skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so context-sensitive. I have a large family and I've had some rough employment years. Our basic expenses are high. We took a huge loss on a house. My retirement savings are in terrible shape. I've had to cash out three different 401K accounts over the years to pay the mortgages. That's of course a terrible thing to do, you lose a lot, but it's also sometimes the only realistic option. If I had been able to leave those accounts untouched, I'm not saying I'd be all set for retirement, returns have been very uneven for decades, but I'd have 2-3x the retirement savings I actually have today.

For a while I was working for a self-driving car startup; I had an equity arrangement that, if everything went _just right_, would supposedly be worth about 700K after 4 years of employment. I knew this was a long shot, but I was working hard for that, harder than I might have otherwise been willing to work. What actually happened is I hit the one year mark, 1/4 vested, and shortly after that the company shut down, so that extra work and stress only ultimately harm, not help me, although I did learn a bit, though not as much as I was hoping to.

So, a windfall of enough money to pay off my mortgage or significantly improve my positioning for retirement. $700K had my attention. I know that's just a theoretical number and I'd have to sell the equity and take various hits on that, but I could fantasize about retiring early, shifting to part-time, etc.

A smaller amount like $100K would allow me to make a huge payment on our house, which would drastically reduce the interest I have to pay over the life of the loan, so that also could be life-changing, but not as dramatically.

$50K would bring back most of what I blew from savings after having to cash out the last 401K. I think $75K would about make up for everything I lost because of that last job loss.

$10K would probably immediately go into projects, like repairing bathroom ceiling, replacing a dishwasher, getting some more shelving, a couple more desks for my kids, upgrading some ancient laptops, etc. Or, we might be able to repair a car that's been sitting around for months waiting on money to repair it. Not really life-changing but life-improving.

$600 is about week's food expenses for our family of nine and I wouldn't say no to that - it would allow me to increase our savings a little bit.

$100 is pizza and wings for the family.
“Should” and “does” are widely different.

They certainly should but it takes time to get a new tool approved and the hassle is rarely worth it.
It's not a crutch, it's the main instrument of discoverability for unfamiliar UIs. By volume, 99.999% of all software is unfamiliar to you.

Microsoft Word is not a crutched version of VIM.
Protein can sort rare earth elements better than current mining practices
I was waiting for the 'Arc'-ening to happen.
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> felt obligated to keep alive

Back to the point made before, relationships are being defined as feelings like feeling obligated to keep it alive. You are kind of bottling the definition of relationships to just "feelings" and ignoring relationships formed with explicit terms, like marriages are made.

Some relationships are defined by blood and some by a contract (like a marriage contract) and others by history. Some relationships are friendly. Some relationships are self-serving and when the needs are met or if they change, the relationship disappears. Virtually all non-blood relationships are bound by an implicit "trade". If the trade ceases, the relationship disappears.

The rest of the points you made are lost on me. I don't know which direction you are going in. It might be etiquette and courtesy, which are governing principles of respect. And respect is also a form of trade.
> We will grant in increments of $10,000 USD from a fund of $1M USD, in the form of API credits, direct funding and/or equivalents.

Does "increments of $10k" mean that a single grant can be greater than $10k? Or are grants limited to that amount?
I'm no fan of cops, but this article is low on evidence.

They say first 45 words, but they only give two examples of snippets (e.g. "Turn the car off"). If a cop walks up to a car with the engines still running, they're right to be wary.

There's very little to suggest what conversation happened before those critical few words, and if some more relevant cause is actually what led to the cop taking more aggressive measures, eventually leading to the search/cuffing/etc
You misunderstood what they said. "Modernism is obsessed with truth and optimization" does not equal "modernism is truth." They were also talking about it conceptually, not as "their" preferred art.
Wonderful visualisation, always wondered this one. I wish the nodes had the names of the capitals.
That's also true but if I haven't felt compelled to upgrade it from a notebook scribble it's somewhat less likely
> Hygienic macros and a strict phase separation are not distinctive to scheme, many languages have this now, most importantly Rust.

My understanding is that Rust's macros are only partially hygienic. They fall short of Racket's. To the best of my knowledge, Racket has the most hygienic and expressive macro system of any language today. The people behind it have put a lot of work into it over the past couple of decades, producing more than a few significant papers in the realm of PL research.

> My impression is that hygiene itself (which the scheme community tended to obsess over) is of minor practical benefit

I assume you've not written many macros that generate identifiers before. I assure you, hygiene is quite important for safely reasoning about your syntax!

> are there additional important practical benefits you see, macro-wise, over Common Lisp

Racket sports a focus on what they call "language-oriented programming". The gist of this community philosophy is that all significant software really is an API (or a layer of multiple APIs), and by treating these APIs as "languages" we can make them more ergonomic. Expressive macros enable a style of programming where you can make your API look however you want while still implementing it within whatever other language you're using. Pretty much all of my Racket projects end up with at least a few macros, though it's worth pointing out that the community also stresses that things that can be functions should be functions rather than macros.
I would appreciate if you addressed the questions as literally stated.

I could just as well argue that businesses developing or making use of LLMs can't have their cake and eat it too. If they want their computer programs to enjoy the same rights and prerogatives as human creators do, they should be ready to demonstrate that those models are truly moral agents, with their own lived experiences, and thus deserve the status of legal persons as of themselves subject to the same laws and obligations as human beings.
Yes, the anti-remote worker propaganda is ramping up. "Laptop class" is a punchy bit of populist rhetoric I've seen slung around. Perfect for angering blue collar workers and business owners alike.
US marriage rates are at a 120 year low.
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Just use C-x 8 in Emacs and you'll get any symbol by name, with autocomplete.
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Memory safety isn't just a security thing, it's also a reliability thing. That is, even if my games have zero security sensitivity I'd still like them to not crash or corrupt data.
If the amount that you borrow is the same amount that you lend, both amounts cancel out. Your net investment position is zero. As I see it, you can't do anything you the borrowed funds because you haven't borrowed any funds. You have the same funds that you had before taking the "loan".
I might already be there at 0, haha! I much prefer decorating my spaces with plants over art. I certainly wouldn't argue plants are objectively better than art, but for me the beauty of even the most common pothos far surpasses the majority of popular art.
I have expensive useless licenses from multiple defunct software vendors.

It's said that 20% of small businesses fail in their first year, and 50% in the first five.
> so far the vast populace hasn't been interested in putting a headset on for hours

It doesn't have to be "for hours" to sell a headset. I am happy to play games for 45-90 minutes at a time and I spend a lot on my gaming setup to do so.
Art is a financial instrument. The value of art is how much a wealthy person will pay for it.

That being said, there are lots of intense and pretty drawings and paintings that obviously took a lot of skill to create. No need to expect inspiration. A lot of the language around "art" is a reflection of the self-regard of the people who own it.

> edit: it always tickles me the negative reactions I get when people hear my opinion on art.

People want to fit in, it's a survival skill. Public negative opinions about Marvel movies will get you death threats and accusations of trying to destroy companies for the sake of other companies.
I think the paid content features are part of Jetpack the plugin.
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Anyone have a Linux alternative for the Mousekey app in the article?
I used to do my best to play many of the tunes Coltrane did. Never near as good as him, and when it came to Giant Steps, there was just no way. I kept trying as long as I played.

We should not forget “playing outside the changes,” or “playing out,” for short.

This concept was pioneered back in the 1950s and ’60s by innovative jazz legends John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and others.
And thus it was proved true that an artists value isn't known until they are dead.

In this case, it took six centuries for somebody to get their jokes.

and for those who don't get *my* humor, it's a play on words about 'getting' jokes, physically, in written form
Except that the Vatican is fully within Rome so, actually, nowhere in Italy is closer to the Vatican than to Rome...
> Microsoft Word is not a crutched version of VIM.

No, but Notepad is.

Word is a word processor. Vim is a text editor. They're not the same thing, and they're not interchangeable.
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It's a story, the ferryman has the oar, he stops being the ferryman without it, the next guy having it is the new ferryman.
So you just pass it on.
It's a task you can never finish but only pass on.
Most definitions for it include whether the message is irrelevant or unwanted. Trying to define it purely as unsolicited gets into weird cases where you'd say that an emergency tornado alert is spam because it's unsolicited. Maybe there's a definition if spam where that's the case but if the residents of an area find that alert useful it seems unlikely that they would describe it as spam, even though they didn't solicit the warning
Even an image that clearly labels the buttons with one to three would have been an improvement already.
Regardless of what you think of this, there is a related idea worth considering: hegemony. Whether it is organic or confected, the idea that powerful groups within societies create and export ideas to other groups in society in a way that cements their own power or breaks a competing group's.. isn't new, and is fairly clearly the case whether we look at art, or tech, or media ownership.
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Discussed (a bit) at the time (of the article):

Was Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23525366 - June 2020 (7 comments)

Pretty sure there have been other threads, including on the Peter Matthiessen (Paris Review) connection - anybody want to find them?

Edit: there's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10963429 - and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10964477 linking to https://www.salon.com/2012/05/27/exclusive_the_paris_review_....

Edit 2 - found some more:

During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7991903 - July 2014 (30 comments)

Abstract Expressionism was (in part) a covert CIA operation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891222 - Nov 2010 (1 comment)

Others?
Is there a risk of it hallucinating what new features could do instead of basing information on having seen them before?
> black people are a good example

Black people aren't immigrants. They were taken from their land, had their culture stripped away from them, and sold as property.

And if you're talking about the recent wave of immigrants from Africa, they have maintained their own identity and culture in addition to adopting american customs.
That's a cool idea. Move the rest of the browser chrome into the left bar as well. Less of vertical tabs as an entire vertical chrome.
Every community has tons of people that would take up the moderation mantle
Amazon software engineers in Seattle probably start at $150k. They should buy EVs if they are concerned about smog, or spend their $$$ on living close to work (within walking distance).
Every innovation is niche, until it gets adopted by the mainstream. Many large companies have attempted to create mainstream products which have failed.
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I personally bet the old Oculus Accounts were also correlated to a user's Facebook/Instagram/etc. accounts using metadata such as IP address. I guess making it explicit using Meta Accounts does give them more leniency with data linking though.
Maybe politicians should not treat people disabled by medical problems they can not control worse than they treat drug addicts?

Texas says if your diabetic blood sugar drops to 69 for one second while you are driving that you lose your license for 2 years, can not get a hardship license, and will have to beg their Medical Advisory Board for any license for the rest of your life. This is true even if the dip did nothing to impede your driving.

And they hide the rules. The rules used to be published, but that brought federal scrutiny. So now they hide the rules.

OTOH, if you drive drunk and high you are not subject to such a mandatory loss of license.
> I don't believe the Catholic church (or other denominations of Christianity, or Mormon church) would allow a LGBT couple to officially join.

That's not entirely true. No legitimate catholic church would prohibit lgbtq couples from joining. The more conservative ones definitely would not condone their lifestyle, however, and probably none would agree to marry them. So if you are lgbtq you should probably just give some serious thought into more liberal denominations.
The issue you have circled around here is a bit deeper and nuanced than trimming down exponential code to something more tractable. In fact, it's often worse, and O(2^n) can be a blessing!

The problem with logic programming is the 'logic' part.

Modern imperative and functional programming languages are constructive.

Logic programming is not, and the expressive power varies with the exact logic being used.

Elementary logic gives you the following intuition.
Propositional logic -- easy.
First order logic -- easy (with caveats).
And (some kinds of) second order logic -- only easy if you get lucky with the problem you are trying to solve.

For logic based programming languages and systems, both the language implementer and the programmer have to be careful about supporting and using language constructs which boil down to tractable computation.

This is much more difficult than it seems like.

For example, when using SMT solvers you learn quickly that multiplication and division with constants is very fast while the same operations with variables can be intractable. i.e. reasoning about x * C --easy, while x * y is often (but not always..) going to hang.
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I cannot confirm or deny whether this comment is psy-op.
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> I was talking about the sheer effort it takes to create such things

I understand what you're saying, but I think this is the key to my point:

> It would be a user experience that reddit could make as terrible as they wanted.

It's an unfair cat and mouse game. Yes, effort could be made to fix it each time, but, if reddit chose, they could force everyone into the "most users" group, when the only app works for 5 minutes a day, and people get bored, because they decided to randomize page elements.
> I've been asked, and offered a crapton of money to do things that I just would not be able to sleep at night if I had said yes to

I'm kind of curious now, what are these things?
No no, that claim was also a psyop.

Unless the psyop was itself a psyop? Would they do that to their own people?
Some very nice and thoughtful work done here. One of the security risks that I see is the passing of corporate information into ChatGPT which may be sensitive. Is there a way to obfuscate that potential issue in an automated fashion?