skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could cost the stored procedures' deployment costs in cryptographically-signed-redundant-data-storage bytes and penalize unnecessary complexity by Costing Opcodes (in the postgres database ~"virtual machine runtime", which supports many non-halting programming languages; such as rust, which is great to see.) and paying for redundant (smart contract output) consensus where it's worth it.

TIL about https://github.com/mulesoft-labs/json-ld-schema: "JSON Schema/SHACL based validation of JSON-LD documents". Perhaps we could see if that's something that should be done in pgx or in the application versions deployed alongside the database versions?
Exactly. The government will declare certain companies as too big to fail then bail them out. We need to let failure happen otherwise we are rewarding corruption.

It's not like if a company fails all their capital just disappears. Another company can emerge or another successful company can grow. If an airline fails, the places and infrastructure don't magically disappear.

The government gave the airlines a ton of money during covid so they could keep their staff and be ready to go when people start flying again. Instead the companies took that money, bought back stocks, gave executives bonuses, and encouraged early retirement. So now of course airlines have a staff shortage. But, hey, at least they made a ton of money, right?

I'm not saying the government should have done nothing when they forced businesses to lose revenue. But just giving the money directly to those at the top is the worst possible idea. We shouldn't just be giving out the people's money to the rich and get nothing in return.
In Japan it's reasonably common for someone to own the land while someone else (e.g. a homeowner) owns the buildings on the land and has certain rights to live there that the landlord can't ignore (and hence can't just turf them out suddenly).

Flats in the UK are leasehold, which means you can buy (part of) a property and still not own the land.

It's entirely possible to separate the two.
Hello, the US is the world leader in imprisoning people. It clearly doesn't work very well.
I used to work for a mobile analytics company, and HLL made things SO much easier and fast that at the time we changed all our queries to be based on HLL. At the time, the ability of being able to sum uniques was like black magic, and still to this day I am quite impressed about HyperLogLog.
I don't have data, either. But I do recall the debates about making seatbelts the law. The talk was always about whether one was safer being thrown from a car than staying in the car. I never heard mention about being thrown from a car causing another accident.

After the law passed, I heard many people say they wouldn't wear the belt out of fear of being trapped in a burning car.

It's just that these discussions have been completely forgotten since, and the assumption is that seatbelts are always better.

I wear a seatbelt because the odds are better. I'm aware there are cases where it isn't.
Correction: https://beancount.github.io/docs/index.html, not https://beancount.io, the latter is a hosted solution I have no experience with.
I had assumed that every city I've ever lived in was doing the rest of the work too, sending out engineers to asses the reasons for the higher than average deaths and making changes like adding stop lights, clearing anything obstructing people's view, or adjusting speed limits. Seems defeatist (or more cynically, exploitative) to just throw up a sign and extract more money from speeders.

I mean, I want to know when I'm on a road that's got problems, so it's useful for that much I guess, but we kind of have that already in form of the roadside memorial (Descansos) trend that crept north from Mexico and Texas, If a road merits a "safety corridor" sign changes should be being made, otherwise you risk an incentive to build dangerous roads or to do nothing more about them in order to make more money on traffic tickets.
> the common consensus is that certainty of punishment is the primary deterrent against criminal activity.

There is no such thing as "certainty of punishment". There isn't even "certainty of punishment if you get caught", since our society is not a sane society in this respect and lets people who do cause harm, up to and including murder, off the hook for all manner of insane ideological reasons.

That said, I didn't say we shouldn't punish people who actually cause harm. The scenario I was describing was a person who is, for example, driving drunk, but hasn't caused harm, and gets stopped by a cop. Should the cop be able to ticket them? Or just prevent them from driving until they are sober? If they haven't caused harm, I would say the latter.
BigQuery has this too, it’s extremely useful.
There ones that do offer it usually charge money.
We also mark deadly intersections and turns with white crosses, one for each person who's died there. They're worth paying attention to, and I think locals at least learn to be weary of those locations.
I certainly agree that if there are ways to improve the design of the traffic system to make it safer, those things should be done.
My tongue-in-cheek answer to this question would be 'my genetic heritage' since that has 'survived' - nay, thrived - through far larger threats than that posed by the current iteration of the changing climate. Glaciation, really lethal pandemics, murderous hordes from the east, volcanic winters, you name it - Homo Sapiens came, saw, and conquered. We're a really adaptable species with a knack for solving problems.

A more down-to-earth answer is that I do not need a 'climate change survival strategy' just like I do not need an 'ice age survival strategy' or an 'asteroid strike survival strategy'. Yes, the climate changes just like it always has. It was warmer in the 1930's - the Dust Bowl years - than it is now, it was colder during the little ice age, it was drier. it was wetter, it was whatever you care to name and will be in the future. Add to that that I live on a 17th century farm which is heated by wood only - which I also use for cooking - and has access to a well which has never run dry in known history, with a 15 kW solar array on one of the barns and enough acreage to satisfy our needs we're well prepared for whatever comes our way.
It takes very little money to buy your politicians. Tens of thousands of dollars to sway their opinion, a few hundred thousand to buy it outright. The gun companies own a lot of your politicians.
The state offered money for early completion, and got an early completion. I don't necessary see anything wrong with that as long as quality standards were met, and the final cost wasn't outrageous.
I'm a bit confused, aren't you describing that the attacker controls the network load? The preview is created by the sender?
Interval trees. Really cool trees that allow fast lookups of all the ranges that contain a given point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_tree
Google does not monetize the private data in their cloud/business services. This is a different division of the company. People claim this a lot, but even in the ad part of the company, any data exchanged with other companies is not personalized.

If you have any highly specific claims about this please point to news articles in reputable journals which have not already been repudiated.
This is something that public or private blockchains could be helpful for. Since everything is built on the hash of what came before, you can’t delete something without leaving a trail.
Yeah, its not great, but I dont think its unreasonable. Id expect it more in 25-30k range, 7k sounds like fairy tale. Lets say you have two designers working 40 hours on this over 3 months, thats quickly 20k just there, before any implementation.

Dont joke about untangling Bootstrap from your css architecture, I’ve seen that take 6 months to get out from.
Incredible. I wonder what you're doing differently. My rate is around 30% and I live in San Francisco and pay ~9% to the state. Like most of my 150,000 coworkers, I pay ~0% out of pocket for healthcare. Maybe that's the main difference?
I was thinking more meta. It's for the writer to solidify their own thoughts, not to reveal the wisdom of the universe. I can guarantee this was satisfying to the writer.
A more simple way to put it is that the politicians are hyper focused on the minor things we disagree on and complete ignore the things we mostly agree on. This division helps keep people hating each other and not focusing on important issues while also keeping their donors happy since they love the status quo.
Is it the same thing? I'm trying to imagine how this would work with a priority queue.

I think you need an flexible number of priorities that is equal to the queue length, and the priority values come from an infinite counter that only goes up. Higher values = lower priority.

When a unique item comes into the queue you increment the counter and give it that value as a priority. This puts it on the end of the queue.

But if the new item is a duplicate of an existing item then you give it the priority of the existing item.
Thank you for this history.

As someone who focuses on being effective and efficient, this hurts my soul.
What peace time? The US has pretty nearly continuously been in some military action or another for the past hundred years.
I’d be inclined to think controls, audits, and reviews prevent most of the casual fraud, even if some fraud still happens.

Sort of like door locks. They don’t eliminate all theft. But they greatly reduce casual theft.
If it’s anything like the market for home services, the middleman service will be even worse than dealing with vendors directly: a middleman adding a layer of indirection but little value.
You know I don’t know about that. I don’t have great memory but reading a book is more about the process for me. I enjoy the content, I like thinking through potential in the moment and like the general act of learning. I’m probably not going to remember all of it but my baseline knowledge on the subject is much higher than if I had never read the book.
If you're getting the stock band, you might want to buy some spares because they're the first thing to go.
At a certain point school is a grade competition for students and has very little to do with learning. I can't prove this but I suspect there is plenty of cheating at the upper ends of the grade spectrum. Kids know that cheating will not help them but they are competing for grades so it does not matter. Penalizing those at the upper levels of grades would do nothing since they would make enough noise that they would get their way. Also, getting high scores is rarely a problem, if at all. Very few student suffer from that problem. It's so small that it does not need a fix.
The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas
You state confidently that deaths would be higher, but you gave no evidence for that. I believe you are wrong. The lies confirm to all that we should not trust you. Assuming you have any ability to recommend things that will actually save lives, in the long term proving yourself a liar will only lead to fewer people believing you and taking your advice.

So tell the truth, build trust, and let people decide for themselves. That will save lives in the long run.
I mean there’s a reason we build buildings, that’s hardly in doubt. The point was simply that even seemingly undeveloped land in or near the urban core can be generating a respectable income stream and then after N years the land has also appreciated. This is especially appealing in the event of a presumably short term glut of residential and or commercial properties/zoning issues.

Also, an acre with parking attendants doubles the number of cars so they could be clearing close to 2 million before expenses, and attendants aren’t that expensive.
To the extent either of those is a problem, it would be much better to raise a flag, investigate, diagnose, and resolve it outside of scoring system. Especially since the problem with the latter could well be that the institution doesn't offer challenging enough courses.

Also, I don't think most individual exams in courses have enough test-retest validity for an individual score to be a strong signal that either of these problems exists. For a course with a large number of exams (more typical of secondary than higher ed, IMO) you might diagnose a problem by a consistent pattern of very high scores, but an individual score is too weak of a signal.

If you penalize high grades, people will try to avoid them by intentionally dropping answers if they feel too good, and then the utility of your scores for assessing anything, goes down.
I just want to point out that what you're describing isn't meritocracy... you're describing what happens when systems are not meritocratic, or when meritocracy breaks down.

The "meritocracy trap" is well-known (see for example Michael Sandel's critique of same), but it says more about what changes are needed to get to a more truly meritocratic state, than it does about what meritocracy fundamentally is.

Subsidiarily, the critique of meritocracy says less about how good or bad meritocracy is, and more about how the real world we live in is not meritocratic at all.

The danger is not "meritocracy" itself, the danger is fooling yourself into thinking that you got where you are because of merit rather than a lot of luck.
As far as I can tell every single penny of the hundreds of millions (billions?) of dollars that have been spent on ML recommendation engines has been wasted and the team of highly-compensated developers who spent years burning through cash building Hadoop clusters, buying GPUs, building dashboards and churning out thousands of tables and charts for execs to ponder over just to build something that recommends I rebuy something I already bought could have been replaced with a 24-year old communications major who also understands the products being sold and the people buying them.
It's fair to criticize the title. Eventually the author gets around to explaining that reading does work for some people who think about what they're reading. It's buried far enough down in the article and contradicts the whole premise of contrasting constructivism vs transmission (it doesn't matter if things are transmitted or not it matters if you think about it or not) that it makes for a confusing read.
All actions and design choices signal something.

I feel the same way, I’d be much more likely to buy from the old website.

The new site brings me slightly closer to asking myself “is this real? Is this a scam” because it lacks authenticity and ends up looking like yet another generic web whatever point O website.
> spent too much time studying

I like this. I mean any virtuoso musician, olympic gold medalist, chess grandmaster, pulitzer prize, nobel, and fields medal winners. They should all be penalized for too much studying.

It would make me feel so much better about my own personal mediocrity!
GIVE ME MY PARTICIPANT AWARD, DAMMIT!
>thousands of people die because the government specifically puts them in harm's way

You lost me at the part where this was supposed to not be describing every roadway funded in whole or part by state or federal governments, contingent upon following lethal design standards required by the same.
Probably futile attacks on the moneyed interests is my "doing something".
Driving sucks, in some places.

I've been driving for 21 years in the UK. I've been dinked in a car park while I was shopping, 20 years ago. That's it.

Your description sounds like a solid reason to up and move to somewhere with better road safety.
> the definition of insider trading is kind of, “whatever the SEC enforces”

Insider trading is a crime. The SEC cannot bring criminal complaints. Every insider trader who has gone to jail was prosecuted by the DoJ.
collaborative filtering models on big platforms are really the worst
I'm overall not anti-nuclear or anything. The lasting cultural, ecological, and economic damage from severe nuclear disasters is _pretty_ significant though and we need to do a better job ensuring they don't happen if we wanna restore peoples trust in the idea of nuclear power.
Just as good. Definitely in a different way, in some aspects. If you liked BB I have to insist it's worth watching.
So I bought a big print of the famous Mac "hello" from Susan Kare's site [1]. It's very cool, she signed and numbered it. You can see the hello at 0:23 in the video.

But after I got it and stared at it for a while, I realized it's not the exact same as in the original commercials [2] (the one in the video above), but it is the same as in some old magazine ads [3] and the one they used for the iMac anniversary edition [4]. Recently, Apple updated the original design in high rez with rainbow colors in their recent brand refresh [5]. You can easily see the difference in the "h", which has a loop on one and is straight in the other.

I emailed Karen a few years ago and asked about the differences and she said she only remembers doing the one that's on her site and isn't sure where the other one came from.

I think I discovered an unknown Mac mystery!!

Here's my best guess at an Occam's Razor explanation: Susan created the original loopy hello. Later, some magazine artist was laying out the ad and decided to clean up the letters a little bit. Fast forward a decade and someone at Apple decides to use the hello for the iMac and grabs an old magazine to use as a template. Later still, Susan sets up her website and is collecting together her art and somehow ends up with the modified version, as around that time, that was the hello being advertised by Apple. Not noticing the subtle difference, she slapped it on the site without much thought. Even later, Apple decides to reintroduce the hello, but this time they did their research (or, more likely, the web exists now making it easier to find) and used the original as a template.

1. https://kareprints.com/products/hello-on-blue?_pos=2&_sid=28...

2. https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/29370-47319-000-3x2...

3. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/58/8a/9f/588a9fceb5a3b24cc582...

4. https://media.techeblog.com/images/apple-imac-g3-anniversary...

5. https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/04/Scree...
I remember reading that using DALL-E for NFT's was against its terms of service. I'm I remembering it wrongly?
Xnview, everything, irfanview, total commander, files (on the Microsoft store, its an explorer replacement), vs code, notepad++, Krita, paint.net, teracopy, peazip, 7zip, powertoys, virtualdub2, vlc, power automate desktop... If I think of more I'll reply
That’s the problem. They hired a CIO and not a CTO to rebuild their online presences. CTO creates revenue and CIO reduces costs. Big difference. CIO rely on consultants and CTOs rely on internal software teams.
Went to their list of instances, first one for me was one that hosts far-right political videos... oof

Maybe they should curate that list.
I'm not a "rust user" any more than I'm a java user (less, in fact). Your heuristic is probably picking up on the fact that people who pay attention to things like this tend to have correlated opinions.
Using function call syntax for array indexing always made sense to me. Functions are mappings from inputs to outputs, and arrays are mappings from indexes to values.
I could regale you with tales of the silliest conversation I’ve had with programmers who claimed that a graphical programming language couldn’t possibly do “real things” without even trying it.

Your point is spot on.

Wait until someone shows “real” programmers PLC ladder logic and they become aware of just how much critical infrastructure runs in a programming language that was literally designed to allow electricians and mechanical engineers automate real-time safety critical automation controls.
A deque may be implemented as a linked list, but it's actually more common to be implemented on top of arrays.

Python in particular uses arrays under the hood for almost everything because modern computer hardware is so blazingly fast manipulating them.
> Maybe you have a photographic memory (or gain nothing from reminisce).

I don't know how my memory compares, but indeed I found I gained very little about reminiscing, so I stopped feeling bad about trying to follow a suggested model that didn't seem to give me any positive result.

Recent example: I took a week of vacation, for the first time since the pandemic so you could say it was important, yet I didn't take a single picture.

I enjoyed my vacation a lot, but before, I found the "need" to take picture was distracting. Worse: it created guilt when I didn't view the picture later. This time, I simply avoided the problem by not taking pictures: thus no distraction, and even better: no guilt possible either (because as usual I know I'd never check the pictures ever again... should I find a new type of guilt of not remembering, maybe it will incite me to view some of the previous pictures that I neglected? However I seriously doubt it will happen!

> Thanks for your comment, interesting with an opposing view :)

Same, it's interesting to see people optimize for very different things.
dismantling public eduation? Have you been to a college? conservatives aren't allowed in the building. If it sucks conservatives had nothing to do with that.
>to predict certain users like to listen to happy upbeat tracks on Fridays, and sad songs sung in Romance languages on Mondays.

This is still entirely superficial. There's no recommender system that could even tell what a 'sad track' is other than by human labelling, or distinguish say, a satirically sad track from the genuine thing, or accurately tell what any individual even perceives as happy or sad which is highly subjective.

It's not about metaphysics but about a very practical fact that these statistical systems fail at. Making genuinely novel human recommendations requires and understanding of human nature in general, individual nature of the person in question, and understanding of context and meaning. In short a system like this needs to be able to reason about what it is that it's recommending and who it's talking to.

There is no system that could invent a game like Go because it has nothing to do with data in any direct sense. It'd require being able to reason about what makes games compelling and aesthetically pleasing to human beings and that's not a question of mapping one button click to another.
It's not easy to find individual, most of them just disappear into a sunset: their PC died, parrot got sick, payment didn't went through, money didn't make their way to their bank account, and so on...
British Columbia has the Insurance Corporation of BC, a publicly-owned company that used to be the sole provider of automobile insurance in the province.

Back in the good old days, they funded improvements to high accident rate intersections, corners, roads, etc. Because as a public company, they were mandated to reduce insurance costs.

That’s all by the wayside now, of course, because we elected a government that turned the company into a general revenue cash cow, leaving little funding for safety improvements.
Maybe there's a distribution of talent and skill in orgs, and it's nearly impossible to see if your new business partner will be great or terrible unless you have expertise in what they do...which you most likely don't if you're hiring them.

Further, how do I know if the web designer or plumber or mechanic is overcharging me, diagnosing problems I don't understand, or doing work that's not really needed?
Kia had a major recall fairly recently for this too. I think the fix was adding a single fuse but they recommended parking outside until then.

> a lot of these battery fires aren't always starting in the passenger compartment either

A lot of EVs have batteries under the car which I think was the point. Though I can't see it being a huge issue or I would've heard a lot of stories of people being cooked by now.