% of players that make up the majority of their revenue.
Some companies find out who they are and continually and specifically court them with free t-shirts, beta access, 'free' in-game gifts, etc. In some companies its a whole department that do this kind of customer management. Developing personal relationships all to keep them hooked.

Now most companies don't do this, its much more automated and in-game that this Catfishing, if I can use a term like that.

At the fundamental level predatory games are not actually games they are variable ratio reinforcement schedule machines. Think Guinea pigs in a lab being rewarded for pushing a button.
An ultra advanced slot machine that continually changes it's odd's depending on what the app thinks you will be vulnerable too. And it attacks.
Now, if you aren't a vulnerable person you will see the obvious things like the pop-ups asking you to spend money or a timer mechanism. And you might think how stupid people must be to fall for that, but you wont see the game's dynamic balancing, because you are not the target. If you're not the target you will never progress further up the attack protocol. So it will always just look like an innocent game to most people.

Its insidious and immoral.
(I'm mostly talking about mobile games...mostly)
Someone should kill that link, it is no longer a relevant argument. Linus was mostly talking out of his ass complaining about microkernels. His main gripes were specific to Minix and Mach which were popular academic projects at the time.

There are many ways to make microkernels nearly as fast as monokernels, while being much safer and modular with all advantages that entails. See QNX or Sel4 for modern implementations.

Meanwhile, Linux itself has been getting more and more microkernel-y with things like eBPF which because of the monolithic design make the whole kernel much more vulnerable than warranted.
tackling communications security and privacy:

https://betrusted.io
Software that would be attached to your crypto exchange, and would easily and quickly figure out the tax reporting and implications of each trade or purchase for you personally. Also - Parth Balla here on YC already has this - a nickname feature for your crypto wallet to make sending money more certain and less of a hold-your-breath and hope you didn't get a number wrong moment
As an Australian…. What in the hell is this? Dowsing rod evidence being admissible in court? I can’t even believe it’s a suggestion let alone someone with authority in a school who would teach this. Where is liability here? Where are the watchdogs or regulators?
It shows how mature Fuchsia is. Chrome is an enormous piece of software that requires a lot of things to run.
I know they can’t be decoupled, but I think smart contracts have more potential than coins or tokens.

There is no reason why whole swathes of saving, lending, derivatives, fx and insurance products couldn’t be implemented as decentralised smart contracts.

I suspect the smart contracts to do all of this would use less energy than a single office block.
>They are starting to solve unique problems that couldn't be addressed on currently prevalent platforms.

Got any examples?
Anectdata: I have over 2000 hours of Rocket League, never once spent any money on it after purchasing it and never one have I felt that my fun was impacted by the available microtransactions.

Nothing that can be purchased in the game affects gameplay, it's all just cosmetics.
Polygraph data is almost never allowed in court without the consent of the victim/examinee.

But it is often a permitted investigative/intimidation tactic.
Problem is that RPC doesn't take into account how data is managed, and that you're basically dealing with microservices.
Trellis allows you to create custom audible workout routines
I believe an upside of the 'in-room' UV approach is that it also cleans exposed surfaces. Putting the UV light only in the air-ducting does little to clean a surface someone coughed on. Whereas the UV approach would help to disinfect those surfaces.
For personal projects I have used Serverless Framework, and I have no qualms about the experience as a developer.. though they're not huge projects so things may vary with those.
Counterquestion: Do they entice gambling?
In recent years, yes. Last time I used the Internet in rural US was dialup(!)

Looking at a Twitter search for people's 'Speedtest' results, though, provides anecdata. People in all sorts of countries seem to enjoy sub 10ms on even modest connections (e.g. https://twitter.com/grailph/status/1507258781574778883), whereas in the UK even a "good" connection gets a 10-15ms lag baked in.
This was the exact book I came to suggest. How I wish I’d been handed this in my first year of university and not the dry textbooks teaching the same thing but making it about a dozen times more difficult.
Datetimes are frequently uncertain or approximate in many real world contexts, and failing to indicate that is a form of lossy storage. Sometimes that loss is acceptable, and sometimes it is not.
I think you're spot on. Self driving software seems to me like it will handle the vast majority of driving situations much better than humans could within the 5 year horizon OP is asking about.
https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/cb9165b2/files/uploaded/...
Unreal Engine 5 – The Carpenter's Cellar (57s)
That doesn't address my point. Do you really appreciably save on binary footprint simply by using QNX versus trimmed down Linux kernel build?
When I was there I was baffled by its sudden rise and the support it seemed to have from senior mgmt.

My impression when it was announced was it started as a really neat personal project by some long-time OS development nerds (I mean that in a good way) that then escaped the gates and then it became a hammer in search of nails.

It ended up eating the project I was on, and was many many years late in the process of doing so, breaking schedule promise after schedule promise. I kept waiting for management to put a lid on it, but they seemed to have infinite headcount and budget, and patience from mgmt to support their mission to rewrite the world while we struggled to get time and resources to maintain the codebase we already had which was shipped as a profitable product and sitting in millions of people's homes with good reviews.

Google has OS politics dysfunction... especially in hardware devices where there are almost a half dozen Linux distributions fighting it out for marketshare. Fuchsia just added to that craziness.
Interestingly, I thought like you some years ago. But since then, I realized that, nah, we just need to make cities that don't require cars at all.

I'm not against self driving cars, they'll totally save millions of lives. But we must not make the mistake to build our society around the fact that self driving cars are a thing. We must build our future around the fact that any city should be livable without a car.
It'd be convenient for cryptobros, but I'm not really seeing how pushing crypto will have "positive impact" in the OP's definition. It's a libertarian capitalist concept, and I'm not open to debate about it because I've yet to see anyone use crypto for anything but a way to make money.
Also abandoned localstack, most parts of it are hardly reliable.

Using SAM Local [1] to emulate API GW + Lambda and DynamoDB Local [2]. For the rest we have flags we can switch to either call the real deal on a personal AWS account, or mock responses locally.
> There need to be statutes that define a logical basis for what we do and do not, as a society with a legal system, believe to be true.

Laws don't define that, though.

Wanting everyone to approach the world with a scientific, evidence-based mindset doesn't mean they do.

We can't legislate belief any more than we can legislate the value of pi.
I have to really read the article, but the world “handles” flu by guesstimating flu vaccines each year and dosing to hopefully reduce the naive population. No, dosing the same booster isn’t a long term strategy vs covid, but they are capable of making variants way faster than certifying them (as with flu vaccines) so at some point things will switch re certification.

Covid, to date, is far simpler than flu re changes so they have better odds making guesses. Yeah, non-vaccine solutions would be great to have as well as universal vaccines but that’s a very difficult problem. Not a lot of successes in curing viral diseases vs. suppressing symptoms.
Can someone please provide an example of a large-scale distributed state machine?

I can’t think of any. Maybe a train / rail network?
It seems to me, that nobody is denying the existence of barter. For instance, barter exist in our current modern societies. The question is if there are any evidence that the history of money is fundamentally the history of barter.

So, you have record-keeping that contradict the barter history and you have anthropology evidence that human semi-nomad tribes, even if they could barter sometimes, don't organize their society around barter, but, somehow, the more plausible evidence is barter. Don't know what to say to that.
I'm not sure what was going on, but Its now working.

Also the C code is pretty interesting, I like that its built up result types and generic types but also in c, very cool, if not a little bit wild :)
Having worked for a non-profit myself, I agree that there are plenty of areas to optimize...and what you noted is only one of them. At least at the non-profit where i worked, there are tons of people who do it for good of humanity, but who are...let me state as kindly as i can: not very efficient. They're intelligent people and who have big hearts, but often get in their own way to achieving their goals. So, yeah, making better software tools and systems for many aspects for non-profits will certainly (100%!) help make a more positive impact on the world.
True, and that is a problem if peoples' properties get dug up, as a sibling comment notes. But, in contrast to drug dogs, where an alert creates probable cause for a search where things other than drugs can frequently be found, cadaver dogs typically either find remains or not. There generally isn't much else one can find digging around in the dirt that's incriminating, so, from a legal/justice POV, the harm of a false alert from a cadaver dog is much less than that from a false alert from a drug dog.
Recently the city that I live was hit by pretty bad landslides and floods - some folks organized how to distribute donations to support centers, but as there was no tool for that they used a public google sheet. At some points there were dozens of people using it at the same time. Luckily no one vandalized it
Turning off Rust's borrow checker, completely
How many batteries does your x220 have attached to it? You’re probably running the extended one and the one that attaches to the bottom right? Mine won’t last 2hs on its own with the portable battery that doesn’t stick out. I think it’s the i5.
Because of the close ties of US tech giants and the US "intelligence" community.
The gui library is able to be used on Linux. But For the moment we can’t do hardware acceleration (but it is still really fast without it).
The subtitle of this article should read, "when science is performed irresponsibly, pseudoscience is treated like science."

Academia has a reproducibility crisis. Forensics has endured its own struggle with credibility. The media is undergoing similar scrutiny. When that which is expected to be trustworthy is proved unreliable, then how does society distinguish between that which is unreliable in design (e.g. dowsing) and that which is unreliable in execution (e.g. academic publications)?
Tools for generating and detecting synthetic content
Insanely realistic.
> If everyone used private keys instead of passwords

The only difference between that and using a pwd manager: using a key-pair requires more infrastructure (namely public key repositories).

I'd still have a master key to everything (the symmetric key used to encrypt my priv. key).
You're asking people to give away their billion-dollar startup ideas...
I'm always the wrong guy to ask as a customer what business model to use to make money, but I remember reading some Call of Duty required people to buy maps or else you couldn't join multiplayer servers with them. There was a lot of predictable complaining that there weren't many players on the servers using the new maps. It honestly sounded exhausting to keep track of as a player to me and like it would server to repeatedly split the player base until the population died out.
> Self driving software seems to me like it will handle the vast majority of driving situations much better than humans could within the 5 year horizon OP is asking about.

I remember this being said as far as a decade ago, and still, Teslas from 2022 are emergency braking on the highway.
As per this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67211-2

> ... far-UVC light has a range in biological materials of less than a few micrometers, and thus it cannot reach living human cells in the skin or eyes, being absorbed in the skin stratum corneum or the ocular tear layer.

The ocular tear layer, according to 30s of googling, is just the wet layer over your eyes (the stuff that turns into tears when you produce to much of it). So the idea is that this is eye-safe because the radiation gets absorbed by the small layer of wetness on your eyes.
Modern browsers use an extremely wide range of system APIs:
process/IPC/sandboxing, memory, networking/connectivity (e.g. bluetooth), filesystem, GPU, audio, windowing system, device IO (keyboards, webcam), and more I'm sure.

I can't think of any other kind of software that come close. If you can run a modern browser it means that your OS is already quite mature.
> What if you try and be fair with a kid and they just never understand fairness?

If that's your kid, speak to a therapist. There's definitely more to good parenting than a single concept, and more than anyone could relate on HN. By mentioning natural consequences and positive discipline, I'm only introducing topics which are described in more detail in books. I mentioned natural consequences specifically as an alternative to punishment which I don't think works. Adlerian psychology suggests misbehaving kids subconsciously want to be punished because that's how they learned to get attention. By the time they're adults, they act out all the time as a matter of habit.
I’d feel better if my tablet maker could create correction software that learns from watching me type and also adjusts from casual to/from technical writing. Some of my edit/retypes get repetitive…. If they can’t handle this, it’s not a good sign that similar ml systems can’t handle complex problems.
This. Coming from the rust belt, NYC was shock and awe for me and it isn't even a good example. But I get a bunch of people who ask me "How do you park when you visit?!"
I don't...in town. I get a PATH train in NJ and forget the car. It is freeing and the Subway system works well enough for anyone. I wish I didn't live in a Stroad hellscape.
Besides my direct experience? It doesn’t require fraud this is the result of the loose requirements to get reimbursed under these temporary measures and the fact that COVID tests are a routine part of hospital admissions. For example to be reimbursed for funeral costs COVID only need be listed as a contributing cause and doesn’t need to be the primary cause of death.
Python data scientists in 2022 [humor]
There is! And it's even featured in this article!
This... this is a Monty Python sketch. (facepalm)
https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/Probe-Around_on_Crime
If you just want to know, it's Crazy Eddie.
Finding the prior art pays you back the time you’d have spent repeating the same mistakes, though.
> But there are many users who maybe only turn the phone on 5 minutes a day to check messages - so it isn't really odd for a few users to never see a crash.

I don't really know anyone who uses their smartphone for less than 5m per day, but that's irrelevant anyway.

The question is still: is the money being put into preventing this problem at all proportionate to the size of the problem?

If there's a problem that no one notices[1], is a solution really worth spending millions of dollars per year over five years?

[1] So few users complained about this it's not even a statistical rounding error.
It's a solution to a problem, but said problem is not the root cause. Reduce the need for driving in the first place; normalize public transit within city limits, improve city designs by putting shops and work closer by, redesign cities to be more pedestrian and cyclist-friendly (and I'm aware cyclists get plenty of accidents too, I live in a cyclist country), etc. These are not easy things to fix, because especially in the US where I believe this is about, cities aren't designed like this in the first place and can't be redone easily.

First, if drivers make mistake, make them more accountable; require better training, enforce laws more strictly, etc. What are the causes behind traffic accidents? I'm confident the majority is from reckless driving, disregarding other drivers, speeding, impatience, alcohol / drugs, etc. Another percentage will be from unsafe driving conditions, which self-driving cars won't fix because they'll refuse to work in those conditions.
> Debt: The First 5000 years deserves props for debunking the myth of barter coming before credit

Barter is just trading without the use of money. It isn't mutually exclusive with credit. What Graeber describes in his book is still barter. It's just a primitive credit system based promises of goods and services instead of promises of money.
No it's not a real risk, just a silly fantasy with no basis in scientific reality.
The format looks neat and I'm sure it could be of some help. But it's also very limited, as it can only express some restricted uncertainty withing the format of the date representation.

There's no qualification about the range of approximation. For example, "a day in May" may be restricted that it was definitely before the 14th of May. So the uncertainty could be narrowed down to between 05-01 and 05-13.
And there's no way to express unspecifics that relate to properties not represented in the format, such as "a Tuesday in Dezember" or "a day in the second week of March".

So, I believe this extension is probably not very useful unless there is a practical use cases where the described methods of expressing uncertainty would be completely sufficient. That's highly unlikely, because uncertainty typically has soo many different angles.
I came to the conclusion myself. So, yeah, the primary goal should be to make communities that do not require cars at all...but the second-best thing i think we can do is to take the humans out of the control of cars for communities that already built. (Obviously, as we change even the established communities, any changes should shift towards a place without the need for cars too.)
Found this within two clicks after searching "Troubled Teens Australia":

https://teenchallenge.com.au/our-program

Seemed scary at first to me (for example, they only allow a single 10-minute phone call per week to friends and family during your stay, and religion + teens makes me think of the Christian Brotherhood shit), but people swear by it on Reddit.
I think this covers it pretty well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2KZ_wWWeYM
What is it, thought it was a render?
Behavioral economics, the bastard child of psychology, is built on an edifice of fashionable nonsense. The field is rife with grand generalizations based on dubious conclusions from small under-powered behavioral experiments. Just look at what a disaster the much hyped priming studies turned out to be. I would not count on behavioral economics to advance a more accurate understanding of the human condition.
G7 reject paying for Russian energy in rubles