skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've often wondered why 'the market' doesn't understand that if garbage men disappeared, my city would look like a hellscape in a week.

I think that's a fundamental misunderstanding of the market. I didn't understand this either until I (self-) studied a bit of economics.

The classic question in economics was this - why are diamonds more valuable than water? Without water you're dead. Without diamonds you're mostly no worse off.

The answer to this led us eventually to the theory of supply and demand. Sure, without garbage workers, the city would be terrible. That's why we pay them. But the supply of garbage workers is apparently much larger than the supply of e.g. software engineers. If you have 100 people who can do one job, vs. person who can do the other job, that 1 person has a lot more leverage and you have to pay them more. Even if both jobs are equally important.

That's how a market works. If your friend quit his team, he would presumably be easy to replace. If you quit your team, it would be harder. That is eventually reflected in your salaries.

It's not perfect - since no one has perfect information, a lot of this stuff is based on guesswork and consensus. But you can very clearly see that the principles are correct.

> My conclusion was that 'the market' isn't a fairly good proxy for actually providing a contribution but as with all things human, there's also politics involved.

That's a fair conclusion, but I disagree with it. I think it's really true that one Einstein contributes more to the world (on average) than one garbage worker. One software engineer contributes more to the world (on average) than one garbage worker. And so on. It's mostly due to scale effects - one garbage worker can only do so much. One software engineer does a lot more because their work is easily duplicated and scaled and affects a lot more people.
> If the short circuit becomes critical for performance the

The point is not performance. The point is readability, and expressing things clearly and with the appropriate level of detail and leaving out nesting and scope. Safety and performance are important but secondary advantages.
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>"IF you doN't Pay you'RE juSt The prOdUct!!1!"

>Company offers you means to pay.

>^^

Which is it?
I don't think I can agree with this. Competent programmers are no silver bullet against whole classes of possible errors. Mistakes can be made, mistakes can be missed during code review. The vulnerability repositories are full of those.
Leverage lists. Lists on Twitter are quite powerful but they're woefully underused for a few reasons:

- shit UI that demotes them in favor of the following

- users net notified when they are put on lists and sometimes use it as an excuse to block

- you can subscribe to other people's lists (good) or have private lists (also good) but you can't search for lists, which is fucking stupid

Curated or open-source lists are a good way to take the information already in Twitter's social graph and turbocharge it, creating real value for others. If you look at CSPAN, you cna find lists for members of the House, Senate, etc. Now imagine that generalized to every state, organized by party and so on. Imagine lists of all broadcast journalists in a particular media market, or all employees of a particular broadcasting company. Etc etc. In many respects it's like verification on Twitter, but with significantly greater transparency.

Could lists be abused? For sure, kiwifarms types would try to create 'lolcows' lists and add people they disliked to troll them. You might want to think hard about whether all lists lists should be left up to individual curators or some should be public and shared ownership. But they're a tool where you can build off what already exists and deliver significant added value to early adopters, which is what helped Twitter get off the ground.

Also, consider not sharing following/followers (lists or #s) publicly, which turn into a vanity contest. Replies/retweets are where the real interesting social graph action is anyway.

Show me something about a person's analytics on their profile. If they're an abject self-promoter who posts 1000x a day, make that obvious. Don't just reward preferential attachments so that people are incentivized to build up massive followings and then service them with obligatory vapid content. I want to see something about how much a person really interacts or if they're just a billboard in human form.
Again, useless fluff. It is more enjoyable for everyone involved when you produce signal and not noise.

Comments which can be adequately summarized as "nuh uh" are noise. There is no information whatsoever being communicated with such low-effort posts.
>The market certainly thinks it's more valuable and rewards it as such, which is a fairly good proxy for actually providing a contribution.

The market has really bad metrics when it comes to contributions. One can see it very well with entertainment for example. What do people like MrBeast exactly do other than simply specialise in creating viral videos and therefore wasting the time of millions on individuals?
TFA:

> Mechanistic studies of COE resistance

The evolution of bacterial resistance to COE2-2hexyl was analysed in S. Typhimurium and MRSA, using either serial dilution or morbidostat-based experimental evolution (see Methods). Serial dilution. No high-level COER mutants (≥50 × MIC) of either S. Typhimurium 14028 or CA-MRSA USA300 were isolated after serial dilution for 21 days; however, low-level COER mutants were recovered in both organisms (8 × MIC and 4 × MIC, respectively) (Supplementary Fig S1a; Supplementary Table S4a and b). Morbidostat. Although high-level CIPR mutants of wild-type E. coli (BW25113) were obtained after morbidostat culture for >3 days (64-128 × MIC),35 no COER mutants were observed under these conditions. Therefore, E. coli mutL (JW4128) and wild-type A. baumannii ATCC 17978 were assessed for COER mutants since both strains possess an inherently higher frequency of mutation (∼10-100-fold), resulting from deficiencies in either methyl-directed mismatch repair or the intrinsic DNA damage-inducible response, respectively.45,46 Only low-level COER mutants (2-4 × MIC) were recovered from either of these hypermutable strains, which is in marked contrast with the high-level CIPR mutants (128 × MIC) observed for A. baumannii35 (Supplementary Fig. S1b; Supplementary Table S4c–e).
Or, go the Intel route. Lay nobody off. No pay cuts for anyone below level 7. Level 7 gets a 5% pay cut, 10% for next level, and so forth for every level up to the top.
Well, I for one, hope that email stays as complicated as described in the post. Otherwise my project that simplifies access to email accounts (https://emailengine.app) would get no traction :D
Lex Luther had my interest when he claimed to be able to turn a sand pile into an atomic pile while in prison. LL was always my favorite villain.
I read quite a few in my early teens, and it did evoke an image of Paris back in the day. So much, that at first it was a bit inconsistent, confusing, until it turned out that I was reading them in random order, and some were decades apart. One detail that has stuck was the presence of a stove in Maigret's office: in some books, he pokes the thing continuously (or so I remember), in others there's central heating. Because the books set in all seasons, many of them don't even mention heating, which makes it even more mystifying.
They're not saying it won't. They're saying they tried to breed bacteria that were resistant to it and failed to do that, so it probably won't get resistance in the wild super quickly.
Well, one can cherry-pick one's authority on grammar, but any online translator will translate "They walk" to "Ils marchent". One also wouldn't write "they is", so, yes, it's a plural. At least, a sentence should be consistent and not intersperse "they" with "him".
> The safety win partially mitigates the safety loss you get from adopting hundreds of small transitive dependencies maintained by random people on the internet.

That advantage may be temporary.
> It makes code a tiny bit more verbose (...)

The issue is not verbosity. It's the needless addition of nesting levels and independent expressions in a non-idiomatic way, which greatly increase the cognitive load of checking a single row of chained predicates. It's bad code.
I can't see why this is different from married couples in general apart from putting all eggs in one basket.
Which articles are the most important or influential to save offline before (or, in case) the site disappears?
> The problem here is that you're equating market value with everyday value.

As I said somewhere else, water is far more valuable than diamonds. But selling water doesn't earn you nearly as much.

That's not a sign of the "market value" being different than "everyday value". That's a sign that water is plentiful, so however much you want and need water, me selling you water is not really helping you - you can just go get water yourself.

> Sure the market gives a number to every good and service, but are we not entitled to dispute whether that number is the right number?

Of course. And it's sometimes wrong. We have lots of rules and regulations that try to make the market more in line with other things we care about.

But you do have to provide an alternative. And I know of no better mechanism than markets to, in general, give a price to something. Almost everything else is flawed and/or biased in some way.

And btw, parent comment wasn't providing a nice justification for why the pay of consultants is flawed - it was just quipping that they are clearly not worth the money. Which is offensive to me, I dislike just writing off a whole profession. That's why I asked for clarification!
TL;DR; summary from ChatGPT:

The author reflects on their struggle to discern whether a debate is worth having in a work context, leading them to identify the need to find an equilibrium level of conflict, which can increase efficiency and morale of a team. They argue that this level is rooted internally in an individual's confidence level and emphasise the importance of periodic debates, which can outweigh occasional critical discussions. To find this equilibrium, the author advises a personal principle to only debate the non-linear, i.e., issues that can have a non-linear impact on the organisation, as opposed to those that add incremental value.
how Rust will challenge the ethical issues in C?
i.e.:
- addictive design
- corporate ownership of data
- algo bias
- weak cyber security
- overemphasis on features
Not saying C has all of them.
Just let's use these issues as an ethics compass to discuss?
Which tools are you using for code reviews?
That crate requires a fork of the Rust compiler to use.
I didn’t say Sega shouldn’t have released a console for that generation. I just think the Saturn was architecturally the wrong choice of console.
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
I agree that that can be true. But I don't think it's true in general, certainly not such that you can simply dismiss an entire profession as not providing any value.
Can you do that for two systems that interfere? I think that is where the multiverse stuff comes from.
DeleteMe collects your information then does searches for that info against the databases that power all the online "people search" websites. If there are hits, they pay to have them removed.

If you don't renew your account, they just delete your data.
The fact that copyright law has evolved into a guilty-until-proven-innocent system so easily abused is, however, an indictment of the system of copyright.
I got 404 with OP link. I think it should be pointed to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/advertising?

Related PR: https://github.com/mdn/yari/pull/8213

Also, the ads has been added to EasyList: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/f02f2264cdc4122c...
The customer service part is exciting. Maybe I’ll finally be able to get my Instagram account back after a bug with their software locked me out.

Right now I can log in, but the interface is non-functional. I can’t even delete it at the moment.
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I got bored past 40s and went back to HN
Or generate a vanity key id?
I also don't find it particularly disruptive, but it's a nice interface to search for synonyms / ways to rephrase stuff, much preferable to googling (which is more of a failure on Google's part than anything).

Also, ChatGPT writes simple unit tests and SQL queries very well.
This is called appeasement. It did not worked in 1930s, it is not going to work today.
You are right. I've looked up the apnoe training tables again, and the limit is 5 min indeed.
> Is the DMCA such a shitty law (questions about copyright in general aside), or are companies in shitty in just automatically responding to any DMCA allegation while refusing to invest anything in transparency/process/even-handedness?

If the law enables said shitty automatic responses, then yes, the law is indeed shitty.
Those are all interesting things you could do, but in what way would they help when we’re talking about the Meta platform? We’re considering the case where someone is actively choosing to use a name that’s not their own for some reason, and if that reason required impersonation they’d just make an account using your publicly available PGP middle name as well.
Look, I don't mean to be offensive, but this reads to me as "people like things that I don't like, therefore they're wrong and the market is wrong".

People like MrBeast! That's why he's successful. What is he actually doing? Creating entertainment for people. It might not be your cup of tea, but there's no inherent difference between what he's doing and what Shakespeare did. One generation ago people lamented reality tv, before that tv in general, there was a time that books were considered bad, etc.

This is exactly why a market mechanism is good! Because I don't want your views, or mine, to be what decides whether something is "worth it". You and I have different tastes, and we have different tastes to millions of other people, we shouldn't get to decide what they find valuable - they should.
I'm pretty baffled by this layoff wave. I assumed sites like CSS-Tricks never turned a profit, but were a loss-leader (marketing expenditure) for a company like DigitalOcean. I still have to assume that's some of the best marketing they have. Cutting your marketing's golden goose is less strategic retrenchment, more battlefield amputation.
> a cheap UPS to keep it running in case of power outage

What are the cheap options for RPI? I'v read that powerbanks are not designed as UPS and have no passthrough charging: https://goughlui.com/2021/09/03/note-potential-issues-of-usi...
This is so so awful pattern in my opinion.

For me, it is like that they invented a solution to an imaginary problem they created themselves.

Also to be noted that this kind of thing could be needed for go as it is a shitty language that tries to do object things without having objects.
>But they may have multiple devices so syncing is desirable.

USB cables or thumbdrives make that a snap, and you don't have to rely on some flaky third-party system or a network connection. It's all 100% under your control 100% of the time.

Really, social interactive shared things are the only things where it ever makes sense to be online-first. For everything else, native is way better in every possible way. Speed, security, ability to still access it in the future, etc.

It's good to have online backups in case your house burns down. But that's still second-tier to having local backups.
Yeah, cloudron is a other distro for this use case.
Assuming it's totally useless, making 799 of these pricey thingies is certainly a waste.
In Praise of Alpine and APK
> We, subjective agents, ...

Let's not pretend only humans can comprehend their observations ;)
Hoover crafts, helicopters, planes, ... all have no wheels (for transportation).

I wasn't meaning to be specific about the 4 wheels, I was trying to point out that innovation happens when necessity makes it necessary - why do we have batteries in cars even though the very first cars[1] were electric?

[1]= April 1881 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl...
Qualified Immunity Is Burning a Hole in the Constitution
Raspberry Pi Debug Probe: a plug-and-play debug kit
But the reason the above commenter has a point is because it’s unclear if the claim is false. I know nothing about the game, but the article claims this 3rd party spent so much effort creating a new way of playing the game that the game studio meant to implement those changes and even mention this 3rd party in the credits.

So the commenter is right: this person (apparently) created a work (IP) and thinks they have a right to monopolize that work.

The fact that IP law exists in the first place gives this person ground to stand on and do a lot of damage, because the claim has some amount of truth. There is probably not enough truth to his IP claim that this will work for him, but there is enough truth that he’d be mentioned in the credits.
> The argument that this is a net positive for society could use a little substantiation.

I can make the theoretical argument all day, but really, we've lived in a world that has done this experiment for us. I look at capitalist countries, I look at communist countries, and I think it's pretty clear which ones are better to live in.
I thought "modern Java" means classless ?

Why do i need to put some code inside another superficial class here ?
It doesn't sound like they knew about it before it hit the atmosphere. I wonder how big it was before it broke up.
You’re talking about modern gaming now the original servers are down. I used a DreamPi now too. But the DreamPi is a comparatively recent addition as well as being notoriously painful to set up for non-technical gamers (doubly so if you’ve got a PAL Dreamcast).

Whereas I was talking about gaming on the Dreamcast back when it was still supported by Sega.
Tried in two diff regions and had the same outcome
> the skepticism and the general dismissive tone on HN baffles me.

I think that it comes from having high expectations. It took me four or five questions until Open AI chat started to write lies, and half trues. When talking with it I feel like a teacher trying to get the correct answer from a student that does not get it. I give it cues, tips, bound the answer and yet it manages to get things wrong.

So, the worst part of Open AI chat is that it gets very boring to work with after the first awe.

It is a great piece of technology, it is impressive. But as a product it is dull. And I need to double check its answer with Google each time, so why bother?

Using Chat AI for Bing is like using blockchain for cryptocurrencies. It is a solution looking for a problem. Bing is the wrong answer, people should accept that and look for better uses for it. They are out there for sure.
> The argument that this is a net positive for society could use a little substantiation.

The majority of societies that have tried anything different were/are significantly worse for the average person. That seems like more than a little substantiation.
That's what I love about this particular AI revolution. The technologies are developed in such a non-siloed manner that open source is able to replicate the largest steps forward in a manner of a year.
Well, I guess they acknowledge that in the title already: they're just saying, that it "does not evoke bacterial resistance", not that it cannot evoke bacterial resistance.
Even when they do exactly that (e.g. Zoom whose CEO took a 98% pay cut) you guys are not happy, calling it a symbolic gesture or even propaganda unless they also give up all their equity.

What do you gain by demonizing execs like they are not even human?
I mean, the obvious thing to do would be to make it a node in a DDOS for hire botnet.
The Trouble with Path Integrals, Part II
> The conspiracist in me sees this as pure propaganda.

It is not a hidden fact that CEOs wants to hype companies to increase share value. That is the basics of 2023 economy, hype over results.
Chris Coyier built css tricks, ran css tricks, and sold css tricks to digital ocean. Geoff was an employee.
> but you can't sue them for that anyway, since there's no mens rea there.

"I don't know whether or not I own this intellectual property but I'm going to sic the DMCA on you anyway" is blatant negligence, at best. That our legal system doesn't consider that to be mens rea is one of a 3.7-mile-high stack of indictments against said legal system.
> had he pursued a paying career and spent a reasonable amount of his free time working on this

Please refrain from such unsolicited advice. Everyone has different values and alignment you don't know about. There are so many cases where idealists followed your advice, were in turn drained by mismanagement and burned out of IT completely.
I miss this version of the internet. Simple pages. No signups for newsletters / 10% off. No cookie acceptance. No popup for notifications.

Just the text you were looking for, and nothing else.

Now, even when you're on a website that you pay for hey show you 1/4 of the content, followed by a small 'continue reading' followed by a BIG ARTICLE HEADER that completely disrupts the flow of the stuff you're reading.
Not sure why I'd let some US company see all the traffic, if the same goal can be achieved other way and the goal is privacy...

DDoS is probably mitigated at residential ISP level. At least I never had to deal with it with the current ISP I had for 14 years, and I had like 10 MBit/s upstream bandwidth most of that time.
Let's see. ASTS claims to have solved this problem. Apparently their satellites have 30mbit+/s throughput with regular 5G smartphones at <100ms latency. If this stuff works (big if), it's going to disrupt the cell tower industry over night and bring broadband to remote places where towers are too hard and too expensive to operate.

Also, I imagine 5G satellites will be of interest to the DoD.

Anyway, the main point I was trying to make is: EU competition is so far behind (even conceptually) that they are playing catch up with 10 year old tech instead of looking where the puck might be going.
I like Racket, but it is also a kitchen sink Scheme. It has a ton of features: GUI framework, drawing (although it's slow), event spaces, places, futures, OOP, mixins, traits, macros, #langs, etc. It can get quite complex very quickly. I have mainly used it as a Scheme.
> Queries can be 2000 words.

That is why Bing is the wrong product to integrate it with. Most Google users will not look after the first 10 results because reading so much gets tiresome. They are never going to write 2000 words to try to get the information that they want when they are not willing to read 100 words.

> I disagreed with its results and what it could do better.

That is the problem. You know the answer and are looking for a question to get it. That is the opposite of what a search engine is. It can be a great tech for makes no sense as a search engine.
Ente - Solution for Secure backups for photos and videos
Reminds me of LTV squad. What is a SeaHonk? To this day no one knows for sure, but I have a theory. It just means there's active trains in that direction which will blow the horn at you if spotted. "Hey buddy, go this way to sea honks". The urbx version of asking for a long stand.

https://ltvsquad.com/2005/08/17/what-is-the-sea-honk-lower-l...