skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
President Bush declared Katrina to be a national emergency on August 27, 2005.

http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2010/finalwebsite/katrina/gov...

> Before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Governor Katherine Babineaux Blanco declared a state of emergency in Louisiana on August 26, 2005, and asked President Bush to do the same at the federal level the next day, a request with which he complied. This authorized FEMA to organize and mobilize resources as it saw fit to help the residents of New Orleans (Office of the Press Secretary 2005).
The problem Newman/postman have is the same for every GUI based testing application. They almost always produce non human readable config files. Making any kind of code review of such changes at best extremely painful and at worst impossible.

IMO any testing tool that does not save it's test classes in a human readable format is DoA.
I see H1Bs becoming more and more prominent in the big companies both as leadership and as ICs.

I was on a team (at a big famous SF company) that was all Indian people on visas and the entire leadership structure up to Satya Nadella was Indian.

If anything this seems ominous for Americans.
Hold on, let me spin up my IMP nodes first.
Maybe a government contractor?
Go is great for network heavy apps like algo trading!

I used Go to write trading algos that would find small windows of triangle arbitrages in crypto exchanges. Made me some money but the risk of a big loss made me stop pursing crypto trade and it required too much time and attention. It's a full time job from my experience. Reasons I could lose big at any given time if I scaled up the stakes:

- Exchanges temporarily pausing some specific crypto trading for N reasons (happened very often) while I'm in the middle of the arbitrage.

- Getting caught in the middle of a pump and dump event (also frequent)

- Any algo mistake that would perform excessives trades in succession would incur huge losses because crypto exchanges charge %.

Also, most cryptos have too low volatility. Every time I tried to scale my bot would start interferring oo much with the market. And it wasn't even much money.
It's not an article but a website. All it does is legitimize crypto“currencies”, which are multi-level marketing pyramid schemes, under the guise of philanthropy. Mainly so “number goes up.” Nothing new under the sun.
> imagine a CEO who acquires an AI assistant. They begin by giving it simple, low-level assignments, like drafting emails and suggesting purchases. As the AI improves over time, it progressively becomes much better at these things than their employees. So the AI gets “promoted.” Rather than drafting emails, it now has full control of the inbox. Rather than suggesting purchases, it’s eventually allowed to access bank accounts and buy things automatically

Ok let’s pause for a second and observe the slippery way the author has described “AI” progress. In the author’s world, this AI isn’t just a limited tool, it’s a self-improving independent agent. It’s an argument that relies on the existence of something that doesn’t presently exist, solving problems that won’t exist by the time it gets here. We already have tools that can draft emails and suggest purchases. The email drafts require oversight and…no one trusts product recommendation. And importantly, they are non overlapping. It turns out that specialization in one area doesn’t transfer. No matter how good you are at writing emails, it doesn’t lend itself to running a company.
> No. Centralizing control of something that was designed to be distributed is what is stupid.

Sounds like the issues we currently have with democracy.
High RSS being a dealbreaker for OP rules out most lisps. ECL might be low enough, but certainly SBCL and CCL will be too high.
>Are psychiatrists supposed to order MDMA/psilocybin directly from the companies that produce the two for research use,

As I understand it, yes.

Legalisation hasn't meant it has gone mainstream.

It is still going to be administered in very selective cases where the current range of medication and therapy has not been effective.

It may only be tens or low hundreds of people who receive these treatments in the first year.

The efficacy of the treatment will be monitored and the hope is that these patients outcomes are positive, which will add to the body of work supporting MDMA/psilocybin as an antidepressant.
Mice were absolutely selected into the “Zerg rush/high loss rate” niche.
I'm a native English speaker and I have no idea what this is supposed to mean (other than a reference to performing fellatio on a homosexual)?
Life is about identifying your values and finding ways to work towards those values. If he does that with productive evenings instead of watching TV, I am sure that gives him purpose and makes him happy.
My problem with this is that AI at the moment is a kind of 80% thing.

And you want to plug that into ERPs and accounting?!?

We don't even really understand its failure modes.
don't you think one is a consequence of the other?
A question: Credit cards are generally profitable for banks, interest rates set accordingly to account for high default risk for these types of unsecured loans.

So what is it about these particular cards (really the audience using them) that makes them disproportionately more risky/prone to default?
Also - people assume everyone on here is a developer of some sort.
Shazam Maps Millions of Songs into Audio Fingerprints [video]
>> Who’s next? Bush Sr.?

Let's see what Soviet foreign minister Shevardnadze had to say: https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/interview-with-e...

Denies that the subject even came up with Western representatives, Warsaw Pact leaders or Communist Party leadership. As he points out, nobody foresaw collapse of Warsaw Pact, so there was simply no reason to discuss anything like it. That would've made as much sense as discussing in 1999 what to build on World Trade Center grounds. Nobody knew that the WTC area would become a pile of rubble in two years' time.
Now crack down on vote/comment bots and companies that whitelist them.
Math isn’t science. Most mathematicians aren’t interested in applications to the real world. They don’t care about empiricism or validity. The fact that a lot of applications have come out of math is a side effect.

Imagine if someone discovered a way to solve real world problems by formulating them as chess positions. Would it be reasonable of us to demand that chess players stop competing and work on these formulations? No, and I don’t think many chess players would jump at the opportunity. They just want to play chess!
I had mixed feelings about using, but I’m into it now. I like seeing familiar conventions from other languages I’ve come to love, and it seems like the implementation will likely deliver the same QOL benefits I’m familiar with.

On that note, I know it’s contentious, but I’d love to see pattern matching baked in like we have it in Rust (or similar). I’ve come to love ts-pattern so much, and I’m constantly wishing it was part of TypeScript/JavaScript.
NY Transit officially stopped using Twitter. I hope others follows.

Google results that require a login to view are cancerous
I guess you'd have a trusted employee come out and insert a magic card into the sorter intermittently for as long as it takes, so nobody knows which batch it's actually in.
empirical mathematics will never subsume all of mathematics, unless we have AGI then a strong maybe. This goes back to Plato at least, who said incommensurability is not something the physical senses could ever know. Physical lengths with no common unit measure will never be found empirically, as the instruments will first be assumed to not be precise enough.

There’s no round about way through empirical means to incommensurability. Some wider-than-empiricism epistemology must be incorporated because of this one example.

The empirical/constructive? mathematicians are right to differentiate their method. But their method is unable to handle some math. And that’s fine.

I think this extends to computers. The Halting problem is too similar to empirical ulimitations. Now maybe some kind of AGI that is smarter than humans could one day peer into this non-emprical mathematical world much better than us. But will we be able to confidently trust everything it claims? Will we run empirical tests on it to make sure it’s functioning correctly and therefore trust it’s conclusions? Maybe. It’s kind of hard to say right?
> We had a lot of warning about climate change, chose economic growth anyway

The climate changes with or without humans. That gigantic dynamo in the sky has cycles longer than recorded history. The climate models (many of which forecast doom in 20 years or so) fail to have predictive value. Economic growth has proven to be good for human health on a whole...assuming the wealth is distributed & not concentrated.

> 1. "we found 40,000 chemical weapons overnight by flipping a 'minimise harm' to 'maximise harm

Governments & Corporations have been harming humans for a long time. Positivist plausible deniability is a common meme..."it's not proven unsafe so that means it's safe" while often omitting data which proves something is unsafe.

The problems lie with governments & corporations that control the regulatory apparatus...not rogue actors.

> 2. Bing chat threatening it's users almost immediately

All the more reason to have open source options & freedom to choose another model.

> 3. All the stuff the red teams found so OpenAI could prevent them before chatGPT went live

Yet here they are wanting regulation...which conveniently would entrench their market position. If we demand that the companies which created the "harmful" ai nationalize their technology or open source their technology & data for public inspection, we would probably see these corporations change their positions on this issue.

> Conversely you don't need an AGI to exist for some idiot to be convinced of a bad idea that gets nukes launched anyway

These idiots already send radioactive munitions into combat areas via depleted Uranium. The lone madman is not the problem...governments & powerful corporations run by psychopaths is a far greater danger. Do we want to give these powerful psychopaths sole control over AI?
Even if true, I think that really won't have a lot of practical significance. This kind of thing isn't completely without precedent. Norma McCorvey, the Roe in the Roe v. Wade decision, was quite unreliable (if we are being charitable). She had probably fabricated important parts of her story.

These are from Wikipedia [1]:

> McCorvey stated then that her involvement in Roe was "the biggest mistake of [her] life".[4] However, in the Nick Sweeney documentary AKA Jane Roe, McCorvey said, in what she called her "deathbed confession", that "she never really supported the anti-abortion movement" and that she had been paid for her anti-abortion sentiments

> In 1969, at the age of 21, McCorvey became pregnant a third time and returned to Dallas. According to McCorvey, friends advised her that she should assert falsely that she had been raped by a group of black men and that she could thereby obtain a legal abortion under Texas's law, which prohibited most abortion; sources differ over whether Texas law had such a rape exception. Due to a lack of police evidence or documentation, the scheme was not successful, and McCorvey later said it was a fabrication.

> In 1983, McCorvey told the press that she had been raped; in 1987, she said the rape claim was untrue.

If we think the institutions and procedures which lead to the Roe v. Wade decision (or say a lot of other rulings by the the Warren and Burger Courts) were legitimate, the situation is quite similar now, mutatis mutandis.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Norma_McCorvey&ol...
In what way was it eye opening? As far as I know, there hasn't been any particularly interesting revelations.
You lose a billion a year. Chump change, Uber has lost a billion a quarter for a decade.
Looks like this is the best moment to move to the fediverse. Each country to have its own instances and accounts for all public institutions and governors.
that's my impression too. The reward is mediocre to say the least, but it's super convenient by optimizing the most common path: payment in a single click on the dashboard and real-time activity feed. And the killer feature: autofill on web pages with Safari.
I take your point, but by that standard the person who posted the stats may as well have said

Wearing pants increased from X% → Y%

Eating pork increased from X% → Y%

Drawing pictures increased from X% → Y%

Reading Harry Potter increased from X% → Y%

Using the stove on Saturday increased from X% → Y%

See? These stats prove morality is in decline!

I'd argue that the conclusion to be drawn is that morality is so subjective that the very idea of a moral decline is nonsense, not that these numbers prove a moral decline. (I actually do think a moral decline is happening, but in my view it's more along the lines of increases in tribalism, factory farming, militarization of police, the industrial prison complex, wealth inequality, etc.)
Review of Going the Distance: The Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700
For me it was Go. The toolchain just stays out of my way. I find Go much easier to deal with at a project level than anything else. YMMV because I'm a command-line kind of guy.

Many of you will assume I'm a moron for choosing such a retrograde, simpleminded language. It's true! I am a moron compared to most HN readers. And your language is much more sophisticated than mine and had generics long before and didn't need a make keyword and stuff. No disagreement there.

All I know is I can get the job done faster in Go than with Python, and I have type checking too. Plus a sane-ish package manager and a single, stable ecosystem. Plus I can deploy a single executable that even lets me embed assets inside it. It just stays the hell out of my way.
Raclette is the one the gets me.

From a quick google ‘Raclette’s most distinguishing feature is its aroma, which might charitably be described as pungent. (Actually, it smells like something left to rot for a few months in a gym locker filled with dirty sweat clothes.)’
I have been complaining about this for years and years as someone who builds these types of platforms. It's the same for thousands of niches across google. The top result is camped by some SEO garbage. For instance, I run a kpop platform right now (kpopping.com) my competitors are making 10x what I make just copying my pages and putting them up on a wordpress.

I'm so sick of it. Google can't be destroyed soon enough for me.
If people though of ads as something the creator controls, I suspect many creators would turn off ads, or maybe do a single pre-roll ad, and double down on sponsorships instead. It places the creator much more in control over the exact ad content that plays, and if you manage to get a good match between channel and sponsor can be much less jarring than youtube ads.

Of course youtube wouldn't want that, because they don't get any money out of that deal. And judging by how things are going at Twitch, the platform trying to get a cut by forcing sponsorship deals to happen via their platform just gets people up in arms.
I recently switched after years of using Pocket. The first thing that made me switch was Pocket rebuilt their iOS app but with only a few of the features. Many things, such as highlighting, were left out and support says they will be built sometime later.

The second is the parsing seems to work much better.

Also, I can subscribe to RSS feeds or sign up to email newsletters so that they go directly to Readwise Reader.
My admiration is just from knowing I'm too risk-averse to do it. I just admire the courage/determination.
You are now. :)
A lost occasion to also blame advertising
This comment on a related HN post seems to indicate they're still working: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542606

Here's the example link from that comment:
https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=16748657311...

Edit: and here's a random news article (post?) that has a working embedded tweet: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23780357/new-footage-of-t...
I agree. I've been using Go as my primary language since 2011. Its package management has always been fairly simple, but deficient. Go modules have made things more accessible, but it lacks serious features and actually has quite a few bugs and edge cases. Every time I use cargo I'm blown away, it's incredible. People often gloss over Go and lump it in with Rust which is giving it far too much credit.
Does apple's foray into being a financial institution that can lend not already undercut the Goldman venture by being a lender(Apple Financial LLC ) and owning the PoS for the transaction via the iPhone? In other words why did goldman not sue apple(or think it should have put that in the contract)?

1. I thought their Apple Financial LLC is now a lender that gets to keep all the interchange fees from transactions on its own Digital wallet. This means users don't have to keep a 3rd party CC and Apple can lend to the Merchant.

2. Apple will then need to collect money from the users at the other end, which I thought was gonna be via their High Yield saving account: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/04/apple-cards-new-high-...

This should complete the loop...
This seems more of a "terrible real estates" than "terrible real estate agent photographs".

Sure, sometimes it's the latter and sometimes it's both, but in most cases a photo just shows the property and its flaws. And in this context I'd say that's a good photograph.
She did commit a crime by travelling to Russia with an illegal substance, for which she got roughly the same sentence as a typical Russian would get if caught with a similar amount of drugs. This case doesn't seem to be out of the ordinary, except for the "criminal" being a famous foreigner.
The easiest thing to screw up in a handheld is the D-Pad. A bad D-Pad means that Sonic doesn't roll, Ryu doesn't shouryuken, and Madeline crouches randomly. At least this reviewer admitted that he wasn't knowledgeable enough to review the D-Pad..
Tell HN: PWAs on iPhone Still Suck
I don’t want to require my users to install a PWA to their home screen in order to receive Push Notifications, but on iOS, it’s still a requirement despite support for Push Notifications “arriving” in iOS 16.4.
How will amazon survive this
Browsers shouldn't require accounts, and thankfully Firefox doesn't. But having a way to synchronize my passwords across all my devices is pretty important.
That was Chaos Orb, and it was a normal card, not parody Unglued one:

https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multive...
Pocket was a great tool until the released a new iOS app the other month. The app has only a fraction of the features in the prior app.
Shrewd shopkeepers know the AMEX deal – higher transaction fees, potential chargebacks, etc. Even when they do accept it, I feel bad giving my AMEX to a small business, especially when I'm abroad. Accepting AMEX is common at a high-end restaurant or hotel around the world, but good luck once you're off the beaten track...
I thought it's the opposite: MasterCard has much wider global coverage compared to American Express.
It seems reasonable to not support all the different auth schemes though. There are so many implementation quirks that it would be a huge burden to do that as part of the hurl project
Are Smartphones Hindering Communication Abilities? (2018)
Yes, it’s meaningful. If Google doesn’t fix search in the next decade then Bing (or some other winner) will be the service earning Google’s ARR in 11 hours.
What does that have to do with anything? Are you just living in a fantasy world? It would be great if you stick to discussing or criticizing actual policies instead of whatever made up shit you imagined.
> Can you imagine Musk banning some random non-USA government agency because he had a fit while high at 3 am?

Not only, but also.

Does the Chinese government run an account? Have American politicians been as upset about this as they seem to have been about TikTok? I'd check the former, but, well, the subject under discussion.
I would do a research, what others did in this situation and would ask chatgpt, bard, bing etc.

A quick google search brought me to this one: https://getpayment.com/what-to-do-if-your-company-is-one-of-...

I don'tt know anything about them, so look for all alternatives and then choose. you haven't been the first and the last that goes through this.

I'm sure other commenters will have more value, just wait for more responses.

There will be a solution, of course. I'm sorry that this happened, but put feelings aside - it doesn't help much now.
https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multive...
Something that I find a little concerning about Racket is that AFAIK there are no alternative implementations. (Clojure and Common Lisp have a couple). Why is that? is it too complex?
Unless you don't use a streaming service. A lot of people still don't.
like the canned messages that are increasingly finding themselves into any app where you can send messages to people, be it email, whatsapp, tinder, whatever

"Hey John! I see you like traveling, I love traveling too! What are some of the most memorable trips you've had?"

like, who would want to receive such an obviously canned message lol?

soon, it will just be the apps talking to each other, no humans required
Sometimes I sneeze, and within that time alone, Microsoft releases a few new versions of TypeScript.
That is an extremely uncharitable take. I find that most mathematicians care deeply that their proofs are correct.
Conversely, Waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay sounds awesome if you don't know what either of those things are.
Intact chaos confetti runs about $0.43.

https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/836/magic-unglued-chaos-co...
A second thanks for this, I saved your comment and will give Tiny Habits a shot.
> I block ads because they're psychological warfare that corporations wage against me. I don't care how unobtrusive the ads are.

I hate ads as much as the next guy. But that's the economic model most of the web is built on. Anybody without a youtube premium subscription who rants about youtube ads is just hypocritical. How should this be financed? Either you give your money or your eyeballs. Nobody is going to work for free so you can watch cat videos.

Please don't come with morals here. Expecting things for free is just as morally problematic.
I'd love to understand the downvote venom, but what what do you call in-content sponsorships after you've paid for YouTubeRed, if not ads?

Are they not advertisements for products? Or ads only count, if they're auctioned words from Google? What's the new definition.
Took me a while to comprehend that. NOYCE!
The DSL would slowly creep to a Turing complete general purpose language so I agree that invoking external scripts seems reasonable. The could be quite a can of worms though because it makes the files less hermetic
I will follow their TOS if they follow my local laws regarding advertisements and legal liability (both in term of providing honest and fully disclosed commercial messages and in cases of malware). I strongly doubt they want that deal.
I concurred with the 1983 release date for the Famicom/NES in Japan. Just pointing out that it's really the same system.
Any definite source? Pulling them out is usually easy.. but not always, if freezing them off is feasible and better would like to try, but this thread now has already the bad alcohol recommendation :/ so would like to make sure not just hearsay?