skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read these rationalizations a lot.

"What college degrees teach you mostly is how to think."
"We miss the actual point which was learning to memorize."
"Playing chess teaches you how to plan and think."

Well no. These were never mentioned as the goal. If the goal is to learn how to study, how to memorize, how to learn, then present it a so, focus on it.

The goal of memorizing the opening of Canterbury Tales in Old English, definitely wasn't to learn how to memorize. Maybe that was a secondary or tertiary goal. It definitely would never be mentioned as a goal in itself.

It seems like now that we had to invest our time in close to useless things, we try to find reasons why it wasn't so useless. School is extremely inefficient. I studied way, but WAY more things I'll never use, or want to use in my life again than the opposite. Education nowadays is like using a shotgun to kill an insect. One thing that's good in software engineering, as opposed to other engineering fields is that it's maybe more focused and applied. But in Mechanical, I studied so much stuff, and now I use less than 5% of it. And the argument that I hear from my colleagues "Oh but you learned how to do complicated math, how to study hard, and understand difficult concepts" just doesn't stick. It's been shown that this kind of training helps you at that task, and little else.

From a 2016 review by Simons et al:

“We find extensive evidence that brain-training interventions improve performance on the trained tasks, less evidence that such interventions improve performance on closely related tasks, and little evidence that training enhances performance on distantly related tasks or that training improves everyday cognitive performance.”

See https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2022/09/13/brain-training-d...
I guess I think very differently from the author and you. I fundamentally see "online" and "offline" parts of the world as two parts of the same whole with fading distinction. The offline is the online; the online is the offline. The Floyd protests were significantly organized on social media and activist discourse happened all over social networks.

Some people will spend more time online than offline, some the opposite, just like some folks spend more time playing sports or reading books. That doesn't mean they engage in separate lives, though probably do have different circles of community and friends.
So you’ve described humans.
Not all Rust programs are thin layers around libraries like FFMPEG. Why would you assume that?

Also, "if it can't be 100% safe right now all at once, then why even bother?" isn't very pragmatic.
Lack of awareness? Since most people’s initial interaction with Bitcoin is through exchanges, exchange adoption of lightning will increase awareness. Like how Kraken is doing it

https://blog.kraken.com/post/13502/kraken-now-supports-insta...
Gas isn't the only input into prices. Salaries are up 10% in a year for example.

Changes in costs also take time to filter through the economy, and indeed in the last 2 months prices have come down (CPI in June was 296.311, in August it was 296.171)
What upset me about story point estimation was that we never ever used it to influence decisions.

Every single sprint planning meeting and every single retro around half the time was spent talking about points, discussing estimates and commenting on our velocity had changed.

But we never had even one conversation where we put any of the 'data' we had about how many points we could do in a week to use to decide what we should focus on or when we should promise something by. The whole system was upstream of nothing.

Of course, this was a tacit recognition that it was worthless, and if we had used it, it would have been worse than nothing. But why didn't this acknowledged uselessness allow us to drop it?
3. Don't allow cross-platform requests in the first place; have your API consumers go through a server-side proxy on the same domain instead, or host it on the same domain in the first place.
But they also, you know, made the platform. Are you sure the platform would be there without their fees? Let's have a look at the Linux phone market...
I was put off by the screenshots, but seeing it in motion makes it look a lot better.
At least it's got more personality than the 3D Monkey Islands ;)
While I was thinking the same thing, it's not clear to me that this particular example was stolen.

I'm also torn, because one the one hand the plundered items the British Museum and other UK museums hold should be returned. On the other hand, being outside locations where they might be destroyed[0] e.g. Iraq,Syria, and also the sheer budget and technique to preserve things are both arguments to keep the collection the way it is. The preservation vs plunder is a long running argument[1].

Modern techniques enable digitizing[2], but that wasn't available previously. Digitizing is a path forward that's less controversial (though still isn't quite the same).

Then there is the Kohinoor[3]. Let's chalk that one under colonial plunder.

[0]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530125-000-can-we-s...

[1]: https://merip.org/2018/05/preservation-or-plunder-the-isis-f...

[2]: https://www.thedailybeast.com/can-we-digitize-history-before...

[3]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-17/indians-want-kohinoor...
> Company-run pensions are indeed dead in America, for good reason, being replaced by 401k plans. Why would you want your retirement security tied to your former employer? What happens when the company mismanages the pension, or the company fails?

What happens when the economy tanks? The fact that so many Americans have tied their post-work existence to "stonks only go up" is a damn perverse incentive for the US government - as it now has to think "what will the stock markets do if we introduce political measure XYZ" every time. Strong environment regulations for oil and power companies? Regulation for social networks? Is this a good idea when a lot of your people have a sizable exposure to these in their retirement accounts?

Meanwhile, here in Europe, pensions tend to be financed by the pension contributions of the current working generation. It's not perfect, far from it, but at least our pensioners don't have to fear random shit wiping out a third of their pension funds (assuming a 100% investment into S&P 500 [1]). We don't tie neither our pensions nor our healthcare to our employer (or even to being employed).

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1175227/s-and-p-500-majo...
Well put.

> ... willing to pay for convenient access ...

Convenience as a monetization idea should be considered by more open-source devs: binaries compiled for various OS version, optional cloud compute/storage (e.g. Zotero), prioritized assistance (e.g. Tailscale), etc.

> [...] people are used of getting things for free. Changing that social contract is going to be difficult.

Society has to gotten used to paying for people's time & expertise in many conventional areas (e.g. healthcare, education, legal advice, food) but still aren't used to paying for open-source work they consume.
For some reason this isn’t an issue with me. Past month I’ve been writing C#, Python, and Lua pretty much equally.

While I do sometimes almost write “nil” instead of “None” in Python, it’s rare enough not to be an issue.

Maybe it helps that I also use three human languages in my daily life, and mixing up words just isn’t something that happens (although forgetting does).
> A unique example of a Māori cloak or kahu kākāpō (‘cloak of kākāpō feathers’) has been preserved for future generations to enjoy after vital conservation work was conducted in a partnership between Culture Perth and Kinross, the British Museum and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Maybe the article is wrong, or did you just not see the preamble?
> syllabaries are absolutely the norm, and usual end state for a script

This is entirely unsupported by evidence. There are a varieties of approaches to writing systems around the world - syllabaries are only one.

> Japan to Ireland

Japan, yes.
Ireland, no - there is no record of a syllabary in use there.
Nick Bostrom is silently smiling somewhere.
practice, practice, practice. there are some speed up hacks like 'don't start with an empty file' but mostly practice.
Homeschool rhetorics is getting unhinged lately on HN.
The fact that the deadline is not “arbitrary”, because it is a contractual obligation, doesn't automatically make the contractual obligation feasible. The reasoning behind signing the contract could still be based on “arbitrary” reasons, wishful thinking, political agenda, etc. Putting project constraints on paper doesn't mean that the project will meet those constraints.
The person you're responding to is probably referring to the plans to release direct sequels to Ghostbusters 2016, which were shelved after that film flopped.
I don't know much about ADTs, but I'm skeptical they would help me for my own programs since most of my logic errors boil down to wrong math...
You argue that it is harder for smaller business to evade tax and easier for big business. So the playing field will be levelled by decreasing tax not increasing it.
Why it’s perfectly comprehensible when you have the special book and your neighbors do not. Then your atrocities are merely expressions of god’s will.
Sell yourself into slavery— it’s definitionally non-exploitative.
This is err.. Interesting. There are a couple of issues and I think it would be good if the author interrogated some of the tradeoffs made here.

I'm not sure the GC thing is correct, and certainly won't work in an interactive shell, you're collecting the garbage when there's still a reference to chunk so it won't free that memory, but (AFAIK) since you're in a loop, the next assignment to chunk will remove the previous assignment freeing the memory automatically anyway. So (I could be wrong about this) it works, but not for the reason you think.

Also,

> So we have to convert it to ‘float16’ or ‘float32’ to minimise memory usage.

Well, I mean, technically float16 does use less space, yes. But it also does a few other things you might want to mention - like reducing the maximum range of your values to +/-65k.
> homeless villages

You mean like tents and sheds? Otherwise it is an oxymoron with a village of homeless people.
The challenge here is at what point in your life is one making the gamble to live in the US vs Western Europe?

If I had to pick one or the other to be born in, but knew that I would be born randomly within each of these societies, I'd certainly choose Western Europe because the risk of being born very poor in the US is just too high to take.

But! Of course, that isn't a real decision that one can make. The actual decision, for people on HN in particular, is the following: you know that you're a highly qualified person with in-demand skills, you also know whether you have a crippling disability and many other things about your life. Those things being known, the decision is much less of a gamble because you know which of the social categories you will slot into in the US.

It is also true that Western Europeans always retain the option of return to their countries of origin. If they become destitute and unable to work, they are able to access the downside protections they would have had at home at the cost of moving back. In practice their may be some transitional challenge because eligibility depends on both residency and citizenship but fundamentally a citizen of France or The Netherlands who becomes unable to work in the US and has exhausted their US resources and entitlements can hit the panic button and will not be allowed to starve once returned home.
> Quantizing the latents from floating point to 8-bit unsigned integers by scaling, clamping and then remapping them results in only very little visible reconstruction error.

This might actually be interesting/important for the OpenVINO adaptation of SD ... from what I gathered from the OpenVINO documentation, quantizing is actually a big part of optimizing as this allows the usage of Intels new(-ish) NN instruction sets.
A quick hack is to cache OPTIONS in Varnish.
Shortage of 50-Cent Chips Holds Up $50k Cars, TSMC Chief Says
It's a chart by the WSJ, but I've made repeated searches on wsj.com and can't find it. It's pretty frustrating, as I'd really like to cite it.
Yes, I browse with JS switched off (Chromium). However, I do enable it for some sites where the risk/reward ratio is worth it. I also have a hosts file block list. The combination means I see hardly any adverts at all. I also have Consent-O-Matic installed, which takes care of the cookie blocking on those occasions where I do enable JS.

I generally find the experience browsing the web is by far better like this than with JS switched on. Web pages load quickly and use less CPU and RAM. I don't get a load of popovers asking me to sign up to spam, asking me to allow cookies, or advertise random products. Some web site that don't allow non-subscribers to view the whole article (like New York Times) do with JS switched off. I don't have my mouse movements tracked so that they can detect when I'm about to close the tab. I worry very much less about security. I have confidence that those idle tabs aren't making my CPU busy and draining my battery.

The trade-off is that some web pages don't work. These can be broadly categorised. Some web pages don't work (as far as I can tell) out of pure spite - the JS is completely unnecessary, but the page just shows a blank white page without it. This is usually a simple fix like inspecting the source and toggling the CSS display: block attribute. That kind of page is just user-hostile in its approach - they go against all accessibility requirements, and I consider that if they're dastardly enough to pull that sort of trick, they're probably nasty enough to use JS to do really horrible things, and they will never have JS enabled by me. Then there are those cool demo pages that get posted on HN every now and again, where the content is JS. These usually get enabled - they pass the risk/reward test. Other pages are the generic large corporate web sites where I can see that JS should enhance the page, but shouldn't be necessary.

In my view, the burden of deciding whether to enable JS on a non-working site or dig into the source is much less than the burden of dealing with all those popovers, adverts, anti-patterns, and privacy risks. That's why I do it.
Don't worry, these AI models can't draw faces and hands properly yet, I'd give it some more time
It is not.

Encryption issue is about banning it altogether.

This is about user choice in terms of repairability.

This excuse is more to the equivalent of , we are banning all communication in plaintext or any encryption standard, except aes-256.

Everyone has different requirements, choice and deserve the freedom.

Companies dont get to excuse away freedom and choice, in the name of “security”.
Yeah. And I'd like to get to the same state with iPhones :-) So they let me connect another monitor to my phone without hardwiring it together.

Honestly, if they cared about "best user experience", they would have done digital signature of the LCD/cable and if OEM was detected, they could display something like "Hey, someone tampered with your phone and changed the screen using OEM parts". If not, they coud say "Hey, someone tampered with your phone and replaced screen with an unoriginal one. You might see some degradation in quality because of that".
The approach they're taking here seems reasonable.

If things work out ok with it, then it'll be a useful revenue stream for them to build further Community enhancing things. Hopefully. :)
The GIL removal was implemented, apart from the GIL removal part?
Didn't I do this last week?
You've missed the point, the author explains how some things are simply older than the internet and will probably outlive it (the night, the sea). I think it's the Lindy effect.

P.s. do you have to make this about politics?
Well, technically it is one compiler, but it can operate in different modes, depending on the file input. So I don't this distinction is all too relevant.
Foulweather friends, fairweather friends, and acquaintances; and it's often not reciprocated.

Foulweather friends are what people usually refer to as "real" friends. These are the ones that can be depended upon to act like a friend regardless of what's going on.

This is more a guide for fairweather friends. Difference between a fairweather friend and an acquaintance really just comes down to how much you enjoy their company. Yes, there's still plenty of value offered by someone who's only a fairweather friend.

But what stresses and ruins friendships are fairweather friends that pretend to be foulweather friends. Or a mismatch in expectations/understanding.

I do think it's healthy to understand your relationships and friendships, it doesn't make one type of friendship more "real" than another, but it does help prioritize where you should probably spend emotional/social resources.
I beg your pardon, what? :D The genocide at first happened before the WW1
Think of it as art rather than science. Do we question why someone created a piece of art, or whether they could have spent their time better by creating a different piece of art?
For context, Magnus withdrew from a major tournament last month after losing to Hans. He has not made a statement, but it is understood that he suspects Hans of cheating. Hans has admitted to cheating online, though he denies cheating in person.

As more evidence comes out, it seems that Hans has cheated a lot more than he admitted, and potentially over the board as well (for example, this analysis [1] shows that he's playing at superhuman levels in some games.) This all helps Magnus's case. I think it is likely that Hans will be slowly barred, silently or openly, from tournaments and venues all over the world.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pwtC0bH--A
The provenance principal as it relates to artwork, and cultural artifacts is a pretty well established process for determining ownership. This should really be what governs if artefacts are considered stolen / looted or were gifted / sold in good faith. I bet there is a substantial amount of artefacts in museums around the world that fail a good provenance search, in this cases they should be sent 'home' if a stronger claim can be made. In this case though it's not clear, 'collected' as stated by the article could mean many things.
>2. Who has an even weaker claim than all other claimants? The British Museum.

One of the laziest dismissals I've ever read on this forum. Yep, the world is this zero sum game where they should just dump it on whoever and then let all the competing entities argue amongst themselves
Yeah, and a ton of people still complain about having to put their seat belt on in the car too.
You could certainly apply a “duct tape” solution like that, but the issue is that neural networks were developed to replace what were previously entire solutions built on a “duct tape” collection of rule-based approaches (see the early attempts at image recognition). So it would be nice to solve the problem in a more general way.
This is also how companies like Optiver 'legally' make 'decisions' in 'other countries' (run some code to execute a transaction on a server somewhere else).

If you used mechanical turk, where is the task legally completed?

I guess it's just loopholes against loopholes? Gary is a smart guy. He gave some excellent lectures about all this.
This is the only valid solution and the easiest one to implement. However, for some reason unknown to me - younger devs and various organizations simply refuse to go down this route and make up reasons why it doesn't work for them, opting for more time-consuming alternatives.
Haha. Same. I would fail a trivial pursuit-style magical but useless details interview or an A+ certification exam. I've been using Dash for about 10 years. Sadly, it lacks Rust crates support and really hasn't moved anywhere in 4 years.
Antitrust risk is simple: Adobe takes up Figma, bundles it into existing Creative Cloud and essentially "dumps" the horrible parts of Creative Cloud onto the market as part of the bundle. Competing with bad parts of Creative Cloud is not possible because they are essentially subsidized by the strong parts.

Might be a controversial opinion, but this is exactly what Microsoft did with Teams at a certain point. Teams was just dumped on enterprise clients along with the usual Office 365 shebang, and Slack couldn't compete effectively because the bundle effect was too strong(and by compete effectively I mean that if Teams was offered as a standalone Slack would destroy it in every review).
Russian bonds are back on the market for a week as sanctions temporarily lifted
Pinochet's economic policy is highly overrated:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32765771

> Mining a bunch of copper, helping your cronies get rich, and pumping up land prices is not a "miracle".

And that's from an ideologically aligned source.

> This record is less bad than Allende’s, but it’s far from what I’d call good, and it’s certainly nothing that anyone should call an economic “miracle”.
You'll get used to it the more you practice. Give it a few years, you'll hardly notice it. Also it helps that you don't fall into the trap of "one IDE for all programming languages", like the evangelists of VSCode plugins and/or vim preach out there.

Keep each programming language with its classical IDE, the more visually different one another is the easy the switch is.

For example I use Zend for PHP, Delphi for Object Pascal, Visual Studio for C# and for rare occasions I need same Visual Studio for C++ I have it differently configured both with colors and with menus arrangements to be strongly different than the C# one. Also I employ the strategy of each project in its own virtual machine. Nothing runs in the host OS, everything is in virtual machines.

Having this kind of development process is very easy to switch to that part of my brain dealing with that programming language, even when multiple virtual machines are running and I am switching between them.

Hope this helps and good luck.
Thanks for these helpful comments guys!

I guess I can remap middle-click to left-click using the wayland equivalent of xinput from a shell script or something. The apparent-FF-crash story described by johnmaguire and eddyb sounds very much like another thing I believe is happening on my notebook. Between these fuckups and the general alienation going on in Linux land (wayland, snaps/flatpack, systemd) I've got to say I'm not enthusiastic to go through those chores and teething probs just to get the same-old gui apps like Inkscape and GIMP (plus FF/Thunderbird) running, so right now I'm leaning to go back to Mac OS more than ever (used Mac OS on and off from 2003 to 2016).
This article is not correct and gives diffused information on the topic. The general point is that recent attacks are on sovereign territory of Republic of Armenia. I live 110 km away from the shellings, and it is not Artsakh (Nagorno - Karabakh). This post is just misguiding.
>so the hatred survived very intact through the entire Soviet era.

where is your evidence that this hatred predates the Soviet era?

I live in ex-Yugoslavia where myths(perceived from outside) of "ancient ethnic hatred" are pervasive, while in reality they cannot be traced earlier then the 20th century.

The peoples here yearned for a united country of the south slavs (Jugoslavia) for centuries, then started killing each other within a few decades of forming that country for quite prosaic reasons mostly related to personal liberties and dividing state incomes and expenses

I doesn't take ancient ethnic hatred to start a war, scarce water or land resource will do it just as well, and it will create enough "new ethnic hatred" to last a century
Because open source software is often freely available without major restrictions. All the other examples you posted have a very clear paywalls.