skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unit tests will often just mirror the behavior of the code. This is not useful.

Can you go into that more? I definitely agree that end-to-end tests give some really strong benefits and verification, but I'm a bit lost on the "mirror the behavior of the code" comment. I like that if I write a function and then have associated unit tests for all of the case I'm considering (which probably won't hit all at first), I will have confidence that that code functions as intended and if something changes that makes that code function differently (when not intended), we'll know right away by test suite.

End to end tests give you more "real world" test, but it probably won't give you a good granular view of the issue. I don't see what the issue is with unit tests and your "mirror the behavior" comment, but I'm interested if you have the chance to clarify.
Netscape was written in C, and almost died during the effort to port it to C++ on Netscape 4.0.

https://gigamonkeys.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/a-tale-of-two-r...

Java semantics were inspired by the folks at Sun using Smalltalk, SELF, OpenSTEP and Objective-C. The C++ like syntax was to make it more attractive for adoption.

https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html

https://www.strongtalk.org/
This title deliberately invites smartass correlation does not imply causation type of comments.
They are currently using closed sourced software, because it was sold to them, on god knows what terms, and how many people paid off. As with many other things in life, it's not about the thing itself, but about the people involved.
This is such horseshit. Having an arrest record means I can strangle you in public for being too loud?
All major religions and philosophical thought about living and being are attempts to make man into a perfect being, to be a good person, and as a result to project these morals towards one’s fellow man in order to help them do the same.

I perceive that your philosophical framework is an attempt to find minimal ethical strategies to define a well-lived life unto itself for oneself.

You focus on suffering and pleasure as hedons do, and even your questioning now feels like a Monte Carlo iteration of furthering this goal.

You don’t define concepts of good or bad, righteous or evil, outside of what harms the self without concern for others.

You seek to imitate instead of search for ground truth but you use first principle concepts from your own lived experience which doubtlessly derives from concepts you no longer remember the origin of but are stemmed in Western civilization thought.

Yet instead of deriving your first principles from morals, you derive them from pleasure.

You are thusly immoral.

Are you capable of moral behavior? Surely. And I’m sure in the day-to-day no one would think twice about interactions with you as a person.

But as one explores worldly terrain and maps the hills and valleys of the earth, subsequent and progressive meaningful interactions with immoral people yield the voids of the heart.
WHO Ends Global Health Emergency Designation for Covid
It'll be interesting to see if this potentially very useful framework can play out.

At least the article failed to dig deeper into this:

>> by narrowing down relatively complex molecules to a small subset. Ordinary chemical reactions already “select” certain products out of all the possible permutations because they have faster reaction rates.

Since the theory is about assembly all the way down the the bottom, does it seem the theory needs to account for the next level down (and below that from quantum foam to atoms), relative to this chemical selection process? Why is it, or what is it about the universe that causes this, or makes it inevitable?
Plus the nice, fancy buildings will require it as a de rigueur add-on.

"we only let in the best, and we offer top security, so that means retinal scans and facial recognition"
It is very interesting all things considered. I am personally mildly concerned about the coming years for a variety of reasons, but I have to admit that I am a little surprised that all the talks about recession, inflation and layoffs only seemed to make people buy more tangible goods to hold on to.

I am still trying to make some sense of all this.

One could argue that several recessions should have already happened ( and recent bank collapse was a signal of one such event ), but were merely held back by government rescue/bailout ( depending on your perception of things ).

edit: Oh yeah, and old guard trying reintroduce working in office by decree. It all does not really add up.
How then is that FULL self driving? Cruise and Wayno cars have driven millions of miles with nobody in the driver's seat and they have avoided killing anyone. They don't require a human being constantly alert and ready to take over. That is full self driving.
would seem trivial to map free() to a garbage collector call ...
What do you mean? That's pretty much how it works. You load up Homedepot website and they along with a bunch of 3rd parties that they partner with will start collecting data about you and storing it. You can't do that to someone from the EU without getting permission along with other restrictions.

For Homedepot to comply with GPDR, they would have to treat EU and non-EU users differently, or they could just block EU. Since you're not trying to sell anything to EU users, blocking them makes things easier.
they remind me so much of the Theranos.
WHO DG states Covid no longer a public health emergency of international concern
Your first paragraph is a non-sequitur. Only in a coal mine with pickaxes do more hours equal more profit for me, the investor.

The richest countries all have strong rights, legally and also informally expected rights. The richest companies have confident people who have lots of options, not 12-hour-a-day slaves.

Because nowadays almost all money is made using the mind, so there’s a natural relationship between a higher human development index and my net worth. (I mean I’m a normal human with empathy who also enjoys other people doing well, but even a sociopath could see they’ll make more money in the US than in either a totalitarian state or a government-less state - North Korea vs Haiti).

But all that is besides the point. Companies are single-purpose entities. Like Unix programs - do one thing well. This is very hard, and goals should not be mixed. The one thing is making money for the shareholders by doing X.

For the type of worker protection you would argue for, you need other types of organizations like unions, governments, political parties, etc.

This is why you need capitalism and democracy to make a thriving society.
> Is it possible that you lost money following WSB

Nope. Try again.

> The price targets of $1000 for GME would have been met should they not have disabled the buy button

I do pity you that you're so deep in the conspiracy theories that you can't see reality.

GME stopped going up because the short squeeze ended. WSB mods needed to keep the story going so they sold you another lie.

Robinhood literally ran out of money trying to support the insane GME upswing and y'all turn it into a conspiracy theory about buy buttons being disabled.

Do you know what T+2 settlement is? That means Robinhood (or the various middlemen Robinhood uses) needs to hold your money (and stock) for 2-days before the transaction is actually settled. The WSB members were buying so hard that Robinhood (and their middlemen) literally ran out of cash and couldn't buy more stock.

Sure, it was fixed a day later when trades settled and cash opened up again. But this is how WSB takes a normal event and turns it into a conspiracy theory.

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But sure, whatever. You can keep believing the conspiracy theories/lies. Meanwhile, there's ya know, Congressional investigations into this, and questions about what regulations need to change here that have the answers.

But people prefer to trust lies on Reddit over the investigations these days, amirite?
Yeah, similar (Fluoxetine, which greatly helps me against irritability), but even before medication I was sensitive to it (though I'd like to think I was best dealing with it around age of 20-25?). I tried dealing with it by taking small sips, but even one glass of beer in an evening is too strong, and moreover: it costs a me a couple of hours of sleep. So the day after, I'm wasted. On Saturday morning I do sports, so I couldn't use that, so it would end up drinking approx once a week on Saturday evening. But it would waste a large part of my Sunday.
the JVM IS a "whole emulator" ... that's the whole point of the JVM :)
https://www.polygon.com/23695923/mtg-aftermath-pinkerton-rai...
How wonderful itd be if we could subscribe to the network of our friends / colleagues as well?
Empowering Fact-Checkers Worldwide
I pay taxes because a regime with guns says I have to or they will take me away and put me behind bars. This is a crime against me
> seems like that would be hard to control for over such a long period of time

Controlling for those over six months with a smaller sample would yield a more-meaningful result. This study fails to rule out the hypothesis that getting calls correlates with hypertension, which neighbours stress causes hypertension, which we know. (I am trying to find the study, because a quote near the top cites hands-free use.)
Or perhaps we have less understanding of what makes the economy buzz than we think?
The Oberon programming language is 37 years old. Since it is a memory safe language a compiler for the JVM can be written (with some workarounds), for example see the self-hosting compiler oberonc [0].

[0] https://github.com/lboasso/oberonc
From the associated paper:

> "Our central thesis is that molecules with high MA [Molecular Assambly Index] are very unlikely to form abiotically, and the probability of abiotic formation goes down as MA increases, and hence experimental determination of MA is a good candidate for a life detection system. If our hypothesis is correct, then life detection experiments based on MA can indicate the presence of living systems, irrespective of their elemental composition, assuming those living systems are based on molecules."

You could get a false positive from a pre-biotic but molecularly complex planet, such as Earth in the 100 million years before the origin of the first self-replicating genetic-information-containing entity. Such an environment would contain many complex molecules, whose sites of formation/sources could include metal-rich hydrothermal vents, metal-rich clays, meteorite inputs, ocean surface photochemistry, etc.

In a planet with established life, particularly one with oxygenic photosynthesis , these processes don't allow organic molecules, amino acids etc., to accumulate in high amounts because every system is full of microbial scavengers that take up almost every complex molecule they come across, with a few exceptions (the 'persistent organic fraction' derived from tree lignin etc.). Also, free molecular oxygen is a kind of bleach that eventually degrades many organic molecules.

However, in an abiotic system these complex molecules could persist for hundreds or thousands of years, particulary in the absence of free oxygen. Such a complex molecular soup would then provide many opportunities for the generation of simple living systems.

Incidentally, the most plausible current theory of the origin of life puts the protein-producing rRNA-based ribosome at the center, and the concept is that abiotically produced amino and nucleic acids formed conglomerates, and these bodies developed the ability to replicate themselves by pairing up with free abiotically produced amino and nucleic monomers and catalyzing bond formation (May 2022):

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01303-z

> "Structure that links amino acids suggests that early organisms could have been based on an RNA–protein mix."
Doesn’t this have the problem that the verifiable identifier has a different lifecycle to the DNS entry?

As far as I can see, this system doesn’t prove that the email address controls the domain now; it proves that it controlled the domain at the time it was set up.

So, for example, a disgruntled employee who had this set up would be able to “prove” that they controlled a domain until the records are deleted, right? Even after they’ve left, and no longer have access to the network. It’s a feature of this system that it’s “set and forget”.

It’s hard to imagine checking the DNS, of all things, when an employee is off-boarded.
No it isn't, Pichai will make about $75m/yr.
I was a subscriber to Powerlifting USA for nearly 15 years.

No one's bad lifts made it into the magazine either. No one posted off season pictures in a bodybuilding magazine basically ever. Ever picture the person was in the absolute peak shape of their life.

The users need to take responsibility for their use because there is no other solution. Users need to stop blaming other people.

We tried prohibition before to protect people who can't control their alcohol use and it was a disaster. The solution is if you drink too much you get help for your addiction.

With kids, parents need to actually be parents. Parents have basically abdicated responsibility for their kids when it comes to social media. Over protect the kid in meaningless ways but then send them to bed with an unlimited porn device and complete access to all kinds of mentally unhealthy behavior.

"Everyone is doing it" is not an excuse for shitty parenting.
Hyena Hierarchy-https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10866
Here's a fun trick:

If your KPI is "number of jobs" then keep the minimum wage so low that countless people need two or three of them.
no gang has ever considered themselves to be doing things that shouldnt be done, whether it be the mafia, government, or HOA. They are all illegitimate
This may be true from a strictly linguistic standpoint, but is this what historians mean by "ritual?"
Absolutely. Wasn't disagreeing with that premise; just confirming that you're right - ChatGPT can do this just fine.
Tiny reactors like that have been suggested for remote locations, like mining sites, but they make little sense. Renewables + batteries + diesel would be cheaper.
I’ve also found good results by asking for it to give the answer first, then to explain its answer. Best of both worlds, since I can just ignore everything following and it still seems to do the internal preparatory ‘thinking’.
There’s a video of double dribble game glitch for the NES. Fox/family guy decided to rip it for their show and copyright struck the original video. So they don’t even do anything to corporations ripping of people’s works.
There are four reasons this is difficult to actually work:

A. Most people in government positions don't know/care about open source. Nobody will educate them for the following reasons.

B. Most private implementors don't want to open source stuff because it will make easier for other companies to study their code, making it easy for them to get contracts for updates to that code. Avoiding open source in general also increases the total cost so more profit for the implementing party (fe selling also Oracle licenses is much better than using postgresql)

C. Code in the open is easier to be audited by hackers for exploits. This is even more problematic because government code is supported by private contracts and may be left unsopported for some time due to bureaucracy.

D. This is the most important. Open sourcing projects opens the door for cost auditing. We've seen crazy things like simple CMSs costing millions of euros. Although these may be simple wordpress sites, they get away with them because they can say that they are custom implemented, have huge back office etc. Open sourcing them will reveal the scam.

Source: I work in a public sector organisation in an EU country and have dealt many times with projects by outside contractors.
What are these variety of reasons?
Did you read the article?

> PiVPN, luckily, runs on any other Pi-like device, though, as long as it's running a Debian or Pi-OS-like distro.
They're apparently named after a couple of popular actual npm packages, lodash and tailwindcss. So I guess it's possible some people will try these out as the "simple" version of lodash, or as the version that is meant to work with tailwindcss?
> Sponsor spots are the norm
It is the norm, but whether the norm is good is a different question. If you speak with the creators, big or small (say a single person vs. a huge publisher), the would very much prefer not to rely on ads or sponsorships. They're forced to do so. Speaking from personal experience working with publishers and creators here.

Ironically, the biggest obstacle for me pushing the alternatives were the publishers' sales teams: people with decent salaries, with mortgages to pay, whose life depended on ads or sponsorships. Even the adtech companies I worked with were happy to pay for my work, esp. during the cookiegeddon times (2019).

> I'd argue the consent is you clicking on the video to watch it.

Fair argument but in practice, given the amount of UX work done so I do watch the sponsored content, it takes a toll on you. The only solution would be to stop using YT at all.
No I am not. The Watch taps my wrist as I drive with different patterns for left or right. If I can't tell which it's indicating, I can quickly look at my infotainment screen and see the map. But I am not driving while looking at my Watch, no. That would be very dangerous.
your right ends where it takes away others. Forcing taxes on people is not that. I cannot violate others, and anyone who would give themselves the rights to do so, are bandits, oftentimes having formed a gang
It's also worth noting that way back when, V could compile itself in almost 0.1s[0]. Now it's 7x slower. Of course, 0.1s -> 0.7s is very different than 10s -> 70s, but I think it is just another example of how programs start lightweight, but end up weighed down very, very quickly. What will V look like when all the promised features actually work?

[0] https://fast.vlang.io/2020.html
Reid Hoffman's AI startup censors his links to Jeffery Epstein
Okay, "mapping into concept space" is at least compatible with my meaning theory, but by itself it doesn't say much, since in principle anything can be mapped to anything.
How we got critical data everywhere, all at once
I read uninteresting as not very very useful for an external party in general. It was likely developed for an organization's fairly unique needs, is probably not very well documented, and there's no community in the sense that most genuinely useful open source projects have. Dumping a big one-off repo of code is fine but probably no one's going to put the work into seeing if this project that was never intended to be general-purpose is worth trying to adapt for something else.
TSheets founder Matt Rissell has died at home in Eagle
this was exactly what the free software advocates have been saying would happen (has happened) without protections to make sure modifications got contributed back to free software projects.
Lit is definitely on my radar, I'm just trying to figure out a project I want to use it on. I want to update my personal website but Lit's SSR is "experimental" so I'll probably wait and try SvelteKit or something else.

https://lit.dev/docs/ssr/overview/
If your goal is to make national park entries more fair that seems like a very indirect way of doing it.
I've downloaded a hard copy just in case.
Terrible source, but I tested it myself and it's true, completely censored and it straight up lies and says Hoffman had no relationship with Epstein. Try it out: https://heypi.com/talk
There is a lot more information here: https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1511811083954102273?lang=...

From my own understanding, the biggest useful differences for me personally is: account portability, domains as usernames and content-addressable from the ground up.

- Account portability - Useful if/when you want to move between servers

- Domains as usernames - Ties into the same value as account portability. I've owned my own domain for decades, it never changes and probably won't, until years after I die

- Content-addressable - Caching and syncing becomes so much easier, which is a huge issue Mastodon currently suffers from.
Your analogy doesn’t track. You could replace “pharma” with “houses and it would make as much sense

AI - real AI - is like a genie that cannot be put back in the bottle, and will grow regardless of whether we want it to or not. Pharma requires us to tend to it, even after a century of work - it doesn’t grow organically. Once AI is set free, it becomes a competitor to humans, learning and growing as time passes.

Very different impact than pharma.
> The central bank has expressed concern that a robust job market exerts upward pressure on wages — and prices.

This seems like a bad statement to make without any comment on what’s happening to wages. Are wages rising?
Pebble bed reactors have problems. The fuel is more expensive to fabricate, activated dust comes off the pebbles as they abrade each other, the pebbles can crack and jam, and the volume of the spent fuel is high, increasing the cost of dealing with it.
It seems like (AFAIK) the only major sector cooling off for jobs is tech (and I’m guessing finance/banking, temporarily).

Interest rates seem most directly tied to easy/hard money, but in the current economy that doesn’t appear to have the same secondary correlation to workforce demand that might usually have been common in the past.

However I should note that the linked article doesn’t give a ton of detail on the sector & quality (pay scale) of jobs where there is growth, and that is a big consideration. Shrinking inventory of high paying (tech) jobs would be harder to makeup for if the increases are coming from lower paying $40k-$50k/year jobs.
> And it does not mean French, but Frankisch tongue.

Yeah, but "Frankish" in the sense of what we now call French. What is nowadays called "Fränkisch" is the dialect of German spoken in the north-west corner of Bavaria, and that sure as fuck wasn't what was used as a universal pidgin around the Mediterranean in the days of the Crusades.

> And by the definition this phrase means "language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language" - which is English nowadays, at least in the Western Hemisphere.

Yup. Which in the days of the Crusades was a mixture of many tongues, prominent among them knights from, if not then, then what is now France and whose language(s) even then were seen as variants or close relatives of that "Frankish" we now call French.
That is because SKILL is really an scheme under the hood. And somebody had the bright idea of making the syntax more "user friendly" (read: more like C) by inventing a rule that "foo(bar)" parses as "(foo bar)" while "foo (bar)" parses as "foo (bar)". IIRC there also is another similar rule for when expression is parsed as infix.

Right bracket with the meaning of close all was used in some lisps because somebody did not like the long runs of closing parens at the end of definitions.
Over the past few decades, women in Europe have made significant strides in various fields, including business, politics, and society. This article will explore the factors behind this progress, including social and cultural changes, government policies, and the growing awareness of gender equality.
Why do you want to write UIs with every programming language?
I'm curious since, not every language is suited for it or not the use case at all.
This ^^

Economics is a pseudoscience, after all. In fact, it's probably just an extension of psychology. Nobody really knows what makes the economy tick, but one thing that can somewhat measure the economy's general strength is the M2 Velocity chart. If the velocity of money is high, it means lots of different people are out spending money and keeping money in quick circulation as opposed to hoarding it.