skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No sarcasm there, man. What makes you say that?

Anyway, nothing you have said contradicts anything in the series.

It does express your ideological or emotional take, tho. I’m happy to reply here, otherwise i wouldn’t do it. It takes me no time.

Let me take a stab at why you might be saying this: let me guess, you’re from East Asia or Russia (or both!), and Graham Hancock never paid meet adoration to your East Asian / Soviet centric view of the origin of civilization, right? In fact, Hancock, who you regard as a heretic, commits the punishable sin of not acknowledging the primacy and original origin of all Earth civilization in the cauldron of your unique little place in the world? In fact, his theories are coherent and dispute your worldview that “all under heaven” in fact first originated in China, Korea, Japan or Russia, am I right? Or just the fact that he suggests the origin of civilization was in "the West", is heretical enough, no? In short, Hancock is a insufferable betrayal of your Sovio/Sinocentric worldview, and any validity must be denied!

Just an idea, a thought based on your attitude here and your comment history. Let me know how close I get OK? I’m feeling like I got a whole in one. Let me know if it’s a hole in none, alright? :)

I do wish you had responded to my questions directly tho :( Oh well! :) Have a good one! :)
This will be fun for my wife who's in the hospital right now. And everyone else in hospitals trying to rest.

Also, will this go off on cellular watches? I'm sure schoolteachers are going to LOVE this... :-/
Maybe they are tired of being brainwashed?
The purpose of the foundation has grown wider than the original Processing software, and encompasses things like p5js and its editor.
Wow, what a surprise, the answer in the article is to pay teachers more and fund schools more. What do we do if funding increases are not approved? What do we do in poorer areas that have declining tax bases?
What do you do in states like Florida where retirees without children flock and refuse to fund education?
Trust the science on this.

Wait, I've never looked at it. I guess that's why I used the word trust. Surely it confirms my preferences.
Amazon is not a court of law and need not be bound by this technicality.
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Hi HN, this is the code I'm most proud of ever writing. It's an extremely simple, fast, and useful ssg, being what I always wanted from Jekyll. Please let me know what you think!
Learned this years ago when trying to get a place in the Gartner magic quadrant for a small software shop. Was a pointless cash and resource drain.
It's not on shelves because it's a precursor chemical to actual meth manufacturing, not because it's a dangerous drug (otherwise it'd be Rx-only, like the other meth-like drugs).

https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/meth/cma2005.htm
Which half are you talking about :D

The reason for the two alternate realities in the same country is primarily to do with what information you consume.

As an exercise, go to the front page of Reddit everyday. You will almost always notice on the first page or the first few there are always posts on politics. And the vast majority of these posts are the "bad" takes/actions/scandals on rebuplicans/conservatives.

If you go to r/conservative , you will see the "bad" takes/actions/scandals of the democrats/liberals.

On Reddit the echo chamber for democrats is the entirety of Reddit except for a select few subs. The echo chamber for conservatives is in their own subreddits. On conservative websites this is the opposite.

If one looks only at the Reddit front page, no doubt they would not like the republicans because it's a highlight of their low points. I.e a Reverse Instagram, post all the bad parts of your life.

This is the issue. The two realities is from getting information about how "good" your side is and a feed about all the bad stuff from the other side.

The reason why you think 50% of the population is like that is precisely because the information you have received about that side is their bad highlight reel. And they will equally think the other 50% of the aisle is brainwashed because of all they are viewing your bad highlight reel
If you find the “infrastructure from code” idea intriguing, then maybe take a look at https://www.winglang.io

It’s a new startup by an ex-engineer on the AWS CDK team.
Improving the efficiency of your regular expressions (2020)
They are not dictating how they sell elsewhere. They are saying they need to offer the best price on their site. It is easy to detect whether or not they actually are, and sellers are simply being called out.

There is no obligation to sell on Amazon, nor a requirement for them to raise prices on other platforms. They could simply offer the lowest price everywhere. The result? Lower prices for Amazon customers. If they raise the price, then that's the seller's fault, not Amazon.
How the hell are job applicants supposed to "know our audience"? The whole point of the process is that neither of us knows anything about the other.

And no; we can't rely on something like "it's a small company" (there are small companies where everyone's too busy to read cover letters, or doesn't care about them), or "they say they genuinely care about cover letters" (that's about as reliable as the list of qualifications, and we all know how idiotic those can often be).

We would all be better off if we could relegate that "getting to know you" part of the hiring process to the interview. It's a relic of a time when applying for a dozen or so jobs would be likely to get you hired, so you could justify putting in a solid hour or so of effort crafting an individualized cover letter for each one.
Tons of people were using lead paint and asbestos insulation, why did we ban those products?
It is actually correct, it is slower by 0.5-2x in terms of runtime resulting in a runtime of 1.5-3x. Admittedly it would probably have been less confusing to say that the runtime increased by 0.5-2x to 1.5-3x because slower is more intuitively associated with less while the runtime of course increases.

In terms of throughput it is a decrease by 0.33-0.67x to 0.67-0.33x. That this are the same numbers in reverse order is of course just a coincidence, would the runtime have increased by only 0.2-0.5x to 1.2-1.5x, then the throughput would have decreased by 0.17-0.33x to 0.83-0.67x.
It should be a requirement. From all the national security bullshit I've seen this must be the easiest way to permanently turn a country into chaos.

Also funny is losing your id card/passport and your bank card/credit card simultaneously. You then need to get a new card from your bank that requires a valid id and you need to get a new id card which costs money. And no driving! "Gladly" this process takes so much time you can usually borrow money or pay it for you.
What if I told you that outside of the US we're seeing tax offices progressively refusing cash payments and/or putting a penalty with a maximum accepted amount for people who still try to bring cash ?

Forcing all businesses to follow a model that is already getting phased out doesn't make sense.
I think clojure spec is still typed.
It is just not the type other languages uses.
> I don't keep any meaningful amount cash on hand and neither does anyone I know.

That's your choice, not a problem with cash

> Most of the stores I shop at won't actually be able to sell me anything

But many other stores will

> ... by the end of the day

Often, it is all that is needed

Not all outages are apocalypse scenarios. Sometimes, it is just about finding something to eat for the night, the kind of small things that add up in an emergency situation.

Take the 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami for instance, it caused big problems like flooded cities and the Fukushima disaster, but it also caused small problems for millions of people, power outages, stopped trains, etc... These people had to eat, sleep,... while most of the infrastructure was down, it got better the next day, but in the meantime, it is good not to have to worry about millions of people being able to buy their meal when thousands are in need for immediate assistance.
are you saying children shouldn't go to school?
This is an excellent point.

I’m extremely curious to see if the evidence shows that Amazon’s practices actually drive up prices in the market or whether there’s not much impact.

I suspect the answer may vary drastically depending on the product category.
> I've found an idea that I'm passionate about

This is all you need. Continue to iterate on the idea. You haven't even made it yet; maybe you'll never finish it, who knows. You are way too early to be thinking about competitors. Just have fun working on something you like.
If you have a penchant for Ayn Rand and her general outlook, I do not think your stance on her can change through rational discussion. There are "primal world beliefs" [1] that are irremediably incompatible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_world_beliefs
Realistically, this rot runs so deep I'm not sure how you can stop it. The US economy is built upon a bunch of these hidden taxes. Healthcare, the way insurance works and hundreds of middle-men between. Google baking in advertising search terms into things you search for. Amazon subsidizing delivery by baking it in as a hidden cost which causes in-store goods to rise in prices to match. Large real estate firms like Greystar using algorithmic models to raise prices uniformly across the US rather than based on local availability.

It's a good step, but our economy is dominated by rentseeking behaviors from large corporations buying their way into monopoly and then warping the rest of the market. And unfortunately I feel like this case will end like many others, with a handshake and a promise to 'properly show consumers how much our stuff on Amazon costs'.
Yes, and watering plants with drinking water could also stop.
If that becomes something that's expected, in order to get people to continue to send in cover letters, it will be abused. Everyone will say they read the letters—but no more companies will read them than do now.
I don't have much to say about the piece itself other than express broad agreeement on what is a fairly common sensical topic, but just gonna say it's interesting how many commenters here are up pontificating on their soapbox while still clearly confused about the distinction between strong and static typing.
WordPress is a hell I can't escape
I used to build, host and manage Wordpress sites for a bunch of small businesses. Even though I stopped offering that service years ago, I continued to host a number of sites as a gesture of goodwill.

Recently, I decided that I was paying way too much for the hosting and so decided to migrate...

This is where I entered the doors to hell.

The sites are running on old wordpress and PHP versions and are brimming with plugins I used to smooth over gaps in my programming knowledge.

I cannot migrate the sites to a new server without first upgrading their wordpress/PHP versions. The problem is, when I do that, the sites break due to a host of unknown errors.

It's actually comical at this point

I feel like it's karma for cutting corners and not maintaining those sites correctly over the years.

Anyway, just thought I'd share. Maybe it'll give someone a good laugh haha
The idea of Wasm as a universal plugin system is very promising. But string passing is maybe not the best example to highlight, considering that Wasm is introducing stringref to enable zero-copy string sharing between the Wasm runtime and host language.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/stringref/blob/main/proposals...
And also increase the shrinkflation.
And a video where Musk states it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sea-Uxw5Syg

..."because a bot costs a fraction of a penny call it a tenth of a penny, but if somebody even has to pay a few dollars, some minor amount, the effective cost of bots is very high. And then you also have to get a new payment method every time you have a new bot".

I understand where Musk is coming from, but that's crazy.

I think if X charges even a dollar a year, it'll lose 95%+ of its customer base. Unless, of course, X has some serious value proposition in the future. I don't see much right now.
Stolen Surface-to-Air Missiles Found in Kyiv Garage
RMS while studying at MIT published about what's considered early/classic "AI" (for example I was very surprised and double-checked the author when I encountered a paper about Prolog backtracking / backjumping by him many years ago). I'd assume he knows the topic he is writing about very well.
Very cool! Interested in the dealing logic, is it 'fair' or does it mimic real machines and do payout percentages?
""Regulatory pressure and free speech concerns have pushed tech giants to abandon efforts to elevate quality information."""

Ahh yeah, before the free speech concerns the quality of information was top notch. Really. It was only because of free speech concerns the bar was dropped. Sums it about right.

Tech giants never provided quality information. Social media platform were always full of disinformation, misinformation.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...

Legacy media (tv, newspapers) was also used for propaganda. Social media is only continuation of propaganda of corporate interests, governments, people of power, celebrities.
This sounds like the official signaling coming out of the US' nation-state George Creel-styled media. I'm personally grateful for the distributed and non-curated media. DC is just going to have to get over itself and adjust to the changing landscape. There's good and bad. When the original printing press came out the #1 books were for witch hunting and yet society -- in the end -- was better off for it.
> 2:20 p.m. ET

Amused at "ET".

I guess they didn't want to confuse people with EDT (which we're currently 'in') and EST ('winter time', which will be 'entered' on November 5).
> This is especially notable when he then goes on to point to measurable success as a metric for other AI tech - he'd have made a far better point if he argued that LLMs also need to be evaluated carefully on a case by case basis like these other systems, rather than be taken on trust.

The examples he gives are technologies where you can point the AI to a problem and trust the results will work as intended. You don't need to check every individual output of those AIs, you can just trust that it will be better than the output you'd get from a human expert (even though it's of course not 100%, and a combination of AI + human expert may be better).

What is the equivalent for LLMs?
I'm not GP. I didn't make that argument. I agree that Amazon is not obliged to allow just anyone on their platform. Sellers must abide by the rules that Amazon sets in place. At the same time, Amazon must abide by the laws of the locations at which it wants to sell. So if a state says that they cannot force a seller to keep their lowest price on Amazon, then that's the way it is.
The static typing hype bubble which started 10 years ago is soon going to burst.

As a falloff expect decades of engineers lamenting overly engineered, overly verbose, overly complex TS legacy apps.
As far as I know, JS is weakly typed and Python is strongly typed.

JS will convert types under your butt if you're not careful, Python won't.

Sure, static typing (when done well) is superior to that, but the title talks about strong typing.
The free for all market also gave me access to a hundred chefs who vastly improved my cooking. It also gave me access to a dozen woodworkers who taught me how to work safely and efficiently. A whole host of gardeners in my USDA zone with hyper local content relevant to me and taught me about native plants.

The free market has saved me thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars in home repair costs. From changing my blower motor, to installing my Ecobee w/o a common wire, to installing ceiling brackets correctly, repairing my garage trolley.

The free market gave me podcasts and podcasters which taught me a ton about international conflicts and their history. Gave me access to brilliant environmentalists and conservationists doing incredible field work.

The real price I had to pay was hearing people endlessly, endlessly, endlessly complain about, and in so doing, amplify people that they don't listen to, disagree with, and think are harmful.
There's a section about catching everything at compile time rather than runtime which is very much about. I think there's a lot of value at knowing when things go bad at compile time, rather than runtime.
Makes sense! I use both, uBO just does its thing and I never interact with it. NoScript handles blocking & whitelisting javascript. It's totally possible uBO has a similar feature and I just don't know about it.
I think it's unfair to say that wealthy parents send their kids to private schools as a way to actively defund public education. Parents are making this choice to give their kids a better education, and anyone with the same opportunity would do it too.
Many dynamically typed languages have static analyzers, but retain the flexibility of not needing to prescribe types up front (it’s impossible to know exactly what data structure you need at the start of a project)

That’s the crux of why I’m not all in on static typing all the time. (Especially for networked programs that expect a wide range of different kinds of input)

Having to prescribe the types I need before I actually need them goes against how I tend to build.
I recently set it up with a variety of apps (frontend/backend) behind it. Where did you see it should only be a basic html app? Don't recall reading that in their documentation.
About 70% of jobs in USA/Canada are regulated.
I think we are well past the useful regulations.
Most articles like this talk about banned books from religious organizations. How about banned books in modern times from the left? Cancel-culture has banned many books that simply have an opposing opinion and in some case, replace it compeltely:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roald-dahl-collection-boo...
The view counts on Twitter were proven faked as soon as they appeared, tweets on completely clean, private accounts with no followers were showing steadily increasing "views" despite the fact that it was impossible to view those tweets.

Facebook's been lying about it for years. https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/17/facebook_ad_reach_law...
A Pihole will do what you want with a ton of control added.
For b2c monopolies matters, for b2b it is enough to be a dominant player to engage on a lot of harmful anti-competitive practices. This is a b2b situation that harms consumers, in that situation it doesn't matter that there are competitors, what matters is how much power Amazon has over vendors.
For niche products, I think it makes sense. For example, we had a need for a tool to generate AWS/Azure diagrams automatically. There are a ton of SaaS options in this space, some of which just leverage opensource projects to generate the diagrams. In the gov space, I can't touch it if they aren't FedRAMP'ed. I've gone through that process as a CSP, and it's near a million dollar investment. Or the vendor can just release their product as an Atlassian App and avoid that headache. Yes, you'll never be the next billion dollar SaaS vendor but could you make a 7 figures? I'm confident you could.

Rephrased, I think an agency or company that follows the AWS model of "borrowing" open source projects and converting them to a paid service would work would do well. Wrap a open source solution around an Atlassian or similar PaaS app/module.
There is an interesting 2019 academic paper out of CU Boulder, on the topic of spoofing 4G WEA alerts. I wouldn't recommend doing this, but it's very interesting to understand the technical aspects of WEA, CMAS, and other non-standard mobile comms channels that are involved.

"This is Your President Speaking: Spoofing Alerts in 4G LTE Networks"

[PDF] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3307334.3326082
> That’s something you couldn’t do with an open standard as quickly.

We have been saying this for days, across 30 fucking comments in this godforsaken chain, but you do not listen. Let me spell it out. If you ignore me this time, I won't bother responding.

You could do this with an Open Standard, just as quickly. This technology relies on Bluetooth MAC addresses and iCloud file sync, not fairy dust.*
I saw this in Kingsman. It's gonna be bloody and Sammy ain't gonna like it.
False. Taking tax dollar funding away from public schools only exacerbates the issue. School choice is a scam to fund private Christian schools to brainwash the youth and maintain a conservative voter base
RHEL 8 is impacted, the fix that introduced the issue was back ported:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-4911
Your local teacher's union is likely supporting policies that would improve these problems. If they have a contract dispute or a strike, please show your support for them.
Bittorrent is based around individual "torrents", which may contain many files. Separate torrents are completely unrelated to each other: for example, if I'm seeding an old Ubuntu release, and you're trying to download a newer release, then you won't connect to me; even if many of the files in that release are identical (e.g. config files from /etc, Python libraries that haven't seen an update, etc.).

Since IPFS is a global swarm (or, in principle, "interplanetary"), then your download will fetch the files I'm seeding. Indeed, you can fetch chunks from different files, if they happen to share some contents (e.g. if a Fedora release patches the end of a script, you can still fetch the initial part without the patch).

Since we're not artificially partitioning/siloing our data, two people who happen to share the same file will end up generating the same URL: fetching that URL can get chunks from either. This is nice since it avoids any need to coordinate, or even know of each others' existence: we can just share whatever we like, and the network will ensure downloaders will find seeders. This can even happen across time: if some files lose all their seeders then their URLs will stop resolving; but if someone later happens to share the same files, then those same URLs will start resolving again.

This makes it easy to host Web sites without needing a reliable machine or connection (just seed it from a few machines; as long as one's up, it should work); it also lets us refer to URLs that are host-agnostic, and which we can even seed ourselves (rather than e.g. npm.org URLs, which may be deleted like "leftpad"; or github.com URLs which may be deleted, e.g. when projects jumped ship after Microsoft bought the site).
Thanks for the list of alternatives!

Have you experienced any unexpected pros and/or cons from using those vendors instead of Amazon?
I disagree. Demanding the lowest price does not harm consumers. Overstock, Wayfair, Walmart and others do the same thing. The result is the lowest price for a given product on all sites. This is unquestionably good for consumers.
I would argue that the selinux and uid issues with podman are selinux and posix DAC’s fault.

Selinux is neat but is IMO conceptually wrong in a container world. UIDs and are barely better. At most, these mechanisms should confirm that the container as a whole has a given permission, and that’s it.

(Seriously, the major clouds have deprecated per-object permissions on their object stores. IMO they are right to have done so.)
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I think one of the contributions is that the data are provided in the same format for all robot embodiments, i.e. action spaces, and observations. This way they can feed all the data to same model.
Canva will pay out $200M to designers for using their work for AI training
And the article said 2:20 PM ET.