skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't really make sense, for a couple reasons...

There are many flavors of markdown. We'd need a standards body, compatibility suites, etc., and for all the browser vendors to adopt it.

Meanwhile, markdown is designed to transform to HTML, which browsers already render. Adding a markdown-to-html plugin/step to your web server or publishing process is not exactly the most burdensome thing, relative to everything else it takes to develop, publish, and maintain a site. And it resolves the markdown flavors issue.

The thing is, people could choose to publish, simple uncomplicated sites now -- it would be cheap and easy, too. The HTML is barely more complicated than the equivalent markdown, and it would take a few lines of CSS to apply a basic style.

The many sites that choose to be complicated, cluttered, and expensive will continue to be so, for the same reasons they are now. Markdown would just be another way to build simple sites, which they don't want.
> Deadweight loss happens when a person who is willing to pay more is charged less than the amount they're willing to pay.

> Tom is willing to pay $6 for coffee and the shop only charges him $4, the deadweight loss is $2.

That is a consumer surplus, not deadweight loss.
How can you tell? Most wealthy people - in my experience - don't dress the part.
I also hate tipping everywhere, but coffee shops might also like to adjust their prices slightly for customers that don’t mind paying a bit more for well paid staff and for those customers to whom price is a major concern when choosing where to purchase their coffee.

Dynamic pricing makes some sense in the concept of trying to capture maximum demand, it just feels horrible as a customer.
> Everyone knew

If that was truly the case, then - as the parent hinted - it was the trial design that was the problem, and not the practice of having control groups.

It is pretty common to stop trials early when it is obvious that the treatment works. Conversely, it is easy to think that "yea of course the new treatment works" despite the evidence not being there. The need for robust analysis must also be respected.
I'm in a similar boat as you, having tens of on prem servers hosting our app.

Provide options to your customers as to what they should pay and what level of support they will receive.

Server goes down mid-day, or mid-night, who's going to fix it?

New release is ready for deployment, how is that going to happen? During their business hours, or outside of your business hours?

Are they going to need customisations that are out of scope of your product? If you ask now, they'll say "no", but it really means "no, I don't understand the depth of your question". How are you going to handle that? (hint: feature flags and if statements, avoid having separate codebases).

We try to automate as much as possible, to the point where we can deploy to a bunch of on prem servers, or a single hosted one, with the same tooling and process. It's not perfect, it's not `heroku deploy`, but it's good enough for us going forward.

We use a combo of ansible, docker, and WireGuard to pull this off, but there are paid alternatives if your clients can afford it (like tailscale, replicated, teleport, etc).
The strength of your immune system is the energy your body has to provide.

What's influenced/improved through (accidental or controlled/vaccines) exposure is it memory.

Although exposure can also have other consequences on the whole body, if the system is overwhelmed/can't cope.
Rob, you seem to be about 30. Maybe slow down and consider that you don't know everything yet. Having servants is purely a status symbol? Just because Veblen said it doesn't make it true. The rich of his era owned palatial estates with hundreds of rooms and acres of topiary. How the hell were they supposed to maintain all this property without servants? A mansion needs a staff, and those staff are servants of the owner.

They clearly don't need the actual mansions, but calling the servants themselves nothing but a status symbol is a stretch. Heck, I employ a maid today. Do you know how many people know that? Zero, including the people reading this comment, because none of you know who I am. How can this be signaling if there are zero people being signaled to? How about I already work a full-time job, have ten screws in my spine, and got tired of constantly cleaning my own house, so hired someone else to do it?

The graphic you get to at the bottom about defunding the police doesn't even truly support your claim. The top income group supports at a 32% rate. The bottom income group supports at a 22% rate. That isn't some massive discrepancy. Support for this position is clearly not only coming from people living in gated communities with private security.

Enough with the arm chair psychoanalysis. Why does every somewhat smart person on the Internet think they know the true inner desires of every other person on the planet that they hide from themselves? I would imagine support for the variety of policy positions represented by the slogan "defund the police" comes from quite a large number of different reasons. Saying the only reason anyone holds this belief is as a status symbol is nonsense. At best, it's a symbol of allegiance to popular-on-the-Internet leftist beliefs. That may be a "status" of a sort, but it isn't an indication that you're a Yale legacy. Indeed, it can't be, as your own graphic is showing it is not a majority belief for any income segment at all. Why would you solidify your belonging to a group by holding a belief that most of that group doesn't agree with?
I love Python async - it’s a complete game changer for certain types of applications.

I find Python async to be fun and exciting and interesting and powerful.

BUT it is a big power tool and there’s so much in it that it’s hard to work out how to drive it right.

I have pretty good experience with Python and javascript.

I prefer Python to javascript when writing async code.

Specific example I spent hours trying to drive some processes via stdin/stout/stderr with javascript and it kept failing for reasons I couldn’t determine.

Switched to Python async and it just worked.

The most frustrating thing about async Python is that it has been improving greatly. That means that it’s not obvious what “the right way” is, ie using the latest techniques. This is actually a really big problem for async Python. I’m fairly competent with it, but still have to spend ages working out if I’m doing it “the right way/the latest way”.

The Python project really owes it to its users to have a short cookbook that shows the easiest, most modern recommended way to do common tasks. Somehow this cookbook must give the reader instant 100% confidence that they are reading the very latest official recommendations and thinking on simple asyncio techniques.

Without such a “latest and greatest techniques of async Python cookbook” it’s too easy to get lost in years of refinement and improvement and lower and higher level techniques.

The Python project should address this, it’s a major ease of use problem.

Ironically, pythons years of async refinement mean there’s many many many ways to get the same things done, conflicting with pythons “one right way to do it” philosophy.

It can be solved with documentation that drives people to the simplest most modern approaches.
While I consider it a bit unrealistic to follow this approach in a big style, I like the idea. However, I would suggest to use asciidoc instead, since markdown is a bit to constrained. For examples image captions or tables are not possible in markdown.
China has Luo Tianyi, Miku and co have had concerts in the US, and Miku was slated to perform at Coachella: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hatsune-miku-c...

(Admittedly, those are not unlikely all offshoots of the anime/manga/etc. fandom though.)
Limited by the implementation specific max number of arguments.
Is it really 'neglect', when ornamentation is deliberately attacked and avoided [1,2]? When this [3] is what modern architecture thinks a church should look like? They'll give excuses that it's due to cost cutting, then build things like [4] when funding isn't an issue.

Not that we should be surprised by lies - all war is waged by deception.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_and_Crime

[2] https://theculturetrip.com/europe/articles/ornament-is-crime...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Memorial_Church... - The initial design included the demolition of the spire of the old church but following pressure from the public, it was decided to incorporate it into the new design.

[4] https://www.format.com/magazine/galleries/design/best-contem...
> If you are a dev, than you probably miss the extend of in which branding can have an effect

I think the inverse is true: being in visual design means branding matters to you. Just as audio engineers wince at imperfections that no one else even hears.

And even that is probably more measurable than this; the people that came up with the new one are also "in design". Now you might say to that that it's different, because they were getting paid. But everyone in design is getting paid for design, so it's unsurprising they'd want to all talk about how important design is. But if you can only convince other designers, then that's a bit telling.

I mean, I like good product design as much as the next person. But it's extremely easy to overstate its importance.
Not a phone but in 1999 I bought a JVC CyberCam camcorder but it also had a feature of a digital camera. It was only 640x480 on a small MMC card. But it was pretty amazing for the time. I think the camera came out maybe 1997?
This is 404ing. Do you have a copy?

Edit: Here's a Google Cached Copy
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pizI33...

In case that is past its TTL, try this:https://web.archive.org/web/20221027180943/https://www.sequo...
I would not called twitter ethics hotline. It is risky in normal companies and stupid in company run by someone like Musk.
I think the analysis was for pre existing blue check accounts.
It's basically a dsl to generate markdown.

People who propose replacing markdown with AsciiDoc completely miss the point of Markdown in my opinion.
Recommend any reading to learn index funds?
This is exactly how I think about tipping. I, and many friends and family, worked retail and food service jobs when we were young. Now I’m professionally successful and will not miss a couple extra bucks on a cup of coffee. So I’m happy to help boost the person serving it to me. I know it means way more to them than it does to me.

This also explains why people (including me) get SO MAD if they find out that tips don’t actually go fully and directly to staff. See: DoorDash.
I stumbled across a project called DietPi -- https://dietpi.com. Scroll halfway down the main page and you'll see many SBCs that it works on and might be good alternatives. Khadas are not on the list, though; I've never heard of them before now.
That's not at all how tipping was intended though.

Tipping started as a way to express thanks for someone going above and beyond in their duties. It's devolved into a way for employers to pay less and shift the cost directly to customers via guilt at the cash register.
How about the business they work for show their “appreciation” and pay them
In keeping with Oxford's preferences, the new one does look more woke than the old one.
Would that have been in the early 90s when it was a polytechnic?
Virus is the only neuter second declension Latin noun in -us (as opposed to -um). It means "poison" in Latin. I assume this was all meant tongue-in-cheek, but in case anyone is curious, the Latin plural is not virodes.

All of this is recalled from my high school Latin, which was a long time ago.
You thinking inflated away or a default? Because those who have bought treasury bills are expecting that money in a few years.
Looking at the macro picture is so misleading. The only categories that are really down are natural gas, used cars & trucks, and apparel. Everything else is up but it is being masked by the huge drop in natural gas prices (which is due to the situation in Europe).
If that happened to me I’d try and look for work elsewhere, but I know it’s not that easy (especially if you don’t live in a city).
That is a good point, but is in no way evident from the initial reply[1] and its quotation of the objectionable part.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33548323
The writer here makes an error in assuming that what he terms "luxury beliefs" are invented by people with more money or influence. Ideas like police abolition absolutely have their roots in working class movements in places like the South Side of Chicago and the Bronx.

I think a more interesting analysis would have compared people whose lives are at stake in political fights vs. those who are well-off enough that they can participate as a sort of hobby (or, yes, as a way of accumulating cultural capital). For the latter group, their beliefs and their ability to participate in political debates are indeed a luxury. But I don't think this divide would mirror the US culture war as closely as the author seems to think it would.
> One possibility is that Republican family/friends/coworkers were more public about their political views, compared to Democratic family/friends/coworkers.

I live in the South. You learn very quickly as a Democrat to keep your mouth closed about politics. I know everyone in my life who votes R consistently, but the D's are harder to pin down.

Election polling is even harder than weather forecasting these days. At least cold fronts follow general patterns.
I try to avoid them because they enable the store to replace humans with robots.
Just use a Markdown-based CMS like Pico. Free, open-source, and uses Twig templating.
That seems like it would be a problem for something like a documentation site, where even small changes to the text would break the entire highlight. Maybe you can implement something via diff to maintain a fuzzier anchor.
Show HN: animaterm - a Rust TUI library
Hi all, I wanted to share with you a library that I have created. It is written in Rust, a language that I have been learning recently.
You can also check it on crates.io:
https://crates.io/crates/animaterm

With this library you can create animated user interfaces within terminal.
UI elements can be stored as regular text files (with ANSI escape codes) allowing for community mods.
It also reads user input. You can follow a link below for more info.

Check the docs here:
https://docs.rs/animaterm/0.1.1/animaterm/
In order to see complete documentation one must build it locally with: cargo doc --open

Also this lib includes a studio app where you can
build your UI, it looks like this:
https://ibb.co/1Xypfy9

Feedback is appreciated :)
Was there any specific library this was inspired by, or a specific use case it was built for besides the obvious generic case?
No, there are a bunch of old single women to balance the young single men.
> It is worse, though, when such a logo replaces a world-class symbol of scholarly excellence. A maxim I remember from business school: a brand is a promise of a repeatable experience.

Imagine thinking any part of Oxford’s notability came from its butt-ugly coat of arms
Of the dozens and dozens of times I've smiled and happily tapped 0% or No Tip, I've never had the cashier say a thing.

I did four years of minimum wage work at McDonalds. The only time I can remember getting tipped was when I jumped out the window after a $50 the guy had dropped. He let me keep the $10 change.

If people running a drive-thru for 12h without a break don't deserve tips, I don't see why the people pouring coffee in a trendy cafe like the author describes would.
Stereotypes are never useful, societies adapt to their needs. Our current societies are not going to die because they have decided to cut down on marriages or lots of children. We re smart enough to think for ourselves without consulting the books written by the Elders
Oh man it's almost like unregulated banks do unregulated bank things.
This isn't necessarily a direct reply but instead another anecdote which reinforces OP's claim that asynchronous programming is a thorn in the side of Python.

I was tasked with improving a performance-critical object detection codebase for video that was written in Python. Before attempting a complete rewrite, I identified that outside of FFI calls related to PyTorch/OpenCV, some of the biggest latency overhead was due to the fact that the network I/O for fetching data to process was blocking the actual inference, so I tried to decouple the two so they could happen synchronously.

My attempt at doing this with asyncio went horrendously at best. There were no mature client libraries for the cloud services we used at the time. I was digging through PyTorch forums to figure out the relationship between the GIL and CUDA Streams. Boundless headaches.

Then I realized, I could just separate the code that loaded the data onto the machine from the inference code into two separate code bases and just have them communicate over really simple signals on a UNIX socket. Two different processes, sending a simple fixed-size string back and forth, and then I just used multiprocessing.Pool for parallelizing the downloads.
Debugging Is Science
If the business can't get employees to show up based upon the advertised prices then it should shut down.

Come inside and get a boba for $7! Then you go inside and they're like please give us $9 plus tax and if you actually want boba in it that's extra.
>They typically don't build as much as they just hook shit together with Spring.

>They're big and they have a lot of money, so they usually prefer slow, complex, and consistent over rapid development dice rolls.

These two statements seem contradictory to me. The entire point of using Spring is to be able to not worry about the cumbersome and gain efficiencies in development. Spring is no different than rails, a framework thats highly regarded for fast development
> If I go to supermarket I don't want "shopping experience" - I want to buy bread and eggs - set your shop in a way where I can do it quickly and I will be coming back.

You say that but I don’t think it’s entirely true. Ask around and people definitely have strong opinions about grocery stores. This one’s dingy and that one’s organized. This one’s cramped and that one’s too big. This one is laid out weird and that one is too bright.

Just because you’re not looking for a Disney-level experience doesn’t mean you’re not subtly affected (for better or worse) by all these little designed elements every time you go shopping.
What I really don’t understand are mandated tips. One of my favorite local bakeries implemented a 20% tip at checkout, whether paying cash, card or otherwise and then a screen comes up that allows you to tip extra.

Just raise your prices at that point.
My "hot take" if you will:

SEC and FDIC aren't usually, to the general public, negatively seen due to their mission. Its the fact they don't prevent criminal / unethical behaviors beforehand, and banks get away with alot before anyone intervenes.

I actually don't think the average US citizen is "anti regulation" with this. I think - and I include myself in this - that we see agencies like the SEC (more so than the FDIC) don't act fast enough or often enough, and when they do, the fines are a slap on the wrist vs the profit made by the bad behavior.

In a nutshell, they just aren't acting effectively, and thats why they get a bad wrap.
I find that my perspective is generally recalibrated each time I observe a professional or professional organization in a field where I think I mostly understand how it works.

It takes seeing how some of the second-order effects matter in order to get an inkling of just how much you don't know.

As an approximate programming example, imagine the difference in productivity between a programmer coming out of high school and someone with a couple decades experience with access to version-control, profilers, documentation, a clear understanding of best-practices, who works on a team of five people who will all do the same job, and has access to $1M in AWS credits.

Can the young programmer compete? In principle. Can they deliver on time, every time, for their clients without making a gaffe like the team of programmers can? Probably not.
The dowry equivalents and what not can cost as much as a house
The government that printed the money was supposed to reduce the money supply, while capturing productivity from more profitable industries, effectively neutering the difference. Turns out it is easier to print money than to burn it.

The Fed is trying to command the economy, but ultimately people must be more productive for a little less. QE easing and asset deflation have some part, but unemployment must increase, or we simply won't have the "strong labor market" that increased productivity requires. We don't have the sentiment or confidence, and that is going to be devastating if not quickly corralled - inflation can lead to hyperinflation exponentially.

Not for the USD - we have control of the world's economy - which is why the MIC complex and foreign policy is actually an investment in the largest scale.

That difference, between productivity gains and captured output, is the price our future generations pay (in inflation) for continuity _now_. But it isn't fair to push such a can down the road. Things need to pop sooner rather than later, and the Fed would like a "soft landing" - no pop, which may not be possible at this point.
Children of Ruin – Adrian Tchaikovsky
interesting read on cephalopods in a sci-fi/evolution context
$18 cocktails are pretty expensive. I work at a brewery so I’m not used to that.
Related: https://www.spainfoodsherpas.com/pulpo-a-la-gallega-recipe-t...
A bunch of devices lost support with iOS 13. I don't remember offhand but a quick search shows that the iPod Touch 6th Gen was discontinued the latest of the iOS 12 supported devices. It was sold through mid 2019. So I think that's why.
Came here to point that out as well. Deadweight loss is when the consumer surplus is lost because they are eaten by additional costs like taxes.
Matt Levine's talk with SBF is definitely the most bizarrely depressing (or funny, depending on your mood) thing you'll read today. Hell, this week?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/sam-bankm...
Right.

I should have asked "at what point did you decide that the wait outweighs the risk?"

That is, at what point wait becomes too long, and is worse?
PRISM is a good example of the difference between America and India. One, there's vocal and empowered opposition, opposition granted relief by the courts from time to time. Two, there was opposition–MUSCULAR involved hacking Google and Yahoo's clouds. Three, there is a warrant process. It's broken. It needs reform. But it exists.
Wait staff are not paid enough. At least in my state, the minimum wage for tip-accepting employees is horrific. I was a waiter twice and understand all of that so I always tip and try to be generous.

Also, I'm pretty bad at math in my head so I usually guesstimate tips too high.

A downside of tipping on the checkout systems I see is the baked in 15 / 20 / 25% options. OR tap custom and probably stand there like a moron for 5 extra seconds trying to figure out how to work the thing while the next person is waiting to order.

SO I click 25% or whatever the top one is and get out of the way, but it's less than I'd normally have tipped.

I hope overall it leads to servers / wait staff bringing home more.

Anyway, as a former waiter with math insecurity issues there's my $.08 (inflation).