skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand your point, the broken window fallacy is to say that a child who breaks a window has actually done something good for the economy by keeping glass makers and installers employed. Obviously this isn’t true because those people could be building new things instead of fixing the old.

Well, a huge portion of our economy is in fixing the old. Why waste so much money on healthcare for humans when we could use it to build bigger and better things. We have whole portions of the economy like food production whose entire purpose is to keep people alive. What a waste. The far more efficient option is to eliminate those people and let machines do the work. Even if GDP goes down, ultimate productivity goes up.

The same can be said for entertainment, hospitality, most education (we spend 20+ years educating people before they can meaningfully contribute) and marketing. A broken window theory might say these industries contribute to the economy and give people jobs, but actually they accomplish little.
Especially since 2015 when public nash solvers became available that calculate equilibrium strategies across the whole game tree (previously they only did preflop)

I have a blog dedicated to the topic

www.livepokertheory.com

I would stop short of saying it’s more math or more complex than chess though . The math to code a solver is hard but using one to improve at the game is easy. Most top poker pros are not mathematicians nor do they need to be. Poker is also many mixed strategies so often it doesn’t even matter what you do as long as you don’t always do the same thing

But yes it’s both a skill game and a gambling game and currently my primary source of income
Congrats on the launch Guys, seems awesome !
"Novel" I guess it is novel in using a body bag to do it?

I remember literally at my first scout camp, we were talking about first aid and heat stroke came up. We were on a long pier, and the instructor said: "toss them in the water then treat for shock." So water cooling is well known to be the best way to treat someone.
"A performant pile of mud" is a description that fits many things that still stay afloat exactly because the performance allows them to. Consider C++ or x64 as examples.
Exactly. To me racism, like capitalism, is a societal system. As a white person in the US, people can be biased against me, but I don't think they can be racist to me. Except perhaps when they call me a "race traitor" for talking honestly about these topics.
Yeah, agreed. I could be with my best friends doing my favorite activity at a pace that I chose and still be completely drained by the end of it, needing time to recoup.

I imagine that, just like how it is impossible for me to empathize with someone that gets re-energized from social interaction, it is nearly impossible for an extrovert to understand how introverts feel.
I like https://mermaid.live if https://excalidraw.com/ is not an option.
Why do we need the studios then?
Or SolidJS which uses Signals.
Yeah I was taught effectively this long ago in scouts too.
A thousand times, yes. They're not dumb questions, of course. They're pure, simple, and relevant. They're the strongest questions one can ask. The best.
Change detection is one thing, and double buffering is another.
Change detection is just projecting from state changes to UI changes. It doesn't try to solve this hypothetical "flashing". That is entirely up to the browser.
Double buffering is a graphic technique meant to show smooth UI changes at the cost of doubling the memory used for the graphical object.
I'm a big fan of the FreakAngels webcomic by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield.

From wikipedia

> The story grew out of Ellis' question as to what would have happened if the Midwich Cuckoos had survived and grown to "disaffected and confused twenty-one-year-olds." The story builds on the legacy of John Wyndham's style of disaster fiction

The www.freakangels.com website appears to be down, unfortunately which might have something to do with Warren Ellis' more recent disgrace (https://www.somanyofus.com/) but it used to have the whole story available for free.

There is a recent video adaptation available too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppb1OnVEF7A
The Danger of Popcorn Polymer: Incident at the TPC Group Chemical Plant [video]
Many moons ago after having long criticised shortcomings of a reasonably popular system,[1] I finally arrived at a moment of enlightenment:

It is a simple tool, accessible to many, which is useful for simple tasks.

The chief architect of the system didn't comment on the note, but did as he frequently did with various critiques of mine, indicate having seen it.

Markdown fits this description, and really should be considered on those grounds. And it's suitable for documents of often surprising complexity.

Manpages are a specific document type, which have co-evolved with a specific document processor. I've used that processor, and even, whilst at uni, wrote term papers using it. I've forgotten virtually all that knowledge: roff(1) and kin are obscure and complicated. They're also not especially human-readable, in ways that Markdown, other lightweight markup languages, HTML, LaTeX, and DocBook, say, are.

See also: <https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html> (HN discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8449680>)

________________________________

Notes:

1. Google+, as it happens. Which had its own bastardised and painfully limited markup notation. And no, it didn't kill FB, but it was used extensively by tens of millions.
Eventually you will be found out. Unfortunately that could be at 63 (like the Stanford president) after you have had an entire career and tens of millions in compensation. Other times it may be after your death.

Sadly, this is a hard scam to catch and most top researchers may never get enough scrutiny to get caught.
I've heard that too.
Do you have an example of an app that has a particularly great VUI? Preferably something with a discovery component, not just executing commands.
> For example, it doesn't provide any syntax for definition lists

I mean, it does, its called HTML: The key point of it was to dip into another language if you needed to express complex things, not, add everything to the main language
>> Or did I misunderstand your comment?

Well, I can see now that while I expressed my dislike for change detection I didn't paint a good picture of why I think we'd be better off without it :-).

While I appreciate React's declarative programming style I dislike the fact that React (and all the change-detecting alternatives) force me to interact with the DOM through their APIs.

JQuery allowed me to do whatever the hell I wanted to the DOM, but the resulting screens updates were very ugly.
And yes, JQuery resulted in ugly and unmaintainable code but that's not on JQuery, there are rational ways to apply transforms to a DOM.

I want to "do whatever the hell I want" to the DOM because I want to apply cross-cutting, adaptive transforms to my application, like I could with JQuery.
And I think that we'd all be better off for it.
In the transition to React-like frameworks we have lost that ability

The view transition API lets me start a transition, do whatever the hell I want to the DOM, and then update the browser smoothly.

So what I'm imagining is a component-oriented framework like React that doesn't lock me into a component-only API. A framework that, when rendering occurs, starts a transition, let's me do whatever the hell I want to the DOM, and then updates the browser smoothly without doing change detection.

And the reason I would like that is because, while React's declarative, component-oriented development approach is nice and all, it's also very restrictive.

Reacts prevents me from directly traversing and mutating the DOM, and it's own virtual DOM, because if it did then it can't efficiently do change detection.

If we replace change detection with transitions then we can "do whatever the hell we want" (hopefully not in an unmaintainable JQuery way) and still have smoothly updating displays.
We'd have a framework with all the benefits of React and without the restrictions.

Anyway, that's my best shot at explaining myself :-).
Can you find a source saying that Georgia Pacific or any other company was able to use this process to shield the parent company from liability? I’m not finding anything to that effect. Everything I see complains about them using the process to improperly consolidate the cases.

>Georgia Pacific did this. Pledged $1B, ended up funding $175M. The entity went bankrupt three months later with 62,000 claims fighting over those scraps for mesothelioma (i.e. an average claimant getting less than $3,000 - before legal costs).

A source would be helpful here too. Is it because the judge ultimately only found them liable for a total of $175M? Or did the judge find them liable for more but was only able to find $175M in actual money to pay out with?
I only tried this meh notation because hn doesn’t do LaTeX.
> greedy desire to show year on year profits

People's pensions depend on the stock of companies that grow, so the the source of pressures/incentives is rather diffuse.

I've recently been thinking about this problem because we need to get rid of fossil fuel, but those big companies actually have a lot of unwitting supporters (staff, shareholders, and the staff and shareholders of the smaller companies in the ecosystem) that will suddenly wake up and say, "wait, this hurts me in the short term".

It's easy to blame the studio and streamers' execs, just as it's easy to blame the (actually greedy) fossil fuel execs, but there is more to the story. It's simply that there's a general pressure to enshittification.

I expect streaming to be unwatchable in a few years, except for those who can tolerate advertising interruptions. And this time there will be no Tivo to skip the ads.
I think the scale is also different. You can’t quite formulate a CCG game that requires 10 copies of charizard to be strong (counterexamples abound for sure). you can’t drip feed 2 new characters every couple of weeks while still doling out the same trash that you’ve been giving since day 1 99% of the time.
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I don't think I've ever seen a page load in 52ms (`load`, not `DOMContentLoaded`) with caching disabled.
Reproducible builds ala Nix and others can really shine here, they remove entire classes of 'it doesn't work for me' issues.

Alas, it's another learning curve to add.
Corporations do the exact same thing before shareholder’s meetings.
that is until AI obsoletes the TV format entirely because it can produce new content constantly
Like the war on drugs, right?

Everything said about this stuff applies to doing drugs way more. And society did something about it - drugs were made illegal and it's getting enforced. But are we actually better off now as a result of the war on drugs or prohibition?

Chemical waste dumping is a much different matter, because that's polluting a common resource. What resource are games like this polluting?
Something about this interaction is funny to me. It's like an alien asking: but after you drink all that water, won't you die? And the human replies: no, I actually do that to stay alive.
It's interesting to note that it wasn't always like that. IBM mainframes had a thing called "CKD", which stands for "count, key, data": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_key_data

In this scheme, you'd ask the hard disk[1] not for the bits/byte/word at a given position, but actually for a key associated with a record. The hardware would then give you the variable length record associated with that key back.

Now you may argue, "yes, but the data on that disk/DASD was, on a low level, still an array of bits". And... well, sort of. I don't know the full details[2], but it looks like the records were separated similarly to how nowadays sectors are separated on modern (spinny) hard disks: By "gaps". Those are technically also bits, but they are recognized by lower level hardware and abstracted away from what reaches the "computer".

Nowadays, CKD is still supported, but merely emulated on pretty boring commodity disks (sorry, "DASDs") that are addressed using sectors and tracks (or actually just sector number, since we started abstracting actual disk geometry away a few decades ago), arranged in a rigid sequential order.

[1] Aside, IBM calls a hard disk "DASD": direct-access storage device.

[2] The full details are here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200330172847/http://bitsavers....
That’s not at all obvious to me. What subreddits do you visit? The ones I frequented had maybe 5% or less bot comments. I think mods generally banned the bots from those subreddits too.
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That’s just a first step. The next step is to fix issues with, for instance, training instability.

It is definitely free work though. There are absolutely ways to get paid to do this sort of thing. But if you believe in learning by volunteering it’s a good option. Having contributions to popular ML repos looks good to tech recruiters as well, so there’s that.
> You're a known troll spamming

Can you accept even one criticism? Everyone who dares to say anything negative is a troll in your book.
>That reinforces that idea that it's okay to do a half-ass job because you can always "fix it later". In the real world however, poor decisions can have devastating effects the very first time, and there might not be a chance for a "do-over".

I feel that's a much more philosophical POV than you let on. But let's digress from that argument of redemption and reparations for now.

While there are certainly some careers where you don't get do-overs, I see the other extreme happening more with the current state of mind; they realize that they are out of time, feel like they can't extend deadlines, so they just say "fuck it", throw out some sloppily put together report or attend a meeting without the knowledge necessary, take their D in stride and move on.

You can't always delay in life either, but I think as a society we at least shouldn't shame when certain non-mission critical aspects of work need more time to cook (be it in the project or the people involved).
‘Once in a lifetime’ fossil reveals dinosaur and mammal locked in mortal combat
For sure. My ancestors mostly came to the US well after slavery. The only one that I know didn't fought on the Union side in the civil war. But that doesn't matter, because in my life I've received the benefits of being white in America. And I think a lot of that performative and wanton ignorance is basically refusal to admit that sort of privilege born of luck.
> Cucumber/RSpec/Gherkin/Behave/etc. is an absolutely terrible DSL

I wouldn't lump RSpec in with the rest of those.

Spec-style frameworks (like granddaddy RSpec) are terser. They don't have layers of indirection. They're intended to help devs think about how code will be used, not to make code look like English.
Redundant UI updates could be okay if done quickly and cheaply. Games refresh entire framebuffers 60 times a second, redrawing the entire world, and it works fine, because they do that efficiently, and flip entire pages so that you never see a half-draw.
You're partially correct.

Whatsapp rose because carriers didn't count any whatsapp payload towards your metered bill. Basically, Whatsapp was virtually free-of-charge whereas any other messaging app/system (SMS included) incurs towards your data cap.

At least that's what happened (And still happens) in Mexico.
Given that the number of people in agriculture declined from 90% to 10% over the past 200 years or so, I'm less worried about disruption like this. People are remarkably retrainable, and just because current jobs no longer exist doesn't mean we won't create new ones out of thin air (like marketing, or Youtubers, or film lighting specialists).
There is a subtle grain of truth to it - the implied "declaratively" here. React has went south quite a bit, but the basic idea of JSX where HTML becomes a language with first class objects, functions and bindings is extremely compelling. It offers a solution to the problems of complexity that pure HTML cannot tackle while still staying somewhat true to its declarative nature and reaping most of those benefits (instead of fully switching to the imperative DOM paradigm).
>there are plenty of under the table ways to sell virtual assets for real money.

But are there any games where you can plausibly put real money in and generate excess gains in virtual assets in a short time? You can double your money in a casino in seconds, but the only way I know to extract money from video games (even play-to-win video games that milk whales for a lot) is arduous and slow gold-farming.

I agree with your take on NFTs. They would have been used that way if the NFT games hadn't basically all been Ponzi schemes. Like the pachinko gambling loophole.
Other than scratches, I've never had a problem with DVDs, and I think there's been only a couple of Blu Rays have given me trouble.

I use MakeMKV to rip, and then Handbrake to encode at a standard quality level (resolution, frame rate, codec, bitrate, etc).
> If everything could be made with no human labor requirement, then the price of these goods is going to trend towards zero. The disruption is going to cause pain, but ultimately that's what we've always been after.

I would argue that our economic system is built on the accumulation of power, not an ultimate goal of zero marginal cost production. That's why cheap drugs keep getting expensive, among a litany of other examples.
There's a couple of follow on series, Chocky's Children and Chocky's Challenge.
the south park guys are funny tho
There are a lot more Fortune 100 CEOs and Supreme Court justices from Harvard than MIT, so it's an interesting opportunity to look at a correlation / causation question ;)

(Am personally an MIT alum...)
I think "legacy kid" is different from "kid of rich donor." They'll just be fewer kids of middle class alums and more kids of Middle Eastern and Asian upper classes.
Is this from experience?

Also, don't airlines have enough information to identify you anyway, even if you don't connect your rewards profile? Alternatively, is that bit of advice because airlines are particularly unhappy to let you get miles for a segment of a flight you never boarded?
What are you disagreeing with?
Why does anyone make A/C’s rather than just make Heat Pumps that run in both directions? Is there a cost difference?
> The problem is if people just use it as a syntax over a webdriver

Cucumber and WebDriver? Two problematic frameworks does not equal a sane one.
This might be partially true but I think the bigger implication is that the donations do lead to overall more investment overall which leads to better universities. This is true with literally donations to anything…

I battle our elected officials with similar arguments. We want some safety improvements to our neighborhood roads. We ask them to work on a fix. They say there isn’t money for them. We show them there are federal grants to pay for them. They say they need staff to “manage” the grant money. End of the day, now nothing happens and we still have unsafe roads.

You can’t argue no money is better than some money. It takes a little more to see change but you go much further
Why wouldn’t you call a human brain “statistical pattern regurgitator” as well, if it comes to this? Matching learned patterns is a big part of how brains work.

I don’t see why a strong AI _needs_ to be trained specifically on reality. Imagine an alien race that sees world in X-Rays and neutrinos. An alien AI researcher claims that a “true intelligences” must train on the same inputs, and all those systems trained on the part of the spectrum between infrared and ultraviolet only fake intelligence.

I don’t see why intelligence has to be analogue in any way. Analogue systems are inherently noisy and contain limited amount of useful information, so you can always faithfully approximate them using digital representations.

If I am not mistaken Deepmind has shown spontaneous emergence of communication around 5 years ago when training agents in multi-player team shooters.
I agree that 2019 was a wrong point to pick in time, and that there have been some good changed in hero design (especially reworks for Orisa). But I don't think games are "more even" now, it feels way more reliant on the relative tank gap, whereas for OW1 even with one outmatched tank the rest of the team could cover up. Tanks have such a fundamentally important role to the game that even a minor disadvantage becomes magnified when there's just one of them. With role lock, 6v6 mostly avoided the issues with GOATS, and towards the end OW1 tank pools were pretty diverse, and mostly fun to play against or with unless someone went double shield.
And this is why all drugs and other addictive substances (like alcohol) should be illegal to everyone, right?
Thanks for the link and wow! A very worthwile read. And this paragraph raised the alarm level even more for me:

> Things could be about to get even worse. Artificial intelligence might help detect duplicated data in research, but it can also be used to generate fake data. It is easy nowadays to produce fabricated photos or videos of events that never happened, and A.I.-generated images might have already started to poison the scientific literature. As A.I. technology develops, it will become significantly harder to distinguish fake from real.
I had an old thinkserver ts140, which is nice but I hardly use it anymore.

I replaced it with a raspberry pi 4, with 2 external 4Tb usb drives. Runs Plex, and handles all the backups of other machines on my network. Very low power, a little slow I guess, but works well enough for me.
I really don't mind tipping waitstaff, tour guides, delivery staff etc, where tipping has traditionally been expected. In fact, I credit it with substantially better service in restaurants than you get abroad. But 5 years ago nobody there was no expectation that your fast-casual, order-at-the-counter service workers were getting tipped. The whole point of the exercise is to express and reward some level of satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the service at hand, which isn't something I value at a fast-casual restaurant. Then you have the newest iteration, of having self-checkout terminals prompt for tips. What service have I been provided at that point to justify a tip? I walked up to an off-brand iPad and did the entire interaction by myself. I'm supposed to select a value based on how generous I'm feeling that day, completely and utterly divorced from any service being provided? Absolutely ridiculous.
I actually really enjoyed programming with Qt in C++ using "signals and slots," about ten years ago for a school project. Perhaps it was ahead of its time.
> Eventually you will be found out.

this just isn't true. you're assuming because you only see this every once in a while that it must be rare and policed effectively. it's actually the complete opposite - very common and not policed at all. the much more likely thing is that your paper with fabricated data will never be read. that's as good in the sense that no harm no foul but it still has the effect of padding out people's CVs that don't deserve it. but hey - don't hate the player hate the game is my motto.
Wouldn't an attempt to do that fail the prior art test?
Man, good for you - I hate hate hate hate hate cold calling. I think the job I would want least in life is outbound cold calling. But I totally agree with you - I wouldn't say I ever really developed the skill, but I learned just shove the anxiety down deep and go do it, because it's gotta be done. That has served me pretty well.
I'm always kinda surprised that this site is still ok, they even clearly provide links to the tools actual pages.
The geophysicist mentioned (JackNorbeck) is my cousin-in-law. He’s a smart dude.
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