skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The author disagrees with Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer,

He might, he might not. What he definitely does think is that there have been several in-depth critiques of Langer's work, and that it does the listener of Freakonomics a disservice by apparently not taking them into account in an way (certainly not mentioning them).

The critiques are not of the form "Langer is wrong". They are of the form "the experimental design, sample size and statistical analysis do not support the claims Langer is making".
> A theory that purports to describe how the universe actually functions, can’t have places where the theory says “and now the universe bluescreens”.

A theory that provides useful predictions in some conditions and doesn't provide useful predictions in other conditions is a useful theory if you can determine which conditions are which. My lay understanding is general relativity provides useful predictions as long as mass isn't too dense (black hole) and as long as nothing breaks the speed limit; which is pretty general for everyday use, even if it doesn't cover the whole universe.
I get that you want to cram your pet issue into everything but that doesn't explain the dearth of product variety in places in places in the US where vending machines are located or the general rarity of them in walkable places in the US.
It's on a state-by-state basis.[1] In California in particular, courts have ruled online businesses that are public accommodations cannot discriminate:[2]

> The California Supreme Court held that entering into an agreement with an online business is not necessary to establish standing under the Unruh Act. Writing for a unanimous court, Justice Liu emphasized that “a person suffers discrimination under the Act when the person presents himself or herself to a business with an intent to use its services but encounters an exclusionary policy or practice that prevents him or her from using those services,” and that “visiting a website with intent to use its services is, for purposes of standing, equivalent to presenting oneself for services at a brick-and-mortar store.”

I'm not sure what Catholic hospitals refuse non-Catholics care. My understanding is they refuse to provide medical treatments such as abortion that go against Catholic moral teachings, and this refusal is applied to everyone.

[1] https://lawyerscommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Onli...

[2] https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-133/white-v-square/
We're talking about mobile apps here, that's where the web is losing.

They're already almost all subscription-only. They break after a few OS releases unless they're updated (true for both iOS and Android). Local state is "hard to access"? Check. (though it's easier on Android, for now) They "alter the deal" all the time, and there's nothing you can do about it.

And native apps will always exist for any appropriate use cases, but tons of the "apps" people use on mobile are nothing but websites that you can't use adblock on (DNS excepted). Many don't have true local content, just caching.
Yep, it seems like a rant fitting of Hacker news where they break apart someone's text and pinpoint tiny sections to pick at without actually making a point in general.

Not sure why this rant was posted to HN.

Also the postcast wasn't freakonomics, it was an offshoot one where they don't critique a users work, they just interview them as a friendly conversation.

Getting upset like the author did indicates that the author doesn't know the difference between a podcast and an academic paper.
Mastodon is fine outside the mastodon.social bubble. Hundreds of thousands of people to talk to is PLENTY.
not just the West, really

in my very non-Western country, it's been years since I saw an adolescent with a cigarette. 20 years ago, non-smoking 13-year boys were a minority - I shit you not.
Personally, I mostly enjoy cyoa types of text based games. My favorite it Warsim: The Realm of Aslona which is more simulation focused then most text based adventure games.

Multi user dungeons are also fun! I'm working on one right now but more cyoa focused.
I've tried their light beers, and didn't particularly like them.

Weirdly, even though I hate IPAs, I think I liked the alcohol-free IPA stuff better. It feels more "authentic", I think - likely because I don't drink IPAs, so I can't tell that something is off without the alcohol.
Unfortunately, rates of depression, misery, and loneliness are also significantly up, so I wouldn't be so fast to call the overall cultural change a healthy and beautiful win. I wonder how much these factors go hand in hand.
Typical CRUD API server is going to do quite a few allocations, maybe use the "default" (underwhelming) gRPC implementation to call third-parties and query a DB (not to mention way worse state of ORMs in Go). It's an old topic.

Go tends to perform better at "leaner" microservices, but if you are judging this only by comparing it to the state of Java many years ago, ignoring numerous alternative stacks, it's going to be a completely unproductive way to look at the situation. Let's not move the goalposts.
html doesn't have this issue :)
It is sublime that mullenweg would be deeply concerned about his "free speech" and then seek to SLAPP down anyone archiving a list of his misdeeds.
I send all my old stuff for recycling now and get a gift card in return. They just did this for my ancient iPad that won’t even run the latest iPadOS.

I go on a site, pop in the serial number, and they ship me a box for free with a return label.

I basically got $45 for an incredibly slow brick, so I’d say that’s pretty good incentive for their recycling program.

Sure, you could install Linux and upcycle it, but how many people are actually going to do that? I think the recycling program is actually great for the 95%+ of people and how they use their devices.
And all of that doesn't change the fact that I ended up without a charge a few times and threw the MM in the bin. With the replacement, I just plug the cable in and continue using it. I don't even know how fast it charges / how long it lasts, because charging doesn't disrupt the usage.
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Democratic_National_Conve...
On the flip side, the number of kids I see smoking/having sex at their parents houses now blows me away. My generation (millenials) it was a lot more rare to find tolerating/"non-narc" parents. Most of my friends with kids figure they'll do it anyways so might as well let them be safe about it.
Mutagenic things are less of a concern when your lifespan is several months.
>low price

???
That sounds exactly like what an AI would say!
Trips me out people made an entire career with WP. My hat is off to them. WP is so hard for me to figure out. It is almost unbelievable that someone would commit their life to that insanity but I respect the hell out of them.
It is just plain old supervised learning. A regression from the post features to vote count. The RL discussion in TFA is a bit confusing.

Such a model can be used as the "reward model" for the "reinforcement learning from human feedback" (RLHF) method.
Can you read? I guess not, because I literally even wrote that it's a great OS?

It just doesn't just work and has issues. That doesn't mean that windows or Linux dont have issues. They do, they all have their warts and that's fine. But that makes the slogan "it just works" idiotic.

It has the by far best vertical integration with the least issues switching devices, sure.

That still doesn't make "it just works" a reality, because that's an unachievable pipedream!
Total TypeScript: Essentials
What's she up to?
To be honest, I do use GenAI to help me format my comments, including this one. However, I put in substantial input by outlining my thoughts in detail, so I treat it more as a sophisticated grammar checker. As a non-native speaker, my writing is sufficient for business, but I don’t consider myself a strong writer. GenAI helps me convey my thoughts more clearly and efficiently, which has been tremendously valuable.
Isn't every community is like that after so long? Like, I don't like the way that Matt behaved recently, but regarding most of the complains in the post -- these exist in any community or organization which is big enough and has been around for long enough.
It's an incentives problem, and the ad industry is largely to blame. It's the same cause as much of the destruction and centralization of the web, the rise of clickbait, rising extremism and political polarization, negativity-driven engagement, and myriad other public problems. An attention-drivin economy is disastrous for mental and public social health. And some people still defend the ad industry, even going so far to laud it as a public good, even talking about it as if it's a charity and not a very rich industry, funding a "free Internet".

We missed the boat long ago on dismantling or neutering the ad industry before it did massive irreparable damage. Whatever we do to fix this mess is still going to leave prominent scars for generations.
It is factual that Langer performed a study in which X was done, Y was measured and Z was concluded.

What is less clear is whether X was good experimental design, whether the measurements of Y were appropriate, relevant and correct, and thus whether or not Z can be concluded.
This is insane! If I remove a column, or add a new one, why should users care (that did not use said column)?
Ok, I'll bite.

- Recursion allows you to show correctness both in programming and mathematics.
- plenty of compilers will reuse the current stack frame in a tail call.
An estimated 40% of global websites use Wordpress in some way. It's hard to come up with a more generally applicable set of skills than "Wordpress" at least based on total users worldwide (I'm not here to defend WP, I've never liked it)

That said, I don't think the author's experience with Wordpress has poor transportability into other niches anyway.
The post is not doing RL. It's just regression as you thought.
is there anything they can realistically do?
Guide to IP Layer Network Administration with Linux (2007)
Isn't that what lawyers end up doing, arguing which definition of the word applies? And since (as far as I can surmise) elonmusk.php hasn't clarified what that word means in his checkbox, won't it be safer to be cautious?
Far too much of anything singularity related depends on "And then magic happens".

As if intelligence and / or consciousness arises spontaneously once there's sufficient resources to support it. Which is ludicrous, on the face of it.

Let alone bootstrapping intelligence.
> When I used Maven, extensions had to be published to and pulled from a public repo.

You can just `mvn install` them locally into your local repository.
Why wouldn't they? They've spent the last decade pretending that the clickbots sustaining the internet ad model are no big deal and apparently the market agrees with them!
> "Matt seems to be fighting some war others can't even see the reason for."

We see the reason. That reason is money. The lies / gaslighting aren't for OSS, etc. It's about MM's bottom line.
Chemists have a saying about this: "A month in the laboratory can save an hour in the library." (The time units can vary, but yes, I did write that correctly.)
OpenAPI 3.1.1 Specification
He migrated his site ot Hugo:

https://chriswiegman.com/2024/10/this-site-now-runs-on-hugo/

I can understand WP for non-technical users but I'm still amazed at web dev teams still not using static sites for blogs and marketing sites.
Yeah, nowadays "passive income" is basically debt interests (like bonds) or rental income, both of which actually need a lot of work.

I rarely traded financial instruments so cannot say for that, but as a small landlord I wish I never entered the business. Like, all businesses need initial investment AND a lot of continuous effort and learning, and are probably boring (or VERY barricaded) because otherwise people are going to swarm in. I need to know the market, the laws and regulations, and some other stuffs, most of which are extremely boring and not really "hackable" (as for hackers) because accountants and governments already sorted everything up to make sure it's hard for small businesses to evade tax -- You can learn which parts are expenses in an afternoon, and then you have to deal with a lot of headaches.

I know some people who own gas stations and large depanneurs (in QC they are independent convenient shops), which are luxurious on face, but they either have to pick a remote one (away from competition from supermarkets) or/and work 7 days without hiring an extra hand. They grind for 10 years and sell the business when time is good.
One can have a larger inventory of letters if the glyphs themselves are consistently patterned in some way. E.g. if "c" is /ts/ and "č" is /tʃ/, then one can expect "š" to be /ʃ/, and "ž" to be /ʒ/ (which is indeed the case in many Slavic alphabets).
Related to that, there's the "Gell-Mann Amnesia" effect[1], where an expert can see numerous mistakes on his area of expertise being reported on the news, but somehow takes the rest as being accurate.

[1]: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
The iMac are the perfect example though. The horror of putting a DVI/HDMI port on that thing seemed so horrendous that they'd rather let the whole thing go to waste. Reading OP it seems like this has been corrected? But generation of generation of devices didn't have any sensible reason to exist.

Apple is also the king of integrated batteries. First with phones, then with laptops. I'm still baffled they got away with this. Such mindless waste at an incredible scale.

Being extremely environmentally conscientious while designing the packaging isn't going to offset that.
On windows. Haven't tried Linux.
To still use flutter in the name when your project is called flock seems beyond misleading.
'Cause they aren't doing it naturally.
Yes, that's right. Thanks for pointing that out.

https://www.makeuseof.com/hdcp-vs-hdmi-whats-the-difference/
Relevant xkcd, though one imagines that successful standards form despite the lack of choice in how standards are formed

https://xkcd.com/927/
There is a reason that the old saying is "reduce, reuse, recycle". The effectiveness is in that order: reduce consumption, reuse what you have, and recycle what you can no longer use.

There is a very straightforward opportunity here for Apple to enable "reuse". They absolutely should be doing that.
A speaker at the rally, Sid Rosenberg, quipped “I just got back from Israel.. and they go, Sid, you want to speak at this MSG thing? I go, ‘Sure — out of character for me to speak at a Nazi rally. I was just in Israel.’ But I took the gig”

Before you say it was a joke, after all Sid Rosenberg is Jewish, I'll make you aware there were Jewish people who supported the Nazi Party.

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

Also, Republicans have made it a habit to phrase their statements as jokes so as to provide plausible deniability of their having made the statement. It's been going on for so long it's foolish to continue falling for it. Republican "jokes" are now taken seriously. They cry about it, but I've noticed they haven't stopped doing it. Gee, I wonder why?
A language learning app that combines Anki like spaced repetition with language learning ai tutor. https://vocabuo.com
I hear this a lot but I don't believe it. Every other office people - immigrants and natives - interact with is falling apart from lack of personnel, outdated processes, lack of digitalisation and excessive bureaucracy. This is just part of life in Berlin. Immigrants just have to do it all at once and feel it more.

If you look at the numbers, the Berlin office has double the workload it had five years ago, and a rather modest increase in headcount during the same time period. They can be fairly criticised for a lot of things, but malice is not one of them.
> And as for privacy, a fairy dies every time some someone praises bitcoin for being anonymous.

And yet countless thefts have happened and had the proceeds exfiltrated via Bitcoin, and the culprits never caught.

If that's not effective/practical anonymity, I don't know what is?
>> Having kids engage with other kids on the interwebs? I doubt it.

Unless those kids aren't interacting with kids at all, but instead pedo's masquerading as kids for nefarious reasons. Which yes, has been VERY detrimental to our society.
There's so many LLM bots on Twitter now, presumably trying to game the revenue sharing system. Some of them even seem to be getting fancy with multi-modal models because they try to respond to the content of images rather than just the text like they used to do.
Any Black or Latino people here who watched the rally and still vote Trump?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/22/us/politics/p...

The Project 2025 people are Trump's people. Period.
There are many examples of companies causing those stable conditions to exist. They even create currencies whenever one doesn't already exist. It doesn't work in only one direction, that's my point.
> What do you do if the team won't work on that bug for 2 years? Well, if it's a serious bug for your company, then you stop using Flutter. You don't have a choice. You need to keep moving forward. Your team doesn't know how to work on the Flutter framework, and the Flutter framework team is either unresponsive, or at least completely non-committal towards a fix.

Are there no escape hatches?
Very sad article to read. I just expect the original Flutter will now die a slow death. I applaud the effort and hope they will be able to find a monetization model that works to support the development. There have been similar projects based on technologies that Microsoft has killed (Silverlight -> OpenSilver and various .NET-based cross-platform technologies) that serve their customers well. Unfortunately, none of them are in any way "mainstream" like Flutter is today.
The "model" under discussion here is much more fundamental than I think you're taking into consideration.

Specifically, Langer has suggested that merely thinking about things can lead to physical changes in the world. This is at odds with not just some specific model of something, but with the broadest conception of post-Rennaisance science.
There are no KYC laws for self storage because it's already standard practice so you can sue the person who pays cash for one month of storage and then crams the locker floor to ceiling with hazmat.
We're lucky then that people only complain here about the issues they can fix (like the port position) and not about all the ones they can't.
I agree. Is this some kind of free licensing for these connector standards or are they still behind the "you can use this but if we rip off any of your IP and you sue us we'll revoke your license and sue you" license?
Honestly, anyone who actually believes that "whales" are gaming the prediction markets should beg borrow or steal every dollar they can and bet against the whales! It's free money if you're right!
"A lot of the time, AI slop is difficult to discern from authentic content until you’re somewhere in the middle, at which point something starts to feel off about it."

And it's only going to get worse. I don't know what the limits of LLMs are, even before we start discussing future architectures and capabilities, but it certainly seems to me that if they just scale a bit farther on their current trajectory it is going to be very hard to detect AIs simply by the content.

One of the adaptations I've adopted is that if your content looks like it was generated from a simple prompt, no matter how long the resulting content, I just toss it. "Write me a beginner's tutorial for Python" isn't going to produce a document that the internet needs another copy of or that social media sites need to spend time linking to. Unfortunately that means even if the "tutorial" was human-generated, it's probably getting the axe too, unless it has a very interesting or unusual approach, but it isn't clear to me that that is actually a large problem.
Currently on ChatGPT three of the top picks on the explore page are "AI Humanizers" for making generated content appear like it was created by a human. Slop slop slop.
> There have been similar projects based on technologies that Microsoft has killed

Isn't flutter from google?
Chinese dictionaries have been sorted in various ways for at least two millennia, but there are some aspects which make alphabetic order sorting simpler:

1. Less ambiguous order: With classic Kangxi radicals for example, it's not always clear which radical to pick, and there is no clear order when there are multiple characters with the same radical and stroke count. There are other, more modern systems out there, but they all have some ambiguities.

2. Phonetic lookup: If you hear a word and don't know how to write it, you can just try to look it up phonetically. Unless the writing system is extremely perverse (I'm looking at you Ongloti, er, I mean English), you can kinda guess how it's written or at least how it starts. With Chinese characters that is not possible. Sure, Chinese dictionaries often have Pinyin or Zhuyin (Bopomofo) indexes, but Pinyin and Zhuyin are alphabets.
7T is so rad.

edit: I know it was a lazy comment. but I did truly mean it. I did high-resolution imaging of the hippocampal subfields in my PhD dissertation, and I wished so much to have access to a 7T for structural imaging of those subfields...So powerful.
People believe in index funds because of multi-decades of globalization and (in general) cheaper money, which has been less and less true since 10 years ago.

Even if you bought some during the 90s, you still need a tremendous belief in yourself and the market to hold them for 30 years. It's not that easy. I know many people put the fund into a retirement fund, but 1) is every body consistently doing that for 30 years? and 2) what if the market sucks when you retire?

I still think that's not a bad idea, maybe one of the best for lay persons.
What a silly notion. You're not affiliated to a company merely because you are their customer.
I can't speak to the legality or meaning of section 230, but I can share my somewhat controversial opinions about how I think the internet should operate.

The author points out that the publisher of a book of mushrooms cannot be held responsible for recommending people eat poisonous mushrooms. This is OK I guess because the author _can_ be held responsible.

If the author had been anonymous and the publisher could not accurately identify who should be responsible, then I would like to live in a society where the publisher _was_ held responsible. I don't think that's unreasonable.

Over on the internet, content is posted mostly anonymously and there is nobody to take responsibility. I think big tech needs to be able to accurately identify the author of the harmful material, or take responsibility themselves.
Oh, it can be.

I live in MI and weed is really, really cheap here. I don't smoke, but I partake in edibles (I have MS and nerve pain that meds can't do much about). I can get 2000mg of edibles for 40 bucks. And that's without price comparing: That's just going to the closest dispensary near my house. And lots of places do penny/free joints with a very low/no minimum purchase.
https://archive.ph/OAlBt
The solution is to use an NVME SSD and stop programming on Windows.

NTFS is painfully slow for many-files type use cases. Unfortunately, many-files describes most codebases. Git clients on Windows are also painfully slow for this reason.
I like how you landed on the original thought.

> declining to rate it contains useful information about that item’s quality.
Websites have a perverse incentive to not remove AI Slop since it increases their UGC metrics. (e.g. amount of new content, engagement rate)

In the case of blatantly false images like on Facebook, they get a surprising amount of organic engagement: https://x.com/FacebookAIslop/status/1806416249259258189