skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you need to start a newspaper and give unbiased news to the people and become super successful doing so! In the end there will always be a market for actual journalism and a market for sensational clickbait and a market for something in between. In my opinion outfits like the NYT, WP, Economist, WSJ etc are all super flawed but in combination are doing a pretty good job keeping government accountable.
My first job in 1987 was porting all of Oracle's source code (entirely in C for 32 bit architectures) to a 64 bit Control Data mainframe.

So, that.
There's nothing to moderate if you're the only one on your instance.
www.hackaday.com DIY for PCBs but sometimes 3D printing, laser cutting, and so forth. Very energetic and engaging community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device

send(to, from, count)
register short *to, *from;
register count;
{
register n = (count + 7) / 8;
switch (count % 8) {
case 0: do { *to = *from++;
case 7: *to = *from++;
case 6: *to = *from++;
case 5: *to = *from++;
case 4: *to = *from++;
case 3: *to = *from++;
case 2: *to = *from++;
case 1: *to = *from++;
} while (--n > 0);
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> extracting ISBNs from the actual book scans themselves (in the case of Z-Library/Libgen).

OpenLibrary also uses book scans in Archive.org to extract ISBNs (and a few other bits of metadata, like urls in the text):

https://blog.openlibrary.org/2021/08/23/gsoc-2021-making-boo...

And have a software pipeline for that kind of thing available.
Any competent engineer should at least have a maid, driver, nanny, servant, chef, gardener, pool cleaner, a mistress, dog walker and personal assistant /s
This is a clear false dichotomy. The platforms that monetize outrage and disinformation by rewarding it with free reach are at issue here. As to solutions - The only way to filter the volume of information reaching us into meaningful, useful, true narratives is through trusted filters that prioritize attempting to be truthful and operate in good faith over time. Fact checking creates a history of this which should feature into algorithms. This is not to say that people are prevented from speaking, but amplification should come with responsibility.

Trust in the facts of reality can only really be established as a chain - this is how the sciences work. That’s why independent experimental verification of results is so important. In the information ecosystem, fact checkers perform this function. We should establish structural means of support for these functions.
Mouse moves are crack for ml algorithms if the interface is maintained somehow.
My first job (hardware engineer) after college in 2007 gave me my own office with a window! I got really lucky, and not being willing to take a job where I work in an open office full time is one of the things that led me to insisting on (mostly) remote work since that job.
> Both can be true

Not really. You can't say "doctors have become less productive" without accounting for the value incumbent in the increased documentation effort.

> greater systems of medical research and analysis don’t necessarily lead to greater on-the-ground treatment.

Maybe not "necessarily", but in practice they do. Perhaps not in every incidence, but broadly the analysis results in better outcomes or else there would be no economic incentive to facilitate medical research ("the incentive is to sell more drugs!" <- insurance companies aren't going to pay for those drugs if they aren't proven to work).

> Edit: adding a bit of humanity to the system, as the OP is hinting at, could very much be a part of the fix.

That's not how I understand the OP, but I doubt anyone would object to "adding a bit of humanity" (abstractly) to healthcare unless it implies a reduction in empirical rigor.
2 / 44 still equals 1/22, even with B's after the numbers.
In theory a big phased array of cheap antennas is cheap, in practise not because you need to have equal impedance routing to all of the antennas, which means you need them all to be roughly equidistant to the amplifier. You could probably get away with blowing it up to the size of a large dinner plate, but then you also need a super stiff substrate to avoid flexing, and you need to convince manufacturers that they should make space for this in their design language without any metallic paint or chromed elements in front.

Which car brand do you think would take up these restrictions, and which customer is then going to buy the car with the big ugly patch on the front?
Tell that to the Canadian government. It currently considers massive deficits fine because of our debt-to-GDP ratio, despite GDP being driven by a real estate bubble for the last several years.
From what I read Firefox is also just linking libjxl , so what kind of finishing should they have been doing? Google gave it, Google took it. If nobody fixes the monopoly, this will be the future of all web standards.
Probably the same reason people watch drama TV and soaps. It's entertainment
At first glance, looks like the apple version of COM/COM+/OLE.
I’ve worked in many positions where I had unique knowledge. If the company fired me without notice, I’d have a new job within a few days.

If I quit without notice, high revenue systems could fail or not launch.

I kind of like software because of this. An individual has great value. Of course, I wouldn’t want to work for a company that fires people Willy nilly.

But for software at-will can definitely be asymmetric benefiting the employee. Software developers aren’t replaceable cogs.
Don't underestimate how much they can push the cognitive dissonance :-)

"Do Unto Other Harvard Students" -
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/do-unto...

“...but we also recognize principles such as inclusiveness and equality, which many members of the Harvard community consider of paramount importance to our mission..."
No.

Things that really matter (banks, etc.) have well-established next-of-kin processes. You can cause problems if you subvert them, as there's processes to go through to prove who might have claim to the estate and if necessary divide it between multiple parties. Similarly, subscriptions will just bounce once you inform the banks of the death and they freeze further transactions as part of said process. In my experience, your next of kin don't want to be dealing with cancelling a bunch of subscriptions when they're already planning your funeral, informing loved ones, etc. - there's already heaps of shit you have to consider and it's a very stressful, emotional time.

Giving over passwords implies that you expect someone to log in and do something with them, so it's not really important for them to have it for these reasons.

Secondly, I doubt any of my next of kin care about e.g. my Steam library or my Reddit account. As I've gotten older, I've realised that people don't really want to inherit the overwhelming majority of your stuff (they have their own stuff). If you think someone really does want something in particular, you can have that conversation with them specifically, but that's going to be very few and far between.
I'm specifically not claiming anything about this particular complaint, only about your response.
I think Garry Newman knows a thing or two about how to handle toxic gamer feedback..
IMO this misses the most important thing needed in a great markup language. It should be readable, as a complete document, in its existing text form without any transformation. The ideal syntax would be so good that you would rarely want to transform the document in any way.

I think inspiration in this area should come from an unusual place: RFC documents (like https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6877.txt). These documents are fully readable in their standard text form. The only things missing are conveniences like clickable links, which could be supplied by a viewer application without transforming the text of the document.

Markdown comes the closest to being directly readable, but it makes a number of sacrifices to syntax in view of its intended transformation to HTML. It's also limited in scope, patterned after ASCII email syntax. So you miss document-oriented conveniences like standardized headers, proper citations, and pages - all of which RFC documents have!

That's in part the reason that a bunch of people have come behind and written extensions to Markdown. IMO someone needs to come back and gather the best of these into a consistent and simple syntax that is oriented around the needs of plain text readers.
I'm a little perplexed by the ISBN system. The whole centralized affair, where you have to purchase ISBNs seems like a racket. ISBNs cost more in some countries (America) than they do in others (Canada). Not for any reason other than that they can get away with it.

Much better would be a UUID generated from unique values, like a hash of the timestamp and publisher of a book. If you limit the length and number of the fields you hash to generate the UUID, you could even prove there will be zero collisions and eliminate any need to collision checks and thus an organization that charges money.
Data from functions:

(define (cons x y)
(lambda (m) (m x y)))

(define (car z)
(z (lambda (p q) p)))

(define (cdr z)
(z (lambda (p q) q)))
Efficiency argues for keeping those buffers as small as possible. In a series of "normal years", a business that keeps their inventory down to what they need in the "normal case" will be more efficient than one which keeps a larger inventory to handle more rare events. As a result, the former will out-compete the latter in the market. (Inventory, in this example, is just one "buffered" resource that needs to be managed correctly under differing circumstances.)

Efficiency, past a point, is therefore the enemy of resiliency.

Until that day that something bad happens.

And then you have an issue where one business may be prepared for the bad event, but something downstream of it is not; they can produce all the widgets, but can't ship them anywhere for example.
I know a lot of people who believe Gore won and that Bush stole the election. This is nothing new.
Not sure if sarcasm, but... https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1587191642892644352
shrugs

That’s literally never caused me a problem
Coherent extrapolated volition (AGI alignment target)
Genghis Khan vibes
Reading an earlier thread on Perl I was thinking about how concepts,
language and behaviour relate (as Wittgenstein and Ayer might have
it).

Someone mentioned how, as a Python user, they barely had to think
about pointers/references. Things get magically referenced when
needed. Seems like progress.

When concepts get coded into a language, in this case "economics"
(which is a tool for trying to see the world), they put down roots.
Other concepts "hang off" them. So, we could certainly try to supplant
GDP as a metric. But then what of all the other economic structures
that people have built on GDP? Who will let go of those?

You have to tear down entire branches of thought and replace them with
new utility concepts that make using old ones as anachronistic as
using pointers in Python.
I once saw a 20k line Java source file, being used in production... no it wasn't generated. that blew my mind.
There's probably a lot of things that Open Library does that we can try to apply to shadow libraries!
> most non-tech people simply click the X to make it go away, and a percentage of all visitors will sign up.

This is likely true, but only if there's an X. Facebook's growing sign-in box as you scroll down is not easily clicked away from.
KDE getting window borders, Gnome getting thumbnails in the file picker, what's going on?

Next you're gonna tell me that Wayland will be usable in the next decade.
So this is the same thing as having a check mark? It's a good idea, I don't know why they didn't charge for that before
More of a shell snippet, but removing duplicate lines with awk is one that comes to my mind:

awk '!seen[$0]++'
Rob Pike’s lexer was very nicely done and struck a chord with me. It’s not nearly as magical as some of the other things here. It’s just great engineering:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE
The mere fact that the word has been appropriated to mean something negative to some should be a big ol' red flag for those who are skeptical about its necessity.

It isn't and wasn't ever about divisiveness or negativity, the whole point is to include as many people of diverse backgrounds as possible in as many things as possible, and "woke" politics could be described as ideas and policies that support this concept of inclusivity.

Nothing about "woke" ideology portrays anyone as a "monster", full stop.
> I might have goofed the for loop.

Yeah, you did! It should have used semi-colons. (And HN has lost the carets …)

And I agree completely with you.
Maybe GP was in a less developed or wealthy area than you.

Often when talking to Americans about the 90s they're surprised, partly because tech was available here later and partly because my family just didn't have enough money.
I don't dispute the value of documentation for CYA. I'm saying that if CYA were the motivating use case, electronic medical systems would look a lot more like a Word document than like Epic (Epic is designed to standardize patient histories so they can be analyzed for research, not for paralegal convenience).
We also need to stop building homes w/ 1900s tech and methods.

You can build just as sturdy/sound a home for 10k using earthbags as you can 200k w/ a contractor, albeit there's a lot of hard work, but if you can do it, then you should be allowed to, but zoning laws don't always look favorable on homesteading.

There's a family on youtube who has like 5 homes (1 for each kid, more like little studio apartments as their bedroom), and a big office. All built for <10k each.

Imagine if you could buy 20 acres of land, and put a bunch of outside-the-box homes and apartments and charge minimal fees (like maybe 300/month HOA).

You could build homes using: Earthbags, earthship, dome/concrete, containers, etc.

Any home that uses earth also has the huge advantage of it being an awesome insulator. Earthship homes manage to fluctuate between 50/80 regardless of location or climate (winter/summer respectively).

Creative homing I think could be a big solution to the problems if more people team up and build their own rentals on co-op'd land, then rental prices would go down a lot because demand would go down, or landlords would simply go broke because nobody will rent from them.
This has been my experience as well at 32. The commercial real estate firm I work at has a 4 days in the office policy, so we have a fairly robust social atmosphere. You can't design a building on a webinar, you need to sit together in a conference room, roll the blueprints out on the table and point to things, sketch changes, review pro formas.. it can't be replaced digitally.

The young people we're getting are like they're from another planet. They think it's' fine to come in late and leave early every day, they only do the bare minimum of work assigned and show zero engagement to help the firm beyond the scope of their assigned tasks. They're all coming from colleges that were remote or jobs that were work from home. How can you learn as a young professional in a work from home setting? You need to sit in on meetings, phone calls and discussions, you need to absorb the whole office around you, not just sitting alone at your computer.
It’s really nice compared to most of the US. No blizzards. No heatwaves.

Of course Santa Barbara is nicer, but the bay is nicer than most of the world. Maybe 75%.
I do this too. I can do anything with vim, Go and a Makefile.
>It turns out that even relatively motivated PhD students actually need in-person accountability and direction, or they just spin their wheels at best, or goof off at worst.

You don’t have the data to shows that in-person is necessary. And there are plenty of remote-only companies that make it work. It sounds like you’ve decided that there can only be one possible solution and then given up. That kind of thinking might explain a whole lot about the situation.
This is not new to KDE (there was QtCurve, Aurora...) and nowhere it says so, but only new to Breeze.
The javascript array functions and arrow functions are a gift from heaven.

And to be perfectly honest, I might have goofed the for loop.

You did, the commas must be semicolons :)
The average engineer has an employment contract. It would be incredibly surprising if the CEO, lead counsel, and content policy head did not.
Maybe this is the right move. That's not what bothers me.

Musk's joking about firing 1,700 people bothers me. It might be a necessary, but these people have lives, families, mortgages, and commitments. Getting fired is never easy.

But Musk shows up carrying a sink laughing and joking about "Let that sink in", and the Internet yucks it up and talks about what a clever boy Elon is.

The unnecessary cruelty and the utter lack of empathy -- or even the need to feign empathy -- is what bothers me.
Come on, how often has Google been the first to enable new browser features forcing the hand of Mozilla and Apple? Google know they are the gatekeepers of web tech. This is just a way for them to kill the format
Actually, he said there are 10 managers for every engineer who codes, but I don’t know why anyone would take anything he says seriously at this point.
Nations, but people and corporations aren't nations. Can apply institute a no fly-zone over their HQ?

Edit: meaning land, air, water should belong to the people of said nation, and should be taxed as such and divided out to the people as guaranteed basic income.
Our nearest McDonalds has a Siri-like virtual assistant thing taking orders at the drive-through. They've had to add taped-on paper notes telling people what it expects them to say to end the order. If you order anything with a number in the name, it may give you that many of it instead of one of it. I don't know how well it does at modifying mistakes but I'd bet the answer is "it can't, it just tells you to pull forward and talk to a real person".

It sucks.

And yeah, the damn order-kiosks manage to take saying the words "large black coffee" and turn it into a two-minute process.

Like "automated" checkouts, they're not automation, they're just making customers do more work than paid workers used to, to achieve the same outcome. The work's still happening, and is less efficient, the businesses just aren't having to pay for it. That's not automation.
Latour pretty explicitely thinks of himself as a post Marxist - one of his latest work was "la nouvelle classe ecologique" where he was making the point that environmental questions were the new Class Struggle and his work a continuation of Marxism in another context.

Marxist intellectuals have been accusing him and his followers of using marxist tools while giving up on anti-capitalism

https://www.babelio.com/livres/Latour-Memo-sur-la-nouvelle-c...
> So, we could certainly try to supplant GDP as a metric.

This is very apparent, because it was only about 30 years ago that GDP itself replaced GNP as the preferred metric for the same purposes in the US. The article mentions the use of GDP internationally for longer, but the US preferred GNP until 1991.

Its also worth noting that the creator of the GDP, a decade before it became dominant (internationally), also warned against overfocusing on it as a measure of welfare, in terms that really apply to any simple unidimensional measure:

“The valuable capacity of the human mind to simplify a complex situation in a compact characterization becomes dangerous when not controlled in terms of definitely stated criteria. With quantitative measurements especially, the definiteness of the result suggests, often misleadingly, a precision and simplicity in the outlines of the object measured. Measurements of national income are subject to this type of illusion and resulting abuse, especially since they deal with matters that are the center of conflict of opposing social groups where the effectiveness of an argument is often contingent upon oversimplification” [0]

The state of the economy is complex and multidimensional, and we need a set of measures which reflect that.

[0] https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/national-income-1929-193... , pp. 5-6
Sure, it's a spectrum.

People use the same argument to justify removing minimum working age laws, weekend laws, OSHA laws, EPA protections, retirement, healthcare etc.

In a pure unregulated market, employers would be able to offer employees much higher salaries!

The reality is somewhere in the middle. Though what America thinks is reasonable is very different than what the rest of the developed world thinks is.
No, but it has the `match` statement which is even better: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html#pep-634-structu...
Arthur Whitney’s J Incunabulum: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
That's so laughable a statement I don't know where to begin. Maybe the private sector cares about it less (questionable in itself given how the stock market obsesses over recession signals) but governments absolutely use GDP for policy decisions.
The ECB may not want to raise rates but there's not much choice. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They didn't raise rates when times were good, and now they have no buffer and can't lower them. Raising rates now could cause an inflationary spiral.

https://www.lynalden.com/ecb-trapped/

For decades, whenever economic growth was sluggish, central banks would reduce interest rates and encourage more credit growth (a.k.a. debt accumulation) which leads to spurts of economic growth. Whenever the economy was booming, they would increase interest rates and discourage credit growth, to try to cool things off.

The problem is that this level of micromanagement, with an understanding that the core system would always be bailed out if need be, contributed to higher and higher debt levels relative to GDP, both in private and public realms, and lower and lower interest rates.

During the past four decades, the increase in debt over time was always offset by reductions in interest rates, so that the cost of servicing that debt never really went up.

Eventually, however, major central banks all reached zero or even slightly negative interest rates, and there wasn’t realistically any lower to go. Any further debt increases at that point would be hard to offset by lower interest rates. The cost of serving the debt relative to GDP and incomes would actually start to rise.
Have you tried Copilot? That seemed to work very well for me.
I've been through changes like this several times and the SURE indicator that big changes are coming is when the higher-ups say "Nothing will change". Seriously.

I actually think that, below the CEO level, the managers are engaged in wishful thinking, rather than deceit.
So someone who uses land very inefficiently and thus gets very little value out of the land should have it for close to free, whereas someone who would use it efficiently and thus derive lots of value from it should have to pay large sums to keep using it that way?

Seems like a perverse incentive to me.