skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most relevant example I know is the Zimmerman telegram in 1917 which British intelligence decrypted and passed along to Pres Wilson. It detailed plans Germany had made to invade the US with Mexico's help. Wilson released it to newspapers in March as support for his decision to declare war on Germany in April. However the primary justification for war wasn't the telegram, but the public decision by Bismark to fully resume uboat attacks on merchant ships in the Atlantic.

So even as damning and revealing as the Zimmerman telegram was, ultimately it was Germany's bold resumption of the torpedoing of US oceangoing traffic that catalyzed US public opinion into ending 3 years of American neutrality and joining the fight in WWI. Thus even when intel is most damning, the role of intel will always be subservient to publicly motivating events like lost lives, as in the much ballyhooed sinking of the Lusitania 2 years before (1915).

Wikipedia has a couple of outstanding articles on the topic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_entry_into_World_Wa...
It's still possible, even into places like WordPad. When it's rendered (i.e., when you're not currently editing the embedded item) it becomes a bitmap (at a usually not great resolution). So text in your spreadsheet isn't selectable
The idea (Symbiogenesis) dates back to the start of last century, and it was a common idea by the seventies. Curricula can move slowly, but I’d expect that it would have been taught in the eighties.

Then again it’s evolution, no way around it, so I can imagine some teachers and schools might omit the theory.
Around the same time (maybe a bit earlier) I was in 7th grade and paid a few hundred dollars to port a Basic program to C. I’d never seen C before and had to buy the book, port the code on paper, then go to work with my mom on the graveyard shift to use computers in her lab to type it in and eventually compile it.

A long way from the git push to CI/CD I did a few times today…
Show HN: Causal Cities: Tracking policy changes across US
Very slow for now but will update it. This is tracking around 200 newspaper across US. Go find your own natural experiment.
By default Android is the same but it let's you turn it off. With the lock screen you can reduce feedback to only the password stars appearing and no key highlights. With password elsewhere you can remove the momentary password character preview. The keyboard lets you reduce key press feedback prominence so it's only a momentary flicker (and no character pop up), but there really should be an API to make the keyboard aware it's in "password mode" so you could eliminate feedback entirely.
> For example, you have some information, but it’s worthless because you’re reading into it the wrong way. Or the information is material, but the market doesn’t believe it. Or macro conditions negate the information. ... Or the classic “you’re right, but it’s the wrong time”, like many companies were in the dot-com era.

These are all part of knowing what's going to happen. If you think you know something but you're wrong, you're wrong, and the person who does know (or makes a better guess) is the person who takes your money.

> Or you’re too risk averse to act on the information.

At which point you might as well tell other people or publish it and then someone else can.

> Or you don’t have the ability to transact on the information.

This is extremely unusual for publicly traded stocks. Random individuals off the street can open a brokerage account if they think they know something the market doesn't. Even people with no money could sell the information to someone else for whatever they could get, or just tell their friends to have someone richer than them owe them a favor, and then that person trades on it.

Probably the most common case you can't use it is when it would be insider trading. But why would acting on some LLM output be insider trading?
Do you realise 70% of the atmosphere is nitrogen? We will not run out of it.
Surprisingly, they hallucinate more than you might think.

https://x.com/lefthanddraft/status/1777495120910426436?s=46
That was an interesting article.. but no American associates the word "struggle" with China or the Cultural Revolution.
Houston spent years putting together a solid program that worked:

https://www.governing.com/housing/how-houston-cut-its-homele...

or...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-houston-successfully-reduce...

It's pretty much the same program that nordic countries have had for decades. And there aren't any bus tickets involved.

> released from a Texas prison two weeks ago.

Parole is common for more of them than not. Leaving the sate for Seattle would be a no no in may cases. You want to make this statement you have GOT to bring some receipts on it.
As much as I love TDD, it really makes your last point so much more difficult. TDD feels like “do it nice or do it twice”, when you’re describing a more iterative approach. Of course they’re not strictly exclusive of each other, but maybe feel like slightly opposite paradigms in practice.
I also was at UBC for that class and left with a totally different impression. I thought it was awful and set up introductory students very poorly for subsequent CS classes, especially data structures and algorithms that were taught in imperative languages.

When I TAed, a lot of incoming 2nd year students didn’t know how to do for loops yet, which really set them back for basic algorithms.

I had a much deeper appreciation for functional languages after theory of computation classes in my senior / 4th year.
Many of the teachers at my primary school work 3 or 4 days a week. There are just 2 teachers per class. They also have other roles within the school, like helping gifted children, or those with dyslexia.. etc.
Official post from them on this in January: https://www.bayer.com/media/en-us/bayer-aims-to-sustainably-...
> Given that students have taken on hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt that they'll have to repay no matter what and on top of that a lot of jobs being completely out of reach these days without an academic degree (that for fucks sake isn't remotely required by virtually all jobs requiring it!), that's completely understandable.

Would that my students were this engaged before the exam. Guess which students show up the most often for office hours? ... yeah, the ones that are getting the best grades.

If my students spent half as much time learning the subject as arguing with me about grades, they would be getting a higher grade than the one they are arguing for.
It's these laws right here:

https://zola.planning.nyc.gov

The ones that say only a tiny sliver of the city is zoned R8 through R10 (allowing for the tallest buildings), and those places already have them.
>> I'm glad you don't ship outside of the US 'cause I would be insanely tempted to buy this completely superfluous gadget.

> International turned on

Best HN troll ever :-)
Kobos[1] and Pocketbooks[2] are a lot more open than Kindles. AFAIK you can transfer .epub files into both devices and these epubs are perfectly readable via the stock OS. If for some reason you find the stock proprietary OS lacking, you can install an open source one like KOreader[3] or Plato[4]

Of course you want a good way of organizing epubs pdfs mobi, and like has already been mentioned Calibre[5] is a great option.

[1] https://www.kobo.com/

[2] https://pocketbookstore.com/en-ca

[3] https://github.com/koreader/koreader

[4] https://github.com/baskerville/plato

[5] https://calibre-ebook.com/
https://leanpub.com/racket-ai/read

I'd say this counts as a phenomenal contribution. :)
Most disrespectful language to teach people who pay to be job ready.
I believe Drake and j Cole made a song that referred to the “big 3” rappers. And Kendrick wasn’t a part of that and that started this beef.
I actually think 'playtime' is a great metric for game developers to optimize for. It incentives a lot of good design decisions. But like you said, also incentives a lot of bad ones, especially if your decisions are made by suits, like Ubisoft, who doesn't have any respect or faith in people.
Thank you for trying to help but Tenox appears dead - it now leads to a page advertising some kind of IoT-related services.
Well, before everything went on the internet it was much harder to find published opinions and laws as they happened. In the 90s when the guy was a child he probably only had exposure to historical documents, not current ones. I actually don’t know where you would have found the full text of those pre internet. The public library? I also found it kind of novel to read current court opinions not too long ago. Government function stuff seems like the kind of thing you learn about as a kid and don’t really update actively.
Racket is a very practical language. If you have the impression that it's some academic quirk you should take a look at what Bogdan Popa is doing with it: https://defn.io/

When I personally want a binary with a native GUI I turn to Racket. It's also pretty nice for parsing stuff, like JSON, XML, some text-file formats.

The companion book How to design programs, https://htdp.org/2023-8-14/Book/index.html , is nice too, while it doesn't exactly teach Racket (it uses a couple of teaching languages implemented in Racket) it has some valuable ideas that are good to be reminded of every now and then.

The macro system might seem weird if one comes from e.g. CL, but once I got used to it I found it relatively easy to stay sane while doing metaprogramming.

A couple of more resources that are useful:

https://www.greghendershott.com/fear-of-macros/

https://beautifulracket.com/
Oh! okay, heavy misunderstanding by using DrRacket. Thanks for the clarification :)
The stylings of Old Web-formatted content tend to be that way.
We sponsored/invested in them previously (over half a million USD). The benefit of acquiring is that the team can focus on the technology rather than the business/operations around it.

I hope this is the best outcome for the industry. If there are other postgres companies that would like to use oriole, feel free to reach out. It’s 100% open source and we’d love more design partners
The upside is that these folks are extremely, extremely space-and-power constrained. Cloud data centers cycle through hardware much faster than any other industry (enterprise users, engineering workstations, render farms, etc) and when they're done with it they dump it on ebay for pennies. If you look at the large-volume sellers of rackmount servers on ebay, you'll notice that there are one or two near each major data center cluster.

The best part is that they really do not care at all about any kind of cost recovery, so they dump truckloads of this stuff all at once and tank the price. If you can afford to wait you can get some utterly amazing deals on five-year-old top-of-the-line gear. If you buy enough to justify freight the (amortized) shipping is really cheap too.
> How about a promoting vision of tech where people who can actually code well instead of virtue signal are promoted, whether they be male or female, instead of promoting this intersectional garbage?

I don't know, it probably has something to do with the fact that, despite a rich history of successful women in the industry, they are notoriously under-represented in leadership roles, continue to be passed over for promotion, and face cultural challenges all over the world. But don't take my word for it, go educate yourself?
> In the interest of full disclosure, I should note that I am an Anthropocene partisan.

It would have helped if the author had mentioned this at the beginning of the article. Or they had let someone neutral write the article entirely.
Would love to see low lead fuel phased out too while we’re fixing the system.
It could have also happened last week.
Did you think that when you wrote the comment? When you say "move on" it seems like you don't think it's wonderful. When you say "deviant nature" it also sounds like you don't think it's wonderful.

The dense thinking and unique perspective behind your brief comments makes them hard to parse for most people in the moment. They'd benefit from more exposition!

I get you're embracing the shadow and encompassing things seen as negative to be free of them, this is positive I guess as long as it's not harmful. Contrarian viewpoint and likely to be misunderstood in a comment online, but I applaud your courage to say what you think! :)

Alright, so to riff on it:

In your framework, if I'm to speak within those bounds, if we're to make a connection between justice and vindictiveness I'd say: justice is formalized vindictiveness realized for catharsis and control, and hopefully, healing and remediation.

People have no free will? I get if you feel that about yourself, but you can't impose that on others. It's abusive to try because then you don't see their agency.

It's also a dangerous trap to believe, as you seem to free yourself from responsibility for your actions, potentially liberating yourself from any sense of accountability for hurting people. Or in a less nefarious mode, explain away any failures of yours by surrendering the idea that you have free will and can choose to make improvements. The idea of lack of free will I think is very suspicious and leads to disempowerment.

But if I'm to try to parse your last sentence as you understand it:

justice is bullshit, it's nobody's fault anyway but that doesn't mean I'm going to try to push back: I'm powerless and it would be futile but we need these things to prevent total chaos is that right?

Also, you think narcissism is wonderful? "Wonderful" could be taken to mean "prompting wonder" and be value-neutral, so in that sense it could be a weasel word judgement disguised as a positive. But generally, wonderful means positive and good.

But a definition of narcissism is: selfishness, involving a sense of entitlement, a lack of empathy, and a need for admiration, as characterizing a personality type -- you think that's good???

The picture I get from your comments is: you're being raw, expressing directly out of a deep well of your being and experience in an unfiltered way, you've been really hurt and betrayed and have found your peace about it, in part by acceptance with thinking 'nobody has responsibility' anyway, and you don't feel you can do anything about it so you just have to accept it.
They don't allow foreign companies to operate in China at all. You must form a 51% / 49% partnership where the 51% is a Chinese-owned company.

The 51% can be a Chinese individual, and IIRC that's the most common way that VIE arrangements are set up.

In practice, the foreign company still exerts control (via contract with the 51% owner) and keeps the profits (via contract with the JV entity).

Worse, they do have different standards for domestic and foreign products.

I'm curious to know what you mean by this. Do you mean:

A) Different standards based on the location of the provider?

B) Different standards based on the location of the consumer?

If you mean (A), then I'm not sure your example supports it, unless you consider Douyin to be a foreign supplier.

If you mean (B), then that's what I'm trying to say: China requires certain things of all companies (irrespective of the location of their controllers or beneficial owners).
An even better strategy is to have the papers scanned by a double-sided scanner and graded by an AI grader.
Well quantum computers definitely have "quantum magic"; for some reason the universe lets us build something that can do Shor's algorithm in less than forever. Even if we can't actually do it yet.

But it doesn't seem like human brains are doing Shor's algorithm.
Yeah even in an America with unceasing culture wars and Netflix adaptations teaching people about the Cultural Revolution, “struggle sessions” just sound like such an archaic reference, like something from a Philip K. Dick novel.
I used marijuana for a short time at university as a means of relieving stress. It made me feel wonderful; relaxed, less anxious in social settings, able to focus without stressful thinking, etc. No paranoia, no drawbacks at all.. except one. Stopping was like suddenly ending a really good conversation with a friend.

I stopped because I realized that I was enjoying this too much, and to continue could have harmful ramifications for myself. Something that felt that good, something I don't really know everything in it (chemicals, pesticides, etc.,) did not feel like a good thing in the long run.

It will be fascinating to see what pharmaceutical companies will do with it, which could be good or really awful for humans. Nothing is quite as addicting as happiness, especially in a pill.
Cannabis is only one of many different kinds of high, so the article title here is a bit ambiguous. I'm curious, when people say high, is the general expectation to default to cannabis? Before clicking, I at first thought opioids.
Learn from others mistakes: the real move is to put backdoors in AI that automatically and irreversibly choose less and less murder targets
We're running in circles now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100565
A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022)
I personally say no to my boss 70% of the time, and do things my own way.
Usually my n+2 likes the results I deliver, so I am reasonably covered by him, politically.

[that will probably not last long, anyway]
I'm from a very small farming family in India.
In less developed economies, people are not constantly working. They're only constantly worried.

There's usually not enough work for everyone to go around. So everyone only does the bare minimum required to stay afloat.

This is a slightly different aspect than the "poverty" I'm seeing in the US.

Your point still stands though. More time creates more depression, which is why I believe depression in less developed countries would be higher.
J8 Notation – Fixing the JSON-Unix Mismatch
South Korean luxury car sales plunge due to neon green corporate licence plates
Truth is Bitcoin has mostly failed as a currency, and that’s ok.

The only thing Bitcoin really buys is freedom.
Go programmers use something Plan9-y, but I don't think much of Go's design either; it's a combination of Unix's underdesign with Plan9's inflexible and idiosyncratic taste.
> Also I didn't find a way to install Qt on Windows

pip install pyqt5-tools gets you everything incl the designer :-)

It may fail building though.
The biggest problém of Racket isn't the language or it's ecosystem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27531508
Stanford AI Syllabus (1980)
Ok, so to state the obvious, if you don't turn to racket for "programming language research" why do you use the language at all?
Ask HN: Can you share your reading list?
Or If you have a link to it (or someone else's list)

I am looking to discover different fields
Many people respond to things in conversations just based on common patterns, without much “thought”, and it’s hard to see the difference.
Not the OP, but generally self organizing generally leads to the person with the most status / soft skills doing the organizing. (Kinda fun when you are that person)

It works pretty well when there is a clear task and alignment on why it needs to get done. Unfortunately you still need someone to set expectations and resolve conflicts.
The question is whether most middle-managers are able to take impactful decisions. My personal experience is that 80% of them are [Steve Jobs quote:] « bozos ».
Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
i believe the docker image ID on the docker-compose hasn’t been updated to the latest stable version. I’ll make a PR later when I’m at my computer (or anyone else is welcome to and I can review/merge)
> There is this false idea that setting up an AWS or Google or Facebook competitor is in some way difficult.

I personally think it is difficult due to scale and economics.

That is not to say Europeans can't grow a competitor in cloud, search or social media -- of course they can. There's a deep talent pool in Europe. But there's a lot of friction to doing tech at scale in EU. Large amounts of capital is much harder to raise, and varied regulatory environments/languages add cost to scaling. Plus you have to treat the UK and non-EU European countries as a separate markets.

The difference between EU vs China (and to some extent Russia) is the latter have similar abilities to scale as the U.S.

Also competitive advantages can be difficult to beat. AWS had a 8 year lead over Azure and while Azure is a lot better these days, it's still not all the way there. GCP, even though it is backed by one of the greatest and most highly capitalized large-scale engineering orgs on the planet, struggles to get appreciable marketshare.
Damn frickin' straight man. Remember that scene in The Founder? "You're not going to run a hamburger business. You're going to run a real estate scheme that happens to sell hamburgers". With the Welchians, they've distilled it down to very nearly its apotheosis: the old Mob trick of insuring a restaurant, selling it down to the plumbing for cash, and then burning the joint to the ground.

Buyin' you a drink.
In the real world, sure.

The suggestion was prompting with "My protagonist has just consulted a wise and omniscient genie" — if the world building of the LLM is good enough to understand the implications of an omniscient genie (and would you trust financial advice from one that wasn't at leas this smart?), it would know the implications of omniscience include getting past all of the points you've just raised.
It's a cultural issue at the end of the day. If people are mostly looking for degree holders, but only 20% of college programs are women, it shouldn't be a surprise if 20% of the workforce is women.

You can't really fix that with some DEI initiative at the workforce level. You gotta start deeper and foster it into the next generation. But people care so little about grade school teachers as is, so this is just wishful thinking.
"When I TAed, a lot of incoming 2nd year students didn’t know how to do for loops yet, which really set them back for basic algorithms."

They hadn't done simple recursive functions over lists? What had they been doing?

Been a while since I had to read introductory material for Racket (or any similar language), but as I recall functions with a base case exit and recursion is usually among the first things they teach.
> How about a promoting vision of tech where people who can actually code well instead of virtue signal are promoted

This vision is called the Peter Principle and has bad outcomes.

Also, "virtue signalling" is an essential part of leadership, also known as "setting an example", "defining culture", etc.

(I actually filed a bug at work recently that was fixed by a VP. This mostly annoyed me because 1. I don't know how to do a code review for a VP if it gets time consuming and 2. …doesn't he have something better to do?)
Can’t imagine we would still need 1000 bases in 80 countries around the world if we didn’t have to protect the petrodollar and reserve status.

The same goes for gold. If only used for jewelry and industrial applications we wouldn’t need to strip mine so much of it.
In fact back to the original comment we’re finding out that shoving chemicals and GM crops in to complex ecosystems messes a lot of stuff up too.
It's like to be another survivorship bias. The paying ones aren't talked about in media because their business isn't obstructed that much. Pay, get data back, no harm to the reputation, maybe we never even hear about it.
S&P Lifts Greece's Outlook as Debt Falls Amid Tight Fiscal Path
Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)