skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, could you please link the search results page? I'd be happy to take a look and remove any commercialized sites from the network. The best part about this idea is that if there's a low-quality site, we can block the previous node, which will block all the other sites it was linking to. If a site is linking to a poor-quality site, there's a chance they might link to other poor-quality websites. You might ask whether this will also remove good sites from your network, but a good site will always find a way to enter the network.

The blocking feature has not been shipped yet.
Ada, Swift, Rust, Delphi, Python also have destructors.

Granted, they all have different levels of mainstream.

I also don't manage to really keep up with C++ in detail, only enough to be aware of where it is going.
In the original edition it was a centralized, walled garden, and was a library rather than any sort of application platform much less anything composable or with room for individuals to contribute. Min his view people were just “consumers”.

Myhrvold, Frankston and a few others must have given him a rap on the skull because the second edition was a major rewrite in an attempt to run out in front of the parade and pretend it had always been thus. He kind of got away with it: in those days he was treated in the public mind as if he was the only person on the planet who knew anything about computers.
> only seemed to make people buy more tangible goods to hold on to.

I wish I knew more of the truth/could make sense of the sea of stats/data out there on the topic of:

break down America's population by their wealth/income. anybody who isn't in debt and makes a decent income, we don't have to "worry" about

you see headlines that a lot of people are struggling, living paycheck to paycheck, in debt, housing is broken compared to 40 years ago and an entire generation on average can't afford to buy an average house on their average income

but then we have another group of people, not billionaires or $10-$100m, just like "average" rich people who have so much money it's affecting the entire system with high demand for tangible goods?

I personally can't make sense of it. I know both can be true, but I see it as a balance/see-saw in my mind. I know America doesn't work for everybody, etc. etc. I'm talking purely from a "how healthy is the economy right now" perspective. How is that we have what feels like polar opposite narratives constantly being mentioned (tons of poor people suffering/unable to get by + shrinking middle class versus too strong of a labor market and almost too much demand.

Is this all really just "appropriate response" to the fiscal/monetary policy done by the US government + federal reserve during covid?
Just.. let it go bust? I’m not even sure what you’re asking tbh.
What a stupid way of making connections when they don't exist.

Did terrorism start in India since e2ee became available?
Was there no terrorism 5 years ago? 10? 20? 30? 40? Years ago?

G20 meeting is scheduled for september so what does a random action months ago mean anything?

Wasn't there such things last year or 2 years ago?

So you are saying Pakistan is suddenly relying on the generosity of element to orchestrate their terror plots? Why are they using off the shelf products and not their own?

Your reading is flawed because its painted by the propaganda machinery of the state wanting you to think in that way.
I feel like search still has its place. New information is being generated all the time. I want to be able to access it without having to retrain my LLM. It's also easier to validate that my search results are real. With LLMs, you never know if the answers are hallucinated or real. Where LLMs really shine is in understanding what I actually want. Where search still gives me many irrelevant answers, LLMs just get my question. Combining the two in some way might just get us the best of both worlds.
Some of it is political, I'm certain. If a recession happens, the parties in power usually flip. The talking heads have been talking of a looming recession for probably 5-8 years now.
It definitely can be, and it was mostly an illustrative example for the ‘mathematical validity’ part of my comment. When you’re just starting out, working valid code is better than nothing!
It's a bit apples to oranges, sure, but you're still sitting on a pile of money and bearing few of the direct costs of it in places like OR or CA with screwy property taxes. You can borrow against it or sell and go elsewhere, which is a lot better place to be in than someone wishing to purchase and seeing the value of a home go up more than they make in a year.
Life on Earth is posited to have begun with a primordial soup of the right chemicals and it began with microscopic stuff. My recollection is viruses are not deemed to fit the definition of "alive" yet contain RNA and two strands of RNA equals DNA, the code for more complex life forms.

It's quite the elegant system.

Also, there are microbes found in volcanic vents and in Antarctica. I don't think temperature is big a limiting factor as you seem to think.

As someone once said: Life finds a way.
The fed is trying to raise unemployment, not lower it, and the real metric tracked is the unemployment rate, which is not affected by your comment.
Definitely not zero. Security researchers and SSC companies are pretty notorious for self-promotion. I would not be surprised if some of these "detected packages" are from researchers who want attention.
That’s nonsense. Ad absurdum every Turing-complete language can emulate every other. And in this particular case it is not even particularly complex.
I wrote a book on that almost a quarter-century ago (Programming for the Java Virtual Machine). It includes toy versions of both a Lisp and Prolog compiler. It can definitely be done.

I don't know if it's worth it to port existing code to the JVM that way. There are so many pitfalls in porting that it's often easier to rewrite it. The older code is, the more likely it has something specific to the compiler/platform/library, and you'll spend more effort debugging that than just using it as a reference for a clean-sheet implementation in a modern language.

I picked Lisp and Prolog because those are languages with a very different style. Compared to that C/C++/Fortran are all kinda the same language. Since then functional programming has taken on a lot more prominence, though logic-style programming still hasn't caught much attention. (The book actually came out of a project to use logic programming as a database query language, and I still feel like that's better than where we are now.)

It blows my mind that the book is still in print, and dribbles out a few copies a year. It does need a good rewrite, since so many of the things I talked about are now practical rather than theoretical. The JVM has some new features for supporting non-Java languages, and there are now standard libraries for manipulating bytecode. (I had to roll my own.)
That’s oddly not much of a problem for my socks, but as soon as it fades visibly, out it goes
Hasn't Jerome Powell been quoted verbaitm on saying "we need to get wages down", implying that they have gotten too high and are unsustainable for most small/medium businesses to pay?
Or we have more? I hate to be That Guy, but all the apocalyptic nonsense about inflation and debt and crypto and spending and fiat currency and pestilence and whatever has been almost exclusively propagated via too-online echo chambers like the one right here on HN.

There are Serious People out there too, real economists who have been studying this stuff for whole careers. And quite frankly they haven't been saying any of this stuff. I think it's great that people (especially the GP) seem willing to reevaluate their priors. But maybe while you do that you could nod to the expertise of those "elites" you've been trying to ignore?
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> If it's forgetfulness or it's tedious to follow, I'd consider looking into setting up tooling to enforce the rules a bit better.

It might also make sense to question "The Rules" from time to time. Sometimes, you have rules in place that are now grown old, and are really tedious to follow. If it becomes a chore to adhere to the rules in a project, it's fair to question the rules and drill down to the issue. Doesn't work for every situation, though - just an idea.
The myth of induced demand needs to die a short and painless death. The confusion between something at capacity being expanded and the expansion itself causing the increase is too prevalent.
> only seemed to make people buy more tangible goods to hold on to.

In an inflationary market it makes a lot of sense to buy today what you can't afford tomorrow.
I think it really was the basic economics of it, though, wasn't it?

It cost a lot. Most people weren't interested in paying it. Then, as conventional aircraft became more comfortable, a longer more comfortable flight was significantly more appealing that a short uncomfortable one.
Scientists: No, the Sun Has Not Changed Color (and Stop Staring at It)
an "xor-linked list"?
I'm not familiar with the index part, but you can get at least 2TB on a single CPU socket these days. You shouldn't need multiple machines to fit in RAM. Depending on what QPS you need to handle, you might also be fine to not have the whole thing fit in RAM.
Kind of like the English, while in many senses having lost their marbles, still have a lot of marbles with "Return to..." labels on them.
I hope they’re trying to lower unemployment. But yes, my flippant comment is mainly just about these kinds of headlines. And a free chance to take a shot at the wrong and bad minimum wages.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!

But seriously, remember when the DNC sabotaged Bernie Sanders? Twice? It's kind of hard to take anything about change through voting seriously. The rot and corruption has taken over, and I don't think we can vote our way out.

As for parties, the spoiler effect means we will never see a serious 3rd party, that ship has sailed.
Even $500M a Year from Google Isn’t Enough to Save Firefox
Actually, I found ATT blocking inbound port 53 to my home. Maybe udp 443 could work?
No kidding. I feel like people have really lost the plot. I'm not sure they even understand what they're supporting at this point. On one hand you have people claiming that not adhering to whatever ideology of the week is literal violence, and then they dismiss an actual violent criminal as just making people feel uncomfortable. I think this kind of pushing the limits of credulity is intentional.
What's your biggest guess as to why, even with 5% interest rates, they haven't been able raise unemployment yet?

How long will they need to hold interest rates at 5%+ before we see a raise in unemployment?
Or just make it a noop, and use a malloc implementation that returns ByteBuffers/arrays.
The federal minimum wage is irrelevant in almost every region now. It might be relevant in maybe a poor part of Mississippi, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t the bottom even in those places.

Our current job boom has little with minimum wage allowing for lots of low productivity workers and more to do with a demographic shift, baby boomers are retiring and dying off, the demographic pyramid is imbalanced.
Starting a small company with partners, what bootstrapping services can I use?
I’m looking to start a small highly technical multi asset quant/stat vol/arb/HFT with some friends from my long career in tech and quant trading. I founded some startups in the mid 90’s so it’s not my first rodeo, but I have seen so many awesome services and startups posted here focused on bootstrapping and providing leverage to small teams, and I’d really like to build something elegant and modern in the business sense without distracting from the building of the business. Ideally I could scale as we scale, we are self funding for now so every dollar spent on business services is dollar not at work growing the fund. I have a rough business plan that could see geometric growth over time so it would be nice if the services are like any good service - scale invariant. I guess, what would the serverless architecture for a new high tech business in 2023 look like?

Thank you for any suggestions, thoughts, recommendations, pitches etc. It’s an exciting step in my life after 20 years in FAANG and globomegacorps and other peoples funds.
Why Cobalt Prices Have Fallen to a 4-Year Low
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
Look at San Jose Diridon Station. Caltrain and links to Oakland and San Francisco go through it. It is in the middle of Silicon Valley and yet the station is empty during the day surrounded by parking lots.

Let's fix the low hanging fruit.
Wages don't rise. Rising wages means the wealthy can't exert as much control on the government and the economy as they'd like. Look at a long term chart for wages on a 20,30,40,50 year scale. Wages have not kept up with productivity, and this is by design.
Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok
That is not the point. But I will assume good faith here, Alaska is the one state that has similarities with Scandinavia. In terms of both weather and resource extraction. Is Alaska doing worse than Scandinavia when dealing homeless?
That's fair, I've heard complaints that mastodon's moderation tools also leave something to be desired but it might still be the best. I haven't been an admin so I can't comment firsthand.
Here are a couple I follow over on datente.com, or that I check on a periodic basis:

- https://www.filfre.net <- the Digital Antiquarian

- https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com <- Restricted Data

- https://www.c82.net <- C82, the works of Nicholas Rougeux

- https://history.stackexchange.com/questions <- History.SE ... as with any SE site, there are pros and cons - but a lot more "pros" than "cons", imo
Wouldn't it be simpler to just build on the acme challenges?

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/
Can you give me an example? What are those keywords? This sounds a bit like Dall-E 2, where OpenAI appears to manipulate certain queries involving women to make them black.
The link between interest rates and investment seems pretty sound, I think it's more likely that we are just seeing a secular trend of retail still recovering from covid or something.
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Earning minimum wage is better than earning nothing.
Why do scrabble players care about words that long? Beyond fun trivia.

What's the longest word ever played in an actual game of Scrabble? And though this is hard to get data for, what's the longest word that ever could have been played but missed?
They’re trying to raise it.
This is why it would be really interesting to find out if there's any life in the lakes underneath Antarctica[1]. This would probably show life is possible on these moons.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok
I don't know if it counts, but you could compile it down to llvm bitcode and run it on sulong as a part of graalvm. I imagine it comes with caveats but it's used for real stuff.
Native AOT is getting there.
> recession, inflation and layoffs only seemed to make people buy more tangible goods to hold on to

Why is it surprising? As long as you believe that your job is secure, if you believe higher inflation is coming then buying things now may be a good solution.
Yes and Python (released in 1991) took a lot more time to become popular compared to Java (released in 1995) which was corporate backed.

Python still seems to have funding issues. For example, JS (backed by multiple big corporations) performance has improved a lot compared to Python. The main Python implementation doesn't have a proper JIT as far as I know.

So it shows the difference between amateur languages and corporate backed languages.
I think there is small but non-zero chance that someone might do it, and that's enough.
Can easily happen if you were not paying attention when looking for a lodash in npmjs.com, or using the autocomplete on vscode, codesandbox that don't provide more context anyway.

They could also write tutorial or stackoverflow answers linking those packages, it would definitely pass the moderation as the rest of the code would be okay and people copy/paste a lot.

Or maybe they are just assessing what's possible. (or wrote for this article)
"Censored" implies intent. That's a bit too much inference on our side about what the model infers.

We can say at best the "model doesn't typically recognize and/or know about a connection".
Yes, absolutely, it will be our next feature!

Link to my related comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35826540#:~:text=Yes%2C....
>the only major sector cooling off for jobs is tech

Is that happening overall?

I know some high profile tech companies have done large layoffs but I suspect most of tech is not them.
I feel like Lil Jon would be perfect for the song “ok google call 911”
We need all of the above. More density, replacing more roads with mass transit, good jobs outside coastal cities, and more ways to work from home.

None of these things are mutually exclusive.
You may be surprised at the sheer size of the American millionaire class. I know I was. It’s a good chunk of the population. Looks like there’s about 25 million millionaires in the States in 2021. Collectively, they can spend a hell of a lot of money.

I got this information from the Credit Suisse Global Wealth report - hopefully it’s reliable information despite that fact.
Thanks for your question.

> Let's Encrypt together with tools like Cerbot have brought easy to use proof of domain ownership to countless sites. Why wouldn't services that want to verify domain ownership use that?

I think the answer to this question, is the same as the answer to:

"Why don't service providers already use LE and Certbot to verify domains, instead of DNS TXT records?"

I don't immediately see how it would be possible for a service provider like Google or Facebook to use Certbot or LE to verify domains for users. Could you explain that? I see how they could use the same methods (HTTP-01 and DNS-01) but that's what service providers are already doing.

If it's possible in some way I haven't considered, I'd guess it's not used because by service providers because it creates more friction than current methods.

> Even if centralization of domain validation is something you care about

Could you explain how you consider this centralised when these records are stored in DNS?

> I wouldn't want that centralization to happen by a project for a company focused on collecting data about businesses.

I think you're talking about my company NUM Technology Ltd [1] and our laughably ambitious plan to organise all public data about all businesses into machine-readable format via DNS. You're right this involves collecting data, but only public data on the web. Consider it as a way to fetch a particular piece of data from Common Crawl in 15ms.

1. https://www.num.uk

2. https://www.numprotocol.com

Both sites in urgent need of an update.
Yes, there are already laws against slumlording in most places already. It's not on an individual renter to hold the power, but on a licensing or health/building code enforcement government agency to prevent uninhabitable or sub-standard housing from being rented without recourse. The tenant just has to complain to them and the government comes down with the power.

Not counting college, I've rented at 7 different places, representing about 13 years in total. None were slums. All were far better than me having to buy an entire place each time I wanted to move somewhere.

Remove slums? Hell yes! Remove rental properties? Hell no!
> This seems like a bad statement to make without any comment on what’s happening to wages. Are wages rising?

This might be in reference to during the pandemic, nobody really wanted to work (labor shortage), so employers had to offer incentives and above-average (for them) wages in order to entice people to work.

I know in some minds we might think "good, higher wages for entry level workers"

The only problem is, as you know, that money has to come from somewhere. Cut a cost somewhere, raise a price to a customer somewhere, or the owners make less money. The third one doesn't really happen/isn't worth the risk of owning a business at that point, right?
Construction fell off long ago (heard numbers like 40%,80% reductions). Which makes sense given construction is kind of the “marginal” effort of real estate - where interest rates would factor in most obviously.

Regardless, it’s a decentralized system and inherently complicated. I’m even feeling a little impressed with its resilience shown here.
For the bottom they are. For the middle class no movement. For tech im seeing them go down at most startups.
Scripted macOS setup – Goodbye manual User settings and App installs
This is statistically incorrect. The percentage of multiple jobholders is still lower than before the pandemic [0]. This is despite the prime age labor force participation rate being the highest since like 2002, and higher than it was before the pandemic in January 2020 [1]

You should reflect on why you feel this way despite the facts painting a very different picture.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12026620

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060
Are there jobs that still pay min wage? Warehouse jobs are paying $20+hr. Customer service jobs are $20hr+.
You seem to misunderstand the statement. "Upward pressure on wages" implies an increase in wages.

In other words, people make more money in robust job markets and can spend more money on goods and services.
My pixel 7 keeps breaking the google assistant "Hey google" functionality. I have to go into settings, remove it as the "assistant app" completely, then re-add it.

Then it'll work for ~8 hours.
No, the fed has a dual mandate of controlling inflation and keeping unemployment low.

They are absolutely not “trying to raise unemployment”. They are trying to control inflation and the expectation is that they will eventually have to stop raising interest rates (or lower them) because unemployment increases too much before they hit their inflation target.
Couldn't believe that shit when I heard it.

I wish I could find the interview, but at one point someone brought up the question of wages going up and he basically said "Don't stress we'll get that under control soon"

"That" basically meaning poor people.
Missing step in the final act of photosynthesis
You're right. This is going to make me sound like an old fart (my dad always said this would happen to me, too, one day) but while I appreciate living in the here and now, I do miss when every scrap of everything wasn't an opportunity to make a buck. There are more than enough indie games or old games I can continue to run to stay happy, so I think it's more the culture I'm reflecting on. Plus ça change.. :-)
They're called mimetic tests: https://hitchdev.com/tropes/mimetic-tests/

For self contained algorithmic or calculation code with simple inputs and outputs, TDD with unit tests really shines. If your app is mostly lower level code that does a lot of complex "thinking" especially with simple inputs and outputs then you probably should have mostly unit tests.

Integration/E2E testing algorithmic/calculation on that kind of code leads to tests that could take 100x longer to run - unnecessarily.

However, it's very common to have very little code of this type. If an app is very integration code heavy (it sends/receives messages, does CRUD, calls APIs, sends emails, etc.) then the opposite is true - you only want to have integration / end to end tests.

Unit testing that kind of code leads inevitably to mimetic tests.

End to end tests can make it hard to get a good granular view of an issue. I agree with this. However, this can be solved by integrating high quality debugging tools to the end to end tests - automatically grabbing screenshots, logs, external API calls, etc.