skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If your point is that you can cherry-pick a subset of outcomes and get 50/50 odds then I can't really argue,

Why do you say “cherry-pick a subset of outcomes”? It’s the subset of outcomes relevant for the question.

Consider the simple problem that I proposed: “You're given the choice between two envelopes. One contains $1 and the other $10. You open an envelope and find $1. Is it to your advantage to switch to the other envelope?”

Do you agree that the answer is “yes” or would you argue that “once you look at all outcomes” the 100% probability of getting $10 by switching doesn’t apply?

> but I'm also afraid I don't how that's useful.

It’s useful to answer the following question:

“You pick door #1. The host picks a number between 1 and 3 from a hat and opens the corresponding door #3. There is a goat behind the door. He says to you, "Do you want to pick door #2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?”

What’s your answer?
According to [1], human ‘fuel’ efficiency on a bike is about 20%. That is way ahead of any simple piston powered steam engine (should be below 10%, citation needed) that you would install in a workshop.

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/46788/how-effici...
Sorry, I don't understand the smelling salts reference but I assume it is non-positive. Is the CBC not controversial among a material percentage of the Canadian population currently? If winning an award from a respected institution provides one with a lifetime free pass, then please inform Harvey Weinstein of the news.

Is it insane to think that some country that is currently free may one day become non-free? It has happened before, so it is not clear by what logic you conclude that it can never happen again.

This isn't productive because your arguments are rather weak and now you are resorting to ad-hominems which is particularly distasteful.
Extending PowerShell with Rust
Just because there are more people who might need to sue the company isn't a reason to allow it to continue to operate. This is just 'too big to fail' but for different (and now theoretical) reasons.

Maybe the solution is to nationalize J&J.

"You can't bankrupt my company because someone might need to sue me later" is absurd reasoning.
Yeah. Doctors will be incentivized to do the easiest procedure. So what? As long as it treats me, the easiest procedure is probably the best one because it's so simple that it's harder to get wrong. There are scenarios in which the best patient care would involve complex procedures but in that case, the doctor is incentivized to do those because the complications that might arise from a simple procedure are much harder to deal with than doing the better, albeit harder procedure first.
What / how do you use it? I've only ever used xpath for scraping, and I don't know how it can be useful outside of scraping.
Sargon of Akkad has described himself as a "classical liberal": https://youtube.com/@SargonofAkkad

In fact, his channel profile now simply says "English liberal."

Wikipedia begs to differ with all that...
> Right now, coming off of the pandemic it's trendy.

I wish that was right. There's an effort but it doesn't come from us, the traditional teetotallers. It comes from a certain urban marketing professional demographic, and I'm a bit worried that it's for a large part boasting that lies behind it ("Look at me, I'm such a marketing god that I can sell vodka without alcohol!").

Also, despite the marketing superstars, it's not terribly successful. Alcohol free options in even trendy places still signal that "this is an alternative we're legally obliged to offer but we'd rather not".
This simply never happened. It's a matter of public record [1], it shouldn't be hard to check your numbers and see that they're wrong...

[1]: https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...
Depending on where you are, you might never get that.
On Programming Languages and Testing the NEW “V” programming language [video]
It is pretty blatant dishonesty to call it defunded or reduced spending though, as much as some ideologues like to claim it is.
> How big is your settings.json?

Lol empty
> Do you think the HN audience is unaware of ad blockers?

Clearly some portion of the HN audience might be unaware, as they are in this thread complaining about ads.
Are you saying the company shouldn't have to pay people it harmed in the past, so that it has money to pay people it might harm down the road?
Principles of Reliable Software Design
The incentive is practice in the conspiracy ideas market. It's fun to fool people, and these days it's profitable. Enter a popular conspiracy forum and you'll see how many are there to sell things. They create their own market.
> The amount of work needed not only to get a basic IDE up and running for your languages of choice, even for commonly used languages such as Python or Javascript, is far too much for someone who wants to get on with their day job or hobby coding and doesn't want to spend precious hours fixing obscure issues in Lua.

"This airplane is the choice of professional pilots! The first thing we advise you to do is turn the yoke upside down, it's much more ergonomic like that. Also, you probably want to rip out the altimeter and replace it with a custom one that has more features. And bring your own GPS unit and tape it to the windshield, because this plane doesn't have one by default. And of course, remember that unlike in your car, 'left' actually means right in this plane. This is the professional way. Ah yes, when you fly over Canada, you will see a blinking warning sign telling you that you're out of fuel. That's just a small glitch caused by metric/imperial confusion. It has been known for 23 years but we haven't quite gotten around to fixing it yet. Don't worry, this plane is still excellent for professional pilots. If you feel otherwise, you are probably not a real professional."
This is still supported in the like of Chrome/Safari. It just sucks as they never upgraded past XSL/T 1.0.
It varies widely, based on both composer and sound driver.

Give these a try -

https://chiptune.app/?play=Contemporary%2FCatskull%20Records...

https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FRolling%20Thunde...

https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FTime%20Trax%2F01...

\https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FShining%20Force%...
There is also a JSON analog which if found quite handy sometimes to extract some values deeply nested in an API response. Its also natively supported by some databases that have JSON datatypes like mysql.
I didn't think you understand. We aren't about to automate all things humans can "currently" do. We are about to automate everything that separates us from a brick. What can possibly be left, and why would an unemployed person pay for whatever what is left?
Vast Networks of Fungi May Hold Key to Climate Fight
The best business executives master three skills: operational improvements, competitive positioning, and capital allocation. This article explores the impact and inputs to exceptional capital management through the lens of Michael Dell.
https://archive.ph/76Ws8

Original report:
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)...
I know some of you love to be contrarians beyond reason, but come on, I'm sure you realize the insanity of your argument above…
It is interesting as a historical document from a period of experimentation and development at MIT on Logo, and this particular implementation for the PDP/11. I find the IBM one comparatively bland as a standard reference manual from that era.
Sorry, I’m not following. Are you saying they are able to use this now? Or that it can’t be used now?
I have mixed thoughts on this. On the one hand it feels obvious that this kind of lobotomized programming experience will be stultifying. On the other hand factorio shows what a gamified interface makes possible and I don’t see any reason it couldn’t be easily adapted for tablets.
1. Not all VPNs are paid, a lot of free VPNs and open proxies

2. Not all payment methods are connected to your identity. Mullvad for example accepts cash in an envelope, or cryptocurrency payments.
Your shamelessness is duly noted. You cannot touch the simplicity of pen and paper. Your app works on a platform plagued by push notifications, which destroys all momentum instantaneously. You describe two points of friction in adding tasks: periods, and priority. I'm sure you have put much thought and care into these features and are justifiably proud of them. Good for you, you did a thing that you cared about.

I need task lists for the things I don't care about, that I'd rather not do. And picking up my phone at any point in that process is completely self-defeating. Having multiple options and do-dads in the task-collecting interface encourages pseudo-productivity in the form of fiddling with the list. In this case, the pen is mightier than the smartphone. If I want priorities, I have multiple colors of pen.
Overpass Turbo
One of the biggest start-up investment funds in Europe will be launched by German technology investor Klaus Hommels. According to insiders, the 51-year-old wants to be paid about $800 million for this, according to Bloomberg. Regarding the plans, Lakestar made no comments.
I counter (ultra) high bypass turbofan.
Pro tip: if you start a statement with "no offense but" that is an admission that you know what comes next is offensive.
The other thing to know is that content distribution networks (CDNs) are rather complex nowadays, so it's not merely a question of "my connection to example.com is laggy" but more like "how is data from example.com getting from their servers through caches/load balancers/round-robin/co-locations?"

When I took a course five years ago, our instructor said a few words on "Net Neutrality" and he explained that many companies who distribute content, like Netflix, positioned their servers, or at least caches, right where the ISPs are. Now, YouTube might only use Google's data centers for distribution; I don't know.

There is also the question of whether Comcast perceives on-demand video as a competition for their own Cable TV services, and whether they're actively throttling video traffic that isn't their own content. Hopefully that would be a well-known fact.
> Blair’s Labour—for all their faults—at least stopped the bleeding,

Stopped the figurative bleeding and started the literal...

But by stopped the bleeding, do you mean kept at levels comparable to those set by the previous conservative government? I.e., agreeing with the level of funding set by the conservative government.

I find it weird how governments are given a pass in that way. Setting funding from X to Y is a horrific crime, but leaving it at Y when you have the power to change it to X is somehow okay.
On one hand Lancet is legit the only effective modern weapon ru has, on the other they cant even equip soldiers with magazines or food right now -> https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1679809685891817472
Not rolling should help a lot. Also, having the price set by continuous arbitrage instead of discrete auctions might reduce slippage. I recall the futures were trading at quite the discount to real bitcoin prices.
No kidding. Name one big technology firm that is user-oriented, I dare you. And no, using industrial UX techniques to "guide user behavior" does not count as being "user oriented".

SV doesn't build software for people anymore, and this is one of the greatest tragedies in history. We built a huge industry, based on the most efficiency-increasing technology ever, and what came of it? Every human interaction has been captured and monetized, to the extent that younger generations can't even conceive of a mode of interaction that isn't mediated by apps.

I really hope that app adoption falls off drastically, in general, so maybe our industry can refocus on actually being helpful to people's rational objectives, instead of being enslaved to people's base desires.
s/using language/using any language/
Soooo... don't go there?
We know that if you recommend that, it will change the baseline for what's considered normal/responsible, leading to increase in alcoholism or alcohol-related harm more generally.

I agree with the headline "Is a glass of wine harmless? Wrong question". But I think it's wrong for a very different reason. I think it's wrong because it is hyper-individualized (is it harmless for me right now?) question about a collective, social problem. It's a choice we don't actually make as individuals nearly as much as we'd like to believe.
I’m not sure about this. I’ve seen more index from 0 for induction and summation in Analysis.
I loved Devil in the White City so it's too bad to hear that you didn't find Thunderstruck very good.

Marconi was working on developing microwave transmission at the time of his death. Microwave antenna are small but are only good for line of sight transmission.
Interesting language. I think a major stumbling block was Red not running on 64-bit OSes. Not quite sure why that wasn't made a priority.
I wish this had a feature to slow down the turtle.
At this point, the only way to find out the truth, is to wait a few days, until then, it's all rumors.
If we tried to clean up the radioactive materials that coal powerplants pump into air - the cost would be even more ridiculous. But somehow we don't care.
So only those who live in the forest on pixie dust may criticise the fossil fuel industry?
Yes! Proud owner of Pianoteq myself. Performance MIDI + Pianoteq is better than a recording, because it's so tweakable, and has a noise floor of zero.

Can't tell you how glad I am to hear that at least one other person has used Chip Player JS this way.
I had terrible experiences with them as a consumer (shoddy product fs, and not honoring the warranty) though I admit that I appreciate their negative inventory business model.
looks like a form of gallifreyan to me, except more like chinese than european
I disagree.

Being able to put a pilot inside a weapon and then have them fly, react, deploy and return is a lot better than building stacks of drones and then just hitting a wall of RF jamming, which will soon be everywhere on the battlefield, even more so than was in Iraq for counter IED work.
don't forget to charge a monthly subscription
Domenic Denicola (aka the man who ruined promises) probably will as well.

https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/67
The Pros (and Con) of Customizing Large Language Models
Also maybe further hollowing out our country’s manufacturing base is kind of short term thinking.
Oh goodness, I would never use vim as an IDE, or any purely text based editor. I pay out-of-pocket to use proprietary IDE's, and I consider it a cost of doing business. Vim to me, is simply a way to make minor changes to configuration files mostly. I would never dream of coding in vim.

Edit: TLDR - vim is sometimes better than sed for making changes to files, but in my mind that's about it.
Open borders
So the innovation here is sub folders for individual tasks?

And compared to say Jira the benefit here is unlimited sub folders?
The odds for lottery are not even within ten orders of magnitude the odds of getting a job with Haskell. It's totally doable.

(We could talk about other languages too, but here we were talking about Haskell. It's a particularly interesting choice for growing as an engineer because it's a purely functional language, which means it will force you to unlearn a whole bunch of things and give you a lot more perspective-- it's not difficult, it's just very different than most other languages you likely have exposure to. I also recommend Clojure, that's a great language.)
Your response sounds rebellious-teen juvenile. The place isn't meant for you then obviously. No one's telling you to clean your room.
Point #2 was the reason we made our todo app. It was amazing how many apps had due dates but not do dates. Today you should see the tasks that you WANT to do, and not ALL your tasks, and definitely not just the tasks that MUST be done by today.

The rest of the points are solid as well. Dealing with the downward spiral is the most challenging and interesting. I personally always solved this by putting my head in my wife's lap and talking through it. This is not scalable, so our solution is a "procrastination wizard" that walks you through getting started when you're in a downward spiral. We've gotten good feedback that it's helped people recover from spiraling, so there's definitely hope for solving this with a tool, and I think an LLM could be a good solution here!
In your moral framework, am I allowed to use my smartphone when I’m out trail running?

Caltopo has helped me not get lost on long loops where turning around isn’t an option.
Second, having a list provides a reward structure: if you get a thing done, you get to tick a box. And then the list is shorter

It also provides unmatched satisfaction when you see a THICK stack of past todo papers in your drawer.
If this is the case, it is actually better than 90% big companies out there.
> The court that dismissed the claim in general agreed with J&J's process, but said it was too early.

And yet as soon as it was dismissed, within hours J&J had refiled with different numbers.

The court also said that trying to tie this new entity to North Carolina was also trying to maximize a "strained and very limited" connection to the state, and the administrator questioned why this entity had no relationship to the state of New Jersey, where J&J is headquartered and does business out of.

The court far from signed off on J&J's process.
Doesn't this mean that J&J can set the amount of damages to what they have to pay to what they think is fair?

Imagine if the criminal justice system worked like that.
> throttle-having class 2 bikes and in my view these should simply be outlawed.

One of us is misunderstanding the GGP.
No, no, no. That's too paternalistic. The poster has to identify plants, and maybe take pictures with their zombie phone.

Do they also use their device to block stairs or crosswalks? If their first reaction to this was "but I need it", then maybe.
>at the moment I understood what recursion is

I remember the exact moment I first discovered recursion. Some fantastic individual in our early 90's school district had arranged for LOGO clubs to be created in various schools, and even had a little competition at the end of the year.

Recursion was, apparently, the thing my team didn't know how to do to make those nested squares one of the problems required :)
I can identify with much of this.

After an unfortunate bout of Java development, I was flung into the arms of Intellij, steadily won over by the indexing and the reliability of the refactoring tools. The Vim plugin was good enough and defining some chords for editor shortcuts resulted in a kind of fucked up fat vim emacs mode that was quite productive.

I, too, got fed up of spending inordinate amounts of debugging vimscript and incompatibilities to end up with something that was slower or buggier than an IDE in certain crucial ways or with highly debugging resistant niggles.

But I'm also far from in love with Intellij these days. It's slow. Prone to index corruption with lots annoyances I can't easily fix myself. I may churn to vscode. But I'm definitely in the gravity well of Intellij.

However perhaps this is worth a look. I have historically had a fairly high tolerance to plowing hours I'm never getting back into fiddling with tools. Just less than I used to. More nixos gnome, alacritty than gentoo, xmonad, urxvt...
Deep fanboy insights here
"Not running out of money to pay people fairly"?

$65BN is almost exactly equal to one year's gross profits for the company, on top of which J&J has $24BN in cash and a market valuation of over $400BN.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/JNJ/key-statistics/

That $65BN is likely decades worth of claims, not one lump sum being demanded at once. Assuming the claims are spread out over just one decade, the settlement costs would amount to around 10% of their gross profits. Over multiple decades, it starts approaching "rounding error on the balance sheet."

Framing this as "J&J might run out of money to pay people for this" is pretty disingenuous to the point of feeling like corporate apologism.
J&J isn't dissolving. It's still throwing off a billion dollars a month in shareholder dividends, freed from the shackles of any liability.
Oh it was immediately clear that your original comment was right in the first half. The irssi example isn't intended to rebut that. I was rebutting the second half: that it was obvious. As someone who has thought about IRC for a couple of hours over the course of a decade, it's not obvious. The .irssi example is merely me trying to debug why I might have had that impression.

(It's also not clear to me why people in this thread are getting so pedantic about the distinction between server and service. I'm just here to exercise my pet peeve: nothing about computers is obvious.)
A lot of good RF jamming is going to do to that swarm of autonomous kamikaze drones homing right in on the RF sources...
By his reasoning, it's J&J that should declare bankruptcy. Not create a bankrupt subsidiary.
While I highly doubt the anecdote about knowing soil chemistry from smell, farmers have more knowledge and skill than you give them credit for.
Development of static or near-static websites is just a sector of the software engineering economy that's humongous in size/volume, so it's often bewildering if you're a software engineer in any other space to see just how much activity there is in that space, despite being relatively trivial.
Tons of gruesome videos uploaded by russians stuck on the bridge at night and detailed photos of damage from morning.
I'm surprised that I haven't heard of this line of languages before.

The home page of Rebol, which it says it's derived from, seems to do a much better job at stating its purpose: http://rebol.com/
No, I am not interested play a game generated this way because the exact reason I want to listen to NPC conversations is because they are written by human.
If I look at the numbers [1] I highly doubt the US is even in the top 50. It's probably just the most pedestrian deaths per mile driven of any country that reports pedestrian deaths per mile driven.

Edit: look good at the deaths per mile driven, most countries with horrible numbers in other columns don't have any data in that column which is why the USA ends up as 4th. Look at any other statistic and you'll see the USA is far from the worst.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic...
Are there companies making modern versions of these vehicles (with the same small size and great fuel economy but with modern safety features)?
Europeans Are Becoming Poorer
GNU Boot 20230717 Released
I don't think they use OOK aka PAM2.
I expect something like baseband OFDM fed to the AM-only-capable LED.

Nicely isolates narrow band noise.

Then usual high order QAM in the subcarriers.

256QAM gives you 8bit per symbol.

So it'd only require 125MHz of modulation bandwidth...
I'll check that, thanks. But then in a different game I see the current Formula 1 champion doing this https://twitter.com/vcoesports/status/1680276931109871617
Don't let it get to you, we live in a trust based society after all.
FWIW, I still use regular vim with ale [0] and it does everything I want. It formats files with Black and isort, shows ruff and pyright errors, supports jumping to definitions, and has variable information available on hover. It also does this for every other language I write in. I have collected my config over the past several years, but I pretty rarely encounter errors with it. It requires no additional dependencies except for the language tools themselves (Black, ruff, etc.).

[0]: https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale [1] https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/master/files/.co...