skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To say globalization is dead is to say our elites were grotesquely, systematically, and with great consequences to all, wrong.

This is not a good take at all. It shows a very static view of the world, as if globalization (or anything) is either eternally right or eternally wrong.

Horses are dead as a means of local transportation. Does that mean our elites were grotesquely wrong about the value of horses... in the 1800's?

The gold standard is dead... does that mean our elites were grotesquely wrong through most of history?
Prisons, being largely a vehicle through which government acts to express society’s (or at least, the ruling class’s) moral outrage, act perfectly on-brand when picking and choosing books over moral outrage.
It all depends on how much they are spending. If joe has $1k disposable income he can play the lottery,crypto,options whatever. I personally only ever bought a few hundred dollars at a time only to sell at 5-10% profit. Even right now you can make a few bucks on the normal turbulence.

You seem to have overlooked my statement about rule #1 it has to be money you can afford to lose and of course people will tell you the risk is tol high, you have to learn the hard way if you think you know better.
If you follow that philosophy on intolerance, escalating polarization is the inevitable result. A small few people on the extreme ends being intolerable to each other put on a show of conflict that draws more people into the conflict.
Post-modern consensus is that there is no meaning.
"Explain X (an acronym) in the context of Y" has become by go-to use case for chatgpt, super good and cuts through a lot of the nonsense you run into when trying to pose the question to google.
Any markdown support? I don't see any in the feature list. :(
It isn't. It is just the difference between 5 seconds and 500 milliseconds.
Miranda warning?

There was no Miranda warning.

You see, the judge ruled that enough time had elapsed that the conversation was consensual. My wife said it was almost instant from when they pointed guns and sexually assaulted her in the front yard, the FBI agent said no more than 10 minutes, the judge said it was at least 15 minutes.

So, consensual, while they're literally blocking any exit she has, won't let anyone in the house use the bathroom without them watching, she's still not wearing anything decent, and a squad is ransacking the house.

This case stinks to high heaven. What beggars belief, for me, is how everyone finds it so easy to doubt what I say and so easy to accept as gospel what the government says.
Thank You. I know this wont reach HN's front page given the sensitive headline but still appreciate the submission.
> Europe is a museum at this point. Tourism is their future. What industrial sectors are left are protected by huge government subsidies and tariffs, but as energy goes up in price and their economic dynamism continues to fall, their future is keeping the capital cities pretty for US and Chinese to visit and take pictures.

German and swedish machining/mechanical engineering industry is essentially powerong the world's manufacturing. The biotech companies that gave us RNA vaccines are based in Europe. Where Europe is lagging is large supernational social media, software companies (although Spotify is Swedish). Hardly a museum. Also in comparison to the US or China the European market is quite open (the whole US defence is essentially a large government subsidy scheme).

I find it interesting that free market maximalists are always pointing to FANG companies as examples how the US unregulated market is so much better. The irony is that these companies are so big that they are largely outside free market pressures and competition and I would argue are a good example how the US dropped the ball on regulating industry to keep competition alive.
Of course, CICO is a tautology. It is literally the definition of weight loss, so you're saying the solution to weight loss is weight loss.

The problem is there is no widely-known, reliably-working way to sustainably eat fewer calories than you burn.

So CICO is essentially an admission of failure. We don't know.
I must be missing something because my Mac OS does not do that. There is a slide-in/over animation, but it's nearly instant.
Metabolic health =/= health. Obese people who are metabolically healthy are still at increased risk for adverse long-term outcomes (like heart attack) - source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24297192/. Obese people are 96% more likely to have heart failure - source: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317546

Sure, I'll grant that BMI is not the end all be all metric of health, but its a hell of a strong indicator, and pretending that its okay for your health to be obese is farcical.
Sometime in early 2018, we received one of those clear biscotti containers from an Apple Repair Center filled with replacement butterfly keys. That's when we knew it was bad.

Also, as I learned from the OG Pixel microphone class action, the squeaky wheel gets the payout. I felt like I'd bugged them enough after getting two RMAs for other problems that I just bought some Bluetooth headphones and didn't complain about the mic. Missed out on a few hundred dollars even though I could prove I was affected.
Are databases are becoming high speed query engines for object stores?
It depends how often you end up on the end of this flow:

Completely organic self-thought based on logic is counter to information from official sources.

The official source says your specific example is a conspiracy flavour of the month.

6 months pass and the information now matches your own.

Everyone knew, it just wasn't a big deal. A big nothing burger!

It is so tiresome.
> There was a recent flurry of buffer overflows in SHA3 implementations. I'm aware of at least PHP being affected.

Both your comment here and some stuff FiloSottile implied in the comment above seem like they would be (largely) mitigated by what the "Go 1.20 Cryptography" post mentions about using formally verified primitives that are generated by "fiat-crypto".

Beyond the curve primitive, wouldn't the majority of the code involved be shared/identical? These are closely related curves, not some oddball algorithm that requires a bespoke implementation. If things were more bespoke, I completely agree that would drastically alter the calculus, but if Ed448 is closely related, that seems like it would limit the surface area for mistakes quite a bit?
Not really. CPAN was already a thing when Python itself was released, long before there was any Python packages to share.
Especially if you ask the mice questions about their diet preferences 2 years ago.
This is a great story. Don't get discouraged!
Totally. I asked it to describe an obscure lithography technique (rapid electron area masking), and it gave a reasonable summary but at the end claimed it was widely used in industry...it's not used at all.
IME, ChatGPT works as well as the queries you feed to it.

You get a lot more bang for the buck by splitting up queries into very specific short ones.
> cheap HN upvotes.

I'm being downvoted and called a liar.
IRC: Run it or use it, but try to avoid doing both (2021)
Sorry I was not talking about McDonalds or a specific company. There you are right it does not matter one company.

More about countries trading important things between them or having dependent economies.
> You seem to have this preconceived notion in your mind that the Bay Area is the real world, and it's not.

Your insistence on trying to paint me into the object of your obsession, that people think the Bay Area is the real world and they are entitled to things you believe they have no rights to, while being wrong and out of place, is preventing any progress on your side in understanding what I am trying to tell you:

> Moving 2000km away from family and friends is an uprooting move.

It's hard, it hurts. That plays a role in people's behavior. You may not like it but it is what it is [0].

All the while you keep trying to convince me of something I don't disagree with (prices of real estate and houses in the US market). Quite frankly it's tiresome and I'll let you have the final word (another copy-paste of a napkin plan to become a homeowner or a rant against the youth-of-today and their damn iPhones I suppose).

[0] That being said, I can understand how frustrating it must be for you since according to your posts you don't seem to hold feelings in high regard or even have some, which would explain it all.
It's common for car mechanics and construction workers, especially in specializations like electrical or HVAC, to own and use their own tools. Obviously, better employers provide stipends or some form of compensation.
I use Polycrate [1] in conjunction with Ansible to create complex / monolithic systems with Docker / Swarm and to create a simpler interface for the end user than docker compose provides.

[1] https://docs.polycrate.io
Every Bank’s 2023 Market Outlook, Indexed and Searchable
You can just search for hats? Or voluntarily opt into getting tracked?
So let's ignore the headline and most of the article's content, since it's really not relevant to the most interesting supposition of the article.

First, two definitions, from the author:

1. On-Demand Learning: Learning done to solve a specific problem as it is encountered

2. Preliminary Learning: Learning done for the sake of a broad understanding of a subject

I disagree with the naming, but we'll roll with them for brevity's sake.

The author worries about on-demand learning being applied to the exclusion of preliminary learning.

Put another way, too many people read tutorials without reading general information.

So, the solution is pretty simple, on the face of it - make sure you're regularly learning broad areas, not just specific solutions.

Read a variety of books. Acquire a broad base of knowledge.
At minimum if you're gonna lay someone off then any employee benefit that required they worked there for x months/years should be immediately paid out.
The comparison to roadrunner is an awesome one for someone not familiar with Tamariz
would you prefer "oligarchs"? (I would.)
That's exactly what I said. 300 cals indefinitely. I obviously didn't mean you eat one slice of pizza and gain 50lbs.

It's easy to say "put down the pizza," but pizza is just an example.

300 calories is also 1/4 a cup of rice (50 cals), 1/3 service of chicken (100 cals) an egg (78 cals), a teaspoon of olive oil (40 cals), and a toast (75 cals).

There are lot of reasons its hard to cut weight. Measuring calorie intake to 300 calories is hard enough. But also, its easy to eat a bit more at each meal if you are hungry (and it adds up).
Tried it out. I like this idea, but requiring two hands is a deal-breaker for me. I need to be able to switch apps while my hands are over the keyboard without needing mouse/trackpad interaction, ideally staying as close to home row as possible.
I think people prefer on-demand approach because

learning without purpose sucks, I mean it's still very valuable, but it sucks in that sense that it is "unpredicatbly effective".

It means that you may learn some stuff and be asked about it on a interview month later, or use it in your task a two months later. It's unpredictable.

It has one strong advantage - namely you're prepared when facing problem.

In both work and academia I've been doing things ahead - sometimes due to work, sometimes due to curiosity and when facing those problem during lectures or work then I've been prepared.

It's advantage, but the process sucks, is boring and unpredictable.

I think on-demand approach doesn't work well when the problems are getting harder and require more knowledge / exp and you gotta have solid foundations and proficiency to some point in your hands.

I think it'd be hard to do cryptography, reverse engineering, writing database, compiler, os, etc. when learning on-demand. It'd feel miserable, I think.
This is one reason I value reuse and premade software suites over scriptability or composability

A spreadsheet makes one off manual tasks easy enough that I don't need whatever awk would offer.
Some discussion of this phenomenon here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720356
When Andy rages about databases using mmap, he means using it to replace the buffer pool. In theory, it provides exactly what the database needs by paging the data in and out on demand. In practice this scales poorly to large number of threads due to TLB shootdowns, and as Nikita said, you give up control of memory usage (since it’s the OS managing it).

Nobody is arguing that you shouldn’t call mmap to get yourself a few anonymous virtual pages to do your work in.
Men used to be able support an entire family working in a Ford factory.

Then globalization happened.

I don't pretend that will be coming back in its entirety, but there will be plenty of people willing to work in a factory assembling iPhones.
Yes. And the corollary is that you shouldn't be dependent on your current employer for basic needs, e.g. health insurance.
Taiwan: Why the US and China are on collision course for war
Thanks, Captain Hindsight.
Unless you live in Minnesota:

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/2022/cite/325E.65
The Great Shortage of ServiceNow Talent
A Shortage of ServiceNow Talent is Upon Us
If I want that service and someone wants to provide it to me, how is it the role of government to say we can't make that trade?
On healthcare,

> Pharmaceutical breakthroughs are financed by the high prices paid by American patients (and backed by abundant venture capital); government-run health systems in Europe then bulk-buy the same drugs for much less.

If pharma companies did not have expectations for full price to be paid in America, they wouldn't waste their money developing therapies. This effect also applies to pharma companies in Europe that develop for American markets.

In general, I am not in favor of more military spending - but Europe is perceived as relying on the US for security arrangements as well.
You should ask for your tokens back.
Bob Dylan Says Streaming Has Made Music 'Too Smooth and Painless'
https://archive.ph/Pw9nu
Platform engineering can mean adapting something for a platform. For example a platform engineer may take an application and ensuring it works on Linux, Mac and Windows. That can mean coding, as well a deploying the CI/CD that ensures it is built, tested and published across platforms.
That you should save money and not be dependent on the generosity of your employer or the government to make sure you can continue to have food and shelter.
Eh, you're just switching problems with the 'consent' model. I'm very much in the camp that the corpus of human knowledge is not some companies IP, this just pushes ownership further into hands of large and well monied companies and further baits patent/IP trolls to lock up collective knowledge.
Hypothesis: This is good, actually. Let's just get it over with instead of having another 50 year Cold War.
Too difficult obviously, as the author rewrote the core function in rust... m(
This honestly sounds like the same experience one gets when talking to humans :)

I'm only half joking. Even experts in their field tend to inject their own biases and experiential preferences when answering questions in depth.
Integral calculus before differential calculus is how it is done in Apostol's "Calculus". Here are the first several chapter titles to give an idea of what is covered when.

Introduction
The Concepts of Integral Calculus
Some Applications of Integration
Continuous Functions
Differential Calculus
The Relation Between Integration and Differentiation
The Logarithm, The Exponential, and The Inverse Trigonometric Functions
Polynomial Approximations to Functions
Introduction to Differential Equations
Complex Numbers
Sequences Infinite Series, Improper Integrals
Sequences and Series of Functions

(the rest of volume I is vector algebra and calculus and linear algebra).

That book was widely used at Caltech, MIT, and several other top schools for decades.
"PMF"?
> I use the second amendment as an example of an enshrined right that doesn't change when new tech develops.

But neither the First nor the Second apply to private property/services. Never have. The Second Amendment infers rights in certain situations, just as the First does.

Twitter gets to say "no transphobia" if they want for the same reasons they can say "no guns allowed in our HQ". The newness of the technology is irrelevant; their right to determine what happens on their property goes back to the founding of the country and further.
SponsorBlock is the response. It's a crowdsourced extension that labels parts of the video, like sponsor segments, highlights, intro/outro, etc. Very useful, you can skip through useless segments.
this is real cool and looks useful - thanks!
Ford updates Mustang Mach-E UI; now you can turn a knob to change temps
>I can lean over, with one hand, and rest the phone on the dock, and it latches into place. When I want the phone, I can gently tug on it - with one hand.

I still don't get the hype. Like sure, its less effort, but the effort being discussed is such a trivial amount. It takes me as much effort to plug in my phone as it does to scratch my back or something. I don't even think about it. There's so many things I plug in over the course of modern life.
Why are you getting downvoted? I dont get that....
> WTF is the ! for?

This takes so little time to learn. Same with ?.

While ! is not always the same meaning, it exists when there is a non-bang version; and it means "watch out, this does some sh*t". Maybe it means mutating the source, or maybe it means "doesn't take the usual path", as with Active Record stuff (raising an exception if validations fail on save instead of just returning false).

And the ? is a godsend, as you can clearly indicate functions which return a boolean (or intentionally truthy) value. As naming functions is a chore, and one which can have significant impact on code readability later, the ! and ? have good value when used properly.

For example, Python's sorted() vs list.sort(). If you are new to Python, and you see sorted(list), you may wonder if that is telling you if the list is sorted or sorting the list. It's actually also very awkward, because most functions are named as their actions in present tense, not in past tense. The built-in Python function "sorted" really should be "sort".

In the list of Python built-in functions, you see present tense verbs like slice(), sum(), round(), etc. Those are inconsistent with sorted() and reversed(). When we see a past tense verb, it feels like a question. With Ruby, if it's a question, it ends with a ?.

BTW, why the hell is Python sorted() and reversed() not just called sort() and reverse()?

And while I'm ranting about inconsistencies, Python my_list.sort() mutates my_list, while sorted(my_list) doesn't. In Ruby, my_list.sort returns my_list sorted, without mutating. my_list.sort!. That is consistent and concise, and the bang warns you that it is destructive.
But if we all rely on machines perpetually and our English comprehension skills degrade, we won't recognize if a post is written poorly. We just need standards to slip more, then all of our writing will be "good".
NY Times. I gave them money for a subscription. I'm fine with that. What I found to be just enough of a deal breaker is the ads remain as a subscriber.
I'd argue that level of ambiguity counts as garbage out, although I'm confident it will get better.
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How do you define Linux? The Linux kernel runs on billions of Android phones. It's also runs on chromebooks which sell in high volumes to kids in the K-12 schools.
Globalization is dead the day the math of specialization and division of labor is no longer relevant. Until then we are just flirting with unsustainable inefficiency.
Interest rates increased by 4 basis points from Dec 2021 to Dec 2022.[1] So a 3% loan then would be a 7% loan now or a 5% loan then would be a 9% loan now. The starting rate would depend on your credit score or other factors.

Citation:
[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDSLa
Qualcomm launches auto chip to handle both assisted driving and entertainment
This site is all over the place. It's not a trojan, and based on the description, it's not a backdoor.
Twitter lifts political ad ban designed to stop misinformation spread
Well, yeah. Of course.

The question is, how much did it matter? It's impossible to tell without a control. The answer is almost certainly "more than zero", but I don't know if it's significantly more than that.

Under Poe's Law, it's hard to tell a real extremist from a parody of an extremist. Trolls aren't doing anything to us that we're not doing to ourselves. Maybe they're doing it a little harder, and maybe they're doing it in a resonant way that turns a lot of little pushes into a big effect. But it's also entirely possible that they're just adding noise to a noisy system.

American elections are nearly always close. It takes only a small nudge to have a large impact on the outcome. But there are also a lot of nudges, in both directions.

I can't help but think of this article as chest-beating, precisely at a time when the election didn't especially go Russia's way. The result was mixed, at a time when the party in power was expected to lose dramatically.

I do think America would be better off if we all learned to exclude the more obvious external trolling. But I also think we troll each other an awful lot, as a deliberate political strategy. It's a strategy that favors the status quo; it benefits those who don't want anything to change and makes coordination more difficult.

Given the way it benefits some people, I don't see it changing any time soon. And the Russians can continue exploiting it, given how little it costs. But I'm not really sure it actually gives them any benefits compared to just letting us do it to ourselves.
Nice to see car manufactures acknowledge that physical controls are worthy of consideration, even if it is after the fact.
The providers lean on you for the heavy lift. The weakness is always at the integration points.

It’s all pretty meaningless anyway, lots of real health data is legally leaked via insurance and pharmacy data feeds.
While I think timing is important (my sleep improves significantly when I stop eating several hours before sleeping, even better if the last meal is high fiber), suggesting that timing is equally important to food quality is obvious nonsense. Try eating just garbage but at all the "right" times and see how that works for you.
After my experience running a WordPress blog back in the mid-late 2000s, I swore off of it. Even with the meager traffic I got I saw a constant barrage of linkfarm exploits and the like that occurred with even the most brief lapses in keeping WP up to date.

Haven't had a blog in about a decade, but when I spin one back up it'll be with a static generator like Zola[0] running on a provider like Netlify[1]. Comments are nice to have but not worth the hassle that comes with a dynamic app or the moderation overhead required to keep comment spam at bay.

[0]: https://www.getzola.org/
[1]: https://www.netlify.com/
Green surge is circuit breaker on nuclear revival
Hobbies are overrated. Arguing politics on the Internet is another hobby.
still waiting on acknowledgement and/or crow-eating for the hundreds of posts claiming that Elon Musk will never succeed in buying Twitter (but he might be forced to pay for it anyway)…!