skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I try not to comment to 'defend my views' because it's a bit lame, I have to plainly say I am not "just opening my eyes to the huge role central banks play in the economy." I have been following markets many years, both as an investor and because I enjoy reading about economic history (also as part of my study).

My whole point with that sentence was - did you ever pay attention to a Jackson Hole conference before say 2022/2021, which was previously a relatively bureaucratic non-event? I certainly didn't, and now suddenly so many people around me were trying to trade it and the S&P500 moves 5% a day on it. That's the only point of that sentence, but you seem to be extrapolating much more from it... including whether or not I even deserve to write.

And are you really saying that not knowing of a Jackson Hole conference is indicative of 'not knowing anything about the past?' or whatever it is you meant there. Either way, that's just ridiculous gatekeeping of knowledge of financial markets and history based on a useless, pidgeonholed criterion - like whether or not someone is familiar with Jackson Hole.

If you didn't like the article, that's totally okay, but don't be so arbitrarily dismissive.
Dark mode is unusable for me, maybe because of the slight astigmatism in one of my eyes. What works is bright mode, warmer colors, and lowering the brightness.
Far-right as defined by The Atlantic:

>Musk’s pet ideological issues: that the mainstream media is ethically bankrupt, that social media and most elite institutions are biased and colluding with the government.

Let's see what the Far-left Jacobin mag has to say about The Atlantic's credibility:

>Jeffrey Goldberg, who has admitted taking part in — and covering up — brutal beatings as a former guard in a detention camp for Palestinian political prisoners, has matured from such physical violence into the armchair variety, always safer for the perpetrator. As a New Yorker writer, he peddled, with very thin evidence, the now-discredited connection between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda, which Bush used to make the case for war with Iraq. Now, Goldberg is the top editor at the Atlantic...

https://jacobin.com/2020/01/iraq-war-iran-media-bret-stephen...

Perhaps this is why Musk might have those "pet ideological" issues. It doesn't seem out of place for The Atlantic to smear him for these objections.
>the rest of the west were letting it rip in 2020~2021

That's funny. As restrictions started to lift during 2021 (UK/Wales), some complained that the government was now letting it rip. Just shows - anyone more cautious than you is needlessly scared, and anyone less cautious is an idiot.
"Ethnic group"s are generally not homogenous and definitely not supported by genetic evidence in the way folks usually think about them.
It sounds like they continued chemo.

T-cells immune from the chemo targeting cancerous T-cells during the chemo treatment is pretty potent.
> The problem with ChatGPT is that it often reads authoritative. But is often just flat out wrong.

That sounds pretty damn human to me.
I have nothing of value to add, but I'm confused as to why HN didn't find this more interesting.
Eh, depends.

I found a bug once in Clojure's implementation of format. It was perfectly reproducible, Clojure's behavior was out of spec, and it didn't match SBCL's output from an identical call to format.

I wanted to report it, but I had to give up on that; the process was too opaque.
Great example, should have known this one.
The wider point is that, despite some of the most draconian lockdowns on earth, Australia hasn't escaped Covid.
I may not realize it was written by ChatGPT, but I would still downvote it, because it's a fluff comment that just states a preference without telling why. Plus it has a hashtag in it, and... no. Just no.
probably ? No idea about details.

I guess "just" terminating them would be fine if you just installed it once but at least looking at tutorials it does look like a PITA compared to CAT connectors
This is like saying "Novels have to change because they're a pain to read via Twitter". Or "Landscape painting has to change because it's boring to sit in a movie theatre and watch them on a slideshow". Let media play into their own strengths.
The central banks are controlling the rates, but they don't have so many freedom in doing so then we think. They need to think about inflation projection, consumer spending, geopolitical factors,... They seems more responding to the environment than dictating the market.
"Everybody hates ads"

Wrong.

I don't remember being disturbed by advertisements in the magazines are read, and even in some of the books I read, nor in the print newspapers.

What I hate are advertisements that attack me: vectors for viruses, assault me with noises when I am reading, suddenly block the page I am viewing.

If Web advertisers treated their audience better, I suspect there would be a lot fewer installations of uBlock origin
Sounds like what we have already! Given OP's choice of words ("two-tier"), it brought to mind something more like the European system.
One Man's Dream Is Another Man's Nightmare.
I personally trust Apple, because for them _I_ am the customer. They get their money from selling devices and software for said devices. Thus they want to keep _me_ happy. Ad income is a rounding error in their yearly revenue.

Google is an ad company with a side business in making hardware, software and web services. Advertisers are their clients, they do everything they can to keep the advertisers happy.

...and the one big thing that keeps ad people happy is knowing as much as possible about their customers, which is completely antithetical to user privacy.
Interesting, I’ve never noticed such symbolism in my dreams (that I remember), neither enough reasoning abilities to relate something symbolic to a real phenomenon.

One of my recent dreams was about me in a room full of indifferent people and one with a knife looking at me. I took a knife away from him, pushed him onto a window sill and carved crosses on his knees.

I have no idea what this means.
I'd expect reddit to be flooded by these but HN would not care much.
Interesting and very welcome improvements. Can't wait to get my hands on a full C23 compiler.
My family has copy of Mr. President[1], a 1967 game that simulates a US presidential election in fairly detailed fashion. As part of the game, the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates will have positions on a number of controversial issues, one of which is Space exploration, right up there with things like entitlement programs and Vietnam.

As a kid in the 80s, most of the issues made sense as "yeah, people still debate this", but seeing space exploration there as a big, controversial thing while living through the heyday of the pre-Challenger shuttle program always gave me this strong sense of cognitive dissonance.

1. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/476/mr-president
Can you not use random acronyms without explaining what they are? Why do you expect that everyone knows what SAD means in your current context? I get it when someone mentions AWS or MSFT or LED on a tech site.. but "SAD syndrome" ?
> Enrollment in the medical field is falling drastically because no one wants to work years to make less money than some 24 year old with two years of coding experience.

Good comment overall, but I think the issues in the medical field are less about compensation and much much more about insane working conditions and a lot of disincentives. If you want a glimpse at some of it, maybe occasionally check out https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/ or blog posts and articles.

Same problems here in Germany, but maybe - hope dies last - some movement? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-berlin-b2239733.html

> An expert panel has unveiled a proposal for a major overhaul of Germany’s system for funding hospitals that it says will promote quality over quantity

EDIT (after responses):

If you have a hammer... The nice thing about always thinking everything is "money" is that everybody can join any discussion. There is no need to look at the details of the specific issue. Sorry for the sarcasm, but I think this fits sooo many discussions. Similar with discussions around education too.

Simultaneously we have plenty of threads right on HN where people realize life satisfaction surprisingly does not hinge on pay - after some threshold, where the basic worries about how to get the basic necessities without worrying.

Sure extreme pay would get quite a few more people into health care, but it would be an extremely unhealthy and inefficient way. Yes you can just not solve the actual major problems and just throw money at an issue, and especially younger people will see it as an opportunity to bite the bullet and endure bad conditions to work in that job for a while, to have a lot of money for middle age.

On the other hand, if a minimum pay is guaranteed, the environment, satisfaction with the job and the environment, and the feeling of doing something really useful for society, become much better places for adjustments than pay. Especially when it's as bad as it is right now, which is kind of extreme. Just looking at 24 hour shifts, really??? Health care is the last place where that should exist, since that's the place where there should be the most knowledge about how bad for long-term health and also for short-term efficiency this is. I would not enter that field for that one thing alone already, because it's just too ridiculous. Once in a while out of necessity, sure, but as regular part of the system?
Counter-counter-proposal. There is truth, but no single epistemology is both complete and consistent; therefore, you must employ multiple epistemologies to understand the world, and will fail in some edge cases because the epistemology or interpretation you need hadn't been invented yet (or more mundanely, you made a mistake in your analysis). You can have multiple truths that seem to contradict each other, but are actually from different epistemologies and so can't be meaningfully compared.

Truth is difficult but we can't give up on it. We can't just say, truth is a narrative and all narratives are equal. Or even, some narratives are anointed by consensus. It is not consensus that makes the Earth orbit the Sun. When we reduce truth in this way, we invite the bullshit you described elsewhere.

Another way to think about it is, "truth is a narrative" is a complete epistemology riddled with inconsistencies. There may be some times when it's appropriate; if you're an anthropologist trying to understand different cultures with very different ideas to your own, it may be a very useful frame of thinking to just accept, at least provisionally, whatever it is that the people you meet think. Sometimes we can just let different ideas be in tension and we don't need to come to a consensus. But sometimes we do.

Of course there is no free lunch and this "system of epistemologies" strategy I propose is N epistemologies in a trench coat. It is itself an epistemology, and we're trading completeness for correctness by adopting multiple, contradictory epistemologies and using judgement to decide between them. C'est la vie.

To give a concrete example of what I mean: when I'm wondering what will happen if I throw something, I think in terms of Newtonian physics; when I'm wondering what will happen if I mix chemicals together, I'm using chemistry/quantum physics; when I'm wondering whether I should make a comment on HN, I use an ad-hoc vibes based epistemology based on my experience on HN; when I'm wondering what the nature of reality and the human condition is, I have a similarly ad-hoc spirituality I've developed.
There's the quality of the written commentary (which is all that matters for anyone only reading, never posting on HN) and the quality of the engagement of people that do write comments (which include how much their learned, the emotions they had, and other less tangible stuff)

I think HN is optimizing for the former quality aspects and not the latter. So in that sense, if you can't tell if it's written by a bot, does it matter? (cue Westworld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaahx4hMxmw)
Imagine thinking an industry worth $0.00 is worth $800B. You really live in a bubble
Missing "the great dictator".
> > "if it's not tested, it's not functionality"

This suggests you may have not 100% test coverage in your tests. But 100% coverage if what? What is the specification you're defining your behaviour against?

The comment above suggests that you could treat your tests as if they were the ones that actually define your contract.

> Hyrum would like to have a word.

This is a reference to "Hyrum's law" which says:

"With a sufficient number of users of an API,
it does not matter what you promise in the contract:
all observable behaviors of your system
will be depended on by somebody."

This comment, in response to the previous about defining tests as the source of truth for your contract, remarks that sadly you can't do that because no matter what contract you wish you define, ultimately the behaviour of your existing software becomes its effective contract.

> [My comment about monorepos]

Here I suggest that if you extend the notion of what is the test corpus to include the test corpus of all of the software that depend on you (not your dependencies! The code whom your code is a dependency) then you could detect if a (yet unmerged) change you're making is actually going to affect any existing code.
> There were far too many people who wanted to be doctors; maybe if the supply drops...

Actually, the problem is not that no-one wants to become a doctor, the issue is that there are too few open places in the medical schools. If it's due to lobbying by doctor's organizations or just bad planning by governments or something else I do not know. In all countries I have some visibility into there is no lack of people wanting to attend medical school and there are qualified applicants in the order of 100 to 1. And there is an accute need of doctors (and nurses) in those countries.

And regarding doctor's pay, I do not necessarily agree that it is too low, but I agree the salaries for software engineers is too high in many regions, particularly in the US, and certainly on the west coast.

And to nuance my comment on doctor's pay, I think it is important to note that a doctor has to study and practice in a hospital for about a total time of 10 years before graduating as an MD and start earning a decent salary. Thus many years of lost salary if comparing that with an engineer, and even more if comparing to someone just taking a couple of years of programming courses.
Terrible that they FORCED FTX to gamble with customer funds, lie about it and then get caught. HOW DARE THEY!!!!
Came here to write this exact comment. Floaters are distracting and break the flow. Dark theme means less distractions. This was probably the easiest choice I made in my life.
The article compares a market of a printed product (which is declining, and that's true for virtually ALL printed material) to a market of a purely digital distribution method (which is massively increasing, and that's true for virtually ALL digitally distributed material).

It would be more honest to compare the digital manga market to the digital Korean webtoon market - but then you wouldn't be able to write a little-informed article putting one source of entertainment into decline as compared to another.
When I purchased my house, we used the standard form...with half the paragraphs crossed out and about five pages of riders attached. I guess it gives a good starting place for the negotiation, but it sure felt silly.
That's not what I said...
Perhaps Austrian Economics has something to it after all:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
I'm guessing the stresses on the propellers at high rpms typical for planes might be an issue. The issue with plane noise is the tip of the propeller breaking the speed of sound. This is what generates a lot of the noise. Having a lot of mass there might be an issue. The prop might rip itself apart. Rpms in water are a lot lower so, it's less of an issue there.
Makes sense. For context I wrote that comment when there were like 4 other comments, didn't even realize this was addressed in the guidelines until I came back to this thread just now.
Have you seen ChatGPT responses? It can easily find out yesterday's topics and write a 10 page essay.
Are you the writer? In what way was the rise of Vanguard driven by cheap credit?
It would be interesting to see this site with the prompt adjusted to specify some particular school of dream analysis.

As is, the answer I got was at least at the level of a member of the general public giving a thoughtful answer which is pretty impressive
Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don’t Have Testers
Not saying we shouldn't use HTTPS, but if your ISP is injecting ads and malware into your internet traffic, the real solution would be to sue/legislate them out of existence.
Rural person here. We've been having this argument in the UK for the last... Oh, 400 years at least. It basically boils down to, some muppet in Whitehall shouldn't be making laws about what to do with sheep/cattle/pasture/abattoirs/grain coatings...

There's a lot of truth in it. You think there's bad regulation in tech? It's nothing compared to regulation on farming and ag generally.

In terms of solutions, the only one I've ever seen proposed which I think could work would be to have governing bodies for rural areas (and this could apply more broadly to areas of society), where they are free to make laws as it pertains to the area of responsibility of the group, with a coordinating body overseeing the groups to design for efficiency and arbitrate where conflicts arise.
I'm in the wg14, and I made a passionate argument against defer. C is all about simplicity and clarity, over conviniance. Defer, is an invisible jump, its much better using a goto, that clearly denotes a change in flow. In C everything should be as clear and as explicit as possible. Nothing should happen without the user explicitly saying so. This means more typing, and thats fine, there are plenty of languages that offer loads of syntax sugar if thats what users want, but only C offers clarity.
Ah, some good food for thought for those new Linux users that have no understanding of software engineering and caching.

Because most engineers know that memory usage of different pieces of software does not mean very much. It is very possible that that a DE boots into 100 MB, and then it's usage grows to absurd level while it is being used due to poor coding or architectural practices, while another DE might use 500 MB at boot, and then not increase very much because all its core logic is contained within this amount of memory.

Many enthusiastic people entering the Linux world, the type that run neofetch and post it on Reddit every time they jump to a new distro, are always really interested in the RAM usage figures, as if they were a real indicator of "bloat".

While I immensely appreciate how clearly it defines the methodology of this comparison, posts like this are a good way of keeping that dumb practice of running `free` after boot and drawing conclusions alive.
How to fuzz Java projects in JUnit using @fuzztest
Allow them as long as they make clear that they are generated, ban deceptive behavior
Draw-dropping art with amazing story (Berserk, Vagabond) and excellent real-world style mystery/thrillers (Monster, 20th Century Boys).

The world culture in webtoons is worse than manga: one of the biggest - Tower of God - is on indefinite hiatus because the manwhaka has been broken by the non-stop work culture.
I suspect a lack of general education and/or “soft skills”. I say this as a resident of a poorer US city, there are tons of barely literate people incapable of performing simple math who also don’t know how to handle conflict or social friction effectively.
I worry about a compiler monoculture if so. GCC will take a big blow if it gets replaced for the kernel.
If the host (DediPath) is not respecting DMCA notices, one other thing you can do is adding the requester's IP address to every page, eg as a div class. If the responses are live proxied, this will surface the cloner's front-facing IP address, and you can block that (and their ASN) specifically.
Have you seen this story (must be non-mobile)?

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=...

If you’re mobile the scrolling breaks. Otherwise it’s an interesting example of the medium.
I think manga still has a much greater cultural foothold than webtoons

Also I read that 80% of Japanese adults read manga, so it will continue to exist even if it shrinks
I was trying to say that eventually, errors in Go distill to strings. Of course the type which represents errors can be anything, I thought it is obvious and it is also mentioned in the introduction section which you may have skipped.
But the reality is that we're fast approaching a future where every service assumes you have a smartphone and leaves you SOL if you don't.

As an extreme example, my previous workplace had a "smart" lock on the door that could only be opened with a bluetooth-enabled smartphone and a dedicated app. It was immensely dumb and everyone hated it, but the owners thought they could save on keycards by doing this and so they did, because every employee had a smartphone anyways.
All the 1500 practice patients video-chat with doctors there. The practice plans to grow by online-only patients. Personal doctor by subscription. EMR.
Boolean values are inherently a sign of an insufficient data model. Booleans carry no inherent meaning. They don't tell you where they came from or provide any context about what operations or data they are guarding.

If your language lets you declare your own algebraic data types, there's no need to lean on a built-in Boolean type. You can create types that actually carry all the information you need so that pattern matching provides provenance and data only in the branches that need them.

Robert Harper discusses the idea in some detail here: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/boolean-bli...
As an accountant and auditor I would call this an assurance engagement, not an audit.
How do you make a working reputation system? Reddit, for example, has bots populating the top karma levels.
Mangaka work culture really depends on the specific place. In some it isn't too bad, but in many it is. I do think we only hear about the bad cases sometimes
Then where they're coming from should be exceedingly visible in logs (via splunk or whatever), so deny those requests.
I was suspicious of javascript where number replaces int and double. The fail in verse is a way to replace boolean and null values. I think it is the direction of evolution.
> The solution would be to pay the maid more, but there's an oversupply of unskilled labor

The… misstep in reasoning here seems to me to consider that « maid » (and many other low-wage ones) is unskilled labor and/or painless, thus « deserves » lower wages.

I can say from witnessing it first-hand that not 1 in 10 of those high-profiles engineers or managers I have met are not at all equipped to work as a maid.
I think that puts too much faith in the average person
There are browser extensions that help with this. I use a adlist for ublock-origin that uses the cosmetic filters to remove some offending sites from search results. For me this includes Wikipedia and StackOverflow clones, Quora and a few others