skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook was actually fun until monetization and creepiness destroyed the vibe.

Now you get reminded every two friend posts (of those that still do) of a creepily targeted ad, and then of course another 1-2 posts mixed in from "friends" trying to monetize their daily reiki personal training life coach bullshit, but you keep them around because you've known them for a long time.

Manipulative ads that are coarsely targeted I think we got used to from television. But manipulative ads with foreknowledge of your medical google searches is fucking creepy.

The engineers were following the orders of the businessmen. Does it excuse it? No, but I'm hard pressed to see any salaried employee not actively working against the greater interests of mankind and the world.

Hell is truly us. We are our greatest and only true enemy.
To try and limit one's use of operations on types, as suggested in the article, is not really great advice in my opinion. Sure, you would not want to actually implement and use a VM in types, but distilling rules about a program into types and then deriving the actual interfaces and signatures from those rules with operations on types? That's quite powerful.

TypeScript's type annotations are really a DSL embedded into JavaScript. And they can, and, depending on the problem at hand, should be treated as such.
can't wait until deepfakes completely revolutionizes people's relation to information
HN is a good example (or precursor) of webs-of-trust. Nice phrase.
That explains why the world's wealthy come to America for their health treatments.

Yep. Because it's broken...

America pays more because our health care system is capitalist, and that naturally leads to increased prices because demand is inelastic (meaning, that demand does not decrease based on price).
St. Paul enacted rent control and saw -80% permit application rates. Minneapolis (immediately adjacent) saw permit applications rise in the same time. It should be plainly obvious that reducing the utility of housing units reduces the demand to build them.

https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2022/03/in-first-months-s...
This is precisely because the US market pays for all of the risk. Once the risk is paid for by the US market, it’s very cheap to sell extra capacity to other countries. All the fixed costs are already paid for and the risks are low.
Anecdotally, I've got a 6 month wait to see a specialist in the US, and I have very good insurance.
>Google is lying about when they look at your data

No they aren't. The TOS and similar clearly spell out that they have automated checks for malicious content, copy-righted works (remember when Google drive was a popular piracy vector for a hot second?), CSAM, etc. It's not Google's fault you haven't read that, or that you are taking a support article about sharing docs with other people and incorrectly extrapolating that to the internal technical functionality of google docs. The very next sentence after talking about end to end encryption:

>Your Google Account comes with built-in security designed to detect and block threats like spam, phishing and malware. Your activity is stored using strong industry standards and practices.

What has likely happened is that one or some of those domains probably got hacked and are pushing malicious JS or something triggering Google to view them as malicious, so some security product looks at a spreadsheet full of "malicious" URLs and it got sent into the void for that.
> Building more housing solves this problem. NYC is not even close to "very high density".

High density is a terrible way to live. I thought we learned from the pandemic that high density living is unsanitary and promotes the proliferation of disease, and that a 600 square foot box is a really depressing place to be when you're stuck inside working from home.

The solution that the current generation loves to hate is to go back to a more suburban lifestyle. But it's possible to do suburbia without making it completely car-dependent. Look at planned cities like Portland, OR, where they have a lot of mixed use development paired with good public transportation and bicycle infrastructure well into the more suburban parts of the city. In a country like the United States where we have vast expanses of land, it makes a lot more sense to spread out than develop vertically.
The lonely chief: How John Roberts lost control of the court
And yet Florida is richer than almost every country on Earth. Depending on how you measure it, Florida might actually be wealthier than every single European country and the typical European would be much better off in Florida.
We have to make decisions on what we bother thinking about, and delegate the rest to others we trust. This in theory is politicians, and it is surprisingly convenient that the politicians who agree with some of our issues happen to agree with all of them! What we think about issues can't at all be influenced by the "team" we're on.
Well if you're hungry you're going to want to look for food, so your senses should be heightened which should correlate to increased nerve activity/growth.
you could never trust it, now you'll know you can't trust it
> Prominent crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670 million. Digital asset brokerage Voyager Digital issued a notice on Monday morning, stating that the fund failed to repay a loan of $350 million in the U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, USDC, and 15,250 bitcoin, worth about $323 million at today’s prices.

In other words, the $670 million that 3AC defaulted on was ~50:50 USDC and bitcoin.

Then later:

> Zhu [3AC founder] is known for his incredibly bullish view of bitcoin. He said last year the world’s largest cryptocurrency could be worth $2.5 million per coin. But in May this year, as the crypto market began its meltdown, Zhu said on Twitter that his “supercycle price thesis was regrettably wrong.”

This seems odd. How does a person convinced that bitcoin exchange is headed to $2.5 million take out a loan of 15K bitcoin if he actually thinks he'll be paying back it back at a higher exchange rate? Either the founder was bullish in principle but bearish in practice, or didn't have the first clue about what he was doing.
It's the opposite. You don't have children when you die, and evolution occurs overwhelmingly due to genetic diversity rather than iteration. That is, mutations are not nearly as important as the number of parents with diverse code to recombine with. Excluding older individuals causes the gene pool to become more consistent, because mutations are easier to lose.

If iteration was important, sexual maturity would occur drastically younger in birds and mammals, and you'd have tons of offspring to maximize iteration. Reptiles are the ones that have tons of children.
Nightscout is a great initiative. Monitoring of type 2 is rapidly improving, especially as CGMs aren’t restricted to type 1s on insurance as much as they sued to be. Increasing the market size of CGMs has led to significant competition.

Thought on treating type 2 is also evolving in ways that don’t benefit type 1 as much. For example, the trend is for pre-diabetes to be taken seriously and detected earlier.
I've thought about building a better query language too. I'd love the ability to model sum types in databases, something like:

enum SchoolType {
College {
degrees: Vec<Degree>
},
HighSchool
}

It's such a common pattern and yet it's so annoying to model in a normal relational database. I wouldn't be surprised if the rise of NoSQL is tied to the inability of relational databases to model basic patterns like this.

Part of me has wondered if a language is the solution. Maybe just a better query builder with support for sum types is necessary. But I suppose there's something useful about having a consistent model based around a language, even if people aren't writing the language directly.
Even in the 'steelman' case of a lab leak in the '77 H1N1 - it was a natural virus that later escaped and caused the pandemic. Even if it was some accident involving the 1950's H1N1, that means the natural 1950s H1N1 was capable of causing a pandemic...

We really need to come to terms with the fact that whether we research them or not, there are going to be increasing numbers of pandemic-capable viruses spreading in human populations.
It is an old British colony with no money, so cheap outsourcing, especially if you are willing/able to pay in USD.
How would this work? Applicable to Missouri citizens only? Can someone renounce their statehood but still live there?
It is so sad to watch a nation slow walk down such a well worn and tragic path.

Bad government policies, and over spending creating inflation and high prices for goods, with a response of price controls to control the prices, which results in even fewer goods available, then government rationing because the goods aren't available, further reducing ability to produce anything of value...

And it doesn't have to be this way! At each stage, you could just not do the next step in the spiral. Thing would be bad for a bit, but you wouldn't bring the nation to poverty.
Which is all of them. Official servers, community, and modded all run EAC. Maybe something changed with steam deck but trying to connect to an official server and getting permabanned seems fairly unplayable in my book.
There is a reason the maxim exists "Hard cases make bad case law". Of course slavery is wrong, and in fact rebellion to end slavery is more appropriate that case law to end it. That said abortion isn't slavery and its unclear which is morally superior. It's a question of balancing of rights between one human and another, no easy answer here.
Also in a very unequal society like SA the average doesn't mean much.
Agree, the commentor is hung up on their demonstrably superior understanding of HTTP.

We found at least one scanning service to be fetching the URL with the user agent of a browser, and executing JavaScript on the page.

A lot of our user interactions could be simpler, but this sort of behaviour led to many things being put behind a "go" button.

I only wonder how long before scanners and search engines start clicking these buttons to activate content on the page so they can scan/index it.
I can't help with your current issue, but in the future, you could consider backing up your Google Docs using Insync. It can automatically convert and store your Google Docs as Office or OpenDocument files. Insync has a few quirks, but it usually does the job and is very affordable.

(I am not affiliated with Insync.)
I don't think you need to worry - those people probably don't want a presumptuous grump judging their living choices as a coworker either :)
i have a hobbby of collecting diagramming tools:

- https://fatiherikli.github.io/archetype/

- https://textik.com/#a4ec12a68785f25f

- http://asciiflow.com/

- https://monodraw.helftone.com/

- text to diagramming tools [list](https://smusamashah.github.io/text-to-diagram)

more: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#asc...
And you think that replacing the financial systems of those other societies with a system that no one (especially not the societies themselves) has any control over will be easier than improving their current systems?
That's a really good question! (and one we should probably answer explicitly in the [FAQ](https://prql-lang.org/faq/) rather than just implicitly)

The README states that
"PRQL is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement. Like SQL, it's readable, explicit and declarative. Unlike SQL, it forms a logical pipeline of transformations, and supports abstractions such as variables and functions. It can be used with any database that uses SQL, since it transpiles to SQL."

What that means to me is that PRQL more naturally maps onto how I think about and work with data.

Say I have some dataset, `employees`, and I want to answer some questions about it like, for US employees, what is the maximum and minimum salary and how many employees are there:

from employees
filter country == "USA" # Each line transforms the previous result.
aggregate [ # `aggregate` reduces column to a value.
max salary,
min salary,
count, # Closing commas are allowed :)
]

Moreover, after each line you have a valid pipeline which you can transform further by adding more steps/lines to your pipeline. This matches more closely how people construct data pipelines in R using dplyr/tidyverse and in Python using Pandas.

If you find that it doesn't map well onto how you think about data pipelines then please let us know as we're constantly looking for more real world examples to help us iterate on the language!
I think it depends how far you go: if you start encoding rules into the type system that are undecidable then you can quickly run into trouble.
Cf Wikipedia: Hyperinflation was until 1923 and the following invasion of the Ruhr for non payment by France until 1925. This is the same year Hitler famous book was published. He was a well known if infamous politician by then, wikipedia gives him 6.5% of votes in 1924.

Things were better in Germany for a few years and Hitler might have vanished into the background, until 1929, when the US stock market crashed, taking with it core loans the German Weimar republic needed. This crashed the economy again, while they were still recovering from the previous crash.

The NSDAP party started its meteoric rise in this second crash, buth only because the suffering from the hyperinflation and the war before it had laid a solid base.
web workers is an example of a standard api that only got implemented (partly) recently. they are more examples like ths
Many people disagree with that interpretation so its not at all obviously correct. It was not interpreted that way at all until FDR threatened to pack the court.
> This means the stuff needs to be dug up only once and it can be used and reused for decades.

Technically true but if you want widespread battery adoption required for it to work, you still need to dig a lot more of it from the ground. Humanity has nowhere near enough materials right now to cover for even the very short term needs.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to make money. The problem is that many (most? the vast majority?) of the ways to make money with crypto are basically pyramid scheme-type scams.
> Why is Assange's predicament so much less objectionable?

I didn't say that Assange's resulting predicament is less objectionable. I pointed out to end up in that position, Assange had to commit more offensive actions (to the relevant party). This implies the system he pissed off is more constrained, which would seem to indicate progress.

You also can't point to collateral murder as a single action that led to Assange's persecution. Rather, he kept doing things that pissed off the entrenched power, and eventually they had enough.

None of this is to condemn Assange's actions, or justify his persecution. Rather it's only possible to productively reason about these topics with a sense of magnitude - falling into binary thinking leads to contradictions or concluding that many things are equally bad, which is ultimately useless.
To believe this shows total ignorance of the history of the healthcare system in America. The whole thing is a crazy pile of hacks and accidents with 0 design or intent. It’s tape and string all the way down. We just stumble from unintended consequence to unintended consequence. Shit, the only reason it’s tied to employment is because of post war wage and price controls.
Better take away the internet then
Infinite torque...?
Indians have around Rs 1k crores in Crypto Scams: Report
This all makes me wonder: how reproducible is the final output model?
> I don't understand why NIMBYs have been taken so seriously in the US in the past 50 years.

Could it be these are the only voices local politicians are hearing? 99.99% of residents being okay with new builds doesn't always translate into a political will that a politician can exploit.
She's the protagonist, all the show is about her. I suspect it's intentionally a divisive character, to form a small but hard fanbase at the cost of losing the rest. Demagogues follow the same formula, it's kinda interesting to see it applied on a TV show.
It's like word association for people who can't read.
If their marketing materials say they don't look, but their terms of service say say they do, that's false advertising.

This is a paid service. Google is more constrained than with a free service.
I think it’s really funny that websites have now become so processing heavy that something like this makes sense.
The court isn't in the business of conferring rights, in so far as they were "taken away" it just corrected horrible precedent.
Poor uneducated desperate people mostly. Even those would be most probably better off in most of western Europe rather than barely surviving in US. US honors well top 1%, very well top 0.1%, rest not so much. But simpler folks often can't see beyond the illusion of American dream, to their detriment.

Ie I can move with my skillset and languages to most of the world. I did move twice. Didn't consider US, ever, even if I loved common US folks I met when I spent few months there. Society is just not that good - lack of true freedoms, high criminality, class system based on income, messed up medical and school system, too much workoholism. Not a place to raise your child in, if you can stay ie in Switzerland.
> I don't understand why NIMBYs have been taken so seriously in the US in the past 50 years.

You already explained it yourself. They write in. They probably also vote. Their representatives do what they're told.
I feel in a lot of areas of society, a clear distinction between what is subjective and what is objective isn't made. As everybody knows, both subjective and objective information exists. An objective statements takes this form: "The thermometer I hold in my hand at 3PM in the park registered a temperature of 55 degrees F". A subjective statement takes this form: "I felt chilly at the park at 3PM". Somebody else at the same park at the same time could reasonably say "I felt a bit warm at 3PM" and it would be an accurate statement. Both people can subjectively feel different about the same exact objective facts.

The statement "misconstrues the facts" itself seems like a misconstruing of the facts. As far as I can tell, it's not the objective facts that are in conflict, it's the subjective interpretation. It's impossible to misconstrue a subjective interpretation.

The words "Quiet" and "Personal" are descriptions that take the form of a subjective statement. There can be no misconstruing a person's assessment of something as Quiet/Personal. Two different people can reasonably see somebody speaking at a volume of 55 decibels and say that they think it was too quiet or too loud and both interpretations would be their subjective opinion.
Yes, I put it in those terms to help remove the blinders some people have on. In a strict sense, I guess you could that OPEC does meet the definition of a union, in the sense that it is a group of entities coordinating together. Just like the EU, a marriage, the commonwealth, or the USA.

We're really just splitting hairs at this point. My main point is that the motives and tactics of both OPEC and the UAW are identical.
One day, these people will be right!

(And then we know one solution to the Fermi paradox.)
I think its interesting, and maybe valuable, to see that actual number. From another front page post today: its roughly the same amount of debt Voyager issued to Three Arrow Capital, who just defaulted. That's kind of the scale we're talking about, and the context that's necessary when the top comment on this page is someone linking an article titled "the end of the world is just beginning"; that yes, it sucks for Sri Lanka, and yes, there are some serious global issues right now that we need to continue to work toward remediating, but also: its very possible most people reading this comment had no idea what I was talking about when I said "three arrow capital and voyager". The scale between a million dollar problem and a global problem is incomprehensible, and that scale is important to consider before jumping straight to doom and gloom.

It does suck for Sri Lanka. But; we can't solve every problem, and thus worrying about them wastes valuable time and energy that is better spent solving our problems. Secure your oxygen mask before helping others.

Similarly, I think its negligent and borderline misinformation that the title of this post doesn't include the location.
It’s basic run-of-the-mill gaslighting.
If you're a GraphQL developer, Pothos is the best example - all your user-defined types just fits in it like a glove 99% of the time. It definitely makes the most use of TS generics.

https://pothos-graphql.dev/

(I'm a bit sleepy, so this is the main one I can think of at the moment that I really enjoy using.)
I'm not sure that relational databases are "unable" to model something like this, since I recall from years ago Date describing how to do something like this. Don't remember the details, but you might want to look into Date's writings.
Amazon is MPA, right ?
Efficient Operations on Disjoint Sets
"Whist is a fork of Brave", and advertises their "Crypto Wallet". I'll pass.
Two thoughts,
1) it will be impossible to get out of our current housing hole without making developers rich.
2) We are so far into the hole that any availability will be gobbled up by those with money or those with connections.

I have a townhome and in our complex one had to be sold as a low-income unit. The person who got it was well connected to the developer, "My Aunt has known him for 30+ years".
Not really a "project", but TypeScript's own type definitions for the DOM are a great example. Eg. document.createElement returns different subtypes of HTMLElement depending on the string argument (HTML tag name) it gets called with.
Having a car when other methods are available is freedom.

Needing to own a car because there is no way to get by without one, isn't freedom.
Bro I _have_ a $1000 M1 Macbook Air, and it's slow af when I browse the web. Constantly lags, freezes, runs out of RAM.

And that's a $1000 that I have to spend every few years, for just a mediocre experience (Since by the time it's 4-6 years old, it's virtually unusable for anything but the simplest of websites).

Maybe if people just wrote more HTML+JS rather than these big hefty "500kb of JS" React-based websites, this wouldn't be necessary. But as it is, $120/year is actually very cheap if it actually solves the problem it claims to solve. (Even $300/yr wouldn't be unreasonable tbh, esp if it's on my employer's card since work tabs are the hefty tabs for me)
That's the big difference between the camps. The vocal WFH people by and large only want the option to work remote or not. The vocal WFO people want to return to the office and make everyone else return to the office, too.
What is annoying about implementing something like this in a relational database?
Look into the remote browser isolation sector. That space is perfect for you guys!! I think you could make a splash in that sector.
Why phishing works
So, study from the 1990s by a European confirms self-biased conclusion that Europe has more social mobility than America, despite evidence to the contrary.

Notably, all but 2 of the European countries in that study have smaller populations than Los Angeles. It's a lot easier to have social mobility for a small group than it is for a much larger group, especially when they can offload a lot of social ills (homelessness, immigration) entirely to other countries. Which is presumably why the study excluded the Mediterranean and Eastern European countries.
Same reason you are responsible for shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. Because they know the other people will act on it.