skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took my comments about ?...: notation out. Basically, at a syntactic level its tempting to regard ? as "the operator" and : as some other operator but really the ternary operation only exists as some hypothetical function in 3 arguments:

ternary(condition, true-path, false-path)

which executes either true-path or false-path depending on condition. But in notational terms, how "big" condition and true and false parts are is rather unconstrained, so you wind up with the ? and the : widely separated. They aren't operators in the higher sense: they're the syntax which forms the ternary operation as a whole over the expression and it's condition.

Lexing bleeds into syntax and syntax bleeds into semantics.

:. is a possible faux-pas in lexing the sentence around the ?...: construct because of :. being unfortunate.
BS'ing
I run a system at my employer that occasionally gets scraped by malicious users. It can be used to infer the purchasability of a specific domain, which is a moderately-interesting API endpoint, since that requires talking to domain registries. For a while, nobody cared enough about it to abuse the endpoint. But then we started getting about 40 QPS of traffic. We normally get less than 1.

I was keeping an eye on it, because we are hard-capped at 100 QPS to our provider, beyond that and they start dropping our traffic (and it is an outside provider, bundling domain registries like verisign and stuff), which makes regular users break if their traffic gets unlucky.

Anyway, after a week of 40qps, they start spiking to 200+, and we pull the plug on the whole thing: now each request to our endpoint requires a recaptcha token. This is not great (more friction for legit users = more churn) but it is successful. IF they had only kept their QPS low, nobody would have cared. I wanted to send some kind of response code like, "nearing quota".

FTR before people ask: it was quite difficult to stop this particular attack, since it worked like a DDOS, smeared across a _large_ number of ipv4 and ipv6 requesters. 50 QPS just isn't enough quota to do stuff like reactively banning IP numbers if the attacker has millions of IPs available.
I do exactly think this is just greenwashing by JPMorgan.

I see the $200 Million as token support for a misguided effort that is being given a spin as something more effective than it really is.

The climate cost to society has always been offloaded primarily because it was not accounted for financially.

What better PR than to put (a little bit of) their money where their mouth is by supporting Climeworks, no deceptive advertising campaign necessary, just that level of spin at this point.

Climeworks seems to be saying foremost exactly what JPMorgan wants them to say, more convincingly than JPMorgan could say for itself.

>the energy spent capturing the CO2 is quite significant, so it's not even certain that their CO2 contribution is subtractive at the end.

You seemed to have grasped this more so than others.
Yes, it can be eradicated, but it's very contagious and stays airborne for a long time. You'd need very high rates of vaccination across all of humanity. Probably the reason this approach is being tried.
Yeah, i hate and admire WordPress at the same, in my brief exposer I quite like its hooks/action/plugin system. In a weird way my current project[0] is inspired by wordpress. (its not a exact CMS thing but), what if someone build a wordpress like pluggable system but plugin donot run in same eval/execution context, maybe inside wasm containers.

[0]: https://github.com/temphia/temphia
When people talk about Lua's embeddability I hope they can just include a simple 20 line C snippet show how easy it is to actually embed Lua.
Today, it is now possible to live entirely independently, with little reliance on a large family. Government and society provides (at a price) many things that used to be provided by extended family : eg child care, unemployment benefits, food, social activity, clothing, housing.

This new “society provides most services” favours being single with one other person (and maybe one child).

Being married and having children is more suited for older days when society provided almost no security and protection from economic and natural realities.
I upgrade my phone every other generation or so, say 3-4 years, and I get my kids another generation back or pass down my phone. I cannot remember that last time I noticed something running slowly on an Android phone. I am much more interested int the battery life.
found this: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
QPS seems to be "queries per second".

I first thought it was something like "quadrillion bytes per second" or some newer over-the-top data measurement :)
Depends how you define that API. It could do something like "check if available, and if so, pin it until the next read (which will happen right now)". Not saying that's a good idea, but if such API was needed, it is possible.
Indeed. Tens of thousands of requests per second from just 64 hosts? So they allow individual hosts to make hundreds of requests per second, sustained? That sounds crazy. Even for a burst limit hundreds per second would be extremely high.
It's not cheating, so you won't get arrested for it. If you add an ace to the shoe when the dealer isn't looking (and make off with enough money for them to involve the police), off to jail with you.
Seconded. Especially A History of God.
https://archive.is/DHjdX
Putting all the drama aside, "clearspaces" would be better, no? What if my editors background is black? Then whitespaces would stand out like white bars.
> Corruption is one of the main reasons those project go anywhere. People in positions of power want to do them because they can get money on the side while they are done.

This misunderstands the relationship between corruption and state capacity.

The key insight is that corruption does not require a project to actually deliver the promised benefits, or even to be completed at all.

> If we figured out how we can make combating climate change rife with corruption 30 years ago, we'd be in much better place right now.

Fortunately there’s a great test case for this theory: California High Speed Rail. It was justified in climate terms but actually got underway so that numerous local/regional special interests and parasitic consultants and contractors could extract profit from it. And the result is a fatally flawed project that is decades late, has swallowed money that could’ve paid for numerous other rail projects, may not be completed at all, and will never deliver the originally promised benefits in any case (too slow because of sweetheart deals for numerous Very Special cities).

Meanwhile, lower-corruption countries that haven’t gutted their state capacity can and do build immense amounts of beneficial infrastructure.
Temporarily add 500ms of latency to all ipv6 users, backoff timers for ipv4 addresses. Since there's only 4 billion v4 addresses, it's easy enough to just track them all in a sqlite db.
> >1,500ppm concentration of fluoride is prescription only

Man that's silly. Where I am (Australia), 5000ppm is chemist-only, but doesn't need a prescription
I'm guessing the pickup configuration will lose its whimsical, but impractical profile in production or in its second intruckation.
Where I live (Wales, UK), we had "local lockdowns" (where citizens were not allowed to leave they county they lived in) until late 2021. Even without that, there were still significant restrictions in place on our daily lives, like in many other places.

>what are you still complaining about? you won, no one likes a sore winner.

"Won" means that we are all allowed out of our houses?

I'm complaining about the damage that has been done.
For some, programming is a lifestyle, and a culture, and has nothing to do with getting paid.

In my experience, these people and their projects tend to be more interesting.
Marriage is a commitment to stay together for life. Family is the most compelling reason to make such a commitment, as children are naturally a lifelong relationship and long-term shared responsibility. Caring for the spouse is an extension of caring for the child.

Sure, people can get married without choosing to have children. There's just way less on the line. Divorce is much easier. Just split the assets and move on. No need to worry about custody issues, where the child will live, all the relatives that have a relationship with the child, etc.
Casinos and gambling establishments are generally very straightforward and upfront (as required by law) about how the odds are against you. People don't care - they find it fun.
> This is just some form of parental/public input on what taxpayer money is being spent on, and what kind of books are appropriate for children.

Parental opinions don't make a book ban into not-a-book-ban. They make it into a book ban fueled by parents. Road to hell, good intentions, etc.

The other point is bizarre: two wrongs don't make a right. Political revanchism because you don't like the other things your government does is not socially healthy (arguably, substantially less healthy than any of the topics that are being banned).

Children and teenagers aren't stupid: what you're proposing is replacing subjects that they're interested in with ones that you're interested in, with your interest being an ideological one. I think it's worth taking a step back and considering whether you'd be a worse librarian than the ones that we have; the ones at hand can at least offer the sound justification that increasingly large numbers of students feel comfortable self-identifying as LGBTQ.
I think there's a moral imperative not to kill animals for food that are above a certain level of intelligence; we can use intelligence level as a proxy for capability for suffering.

To take an example ranking of potential food animals: fish, chickens, cows, pigs, great apes, humans.

There's a question about where you draw the line, but most people agree there is one. Few people think it's OK to eat chimps.

It's not clear on this hierarchy where octopuses fit in.
Nope! Plenty of atheists roll out this line; superficially it seems true, so it's a powerful rhetorical device.

A lot of discussion on the problem of evil is quite obscure but worth reading if you're in any doubt about all of creation being a fundamentally excellent thing.
Yeah. Why bother with wasm when you can write the app from scratch in Java.

Boot up time also tends to be irrelevant since the true slowdown comes from initializing other dependencies anyways.

Wasm looks relevant for existing apps in C++ that you wish to run from a web browser.
That’s interesting. Hadn’t heard of that. How common is this practice?
> "Error establishing database connection"

Well, that's ironic.

... Anyone have an archive.org link of the page?
I think community support is more important than all those factors.

Having children is much easier when you are close to parents, friends, and family that share the load. If your family willing to babysit, that saves like 20K a year in a metro area. If your friends have kids, you don't have to choose between personal social time and child rearing.

The realities of the world are set up such that you have positive feedback making it easier if your peers are having lots of kids, and negative feedback making it harder if your community is having fewer kids.

I have friend groups that have lots of kids and it works out great for them. They socialize multiple times a week for dinners during the week or barbecues on the weekend. One parent will passively watch the kids while the other six or seven parents hang out and enjoy themselves. This lightens the load on everyone.
>“Responsibilities as a wife”—sorry, what are these supposed to be?

Figure that out and you'll get a committed partner for life. ;)

But to start, a wife is often the sole emotional support network that a man has, and in a healthy relationship his sole source of sex.
There is, but the figures are broken :/

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/7/109909-passing-a-langu...
This is what Craigslist did in the P2P space.

Except CL squandered the opportunity to rebalance the power dynamic between landlords and renters.

Then, its continued reluctance in many fronts fragmented local P2P into a dozen marketplaces, greatly impacting its own marketplaces’ liquidity.

At this point I think Wordpress is doing more to sort itself out than CL.
An extension that takes the 'rotten tomatoes' rating (from the OP site) and places it near the like/dislike icon would be useful.
This Exa Cognition video has some good insights on the state of Vertical Farming (2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnCQuwCtqJg&list=PLU8luVji9K...
So I’m making my way through s02 of critical role and I’ve got to this live episode in New York and one of the audio engineers has had a shocker and set a noise gate way too high so the entire cast is constantly being clipped and it’s virtually unwatchable with the audio on. We do however, have all the closed captions, along with hundreds if not thousands of hours of recordings of all the cast members voices, as well as the shitty audio as a blueprint. Any AI wizards fancy taking a stab at redoing the audio for the entire episode?
Is it just me or I can't seem to find the RSS feed.
Capitalism is always vulture capitalism.
If you like, I'm not asking as Eliezer Yudkowsky, Singularity specialist
I mean, it's Stallman. Of course it is. Has anyone who was so wrong about so much ever achieved such celebrity, at least outside of Politics?

It's amazing he didn't destroy the entire movement.
If you haven’t actually tried to do something professional with Wordpress, you might think this description is over the top. But it actually undersells how bad it really is.
Yourmom.zip
Health officials, believe it or not, are like any other human beings - in that they also have their own agendas and sometimes those agendas may be in direct opposition to the well being of others. I am surprised that anyone is surprised when news like this comes out.
Yeah, what's up with ending everything with a question mark and pulling stunts like :#?, huh? /s
Elderly got recycled, that is what happens.

You are right "It's bigger than just private companies."

It has to do with the society.

There is some respect for elderly still surviving in Hellas, but it is dwindling.
libuv brought .NET to Linux. Will never forget that.

Without libuv that story would not have been such a success.

Thank you!
This is actually true that they can and do adjust the odds on these machines for high rollers and the like. It's all done by computer now, no lever. However, there are strict procedures involved. If there is a player on the machine, you can't change the odds or payouts without first kicking the player off the machine, and you have to make the payouts very clear (usually with a placard on the machine), and you have to change that too.
This looks very nice! Is epub version planned?
It's a personal judgement based on personal experience. I asked those same questions before deciding that maybe dating or marriage was not for me. However, you should make your own judgement call based off of your own experiences. Just be aware that something between 40 and 45% of first time marriages fail in North America (depending on the study).
> A lot of disinformation about this initiative flowing around.

Such as what?
I am from that time, and it's funny that I've never heard about this. Sometimes it's sad to see such a complex project that probably hasn't been used much.
First Look at the Headset That Could Be Apple’s Biggest Competition
Even though the comparison is hard to take seriously, there is probably nothing we can do at our current societal scale to make the Pacific Ocean into the Dead Sea equivalent. Ocean acidification from all the GHG pollution, now that seems to be possible. DeSal scale is just not there and we don’t actually need THAT much extra water for cities. Agriculture could be another matter, but economics are not there yet.

This report from 2012(!) outlines how any effects from brine can be mitigated and even direct direct brine discharge when properly engineered impacts the area of only tens of meters: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/ocean/d...

When improperly dumped, there can be localized effects, but that’s no different from any other construction.
HN still seems to value constructive criticism though, to an extent that is simply not possible on YouTube.

YouTube comment section is basically a cesspool of toxic positivity now, with absolutely no informational value at all.

I feel like this has been the case for a couple of years now, where nothing even slightly critical will be surfaced by whatever automated algorithm they are using to filter/boost content.
In the case of YouTube at least, to me this seems like it's probably overcorrection being done to try to manage the particular brand of extremely over-the-top negativity that's commonly seen in the comments section. Comments like this often require moderation for being abusive or otherwise breaking ToS but can't be handled right away, so they bubble the positive comments up to so at least the questionable comments are buried a bit and don't get as strong of a bandwagon effect.

If this is what's actually happening, it's a case of particularly nasty commenters ruining it for everybody.
> I also find the cookie filtering has gone slightly too far and I have to recommit to consent to trackers on almost everything which is a pain. stackoverload, every single time.

Cookie/similar dialogs used to really annoy me, especially on frequently visited but logged-out sites, until I finally started applying domain-specific local style sheets to hide them. Such oddness, indeed.
I think that the way you propose does preclude a fair trial as it biases the jury but we've already covered that and come to different conclusions.

I agree that free speech has significant value and restrictions should only be put in place when required to uphold other rights.

I'm sure you're not alone in your opinion that a jury is able to ignore what they've heard about a case in the media. However you do disagree with the current judicial system of most developed nations. That doesn't necessarily make you wrong. I think there is merit to the argument you're making, I just am not convinced that people can ignore information like that.

https://juryanalyst.com/blog/the-power-of-media-coverage-how...

https://www.canlii.org/en/commentary/doc/2019CanLIIDocs2798#...
0-based also makes more sense when modular arithmetic calculations are involved, which is not that uncommon.
Too many packaging formats are evil: https://stop.zona-m.net/2022/01/the-sorry-sorry-state-of-lin...
It depends who you're targeting. If you want any non-developer to be able to edit the site, it's great. For developers, it's just plain terrible.
damn...something to look forward to i guess
Impressive. Especially the DNS resolvers.

At least the .NET entry is however no longer correct
Pretty sure it was an attack, not legitimate bulk use of the website.
Sample size 1, but I avoided getting a vaccine for over a year, and I only got it when extensive measures were taken to combat my anxiety about the needle. For sure, I would have been in line to get it day 1 if it had been a nasal spray or other method.
As far as I know, they have to be exactly equal to the advertised payouts. This prevents stupid shit like making one of your slot machines "hot" as an advertising trick.
Still a healthier alternative to broken relationships continuing for years because of the high bar to leaving it that are the de facto norm for our civilization. Commitment encourages treating the relationship as a sealed deal and not putting effort into its maintenance.
>Maciej's larger point is that the AI faces tons of very difficult problems in escaping its physical constraints.

Why is it difficult? We are already putting AIs in every electronic device. Someone has probably already put an LLM in a robot somewhere. And you don't think Boston Dynamics is thinking about putting an LLM in one of their robots to test? And surely the military is building AI fighting robots.

And then there's the thought that a super intelligent AI can easily hack its way into any machine it wants.

Heck, the super intelligent AI doesn't even have to convince humans. In the future, it can just convince dumber AIs that are already in robots.
> Being a taxpayer gives you a right to vote on what your tax dollars are used to purchase.

How do you imagine the state senators who voted for this bill were elected?
So also Groovy. I have embedded Groovy in web applications to use as a rule engine. It is also very easy to install.

https://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/documentation/guide...
Captcha seems like overkill. Were you not able to implement a JS fingerprinting / bot check before captcha.
I don't think that works if your attacker has millions of IPs and is only using 200 per second.
This is great, thanks for sharing!
I picked up most of this over time, but wouldn't have needed as much with such a great overview as this-- matches all the best practices I learned trying to make sure things looked right c:

What I didn't pick up along the way was accessability... anyone got recommendations for lesser known, quality, maybe even first-hand resources on eg. ARIA?
Ah, didn't catch the Blue Origin vs Space X mention. Strange that they're launching rockets so far inland.
> its hardly a single operator in syntax terms if it has two disjoint components

I don't think "operator in syntax terms" is nearly as well-defined as OP thinks. Why couldn't `?` be parsed as half an operator and `:` as the other half? There's no rule that says a parser has to call each distinct symbol token its own "operator". In fact, I'd argue that the only reason this might seem seem like a rule is that almost all of the other operators in common use are either unary or binary, making it easy to use a single token for the operator itself. That's why it's called the "ternary operator"; it's the only one that operates on three things! The only alternative to spreading it out across separate tokens with an operand in between is to put multiple operands in a row on one side of it; as confusing as `foo ? bar : baz` might be, I have strong doubts that `foo ?: bar baz` would be less confusing in most real-world cases.
Yeah, thanks, but I'm gonna go ahead and stick with the language made by the earnest working class guy. You know, the one that everyone loves to complain about, but that everything is built with.
xkcd 927
Cool. Now get it to run on an unexpanded 5KB VIC-20.
Context is important here, and while your advice it valid in some situations, it's not valid in all situations, and specifically its not valid in this one.

I get that once a business grows to a certain point it needs "professionals" to do some of the tasks. Ideally start by hiring people with skills you don't have. Sales is a skill.

That said many people have more the one skill. Context matters. I write libraries for programmers. I attend trade events where I talk to, and sell to programmers. I do a lot of marketing in this space. I have an authenticity that a non-programmer does not have, and I believe that is reflected in our sales.

In this case the developer is perfectly capable of picking up the phone. They may or may not maximise potential income (but that's not their stated goal).
If there's enough demand then they can pivot to a sales person later on.

Incidentally, I would likely figure out who does the marketing for the local businesses you see. They buy the ads, not the business directly. They're easier to talk to (they -want- more exposure opportunities) and they may bring multiple customers to the table.
Wouldn't statins lower cholesterol in large populations of people who need it to, e.g., produce hormones? I can't imagine anyone wanting to inhibit the production of sex hormones (testosterone, estradiol, etc.) in children.
Oh yes nothing like cutting a part of your internal organs out and facing the risks and consequences associated with it because pharma companies won't sell the drug at a sane price.