skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that voice recognition is in a worse place now — It creates a FALSE sense that it can do a good transcription, when it is actually corrupted in the worst way.

I took part in a legal deposition where an "AI Transcription Software" was being used. When I received the transcript it had numerous errors, but they were all subtle. More common names were inserted in place of the name that I said, e.g., "Kennedy" instead of "Kemeny". "You have a [something]" was transcribed as "I have a [something]", completely reversing the meaning. And many more errors.

The common thread between the errors was that what was inserted into the transcript would have been the MOST EXPECTED word or phrase, instead of the ACTUAL MORE SURPRISING (surprising in an information-theory way) word or phrase. It's evident that on top of the phoneme recognition layer, this transcription software checked questionable items against tables/graphs of most likely words to occur near the other words it confidently identified in that context. Makes a transcription sound great, but it is WRONG.

The result was that the "AI Transcription" actively destroyed key information and hid that destruction under the guise of a smoothly edited transcription.

Although this surely was not the intent of the system's creators, I cannot think of a better way to make a more evil transcription system.
I haven’t had a problem with them, I also know they have been around for awhile which is why I use godaddy.
The passive vs active investor numbers I see tend to put them roughly equal or passive investors being more. Not sure exactly how index funds and passive investments are different, but since vanguard are selling index funds they probably define it as strictly as possible to make it look like it is a smaller part of the market.
> it comes off as seeking return value for the action

Surely that’s in the eye of the beholder? It is possible to interpret it that way, certainly. But applying the observers value judgement (i.e. how it comes off) onto the original actor seems unfair to me.

Sometimes I feel like (and I don’t mean anything personal by this) we’re all cynical bastards these days so when we see someone do something genuinely altruistic we simply cannot process it as such and immediately seek a way to dismiss it as self-serving.
Software engineer, just switched from using 2 monitors + laptop screen to a single curved 3440x1440 screen. Using Windows Powertools to partition the display into 3 columns with one side having 2 rows. So far working better for me.
I wrote a useful extension to the C preprocessor for GCC, and submitted it to the gcc-patches mailing list in April. This went unnoticed, as have my subsequent pings since. I'm planning to ping once a month from now on until the rest of 2022, and then switch to quarterly.

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-April/593473....

__EXP_COUNTER__ gives a macro expansion to a numeric value which uniquely enumerates that expansion.

The sister macro __UEXP_COUNTER__ allows a macro expansion to access the parent's value: if a macro is being expanded in the body of another macro, one level up, it provides the __EXP_COUNTER__ value of that parent macro.

This feature solves the problem of producing unique names in a macro. (Unique within a translation unit.)

The __LINE__ symbol gets abused for this. The problem is that it's not unique. A macro can be called two or more times in the same line of code. Moreover, the same line number like 42 can occur multiple times in the same translation unit due to #include; a line number is not unique within a translation unit.

__COUNTER__ is next to useless because on each access, its value changes. It's useful in a situation in which a name is needed syntactically, and has to be unique, but is otherwise never referenced: just mentioned once and that's it.

Multiple references to __EXP_COUNTER__ in the same macro expansion context produce the same value.
I think the point is that if you focus too much on the reward, you lose focus on helping the person. It's not that it's bad to (want to) be rewarded for good deeds, it's bad when you end up making things worse because of it.

By some views every action you take is motivated by some psychological reward, and if you follow that through you end up with a view that there's no good/bad/emotion/etc and everything is purely mechanical.
In NYC I lived in Gherry's giant apartment building. One thing that struck me was that the kitchen drawers were inside the kitchen cabinets, so if you wanted to get something from the drawer, say a knife, you first needed to open the cabinet. That was an action I could easily do dozens of times in a day and it always irritated me. Apparently, Gherry's office designed the kitchens and (I think) that was done to reduce the number of visual seams(?). Otherwise it was a mostly nice building.
Anyone audited that code for security problems? I like weird obsolete tech as much as the next nerd but perhaps dig's code could be simplified a bit.
Easier said than done and few of the affected people are likely to be members of this community (HN). Try telling that to a person getting threatened with losing their job.
I think most business are slimy if you dig deep.
That sounds really weird. In Germany an apartment that rents for about €1000 would sell for €400,000 or so, which means a mortgage would cost 2 to 3 times more (with a 20% down-payment). This is with a 2% interest rate.

How does the math work in the Netherlands?
Depends on discount rates. The value of a company is the net present value (NPV) of its discounted cash flow (DCF). P/E is just a kludge to simplify the much more complex DCF analysis.

And it's pretty clear that interest rates have been steadily falling for 40 years[1]. Arguably 500 years[2]. Is there temporary variation around the business cycle? Sure. But in the long-term it's extremely unlikely we return to the There's strong macro evidence that interest rates are heavily influenced by demographics[3]. And despite what happens this recession, the population isn't going to stop aging.

All of this to say that historical appeals to "normal" P/E ratios is extremely misguiding. We're probably never going back to a world where single digit P/E ratios are the long-term norm, because we're probably never going back to a world with 5% real interest rates are the norm.

[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/REAINTRATREARAT10Y
[2]https://www.visualcapitalist.com/700-year-decline-of-interes...
[3]https://www.frbsf.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/4-Thwaites-...
learning a proprioceptive model experimentally is a real neat idea. Good job folks
>> The theory goes that ideas are cheap, and execution is everything.

> This isn't wrong. In fact, it seems more right than wrong.

I think the articles point is that somewhere between the "cheap" ideas and execution there is a place for strategy that is being neglected. Lots of people have ideas for social media platforms and lots of people execute on them. Only a few of the, often adhoc, strategies paid off and most have died.
I thought this was going to be about something like the massive security problem of homoglyph attacks being currently deployed in stuff like phishing baked into the standard at first glance of the title, but this ghost character business is pretty interesting. Japanese literacy requires you to know 2-4 meanings per 2,136 kanji characters (something like 6000+ in total possible meanings between these characters) just to be able to pass a university level literacy test, it's a massive amount of complexity to get right. Even if you just need basic literacy it's still about a thousand less than that, and there's even more than these I mentioned for further literacy competence. Furthermore each of these characters look funny if not unreadable if you write them down using the wrong order of strokes. I can see how mistakes might have been made even by native speakers of that language. The two kana syllabiaries are there of course and mixed in with the kanji, but if everything was written in that you wouldn't be able to achieve the same amount of information density, which is probably part of the reason they never switched over (I understand before world war 2 or so, the more rounded hiragana was for women while the more sword stroke like katakana was for men).
What's your stance then? That it should be illegal to speak to people in public?
Good analysis, and you are right. I think purely technical attempts to solve current political/social problems are doomed, while better institutions can and have been built.

Now, what makes you think that the regulators in well-run countries will continue to accept this inefficient and unregulated money alternative full of scams?

Crypto currencies could be banned to quite an extent (mining, on/off ramps, maybe even the network traffic, which is unencrypted, if I am not mistaken.)
My point was that GP's rule of thumb (if it has a keyword, it's a statement, otherwise is an expression) is wrong on both ends.

A JS program is composed out of statements, which may contain expressions. In particular, in JS, any expression is also valid as a statement. This is not true in all languages (for example, `2` is not a valid statement in Go).
Curious, do “modern” cryptocurrencies (aka not bitcoin) still tightly couple money creation and transactions? I feel like this would be a blocker to being able to use a cryptocurrency as an automated economic manager directly (although perhaps this could be mitigated by using derivative currencies backed by the primary cryptocurrency).
JavaScript have operators which are keywords, e.g. instanceof and void. "void(2 + 2)" is a valid expression
I think Apple launching the iPod is a good example.

- They saw a need in the consumer market that wasn't filled.

- They used the Apple team as "target customers" to help with needs analysis.

- They addressed UX/ergonomics issues present in existing offerings.

- They leveraged existing footholds to maximize value (iTunes, digital store, etc).

- They started with a niche market to gain influencer status with their offering.

- They ended with an ecosystem of products built around their original idea, some of which represented new innovations that weren't part of the original plan.

All of the bullets above can be folded into a plan, but at the macro level, they comprise a directional motion for the org.

"We're going to offer this thing to solve this problem to these people, our unique competitive advantages are X, Y, and Z, and we believe we're uniquely positioned as a result."
Godwin's second law: any sufficiently long discussion about Unicode includes a discussion about emoji :)
> There's a good chance the power won't fail spectacularly like it did in the winter, but their lives are impacted.

Perhaps the magnitude of the failure is lower, but it's still failing if they're having as many blackouts as they might have later this summer.
Hopefully is for once and forever!
It's not her limitation. A limitation would be to not realise the true intent.
Hypothetically, what do we think the effect would be if twitter went down and never came back?
The Mathematical Way of Thinking
It's also a way to reclaim costs of the program through taxes.

The ideal would be to them having everything they need in <5min walk.

Also, maybe you can rent to bussiness at a market rate, since their clients have more disposable income.
The sad reality of our world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWKzVxMzvxg
a wee apocalypse
Why would index fund investors be any more likely to cash out on falling equity values than investors in actively managed funds or single equities?

If anything it seems quite the opposite? Index fund investors know the market always goes back up on long enough time frame. Investors in actively managed funds have to continuously question whether their manager is incompetent.
>viewing it a totalitarian control as human breath expeals CO2 so if the government can regulate it then there are no limits on government at all.

"If the gubmit can tell multinational corps not to pull oil out of the ground, they can make me hold my breath! It produces the same molecule!" Libertarian philosophy in a nutshell.
> Hi dying, I'm dad! – mislabeled as NEUTRAL, likely because labelers don’t understand dad jokes

In their defense, what could be more True Neutral alignment than dad jokes? Nothing to gain but the quiet enjoyment of making the room groan and roll their eyes.

Really though, the issue here is context, but also the complexity of human communication. The sensitivity and tone highly depends on the situation. Clearly the preceding moment is someone stating "I'm dying". But that itself is contextual. Are they literally facing mortality, merely inconvenienced and being hyperbolic, or laughing? If the former, is "Hi Dying, I'm Dad" being glib, to soften the blow of a dire confession, or being highly insensitive and poking fun in a serious moment? Is it in the context of a longer joke, which subverts the meanings yet again?

A lot of these comments are worse than useless without context. Reddit really likes improv-banter style humor in comment chains. One comment builds on another builds on another, all referencing in-jokes, and usually slathered in sarcasm.

Honestly Reddit comments are probably one of the worst sources to try to build a sentiment model from, from an engineering perspective.
What's the difference to the official one at https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator ?
Is there a reason to buy distilled water? Why don't you just make it yourself (e.g. https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Distilled-Water)
Just fine?
> I sort of feel compelled to quote the Bible here, though I'm not religious.

There's a lot of ancient wisdom that has stood the test of time in there, from which many could benefit. As we move away from the idea of a man-like god running the universe, I hope we still keep the good bits.
"As long are you are not a criminal, ownership and liquidity are not huge pain, what is the real, tangible benefit of decentralized banking?"

Capital formation for any common purpose without trusting 3rd parties.
As an example -> there are some NFT vault DAOs where strangers pool together to purchase NFTs that are too costly. People Vote on proposals regarding which NFT to acquire and when.
> [he] defrauded his clients by misrepresenting the original cost of art works and subsequently overcharging them

He bought low and sold high?

Sounds a lot like capitalism at work.
About two-port network switches
Ah yes, the super profitable US government that still finds itself trillions of dollars in debt
I don’t think it’s that simple: Bitcoin is the purest form of fiat currency backed by neither sovereign authority or hard assets, and the deflationary model encourages hoarding unless you’re convinced it’s permanently going down. That combination seems likely to produce volatility even with fairly large amounts of capital flowing in.
> there's obviously an advertising scheme or some sort of moneymaking ploy behind a lot of it.

gaining influence with videos like these (widespread, "easy content") will probably earn you some advertisement deals
Citizens of Congo are entitled to one free domain registration
This is a tangent, but I felt like sharing. In college, I purchased a used copy of the communist manifesto. Famously, the first line reads, "A spectre is haunting Europe, ...".

The previous owner had both highlighted and circled the word "spectre" and wrote "ghost?" in the margins. The rest of the text was similarly marked up.

Every time I hear the word "spectre" I see "ghost?" in my mind's eye.
But given that the Succession is based on an act of Parliament, isn't it a deadly embrace - where both halves of the state rely on each other. Still, what was encoded once can be encoded again...
Absolutely, and I’d say your example prompts a further question: even if it is partially self serving, maybe it’s worth the price? If these YouTubers are are looking for subscribers but also do free lawn care and inspire others to do other free things for those who can’t do it themselves… do we really need to be so down on it?
I had this problem. Then I learned that Hover has a concierge transfer-in service. You give them your registrar creds, they do the work of transferring everything seamlessly for you.

Sure, it’s Tucows, but it’s not GD.
Why? Unicode isn't running out of space any time soon.
"It’s the patronising assumption that … older women will be thrilled by some random stranger giving them flowers."

This reminds me of when high schoolers get the "generous" idea of nominating an unpopular girl, who they never talk to and only talk about, for prom queen. There's nothing nice about it.
That sounds brilliant. Did you roll out your own player?
Religious or not, I think one of the best philosophies on giving is Rambam's 8 levels of tzedakah. The highest is doing something to materially improve someone's condition, the absolute lowest is giving with a poor attitude. That he doesn't even rank "giving with the intention of getting something yourself" shows how far this is from any sort of good act.

https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/67238?lang=bi
I'm not religious but it reminds me of Matthew 6:5-6 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

Some people have always just wanted to show how good they are instead of trying to actually be good (not saying praying is necessarily good but clearly the people who wrote the bible and the people they're speaking of did :P)
I don't think it's entirely fair to call Wright buildings poorly designed, a lot of the maintenance issues come down to the buildings' age.

He was designing buildings back in the late 1800s. While there is obviously a good deal work required in maintaining buildings from that era, I don't think that Wright's work has required a disproportionate amount of attention.

The Imperial Hotel in Japan survived a massive 1923 Tokyo earthquake due to several design decisions made by Wright.
aka the oracle problem. Indeed.
Nah, doesn't work the same if costs are historically rising. But cost of eolic, solar and batteries are steadilly falling.
As someone already stated in this thread. Its just stuff. I also had a collection with a friend when I was 25. I started programming with 12, so I had tk85, tk90x, appleII, MSX, amiga500, amiga1200, amiga2000, amiga4000, phillips CDI, videolaser, nintendos, playstation1, dreamcast, peripherals and etc...

I decided to have a change in my career, so I closed this office I had with my friend, and we had to decide what to do with it. We donated all to a local computer museum.
Now I have this mantra, If I have some hobby stuff I have not used for three years, I donate it. Donated my Xbox360 and my playstation3 recently.

Sometimes I get caught by nostalgia, like last week when I was looking at a appleII clear case mod, and I get a small urge to buy another one. Then I just remember how good was that time, and that good memories are never the same when you live them again.

Now I use the money and time I would spend with a collection in many ephemeral hobbies. The current are electronic projects, laser cutting and Kitesurf.
> "do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing"

I see Matthew worked as a mid-level manager in a tech company.
I don't think this applies to Berlin yet, it's not an island or locked by mountains. You can also build up.

Let's not kid ourselves, real estate prices there are insane due to monetary policies, bureaucracy and NIMBYism restricting building/supply for a million reasons, and not due to the lack of real estate in that area.
Exercise at what time of day makes you sleep the best? What mix of cardio and weights? If cardo, is it intense or moderate?
Why does everything used on frontend has to be used on the backend?!
Hey web developers, do you know about the CSS "prefers reduced motion" media query that allows you to make your site/app more accessible to people like shabble?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

https://caniuse.com/?search=prefers-reduced-motion
You know people are allowed to work on their own cars right? Including wheels and brakes? And there are a lot of states that don't even require an inspection. You share the road with so many shoddy death traps as is
> I live in Canada and recently invested a small amount in a startup via AngelList RUV. There were two funding options: (1) wire transfer, (2) transfer USDC via Ethereum network. One of these options is cheaper, faster, and more flexible than the other.

Oh I didn't know that's what the answer was. Having used both (and living in Europe), I'd thought the 'cheaper, faster' option OP mentioned was a modern wire transfer service.
If you're curious about the seedier underbelly of financial crime and money laundering through casinos and real-estate in Vancouver, Willful Blindness by Sam Cooper (https://www.amazon.ca/Wilful-Blindness-network-tycoons-infil...) is a pretty shocking expose. Be warned that the complicity of the British Columbia and Canadian governments is rage-inducing.
I used the word ‘statistically’ to underline the fact that it will not happen to everyone, and specially not to you in particular.

> Meanwhile you hold a belief like, "the future will be good because capital will be allocated better"

Yes
This one has bit me twice in the past 35 years.

I have some program I'm working on, doing the usual edit/compile/run/debug cycle. At some point I decide to compare two versions of some section of code, so I write out temporary files of the old section named "old" and the new section named "new". Then compiles start failing, but oddly it is a file that I haven't edited recently.

The issue is that some code (not necessarily even mine) has an "#include <new>" and it is picking up my temporary file named "new".
Can you recommend a specific book that discusses this in the context of private investors? I have read a couple of books from Taleb and he only talks about similar strategies for investment firms.
>though I would have liked a bit more than its 1 mm of key travel.

I believe the old 2014 MacBook had 1.3mm Key travel. There are zero reasons why we need to shave off 0.3mm just to get it thinner.
These days I’d probable take a closer look at spanner. It is a consistent and scalable db. It makes life much easier for developers.

Like Cassandra, dynamodb requires the data model to be designed very carefully to be able to get the max out of them.

More often than not, that simply adds more complexity; people often underestimate how much a sharded mysql/Postgres can scale.

My default choice for the longest time: Postgres for the data I care about, ES as secondary index and S3 as blob storage.
My first reaction is that it is disappointing that GUIs haven't changed all that much from Xerox.
However, on second thought, how different is the user interface on a car from the 30s from a modern car? So maybe it isn't surprising that the GUI hasn't radically changed
Vienna suffered and suffers housing price inflation like any other european city. In world wars not only people dies, but housing units are destroyed too.

Also, the point of the social housing in vienna is not only the dimension of it, but how they do it. The design, the demographics, etc.

There's a clear distinction between their program and the myriad of commieblocks in other countries that become low-income guettos to sink public money.

Public housing done right is more than just building dense, putting poor people in it and be done with it. That's a recipe for disaster.
This is a vile bit of legislation. See https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-...