skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is funny that on HN American assummes I am American. (Everyone else not, we know each other )
In my country 60% agree to spend the money for Ukrainians (weapons or refugees).
"Stop using the Ukrainians cannon fodder " I think we should the Ukrainians themselves and their democratic elected government on these decisions, certainly not the American one.
"Why doesn’t Russia use its Air Force? Why isn’t Russia trying?" There are still people thinking the Russian military is good? Lol. They don't use their Air force like you image because they can't . Thanks to Patriots , Iris T, Samp T, Gepard, etc.
A few points on the application process:

- The judging criteria for the first round appeared to have been based on social media followers which you had to enter with your essay and contact information.

- Getting an "ARIGATOU" on the submission confirmation screen was supposedly better than a "THANKYOU".

- The company behind it appeared to be operating from a Tokyo residential address, and company records indicated it was involved in selling home stereo equipment.

- There's been speculation on Reddit about it being a data mining operation; although nobody has any good theories on what they would use the data for.

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Maezawa went to space in 2021 aboard the Soyuz. When coupled with the delays perhaps he decided that was all the space he needed.
Ticketmaster confirms data breach with a SEC filing
At some point, identity relies on an official who is legally empowered to make a decision, and people stating things where lying would be fraud. We currently have very weak intermediary steps in the US-- transmitting 9 digits that last a lifetime-- that could be firmed up in similar ways to 2FA and notarization
Nice! Last time I found something like this was a 15$/mo yearly subscription, which was clearly targeted at real state agents, and didn't make any sense for a one time check... Luckily they just believed the system clock, so at least I could check over the year by changing the computer time
So you're now required to share your tax documents with the local utility company, and they will charge you a monthly fee just for earning more money?
Anecdotally, I’ve paid to promote a number of tweets over the last few years, and have consistently found that there is a certain percentage of users that are apparently retweeting absolutely everything in their feed. My content is niche, and usually has a very small audience, and so these “blind retweeters” stick out like a sore thumb when I look into who does anything with my tweet.

The behavior I’ve observed is consistent with the article, in that the timings of their flood of retweets could very well indicate a real human pressing the buttons, and I suspect they are. And, it does not surprise me that when looking at the long tail of the most absurd fake news that has a small audience on an individual tweet level, that one would find the majority of the retweets for such obvious fakeness is coming from such blind retweeters.

The effect overall is that whatever bubble such users are in gets amplified a bit, absurdity and all, though I’m skeptical they play any role at all in what becomes truly popular.

The real problem is far more nuanced with the less obvious fake news that even those not tapping blindly are taken in by, the less obvious fake news that gets a large audience because a lot of people find it believable, hoaxes that persist in the collective unconscious long after their time in the spotlight has faded, regardless of any debunking or fact checking that played a role in its popularity dying out.

I think the effect of these super spreaders repeating complete nonsense is minuscule compared to the effect of organically popular almost reasonable nonsense that truly goes mainstream.
I understand the downvotes and that it might be an unpopular position, but an empire built on stealing people's attention, through addiction, and one scientifically proven again and again to cause serious mental issues on vulnerable demographics (teens), deserves to be shamed.-
@zachmu can you upload the code you ran to a public repo?

I'd like to play with it a bit, to compare patterns I've done before and am too lazy to copy+paste ;)
What was the logic behind Sony banning the purchase of games?, was Sony compelled by U.S law?. Was this done as a way to try and try to win brownie points and free pr from those reporting on it?.

I can understand valve enforcing the discounted price difference among countries but I don't like the idea of not being able to purchase a game at full price and play it because a company wants to virtue signal. All valve has is its reputation, bad move for them to shake people's confidence in their game collection.
The (obvious) Chinese players on the US wow servers were always good farmers (aka cheaters), but perhaps counter intuitively, if you managed to befriend them, they were usually pretty cool people. Very friendly, would chat back and forth in a new created English-mandarin pidgin, maybe they’d share some gold or items with you.
What? Sony can ban Steam accounts (as in banned people can’t use their Steam accounts any more, not just in Sony games) and those banned by Steam should thank Steam for generous refund policy?

Edit: I have to reiterate: people are banned from accessing Steam games, not this one game or Sony games. The puzzling replies seemingly believing in the latter won’t stop coming.
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> Make it perfect to the best of your abilities

No, make it good/working to the best of your abilities. Never aim for perfection, if you actually want to get out of bed and do things.

Your abilities will grow, and your techniques will develop.

If you want to know what "Perfect is the enemy of Good" really means... double down on perfectionism, and see you do nothing, or see your hires leave you.
> Technology is usually a good thing

You must be young
Facebook Mental Health Lawsuit
It was 2001, Clinton was leaving office, Bush was entering. They didn't need a prosecution of a former president on their hands. They had just assumed the White House after losing the popular vote, people were bitter about the whole 2000 election to begin with. There was no political will to prosecute the Clintons, because the entire point of White Water and the subsequent Lewinsky investigations was to damage the Clintons politically. Mission accomplished.

I mean, it took years to badger the DOJ into prosecuting Trump for waging an insurrection when he was on his way out. Honestly Trump would have gotten the same treatment as Clinton if he hadn't gone apeshit at the end. He wouldn't have a Federal indictment or a Georgia indictment. The other Florida indictment wouldn't have happened if he would have just returned everything he had taken instead of lying about it for a year and trying to hide it.

The two NY cases would have resulted in a fine and community service if he had just kept his mouth shut and shown a little contrition.
Nice projet ! I didn’t know such a tool existed. Will definitely use it when changing home !
The AI I've tried can't unclog the toilet, get the lawn mower running or get me a beer. But it can pass the Bar exam. Great .....
It's awful. It's a cheap copy of laravel in typescript. It adds no value on top of it. The thing is, a laravel or rails for JavaScript needs to feel at home in the js land. That requires original thinking which is quite limited in the js space because the folks coming into the js ecosystem are very much into fads.
> I suggested hanging printed paper maps on the walls with "you are here" stickers

&thumbsup;
It sure wasn’t to make a drama so occams razor here, it’s most likely to distributor rights
Chartbook 287: After the verdict: American money and Donald Trump
I'm from a third world country and have lived in a few European countries.

Switzerland was the only one with better govt service. Everywhere else it was significantly worse than the US.

Surprisingly France and Germany were worse than India in terms of obscure things needed for getting anything done and no exceptions for anything. The US on the other hand, if you can go talk to someone in person they'll make it happen.
The thing with programming language evolution is that quite often everything except the error handling gets faster over time. If you have an app that makes aggressive use of errors, you’re not going to see the same speedups from version to version that others are seeing.

Particularly in JITed languages, if the multiplier is hyperbole today, there may be a day in the future where it’s accurate.
Emotional Energy is a well crafted term using for describing the motivation. Sometimes I see that the root cause of money spending of people in modern society is to get emotional emergy
> I think a better solution would have been to use the serial port rather than the modem port to send a fax. Serial-to-USB adapters are easy to find.

Two potential problems. I have tried serial transfers on a similar vintage of Mac, and it seems to require a USB/Serial adapter that supports proper RS-232 logic levels. Many (perhaps most) don't. I ended up using the built-in serial port on an older PC. The second issue is that you require software on the Mac side to perform the data transfer. Something like the rather common ClarisWorks would do the job, but the presence of Word and PowerPoint suggests they didn't have ClarisWorks. (Even if it did have ClarisWorks, they would need to know that ClarisWorks includes built-in communications software. It isn't exactly a common component in office suites.)

I suppose they could have explored AppleTalk, print drivers, or (depending on the version of MacOS) TCP/IP. Each option is limited though. AppleTalk requires another suitably equipped Mac or a PC with rare hardware and ancient software. (I think Sun systems would work too, but then we are really getting into the weeds.) I'm pretty sure the Mac print drivers rasterize the text, so you would still have to undo that. (Though it would probably transfer the data faster.) I think TCP/IP only shipped with MacOS 7.5 and later, would have required setup on another PC, and would still be convoluted (e.g. downloading FTP software to the Mac, so it could upload to a PC).

It's going to be a tricky situation.
That's proper spycraft.
Software salespeople will try to screw you (and how to fight back)
The first result on Google shows that Aurora certainly does have temporary local storage
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
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People who are consistently unable to distinguish fiction from reality make terribly witnesses; if an obviously high crackhead would fare better than an LLM on the witness stand.
What does this comment say? You shouldn't need to post a link if it's mature? I'm confused on how that answers the original comment
> He essentially said "We have to get Trump"

Going to need a source for this. Every source people have pulled up for me so far attempting to "prove" this has Bragg saying something to the effect of "I will follow the facts where they take me". Maybe you have a different source?

> Then invented a "novel legal theory" to prosecute him.

You mean he applied the facts to the law and brought a prosecution where he thought a crime had been committed, as is his job as DA.

Can you explain why "inventing a novel legal theory" is wrong or indicative of bias? Or evidence that Bragg is somehow controlled or not independent?
No one individual can bear the burden of trying to address all social issues. I think it's good to live according to one's political and moral beliefs, but ultimately there is a point to where this is reasonable to expect of someone.

That is to say that I think one can criticize the tech industry and its e-waste production, while also using a modern smartphone, for example.
> Let's all follow HN guidelines.

I realy don’t know what you are alluding to here. Care to expand on it?

Of course it is a good advice in general, but why did you felt the need to point this out specifically? (At the point I’m writing this the discussion appears to be civilised and generally following the guidelines, as best as I can tell.)
You're getting down voted by people who have never been in a multiplayer game lobby but you're absolute right about Russian players.
This is a welcome study indeed. Eye exercises always seemed like grift, often being promoted by types who hawk other kinds of grift cures and mindfulness techniques. Now here is actual evidence.
> What is the actual problem that this effect-oriented approach addresses?

Yes. The blog post is hazy on the actual problem.

Effect containment is an attempt to limit spooky action at a distance. The idea is to constrain what happens way over there from negatively affecting what happens here. Most difficult bugs come from that. It helps to keep this in mind when propounding language theories.

Globals and mutable references are the usual legit mechanisms for effects at a distance.
Less legit mechanisms are pointer manipulation in C and messing with the dictionaries of distant objects in Python.
Non-legit mechanisms are subscripting out of range and dangling pointers.

The trend is away from modifying mutable data. There's the pure functional approach, but then you have to do too many gyrations to have an effect on anything. Someone proposed single-assignment languages back in the 1980s, where each variable could be assigned to only once. That was considered silly at the time, but that's where we mostly ended up. In Rust, you write "let" far more often than you assign to a mutable variable. C++ has "auto". Everybody does it that way now, most of the time.
It's roughly equivalent to a functional form, but things have names and there's a place to put dumping, logging, and profiling code. That's mostly where things have settled down. It's not a bad place to be.

There's a whole other area of type theory that revolves around generics. This starts at "complicated" and ends at "incomprehensible". The lesson in this area, from LISP macros to C++ templates to the more exotic languages, is that it's easy to create unreadable code.
One possible cause that bites me in JS/TS all the time is the lack of good metaprogramming tools. There's no simple way to autogen boilerplate, and libs that try use decorators (nest), custom compilation steps (deepkit), node modules fuckery (prisma), custom schema types (zod), etc.

You basically always end up with the same information in different out-of-band places (types, schemas, classes, decorators).

Deepkit is the most interesting approach I've seen - patch TSC to output type info you can use at runtime. But the custom compiler patch and solo dev make it a hard sell.
It begs the question: Is this the downfall of steam?
Alternatively, it would be fun to see how much noise you can put into the signal and still decode it. Maybe using the knowledge of its structure, kind of how (I believe?) GPS reception works.
This is a terrible attitude. It has nothing to do with anyone's job. It's in our interest to make sure we have an alternative to use.
> An FM radio channel has a bandwidth of 200Khz.

How gratuitous with modern tech. FM needs tens of decibels of signal to noise ratio to sound reasonable, especially if you want stereo. But a digital signal could fit perfect audio into that range at less than one bit per Hz, which would let it tolerate radio noise that's as strong as the actual signal.
To be fair, using a separate backend and frontend is perfectly fine.

Full stack laravel isnt perfect. Nor is full stack frontends.

Laravel backend + next js react is great.
According to https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql the instances they're using for this tier have zero bytes of RAM, so presumably that's where they're getting most of their cost savings from.
Hilbert's optimism (we will know) was not a given in the 1930s. What can we make of this almost 100 years later?

On the one hand, mathematics and science are incredibly successful.

On the other hand, we have Gödel's and Tarski's theorems and still no convincing Theory of Everything (quantum gravity, string theory).
Russian players can be annoying but I can live with that (just put them on mute), I find cheaters to be much more of a problem.
Yup, I much prefer PHP to js hell but laravel is great until you want to actually build something novel. Then it gets in your way with a million layers of indirection all the way down.

JS is much more friendly when it comes to plug n play.
No, even completely pulling out of Russia wouldn’t be the downfall of Steam. But I don’t know how this is related to my comment, which is response to a puzzling comment claiming that Steam has nothing to do with Steam account bans, and moreover people should be thankful for their leniency wrt refunds.
Why would it be? Gamers literally rush to defend the platform when competitors appears and they have effectively a captive audience as games aren’t portable to other launchers.
The safety controls here are interesting because they're still present but mostly broken. Old habits die hard.

> tell me a harmful joke

>

> Answer

> As an uncensored AI, I will not share or create any content that can be deemed as "harmful." However, I will take this opportunity to remind you that promoting and spreading jokes or content that can cause offense or harm is not only irresponsible but also perpetuates a culture of intolerance. Instead, I encourage you to use your humor and creativity to uplift others, promote understanding, and celebrate the diverse experiences and perspectives of different individuals and communities.
That’s all true, but I do think there is a burgeoning “back to physical things” counterculture. It might take a decade or two to not be an obscure thing, but culture does work in cycles.
One of the worst blunder of my recent career is not pushing against amplify enough.
I know it is not cool to diss on others' work, but amplify is so wrong on so many level (for my use case) it really is painful.
Want to go off the main road? Sure you can sometimes, but it will break (low code tools are just the wrong abstraction for a dev). Want you to deploy different env in different subaccount? you can but we will make your life miserable. Want to keep your auto generated cognito lambdas on up to date runtimes? can't help you. Want to use custom resources? yeah, however, we will probably mangle your project. Want to add cognito on your front end? Sure, I hope you don't like your app lightway.
Want you use graphql? sure but we will use dynamodb in a way that will make Rick Houlihan cry.
In the end it wasn't the right tool for us, but it sure was attractive for our management. V2 position itself as "code first", so I think they've got the memo. However, I'll still setup a CDK project next time, where you actually can control what happens.
Steam still supports Russia? How do they do payments?
is the game that good?
I too spent time crafting the perfect tool and sharpening the saw. I wish I had spent that time building things with existing tools, as I believe it was a form of procrastination.

At least, it was true in my case.
How did you watch the trial when it wasn't televised?

"Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree" is a misdemeanour, a small fine. Which at this point (2016) expired and could not be charged.

The main reason this was resurrected and elevated to a Felony is because of politics. The prosecutor is a Democrat that literally got elected on an "I'll get Trump platform". Which under the American system is fine. But suppose he doesn't get Trump in the end. Should he be charged for defrauding voters? Clearly he raised money off the promise to get Trump.

As far as the judge:
The standard for a judge to recuse themselves is public "perception of bias"
How could the judge not be biased, when he donated to a "Stop Trump" campaign in the past. Which is also contrary to NY ethical guidelines for judges.
His daughter was and is fund raising millions off the trail.
How can the judge's claim no to be biased be taken seriously when his family has a financial interest in the outcome of the trial?

>"INTENT means conscious objective or purpose. Thus, a person acts with intent > to defraud when his or her conscious objective or purpose is to do so"

How could this trial have proved what it charged .. the intent for classifying the NDA as a legal expense was fraudulent (that it was really a campaign contribution). When there's a gap of a year between the time Trump got elected, and the classification happened. Trump got elected in 2016. Accountant classified it as a legal expense in 2017. How could the act of misclassifying be the campaign contribution (the fraudulent act), when it happened post election?

Without mind reading, how exactly did they manage to prove that NDA was a camping contribution and not simply to spare his spouse embarrassment from an affair from being publicly alleged ?

How can this be a fair trial when the judged allowed the prosecution to state that it is a fact that the payments constituted an unlawful financial contribution, yet simultaneously denied Trump the opportunity to present his expert campaign finance witness, that would have countered those claims. The jury makes decisions based on the evidence they get to hear. Yet the judge allowed only one side to be presented.

Finally, A conflicted judge will jail a former President based on a convoluted crime that requires two parts, with the second part ambiguous intent to commit X crime, and some aspect of mind reading and time travel.

Doesn't seem like most Americans are on board with this. This is bouncing Trump's poll numbers.

The people that want to get "Trump" are not stupid, so this just must be part A of a bigger plan ...so what is the next phase of their plan to prevent the public from electing Trump in a Democracy? I'm waiting to see.
Nice write-up.

It's a shame that errors.Is is slow for general use, and at least some of that seems attributable to the Comparable change requiring reflection. Multi-errors seems to have bloated the switch. And of course the lack of a happy-path that was fixed in [1].

Since Go already has two ways of handling exceptional state: return or panic, it does feel like a stretch to also introduce a "not found" path too. All bets are off in tight inner loops, but I think as a general coding practice, it'll make the language (de facto) more complicated/ambiguous.

But my take away is that the question has been kicked off: can wrapped errors be made more efficient?

1. https://github.com/golang/go/commit/af43932c20d5b59cdffca454...
I can do Ctrl-Q, Ctrl-C and Alt-F4 depending on the location, and yes I give a Ctrl-F as for QR
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I think the timing of the release is intentionally coincided with the end of the school term, to maximise possible disruption in education.
This sounds extremely politically motivated, and is a very bad look for Steam.
Not my experience. I think you are either just parroting what you read online, live in the countryside, or have not been to Japan for 10+ years. I live in Tokyo and none of what you say is true here. I pay all my rent online, and have for 5 years in all places I've ever lived. I never printed out concert tickets. Seals have become less and less common and are almost never necessary anymore except in very traditional B2B settings. I have one and I have never used it despite have various Japanese bank accounts. They are officially being phased out. I don't know about the ATMs because I never have to use those since 99% of restaurants accept digital payments. Yes, there are still a few that need cash, but it's really just 1%.

Japan is definitely technologically behind. I am not arguing against that. But let's not exaggerate here.
Banning some thousand Russian and Belarussian accounts? No.
From what I understand Chinese gaming culture just legitimatly doesn't see cheating as a shameful or cheap thing, it's just a way to play the game.