skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damaging oneself e.g. by reckless consumption of substances is one thing.

Forcing a birth of a badly unwanted human being, who is going to suffer through life being badly unwanted, is a rather different thing.

And forcing a woman to keep carrying a pregnancy which is dangerous to her life (and thus to the prospective baby's life anyway) is not just indifference, it's a direct opposite of care.
Congratulations!! The tools you used are way more impressive than the ones I used for my first web bucks.

>So I made a Web App which will list all of your tenant devices still using legacy protocols and how to move them to modern authentication

Smart, you've got an eye for customer needs :)
All of those little devices run some form of Linux.
I think that want/need is doing a lot of work here.

One can be in favor of abortions for medical necessity or when the choice to get pregnant was not consensual while still being wildly opposed to abortions for convenience reasons.
Note that there are 8 state jurisdictions in the United States where surveillance in public of one specific individual by another is illegal if the surveilled party objects. https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles/stlkbook.pdf
> if downstream ops are expected to cope with, say, a deviation of 20 %, that tolerance kind of becomes the goal for the forecast accuracy.

I think a forecasting target of 20% shouldnt be necessary unless you want to be around 19% deviation. Which might be the case if trying to reach 0% has diminishing returns and isnt actually cost effective. In other words, targets make sense when you are literally targeting a sweet-spot.

If 0% deviation is desired, then the directive is still the same - try to be as accurate as possible. If "as accurate as possible" is consistently falling below 20% (which is the importance of measuring and data) then you need to address that. Maybe forecasting is broken or infeasible.

On ops side, they might not be expected to handle deviations over 20%, but the directive is probably the same either way "do the best you can to manage the deviation".

>For me, setting limits on certain metrics is something different from a target. It is a thin line between those.

I agree with this in general. It can be tricky to communicate "here is a boundary that absolutely cannot be crossed, but keep in mind you should be nowhere near that boundary anyway" without it impacting peoples personal optimization strategies. You really have to weigh the consequences of what actually happens when that limit is reached, and if it's worth a possible depression of performance from the team.
> No, it isn't.

If you believe the world of today isn't materially different from the 70s, I don't know that we're going to agree on much.

On social issues, you could be arrested for being gay. You could legally be denied housing loans based on your race. It was considered impossible to rape your spouse. I could continue this paragraph, but the point is we're fundamentally different with our understanding of humanity on a social level.

On a technological level, what we have today is unthinkable to someone in the seventies. The internet, cell phones, personal computers, autonomous vehicles and drones, machine learning, predictive policing... All these things have major impacts on our way of life.

The world has changed too. Militarily, economically, socially, religiously, politically, etc.
Yeah I paid Bethesda to make bandits, and OP is providing that service for free!
I usually don't read a lot of fiction but absolutely make the exception for Terry Pratchett!
This used to be fairly common, I think.

I remember in college we had a lab full of PS3s because they were cheap and powerful and there was a course you could take to learn to develop on them. The lab later expanded after a big donation from nvidia of high end gaming machines to teach students CUDA.

The courses sucked though, because everyone would take them just to get access to the labs.
Former f2p game designer. The industry term for what you're scratching at is virality or k-factor.

There's no static playbook here, you're trying to play society like an instrument.

Figure out why a player would be motivated to share and then make that action as obvious and easy as possible. For example players share Wordle results as if to start a conversation with ppl they already engage with: "I bet you can't beat my performance". Or, "look at my proud performance." Wordle optimizes this impulse in two ways: it fits the request into a tweet, and it uses a novel presentation to compete with all the other content posted to Twitter.

Novelty is a huge component in that last bit. Once twenty games are spamming Twitter with emoji posts, they'll all suffer. Think Facebook in 2011 when Zynga had everyone's feed stuffed with nails and wood boards and goats.

I would start thinking about the intrinsic rewards your game offers. If it makes players feel smart, they may be tempted to share to humblebrag. That's half the equation (and why focusing on sharing isn't enough) because now you need what they shared to be as enticing a click as the other content on the platform.

Makes sense to me why leaderboards didn't work. Nobody cares to compete with total strangers and even friend leaderboards are extrinsic motivation. It will only speak to competitive player types. Plus if you have any level of success, hackers will ruin your board by submitting unreachable scores.
I was going to mention Sparse Arrays, thanks for mentioning it. One of my favorite data structures.
I've tried a lot of stuff over the years, but I always end up back on GnuCash. It's not the prettiest, it doesn't have a bunch of shiny features, and it has some weird bugs[0], but it consistently has gotten the job done for me for almost a decade with no issues.

I don't want exciting technology involved when I'm trying to pay bills.

[0] https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795804#c10
The fool learns from experience. The wise person learns from other people's experience.
You can use `hg commit --interactive` to use the the commit itself as the staging area. And I'd argue that's a better model because:

- It limits the amount of time changes are stored in an intermediate state, making it much less likely to interfere with other operations, like pulling and switching branches.

- You can use the same commands (and mental model) to manage the "staging area" and other commits.

- The history of staging and unstaging becomes actual history and can be recovered and shared.
When it comes to network subscriptions, at the time of this article Playstation's online services were pretty much all free. It was one of the differentiators compared to Xbox's paid online services at the time.

That said though, the original PS3 hardware was definitely sold at a negative margin and wouldn't be profitable until four years into the console's life.

Article from 2010 talking about how the PS3 hardware had only just become profitable:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/512740/article-4244.html

The console released in 2006.
My understanding is if it is particularly last minute, Airbnb will arrange the rebook to another property, and this $1000 is to subsidize those costs to Airbnb?
Genuinely asking, have you considered that banning abortion doesn’t save babies who have already died or are dying in the womb? And doesn’t save situations where there are no babies involved at all, and there are chronically ill people who are being denied medication because the medication can cause abortions?
I just knew someone was going to comment this. You have my blessing to change "Linux kernel" to "any open source package" no matter how trivial.
Personally, I don't feel the idea of government is legitimate, but if you do, then you must abide by the process, for better or worse. There was plenty of time between Roe v Wade and present to pass an amendment or secede, so clearly the matter wasn't urgent.
This post is very possible without infinite streams. A for loop or a while loop would do the trick just as well.
I tried to construct my argument to make it clear that I'm aware there are ways to solve the issues with hard links, but they have their own sets of trade-offs.

For hard links, it's not only that they can cause loops. There are the other issues I outlined (linking across file systems, no single canonical representation of the file in the file system, finding all the links to the file, etc).

There's no "just store a back pointer." That will obviously introduce its own set of complexities and trade-offs. Where do you store the pointers? What's the API for viewing them? What's the CLI for viewing them? Is it a new switch to `ls`? A new CLI entirely? How do you keep the pointers up to date? What sort of locking is needed when updating the pointers? What about `fsck`? How do you get this implemented across the multitude of Unix and Unix-like OS's and file systems?

(As an aside, I've been really trying to stop using the word "just" lately as I've learned that things are rarely so simple to justify the word.)

Again, I'm not saying there isn't a better solution, but I don't think it's patching up hard links. I think it's something outside the box of both hard links and symbolic links.
-- Albert Einstein
Probably just a coincidence or, just guessing based on where we are, a byproduct of most of the autists you know being software developers.

Personally when I find out I'm wrong about something it's a relief. Usually when my understanding of something doesn't line up with everyone else's, the cause is much more complex and disturbing. Me just misunderstanding is the most benign possibility and one I am happy to accept.
Bad metrics can wreck corporate cultures. Let’s attack the other straw man: metric-free orgs.

Symptoms:

- Resources (and credit and promotions) are given to the most articulate and outgoing rather than the most effective. (Marketing budget goes to the extrovert rather than the manager producing the best ROI)

- When dates slip, they slip a lot. The night before a release it’s announced that there will be a 3 month delay. (Bad for anyone having to explain “If it’s 3 months, why couldn’t you tell me that sooner?” to a customer)

- Unanticipated earnings and revenue misses. (Same issue as above, but bad to anyone talking to investors)

- Poor prioritization. Effort is spent on squeaky wheels versus high value problems. (Engineers spend time helping “that nice person in accounting” versus solving a customer problem that brings in hard money)

With all the things an exec needs to worry about, they can’t effectively operate without good data to drive decisions. Data needs to have human interpretation as well. Of course bad data can be worse than no data, but that’s another story.
True. It’s disgusting. Do you know whether this kind of thing is still being done, now that we have DSGVO?
You left out non-deterministic classical mechanics, e.g., Norton’s Dome: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s_dome
We aren't talking about some far-out concept like brainwashing, though. We are talking about information warfare, where information asymmetry is a battlefield advantage. That's not a theoretical or far-out concept at all, it's here and now and we are seeing this information war playing out on the world stage every day!
Are you speculating that the carbonation is helping in some way? Otherwise, hydrating to counter dehydration sounds like a reasonable approach.
> And even though Russia has been put through unprecedented sanctions, which actually sent prices soaring still supplies Europe with energy even though the west tried to effectively embargo them from the rest of the world.

Let's not pretend they are doing this out of loving-kindness: they use this money to fund their invasion of Ukraine.
Central Banker’s Crypto
The bounty law was implemented while Roe v Wade was in effect. Texas also passed a trigger law that, essentially, supersedes the bounty law by changing it from a civil matter to a criminal matter. Since SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade, the trigger law goes into effect.

Prior to SCOTUS overturning Roe v Wade, other states were preparing their own bounty laws. I believe those have since been abandoned in favor of criminalizing abortion after overturning Roe v Wade. So I don't think we're going to see dedicated bounty laws, though bounties may be built into anti-abortion laws going into criminal code.
Ahh I see. I can understand why it would bring you back that memory. I was just confused at first, cheers!
Heh. The web archive about to get banned along with the gutenberg library.
It is even worse than that. For all the talk about my current country (France) being a nuclear power house, we have actually been buying electricity from Spain and practically every other neighboring country for about 2 decades by now.

which is highly ridiculous because during my stay in Spain around the 2000s I was definitely paying significantly more for electricity than I _ever_ have in France. Someone would really need to explain that to me...
Not a good idea. Uhh, not expensive enough. They spend more anyway. 0days suitable for targeted surveillance go for 10-25x that.
> Have you noticed how expensive everything is lately?

Have you noticed that supply and demand can change prices? Such as supply of young people performing labor in an aging country demanding ever more labor, or international conflicts and responses to infectious diseases disrupting supply chains. And of course, the government’s monetary response, but the point is that unless you have a source for a conspiracy, I do not see why it should merit consideration.
Didn’t expect to read something like that on Ars Technica.

The circa early 90s born generation and those educated in American public school system after 2001 seems to be a write off and a credible threat to our species survival in general.

I hope the older generation lives longer to influence and raise the kids after the lost generation. Not including the Peter Pans who attained puberty with joysticks in hand.

Just imagine if we never had social media..we might have had a fighting chance. No, I am not being facetious. I remember a time before click bait headlines and viral memes directing society weren’t a thing.

Thankfully, there are other parts of the world that are untouched by this American born madness. Asia and Africa might escape this disease.

But what we see here is a memetic viral disease and infectious. Virus of the mind..indeed.
I work on EthicalAds, one of the ad networks mentioned in the post. We focus on targeting relevant developer-focused ads to content rather than to individuals.

The post is great. My only nitpick is that the author mentions that they think retargeting will go away. The scope of retargeting might be reduced especially as third-party cookies stop working but I don't think retargeting will completely go away. Big ad companies with whom visitors have a direct relationship with (Google, FB) will always be able to do it. They know the pages on their sites and those linked from their site that visitors visit and they will use it to target ads. They don't need third-party cookies since they have first-party cookies.

Networks that just do ads and don't have relationships with visitors except for advertising will find it harder and harder. At EthicalAds, we don't do retargeting at all because of our privacy focus, but many ad networks will find retargeting more challenging (less precise, they can always fingerprint users) to do. Doing away with it is a good thing from a privacy perspective but it probably will further entrench the big players.
Meh, the point of a high penalty is to disincentivize behaviour, not to provide reparations.

Ie. someone gets a DUI, we don't directly pay out the fee to anyone near by who may have been affected.
> Uncap America Act would ban data limits that exist solely for monetary reasons.

This might raise the price of basic internet service.

I would say to put an end to all data caps. Instead state what speed you get for how much transfer, and what speed you get after that. There should never be charges for 'going over your limit'.
> The Chebyshev basis is much better

The Chebyshev basis in time is still not great. This was used in Chebfun before but there's a note that for time to just use standard ODE solvers because it did not good performance. Collocation really only makes sense on BVPs.
> SSRIs are only little more effective than a placebo, suggesting there's something deeper at play with regards to depression.

Alternatively, that there is more than one cause of what we call "depression", and that SSRIs are only effective against some (but not all) of those causes.

"Little more effective than a placebo" conflicts with the large number of patients who claim SSRIs have been a life-changing treatment for them.

One way to reconcile this is by observing that if (just making up numbers here) 50% of people have no effect and 50% have a good effect, the overall effect is going to probably appear small, despite the fact that 50% of the patients had a very real positive effect.
Chilling that he was able to anticipate the invention of the internet like that. What a genius!
How to advertise to developers: write a blog post about developers and post it where they hang out.
Thanks! I've been hunting for this.
More pointers and more processing in exchange for representing equivalence classes of many, often infinitely many graphs compactly and enumerating them efficiently. Usually not relevant when equivalence of simple nodes is the object.
> They get people high,

No, they do not.

Edit: you do not see patients surreptitiously increasing their own doses, nor do you see patients buying these medications on the street.

While I'm sure there's someone out there selling illicit SSRIs on the street, it's quite rare. That's not the case with drugs that "get people high".
> One of the basic tactics honed by the CIA in Afghanistan on social media was reply-guy diversion. We now see this constantly on trending anti-Biden Twitter. Maybe that’s your thing?

Did you know that kind of accusation is against the site guidelines?

In any case it's conspiracy theory bullshit. I'm not going to dox myself to prove it false. And even if I did that, it probably wouldn't do any good because a conspiracy theory logic means the conspiracy theory is always true and facts that contradict it are just lies of the conspiracy.
> If the original promise fails you're gonna return a cached failure.

In the scenario where that's an issue, you would need to add (extremely trivial 3-5 lines) logic to handle retrying a cached failure. The underlying data structure would continue to be a promise map.
Just don't ask too many questions about what else he believes about the range of human cognition, or what we should be doing about it!
It's not just discussions about programming languages. All kinds of HN posts about security vulnerabilities commonly get sidetracked by very predictable "if only it would be written in Rust" threads.
I'm honestly more interested in your cousin's goat farm then the original post of this blog now.
If we accept the premise that abortion is baby murder, then the moral implications are clear: (1) exceptions on rape are grotesque as we'd be condoning baby murder as a form of trauma relief, (2) cross-state or even cross-country baby murder is just as grotesque, (3) doctors and medical systems must have extreme culpability as they are part of an assembly line of baby murder.

How does Constitutional case law factor into the question of mass baby murder?
Yup fully aware it was a remake, but it was updated well for the time it was released. It also had a different style from the original, so "unique" is a fair term I reckon.
Semi auto high caliber rifle capable of holding a magazine over 10 rounds. Happy? Don't split hairs.

Actually, I'm not sure why I get sucked into these discussions time after time. Nothing will ever change without a constitutional amendment. The left needs to make its peace with that.
I was #5 at Etsy back in the early days. Three co-founders (who actually bought the site from some other dude, they didn't create Etsy), Jared Tarbell, and then me. (There were some other folks, support staff who technically worked for the investors IIRC)

It's pretty much my only "impressive" job of my career, in terms of name dropping at parties. But in terms of technology and business it was a madhouse. I remember thinking "Nothing like a business was happening at Esty." when they fired me. (I was going to quit, but my girlfriend at the time convinced me not to, and then they fired me a week or two later anyway. Long story.)

I always figured someone would eventually show up and want to interview me about it, but that's never happened so far.

I've forgotten most of the wild stuff.

All the business logic was in stored procedures in the DB so as you can imagine it was always on fire. Upgrading didn't help because our growth rate was ridiculous.

The frontend PHP guy was a newbie to programming. He barely knew what he was doing but he could nail those beautiful UX designs pixel-perfect. The guy's probably a millionaire now.

The backend sysadmin, DBA dude was a total Master-Blaster. If he didn't like it he would literally throw a fit and scream at the CEO and shut things down until he got his way. He used to lie to the CEO all the time if he didn't want to implement something he'd just say "it's impossible".

They built a skateboard half-pipe in the office even though none of us skated.

It was pretty nuts.

I found out later on that they hired me because my resume was the first one on craigslist that had Python on it. Then during the interview they found out I used Devorak layout on my laptop and that's why they hired me.

The "middle layer" they had me write was pretty much useless. It basically passed requests from the webservers to the DB. Over 80% of the API was empty methods, literally just a docstring, with all the processing happening in a decorator.

I implemented a cache in there (early use of Memcache. Glyph hisself wrote a Twisted interface to it in front of mine eyes! They were like "We want to hire a networking consultant. What about this guy?" Me: "You want to hire Glyph and I get to hang out with him and learn from him!? Yes. Yes, please." So that was nice.)

The thing is they didn't turn on the cache. It just sat there. The investors pushed this Sid person onto us to try to get some semblance of adult supervision. ... I've told this story before, Sid wanted some information on long-running requests, and I had to switch it (the cache) on in prod myself to show them that the required logging was already there.

There there was the other Sid who wanted to rewrite everything in Java. (First Sid wanted to rewrite in C++.) "Project Phoenix" he called it, that didn't go over well.

(Recall that the problem wasn't the implementation language of the server code, it was that all of the business logic was in stored procedures in the DB so rewriting the server code was never going to help.)

That's all I got this morning.
You should not. But if it makes you feel any better, Americans do the same thing by allowing Chinese tech like Zoom and TikTok operate in their country.
I'm assuming that was an ad-filled blog. (uBlock Origin)

Because content wise there was almost nothing in this article.
This is my understanding as well. A big part of this was the HD-DVD v Bluray war around that time - Sony winning with Bluray would be worth millions of dollars more, so they were willing to take a loss to get a Bluray player in each person's home.
It's missing state constitutions. The US is a United States of America - a union of semi-autonomous states.

Picking only a high level misses that there are higher levels (such as world treaties and laws we are entered into) and ignores that the US is a conglomeration. When you'd pick Germany, but ignore EU rules, it's somewhat like picking Texas, and ignoring US.

It seems you're not really comparing frameworks very well.