jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is awesome - a podcast with a full transcript attached! At first glance I hadn't planned on listening to this, but I am certainly willing to skim the transcript.

Updated: Some very interesting stuff in here. A few poignant quotes from Grantham:

"But in my opinion, we are clearly beginning to run out of resources, cheap, plentiful resources." - on the primary reason for inflation.

"The stimulus program was so gigantic that it flooded into the AMCs and the meme stocks and and helped push this market into the levels that we have seen. And the speculations this time are much the biggest in the history of the stock market adjusted for the size of the GDP."

"[QuantumScape] sells last December--the December before last of 2020--at $130 a share, $55 billion market cap, bigger than GM for a battery research enterprise four years away from any sales, forget profits. Now, there is nothing of that scale in 1929. There's Pet.com with scores of millions, tens of millions, in one or two cases, hundreds of millions. This is $55 billion for a company that has no earnings for four years, no sales. And AMC multiplied by 40, 50 times in a month and becomes, in the case of the other one, GameStop, becomes by far the largest company in the Russell 2000, over 10% of its total, I think, market cap. This is just exceptional craziness."

It strikes me that Grantham is a classic rationalist, a very old school guy who is used to the way the markets have functioned for the past 100 years. However, he just doesn't really seem to GET the change in investing. Meme stocks, cryptos, etc. We live in an irrational, emotion driven market more now than ever before, and I hate to say it, but these old timers don't seem to get the picture and will probably get burned.
Yes, though I actually prefer non-instant... at least once I fixed my bill-pay amount before it cleared at 10pm that evening.
Didn't we see the same issue in Oregon or Washington (I can't remember which) at the same time?
Whether this is actually true or not remains an open question, but it is indeed the expected consequence of QM. However, there is as yet no experiment showing any kind of quantum behavior for huge objects (closest is a few hundred million atoms as far as I know).

Still, the point was about a classical model, not about physical reality being classical or quantum. To rephrase, my point was that even in a classical model there are quantities that can't practically be measured (even though classical mechanics as a model assumes all objects have definite positions and momentums), and that doesn't stop us from accepting in such a model that they are 'real'. So, the idea of property that is 'real' but not really measurable already exists in classical physics, it is not an invention of exotic interpretations of QM.
The difference is that I can choose to enable a content blocker that has no JavaScript component and know that it can’t observe what I browse.

I can also choose to enable an extension that does have JavaScript and know that it could observe what I browse.
It seems like one could get to those numbers pretty easily given the prices for GPU instances on AWS. Even just one decent-sized instance would be thousands of dollars per month.
I suppose a very different runtime would require a very different standard library, which is a key part of environments like node or deno.
FWIW, I don't think OP was necessarily saying that is a problem that needs a solution, so much as it's an explanation for the relative noise seen by GP. That said, it would be interesting to see coordination between access points in neighboring networks.
> Dr Omar Atiq closed his cancer treatment centre in Arkansas last year after nearly 30 years in business.

If he closed up then good PR is worthless is it not?

Also debt can be collected at a fee, or sold at a loss. He probably wanted to collect the 600k but when he got calls from the collection agency about the inability to pay he decided it wasn't worth it.

That's my understanding.
You can argue that software engineers who implemented avionics software that keeps airplanes safe or created thermostat-controlling software to reduce waste of energy and greenhouse gasses contributed even more given the scale of the applications.

I have no idea what the point of your comment is though.
When I was undergrad I had to take some graduate level courses where a good 80% of the room were Chinese grad students. I've noticed blatant cheating more so than other ethnic group out there. Chinese culture is rather weird... probably because a lot of its traditional "respectful" norms were tossed out the door during the communist revolution. The success mentality in China is more if you can get away with it by all means do so to get ahead in life. This includes things like stealing IP, cheating, scamming, etc. There's also very little punishment for these kinds of things over there as well. For example, petty things like scamming tourists is kind of ignored in major cities. At the same time there's a much more collective mindset is the open-ness of sharing ideas. Its also the reason why China is so innovative when it comes to manufacturing. Probably because you could just walk down the street and exchange ideas with your neighbors.

I wouldn't say everyone thinks this way but the cultural mindset is definitely there. You also have to understand that they don't use american software in China really - things like youtube, amazon, facebook are all under the great firewall. They have baido, taibo, alibaba, wechat, etc. You can still get rehosted content elsewhere though from those sites.

As a side note, if I ever want to find the latest version of a computer science textbook in PDF format its almost always hosted on a chinese person's github account.
On the contrary, the evidence is overwhelming. You are simply more interested in pretending it isn't there. Just watched a very interesting documentary that traces the history of artificial light. It absolutely drives my point home. The relevant societies could have chosen a social framework where nobody would care to do better because everything was provided to one degree or another. Instead, the chaotic process of entrepreneurial evolution resulted in a technology that changed the lives of billions of people, created billions of jobs and raised the standard of living of every human being on this planet. Yet many entrepreneurs had to try and fail before that was possible. People content with working ten hours a week to just get by do not advance society, they simply exist within it and are unfairly supported by those who choose to expend a greater effort to advance themselves and others.

Just say "thank you" and move on. You have no point.
>>The only caveat is that I try my best not to eat processed food; if I can't make it at home with whole ingredients, then I will likely not eat it.

This, by itself, is a huge step. I bet that's a significant reason why you're losing weight. It was definitely a huge part of my successful weight loss. Basically I don't eat junk(pretty much means processed foods) and I avoid carb sources like bread/rice/pasta. Success was had. But I won't lie, losing weight and keeping it off is by far the most difficult thing I've ever done(and still doing) in my life. It's no joke and I have a new respect for those with weight issues. It's not a trivial thing to fix and I almost gave up twice. Constant daily battles walking pass the pizza, cookies, etc.

Anyone here who works in a food store and keeps having to put the box of cookies/candies back in the right place when someone left it near the cashier? Sorry, that was me barely fighting off impulse.
A lot, I hope! Strangelove is pretty well known for the most part across the internet. Fantastic movie
I suppose products like these are positive, though I find them profoundly depressing. That eating well has become such an after-thought that no-one takes time to actually make themselves a whole meal, and rather than reprioritise their lives they'll ask a group of people with no discernable nutritional credentials to send them a square of food that they cut into 100 calorie segments, and eat day in, day out.

Scarfing down pastries or energy bars when you don't have time to think about food? You can do better.

Yeah, you can.
Unfortunate for you, but I bet most people (like myself) don't think this is a problem.
I really like this idea; I think it's complementary to Soylent. Are you planning on making vegan or keto versions?
Not unexpected at all. After all, it is gratis; WhatsApp will jolly well do as they please—until regulators unleash the whirlwind.

On a related note, as a regular Signal user (and I've had a modicum of success converting some friends to it), I worry how they intend to stay afloat with "grants and donations" for the next 95 years.
Any machine that runs only verified code (ie. no JavaScript in the browser, no downloading nifty things and running them) don't need the flushes. Problem is (as shown by the Solarwind hack) even code you should be able to trust can be backdoored. However: if that is the attack vector, spectre and its' offspring are not your real concern: there are much more efficient and effective ways to compromise your machine if a blob of binary ends of being backdoored.
Note that gpg provides worse security from an encryption standpoint than signal/WhatsApp
That was already dead, I mean the_donald spamming the front page to perfectly align "GOD EMPEROR" or whatever before reddit had to change their front page algorithm was not discourse.

And this is now, after people are distracted by social media. American Political discourse died soon after Fox news came on the stage. People seem to have forgotten how that era was because this era is simply worse.
I should maybe have put it in the list on top. I initially listed only the encrypted messengers, but later decided to add a paragraph about Telegram anyway.
It doesn't even seem to be on GitHub, in fact the source doesn't seem to be listed anywhere on the project website.

Which in our world would scream 'complete amateur, avoid, avoid, avoid', but perhaps it's different in the R world.
spectacle is no longer maintained, but the open source alternative rectangle.app works just as well. https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soros#Currency_speculation

Basically, he took 10 billion British Pounds and exchanged them for other currencies (Deutsche Marks mainly if I remember correctly). Since the pound was already less desirable due to lower interest rates it triggered a snowball effect and many people followed suit.

The Pound left the ERM, and plummeted in value since everybody was selling at that stage.

With the pound on the cheap, Soros then bought the bound back with his Deutsche Marks, except that this time around he got a lot more then the 10 billion which he sold as the Pound was cheaper to buy.
They're practical. The biggest one I can remember was attacking WoW players by posting links to forums to sites with Flash banner ads that utilized an exploit to install a key logger and some other nasty stuff. The classic fake Flash update tactic is wildly successful also which of course isn't a Flash problem but just a side effect of users expecting to install/update browser plugins and becoming oblivious to the risks.
This really annoyed me. I took screenshots on my iPhone regularly to share things with people.

I can't do that on my Android phone without rooting it (at least, according to the screenshot apps in the market).
Jesus said, referring to the end of time, "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." [Mark 13:32]

2000 years ago people were trying to predict The End. Nothing has changed. They will continue to do so and continue to be wrong.
Congrats on the coverage Erik, hopefully awesome things come of it.

FYI, we whipped up something similar but catering for Aussie gardeners over at http://sowhappy.com.au
Fellow Aussie here, just weighing in with a thank you sir!
I recommend a book titled "naked economics" for all. It is a great book and a must read for a technologist to see "macro vectors" alongside the "technical vectors" that help for a sounder prediction of the future.

http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Economics-Undressing-Dismal-Scie...
So many people look back and say college was the "best four years of their life." This is usually due to a sense of nostalgia, often aptly described as "a longing for simpler times."

I hated college when I was there. Sure there were fun parts, but there was also loads more pressure and a much greater opportunity to fail than I had experienced in high school. However, now that I'm pushing 40, I look back at college with a sense of fondness, thinking how much easier life was without a mortgage, two kids and the incredible cost of health insurance.

As a result, I think that most people look back at college and consider the money well spent because it was money spent pushing off the pressures of adulthood. So while the college education might not be worth the money, the college experience often is.
>App Store is a real cash cow with a lot of potential and Apple clearly doesnt want to purge it off

What evidence do you have to back up your claim? If it were true that Apple is making a profit from the App Store, then wouldn't there exist an opportunity for Android Marketplace to undercut Apple's App Store?

When it comes to smartphones, Google cares only about marketshare. More Android apps guarantees more Google searches, and therefore more opportunities to serve advertising. One factor preventing Google from attaining more marketshare is the huge range of quality apps that exists for the iPhone. If it were true that a 30% cut of app revenue enabled Google to make a significant profit, wouldn't they reduce their cut in an effort to try and attract more developers?

>The rendering framerate is very low and is almost not usable.

This problem will disappear in a couple of years as mobile processors become faster and JS engines improve.
If you just want to build a client app why not build a native one that saves it's data to the cloud instead of restricting yourself to the HTML stack and jumping through all kinds of crazy AJAX hoops? The first step on this project should be creating the storage/permissions protocol that all apps can use. The data is what's important here, not the client app, you have to trust the client app developer if you're going to use his app.
The app has some serious spikes, but just like you said, the interface blows away Mail.app. Considering how infrequent most people should have their email open, it is well worth the cpu usage.
OK, I'll stop by then and bring my girl who is visiting that week. If the tech-talk makes her eyes glaze over we might head out for some drinks. Consider this an RSVP!
They are missing a few chapters compared to the online versions (easy to see which ones; just look at what chapter numbers were skipped in the contents). Still much easier to read than PDFs.
Your analogy is flawed because in this case nobody purchased or requested anything. If your analogy was accurate it would be better stated:

If I go into your garage and take your snowblower, and rent it out while you're not using it, without asking you, or giving you any money, how is that stealing?
@jeanyang - This is really amazing work, and I'm very interested in it.

One question for you: On slide 10 you show "state of the art" as a bunch of conditional logic guarding the returned values and "Jeeves" as just a simple properly lookup.

Do you know if Facebook's "state of the art" is as you are describing it in this slide, or do you think they have a proprietary framework similar to Jeeves that they use internally to abstract away all of these details (and potential liability)?

Seem that they would, but I thought you might have some first-hand knowledge you could share given the background research you must have done in order to get to the point.
http://denniskovshov.com

Nothing fancy, but hoping to add more substance!
I'd say yes. We've been down that path before and i strongly believe that native apps are needed in a relatively low number of cases when you either need all the performance in your app or when you're dealing with some very tricky input. The rest should be absolutely fine with apps built with browser technologies and adapted to OS (with Apache Cordova or whatnot). Just as with WhatsApp - that app is pretty straightforward and it could be easily written in HTML5. It doesn't require heavy computation, it doesn't have any complex input methods, it doesn't need to deal with local storage etc.

Web allows us to create one app and with tiniest of modifications that app could be available on all of the major platforms. Don't you think this is by far better future than multitude of various platforms and versions of those platforms (see WP, Android) when you'll need a team of developers just to finish multiple versions of your app?
Zig is not the only one. Other newer languages like Vlang, Odin, Rust, Nim... offer strong C interop.
Also in the same space is https://rancherdesktop.io/.
For context: https://thetech.com/2021/11/22/6-4-ai-d-major-proposed
Indeed.

The point was not that "review" is bad, or should be avoided. But that a Pull-Request is a poor way to do that review. Reviewing is crucial, IMO.
I think this is a good example of the folk wisdom that kids don't have the best decisionmaking skills. I spent time in many an IRC flamewar as a middle schooler myself, so I'm not judging :) of course. Reddit first came out while I was in high school and subreddits became a feature near the end of my time in HS. I definitely was making better choices about the content I consumed as a high schooler and I've gotten better as I've gotten older!

I deeply appreciate Reddit's openness to customizing the experience. The defaults suck, I agree, but you can choose to curate the experience how you like. Moreover despite lots of jaw clenching over financial incentives, Reddit still offers the Old Reddit interface _and_ an API which lets power users consume Reddit however they like. These values were pretty common among other fora/BBSes at the time. The experience one got on 4chan's /a/ or /jp/ was very different than /b/ or /pol/ or /soc/ (and most of 4chan's famed toxicity came from the latter 3 boards.) Forums were usually partitioned by topic.

> In a weird way I actually think that the weird stuff twitter has been doing to try to make it look like they're doing something about unhealthy social media usage (all the "remember the human" stuff) would probably be more effective on a reddit-type social media platform.

I don't think the algorithmic feed as-is is compatible with healthy usage, no matter what rhetoric a company uses. ML models need to not only take engagement as input but also some sort of personal toxicity input. I need to be able to say "content X is addictive to me but not for a good reason." The model also needs to offer as much transparency as possible to the user, offering things like partial dependence plots for auditing by the user. I'm not sure whether a ranking model trained that way can still provide good ad targeting performance. Moreover knobs like this are probably just too complex for a layperson to interact with. Many engineers don't understand how a partial dependence plot works let alone laypeople.

My problem with social media is about the lack of choice. I have no qualms that the majority will continue to use social media the way most people in the past would spend time mindlessly flipping TV channels or window shopping at malls and boutiques. But there was always alternatives. People that didn't want to spend time window shopping could be found in libraries, bookstores, bars, playing sports, or outdoors. Once you became an adult this was expected. That didn't mean I was ostracized from them. I encountered people in college who hung out in very different places than me but still connected with me over shared interests.

In the social media age every form of social media is siloed. If you're not on Twitter you can't engage with people on Twitter. If you're not on Facebook you can't see people's Facebook content. You _have_ to join the platform to reach people on the platform. I'd love to see a world of federated social media where we can all talk to each other no matter our hobbies and third places.
I think comments themselves are the “negative incentive”, not the scroll bar. If comments were as informative and well-written as the article, then including them in the total article length is what you want because you would also want to read them.

But, as we all know, comments are usually total garbage. The problem is not that they get included in the scroll bar, but that they get included with the article. We need to fix, or remove comments, not scroll bars.
Except that all the little controls and plugins DIDN'T transition to VB.NET--and they're what made VB6 useful to common people.

And the hot code reload in VB.NET is nowhere near as useful as it was in VB6--and that was how common people debugged code.

I can go on and on.

VB.NET was not a useful replacement for VB6. I still know tons of businesses running VB6 code and, when they finally have to migrate, it won't be to VB.NET.
There is just about zero information in that article other than the assertion of making an album on an iPad.
>Now if being the mayor gave me coupons or discounts, then I'd have more of an incentive to check in more often at more places.

Seems to be the direction they're headed in. I've noticed more restaurants in my area having their location tagged with something like "show this to your server for a free appetizer" and the like recently.

SCVNGR actually seems to have the most prominent tools for this kind of thing and does the best job up playing up the game aspect by throwing in some fun challenges, but just doesn't have the user base to be relevant, unfortunately.
3. ...

4. PROFIT!
I just added code to filter special character sequences. As I encounter special characters in the JSON, I'll just change them to more innocuous characters. Like turning a curly single quote, which is communicated by this triplet: &#226;&#128;&#153; into a straight single quote.
The reasons for their choice have everything to do with why they made the choice.
Time to retry this program. Every year that passes is a better opportunity for the postal service. More people are online and many businesses have paperless statement options. Less important letter mail is being delivered.

I would pay not to have to check my physical mailbox but once a month.

Next up, get rid of yellow pages.
It's in the WSJ at http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/12/27/can-email-snooping-a-cri...

'In a voice message left with the Law Blog, [Michigan prosecutor Jessica] Cooper added that two judges have denied Walker’s motion to dismiss the charges. Walker and his wife “were in divorce proceedings and had separate email accounts, separate computers, separate everything,” Cooper said.'
Because Tazo is not an internet startup therefore their website is irrelevant to sales which is what matters. Tazo isn't trying to raise VC from power points, their trying to sell tea, and from the looks of things have done a pretty good job of it.
is there a way to skip to the next song on the list?