jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
PG - Were/Are you talking about the death of the big screen here -- or just the network/broadcast/cable distribution?

Because I think I still see a place for the lean back screen. Effectively you have 3 screens in your life of decreasing importance.

First is the personal one. It's 3-4 inches and is in your pocket where-ever you go. Occasionally you might even speak into it and use it as a "Phone".

Second is the creative screen. This is the bigger screen at your desk where you do work. Not everyone needs one - but for serious work a larger screen plus relevant input devices are important. (This is the lean-forward screen)

Third is the lean-back/consumption screen. This is for consumption and specifically -- consumption sharing. It will likely have a number of 'computers' attached to it: maybe an xbox and appletv. This is for group entertainment (kinect/wii games, etc) and for in-person social media sharing (watchign a movie with your partner)

// I see tablets falling between 2 and 3. It's the replacement of the clipboard and a partially social consumption device.

While the third screen there is much less important than the first two (especially #1), I feel it still has a place.
Yup agree, that's exactly what's being used here, along with some tweaks to make it easier to do things like passing the auth JWT's back to the underlying app etc
It's interesting how personal scars can entrench ones perspective. After MySQL 8's renaming-table-will-crash-server bug I'm reluctant to use it for new projects.
I think a lot of developers have moved to reactjs calling an api.
I guess the good news is that I still have identity monitoring from that time where the federal government gave up my information, including SSN, phone numbers, finger and toe prints, etc.
Correct! I don't spend a lot of time reading annual reports.
That presumes that Reddit is visited by intellectuals or thinkers. A pretty big assumption.
The irony of this question is that the OP is concerned about the maximum optimization of "intellectual potential" wasted by people that are seeking maximum optimization of a game system.

There is more to life than a feverish march of scientific progress. There's value in wasted time, boredom, and frivolity.

Furthermore, I'm certain that current/historic systemic oppression of large swathes of humanity contributes more to "wasted intellectual potential of humanity". And in those cases, it is actually detrimental to the person, whereas a game is usually provides benefit to a person in happiness, relaxation, or challenge.
However you may feel about the theft charge, if you find a tracker on your car, don't take it off. It's an occasion to call the police. Someone is either committing a crime by tracking you illegally or you're letting the police know you found their tracker. Maybe they'll remove it, as once the tracker is known to exist it's useless.

If you want to go the route of civil disobedience and take it off on moral grounds, you can do that too, but you'll probably go to jail. This isn't the first time I've heard of this, the FBI has charged people for tampering with the trackers they've put on people's cars.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2011/05/09/heres-...
Not that much more than in C++: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/expressions#Opera...
Astrophysicist here, I'm currently finishing my PhD, mainly focused on data analysis for the kind of telescopes that measured this GRB, while my main focus is on a smaller prototype telescope (FACT), I also work for the one that detected this GRB (MAGIC).

AMA ;)
Have you tried Jupyter notebooks? I do not know if they handle references, but it does the rest you want. The markdown cella support latex math and you can include figures or even videos.
So... maybe?

If you can put a 4x8 sheet of plywood in at a slope, the high end would be about 4.66 feet above the bed, if the bed is 6.5 feet long. There probably isn't enough vertical clearance for that, but it would be close. On the other hand, maybe the rear window opens and is at least four feet wide.
> Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

This makes me think of the first song I posted to YouTube. I couldn't help but curiously flip through the viewer statistics. Automatically I began wondering how I could prevent the 50% drop-off at X seconds, and what type of person was sticking around beyond the drop-off. And before I looked much into it I realized this would be a great way to suck all the life out of something that's supposed to be fun.
Cool.

STLs?
Would love to print a couple of these for my kid's show-and-tell in class

edit: found some , search "illusion" on thingiverse, not "topology" :)

eg,
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3169391
Or for the execution of Pence by Lin Wood (targeting Pence specifically is something I've also seen in several quotes from the insurrectionists.)
>Also, please don't judge me, I just have a morbid curiosity to see what these people are talking about and how they think.

Why not just tour your local Psychiatric Ward?

Please keep downvoting. I bathe in Maga-Moron tears. Poor Snowflakes.
And as we all know, anonymous intel sources are never spinning a yarn for their own purposes ;)
After 30 years of internets I've seen no evidence that a majority of people have the capacity to distinguish between analysis and advocacy.
I don’t paint every Democrat as a supporter of the violence and property damage that happened over the summer.

I think the vast, vast majority of people believe in non-violent protest and giving people room to express their views and hurt and frustration in non-violent ways.

I think politicians and the media is largely responsible for trying to paint groups they don’t like with an overly broad brush, and we should outright reject that as Americans.

The political flame war has to stop. The vast majority of Democrats and Republicans are in fact reasonable, kind, loving people who still believe in America even if it’s no longer popular to admit it.

The challenge is the fringe voices are amplified a million times more than the center-mass.

I read an interesting Twitter thread last week on how housing policy in SF is basically totally dominated by 6 people, private citizens, who scream down anyone who would dare to offer an opposing view, and are successful in setting policy with these tactics. I don’t know if that’s fully true, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
4chan has managed to hang on despite everything. Although many of the spinoff chans have collapsed.
I find this a little bit too biased. The Bitcoin universe is waving between a lot of reason why to love bitcoin and it shifts often.

I stopped following the money side of it (atm and sites accepting btc) but a vast majority of btc and cryptos attention right now.. is simply better yearly returns than other kinds of possessions.
Yep, in India they directly detain all protesters anywhere near the parliament area and the immediate surroundings
People write these findings as if they're surprising. It's not.

Before reading this article, did you know that CEO pay has grown twice as fast as the S&P 500, three times as fast as corporate profits, and sixty-nine times as fast as production workers? And that the minimum wage, adjusted for inflation, has not grown at all and has in fact lost ground?

Yes, it's true that good companies make everyone wealthier in absolute terms, but that's not the whole picture either. Not every company is Google.
There are two things I like about paper that make it superior to viewing text on an LCD or CRT (for most forms of text that exist), that unfortunately the article, which is FUD shill from the paper industry, doesn't cover.

1. Ease of annotation and manipulation.

I can mark up text with physical writing implements much more easily than I can with an annotation tool in some document viewer. Personally I find this critical for absorbing material like technical papers and lecture notes. Especially for mathematical notes.

The best electronic-display approximation to this would be a tablet that doubles as a display, such as the Wacom Intuos. The iPad and Kindle are the closest alternatives if it is not important to annotate text. Even then, big sacrifices are made in manipulability.

Probably the best thing about paper is the fact that I can get one piece of paper at much less cost than an iPad or Kindle. It's not just that you can do some task on a single sheet of paper better than you can on the iPad app that tries to replicate that task. It's that the cost difference also applies for N pieces of paper versus N iPads; there are tasks that operate on multiple sheets of paper that are hard to do with the usual solutions that exist today for this, which are window managers. Either window managers need to get a lot better (I've used Windows + WinSplit, xmonad, Divvy and a few other attempts at reigning in the horrible wm in OS X), or there needs to be better hardware for doing so. Multitouch trackpads might be a good starting point.

2. How it interacts with ambient light.

I find that reading text on paper is much easier on the eyes than reading an electronic imitation of it. This is because of how unreadable electronic text is in comparison:

a. Content creators tend toward black text on white backgrounds. This is much higher contrast than you get with black text/white background for paper. The readability of the content is worse the higher the contrast ratio of your display.

b. The rest tend toward a variation of white text on black backgrounds. That is almost as bad.

c. Monitor settings. The monitor's brightness needs to be appropriate for both the amount of ambient light and the content being displayed in particular. There are solutions like Apple's laptop LCD displays that depend on ambient light, but in general the monitor setting is more often the wrong setting than the right one because of (a, b) content being used together frequently + the hassle of adjusting the brightness and ignorance of 'correct' brightness settings in general.

This is where I think there might be an electronic solution; for instance, how about a PDF viewer or display driver hook that remaps the colors of the documents to something more bearable? You can sidestep (a, b) and somewhat mitigate (c) if you say, assume that everyone is using the highest (or default, or as a customizable) setting on their monitors. You already see this with just about every fancy vim/textmate color scheme, and more relevantly, the Inverse scheme of the Readability bookmarklet.
I see geeks at Rudy's Pub in downtown Palo Alto every time I'm there.
What's with the frequent anti-rural sentiment on HN? Rural residents depend on the mail far more than anyone else, as they are less likely to have access to alternate services. Extremely isolated locations don't have to-the-door delivery of mail, but a row of mailboxes on the road for all the houses in the area. I doubt it's as unprofitable as you seem to think.

Flat-rate delivery of mail is a necessary social equalizer. It would be entirely unfair to deny rural residents access to communication. In many cases they are the ones growing the food we eat, mining the coal that powers our PCs, etc. In exchange for providing valuable services in places we don't want to live, we should isolate them further?
Sounds awfully like guilty-until-proven-innocent to me...
Aren't EC2 spot instances the first spot market for cloud computing?
Have you read http://www.unc.edu/~mumukshu/gandhi/gandhi/hofstadter.htm ?
karma whoring...

"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be
much easier to deal with."
Thank you for the interesting analysis and link. It seems that the issues are:

* SEC registration is meant to protect investors.

* SEC registration is so expensive only large corporations can
afford it.

* Companies can be exempt from the SEC registration requirement if
everyone who purchases their securities meets certain minimum
net worth or income requirements (this does not apply to
35 purchasers, which apparently need meet no minimum standard
at all). Purchasers who meet these minimum requirements
are called "accredited investors".

* The justification for allowing the accredited investment
exemption seems to be a desire to allow investment while at
the same time recognizing that certain well-off investors don't
need the protection SEC registration offers.

* The threshold for being an accredited investor is being raised.

My own responses and concerns about all this are:

* Is it really true that SEC registration is so expensive that
only large corporations can afford it? Just how expensive is
it? Why is it so expensive? Can the expense be made any more
affordable for smaller companies?

* What rationale is being used to justify setting the threshold
for being an "accredited investor" at any level whatsoever?
What makes investors worth $1 million any more able to do
without the protection provided by SEC registration any more
than an investor who is worth only $500,000? Given what we've
seen in the recent financial crisis (where even the wealthiest
investors suffered or even went bankrupt), isn't it clear that
even wealthy investors need more protection?

* Does SEC registration of any given corporation really only
protect the direct investors in that corporation? Or does SEC
registration benefit society and the economy as a whole?
Perhaps we should be thinking of ways to make more corporations
subject to SEC registration, not less. If this can be done in a
way that smaller corporations can afford, why not?
Nobody ever writes long blog posts saying "I paid my taxes. End of story." There's a definite bias in that only bad news ever gets reported.

One anecdote about is not an indictment of the whole system.
Interestingly, Germany is also the most wonderful place I know for a drive. They're well-trained, considerate, and skilled.
I was about to write the same thing. Thank you for taking the time to do this. It is exactly what I needed to build APIs at Mokriya.
Yes, everything you say is correct (AFAIK), but it's not what I was talking about.

The thesis of my comment was this: the collapse of MtGox involved a larger proportion of the bitcoin market than the proportion of the dollar market involved in the collapse of Lehman. Ergo, the collapse of MtGox is more significant to Bitcoin than the collapse of Lehman was to the dollar.
I don't know, that seems like a tautology - the only reason it can be weaponized against your enemies is because it's taboo.
While entrepreneurship is absolutely easier for those with access to money and privilege, so is everything. Name one job where access to money and privilege doesn't convey some form of advantage. Also, law, banking, consulting, and most white collar jobs are infinitely more favorable towards those with such access, in that they essentially shut out those without it. Entrepreneurship does not. Even blue collar, union jobs favor those with seniority and access to resources. You've defined a characteristic of life, and only applied it as a negative when discussing startups.
The forces shaping NBA player pay are so unrelated to those in play for programmer salaries that the author sounds shallow when he says that a factor of 4x between max and average in the NBA is why we shouldn't be surprised if there's a similar spread in programmers.

Just as a start, nobody will pay the average basketball player, but the average programmer can earn a nice living. Then move down the line to the owners' monopoly vs players' union, 5 players on the floor, etc.

A better analysis could start with why a 10x more skilled programmer isn't able to produce 10x more value, or, if she is, why she isn't the one capturing it.

There sure are domains where 10 hard working just-competent programmers can outproduce a single genius. Ideally the genius has a few near-peers and a grunt-programming support team, and everyone feels good about that.
>it's hard to imagine an amount of money that would be simultaneously large enough to entice an Apple engineer to risk his job and reputation

The odds are that this engineer will never be revealed publicly, and it will not effect his/her reputation in any way.

>but small enough to not trigger questions about where it came from.

You don't think that the NSA has the ability to hide money?
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Your SEO won't work if your site doesn't respond.
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Not only that, but the answers on Quora seem to be 80% garbage.
See also:

https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/2747/symbolis...

Winners do use cheats, I suppose.
ERCOT just declared EEA-2 at 1:13am local Texas time.
Read the history of World War II sometime, particularly how long Britain held off Nazi Germany by itself between when France fell and when the US entered the war. As a Bangladeshi I’d put a few caveats on his bio, but I’m pretty happy not to be speaking German. (Likewise, I’m not thrilled Nixon armed Pakistan during the Cold War—weapons which were used by Pakistan to gun down Bangladeshis. At the same time, I’m willing to give some slack to the US for what it felt it had to do to win the Cold War. Had it not won, the sub-continent would be Soviet vassal states today. Geopolitics is tough.)
It’s now EEA 2
As someone who writes code, I found bubble.io quite promising, until I hit the usual bottlenecks that comes with any no-code platform.

https://bubble.io/

But I can see the lure for masses, driven by the startup subculture, but the truth is that if you can master something like bubble, the transition to actual coding would be seamless and often very liberating.
I believe the most troubling thing about Crawford's path is simply in the inability to develop self-critique of his own philosophy. His thoughts on a subject seem to terminate in the thing of having a mathematical model of a topic, not what we get out of that model. It does not seem to matter if the model is inscrutable when presented within a system, or if the system degenerates into a single strategy. (I have a memory of playing "Balance of the Planet" and after struggling for some time, discovering that the model did not restrict my taxation of dirty energy. Therefore I could gain a nearly infinite budget to clean up the planet on turn 1 with no negative consequences beyond "people falling off roofs while installing solar panels." I'm not even kidding - for some reason roofing accidents are ranked up there with deforestation and carbon release as very important things to model about our impact on the planet.)

Plus, last I heard, he's still stuck on an evo-psychological model of society that is quite out of fashion these days, which doesn't exactly help matters.

Crawford's story is a good warning for anyone who embraces simulation as an "end in itself", rather than a medium, though. This was an idea in vogue with wargaming's golden era and is now carried forward by VR enthusiasts, among others.
You might be interested in the French example, if you don’t know already. They designed the Mlang DSL for tax calculation, and released a bunch of things on GitHub.

Here is the compiler:
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03002266v3/document

https://github.com/MLanguage/mlang

They’ve also open sourced an official calculator, along with web APIs:
https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france
I would think something like GPT-3 trained on classics and a specific genre would do good enough to pass some kind of book Turing test. Just make it follow Vonnegut’s “shape of stories” https://www.openculture.com/2014/02/kurt-vonnegut-masters-th... And voila!
Stockpiling incadescent bulbs instead of spending time doing research to find LED bulbs with a better light spectrum?
From what I understand, the problem with scaling the Moderna/Pfizer vaccines is that they use a novel process that hasn't been used for producing a vaccine at scale previously. They're having to build out entirely new factories and supply chains. This sort of work normally takes years.

Would throwing more money at the problem ease some bottlenecks in increasing production? maybe? Would it cut months off the time to complete the roll out? Plausibly. However, I don't think it'd make a huge difference to the speed of the roll out over the next six months or so. Some things just take time to ramp up.
It's a bit like comparing a particle accelerator to a bagel. Easier to explain them each on their own. Try running through some sample code of both to feel out the philosophy.
People with the title sir are called knights, or sometimes Knights of the Realm.

(Also, the really cool people turn down their knighthoods.)
"It's like having a drunk know-it-all in your pocket."

Hilarious. We're not quite there yet, but soon though.
Just wait until we go from predictive search to preemptive search.
It would be nice if you wouldn't derail the conversation with another tired old "but it's not as good as gcc when it comes to X". This is a CTP. You split hairs over minor points of standards compliance that many devs won't even use on gcc yet because the features are so new, and completely avoid mentioning that the productivity of Visual Studio (for both .NET as well as native C++, including cross-platform C++) arguably dwarfs any other IDE on the market. Have you used, I mean really used, a recent version of Visual Studio for C++ work? Or are you making this comment because you haven't and you find it threatening? Tell you what. You build your C++ app with Xcode 6 or command-line gcc for all it matters. I'll build mine with Visual Studio 2013 or later. We'll see who wins. By the way, I love gcc. Love, love, love. That doesn't mean I have to take pot shots at Visual Studio, which is tooled to the Nth, completely stable, and not at all the old restrictive MS dev environment of yore. The times have changed.
There could be in the future. Imagine you comment and construct your personal path through the Net that you share and others are allowed to search. Not just reddit/hn, but everything. And it is not just, I posted to hn or commented on hn, but your actual personal shared web history (with comments: yours and others)
Yes and it's going mainstream. Starting a company is so cheap and fast now that it doesn't even take a team of 2 or 3 anymore. A single person can do it.

There are so many benefits to solo-founding, it's not even funny. Without co-founders, there's no delay in getting started. There's no drama. The development cycle is fast and the code can be remarkably clean. Personally, I make changes to my production code all the time because the whole thing is in my head and I know what effect my changes will have. (And if I screw something up, I know how to fix it in minutes, not hours.) With a team, that's simply not possible.

Investors are going to wake up to this reality soon and accelerators will trip over each other to claim to be the "accelerator of solo founders".

Corollary to this, MBAs and other non-tech types are screwed in the years to come. Engineers won't need them anymore. 1. Make a product. 2. Get some baseline traction. 3. Join an accelerator or raise a seed round, if you need it. 4. Hire the founding team. 5. Profit.
Republicans: always just slightly worse than Democrats. Great choice last November, America! You surely won't regret it for decades.
>"... entirely free during the public beta..."

What makes it different from (or better than) free versions of Zoom or Webex Teams?