skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It honestly seems like American only problem though. So many commenters mention it but I have never experienced it here in UK(despite ordering a total of 500 items from Amazon in the last two years) nor do I know anyone who has.

I think one or two orders were late by a day, Amazon just gave me a month of prime as compensation each time.
> If your account is zero, you're not paying any tax, and the account grows quicker.

So the best strategy for any individual to maximise their accumulation in your currency (or in practice, minimise their losses) is to refuse to accept payments into their account, insisting on receiving payments in other currencies instead.

As everyone is incentivised to refuse your currency and nobody is incentivised or required to accept it, your currency can't actually be spent.
I think that bit is the article's editorialising. Actual quotes from the study say:

> The study authors recognise that not everyone lives in a cycle-friendly place - but call for an “urgent” expansion of cycling infrastructure worldwide.

> “Lessons learned from successful experiences in countries like Denmark and the Netherlands, particularly on the city level such as Copenhagen and Amsterdam, would be essential,” they write.

> “These include but are not limited to, for example, proper bicycle lanes planning and construction, pro-bicycle education and culture, and policies to discourage car use through tax.”
But the German „Krokette“ are something different then the Dutch Kroketten :)
>This house was built with parens.

While the metaphor is correct.

(House(kitchen ( bathroom (bedroom))))

Surely the meaningful part of a house, or lisp, is everything else.

(((()))) Is neither a house nor lisp.

Yes it probably is, but the meaningful part is the nothing that's in there, not the parens surrounding the nothing.

A house isn't just 4 walls. It's where you live, surely that's the important part.

I'll stop getting philosophical with throwaway comments now.
yeah probably lost forever

this might be a good case for lifelogging, at least it would give you a limited set of movies to search
I wonder what you hear then. To me it sounds like "I'm out of options". It makes me think of this aid program that gave people in really poor countries money instead of food. With money they could of course buy food, but also save to improve their life in general, for example by improving their housing, buying a goat, sending their children to school, etc.
Previously, they were just dependent on the food, medicines, and whatever was provided by the system and the situation rarely changed for the better.

I think it's similar, at least where I live. With a better support system, people seem to be less likely to get dependent on it. Seems like a good thing to do in the long run, even if you just think about it economically.

Unless, perhaps, you need a class of people that are in a sort of benefits bondage. I don't really want to think that this is by design though.
The problem with dependency injection frameworks
12 Hz refresh rate on the eInk display.
( So ~ 80ms or so refresh )

COLOUR eInk BTW - not just black and white | shades of grey!
https://metricdc.org
Ask HN: Are you also using ChatGPT a lot every day for code related work?
I find my self sending at least 20 to 50 messages to ChatGPT every day. I would probably need to check 2-5 links on Google, and combine information to solve the same.

Now I feel I solve more than 50x as much on open source projects. Faster feedback. Can iterate on my phone on a walk, and come back to push code.

The best part is that I feel I have a lot more energy and can do more of the fun part; solving problems.

The only “bug” I find is that I often have to ask ChatGPT to repeat the last part of the code, to get it to print everything.

Anyone else that is doing the same? And have some other tricks to speed it the development process?
Fish 3.6.0
Lipstick Effect
> Mistake 1: Not using sdl2-config

> Mistake 2: Including SDL2/SDL.h

The overarching mistake here is not using a proper build toolchain (build system and package manager). I especially take issue with this assertion:

> The correct SDL2 include is the following:

> #include "SDL.h"

Including headers with the library prefix (#include <SDL2/SDL.h>) is our only hope to have an inter-operable ecosystem of C/C++ libraries. Let me illustrate this with a concrete example. What the article suggests is having the header search path (i.e., -I option from sdl2-config) pointing to the location of the SDL.h header (say, /usr/include/SDL2). But there are other headers[1]in there. Thankfully, most of them have the SDL_ prefix (by all means an exception rather than the rule, when it comes to C/C++ libraries), but not all. For example, there is the generically-named begin_code.h header.

Imagine now that your project is using another library with the same arrangement which also contains a bunch of generically-named headers and one of them happened to be called begin_code.h. Now which one gets picked up depends on the order of the -I options that are passed to the compiler.

[1] https://packages.debian.org/stable/amd64/libsdl2-dev/filelis...
EDAboard database leak exposes 459k user accounts
Let’s hope Elon doesn’t read this
My sister just bought a house in Manchester(one of the larger UK cities) for £150k - she only needed a 5% deposit(so £7.5k) - she was able to save that within two years, working as a (rather poorly paid) photographer.

I myself bought a house in Newcastle(not major, but not a tiny city) two years ago for £180k, we needed a 10% but me and my wife are in IT so we saved that in a year.

My point is that yes - it's a global problem, but I honestly don't think everyone everywhere needs to save up for 7 years just to get a deposit. Maybe if you live in London you do, but elsewhere? Meh. Basic 3 bed houses are not so crazy expensive in most places, at least here in UK.
Yep, I'm also grateful to have discovered i3, only several years ago for me. Thanks to its low memory usage it's helped me save a decent amount of money as I'm able to easily develop on a Linux VM running on an 8GB M1 and don't need to upgrade to 16GB.
Social contagions can cause genuine illness, and TikTok may be a superspreader
I said nowhere in that article method polymorphism is implemented.

Well, not quite. You said that it isn't OOP without method polymorphism. So no need to fly off the handle and accuse others of misreading something you didn't write.
I've thought about remapping my keyboard before (and I do use caps lock as escape), but any significant changes just mean I'll be totally confused whenever I use a regular QWERTY keyboard.
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Similar. We have fairly large project, a few MLOC with many hundreds of windows/forms, all kinds of IO and whatnot. We've got code in production that was written back in Delphi 3 days (1997) that's chugging along just fine.

The only thing I think is hard to debug is focus related issues, due to the Windows event loop getting in the way. That's hardly a Delphi-specific issue though.

Other than that debugging and maintenance is quite easy. In fact we don't have to spend much at all on actual maintenance, as backwards compatibility has been great in the new versions. For example, the switch from non-unicode to unicode strings took us just a couple of days. And we're in the Nordics so we'd notice quick with our "weird" letters.
Greetings first commenter! I agree, Discord is pretty amazing because it gives you a lot of features for free that you'd need when starting out. The flip side, just from observing other servers, is that you constantly have to manage the channels. Too many, and people are barely posting in them because they can't find them and/or they're too niche; too few, and you get lost in the torrent of messages in a single channel.
The purpose of anti-trust is to prevent firms from exercising market power that leads to predatory pricing and anti-competitive behaviors that lower social surplus and innovation. There's a whole subfield of economics called Industrial Organization that tackles this.
Oh, I see. I wasn’t thinking of low quality products when I read OP’s question. The mention of pyramid scheme makes me think more of the kind of scam that deals with money directly, for instance, IT support scams, bank scams, etc. I thought that OP was being surrounded by such nefarious actors.

Among the things you mentioned and addressed by the article you linked, I consider counterfeit and fake reviews to be scammy.

Pseudo brands themselves, to me, are just shit products. The fact that they use a unique, random letter combination means they aren’t trying to impersonate anyone else. Huge pain in the ass for real brands, though, having to compete with these flooding cheap goods.

And Amazon has never refused to issue a refund to me if the product is defective or of poor quality.

I’ve never used Aliexpress, so I can’t say anything about that.

Kickstarter I’ve also never used, but I feel like if they legitimately tried but failed, it’s not a scam. If they set out to take the cash and run, that’s certainly a scam.

(To be honest, I just don’t understand the idea of “backing” a kick starter campaign. If I want to back something, I’d want my share of profit when the project succeed, or at least my money back with interest. If there’s no share and no pay back, it’s not really “backing”, it’s just pre-buying something you haven’t seen, possibly at a discount. That feels to me like taking an unnecessary risk without much of a reward.)
It does mean you can't use any key bindings in normal mode that use a semicolon. But I don't have any that I use.
> think they understood that you can't both have a process that delivers the fastest progress in human history, and dislike the vanishingly few participants who succeed at it inordinately well.

Fastest progress in what? What you smoking mate?

60 years after Wright Brothers we landed on the moon! We went from a flying bit of cardboard to real space rockets.

Now another 60 years have passed, and we achieved fuck all.

It is amazind that free market advocates do not understand their most important feature. - competition
>What do you do for monitoring?

I don't play live so for me it isn't an issue, I just have set of monitor speakers to play on.

>amp induced sustain

As in Feedback? This too is applicable primarily for live setting, but I don't know how well it'd work as I haven't tried it.
My suspicion is that most of those droughts of late are caused by creeping deforestation, crossing some threshold, beyond which the effects are suddenly more profound.

We as a civilization greatly underestimate role of forests in the current climate crisis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic_pump

https://www.thebioticpump.com/what-is-the-biotic-pump

"The “biotic pump of atmospheric moisture” describes the physical and ecological mechanism that explains how forests attract moisture-laden winds to provide their own water[i]. This is why large continental regions such as Amazonia, the Congo and Siberia remain so wet. ...
Moisture added to a region with scarce vegetation is not resilient: the ecosystem simply loses it and remains dry. When the biotic pump is sufficiently active, the ecosystem switches to a wet optimal stable condition. This switch happens even if the initial amount of moisture is sub-optimal. The stronger the biotic pump, the sooner the system returns to the optimum increasing the inflow of atmospheric moisture."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_river

"Atmospheric rivers are typically several thousand kilometers long and only a few hundred kilometers wide, and a single one can carry a greater flux of water than Earth's largest river, the Amazon River."

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

"For much of human history, most of the world’s land was wilderness: forests, grasslands and shrubbery dominated its landscapes. Over the last few centuries, this has changed dramatically: wild habitats have been squeezed out by turning it into agricultural land."

"There is also a highly unequal distribution of land use between livestock and crops for human consumption. If we combine pastures used for grazing with land used to grow crops for animal feed, livestock accounts for 77% of global farming land. While livestock takes up most of the world’s agricultural land it only produces 18% of the world’s calories and 37% of total protein."

"The expansion of agriculture has been one of humanity’s largest impacts on the environment. It has transformed habitats and is one of the greatest pressures for biodiversity: of the 28,000 species evaluated to be threatened with extinction on the IUCN Red List, agriculture is listed as a threat for 24,000 of them."
I'm not ignorant at all. I live in NYC (the largest "community" in the country) which has the largest, most systematically effective social services system in the country. It's one thing I appreciate most about the city, other than the subway.

There is such a thing as too much of a good thing (or good things used to advance perverse incentives).

Too Much of a Good Thing: Methadone and "clean needle" clinics on 125th and Brooklyn under the guis of "harm reduction". The goal should be to reduce drug usage. Not make a shopping mall for dealers and zombies. Another is the total hands off approach of the mentally ill and aggressive homeless on the subways and on the streets.

Good Things Use To Advance Perverse Incentives: The entire homeless industrial complex in California, which does absolutely nothing but syphon money to these homeless "nonprofits". I lived in both San Jose and LA and frankly the situation was addressed in a maddeningly regressive fashion.

You sometimes have to ask yourself WHY someone is championing something. Very often it's not because of altruism.
> It's actually against free market.

If you read a lot of the original liberal thought behind the "free market", it actually spells out something probably more aptly named "competitive market". A "free" as in "you can do whatever you want" market does not provide the same theoretical benefits as a competitive market (e.g. you can make models/derive theorems that the long run profits go to 0 due to competition, etc.)

Even the wikipedia page for "Free market" today includes:

"For classical economists such as Adam Smith, the term free market refers to a market free from all forms of economic privilege, monopolies and artificial scarcities.[2]"

I believe that interpretation can come from the following line in Wealth of Nations:

"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment or diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick [sic], or in some contrivance to raise prices."

> I understand it from a socialist point of view though.

I hope this provides further understanding from a liberal-capitalist point of view :)
Good catch. I think that's where one major artery lays (femoral artery, if I searched correctly). I am not a back sleeper but I was advised to put a hot water bottle between my legs, to stay warm when camping in the winter. Apparently that was already well-known in medieval times.
God of war, Cyberpunk 2077, witcher 3, skyrim, fallout, Zelda, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy (not the mmorpgs), Assasins Creed, there's tons.

I wouldn't say they are billion dollar game franchises but I would say billions and billions of dollars in total are part of games where multiplayer is not the central aspect. This sector is huge.

I think games with a huge online component tend to be bigger franchises but fewer in number. Overall online gaming as an industry is bigger then single player gaming but they are both huge enough in size that they are comparable.
Yes, the article is terrible as it does not show any polymorphism. Also, yes, doing genuine polymorphic OO in C ends up horrible because you invent a new language. (Source: many years working on a truely evil code-base of OO C. Originally the work of one twisted genius. Brilliant, but evil).

OO was just a failed paradigm anyway, I’m amazed anyone would try and shoe-horn it into C in the modern day.
Ah-ha, thanks!
> they acquired the reputation and resources to protect them from the behavior you describe through conventional means.

And without antitrust, what would those conventional means be? norhing
It seems to do open domain question answering without restricting to the topic.

> Is the word cat made of 4 or 5 letters?

>> The word cat is made of 4 letters, 3 of which are in the stem.
I’ve seen the same behavior. I wonder if these are learning instances for the AI or is it just dumbly going through a set of possible answers until the user is satisfied with the answer.
If it’s the latter, it’s basically a fancy way of doing a google search and going through potential answers.
If it’s the former and the AI learns from these mistakes (say if a consistent number of users point them out) I assume it will get much better over time.
Is there any way a company could run this on prem trained against their internal Confluence instance?
It's still better than everything else in my opinion. I use DDG by default, but sometimes have to revert back to Google. But those are rare enough that it's not signifanctly better than anything else. Something better will come eventually, but it'll be a very uphill battle. Enthusiasts will use it (myself included), most other people will not.

TikTok is the only example I can think of of something succeeding in the past decade that's not from a company that also offers like a million other products. That's the power of having a monopoly.

If it gets regulated a bit (example: you get a prompt to choose your default search engine when you first open a browser), Google/Apple/Microsoft/Amazon might lose a dominant position in a category or two, but they have a dominant position in so many other categories that it'll mean nothing to them.

The only possible solution is regulating them hard, forcing each of those to dissolve into a dozen smaller companies and preventing them from buying up the competition even further. Then and only then will startups have a shot at snatching up a significant number of categories to really endanger what we now know as the Big Four.
How soon people feel they are owed a full blown AI just because this language model is pretty good :/

I'm currently using ChatGPT to write a novel and it's been extremely helpful. Why is everyone so upset that a language model is less useful for tasks that you don't need an AI for?
Everyone thinks that something they don't want to pay for is a "waste of money". When that something that you want to quit spending money on can be characterized as "other people who I don't identify with", you get the right.

SF is a mess because of liberal mismanagement (I say that as someone who identifies as left). Spending money at massive scale without asking the people you're spending money on to fix something in society (whether it's their own actions, or something that they are responsible for). SF went from a 80B surplus to a 15B deficit... and what get it gain from that? How is the city better... It's not.
> Well, not quite. You said that it isn't OOP without method polymorphism. So no need to fly off the handle and accuse others of misreading something you didn't write.

I said

> This isn't OO until you implement some form of method polymorphism.

which means the article didn't implement method polymorphism.

> So no need to fly off the handle and accuse others of misreading something you didn't write.

So you need to pay attention at first place instead of "flying off the handle" yourself and then accusing others to do so in a useless comment.
what does an "object" look like? how do i derive from it?
Not where I live?
The only way to save the planet is by disappearing 90% of humanity!
> Not be paid $500,000 a year.

How much is this in comparison to the costs of defending or settling lawsuits against the police department as a result of bad cops?
That political press release doesn't support your earlier point that it was proven "unconstitutional." In fact review of the SCOTUS opinion shows that they (6-3) found that OSHA exceeded their congressional authority, not violated the US Constitution.

> “Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly,” the court wrote

If you want to show how this was unconstitutional then you'll need to show something else entirely. This SCOTUS opinion isn't proof of that, no matter if it is from a ".gov" site or not.
I think you're reading too much into it. This project is more of a love letter to PHP than an attack on it. Some of the criticisms from the "fractal of bad design" post apply equally to Prolog, like the stuff about inconsistent naming and argument positions.
Central Banks don't require a nation-state. They can be private. Cryptos and tokens, generally, are decentralized and couldn't be controlled by a central bank. I'm using a private central bank in this case to control the money supply.
Don't they make software in a narrow niche (IDE and dev tools)?

It seems like the license is saying "don't start selling what we're giving away for free".
They should at least mention netherlands is superflat.
You should be able to change

e.addEventListener("keyup"...

to

e.onkeyup=...

but I haven't tested it.
Didn't see the violin. What's the timestamp?
Maybe a big part of the issue is not initially that there's no trust, but the sentiment being spread that you'll get screwed if you trust people. It seems like the cheapest way to really undermine a society if you were so inclined, especially in our age.

Most people I meet are trustworthy but on Facebook I get the message, from my own neighbors, that it's dangerous to even go outside.

Think about how trust is built. If you really believe it's something precious (I do), think about what your part is in creating more or less of it.

I admit, it's often very hard to take the first step, to be willing to look like the naive sucker, or to try to see the humanity in someone who's angry and, I guess, often scared just like me.

It's pretty easy to not say things like "society is falling apart", "you can't trust anyone these days", and things like that though. At least out loud. Then it seems like it's easier to see signs of the opposite being true.
Research begins to generate electricity from snow in Japan
From TFA:

> My solution [for generating random numbers] has been to mix event timestamps into the random state: [...]

That's a good, old, and proven technique that is worth highlighting (I would use only the youngest 2-3 bits however).

I wonder though if the author is not shooting themselves in the foot long-term for things like games, where you want to be able to replay the random number stream to hunt down bugs, or for networked game clients that need to run the simulation deterministically and in lockstep.
An (overengineered?) API to access HW to decode and encode video.
> Critical thinking challenges fixed beliefs... hmm.. That's exactlt what its for!
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34292775
Fun thought: this looks like a problem that could be solved with insurance. The customer pays a flat maintenance fee for as long as they want. The developer pays damages for any software faults and insurance premiums that guarantee that the customer will get their money back if the developer goes bankrupt.
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