skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll go further and say the nuclear family as a default is harmful. A few years into raising my kid (who has no health issues) convinced me of this. It can be quite isolating and lonely. I cannot imagine what it is like for parents of children who have more significant needs to both work and try to run a nuclear family.
> Corporate morality rarely extends beyond its value as PR. Once the financial cost of doing the right thing exceeds the PR value, it's probable that the financial considerations will prevail.

Money interprets ethics as damage and routes around it.
"Types" beyond the basic ones, in general, are needed only when you have to define complex data structures that can hold multiple variables in one.

What Python really needs is an easy, built-in way to create mutable structs, without an overhead of creating classes. I think it's a failure of language design to miss such a useful and basic feature.

For everything else, use a function.
You know what I hear in this thread? Combined, posts have said that NIMBYs, a tiny minority, who always vote, show up to council meetings, and politicians listen to them, and yet everyone here trying to figure out what is broken.

Well, nothing is broken, except non-NIMBYs dont care enough to do the same!

The answer is simple. Show up to council meetings and vote! If you don't, you don't care as much as the NIMBYs, and the result is clear.

Nothing is broken, it is called democracy.
I understand the idea and I generally agree with some stereotypes.

I was joking because I am amazed by those hypocrite people that have their heads so far down a place, that they don't realize they violate all their righteous principles when it doesn't fit their narrative.
Apple was very similar in that regard as well. They were putting Safari installers in iTunes updates. People bought a new iPod and needed a new version of iTunes to sync with it? Magically they have now Safari installed.

And they were pushing it at a time when Safari for Windows was slower than Internet Explorer.
I have to disagree with you on the mega projects being wasteful. Here in Switzerland we dug a 57km train tunnel [1] which has enabled a large number or cargo to be put on rail and travel at much higher speed.

Another large project at Zürich main station involved digging an additional underground station with a tunnel up through the mountain underneath a river. [2]. It has enabled a much tigher train schedule especially for intercity trains which can now travel through the main station instead of having to back out. Well worth the 2 Billion it cost.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRLA

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinberg_Tunnel
Google won't allow products to be used against users, says Chief Privacy Officer
The library signs up with Kanopy. Sets restrictions on who can use the service and how often, then makes it available to their patrons.
>Now there's an opportunity for a startup. Make the process paperless.

There's some precedent: the enterprise content management company Documentum was started as "DocPharma" -- a software system specifically design to shepherd the documentation required to get drugs approved by the FDA. After they saturated that market, they generalized it beyond the original purpose.
I looked at the book after this and have to say, I'd heavily recommend spending the next dew months just improving joins (and complex joins especially). Like GP says, relational modelling is the interesting bit about SQL and I don't feel exaggerative in saying the only reason I use SQL are joins, and so the only reason I'd introduce the complexity of your project into my stack would be if it makes handling joins, views and other aspects of relational modeling and slicing nicer - one example could be many to many relationships, or the gradient between graph/document based and normalised table based modeling
People don't get their news from random AI-generated blogs.

The actually bad consequence is SEO spam of high quality. You can now generate a hundred articles a minute in any topic.
How many percentage paid down those credit back those back within 0-30-day?

Otherwise, the headline is meaningless.
TIL that norman rockwell's grand daughter is an award winning translator (as well as an artist.) She focuses on hindi and urdu to english translations. Her Shahenshah-e-Kulfi is quite funny.
Please don't. Piracy needs you.

There are already more great movies/shows than one can watch in a lifetime, and we shouldn't incentivize the business of remakes of remakes of remakes.

Public libraries could use their funding for cooler stuff like letting people borrow musical instruments.
I'm not particularly convinced by the Dead Internet Theory [1] as of 2022, in the sense that it is completely true right now. But I am convinced it is building around us, and even now, the correct frame for the question isn't whether it is true, but how true it is. There is too many entities with too much reason to build it for it not to be happening. And the nature of it is such that it doesn't need to be one entity doing it for one unified reason; dozens, hundreds can all be participating & fighting with each other on different levels and the sum total of all that is to put it together that much more quickly.

You know, the PGP web of trust idea may yet take off all these decades later, not because we need a web of trust to send 100.0000000% safely encrypted messages to each other to protect from governments, but because we need a web of trust just to know who the real humans are.

[1]: https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-internet-...
This has increasingly been on my mind lately with the discussions around firearm laws. I grew up in a relatively rural state where firearm ownership and usage was pretty much assumed and a normal part of life because law enforcement and animal control services simply aren't available at the speed you need them in an emergency.

In an urban area there are different considerations that might weigh less heavily in favor of unrestricted access to firearms.

It strikes me that rural area firearm ownership might warrant a different treatment than urban area ownership. And if that's the case maybe there's a wide class of these sorts of things that we should address on a similar basis.
Yes, doctors in the US can make good money, but imo, many deserve it - its is hard to become a doctor, and it should be - 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of medical school and then 2-3 years as a lowly paid resident making a pittance (compared to a doctor) - so that is 6-7 years of opportunity cost lost over someone that only had 4 years of school - i.e. years when you could have been working and making salary doing something else.

Compare that to a programmer, assume 4 years of undergrad, and then you get out making $100K easily - especially if you were a very smart student, probably much more (i.e. someone that was smart enough to be a doctor or a programmer), not even accounting for raises and inflation, 6-7 years at $100K and also assume 400K for med school loans and the programmer is already almost $1Million ahead of the doctor at year 7.

Over the long haul the doctor will likely do better, but it will take years to catch up once you factor in the huge costs a doctor has vs a programmer - I for one am glad only really smart people can become MDs.
Yeah I was responding to a post asking why we should allow open access, given that some of those with access will do bad things.

I agree with you. Ethics doesn't demand that existing private tech be made available. Who's saying that??

OpenAI is just catching shade because their initial founding mission was to democratize access to AI tech and they've gone pretty far the other way.
I agree and disagree. I think it is valuable to get input from constituents, especially on infrastructure, but it also doesn't need to be the sole dictating thing. I think getting input to be able to nail down the pros vs cons is reasonable. Especially since, in a city, the project may be in a part of town they are rarely in or do not live in. But for sure, it should not be the full deciding factor but a way to get a scope of the full pros vs cons. Then evaluate if the points brought up were valid, then finally if the pros outweigh the cons.
Not just overbuilding. Also the impunity with which politicians routed highways directly through neighborhoods whose inhabitants they did not like (demolishing homes, businesses, and community centers in the process)
The critique is that the type of ethics they concern themselves with is borderline moral-panic/Victorian era. Not the Laws of Robotics kind of stuff.

Maybe it's my personality but I get the impression since AI is rather limited in 2022 that all the paid AI ethicists spending 90% of the time on bullshit problems because there aren't many real threats. And these gets amplified because the news is always looking for a FUD angle with every AI story.

The priority seems to be protecting random peoples feelings from hypothetical scenarios they invent, when IRL they are releasing research tools on a long-term R&D timeline... GPT-3 isn't a consumer product they are releasing. It's a baby step on a long road to something way bigger. Crippling that progress because of some hyper-sensitivty to people who get offended easily seems ridiculous to me.
This is a nice blog dedicated to the topic: https://writerbeware.blog
This is the absolute reality of what Open Web Advocacy is pushing for. A complete Chrome monopoly. It's really frustrating a couple lazy web devs with really incorrect understanding of the space keep getting so much attention.
> Being in Europe, I think fully remote is getting embraced. It‘s the third company where I get US level salary plus all the benefits.

But this is as an actual employee not as a contractor? Most of the US roles I've seen, that would consider EU ppl, the expect contractor arrangements where you deal with your own taxes.
Just as I thought, another thoughtless reaction comment. You had no reason to say what you did, I just exposed something about yourself you do not like.

But you are lying because you like to engage in negative emotions you agree with. I mean, all I am doing is venting, right?

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nso95 1 day ago | root | parent | next [–]

Arguing about it on Slack isn't going to fix any of it thoug

JKCalhoun 1 day ago | root | parent | next [–]

It's venting. It's bonding with coworkers who also feel their world is collapsing.

Hard to focus on work, talk about the preso when, for example, people are storming our Capitol.

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But I am imagining you saying this to your significant other...wow.
Maybe there are random deep inspections, but yea usually it's just some poor soul poking the UI and scanning some superficial analysis.
I think you misunderstand.

Yes, Safari is only on Apple platforms.

I’m saying Chrome is already dominant on Windows, Linux, Android, and Chromebook.

The only one where it’s not is iOS (Mac is kinda close, but small in terms of users).

If real Chrome can go on iOS my supposition is Chrome will become dominant there too.

Leaving no platform not dominated by Chrome.
It's a civil suite; if it's like the Texas law, they'll have to pay the fine ($10,000) plus legal fees and court costs, which the court will enforce.
I don't see why companies can't have some kind of waiver the candidate signs in order to get feedback. We already sign NDA's before most interviews to not provide the interview questions and stuff to people. Feels like something we should be able to trade for.
Agreed. The author seems to generalize his personal experience by assuming that every case of depression is just like his own.
> But the simpler fix here is just to require password reset emails, not to mandate multi-factor authentication.

Password resets lead to iterative passwords, which lead to password reuse, which lead to email compromise, which leads to it being pointless to use email as some ersatz second factor.

If we want to move towards a world where phishing attacks and password breaches are obsolete, then we need to press full-throttle to mandating hardware security keys for all accounts.
Not an alum so I can’t speak to the first person experience, and the quirks of Stanford are not interesting. My comment’s purpose is limited to that of a discriminating reader seeking to become more informed.

I think these observations would have been fine independently but the context is important, if only for the sake of refuting it. The failure to acknowledge it, and the license taken with respect to other facts is what is unsettling.
What is an evolved state? I assume almost all people live in multi generational households because they cannot afford not to.

My ideal is grandparents a few houses down, within a couple minutes walking distance.
Risk, Decisons, and Scarcity
You are agreeing with parent. Perhaps you misread "leaving" (which was a poor word choice).

What the parent misunderstood is that the government is illegally prosecuting defendants, not defense lawyers abandoning defendants.
How many political positions in contemporary democratic world are actually majoritarian or were majoritarian when they achieved their critical momentum?

Green Deals? Rainbow flags? Swings in abortion policies? Current levels and composition of immigration flows, be it in the US, Sweden or Greece?

A few of them perhaps, but the typical prime mover of politics is an active and loud minority which cares a lot - and whose cohesion and initiative puts pressure on politicians.

The NIMBYs are no exception.
A few years ago, I attempted to work out what a circulation cost us calculating things like our collection budget, staff budget, etc. vs number of circs. It came out to about $2.50 or so. Keep in mind there are some serious limitations; for example, the buildings are a fixed cost and there would need to be a precipitous drop in circulation to lay off staff, but it gave a rough idea of what it costs to buy something, check it out, re-shelve it, etc.
I would not worry about that too much. There are already models that can predict if its transformer generated or not. At the same time google started penalizing transformer generated text; https://youtu.be/EZWx05O6Hss
Spent millions on tech that could be a net negative for society. Keeping details secret makes people think they are evil because that's how coverups happen.
@ts-expect-error is useful for this
It's called special fx, is more than a century old (people are now aware it's fake but remember the word is that the train coming in la ciotat movie made people run out of the movie theatre).
History has shown that humans are terrible judges of the outcomes of our behaviour; your belief that we can confidently understand the risks of anything through experimentation might work in theory but hasn’t been borne out in practice.

Extremists exist at both ends of the spectrum and serve to balance each other out: without people positing the worst-case scenarios, the people positing the best-case scenarios would run full steam ahead without any consideration for what could happen.

Perhaps if the proponents of (various flavours of) AI were doing careful experimentation and iteratively working towards a better understanding, then maybe the loud voices against it would be less valuable, but as we’ve seen through the last 20 years, progress in technology is being made without a second thought for the consequences — and what Facebook are doing here is a bare minimum, so it’s reasonable for proponents to be somewhat cynical about the long term consequence.
Apple/iOS is not the only mobile platform.
Fun fact: Both NordVPN and SurfShark are run by the same company. It's now out in the open and they have merged (earlier this year), but even from the start there were very close ties. The parent company of NordVPN provided consulting services when SurfShark was formed:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/surfshark-an...

I've heard rumours that it's even closer than that, and that they were both run by the same people from the start, with the original intent to have two separate brands to allow them to capture more of the market. Is there a name for this technique?
They have a reputation for being bad, which is enough for a company like the one in the OP to use as a marketing hook.
v8 is JavaScript, which is not a JVM. They are two very different beasts.
> Haskell doesn’t have operators in the classic sense, since they’re just an alternate syntax (infix) for regular functions

Actually in Haskell there is a concept of 'functions' and 'operators'. The former are made up symbols, while the latter are made up mostly alphanumeric characters. Also they parse differently.
iOS as blocking isn't anywhere near as powerful as Firefox extensions, not what it will eventually need to be.
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I bought a Canon R6 last year, and am very happy with it. In the past, I have owned Sony Alpha A7M3, Canon Rebel XTi, Nikon D600, Nikon D7100, and Pentax K5. Canon R6 is definitely the one I am happiest with.

- All my Canon EF lenses work fine with an adapter. There is no loss of light or functionality. I bought the adapter that has a control ring[1], and this gives me an additional dial of adjustment on the lens.

- This works as a webcam on both my Windows 11 and MacOS machines using Canon EOS Webcam Utility[2]. In meetings, I often get complimented on my video, and get asked about my setup.

- Image quality is top-notch, though this is somewhat of a personal perference.

- I have an ancient version of Adobe Lightroom (v4) that I refuse to upgrade, since it has a perpetual, offline, license. I use the free Adobe Digital Negative Converter[3] to convert Canon's RAW files (CRAW) to DNG format.

- Video files contain a ton of details. I use DaVinvi Resolve to color grade, and have to use ffmgeg as an intermediate step to convert format. I am sure there is some setting in the camera I can change. However, I have scripted this process so much that this is essentially painless for me.

- The body is a bit larger that I would like in a mirrorless format. However, the ergonomics are the best I have come across. It has more dials and customizable buttons that I know what do with.

- The camera has a built in intervalometer.

[1] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1433718-REG/canon_mou...
[2] https://www.canon.de/cameras/eos-webcam-utility/
[3] https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/adobe-dng-converter...
As an open source project maintainer [1] with a set of proprietary add-ons, I totally understand the project maintainer desire to have a single repository with a single version, single build system, and a single place for issues.

I've considered doing the same thing, but it's all the legal complexity that stops me, doesn't seem worth it.

[1]: https://github.com/beekeeper-studio/beekeeper-studio
Nice, that's exactly the sort of detail I was hoping for! I mostly take landscape and nature detail photos (including macros with extension tubes), some pets, wild animals, very few people shots. And few indoor photos because of the low light sensitivity.

I meant to say time series/intervalometer - I was disappointed to find there was no such thing built in, and even more disappointed that the intervalometer I found could only do max 1 FPS. That being built in is a nice draw.
TV had a similar grip to society back then. I once entered a circular argument with a roommate who insisted hi liked Sprite better than 7UP. My retort was the fact he, like me, where already indoctrinated with thousand of hours of tv commercials telling us what to like. TV commercials where more casual. The internet tells me: "News for YOU". I find it creepy and demeaning.
Some people make coffee with eggshells to help reduce the acidity. I started an experiment recently with my girlfriend to keep eggshells to see if it helps her. I hadn't looked for low acid coffee, thanks. That's probably also worth trying.
As much as we love to imprison people in the US... Maybe just make the expected value of cover up massively negative with fines as significant multiples of actual damage?
How exactly does making historical, analogical arguments the center of judicial reasoning make the court LESS of a super-legislature? If nothing else, it makes the court MORE likely to be politically active so long as they can find a few pseudo-scholarly articles that make an argument for them. And that's remarkably easy these days when there are lots of ways to get published but far fewer institutions with the resources and time to check the historical scholarship for accuracy.

"Originalism" and "textualism" are two different approaches to legal interpretation that can sometimes but not always overlap. Plenty of people who believe in a "living constitution" ground their reasoning in legal text.

The innovation of originalist legal thought is that they realized so long as they can get enough activists onto law journals to write opinion pieces that make historical arguments, that judges can pretend to point backwards in time having clear-headed wisdom about what people thought "back then," without any clear and objective criteria that can be used to justify the decision or distinguish situations.

In originalism, the law becomes completely arbitrary and based on whichever flavor of the day scholarship judges decide to cite -- even if it's obscure, historically inaccurate, or written from a clearly biased activist perspective.

Ginning up creative ways to reach your preferred outcome and then pretending it's a one-off and so you don't need to explain the logic is a far more political way of making decisions than to ground judicial decision-making in precedent from past legal decisions and from actual text that have to be tested for relevance and accuracy.
Thanks, I've frequently wanted a query language that was designed after the 70s. The ideas are sound, but a modernized syntax with variables to reuse subqueries would be lovely. This looks like it.

I noticed one issue though... please don't copy the prefix of f-strings! That only exists because Python boxed itself in and it was literally the only ascii syntax left that could be used for string interpolation. It's mildly ugly but the best that could be done given those requirements. Not so here.

The way shells do it with single quotes producing literal strings and double quotes available for interpolation has not been topped imho. Triple quotes are a nice extension as well, not sure if that made it in.
Ask HN: Any resources for building a great Front end App Architecture?
Goals:

i. I'd to learn and put in-place a great app architecture for a front-end app similar to server side code structure that we commonly see in service-oriented apps.

ii. Once a framework is in-place: It should be very easy to add a new page as most of data read and bind code would be already in place

iii. If I can drive the system (pages, header, sub-headers, menu) via a config then it's even better, like want to add a new page - just insert a new entry in the config file.

iv. Adding a new textbox on a page should not require a db table change, as the fields can be stored as a json text in just one column. I know it could be a pain for high traffic pages, but for low key pages, I think it's a great idea.

v. Adding a new page, child page, sub-header should not require a lot of code to be rewritten. The system should promote high reusability of existing code.

I inherited an app which has just one main page (old school SPA) but a lot of child pages and sub-headers. It has about 10 js files and each file has about few thousand lines of knockoutjs code. Even a small change requires a lot of fiddling through many files - nightmare.

I've looked at many open-source ReactJS projects, but none is having a craft of structure that I'm looking for.

Any leads, resources are highly appreciated. Thanks.
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I checked, again, the Android T-Mobile app and I'm still opted out in the Advertisements & analytics page.

You should check this. Just when they announced (about a year ago?) they would default this to opted in, they changed my already explicit intention to opt out. Wow.

Trust is hard to earn and...