skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So is the rest of America. Any evidence the rate is higher? Free soda and food may contribute I give you that.
I just listed to a podcast interviewing Alexandre Lefebvre about his book ‘Liberalism as a Way of Life’

He draws a parallel with Sorin Kierkegaard’s idea of “Christendom” and a new kind of “liberal-dom”. Where our personal values system is born out of the sea of liberal institutions that we love in, like constitutions.

Philosopher's Zone:
https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/philosophers-zone/id13...
number of nodes mean nothing. what matters to measure performance is how much interconnected your network is and how complex are the relationships you want to extract.
Discipline Doesn't Equal Freedom
> The reality is that our economic model often allows, and sometimes encourages, practices that are detrimental to consumer interests but beneficial to corporate bottom lines.

Thank you for proving my point.

There is no such thing as a perfect system, and there never will be. Human society is simply too complex to be modeled perfectly - and without a perfect model, a perfect system is an impossibility. That doesn't mean we shouldn't seek to improve it, but it ALSO doesn't at all detract from the marvelous, unlikely miracle we witness every day and are so blasé about that we'd even contemplate supporting those who intend to burn it to the ground.

Every time I bring this subject up, the curmudgeons always come out to tell us how bad we have it today. And they can do it too, because everyone who experienced the before times is now dead and can't speak up (I'm only old enough to speak up about the air pollution). Only a careful study of history can give a (partial) picture of just how shitty life was for 99% of people compared to today.
If we don’t know going into this hypothetical what sort of person we’ll be, we can still play the odds and say we should lock up child rapists and murders for life. It is very unlikely we’ll be born as one, and letting them go free will allow them to harm multiple people…
Why was Russia flaring off natural gas in the period before the explosion, if Russia was not involved? Wikipedia: gas deliveries were suspended from August 31, 2021 and Germany "suspended" certification of Nord Stream 2. Ukraine had nothing to gain by this sabotage. Instead, there was a spitting fight between Russia and Germany. One of the Nord Stream 2 pipelines was left untouched, if Germany would only swallow its collective pride and accept gas through Nord Stream 2 - and allow the Russian entities get paid for their investments.

The argument and conclusion that Ukraine would divert its resources and act against its allies while it was desperately defending against Russia and Belarus are preposterous. Ukraine was not acting outside its own borders at the time, while Russia is well-known to having no respect for other sovereigns.
It is dangerously easy to hack the worlds phones
I'm surprised, but not too surprised.

I read somewhere that there can be over 10 billion virus particles in a liter of sea water. There's no way we know everything in there. It's easier to see and count larger things, but we're really just point sampling a HUGE space when it comes to looking at living creatures.

And life is kind of a continuum - it's not like one day a neandrathal gave birth to a human and that was that - each new generation is a new level of the tree evolving in a certain direction and slightly different than anything that came before it.
It might have been that they photographed actual food instead of today’s photoshopped fake props.
But given a large project, does any of that really average out to a multiple? Or is just a nice to have? This is what I keep encountering. It's all very focused on boilerplate or templating or small functions or utility. But at some point of code complexity, what is the % of time saved really?

Especially considering the amount of ai babysitting and verification required. AI code obviously cannot be trusted even if it "works."

I watched the video and there wasn't anything new compared to how I used Copilot and ChatGPT for over a year. I stopped because I realized eventually got in the way, and I felt it was preventing me from building the mental model and muscle memory that the early drudge work of a project requires.

I still map ai code completion to ctrl-; but I find myself hardly ever calling it up.

(For the record, I have 25+ years professional experience)
I believe the hawk moths are the moths that metamorphose from tomato and tobacco hornworm caterpillars. The moths are great pollinators so they are very good to have around the garden. I have seen them hitting everything from datura to yucca blooms.

If you find hornworms eating your tomatoes you may be tempted to squash them. Instead of doing that you can remove them and put them to work on any other plant in the Solanacea family like peppers, potatoes, eggplants, or better yet put them on some jimsonweed, or one of the other weeds in the nightshade (Solanacea) family or some of the nettles.
While it's true that no system is perfect, recognizing the US's achievements doesn't mean we should overlook its flaws, especially when they're as tangible as rapidly rising costs for essentials like housing and healthcare. The harsh conditions of the past shouldn't justify complacency today. Instead (as Rawls recommends), we should acknowledge these challenges should compel us to strive for a fairer distribution of resources and opportunities, ensuring progress continues for future generations.
I don’t know, I browsed through some of the pictures and I would prefer a lot of it to what is served at nowadays hipster restaurants or street food trucks (vegan quinoa bowl, I‘m looking at you…)
Agreed. There seems to be an “Research API” for TikTok that is available[1].
I’d like to find an API to query to track my youtube consumption.

[1] https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/research-api-get-started
I’m guessing just the DNS lookups for TikTok app might be unique enough.
The “constitution” becomes (again) just a piece of paper when most of the people can’t afford housing (valid for all Western countries) and when they’re a major medical emergency away from fucking up their life for good (valid mostly for
US).
Without housing and without decent healthcare everything else doesn’t matter anymore.

But as this forum is full of techies who are among the only ones still benefiting from this current system then of course that pro-liberalism nonsense like the stuff espoused by Rawls will have lots of adherents.
A division free integer in a range RNG has been developed: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/39143
"detecting their style" is trivial only because people take the default output and run with it. You can significantly alter it if you want and it would be an obvious thing to do for such test. Right now the default output styles of public LLMs have no reason to try avoiding detection and is not trained to do it.
> Like why is this deleted row being listed in this <select>? Did I forget to add `WHERE deleted_at IS NULL` again?

This is adding more complexity but... views?

For example: rename the "foo" table to "all_foo" and "CREATE VIEW foo AS SELECT * FROM all_foo WHERE deleted_at IS NULL"

I think you could even create a trigger on the view so "DELETE FROM foo" gets replaced with an "UPDATE all_foo SET deleted_at = NOW()", but I've never tried that before.
This is mostly a myth. It's impossible to actually keep only the soil underneath one's home a consistent degree of wet. If you water the soil under your house, the water eventually gets sucked out by capillary action to all of the dry parts of your lawn (and your neighbors lawn).

It would only work if everyone watered EVERYWHERE, by a uniform amount.
Controversially, Rawls asserts that you clearly want to maximize the worst outcome in this case (the "maximin" principle). Economists strongly disagree as it doesn't take into account probability. If you have the potential to live in Junkland, where life is moderately unhappy for everyone, or in Omelas, which is utopia for 1,000,000 individuals and pure torture for 1, Rawls asserts that you should obviously choose Mediocreland. But if you are randomly assigned a place in Omelas, you have really great odds of coming out quite well. The book includes some contortions to ensure this outcome. It has always been surprising to me that the original position argument had so much impact when it seems like a very odd starting point to me. But I like probability and statistics, so maybe I'm weird.
It was so weird reading a science article that uses feet, and even more so since the research was done in Finland.
Wow! It's great to see an Andy Matuschak related post. I've been checking out his content over the last week, and it's really inspiring.

I've been theorizing a similar idea for browsing Wikipedia (or pdfs), except it's only two panels. One is the current page, and the other is a Obsidian-like node graph. As you click on links, words, terms, or phrases in the article, new nodes are created. These would be concepts you're unfamiliar with.

This would build out a tree of ignorance, with an implicitly generated knowledge dependency graph, which you could systematically study.

My goal is to be able to delve into highly advanced topics for which I have little background knowledge, building out a "syllabus" as I go.
> They should just be iterating on top of the previous game.

You can’t boot your whole game every time to do AI iteration. Whether or not the menu loads is completely irrelevant to your work. You don’t really want to integrate your broken shit with the currently working rest of the game either.

At least, that’s how I’d think about it.
As person who has been doing “react” since 2016 I would say that it removes so much of the “react” complex BS that I am surprised it is not x100 times more popular.

We’ve recently moved one service from next to Astro and it was just removing a ton of boilerplate and “dance around” code.
Can you provide sources for this then?
If he read it at the same age range I did, then a 13 year old certainly seemed like a man by comparison.
The brushes wear down. The springs atop them can need a little help: tap! Or, the solenoid can stick as its lubrication fails.
“When asked, Google communications manager Kayla Geier told The Verge that “#TeamPixel is a distinct program, separate from our press and creator reviews programs. The goal of #TeamPixel is to get Pixel devices into the hands of content creators, not press and tech reviewers. We missed the mark with this new language that appeared in the #TeamPixel form yesterday, and it has been removed.”

Those terms certainly caused confusion online, with some assuming such terms apply to all product reviewers. However, that isn’t the case. Google’s official Pixel review program for publications like The Verge requires no such stipulations
>Lets take the obvious scenario, someone does a blatant large scale steal of an election. (they get access to manufacturer, set up their own firmware to be updated on all voting machines)

A DRE machine with a paper trail works by having the voter see the actual printed paper before committing the vote. How can an attacker overcome the paper record that has been verified by the voter before the vote is committed? Thats why I said that risk limiting audit where you perform statistical analysis on the paper ballots is the best of all worlds. It allows quick results and if there is either a close election or an anomaly from the audit then the entire paper backup is counted manually.

Fortunately many states have already laws on the books to automatically trigger a manual count if the election is within a specific extremely close margin but I believe they should also do the risk auditing on all elections which is still something that activists are working towards getting implemented.

>It's already too late. The winners will contest statistic analysis and say fake news then tie it and any recount up in lawsuits. (perhaps combined with arranging for some ballots to be destroyed in secondary storage so any recount would be contestable too)

That implies that the election staff is compromised. Each ballot has a unique serial number(at least in the states I have looked at).

>So why not avoid the issue entirely and go paper ballots with independent observers.

I have also been involved in a lawsuit contesting an election in NY. The bigger issue is not intimidation of staff or potential destruction of ballots(there are mitigations for both of those), its that when the ballots themselves are ambiguous (say in the case of a person marking a paper ballot incorrectly) then it allows legal maneuvers to dismiss ballots and swing an election which is exactly what happened in the recount triggered by the lawsuit. We had a number of paper ballots marked incorrectly and it was not possible to reach the voters in time to have their vote registered correctly so the election was lost by the person filing the lawsuit.

This issue would have been avoided by a electronic machine producing clean paper records verified by voters and are not ambiguous in a recount.
I derive my values from systems theory, for sure not liberalism.

Every complex adaptive system has needs for coming into existence, maintaining that existence, and adapting with the environment.

When two complex adaptive systems interact, a third one with new capabilities emerges with the two as components. This emergent system has needs for its existence, maintenance, and adaptability.

Most/all of life is complex adaptive systems interacting.

So there exists needs we all have on the specific level of each body, as well as collective needs emerging from our interactions.

One of those needs, for the sake of maintenance, is the moderation of meeting our needs.

In order to learn to moderate our needs, we need to oversatisfy and undersatisfy them so we can learn what it feels like to do so and when.

So our needs are nondual, in the sense that we need to fast/feast on each.

And then there's the needs related to maintaining our external environments.

If we choose to live and serve life, we need to learn to moderate the needs of the environments we live in.
My trouble is why on earth, if you want people to use your thing, don’t you have a demo or gif of it working right on your README!

I instantly give up on projects that don’t bother to SHOW.

DONT TELL ME, SHOW ME!
When you have ballots that have multiple questions on it and different amounts for each state, it scales linearly.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-184ssFce4&t=1578s
I'd like to see it illegal to prompt for a tip. Businesses can have a tip jar or a sign with a venmo QR code on it.

But make it illegal for POS systems to have a default tip and prompt for a tip.
The intent here is to support the following approach for tag function authors:

1. Parse to an AST, generally using an off-the-shelf parser. In practice, it's possible to rewrite interpolations with a placeholder suitable for a given language, eg x$Nx for HTML. Of course if that doesn't actually work, you might have to write/modify an existing parser. Hopefully we can cleverly avoid this extra work.

2. Walk/compile the AST, filling interpolations, but taking in account the context. This can for example take the form of building appropriate query strings that avoid Bobby Tables SQL injection, whether by mapping to SQL placeholders or with appropriate quoting (such as for a column or table name).

3. Memoize these steps, much as we see with builtin DSLs in Python, like the re module; see https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.12/Lib/re/__init__.... We do plan to make this easier/faster by supporting getting the original source of the template string (Template.source), vs the *args approach we show in the PEP at the start of this discussion (this will become Template.args instead; Template here is the proposed protocol of the object passed in).

Related is my post here:
https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-750-tag-strings-for-writing...
Anyone else used Hono with SSR JSX? [1]

Was super productive and easy to create a Cloudflare Worker Web App that’s free to host thanks to Cloudflare’s generous 100k daily worker request limit.

Generally don’t believe in serverless for larger Apps, but for small websites that you just want to create, deploy and ignore - it’s great!

https://hono.dev/docs/guides/jsx
Coz we simply don't understand how we understand, period.
> E.g. how will the average Joe be able to impact a century-long conflict in Palestine?

The 'average' American has so much influence, in fact, that the cornerstone of Israeli foreign policy and national security is the support of average Americans.

How that mechanism works is an interesting question, but not too hard to imagine: Israel is much too small to defend itself, and therefore depends on support from the most powerful country in the world. That support happens largely because average Americans want it. Imagine, for example, if one of the current candidates said, 'if elected, I will cut off all support to Israel' - probably they would lose the election.

The beliefs of average Americans have great influence over many things, which is why powerful people spend so much time, money, and effort trying to persuade them. Look at Fox News and MSNBC; look at Russian and Chinese (and probably other) social media influence operations; look at the near infinite political propaganda; look at Musk, who spent $40B on such influence, and at how much time he spends posting in order to influence people.

Another way to influence average Americans is to convince them to surrender their power and not even try. That leaves the field more open for others to control events.
I am not quite well in Omelas. Don’t think I can ever fully be.
Photon entanglement could explain the rapid brain signals behind consciousness
I work with an extremely effective machine learning engineer, and the biggest thing I've learned is how far you can get with vibes, even in a more traditional ML situation.

He invests most of his time visualizing the inputs and outputs of his systems very carefully, instead of focusing super heavily on metrics; this is a lot more effective than I thought it would be, particularly in the early stages of a project.
> irregardless of its misuse

<<eye twitch>>

You're doing that on purpose.
IDK. I think people can overthink the problem a bit.

I done the is_deleted flag with a deleted_at timestamp that gets cascaded down the table relations. Restoring is an admin job and the logic is to follow the table relations down again restoring linked objects with the same deleted_at timestamp.

I have this in a metadata database that controls a data warehouse. Accidentally knocking out a metadata record could nuke large parts of the warehouse so i have to have this and a locked flag that prevents records from being removed or even soft deleted once data is in the warehouse.
Even a worse decision then because they're still supporting UI around it.

Did it really come down to some PM not wanting to do registrar paperwork?
Thanks to the feedback in the Discourse thread, we will be changing the signature such that a tag function will be passed an object implementing a Template protocol, with attributes source, for the original source string as written; and attribute args for what was *args in the starting version of the PEP.

Template.source can act as a memoization key.
Okay, so this miracle drug isn't a miracle either. Which miracle drug is?!?! I'm not asking sarcastically or ironically- I'm sincerely begging for miracles. Anyone??
>I distinctly remember live following the 2020 presidential election, going to sleep after all polls closed in the US, and waking up 8 hours later with the race still undecided. How is this possible with a fully electronic system? Why is it not near-instant? This is what I haven't understood yet and would love to be explained.

They were suffering from the downsides of switching to an all paper ballot system: If you recall there was a worldwide pandemic occurring in 2020 so as a result all states offered paper ballots which were mailed in.

And that election cycle, a record-breaking number of ballots were cast by mail.

In Pennsylvania, things were delayed because the state wasn't allowed to start the process of verifying and counting ballots until Election Day. Pennsylvania is the state with the most votes left to count, as the end of the election and it went into Thursday if I recall.

Some states, like Nevada, are also continuing to accept any mail-in ballots that arrive by Tuesday, Nov. 10, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day. That means votes were still trickling in, and all of those would have been counted.

The 2020 election essentially proved my point.
site says "malware and phishing"
This is from Anaconda and built on Pyodide:

PyScript is currently built on Pyodide, which is a “port of CPython to WebAssembly/Emscripten.” PyScript supports writing and running Python code in a browser.

Like conda I find the whole thing very confusing and slow, but I suppose it will be marketed to academics as "the thing to do web development with". It will also be soft-abandoned.

Just use Javascript, PHP or Scala like lichess.org, which is a professional website.
And from my experience building complex web UIs, those team members were right -- there are many ways to avoid the issues and using vdom is great in general. True, there are situations where it falls short, which is why you will want to fall back to other techniques for those bits of architecture. Just like your JS, Python or Ruby server will call a bunch of functions written in C or the like. That doesn't mean you should write your entire backend in C.
> Economists strongly disagree

What do economists have to do with it, seeing as its a philosophical position, and not one that attempts to predict the economy (badly)?

Mathematically, we can deal with it by taking the pth power of whichever metric of utility per individual, then maximizing the expected value. When p->inf, then we maximize E(utility^p) by maximizing the maximal utility. When p->0, we maximize E(utility^p) by maximizing minimal utility, ie rawls position.
> The average Johnny McOfficeWorker in the West is unaffected by and has no control over the conflicts, political struggles, or general bad stuff happening halfway around the world.

They are greatly affected, especially if the US ends up fighting wars or the international economy is undermined when others fight wars. Their taxes go now to prevent those conflicts (which would be much more expensive later). Other global phenomena, like mpox, climate change, etc. do not respect borders. Foriegn powers do not respect borders, including by supporting their political allies right in McOfficeWorker's own country.

As far as McOfficeWorker's influence, probably nothing is more influential in international affairs than the average American's opinion (see my nearby comment for more about that).
Ignoring robots.txt is "not breaking the law" lol
Entanglement cannot be used to transmit information. Don’t what they’re thinking.
You aren't quite right here. Temperature inversions are when the atmosphere warms as you go up instead of cools. The atmosphere usually cools at a fairly constant rate as you go up, at least in the troposphere. This layer of warmer air aloft acts as a cap, limiting vertical motion from rising air parcels from below (which are cooler than the air aloft and thus cannot rise through the inversion).
Captain Marvel Official Page
It should be forbidden to link paywalled articles
Please don't do this. It's a design/ architectural sin. It messes up your queries, commands and indexes and it's constant source of trouble.

Here's a better way:
https://medium.com/@vbilopav/custom-temporal-tables-in-postg...
Exercise often and eat healthy.

"You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles."
Why would a rational actor want to do that though? Show me a single decision theory that does reasonably well in game theory simulations (I mean R-CDT/UDT tier), that also supports maximin, and I'll write a 1000 word article in the praise of John Rawls.
You think people are being paid more than this?