skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've interacted with government and insurance attorneys for various work gigs and some of them have impressed me with their insistence on clarity, too. I find it challenging and fun to communicate that way, albeit I've only ever done it in small 'doses'. (I'd guess it follows a dose-response relationship that veers off toward madness pretty quickly.)

I get a similiar kind of kick from observing people communicating technically and precisely to complete a task-- launching rockets, doing performing surgery, controlling air traffic, etc.
I'm not sure why you put the pure-luck-or-not aspect on par with the addictiveness. People can get addicted to winning, regardless of if it's due to their skills or just luck.

The problem with e.g. slot machines is that anyone can win, with the same odds, so it's easy to get addicted to it. You can't get addicted to winning at golf unless you're already putting the work to get good at it. With slot machines you can win, without doing any work. That's the catch.
There are ways to detect proximity to infrastructure and proxies... it's a lot easier/cheaper to just have boxes with like 50 LTE modems and pay someone some money to switch out sims once a day/week/whenever.

In other countries, SIM cards and mobile internet is stupid cheap.
The broken window fallacy is a controversial axiom that implies demand generation isn't a meaningful way to increase GDP (it comes from the camp that believes output capacity is the only true measure of GDP).

This concept became particularly controversial during the Cambridge Capital Controversy [0].

If you believe that GDP is an exogenous measure of what society can produce, you run into oddities like global GDP changing trajectory in 2008 [1] (i.e. we never 'caught up' but did the US housing crisis really cause the human race to lose our ability to create more goods and services?).

On the other hand, if you believe demand drives GDP, then why don't we just demand ourselves into more wealth? Shouldn't natural constraints like resource scarcity then drive GDP (i.e. the original underpinning of the broken window fallacy)?

In either case, the broken window fallacy is far from an agreed-upon axiom.

[0]https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/08953300332116501...
[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.CD
Interesting concept. Thanks for sharing!
But before all of these modern shit, the length of your lifespan mostly depended on two things:

1. Which family you were born in

2. Literally the fucking weather

So I don't think modern society is that luck-based, relatively speaking.
Seems reasonable, wait, a month ...
In all cases you're going to store and manage your state some place. What you describe is managing the state using the DOM itself, which would indeed be easier if the DOM wasn't directly tied to the screen, but which would still be very cumbersome because of the lack of appropriate APIs for managing the DOM as an application state.

If you were to go in this direction, you would eventually make the DOM less DOM-ish, and the painting mechanism more DOM-ish, effectively shifting everything one place and going full circle back to the frameworks.
ive written two projects with nbdev - its great, but after a while we moved off of it - too limiting
Ha, you mean the backdoors (and frontdoors) the GAFA and many other top players in the web ecosystem already have everywhere, so much that the US government just has to buy commercially available data to spy on its citizens - without having to change laws to do it by itself?
Once again, I'm not sure what relevance this has to the discussion.
> why multi-threaded task executors should be the default

many many reasons and it's subtile and complicated

For one ironically it's just way easier to use, especially for less experienced programmers. In a task system like that it's just way easier to accidentally cause major issues when it's many tasks on one thread compared to multiple threads (at least with the guard rails rust provides for threading safety). On the other hand the performance overhead of by-default multi-threaded is just fine for a ton of use-cases to a point you could argue worrying about it is premature optimization.

Through it's important to state that a lot of this comes from the ecosystem around rust and not rust itself, as stuff like `LocalSet` shows you can have a non-multi threaded runtime and there is no reasons all the libraries you might use couldn't provide non multi thread safe versions. Some do. Just many decided that avoiding the performance overhead of being thread save isn't worth the maintenance overhead and additional foot guns it can provide.

Now naturally you can say "but node/deno/etc." but they are a completely different beast then "just" being not multi threaded by default. Like e.g. they don't have multi threaded code at all. Just single threaded code communicating through serialized messages (kinda). They also e.g. handle all I/O completely separated from you application code and don't have any non serialized communication between threads etc. etc.

Interestingly if you look at the design choices of the I/O Event loop (reactor) of tokio there are some conceptual similarities. Also there AFIK there is a company which is building something similar to the node model for rust using WASM.

I mean in the end the node-style approach is grate for building servers, but rust isn't just for building servers but much more general with much more low level use cases.

Now the main point where rust could improve quite a bit is to make it much easier to write a library which work very efficient with both cases. Code which crosses thread boundaries and code which doesn't. Currently you are often split between either implementing it twice, doing terrible unusable generics tricks or using tons of `cfg` (probably generated using macros/annotations) and hope no dependency accidentally imports the multi-thread feature when you don't need it. Non of this is really viable but it's a surprisingly hard problem. Currently the best idea I can come up for it is generic modules which make the "terrible to use generics tricks" usable, but it's probably not enough by a long stretch. (Even if a solution is found it might not work for Waker, even if it does you still might want sync/send Wakers in some cases.)
Same in Slovakia. Max is 11kwt. Its because of taxes. Anything above 11 is not considered residential any more, and you have to pay taxes on electricity you make and sell to the grid.
>If they were admitting legacy students who were hundreds of points lower on the SATs and bad grades

They are.
One can imagine anything, including unrealistic and baseless things. Reality, however, is different. This is evident by the many people who carefully studied his biography and ended up embracing Islam (some of them being heavily anti-Islam themselves before that).
Abusing Patreon's webhooks to build a chargeback-free billing system
Depends on the situation. If no one cites it then it drifts into obscurity quickly. If it was actually cited frequently it leads to an investigation of work by all authors on the paper along with a retraction.
> "Abominable"

The author refers to Markdown as "Abominable" at the end of the page.

I am always skeptical when someone has this level of disdain for any technology. The overall argument that "Markdown is bad" would be stronger if they noted the pros of Markdown, and why the pros are less valuable in aggregate than pros of other languages.
>and never touched it,

Didn't she touch it though? A lot of people would be multimillionaires if they only put money in and never took money out.

The question is, with what she did invest, and the money she did take out, would she still be that wealthy.
I'd be interested in KeenWrite if it supported MacOS. Your pandoc/ConTeXt guide is top notch. ConTeXt is very underrated.
The investigation has already found there was fraud. And from his failure to issue retractions for years after he was told, one can conclude he was at best indifferent to it.

What it hasn't found is evidence he got his own hands dirty or that he explicitly ordered fraud, and I'm not sure it will. raincom's comment [1] was dead on.

I'm unsure if this distinction holds any significance for him personally. One reason I call it out is that it's worth considering how to deter this kind of "leadership" when drafting scientific ethical standards or even laws.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36792536
"Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing"

https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-i...
Regarding the different schemas / metadata, I would've thought that Hasura would still be super useful for everything else. So a custom API for metadata and Hasura for everything else. That said, I've never used Hasura so I can't exactly tell.
Another win for berkeley
I have as well with MacOS. Never with a PC. I have some TTGO-display boards that have some USB to serial chip I could never get working on a Mac, no matter what drivers, uninstalling, installing etc. They worked fine on a PC. In the end I threw them out so they did not get mixed up. A very frustrating experience.
I can also think of some social functions that I think random chance is appropriate for:

Most Western, democratic countries select jurors for a trial by one’s peers by lottery and I consider this to be an important aspect of having a more “just” justice system – particularly compared to what preceded this system: trial by one’s betters (a magistrate).

In Ireland, we’ve also also recently started using Citizens’ Assemblies who are randomly selected to make recommendations on matters of public policy to the houses of parliament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Assembly_(Ireland)
Artificial scarcity controlled by the developer is what pretty much all software, movies, tv shows, streaming, etc. are selling.
4% in Italy isn't just "when hospitals were overwhelmed", it's with an aging population.
>I don’t understand why economic disruption and human obsolescence isn’t considered an existential risk.

Because that's the goal of our economic system! 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.
Sure. What I'm really saying is that I bet cash payment triggers more dopamine than whatever gotcha/powerup/etc mechanic a mobile game can use. That cash payment is so much more of a potent reward that it makes sense to regulate gambling much more strictly. Of course, I'm speaking on aggregate and across the entire population, it's clear some individuals overspend on mobile games.
There is a current outage, but the linked post is old.
It depends on how much of your time you spend looking at them. The bigger that quantity, the weirder it is to not put any thought into optimizing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate
AI could also be used for counter PR. Eventually, societies could shut down social media or ban use of AI content for political purposes, for example.

I would also expect a huge uptick in bureaucracy from AI, so lots of new jobs will spring up.
People don't really understand what Salesforce is and what they are good at. Yes its PAAS and so on.

But the core skill of the people at Salesforce is that they've had this thing online for 20+ years, most of their customers have extensive customisations, and three times a year Salesforce push new features to the platform while successfully minimising the amount of customer customisations they break.

And thats the key - how can you regularly expand and improve your PAAS without fucking up the extensive and very complicated custom things your customers have built on top of it. Its actually a very hard engineering challenge that no-one really talks about because its a long term challenge and not many people focus on long term engineering.
It's not a good markup language, it really isn't. It's not good at semaphore either, or paving roads. I tried spackling a hole in my drywall with it, and it failed miserably. But when you want to write a document that is both human readable and machine interpretable, and you've only got 30 seconds to learn the syntax, nobody has ever been able to beat it. So I guess it depends on what you want.
"It looks like someone else might be trying to access your Google Account. For your protection, you can’t sign in right now." Been like this for past year or so, on every login attempt.

Good that I never actually used gmail for my real email. Only for some random junk
How? Peer-review, re-review, journalism, and reproduction of results are the systems the scientific community is built upon. The system does its job of finding the bad apples, as it did here.

Bad things are gonna happen in every single institution ever created. A better measure is how long those things persist.

Science is about getting closer to "the truth". Sometimes science goes further away from the truth, sometimes it gets closer. Sometimes bad actors get us further away from the truth. It gets reconciled eventually.
If school wasn't also an important social benchmark that would make sense. But as it is, there is some benefit to setting a pace.

I do agree that we should encourage students to self pace themselves. Another aspect of school I had to de-program myself on: it's OKAY to repeat courses you are struggling on. Expensive, yes, but sometimes coming in a 2nd time gives you the perspective to start focus on the subtleties while you were struggling with the high level details the first time.
>Don't you think there's just as much self-interest behind the the primary argument of relying exclusively on "merit"?

Oh, absolutely.
ouch! And you are living in SF of all places. The land of perpetual fog and rain. With a healthy dose of criminal actively.

No Thanks. Hard Pass.
There is a long answer, but to keep it short we automated optimized planning. We can run the planner as many times as necessary (every time something changes) and find the best route to reach your goal based on your priorities and hours available. It's mostly a statical game, we constantly search for the best next move, not unlike video game AI, and recommend it to you. The AI behind the planner is were we spent the most time.
> [Markdown] allows embedding arbitrary HTML code, both at the block and at the flow level. That makes writing any parser for it very hard because you basically have to include a full HTML parser and then add context sensitive complications...You also have to worry about all the security caveats of HTML. For example, HTML allows embedding Javascript, so you get to implement a Javascript interpreter as well, and to secure it.

Is it just me, or is a JavaScript interpreter irrelevant to a Markdown parser?
Yeah, I also looked at mdoc and came to almost the same conclusion.

He's only saying if you want to write man docs use the syntax designed for it... Ok. It's horrible to read and write but it's probably the best thing to use.

OTOH if you want to write simple plain text that humans can read and write with no difficulty at all, but can also make nice richer text if you want, markdown is great.
It is, just not by the media. They only worry when their jobs are threatened. The rest of us can have cake.
It's a shame that Trauma is only thought of as something violent, when it is often very subtle and "peaceful."

Mostly cause we think of Trauma as adult trauma from War or displacement, or significant physical or emotional child abuse - but it can be as simple as your parent persistently telling you you're in the way etc...
cool project, can't wait to see where it is headed.
Aren't you able to disable checkouts from outside your website?
Preferred gas station here did something to the UI--you can "pay" by waving your phone at it, but then it will prompt for your zip code. When you enter the zip code there's a couple of prompts about ensuring you know you're paying credit price--oops, entering the zip code also answers no to the first question.
Hah just heard that come up in another context. Confirmed. Heard the price tag was $3m and you have to take a gap year.
> I've only seen grifters, hysterics, or the ignorant talking about existential AI risk.

Which category would you put Geoffrey Hinton in?
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/risks-artificial-intelligence-m...
I just don't think DOM->JSON->server->microservice->DB->microservice->server->JSON->DOM is sustainable long term. It's had a good run, but it's a big part of the reason I'm looking at Phoenix for a personal project. React is predicated upon solving the wrong problem.

Talk about impedance mismatches.
Well, sex work corrupts the workers psychologically and aids the addiction of customers. Sex work is a lot closer to selling mild drugs than to mowing lawns. It's hardly the worst thing in our society, for there are far worse white collar jobs that are officially respected, but it's not a reason to whitewash it. Another way to think about it is to imagine it's a virtual reality that customers pay for to get a dopamine rush. The VR allows to create any experience for the customers, but is it a good thing to do?
Hey, can you describe your surprisingly awesome approach? I am curious.
I worked on carrier partnerships (among many other things) while I was at WhatsApp, from before FB through 2019. Carriers wanted to setup special pricing (including zero-rating) for WhatsApp with or without our help or approval. Before acquisition, the only compensation we provided was approval to use our brand (which we didn't have resources to litigate around the world over anyway), our list of IPs (and notifications when they changed), and maybe a little bit of guidance/support on how to identify traffic; although from conversations I had, the DPI vendors had ways of doing it anyway without our help. In return, WA got some amount of marketing, and sometimes access to zero cost SMS (used for registration). Additionally, by participating with carriers, rather than letting them do their own thing, we were able to influence them towards providing a good experience for users; WA did not approve of text only special pricing[1], it had to include attachments, and we did our best to keep carriers updated on IPs to reduce the amount of miscategorized usage leading to overage or connectivity problems. To my knowledge, there was only one deal with monetary compensation, but it theoretically flowed to WA, not to the carrier.

My understanding is the carriers wanted to run these deals because they attract customers who often convert to full internet plans. Messaging is nice, but customers eventually get outside links and want to experience the web or other applications.

Post acquisition, deals moved into Facebook's mobile partner portal, and afaik, there was still no compensation for WhatsApp deals, but the MPP does also offer analytics (audience insights) to carriers, and I'm not sure if it's a requirement to have a special pricing deal to get that or not.

It's been several years, so it's possible the program has changed.

[1] If you've seen that on planes, it wasn't authorized when I was there, and I don't think it's authorized now, but it doesn't stop a motivated network from providing the service.
I think devtools can lie in the sense that it can be slower when devtools is open in some circumstances.
52ms for me. Pretty standard for an HTML page.
Sure, but an RTOS doesn't help you much with safety critical guarantees. When you're worrying about that you're also worrying about redundancy of the hardware your software is running on, for example. The only thing that an RTOS is really helpful for is making it a bit easier to argue that some realtime guarantees can be met even if other code running on the device may have worst-case runtimes longer than your deadline (this doesn't really become a mitigation for a truly defective task, though, since at that point all bets are off unless you have some good task isolation). But this is not all embedded systems, not even all safety-critical ones, and there are other solutions available if you are not using an RTOS which can give you the same or better options in that case(like placing the critical code in a high-priority interrupt handler, for example).
i am not surprised that the owner of this linux.com website doesnt understand markdown and promotes latex as an alternative. its a type of guy
The idea that the person who gave birth to you is being used to pleasure random men for money is psychologically traumatizing because every child treasures and looks up to their parents (or wants to). Their life and identitiy is intertwined with yours and their decision or vicitimization is also by extension affecting you.

You want your parents to be valued and respected. You would think sex for money is valuing but it is or at least feels like devaluing. It is one thing for your parent to have sex because they want to and for the sake of it, it is another thing to do it because they have to which means they are unable or unwilling to provide anything else of value to pursue partners they are interested in, instead of the general public.

The idea that anyone, even neighbors and hobos could be paying to penetrate the person you treasure the most and is supposed to be role model and teach you how to live right is at the very least disturbing. Even porn stars work with other porn stars but prostitutes at best filter by appearances aside from money.

Children are protective of their parents and vice versa. Whether a child or parent, seeing them become a prostitute feels like something sacred to you is being desecrated.

If that doesn't make sense to you, I suggest taking off the ideological glasses.
You've listened to Hendrix live? Well now I'm envious ;)
My point was that a 737 can be a land vehicle, but very badly, because it's optimized (to an extreme amount) for flying. I fly on 737s all the time, knowing that have terrible stopping distances and cornering. The 0-60 could be decent, but you can't really accelerate all-out to try it, or you'll overshoot and end up going 175 and crashing.

The astrophysicist can do long division in his head, but he'll be about as fast and accurate as the next person, because he doesn't practice arithmetic every day.

I agree with the commenter somewhere in my thread who said all an LLM should be optimized for is to classify the type of problem and feed it into a purpose-built, deterministic solver that is trained to interpret math as math and not as language, be it ML-based or algorithmic.
> With slot machines you can win, without doing any work

Uh, this is the exact my point. With Poker you can win, without doing any work, for one hand or even one night. You can't win forever, but gamblers are not famous for their long-term thinking ability.

And I didn't put the pure-luck-or-not aspect on par with the addictiveness. Actually I opened this conversation with this:

> Is gambling's issue its addictiveness, or its luck-based nature?
The salesforce object model/API is actually pretty reasonable and easy to work with. Their UI is horrible but the Lightning version is fast at least.
And now will VC solve this problem? You can't stop china counterfeiting by throwing money at it.