skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what if you simply forget you even had a subscription?

Others have addressed your other points, but this one is where I roar. As a very frugal and paranoid guy, I watch my credit card activity like a hawk - like twice daily. There is no way in hell I'd simply "forget" that I'm paying for something. This idea evokes one of those "how do people live like this" reactions from me.

If there is a transaction against my credit card I don't recognize, an outgoing check i didn't write, a charge that doesn't match what was on the receipt, an interest deposit that doesn't match what it should be, and so on, I know within the day, not within a few months, and can take action.

And the best part is: It's not a lot of work. Get something like Quicken or one of its alternatives, which can connect to all of your bank accounts and credit card accounts at once, and simply hit refresh once a day while you're drinking your morning coffee. You'll find you're much more on top of things just by doing that simple thing.
I'm paranoid enough at this point that I check that the Cert authority for my bank is the one I know it to have before I log in on the website.
It's tough to fight against it if the culture is brought down from the C-level -- and usually that's the case. Fighting will always lose unless you are a very senior member, say a senior VP, and even that probably doesn't make any sense to fight a losing war. You gain nothing except frustration and less compensation. But it might as well worth the effort if you are looking forward to retirng in a few years so delaying the rot could be useful.

I'll have to keep hopping until I see something not so bad.
F tier article.
There was a video of him talking about it, but I can't recall the exact words or the name of the video.

But his operating system, TempleOS, was based on HolyC which was compiled to pure x64, and had support for inline x64 assembly.
It probably won't be you
It's interesting and amazing that most of those results by ChapGPT are completely wrong.

The only ones that got right are 5 and 6 that are 10 and 11 in the GP numbering. 5->10 was an easy one. 6->11 was one of the equations we coudn't identify, but ChatGPT got correctly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedmann_equations
You're welcome to flag, but it looks like maybe you're the minority opinion on this. Looks like more people prefer a TL;DR than are upset by it.
> This should become the normal case.

But it won't. I'd bet big on that prediction.
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It's well-deserved. I admire the author's go-for-broke attitude and his
willingness to speak potentially career-destroying truths while the rest
of us gripe about misguided ML projects in the safe pseudonymity of HN
comment threads.
> Flavours are a major reason why youth begin to vape. We need to ban e-cigarette flavours other than tobacco flavour and we’re urging the federal government to finalize the June 2021 draft regulation as soon as possible.

I'm struggling to understand this position. I think he's saying that people (teens in particular) won't get addicted to vaping if tobacco is the only flavor available, because it's not as pleasant as the other flavors on offer today. But, there is a proven market for a nicotine delivery device that tastes like tobacco: we call them cigarettes, and teenagers have been into them for a hundred years and counting.

If the reply is that it's better for them to get addicted to vaping, because vaping is safer than cigarettes, I agree. But then what is this debate about?

I guess the idea is that there would be some difference between the number of people who would be willing to start vaping tobacco vs. smoking tobacco, and this is our margin of success. To me it seems like it wouldn't be a huge number.

I dunno, I think vaping is gross and kind of funny, but it's helped decrease the number of college students who already have smoker's coughs, so I say we sell bubblegum vape juice to minors and take the win.
I'm sure my coal miner grandfather who had Black Lung would disagree.
False premise, well, I installed many people linux over the years and I personally use Arch. But my experience is apparently wrong.

And just because you can use something for internet, does not mean it satisfies user need in general. It satisfies some users needs. Those who need a little - those who understand the system. But the mainstreamusers in the middle .. continue to stay away for a reason. But hopefully more will invest in the change, with the forced win 11 change.
Note that Sublime Text always prompts for each unsaved file in cases where their content could be lost. We heavily prioritize issues with data loss. That being said I still wouldn't recommend keeping important stuff unsaved, really they should be fully backed up like everything else important.
I love the concept. As someone keeps everything on browser, I can see a demand for the web version.
I'm trying to follow how this can happen as I use Sublime's cache feature for temporary notes between meetings and want to make sure there isn't some corner case I've just not run into yet. The two related scenarios I can grok from this are:

- Create unsaved or modified versions of saved documents -> close Sublime completely (no prompt, documents go to cache) -> open download.txt -> new window has tabs for the cached documents and a new tab for download.txt

- Create unsaved or modified versions of saved documents -> open download.txt in a new Sublime window (2 windows open now) -> try to close unsaved/modified documents -> get popup warning that changes will not be saved (because it isn't the last window so they won't be saved for the session persistence)

But both of these are safe (i.e. you don't lose anything unless you click the button saying you want to lose something) so there must be another path to failure I'm missing.
> I can't think of any reason why we should not make password managers mandatory for all web authentication today, with the password manager being the 2nd factor.

Basic usability? The security theatre is making computing more and more yanky every year, with questionable benefits, and with no regard to the drop in efficiency.

For most accounts I don't care much if they are compromised. And have never been compromised even with a lot of "worst practices".

Would you agree also that MFA should be mandated for everybody's doors? Or to my bike?
"Compromised is primarily a memoir of former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok"

Given how this ex-agent has disgraced himself by his conduct and during his Congress testimony, I wouldn't trust anything he says.
Thanks for responding. Here’s what I mean about proofs. I learned how to do them in college, and in the early classes we got a lot of leeway on grading, and then as we moved up they expected more and more rigor. But it was still a conversation, like if I got dinged a few points on an exam question, I could take it to my professor and make my argument that my proof was valid, and I might get a point or two back. The proof-as-mathematical-object either exists or does not, but deciding whether my answer pointed to that proof was a social exercise.

Professional mathematicians also cut either other some slack. Most proofs published today have small errors — typographical, skipped steps, etc — and those bugs are never fixed. Despite the bugs, we’re confident in the results, and that confidence is a product of social consensus.

On the other hand, also in college, I had my programming classes, where I would turn in my code and they ran it through a test harness, and my grade was the number of tests that passed. So, if there was a syntax error, I got a 0. This was brutally harsh to the good students who attended every class, took notes, and studied, but who did not conform their minds to writing code. But that’s how we learn programming, because the compiler doesn’t care about intentions and “almost” is worth nothing.

Alan Perlis said “programming is an unnatural act.” It’s not harder than other jobs — in many ways it’s easier — but it’s much weirder, and it makes you weird. Professional programmers write bugs, constantly: why can’t they just write the code, without the bugs? Because our minds aren’t built that way.
At least provide a source for this information please.
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I've been using GlazeWM (https://github.com/glzr-io/glazewm) for a bit now and have been enjoying it. I only use it for very basic window-tiling and its going through a re-write atm
Nice!

It made me realise that we currently live in a time that can never be accurately referenced outside the planet.

So no software can ever truly define 2024-07-11T00:00 on Pluto.

It also makes me think that the Mass Relais in Mass Effects could actually also be atomic clocks forming this galactic time grid of reference, so in-game lore seems less implausible.
There are more sophisticated chunking strategies, you will lose lots of context like that
I think it was hyperbole for comedic effect.
I think saying women like her are enslaved is itself misogyny. She has agency. She's the one who pushed for our setup (I probably would've done grad school for math or physics and tried to go the academic route if we hadn't met). My reply is to illustrate that you're thinking about people like us wrong: she didn't make a sacrifice to be a homemaker; she's not pining to go work in an office. I make the sacrifice by working so she doesn't have to. In fact during our 20s she had no responsibilities at all and could pursue any passions she wanted to knowing I had the money handled.

I don't know how relevant our situation is in the wider scope. I'm only speaking to the way people think it's fine to second guess her in a way they wouldn't if she had a job they'd like her to have. Jira isn't going to bring fulfillment to her life. Most businesses aren't curing cancer; they just have some kind of boring work that they need someone to apply a generic solution to. It's not very intellectually stimulating either; you're not doing particle physics.

To the extent that it is relevant, I'd speculate that most guys pretty much don't care at all about a potential spouse's career prospects while most girls do. So if a girl is in a social circle with lots of guys with high paying career potential (e.g. engineering class), she can probably marry one of them and pursue whatever she wants. Guys will generally not do as well in the dating market if they have their mind set on being a househusband. They might find someone, but it will probably be quite a bit more difficult. I have no idea how much of an effect that would have and obviously there will be multiple reasons for the discrepancy. I know I wouldn't be doing software as a job if I had that option though, and I like programming! Like another commenter said, if "campground manager" paid as well, they'd probably do that instead.
> Is that so hard to buy one and refill it?

There are a lot of decisions to make when buying a refillable vape. There are various models, they have compatible, disposable pods (the vape juice receptacle) with coils of various ohms resistance, and then juices which are either salt nic or free base with a range of nicotine concentrations.

One could go to a vape shop and have the clerk explain all of this, or spend a bit of time researching online. It's not especially hard, but it _is_ harder than just strolling to any corner store or gas station and asking for a disposable vape.

The e-waste of disposables is hard to stomach, especially some of the newer disposables that even have LCDs and buttons for playing little games on the vape.
Never understood this line of thought. Not everything needs to be super secure. Not everything is going to be an attack vector. No one is going to deploy this onto a production server where this program specifically is going to be the attack vector.

Memory safety is cool and all, but a program that effectively sums a bunch of numbers together isn't going to cause issues. Worst case the program segfaults
I’m not well versed in QA/Sysadmin/Logs but surely metrics suffer from Simpson’s paradox compared to properly probed questions only answered through having access to the entirety of the logs?

If you average out metrics across all log files you’re potentially reaching false or worse inverse conclusions about multiple distinct subsets of the logs

It’s part of the reason why statisticians are so pedantic about the wording of their conclusions and to which subpopulation their conclusions actually apply to
Well there were a lot of nobodies including me using it last night.
Mostly agree though the concept of materiality seems out of place here.

Decision making factors that in sure but system design absolutely shouldn’t. There is no reason why accounting systems can’t be accurate down to the penny. That’s what computers are good at after all.

Only place where I could see system like relevance is in presentation- showing revenue on millions etc
I don't think this argument really holds up in a world where China built twenty-eight thousand miles of HSR in two decades, a lot of it connecting disparate urban areas much like what the US has:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-speed_railway_lin...
No it actually can be done competently, believe it or not. The best example of this I've seen is Swisscom. Swisscom has a customer support bot, they call it "Sam". Sam is amazing and a lesson to all other companies in how to automate customer support.

1. Sam tells you it's a bot. They don't hide what they're doing.

2. Sam is optional. You can choose to call human support at any time.

3. If you agree to always try chatting to Sam first they cut you in on the savings, and reduce your monthly bill. The reduction is big enough to be definitely worth it, it's not 10 cents a month or anything like that.

4. Sam escalates quickly and voluntarily if it can't work out how to answer your question. It doesn't try and block you from talking with a person.

5. Sam is astonishingly good at actually answering questions. I don't know what tech they're using for this; it seems like some sort of really souped up LLM with great RAG, maybe. Whatever it is, it works. Several times I've contacted Swisscom support and gone through Sam, and it did in fact solve my problem.

6. All the above is true even though I'm interacting with Sam in English, which is not a Swiss national language.

Truly, this is what a good bot-supported contact experience should be like. Of course in most cases institutions don't do such a good job, and just become frustrating. Bots that pretend to be human, bots that don't seem to know the answers to anything, bots that make it as hard as possible to escalate and of course in the end ... nothing in it for the customer to put up with that. But if Swisscom can do it then other companies can too, there's nothing magical about this use case.

My assumption is that after a while we're going to find that most people actually prefer bot driven support experiences, same as how they came to prefer self checkout at supermarkets, ATMs at banks etc.
Yup, everything is pushed back and further out.

Civilization has been pushed back too with stuff like Gobekli Tepe. If I had to make a bet I'd say there's probably a lot of far older stuff out there, some of which might not be discovered due to destruction during the end of the last ice age or simply having been built in temperate climates instead of desert or near-desert. Agriculture and permanent settlement and systems of governance were probably discovered multiple times in multiple places.

It's a trend in space too with better and better telescopes. The further we look, the more we see.

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

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-webb-delivers-deepe...

Webb sees galaxies earlier than they should be, and more of them than it should see.

The universe is huge in both time and space, much larger than we would have imagined even 50-100 years ago.

It's biiiiiiiiig maaaaaaan... bubble bubble...
Where is the most densely populated square kilometre in the UK? (2023)
The lessons of lean manufacturing may not apply to design processes themselves, but a lean transformation in manufacturing often relies a lot on certain design choices (poka-yoke in assembling, standardization to cut setup times, etc). Design is often one of the most important factors in successful lean companies. I totally get the point, though.
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This is a terrible piece. Whoever wrote it probably signed up for a subscription and forgot to cancel it.

I see it all the time with my app. It's stated several times on the sign up screen that it's auto-renewing. Yet, somehow, people are mad when the renewal happens, or the overdraft occurs, for a $0.99 purchase.

Doesn't matter if you don't read the paper that's delivered to your house every morning, the service is still provided. Same thing with app services.

If you signed up for it, you signed up for it. Not my fault if you fail to cancel it if you're not using/reading it.
The free (FOSS, I believe) program Celestia is excellent for showing kids that kind of thing.

It’s also lua-scriptable. I once created a “tour of the solar system” script that worked like a presentation (hit a button to advance to the next view) for my wife to use in her classroom, in an afternoon, never having scripted the program or written Lua before. Did a top-down view with orbital tracks, zoomed to planets, did side-by-side size comparisons, all kinds of stuff. Not hard to use, very cool. Or you can just click around the UI and use keyboard shortcuts to demonstrate quite a bit of stuff.
You can always learn plumbing,
Specialty stuff like high frequency trading, risk models, bespoke instruments, and other non-retail products. Like if you're doing HFT, you're probably rolling your own loops.

But the broader point is that this piece is about accounting-related systems that don't typically deal with hard volume, speed, or latency constraints. The term "finance" can mean the corporate "finance & accounting department" but you want to differentiate that from "finance" the industry. The headline does really tell you what actual material is.
This page is utterly confusing. Is it about a CV? I don't see what is being resumed.
I’ve got to disagree here, especially with memoization and streaming, deriving metric from structured logs is extremely flexible, relatively fast, and can be configured to be as cheap as you need it to be. With streaming you can literally run your workload on a raspberry pi. Granted, you need to write the code to do so yourself, most off-the-shelf services probably are expensive
It’s also 2024 and you still can’t share JavaScript objects between threads. Do not underestimate the horror that is tracing garbage collection with multiple mutator threads. (Here[1] is Guile maintainer Andy Wingo singing praises to the new, simpler way to do it... in 2023, referring to a research paper from 2008 that he came across a year before that post.)

[1] https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/02/07/whippet-towards-a-n...
I think people generally expected larger improvements between iterations. Intel and AMD continue to deliver sizeable performance and efficiency gains every 1-2 years while it feels like the Apple M-series isn't getting comparable gains. It definitely seems like Apple has suffered significant enough brain drain in recent years that they're finding it difficult to iterate on the M1.
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> What many here on HN don't realize

I've seen this sentiment a few times in the comments here, but I really doubt that a significant number of readers here don't realize that.
Looks like someone was already maintaining an ebuild for Gentoo https://gpo.zugaina.org/app-editors/zed
> The big issue with this code is that it was directly linked via a script tag from a CDN (Content Delivery Network). This means that at any given moment, you have no idea what is actually going to be running on your site.

What exactly is the benefit you can get from linking something on an out-of-premise public CDN anyway? To save some traffic?

You still needs to host images and other files by yourself, one big picture could be a few times bigger than those jslibs. Not to mention then you have to handle loading priorities etc to make the external scripts work right.

For me, the only acceptable type of externally linked resource is the one inserted by the CDN that also hosts the site. For example, the statistics script inserted by Cloudflare if you host the site on Cloudflare. Other than that, IMO the risk out weight the benefit.
Every time Haidt comes up, I do go through the post and do another literature search on social media effects.

The most notable thing about this post is the MHQ figures. However, you might note that the difference in age of smartphone use moves a person by at most one bucket. Given that he is suggesting a ban on smartphones and/or social media, I would expect some more catastrophic effect.

In terms of the literature review, this time I read through [0]. It also finds small but significant effects on anxiety and depression, but finds no significant effects on overall measures of well-being. This is because social media also seems to have some positive effects on some other measures of well-being. This meta analysis also finds that age does not seem to change the effects of social media. On longitudinal studies, it seems like social well-being does decrease social media use, but anxiety and depression to not increase social media use. Also, social media use doesn't seem to cause anxiety and depression here, so there is probably some third factor causing anxiety, depression, and social media use which causes this correlation.

Also interesting is that internationally the effects are neutral, and in the US, the effects are neutral, but in Europe they are negative, while in Asia they are positive. IDK why, but it doesn't really support his hypothesis that social media has some sort of catastrophic impact worth banning.

[0]: https://gwern.net/doc/sociology/technology/2022-hancock.pdf
> maybe just test

“Craptop duty”: https://css-tricks.com/test-your-product-on-a-crappy-laptop/.
You are about 27 years late to the game on that idea.
Hasn't each gen been like 20-30% performance? Isn't that better than what AMD and Intel have managed?
That's not how the RERs work. The only shared track between any RER lines is the short tunnel for the B and D lines between Chatelet - Les Halles and Gare Du Nord. There have been many plans about doubling it, but it would be extremely expensive because it's under one of the densest and oldest parts of the city, and cross multiple metro lines, and connecting to two of the largest transit hubs in Europe and the world outside of East Asia.

Every other line has dedicated tracks. There can and often are branches, but usually they're 2-3 at most per "side" of the central trunk, with the exception of the unwieldly spaghetti that used to be the RER C between the simplification of it, which reduced it to three branches per side as well.

* RER A in question has two branches to the east, and three to the west.

* B has 2.5 to the south and 2 to the north

* D has 2-3 to the south and one to the north

* E has two to the east, and for now one to the west (I think there will be 1.5 in the end when it's all finished)

So not at all comparable to the S-Bahns that more often than not get all forced into a single tunnel resulting in atrocious frequency on the branches. As an example, frenquency on the branches in rush hour on the A is 5 minutes at most on the least frequented branches. At the worst of times, late at night on the least frequented branches of the least frequented lines you're looking into 20-30 minutes frequency, which isn't great, but isn't terrible either for a station in the middle of nowhere far away on the C, D or E.