skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their sample size was only 74 papers from one field of study.

It's easy to get onto the "science isn't working" bandwagon, but how about some more convincing evidence to prove it's happening as widespread as the claims they're making are.

You know... maybe treating it a bit more scientifically to prove your point.
If you have a Reddit account no extensions are needed to fix this.

Just go to your Reddit account settings[0] and click "Opt out of the redesign" at the bottom. (Or on old Reddit you uncheck "Use new Reddit as my default experience"). Once you do this you'll now see old Reddit on www.reddit.com.

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Dealership markups are getting crazy, so this site is tracking them
I think that identifying the ruliad with the "logos" makes sense - the idea that there's some underlying abstract shape to the universe that makes rationality possible in the first place.
I don't know how you'd even test the accuracy of the "robot" without having a human do it correctly to compare with.
This article is basically an advertisement! However, not everyone can get promoted to front page of HN. Just wondering how the OP get his story upvoted so much.
TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++
Maybe it's just my personal preference but I feel the aliens of 1 is a lot cooler than the one in 2. 1 also gives kind of hang at the end but I feel 2 concludes it a bit too quickly. Again just my preference. Don't know the right word for it, but I like when an idea is not presented clearly to the audience, for example in 1 the aliens are essentially lovecraftian, we have a lot of questions unanswered. I feel 2 answers these questions too clearly.
I know HN is not the place for glibness, but literally: just build more homes. Everything else is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Zoning reform is the answer.
> the same is true of some of the people they're bidding against

I think you're assuming that everyone bidding will be a first time home buyer under 40 years old. While that may be the bulk of buyers, there are also many investors also in the mix who are buying up houses to rent/flip them.
Attribution is not my area of expertise. But could you not track them to see if they convert? This is possible both on the advertiser side and the platform side, provided the advertiser reports conversions to the platform.
Enhancing Conversations with Spatial Audio
> The only meaningful further press coverage of Russian politics must be about regime change

You are mistaking journalism for propaganda if that's your opinion
FYI, there are some DuckDuckGo bangs (shortcuts) for this too. For example, if you wanted to search for Hacker News, try:

!searchr Hacker News

OR

!ddgr Hacker News
This is a damning indictment of file systems.

We have enough cheap space that we should be able to easily have (non-binary) file changes have a history log in our file system itself and be able to revert local changes without needing the full change graph that git entails.

I'm all for small commits, but committing every time ctrl+s happens would be an anti-pattern because ctrl+s doesn't imply it compiles whereas I'd want any commit to compile. (passing tests optional).
sadly, this looks like it doesn't work on iOS, which is my major driver to use pbcopy/pbpaste.
'mass sterility will have huge economic implications'

Yes, extinction of mankind might be. Bad for business, but not everyone agrees
Thank you. Added it to my reader.
Is this the magic behind the kernel trick?
xSearch for Safari is great for this on Mac and iOS. I've made a bunch of custom !bang search engines on top of those supported by DuckDuckGo. It really speeds up research on various databases.
The amazing thing is that despite being a money pit, it still manages to deliver better overall value than the US "system".
> What does the team do? Do they wait until every team who depends on them is ready to work on updating? Do they try to work out how the depending team is using their code so they can update it themselves?

versioned multi-repos may solve this for the team[s] demanding incompatible changes to shared code but any team who was happy to use the shared code as it currently is, and was expecting to also benefit from any upcoming compatible improvements will see only problems with this "solution".

Better to give the new incompatible behavior a new name. Deprecate the old name. Then callers of the old thing can fix on their own schedule.
Hilariously, this actually happened to Leave.EU one of the main campaigning bodies. I think they set up an office in Dublin or something to get around it.
The bigger issue is the multitude of exceptions. A ban on foreign buyers except for permanent residents, students, and recreational properties isn't much of a ban at all. Canadian permanent residency is incredibly easy to obtain, and students are frequently used as straw purchasers for their foreign parents (just look at the number of UBC students who own multimillion dollar homes despite having zero income). It also doesn't address foreign citizens buying through Canadian shell companies, a strategy used in Vancouver to avoid their foreign buyer tax.
> Yes you actually do. This is literally what the program does.

I mean't you as a user using xrdb, not what xrdb does. Also applications are supposed to use Xrm functions, not messing with properties directly. That doesn't mean that an application can't do that, but unless it has a good reason to, it doesn't have to do that.

> other toolkits won't support [..] they also won't implement [...] or that are too much work to maintain. We've seen this over and over when people propose standards for X11 based programs. It's not just a social issue.

But that IS social issue - people agreeing that doing that is a good (or not) thing is a social issue, not a technical issue. There is nothing that technically prevents this, or even providing a more robust API to X resources with 100% fully backward compatibility (using, e.g. an X server extension that provides the configuration functionality with updates, etc, that then is exposed to root window in a serialized form). It is that historically nobody cared enough to do that, which is a social issue.

> The issue here is how do apps store and access configuration

The overall topic was but when i brought up that API in the comment above i was referring to INI parsing specifically.

> Well many people have tried but none of the solutions stuck.

There were tons of forks, mainly to change the looks, but none were adopted by XFree86 which is basically why they didn't stick. Some Linux distributions used them (e.g. i think Slackware to this day still comes with the Xaw3D) but by being ignored by the main X distribution, none of those went anywhere.

> Xaw is only considered a "default toolkit" because it was the first one

Well, it is also that because -in practice- it is the only one that is available in any Unix where there is Xorg (or a fork of it) running :-P.
> In physics there are real tests and relations that have meaning so it makes sense to ask if String Theory is correct or useful. In mathematics there are complex structures built from axioms and sometimes these structures can be related to each other in interesting ways. Will anything important ever come of String Theory? Maybe, but from a mathematical point of view no theory needs to correctly model what is real or have demonstrated application to be worthy of exploration and study.

You say this as if it contradicts some point that the author is trying to make or some key assumption that he holds.

Yet on the contrary, the author himself makes a similar point in the article:

> But the way we’ve modeled mathematics here has been much more about what statements can be derived (or entailed) than about any kind of abstract notion of what statements can be “tagged as true”. In other words, we’ve been more concerned with “structurally deriving” that “” than in saying that “1 + 1 = 2 is true”.

That is, math is not necessarily about truth or usefulness in some (meta)physical sense, it is about entailment from certain axioms via formal rules.
My god… a taste of the golden age of the internet.
There are significant benefits to getting the vaccine after infection https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html
I think I was trying to get my entire music collection to fit onto my iPod, which at that time only had 10GB of space.

And also, I love to optimize things, so it made no sense to me why squeezing 1-2 more words in the track title would inflate the file size by 4KB. As a teenager, I probably had more time on my hands back then.
In earlier decades, the mid-life crisis years were likely also about the time most parents' kids had either just left the house, or would very soon. If you have a kid at 20, they're (hopefully) leaving at 38....
Since most of us work in at-will states, the advice is pretty much the same. Once you get a sign that management is no longer on your side, start your next job search and document as much as you can.

And also try to get an actual contract and not just an offer. Most decent companies will actually give you a real contract beyond the offer that details what the job duties are and the compensation and anything else you've agreed on if you ask nicely. Or you can write one yourself and ask them to sign it.

But of course a lot of that depends on what leverage you have -- how badly do they want you on board.
The big news is that IBM is still selling mainframes at all, and even getting rich from it. Doesn't hyperscaler tech nowadays do pretty much everything that we used to need a mainframe for?
> In this article I will be relying on the “standard” definitions, where unit testing targets smallest separable parts of code

Maybe that is the standard understanding, but I don't think it was the original meaning, and I don't think it is a helpful definition. Testing only "smallest separable parts" is what leads to an over-reliance on mocking and brittle tests.

Unit test should test a "unit of behavior", not a unit of code. That is, a unit test should test a single assertion about the behavior of a component. The test should not care how the behavior is implemented, i.e. it should be possible to refactor or fully rewrite the implementation without changing the test, which means the test should not care if one or many sub-component are involved (as long as no external systems are involved).
how would you assess le monde relative to the new york times?
It shouldn't matter all that much. Rented homes are an excellent (not perfect but very close) substitute for purchased homes.

People don't like to rent because of instability or unpredictability of pricing. But a large and growing long term rental market where it's straightforward to find a new place and nobody has an incentive to kick you out or raise your rent is really just fine.

You might be thinking, right but if you rent you'd be giving up the ability to make all that money from appreciation that homebuyers get BUT THAT IS ACTUALLY THE PROBLEM WITH THE ENTIRE SYSTEM because you can't have affordable housing and also have housing as a guaranteed investment that always builds wealth the two concepts are fundamentally incompatible with each other and when you get that you're really starting to understand the problem.
Oh nice high five! Plus that's the smart way to do it like oh_sigh mentioned in their comment too
Keeping a person healthier is to live a longer life. There's no way to get around that.
Funny I used to have something called redditprofile.com that did something similar. Let you view trends as well, etc.

It’s now called insideropinion.com sell to companies.

I think there’s a lot of interesting stuff to get out of Reddit.
knowing this, should we do intentionally lift-and-coast? Get out of the rat-race?

Going to a medical test center in America is insightful. Old folks who drive alone to get tests they know the results to, to take prescription drugs they know don't work. Tax money and or insurance is supporting this right?
"Maximizing profits on government space contracts"

That would be the United Launch Alliance, Sir.
If you made an account at any digital service before you turned 13 make a new one. I got a google account banned because I needed to update my date of birth and at the time I would not have been allowed to sign up.
Nothing. But rsync isn't in the same space that syncthing is trying to do.

It's like comparing `scp` to something like `sshfs` mounted to a shared folder, and having an algorithm to handle file conflicts.

I'm a heavy syncthing user, but still do rsync to deploy changes to my personal VPS because I don't need any of that.
Well, you are a moron for refusing a free vaccine that significantly reduces chance of getting covid, AND lessens severity of ailments if you do get it.

I'd say it was a bullet dodged by the company.
??? Japan surrendered after the nukes.
I'd like to play again if I could go down to 3 hours per week.

3 hours per day including weekends is too much in my opinion. Take into account I work full time, we went to trips and did stuff together with my wife in those 2 years. So if I was away for a weekend I would play 6 hours for 2 days to compensate.

I basically was playing that game at every slice of free time that I had available.
I liked all the quotes/memes and just the way the whole thing was composed. Some nice reminders along the way, no-nonsense markup, it was a nice scroll!
I agree that verbal contracts are valid. But difficult to prove.
Very slick. Where else have you been sharing this? I saw you had 1k stars, that's awesome for a project this young.
You can do the same on chrome: right click on the url bar → manage search engines → set a keyword to the prefix you prefer and the url with %s for the search term in the same way.
The underappreciated joy of yack shaving.
https://archive.ph/ftwuI
In some provinces, the sold data is at least available. It definitely helps get a feel for what one can expect to pay in a given neighborhood.
Investors in real estate make money by either selling or renting; either way, more homes still means lower prices. Keep providing more supply until it meets demand.
No, it's actually correct. You've got the logic here backwards, so please think about this a bit.

How much impact can we see at the time of introduction and removal? Zero. In all those graphs the curve continues exactly on its previous trend line.

Your point would be valid if there was a visible impact and we were trying to establish how much of that came from masks. But we aren't trying to disentangle cause and effect here, because there's no effect to establish a cause for. If there's no effect then masks cannot be the cause, can they?
Experts regularly rate it as one of the most efficient health systems, so whoever you're talking to is ill informed. Probably listened to too much propaganda from people who want to adopt the widely hated and less efficient American system instead.
> Changing an API breaks projects using it; you either do versioned APIs and/or coordinate changes with downstream consumers, the same as you would with an API with external customers.

This is a ton of work relative to building/running the tests for all your reverse dependencies and fixing the call sites for them (up to a certain level of scale, of course).

> (Another way is “downstream projects checkout their dependencies and build against them as a routine part of their process.“)

This happens automatically in a monorepo. Any breakages are revealed as soon as upstream makes the change.
Except you don't actually believe it, so it's a lie, not an opinion.
https://archive.ph/T0Hq1
> Hundreds of lines of mock code

No wonder they are not getting value out of unit tests.

https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/05/why-i-don-mock.html
This is often said, but the data shows it is false. Even WWII's millions had hardly any effect on the population curve.
I live in Canada, and the real estate business is such a mafia. They are leeches, and I'm not sure how much value these real estate agents are providing.

It baffles me how this industry has not yet been disrupted by an outsider, like Uber did with taxis. I still remember when taxi licenses costed a fortune, and you had the exact same leeches exploiting it. They were seen as an investment in some cities, like NYC.

I know there are useless regulations that keep these agents being needed, but so there were with taxis as well, and Uber did not give a crap.
After reading part 1 and 2 of this lengthy review (more of a precis or distillation than a review IMO) and yet the book's authors are never credited even once.
You've sorted people who disagree with you into the category of "not adults". Should they be able to vote?

The example you chose is funny because, in my view, it's utterly insane that we ever had lockdowns preventing people from "going for a stroll". That you think any reasonable person ("an adult," apparently) agrees with you just shows how far off the reservation you've wandered.
Here's a question I have about this experiment.

So the experimental setup is: you create an ad for your product, you create an ad for your charity, then you compare the populations of people who click on your ad for your product with the population of people who click on your ad for the charity and see if there is any difference in conversion rates between the two populations.

How do you ensure that the people who see/click on your product ad aren't already a population more likely to convert to your product than the population of people who see/click on your charity ad? Sure, you can target the same groups of people - but that only goes so far, the ML algorithms backing the ad selection process will still preferentially show your charity ad to people likely to click on charity ads and show your product ad to people likely to click on your product ad.

I am unfamiliar with how these experiments work on the advertiser side. Incrementality is easy to measure on the platform side if advertisers report conversion metrics to you.
Did you represent user -> role mappings in your postgres db, or did you model ACLs for every object?
To counter your argument. I did one full migration from AWS to GCP Kubernetes (GKE). The project was a huge success, simplifying our stack, deployments, logging, etc, etc.

We reduced our costs by 2/3rds, saving millions of years. Teams have been able to move onto feature work instead of maintaining custom deployment tooling. The Ops team 1/2 the size that it was before but is able to handle twice as many customers.
AFAIK Plenel sources for Rainbow Warrior were french intelligence.

He got completely sidelined on the "Irlandais de Vincennes" story (which in a way is proof he's not a foreign intelligence puppet, otherwise he wouldn't have fell for it, would he?).

Anyways, Plenel aside, I'd happy if you could point out any Mediapart story that you think has been sourced or set up by foreign intelligence agencies?

I've frequently heard Mediapart is biased in a way or another (recently accused of bias by Melenchon supporters, before by LREM, Les Republicains, Front National, etc...) but absolutely never read anywhere that they are a puppet from a foreign intelligence agency.

In a nutshell, please substantiate your baseless claim.
Technically in git you can namespace tags to your heart's content, it's a relatively free form naming structure, just like branch names. Basically the same rules even to the point that if you use slash separators (example: mylib/v0.0.1) some UIs will even give you a directory structure of tag lists. (On the flipside, some UIs get very confused, but that's not git's fault.)

What monorepos I've seen rarely bother with tags in practice, in part because they rarely individually version libraries, but at a technical level you can do it in git, if you need to.
I don't think it's a matter of being "up to date" but rather about being risk adverse. There's much more downside for a false negative (approving someone who is suicidal) than false positive (disapproving someone who isn't). So they will err on having more false positives.

Bureaucracies tend toward being risk adverse, and it can lead to bad incentives that create inefficiency and lack of innovation. As the saying goes, "nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM."
or, alternatively...

Police Records Show Women Across The USA Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags

Remember when you used to have to be able to form coherent sentences to get a job as a journalist?

[I'd also substitute 'via' or 'using' for 'with']
They should have used a smarter robot.
The ironic thing about this post is that the author sounds like an awesome dude. Heck, I just read his work in the New Yorker. I wish he could realize he was killing it! And same goes for you, dear reader :)
Here in the UK I've been saying for years that we should be taxing or banning sales to anyone who isn't a full-time owner-occupier.

The situation we have here with average property prices, reaching 10x median income, is simply untenable.
Thinkers need different philosophies than executives. Getting an engineering project not to stall requires rules like these.
“Introducing the newest wordle clone: google! Try to guess the correct search terms to find your target in under 5 searches!”
I might trust Consumer Reports, parents/neighbors/friends but not some random dude on youtube...
> that we call the ruliad—and that our physical laws arise in an inexorable way from the particular samples we take of this structure.

What is a physical law? To me a physical law is a proportionality, that is, an equality of ratios. When we find something that stays constant while something else is changing, we call this a law. But it is really a proportonality. So, mathematics and physics is tied by proportionality. They have proportionality in common.
Ask HN: Minimal thing to build for B2B SaaS idea validation
Hello HN!

What's the minimal thing to build before reaching out to potential customers to validate the need for a new product idea?

I'm a solo founder working on a new SaaS product idea. I am tempted to just build the product, but I know this isn't recommended until the need is verified with customers. So far I have cold emailed some (~10) potential customers and am met with silence.

I am considering between building a landing page, demo video or a prototype as a next step. As a parent with a full-time job, I do not get to spend a ton of time on this project. So I need to be careful about my time investment.

Any B2B founders willing to share their experience on how they went about getting their first customer? What did you already build before reaching out to first potential customers?

Much appreciated!