skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the decrease in religion and lack of faith in God is a major reason for the pain in modern Western society

I'm never going to agree with you about that. But had you phrased it is "a decline in obvious purpose and a loss of a sense of community (which may once have had religion at its center)", we could maybe find some common ground.
The Fed is the central bank. It artificially sets the price for money higher than the zero it would tend to naturally (given that money is essentially costless to produce).

So they have decided to finance their liabilities at 4.6% while only receiving 2% on the assets they hold.

The 2.6% difference is funded by creating new money, which the Fed believes will reduce inflation.

You couldn't make it up.
The US government couldn't or wouldn't stop Cambridge Analytica. That is something real.

What you are suggesting is a malicious, technocratic conspiracy theory that is racist adjacent.
I'm the author of python library & command line tool, https://github.com/RhetTbull/macnotesapp, that will allow you to use Markdown to create (but not yet edit) notes from the Terminal. I use Vim + markdown to create notes all the time: `notes add -m -e` adds a new note using Markdown by opening the default editor.
A directory is a file like anything else that contains a map of names to inodes. If you're trying to add or remove mappings (create or delete files), then clearly some synchronization must occur or the contents of the file will contain garbage. In theory you could get away with a very small critical section that says "lock bytes N through M" of the file, but then how do you deal with disk block alignment (i.e. two pairs of n-m bytes are on the same disk block, so they need to take turns anyway) and how do you deal with I/O errors (the first n-m bytes fail, but the second n-m succeed, now you have a hole with garbage).

Also no need to theorize: run the benchmark I linked for yourself. It clearly shows a massive advantage to having each thread work with its own directory.
> Even as a US citizen, they literally passed laws under Obama that allows the US government to drone strike US citizen for national security reasons without a trial.

are you referring to [Anwar al-Awlaki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki)? i was under the impression there just wasn’t a ruling on it. which, pretty shitty to let the right to due process degrade de-facto, but not quite the same as “literally passing laws” that make it unambiguously legal.
Interesting. What would be the benefits of using Origin Private File System?
> Asking the model to think about

These models do not "think". This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how they work. It's not AI. It's not even language. It's just text inference.
Then if you see yourself as a professional and if you have a strong character, you say it. If you're a real engineer, you and everyone knows this is part of the job, but if you're a SE, generally speaking you're going to meet resistance. Your resignation letter should be ready in your pocket.

The surprising thing to many of us is that the "software engineer" title has been specifically associated with deprofessionalization of the job and the view that is moving away from true engineering. See the Dijkstra link I posted elsewhere in this thread.
Thanks so much. I'll read the guidelines and relaunch!
It's very cool stuff! Especially if you're training your own model. What are the training costs like and what data do you use for training? I'm wondering if this is something where you feel you have sufficient moat or is it likely this technology will get commoditized soon? Interested to hear what your long term strategy looks like and how you intend to differentiate yourselves from competitors that are soon to follow.
>Someone can be too short, too chubby, of the "wrong" religion or political affiliation, but you still fall in love with them because of their energy, their warmth, their selflessness, their consistency, their presence and so on.

Right, and then you get married to them, and then after years of constant fighting, you get divorced because you just weren't compatible in the first place, and those fundamental problems never went away despite all the feel-good emotions you had.
Fascinating. If I read the Wikipedia article, initial capital is paid in dollars. However all the bonds they issued are RMB-denominated. I wonder who the buyers are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Development_Bank
Anything over a day is not "hiking", that's "backpacking", as another poster said.

There's a reason that outdoor boots are divided into "hiking boots" and "backpacking boots". The two are significantly different.
My third grader came home with a Pride sticker. To be clear, we have always told her that "sometimes kids have two mommies or two daddies and that's okay." But Pride also is wrapped up in a general positive and open attitude about sexuality that is inconsistent with my values. And frankly I don't trust my kids' liberal white teachers to talk about these subjects. There's clearly a huge disconnect between their values and my values.
This type of price discrimination isn't powered by surveillance capitalism. Using the example in the first answer on the stackexchange, this is nothing more than selling the same ticket at a different price to someone walking up to a United counter in USA compared to someone walking up to a United counter in AU.

Surveillance capitalism powering price discrimination sounds scary, but there seems to be few examples of ML powered price discrimination. Currently we are paying massive amounts for simple price discrimination. You can save a ton of money (for things in general) by searching for discounts, booking ahead of time, accepting slower shipment, waiting for off-season/off-peak, buying in bulk, haggling, etc.
We visit France every year-ish and French automakers [1][2] vastly undercut long-term rentals from rental agencies by selling you a car with your promise to sell it back to them at nearly the same price (difference is the rental price). You are only ever out the actual rental price. We regularly save 1-2k EUR on a 3+ week rental unless we book the rental literally 6m+ beforehand. Kicker is that $0 deducible CDW is included, and the terms are quite generous.

The only downside is last-minute cancellations will cost a non-trivial fee, but even those can be mitigated through insurance.

[1] https://www.ttcar.com/en/ttcar
[2] https://www.autoeurope.com
People say this and it always sounds a bit like a myth, so here's a concrete search. Tokyo to Seattle, May 18th to June 8th. first link ([0]) with the sales city set to Seattle, the other time set to Tokyo ([1]).

Most of the airlines price the flight roughly the same (writing up the differences in pricing to currency conversions, like ~1%) but Singapore Airlines is offering the same flight at 3x the cost!

I feel like I've read in the past about how flight tickets are priced based on many rules, that are shared between various companies that sell tickets. My inference is thus that these rules might be dynamic, but they aren't like.... "price will change minute to minute based on all of the cookies in your browser" dynamic. Which then leads me to wondering: what sort of pricing rules are kicking in for these pricing differences? Because it feels to me a lot more like "lack of a discounting mechanism" rather than "rule that triples singapore airline flights out of Tokyo for Tokyo-based pruchases"

[0]: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/flights?search=eyJ0eXBlIjoicm...

[1]: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/flights?search=eyJ0eXBlIjoicm...
My explanation for this is complexity.

Let’s take a bridge as a comparison. It’s also technical but it’s understood very well and there not much variability. A bridge doesn’t serve too many purposes. Mainly to allow heavy objects to move across something.

Software on the other hand is complex. Rather simple applications can have many purposes and even more internal execution paths. Sure, we need to develop a software just once. So all the engineers concentrate on a single thing, whereas we need many civil engineers to build and maintain the bridges. Apparently, it still doesn’t work.

Usually for software, there is no liability. Imagine civil engineers building bridges like software engineers. Maybe they would all look different and fancy and we would run around to take nice pictures of them. Also they would break down much more and people would just expect it and live with that.
The concerning part is a foreign government with whom we have a quasi-antagonistic relationship being able to access detailed information on US citizens.

Imagine you work at Goldman Sachs, along with 50,000 other people. Like a lot of your colleagues, you use TikTok. You often open the app at work. Maybe you have something embarrassing in your search history. China uses location data, wifi matching, or even a list of names to figure out that you work at Goldman and they know you might be susceptible to blackmail.

And then they get you to check in some malicious code that damages the financial sector.

That's why the US is going to ban TikTok. It's also why the US forced the sale of Grindr.
> Even as a US citizen living in the US, they literally passed laws under Obama that allows the US government to drone strike US citizen for national security reasons without a trial.

I honestly have no idea how Obama's reputation survived this. Taking executive action that completely undermines an individual's constitutional rights is monstrous. It's really sad that it was a total non-issue.

Also, what law you are referring to? I believe at the time there was no legal precedent whatsoever. I'm not sure of anything that passed afterwards either.
Job of the young: discover and be blinded by the new

Job of the old: remind the young that there's little new under the sun, and a cost to everything.
The last part of your reply is extremely condescending and an absolutely unnecessary ad hominem attack.

People have been conscious about publishing their raw email address for ages be a use it attracts all kinds of bad actors, from spambots to outright scammers impersonating somebody else for social engineering. Publishing your social circle involuntarily can be something people actually do not want but are unaware that this is happening.
The fed’s shareholders are who again?
R 128 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBU_R_128) already exists for that.
> buy hotel booking data and increase your price because you already booked a non-refundable room

Actually this is (usually) the opposite

Tickets sold for tourism are usually cheaper than a non-tourism ticket to the same place, so the ticket might be conditioned to being sold together with a hotel booking (travel agents like selling those combos)
The Fed sets the interest rate for the liability side of their balance sheet.

So they have deliberately decided to pay out interest by creating money in an attempt to reduce inflation.

Still think putting up interest rates stops prices rising?[0]

[0]: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/02/04/do-high-inter...
The exact data on how much search traffic converts varies wildly from business to business so it’s hard to give a ballpark figure. The big win from SEO traffic that I’ve seen is that CAC for these customers tends to be a lot lower than for customers coming in via ads.

Paid advertising and posting on social media has its place, but there are a LOT of people using Google and getting to rank 1 for important keywords usually works out cheaper than paying for the ad space.
One at home, one with me for Spotify in my pocket.
Could you please stop posting ideological battle comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we've already asked you not to. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
The Shaman’s Secrets
And die
Well it makes it worse. The constitution is very clear about affording citizens due process. Obama setting the precedent of drone striking the US citizen without consequences is what muddies the waters.
Slack has voice / video chat no?
I am in agreeemEnt with this. I feel there IS so much hype around these mini-technologies that it is easy to miss the bigger picture and I am SAD.

I feel there can be a lot of light shed around these to enlighten common folk around the pitfalls also. But such is the nature of this tech at this point. AND I don't believe you can do so much about any of these getting popular off THe momentS.
> void popFront() => ++index;

So in D, `popFront()` not only returns... nothing (void) but then returns... an index?

No wonder nobody uses this language.
I'm not sure it is so uncommon - just that there is no answer. I'm pretty convinced that a lot less people would complain about the XDG Base Directory Specification if that would be possible.

I'm one of those (though I usually do not publicly complain about it).
Reserves can't be lent out to the main economy.

Reserves are assets of banks that can only be held by banks. They can't get rid of them in aggregate.

Loans are also assets of banks, and are created against supplied collateral along with the corresponding advance. The amount of reserves a bank has is irrelevant to that operation.
You don't need those. There are online systems that lets you check those details at home (can't remember the name now)

But https://matrix.itasoftware.com/search is a close second, if you know how to play around
If AI ends up being the one finding a real usecase for crypto, will we have the indisputable proof that it is smarter than humans? :)
Racism-baiting is a known tool of the CPC. This is strictly a CPC matter and has nothing to do with the people of china, or taiwanese people, or Singaporean Chinese, except one Singaporean Chinese person.
I love this thing! There are few options for light only timers, and from the pictures I assumed it would just be easily breakable plastic junk, but it's actually pretty solidly built.
I must have drank the cool aid because when I talk to my AI assistant, it bloody well understands me a lot better than my wife :D.

Machine translation still makes a few mistakes but hardly more than a human.

Machine vision: I worked on a factory where a machine would approve/reject products passing through at a ridiculously high speed, and it never got one wrong. This was 15 years ago.

Your experience is completely the opposite of mine.
Bloody coomers.
I was giving an example of one of the things I liked in particular. Text on a flag to me is usually a no-no but in Iraq’s case it works (and Iran’s too, but a bit more subtle). Sorry I should’ve been clearer :-)
Yeah, at least two years.
You're not wrong.

That is what the web has become. A platform to selling products.

But why did it have to be so? Why couldn't it also have been a medium for expressing beauty?

It still HOSTS a lot of art - art in the form of images.

But the number of truly beautiful artistic WEBSITES - in CSS, HTML, etc, are few and far between.

Hell, I remember the heyday of Flash - before Apple smothered it. There were some INCREDIBLY gorgeous websites with absolutely incredible animations and visuals.

Of course they were dogshit for accessibility, discoverability, information presentation, etc. Not to mention the apalling security/performance of Flash. So I don't wish the whole web was like that.

But we did lose something.
I really wish that Microsoft went with Gecko (Firefox) instead of Chromium. That would have spread out user across the the three main browser engines.
Not too different from americans believing the war on terror was about freedom.

Did they get any sanctions? Nah
The article mentions the main reason people left may be Rudy himself.
> Youtube text2speech routinely mistranscribes

Isn’t text2speech the opposite of transcribing?

Speech2text would be transcribing, and text2speech would be speech synthesis.

Anyway, assuming you meant speech2text: I found YouTube‘s transcribing quite good. It even understands stuff that is inaudible to me (especially in movie snippets). Of course it’s not perfect, but neither am I.
1.Your actions affect others

2.The need for self-control

3.The power of sacrifice

4.Don't judge a book by its cover

5.Love takes time and is built upon sacrifice and caring

https://www.ksl.com/article/29097698/5-moral-lessons-from-di...
Most of the (many) histories of hippy communes that I've read suggest a very different reason for their (typical) breakdown.

Most/many of them were founded by 1 (sometimes 2) relatively wealthy individuals who had the means (often familial) to acquire land and do the initial capital purchases necessary to get things off the ground. When/if these individuals lose interest in the commune, let alone leave, the implicit agreement that bound the community together starts to fall apart.

The communities that have survived for decades after being founded in the 68-75 period almost uniformly do not have this property. Twin Oaks (VA) is perhaps the prime example.

You could cite The Farm (TN) as a counter-example, but that would mostly be a diversion - The Farm survived because its founder (Steven Gaskin) never lost interest in or left the commune.
That's not the process. The process is that loans create deposits.

This is the process. From an actual central bank [0]
[0]:https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
> if don't think much of the questions it'd be interesting to know why you think that way.

Mostly because you don't have to buy any of this. If it's that unfair, figure a better/cheaper way to do it yourself, otherwise quit complaining that the poor ppl have it so much better
Easy to say when your government has committed worse atrocities and you've never suffered for it
I don’t know about GH specifically but based on what I’ve observed at other companies, some of the common issues are massive salary inflation over the past 2 years in India which is now reversing.

I suspect they hired a lot of people at very high salaries and raised the salaries of existing employees to those levels as well.

If the team isn’t integral enough, it probably made sense to replace them with contractors while they rebuild the permanent team at a lower salary base.
1. your benchmarks exercise a very narrow set of use cases

2. the overhead of modifying the dirent is statistically zero compared to the costs related to manipulating the files on disk
> It's not easy to find a culture that took sex as lightly as ours

Classical Greece springs to mind. Possibly high Roman culture also.
That's not quite true -> https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jacobin.com

there are plenty of non-flagged articles there.
My Google search results for "regex generator" returned a full page of decent ones.
Americans haven't been drinking enough anti-china information. Barely anyone in this country knows that a 4 year old uighur girl died in an apartment fire and she couldn't escape because the CPC officials had welded the doors shut because of COVID.

Meanwhile, we do criticize ourselves in this country, a lot. And that's a good thing. Try protesting about police brutality in China. In the US you might be a hero. In China, nonzero odds you'll disappear.
Great idea! I would use it without a second thought if this could take my notes and push them into the my Daily Obsidian note, along with timestamps. :D
Transparent file compression is nothing new; if anything it’s filesystem agnostic assuming what you’re running on supports resource forks. In fact in many ways it was really designed for HFS+; many of the more esoteric ways to compress files don’t make sense on APFS.
But are you a reasonable person? And does your opinion even matter to anyone but yourself? That you're not convinced seems of no consequence to anyone here.

Tik-tok is not in the US's interests. I agree that social media is toxic in general. I would argue Tik-tok is even more so (by means of their algorithm and short attention span videos). But that's besides the point. It offer's China a potential strategic advantage. There doesn't really need to be any more reason that that.
I use it for finding description of the products that I have to upload to the website of the company where I'm doing practices.
So interesting because y used to give chatgpt tips to find the specific results that I want
> and eventually sorting tools and approaches into their proper niches in view of tradeoffs.

This is probably too optimistic. I think there's a lot of success, failure, and even assignment of particular technologies to particular niches that is not about inherent tradeoffs as much as the incidental history of various power struggles in institutions, governments, and marketplaces.

There's not really any guarantee that the sorting we get 'in the end' reflects the fundamental tradeoffs of the technologies.

(Love the comment overall, though, and mostly agree!)
Plenty more floundered because of that shortsightedness.

Surely you realize that picking one of the most successful apps created this past decade is not the resounding endorsement you think it is.
As a long-time Korean user of macOS, I hate the fact that APFS is normalization-insensitive yet normalization-preserving.

As a result, this means that… if you create a Korean-named file yourself in Finder: then the file name is normalized in Unicode NFD (decomposed) form, but if you create a Korean-named file in a zsh shell, the file name is normalized in Unicode NFC (composed) form.

You don’t realize the difference until you try an `ls | xxd`, but the bytes are different, even though they look the same.

It’s an invisible mess that people don’t realize until they do. And a lot of programs gets subtly crazy when fopen(A/B) succeeds but listdir(A) doesn’t list B.
There's no EU VAT on international flights to/from the EU.

(Which is unfortunate, as there usually is VAT on train tickets.)
I don't want something just because "most people" want that thing.

And I disagree: I think everyone who has been harmed by another wants the ability to have their story heard by a judge and jury and be cured by the law. Maybe they would prefer to not be hurt in the first place, but as you point out with LastPass, they may not have that option.

What we can choose is the jurisdiction in which we trade, and I would recommend people spend less time navel-gazing and more time thinking about what they can be doing to make things better for themselves.
... and for those who don't know and are too lazy or busy to look it up, "anabaptist" means "adult baptism" - the idea that you did not need to be baptised as a child in order to enter the kingdom of heaven.
You didn't hear about all the propaganda in the Little Mermaid?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-the-religious-right-attac...

(not to mention the general princess propaganda)

Up is clearly pushing narratives of scouting organizations, and the balloon agenda.

Not sure about Frozen (I managed to not see that one), but Cars is obviously glorifying internal combustion engines, and unsafe and unnecessary speed.

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is clearly propaganda from ant and other insect activists.
The understanding one gets from Halt and Catch Fire (great show btw) is that 1970s-80s tech was an incredibly cutthroat and precarious world because the state of the art was improving so fast. At any moment (or at least at next year's CES) one of your many competitors might release something that makes you irrelevant.

It's not actually a sustainable profit if you have to out-innovate and out-execute every competitor, every release cycle, or you lose all of it immediately. It kind of explains why the industry converged around monopolies on the one hand and hyper-growth with quick exits on the other.