skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Injecting UI into the DOM is just a clunky, shitty method.

Is there a better way for extensions to create pop ups for the save/update interface? I pretty much do all the saving and updating manually in the extension dialog.
It can be, if the merchant wants it to be.

https://www.tidalcommerce.com/learn/what-is-level-3-data

On my American Express credit card statement, all the airline flights show the details of the flight and Staples.com transactions show the specific items that were purchased. And this has appeared for at least 6 to 8 years.
I’m happy refreshing for results. I really don’t want to “sign up” until I know I’m happy with the results.
Big software companies create and open source stuff which makes them more productive.

Why doesn't this dynamic work in hardware?

Wouldn't "valuing hardware" improve their competitiveness?
if this is true won't market forces attract more builders? If there is no promise of a healthy profit (and with growing material prices worldwide you can't keep property prices flat) - there won't be a lot of construction? If anything you need to address construction materials shortage/supply issues.
Probably an awful messy code base and the new hire couldn’t deal with that headache.
+9000 for so many great edits. Internet randos win again. I hope someone will soon post about "reducing inflamation" or "natural foods".
Simple questions are free and make everyone's lives better. "Hey are you sure you need X? Have you tried anything else?" (or something to that nature) takes seconds to type. The answer isn't much longer, "Yes, I tried A, B, and C but they don't seem to be appropriate for my problem. X meets my requirements but I can't get it to work" (again, or similar). It's beneficial to the responder (don't spend unnecessary time answering the wrong question), beneficial to the asker (perhaps it really IS an XY problem, and you can help show them a better way, or if it isn't they don't get frustrated with someone mistakenly answering Y), and better to all future visitors who now understand enough context to determine if reading further is going to help or not.
I think any reasonable observer can conclude that we have reached a point in the discussion in which it is evident that you are not participating in good faith.

> That sentence is not in question. It doesn't exist anywhere in the review. Please read the review yourself.

Please don't implicitly accuse me of not having read the material. I read it the day it was published, with the counsel of friends who are experts in the field, who, along with most of their colleagues, have objected to this entire charade all along.

It's hard to imagine that you actually believe that this sentence is not the controversial one; it has been the topic of discussion in circles of epidemiology and evidence-based medicine around the world and is the focus of the clarification you've linked. A simple web search will confirm this.

Moreover - and I presume this was a mistake on your part - the PDF you've linked actually still contains the sentence in question (I assume you meant to sneakily link the revised summary and pasted the wrong URL). I hope this reveals the tactics at work here to any discerning reader. (As I write this, the PDF linked in your comment is: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...)

> RCTs are a very useful tool, but they aren't the right tool for every circumstance. This appears to be one of those cases.

Yes of course those cases exist, and no this isn't one of them. And essentially all of the world's top researchers in evidence-based medicine agree on this point (despite having a wide array of opinions on the underlying question).

We're talking about asking one group of people to put something on their face for a while, and another not to, in a variety of circumstances. Nearly all of the world's top experts have asked for this (including the authors of the review and primaries in question, which together represent tenure at all five of the world's top institutions of medicine) and been silenced, while a group of second-stringers willing to toe the line have been propped up to create the appearance of significant debate. I have no doubt based on your knowledge and articulation that you are well aware of this, and I hope that now anyone reading this far is as well.

Given the decreasing apparent veracity of your statements, I'm choosing as my last message in this thread.

I don't want to be adversarial, but it feels impossible and invalidating to engage in discussion when we can't agree that the sky is blue.

All I can ask is that you contemplate whether what you are doing is in the best interests of science.

If anyone in interested in reading further rebuttal, I suggest this piece by Tom Jefferson (author of the review in question) joined by Carl Heneghan (whom you probably already know, but if not, was the editor-in-chief of the BMJ of evidence-based medicine at the time of the publication in question). [0]

edit: I had originally written a response that dissected the dishonest characterization of the text of the review, but replaced it with the Jefferson / Heneghan piece, which goes directly into the substance, which seems more appropriate.

0: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-...
Are you hiring freelancers?
It used to be most programmers change to other careers within 10 years. Not sure if that's still true, but if so - I think it means most won't have to worry about being around long enough for ageism to be a problem...
GhostRace: Exploiting and Mitigating Speculative Race Conditions
Still going strong! https://www.ticalc.org/
There is a better correlation between dangerous driver and likelihood to be in a collision.
So, no reputable research backing up your opinion, then?
I got started with a TI-85, writing math solvers and a Drug Wars clone. Did share with a link cable but never had the joy of discovering such vitality as yours!
One would think there would be a higher rate of vandalism in Asian societies as all it takes is one with a crowbar[1] and the more prominent mask wearing culture.

1 https://japantoday.com/category/crime/charges-dropped-agains...
Good luck collecting that from a 1992 Mitsubishi L200
Online polling was never alive. You want poll, get a reliable id.
CSAM is not software. It is content. In a reasonable world, there should be consequences for possessing it. Implementing these consequences on a technical level would be an egregious affront to our freedoms.
"old man yells at cloud"

Seriously though, it's not going away no matter how much anyone hates it. Emails and blogs will continue to be written with it, letters of recommendation will be/are written with it, Presidential speeches will be written with it, academic articles will be / are written with it (almost all ml and cs research is), news is written with it...
It's not going to stop, but it will _probably_/_very likely_ get better.

There is no tool, no human, no method to determine if text is generated with one of these models at high F-score (only sometimes high precision, low recall domains for silly examples).

We're stuck with it. Like the English teacher and their despised spell check.
> "if software engineers only understood hardware better we might have smartphones that last a month on a charge and never crash".

I mean... is that wrong, though? In 2024, C++ will still segfault -- 45 years after it's creation in 1979. No one steering the language seems to be bothered by it. Even Bjarne Stroustrup works in the financial industry now raking in the large paychecks.

Turns out, I'm pretty cynical of software as well.

Look, I'm not saying "Software is the utmost gloriousness that will save humanity!" But what I am saying is that hardware does seem to have fallen well behind software in terms of tooling. VHDL and Verilog are still the tools used to describe hardware today as they were 30 years ago.

If you can fix the barrier to entry into hardware, you'll probably increase the demand for custom hardware.
> Covid is still over 2% of all deaths in the U.S.

The presence of a particular pathogen (or for that matter, any phenomena) coincident with death is not a meaningful metric.

Nearly 100% of human deaths involve a person with a belly button.

> and it's causing way more disability and injury

While it's important and long past-due that post-infection syndromes are finally getting the attention they deserve, there is no evidence that this particular coronavirus is different from other four endemic coronaviruses (and several other pathogens) in this regard.
How do you know labor prices to fix cars and more complicated/costly car parts did not cause the increase?
Very interesting, seems really helpful to keep track of things

What are platforms like new relic doing on this front?
I'm not going to defend a murderer who's already been convicted and sentenced, but if you do a little more digging for a site that's more reputable than the New York Post, you'll find that this guy 1) entered a plea deal; 2) supposedly killed his wife in a fit of passion due to her robbing him and having an affair; and 3) was interestingly sentenced by an all-woman jury who one would expect to be less forgiving when sentencing someone who killed his wife. Obviously we can both agree that he should be in prison for longer than 10 years, but alas, he was judged by a jury of his peers and that's what they decided justice looked like in this case.

But anyway, it's not like I wasn't saying people don't get sentenced to 10 years for murder, so don't act like you got me in some kind of internet gotcha. I wanted to know what nuance – i.e. plea deals, details of the crime – you had left out, because you were trying to conflate the sentencing of some guy trafficking wildlife with the sentencing of murderers, as if either of these things has any bearing on or relevance to the other.

Lmfao.
Cool. Love and have embraced Mermaid but dang some limits around ERDs is a bummer. Will keep working on it and hope it will continue to improve. This is great. Thanks.
It’s per install including updates. All apps from Meta and Google update almost weekly. That’s 100s of millions of dollars a year in CTF that they won’t have to pay if they stay in the store.
This is the closest description of what my brain is like that I’ve ever read. I always attributed it to being alone most of my childhood.
The most I've had to do is clear the dust from the tubes during the dry season.
A librarian friend had the same complaint.

The problem is that libraries Dewey decimals are managed by librarians who want to sort things correctly. YouTube would be managed by uploaders who wants their stuff to be managed _incorrectly_.

YouTube recommendations and search is a super interesting problem not just because of the scale but also because uploaders are an adverse opponent, trying to keyword stuff their spam.
Seems nice, but I think it would be useful if the homepage has some example prompts. I have no idea what Mermaid Diagrams are. Will look at the demo YouTube video linked in a comment below.
Observation: the people who are the most productive and capable tend to come from the most damaged backgrounds but are the survivor biased few who didn't resent or envy other people, rested on external locus of control, are humble, and aren't content with mediocrity, inefficiency, or the way things are today. Motorsports, surfing (the ocean kind), pilots, military/special forces, business owners, and start up founders have nonzero Venn diagram overlap.
I think Web Components was seen as the fix for this; that (in the same way VB4 did) we'd have packages of standard components as building blocks for UIs. So rather than each browser implementing a calendar defined in HTML, you'd use a third-party library Web Component that implemented a calendar.

Which is happening. You can get a Web Component calendar, and they mostly work. I just don't think it's taking off as "the way" for doing web UI (yet). This might change, I guess. But probably not.

I think the big difference from the VB days is design. In the old days, we dev monkeys would design UIs by slapping together controls in a form. Which is why they all looked the same, and while they worked well they didn't exactly inspire.

Now in Web Dev we have designers as the first step, and every designer designs their UI differently. You can't slap together a UI and call it done. Well, you can, and I do, but everyone thinks the result is ugly and needs a designer to make it usable - we've moved the bar of acceptable aesthetics to the point where this VB way of creating UIs doesn't work any more.
> It used to be most programmers change to other careers within 10 years.

I don't think that's true, unless you are counting the more-senior roles which tended to require programming experience (e.g., Systems Analyst in many schemes) as “other careers” rather than just a step up the information systems career ladder.
In high school, my trig teacher was not only a phenomenal instructor who would patiently explain and answer questions until every last student fully grasped the concepts, but also, it turns out, proved to be a big enabler of my interest in programming. Instead of spending time working out the problems, I would spend that time every day writing a TI-BASIC program which would implement the algorithms we had just been taught and output not just the answer, but "shown work" as well. It was obvious to him that if I could write the product requirements for such a program and then implement it, I understood the material as well as someone who was solving by hand, so he fully blessed it. And I discovered that I definitely enjoyed programming (and even thinking up clever 'UI' design for my programs) more than solving math problems, although I did 'accidentally' learn to do that too along the way.

I don't know if I would have been as confident to try programming later if I hadn't had that experience with TI-BASIC (indeed, a truly limiting language!).
rip yahoo directory and dmoz.
I am not surprised. When in doubt and when you have screwed things so badly, blame the people who don't look or speak or earn like you.
Boeing did have $9 software engineers working for them. They were working on the accounting and ERP softwares. But as soon as 700 people lost their lives, apparently they were working on MCAS, a core system that only NASA engineers should have worked.
I dont believe anything that Boeing says or does, the company is pure evil.
If it's Boeing, I'm not going.
It’s intentional. Replace EU with Apple and law with AppStore rules and you’ll see the parallels.

> I'm saying the EU did not write them as strongly as the other versions, making them harder to understand and potentially steering the law in a different direction.
Article makes it sound like the wind conditions might not be favorable, but I imagine that Starship can probably handle more wind than smaller rockets just by being heavy.
how much are you offering in equity? the issue i had the last time I went through this is that startups seem to expect you to work for 1/4 the pay but receive only single digit percentages for being the first engineer. it just doesn't make sense to take that much of a pay cut unless we're talking 10-25%, and I found nobody that was.
If they follow Paris, smaller SUVs weighing 1.6+ tonnes like the Toyota Rav4 will be slugged even though these cars are the same length as a Corolla sedan.

Given Rav4 owners already pay higher rego in Australia due to weight, this new parking fee will not go down well if it follows Paris.

I saw the first news about this recently. They framed it as targetting oversized American SUVs and pickups which are relatively uncommon. Most people said "ok fair enough". Surprise surprise they are using oldest trick in book. Increase initial acceptance of an idea with ambiguity and omission. Later, we find it's not just about "Dodge Ram Behemoths" but also the much smaller "Rav4", owned by millions of battling Aussies. Good luck with that plan!
What kind of problems are you seeing that you think can be improved with a fine tune?
The SerpentZA YouTube channel is somewhat sensationalist, but it has good firsthand videos showing the real China from someone who lived there for years and is fluent in Mandarin. The reality is a lot darker than what most Westerners see.

https://www.youtube.com/@serpentza
> You have to find the hot spots, negotiate for the space, deal with any vandalism, reload the machines, respond to problems. Not what many would consider “passive”

I’ve spent a lot of time in various solopreneur, micropreneur, and indie hacker communities. One thing you have to understand is that for a large majority of people (we’re talking 90%+), the alternative to not-quite-passive income, isn’t a cushy software engineering job or even a job in tech. It’s working grueling hours under the heel of some asshole manager or owner jerking you around 12 hours per day while you sweat your ass off in unpleasant conditions.

All the hassle you described sounds like a beach vacation compared to stacking boxes in a warehouse or cooking brunch in some greasy restaurant or bar.

I used to mentor an ex head chef who got into software engineering through a bootcamp and the stories she would tell … wow. She said that just being able to take a bathroom break whenever felt like a luxurious perk.
Goes to show it is culture, and not tools that lead to crime.
Price comparison is mostly basic arithmetic, combined with maybe a touch of nutritional knowledge. Hardly something you couldn’t master with a middle school education.

A poor person might not be that clever and might not have much time and might make a bad decision the first time they visit family dollar and get conned by watered down soap and subpar goods and food in unusually small portions. However when they shop there for YEARS they do eventually find the time to figure out what the deals are. When these stores have tons of poor people being loyal customers for years it indicates they’re doing something right.
This reminds me of playing around on my school's Apple II clone at a textmode "Stock Market" game. Once I realized it was a BASIC program, I started updating the names of the companies for the lulz, and screwing around with the game mechanics!
I meant “the point of the post you are responding to, which you seem to have missed”, when I said “the point”; I thought, in context, that would be clear.
I didn't think it meant that... this was probably a 5-10 year old stat...lemme see if I can find it.
You can only build what the zoning allows, and that's what the issue is with SFH owners in big cities and how they vote. Many of them don't want to allow denser development in order to keep those market forces in their favor by keeping housing pricing high.

As soon as zoning here in Minneapolis was changed to allow for denser housing city-wide a lot of smaller multi-family units started construction almost immediately.
Line-based diff algorithms are fine, but what the world really needs is more study into tree-based diffs.

This does not require per-language implementations of `diff`, only per-language implementations of text-to-some-well-known-tree.
I'm in that weird med-to-lo fi club.. many times I enjoyed the music more on FM quality links, many times I felt more while watching degraded VHS content on youtube (for human reasons like the fact that people were fully invested in their art even if the medium was low resolution, and sometimes because analog limits added to the video in a strange serendipity, like camera lens glare making live music shine even more magically)
Or putting it into the image for the screenshot-driven agents a la https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/14/multi-modal-prompt-inj...
Unless there is massive inflation how would that even be possible? At $1 million it becomes close to the value of all gold combined, the GDP of the United States or the market cap of the entire Nasdaq. At that point, where does the money come from to buy more?
A bit of survivorship bias in your question.

You are comparing the absolute best from 100 years ago with the average peer from today.

There were also far far fewer "researchers" back then.
Sure, Thanks for the feedback. Will add some examples in the homepage.
At one sucker born every minute, 15 years sounds like enough minutes to sustain a new fad.
> syllables considering tone (is there a word for this?)

Prosodic units [1], which happen to be syllables with tones in Chinese. (In other languages such suprasegmental features can spread throughout multiple syllables, so a single prosodic unit would contain all of them.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosodic_unit
>Another problem is a vast majority of people want to / have to live in a very few select places.

It's been like this since the dawn of civilization, and it isn't going to change. There's no substitute for physical proximity, unless you can invent the teleporter.

>We could alleviate housing costs by changing that as well; back to supply and demand.

No, you can't. You can't force people to want to live in the sticks.

>I hope that StarLink and WFH are big pieces of the puzzle that will move people away from mega-dense population centers. We certainly have the acreage.

Maybe you like staying at home all the time and never leaving your 40 acres, but other people actually like to go places, socialize, go out to eat, see cultural events, etc. You can't do that over a satellite internet connection.
The tubing is called PEX I believe and it seems to be what is used these days, replacing cemented PVC and soldered copper.

Some codes (commercial buildings?) may require copper but I believe PEX is used everywhere it can be, it's easy to work with, durable, and connections almost never leak.
Got any apps?
They have an official twitter account apparently[1] which canonically is run by the daughter of Nicolas.

[1] https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2Fbet...
> The X answer is a lecture on language theory including the construction and inversion of finite state automata.

To be helpful and educational, one must describe/illustrate the failure mode of X. For example just demonstrate how unwieldy pure regex is for more constrained question like “regex to check if there is no ‘ab’ within 3 char string”. “a[^ab].|.a[^b]|[^a][^a].”. (Solution complexity grows with length of the string within which we are searching)
This would be a rather expensive way to do that, I reckon you'd be better off actually expanding NPC behaviour the old-fashioned way.
I don't want to be this guy, but can we get this whole thing removed? the lack of integrity here seems anathema to HN
> no browser-native no-JS way to submit a form and use the response without loading the whole page again

I think a lot of badness comes out of the desire to avoid loading the whole page again. Sure, there are lots of more desktop-like webapps where that's definitely undesirable, but a whole lot of interactions are just fine as a page load, as long as the page load itself doesn't suck.
You don't seriously believe that social media is analogous to the printing press, do you? Because it's not, and it's so obviously not that I'm having trouble imagining what point you were trying to make relative to 1A. Because this isn't a 1A issue either, and it never has been.

If you must, this is like destroying foreign radio towers or something, where those radio towers have the ability to algorithmically predict what people want to listen to and then generate content tuned to affecting their state of mind, what they believe, and so on. So, yeah, blow 'em up.
how about bueno, nubo, or ubon
Start from the assumption no one else is going to read your terrible scribblings or listen to your mutterings. If anyone were to accidentally bump into your creation, then the next step is not giving a fuck equally about praise and ridicule. Unless we get to Mars, all human creations will turn to glass when the Sun swallows the Earth. And perhaps the Hubble parameter will go wonky and all time, matter, and energy will be eventually be ripped back into nothingness more boring than heat death. With that positive note, use each second well, which doesn't necessarily mean seeking to be pointlessly busy.