skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People have been complaining that the theater is full of sequels and superhero movies for decades.

Yeah, but the thing is people go to see superhero movies and sequels and remakes. And have been for a long time.

When people stop going to superhero movies, they'll stop getting made. Except for Spider-Man; Sony is going to keep rebooting that and doing another series of three movies until they are bought by Disney; if they lose that license by not making a film in time, they'll never get it back.
Seriously. Like it’s just one continuous hack week over there.
Terrorism has brought down governments, or nearly so.

Shining Path in Peru is a great example. It doesn't take many bombings (that don't even kill people) to bring a system nearly to a halt.

It's one reason why Singapore has very strict security rules targeting terrorism. Not because of mass casualties, but because of the instability it would bring, dragging down the economy, creating social unrest.

Terrorists aren't stupid. They know terror works.
Grounding from programming languages (or similar sandboxes) wouldn't be scarce and feedback would be faster.

It only goes so far, but considering how far LLM's got already, it seems promising.
While I definitely like (and mostly trust) Steam, there are some issues like songs being removed from GTA games due to licensing that make me want to hang onto pirated copies, just in case.
As a Brit with a childhood diagnosis of ADHD and a second confirming diagnosis in adulthood, it amuses me to look at the country where recreational and medical use of cannabis is legal and widely accepted, but there's a lot of pearl-clutching about what a credentialed psychiatrist is saying someone needs and a patient also feels they need.
Rainbow-128 is the fastest 128-bit quality hash in existence
The Null Hypothesis Strikes Again: This time in criminal justice interventions
That would be like a bird saying humans aren't a Natural General Intelligence because they can't fly. How much vision and audio is required to be intelligent? There's a lot of electromagnetic radiation we can't see and audio bands we can't hear. Would you say that Helen Keller wasn't generally intelligent?
> I would rather there not be an official translation or localization process

Localization isn't just bad subs though. Localization is sometimes unavoidable due to differences in language and the cultural usage of the language. Not everything can be directly translated, as that's not how languages work. Sometimes the only way to avoid localization is to not translate, and then it's no longer a translation.
Create a new checklist every day. I just use a pad of paper on my desk and list the ~3-5 things I want to get done on that given day. If I have next steps for upcoming days, I'll make note of that so I have it recorded.

But every day I'll decide what I'm going to tackle, that way there is no obligation from the past lists. I will refer back to them to see what I wanted my current self to do. I might not agree with my past self on what is important.
Against the Burden of Knowledge
Prison population by itself doesn't tell us much.

You'd have to compare it against some sort of measure of crime victimisation (crime rates are always a bit flawed, because if police don't respond to crimes -> people stop calling -> no crime officially happened).

At the opposite end, the lowest prison incarceration rate of any non-microstate is the Central African Republic. According to worldpopulationreview (first search engine result, happy to look at better sources if you have them), the CAR prison population per capita is a mere 2.5% of the USAs. The wikitravel article for this jurisdiction gives us this helpful warning:

Most Western governments have issued explicit warnings to not travel to the Central African Republic under any circumstances. Violent crime, such as armed robbery, aggravated battery, and homicide, is extremely common. Large parts of the country are controlled by armed warlord groups who regularly kidnap, injure, and/or kill civilians. In the event of unrest, airport, land border, and road closures may occur with little or no notice. Consular services are often either extremely limited or non-existent. In short, stay away, and if you have no choice be sure to exercise war zone safety.

So it's really not as simple as single statistic.
If you don't believe in evil, then you must not believe in friendless, meanness, empathitic, or any other adjective for describing how a human acts.
It absolutely was accurate. Back in 2018 (GPT-1) nobody expected we would soon have something as powerful as GPT-3, or even ChatGPT. The massive progress in LLMs (and text-to-image models) took everyone by surprise. They achieved things that, until recently, were regarded as pure science fiction about the distant future.
Ask HN: Is Pascal a good choice for cross-platform development?
Interesting project but last release was seven years ago.
Diversity is always hard to unite.
Serious question: What's the feasibility of local web apps in containers, which appear to the user to be a "regular" app. E.g. Django + SQLite, running in a Docker container, and run by a Mac app shortcut. How would you recommend setting up and running that stack? Better ideas?
Since my computer memory isn't draining out my computer and down into the sewers, all my programs must therefore be leak proof.
I wonder why a company cannot invent a version of white bread that has no calories or only minimal calories, sorta like sawdust. It would be filling but far fewer calories and no insulin spike either.
Gabe can't live forever. Once Steam changes hands anything goes and if confidence gets harmed there goes a generation of gamers.
We have regulations like minimum wages and other labor regulation rules to prevent abuse.

Unless you want to say that getting paid a minimum wage paternalistic?
Isn't this extremely reductive and an instance of the association fallacy? I am going to judge the complexity of your entire person based on one bit of information - whether or not you espouse the teachings of Alan Watts?

Talk about confusing images and ideas of selves, with the people themselves. Quite judgmental, and dare I say, biased, or even prejudiced.

For what it's worth I follow none of those people, so perhaps you ought to revisit your biases and correct some of your priors. Moreover, I began listening to Alan Watts over 10 years ago, when I was into Eckhart Tolle's "Power of Now" and all of that jazz.

But thank you for exposing your innate biases and revealing your priors. It's very illuminating.
> but I’m ignorant of the art world; maybe they have one

The Film Actors Guild is a union in the art world with pretty significant market power.
Start with the title: "Adult ADHD Is the Wild West of Psychiatry"

Without reading it, you already know what to expect in terms of an opinion. I think it's probably more constructive to say that what we're calling ADHD is more likely several different though very similar disorders. Also worth noting is the comorbidity with autism and how many people have dual diagnoses.
Your personal ADHD diagnosis is confidential information. Population-level increases in ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescriptions is not confidential information. It is useful public health information.

I don't think it's fully settled what percent of this increase is due to more ADHD in the population versus a change in standards (the second is not inherently bad).
No. It would be its worst use case for cross platform development. I doubt you can easily make an iOS or Android app with it.

If you're hell bent on Pascal then consider having it transpile to javascript
And yet the same criticism is now directed to the Japan government, because Japan is trying to define the unified character set for name characters and that necessarily demands some sort of unifications [1].

[1] https://mainichi.jp/articles/20231231/k00/00m/040/131000c (Japanese, also paywalled but at least the first portion is visible)
> asked if they were in a collision

Would you prefer "have you been involved in a loss of life incident?"

My point is to not take the question at face value, rather take it as a compliance tool. Most people will answer it automatically because either hell yea they were, or they weren't.

Take a deep breath and let's start again.

If I ask you "did you kill somebody?" are you more or less likely to answer with something other than "fuck you" than if I ask "how is your package?". I get it, it depends on set and setting. Good thing they have so much beyond telemetry (extending into humint) in that alleged "car", eh?
Trying to convince an AI it sees something and a human they don’t is probably a losing battle.
I like this. I am laid off as well tracking applications in excel and I hate the double data entry.

Have you thought of implementing something like tripit? The way it would work is after applying for a job, I would forward the confirmation email to appplications@joblogservice and you would parse the email to get company and application date.

You could even enrich the data by adding company details details from crunchbase or similar.

Similarly, we could forward the interview and rejection emails to the same address to track those milestones

You have something here
What does this mean:

> Free basic jobs for all U.S. citizens, funded by Shansea

?
30 years ago - yes. I'd say it would be evenly matched. They would know things related to protocols and tech that we've lost, while we would have more sophisticated tools.

50 - no. They were very resourceful in the analog / digital interstitial era, and there was the heady inventive days of post-war tech boom that were still pervasive. I thought they would 'cyber nuke' us with some orthogonal out-of-band strategy we'd never expect.

70 - yes. But not for the reasons you think. I think their mindset would be still too deep in the wartime paranoia which when taken to extreme is a disadvantage compared to a more coolheaded one. Coupled with our obvious tech advantages I think we would wipe the floor with them.

Interesting question, how'd you come to it?

I'm interested in if we'd nuke humans from 20 to 50 years in the future?
"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_standard

the next evolution should be the Jerry Maguire proof: "Show me the money"
Gah, another Lisp post to tempt me to add yet another mini project to my plate...I always am curious about trying more Lisp because I keep seeing commentary about how powerful it is to actually build applications once you get moving on building things.

Anyone here have any recent practical experience in this direction who would confirm this in Lisp vs in other programming languages? Does effort in Lisp really compound/produce great code and great applications that much faster than other languages? (For web development primarily)
I recommend this seminar on the book, which contains both strong critiques and a lot of interesting and positive discussion. https://crookedtimber.org/category/david-graeber-debt-semina...
Other reasons to do it are:

* translating a joke "literally" makes it no longer a joke and so no longer an authentic translation

* the original creators want their work to sell to people who weren't already prepared to like it
Nobody has a right to a business to exist or any particular job exist and yet nonetheless there are the rules of the game that people must abide by to make society works.
Not as long as there is still work for apprentices to do. If there was no work left for apprentices, or 99% of all apprenticeships went away entirely due to automation it'd be the same problem.

Paid apprenticeships may even be something the animation industry could consider, but even that would cause a massive reduction in the size of the talent pool they draw from today. What we have now is basically a meat grinder/lottery system where most animators burn out or suffer in poverty and obscurity while a small number get selected to advance, but at least people have an opportunity to develop their skills, show off their work, and develop industry connections
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Dplyr actually supports some really cool join functionalities that I wish were in SQL implementations, including:

- Ability to specify whether your join should be one-to-one, many-to-one, etc. So that R will throw an error instead of quietly returning 100x as many rows as expected (which I've seen a lot in SQL pipelines).

- A direct anti_join function. Much cleaner than using LEFT JOIN... WHERE b IS NULL to replicate an anti join.

- Support for rolling joins. E.g. for each user, get the price of their last transaction. Super common but can be a pain in SQL since it requires nested subqueries or CTEs.
I'm sorry, all western animation looks bad? Such sweeping generalizations, and so wrong.

Exhibit A. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH

Exhibit B. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince_of_Egypt

Exhibit C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Into_the_Spider-Ve...
That's great to know. Will be looking forward to what you come up with.

Kotlin recommend ksp [1] but underlying platform's reflection is also available. I am not sure it (or something similar) will be a great fit for gleam but have been planning to explore it deeper for some time.

[1] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/ksp-overview.html
I was not aware of that etymological aspect of dorking (I assumed it was an extension of dork, in the sense of nerd; and I did not know the etymology of dork).

What alternative alternative term do your recommend?
No "real" evidence? There's plenty of evidence, you just reject it for some reason.
One of the best things we can do for people with ADHD is to adjust our expectations of people in general (adults and children).

ADHD wasn't identified as a disorder until recently because it wasn't a disorder until recently. For most of human history, the traits associated with ADHD would have been at worst a wash and in many cases advantageous to have in small numbers within a community. The adults that I know with ADHD are disproportionately likely to be the movers and shakers in their worlds—they work well under pressure and make things happen. You don't want everyone to be that way, but having a portion of the population that can't sit still has huge advantages.

That only changed when we moved into the 20th century and started expecting 100% of the population to be okay with sitting quietly in a chair for 6 hours a day for 12 years of their lives and then, if they had any kind of ambition, to do more sitting in chairs working a white collar job until retirement.

The people with ADHD aren't a problem, the unnatural world we've created is the problem, and we risk losing an important part of the larger organism that is civilization if we force these people to conform.
PaLM was a base model without any fine-tuning, itself a copy of GPT-3. Maybe you meant LaMDA, which was based on pure instruction fine-tuning without RLHF.
Well no, users of C++ compilers are using an abstract, encapsulated, and portable interface to it, which makes their code automatically follow the standard (if it cares at all). That's the whole point, isn't it? I don't need to know what size the standard dictates const char* must be, I can just use it and it works.
> People need to stop being so naive as to accept poorly paid jobs because they think the subject matter is 'funner'.

Why? If I was really passionate about something, I would not mind low pay. For me, the blocker is that I'm not quite so passionate about anything. I suspect a lot of people think they're passionate about games but really are just addicted.
It tells us that the USofA locks up more people per 100,000 than any other G20 country.

It tells us that you have to reach to Central African Republic make some kind of apples and oranges attempt to justify why the US is clearly more punitive than actual comparitive countries.
>Who are you to tell them that their career choice is wrong?

I mean, in this scenario they wouldn't get a job, or it'd be an evergreen job that they shouldn't expect to get early in their careers. They wouldn't just laze around if they can't get paid as an animator (especially not in Japanese culture).

At best they'd try to be their own entrepreneur and make money that way, while gathering experience for these now-evergreen studios. At worst they give up or try another career. Paternalistic or not, almost every first world country has labor laws precisely so a job can't pay pennies to sustain its business. And governments do that because they don't want income hoarded by the managers and stifling the middle/low class economy.
There’s data comparing EU prices for equal fast food like MacDonalds and the pay for workers and the cost of the final product appears to bear little relationship to worker pay, i.e. corporations crying poor at the usa minimum wage are full of it. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-workers-denmark/
This is mostly useful to developers that don’t develop on windows. Typically server side and browser based JavaScript programs are deployed on Linux systems in production.

Today if I want to reliably automate some scripting I do NOT use shell scripting because it makes a bunch of implicit dependencies on existing system.

Instead I write these utility scripts in either JavaScript or PHP depending on the project and this seems to give JavaScript a slightly nicer consistent interface to perform basic functionality, built directly into the runtime.
This is a really cool game! much like "Game Dev Tycoon" but i like the market domination minigame..

Thanks for linking!

I've wanted a game that got into the nitty gritty for these types of games: similar "macro-economics" (such as making a product, launching to market, etc, getting revenue) - but "making a product" isn't just clicking a button; it is it's own minigame, perhaps a mini drag-and-drop editor so you can make a thing that is yours, and see how it fares in the virtual world.

I'm also reminding myself of uplink, which was a hacking game; if it was that, but as a developer, rather than hacker; and you're armed with a super powerful wysiwyg editor.
You posted an article from 2021. Here's one from the same publisher in 2023 saying the opposite - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09500170231175771

> Contrary to previous studies, it thus finds robust support for Graeber’s theory on bullshit jobs. At the same time, it also confirms existing evidence on the effects of various other factors, including alienation. Work perceived as socially useless is therefore a multifaceted issue that must be addressed from different angles.
> (It's another reason why, as a Westerner, you almost certainly do not want to try to live in Japan.)

This is a really bad take, I've lived in Tokyo for 6 years. As a western developer (in IT as we say here in Japan), you will most certain improve your quality of life by moving to e.g. Tokyo vs most USA cities. While what you said it's true, there's also other truths:

- As others comment, as a foreigner working in Tokyo with some experience, you can opt to much higher salaries than the local graduates (for so many reasons). It'd be easy to make 6-8M JPY in Japanese companies, and depending on other factors 8-10M JPY is not rare. Since we are in HN, I'm sure many here can even opt for 10M+ JPY.

- If you can, just work remotely for US/EU while living here, or for a branch of a EU/US company, since salaries will be much higher. That is true. That way you can make 10-30M JPY easily, and with that you can live _very_ comfortable. Only issue you might have is how you manage to get a Visa.

For reference, you can live well as a single guy in Tokyo with 4-5M JPY. Lifestyle is different though, so it depends on what you value, e.g. houses ARE smaller, but neighborhoods are walkable and beautiful (highly depends where you come from). If you do want to have your cake and eat to, meaning living in a "very big" house for Japanese standards while having everything else nice from Japan, yeah you'll need to be making 8M+ JPY for sure.
Really? But it's marketed as targeting those mobile systems. What makes you say that?
I disagree the the author's assertion about Graeber's becoming less radical. By deconstructing the concept of the state and showing that you don't need any form of 'state' to create advanced societies is radical. Dawn of Everything shows the reader that humanity's history is littered with diverse social structures, and the structures we have today are temporary. It's a freeing book, a very optimistic one, and really opens up possibilities in people's minds.

We don't have to be stuck with our way of life. Another way is possible as demonstrated by Dawn of Everything.

This sort of creative optimism is something we especially need now, as we approach the physical limits of this planet.
We should let Google know.
Snook's Arm
Once you see what exactly? “AI” isn’t some image filter from the early 2000s.
Germans and laughter go together like two north poles of a magnet.
> more for trying to appeal to an audience of the localizer's peers

Or for people who aren't already familiar with the culture. For instance if you're translating a romance novel or otome game (romance game for women) you'd want to localize the body language it describes men using, because what Japanese women like, American women think is offputting and rapey, and a romance story doesn't work as a romance if it turns the reader off.

> Beyond that official translations often don't come with honorific

This is a giveaway you don't speak Japanese. Honorifics are not actually important or meaning-bearing.

(Last week in public in Japan I heard a woman call a boy "Haru-chan", something that supposedly never happens.)

Actually, if audiences expect this it means translators have to start translating some honorifics you don't know into the ones you do. You probably know さん but not 氏 or ちゃま.
It's worth noting that journalists rarely get to pick the title for their article. My father worked for a newspaper for a while and always complained about the titles the editor chose.
Unless you think our ancestral biology is perfectly adapted to the modern world, evolution will be acting. Indeed, evolution is probably occurring on humanity at a breakneck pace right now, because our environment has changed so radically.
Asian welfare states are weaker than you think. The main solution if you can't afford much food is to move back in with your parents.

(Also very high rates of young women reporting doing sex work, though I don't know if that's because of poverty.)
I have a few design books and you're right, they do focus on how the total sum was brought together: https://www.phaidon.com/store/design/the-design-book-9781838...

> How to mix paint and use your brush vs how to draw a beautiful painting

electronics feels like such a different discipline to 'art' and 'design' in the traditional sense, since "beautiful" in a painting or piece is in the eye of the beholder, while "working" is probably the metric you're aiming for with electronics

that said, we use solderless breadboards ;) you just have to experiment with anything you can't find in a book until it just works... over time you build up experience with what 'doesnt work' though
This is already happening in some ways: https://www.thehandy.com/ (NSFW!), it replicates the motions exhibited in VR videos on the user's "body part" ;)

A glove for more interactivity would be a lot more difficult and expensive but really cool :)
At work we've been calling it "Google Hacking" for the equivalent search-engine activity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_hacking

But I feel that "hacking" is way too broad and non-descriptive of this activity which is more specialized. I mean, I would just call it "using parameters as they were meant to be" but most folks don't have any idea how to formulate search queries in the first place, that these operators and parameters seem like a black art.
I took gp as satire. But maybe not haha.