skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have theories, somewhat supported anecdotally, by things I've heard and been told.

I think the number one issue, that people keep forgetting, is that younger folks are fearfully insecure. I certainly was.

Even when we project great confidence, we still know, in our hearts, that we're whistling past the graveyard. It's really bravado, meant to help us feel better about ourselves.

As we get older, that particular insecurity starts to dissipate. It might get replaced by cynicism and fatalism, or fear about personal security, but the idea that we aren't "good enough," tends to lose steam. We become fairly aware of what we can (and, even more importantly -can't) do, and can often see the mistakes before they have a chance to metastasize.

Insecure folks don't want to be around people that remind them of their frailty; even if it costs them. That insecurity is painful. We may be very intelligent, well-educated, and creative, but we haven't had the forge of experience, and the infused carbon, to create the steel. We're still running on raw pig iron.

The other issue, is the "cargo cult" belief that younger folks can do the impossible, because they haven't had bitter, cynical "olds" tell them that it's impossible. That sounds silly, but I've actually heard exactly that, from a number of intelligent, well-educated people. It's a compelling myth, and many folks buy into it; hook, line, and sinker.

Basically, Wile. E. Coyote doesn't fall, until he looks down. If you don't have people around, that yell "Look down!", then you can fly.

And, finally, we all remember when we were "free," and didn't have things "weighing us down," like families and other obligations. We assume that we will always be able to remain completely self-absorbed, mobile, and somewhat hedonistic. "Digital Nomads" don't deal so well with families. I was raised by a pair of high-functioning Peter Pans, and can report that it's hard on the kids.

As long as the older folks had the power and the money, the younger folks were forced to work with them (and grow through their insecurities). However, if younger folks have the power and the money, they can prevent older folks from participating.
I don't know what they do in the Netherlands, but in rural parts of the United States where people are on well water, fluoride treatments are common. Florida is directly applied to the teeth during a dental visit, then washed out.

Anecdotally, this is what I had and I have great Dental Health despite for brushing hygiene. I often skip brushing my teeth and almost never floss and haven't had a cavity in 40 years
It's how much it would cost to produce the text files in your code. I think that most software engineers will agree that writing the code is the easiest part of the job. The hard parts are figuring out the problem, figuring out your data modeling, what is going to work and what it would cost, considering tradeoffs in speed, scalability, maintainability, etc. And, you know, getting the thing to actually run.

There's no doubt that AI is going to be a huge factor in coding. But we will have to change a lot of things for it to outright replace humans. I'm sure some people are already working on those changes...
In C++ the over-abstraction starts in your first lessons. I know and understand all the arguments, but I will never type this:

std::cout << "You have " << itemCount << " items of type " << itemType << "." << std::endl;

When I could do this:

printf("You have %d items of type %s.\n", itemCount, itemType.c_str());
Defects in 3D print jobs are usually usually related to model design, slicing parameter decisions, and occasionally a printer part needs replacement/servicing (like belts).

So far, firmware crashing hasn't been an issue. I'm supporting open source firmwares though (Marlin, Klipper, and soon RepRap/Duet) so they're VERY battle-tested. Maybe this is an issue for proprietary closed-source firmware?
> I've noticed that when control flow is abstracted away at runtime for flexibility of future changes just in case we need to handle other cases in the future, the code starts to become difficult to reason about.

Control flow is a big thing to watch for. IME an abstraction that's defined in terms of plain functions and values, and lets you use your own control flow, is often a good one; one that requires you to supply a bunch of callbacks and let it take over the control flow is often a bad one.
That’s a bit of bullshit because these payment providers accept transactions for the government which consistently kills people at the local, state, and federal level every day.

If you “know” the money is for a hit job, you contact the FBI or local police and they can mobilize protective services and arrest forces.
CC's do get transaction information.

Check out "Level 3 data"

https://www.tidalcommerce.com/learn/what-is-level-3-data
it's Canada, so no review will be beneficial to people. the whole judicial process is a joke. the government has carte blanche to do anything to you
My ignorant as all hell take is that this is tied to the collapse of the enforced nuclear family social construct. Women grew their careers and were able to have financial independence. As women began to have the option to choose not to have children many decided to take that approach. Once the decline really sets in it's during the wealth extraction of the middle and lower classes by Reagan and the destruction of leftist and minority family units through the War on Drugs in the '80s and starting in the '70s respectively. By the time the '90s roll around the trends are entrenched and here we are.
> the sheer number of people that enjoy similarly detailed SciFi/fantasy work

I'm assuming you mean books here. SF/F book sales generated $590 million in revenue last year. Video games: $56.84 billion.
I agree. It was more convenient to rob cash which is fungible.

But I actually wonder if the rewards are higher today, with everyone carrying >$1000 phones.
Let's just all print $100 bills.. it can be done for under $5
I think y'all may be missing a significant use case.

M1 Macs. Some places use only Macs for reasons and m1 is now the only option. But software is still optimized for x86 and emulation is not good enough yet. Not even that it's slow, but some things just don't work.

Yeah these cost money, but it works right now.
Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
Brother fckn nazis taking the government is a much bigger systemic problem that no financial system can protect against.

The system works if democracy works. If we lose democracy, of course, the blocks built on top of it would crumble. That does not means everyone should stop building on top of democracy. Even more so for things that makes the life of the people better.
GDP adjusted by Gini coefficient would be a better measure. A massive GDP overly concentrated in the top 1% of the population doesn't improve the lives of the rest of the population.
In the EU/UK it's capped at 0.4% for debit cards I believe, and not much more for credit cards. I agree it is a private sales tax, but cash handling isn't free so it's not a perfect comparison.

In Australia it's actually very common for the card fee to be applied on top of the charge, especially in restaurants and small businesses. And I actually don't mind. It's about 1-1.5%, which on a $50 bill is small enough that I'd rather have the convenience, and the annoyance (or risk) of cash is enough to not bother.
This is very good suggestion, thanks. I'm in the process of rewriting some sections of the sample and will update the 'librarian' part.
> You can apply a filter and immediately after compute a hash.

Can you expand on that? I’m not sure what wouldn’t work
I am hoping this is not a "slowly, then all at once" scenario...
Sublime Text vs. VSCode
Well, it looks like a lot of this is designed to make the job of law enforcement easier because politicians that seem "tough" on crime have better election prospects.
Freezing the money is far more dramatic and provides nice numbers for said politician's re-election campaign.
Unfortunately this seems to be the only option - either making open source licensing more restrictive or depriving these people from the code all together. It’s not the first time large corporations benefit from people’s good will and it won’t be the last.
Bingo. It's different when you grow up with it.
Do you know how much each underground stall costs? It varies a bit, depending on where you are, but they're extremely expensive.
One could argue there are different degrees of ugly and beautiful spaghetti though.
Feynman Ciphers #2 and #3 broken
I also live in Japan. I disagree with your take. I think the Chinese influence on Japan has been massive and enduring. I am not Chinese.

Being long term residents of Japan doesn’t make either of us experts on this matter. We’re just two people who have interpreted our experiences differently. I understand you feel strongly about this (I also often find myself jumping to correct what I consider to be misconceptions about Japan, so I kind of get it) but I think you’re overstating your opinion in this thread right now.
It's funny, I usually only think about circles this way when trying to construct mutually tangent circular arcs, because if you have one circle inside (or outside) the other, their arcs are tangent at the point where they touch.

I used circles a lot when doing CADs because they let you measure all the points a certain distance away from a given point, so intersecting two of them lets you do a lot of construction, like finding the two possibilities for the center of a circular arc that passes through two points of a given radius, assuming that they're not too far apart for that to exist.
Brazil Central Bank has a well paid and competent bureaucracy. The very successful PIX payment was its initiative, but the gov in power tried to pretend it was their.

BTW, Brazil Central Bank now is "independent", that is, their president was indicated by the looser candidate can do what he wants. In USA at least they respond to Congress.
I’m playing with the little models at home on a local GPU. So far I’ve fine tuned one and gotten some of the better ones (WizardVicuna) to work as a complete drop-in for a use case I was testing with OpenAI. The surprising thing to me was, at least for my fairly simplistic requirements (Parsing an API and making decisions) it’s actually responding with less latency than the OpenAI API and the same degree of accuracy.

I think we are rapidly approaching the proliferation of good, local models. 99% of “AI” does not need a fleet of thousands of A100s.
> inserts the previous command's parameters/arguments at the cursor

In zsh, there are equivalent expansions:

!!:1 previous command line, arg 1 (zero-indexed)
!!:$ previous command line, LAST arg
!!:1-$ previous command line, args 1-end (zero-indexed)

So, e.g.:

cat /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group

vi !!:1-$

(becomes)

vi /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group
What I meant, is that the discussion doesn't have to be limited to something recent. Sometimes, anecdotes from over 10-20 years ago can be interesting.
I'm an airchair physics person so I'm curious how close my layman understanding of this matches reality... So Higgs particles don't exist under normal conditions, they're just proof that the Higgs field exists and explains how mass exists. When the energy that's perturbing the Higgs field dissipates it does so through other fields perturbing them to create one of their particles and so on.

Sci-Fi or Fact or somewhere in the middle?
Streets? No, that's where people live, work.

Roads? Sure! Stroads, too (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad)
There are many good uses, and I wish the `new` always required it.
Sounds efficient! Totally doable!
I agree that contact-less transactions are able to be performed faster. In the situation of a grocery-store checkout there are other factors at play. Have you paid and everything is still being bagged up? Is there anyone waiting on you? Probably others I'm not considering here.

Essentially I think this gets into a estimation of magnitude problem (outside of ethical, security, and other concerns). Where if the payment isn't ever the action being waited on, a contact-less payment while convenient doesn't save you any time to get out of the store. If you have just a snack and no lines then the payment will be the action causing the bottleneck.
Or any topic that involves more than one interacting decision, a graph, or any numbers at all.

COVID made it pretty clear that neither the general population nor most politicians are remotely qualified to make decisions. Not just medical decisions, just… decisions.
Businesses are one thing, but what I find truly dystopic about the idea of 100% cashless societies is that you could off people in the same way.

If today, you lose access to your bank account for whatever reason, you still have various options how to purchase necessities: If you got some spare cash, you could use that; otherwise you could ask a friend to lend you some cash.

In a cashless society, that won't work: Even if the friend wants to help you, they have nothing to wire the cash to. They'd literally have to buy the individual goods for you.

The only way to fix this would be to get a new temporary bank account until the old one is accessible again. But if you got banned for whatever reason, chances are the bank will ban the new account as well.
The Semantic seems not used anymore:

> During this time, the team migrated from a Semantic-based tagging service to one that operated entirely with (newly developed) Tree-sitter queries. Though Semantic performed well, using the Tree-sitter query language allowed faster iteration and avoided the operational overhead of a program-analysis framework.

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3487022
In which countries is 3-phase power common?
I live near a military base that serves as a sorting facility for refugees.

This is mildly beneficial to our GDP. It’s also beneficial to the refugees. Win-win.

But whenever refugees show up, aggregate happiness certainly suffers.
You aren't misunderstanding it. This is not a valid way to calculate the cost of your code.
Seems like the superoptimizer search graph would be a very good subject for machine learning algorithms? Are where any good AI superoptimizers out there?
It’s pretty hard, cash is like contraband in many cases
Somehow AI fans can’t seem to understand how scale changes things.

Bombs have been around for a long time. What if everyone could have many, cheaply and easily? Why, since nothing happens with N of them, then 20,000 x N is just a little more of the same. And so what if the bots are now able to hold conversations and pass the Turing test 24x7 at scale? We have been able to hire humans to do that.

Except… no. That’s not how it works and you know it. Allowing anyone to deploy swarms of bots with superhuman memory, strategy, coordination, and now the ability to do many tasks with acceptable or good results at scale, is a game-changer and the question is whether it will make society better off.

The same questions asked of Web3’s downsides should be asked of AI. Not upsides, downsides. The fact that the guy in charge of safety at OpenAI says he thinks there’s a 20% chance of human extinction and you choose to shrug it off and focus on some other part — is the issue.

This isn’t just an academic discussion. It is like the people who profit off of coal and other things, regardless of their emissions or effect on people or climate. It matters and should be regulated.
Here's California electricity prices for the last ten years:
https://ycharts.com/indicators/california_electric_utility_r....

There's a clear seasonal pattern and steady increase over time, but isn't particularly spiky otherwise.

And here's diesel, with a nice wall of an increase (~50%) in March last year due to a certain geopolitical event.
https://ycharts.com/indicators/california_no_2_diesel_retail...

Electricity went up at the same time from about 21¢ to 24¢, less than half the relative increase in diesel prices.

And this is pretty typical: geopolitical events cause price spikes (or sometimes dips, when the producers happen to try to undercut one another), and then slowly normalize.

Electricity, by contrast, is lots of sources rolled together, spread all over the planet. Shocks in one source will certainly show up, but are stacked by other sources.
Because it's a lot easier to rationalize not doing your job when it is (or at least seems to be) being done OK. There's a lot of rationalizing of decisions, when you've spent your life saying you're the expert helping people. Also, a lot easier for management to hand out a LOT more work since it looks like it's being done right.

It's like the lawyer using ChatGPT to file legal briefs... he'd feel bad and be obviously incompetent, if he didn't file anything at all, but didn't feel bad (or feel the need to check anything) once it "looked right".
This seems to assume that GPT4 can actually generate the code of your repo. Good luck with that assumption.
This is best done with a group of friends who know you pretty well, and done as a mutual exercise, where you complete a Johari window for everyone.

It's pretty neat to see which qualities you see in yourself, and how much those show up in your peers' assessment of you, along with which ones they see that you don't, and vice versa.

There's this lovely interactive tool for performing this online, if you're with a group of friends and want to try it: https://kevan.org/johari
Why would they get a "medical bill"?
It seems that the package calculates the lower bound of how much would it cost to write the same code with GPT-4. It does not take into consideration that even GPT-4 cannot write code at god mode and write it correctly on the first try.

However, it gets interesting when you realise that if writing the code with an LLM is dirt cheap, then 1000 iterations of writing the same code with the guidance of a skilled software engineer would still be cheap and probably faster. I can imagine a world where whole engineering teams are replaced by just one engineer with a code-generating LLM.
I'd hate to suggest that the comment about cleaning up code with GPT was written by GPT and posted without that crucial editing step. But the number of people who are using that tool instead of their wetware is certainly growing.
Last time I checked both Visa and Mastercard have no problems being used to buy cigarettes or alcohol.

I'd bet that orders of magnitude more people die because of cancer caused by cigarettes and in episodes of domestic violence or traffic accidents caused by alcohol abuse than the number of people assassinated by hit killers hired online and paid with credit cards.
Using FusionAuth JWT tokens to authenticate GraphQL requests (2020)
> Cologne is a city with roots that reach back to the Roman empire. It has grown and developed over hundreds of years. Where would all these underground parking lots come from?

If car parking is a worthwhile use of space, the market will provide it (and whether below or above ground is beside the point). If it's not, it won't.

> Why not go a step further and demand that all streets should be put underground, too, so that pedestrians can enjoy an idle stroll on green meadors above ground without all the annoyances that come from car traffic?

It's a good idea, but we probably have to get there incrementally.
Isn't that awfully inefficient and wasteful power transfer?
I used to be big on Kate but then during the KDE 4.0 times it started lagging behind other editors and I switched.

I think Kate definitely need language servers support (or alternative support) before it can be competitive.

It looks already pretty awesome and feature packed (not even astrovim has multiple selections editing!)
I wonder if unit testing was ever considered, (or possible?) for the Linux source code?
I suspect there's a much smaller number who affirmatively know that there's not a specific flag for a kingdom that ceased to exist 1,335 years ago. Particularly since the article presents both a pure red flag and the red/yellow flag and claims they were used at different times.

Thus I'd imagine that of the small number of people intimately familiar with Korean history who even noticed, very few could say with sufficient certainty that the flag was never used.

(For that matter, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Korean_flags has a third variant...)
said Charter which is worth zero, when any judge or politician can override it.
Depends how pages are generated. If they are using getStaticProps this is not true because the HTML needs to be "hydrated" with the React runtime which requires javascript. Astro will prebuild the static pages.

Look for a tag like this: <script id="__NEXT_DATA__" type="application/json">
How about "cognitive superoptimizer" – find the optimal version of the code for human comprehension?

First try - get every permutation, feed to some stable code-oriented LLM, ask to explain code and measure number of words.
The USG is currently at critically low cash levels. This actually shows that billionaires are miniscule compared to the size of the government.
> There’s a rumour that the carpet has another version: one where the Eagle looks right, towards the arrows, and that the carpet can be switched if the country is at war. I like that idea.

In recent decades every president get’s his own rug with his own design [1]. It’s even more amusing, if you imagine a storehouse somewhere with the unused “wars rugs” of past presidents.

[1] https://www.ahs.com/home-matters/resources/the-evolution-of-...
> you see a flat-looking ECG, you treat anyway, maybe 1% of patients survive - but maybe that 1% were actually not really in asystole.

Isn't that basically the no true Scotsman fallacy?
Otherwise known as “your CS degree has shockingly little to do with this god forsaken login page we’re designing”

I’ve had so many long conversations with early-mid career developers that the stupid code being written will have a shelf life about as long as a head of lettuce. And that the “best” solution is typically the simplest, shortest, and can be written the quickest.
You forget software. I have great 3-rd party display for my laptop, but with Linux it's often software that doesn't support that. Text looks too small, often times there is no scaling possible. Because of that I use Windows + WSL
I'm not claiming payment processors are moral. I'm asking if the freedom to refuse unethical business should be your right. I was responding to the position of a parent comment that processors should accept even illegal transactions.

Of course you contact the police in the situation I described. Do you accept the payment though or do you refuse the transaction? You keep avoiding a specific yes or no question.
No, making it so you can’t buy anything without the gov’ts permission makes it not only more tempting for someone like Nazi’s to take over, but also much more effective for them to keep it and far more damaging when they’re in. Germany is a strongly ‘cash’ society partially because of this, but also because of what the Stasi did to East Germany.

You really don’t want the folks in power to have even more of that kind of power, no matter how convenient it is most of the time.

At least Visa/MasterCard, etc. mainly just care about making money. The gov’t doesn’t even have to care about that!

Using ‘we’re currently in a democracy’ to justify creating an even more tempting and likely to be abused tool of oppression is not a good idea.
Important comment: PIX is not a bank killer and isn't designed this way. Banks still exist in Brazil and they rake in pornographic profits just like everywhere else. The absolute majority of the banks profits here does not comes from payments processing fees. The fees exist to cover the transaction operating cost. Since for PIX there is a much much lower operating cost, it makes the service free for people and businesses! The ones losing here aren't banks, but credit cards companies.
Are there spoilers? I haven't played through yet but passive media is so much easier to consume :)