skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meetings are usually dumb. Perhaps we need AI to help us figure out how to run an effective meeting.
What could your rationale for that possibly be?
> So regulate and ban the technology, then.

When has that ever worked? What banned technology is conceived of but not developed because some government entity said not to?

I think the "if we don't, then others will" is part of the natural progression of technology. Whatever the next logical step of development is, that's where development efforts will flow. Some might not want to go there, but some will. Someone banning it will likely only fan the flames and drive more interest into the space - ala the "Streisand Effect".

When the US government (et al) labeled certain numbers "illegal" because they could be used to break DRM or certain encryption types, academia and hackers alike openly mocked the notion. T-shirts, stickers, and websites sprung up further spreading this "illegal" knowledge. People who had no idea about how a number could be so "dangerous" suddenly wanted to know. By telling people they can't know or do something will absolutely drive people toward that knowledge.

The hacker mentality often answers the question "why?" with "because I can". Saying you cannot only encourages more to jump in.
How are you going to effectively regulate a white paper? Or Stable diffusion? These things can be trained on readily available, easily purchased by the average citizen commodity GPU hardware. Heck, there’s rumors NVIDIA has an RTX titan in the pipe for under $3000 with 48GB of VRAM!

Even if the government regulates that I can’t physically have one, I could rent a rig of A100X8 servers in Russia, VPN tunnel into it, and download whatever artifacts the server generates.

How in the world could any government short of North Korea effectively regulate such a thing, even if they went full authoritarian, the blowback from such draconian measures would be intense?
An extreme version of this might be:

> I saw Bob about to stab Alice, so I beat Bob to it and shot her in the head. I did nothing wrong since the outcome would have been the same regardless of my actions.
There are many ways the answers to those questions could go wrong.

I don't believe in limiting congestion via pricing - it's only popular because it's the easiest to implement.

Personally I would rather see a point system where cars moving through the zone during rush hour would spend the most points so as to encourage spreading the peak. You would be allowed to buy more points at discouraging prices.

Or to make things simpler: price congestion, but reimburse residents to an extent. Otherwise you're just fleecing those who can afford it the least.
> my infosec early warning bot

What's the handle? Sounds interesting :)
Gives me the same vibe as Vapor for Swift. I'm happy that this technology exists, but doesn't make sense for me to use, unless I'm also a Flutter or Apple developer
Infix works for binary operators at the cost of requiring operator precedence. Hence the parens you wrote.

Prefix works for variadic operators like the +, - and / in your example, without operator precedence rules to get wrong. And if one can't reliably remember how those rules differ between languages so people wrap everything in parens anyway, what exactly did you gain from rejecting prefix?
I'm not debating the bad things, they do happen. My point is that they are also providing value, which OP said they don't. Google and Facebook is not just a rehash of other's content, they are also vast, and useful platforms.
Sure, I just meant to denigrate the institution of needing a passport to travel, not how useful is a particular European passport.

It feels like we're not that far from middle age.
Today with Mirc if you connected that to Bitlbee servers you could chat even against Steam, Telegram and newer IRC protocols (IRC+SSL).

Also, there are good Gopher clients for DOS/Win 3.1, so gopher://hngopher.com would still work.
It is interesting this. I moved from Blackberry to Android to iOS and found that quality of the apps in general in iOS just so much better. I guess the fact that more people pay for apps in iOS means it is worth making the investment, but I also wonder if the different emphasis on the platforms influences which developers work on which one.
Godwin's Law in 3, 2, 1...
Fluid water absorbs it very well, but the wavelength for 2.4 GHz is 0.125 m.
- not a lawyer here -

I'd immediately remove every reference to linkedin -anywhere- and hard-block their domain in the code.
Only after, I'd probably seek a release from the injunction.

Perhaps you should involve a lawyer, but if you won't, then limit yourself to a brief matter of fact explanation of what you've changed, focusing especially on the block in the source code.
Do not address their points yourself. Refrain from any commentary, apologies, admissions.

I wouldn't go any further without a lawyer.
More examples: the browser can display pictures because there is a media type for them, same for sounds and videos.
> At least my car runs QNX. Somewhere.

Ford's Sync 3, Sync 4, and Sync 4A in-dash systems are all QNX running a HTML5 based UI, though the next revision will apparently be changing to Android.

As far as I'm aware most of the fully digital instrument clusters use QNX for the critical elements like required gauges and warning lights, then usually run another system in a VM or container to display any infotainment content under those critical elements.
If you like Yogi Berra sayings you will enjoy this.
Sounds like a good old foldl may or may not have brightened up your day (with the "functional style" you mentioned) e.g.

Pipeline = fun(Functions, Initial) ->
lists:foldl(
fun(Function, Acc) ->
Function(Acc)
end,
Initial,
Functions
),
Initial = SomeFunc(),
Pipeline = [Func0, Func1, Func2, Func3],
Result = Pipeline(Pipeline, Initial).

At a certain point I grew to not mind the punctuations `; , .`

I often miss language itself given how verbose things are in elixir by comparison.

The language ecosystem is pretty good with LFE for the Lispers https://lfe.io/ and https://gleam.run/ for the OCaml inclinded.
You don't need wireshark to view packet data, use -X and -XX
> even excluding pre existing conditions in some cases.

I think it most cases. I’ve had multiple private insurance companies reject me for minor pre existing conditions (some pills for anxiety/depression, minor surgery on my wrist etc). The brokers said I must have perfect health for 5 years and then reapply.

In my case private insurance would be significantly less than the public insurance I have now
The current thinking is that it’s an electrical effect.

Brain activity consists of intricate patterns of electrical activity, created as neurons process and transmit information. tACS, the method used here, creates electric fields inside the head, which interacts with neurons’ own electrical activity. The effects are pretty subtle—-it can’t make a neuron spike on its own and thus release neurotransmitter. However, it can shift the timing of spikes caused by its “natural” activity”, and thus change those activity patterns.

(My group looks at this in animal and computational models, where we can measure this directly).
> There is also a constant light vibration when you run your fingers lightly along the body. It's quite Shocking that this is apparently "normal". None of this happens when it's running on battery.

I always assumed that was just because the surface has a strange microscopic pattern. I don't have one now, but I believe it only happens in one direction.
What it means is entirely contextual.

Often, it will be interpreted to be a function call or a macro invocation in the eval step (the E in REPL).

You can sidestep this behaviour using the ' reader macro (i.e. quote) as you mentioned yourself. Quoting disables this behaviour for the form that the reader macro applies to. Reader macros occur in the R step (i.e. before the E in REPL).

It is a list data structure. There are many examples of lists which are never interpreted as function calls in Lisp, since macros run before evaluation and can change the default behaviour, e.g. in

(defun increment (x) (+ x 1))

the (x) is not a function invocation, it's a list of named function parameters.
The crappiness coupled with the chat makes for a surprisingly hilarious watch.
1400km / (70km/h) = 20 hours of driving. This was no "a thousand volunteers on foot spent days searching for even a scrap of evidence" effort.
Three ways to read the deglobalisation debate
A service can run in a state of if not benevolent, then at least ambivalent, neglect for quite some time without it being a disaster for the users.

I would suggest you start poking around at possible alternatives just in case, but not as yet with any great sense of urgency.

If you Ctrl-F for crunchydata in this comment section you'll find an employee of theirs talking about their postgres hosting and listing a bunch of services their customer use for the other parts of the puzzle, and have hired enough heavyweight core contributors and active and clueful community members that I think it's reasonable to say they're -good- at postgres.

I would say that what I expect to be most likely to happen is gradually increasing prices and gradually degrading service (the people still working on it do seem to care but I don't know if there are enough of them left to avoid bitrot setting in and even if there are today, in a year or two there may not be) so having a plan to move in an orderly fashion but not executing it yet seems like the wise approach.

Neither panicking and moving in a fast and risky way now, nor waiting until (if it happens) things go from aggravating to actively intolerable and moving in a fast and risky way then, are likely to be particularly good ideas.

OTOH, being prepared to migrate elsewhere in an olderly fashion if the cost/benefit calculations tell you it's time, re-running those calculations and double checking your plan every so often, and continuing to enjoy the service in the mean time, seems like a reasonable, responsible, and overall relatively pleasant way forwards.

(disclaimer: I am not a Heroku user myself, but I think the general principles almost certainly apply here just fine, and I'd certainly be comfortable giving the same advice to a consultancy client at work, so without being foolish enough to claim I'm definitely right I'd suggest the above analysis is at least worthy of giving serious consideration to)
Max Headroom explored this idea too...
For completeness, TD Securities is/was using Erlang for an in-house GED trading platform.
I didn't mean to exaggerate. I think part of the improvement was the luxury of refactoring which should generally reduce the bloat. And, as someone else said, part of the issue is C++/Java, not static typing. When I move from Java to Python, I also get the luxury of organizing code into fewer/meaningful source files. I find this more readable, than having to switch to different files constantly.

I have not had a chance to learn or use a language like Go. But production use of Python, including building large code bases is real. We do resort to numba, cython or using Python API to compiled code.

I'm now involved in converting large codebases from SAS to Python. I don't think I will have the luxury of choosing another language like Go, for a number of reasons.
Oops. added
Read it with the post they're responding to.
Why does it always have to be this binary choice (Hence the "everything" qualifier I guess)?

You can certainly work hard to succeed and also realize that a lot of your successes are just that, attributed to "luck" or things out of your control. This isn't to take anything anyway from hard work.

I've always attributed hard work to basically buying more chances to play. Hard workers tend to succeed because they get more pulls at the slot machine. Just because you "win" doesn't change the fact that you're still playing the percentages.

I think the type of person who is probably more likely to succeed is one that doesn't believe in luck (i.e. not willing to just accept the lot that was given to them).
But if they didn't use strawman arguments it wouldn't have been so easy for GP to throw up their hands and say "I guess we shouldn't do anything at all then" in essence.
onto the flamewar then: are these people heroes or traitors? or does it not matter 'cuz anybody who thought about it already knew that of course everybody's being monitored by their government, any other government that cares to, all social media, and probably the Spring Hill Tn Jr Hacker's Club for good measure.

Or we could perhaps discuss the apparent fact that "privacy" as a concept seems to have escaped the bounds where Law can possibly protect it. Even if there was a government somewhere actually interested in such pursuit.
I do not know about Portugal, but that is absolutely not how it works in Switzerland.

>No shady drug dealers on the streets

Patently false from my experience, what cities do you have in mind? From my own experience absolutely not the case in Lausanne, Geneva, Montreux, Zürich or Basel. In Lausanne Flon area they will literally line up to offer their wares on Saturday night at around midnight - 1 AM with absolutely no regard for the police. Riponne is even worse hearing from people who still live there.

>Less and less drug consumers each year

Is that like for hard drugs only or in general? Might be true for heroin/crack, absolutely not true if you include weed. In cities like Lausanne the amount of times you smell weed on the streets has gone up massively in the last 10 years.
He is gaining direct benefit from this yes? And their direct benefit does not really tie into his - he would still benefit from the appearance of charity right? And there is a huge power imbalance here right?

I think that is what would lend this situation to an analysis of exploitation. Nothing to do with outcomes, which is what you are focused on, because exploiting something/some one doesnt depend on outcomes.

Think of how we talk about natural resources - whether you are a careful custodian bringing prosperity to your region or some shit heel, it still starts with exploiting some resource.
Get Virtualbox. Install Windows 2000 or XP or an old Linux with KDE 3.15 on it.

Notice the lack of latency, notice how it flies and there's no delay on displaying the widgets and typing on a text editor or a word processor.
I only use extensions which have the ability to be limited by the browser to certain sites. Then any potential damage is limited.

E.g. I use an ad-blocker to insert JavaScript only on one site: YouTube.com. But I use an anonymous dummy Google account for YouTube. So if anything gets compromised, I don't really care.
EU would view Israel “in same category as China” if judicial reforms go through
People regularly go to the plazas to feed the pigeons in the Mediterranean. Also, some people keep pigeons in the neighborhood. (may not be allowed in upscale neighborhoods, depending). And I dont think the 'flying rats' thing is something specific to 'crazy pigeon ladies'. I have seen it in English literature too frequently.
I don't really know it does sound super hard. But maybe if we consider that we go down the path where you do not own your tech (we are close to that now) and the companies have some monitoring tools to see what you are doing.
And then you have this kind of network of trusted machines that you communicate with.

Edit: i really don't like the idea that i have to be paranoid about every interaction with tech.
When I was a kid, I spent 3 hours outside with the neighbors kids every weekday after finishing my homework. On weekends it was more like 8 at the park. I consider it a forming experience for me as a person. I was safe but also was able to explore and get exercise.

Society’s urge to make everything indoor and sedentary is detrimental. It has negative health effects. It also removes any idea of community when you can’t go out and explore what is around you. That’s even before you think about freedom of movement.
They said median net income, i.e. post-tax.
I think it's fine to acknowledge that luck plays a role in life, but unless you think there's a way to trade your time and life force in a direct effort to become more lucky, it's not particularly practical as a way to guide your actions.

That is, unless you take something like the view of "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

My spouse and I work hard to ensure that our family has that kind of luck. That our kids get a safe, stable, secure home, nutritious food, adequate exercise, exposure to a variety of novel (to them) experiences. We copiously support and nurture their educational efforts. We display love and tolerance for each other, but also demonstrate and uphold high standards in areas that we think matter. We spend less than our means and save for our family's future and invest for our retirement and their current and future education.

Given all that, maybe our kids are just plain lucky after all and luck is responsible for everything that they'll ever do. I can't stop you from believing that, but I don't and we don't live our lives as if it were true.
Thank you! I don't have that data, but it's easily requestable thru the CA EDD website (see my linkedin post https://bit.ly/google-warn-data ). The hard part is cleaning and extracting the levels from the titles which varies considerably by company
I don't have an export to Anki format specifically, but you can export to JSON (the JSON format is documented on the website, unlike Anki's, which had to be reverse engineered) or markdown, plus all of the data is stored locally on your computer in a SQLite database.
If I can become rich instead of someone else, and the damage will be done either way, it seems perfectly rational if I can avoid any actual legal punishment (I don’t care about people on Twitter being angry with me, Twitter isn’t real life) to push the big red button and reap the rewards.

Once I’m rich and powerful I can afford to be ethical, isn’t that the way of billionaires anyway?
tcpdump is amazing. Question though; does anyone know why an ACK flag is displayed as a . instead of as A? I've not been able to find the reason for that.
And when you want to write programs that move or translate subexpressions, it is so much easier when you aren't converting to and from a stream of bytes or tokens on the fly as well.
A Better Way to Work with Number and Date Inputs in JavaScript
Chicago 95 does it well with XFCE. And B00merang has almost 1:1 theme clones for 3.11.
> However, it can shift the timing of spikes caused by its “natural” activity”, and thus change those activity patterns.

That's a super cool activity, sounds so simple to manipulate your brain into the 'productive' behavior.
Turns out it was (ARPANSA), Defence, and the Western Australia Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) as part of a multi-agency response.
> This reminds me of the people on HN (and elsewhere) who denigrate middle management as "doing nothing worthwhile". I read those comments and suspect that the people making them have never been in management.

I mean, the comments aren't coming out of nowhere: Remember the guy who was a supervisor at a wastewater treatment plan and didn't show up at work for 6 years because there was "nothing to do"? [1]

Believe it or not, but there are more places like this. I worked for 1.5 years in public service when I was a student (I was level 1 support, so nothing fancy). I could basically spend half of my day learning new technologies and lurking on HN because there was nothing to do. And yet, my uppers decided to hire two more people (one with disabilities for diversity or whatever) because they had budget left.

Then I left to work at Amazon to finally do "real work" which creates value, but it was the same except that I experienced occupational therapy by doing useless work instead of doing stuff that interests me or benefits warehouse associates.
So, at Amazon logistics you have to execute one project per quarter or so. I had this PhD sitting there, who wanted to change the layout of receiving lanes as his quarterly project. I said that it's bs (so did other people), and his new experimental layout would not change anything except occupying a lot of space for the duration of the project (a few months).
After spending a few weeks on building the new layout, letting the experiment run for two months and not getting better results, he came to the conclusion that his idea didn't work and everything was rolled back.

After talking to a general manager from another FC they told me that he probably did this to fill his project quota and self-preservation. What a waste of time.

[1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75380/man-spain-didnt-sh...
To be honest, since I started working at Rather Labs, my curiosity for new things like blockchain and cryptocurrencies has only increased. The work we do at the company is so cutting-edge and innovative that it has sparked a new level of passion in me for these technologies and the potential they hold.

I've been a full stack developer for some years and now that I'm learning more about blockchain, my curiosity is increasing!
> Building semantic memory requires repeated exposure.

I think the point of this research is that this requirement is pretty consistent in humans regardless of their other capacities or prior knowledge.
Microsoft’s post-layoffs Halo studio is smaller and switching to Unreal Engine
Astronomers find 12 new moons of Jupiter
> One of the reasons I’ve been financially successful is because I never wanted my life to be like the lives of the people I grew up around.

It motivated you to pursue your little success story. So it was lucky.
> But then you have languages that have features that you cannot replicate to other languages. You might be able to add arrow functions from CoffeeScript to JavaScript, but you won't be able to tack on homoiconicity from lisps (and macros) to JavaScript, because it simply won't match with how JavaScript is written.

Yeah, but I specified "best features" and "important features", not "all features".

Maybe homoiconicity simply isn't that important to developers?

For example, I can guarantee you that, right now in todays development climate, there is no team anywhere that is going to allow code which has Lisp-like self-modifiying ASTs to pass code review[1].

So why would Javascript, C#, Java, etc developers bother to a) request those features, and b) implement those requests? They aren't going to use the feature anyway, no matter how powerful.

[1] Except those places who already use Lisp, because they presumably already understand it, and those teams are tiny.
> $20/month feels like a nobrainer if you're in the West.

I earn 2000€ per month as a C# dev in France, (assuming $1 == 1€) I just need a hundred subscriptions like that to have no money left at the end of the month. While I'll admit a 100 subs is a bit much, it's very easy to have 10 or 15.

> If ChatGPT saves you more than 60 seconds a day

Even if it saved me 4 hours a day I wouldn't be paid more.
> With that said almost every use-case cited was financial or monetary gain whereas I enquired about social utility and value.

It could allow people to petition their government [0] without having someone bust down their door at 3am and disappear forever.

[0] Which is apparently important enough to have been included in the bill of rights
I've already seen porn where someone's face is blurred.

And whose face are you going to put in that porn with this?
tiktok is literally zikzak corp with blipverts
We are in a post-Minecraft world, so I don't think your criticism has any merit.

Minecraft was a sandbox single-dev game that broke every mold and trope, and sold for $4 billion.

Me claiming that DF could be worth $100M in a world where Minecraft was worth $4B and is likely worth much more now... not a crazy take.
You know, some people don't spend much or any time on youtube. Others curated their feeds long ago and arent exposed to the arms race of viewership attracting manipulations.