skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's common story. SQLite began as TCL extension. And who uses TCL these days compared to SQLite?
> Mob rule plays out time and time again without representative democracy

No, mob rule plays out time and again without limited government. Whether legislation is direct or representative doesn't really matter, but in either direct or indirect democracy, election timing and structure (e.g., staggered six-year terms in the Senate for representative democracy, and supermajority or pass-twice-with-specified-interval rules for certain major changes in direct democracy) can.
Appster collapses into liquidation, leaving businesses stranded
This is really cool.

Bit of an aside: I used to take notes and share code using SubEthaEdit which pioneered this sort of collaborative editing over a decade ago. While it’s now pretty normal to see students taking collaborative notes in classes using Google Docs (and etherpad before it was acquired by Google to improve the experience in Docs), it was astonishing a decade ago. I recall spontaneously loading it up at an early Rails conference and taking notes with a bunch of strangers (it advertises open docs over the LAN). It was a noteworthy enough experience that one of the collaborators blogged about it. [1]

It was heartening to learn that SubEthaEdit was made free and open-sourced a week ago. [2]

[1] Alas, the coloured formatting didn’t survive the blogrot http://www.zenspider.com/ruby/2006/04/canadaonrails-day-1-sh...

[2] https://subethaedit.net
As a remote worker of over 12 years I'm definitely enjoying getting back to in person interaction, especially during the colder months when people socialize a lot less. A mix of going to an office and working at home is hard to beat.
The predicted costs of tackling it are significantly lower, so why not just tackle it and avoid the recession.

Also, a permanent loss of 10% is not a small recession, most recessions lead to no permanent loss, just a demand shock which is made up afterwards. A permanent loss of 10% is more like the financial crisis, and I’d rather avoid that if I can. One brought Trump and Brexit, I’d rather not add another to the mix.
No. At least in the US you have no rights to photos taken of you in a public place except for certain specific situations. For examples, photos used for commercial purposes (e.g. ads, marketing materials) in which you are clearly recognizable (not part of a crowd shot) require model releases. However if I take a photo of you on the street and publish it in a personal blog, article, etc. you basically have no recourse. If you hold your breath and turn purple, I might take it down to make you go away but I have no obligation to do so.
Robot chess-boxing would be great.
I will just leave this here for readers to judge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11406694
> What gives you the impression a significant number of Americans support direct democracy?

The fact that most states have at least some degree of it, and the people don't use it to abolish itself in favor of purely representative democracy.
The last paragraph ("You’re teaching them the world is full of interesting things to discover. [..] Adults can learn syntax. Only kids can learn to embrace curiosity.") is why teaching some of the basics is probably a good idea, I think. Just as teaching/showing the basics of many things is a good idea.

I agree with this article that some organisations (and parents) are too focused on practical programming skills at a far too young of an age, but that doesn't mean that showing some basic stuff isn't a good idea. Ideally I'd like my kids to be exposed to many different experiences, including the experience of making a computer "do stuff".

I wrote a brief article on this last year: https://arp242.net/weblog/kids-programming.html
I think you are forgetting about six degrees of separation. It doesn’t take many shares/forwards to reach every one. As for the news feed part, I think people would more readily believe something their friend/family sent in the group chat as opposed to on a news feed. But that second point is just my opinion.
A good chunk of people who actually care about their computer/work on a computer a lot use a Macbook, and use it while on battery power. So battery efficiency is a major issue for me and because my browser is basically constantly open and full of tabs, I have no choice but to use Safari.
Do you mean the sell + buy options never makes more money, or do you just mean in this current case? Are you forgetting that you can leverage up with more options to offset that gap?

Sell securities at $X, buy calls for 2x the number of securities you had with strike $X+$Y for $Y/10, and have the product go up to $X+($Y2). Profit = ($Y22) - 0.1$Y = $Y3.9.

Keep the securities, have the security go up to $X+($Y2). Profit is $Y*2.
> After the horrible very bad choices we made on last election here, thanks to WhatsApp

For those of us unfamiliar, can you share info on what WhatsApp did? Also curious how results are attributed to it. In the US many found big-web tech as a convenient scapegoat but evidence of its overarching effect is tenuous.
I don't know if a web agency is hard to scale but there is no benefit to the agency or the customers in doing so.

Long ago, I worked for a failing agency which had once been the largest in town and the founder was convinced the problem was price competition from individuals who didn't have to pay for the overhead of a secretary, sales staff, health insurance, etc. I think the problem might have been more was that was intimidated by price competition and would lowball quotes for jobs such that we made a small profit on 4 out of 5 jobs and gave it back and then some on the last job which we quoted too low.

If you are successful your salespeople and devs will realize they can make more money working on their own account (after all you've busted your ass for years and thing you deserve the money instead of them.) Then they leave, you have to hire new people who are less experienced, and you've got more competitors to deal with.

Another issue is that the technology base of an agency inevitable erodes.

That firm was early to the web and used a rather unusual language with a "visual programming" interface for making web pages. It was way ahead of its time in 1997 the same way Cold Fusion was and was an advantage for them at the time.

They got the beat down from an up and coming company that was using mainly Ruby on Rails. (Actually I walked out of the first company and got a job at the second two days later)

A few years later that Ruby shop was heading for the tubes and everybody was struggling to retool to make single page applications.

Ten years from now the "Google Platform" will be a ghost town and the next thing will be Gopher++ or something.
It's a nice editor but it has defaults I don't care for, and I suspect the effort in figuring them all out and how to change them to my liking is not worth whatever marginal advantages it has over Sublime.

For example, out of the box, when you search for a file and then open it, then search for another file and open it, it doesn't keep the first file open. To fix that, I had to guess what to plug into Google to figure out what that "feature" was named, and then turn it off. (Why would I want an editor that offers tabs, then only ever keeps one tab open?!)

I dunno, the older I get the more I just want shit to work so I can do my job. Nowadays the thought of tweaking a tool to make it perhaps 7% better than what I was using just makes me feel exhausted.
Thanks for the response. :)

Only thing I wanna nitpick... it's not _quite_ back to 2001. In 2001, we had IE6 that plagued the web and held it back. It was a different situation for two specific reasons, one of which is commonly discussed and one of which isn't.

1) Chromium is open source, Trident (IE6) was not. It's much more difficult to be stagnant for this reason alone. Anyone not liking the direction Google steers the project in can fork it and do their own version (e.g, the de-Googled Chromium builds out there). Trident (IE6) never had this, it was the definition of vendor lock-in.

2) It's easy to forget how different the environment was back then. The desktop still reigned king, and mobile devices weren't even really close to what we think of them as now. Companies were different as a result; Microsoft outright didn't give a shit about the web, and thus you saw IE6 languish. It was good enough for them so they didn't have to care. Google, on the other hand... literally wants to own the web, for better or for worse. It's in their best interests to keep Chromium healthy.

I really should just do this as a blog post...
California is perfectly governable. There used to be a perennial budgeting problem due to a supermajority requirement which, like all of the CA Constitution, was directly adopted, but that was solved by the people withdrawing the requirement.
awk, sed?
Yes, it is specifically mentioned in this legislation, and is specifically called out as indication that the foreign government’s request warrants action under this legislation. That is to say that given the foreign government seeking information that will lead to a death penalty on conviction, the Attorney General is compelled to issue an instruction under this legislation.
I think it should be noted that Stockfish and AlphaZero were running on vastly different hardware during this match. I wonder which engine would win in a more typical fair match (in my opinion, the match they ran was unfair). It's a shame that AlphaZero is proprietary, and as such, there is no way to find out.
China is fishing in all the planet and can exert a lot of influence over many countries in Africa. Chinese investors had spent more than $23 billion in Brazil in the last three years investing in energy and entering in the development of infrastructures. Would not be a wise move for the brazilian government.
Tyranny of the majority. Suppose 51% of the population is in group X and 49% in group Y. Should group X be allowed to vote for more benefits and lower taxes for themselves, while balancing the budget by increasing taxes and slashing benefits for group Y?
Every system has failure modes. It is possible but not completely obvious that mob rule is a worse failure mode than corruption amongst the representatives in a Republic. Any one can imagine a direct democracy where the quorum is, say, 60% instead of 50.01%, leading to greater stability.

Purely out of interest, do you see yourself as more part of the mob, or more part of the representatives?
Drawing a Picture Has a “Massive” Benefit for Memory versus Writing It Down
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To be fair, I got a fine in the mail years ago for stopping in a no stopping zone. (Couldn't find a carpark and had a screaming baby in the back) The notice says you can contest in court, which I did and got off. That was back as a student, it wouldn't be worth my time to take a whole day off anymore. :(
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Yes, at a very amateurish level, and I contribute a lot of CPU/GPU time to LCZero. But I've also played all the published games through Stockfish at the published time controls, and the results make no sense.
And in Tesla's Gigafactory 1, it's Panasonic who make the batteries. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_1

Someone else owning your key competitive advantage sounds like a vulnerability...

OTOH you could similarly say the touchscreen was the key to the first iphone... invented, developed, manufactured and owned by someone else.
I agree with everything he said... except the 80 col limit. I know I'll probably lose this fight, but I frequently write code on all sorts of different screen sizes broken into split panes (Code | REPL, Code | Browser, Code - REPL | Docs) and having a line limit makes this manageable.

Maybe 80 isn't the right one, but letting code stretch out to ad-infinitum (either with awkward line breaks or having to scroll) is a big ergonomic loss for me personally.
How about a well-known URL for unsubscribe?
One thing I really wish when it comes to Firefox Containers if I create a container for Gmail and am logged into Google I want all the email links (mailto:) to open in that container. I know currently you can have all the sites with a specific URL to open in specific containers but I'm not sure if there is a way to open various protocols in separate containers.
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> "If they aren't there, they aren't there"

That's why I've specifically asked the author. Perhaps if Inufu sees there's interest, more game records could be released.
I dunno - the umm, finder interaction can be significant different
> Google forked Blink because how Apple and Google saw the future of browsers drastically differed.

That's not accurate. Google forked Blink for many reasons (WebKit2, dev tools policies, etc.) that collectively added up to a dysfunctional relationship.
Why are people still paying attention to Twitter and Facebook? I kind of get Facebook because your friends are there but I've never seen the point of Twitter.
I can't imagine how any place where freedom can prevail might go about telling you that you are required to avert your eyes on the basis of someone not wanting to be seen.

This seem like basic physics to me: if photons come to me, I can record them. Simple.
> This either falsifies Duck Duck Go's accusations of Google, or it shows that Duck Duck Go is tracking and personalizing.

I think that is a false dichotomy; it's entirely possible that the distributed search is just part of the reason that Google's search results are different, and that DDG's accusations of filtering are also true.

I don't know if this is actually the case (I didn't look in to the matter very deeply), just saying that it's possible.
"For instance, in October, artist Kelly Donnelly released the feminist anthem “I Am She” using Ethereum" - has anyone heard of this? It's the first mention I can find.
The amount of acceleration reported for this object, attributed to light pressure if its mass is minuscule enough, or wholly unaccountable otherwise, should make everyone doubt what they think they know.

It makes me wonder whether we must begin to consider plasma interactions with the object's electrical and/or magnetic field.
Governments need to stop giving their hacking tools to all the bad guys in the world so none of us need super encryption.
Watching old episodes is very ambivalent: The constant joke/open secret discussion of his own self-worth/esteem is still refreshingly honest - even after his death - but now takes on a harrowing new (Although in hindsight perhaps unseen) meaning.
These are good points. Twitter has means to prevent disinformation campaigns using relatively simple math. The question we need to ask is why they don't do it.
> Suppose 51% of the population is in group X and 49% in group Y. Should group X be allowed to vote for more benefits and lower taxes for themselves, while balancing the budget by increasing taxes and slashing benefits for group Y?

Representative government does nothing to stop that, except insofar as representation is non-proportional, and allows Y to do that instead of X, giving tyranny of the minority instead of tyranny of the majority.

The solution you are looking for is limited (either absolutely or procedurally) government, not representative over direct democracy.
I think it still does support OS/2 console applications.
Bolsonaro's big quote is that "China isn't investing in Brazil, it's buying brazil". If Trump offers Bolsonaro a good trade deal I wouldn't be surprised to see him take it to get away from China's influence
These all tend to be from the Progressive Era. By the same argument, we can conclude most Americans are deeply paranoid about the dangers of direct democracy because the founders of the US were. Neither is terribly convincing.
I (author of that comment) responded also, and you haven't answered.

To put it differently: what gives you the right to disrupt my vision anywhere you go? Am I supposed to try to blur my memories of you?

If I am able to, from biologically recorded memory, recreate a perfect image of you, do you regard me biological brain as criminal?

Most importantly: what makes you think that you own particles that bounce off of your skin? This seems like the maximum bound for egotism in a physical universe. Does this apply to all particles in your model? Or just photons?
Those are not exactly requirements to live.
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> middle age people living of welfare do not use Tviter, neither are the inner city demographics.

Both of those demographics do in fact use Twitter, quite a bit actually.
At the same time, the law means that everyone's address in Sweden is public and published by various private companies online.

The Scandinavian concept of privacy is… interesting.
The foreign propagandists are nationalists and the domestic MSM is anti-nationalist. Weird huh? The anti-nationalists are saying because you support strengthening national sovereignty you are subversive to the nation and anti-patriotic. War is peace. Freedom is slavery and all that.
For extracting a value out of json where the keys can arbitrarily re-order and you have nested maps containing the same key names? No thanks.
Wow, that’s quite the story. I’d also add that I see them frequently in Canada where presumably the same scam didn’t happen, or at least to such a great extent. I still think there’s a cultural piece to it.

This also really shows how #medicareforall wouldn’t automatically solve every problem.
Also, not all of us have computer science degrees.
> What happened when you tried?

What is the point of snarky comments like this? If you (wrongly) think I have no idea what I'm talking about, say so. If you actually want to know more why this would be legally difficult, ask.

Comments like these are against the HN guidelines[0] for a reason.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You don't think Zuckerberg has updated a single opinion in the 15 years since that exchange?

Think about how different the world was 15 years ago. Think about how different of a person you are today versus just 4 years ago.

And on top of that, I'll share my opinion on the specific incident in question: the people who volunteered their personal information into a random web form distributed by a random student they didn't know...is by all measures...stupid. A 19 year old me might have even used the words "dumb fuck". So there you go.

My goal is not to defend Zuckerberg here. My goal is to defend people's right to be 19 and stupid/inexperienced. I'm also defending people's right to grow over the years.
In times like this when verifying identity on social media seems like valid point. Then you get into chinese way of getting more serious and have privacy concerns.
Repetition creates reality, no matter media distribution, internet mass distribution makes it more convenient and remotely available.
Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast
I think those subscription box startups are going to blow up and dry away with the rest of the 'Bezzle' when the economy slows down.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/bitcoin-falls-vi...

GE used to run ads saying it was as cool a place to work for young people as those subscription box startups and now we know it was part of the Bezzle.

Even reputable companies (with something to lose) like Amazon can't seem to stop billing me for Music Unlimited.

Once consumers discover that they only way they can stop a rouge subscription service from billing them forever is to change their credit number they won't get any more and they will think twice before moving existing subscriptions to the new credit card number -- which will end them.

If there is a need for something it is serving the need for customers be able to cancel their subscriptions. Some kind of service specialized for recurring payment that lets you end them with one click and no harassment.
It is a public bus with a steering wheel fitted to the back of every seat, that is sold as an improvement to the terrible oppression of having bus drivers.

edit, to be fair, I should have clarified this with 'the majority of implementations appear to be', I am not philosophically against direct democracy in principle, just most of the ways it is generally attempted.
This is an important vulnerability in widely-used software. Crypto is relevant because the inherent design of crypto makes hacks like this more profitable, but it's not the main thing about the article.
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> as a product increases in adoption by one or more orders of magnitude.

/aside With world human population forecast to decline, efficiences and economies of scale will be less in the future.

The real reason we need strong AI - as consumers.
I’ve only read a small amount about the Wim Hof Method, but from what I gathered he basically altered the Tibetan Tummo meditation practice. [1] That practice requires quite a lot of visualizations and an understanding of Tibetan Vajrayana cosmology. WHM, at the basic level I’ve read about, are the pranayama techniques divorced of those elements.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tummo
> These all tend to be from the Progressive Era.

And they all contain the mechanisms by which, if people didn't like them, they could be undone.

> By the same argument, we can conclude most Americans are deeply paranoid about the dangers of direct democracy because the founders of the US were.

No, you can't, because to be “by the same argument”, you'd have to.
show that, in a case where it was procedurally possible for the people directly to institute or remove direct democracy, they generally choose to avoid it entirely. Which is exactly the opposite of reality.
Friends and family sharing things that pertain to a field I know they're knowledgeable in sure. However I've got plenty of family (thankfully not too many friends) that are happy to amplify the signal of things that they're not qualified to speak to. Aunt Anti-vaxx if anything gets more scepticism about anything she tries to tell me.
Well, Brazil had to sell those soybeans somewhere. Their economy is half bankrupt already anyway. If not China, where are going to send all the natural resources to, with its current price? Presumably not US, who is also desperate trying to sell its own gases/agricultural products to the world. They are competitors, not friends.

In worst case, China can just reduce the consumption of livestock, after all that is what soybeans had been used for, while finding replacements somewhere else. As long as they have enough rice, China will be fine.
I bet if you poke around on Google for GAN and face generation you’ll stumble upon some sources. I wasn’t able to find any particular packages or pre-trained models but these types of papers are a good start and typically reference related works and other similar projects

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/42f6/f5454dda99d8989f981498...
If you consider Australia as a whole, did it save anything? That is, did it simply save the Australian state of South Australia $40 million they would have spent on the spot market, but entirely at the expense of other entities in the Australian market that would have otherwise sold it the electricity?

Not that there is anything wrong with that - it still makes total sense for SA to deploy such a system in that case, but it's very different than say saving $40 million in fuel costs due to not spinning up short-term natgas generators or something.
The weird thing about Pocket is it was actually better _before_ they integrated it, when you installed the separate Pocket extension.
Things I didn't bring into it at all.

Why isn't it more common for people to live on 2days/week work instead of 5days/week?

And I mean lots of people, and without the current stigma of "living in a van by the river" or the niche "tiny house" people" who have been accused of wanting the cost of living in a trailer park without the stigma of it - well, why shouldn't they want that? And .. why shouldn't everyone want basic housing and food, for a basic price, as a normal thing to do?