skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason why your new area doesn't have any people with drug, mental health and poverty issue is because you don't pay enough taxes for the social programs that allow these people to survive in San Francisco.

Ah, so social programs attract and cause drug, mental health and poverty issues? Well, I guess it is lucky for them providing for the general welfare is literally in the US Constitution twice, in the Preamble and also in the Taxing and Spending Clause. But I guess that is what is wrong with this country, the Constitution and the government should be disbanded, so you don't have to look down on all those less fortunate than you, right? The Framers were supremely foolish not to realize that welfare causes poverty and drug and mental health issues. You should really tell someone so we can fix this problem.
Nobody's holding you hostage...
He got poor too, he says...

"How Crypto Made Me Poor... my biggest mistakes.": https://youtu.be/5A67U1M80tw

And if you are getting Crypto advice from an humoristic channel on YouTube well...
I hang out in a ton of FOSS projects' rooms / bridged IRC channels / other rooms I saw mentioned in discussion. I use it to give and receive support, to learn, and as an occasional break from work.

https://view.matrix.org is a good list, at least the first few pages seemed SFW, most populous rooms are first, and you can search by keyword.

Once you get into the main room of any large community, check the topic or ask if there's a Space, which gives an organized overview of a community's rooms (in a featureful matrix client like Element).
Hello, I'm the Head of Trust & Safety. Please forward me the email? This is very likely legitimate and from our team, but I'd like to confirm. justin@ cloudflare.com
Heh... I think this is subtle trolling.
This is only limited to the top 50 contributors?

Also would be nice if the lines are sorted by last commit date, so that we can see a cascade graph of people joining/leaving the project as time goes by.
It's always been like that honestly
So the current plan 2 loans are about 15k per year of study. So for a typical 4 year course, that is about 60k worth of loans.

If you take a 6 year medical course, you are on your own for the 2 extra years at least from a maintenance grant AFAIK. Hence a lot of students, especially those in London struggling for their 5th and 6th year of study. Don't even get my started in regards to the junior doctor salary.

The payback terms of this is 9% of everything you gain beyond a specific threshold i.e. anywhere from 20-25k.

After 30 years, theoretically the loan gets wiped off (unlikely). Already there are talks of extending it for the next gen plans by another 10 years.

The interest rate for this student loan is RPI + 3.5, and adjusts higher the more you earn. Effectively becoming almost impossible to pay back apart from those who are the absolute highest earners.

So far, we have seen the government repeatedly change both the repayment threshold, and the time before it gets wiped.

Given NI rises, I have seen effective marginal tax rates up to 60%.

At the end of the day, the rich are gonna pay it off immediately and avoid the problem, the middle get loaded and pay back far more than necessary during the loan lifetime, and the bottom may get it wiped off but forget the idea of having savings or disposable cash.

https://www.student-loan-calculator.co.uk/

The current system basically reduces massively disposable spending for middle and low earners, doesn't affect the top earners. It also is an effective black hole given most people aren't expected to be able to fully pay back the loan. This will have a massive impact on the economy and government finances. Especially given this is an open blackhole.
I think this might be the best solution in this situation, ill wait for a few hours and see if anyone from cf could help me out with this, and if not use a different service provider.

I know @eastdakota mentioned he has a script that gets triggered when someone mentions cloudflare on HN, hopefully this will help resolve this issue.
It would be nice if there was a Give Up button. I got down to 30 possible words but could not for the life of me think of what they could be. I was craving that “Ohhhhh!!!!!” feeling when you see what the remaining possible words are.
why should we leave the discussion to those who don't have an open mind?

the most pressing problems in my eyes are:

* the elimination of poverty

* racism and prejudice

* gender-equality

* sustainable development

* education

each of these topics have been discussed here, but they could benefit from more attention.
It's pendingdelete, so they're flat up holding it hostage until it's publicly available for anyone to register.
1) What contracts say, and what is allowed are not the same thing.

2) Context counts.

Contracts are interpreted documents. What both parties meant in clause 1.3.1, must be interpreted, to be enforced by a court.

A 20 long email chain provides context. What did the parties really mean, when they signed?
Will do. Thank you.
> Lastly, let’s just say I’ve done an arbitration or two with a home warranty company. They don’t make money by paying out claims!

Thankfully we didn't (directly, I know it's our money in there somewhere) buy a warranty when we got our house last year.

I knew the AC was on its last legs from inspection, and no problem, since it was an older 80% old refrigerant system, probably closing on 30 years old. Figured it could wait one summer, in between all the other purchases with a new home.

Then last year Seattle decided to have a heat wave. Maybe not much for those in Phoenix, but four days in a row of 105F+. That's still hot.

And it's even hotter when you have no AC, as ours died a couple of hours into day 1.

So I call the HWC. They "are having trouble" finding someone for "emergency service". Their idea of "emergency service" is "we have a company that will be out there in four WEEKS".

So I found someone who could come out that day, for a surcharge. Reasonable. And the AC was dead. But this company were nice - the tech said "no promises, no commitments" and he did some shifty magic and got it running for about six more hours before it was permanently to the graveyard.

So we started getting quotes for a new HVAC system.

Responses from the HWC company:

- we won't pay if you don't use our suppliers

- we won't pay if you don't choose from our list of models (which were all low end, 80%, 1 stage systems)

- even if you use our supplier, we won't pay above an agreed amount

- if you used another contractor for ANY maintenance work on the existing system, we won't pay

- if the maintenance schedule wasn't followed (whether you owned the system/property at the time), we won't pay

Three (and a half) words are common across each of those bullet points, as you can probably surmise.
> One of the reasons I suspect that Wordle is popular is that it's "calibrated" (word length, number of guesses, don't have to play on hard mode) to almost always be winnable if you have some semblance of a decent English vocabulary and some sense for letter combinations.

Seems like the perfect popular game: be easy enough for most everyone to get, but just hard enough to give a feeling of mastery.

I had a similar feeling when playing Guitar Hero way back. It was pretty easy to get the hang of at a medium level, but it was just hard enough that it felt like an accomplishment. Plus the "output" you got from playing the game well (a complex, professionally played song) was wildly disproportionate to to your inputs (a bit of well-timed button mashing that had a far simpler in structure). The mistakes screwing up the song sealed the illusion of skill.
I've read that biofuels are a waste. As in, if we replaced all the cars and trucks with electric ones, we could power them fully with solar energy deployed on the land used for the 5% biofuel... And use 90% of the reclaimed land for reforestation. The math seemed reasonable. But obviously doing this wouldn't work politically (even if we could make all those EVs and solar panels in the first place).
Related:

Zulip 5.0: Threaded open-source team chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30846659 - March 2022 (86 comments)

Zulip Cloud security vulnerability with reusable invitation links - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30479430 - Feb 2022 (35 comments)

Why Zulip will stand the test of time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29595926 - Dec 2021 (80 comments)

Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27149123 - May 2021 (170 comments)

Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860338 - July 2020 (133 comments)

Zulip 2.0: Open source team chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19284321 - March 2019 (96 comments)

Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18400988 - Nov 2018 (123 comments)

Zulip – Open-source, threading-based Slack alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17622987 - July 2018 (99 comments)

Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16863675 - April 2018 (148 comments)

Zulip Server 1.6 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14506426 - June 2017 (14 comments)

Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279961 - Sept 2015 (313 comments)

Dropbox Acquires Zulip, A Stealthy Workplace Chat Solution Still In Private Beta - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7419408 - March 2014 (14 comments)
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It's pretty amazing that we all carry around a device in our pocket with more wireless Internet bandwidth than anyone had (in any media) in 1994.
Or tomatoes with a healthy corn syrup glaze.
Raise fuel tax. If one canceled a fuel tax equal to a cost increase the demand stays the same and the whole point is that demand is higher than supply so the increase comes anyway, but oil producers get to keep the money.
One area in which Go lacks is its static type system. Until recently, it was practically straight out of the '70s. Static type systems are a mechanism for outlawing the compilation of programs that are known to be problematic at the expense of outlawing comparatively few good programs — a worthwhile trade-off for a language meant to be used in industry, especially when writing complicated code.

It's a shame because they absolutely could have built a better type system on the backs of all the advancements of the past half-century, but deliberately chose not to due to what I can only see as being the perspective of people who had only previously used obnoxious static type system (e.g., Java's) and decided "well we don't want that, and 'that' means types, so let's provide as inexpressive a type system as possible."
There was also BiModem or something like that for the higher speeds too. With restart recovery and larger block sizes.
> Isn't this already done to some extent by using a model to assess its own output versus the current environmental state? Recurrent models combined with reinforcement learning actually look a lot like what you're claiming can't be done.

Yes, you can do this. And I believe you could recreate human intelligence if you made something exactly like a human and put it in an environment exactly like a human - but for some reason the AGI theorists think AGI via AI research is scary and "N"GI via having children isn't.

But GPT doesn't have those features, which is why it's not one of them.

> Yeah, no, that's not the case. See the entire field of reinforcement learning.

ML models (especially big ones) fluidly combine learning with memorizing, which is cool, but it's more like "compression" than "programming".
We don't know the rules or grammar of this "language". Maybe nouns change based on how they are used

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension
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>That’s why people who traded options or even crypto made massive amounts of money

All the money "made" from crypto was at the expense of other players(I refuse to call them "investors") who were left holding the bags, or at the expense of the environment (most of the large scale mining operations was done in areas of the world with cheap and dirty energy like China, Russia, Iran, etc.)
A rebuttal to the rebuttal (without examples)...

How many French people speak Breton?
If malikNF consents, would you share your findings here? It's concerning you can be banned without so much as a brief sentence explaining why.
> fixing the data races. Go handles both of this for you from the start.

In what sense does Go handle (prevent) data races for the programmer?

In my experience (which is not _extensive_ but certainly non-trivial), Go programmers deal with all the same problems of shared mutable state that programmers of concurrent code in other languages deal with. Sure, mantras like "Don't communicate by sharing memory; share memory by communicating" are wise, but it's just a mantra, not anything the language provides for you. A skilled concurrent programmer will write code in this manner regardless of the language, and Go doesn't provide a ton as far as enforcing this.

Sure, you _could_ write your go program without any shared mutable state, but that gets convoluted fast.
comets and supernova
The last one was about libxslt... which I'd be shocked if anyone is using XSLT in a production environment that is also actively maintained.
I seem to have found a bug (or the word list is drastically different from Wordle). The game says I have 3 possible words remaining, but every Wordle solver website says I only have 2 (and I only have 2 guesses remaining, so this is the difference between the game being winnable and not). The guesses I used for today were WRITE,BOODY,VOUCH,COMMA (and at this point the only two possible words are FOCAL and LOCAL, but it says that there are 3 possible words).

Another point of confusion is that the first row says 2318 possible words, but there only seem to be 2309 words in the dictionary in the code
TechLead does not strike me as 'far-right'. He spent enough time in California working for Facebook and Google that I would be shocked if he is anything other than far to mid left.
They are used to do large-scale high-resolution analysis or simulation of complex systems in the physical world. The codes typically run on the bare metal with careful control of resource affinity, often C++ these days.

They aren't just used for global-scale geophysical processes like weather and climate or complex physics simulations. For example, oil companies rent time to analytically reconstruct the 3-dimensional structure of what's underneath the surface of the Earth from seismic recordings.
When I was at MIT, my wife’s circle of “moms- / moms-to-be group” was mostly white/asian but had one latino. They had a similar experience with on-campus health of being pushed the “how can we stop this from happening again” messaging from the nurses during routine checkins.

I explicitly remember how shocked they were that only the latino was repeatedly asked if she wanted an abortion every time she had checkups.

These cultural selection pressures are fascinating, esp. in places like NY city where a majority of conceptions do not end in a successful pregnancy in the black community.
Hmm, I'm not sure I understand. Your first two paragraphs agree with what I said, but, in the third one, why does the client need to know the server's secret key? The communication happens the other way (server to client), no?

Plus, the server already has a shared secret with the client (presumably), the API key. Backwards compatibility might be an issue, if you aren't storing the client version on the server, but that seems like a simple fix.

Can you explain a bit more what I'm missing here? I'm a bit confused.
That example sounds to me a lot like a university taking on things they shouldn’t need to do, but have to because there’s nothing else to take them on.

I wonder how many counselors they have and how short wait times for appointments are in European countries where higher education costs either nothing or a small amount compared to median incomes
There is no data. There is only XUL!
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31558038.
I think this is closer to the truth. People are changing jobs, changing careers, going back to school, etc. more frequently. But I don't buy the narrative that people are just dropping out and living the van life or whatever. At least not in significant numbers.
Fear the Vibe Shift: Are We Entering a Recession?
I'd have nothing against a proper scientific experiment to see whether or not magic is real. But the scientific method absolutely requires falsifiability, so if you can't come up with a falsifiable hypothesis, then you're doing pseudoscience.
Slow down for a second, I am not the person to whom you originally responded, I am just a passerby that is surprised by the intensity of your reaction given there are fairly reasonable interpretations of the passage you quoted as a reason to not bother having conversation with OP. We do know that droughts and fires and hurricanes will be more severe over the next decade or two, so it seems reasonable to call it "impact", their severe dislike of BBC notwithstanding.
I'm not exactly sure what the GP was talking about, but if the pension benefits are guaranteed and greater than the return on funds invested in the pension, then the only way the pension plan could be sustainable would be in some growth scenarios. In many growth scenarios, though, it wouldn't be.

This a problem with many public sector pension plans. Many cities across this country have pension plans that guarantee pensioners income that cannot be paid from the plan without screwing over future retirees.

Clearly this issue has to be evaluated system by system.
From Soft games are, I think, popular with a particular niche precisely because they swim against the tide here.

Even their games, though, although they are famously and genuinely difficult, do try and guide the player to success. They just do it in somewhat subtle ways by trying to kill you a lot. I’ve been watching a let’s play series on YouTube of Dark Souls I & III for a while (“Souls Academy”), and one of things I enjoy about it is how they often talk about what skills particular bosses or game areas are trying to teach you, so that you can be successful with later, harder challenges.

But you’re completely right that these games aren’t “hard not to finish”. They’re extremely hard to finish!
Creator here. As you realized, it is limited to top 50 contributors and is automatically sorted by descending commit count.

Love the suggestions for tweaking this behavior - added them to my todo list. Thank you for the feedback!
Once you reach a certain scale, caching becomes basically a necessity. I mean, heck, even DNS is cached. The idea that caching is a failure of design is just wrong.
I use an iPad continuously for browsing the web, controlling IoT devices in the home, playing music on the HEOS system, etc.

I live in a place that carriers choose not to serve so I don't spend a lot on a smartphone and plan, sometimes I have a cheap prepaid phone, sometimes I go for years and not renew it. Skype is my preferred way to make phone calls both with my PC and the iPad. It works in most places I want to make a call because public WiFi is available in a lot of places.

The real problems w/ the iPad as I see it are: it refuses to use play music over Bluetooth when using WiFi (Android devices try and usually fail because of interference between the two services) and Apple doesn't allow access to NFC on the device except for Apple Pay.

I have a lot of android tablets that I bought for testing software. Before I had the iPad I used Amazon Fire tablets pretty seriously (read software docs when doing cardio at the gym, I took my best photo of the last decade w/ a Fire tablet) but all of my Android tablets go unused for so long that I can't count on them being charged when I need them.
Because he made a career of outrageous statements I do not take anything he says at face value. What I know, is that many of his videos made me fall from the chair several times laughing, and his business is YouTube views and selling Tech Lead shirts...
It is unlikely he trashed anybody's resumes during an interview. There would be lawsuits.

Does it matter if this is his opinion? He's a YouTube entertainer, not an employer, and his audience knows when he's trolling.
This is a great response (I also suspected we'd learn something from the Google Translate black box). And I agree with the idea of being closer to Latin gibberish. The phonetic relationships are a great hint to what's actually going on.

My hypothesis here is more that these models are trained more on western languages than others and thus our latent representation of "language" is going to appear like Latin gibberish due to a combination of the evolution of these languages as well as human bias. ("It's all Greek to me")
Fairly low tech until you get to the super high end.

You have a blend of very specific domain specific knowledge (e.g. they know the hardware - the interconnects more than the CPUs) and old skool Unix system administration.
I think a lot of societal dysfunction eventually gets cleared up as they eventually lose a war.

China’s history for example is arguably that cycle on repeat.
> these are eternal souls bound to suffer forever in flames and darkness.

This doesn’t make any sense to me (assuming you are not being sarcastic). Does it make sense that Joseph Stalin and Random Joe (who was a good person, but wasn’t truly A, B, C) would both suffer equal fates? What about a person who lived thousands of years ago deep in a jungle and didn’t even have an opportunity? It doesn’t make any sense.
Work the Lazy Way: Annie Payson Call’s advice to nineteenth-century workers
Institutions? I'm actually really lucky in that I teach
internationally at multiple institutions, university and
non-university. What's useful and interesting is it gives me a broad
taste of politics (as well as a way to stay out of the melee).

That's why I'm quite confident in saying generally "universities are
in trouble". I've seen it over time and geography. Not all places of
higher learning are. Some private and state entities are thriving.
What is killing the universities, in my opinion, is they're caught in
a no-mans-land, as neither fully state entities, nor private concerns.
Too bad the "value they produce" isn't actually quantifiable, though.
This is a cool site! Thank you for showing me it <3
It doesn't tell you, it just plays in a garbage resolution and you have to resort to old forum threads to figure out why
I bought a new Newton after having lunch with Larry Tesler. He was both enthusiastic about the Newton as well as trying to talk me into rewriting my first Springer Verlag Common Lisp book to use the Dylan language. John Koza also had lunch with us, and it was great fun.

Years later, I was cleaning up the closet in my home office and ended up throwing away all Newton materials - my general rule that if I haven’t used something in a few years, I like to get rid of it.
A large number of people seem to have only recently discovered this chauvinist pig.

His Twitter feed and YouTube channel are full of hot-takes, intended to shock and trigger people.

He knows exactly what he's doing. He's just another Alex Jones or Joe Rogan. Getting you to share his posts and videos to demonstrate your outrage is his goal and many are falling for it, hook, line, and, sinker.

If you take issue with what he is saying (and I hope you do), please choose to amplify the voices of the women he'd rather be silent. Don't amplify him.