skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a hard time ignoring things so I want good filters. More of my motivations are written up here

https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/

but a lot of that turned out to be factually wrong. For instance that "Apple overload" was pretty temporary because Apple had made a wave of product announcements. Today people might claim about "Twitter overload" but it will be something else next month.

As for submitters I think that for what I am measuring the people who submit a lot of things and have high karma tend to be pretty average in what they submit since they've internalized some model of what does well on HN. I bet there are people with a very different profile but they would have fewer submissions so the model wouldn't be able to make strong conclusions... That logit model I used is well-calibrated and not prone to jump to conclusions if it has just a little bit of data.

With the right model and tools you might store something out. Overall I think my submissions are pretty average but I have a list of web sites that I scan and every day you'll notice I post something from The Cornell Chronicle, World Nuclear News, phys.org, arstechnica, arxiv, etc... Most superposters have an efficient strategy for posting a diversified selection of articles that have broad appeal.
This is harsh, but as someone that has done a lot of enterprise Java development, the only reason to avoid Java is the developers. Specifically, the enterprise priests of Spring.

Java is fine language and the JVM is a great runtime, but unfortunately the language itself is like a bug zapper light for graybeard enterprise devs who are not so much "Java developers" as they are "Spring engineers" (though they often refer to themselves as architects). They usually have a flair for overly complex abstraction and an encyclopedic knowledge of a couple decades worth of Spring spells, er, annotations.

They typically don't build as much as they just hook shit together with Spring. Every solution is always, "oh just use yadda yadda Spring annotation/plugin." Sometimes it works, often you end up spending the day learning about yet another convoluted hunk of shit that your project just absorbed. Every Spring project turns into a myriad of black boxes where everything happens everywhere else and you're always just a few plugins short of having what you need.

For enterprises this works... okay. They're big and they have a lot of money, so they usually prefer slow, complex, and consistent over rapid development dice rolls. For startups, a seasoned Java enterprise dev is like a rat. If you let one get in the door you're going to be dealing with a fucking mess in no time.
Ah. A $2 million dollar virtue signal. Well, I hope they like their new anal sphincter logo.
I think there are valid points against it to make. Interest, uniqueness, memorability all suffer with this new logo. They're throwing away an established brand with a lot of associations for people, but obviously they considered that and deemed it worth it. I think one of the worst things about is that it's already aesthetically dated, and, because it has nothing really unique or interesting or stylistic about it, it won't age well.

But it's not worth a crusade over. I find it interesting how emotionally attached people (myself included) are to brands, sometimes. A bad rebrand (or even a clever, but sufficiently different rebrand) can feel a bit like cutting down a big old tree in your yard. Why are you getting rid of something so old and beautiful? There are some good reasons, but it still hurts.
> During the life of this bug, since the official bug ticket was not too responsive, I sometimes got some semi-official information from Googlers. I actually prefer to only get updates on the official channel, which is the bug ticket and which I can disclose, but since I was talking with some employees, I picked up on bits and pieces.

This is going to be one if the uncounted casualties of a downturn in tech and layoffs. When the organization is in turmoil, and the tenured folks have left out the backdoor, security flaws are going to remain open for a lot longer
And a sentence with ", no?" is still an assertion that you think it's right.

Not rising to this bait.
Is "pee ew" a slang interjection indicating that something stinks in British English like it is in American English?
And then expecting the guillotine as “justice”, it’s a downward spiral. But this is just business. Leaders make miscalculations all the time. In this case, Zuck’s business problem is replacing the growth story of a maturing product that is the Facebook app and really making social media an entire industry.

Meta and VR is a potential new industry. The only thing that will replace the SM growth is creating/owning an industry again. He liked the VR world because he could own it for a while. It would be more difficult to disrupt than what keeps happening with SM. TikTok is the latest rival but there have been many. And there’s now as ad revenue pressures. It’s a recipe for a massive layoff. Since it’s a business, that is the most appropriate action. I don’t think anyone expected how difficult and expensive it would be. I assume the layoffs will slow this down further and it’s effectively a loss or a solution without a problem.
> Venture capital doesn't invest in businesses. It's the biggest head fake there is. They invest in assets, high risk, fast growth assets.

That's a bit too facile. Yes, VCs invest in assets, but the assets they invest in are businesses and not, say, commodities or derivatives or options, which are also high-risk and (potentially) fast-growth assets.

VC's invest in businesses, but not just any businesses. They want businesses that can go from inception to IPO very quickly. Businesses like that are not typical (that's where most people get it wrong) but they are still businesses.
> AsciiDoc is a plain text markup language for writing technical content. It’s packed with semantic elements and equipped with features to modularize and reuse content.

Isn't that the opposite of Markdown?
If you prefer that, why not just use a language like AppleScript or Inform 7?
Why do you need to pop out your SIM so often? Is that an Android thing, or are you actually swapping your SIM all the time?
Or maybe it’s less dangerous for older children because they were already exposed as younger children.

Immunology is really tricky because the human immune system is quite complex. These kinds of findings sadly need to be taken with a grain of salt.
The only problem with this being a next abstraction level, is that it actually leads to more "coding", because of general spoken language being less informationly dense as any programming language.

Before by switching from binary to assembly to higher level languages to frameworks/libraries, you generally reduce amount of "code" being written after each step, with voice programming this seems to be the opposite.
It's probably a sign of the times that I looked at the new one and thought, "OK, in the context of modern logos, it's not that bad."

However, comparisons to ANY other logo are meaningless. The Met has been around for 150 years. They need to keep getting donations from younger generations, and they want people to come and visit.

OUP is not going anywhere. It's 500+ years old. It sells scholarly books and its financial picture is probably as secure as it's ever been. It didn't need a rebrand.
You worked at Pentagram! That was kind of my dream employer for a few years. I'd be super interested to know your role if you can talk about it.
The asyncio module was heavily refactored in 3.7, which introduced the async/await keywords which was a *huge* improvement over the 3.6 and below implementation.

I don't agree with this, but I will concede that async Python is rarely the correct choice.
Taking Power Much More Seriously
I don't think we need epistemology here, and can instead keep it at the level of semantics. According to the definitions I'm use to, an AI/ML system is not just a mathematical model, but rather a concrete implementation of an information processing system, which when treated as a black box also applies to a brain.
You're completely right, I misused the term and I should've known better. I don't know why you are being downvoted.
Note that that sysctl indicates it's namespace-specific, so it's possible it needs to be set for the application's namespace (maybe as well) via `--sysctl` on the podman command line.

I did a quick test and it works ok for me to bind to low numbered ports just passing that param to podman run.
So how much of this is due to lower than normal heating costs last month?

Utility (piped) gas service -4.6%

I used the A/C more than heat last month since temps have been quite a bit higher than normal. Just using A/C in October is pretty abnormal for me.
I've been experimenting with chatbot frameworks lately and was getting a little bored of building toy ones, so this might be an interesting idea for me to explore! The dependencies seem a little old though, you should think about keeping them updated.
Yeah the theoretical situation is "I love X - can I marry him? No. Why not? Because he's already married and the other men will get violent if they don't also get a wife." and that sounds shitty. I don't know how many people experience that in reality.
I believe it is the democratization of music. Hatsune Miku songs are written and produced by fans. You don’t need to be able to sing, or record instruments. Everyone can join.

From Wikipedia:

> In August 2010, over 22,000 original songs had been written under the name Hatsune Miku. Later reports confirmed that she had 100,000 songs in 2011 to her name.
Each virus is unique. Polio doesn't evolve the same way cold or flu viruses do.
I have used asyncio through aiohttp, and I have been pretty happy with it, but I also started with it from the beginning, so that probably made things a little easier.

My setup is a bunch of microservices that each run an aiohttp web server based api for calls from the browser where communications between services are done async using rabbitmq and a hand rolled pub/sub setup. Almost all calls are non-blocking, except for calls to Neo4j (sadly, they block, but Neo4j is fast, so its not really a problem.)

With an async api I like the fact that I can make very fast https replies to the browser while queing the resulting long running job and then responding back to the Vue based SPA client over a web socket connection. This gives the interface a really snappy feel.

But Complex? Oh yes.

But the upside is that it is also a very flexible architecture, and I like the code isolation that you get with microservices. Nevertheless, more than once I have thought about whether I would choose it all again knowing what I know now. Maybe a monolithic flask app would have been a lot easier if less sexy. But where's the fun in that?
haha that's definitely a big component of it all.

But the engaged clickable web is anyways dead. This post is a static HTML file hosted on IPFS with no back links to my carefully curated blog and media presence. No branding. It's because I've accepted that people's bullshit-radar is sensitive towards overly optimized engagement content. Rather I want my text to be read and those that care will anyways online-search me. It's not my idea btw. The web has reached peak clickability: https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/has-the-internet-reached-pea...
There are two kinds of risk that are fundamentally unavoidable in being a "bank" - that is, any institution that borrows short and lends long. One is liquidity as a result of that duration mismatch: you have enough money owed to you that you've lent out, but it's not due yet. The other is loan writeoffs: you've lent money that you cannot get back, often because it's secured against an asset whose value has fallen significantly.

These can be reduced but not entirely eliminated by setting reserve requirements, LTV ratios, etc., which is what https://www.bis.org/bcbs/basel3.htm is all about.

You can't really eliminate the duration mismatch without eliminating anything recognisable as a "bank", and it becomes much more expensive to get credit and to do basic financial operations.
Saying that something is wrong doesn't imply (at least for me) that you're 100% sure that it's wrong. I always consider colloquial affirmations to carry an implicit degree of confidence, which is rarely 100%, and I often try to make that explicit by phrasing it like "I think that ...", etc.

So, yeah, I don't see a conflict on thinking something is wrong, pointing it out, and arguing for change, and at the same time be open to be convinced that it wasn't, in fact, wrong.
It's very intentional.
Should also support the gnu long-option, git undo --fuck-up
Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex
Depends on how much work it is. I would try to price it as my SaaS fee plus a consulting fee where the latter is NOT flat rate. Because this kind of arrangement turns you into a consultant.
As income levels go up, budgeting can be much more casual as you've described. You are still talking about budgeting. You are inferring that I believe all budgeting is an act of OCD.
Anecdotally experienced similar: tested negative for covid so assuming it was flu unless it was a false reading of course. Worse illness I’ve had in over a decade. Lasted about 5 weeks from start to finish unless the lingering cough and tiredness was a secondary infection.
Crypto is built around trust --- just like fiat.

Who do you trust more --- Binance/Bitfinex or Government?

The part you're missing is that individual and public interests arguably coincide with those of government more so than crypto exchanges.
How would ML benefit from async? I thought everything interesting in things like TF or PyTorch is done by native code which is free to use multithreading and anything at all.

(I know little about ML.)
I watched many friends blow tons of money this way. Even I was tempted and squandered a few thousand on bad bets before I learned my lesson.

The only investing strategy that allows me to sleep comfortably is to buy & hold shares in companies that I wouldn't mind working for. I've also got some small % of the portfolio dedicated to long plays on companies trying crazy ideas that I personally believe in.

At no point do I invest based upon time-series data. I simply pick my desired targets and gradually accumulate shares indefinitely. Every time I tried to get more clever than this, my rate of return suffered accordingly.
If I'm understanding you correctly, you are saying that the origin servers only listen on HTTP and that is where the ISP intercepts. Is it not common practice for the origin servers to also being using HTTPS? Afaik there's no simple way for the end user to know this though.
Let’s follow your hint. The CEO of OUP is trying [https://www.thebookseller.com/news/oup-rebrands-it-becomes-d...] to effect a transformation to digital distribution and digital “tools and resources” which I assume means going beyond digital versions of books and journals.

So yeah, the coat-of-arms/bookplate format of the old logo is not where he’s headed.

Absent from the OP is consideration of the new logo on its own terms. I get an O for Oxford, the turning pages, and hint of a Möbius strip. It works for me.

On the other hand, the translation of the Latin on the old motto is “the Lord is my light,” paired with the crowns invoking royal fiat. Traditional, yes, but…

Another signal in the new logo may be a declaration of independence from the University of Oxford itself, because the old logo was just the University’s coat of arms.
I don’t know, it seems not much creatively came out of tech since 2020. It’s all continuing trends started before that or living on past glory. I think you could easily argue that creativity is down in the industry.
HTML is a subset of Markdown.

You can include in Markdown any and all HTML.

What Markdown provides here is an even lower barrier to entry for the majority of people... they just write text, learn a fraction more Markdown to so more... and if they want total control they eventually learn HTML too.

It's not mutually exclusive... Markdown includes HTML.
You don't really need a YouTube account though. Not saying it doesn't suck, but you don't need it to buy groceries. Don't even need a Google account.

Plus IMO Google aren't trying to censor your speech, they just have asinine systems and zero customer support.
I have never heard this, is it really true? Most people have their 401k's/ira's in index/mutual funds so it would be pretty devastating if like vanguard or fidelity went under and everyone lost their money... to the point where I don't think the government would allow it to happen, but maybe that's just wishful thinking?
I'm interested in the cybertruck not because it looks agressive but because it's the ultimate "function before form."

99% of cars on the road are ugly anyway, why are we compromising efficiency for the sake of making slightly less ugly cars? I don't want to car to have nice curves, I want it to be cheaper to make. I don't want the paint, I want the frame itself to be rustproof.
I may be missing something, but if there is no competitive pressure/monopolistic market, why would these businesses need the excuse of inflation/cost increases to increase their prices? Wouldn't we expect prices to have gone up before inflation?

Or is this a specific criticism of a regulatory blind spot for reigning in market power? Monopolies can get away with price increases now, but they wouldn't normally?
Why would forced vaccinations make their failure more visible?
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Damn, this is a big difference.

The images look incredible, and unlike Stable diffusion, the faces look very real!

But the big advantage of Stable diffusion is its source available, so i would expect it to grow and improve more.
> We absolutely took a middle ground.

Europe apparently operated a lot less draconian wrt schools, never really closed down & things worked out pretty well. The science was pretty clear even from early on but democrats in US said georgia reopening schools was "an exercise in human sacrifice." You don't need a middle ground for the least vulnerable age-range for covid.

> Deeming it "irrecoverable" requires a time machine

what? it's irrecoverable because you never get back lost time, the past is settled and kids lost out on crucial brain development windows
Same here, I've tried out Dgraph and Neo4j, but they seemed a little complex. This on the other hand seems much simpler (like SQLite!)
And a popular enough producer can 'go pro' (n-buna -> Yorushika, or Hachi -> Kenshi Yonezu).
Lehman was brought down by not adequately understanding the risks they took gambling on mortgages.
This isn't a problem specific to python though. You hint at it, async programming (single thread worker loop) is not the right way to deal with CPU-bound tasks. NodeJS or any other async language would have the same problems. You want multiprocessing or multithreading, where work is distributed to different CPU cores at the same time. Python gives you the ability to use any of those three paradigms. Choose wisely.
But the cost of carrying deadweight by shaming is not going to work forever. I have been shaming myself and clicking lowest % shown in the screen but this past weekend I finally said no and clicked on 0%. Was not a restaurant just to pick up something pre ordered forget where.
> You still have the same downside risk as the underlying stock.

Taken as a whole, it's not the same exact downside risk because the premium you collect can make up for whatever downside that exists anytime you're holding a stock.

I'm not here to tell you what to do with your money, but all I'd say is that using a wheel strategy is inarguably less risky than buying stock outright.
For what it's worth, my only Oxford University Press published book just has "Oxford" written on the spine, no logo.
Day to day Python async should be using generators and yields.
Everyone knew the results of "standard treatment", that's why they were researching the drug. There were years and years of statistics.

We killed 70% of the control group. Doomed by a random number generator.
At the time people thought the pandemic would be forever…
No good investments are insured and FTX isn't a fund.
markdown is not a markup
I wasn't claiming that USDT was fully backed by US dollars. I was disputing the claim that their reserves are certainly exposed to BTC/ETH. I just don't see why that would be the case. Even if they were running a proper scam with basically no USD reserves, it does not follow that they are exposed to BTC/ETH.
Upvote for Bogleheads.

I'm a little sore from the market this year (but less this morning, when my ITOT total US stock market index ETF blipped up 4.8%). And I kinda regret that all my AGG (US bonds index ETF) followed advice to be placed in a tax-advantaged account (where it not only didn't take the edge off equities being down, but I can't even tax loss harvest it).

But Bogleheads is still looking like the best school of thought.
The shells throwing example wasn't as convincing as the silt throwing example.
Search engines don't seem to work anymore to find controversial information so I could not dig up the info again. It was from several years back it might be starting to change now.

The golf balls are more interesting. Walmart/sams club actually had to give up on their own brand of golf balls due to the nonstop litigation from top flight, making it unprofitable to produce them.
Wow. I own a number of Oxford university press books. I always really liked the old logo. Very distinguished. The new logo really does look stupid.
Not sure what that is supposed to mean. I'm pointing out that it's a high quality product. There's a reason Coke absolutely dominates everything else out there. I guess to you I'm just a Coke shill though. Ok!
50/50, I'm sure they would've liked the characters to catch on with people, but they grew way more than I'm sure Yamaha ever thought they would internationally even. Weebs everywhere love Miku and don't even know she's from audio software by Yamaha
The only reason I continue to tip is the knowledge that my food will be spat in / worse if I don't.

I would happily pay higher food prices to avoid tipping culture.

Tipping culture simply doesn't exist in most of the world, and Americans who can't imagine a world without it here have no vision.
Twitter chief information security officer Lea Kissner departs
Well, there was also the possibility of delaying catching it until after the vaccine came out, but yes, 'flatten the curve' was all the rage.
An unpopular opinion: there are too many other logos that look like the original logo. Some amalgamation of Latin words and a coat of arms. It's also pretty unattractive visually (weird thickness exterior curves, all caps words with hyphens).

First impression of the new logo: boring. Second impression: nice play on an open book and capital O, very clean lines, will look good in print (perhaps with some light gradient/shading). The new typeface reads very well.
This just sounds like you fundamentally misunderstood how asyncio works and applied it to a use-case which it wasn't suited to. Why would you use async if you're doing a bunch of CPU-bound work?
It's kind of an acquired taste - it works better for some kinds of music than others. But I admit I can't stand the English voice because that sounds more obviously wrong to me.

I'm not sure you can paint the Japanese music industry like that? It's more like, this gives indie songwriters an easily accessible tool.
> NBBO

National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO)
Any intervention system can be used as an example for why you should intervene. Just as any intervention system can be used as an example for why you should not.
A sibling to your comment suggests why QAOP doesn't work any more: many games require a keyboard and a mouse.

QAOP requires two hands.