skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is money and the way it is allocated. Institutions can't ossify if the funding dries up first.

In a market system, an institution that fails to serve a purpose goes out of business.

In a command system, too, bad management gets the axe.

In the hybrid system we have had since the early-mid 20th century, institutions can be both 1) insulated from market discipline; and 2) influence their own funding through lobbying and legislation. The former does not occur in a market system, and the latter does not occur in a command system.

What is missing is negative feedback. Systems without negative feedback are typically unstable.
IMO an interviewer asking about SOLID is a great sign you should go work for someone else.
> IMO if you're 16-18 and have no idea what kind of things you enjoy you've already failed/been failed.

I'm sorry, but that is narrow-minded to the point of absurdity.
I recently started using Ledger this year, and I've been really impressed with its utility for me. I think, for my personal needs, https://pypi.org/project/ledger-autosync/ is a must-have. I don't want create my own transactions, and with the autosync extension, I can simply export my bank transactions as QFX files and then import them into my ledger file. In the past, I struggled to accurately track my spending, and typical banking apps were either slow or lacked good querying capabilities. Now, I can easily budget, track purchases, calculate my worth across multiple accounts, and more.

I guess similar results might be possible with other accounting tool but Ledger perfectly meets my requirements. Also, it integrates pretty well with Emacs and I get to check my reports from there.
Apple tried. RSS was shoved into every part of OS X at the time, and users were still confused about what it even is.
Ask HN: Is QA outsourced to India more than other tech roles? If so, why?
I don't think we can narrow the dates down quite as much as you suggest, as there may have been a delayed reaction to whatever changed. I can think of several possibilities: increased use of plastics in essentially everything, increased use of seed oils because saturated fat was demonized, and increased carbohydrate consumption because all fats were demonized. Increased consumption of ultraprocessed foods might be a factor too.
Here's the thing though - those are both entirely fair uses of the word.

Economic violence is a real thing.

And selling rice with internationally illegal levels of arsenic and other toxins is violent too.
I feel like GNUCash splits the difference. You still get a GUI and reporting tools, but you also get the benefit of local reasoning that double entry accounting provides: as long as every transaction is balanced the entire book is balanced. And the data model supports transactions between more than two accounts, which is extremely useful.

My preferred backend is SQL based, so it's a relatively amenable to inspection and custom tooling.
Car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade ago
This is actually pretty interesting and relevant, and given the (1999) even more interesting.

I suspect it would be much better received though with a quick bit of commentary about what it is before launching into the quote.
I thought the idea behind Google Reader was that they would be able to show you ads. They bought Feedburner which was supposed to offer an easy way to put Adsense in your feeds, but it never really took off.
Could a Haiti ag industry (people, land, systems) that isn’t interfered with support the domestic nutritional needs of the current population?
Private enterprise in our current system stands in the way of government being more efficient. It's a prime example of administrators (in the form of capitol holders) standing in the way of better functioning.

Intuit / Turbo Tax standing in the way of better tax admin.

Pharma companies standing in the way of negotiated drug prices for medicare.

Power utilities standing in the way of rules allowing distributed power production.

The list goes on and on...
I have the same issue, but in Europe. Most bank don't offert a data export, so it's fun an games to try to get YOUR data. In Belgium we have CODA for companies... but they're slightly different for each bank. I've worked on this for a middleman and it's hell, between the source data sucking and the destination being cryptic.
I don't understand this: why would anyone want to block this? There are no advantages. None. For either party.
The bigger problem is we have a ton of regulatory overhead. The FDA and the USDA are both responsible for checking the safety of different parts of the food supply, and this causes issues. Instead of it being a clear priority for one agency it gets muddled in which agency should be looking at what. Then couple that with the fact that the FDA historically spends more time on drug safety than food safety and the USDA has conflicting priorities in many ways, combined together you end up with some real issues with catching things early and/or before they hit the market

It could be solved by creating a single agency dedicated to food safety and removing the burden from two the agencies that have many other priorities on top of food safety.

That in a tl;dr nutshell is the problem. There is a good overview of these dynamics done by Last Week Tonight that’s on YouTube I recommend for an overview: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Za45bT41sXg
As I understood, this principal has two sides of different behavior. The Institute do not understand that they solve the problem and behave like they do not know how to solve it. And the Institute do it specifically postpone the solution just to show that they do some work but in reality they do not do nothing to solve the problem...
I think some of the bad outcome may be due to macOS being sneaky with the scrollbar display <https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-appearance-s...>, but your style.css for sure isn't helping matters with its overflow: specifications. The tradeoff, as best I can tell, is whether macOS folks get hidden scrollbars (I don't know anything about the zoom complaint, since I'm on desktop) versus omitting the overflow: and having the asciiart clip outside of its bounding box due to some other CSS interaction that I didn't bother to track down

https://www.evalapply.org/static/css/style.css#:~:text=overf... and https://www.evalapply.org/static/css/style.css#:~:text=overf...
I don't know that high executive salaries are evidence of anything other than theres an executive class which exists, even in the non-profit world. You'll need to come up with better arguments that there's a homeless-industrial complex, which there very much is, but complaining that the leader of a 700-person organized doesn't deserve more than a low end FAANG shows a very naive understanding of how the world works. $313k is cheap for that kind of work. A CEO for a 700-person strong tech company makes well into a million dollars a year, counting equity. Complaining that executives make a lot of money at a non-profit is like complaining that things cost money in the first place. there is a need for someone to do job X. people who do job X cost $xxx/hr. it doesn't matter the context of that job, whether it's running a business, managing armed forces, saving the homeless, or writing a web browser, that's what that job pays.

A better argument for there being a homeless-industrial complex would to say there are incentives for organizations to expand operations rather than fix problems, and then give examples where organizations didn't fix problems because it would result in their lowered funding.
If you were burned by Google with RSS, get ready to be burned by Google with LLMs.

Google (correctly) saw RSS as a challenge to the position it wants to be in, which is a replacement for URLs. It wants its search to intermediate all user interaction with the web, and RSS violates that in the steady-state. Google did the smart thing, which is to use it's vast capital to embrace, extend, extinguish viable RSS tech first with Reader and then with Feedburner.

The interesting thing is that LLMs are another contender to intermediate users' relationships with URLs. An LLM that gives references-as-links within an answer is a much better usability story and I predict this usage alone will displace traditional search in the next couple of years. If past is prologue, I think we can expect Google to spend a great deal on LLMs, make internal projects, buy companies, and then shut them down. (Of course it may be that the Search team will pivot to an LLM UX, which would be remarkable but not entirely out-of-the-question since it's compatible with Google's bread-and-butter, search ads.)
That would be a compelling argument if the RSS button had never been added to websites in the first place.

The UI and UX was left entirely to the website administrator, not big tech, and even websites that did not have any monetization did not improve the experience for users.

And of course adtech could have invested in RSS to make it financially attractive. But they didn't, cause nobody uses it.
Reminds me of a Borges story (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funes_the_Memorious, https://vigeland.caltech.edu/ist4/lectures/funes%20borges.pd...) and the article also led me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia — “Price has stated that she, like Funes, views her memory as a curse”.
> In sheet music, there's no ready equivalent to functions taking arguments and returning values.

Sounds like an interesting idea for a music major somewhere. Plus, with conductor or local condition inputs, might make for entertaining sight reading. If sunny, && morning, play notes this way : If dusk || rain, play this way : play default.
I can believe that it’s just overconfidence and optimism gone too far.

The problems they claim to solve look deceptively easy on the surface. Something like escape analysis (required for automatic borrowing without GC or refcounting) has many easy cases, but also incredibly hard or literally unsolvable edge cases.

They may have been encouraged by progress on the easy cases, and assumed the rest is just a matter of a few bug fixes, rather than hitting the halting problem.
As much as I dislike excel(mainly because of the weak data model), it can do double entry accounting just fine.
H12SSL-i or H12SSL-NT

ROMED8U-2T
I keep reading that GPT is a "smarter" "complex" Markov, in the end, just a function spitting out next word with some probability.

But from my experience that cannot be true - it has to learn somehow. There is an easy example to make. Tell it something that happened today and contradicts the past (I used to test this with the Qatar World Cup), and then ask questions that are affected by that event, and it replied correctly. How is that possible? How a simple sentence (the information I provide) changes the probabilites for next token by that far?
The so called free market tends to engender monopolies or oligopolies that will do their best to destroy any concurrency though.

Free market is the myth that can be thrown at plebeians to ashame them on their inability to compete with establishment, whatever the form it takes.
I'd recommend you to check https://appmap.io/
a tool which creates diagrams from code execution or tests...
From my experience, companies are more concerned with "in an office" than "working together".

Yes, when the whole team is working from a single location, there can be advantages. But that situation is uncommon. In fact, the only time I can recall being in that situation during the last 20 years is a short stint I had at a startup; about 10 people, from CEO to intern, in a single open office. And even then, they only _required_ in-office three times a week.

More common, teams are split over two or more cities/states/countries. I'm currently in Colorado. I'm never going to have a water cooler chat with my colleague in Budapest.
I think people (and designers of other languages, in particular) were outraged that not only did V have the very aspirational claims, but there was also a Patreon (or similar) and the general attitude of the newly forming V community that felt undeserved for that level of...aspiration. I think that doesn't quite fall under malice, but I imagine it felt unfair to many.
> and found the lack of any type system

I'm not surprised you found Ruby uncomfortable when you describe Ruby as not having a type system. It might just not be the right language for you. That's fine.

> Not knowing if the variable you were dealing with was a String or a URI was great until it very suddenly became not so great.

Nothing stops you from declaring that you expect a given type in Ruby; it's just code, and not mandatory, though you can certainly write code to impose mandatory types with Ruby - there was a while when writing those seemed a rite of passage for Ruby developers, but the reality was that they buy far less than people think until they've tried writing one and/or spent some time using them.

> There's a better way to do it like what Rust does with Some()/None enums and forcing you to unwrap the value and handle the None value explicitly

Nothing stops you from doing that in Ruby, and in fact there are several monad implementations for Ruby that provides building blocks for those kinds of patterns if/when you want to use them.
Which "people"?
> That doesn’t seem like an entirely bad thing, though.

Not at all. It's an example of a good pivot. Probably Gall thought it rare enough to mention it in a book otherwise full of wisdom about how systems go wrong.
That saying is there because companies are unable to have emotions.

But people are perfectly capable of having them. And while people don't love everything they do, they are perfectly capable of loving you, a product, a store, or anything at all.

So, no, it only applies to your customers if they are companies.
On reflection I am sure the fact that both he and I had backgrounds with solving performance problems, forcing us to dig into the details of big-O is why we had similar experiences.

Mix with what is probably some standard questions inside Google and it illustrates the problem I was thinking about.

That is one of the better videos I have seen on the topic, so thanks for sharing it.
Has Unix Programming Changed in 20 Years? (2004) [pdf]
Being the nerdy little kid I was in the 2000s, I tried getting into RSS and even made a presentation in school computer class about it... but actually I never really used it. It just wasn't fun. So who used it if not me?
They are training off your data, I guarantee it
There's no "easy way to find quality sources", that's mutually exclusive nowadays. Whatever is mainstream and easy to find gets automatically gamed through SEO junk, advertising, astroturfing, and becomes poor quality again in no time. Like how much do you trust CNET and Linus Tech Tips?

The best quality sources are always involving thorough human vetting of trusted and impartial people on platforms which have higher bar to entry and require some friction to find, aka word of mouth.

Which is why curated and moderated user platforms like HN, some sub-Reddit, blogs, mailing lists, community forums, are so important and also why Google search is just so useless nowadays for finding anything other than model number datasheets and product online shopping.
Yep it has a Haskell interface! That's one common feature of many Haskell CLIs - they tend to be a statically typed library thinly wrapped into a CLI.
He made a product you find useful. Even if he doesn’t need to be rewarded more, he’s proven himself an effective allocator of capital. Give him a dollar and he’ll likely use it to develop some product you’ll enjoy in the future as well.
> ..you would have known that they relied on lecture videos by instructors, mostly Byju himself, and not on animations and glitter.

That is the same - content creation.

Not disagreeing to the fact that he perhaps did much better job than the others in test-prep market of at that time, but content creation startup is not worth $22B by any stretch of imagination. There is no moat. Sal Khan (Khan Academy) started much earlier, has deep & rich content, much more globally respected, but did it have valuation anywhere close to Byju's?

Read this book to get "familiar with Byjus".. very well written

The Learning Trap: How Byju’S Took Indian Edtech For A Ride https://www.amazon.in/Learning-Trap-ByjuS-Indian-Edtech/dp/9...
Could ActivityPub replace RSS even though it is not intended to do so?
(aside: I feel like people played on a different Amiga than I did. It had great looking games, for sure, but so did by Nintendo NES and I don't look back on either of them so fondly.)

Still, very cool to show how these animations were made
You're misrepresenting the issue.

Have one bottle of Sudafed in your luggage and nobody will care. Have 100 bottles of Sudafed and you're going to jail for drug manufacturing.
I'm pretty sure every site on this directory has RSS:

http://ooh.directory/

Not the complete answer, but a part of it.
Interestingly, this happens even if you remove the profit motive, say by making it a government entity or a non-profit with fixed pay structure. The surplus just goes into diffuse inefficiencies instead of being efficiently channeled into someones pocket.

Maybe it's just that people still profit from bigger organizations by means of prestige, influence, etc. Whatever the cause, most organizations seem to try to grow to the size equivalent to the value of the solution, not the cost of delivering the solution.
I wonder how many people maintain Gmail...
This is fascinating. I’m working on a memory project and would really like to get in touch and hear your insights on limits and especially counters to interference with memorization. I’ll put my email in my profile; pure gratitude if you can spare some time to share your wisdom with me.
I enjoy death metal because it is aggressive and brutal. It also spans everything from just good ol' vengeance music to literally galactic conquest.

Whatever the case, this kind of music helps me CRUSH the problem at hand. When nothing seems to be working, headbang for a little bit or make a solo mosh pit in my office, and then get back to DESTROYING the problem.
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Unidentified balloon belongs to amateur balloonist: US official
I run ssh on an overlay network so it is never directly exposed to the internet and it is nice to not have to worry about changing ports, fail2ban, knocking. Of course you don't get to do fun analytics on the bots though.
Looks like they're working on it: https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp/issues/16
> all of the stuff ledger does is fully automatic.

Does your track all your loan liabilities to the penny, or how much interest accrued on your mortgage? Does it know when the rent is due and provide you a forecasted minimum balance in your checking account? Since you mentioned "business stuff": does it know the difference between an expense and an asset?

There's a time in life where simple works, but as your net worth grows "my bank handles all that" will become less and less true.
This is true but kind of tangential. My point was even for the pest control company if it were a 10 minute job, they wouldn't do it that way because the "spectacle of professionalism" that justifies the prices they charge (and perhaps recurring revenue) is lost.

For oil changes it is completely conceivable for a user-serviceable system to be built in, making it not much more difficult than filling air in your tires at the gas station. But the manufacturers have a perverse incentive to not build it.
> The objective data is the greenness of the earth

Which is a quantitative statement. Altered conditions will not benefit every local species equally.

> Context matters
> They want the hole in the wall, not the drill and bit.

Well, it depends. Some people enjoy using high quality tools and would drill an extra hole because they like the tool.
A safari park near us has a small herd of Przewalskis. The staff consider them the most aggressive animals at the facility. They are fun to look at but if they surround the bus, substantial delays may be involved.
Data as well. I have a 100TB NAS I can use for data storage and it was honesty pretty cheap overall.
DKIM and DMARC are not intended to address spam (a flood of low-quality commercial and scam emails).

They are intended, along with SPF, to address impersonation, which is a distinct problem (although some spam does employ impersonation).

They work just as well for minor email providers as they do for major ones. Even better, in some cases, because many small email providers are corporate IT departments, who tend to filter aggressively on those signals.
None of that makes any sense. Slices don't force you to be explicit on allocating new memory in any way. you can literally do this:

s := []int{}
for i := range 29754 {
s = append(s, i)
}

do you see explicit allocation of new memory? As far as I'm concerned that's not in any way more explicit than e.g.

var s = new List();
foreach(var i in Enumerable.Range(0, 29754)) {
s.Add(i);
}
I have seen it and I do not think anyone will stop preemptively. I thought we reach something in between and it becomes a disaster. After the disaster everyone or the survivors agree not to pursue this further.
Shameless plug – last year I published a short ebook teaching the principles of personal accounting using Ledger: https://leanpub.com/personal-accounting-in-ledger. In fact, I've been using Ledger for about 10 years now (earlier GnuCash), and I like it a lot.
The fixed point of any function f = f (f (f (f ....

so for f(x)=1+x it is 1+ (1+ (1+ (1+ ... , an infinite sum.

This is correct in the sense that 1 + infinity = infinity, but in practice this could result in an infinite loop or stack overflow.

For f(x)=x+1 it's the reverse ...) +1) +1) +1 which behaves similarly.
My recollection when trying to find a Google Reader alternative was that there was no free alternative. Everything at the time that I found had been a premium alternative to Reader before it shut down.
Conan does a very poor job of managing versions and accidental cycles in your dependency graph. I recall having issues that needed manual patching of conanfiles to bootstrap packages when no prebuilt version existed for the target and it contained itself as a transitive dependency.

Also if you use it, make sure not to rely on Conan center. Their outages can ruin your week.
The "KeyTrap" DNS Vulnerability
Yes, do put an "appointment" on your calendar. Apologize for not being able to make the standup, and then each week give a complete update in an email or slack message.

In my experience, many people who are happily awake at 8:30am purposefully ignore the fact that other people have different sleep needs, and only a scheduling conflict can convince them to give you leeway. I have several coworkers who have "kid pickup/dropoff" on their calendars to enforce a hard start/end time, or even just "workout" or "commute." Having a vaguely unmoveable scheduling conflict is the only way to maintain a reasonable sleep schedule without a lot of pushback.