skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this makes me think of all the indie app developers building educational mobile apps. Most of them are parents with the best of intentions. Maybe they started off building an app for their kids. Maybe they saw a need at their local school and decided to fill it. Maybe they themselves always wished for their particular app and decided to build it.

The vast majority of them eventually burn out and leave the field or take on a day job to supplant their income. A small number sell their apps to a larger publisher or get hired by a larger company. And very very very few break through that barrier to generate self-sufficient income, much less growing profits.

They have many of the same business challenges of indie game developers too, it seems. Too many alternatives/competitors, distribution challenges, marketing challenges, lack of differentiation, etc.

I suppose the same could be said for indie developers in many other verticals too.
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"can't justify an MBA for reasons other than the credential or networking"

I suspect those two reasons constitute a sizable portion -- maybe even a majority -- of a typical MBA's value proposition. At the elite schools, the networking component alone might justify the costs.
Has anyone tried to find a transcript of the Gibbs Lecture? Any luck? It apparently appears in Vol III of Godel's Collected Works, and nowhere else I can see. Thanks!
You can research at the library for free. You can ask other people's opinions for free. Newspapers are inexpensive and widely available. I'm sure there are other options I'm missing. Who doesn't have the means for free?
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The insinuation that the valuable aspects of a business education can't be picked up by a reasonably smart and motivated person is pure hoohah.

For instance, I'm willing to bet the information in a combination of 'Lean Analytics' and 'High Output Management' would exceed the value of an entire MBA curriculum (which is anyway mostly focused on dealing with big company problems).

The network is harder to replicate, but again not impossible. Someone who feels motivated to figure it out can do so.
I see this is downvoted. Actually, if a blockchain used proof of actual useful storage or computation, that'd be great. (instead of wasting energy by computing "useless" hashes)
I think there is a way. Facebook/Google have all data to perform studies like that. Problem is that current University system is broken. You are forced to publish short success stories instead doing actual research.
I spend quite some time on archive.org. Of course the wayback machine is great, but I am mostly interested in old digitized media. There really is some great stuff on there - But what is really missing is organization (and a less broken-seeming website, I guess). It doesn't help you much to have a great archive if noone will find anything. User-curation would help a lot with this.
> because it felt like having twice as much money

Hmmm... Here's a strange thought: What if that was a way of deal with a gambling addiction (or something similar, since I understand risk to be part of the addiction), except you lose significantly less than you would have gambled without the loan?
> Construct the program BOOM(n) that runs forever if HALT(n) returns 1 and returns 0 if HALT(n) returns 1.

I assume you mean "returns 0 if HALT(n) returns 0"?
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Perhaps I’m a little radical on this, but I think all beaches should be open to the public, and property owners may only block access up to so many feet from the high tide mark. Or say 100 feet from the main structure, etc. restricting access all the way to the water just seems… Overkill.
I've never heard that, but I also don't use SMB heavily (especially over Wifi) to begin with.

Is there a site you can point to that details the protocol's latency-sensitivity?

If something like bulk file transfer is at issue, a ping test with sizes closer to the MTU (e.g. 1480 bytes) would be a closer simulation of those latencies.
Can he or can he not reapply for the permit?
A project may even go so far as to write different asm for the same ISA for different architectures in order to optimize for specific pipeline behavior or whatnot

https://github.com/z-classic/libgmp/tree/master/mpn/x86_64
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The title is somewhat misleading; they looked for causal effects from subjective wellbeing to cardiometabolic health and vice-versa, but the only such effect that they found was in particular BMI-->subjective wellbeing (and with the sign you'd expect.)
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If we could stop quoting this, and the baloney implicit bias study, we would all be so much better off.
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The Turing machine proof does yield an explicit unprovable statement when you combine it with the (constructive) proof of the undecidability of the Halting problem. Let H be the Turing machine that, when given a Turing machine M, searches for a proof (in the formal system under consideration) that M halts or a proof that M doesn’t halt. Build the machine Q that quines itself to apply H to the code of Q itself, then either loops forever or halts according to the opposite of what H purportedly proved. Then the true statement “Q doesn’t halt” is unprovable in the formal system.

It’s more work to formalize all the details here than in Gödel’s proof, because now you have to explain how the formal system can reason about Turing machines reasoning about Turing machines rather than just how the formal system can reason about itself, but it works just as well.
>my point exactly.

Point being what? You said "nobody" (of course implying very small number) and it's 10%, which is tens of millions of people. Not only that, but it's the most lucrative 10% of the US computer-buying population. So, the "nobody" point is already taken down.

>> this was just nobody looked because it wasn't that popular to look
> do you have a rebuttal to that?

That's an even worse argument. Not only the user base is large enough, but Apple news (including Mac news) receive close, or often even more publicity than Windows developments (especially any negative news). Besides there are lots of decade+ spanning cases like that on Windows side too, which, you'd have to agree, is not an unpopular platform.

The reason it went undetected all these years is already revealed in TFA: "it infected a very small number of victims".
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It's always possible to use GL compute or Vulkan compute with MoltenVK/gfx on MacOS/iOS.
He had me until the Joe the plumber remark…
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>And what would be the problem or wrong with that?

That, like the rest of the arguments, it would expand the reach of consciousness so much as to make it meaningless.
> All it means is a foreign entity like Russia just attacks each state differently. It won't stop them. Clearly, we are doing literally what you're saying, and it hasn't worked.

This country has been around for over 200 years. Our elections have worked well, or else we wouldn't be having this conversation.

> Elections, in the 21st century, should fall within the range of national defense. Power grids and other types of infrastructure are, why not the democratic infrastructure like elections and voting?

No, they shouldn't. I want my city, county, and state elections run by my city, county, and state, so that when something goes wrong, I can go to the city, county, or state to see about making it right, and even run for office locally to fix it myself, or go to the state capital at worst--not have to go to Washington, D.C. and complain to some bureaucrat that hasn't even heard of my city and couldn't care less about my state.

> Or you know, the ability for elections to actually be fixed in a systemic fashion. It's really the only way.

Bald assertion.

> I really don't understand this attitude. To take an example from the software industry, would you rather have your users on one OS, for you to secure, or 20+ different ones, where you need to plug holes independently?

You're looking at it the wrong way. What is easier to attack: a homogeneous network in which every machine has the same, known vulnerabilities, or a heterogeneous network in which only subsets of machines have certain vulnerabilities? What is easier to destroy: a forest comprised of a single species with the same vulnerabilities to certain pathogens, or a forest with a variety of species?

Recent history shows the inherent risk of homogeneous networks, e.g. the NotPetya worm that took down global IT infrastructure for the biggest companies in the world in a matter of seconds: https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-rus...

This country was designed around compartmentalization. If one state enacts bad policies, has corrupt government, etc, it doesn't necessarily affect every other state. But when the federal government makes bad decisions and becomes corrupt, it does affect every state.

You want our elections to be more easily compromised, more easily controlled by third parties? Nationalize them. Use the same systems and rules and policies everywhere. Make every election, everywhere, have the same, known flaws and vulnerabilities. Make every election, everywhere, reliant on the slow-moving federal government to fix problems that states and localities could fix independently and quickly.

> Fix one issue with a voting machine, fix them all, as opposed to just fixing Florida's specific homegrown crap.

How about letting Florida worry about fixing Florida's elections, and you fix yours. I don't think you'd like Florida telling you how to run your elections, but that's exactly what you propose in reverse. It's antithetical to liberty.
That's basically what the california law already is.

This case was an asshole who bought land with a public easement that provided access, and then (illegally) closed the easement.
> It's more along the lines of: you want to visit, you play by our rules.

PoTAYto, poTAHto
They save JavaScript, flash apps, and even some downloads too. Just recently I used them to get an old flash game of a studio that went bust a couple years ago
Found any gems you want to share?

What you're doing is essentially digital archeology, which is super cool. In 50-100 years, if not sooner, people will be digging through digital "graveyards" for evidence of this and that. That's so intriguing.
The world is also going to be a hell of a lot richer in 2050. Think of all the things we'll be able to buy that will fix the problems coming down the pike.
I can't tell if that's a pun or not...

(well played!)
Somewhat tangential to the topic, https://personalmba.com/ teaches you more or less all the book knowledge of a fairly decent MBA program, for an infinitesimal price relative to what you'll pay at an Ivy league or even a state school.

What you don't get w/the Personal MBA is the support of your professors, other students, and most importantly the network and recognition ...

MBA is really something one should do if they're passionate about people, relationships - e.g. what any solid business is made of.... more so than about just the knowledge or what school they go to.
> As hosted services have become widespread ...

This makes it sound to me like we should acquiesce with "cloud" services, but that seems like a very different perspective than their recent privacy note:

> We design our products to limit the collection and use of data, use on-device processing whenever possible, and provide transparency and control over how information is shared.

I never ran Mac Server (at least, not for anything real) but it was always a selling point to me that I could easily run these services myself if I wanted. Including more features in vanilla macOS is great, while dropping other significant features sours the whole platform for me a tiny bit. People (and companies) always want extra power, just in case, even if 99% of them never use it.
Private property purchased with funds generated in an economy, and the tech industry in-particular, long subsidized by public R&D.

What a joke of a society.

"Protectionism for the chosen. FU to the rest."
Wow! You aren't kidding. Why does Hacker News grant advertising space for this spam company?
I agree. I am thankful that in Oregon the governor in 1911 declared all the beaches to be a highway, therefore not available for private ownership. In 1967 it was formalized by legislation recognizing low tide plus 16 vertical feet as publicly owned.

If my understanding is correct, the legislation also requires allowing public access to the beach across privately held land, and in return beach property is exempt from property tax. Or something along those lines.
They'll be increasing their impact in a lot of ways.
Maybe not all open to the public - I can understand the notion of a private beach where a 5 star hotel provides premium services for it's paying clientele and wants to exclude the free-riders.

But for that right, the general public should be compensated with a hefty annual rent. The concession would be awarded for a limited time to the highest bidder just like for any other eminently public resource, for example the airwaves. The frequency of my mobile phone is private in the sense that no one else can use for the time I'm using it (it's illegal to even tune a receiver at those frequencies), but it's not my private property or the network's, we lease it from the public.
Yes, that also seems to be in line with the results. The casual effect was only seen with body mass index (probably quite noticeable) but no other cardiometabolic health measures.

In other words, the fatter a person is, the more likely he/she is to feel less happy/satisfied with life.
It's probably downvoted because replying 'blockchain' to a question about how Archive.org stores their data is not even a useful answer.

There may well be fascinating ways one can use blockchain for archives of this sort, but the grandparent comment was essentially useless noise.
I’m personally a fan of using Chaitin’s constant (Ω). It’s easy to show that, for some finite n, the nth digit of n is uncomputable. It follows that statements of the form “the nth binary digit of Ω 0” can neither be proven nor disproven.
Chrome's auto-update forces you to trust the author of an extension until it requests more permissions, at which point the extension is automatically disabled and the user is prompted to accept the new permissions to re-enable the extension.

Making the permissions as fine-grained as possible - as google is doing here - is a good way to prevent an extension from becoming malicious in the future.
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I would go with the highest biomass :-). Whoever weights most in total wins.

EDIT: According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_(ecology)#Ocean_biomas... it's earthworms.
The anti-California line on Twitter is that somehow this is about property rights, that a road being on this guy's property means he somehow is responsible for its upkeep, so he should be allowed to do with it what he wants.

Except... He's not responsible. I just find it interesting that hundreds of suspicious Twitter accounts are taking this opportunity to try to trend hashtags like "#socialismkills"
>It is no longer a secret that in 1950–70 the USSR was one of the world leaders in the race called “development and production of computer equipment”.

it is still a secret to me. First time i used computer while at high school in 1987 (ES-1033, a clone of System/360, installed at the University) and judging by the state of the industry at the time it took "the leader" less than 10 years for all the traces of the "leadership" to disappear.

Few years later, my professors at the University on several occasions explained motivations behind various strong theoretical results in the USSR Math from the preceding decades as "Americans have had computers and thus could just compute it while the only option we had was to obtain the results analytically".

>The end of the 70s was marked by mass production and production of PCs: Iskra-1256, Iskra-226, Iskra-555, VEF-Micro, Micro-80, Electronics NTs-8010, Electronics BK-0010, Microsha, Krista, Apogee BK-01, Partner 01.01, Spectrum-001, etc.

For a very USSR specific definition of "mass production". And not the end of 70s, more like middle of 80s for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronika_BK , https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B5....
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> This country has been around for over 200 years. Our elections have worked well, or else we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Doesn't follow; countries can exist for a long time without elections at all, and, a fortiori, without elections that “work well”. Our existence and ability to debate th topic doesn't prove our elections worked well on average over history, or that they've been working well in their most recent form. Or much of anything else.
That is probably a better solution. I have do not disturb for 10 pm to 8 am and have it set to not allow anyone to disturb me. But thinking about it now maybe I should allow calls from contacts during those times.
That is correct. I did say this was on the fly ;-)
One thing I've observed is that the MBA degree is valued by people with MBA degrees. This leads to "clusters" of MBA's in the corporate hierarchy. If the path above you contains MBA's, then you might need one yourself in order to advance. On the other hand, if they believe that you have prospects, they might offer to pay for it.
True, but you can use your firewall for SIP'n'RTP or IAX2.

Creative use of firewall rules can be really powerful. For a very simple example: block VoIP from AWS's address ranges (serious gain).

A classic response for anon calls in telephony is to make the caller record a short identifying message and then play that to the potential recipient. The potential recipient then decides whether or not to accept the call - your staff (family, whatever) become the firewall. Remember that calls are billed to the caller by the terminating provider so this is OK (caller pays).

Those are two simple examples of using IP and humans to firewall telephony. Just because telephony is a bit crap on the identification side does not mean that you can't deploy lots of other weaponry to keep yourself safe. If you look deeply into SIP and IAX2, you get loads more options as well.
There are usually consequences like imprisonment, or additional higher fines, for lying to the tax authorities. So faking your income on a tax return may be considered high risk. It's perfectly possible to consider dividends income as the UK mostly does, and maybe include capital gains as well to arrive at an overall figure for the year after allowances and indexation.

No system is perfect, but seems far less flawed than prescribed fines that sees a millionaire barely notice a £100 parking fine, but someone on minimum wage almost getting wiped out by the same. To me it;s crazy not to reference income, ability to pay or worth when assessing penalty.
I posted previously that I took all of the classes to get an MBA but ended up with slightly less than 3.0. I looked at the salary projections of just staying in tech and keeping my skills relevant and worrying about an MBA from a non top 25 school and it wasn’t worth worrying about the degree.

I did learn a lot that helped me years later.
In theory, shouldn't beachfront property have a very high property tax assessment anyway?
This highlights what I see as the biggest security weakness with banking and online services -- identity verification is only one-sided. Protocols like passwords , pins, biometrics, secret questions only authenticate the customer and not the service provider. moreover, no one is talking about this huge weakness.
For there to be trust, both sides need to be trusted.

For apps, this could be a one-time code validated in the app. As a fall back there could be a unique shared "service pin" that gets rotated.
Depends on how you calculate it. Toyota sold more car, but in terms of $$ spent, Model 3 is the most popular sedan in US.
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Wrong, it was the best selling overall sedan in US by revenue, including gas cars.