skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good for you and well done that you're able to afford to buy better stuff.

But there's a big group of people that has a problem buying food now and didn't have that problem 5 years ago. I think on average probably the opposite of what you're suggesting is happening - people are buying cheaper goods, which to a small degree can mask the real price increase.
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Nobody complained to Farnsworth.
Other than BASIC, COBOL, Assembly and a few others, call isn't a thing.
Depends if you are going for portability. If you want something for the walk home it’s got to be a kebab really. But if it’s the middle of the evening sit down meal before getting a taxi home then it might well be a curry.
If you accidentally click on the Sign In button in Edge, it locks into an infinite loop asking for your credentials until you either enter them or kill the process in task manager. No amount of clicking cancel actually cancels it, and since it's a modal dialog you also can't continue using the browser.
> Or rather, one of them, considering that [Duolingo] has all sorts of issues.

Yep. I agree with measured criticisms of Anki even while feeling the app is really useful if you use it well. Whereas Duolingo isn't worth bothering with at all. It's purely optimized to maximize engagement/revenue.
It doesn't have them.
The narrow thinkers / cranks dilemma is beautifully described, thank you.

You aren't in the academia, are you? Because you explain things in simple terms, yet very efficiently.

One of the diseases of current academia is use of an extremely stilted language, perhaps intended to paper over some logical cracks.
Re: Rome and Han China. This channel is great, and they have a video about the first-hand accounts of meetings between the East and the West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO3senO4JZ0
Because interest rates are the overwhelming determinant of general asset prices and bad news for the economy usually leads the Fed to lower/slow the hike in interest rates.
This is just petty sophism. I won't participate further. Have a nice day.
You can see this kind of design in action in the Source engine, perhaps inherited from Quake (which is partly Carmack's work of course). There are hard limits on things like how many objects can exist at once. Occasionally those get hit… usually due to a memory leak![0] So the artificial limit helps find real problems. That's also been my experience with PHP, which limits the amount of memory a request or script execution can consume by default.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw2X1yhrDdE — check out shounic's other videos too, there's lots of interesting content there about how complex game systems fail, including about these limits
I was using Bitnet in 1986, and my main memory is the way the "hottub channel" would get busy as the USA headed into nighttime (east coast first, later west). It was amazing how lascivious people could be with just text! :)
One of the problems with this argument is that the murderous Cambodian oligarchy consisted of graduates of Western universities.

Intellectuals in general have espoused a lot of inhuman political ideologies.
Rant: I feel like most people haven't really thought about why colleges are so expensive now. It is because of the federally guaranteed student loans. It means there's pretty much no downside to banks loaning an arbitrarily large amount, because if the student doesn't pay it back, the government will. And since most 18 year old students have pretty much zero price sensitivity, and they now have unlimited funds, colleges are free to charge whatever they need to entice students to come to their college. No expense needs to be spared.

If people really cared about letting disadvantaged students go to college, they would figure out a way to give them scholarships or grants. Federally guaranteed student loans are a horrible and predatory idea and they are ruining young peoples' financial futures. If you just took away the guarantee on the loans, and made them dischargable in bankruptcy, colleges would be forced to compete on price again, and the price of college would start to drop.
Oh okay that makes a lot of sense. I had a required course in philosophy that was essentially just that as well.

I suppose that is why I'm confused when the term is used, since I don't think I would use the term critical thinking for avoiding logical fallacies. A better term might be "not wrong thinking". Of course this also should take into account that some things we call logical fallacies probably shouldn't be considered logical fallacies at all, like "slippery slope" arguments and so forth, which are considered to be a fallacy since there is no mathematical implication, despite the obviously correct nature of many slippery slope arguments.

The word critical implies some sort of criticism, I'm not sure if identifying a logical fallacy is really what we typically mean by criticism. At the end of the day I guess the word itself isn't important.
Very excited about this release. Just tried out clang-format on a code base with a lot of concepts, and finally, the formatting looks great.
The next thing in social media vending machines.

https://twitter.com/Alexey__Kovalev/status/87184200877156761...
Do they still end in "Reassembly is the reverse procedure thereof."?
I saw a premium domain listed for sale at $60 and went to grab it.. and when I tried to add it, it wouldn't let me. I emailed them and they said it was already taken. So why advertise a domain that is already taken? Definitely annoying.
10 piece boneless wings at my nearest chain sports bar type restaurant now costs $16.99. They have specials on Wednesdays where you can buy 10 get 10 free (with beverage purchase). In 2022 it was $12.99 for the same. In 2021 and 2020 it was $8.99. In 2019 it was $6.99. All pre-tax and pre-tip, of course. Only four years difference, and I don't think chicken shortages were the cause.
nah, they will get another SVB through lobbying, regulatory capture, and deregulation in time.
‘Terminator zones’ on distant planets could harbor life, astronomers say
> Nowadays college is a baseline consumer good that "almost everyone" is expected to consume

I think this depends quite a bit on your socioeconomic class. Overall in the US, only about 1/3 finish a college degree
Note that the evolution of it was Active Oberon and AOS operating system, much more closer to modern languages and OS stacks.
Until one company charges "fair" prices and takes all the business?
NIST's Special Database 18
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained a dataset of mugshot photos of 1,573 people for decades, including 175 minors
What are you applying for? Are you trying to get a FAANG salary or just a job? Not judging, just wondering.
the egg section looks completely different now than a few years ago. clearly there is a lot of new demand for $10/dozen organic pasture raised no corn or soy eggs. these are options that weren’t even available even a few years ago.
> 1. There's nothing wrong with complexity

But you don't like the distinction between procedures and functions or different types of loops? Pick a side here.
I live on a ranch, my neighbors are ranchers, they care for their animals. While we have horses not cows, I see little difference between how they treat their herds and how we treat ours.

I believe this to be a false paradox. One that presupposes that eating meat requires cruelty.
Using voice recognition as verification is a stupid idea. Plus it wasn't just used to identify someone (user name) it was also the password!
Notably, function specialization optimization has been finally enabled by default, although it still seems to only be capable of constant propagating variables of register size [1].

The heuristics are, understandably so, somewhat conservative [2], and I presume there are some projects that could benefit from enabling `-mllvm -funcspec-for-literal-constant`, raising `-mllvm funcspec-max-clones=3` ad lowering `-mllvm -funcspec-min-function-size=100`.

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/jKo7K3jPd

[2] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/lib/Tran...
Why are we not all downvoting anti-intellectualist comments like this?

The odds that a whole discipline of mathematics is "of little use" or "nothing more than an inappropriate abstraction" is basically nil.

I see little difference between this comment, and a comment that calls sociology or philosophy useless. No sympathy from me!
Jolly Rogers Cookbook comes to mind
Still not 1.0 after all those years?
But would academic wisdom have avoided the rise of Pol Pot? The German people were pretty well educated and recently had been reminded of the cost of letting political forces spin out of control given the debacle and horrors of of WWI, yet they made the same mistakes as Cambodia in 1932 in allowing the rise of Hitler (whose Mein Kamph provided plenty of forewarning of an incoming regime based in hate).

I don't see education as the solution to despotism. That requires a fair mind and rationality — neither of which has roots in book learning.
Yeah I get those are the concerns. I guess I’m trying to find evidence that will impact the “majority of the people.” One article [1] mentions that the combined company would still have less grocery market share than Walmart (which has just over 1/5th of the market), and the pie charts shown for some sample markets still don’t look anything like a monopoly situation to me.

[1] https://www.grocerydive.com/news/how-the-kroger-albertsons-m...
This again. Ted Gioia also mentioned it this week. They did have some nice technology.

I was there then. My total interaction with PLATO was once, as an experimental subject for a Psych class. A friend of mine had one class that used it. The consensus of the internet-history mailing list is that they were not very influential.

They didn't "shape the future" because they kept to themselves, in their own building. We never saw them in the Digital Computer Lab. CDC completely missed the distributed computing revolution.
One of the leading contenders for being a modern equivalent IMO would be the Godot game engine.

The Godot editor is less than 100MB to download for many platforms--the recent Godot 4 release also supports running the editor on the web[0] and on Android.

Its packaging/distribution story for GUI-based applications is easier & stronger than any other modern programming environment of which I'm aware--in a large part due to the (IMO inspired) architecture of using per-platform pre-built application templates/shells paired with per-project "data" files that contain assets & script byte code.

Godot's modularity, ease of development & distribution has led to it being adopted for non-game applications too: "Apps & Tools - 2022 Showreel" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kKp0oguzr8>

I do think the initial "complexity of the programming" for an absolute beginner is probably still at least a little bit higher than drag-and-drop GUI environments like classic VB, REALbasic, VBA or Hypercard. (Primarily from a UI/UX point of view because Godot doesn't directly have the "drag button from toolbar" workflow which I think was key in earlier systems. But it is extremely modular by way of configuration & extension--one intended use case being e.g. specialized feature-subsetted tools for artists.)

In my experience it also works really well for iterative development where you can just hack around (from visual & code perspectives) to get something working & then refine it (and using Godot's "Scenes" paradigm for encapsulation).

Anyway, you might like to consider suggesting Godot next time you're riding in a cab & discover that the driver is a beginner who would like to learn. :)

[0] <https://editor.godotengine.org/releases/4.0.stable/godot.edi...>
Have you seen the aftermath of Mariupol and Bahmut - this is what happened after the Russian people decided not to riot against the corrupted government.
The notable changes for me are faster linker times and C++17 (gnu++17) now being the default standard used.
I explicitly said I don't think any astrophysicist believed that. Every single one is able to do that back of the envelope calculation, and I suspect that those involved in the SETI project actually did it. They just didn't care. As long as the population was ok with a search for ETs, the money kept coming.
You didn’t adjust for risk in your comparison. The s&p 500 has many companies in it that are far riskier than a grocery store chain. Now I can’t say for sure what the aggregate risk is, so you may still be on to something there. In this instance though you’re comparing apples to oranges.
On the bright side, if one tests with race detection enabled these problems are usually made apparent.
Buy a calendar of deeply out of the money puts on the bank stock. Puts with strike price at 1% of trading stock price should be cheap.

Uber rich don't need to do this, because they lever up until they are too big to fail.
The point being that you have misunderstood what a monopolist is, even according to your own source.

No, it is not a singular company, but yes it does require significant market power.

If there are 5 major cloud providers then this is pretty strong evidence against having significant market power, and yes the FTC definition and US court systems agrees with this definition, and disagrees with you.
Nor most of the commenters here. SSR on page load doesn't mean it's not a SPA from that point forward. Done right, pages will render appropriately either on the server or on the client with the same code.
> It's informative to ask: Was FDR a dictator? He had an unprecedented scope of power, illegally enlarged the executive branch multiple times, engaged in extralegal economic redistribution, defied informal term limits, and was beloved by the masses.

Drawing an equivalency between FDR, who was repeatedly reelected by huge majorities after his terms expired, and did comply with the rulings of a hostile Supreme Court after failing to outmaneuver them, to Caesar, who had himself declared dictator for life by the Senate (itself hardly a democratic institution), and removed multiple Tribunes from office who had more electoral legitimacy than he did, is a bit of a reach.
Lack of universal healthcare in the US isn't that big a deal to the upper-class/upper-middle class people we are talking about becoming expats because the professional jobs they tend to hold generally have very good health plans. Obviously it's a big deal for working class people as their jobs generally come with limited or no health care plans, but they don't seem to be moving to Europe.
It is infuriating. The only way I know of to remove Widgets and Teams Chat is with the Remove-AppxPackage command in PowerShell:

https://pureinfotech.com/uninstall-widgets-powershell-window...
What I can't wrap my head around is how one of the biggest companies in the entire world is willing to annoy literally everyone who uses their products, and slow down their browsing, in order to make a penny or two a day off of each one. My company just rolled out new laptops, and all of this is on by default -- on a corporate install!? WTF is my IT department thinking? They bastardize the hell out of the install with all the usual "security" crap, spyware, tracking, and scripts that run on login and logoff to make sure that you haven't done anything you shouldn't have. On top of all of this, why do I have to wait for 10 seconds to open Edge to go to the company home page while it loads all this horse pucky? Microsoft will do anything for a corporate purchase, so I'm positive that there's a tickbox or two in the policies that would shut this off. Is Microsoft giving a kickback on that money to companies who leave this on?
I am not a doctor so it’s entirely possible I am misusing a term here. But afaik chronic is something that cannot be cured. This is not the case with sleep apnea. It just can’t be cured with vegetables.
It doesn't matter as long as you're not the one holding the bag when it gets discovered and something negative happens
Well, any link that I have tried to submit, still doesn't show publicly. The latest doesn't show dead either, just doesn't show period. You are saying it's a possible glitch, but this glitch has been 100% at stopping the public showing of any submissions for going on 3 weeks. Most people would think something odd is going on.
My neighbor happens to have the rabbit convertible from the first production year (1980).

it only has something like 30,000 miles on it and is still all original on both the Interior and exterior.

So cool to see as a GTI owner.
Your Musk hate seems to cloud your judgement. What does the adjustment of algorithm based recommendations have to do with what should be allowed on Twitter?
Duolingo used to be better: people who are talking about Duolingo might be referencing how it used to be.
Same on Windows 11, 5800x3d with Vega64, PortableApps Chrome Canary.

17s DPM (20 steps), 41s PNDM (50 steps)
I chose to be a software developer because I was interested in creating things, but now I am just a cog in a machine trying to generate income. I don't doubt your motives, but what is the situation we are currently in?

Nuclear has failed to make a dent in emissions for 60 years now. Whatever the reason might be, rationally it's time to at least ask "can it ever make an impact"? But this question is almost never asked. I honestly believe there is a symbiotic relationship between nuclear and fossil fuel industry. Nuclear cannot survive without the threat of fossil fuels, but it cannot or at least has not for decades prevented fossil fuels dominating electricity production worldwide. So it's a guarantee for keeping the status quo. It's time for something else. Not merely another technology, but another way of thinking.
The "premium" stuff is what used to be average quality in the past, while the normal stuff has declined sharply in quality.
I had a major concussion shortly before my GCSE exams that I'm still very slowly recovering from. I was completely unable to think, let alone study. I never did an IQ test, but I couldn't even listen to a book or stay awake for more than a few hours without a headache. And for a while I couldn't look at a screen or read.

I was able to get the second highest grades in the school, with lower than expected grades in only two subjects (and dropping one, further maths), because of Anki. Because Anki does not require understanding, only sufficient repetition, and I had a lot of time on my hands, I was able to continuously do flashcards for hours on end while maths work would have me struggling to stay awake within 5 minutes. I could remember facts without understanding them.

The exams were ~3 months after it happened, which gave me time to improve, plus during the actual exam a combination of painkillers, extra time, rest breaks, exam technique, and adrenaline allowed me to put together a plausible answer with the disconnected facts I had learnt in the months preceeding that I just about got the mark. As a sidenote - it's quite incredible how adrenaline can temporarily improve brain injuries, with the downside that the moment it went I was completely exhausted.

Every subject bar maths I got the grades I wanted or just below, because Anki allowed me to memorise without learning.

(These subjects were: Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English Lit, English Lang, History, Computer Science, Digital something, Creative Media Production (didn't do exam), Further Maths (dropped).)

Now, I would prefer not to revise using solely Anki, and I think the fact a braindead student with memorised facts (and good exam technique) was able to get good grades says a lot about the British education system. It also says a lot about Anki, and just how effective it is.

Side note, because I'm tired of hearing drivel on HN:

My life being (permanently?) ruined was entirely preventable, all it would have taken is a little less empathy, a little less second chances, for violent barbarians who damage everyone around them. When people preach empathy they forget about the human cost of allowing inherently violent, destructive people to continue their actions.

If you're one of those people who thinks grammar schools are bad, restorative "justice" is the future, and we should prioritise those who hurt and destroy over those who want to learn and build: Your actions and your ideology have ugly consequences beyond your selfish delusion of making the world better through being nice and kind and the power of love - that belongs in novels, not policy.
> of pure rote memorization

I wouldn't describe my use of Anki as "rote memorization". Though certainly some people use it that way. There is a big difference between blindly putting raw and unfamiliar facts into an SRS, and using an SRS to remember things you have learned and understand. It's the second case that pays large dividends over time.
how would this painstaking work be performed by a decentralised entity?
Human beings have agendas, I am not sure why you expect them to be machines or politically neutral. This is normally understood when one donates to a charity.
> Perhaps unguided education is today not as accessible for everyone as it was for you, for many reasons.

That is fair, I am too liberal with my hyperbole and so I'll try to be a bit more clear. It seems unlikely to me that an individual that has access to a guided university education does not also have access to freely available educational resources either online or in public libraries. That is, I do not believe that a youth today that desires to "grow an intellectual soul" has the single recourse to enroll in the structured environments of universities.

I have no idea how you clarifying or arguing over the precise duration of the availability of public libraries contributes to that discussion.
That's a false dichotomy. You don't need be sexist, racist, transphobic or smell bad to be interesting.
My fave golang slice trick is the len of an empty slice is 0, but the slice itself is == to nil, but the len of nil won't compile. Can't understand that one.

https://go.dev/play/p/MslCkBphl7q?v=gotip
Perhaps loss of insects is an indicator we got absorbed into a simulation.

Just kidding.
What pisses me off even more is how the big companies force the little ones out of business whenever they have a successful product. They either buy them out and then proceed to ruin the produce, sue them out existence over bullshit, or they use their clout with grocers to not carry the items.

This happened to cake mix a few years back for instance. Ironically it had an interesting backlash b/c now the cake mix section is tiny because there’s nothing left but crap and no one wants another stomach ache.
I mainly use anki with cards that involve the vocab in some context. I found that the context enabled me to eventually understand without translating to any other language, I am still quite limited though. I think that falls into your suggestion of learning within some kind of broader context, which I agree.
I agree. I really liked the bug eyed Imprezas too, although I think they were short lived.
Officially you don't have that universal healthcare as a non-resident. Reality is hit or miss.

As most EU medical systems are not really geared toward private billing, if you go to a government-run medical centre for something small, it's going to be more effort for them to figure out how to bill you, so they don't.

Sometimes tourist-heavy places will definitely be set up to get you to pay, other times they just see treating actually minorly-ill tourists for low/no-cost as a cost of being a tourist-dependent area.

Sometimes the anecdotes about only having to pay 20 EUR at the hospital were really the salaried clinic doctor squeezing some EUR out of you that really should have been paid to the state.

Other times, if you go to a private-clinic doctor solo, they'll likely make you pre-pay. But if it's your local family's doctor, they may see you for free on a goodwill-basis, or fraudulently bill your local family member's plan and/or write any prescription in their name.
Judging by its subsequent comments, this is almost certainly AI-produced.