skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The results of 50yr of various flavors of this policy kind of speak for themselves (which is why I specifically chose to mention it as my example).

It's better for society if people get married, (or perform some other socially agreed upon ritual that both requires investment and signals future investment) BEFORE they start cranking out the crotchfruit. Extending more aid to people who skip this step than those who go through it leads to predictable outcomes.

I get that it's really easy to play this off as some sort of pro-woman thing and try and send the discussion careening off into left field by bringing up domestic violence but we both know that's a red herring.

Edit: It was a mistake to reply to this comment at all. This is all a side discussion (ironic considering the subject of TFA). My point wasn't that you can't have government do things. The point was that you can't just pick a metric and turn government loose trying to address it. The goal of historical welfare was to subsidize basic necessities with certain groups getting priority that was generally accomplished (the programs exist, they doll out bennies pursuant to the rules) but it didn't yield the expected improvement on other fronts as intended and in the process we minted a class of people who are all but trapped in a multi-generational cycle of dependance upon the welfare system.
Hey it’s not my fault my company chose Python!
The ability to do that exists, and was always going to eventually be easier. We used to all use pseudonyms but that fell out of fashion somewhat; and even then over time its inevitable you'll say one or a few things that can deanonymyze you. This was always going to happen and we can only hope it will change the public perception about privacy, which to this point has often been indifference or even annoyance when one brings it up.

> I notice on HN that there are many accounts that seem to register just to comment on particular stories and nothing more, and the comments are constructive and well thought out, and now I wonder whether some are just ahead of the curve on this — obscuring the totality of their identity from future employers, or anyone else who might use their words against them.

Throw aways are very common here for that purpose! On my end I'm becoming more interested in how to safeguard users -- anonymize them -- and also how to make easy to _generate_ throwaways without opening the door to spam (e.g. generate from a valid account, but then detach it). HN likely gets around this by being niche; I think the somewhat unattractive site design helps there.
Hey, thank you for your feedback! Building a community is indeed very difficult and takes a long time. In the long run, what you’re suggesting makes a lot of sense, and we need to start right away. For now, we’ll have to stick with X community, but we’ll launch our own community very soon.
Moon – Clojure RPG editor and engine [video]
https://github.com/damn/moon
Direct link without the new hostile login-wall:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1g5och2/keeping_my...
Woah . I googled to make sure I read right. It's true!
super cute, haha. mac keyboards hit OPTION (⌥) btw
In the big picture we start with the server side -

>cloud computer running a

>linux machine running a

>virtual machine running a

>linux machine running a

>virtual docker environment running a

>instance of python running a

>virtual python environment running a

>codebase

>serving a

>operating system compiled to

>assembly running on a

>virtual machine compiled to

>javascript JIT comiled to

>assembly running on a

>virtual sandbox running on a

>virtual machine running on a

>linux machine on a

>home computer

So I think we can all agree it's a mess. Magic numbers, frozen configurations, too many configurations that are different. One very elegant around making sure configurations and libraries are setup correctly - perhaps another layer or ten of virtualization?
When you find enough suicidal people to establish “cat hunter” as a profession and they survive long enough to make it a competition.

Every cat lover with a gun would be out hunting them back.
Are you suggesting that many individual allocations and virtual dispatch are not impactful, or just advocating use of a profiler?

Once again, the context of this thread is someone taking an interest in C++ to write fast autodiff code.
71 bits of entropy feels rather low...

It seems like many recommendations are to use at least 75-100, or even 128. Being fairly conservative, if you had 10k hosts hashing 1B passwords a second, it would take 7.5 years worst case to crack [1]. If a particular site neglects to use a slow hash function and salting, it's easy to imagine bad actors precomputing rainbow tables that would make attacks relatively easy.

You can rebut that that's still a crazy amount of computation needed, but since it's reusable, I find it easy to believe it's already being done. For comparison, if the passwords have 100 bits of entropy, it would take those same 10k servers over 4 billion years to crack the password.

[1]: (2*71 / 1e9 / 10000 / (606024*365)) ≈ 7.5
I really wish suave wasn’t abandoned. We could have such nice things in F#-land but all of our the cool stuff gets dropped in favor of veneers over ms frameworks.
Do you know of any performant, quality examples of Blazor out in the wild? All the examples I've seen have unacceptable UX by modern standards.
I used to be the weenie who always said we need to define nomenclature before things get silly names (hence very very early to prevent those to become the norm for legacy reasons) and use proper naming for everything, such that code would read like a novel (yes that is a stretch).

But indeed it tended to lead to frustrating social dynamics in stead of happy romcom scripts.

So I gave up on most of it.

That said, my opinion about test code is, it exists to find bugs or steer away from regression. API descriptions, together with a design with some graphs, should be formal and clear enough to understand code usage. I don't want to figure out the usage of fwrite() by going through its elaborate test suite.
When I started CS decades ago, our student passwords for our server accounts were all similarly generated. They were given to us on a slip of paper, of course, and I still remember the two I was given over 20 years later. I was (naively) bummed when I didn't see this practice in the industry after graduation
Sometimes all it takes is for the right people to see at the right time that their opponent bleeds just the same red blood as they do.
Maybe in the future we can also see the code that ended democracy. (The FB source code).
> No one is out there brute-forcing passwords.

They definitely are. I’ve been locked out of my own banks website twice because of people trying to guess the password too many times.
Clergy back then basically was a hacker culture- as in you get the suckers to buy some relic or immortality paperwork and have a nice life extracting resources and giving nothing in return.
The runners i am referring to either receive orders from merchants like Amazon or Apple then bring them for people, or they buy the items themselves once you give them for the items you want. That way, they minimize risk. If I am not mistaken, if you want to send things like documents, you have to courier with an official courier like FedEx, UPS or DHL then you have to allow them to open the envelop to ensure it is only what is listed then they transport from there.

By the way, this service for travel between countries. So people who want things from the US, Dubai or other large shopping destinations and when it is the reverse direction, where people in the large countries want things from back home countries like certain foods, ornaments etc, then they have to give the runner the money and the runner makes the purchase.
I never knew they had a job board: https://jobs.hackertyper.net/
It's not going to match what model hears.
> Tread carefully. Your comment has the aroma of exactly the sort of first order thinking that over the past 50yr resulted in welfare programs exacerbating that exact list of problems (among others) that you're saying we can solve with more welfare.

Who says that the welfare programs exacerbate the problems?

Perhaps it is the lack of welfare programs (particularly in the US, the richest country in the world) that causes so much social problems (compared to less rich European countries).
Thank you, I found this hint very interesting. Is there a source you wouldn't mind pointing me to for those "head, tail" methods?

I am assuming it relates to the kinds of "variable precision floating point with bounds" methods used in CGAL and the like; Googling turns up this survey paper:

https://inria.hal.science/inria-00344355/PDF/p.pdf

Any additional references welcome!
> A single shot is unlikely to kill

That's why they make guns that can load more than one bullet at a time. Also, maybe use a higher caliber bullet. Lot's of asinine pro-gun enthusiastic responses available for Florida man to retort with.
I despise sites that disallow pasting into fields.

Banks seem to really like to now allow you to paste direct deposit information, which is insane. I get that they likely are thinking, well we don't want you type it into the first field and copy it into the second.

But I am copying it right from my bank's website, being forced to type it twice is just going to make it more likely I enter an error and I can guarantee you I am looking at that first field when I am typing the verification one.
WP Engine asks court to stop Matt Mullenweg from blocking access to WordPress
I imagine the main reason for the single capital letters is to make the password acceptable on those annoying websites with annoying requirements, not necessarily to add entropy.

If you already know it's in apple password format, then you know 1/17 of the letters are capital, but not which one so the number of combinations you have to try is multiplied by 17, for just over 4 additional bits of entropy.
Alternatively: we have more vaccines available today than previous generations, they’ve gotten cheaper, and are (in some cases) more effective.
For server-rendered UI, look for resources that uses Razor, ignore Blazor stuff at the beginning.

For .NET Backend/JS Frontend, look for resources that uses minimal APIs. MVC is also good but has a lot of backwards compatibility baggage that led to the creation of minimal APIs.
older versions can also mean deprecated packages everyone's too scared to touch, failure to invest in maintenance and tech debt reduction, or use of old technologies which stopped receiving security updates
IANAL: The correct approach here would be an O-1 Visa. Assuming your 'significant revenue' has also garnered you some level of public attention.

You also likely need some form of public recognition (awards, press etc).
that would be amazing!
Some of the "Flipping around" might be caused by an inability to discount the reward from the thing you're flipping to - it seems important / rewarding. It's not much different than someone refusing to work on an important thing because they can't stop thinking about this neat thing over here that feels cooler.
Just to connect to the subject at hand.
Bumblebee queens prefer pesticide-laced soil for hibernation
Personal (męskoosobowy), animate (męskożywotny), and inanimate (męskorzeczowy) are not genders. Which is the same situation with Czech (životny - animate, etc).

I’m Polish. And did study Polish on top of that.
There is a fantastic book on the impact of childhood adversity on long term health outcomes. Highly recommend, especially to prospective parents: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413909-the-deepest-wel...
Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations
> It's better for society if people get married, (or perform some other socially agreed upon ritual that both requires investment and signals future investment) BEFORE they start cranking out the crotchfruit

The children of dysfunctional, unwanted, and potentially-abusive relationships speak for themselves: Given a couple with a kid, in a dysfunctional, unwanted, potentially-abusive relationship (marriage or otherwise), it's better for them to end the relationship. Raising a child in such an environment leads to all sorts of disorders (as described in this very article), and is worse than a single parent or separated parents properly raising the child with adequate support, financial and otherwise.

Unfortunately we cannot hand-wave away dysfunctional relationships, unwanted relationships, abusive relationships (to say nothing of domestic violence), and all that comes with them, no matter how easy it is, how much we wish we could, or which fish you wish to change the subject to.
Can you elaborate on what medications impact gambling behaviors?

I have some addictive/compulsive behaviors that have been hard to shake. GLP-1 agonists look promising, but I'm not sure how to get a prescription since I'm not overweight.
Beware, once you get used to using LINQ and usually work in a domain that it shines, you won't want to go back to using anything else.
That means Google can claim control of any email address, yeah?
> modifying character accelerations based on a fixed frame constant is far more straightforward than the methods required to work with variable time deltas

For those who don't know - the reason this is hard is because of the different amounts of maths error that can accumulate between the two approaches (usually FP precision error). Doing some maths in 10 increments a tenth of the size will likely end up with a slightly different value than doing it once in a full size increment.

This is particularly important in multiplayer games where multiple players need to be able to do the same calculations and get the identical result. It is not good if the world begins to diverge just because you've got different frame rates!
Ah non. They are just being french. They don't need reasons.

Excuse my humor. I'm a huge francophile actually.
They managed to hire 73 people with confirmed or suspected links to terrorism by 2015.
Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo
A quick dive into the Plan9 assembly I picked up while developing my SIMD package for Go, and how it led to a 450% performance boost in calculations.
That is because the stated goal of "preservation" isn't really their goal. Thats only lip-service.

Their actual goal is getting visitors, and any kind of usable information in the form of photos, videos, 3d-scans, transcriptions or whatever leaving their premises is a problem. Add to that the associated huge business of tourism and you have the explanation why the state and the courts (who are usually good buddies with the state and the upper class, including the cultural elite) also don't want to change that status quo.
I was thinking more of the reverse, for instance you can include an Excalidraw render inside obsidian, which is nice for mockups, etc

Perhaps you could do the same with your app?
Olmsted's "essential theory" in a nutshell:

"Olmsted realized that he had learned much about scenery from his father's silent appreciation of it, and soon combined his own experience with the theories of Zimmermann and Bushnell to produce his own theory of the effect of scenery on man. Scenery, he decided, worked by an unconscious process to produce relaxing and 'unbending' of faculties made tense by the strain noise and artificial surroundings of urban life. The necessary condition for such an experience was the absence of distractions and demands on the conscious mind. The effect came not as a result of examination, analysis or comparison, nor of appreciation of particular parts of the scene; rather, it came in such a way that the viewer was unaware of its workings."
Building Roguerrants: Insights into 2.5D Roguelike Development with Squeak
A bit of the beaten path, but F# with Fable is a very powerful combination.

On the server you can run ASP.Net using Giraffe, which is a Functional Programming layer with comparable performance to C#.

On the front-end, you can write React in an true Functional Programming language.

And of course you can share F# code between frontend and backend.
Other brains: No joy in response to future or present rewards. Anxiety on the journey, shame at the destination.
Why do you think it doesn't occur to them? I'm genuinely curious.

It seems to me these alignment questions are a conscious trade-off between giving users what they ask for and brand safety knowing that every spicy output will immediately find its way to twitter/reddit/etc.
My problem with this approach is that this falls apart if you write:

db.Select<Person>(x => Regex.IsMatch(x.FirstName, "^A.*"));

This would fail at run-time instead of compile-time.

That's why I'd rather see the DB classes auto-generated with a mapper to convert them. Having the "master" be POCOs instead of JSON/XML/YAML/whatever isn't something I'm convinced on in either direction, but imho the in-database classes being not real POCOs is the important part because it reduces the the problem of somebody writing Person.MyMethod() and then blowing up because it's not a SQL function.
So, a supreme court?
Ah, the standard Music Industry response to Napster, alive and well decades later.

"Make the information hard to get! We own it!"

Never realizing that sampling of the information makes it just that much more prestigious and desirable to us, the unwashed masses, willing to pay to visit a museum that has AMAZING ORIGINAL THINGS.

If you start with the assumption that every view is a lost sale, you're going to have a really bad time.

Outside of the Louvre and maybe the Smithsonian, there are no current world-famous museums, simply regionally or subculture-appreciated museums, some with bygone fame that a small portion of the older population would recognize. The Rodin Museum may be popular among a tiny niche slice of people, but if they were to make an internally consistent strategy that they want growth then they'd release more information.
I wonder if something like Jupyter notebook would be a cool format to implement this.
The Product Model and Org Design
The "table of treatments" is great. conversion therapy / brainwashing / "pray the Republicanism away".

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh4764#T1
KeepassXC allows you to customize its password generator according to your preferences.
This excites me. Imagine someone not overcomplicating web tech. I've been thinking of having web sites render as epubs so we don't have to have a sysadmin on call 24/7 just so I can read.
SRE here, not at all.

Not chasing shiny is important but generally when tech debt builds up this high, life is generally hell in terms of outages, unable to accomplish basic tasks and dealing with a bunch of people who have NIH syndrome.
Much like illegal immigration, too many people benefit from the status quo, hence there is no real desire to actually do anything about it.

As you said, it's all about passing the buck.
Anyone have suggestions for a library of animations similar to the new Notion AI?

https://youtu.be/S92KX8-Hmlc
I uploaded 3 graduate-level quantum mechanics textbooks and it generated a New Scientist style podcast for middle schoolers.
Impact of early risk factors on schizophrenia risk and age of diagnosis
What actually ended apartheid was international pressure and the white government's fear of a civil war. Economically isolated and vastly outnumbered, the apartheid government would have been completely removed from the country and had their property seized.

My understanding is Mandela was a respected leader who was willing to play ball and facilitate a peaceful transition where the white leadership got to keep all their property. That's why there's still massive economic inequality in SA today. Not to say Mandela wasn't admirable or that he didn't suffer, but it was a conscious choice to avoid outright military conflict at the cost of preserving an implicit racial hierarchy.
> (Museums in Italy are the worst, allegedly. They really think they own antiquity.)

They are the worst and they do in fact own antiquity: thanks to some idiotic national law, they can claim rights on stuff that has been public domain for centuries before the copyright was even invented. There was a lot of debate about this after a major museum sued a bunch of fashion brands, see this article for example [1].

[1]: https://ial.uk.com/the-perpetual-copyright-protection-of-ita...
Show HN: I built a search engine, powered by your resume
The problem is Tesla and Musk have been lying about full self-driving for years. They have made specific claims of full autonomy with specific timelines and it's been a lie every time: https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

In 2016 a video purporting to show full self-driving with the driver there purely "for legal reasons" was staged and faked: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-sel...

In 2016 Tesla said that "as of today, all Tesla vehicles produced in our factory – including Model 3 – will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver." That was a lie: https://electrek.co/2024/08/24/tesla-deletes-its-blog-post-s...

Musk claimed there would be 1 million Tesla robotaxis on the road in 2020. That was a lie: https://www.thedrive.com/news/38129/elon-musk-promised-1-mil...

Tesla claimed Hardware 3 would be capable of full self-driving. When asked about Hardware 3 at Tesla's recent robotaxi event, Musk didn't want to "get nuanced". That's starting to look like fraud: https://electrek.co/2024/10/15/tesla-needs-to-come-clean-abo...

Had Tesla simply called it "driver assistance" that wouldn't be a lie. But they didn't do that. They doubled, tripled, quadrupled down on the claim that it is "full self-driving" making the car "an appreciating asset" that it would be "financially insane" not to buy:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/23/elon-musk-any-other-car-than...

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/03/cars/musk-tesla-cars-valu...

It's not even bullshit artistry. It's just bullshit.

Lying is part of the company culture at Tesla. Musk keeps lying because the lies keep working.
It seems this is a sort of trick our brains evolved to play on us that drives us to act- which makes sense. It is the anticipation of a reward that drives strong feelings and behaviors, but the reward itself is usually not as big of a deal- we work hard for something we expect to be great, but when it actually happens we barely notice and immediately move on to thinking about something else.

If dopamine only happened once you received a reward, it would not cause you to get you to actually act before hand.
Yup this is better.
For personal use, I rely on Obsidian in a similar way—whenever I want to keep something (like an FB post I might want to share later), I save it along with the source link. External services can disappear anytime, so local data has the dual advantage of being owned by us and easily searchable.

I also wrote a script to convert Kindle highlights into Markdown files. If anyone’s interested, I'd be happy to polish it a bit and share.

For public-facing content, the Static Site Generator ecosystem keeps improving. I started with Jekyll (since it's the GitHub default), moved through Gridsome, and eventually landed on Nuxt 3 Content, which feels like the sweet spot for me. If I were starting now, I might have chosen Astro.

In any case, the barrier to entry has never been lower. We can host sites for free on GitHub, and if custom styling is needed, AI models are incredibly helpful with CSS.

Markdown is like JavaScript for text formatting. Despite its quirks, it just works.
This is kind of like the Wordpress story where early on before WPEngine had responded publicly, someone said

"I have heard only Wordpress's side of the story, and that has made me conclude that Wordpress are in the wrong."

We have heard only Malibals side of the story, and it makes me think it's most likely them who are the most at fault.
Integer log10: make your lookup table do more (2021)