skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't really make any sense. It's not just gmail that does this, dots are almost always ignored before the @.

Nobody else can register an email that is the same as yours but without a dot. So the only way you receive someone else's email is if they give the wrong address.
If you want to see how ridiculously bad it's gotten, look up footage from streets and malls in the '70s and '80s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmWTHCHHzZY

It's like not that there are fewer overweight people, they're virtually impossible to find. Today I feel like almost anywhere you look there are people with such problems it's affecting their gait.

I don't think it's constructive to blame the people that have gotten fatter. It really doesn't add up that all these hundreds of millions of people collectively at the same time lost their resolve and and willpower. Seems far more convincing if there are environmental factors at play.
The LAMP stack is older than SQLite.
True. I was thinking mostly about things like 3d renderers and such, where you do a lot of simple operations on vectors and matrices.

I've written renderers with both operator overloading and without, and the readability of the former is, to me, vastly better.
Assuming we're talking about the US, if you are in public, people absolutely are free to stare or film you.
This is missing the point to a degree that makes me think you're being intentionally obtuse, but maybe you're just ignorant so I'll bite. Banking computer errors can easily be rectified by humans, banks are regulated, your funds are at least partially guaranteed by the government (depending on where you live). The degree to which you're trusting computer programs with your finances is orders of magnitude less than with cryptocurrency where it's possible to lose any amount $ of asset value in an instant with absolutely no means of recourse.

Your bank analogy is silly and nowhere near analogous.
I don't know about you folks but I can do stupid stuff also with confirmation. Maybe splitting the damaging actions in some substeps, so instead of a big bang you have a slow death?
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football
You (and everyone really) should probably read some more comp.risks http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/

Certain fields have always had a high cost of programming error, including a cost in human life. It's just that cryptocurrency combines this with a first-to-market rush that's somehow still going on, encouraging a rush to error.
Honestly I don't know where else to look. I don't go to church. I have few friends and those I do have do not have any connections to introduce me to people. I choose a poor career for meeting people. No job I've ever had has had many people of the opposite sex in my division. Even now, in my team and a very large company, of the 45 people that I might interact with regularly, 43 are male and while there might be women at work I have no good excuse to talk to any of them.

I'm not saying I want to meet someone at work. But, work is the 2nd most common place to meet someone. Friends are #1 but as I mentioned my friends don't come through here.

Bars don't seem my thing. I am going to a dance event regularly but so far nothing there and even then, I can't talk while I dance as I need to concentrate on getting the moves right (it's a well known style of dance, not just club dancing)

Trying to go to meetups but COVID is still a thing so outdoors only. And it can be burn out on those two because rarely is there anyone I might be interested in. (single, age appropriate, and seem compatible). I know it's a numbers game, I just am running out of ideas on how to increase the numbers.

The apps don't work for me. I get at most 3~4 dates a year out of them. It's better than zero but not by much.
This only re-enforces what I already believe; that most critics — and especially art critics — mistake what they don't understand for deeper meaning. There is a snobbery in the art world that arises from a lack of self-confidence, resulting in an emperors-new-clothes situation.

So an image like this — which by the way, I will admit I find on some level beautiful and interesting to look at — which doesn't have any intention behind it, is thought to probably be be some kind of deep art.
Even "irreversible_destroy"
US war-gamed with Ukraine ahead of counteroffensive, encouraged limited mission
I don't think he _endorsed_ rapamycin or metformin. If he endorsed anything, I'd say it was NMN.

Everything people like Sinclair state should be taken with a grain of salt (as even his peers say he's guilty of making excessive claims) but it's forward-thinkers who change the world, not people following others' steps and afraid to take peek outside their box.

Maybe the guy will achieve something real in the field and maybe it'll be the next guy. No way to know. But I'm far from dismissing someone just because their opinions are not in line with popular knowledge. Boltzmann, Galileo, Copernicus and Wright brothers were discredited or ridiculed.
Thanks, that is impressive! The amount of squeaking is horrible though :p
I think it depends on what ideas the programmer has and puts to work in the task of telling the computer what to do.

If the ideas are ideal, the program will be as small and fast as it can be, but if they are not then there will be an inefficiency.

That is to say, if someone shows you code that is smaller and faster, then it has more-ideal ideas.

Now few programs are built with ideal ideas[1] and people with "more capability" can use more simpler, less-ideal ideas to tell the computer what to do, but people with "low capability" must only use ideal ideas (or nearly-ideal).

But how likely it is someone with a low cognitive load capability could have the ideal ideas? If you think of programming as a purely incremental thing, then this must seem impossible, but if you believe in evolution then you can probably understand sometimes "weird things happen" and if the weirdness is successful, then you'll get more weird things.

It is for this reason I think the better programmer (more ideal ideas) probably has a lower cognitive load capability, but so does the worse programmer, so the important thing to focus on is a definition of "success", which on the long-scale will be different for the programmer than (say) the company they work for.

Put another way: If you want a job, then making sure you can program like others is important, but if you want to retire young, then making sure your program makes you money and runs forever is probably more important. What would your employer prefer?

[1]: If you aren't following what I mean by ideas here, Iverson calls them "tools of thought" and I can highly recommend reading: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm
Could you please tell which RFC says this? According to RFC5321/5322 + can be used inside a local part but has no special meaning. Because a receiving MTA can interpret a local-part as it wants [1] some decided to treat a part after + as an extension, but it is not universal.

[1] RFC5321 "the local-part MUST be interpreted and assigned semantics only by the host specified in the domain part of the address"
By maps to, they mean it counts as the same email address. 111@ and lll@ do not do that. The font has no impact on the email spec. However it can add extra confusion.
>And in fact you can use these on the C64. I have built a two button NES controller for the C64 - the second button is actually using one of the paddle inputs and the button on/off is the extremes of the paddle resistance.

Earlier support than that for two buttons came in the Commodore Mouse. Both the 1350 and 1351 have two buttons. The 1350 is basically a joystick, but the 1351 is a true mouse.

I'd forgotten or not known (not sure) that the C64 console has two-button controllers (of course, far too few by 1988); I wonder if its two-button support is compatible with the 1350/1351's approach?
i am more and more convinced that there should be standards and implementations where emailservices publish what they accept.

like, black/whitelist of regexes of emails-strings they just drop or domains they accept from, or headers they drop, or that they only accept mails which are signed by key x,y,z.

with that at least we could formalize that problem and services know what to expect.
This whole problem seems like it would go away with more sophisticated interview questions. Interviews should be precisely about stuff that you can't just google. Googling information is pretty much a required basic competency nowadays, right next to reading and writing.
I'm sorry, but this is wrong. By including a brief description of your problem you are actually giving them a choice whether or not to respond, rather than just guessing at your intentions. Don't worry about a huge message appearing on screen, almost all popups truncate the message after a certain length.
I'm building a new messaging app – thoughts?
Give it a try - let me know what you think. It's far from where I want it to be, but as a solo founder I'm forced to make decisions fast and focus on what matters.
Yeah, that one took me by surprise. I had no idea that multiple from addressees was possible. I wonder how many (popular today) email clients support that (for sending and/or for receiving)?
The problem is that free speech is kind of gone from the internet, now that internet is for a large part social media and the biggest social media companies are closely aligned with governments.

Free speech has been deemed dangerous now. Hence all the 'Russian fake news' lies we've been bombarded with in recent years.

And it's quite visible in another recent video by Dr. John Campbell. Now please note, from the start of the pandemic, Dr. John Campbell was a proponent of the mRNA vaccines.

But in a recent video [0] on changes by the CDC and it's UK equivalent regarding COVID vaccine recommendations for pregnant & breastfeeding woman, it's quite clear (to me) that he indirectly criticises the censorship on YouTube.

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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po3GMgee-vc
Indeed. Airlines do well, and they're heavily regulated. But they don't have armies of engineers doing nothing whilst court cases are worked out.

The flip side of that is monopoly. The only recent aviation accidents that have happened, have done so because, put bluntly, the FAA knows they didn't stand a chance if they blocked the only (US) big-jet maker from upgrading its planes. Were there (US) competitors, which once there were, they wouldn't blink at telling Boeing's transparently awful MAX design to go whistle.
I think you should really think about the connection between public infrastructure and public lifestyle choices. If you think that infrastructure cannot both positively and negatively affect its populace then I'd find that a very interesting opinion on a board of primarily engineers.
I originally drafted several paragraphs in defense, but I think it's a bit of a tangent and better addressed in a separate comment.

Csikszentmihalyi did a study on happiness, the results being the notion of flow. There's a book and papers, but basically the result is that you're happiest when you're completely absorbed in a challenging task that you are qualified for (state of flow). The inverse is that you're unhappy when you're not challenged and doing something that's low skill (apathy).

Csikszentmihalyi called it the paradox of work. The study showed that they have their most positive experience on the job, but even when they feel good, they'd report that motivation was low. They'd report surprisingly low moods during leisure, but keep on wishing for more leisure.

One theory is that they'd disregard the quality of immediate experience, and base motivation on the cultural stereotype of what work is like. Another is that the perception is based off their goals in relation to it - someone investing energy into achieving their own goals (e.g. finishing a season of a show) is more motivated than that energy being invested in achieving someone else's goals (making the boss rich).

So, the notion of achieving your own goals is probably getting the way of your own happiness. Perhaps the goals are wrong. Perhaps it's a culture problem.

I think there's lots of models missing in mainstream Western culture. There's alternate goals like becoming a shokunin - this endless goal to climb to a higher level of mastery, knowing you can never reach the top.

There's tawakkul, where you have absolute faith in God's goodwill; there's no need to rely on anyone or anything. You keep to a standard code of ethics and find a way to practice that. You're honest when you could be punished for honesty, forgive when a situation allows vengeance, charitable when you could use more money, and so on.
The non-connectionist, classical, symbolical aspect is not so much "search" per se, but the fact that MCTS performs a form of look-ahead, which requires manually encoding the rules of the game in some fashion.

Determining what the legal moves in a state are, and what state results from a given move, is not something the AI would learn by itself, but is programmed into the system by a human expert.
>We don't accept that kind of risk anymore in the US

3 years of coronavirus in the US seems to disagree with this statement
Chargers which are not taking credit cards and you need to clown around with 29 different applications while 20 years old automatic gas station takes credit cards really grinds my gears. It is like watching negative progress.
At least about recursion I can say it only really clicked, after working through part of SICP and The Little Schemer. It is like avoiding to think about the potentially endlessly deep recursion, but thinking about the current level and what the meaning is.

Sometimes however, there will be a recursion, which dumbfounds me as well :) I still feel I improve though. Just the other day I came up with a pair of mutual recursive functions, as if it was nothing, to solve a specific problem, by splitting it into 2 subproblems (or maybe 2 states in an automaton).

Often there is a very clear idea behind a recursion, that, once one has heard it, becomes completely obvious. Maybe not always.

About ZIP: Imagine you wanted to work on 2-tuples made out of pairs of elements from 2 lists. That's what ZIP does. Maybe also works for more than 2 lists, I don't know.
Some regulations help people, and some regulations hurt people.

Regulations that usually help people:

- anti-dumping and pollution regulations
- regulations that mandate disclosing added sugar on packaging labels
- regulations that protect workers in endogenous bargaining disputes.

Regulations that usually hurt people:

- single-family zoning
- price ceilings

Regulations are just laws that force businesses to behave a certain way. And laws can be good or bad, because lawmakers can be corrupted by money or ideology, or because laws can have unintended consequences. Regulations are not good or bad in the abstract.

The mindset that all current regulations are good is quite toxic, actually, because there are quite a lot of bad regulations that would improve regular people's lives if they were removed or refactored.
Well, that worked for Vitalik and the DAO.
If he fails to deliver on the job, put them on a PIP and get rid of them.

If he actually delivers good work, who cares if he cheats?
Since winter in Europe has yet to come, there is no way to say whether or not it will be a problem.

Somehow this discussion reminds of the first months of Covid. A lot of complaining and crying about water under the bridgebfrom the benefit of hindsight. Without thinking about timelines, costs of alternatives and past experiences. All from the sidelines of course, brcause in the end we are all better football coaches tgan the actual coaches, aren't we?
Yes, especially around these parts. There’s all kinds of blind curves, with no shoulder, and awful drivers, all around.

But motorcycles weigh a lot, and, quite often, that weight causes grave injuries, even at fairly low speeds (like sanding off your leg).
I'm not sure this is true. In my experience a lot of people actually do think that it's case sensitive. Many times I've heard someone describe the capitals while verbally telling someone their addresss.

However it being insensitive has probably helped a lot of times where people make mistakes in explaining or copying those capitals.
I can’t relate. I found a long-term relationship on Tinder. I found my wife on Tinder. Not to mention the countless flings. The key is to be honest about what you’re looking for (though I found my wife when I “wasn’t looking for anything in particular”)

> Abby, 28, has been on dating apps for eight years […]. A committed user, she can easily spend two or more hours a day piling up matches, […]. Not a single long-term relationship has blossomed from her efforts.

Perhaps if you can’t find what you’re looking for in 8 years and 6000+ man-hours, the problem is you?
If you think everyone is consistently missing the point, then maybe your point is not what people actually care about.
Why is money not a solution? A life-changing amount of money is peanuts to a government, and should convince the vast majority of people to take the job.
"My code's compiling"

https://xkcd.com/303/
Not just the nude beach. Also the gym shower. All older sporting facilities in my neck of the woods have communal showers (typically gender segregated, though I've seen some exceptions). People used to get naked and wash (as one does in a shower). More and more, (young) people have started showering with underwear. Newer sporting facilities have started catering to this trend by providing individual shower cubibles. Which seems a bit silly, as you're far more likely to take a long time in a cubicle, thus wasting more water and more time. In a communal shower, you can just give someone the stink eye if they're taking too long ... no such luck in a locked cubicle.

I don't think this is a good thing. If you're not seeing any "normal" naked bodies, and are only ever exposed to idealized movie/porn bodies, aren't you more likely to get all kinds of body issues?
Let's see if Telegram gives the data to courts:

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/22/08/31/2210240/court-orders...
This. I just came here for pointing this.
It's like working from home. Standups are inefficient, but I do miss them when they're gone. It's really an excuse to hear each other's voices 15 minutes a day.
Something like that. Where would one find intelligent people exchanging their reading lists/bibliographies?
My family and coworkers would just go "haha who that weirdo sending nudes of you?" They would see fault with that person, not me. But some people could be spooked by the threat, yes. I wonder whether this population is large enough to make attempts worthwhile.
> There was also a cost in human life.

The article's first sentence, reads, "A few years ago, Silicon Valley was buzzing with the reverberations of Marc Andreessen’s epic essay, It’s Time To Build."

Here's the main point of "It’s Time to Build" regarding the failures in response to the covid pandemic: "Part of the problem is clearly foresight, a failure of imagination. But the other part of the problem is what we didn’t do in advance, and what we’re failing to do now. And that is a failure of action, and specifically our widespread inability to build."

The direct premise of this article is that our failure to build in the past is costing lives now and in the future. Im my opinion, many many more lives.

Regulatory oversight is not necessary for safety to improve over time. I think history shows that as technology advances and people's standard of living increases, people become more risk averse. General knowledge also increases over time, decreasing the proclivity for humans to put themselves in risky situations.
> The apps don't work for me. I get at most 3~4 dates a year out of them. It's better than zero but not by much.

Consider paying for them. From a male perspective, it’s strictly a numbers game.

Tinder Platinum did wonders for me. Saves your time, and gets you pushed higher in the stack of the cards, which leads to more matches.
> From what I’ve observed, even with free gym and advice, most of people will still ignore it. It’s simply not convenient, especially for people who haven’t gotten into a routine.

Maybe we should consider stronger incentives.

Such as “exercise passports”, you can’t enter public spaces unless you did 30 minutes of exercise that day. Would solve the problem very quickly.

Or obesity tax is another practical idea.
Big fan of the straight line missions. Really cool how they make you experience common landscape from an entirely new perspective. Tom's a trooper.
I usually use an ORM to save data, then raw SQL to query data.

The ORMs I have used, hibernate and doctrine, allow you to use raw SQL, then they do the object mapping for you.

The raw SQL vs ORM is a false dichotomy.
Yeah but why don’t we have both?

(Actually I think 99% of micro optimisations are harmful, it’s the higher level algorithmic optimisation that gives the best gains.)
This is because Articulate people relay concepts in a simple way.

Even if its something that is well known by almost everyone... the person who can say it the simplest will almost all the time assist in amplifying the loudest.

It's the same as having a really simple UI for your software. It's "articulate" and so simple to use, and so a joy to the users. Especially, if its complex underneath.
I'd deem it useful, though unusable in practise, as GMail for example does not accept messages that contain multiple From addresses.
In Italian, but somewhat comprehensive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTQaJTZDcII
China under communist rule has a long history of changing their tune on a dime and the population going along with it without difficulty. If the Party decides tomorrow stoking nationalism is a bad idea it'll take a matter of weeks to have people saying, "The Taiwanese are our brothers, why would we fight them?" followed weeks later by "We never said we'd invade Taiwan, you just dont understand the way China works."

In the last 80 years the Chinese have become masters of holding diametrically opposed ideas. I believe they can back down from this without breaking a sweat.
An example of such a command came up on Linus Tech Tips (LTT), from apt (IIRC) on Pop_OS!. Basically (paraphrasing) "this will destroy your system and render it useless; type 'I'm an idiot and wish to proceed'". Our eponymous youtuber went right on, typed the phrase and blitzed the system, and then moaned about how the system shouldn't have let him break it ... I suspect such prompts only work for cautious people, who possibly don't need the prompts as they'll actually read the scary warnings.
I noticed something similar when I looked into a "website optimization agency" offering their services to one of my customers. Their website was a nearly 1-to-1 clone of the content of another website whose company name they accidentally left in the footer. That company's website however in turn used a slightly different design and after digging a bit I found that it was a vanilla copy of a themeforest template down to the stockphotes and everything. So it was a copy of a copy of a template.

Their tactic seemingly consisted of running the website through a free tool like Lighthouse, picking one or two low hanging fruits and then presenting them as world-ending problems they can fix for cheap. I'm sure the follow-through would have left the site in a worse state and suspect they may actually have a backchannel income via SEO backlinks or malware as the price they would initially quote seemed low even for a country like Pakistan.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there are actually layers of these Potemkin company websites used for various purposes.
Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth
I definitely don’t have synesthesia, but these are also the answers I would give for most of these (of course zero is neutral, Monday is red, December is white, and the summer months are warmer colours)