skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or a kid? The parent comment is either forgetting what it was like being a kid and doing things behind their parents back, not out of disrespect, but because they're young and it's what young people do, they are their own people as much as one might try to control them.

Also, good luck ostracizing a child from their peers for their "benefit"? (I remember a time where not having the same brand of clothes would get you ostracized, much less not being in the known of the current gen media)

This argument that social media is destroying the youth is the same old tale as old as time. Everything has been destroying the youth and rotting their brains since before anyone on this page was born. The devil music, violence in media, pot, unorthodox romance, (or you know, being a nerdy teen who spent a bit too long on their PC growing up in the 90s and their parents complained it was rotting their brain, which I'm sure a lot of people here can relate to and have made it their professional life) literally everything is destroying children, which we all were once.
They could charge by the manual to create manuals for resellers.
> “Doesn’t work” is famously not an error description

This guy is extremely self-aware
I believe double-entry bookkeeping needs more attention.

I think double-entry bookkeeping is, at least to me, as fundamental to economics
(and of course business) as logic to math. Even if some actors don't use it
explicitly, it still holds. If I buy ten apples for 10 bucks, I have ten more
apples in stock and ten bucks less.

Many economic discussions (not only on HN) get out of hands because people
don't try to see the full picture or deliberately choose to see one side.
I've even seen a professor of economics claim in public that the world is too much in debt.
Well, double-entry bookkeeping tells you that there are always two sides to consider.

For example, in case of governmental debt they ignore the
other side of that debt, which might be assets. Assets like airports,
schools, bridges, etc. Usually, we call such things useful.

Another typical example is the central bank "prints money". Well, double-entry
bookkeeping tells us that it's not possible. If they hand out currency, the
counterpart needs to trade something in (typically repurchase agreements with
commercial banks).
(Leaving aside here the idea of helicopter money, which could even go into neg. equity or a loss.)
So it’s better that all products are unsafe lol. I get it from a liability pov but sucks for customers
The base unit is actually a single bit, so why aren't we talking about decabits instead of bytes, following the SI argument?
Perhaps the author is referring to "annoying APIs"?

- Where there is an "API key" and a "secret key" when in reality the idiot maintainers could have just concatenated the two and called it a "key". The customer doesn't need to know the abstraction on the server side

- Where one needs to create an "account" and then a "project" before one can even create a "key". WTF is a project

- Where one needs to do a dumb SMS 2FA to even get an API key

- Where one needs to do multiple steps and try/except blocks to get a result in a plain format
The norm used to be that memory/storage used powers of 2 and data throughput used powers of 10. It was clear in the sense that everyone was following that norm.
I suppose that the practice to use powers of 2 for memory came to be because binary data buses can address a power of 2 number of memory cells whereas an arbitrary number of bits can be transmitted per second over a channel.

This changed when hard drive manufacturers decided to market products using powers of 10...
I think you meant "way too rarely" in your last sentence.
i really thought this was

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

at first
Instagram is a social posturing platform. Kids compare themselves. We already acknowledge that kids have not yet developed a strong sense of protecting themselves. Including against soft influence, which is why advertising for children is highly regulated in most countries. “Social” platforms are next level and much better at exploiting attention than classical advertising.

I feel like in lieu of hard evidence, which naturally comes with a very high bar in social science, the safest path is to stay the hell away from excessive social comparison 24/7. This is, in my experience, medium-to-very unhealthy even for most adults (see exhibit A - LinkedIn). When you have an adversary that openly deploys recommendation systems optimized for engagement, it’s not rocket science to connect the dots. Sure, I guess there’s a theoretical chance it’s correlation. But as a parent today, are you gonna take that risk with your child’s childhood? I would definitely do everything I can to guide my children away from social comparison. I stopped using people-oriented social media years ago, for my own sake. Most of the SV elite keeps their children off that crap, even though they are have high-status potential in “succeeding” in this mindless game.
>What you are proposing

I did not propose any of the straw-man nonsense that you wrote after this. Nothing in my previous comment implies such a thing. Come on, now.
Yes — we do the same thing!
Is Your Startup Making a Difference? A Kenyan Story
No Sex For Fish — this is written on the first slide of a Pitch Deck, accompanied by a photo of a dark-skinned woman (appearing to be from an ID document). The startup and its founder are from Kenya. And here's her incredible story.
The main thrust of the article appears to be that it's Republicans killing these people by opposing Medicaid Expansion.

What is the policy position that explains this decision?
The only acceptable level is ZERO.
Guessing you're talking about https://kamal-deploy.org/ which looks interesting, though I tend to like reconciliation logic based systems ... but often only fired off imperatively with a plan/apply separation. So I shall be having a poke around anyway :)
My networking knowledge is sub-par, I'm relatively new to all this computer stuff. I can mostly follow what you're saying though, and you've given me many useful avenues for further exploration. Even though I was only somewhat understanding what you're saying, I'm very interested in alternative approaches to "obvious" things, and I love when the curtains get pulled back and you go: "oh wow, it's just that". So I'll be looking into this, and have saved these posts. Cheers.
This is a great example of digging into existing functionality, understanding how it works, and building on it. I've seen way too many examples of re-inventing the wheel just because someone wasn't willing to put in the effort to research what's already out there. This is the type of example I would share with my junior developers on how to do good dev, especially in an older enterprise codebase.
this is not even a drop in a bucket. USA can always print/generate more money.
Ada Programming like it's 1985
These same social norms exist in city areas as well. Get a job in a factory and try to get your hands on adequate personal protective gear. You will not last long.

This brain dead machoism is rampant, half the population is promoting a know-nothing facsist pig for president so that they can hammer the last nail in their own coffin.
I'm not sure how anyone's intervention could ever withstand some of these effects.

I could foresee maybe a sun shade of some sort to help mitigate the increase in temperature, but at some point the sun is going to envelope the earth.

Also, this several billion years into the future. Anyone left wouldn't be anything you could remotely call human. Evolution hasn't stopped in humans.
his interview on otherppl is good too: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Ipny0XxrVKKwj4BKbTpIp?si=9...

i love how his speaking style in that interview is like his stories, meandering tangents and fascinating
Those examples in the article are what I would consider APIs. It is just that it is written in a way that is _composable_, and the primitives are scoped in a way that composing them versatile. That there was a library that facilitates that composition allows for an ecosystem.

The Rack protocol did something similar for http servers in the Ruby world, allowing for a number of middleware. Whole frameworks (Rails, Sinatra, as examples) could be mounted on specific routes.
Have you ever worked at a larger company, or is all your experience in startups?

I ask because the culture is vastly different. Hierarchies and politics happen more and more as company sizes increase. The quality of leadership varies greatly and you see a lot more poor leaders focused on the bureaucracy which can be exceedingly frustrating if you have only ever worked in startups. At the same time, you also see more good leaders who make their little slice of the company a joyful area to work while shielding you from everything else. It all depends on exactly where you land and who your boss is.

That doesn't mean the transition is a bad idea. There is some peace and stability in getting a steady paycheck from a larger company. But you should realize that you are just trading one set of problems for another.
> Kids today (even writing that makes me wince) have less accountability for what they write than what we had to have for what we said.

I think that's slightly different to what was said in GP:

> That's where social media has been most damaging. You can't share your thoughts anymore. The 'Redditization' of the world means that sharing thoughts is met with hostility. No longer can you just throw something out there, no matter how stupid. These days you have carry an entire encyclopedia with you in order to back up every last thing you say and if you utter anything that isn't deemed 100% perfect by those listening, the social scorn will fall upon you.

IOW, `kids these days` are required full corporate PR level accountability whenever and whatever they express, (and zero when cancelling others following social codes). There absolutely won't be thousands at your side unless you're in a straight up proper conspiracy theory circle full of actually schizophrenic people until the entire circle is going to be cancelled dead.

You can't label your opponent as belonging in a category and encourage making harmful gases in a toilet and get 127 upvotes. At least not anymore. Your comment will be deleted, and one below yours that explains why you're automatically doubly stupid will. You can't even say, literally orally voice, the word "die" in some parts of YouTube without algorithmic penalties. Saying "died of injury" can be a soft violation.

That is what GP is explaining by "you have [to] carry an entire encyclopedia with you in order to back up every last thing you say", ironically the phenomenon I'm ending up being a contributing factor by typing this very comment, and part of what's making teens sick. I think it has to do with being correct being a cost and having huge unfortunate abuse potentials.
Our A/B testing shows that making the "Next Page" button on our app tiny and virtually the same colour as the background has massively increased user engagement! Just look at how much more time users spend on each page, scrolling up and down like they're really studying the content.
Can anyone tell any precedent of microservices and all this tipical complexity shipping something in 5 months?
cpus can be nondeterministic as well, generally because of race conditions between different cores, and as i understand it, that's what happens with gpus too, just more often because there are more cores

i think the kind of scenario you're describing does not occur in commercially sold hardware, because it poses problems not only for customers but also for verification engineers at the design house. also, in the specific case of floating-point division, it would violate the ieee-754 standard. it might happen in an experimental academic project
Because you need either to write your own html or to use a static site generator, none of which are accessible solutions to normal people. WordPress (.com) is accessible to my grandmother.
The undocumented Microsoft "Rich" PECOFF header. (2021)
For what it's worth, most of the quests work fine. There's a _few_ that have issues, but the vast majority work just like they did in 2010.

The largest issue I can think of that actually impacts overall gameplay is the thread system [0]. It definitely works, but currently threat at times isn't given or reduced in the correct amounts. The most common way this manifests is Growl from Hunter pets not properly taking aggression away

[0] - https://github.com/azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk/issues/5985
Thank you, fixed within edit time!
I did this.

I previously worked at a search engine which did its index building and querying in C, with its higher-level stuff (web-apps, scheduling, tooling, etc.) in Java.

Later when I built my own version, I started with C for the low-level and Haskell for the high-level. I made a few iterations in C, but eventually rewrote it in Rust, and I was pretty happy with that choice.

I was more familiar with C, and it was a really good fit for what I was writing. Terms and Documents just become termIds and docIds (numbers) sitting in indexes (arrays). Memory-mapping is a really comfortable way to do things: files are just arrays; let the OS sort out when to page things in and out of disk.

But where C fell down for me was in the changing the code. The meaning of the data&code were lost in nested for-loops and void-function-pointers, etc. Rust gave me a better shot at both writing and rewriting the code.

Java for the low-level was a non-starter for me for a few reasons, but the biggest two were startup time and difficulty of the mmap api (31-bits of address-space for a file? c'mon!).
The author has made a pretty big splash across the media in the past few weeks and has received some pretty damning criticism for his cherry-picking of stats, enough for me to doubt his claims as being accurate.
Tofu. Problem solved.
An Astral Codex Ten article is no substitute for clinical trials and measured experimental data. The ethanol concerns are dismissed by ACT with no real analysis, when the data presented is from an in-vitro thesis that didn't study the actual genetic modified bacterium at all, and feeding it nutrients which aren't found in the mouth of Western diets: that is, a very low sugar blood agar/DNB broth. It's quackery to make comparisons on that kind of flimsy evidence. This bacterium produces ethanol from sugar!

Further, ACT has their facts wrong, citing an average blood alcohol level of 1 mg/dl when it's actually 0.039. 1 mg/dl is the 95th percentile. So, according to the cited source, average blood alcohol levels go up 5.6x, and that is somehow not a risky chronic condition because there are people in the population with higher levels of that toxin in their bloodstream at the 95th percentile. ACT should know better, but is biased because his wife takes it. Probably knows the principals socially in Berkeley.
Doesn't seem that hard:

https://www.amazon.com/GoTEK-SFR1M44-U100-Emulator-Industria...
My initial reaction was also "if I can talk to your software, that's an API."

Reading through the article, though, the author isn't advocating for "no APIs," they're advocating for minimalist APIs that use agent detection to "do the right thing."

Chrome tells the API that it can accept HTML, so the server sends data formatted inside of a web page, with an HTML table.

Curl doesn't send that header, so the server sends unformatted CSV. But you could send an Accept header to get the HTML if you wanted.

The benefit of this is that for most use cases, this will "just work."

The downside is, if you want to view the CSV in a browser, or the web page in curl, you need to know (or guess) how the server is deciding what to send you, and take the correct action. An API documented with OpenAPI, while more complicated, explicitly tells you what you can do.
Kirke in modern Norwegian.

Scottish include quite a few other Norse forms. E.g. "bairn" (child), vs "barn" in Norwegian.
But if you say "API's are better when they're not annoying" it doesn't sound nearly as witty.
Transformers are special because theoretically you can't make something "weaker" than a transformer without it losing some accuracy: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04881 .
They don't fit through or they can't raise their hands up?
This is pretty low effort. You contract yourself in the same sentence, because clearly I just said it!
It seems a bit odd to me that it's hard to manage a database.

It's just a collection of binaries configured with a few pages of text. The configuration should be fairly similar for a typical setup.

So why is it complex?

I mean, is it a fundamental complexity, or is it more like "nobody bothered to write an easy configuration script", or is it learned helplessness?
> 5. Stop all forms of immigration for 8 years

How would this help rural America? Migrants are absolutely necessary in every form of agriculture save for the microplot artisinal stuff urbanites are known for.
I studied over 200k+ private companies to find fastest growing ones in Q1 2024
I researched over 200,000+ companies with headcount between 50 and 5000 to find the fastest growing companies in the 2024 Q1.

I tracked the QoQ headcount growth of all these companies to identify the fastest growing ones.

Interestingly, 3 of the Top 10 companies are from India. Krutrim, which builds foundational GenAI models and is the latest venture by Ola's founder Bhavish Agarwal, is at the top.

Here are the Top 10 Fastest Growing Companies right now and and their founders:

1. Krutrim - Founded by Bhavish Aggarwal, the company is building a regional language based chatbot, which could be the South Asian subcontinent’s answer to ChatGPT.

2. Zauvijek - Co-founded by Priyanka Pandey and Animesh Pandey, the AI-powered SaaS company offers products for automating back office tasks like accounting, billing, customer support, etc.

3. DataAnnotation - Founded by Edwin C., the company is a gig based marketplace for remote AI contract jobs.

4. Car Dealership Guy - Founded by Yossi J Levi, the internet's viral auto market commentator, the company provides insights into the car market and economy.

5. Figure - Founded by Brett Adcock, the AI robotics company is building the world's first commercial autonomous humanoid robot.

6. NAO - Co-founded by Philipp Nowakowski, Robin Binder and Amel Hasanovic, the co-investment platform gives access to investment opportunities, such as private equity, venture capital, etc to the public.

7. Unified Mentor - Co-founded by Paras Grover and Sanket Patil, the edtech platform provides skill based certification programs in technology, data, and marketing.

8. Alpha Capital Group - Founded by George Kohler, the proprietary trading firm provides a platform for users to learn prop trading.

9. Joinrs Italia - Co-founded by Gabriele Giugliano, Martina Mattone, Nicolo Bardi and Stefano Antonelli, Joinrs (formerly Tutored) is an AI based job board for university students and new graduates.

10. Savvy Games Group - Led by Brian Ward, the games and esports company invests in the gaming sector through its subsidiary companies.
Yes the mandate will both drive down prices and force adoption. Both good things
I'm not entirely sure about that. An egg a day per chicken (outside of winter) really adds up. I basically supply 3-4 families with eggs with the few chickens I have.
The solution for that is for the government to stop preferentially subsidizing meat production.
Postgres Extension to Calculate the Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC)
For those unfamiliar, MIC measures the strength of the linear or non-linear association between two variables.
One can brute-force between every pair of course.

You can run a `select mic(col1, col2) from my_table` between any arbitrary pair of columns to see if there's a strong correlation between the two. Postgres already provides corr(X, Y), but that works only for linear correlations.

The usual disclaimer applies: correlation does not imply causation etc.
Well, in this case

- balance = states

- transactions = state transitions

It is simply the representation of state transitions as a diagram, similar but not equivalent to that of a state machine.
I believe that is how things traditionally were, but I think it is rather rare today. It will depend on the specific breeder what they do with them. I'm sure some smaller breeders keep the males around but this is not the case with large-scale breeders.
Embezzle (verb) - steal or misappropriate.

You do not need to steal money from your employer and deposit it into your savings account to embezzle.

Anything that is a misuse of company money is technically embezzlement.

If you use company money meant to upgrade your computer to build a fancy aquarium on your desk instead, that's technically embezzlement.

So would using company money to build a kitchen in your office - even if that's technically improving the company's property.
You can cache it. ;)
"licensing tarpits" patent trolls?
> that duty has transitioned to publishers as
> journals have switched to a digital format.

I think it's important to note that this can be wholly blamed on the publishers, who froth at the mouth at the thought of any other entity holding even an ephemeral copy of what they consider to be "their" "property". They go out of their way, far out of their way, to prohibit and actively impede availability and durability - after all, a copy that could be distributed after they are gone is also one that could be distributed before they're gone, and they can't have that. And they don't settle for laws, they reach for the technical solutions straightaway, the digital equivalents of printing self-burning books. As far as publishers are concerned, archival isn't just indistinguishable from piracy, it is piracy.
May be. Most companies already hate agpl so I figure you could solve some of the freeloader problem by dual licensing agpl and proprietary sorta like Qt does.

He's proposing what sounds like Qt but instead of an app framework led by one company it'd be a huge collection of anything useful from a variety of parties, and developers would be compensated in proportion to usage, somehow.
as an artist, i had a piece of software. in this piece of software i was able to pause and rewind time, snap to keyframes and investigate every layer, every line, every point.

macromedia flash was my childhood, the foundation of my career in technology, eventually bought by adobe and shut down.

i’m really not seeing that level of fidelity in these ai systems. i agree art shouldn’t be beholden to any form of consensus, but i’m more wary of any art supply that’s leased, not owned.
That it did. I can assure you that in the 80's when I was first learning about computers no one thought that a kilobyte was 1,000 vs 1,024... that said right now, without looking it up I cannot tell you how much a megabyte is so perhaps it was a bad idea to begin with.

Edit:
Looks like it's 1,048,576
I have recently become a fan of bone conducting head phones. These go behind the ears. Sound quality is good for listening to podcasts while walking. No wires. You can still hear the road noise, which is important when you are walking outside. It also feels more sanitary.
Free rides are available on request. The clinics are in the only places with any population density, and it wouldn't be practical to add more, which would be in the middle of nowhere. It does contribute to the problem, but there's not much to be done about it.
Not in USA, but people that I know that used to live in the country side in some countries were more than happy to leave to large towns. Complaints: nothing interesting happens, hard to get anywhere, lack of products.

I was born and raised in a city so I like cities. I understand different people love different things, but I doubt things can be fixed unless enough people want and are willing to put the effort to do it.

My guess is that there will be opposition to many points in your proposal by lots of people (besides politicians and corporations). It's not that people want country side to be "worse" it's just that they like where they are to be "nice".