skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the reason I've always been a detractor of purely relying on "data driven decision making". Being data driven is great... if paired with intuition and common sense.

But what ends up often happening is data-driven myopia. You see some statistic that doesn't seem optimal and you end up optimizing for that instead of figuring out how it fits into the big picture.

Restaurants, at the end of the day boil down to food. You serve food. People either like the food or they don't. How many customers you get is a function of how much people like the food, how competitive the pricing on the food is, and the market you're in.

Red lobster at the end of the day suffered from people not wanting to pay what they were charging for low quality, uninspiring seafood dishes.

People nowadays are struggling more (spare me the CPI data, hedonics and other basket adjustments mean the situation for most people is quite a bit worse than it was a few years ago) and there needs to be a value prop for dining out.
> This is just greed.

Nah, just garden variety extortion.
It’s completely different when you have networked hardware. IMHO it’s the equivalent of road taxes to make sure there aren’t any giant potholes swallowing up 18-wheelers and bicycles alike and that your bridges are still standing when you drive across the water.

It’s a never-ending uphill battle against entropy and unless you do it, you’re guaranteeing major problems.
> It's just a pointer" can also be said of `&T` & `&mut T

But that's the point: you can assign your &T to a pointer and know that it won't be invalidated by merely moving the &T. That is not true for Box<T>.
Optum is doing the same thing here in the US PNW for actual doctors' offices. My SO had a mysterious charge suddenly appear in her account that nobody would explain and then she got fired as a patient and sent to collections by them a few years ago. Now that they're buying all of the clinics she essentially can't get in to any providers because of it.
> keep the pressure on working people.

The Boomers have sacrificed so much for us the least we could do is orient the entire economy around them for a few short decades they have left. Imagine if they had to sell their houses to pay for needed labor (higher wages) in old age and some young family (yuck) moved in? Better they reverse mortgage it so Blackrock can rent it out to that family after they die.
To be fair, an Nvidia mobile chipset.

Also, much of mobile gaming isn't exactly pushing the envelope of graphics, especially by revenue.
The whole point of "Against Method" was to argue for epistemological anarchy. A logical consequence of that is that the scientific establishment should not be given any special deference or credence. You are citing that very same establishment to support the proposition that this idea has merit. You don't see how that is self-defeating?
> If you view the relationship between the employees and an employers through Marxist class war lens, then, as an employee, you should fully expect reciprocal reaction from employers.

The employers everywhere, everyday, have shown that it's exactly how they behave. In fact, my reaction is only the reciprocal reaction to theirs.

“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” Warren Buffet

> I prefer to view it as mutually beneficial cooperation.

I can't stop you from believing in Santa Claus for sure, but for sure I'll still hope you grow up one day.

> If my value to the employer is not as high as I think it should be, it is either a reason to readjust my expectations, improve my productivity

You have been well formatted by propaganda, they can be proud of them indeed.
They keep saying all-you-can-eat shrimp was a bad idea and I don’t understand how that’s possible.
Strange that such an article fails to mention M-DISC:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/zv1nte/mdisc_i...

https://superuser.com/questions/1106325/are-m-disks-truly-mo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/yu4j1u/psa_ver...
the whole point is to flip the business in 5ish years.
Scientists Track 'Doubling' in Origin of Cancer Cells
And that's another reason to be against it.
>but the supply chain costs keep going up.

A good portion of this is cartels that could be squashed. Notably, real estate (commercial and otherwise, driving up the single biggest cost of business/living). But, then, you'd have to deal with the people who rely on cartel-ized pricing power for their income, investment collateral, etc. (But someone is going to get thrown under the bus, so might as well be them.)
I really want to know how AGI is worth it, in Mr. Altman's estimation. Well, beyond the fact that he'd own a stake in the company that sells it.

The best application of LLMs and other current state-of-the-art technologies seem to be in domain-specific uses. It does displace some jobs but doesn't present an existential threat to society. If you make an AGI, it's going to break a lot of what people consider their reality, and that generally doesn't turn out well.
In my experience phthalocyanine recordable CDs work much more reliably than VHSs. I don't have any DVD-Rs old enough to make a legitimate comparison.
The long tail of demanding infinite growth results in devouring oneself piece by piece.
I know of multiple ways to do it in perl - 'use Foo;' can introduce a source filter that slurps the entire remaining file text, thus hiding it from the perl compiler.

__DATA__ sooort of counts and is probably the closest to pure STOPPARSE as GP is thinking of.

I also, once, wrote https://p3rl.org/Devel::Declare which basically grabbed the current read position and Did Things, including calling back into the existing perl parser to not have to re-implement everything - that was how perlers first got access to a mostly* working 'method' keyword.

(now there's a proper way of doing that in perl core, and Devel::Declare is (very happily to me) obsolete, but it was essential to prove the concept and the user interest to justify adding the actual feature to the core interpreter)

[*] the caveats are many and believe me I'm well aware the entire thing was a giant hack from the moment I first started writing it, but rather than trying to write them out I'll just say "however hacky you imagine this was, what I actually did is probably worse" and leave it there.
To me, "fancy" is about not allowing money-saving measures to have an effect on the taste and quality of the food. The menu is honest. The prawns are actually prawns and not shrimp (They ARE different!). Maine Lobster is actually from Maine and not some cheaper kind. Kobe beef is actually from Japan and not "American style Kobe".

Fancy restaurants create food with flavor, rather than trying to appeal to people with weak palates that can't handle a little garlic and rosemary.

All of this pushes prices up, but fancy restaurants aren't trying to compete on price.
They are (were?) 51% owned by Brazilian private equity group 3G Capital which in turn owns 1/3 of RBI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G_Capital
I took it for the second time recently, this time with the goal to shift my career to cryptography. Still one of the best resources out there imo.
I'm working on a personal hobby project of mine, written in MOO [0] of all things. Its a bridge to homeassistant - it connects to your local instance and lets you observe and control anything you have set up in homeassistant from within the MOO - toggle lights, set thermostats, send tts alerts, etc. It also receives state change events, so you can have objects that act like their real counterparts and display up-to-date information as long as the bridge is online.
I run a local house MOO for my roomates and myself, and I thought it would be fun to control my smart home from it.
Challenges... The first was reading the web socket rfc and writing my own implementation, in what is probably considered an esoteric language at this point.
Next was discovering just how much of home assistant's web socket API is undocumented (read: pretty much all of it). There's a page which mentions a handful of APIs, and this got me started, but I really had to start reading homeassistant's code to see what other commands were available and being used presumably by the front-end to do some of what I wanted (listing users, subscribing to state updates for specific entities, listing areas, devices, etc)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOO
Also in quant finance. Have you given F# a shot? We use it and are very happy.
Rent control is the antithesis of governments stepping up. It is the equivalent of sweeping the problem under the rug and declaring it solved. Go ahead and fix the problem.
They used to charge money for iOS updates. Why don't they go back to that if it costs them so much.
> and an ordered map could be implemented on a trie, a vector, a linked list, some other thing I can't think of right now, or... some variety of a binary tree. Right? I don't think I would want to assume.

You're correct in that one shouldn't assume a red-black tree. However, the standard does dictate O(...) performance for the map, which strongly suggests an underlying structure.

And as I point out in another comment: Knowing that it was indeed a tree helped me debug an issue where I ran out of RAM.

In any case, you're point strengthens mine: That you don't need to know "fundamentals" to program in C++.
Parental controls too. My kids wandered into some explicit user generated content, but any controls are now only available to the most expensive family plan. Deleted the account and moved to Apple Music which offers parental controls in iOS settings as part of the normal plan.
> $99/year is a mode of spam prevention dev account creation

Why is it a yearly fee if it's supposed to prevent spam accounts?
> but may be changing more with the modern approach to mental illness.

The only thing that's changed is what we consider pathological.
I don't think so, and I believe that it is related to the reasons you state, but a little more cynical. Corporate America has a very, very strong grip on politics now. For an eye-opening example, go fine graphs of the number of laws in the US that have been passed correlated to whether it had wide national voter support vs wide corporate support. It is even stronger than the 70s in my opinion. No matter who is in office, I believe they would put unbearable political/financial pressure on them to use their power to make the "bleeding" stop. Just look at right now. We are still at one of the lowest Fed rates we ever had, but since it is not 0%, you have corporate lobbyists and financial news outlets speaking as if our country can not bear these "out of control" rates.
At least to my ears the actual recording of the flute sounded terrible as if the venue did not have a great mic set up. On my phone I had to blast the audio just to hear the flute but then the applause was super loud.

It certainly seems like the performance sounded much better live than it was recorded. The venue looks like it would have awesome acoustics for that type of performance. I don't know how much the (seemingly) poor recording quality affects your perception of the music.
Comments are enabled so people can ask relevant questions and occasionally exchange information, but unfortunately there's also a strong tendency to go off topic.
Then I’m afraid you’re unclear because the cities Waymo operates in all have different characteristics and don’t have “similar style of roads”. Driving in SF is very different from driving in Phoenix.
Slab allocators don’t provide real time guarantees. That is arena allocators. The distinction may seem trivial but the requirements are distinct.

In tiny systems all allocations of one type may come from a single operation, but in larger systems what fits in a slab will come from distinct concerns with different priorities. You want a different arena for those allocations.
of interest:

'Super antibody' fights off flu

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14324901 [2011]

At the centre: influenza A virus ribonucleoproteins

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619696/ [2015]

[Nat Rev Microbiol. 2015 Jan; 13(1): 28–41. ]
Show HN: BlockSurvey – Token-Gated Forms and Surveys for Web3 Companies
Because it works just like etherum but has no real value, it is used just for testing. I am planning to deploy this to some cheap blockchain like optimism in future
It doesn't help her case that I think most people doing the work in the trenches think that the C-suite people just sit around drinking and laughing together all day (which is my impression of C-suite people, they just had the money already so they got to be C-suite), so it doesn't feel likely to most readers that she actually worked very hard for what she got.

The professionally shot skateboarding photos really don't help make her relatable in any way. Most people at 44 probably don't get on a skateboard because they know one good injury could bankrupt them and leave them homeless.
It's way more intense than what I expected to see.

This is at the level where economies fail. Keeping inflation under control usually means turning it into a horizontal line.
Based on your feedback, I have updated the about page, so it somewhat explains what ARC is, with 3 videos of different lengths. Unfortunately I don't have a video that explains it in 30 seconds.

https://neoneye.github.io/arc/about.html

The middle piece that is vertically scrollable. I'm still investigating how to fix it.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38742585 Optical Media Durability (2020)

> https://blog.dshr.org/2023/08/optical-media-durability-updat...

--

M-DISC on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=m-disc&sort=byDate&type=commen...

My understanding is it was something unique for DVDs (which are no longer manufactured) but not much difference anymore for Blu-ray.

[edit] > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33593967#33595128 BD-R discs using inorganic dyes are durable enough that the M-Disc branding is likely moot

--

300GB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Disc per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39165981#39170038
Like Jerome Powell reads anonymous developer blogs to influence monetary policy? Come on, bruh?
> First, Box lacks some ergonomics, it's a pain dealing with when matching

Agreed, but this should become better once box_patterns is stable

https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/unstable-book/language-featur...
“Your use of flippant and glib language invalidates your points and my country is the best”
https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...

1250 vs 1253 ELO, is that really "much stronger"?
The skateboard pics are amazing :) you look so happy
OpenAI Security Slack Bots
I'm not an InfoSec guy so maybe someone can explain this to me: beyond screwing with signs, what's the point of an attack on systems like these?
> There are plenty of C++ applications that are "latency and efficiency critical" but I'd guess it's well under 50% of all the C++ software out there.

Easily well under 5%, and I'll assert it's under 1%.
Low effort claim to the point of being suspicious. Are you saying there isn’t a clear historical precedent of spy agencies of various governments trying (and in many cases succeeding) to influence politics and thought in other countries? Are you aware of the Snowden leaks, which demonstrated that the US itself does mass data collection both foreign and domestic? (ie. why would anyone be surprised if China does it)

Are you aware of the ongoing cyber attacks from China on US infrastructure? The power and reach of the Chinese super-surveillance network? The long-standing genocide of the Uyghurs? You think China would be willing to do all that to maintain the stability of the regime and its international sphere of influence and somehow just draw the line at surveillance via TikTok?

If you truly think that then that’s fine but I just wanted to double check that I was hearing you right.
You sound like a mechanic who dumps his used motor oil down a storm drain to avoid the expense of proper disposal. Yeah, it's good for you, but it pollutes the environment for everyone.

You are polluting the digital commons. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Like the saying goes, "this is not an airport, you don't need to announce your departure."
Neal Katyal posted Twitter photos of himself walking out of Burning Man with a ridiculous hat on
The 1918 influenza pandemic killed tens of millions, disproportionately affecting young and healthy adults. Does that not qualify as super-deadly?
daily viagra is expensive have some sympathy.
> the more you brag about having the money to retire, the more signals you send to the Fed and policy makers to keep cranking up the money supply treadmill to keep the pressure on working people.

I hope federal banks are smart enough to not base monetary policy of anecdotes
You're right. They're arguably running into these challenges because they're using Elasticsearch in a way it's not intended to be used.
Ah, here it is:

https://www.rbi.com/English/news/news-details/2014/Worlds-Th...

> 3G Capital to own approximately 51% of new company
I understand why you think that, because when I started out making video games I thought the same thing. The reason why is that if I had heard of a video game in a review or recommendation it sold really well, but if I tried a game at random it was usually terrible. That is because there are thousands of games and most that aren't that good.

The other thing that happens is you point out a really good game and then someone will say, yeah but that's not a good game because of the art style or it's too similar to something else etc. Everyone can always come up with a quality reason why a game didn't sell. Someone has a reason not to like every game ever made. The problem with that is you can come up with the same complaints for well reviewed games. Often the review will say something like : this has been done before, or that style is a little annoying, but.. it's a great game.

Final nail in the coffin of this theory for me is having talked to many game review editors and having worked with a few, they will often tell you that they don't always expect to shape opinion as much as parrot it back. As one person used to tell me, most people read our reviews to validate their purchase or get our take on what they are playing.

And then to your challenge. Good games that didn't succeed. How about Midnight Suns, Lock's Quest, Space Marine, Company of Heroes II, Maquette.. that's just off the top of my head. If I thought about it I could make a really long list of game you've never hear of. This is probably the same for everything: music, novels, etc.
Aren’t we faced with the same fundamental mystery of human insight? Where does it come from?
Remember the pandemic? The FDA had safety and effectiveness data by end of August for the vaccine and were unprepared to do an analysis in less than a few months. Nor did they consider drafting the party boys of the Ozarks to get the efficiency data faster. As a result the winter of 2020-2021 saw thousands of preventable deaths.

There's also the part where distribution was done in a way that deliberately killed people so that racial equality goals could be met. Perhaps the worst example of this kind of thinking were teachers in SF getting vaccinated but school not starting again.
Simple GitHub Issue Handled(?) By Copilot Workspace
Today I got access to the new GitHubNext product, Copilot Workspace. I decided to test it on an old tiny Python package I developed three years ago for fun. The library is meant to simulate random walks. At that time I opened an issue for handling dead-end cases by randomly jumping to new states. Today I used the same issue for the starter. You can see the results of Copilot Workspace.

Caveats:
1. It looks very neat
2. It took nearly 5 minutes to come up with the solution after specification, planning, and then opening a pull request
3. the proposed solution is not actually true. Although it catches a valid case by checking if there is a row in the transaction matrix summed up to 1, this case is already prevented in `__init__`. A more plausible solution would be to check if the current state has a diagonal 1 in the transition matrix, which results in the random walker going back to the same state after that.
> As far as The Google is concerned, no one was seriously going to say "Just AltaVista it." And "Just Yahoo it" has an inherent awkwardness I can't describe.

Even now in my kagi/duck-duck-go house, some of us still occasionally use the word "google" when we mean "search".
Yeah I'd agree.
tracking for-the-benefit-of users, which only has to be done by the users because no services can be trusted :-)
Feel free to check the IPinfo IP to Country database: https://ipinfo.io/products/free-ip-database

It is pretty easy to use, and comes with full accuracy (daily updates).
> That is a bit too close to defining them as better within the framework of scientific method.

No, that is simply pointing out the reason that science is a thing at all.

> are we by chance able to make increasingly accurate predictions about something increasingly irrelevant or not beneficial to ourselves?

Probably, though putting effort into this would obviously not be the wisest choice.

> except the part where you claim that quantum mechanics being wrong is extremely unlikely

You need to read "The Relativity of Wrong" by Isaac Asimov.
Millennials don't have families and can barely afford the transportation to get to these places, let alone the cost of a decent meal there. The ones that can aren't satisfied with a cookie-cutter franchise experience.

But, that's assuming that the more well-off generations aren't going. I dunno if that's the case; things other than revenue can be squeezing RL.
In my opinion, I'd be happy if people masked up if they have any cold-like symptoms. That would prevent some infections being passed, and wouldn't require people to be masked 100% of the time.

Would that be acceptable to your social group do you think?
Yeah, that can be an issue, more with some than others.

As a fellow autistic person I find masking pretty helpful honestly, if nothing else it reduces the constant mental strain from having to do so much other the other kind of masking, in terms of facial expressions and what not. I also find it tends to be a interpreted as a signal to not engage in a bunch of performative small talk, which I don't exactly mind either.
Thanks for the insights. It seems like almost a dreamlike place for young, passionate STEM students.
I have to disagree with the entire premise of the article. It's the fact that Box isn't unique that gives it this behavior. The author even says as much, but dismisses it because it gets in the way of their point:

> While it can be argued that box is like a T, but on the heap, and therefore moving it should invalidate pointers, since moving T definitely has to invalidate pointers to it, this comparison doesn’t make sense to me. While Box<T> usually behaves like a T, it’s just a pointer.

The "it's just a pointer" argument is moot (and pointers have nothing to do with the issue, it's a question of exclusive ownership and nothing more). It's a high-level object (i.e. not a pointer) to which rust's very clear aliasing and single name rules apply. Thou shalt not have multiple live T that point to the same memory address. QED.

It's the same reason this code is unsafe:

struct Foo;
impl Foo {
fn bar(&mut self) { ... }
fn baz(&self) { ... }
}

fn get_foo() -> &mut Foo {
unsafe { static mut FOO_SINGLETON: Foo = Foo; }
unsafe { &mut FOO_SINGLETON }
}

Here we don't even have a pointer, only statically allocated data stored in .TEXT. We don't even create a second top-level instance of Foo, only an &mut reference to it. But it's unsafe because the compiler can't know whether or not it has exclusive access.

(As a refresher, in terms of "strength" of ownership from the most exclusively owned to the least so, it would go T -> &mut T -> &T.)