skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider: "and nothing being done against it" :-)

You interpreted it pretty differently from what I mean: Investigation-less corruption is often unofficially known/suspected, but can't be acted on. Investiation enables acting on it.

Of course the laws need to he tight on corruption in the first place. The kinds of corruption seen in the US are typically perfectly legal (we also have loopholes that should be closed, which makes me wonder why people often choose the illegal forms of corruption).
If one were to make a markov chain with the same amount of input data, would the result be the same? Markov chain chatbots have been a thing for years, just on a much more limited set of data.
I find it weird that webmentions are on hn very often, and noone is implementing it.
Put your state in your urls, or in the user's session model, that's the only place state should be allowed to live :p
I still don't see a benefit with this over custom error types. Having a huge switch statement to determine the HTTP response code seems really inefficient vs just doing errors.As and getting the response code directly.
> It's a cashier's check.

cashier checks are equivalent to cash and follow the same limits.
Interesting. I'm not sure I'd call that counter-signalling though. But it is similar to a lot of other practices that have the effect of erecting barriers to participation by working classes, but give the appearance of self-less-ness. For example, in many US states, legislators receive little or no pay and must be available for sessions of the legislature for weeks at a time.
If mass of dark matter is created by Higg effect, does it mean dark matter particle needs to interact via weak force?
Very cool write-up, would love it even more if author included the references.
I feel a lot of that has to do with Googlers not daring to question the famous authors, and the same authors seem to have been asleep for the last three decades in terms of modern programming language developments. I geared up to learn Go one day, got the book and everything, and after just a few hours of trying to write and rewrite error-handling code, I was wondering how this ever got out of the Request for Proposal stage.

Oh, you have to manually chain your errors and no you don't get stack traces out of the box. If you want to to know where the error message is, I don't know, guess?

It's insane.

Exceptions happened precisely because manual error-handling was messy and did not scale, but suddenly it's The Way.
Do you feel like for some tasks though that people might be too eager to reach for GPU and more expensive inference and training costs?

In some projects I'm working on, I'm seeing close to 95F1 score using deep learning to do token classification based NER. However, using non-deep learning approaches (still training statistical models) I can get to 91F1 on my use case but have a much faster inference and not need to use a GPU.

I'm similarly optimistic about LLM, but fear that a lot of other really useful workhouse algorithms and strategies are going to be pushed aside and people will forget about them.

Back to my use case, some strategies I'm looking at are using cheap and fast CPU powered models/smaller models for inference and then based on certain signals decide whether a particular instance should be passed to a GPU based model for better accuracy.
You would think FAANG developer would be able to afford buying it's own laptop with FAANG salaries
That doesn't make any sense. Under your reasoning a women can't be criticized, or it's assumed to be based on sexism. The video is just a clear example of a pampered employee doing fuck all at her high paying "tech" job. It's not relevant she's a woman, it's relevant to show that Twitter had a lot of dead weight.
> It is astounding that some people still take this obvious joke serious.

This was more or less my impression on reading the article. Events have revealed that most of crypto is made up of playthings and pseudo-scams, but this article takes it really seriously.
I am using it on my website. It is great and makes it so much more fun to blog. I really recommend implementing it.
Killer drones main job is killing people, an airlines main job is keeping them alive...

I don't think the comparison to a drone that doesn't need a pilot on board applies to an airline. If there are humans on board, one or ideally more of them should be capable of controlling the aircraft.
Go with Rust-style tagged unions would be a delight (and that would improve error and null handling in many ways)
Well, you need the phone to prove who you are. Out of luck…
The problem will solve itself. CGNAT will only take us so far until that no longer scales to where the ISPs want to pay for it.

That said, IPv6 is a horrible implementation.
> Or maybe I'm still not getting it, my read is there are posts, they can be flagged, flagged posts can be reviewed, and this is a "basic" serializer for flagged posts that have yet to be reviewed.

I think you are right. The name is pretty clear to me, but that may be because I have worked on similar code bases where this naming is used by convention. Reading code requires knowing the domain and I'm not sure if a shorter name is more clear. You need domain knowledge to know what a post is, and what it means that it has been flagged.

You probably made a very accurate guess based on your knowledge of forums and moderator systems. This may not be apparent to all, and shorter names will probably not help much. In addition, if they shortened the name to "Serializer", "PostSerializer" or even "FlaggedPostSerializer" it could conflict with other serializers in the project.

> But why you'd need such a specialized serializer is beyond me,

I totally agree with your point. They may have their reasons, but it seems to me that a "ReviewableFlaggedPost", "FlaggedPost" and "Post" should have very similar needs and could be solved by structuring them differently (perhaps by using composable classes that can each take care of their own serialization)

Regarding the use of "Basic", it also triggers a "code smell" reaction from me. It may make sense to them, and it's hard for me to make any definitive comments without knowing the rationality behind it. My guess is that they have different types of responses based on the same "post" object. "Basic" may include a subset of the "Full" response, such as id and title only.

In those cases I tend to prefer separate DTOs, like "PostSummaryDTO" and "PostDTO" that can be re-used by composability for different responses (flagged for review etc.). This may of course not be the best choice for all usages, so I would need to know more to say something conclusive about this particular case
in cash?

for more than 10k?

if someone has 10k cash they will not buy a used car, they will buy a new car, pay it in the next 5 years 200 euros a month and then sell it to a used car reseller.

No sane minded person would sell their more than 10k worth car in cash to an unknown party who shows up with a bag full of 50 euros bills.

BTW this position comes from people who regularly see cash as a form of freedom from oppression and support the use of crypto, which is digital assets that cannot be bought in cash.

So the options are logically 2: it's people that are not right in their mind or it's people who love cash because they don't pay taxes.

10k in cash is an unreasonable amount of money for 99.999% of the population.

I am an investor in my country in bars and restaurants and we're so happy that younger generations virtually use zero cash.

It freed me and my employees from having to deal with cash, bank deposits, handling and transferring money safely, theft, counterfeit money and many many other issues that the stone age money brings.

It also made it much easier to handle payments, I can tell the bank to pay and they will, instantaneously, while before we obviously used the money from the cash register to pay, to spend the cash money and avoid going to the bank to deposit it and had to trust the delivery guy, who changed frequently, to actually not steal the money and disappear (it happened several times over the past 25 years).

It made possible for young people, especially girls, to go around safely with no money on them and still live a full life while also keeping much more control on their expenses.
What I find incredible is that despite having precise location coordinates the police did not recover it. I think we underestimate the extent to which not capturing petty thieves influences people's trust in "the system" in general.
Hmm a tangent thought. Does a bus with an automatic transmission and cruise control on stop on its own if the driver passes out?
It's hard to say what kind of forces are involved. I could probably open the side panel and be able to see if I run it without water. I was hoping the rubber seal would mostly be flapping along mildly as a whole.
You do get stack traces out of the box? Exceptions trigger stack traces, or you can PrintStack
> everything from TLS to CSV is rolled into std without ever having to import a third-party repository

And yet the std library is missing some basic data structures like Set.
For example, in terms of navigational errors, automation enables pilots to make huge navigation errors very precisely…

That's kind of interesting. It sounds similar to how every once in a while, pre-smartwatches, I would walk a mile or so on my way somewhere before noticing that Google Maps had me pointed in the opposite direction.
Arbitrary or not, the limits had to be there due to small amount of memory computer had back then. I don’t think this is specific to Unix/C culture (unless it was what influenced the design of MS-DOS with its limit on the length of file names, for example).
Ha ha.

Maybe related: does anyone else wonder if the reply from the Regional Council is not also from ChatGPT?

"My AI will get back to your AI..."
What the hell went on over there? I thought Denmark (of which Greenland is part) was supposed to be one of the happiest places on earth.

But it going cashless and now this, it looks to me more like a scene of Brave New World.
Haha sorry this comment was not useful to you folks, I just thought that this could be the logical next step to find great problems waiting to be solved. I really feel that getting an outsider view can help uncover issues that could be the starting point for great ideas. All other advices are also very good but it falls down to: find a problem and enough people sharing it so you can monetize a solution.
It is a bad thing to drive the markets towards people’s bad habits to only provide them with a product they hate.

In your airline example, focusing on low price is what has lead to budget airlines charging $80 for a carryon.

People just end up spending money they didn’t know they were going to have to spend on a product they probably didn’t want and is often worse quality than the competition.

It’s only good business because people are idiots and the people in these games are out to fleece idiots, not build a brand.
This is precisely why it's constantly argued that a phone is not a good 2nd factor for authentication. The auth data should be on a device that is basically worthless except for the data it holds which in turn is also inaccessible to someone else.

Arguing for laws that are "tough on crime" is regressive and doesn't even solve the actual problem.
Sounds like the next feature idea for Twitter Blue or whatever it's called now. Usually it's why you don't make these kinds of services because the company can just make it's own iteration.
I started a reading club at work that met once a week and we'd assign reading about 15-30 pages a week. We'd just have a unstructured chat in the meeting. Maybe I'd prompt people with "did you learn anything interesting from this section?" if people were quiet. There were often enough questions to fill the time.

Also the book could be read out of order, so I'd regularly solicit people to join when starting a new chapter. That helped keep membership to about 5-8.

Also I suggested people put reading the book in their year goals so they'd be motivated to finish.

I think about 6 of us finished the whole book.
Boss gives a dinner party at their home for their employees. All the guests show up in their best. Boss is in shorts, t-shirt and sandals.
It could be a first pass
> “Some writers are so well known that, despite having millions of followers, they literally don’t promote anything they write on social media. That is some strong countersignaling.”

This was every writer until about 13 years ago. That’s not a long time in a field where people can have 70 year long careers.

It’s interesting to consider how “doing the thing I’ve always done” can quickly become seen as countersignalling when society changes around you.
>In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group.
That's a great summary, but it's important to understand that much more goes into training these models. The architecture is not any kind of secret sauce, or special in any way. It's just a typical Transformer. I call this "architecture porn" - people love looking at neural net architectures and think that's the key to success. If only you know the algorithm! It's so simple!

But reality is usually much messier. The real training code will be littered with hundreds of ugly little tricks to make it work. A large part of it will be input preprocessing and data engineering, tricks to deal with exploding/vanishing gradients, monitoring, learning rate schedules and optimizer cycling, complexity for distributed training, regularization tricks, changing parts of the architecture for performance reasons (like attention), and so on.
For all that you have the JVM ecosystem with multiple better languages (including Java itself)
Should downloading/looking at people's chess games not be socially acceptable, in spite of it being a good way to learn?
I decide to share my ideas to add value. If you have any ideas to share I'll read them. I also publish ideas on halfbakery and infinity family.

Mathematics, computer science, business, civilization and society advances one idea at a time. You could be part of that too.

If you're expecting me to tell you how you should earn money then I'd tell you to do some work.

part of that work is coming up with ideas. I share mine. It takes effort.
Because they can't be properly implemented without generics, and generics were only shoehorned into Go a decade after its initial release.
Thankfully there's a ton of resources out there in blogs and YouTube to explain each question and answer. I got stuck and needed to use those maybe 10% of the time at least. No shame in that.
You are right that current planes are still pretty dumb. It's an artificial restriction though. Certification in this space is very tough for obvious reasons so there are not a lot of companies working on self flying planes because getting solutions in this space past the certification is going to be a long and expensive process. There are a few though and there have already been unmanned cargo flights.

From a technical point of view, flying and landing planes automatically is not that hard. It's a lot easier than self driving cars. And probably also a lot easier than landing a rocket, which is of course something that is not done manually by spacex. Why would they? It's way too complicated for humans and most of the important things require split second decision making far beyond what humans can even do.

The hard part is going to be fixing procedures and practices, which are optimized for humans communicating via 1960s technology. A lot of what pilots do isn't staying ahead of the plane (as they sometimes refer to it) but dealing with a crazy level of communication overhead of people yelling out courses, altitudes, transponder codes, radio frequencies, and weather information to each other over a really poor radio connection, while baby sitting the auto pilot, running down endless checklists, and micro managing it's gazillions sub systems. It's stressful and even very experienced pilots quickly loose the ability to keep up if they don't fly regularly. Because people fundamentally aren't very good at this stuff. They make mistakes. They mishear things. Etc. It's hard but also very much something that could and should benefit massively from automation. Lots more than we have today. All that check listing can be vastly simplified with automation. All the routine sharing of information can be done in text/binary form and be machine readable so the auto pilot can act on it (with or without human confirmation). Etc. But that requires change and the aviation world is extremely change resistant.

The military will likely get there first. The new B21 apparently can fly unmanned. It may still have a crew but it should be able to operate without one.
If you want to do WebAuthn "terribly" on Linux or elsewhere, the virtual-fido tool presents a fake WebAuthn hardware device over USB over IP.

https://github.com/bulwarkid/virtual-fido/
I hope they're training them in classical sculpture as well, even if it's just in Zbrush. Otherwise it'll just be mass manufactured McCathedrals. There's no substitute for aesthetic training. However, that being given, using any tools available to extend an artisan's abilities and output is obviously the right move.
Exactly. Broken windows theory…
I've had a phone stolen in Disneyland Europe, i assume they steal many and are highly professional.

It's too bad there isn't yet (?) to my knowledge a police unit that specializes on quickly responding to theft of trackable items.

It seems it would be rather easy to take out the entire operation.
> This is the first time in the history of humanity that the country leaders can be bypassed and money could be sent peer-to-peer between geographies. There is just no precedent to this [...]

"Hawala as a legal concept came to be described as early as 1327, according to Schramm and Taube,[5][6] though the actual practice has existed since the 8th century [...]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
This is language-dependent. The Japanese syllabary is sorted in the order a-i-u-e-o, which is weird to the Western ear, but as ubiquitous as A-B-C in Japan.
I’m not sure it’s a deliberate form of counter signaling, but… I see a lot of people emulate the antisocial or neurotic traits of the highly successful based on the faulty premise that these are causal for their success.

Will doing heroin make you a rock star?

Might it be that Steve Jobs and Elon Musk succeeded not because of but in spite of some of their antisocial traits? Maybe you should emulate their work ethic and skills instead.
the marginal value of small transactions is negligible.

If you want to evade taxes by skimming 5 cents on each coffee, you have to sell 200.000 unregistered coffees to save 1.000 euros.

Which is more than 3 times what an average Italian bar sells every year.
But how does it work? How is the program started if there has to be a - infront of the name? How do you set argv[0] when executing something?
Ask HN: Are FIFA games being manipulated?
Statistics: What is the probability of unlikely events happening so frequently at roughly the same time?
Saudi Arabia wins Argentina, Japan wins Germany, Cameroon wins Brazil, Morocco wins Spain AND Portugal...

As a business, if >60% of my high-income viewers (gen Z + millennials) follow the "woke" ideology, I want to cater to their wants by creating an "underdog" narrative so that I can gain viewership, market share, and loyalty (fans) in this demographic (age & region) to increase my merchandise and ad revenue.

Audience stats: https://www.digitalturbine.com/blog/consumer-research/world-cup-2022-global-audience-global-preferences/#:~:text=Who%27s%20Watching%3F,in%20close%20though%20with%2022%25
Which tool are you using for the virtual USB driver? The only one I know about is virtual-fido:

https://github.com/bulwarkid/virtual-fido
Swedish version:

- Ole Dole Doff

- Kinke Lane Koff

- Koffe Lane Binke Bane

- Ole Dole Doff

The words mean nothing, though Ole happens to be a Nordic given name.
:-D Yeah, OK, but that was part of the CPC+ series. It was just a CPC+ without a keyboard, IIRC.

The SAM Coupé was a great little machine -- I deeply regret selling mine -- but it took way too long to get to market.

I think in context with Communist Bloc improved Spectrum clones, it makes more sense. It was of course easier for companies and people over there (well, over here, for me now)_because they didn't need to worry about copyright law and could just copy the ROM.

I think there is an argument for high-end 8-bitters, and it's why the Spectrum Next exists. Because they are much easier to understand, and build, and modify, and copy, and program.

The industry rushed to 16-bit, because of the new features, but it took programmability out of owners' and users' hands.

Modern OSes are vastly, impossibly complex and people accustomed to them do not understand the virtue, indeed vital importance, of simplicity and comprehensibility.

This is why, for me, Python fails as a teaching tool for beginners. It embeds all the complexity of files handling, editors, OOPS, C output formats and so on. BASIC eliminated that. Its conceptual model was not of files and things but a much simpler and more accessible one:

You type some stuff.

No number in front? Computer does it now.
Number in front? Keep it for later.

That is inspired brilliance, but the Unix weenies want pro tools for all, even for kids.
I don't know, I don't even have (never had) a Twitter account, so I completely fail to see any particular utility in the whole stuff (I mean Twitter), but since everyone went on the barricades against the 7.99, no wait 11 if via Apple ;), blue mark/whatever recent idea I figured that Twitter users were philosophically against a paid for subscription.
I‘ve recently come to the conclusion that the magic of fully connected neural networks is that there are almost no tricks to reach close to sota. Dense layers + relu + adam = it just works
I'm pretty sure WebAuthn still needs session cookies too, since you only login once, not with every request like TLS client certs or HTTP Basic Auth.
I don’t think e-bikes have qualitatively changed this — I’ve witnessed these snatchings for over 10 years in London and they’re just as effective on a normal bike
Some interesting pearls in the article. Not sure I endorse non-nuanced extension of the idea to entire societies as the author does.
Isn't this line of argument somewhat self-defeating? It sounds as if these language design decisions that cause a vocal minority to complain loudly have only a marginal impact on actual productivity (or at least the perception of it). If so, that would be quite a good justification for not complicating the language by, e.g., adding enums, a non-nil pointer type, etc. etc.
One also wonders where all the cheap "refurbished" phones come from on eBay.

Are they actually legit (assuming a big seller, not a 20-star account), or are they "laundered" stolen phones?

A lot of them have Chinese ROMs, are they the reverse: stolen in China and sold abroad? Or just arbitrage of regional pricing?
3 second builds?
I think he's talking about companies primarily, and office space is the analogy (building offices analogous to building companies). Thus that company you built in the times of cheap money may not be profitable for a while, but its now got fewer competitors to deal with.
You forgot the fresh cup of really hot tea :)

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Infinite_Improbability_D...
Frontend guy: I've heard about a new framework, which dynamically loads content from APIs!!11 With that we can surely manage to do this!