skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly.

Talk about something as simple as code folding. VsCode does the best job of it I know, and yet the other day it simply stopped working properly for pure JS code, not sure if that's because Microsoft prefers we use Typescript instead of JS. Nothing I did fixed it, and something as simple as that messes us with your workflow. And then I remember that VSCode has introduced a recent bug where after you collapse a piece of code, the file jumps to a weird location. And other paper cuts too numerous to mention, which seems to appear and go randomly

So I tried Sublime text again, only to find that "Collaspe All" does not work properly by design, whatever the reason for that. And it still insists on making many things un-ergonomic.

So I try Webstorm again, and after a few tweaks, it seems to do pretty much what I want. But, it is dog slow, and the display of collapsed comments is a bit weird. I start thinking of writing my own code editor...

My point is pretty much this: The various advanced code editors spend so much effort on advanced features, but they forget that the basic must work flawlessly for most devs to have a good experience. I wish they focused on the basics again to make common sue cases frictionless.
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cons cells are not the base for vectors, strings and a bunch of other datastructures. Cons cells are mostly only used for nested lists or similar.
You could also hit F2, but thats not the point here. The point is that a command that is used a lot is buried in 2 layers of menus.
Investigating the Academy
It does seem to be the norm for interesting things to be presented in a boring way, rather than the exception. I'd guess this is partly because it's difficult to explain concepts clearly in the first place, let alone make the explanation engaging...

Hypothesis: If writing educational material is like throwing a dart, you have a bigger target if you aim for just "clear" — if you aim for "clear ∩ engaging" you have less chance of being "clear".

size(clear ∩ engaging) < size(clear)

I think time pressure would come into play with this. If you have the time, you can hone in on the "clear ∩ engaging" zone; but if you are pressed for time you just aim for "clear" which you'll hit more quickly.

And if you're really pressed for time (and/or uncaring), you might aim for "passable" rather than "clear"; something that your colleagues would OK, but that isn't particularly great. This is a larger target than "clear".

size(passable) > size(clear)
You're moving away from the original question, which is does insurance redistribute wealth. If you get an insurance payout and that payout doesn't involve redistribution of wealth, then it means that the payout must come only from your premium payments, minus admin fees and profit margin. But that's not how insurance works. There are innumerable examples of people who received more in insurance payouts then they've ever paid in in premiums.
Slightly API related rant:

I just wanted to get my free/busy info from office 365. I wanted to control a "do not disturb" light without using a phone app. There doesn't seem to be any straightforward method to "generate a token, save it in Bruno or Postman etc, then POST to a specific endpoint". The docs I saw talk about registering an app, and all sorts of heavyweight stuff in Azure.

Why can't I just call some URL, or add a webhook somewhere and be done with it?
That was an absolutely ridiculous article
This always always seems to happen, and the people never wise up. Government acts as a money funnel to private companies, who pocket as much as they can as profit and provide the most criminally minimal service they can get away with.

And every time it happens and the people are ripped off, the answer is always “even moar privatization.”
The article specifically says it likely happened 100 million years ago and that the interesting thing is an organelle that fixes nitrogen. That is a big deal, on the order of photosynthesis. A lack of nitrogen-fixing organisms is an extremely common cause of desertification; e.g., it's why industrial farming requires fertilizer, and a major reason why once a forest is clear-cut you'll only get one more generation of trees.
We already are at the point where the ultra rich just buy politicians. Hell, we were ever since oil production was mainstreamed and the oil tycoons were able to tell the US to go to wars for oil.
In my experience with occasional / sporadic deep dives into this space, the big problem is with the data/integration.

At best, you can mostly get things into OFX files / quickbooks, or CSV / import into something else, but it's always a bit clunky, authentication is a pain, and every bank / provider does it a bit differently because... they don't actually want you to be able to do this yourself, they want you to log into their website and see their ads.

Alternatively, there are things like Mint, Plaid, but they don't stick around long enough, eventually get bought, and also are a channel for ads.

The ledger tool is pretty cool. In the past, I've gotten reasonably far with various tools & scripts to normalize bank file downloads into ledger format, and consolidate all of those into a set of accounts with some basic rules and occiasional hand tweaking.
> They want US citizens to communicate on US platforms where they do have influence and control so they can censor speech and continue the capitalist forever wars.

No different to any other country. China does the same, as does Russia, Korea and Japan.
Wonder what the job is like fixing those robots.
I just bought an iPhone 15 Pro this afternoon and my wallet is rolling around in agony so I sympathise.

Similar experiences across the board. I did a very special once in a lifetime trip and it sort of ruined the memories a little.

I think the people who think it's better haven't used a good phone or camera for a while.
I don't have any issues with the one I use. It syncs data in from various sources, lets me categorize the transactions and set budget targets for the categories. When it comes to calculating things like net worth, Excel works just fine for that since I do it like once or twice a year, that needle doesn't move that fast so any automation isn't worth spending money on in my opinion.

You didn't mention any specific features or products or specific frustrations so its hard to provide any recommendations or insights or alternatives.
And even then, most of us can do a ton of damage just knowing the last 4 of someones social security number, and their bithday.
OIDC has very much “caught on” in business contexts. Large organizations end up with hundreds or thousands of independent internal tools, many hosted externally. OIDC and SAML are common protocols for centralizing employee authentication and governance.
> The thing is, people don't actually want to tradeoff their labor time for leisure time all that well. They value consumption too much.

Or simply they want to live. The amount of money we gotta spend on rent is insane.
I wanted to clarify that I (Jelte, the author of the final patch) work at Microsoft. So, it's definitely not just one company seeing benefit in this feature. Arguably Microsoft is a cloud company too though, but honestly most of the active contributors to PostgreSQL work at a "cloud company".
Just so you know the whole reports are readable without paying from the console through the network requests, might wanna change that ;)
I remember a few projects like this, the first I saw was called Savant Recall in 2014. But it failed to be selected for YC, so was set free as open-source. Napster co-founder Ritter picked it up, renamed it Atlas Recall (2016), gave it a new UI, secured $20M in funding. A year later it was suddenly shutdown. On LinkedIn says "acquired by Xinova". Another one I'd heard of was called Apse (2019).
> That project took half a job out of the economy. A decent one at that, a nice cushy desk job.

It's effectively a form of the broken window fallacy [0]. You don't actually have a closed system when you say a "job was removed". The company one way or another got more efficient - more widgets were manufactured per $ spent. It might be tiny but this saving was then passed on to every downstream purchaser of the widgets who, with that left over money .... could employ someone else to do something. By the time you add all the net effects back to regain a "closed system", economic theory says you actually have more jobs.

But the key here really is that this doesn't account for temporal effects, and especially when there is rapid disruptive change, you can absolutely have a huge dislocation and mismatch of labor supply / demand in the economy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
My teacher back then was in ww2. He actually was one of the army kids in the closer bunkers who were somewhat unwitting test subjects. He had a recording of him being interviewed after one of the first tests. He said he was 18 at the time. He said "I think this might just change the world" or something like it. I couldn't find the interview with a quick google. His last name was stocker. He was actually a great teacher in basic science the year before which is why I took honors bio but I zoned out memorizing all of the names of parts of sponges. The kids in regular bio were dissecting pig fetuses.

The man had a photo of an orangutan on his desk facing class with the name plate "moker joe". "An orangutan could get about 50% on this test", he'd say and walk around saying to the kids he knew weren't studying "Moker Joe's gonna get you Craig". Some of the smart kids pointed out to him that Moker would probbably get way less than 50% at random probability. "yeah but the kids moker's gonna get don't know that".

Anyway it's definitely more interesting this time around and only taking one class at a time.
USA never thought, or even wanted to block the sale of Russian oil completely. That would raise global oil prices too much, which would be political suicide, and a problem for the world economy.

The only point of the sanctions is to make Russia sell their oil for less, to lower their profits. Yeah, India buys their oil, but Russia doesn’t have that many other buyers anymore, and it’s a lot less convenient for India to buy Russian oil, so India can really pressure Russia on the price of their oil.
I've always hit F2 to rename stuff so hadn't noticed it wasn't in the menu any more, but I hate how the menu loads in now so you can't reliably click on anything until it's done its little dance and stopped shuffling things around.
The 1000 Indians story was completely incorrect though. They has 1000 people in India tagging the videos after the fact for improvements to the machine learning algorithms. They weren't watching in real time.
FWIW, the wage share declining is a result of many other factors. See here:

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2008/where-has-all-th...

Health insurance and other benefits, household composition have hurt wage share. Not that it didn't decline in real terms for the lower skilled workers, just less than the naive chart you put.

Here is good reading on the topic (maybe my favorite paper of the last decade):

https://www.nber.org/papers/w25588
“City people” in the United States still often means people who drive anywhere more than a block away to avoid such extreme exertion. I think driving is really under-discussed in these discussions because once you raise the issue of so much sedentary time you realize we need to change so much of our culture and built environment.
Not to disagree with your larger point, but comparing school performance is basically bogus. The biggest deciding factor in that is how the parents raise the kids. Do the parents raise mild mannered respectful children who are eager to learn, or do they raise little narcissistic brats who want to terrorize other students and in fact the teachers as well? That's what matters the most, not the quality of teachers or the amount of funding the school gets.

Furthermore, while there are bad teachers who hate kids and don't try, few if any start out that way. They become that way after prolonged exposure to bad students, their bad parents, and the school system which binds their hands and tells them to put up with it.
I use singlefile also but not the auto-save.

I’ve long thought that ideally an auto-archiving transparent proxy would be a more elegant approach.
Sometimes it's easier to start from scratch than figure out how some storied monolith works
This is not true. You do not have to do this to install non-app store apps. Right click and open, if you don't get an option to open the first time, right click and open the second time and the option shows up.

Please do not disable Gatekeeper because you want to open apps from a keyboard shortcut instead of right click and open.
I recently "upgraded" to Windows 11, which began with going into Add/Remove Programs and removing everything I could, then going into settings and turning off all the Windows options I spotted. A method that, as far as I could remember, worked pretty well in Windows 10.

But I was stressed about some work stuff so I quickly moved on to pulling my project's repo and getting back to work. A week later, my project goes absolutely berserk with warnings and failures, which trace back to files / lines that shouldn't exist.

Turns out, I had dropped my repo into a directory managed by Windows OneDrive, and OneDrive had backed everything up and subsequently decided (for some reason I still haven't figured out) to start restoring and reverting deleted / changed files. My realization of this began with "What the fuck is a OneDrive?" tl;dr it's Microsoft trying to sneakily take over all your data / force you into its cloud services. I'd actually briefly spotted the name and turned it off, but it had taken that to mean "until tomorrow", of course.

Anyway, it's on me, right? I was distracted and lazy. Sometimes it takes a good old mugging to get back in the right defensive mindset.
Bash Script Parse Flags
What really shocked me most about lobbying and campaign contributions is how little money companies can spend to effect radical change. I always thought there were millions of dollars being given to campaign funds. But it’s often just a few thousand or tens of thousands.

Our politicians are bought cheap.
Does Skylon have a place in Starship?
The problem is that top-level competitive work takes a lot of mental and emotional effort. So even if I’m spending time on health, I can’t do it work 100% effort, and so result is still suboptimal.
As a follow-up to my previous response, here is a fairly recent (2018) article on this issue:

https://tufts.app.box.com/s/7vo5d1wo8ur7f1wxoipeffok5as7kgmj

Note in particular item (ii) on p. 2, which speaks directly to the distinction drawn in the video. And note that Dennett has no problem at all in the article with referring to "experiences" as real things, for example in item (iii) on p. 2:

"All the comprehension, appreciation, delight, revulsion, recognition, amusement, etc. that human beings experience must be somehow composed by the activities of billions of neurons that are myopic in the extreme, cloistered in their networks of interacting brethren, oblivious to the larger perspective they are helping to create."

He does not say that all those experiences aren't real--indeed they must be real in order to be "composed by the activities of billions of neurons".

Note also this comment on p. 1, describing a position with which Dennett did not agree:

"The hard problem, they surmised, will only be addressed by a return to some form of dualism, or panpsychism, or some yet to be articulated overthrow of what might be considered normal science."

This is the kind of viewpoint I was referring to by the word "magic" in my previous response.

Btw, I found the above article on this page which gives a fairly comprehensive list of Dennett's published papers and articles:

https://sites.tufts.edu/cogstud/dan-dennett-recent-work/
China publishes a looooootttttt of papers. A lot of it is careerist crap.

To be fair, a lot of US papers are also crap, but Chinese crap research is on another level. There's a reason a lot of top US researchers are Chinese - there's brain drain going on.
I can neither confirm nor deny that of my own knowledge.

I'll merely say that if it is possible, then I'd expect this detail to have been in the article. Because the existence of an acceptable solution for the use case would have been an important part of the discussion.

As evidence for my point of view, the article early on points out that Tom Lane thought that there was a way to do it. And even described how to do it. But it turned out that he was wrong.

Now I'd be shocked if either of us knew PostgreSQL nearly as well as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lane_(computer_scientist). The fact that he thought there was a way to do it makes it reasonable that you'd think the same. The fact that he couldn't come up with a way to do it without changing PostgreSQL suggests that, like he was initially, you're wrong.

But as I say, my evidence is circumstantial. And I'd be open to learning what it is in case I ever again wind up setting up PostgreSQL on an old version for a containerized system. Though in a new system I'd prefer to use the mechanism created specifically for this purpose.
I certainly didn't have "GPT-4 scores higher on empathy than actual humans" on my bingo card. That's quite impressive, even if the task played to GPT's strengths, and it competed against people being paid $12/h to fill out studies on prolific.
Also putting a lot of faith in 2024 Google being able to find a result without tripping over a million pages of llm-generated nonsense and ads.
I expect a 5x improvement before EOY, I think GPT5 will come out.
The crypto phase ended up accidentally showing us why centralized authority is important. It sounds great on paper: If we can simply enforce a protocol, then we don't need authority, right?

But we still have to trust who enforces the protocol. If we rely on trusts and exchanges to any degree, for example, to enable faster, more convenient transactions, or for user experience, then those trusts (banks) cannot be running off with the customer deposits like BitConnect and FTX did. The trust should be insured and should have to follow normal bank and currency exchange regulations. When you add in all the banking infrastructure that would be needed to bring cryptocurrencies up to speed we'd end up with a clunkier version of what we have (we already have fast digital banking, and cash is already anonymous and instant).

Regarding crypto for content chains: Basically the same ideas, if certain peers are trusted to host, serve, and/or broker content in some way, how do you trust those parties, or if there are content "vaults" off-chain to enable faster access to data, how do we know it wasn't tampered with off-chain? Can't store it on chain feasibly either, especially if the content is say full-length films.

I think blockchain for both cryptocurrencies and content chains is better suited for smaller peer networks where you know you can trust the node hosts and the cryptography is used more for keeping nodes in sync, and for lower-level security, not as a replacement for trust. Or if you don't trust the node hosts, then the trusted party is whoever maintains the "peer list" - but that's just a road toward what our Federal Reserve, or our Wikipedia, can already do much better with consumer banking and open-source contributions (respectively).
Basically you're describing a lieutenant/sergeant relationship. The sargeant will try to give each private the same commands that the lieutenant would give, with necessary adjustments for the immediate realities of the field.
Sure, that is probably one of the most brillant idea to fight earth warming...
When you want to buy alcohol, you show a cashier your ID, you pay and you leave. There is not a digital record of your ID being used to purchase alcohol at that exact location at that exact time.

The problem isn't with the idea of keeping kids off social media, it's with the infringement of privacy that necessarily comes with one of the only ways society has figured out to effectively enforce that policy.

"We shouldn't prevent children from working in factories because that might be a privacy violation!" is an emotionally-charged straw-man of my argument. Please calm down and argue against the argument I'm actually making, not the much weaker argument that you wish I was making.
> Internal Server Error

> The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the application.

Hugs all around - I'd take it as a positive feedback. Congrats on the launch!
I feel like a comparable fraud involving a lower class activity or person would yield a lot more jail time than this
That's why us old timers still put our work in C:\git or C:\work out of habit, like in the DOS days, never in the likes of My Documents as those folders end up being used by a lot of other apps.
Any relevant links? I can share this: https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2008/09/02/three-approaches...
This was wildly annoying. For anyone that has been procrastinating on fixing it, all you need to do is open the command line and enter:

reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve

That brings back the legacy right-click menu.
What incidents are you looking at that make you think pilot standards are too low? In the US?
> The fact that you value a, b and c differently from the person does not mean it was not forced from their perspective.

I basically agree with you about the phenomenon you’re pointing out, so please don’t take this as overly salty, but:

Just because I believe that I can fly doesn’t make it so. So too is true of people believing that they are “forced” to work at Google, no matter what they might perceive.
One of the authors of the patch here. Two reasons:

1. This config option approach was extremely easy to implement

2. Because making this auto.conf read-only would break many existing tools around Postgres that write to auto.conf
I have a 60 year old home and have made a huge dent in my winter therms and summer AC usage by simply adding some roof insulation and double-layer windows/sliding doors a few years ago.

Perfect is the enemy of good enough. You are not going to eliminate all gaps.
So is your rebuttal to Pontzer et al that it doesn’t match your personal experience?
If this was the reason then UK developers working for US companies would be paid better
I think there's a flaw in this idea.

> By default, the map displays the 10,000 most populous cities added to OpenStreetMap. At the time of writing, this encompasses all cities and towns with a population of at least 48,000:

Statistically speaking, if you're closer to or even in those cities, you are more likely to have access to better network quality and speed. It's when you're in the more remote areas (or not near a population centre of 48,000 people...) that this project would be more useful.

If this map is only 300KB zipped and as it mentions offline-first, then surely a 1MB version would get you even better fidelity and more remote locations?
Hmm the macOS photos folders have this many files so I’m not sure it’s an edge case to sync this many files between at least 2 clients. And the issues you mention are real even when syncing relatively static large folders.

But you’re right that there are many such error cases to handle if you want a real iCloud / Dropbox alternative.
there is also free ebok/pdf - From JavaScript to Rust ebook [0]

- https://github.com/jsoverson/node-to-rust
Show HN: Researching 1201 Indigenous dialects – quickly
Neither did I, but I ought to have due to Moravec's paradox, how effective even ELIZA was at that, and how cute animals affect us.