skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw the picture at the top of this article on facebook a few weeks back and for some reason it really affected me:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/remember...

Look at that good girl :-( We really don't deserve dogs.
I find that Tailwind makes it a lot easier to use semantic HTML because it discourages element styling and provides an aggressive browser style reset.

H2 or H3? A purely semantic distinction with Tailwind.

Use an OL for a custom list of items? You start with a clean slate, no overrides required.

And you are discouraged from writing custom CSS that causes unexpected styling as well.

Every HTML tag with an empty class attribute is a clean slate.
You only have to care about the default display mode and about allowed descendants.
Turns out, the vast majority of people in an office want to work and maybe silicon valley's stupid culture isn't the norm.

Gen Z doesn't want a beer fridge and ping pong, Gen Z wants fair wages and reasonable hours.
That's coming. The infosec.exchange admin has been tooting what's going on to some extent, but delayed until now the full documentation in favor of gaining headroom for the incoming growth.
>truly high intelligence and problem solving grit are without a doubt correlated

As both a former teacher and current parent, i can say for certain that this is not true.
Or they feel these are not the people worth keeping around, so letting them go on their own is just fine?
The path toward Binance and Tether's ultimate collapse is not hard to see, which would almost guarantee the collapse of the whole system.
Sometimes Docker is not a replacement for VMs (e.g., you need to run systemd because that's how you run apps in production and you want to simulate it in your local env)
> So what does it mean for a program to be memory safe if it can still memory leak?

That it's not actually memory safe. Memory leaks are part of memory unsafety.
Are those the shortcuts for it? I can't believe I didn't realise vim had this.
Unfortunately, in practice, the opposite is true.

We grow food, such as grains, just to feed it to cattle which has 1% of the calorie efficiency. For example in the EU 63% of arable land is used to grow animal feed rather than food directly for humans.
Cryptocurrency has many advantages to centralized fiat money.

Narrator: It doesn't.
...and been that way for a couple of years at least
Yeah the divide between the North and the South in this country is really fucking stark and getting ever wider. The North hasn’t been as expensive as the South although house prices have been rising to silly levels round here as well recently. They’re building new bungalows near where I grew up and they’re trying to sell them for half a million just because they’re in the suburbs and near a school, it’s absolutely ridiculous.

30k would have been enough for me to buy a small terraced house or an apartment round here but not much else. I pointed out that the wage wasn’t even the national average salary and they tried to claim that it was good for the area but I’m pretty sure it’s still below the regional average too. They were a billion pound international private company and could absolutely have afforded to pay me a decent wage. Sales staff up and down the company were regularly taking home six figures in commission bonuses. I was offered a max bonus of £3k. Absolute joke company.
I get whiplash wearing a seatbelt when my car gets into a crash. Why should I bother wearing that seatbelt? It didn’t save me from the whiplash!
The data protection authority will have to fine itself for non-compliance.
For reference, that would be at least a 47° incline, or about 108% grade. You'd probably realize the ship isn't going to come back when you reach 20%-ish grade.
Even in 2008, no depositors in FDIC-insured banks lost their money. Some banks died (Washington Mutual comes to mind), but it's not like FTX where the depositors are left with nothing.
Capitalism exists in every country today. You would not have chinese billionaires today if they were not a capitalistic country. They are socialist in almost name only these days; they are clearly not interested in redistributing wealth or favoring the health of the collective over the wealth of the elite. IMO there aren't many great examples of socialist governments, since many of the historical examples we've seen have been from a powerful elite using the mass appeal of the socialist message solely to put themselves in charge of an authoritarian state and use that position to further their own personal interests, versus to focus on collective benefits.
You really shouldn't be doing a significant amount of your business with people who don't trust you and who you don't trust. Blockchain advocates really underestimate how much of functioning economies simply work because of trust (with lawyers and courts as a backup), and how small the potential "I don't trust you" market is.
The belief that you can always improve some code by making it do less.

Contrast with e.g. Haskell which is based on the belief you can always improve some code by making it more general, or Rust on the belief you can improve it by making it safer, or Java that you can improve it by breaking it down into smaller chunks.

Languages carry aesthetic values. Most are aren't committed to them above literally all else - we all want our code to be somewhat simple and general and safe and isolated etc - but other than the most kitchen sink-y of them (C++, JavaScript) they have priorities among those which show through. (And even in those you can find some, muddled as they are.)
Vim, headphone with noise cancelling listening good music : amon amarth, behemoth, jinjer, unleashed, ...
Origin of supply seems fairly important to keep track of:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21732-z

> "Distribution of metals and metalloids in dried seaweeds and health risk to population in southeastern China (2018)

Most sources report levels low enough to not cause health risks, but eating large quantities ( > 5g day ) is probably not the best idea, and it should be tested for lead, mercury and cadmium (industrial waste sources). Arsenic and iodine are also naturally accumulated in seaweeds, particularly iodine, which while a necessary trace element, can be dangerous in high concentrations.
>The real red flags are claiming she doesn’t use math and that she’s never lost a lot of money on a trade despite doing largely human informed trading for size…

For the peak crypto years it was almost impossible to lose money AS AN EXCHANGE. These clowns really thought they were on fire, and not just in position that random moves could be winning strategies.
Fair question, but in this case it wasn't so much "offensive" as "embarrassing to the author." i.e. they're hyping up this guy who later turned out to be not as smart as he thought.
Another great Vim feature is persistent undo. You open a file, make modifications, save and close. You open again and the undo history is still there. You'll just have to enable that feature.. don't think it's on by default, unfortunately. Find a ~/.cache directory to store the undo history in.
Sometimes you're faced with a binary reality, and have to decide between several shitty things.
I've gotten the impression Eugen has a very clear idea of what he wants Mastodon to be and isn't shy about rejecting features that he doesn't think serve that goal. Those forks are the model of good open source. Other people have strong ideas about how it should be, couldn't convince the main project's owner, and moved on to create their own version that suits their vision.

It's great. This is how it should be. And it's a huge improvement over open source projects that languish for years for lack of strong leadership with no one forking it because there's no one to say no to features. As long as the possibility exists, people are wary of forking. Remove the possibility, and people can feel confident doing their own take.

As for Mastodon, as far as I know all the major forks are maintained by experienced developers who incorporate security updates.
Blue, grey, official ...

Pretty soon it will be as bad as USB labeling strategy.
Lakers usually have their bridge at the bow.
Thanks for the feedback. Things are a work in progress, and this one tutorial does not attempt to explain in detail all of the requisite programming terminology and concepts.

Could you link your dissertation? Would love to see some of your findings.
I was trying to be charitable given that I haven't seriously used Java in quite a while and have seen some indications that the JVM can be speedier (it _has_ had an incredible amount of optimization work done on it).

But, yeah, my experience with Go matches yours. It's really amazingly light on resource usage.
You're basically describing TAI (International atomic time). UTC is just TAI with leap seconds applied, as I understand it mostly for political reasons (it was easier to get everyone to use atomic time if it's at most a 0.9 seconds off from the observational method used before).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
yeah. why i left the "library industry" and now work 'for the man'.

the library industry should have embraced open source in the 90s but they just never "got it". they seem to think they just need to be involved in some hyper expensive vendor projects and somehow that will bring them validation.

i worked in this tiny library with a few ten thousands books and they were paying for system that used oracle as the Database. so basically they were paying for oracle. this was 20 years ago.

then there is JSTOR and the whole Aaron Swartz thing. JSTOR acted really inappropriately

like i feel really bad about what has happened to libraries over the past 20 years, with funding cut to the bone. but they kind of did it to themselves by thinking that "serving the public" means shoveling the publics money to proprietary vendors for no apparent reason. like OCLC has no right to take information generated by public institutions that are almost entirely funded by local taxpayers and somehow claim ownership of that information, and act like a monopolistic for profit corporation.

there are a lot of very innovating library people doing stuff like maker spaces and kids education despite all the hardships but.... this revolution has not made it to the 'library industry'.
love foraging seaweed and eating it in a bunch of different things. large scale consumption of it is pretty difficult unless you're somewhere that conveniently has both a lot of good stuff locally and has a food culture that knows how to prepare it. cooking with eg kelp is not trivial. there are probably lots of interesting industrial and processed seaweed products that could be very good, especially the animal feed applications, but i think these kinds of articles overlook the very real problems associated with building cuisine from ingredients that aren't widely adopted.
>same for removing dislikes to protect corporations from negative press

I like how the internet accepts this as a fact, despite there being zero evidence for this. It doesn't matter that corporations were historically a lot less likely to hide dislikes than independent creators. It doesn't matter that corporations that get a lot of dislikes aren't ones that that advertise much on Youtube (e.g. CNN), so they wouldn't have any leverage. It doesn't matter if they threatened to stop advertising, they'd hurt themselves as much as they'd hurt Google because the existence of the dislike button doesn't make ads any less valuable. What matters is that Google is a big corporation, and big corporations are all friends with each other.

People, think this sort of vague outrage towards "the elite" is productive, but ironically it just screws them over. Any sleazy politician or cryto influencer can peddle the same vague outrage to easily amass support.
Based on my experiences in the iOS app store, Apple desperately needs search tuning. Searching for a specific product sometimes yields 3rd party tutorial apps for the product but not the product itself. Following a link from the developer's web site will get me to the product itself.

Amusingly enough, later the same day this occurred, the product in question was featured in an ad banner on the App store.
Keep in mind $100 is the retail price, not the wholesale price (which is what's plotted on the above graph). I do not know what the current wholesale price is for a generic epi-pen.

My point is merely that the price is trending back down now that there's competition. And again, with insurance it's effectively free for most people - either through private insurance or medicaid.
Yep, power vacuums always have a way of being filled.

The question is, do you want it to be controlled by rational actors seeking to exploit everyone else, or an organization that has potential for other (maybe even altruistic) motives?
yes, sorry, good point.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SBUX/starbucks/pro...

Starbucks margin is 10%... And they're the biggest, most profitable and among the most sophisticated operators.

It's hilarious that you're still arguing about COGS when I plainly spelled out what the biggest actual costs are...
> 14 outpatients....
No problem. We can find replacements.
Ontario Teachers' Pension reveals US$95M exposure to crypto exchange FTX
They're not orthogonal, direct democracy is the logical conclusion to your definition. Moving on from that though, I disagree that being a Constitutional Monarchy means we're not a full democracy; likewise, being a Republic doesn't gurauntee full democracy... look at America for the easiest example of this. I can give more specific examples if you'd like. Anyway, the King exercises power with the acquiescence of the public. We can abolish the Monarchy but we choose not to. Indeed, Australia can choose to emancipate themselves from the Crown, they just haven't. The fact that we can choose and there's no limitation on our ability to choose proves that their mere existence in our establishment doesn't inherently diminish our democracy.
Also, fun to note that the modern Zendo set like the link here includes "friends" for the pyramids: wedges (like doorstops or slices of pie/cheese) and blocks. While the pyramids are very cool and have nearly a million different games and sets, having more shapes is also really cool and so far Zendo is the only Looney Labs game with the extra shapes to be "friends" with the pyramids.
One of its neighbors will build out rail lines to their borders so they can take the position of lucrative refiner and exporter of a massive lithium reserve that only their infrastructure has good access to.
> I have never -- never -- encountered a value-producing use case for cryptocurrency that can't be solved by either signed git commits or a SQL database.

The value is in a permissionless and censorship resistant financial network. You may not find that valuable, but that's ok.
You're under selling the revolution that was buying LSD on the internet
And the first time that I looked to purchase a comfortable work environment and instead got a flimsy plastic chair at a lunchtable style desk in the middle of a disused hotel is the last time I would use that service.
Again, lots of long hour jobs are not creative/thinking type of work, it's repetitive work. The thing about repetitive work is we either automated it or shipped it to low labor cost countries. As the cost of labor rises then we'll see more of those jobs get automated.

Simply put as more work becomes thinking/creative long hours are going to harm productivity.
The examples in the article are deceptive and kinda strawman-ish. Zuck and Elon are definitely smarter than me, although I think that I am smarter than average person. The problem with their terrible decisions is their self-perception, when they attribute their huge success with their smartness. "I am successful, therefore I know better". This is just plain wrong.
I think you have to want or need decentralization in order to buy into most of the use-cases of the technology, either because you don't trust institutions or because you're in a part of the world where either the institutions aren't safe or the currency isn't.

Assuming you do believe that decentralization is nice to have, applications like decentralized banking (ie. lending, borrowing, exchange of assets) become valuable.

There are also emergent culture sources of "value" in the industry, such as medium native artforms in on-chain generative artworks, distributed multiplayer "runtime" systems artworks, on-chain gaming and metagaming, etc.

I understand that for many people, even if you grant that _some_ people might find the above legitimately valuable or useful you may still believe that it doesn't justify the energy costs. To that my response would be that all of the above are serviced by networks like ethereum and its various layer two solutions, none of which utilize proof of work, and the sum of which have a fairly modest carbon footprint, as with other computationally inexpensive digital technologies.

If you take issue with Bitcoin specifically I can't really offer an argument with conviction. BTC is what got me into the industry, and I think the BTC whitepaper is a brilliant example of human ingenuity, but more recent advancements in the technology leave me skeptical about the societal ROI on large scale PoW operations.
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It’s not a uniquely Australian issue. India also exports a lot of iron ore to China to be made into steel and sold back. This was also how imperialism was funded - take raw materials (cotton) and sell back finished goods (clothes).
That’s a good a question, understanding why banks want deposits was hard for me to understand in this model. My current understanding is that taking deposits is a cheap source of funding for the bank. They could borrow required reserves from elsewhere but it’s cheaper to take it from customers who accept low interest rates.

For the second part, I agree that if you bring $500k cash to your bank and deposit it, then that asset is real and it basically goes into the bank vault. But that is not the typical case. Most deposits do not come from putting cash in the bank (after all, the amount of cash/central bank reserves is much smaller than the amount of bank deposits). Most of them are just an IOU from the bank and we use these IOUs as the most frequent form of money.
What a generous thing to do! Very kind.
Interesting definition, but I think most people talking about virtual reality or the metaverse mean something like a 3D space that people move around in with avatars, and that seems to be what meta is working on, and what most people, including me, are skeptical of.
Now imagine not only having lunch, but also working (or coexisting in the same workspace) with enjoyable people. Wouldn't that be awesome?
It is not quite true that this is the way in every other country. It took Europe quite some time to adopt the IBAN. Money transfer between banks is still mostly cleared only daily (even if the transfer is shown as instantaneous).

Also the name given during the transfer aside the IBAN won't make the transfer fail as far as I know if incorrect.
You still didn't answer me whether you've thoroughly reviewed their code before dismissing my comments. Did you?

You can approach it as an insider researcher "on their side" and try to correct it, but the problem is just so big you're not going to get flawless models without time, and they have already shrugged serious problems in the past with "flux adjustment". You'll get endless errata and retractions but you'll never get a narrative shift.

Or you can try to approach it from the outside like countless scientists have done and get called oil companies shill, climate denier and what not. The academic "climate" around it is very "hot".

So eventually you just go and forget it and do something productive with your life instead of literally fighting windmills. (And I did mean literally as a joke about renewable energy).
It's been nice to see Aurora getting Postgres updates faster now. That was a real downer for a while. They were always several major versions behind for the last few years.
Yeah theoretically this isn't a bad thing for "the machine". They sucked in a tremendous amount of talent with their net, and will theoretically be able to throw back many of the undesirable fish.

And yes, the powers that be have been desperate to make a statement since they lost a tiny amount of power.
I’m at 15 soon.
Since I had to google I'll share the definition: IPFS is InterPlanetary File System, it's a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file in a global namespace connecting IPFS hosts. It is like a public distributed blockchain for parts of files and each file has an unique id and a hash to make sure they haven't been tampered with once you download them. When you open a node you can select which files you would like to make available for people to download from your server.

I wonder however how will IPFS prevent itself, once popular, from being either overrun by criminality such as pirating, or to be limited by the government because of that criminality, or subject to ISP blockage (like they do to the other popular peer to peer downloading service)?
I prefer Kotlin as well. Its much more readable for expressing business problems.
AI and the Age of the Individual
> This has been a wonderful social experiment, enabling people who didn’t live in the 19th century to see what happens when banking and investing is treated like the wild west.

The only difference is that the bank-analogs do not get to face era-appropriate "frontier justice", but instead get to hide under the skirts of 20th century bankruptcy laws.
How does this compare to something like https://www.helpgidget.org/ ? I used to teach middle schoolers using it. Right off the bat Pickcode seems less kid-oriented.
Jamf Q3 data confirms rapid Mac adoption across the enterprise
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. — Edward Abbey
The thing I still don't understand about REPL driven development is how you manage state, and how you manage threads. If I have a task running and it depends on a collection of global variables, those global variables now need some machinery around them so that they can be edited from the REPL thread. If you replace a function, there now needs to be decisions made about when you now begin usage of the new function. To me, the understanding that some set of things may be replaced right under you adds a great deal of additional engineering complexity. I've gotten various answers about how one deals with this. One being "yes add the machinery" or "just yolo it, yes it's a race condition but it's rarely an issue," neither of which I find particularly satisfying.

Concerning state, I've occasionally found myself developing a long-lived lisp image, and then I need to restart the VM for one reason or another, and then found that nothing works. The state of the in-memory image had gotten totally out of sync with the codebase. Perhaps this is a manner of discipline in lisp, but I greatly appreciate the replacement of discipline (be it memory management or the aforementioned situation) with machinery of the language itself.
you missed the "not a fan" part
If plenty of people are already doing it, why is the article titled with the question of whether we should start doing it?

It's because the article is talking about making it more of a primary source of nutrition. It isn't even the primary ingredient in sushi.

So, if the rich (and politicians) start eating it as a primary source of nutrition, then the commenter to whom you were replying might consider it similarly.