skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some logic to making the CEO a “legal synecdoche“ (catchy, I know!) for his/her company. No other person is better positioned to steer the company away from violating criminal laws, and CEOs tend to be paid handsomely for the trouble. Something like 400x what their average worker makes. Right now criminal penalties tend to just be the cost of doing business. Breaking the law isn’t scary, it’s a calculated risk.

We have to think about whether this profit maximizing algorithm we are running as a society is good for us. Companies are basically paperclip maximizers, and at the expense of everything else. The only way things get solved isn’t by fighting tooth and nail for whack-a-mole laws which get watered down and repealed, it’s by changing the incentives. I’m not smart enough to know exactly what those incentives should be, but I am smart enough to know that “profit at all costs” is a pretty crappy one.
The first sentence in the blog post contains a link to the proof itself, which seems to have been posted to tumblr: https://theapproximatepresent.tumblr.com/post/51484587425/a-...

I'm not sure it is necessary for the author also post the link to the tweet that referred to the tumblr post, since the tumblr post is where the actual proof is.
This is MS as a cloud operator not a software vendor
To steel-man this argument for them:

Maybe you’ve seen the long term affects of squashing commits in several different contexts, and it always leads to a poor outcome eventually. Sure there might still be reasons to do it, but you’ve never seen a case where it’s worth the cost in the long term. Eventually with experience (and several different contexts), you think the costs of squashing commits is so high that no reason to do it is worth the trade-off.

Maybe this doesn’t actually apply to git merges, but I imagine that there are certain things that eventually emerge as having extraordinarily unfavorable trade-off ratios.

It’s hard for me to think of anything off the top of my head, but one example could be using global scope for all of your variables. Sure, it’s a small app now, but do you really want to rewrite everything later when it’s impossible to understand? Of course there are (tiny) benefits to building an app with all global variables, but it’s hard to imagine that is ever a worthwhile trade-off, and I think it’s fair to build a strong opinion that you should use (at least some) local scope.
I understand and I agree with you. Mine is an idealized world, I know it. By the way, spot on with Peter principle, that's one of the main reason, all this producing value makes me go crazy.
The Dutch charity shops have a lot of immemorable stuff though, as you said - a lot of classical (dime a dozen), Dutch artists, German stuff, and the well known pop artists. But never anything rare.

You don't find anything rare because the volunteers at those charity shops get first dibs on everything (officially or no), and the shops themselves do; they will pick out the good record and either flog them on ebay or whatever, or move them to a more upmarket shop where the name changes from a charity shop but a vintage or antique shop.

I never expect to find anything valuable or collectable at a charity shop anymore. I mean besides the staff, there will always be people scouring it at all hours of the day looking for collectibles.

The other one there is house clearings; in some cases, when someone dies with no relatives or nobody interested, they'll hire a house clearing service, who also get first dibs on anything valuable or collectable. The rest is sold in either their own shops or sent to a charity shop.
What if the odds of the slow method are much higher?

Unicorns are rare. Businesses that pay 2-5x the local salaries and let their founders get 8 hours of sleep are more common, I'd argue.

> But this is pointless. Those who get what I'm saying need no convincing. Those who don't can't be convinced by me.

That's an odd way to join a conversation, since that's precisely why we have them.
Yeah that is definitely a concern, I mostly just needed a name so went with it - another canidate was CodeExp going with the regex/p analogy. But definitely open to something else entirely.

Yes a simpler syntax would be good - I was surprised at how complex the query got for the use case I designed it for. I do like the separation of queries and regex though, and keeping the whole structure as regex and queries inside plain text, as it starts you off in the simplest mode (just text) and lets you add flexibility as needed (although it does mean some chars have to be escaped).
You think "I'm spending $500 for this dohicky, but I'm getting some magical points too". Intellectually you know those points are worth about $5, but there's an element of "mystery box" too. Maybe those points will be worth $50, or even more.

Like airline miles. You can convince yourself that X number of miles is "worth" $10k because they let you fly business class to Asia. In reality you don't value that flight at $10k because you wouldn't pay $10k to fly business class if you didn't have the points.
Tough choice.

Weird goo that was grown in a lab by people that have no idea what they're doing OR natural food we've been eating since the dawn of time.
I think another cause is that english tends to have simpler sentence structures when compared to dutch in the first place, and dutch folks tend to over-correct towards simplicity when speaking/writing/thinking english.

E.g. this is a perfectly cromulent dutch sentence:

"Vorig jaar zijn we gestart met scholing rondom systeemdenken met als doel de lessen rond begrijpend lezen naar een hoger niveau te tillen en de leesresultaten van de kinderen te verbeteren."

Which when fairly directly translated to english ends up something like:

"Last year we have started with schooling around system thinking with as goal lifting the classes on reading comprehension to a new level and improving the reading results for the children."

which while valid english, isn't very idiomatic -- never mind hard to parse. A native would most likely split this into three or four sentences. E.g.:

"Last year we started with schooling around system thinking. The goal of his is to lift the classes on reading comprehension to a new level. Simultaneously this will improve the childrens' learning results."
How about a firefox extension that automatically clicks 'i dont want any non-essential cookies' upon visiting a site?
I see no problem in someone asking a simple question like this. I've seen far more dismissive posts here anyway
Nobody knew that at the time. Many folks thought it was the end of the world aka "rip good times". Kinda like today.
Wait till you hear how that compares to human driving.
To be fair, having the concept of a desktop matches quite well with the concept of a folder.

On the Amiga, you didn't have a desktop per se, but a Workbench. A Workbench has drawers.

The analogy breaks down somewhat, since I can't pull down my real-world workbench to reveal a red and white bouncing ball. Unfortunately.
Probably being used for Crimes - a little old lady’s car is ideal for all sorts of reasons.
Boston Dynamics Robot Gets a Grip [video]
Your head can still hit the dash if you have a seatbelt. It holds your body, not your head. And then there's things like side airbags, etc.
Could you apply your criticism to Gitlab personas in the link above? I am not sure I am following how politics, religiousness, age, melanin level, love of chocolate, etc. etc. could be relevant in that example.
Playscii: Open-source ASCII art, animation, and game creation
Those treaties and the end of them long pre-date the CCP. There is no one alive today that was around during that time period. That they are still talked about is part of the internal propaganda of the CCP to propagate the idea that the world is out to get them.

Also, if they were so important to the Chinese people then they would still be talked about strongly in Taiwan which has a shared history going back to then and, as far as I know, they don't care nearly as much about it as the people living under the CCP.

> Among these concessions was Britain claiming Hong Kong for themselves (which was only returned in 1997).

Much to the dislike of the people actually living in Hong Kong. They would have preferred to never go back to being part of being China. This is another great example of CCP/Chinese aggression and colonialism against the world as opposed to their supposed persecution complex.
Sorry, but Object Pascal has been providing most of this for everything. So this shows that you haven't really informed yourself.

Even smart-pointers can be implemented in Object Pascal quite fast with a Generics class together with a Reference Counting interface, because, admittedly, such a thing is >not yet< implemented in the Object Pascal Standard Library itself.

Exceptions have ObjectPascal (try finally end; try except an; TException etc.), namespaces too (unit Foo.Bar.Thing.Stuff; TClass.TSubClass.TSubSubClass etc.), generics too (type TClass<T>=class ... end; function Func<A, B>(Foo: A; Bar: B):Boolean; etc.), lambdas (anonymous functions, BlaVar := function:integer begin result := 123; end; ) also, collection literals also (BlaVar := [1, 2, 3];
BlaVar := BlaVar + [42, 23]; FooTValueArray := ['v', 2, 3.14159]), destructured bindings also via RTTI magic, sum types also in the form of Variant or TValue, and so on.

Only type inference a la C++'s auto is not, but in my opinion this is a bad anti-pattern anyway, because Object Pascal code should always be readable, where something like "auto Foo := Bar;" would only interrupt the reading flow, where you would have to think about what data type it is in the end.

Here one sees again what I wrote in my blogpost, that people like you don't really know Object Pascal or because of their arrogant attitude don't want to know what it includes and what not.
A decades-old model of learning is under fire.  The result might be better AI
Spoof billboard ads take aim at BMW and Toyota over ‘going green’ claims
$100k for a bird statue: the results of the Twitter office auction are in
I mean it happened and getting upset over it at that point won't bring it back or improve the situation, will it? It's about being able to relativise things.

Of course, everyone's different like that, I'm the stoic (or emotionally repressed and stunted) one in the house.
"X is currently disabled" resolves it
https://archive.ph/Ax5sj
Scala to me is unreadable. It reads like an unholy mix of Python and Java, with a lot of the ceremony of Java still hanging in there coupled with introducing partial significant whitespace. It's not bad - it's better than most alternatives - but it's not good enough to meet my standards.

If you see static typing as essential, then I can see the appeal. But my starting point is that it's not essential to me (and we're increasingly getting part of the value via optional and gradual typing via things like Sorbet which also let us keep the clutter out of sight, reducing the gap even further), and so losing even some of what brought me to Ruby is too much of a sacrifice.
It could also be that Microsoft are acknowledging the dominance of mobile devices and that they, as well as State, are optimising for reading on mobile rather than desktop or printed output.

This is amongst the few defensible rationales I can conceive of. The OCR argument offered in the Birdsite thread seems ... weak at best.

(As I've noted in another comment.)
Some cool examples of Playscii creations:

http://playscii.tumblr.com/
Wikipedia tells me there are in fact a hair under 19 million Bitcoin minted. I am willing to believe this site is getting the large exchange component right, or at least conservatively right (conservative in that it's unlikely to be claiming coins that don't exist, but it's possible exchanges have additional coins not listed, and it's possible there are other exchanges not listed).

Googling, it seems that the best estimates seem to indicate between 2 and 4 million Bitcoin are permanently lost (lost keys, known hardware failures of failed wallets, unclear if this counts Satoshi's million bitcoins or not). This estimate [0] by an analysis firm who appears to be broadly pro-crypto suggests 3 million lost, and that ~14.5 million BTC are "illiquid". Illiquid obviously doesn't mean lost

Illiquid doesn't mean lost, but it suggests something to me about the current conversation. If only ~4.5 million BTC are even a little bit liquid, then it's fair to say that at least half the engagement with BTC in balance terms is on exchanges, and probably more considering velocity of money. Not the grandparent's claim of 99%, but also not your claim of 10%. At the very least, not an obviously settled question.

[0] https://insights.glassnode.com/bitcoin-liquid-supply/
seems like tolerance paradox
You'd think - same with the vinyl records for that matter - that it would be seized as evidence. I mean that underwear could be from a murder victim or somesuch.

But that's speaking in idealisms, in practice they probably didn't give a shit and moved on to other things. Just another car crash / drug case.
I think toggle switch has a different connotation from checkboxes.

Checkboxes were primarily designed for questions where a user wants to choose a subset of related options for the same topic. (e.g. Which colors are acceptable to you? Red yes/no, Blue yes/no, Green yes/no)

The toggle switch connotes an A/B answer to a single question. (e.g. Dark theme? yes/no)
> Worldcoin tokens are not intended to be available to people or companies who are residents of, or are located, incorporated or have a registered agent in, the United States or other restricted territories.

Shouldnt it be called 'rest of the world coin' then?
In this instance, corporate greed is like a spreading storm that destroys the poor… by making them middle class.

As a formerly underpaid third-worlder (I am now a Canadian) I would’ve LOVED more Western companies coming in to exploit me for my labour.
Thanks I hate it.

I hate that sides want to control how "wide", I mean narrow the text can be. Sorry, I prefer longer lines and not a bunch of empty space on the sides.
> I learned by chance that putting certain provocative information on a security clearance form can greatly speed up the clearance process. But that is another story.

Did he ever write about what that trick is?
I think this could be solved by a multi-step approach. The first prompt could instruct the AI to generate search queries for your input. Then you'd take the output for that and do an actual search online. Extract the text of the first relevant hits then feed back that into a new prompt with additional instructions; "find commonality in these blocks of text and generate a summary" or "combine these blocks of text".

I think the true power of this tech will be when there's a paid API available and we can hide a lot of back and forth behind a single prompt.
Typically for web authentication the websites rely on the browsers which by default will back into the platform.

But any level of that may take responsibility - for instance, 1Password and Dashlane replace the browser/platform support by default by altering the implementation of the javascript API via their Web Extensions.

There are ramifications to this approach, such as having to fall back to the browser/platform UX to support hardware security keyfobs.

The platforms (and browsers using their API) also support or plan to support a cross-device option, where you should be able authenticate within a desktop browser using your cellphone via QR code and radio proximity checks. The vision is that some websites will see that the location browser _could_ have supported authentication directly, and offer to help the user register it as a second (more convenient) option.
Is that before or after tax? If after, it seems comparable to, if not better than, France.
Engaging at all in bitcoin and any PoW coin is inherently unethical.
>you should not have double-negative //

Hmm, I'd like it if that always made sense, but sometimes the default state, with nothing active, is for Foo to be on. So "Disable Foo" is doing something not normally required, or something most people don't want. Sometimes it does make sense that _not_ performing a reduction in Baz is default, and that default is off.

You could probably solve it by renaming a feature to used an antonym, but not everything has an antonym [that people know, or that makes sense].
I can regularly buy 80/20 ground beef at $3/lb at the retail level (family pack, on sale) and I’m sure commercial food service is buying it cheaper than I’m buying it at retail.

The transition acceleration happens closer to $2.50/lb than $5/lb, IMO. Even matching beef price would be significantly welcome progress though, as one of my kids eats vegetarian.

It doesn’t taste “better” to most people, so the transition has to be driven by a non-taste metric. That leaves price or ethics, and I know which way I’m betting on the US consumer, especially in a high-inflation, likely recession environment.
Oh yeah the furniture theme was consistent :)

But the other way that metaphor broke was when nesting drawers inside other drawers. With folders that makes sense; at least a little bit. I know that I have actually nested file folders before in real life but I’ve never installed a drawer inside my drawer.

But that’s OK, my love for Amiga is unconditional.
From https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

Switches

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Avoid using a switch to control a single detail or a minor setting. A switch has more visual weight than a checkbox, so it looks better when it controls more functionality than a checkbox typically does. For example, you might use a switch to let people turn on or off a group of settings, instead of just one setting.

In general, don't replace a checkbox with a switch. If you're already using a checkbox in your interface, it's probably best to keep using it.

Checkboxes

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A checkbox is a small square button that’s empty when the button is off, contains a checkmark when the button is on, and can contain a dash when the button’s state is mixed. Unless a checkbox appears in a checklist, a descriptive label follows the button.

Use a checkbox instead of a switch if you need to present a hierarchy of settings. The visual style of checkboxes helps them align well and communicate grouping. By using alignment — generally along the leading edge of the checkboxes — and indentation, you can show dependencies, such as when the state of a checkbox governs the state of subordinate checkboxes.
I've encountered sliders that were colored red/gray, where the ON state was to the left and red was on. It was a cookie consent thing, and I was confused. I guess that was the purpose.
Because we have to phone-ify everything, whether it makes sense or not.

(Narrator: it never does)
That information is a simple Google search away though.

There are also lots of opportunities to pivot besides the default job in your field. Eg, gardening doesn’t sound promising, but call it “landscaping”, run it as a business, and you can earn more than a doctor.
I'm impressed by the way it lands its jumps. It's surprisingly "athletic".
Need to sell just 130,000 of these birds to pay off that $13B debt!
Exactly. Most burger chains don't use high quality meat for their burgers. You go to McDonald's, Burger King, or whatever and you are getting a greasy grey slab of ground "meat" (let's not think to long about where that comes from) that is 1) very thin 2) a bit rubbery 3) not that tasty 4) has some filler content in addition to meat and fat. To cover that up, most burger chains use lots of sauce, salt, and spices. It's called fast food for a reason. You eat it and you walk away mildly disappointed with the whole experience. Not that hard to compete with with a vegan option of any kind. It will taste different, and probably better by any objective standard. But when the baseline is kind of bland and boring to begin with, the benchmark for good enough isn't that high.

The beyond burger is actually fine for that segment. I've had a few. They are alright. But I don't crave a beyond burger any more than I do a big mac. It's just bland fast food to me. I'll munch it away if I'm hungry and there's nothing else but it's not particularly good or excellent.

It's miles apart from a good quality premium burger that is made of ground meat from a good cut of meat. You grill it medium, medium rare. Grease dripping all over the place when you eat it, etc. Much harder to compete with that. Now that's something I enjoy eating once in a while.

The problem is that things like the beyond burger are somewhat better than a cheap fast food burger but not really in the same league as a really premium burger. But they are priced like one. So that narrows down the audience to people that actually like meat but feel guilty about it and want to pay more to eat less of it. These people exist of course but it's a relatively small group of people. I just try to eat other things than meat to cut down on meat consumption. Works fine for me.
The new movie M3GAN raises that question. It's not a great movie, but even without the eventual horror elements, it would raise disturbing implications for creating doll robots that can do the work of parenting so parents can focus on what they really care about, like work.
I used the term "directories" until about 5 years ago.

As I tried to explain things to people, they didn't know what the hell I was talking about when I said "directories." So I had to check that shit and start using "folders" so that I could communicate with people.
YES, I hate these things with vigour!
I wonder when you understand your dad was right all along.
Possible "real" advantages I can think of:

- Less legs take up less space

- Less legs require less hardware

- Bipedal robots require robust control, and achieving this would ultimately be beneficial across the board

- Possibly easier to coexist with or replace humans in facilities that were designed for humans
There is a cross-device system to sign in, using QR and proximity checks.

Once the user has signed in, a modality check shows that they logged in with another device, while a capability check shows that they _could_ have authenticated with the local device if it had been registered. This may trigger the site to prompt them to register the local device as a second mechanism (or they may just go to the self-service account management tab to do it themselves).
"I’ve also discovered it’s endlessly entertaining to take 33 RPM records and play them at 45 RPM, causing everyone to sound like chipmunks."

We had 33 and 45 RPM buttons, and turning knob to fine-tune RPMs to be correct. (There was a little orange impulse light that shone on the edge of the disk which had small markings, and when they were "standing" in the impulse light, this meant the RPMs were exactly as needed.) So I played with both, unil at my age of 7, dad just unsoldered both the buttons and the knob. :D I still could play disks in reverse though. xD
I'm guessing that historically toggle switches would (immediately) close some electric circuit, whereas checkboxes were used to mark things as done on some paper list.
> You've got guys scoring 10x the points of other people though?

Not 10x more than the median, I don't think.

(Happy to be proved wrong with a link to a player scoring 10x more than the median scorer[1]).

[1] In some games, like soccer, for example, it makes no sense to compare goals between strikers and goalies - goalies aren't expected to score, and so they almost never do.