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Goodhart's Law[1] in action. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

• zetalemur 6y ago
  That's a good one, did not know that. Interesting read.
• post-it 6y ago
  I've noticed everyone posts links in footnotes, is that just Hacker News etiquette?
  • therealdrag0 6y ago
    Ya I think so. Since there isn’t a way to make html links with a short text .
  • Jasper_ 6y ago
    It's old-school plain-text email etiquette. The original Markdown even used a variant of that syntax for its links definition, known as "reference links". https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link