skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they were fishing quarters, they'd have a $44k in "side income". The coin's value ultimate doesn't matter if you're willing to steal 500 of them every single day.
I tried using SpamAssassin (via Proxmox Mail Gateway, which makes it much easier to set up) to replace a Barracuda email appliance (it was destined to get a *6x* service price increase in 2024!), and after several months of trying to get the number of FPs down, I gave up.

The problem wasn't just the number of FPs (which were much higher than the 'Cuda) -- it was that they came from real people, who were often common senders. This is not corporate email, or anything that was even remotely spam (except as SA's crazy ruleset determined). These all required whitelisting, and it became a real chore for all my users to keep up with all the whitelisting.

So back to the Barracuda for another year. It lets a little more spam through, but virtually no FPs. I just couldn't make SA get the same performance, even with many tweaks to the weights and rulesets.
> Your belief that "there's always a tendency to avoid personal responsibility when things don't go well' is your personal opinion and says more about your personal view of the world. If this is true, why the increase in suicide, depression, anxiety. Why are American's the most stressed out population?

Not wanting to take responsibility for problems is human nature, and I'd say your denial of it 'says more about your personal view of the world'. Its comforting to blame others when things go wrong so we often do, whether its justified or not. I don't see whats so controversial about that observation.

As for stress in America, there are as many reasons for it as there are Americans. Just because there is an increase in 'suicide, depression, anxiety' doesn't mean you should uncritically ascribe it all to whatever your pet political issue happens to be

> Ignoring the affects of American's economic system and the role it plays in our growing mental health issues is itself not mentally healthy. Blaming each of the millions of individuals for not thriving for personal failings in a system we control is sociopathic.

I never implied I was ignoring the issues with American economics, I'm just trying not to deal in absolutes and blame it all on either the system or the individuals within it- a reasonable take would be to blame the system for its shortcomings and the individuals for theirs, not to maginify or ignore one or the other.

One could easily argue that your mindset is just as mentally debilitating as the one you criticize- IE. the removal of personal agency by blaming the system encourages feelings of helplessness- 'There's no point in trying to improve my lot in life because the system will always keep me down', causing people to miss out on opportunities they'd otherwise take advantage of, keeping them down and increasing their feelings of 'depression and anxiety'
I've seen projects run on Cloud Run because they fit that model. But if you don't quite fit the model, then you fight the abstraction in odd ways. K8s gives you control over more things, so the easy stuff feels hard but the harder things aren't as hard. With k8s operators you can stand up pretty complex things very quickly and robustly.
I hadn't considered maintainability as something to consider in this area - appreciate the deep dive.

The saying bureaucracy can't help but beget bureaucracy is another thing that comes to mind.
> Originally this was supposed Scheme, but then Netscape signed a deal with Sun and agreed to make it more "Java-like".

Yes I know it's cliche at this point to mention it. And yes it could've had some unknown negative butterfly effect type of thing, but man I really would have loved to have seen where things would be now if Sun hadn't influenced this.
Apple shares slip nearly 3% after Barclays downgrade
Bureaucracies gotta bureaucracize.
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Odd that the "Soul Glow" late-70s/early-80s greasy hair product revival didn't get a wiki mention
Literally just read the linked research though

- "The calculations included in the full report show that extra
spending (around £600 million) could be expected by putting
more cash in the pockets of lower income households, via basic
income."

- "This, in turn, would generate greater VAT returns for Welsh
Government - a crucial source of revenue"

- "It would reduce child poverty by two thirds, to 10%"

- "With the financial protection of a basic income, a wide range
of hypothetical new freedoms can become possible. People
would be able to do things like finding suitable jobs, undertaking
financially risky ventures such as starting a new business or
developing their education or skills."
> I'm glad my comment is no longer flagged.

FYI, I flagged you because the comment does not live up to the HN community standards[0]. A new account with just a comment to me made shortly after my comment was made just to say something sarcastic and does not contribute to the conversation. I decided to flag instead of commenting and continuing an unproductive exchange.

> People who like category theory want it everywhere.

This isn't surprising. It is an attempt at further generalization of mathematics. Albeit it can get annoying, it isn't wrong because cat theory is about looking from the high abstract level and making connections between differing branches of mathematics. If you don't see it everywhere you either don't have an understanding or have discovered something those people would really like to know. From personal experience, it can be a quite useful tool to describe things because of this.

> The may be useful, but it has to be justified.

The former begets the latter.

> Just look at something like batch normalization: I can think of at least 3 different "explanations" on why it works.

Are those the same thing? What are those?

> But I don't think you should mistake this as being an explanation. You just get a nice get a "cleaner way" to present concepts.

The latter is de facto the former.

And yes, math is just models. Or as Poincaré said, math is the study of relationship between numbers. One might also say "the map is not the territory" and you can find several math theorems making this point explicitly about math. You may even find one by reading my username with a little care. More than one if you take more care.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think no. Licenses can make non legally binding claims. It's similar to someone putting up a "no trespassing" sign on public property.
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This article has a strange tone. It fails to prove anything by the end other than that X amount of people graduate the program without stating what amount of people enter. What the program is doing sounds like it has helped, but the article's argument leaves itself wide (Wide!) open to anyone wanting to say that it doesn't actually work.

What's missing is an interview with someone who has graduated the program and the long-term statistics for all people who enter the program.

> “When they get a job, we ask them simple questions. ‘Hey, how’s it going?’ And they’re just like, ‘Oh, my gosh, do we actually care?’ They are so surprised that we’re asking,” she said.

> But it has to be authentic. If Mrs. C and her partner, Michael Contreras, were just playing a role, he said, the incarcerated men would “read right through everything.”

> “They’re going pick out who really wants them to change and who’s just here for a paycheck,” he said.

There's no substitute for someone genuinely caring, or genuinely trying to care, for someone else. :)
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Just an aside, 8ch was a platform, the whole idea of the site was that anyone could create their own imageboard, similar to subreddits on reddit.
Adding URL is too difficult, I had to click 20x to add simple URL of RSS feed. It should be like this: click on hamburger menu, choose "add feed", paste url, done.
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Agreed--the R base pipe and right assignment operator obviate the need for a pipe assignment operator.
Like another comment said, there are reasons payroll companies exist, and these days there are tons of services that make this easy to do, compliantly. E.g. there is a good reason like the majority of small/medium-ish sized business I know use Gusto because they make it really easy to add contractors or employees (and I'm not specifically pitching Gusto, there are a lot of competitors you can search for). While these products aren't free, the benefit of their SaaS model is that it's a per-employee cost that can grow with you.
Is any work being done to preserve full versions of these sharewares?
The opposite of a shibboleth is a frisco
My point is the article doesn't give much in the way of reasons for why Chinese women should want to have more babies, while Qem argues it's needed. Sure, there might be a "degree of rigor and data", but what is the data and how convincing is it?

I wrote what I did to show how ignorant I am of the topic, not to argue the viewpoint wasn't convincing to its intended audience.

So, is an appeal to bloodline really that influential to Chinese women in their 20s?

Based on the article and its linked-to related articles, it is not influential, not even in rural areas. For example, https://archive.is/MjbKJ , says the cost of rearing a child and difficulty in securing a steady income are far more important to people in their 20s.
Good opportunity for a slightly-related joke:

A Dublin tourist goes into an antique shop and sees a skull in a glass box. "Whose skull was that?" he asks. "To be sure it is the skull of Oscar Wilde." The man is amazed and buys it for a huge sum.

Years later he returns to Dublin and visits the old antique shop again. Again he sees a skull in a glass box. "Who was that?" he asks. "That there is the skull of Oscar Wilde" says the shopkeeper. "It can't be. I bought his in this very shop some years ago!" exclaims the man. "Ah, to be sure that was his skull as a younger man!" replies the shopkeeper.
Is 2024 the Year When Writers Fight Back? (Substack Paywall)
"Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution."
Unfortunately, nothing will change until the system that produced this changes too. No doubt she will retain her tenured position.
This is generally how I feel as well - CSS is really powerful, but also a lot simpler than it used to be in many ways, and to me it makes sense to lean into that.

That said, I find the tooling for CSS modules tends to be fairly dire - type annotations are poor, jumping between different files is a nuisance, jump-to-definition rarely behaves correctly, etc. It could be a lot better, but it feels like there's no single organisation pushing CSS modules forwards like they have with certain CSS-in-JS frameworks, or with Tailwind.
To be honest, it's something I'm less familiar with and at the moment I've mostly given priority to something local. I'll take a closer look and see what the possibilities are.
I don't think the result is as clear either as the "Moloch" commenter, nor you, seem to think.

I agree that the result is not a "Moloch trap": as you say, the new technology actually does de-fang Google Search and empowers many smaller people to be able to do things they would never otherwise have been able to do. The contrary ruling would certainly have been enjoyed by "copyright maximalists" like Disney extracting value from the public domain without giving anything back.

But there are more people affected than just greedy copyright maximalists. Individual artists who have spent years developing a distinctive style and making it popular are seeing their style copied ad-infinitum for free. Organizations like the NYT that invest money doing investigative journalism are having their results slurped up and regurgitated.

To your comment:

> If a person is allowed to read training material acquired legally, then so too must their LLM experiment be allowed to read it. The LLM reading it creates no new copies.

In the past, each copyrighted work seen might train a single BNN (biological neural network). Only a small percentage of BNNs would actually study such work to learn to emulate it; only a handful would achieve parity or exceed the quality of the work. Each BNN was expensive to employ, would only work for a certain number of hours per day, and a certain number of years before retiring.

Now a single ANN (artificial neural network) can study works to emulate them in a month or two. That ANN is far less expensive to employ than a BNN; can be deployed 24/7 indefinitely; and can be duplicated to as many GPUs as someone can get their hands on.

Currently legally, it may be that an ANN learning from an artist's work is the same as a BNN learning from an artist's work. But from a practical perspective, from the case of individual artists, it's clearly not the same.

Now maybe that's the inevitable price of progress; but 1) I don't think that's the inevitable conclusion, and 2) even if it is, we need to be honest about it.
> Shouldn’t there be a universal standard to communicate clearances to the computer systems of the airplanes and other runway vehicles?

“Communicating clearances” would actually be the easy part. The hard part is making sure that there actually is clearance. The system would need to be able to “see” the runway and to “know” about the flights that are permitted to use it in real-time. It would involve many computers, some in the air and some on the ground I assume. If the system failed the pilots would have to fall back onto something else, perhaps what they do today, so they’d still need training and practice. If a pilot made a mistake the system would need to be able to detect that and update everyone.
Why stop there, one monorepo could hold all the laws and receive PRs from the ppl, cutting down the middle man (politicians) leaving just the bureaucracy
It's sad that this is this even a national topic of discussion instead of an internal investigation and change at the university itself.
Thanks for noticing the mobile support! I put a lot of effort in making it work well both on smaller screens as well as with touch/mouse support and light/dark mode while trying to ship minimal amount of js to the browser.. even the canvas elements re-render responsively in regards to size+theme.

I feel justified now and can finally sleep well knowing the time I spent manually formatting the code blocks so they wouldn't have horizontal scroll wasn't wasted!
It's like athletes hating each other on the pitch/court, but being friends outside of it - because, in the end, they have more in common between themselves than with the outside world.

That was particularly true in the reactionary environment of the 19th century, when traditional hierarchies were fighting hard against "uppity" upstarts who did not fit conventions.
Related:

Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Japan, tsunami warning issued for Ishikawa - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830281 - Jan 2024 (64 comments)
Yes, I do the same. It's very useful to me because there is no non-generic TLD that I would be getting legitimate email from, but it may not work well for people who do want to get emails from such TLDs.
It would need to be flexible, auditable, historical (each year ran it's version).

So, basically, no software devs really at the business analysis layer. The process mapping has to be the code. Decision making in the process mapping has to be editable.

It's quite doable and present with some of the current software packages that operate in the finance / insurance / banking / government / enterprise space.

Imho, how software has historically been created for business is now broken. Software used to aim for a fixed, or slowly changing operating model, and the pandemic kind of introduced a bunch of ongoing change.

Software will become more malleable as a result.
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I'm pretty sure it's just the difference between a file being named foo.tar.gz and (SHA-256 of the file).tar.gz[0] - the content and storage are the same, it's just that the canonical name is a hash of the contents rather than being arbitrary.

[0] ex. 1324cca9ed1d8267363ef6c835ca251bd810c21c49b2acc00e02d607c95ef9ad.tar.gz
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