skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the knowledge from back then is also lost. It wasn’t written down or if it was, most of that was lost.
I guess the tradeoff is speed and convenience.

If we wanted to have the absolute best performance, we would have to write web apps in C. But it would be quite more cumbersome.
Search isn't a Google product anymore, it's a learning tool like reCaptcha. Sure, the ads at the top of your search results are a product, but the real value of search is that they can capture everything you do to learn more about you. So every time you refine your search and try again, they learn a little bit more about what you're interested in, or what you're doing, and maybe what you're working on for your job, and advertisers will throw money at them to get the "better" information for targeting. Search is just the latest casualty of the war for your attention online.
It seems to be amazing!!!! Google and Amazon just show me products from companies which paid them to rank better. I would love to have a better option and ad-free!
It is definitely poor judgement by Zoox. And if Tesla had its act together, Zoox would be totally f'd (assuming the unlikely scenario that China would actually enforce a court judgement against a Chinese company).

The issue though is that Tesla has to show that Zoox is actually using that information in its products or processes. It's possible--even likely--that they'll be able to do so with respect to the Autopilot secrets (I didn't address that in my comment edit: since that was a separate lawsuit from the one against Zoox) but with respect to the logistics secrets there's a snowball's chance in hell that Zoox modeled any of their logistics after Tesla's processes.
That thing effectively meant that you couldn't propose an actual solution to the SPAM problem that was fair for everybody, open source, etc. Instead Gmail went ahead and made one that is secret and hugely benefit them, people went to gmail because it actually worked, and yet some it is still linked to and considered a good thing.
That is an absurd barrier. Move to a foreign country to get access?

Also, money is the ultimate accessibility issue that affects everyone, and that's something Facebook and friends understands, which is why they're swallowing the world.

Another huge reason people can't access things is because of linguistic or cultural access. I mean, some people say the professional or academic writing of their own culture has access issues...
I was surprised to see a reference to "loans create deposits" in this article. I thought that concept was very well accepted and wouldn't have considered it to be part of MMT? Is the MMT part of this just that it also applies to the Treasury/Central Bank relationship and not just retail banks?

> MMT says that, contrary to appearances, banks don’t make loans out of deposits. Rather, they make loans based on the demand for borrowing, then the borrowers stash the proceeds in the bank. Anyone they write a check to simply makes a deposit in another bank. The bottom line is that loans create deposits rather than deposits creating loans. This is one aspect of MMT that even some conservative central bankers—including those at Germany’s Bundesbank—agree with.
How about just hardening macOS installation? https://blog.bejarano.io/hardening-macos.html
And Uvicorn, the server, is compatible with PyPy. So, you can run FastAPI with PyPy, if you need :)
I've got one eye at 20-20 vision, and the second legally blind without correction. My drivers license has a little note that it's not legal for me to drive without my glasses, which I never wear under any other circumstances.

So it's not so clear cut as you make it out to be.

(And you know what? Even if it were legal for me to drive without those glasses, I'd still drive with them. Because ranging is important!)
That would either require games to support this branching feature or have 60 instances of the same game open. Forget about this if you have any RNG or MP elements. The complexity of such task is enormous.
And that's not even talking about the performance cost. Pretty much whatever is G charging now times 60 times 1.2x for added complexity.

"lol" is the best reply.
To be fair most of the books written in Herodotus’ time are also gone! Many of them we only know about from Byzantine library catalogs or summaries, but surely many more have just completely vanished from knowledge or existence.

With the existence of things like the Internet Archive, it’s quite possible the public web content of today will be well preserved for centuries to come.
I have never seen X happen.

I doesn't happen very often -- but it does happen.
>> I can abide synonymous substitutions, for instance if I search for "interesting articles" and the results include "fascinating", "intriguing", etc. But it is boneheaded to serve up results that completely ignore one of or more search terms.

> Most people use natural-language sentence fragments in search. Requiring exact match for every term in a query would vastly reduce usability.

He wasn't talking about that, and actually said he was fine with synonyms (and I would assume stemming, etc).

His problem was Google flat-out ignoring some of his search terms, thus giving irrelevant results. I don't have examples handy, but I'm under the impression that Google often ignores some of the more relevant terms in my queries to give me more popular results.

Which is ironic since most pre-Google search engines defaulted to OR'ing terms together, and one of Google's innovations was to switch to defaulting to AND. Now they seem to be revisiting the mistake of their competitors and wandering back to something like default-OR.
I mean the capacity to produce goods and services.
I am not an economist but it seems to me that factories will often run underneath max capacity. I also think that supply chains are more flexible than they were in the past. All cases of hyper inflation I know of always had a concurrent disruption to supply capacity (e.g. war, natural disaster, political strife). It seems ramping up production to meet demand is usually not an issue over the course of a year if there isn't some big externality preventing it (i.e.war). I'd be interested hearing from people who know more if this is the case.
Again. Systems required for safe operation of a device by a reasonably competent operator are not something you consider an option.

It's cheaper and safer in the long run to just do the right bloody thing, since you get the whole economy of scale windfall.
This feels like a slightly differently framed version of the "Too big to fail" argument and does pretty much nothing for me.

Collecting data on such massive scales is literally FB's whole business.

But with that also comes a responsibility that shouldn't simply be waved away with "But they are so big, it's so difficult!"

Because when it's about monetizing their massive amounts of, often illegally collected, data then FB seem to have no issues having everything in order and getting stuff to work, regardless of how "difficult" it might be.

Probably has to do with the fact that there's no money in protecting users data properly and FB seems to be pretty much immune from negative PR having any bad consequences.
Wow. The film looks so good. This upsampling, on the other hand, is to my eyes so subtle of an improvement to almost be imperceptible.
How much does such an option cost?

I couldn't find pricing in any article, but I suspect that airlines that paid extra for the disagree light will be looking for a refund now that Boeing is offering it for free.

I wonder if it's like buying a car where in order to get that one option that you want, you need to buy a whole expensive package of other options that you don't really want.
My (now) wife and I took the Empire Builder from Seattle to Chicago about 10 years ago. We purchased a private cabin. We were 8 hours late leaving Seattle and couldn't get into our cabin until we got to Spokane because of some sort of merge of trains coming from Portland and Seattle. Got to Spokane, got our cabin, another 6 hour delay. By the time we reached the upper Midwest, they were rationing food, literally cutting every meal (that we had already paid for) in half. We eventually arrived in Chicago about 22 hours late.

The train was disgustingly dirty and the employees were surly and unhelpful.

Having taken dozens of train trips in Japan since 2001 I was incredibly excited for the American train experience. It was shit and I will never take an Amtrak again.
> Chrome can translate many websites while keeping their functionality intact, to the point where for many tasks, understanding the local language of that website is not a requirement.

And that feature works better if the site follows accessibility best practices! So you might as well not put text in images, avoid overly-elaborate JavaScript, and so on; it'll help foreign language speakers as well as people with visual impairments.
Dumb mistake?

This was a feature for the government. Plain and simple.
There seems to be plenty of healthy competition in the VPS space. I agree being able to host from home would be nice as an option, but in reality upload bandwidth usually isn't good enough for anything I'd want to host anyhow.
Why would US companies want to drive up salaries?
I doubt you're ready the original manuscript though. You're reading copies of copies, there is no reason why content on the Internet will not continue to be copied in the same way.
Yes, I meant Galois Theory. I speak russian, and 'Galua' just letter-per-letter transcription from russian spelling.
Renting a one bedroom apartment in San Francisco costs $3560 per month.

I paid around 800 euros per month for a one bedroom apartment when I moved into the capital region in my country. I've since moved and now I own my own apartment. About 900 euros a month for living expenses and it's 10 m^2 bigger.

I also graduated without any debt, so that's not an expense I have to deal with.

To me, it really seems like US is the expensive option unless I'm buying phones and computers.
Well, that's the problem really; they obviously don't care.
Siri cannot understand 50% of the things that come out of my mouth, and the other 50% of the stuff it defers to 3 results from a search engine.
> a deflationary currency means that you're better off holding it than investing it.

It is ridiculous to assume that any artificially designed deflationary digital asset will produce long term returns greater than an index like SPY, which is intrinsically tied to human productivity in the economy.

An average, semi-rational investor will always have the incentive to lend to a credit worthy person/business/asset, regardless of how much artificial deflation you can induce in your asset.
I'm not rejoicing. I'm merely pointing out that, at least for me (and I dare say - most of Europeans that don't live in comfy western economies) is that most regulations are not all that important issues. They're more concerned over high taxes, poor public services, a mediocre economy and various societal issues (corruption, demographic collapse, lack of long-term economic planning...).

As a person running a small business, I don't see these motions by the EU as "sticking up for the little guy" or looking out for local businesses. I see them as just more things to think about as I try to keep my business running and growing.

Furthermore, I see a lot of talk about tax and fairness. I don't see a lot of talk about how that money is spent or what the benefits of running a European company are.
Getting Started with VR Interface Design
We're opening up the beta today
> Depending on how long this system was in place, there may not even be logs to query and verify if any kind of unauthorized access happened.

An earlier article mentioned this has been happening since 2012 (from an anonymous source at FB).
The Northstar line north of Minneapolis is a "real" train that run on normal tracks:

https://www.metrotransit.org/northstar-line

The lines that goes between the Mall of America, downtown Minneapolis, and St Paul are light rail, and are faster than what would normally be considered a "tram" or "streetcar".
Decaf coffee’s terrible reputation is outdated. So why does it persist?
> Taiwan province of China

Haha. Love seeing how canada's political diplomacy finds its way this deep into an academic study.
> The money supply has almost quadrupled in the last 10 years, yet inflation has been low.

Explained by "traditional" (e.g., Keynesian) economics already:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_lower_bound

When QE was introduced, the US political Right went ape shit talking about inflation. Krugman (for one) predicted it would be fine because of interest rates, citing Japan as an example:

> Everyone knows about the infamous open letter warning Ben Bernanke not to engage in quantitative easing, lest he cause inflation and currency debasement; many are also familiar with the remarkable unwillingness of that letter’s signatories to admit, after more than four years of low inflation and a rising dollar, that they were wrong.

* https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/qe-truthers/

If the private sector is not spending, then the public sector (gov't) should to take up the slack in a lack of demand:

> The problem, of course, is that you can’t cut interest rates below zero (if you try, lenders will just hoard cash.) So the Fed simply can’t do what the rule says it should.

>

> This is why we need a huge fiscal stimulus, unconventional monetary policy, and anything else you can think of to fight this slump. Quite literally, the usual rules no longer apply.

* https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/zero-lower-boun...

There are a finite amount of resources in an economy, and when an "infinite" amount of cash goes after that, you start to big up prices: inflation. I don't think that mainstream (Left-leaning) are against deficit spending to boost the economy; it's just that many of them don't see MMT is adding to what they've already been saying.
Renewable energy will grow for sure, but every national survey in the US and every international survey of energy use definitively shows renewable won't be anywhere near majority anytime soon.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/222066/projected-global-...

It's unrealistic to think that a national energy source is going to change drastically in such a short period of time. 10 years isn't that long of a time period.
This one is so much cooler. Linear controlling is the obvious solution, but this does the proper approach angles which is awesome.
The issue here is too little regulation. The EU really needs to outlaw discriminating against its member states.
Discovery of Volatile Biomarkers of Parkinson’s Disease from Sebum
The source code of this system may not be all you'd need, or even the most valuable or competitively differentiating element. As I understand it, the system is based on machine learning with a large training dataset gathered from customers (the "fleet learning" technology).

From a discussion about determining whether to interpret radar-detected objects as obstacles:

"Initially, the vehicle fleet will take no action except to note the position of road signs, bridges and other stationary objects, mapping the world according to radar. The car computer will then silently compare when it would have braked to the driver action and upload that to the Tesla database. If several cars drive safely past a given radar object, whether Autopilot is turned on or off, then that object is added to the geocoded whitelist."

https://www.recode.net/2016/9/12/12889358/tesla-autopilot-da...

It may be that much of what makes autopilot effective is just data, rather than intelligent algorithms.

Furthermore, giving away such data used to tune the system may create customer privacy concerns.
He's an experienced VC and I feel like he's very genuine in his offer. But, I really don't understand why he thinks that way. Never in a million years have I imagined myself as a VC.

I feel like he has the experience to tell whether I might make a good VC (and a crappy CEO) and I should take the offer. However that means kissing my startup goodbye...
It happens where people hire me, man. ;) And many other places where I've been a consultant. Popped in, looked around, and went "hey, this is pretty good!". About...hm...30% of my Chef engagements were with messy codebases. Another 50% were fine. 20% were better than the applications they supported, and by a lot.

I get that not everybody is a Ruby person. "Chef but in Python" probably would have done pretty well. But it is genuinely not that difficult and probably more widespread than people give it credit for being.
True, but paper and clay/stone tablets happen to be more resistant than magnetic storage and continuous change of application specific formats.
EBMs actually associate an "energy" to each point of the input distribution which then defines a probability distribution through the Boltzmann Distribution. It's true that Langevin dynamics get stuck at low-probability modes and it would be worth drying with an adaptive version of HMC. However, since we initialize chains with a random prior distribution, each individual chain is individually likely to hit any mode so all modes are likely to be explored.
> Semi-automatic .22 calibre rimfire firearms with a magazine which holds no more than 10 rounds

Oh, so the same weapon used in Virginia Tech, one of the worst school shootings in US history.
Start with "Apprenticeship Patterns" (learn how to learn, get a mentor, approach your career in the right way) and "Pragmatic Programmer" (a bunch of practical techniques that are language/tool agnostic and exposure to a bunch of shared vocabulary/jargon you will likely hear).
Yep i remember this story. So clever and yet so dirty.
There's potentially a very large difference between the number of cars made in 2019, and the extrapolated production rate at the end of 2019 (e.g. number of cars made in the last week of December * 52). I could be wrong but I don't think that before the tweet there were any previous filings or announcements saying that Tesla would build 500,000 cars this year.
Go has incremental builds as well. I’ve been using it for years and build times are usually a couple seconds; a couple of minutes for huge projects. Are you sure that’s just build time and not some combination of downloading dependencies and/or running tests? How big is your project?
Michigan Looking to Scrap $231M Dollar Child Welfare Software Program
I see this problem with a lot of big policy. It's sold as a rewrite when in practice it has to be implemented as an incremental refactor. The two have different implications and trade offs. A partial rewrite is often the worst place to end up.
MMT is a rationalization for unlimited spending & economic control. Do you really think AOC, Warren, Sanders actually understand the theory of MMT which they advocate (if not by name)?

The MMT theorists began with the conclusion they wanted and concocted a theory to get there. This is policy shaping theory at its finest.
It's amusing that you believe there's a significant difference between those two scenarios.
"As far as the business goes, I make a lot more in royalties on my beginner C# videos that O’Reilly distributes than I do on all my book royalties and editing fees."

(E.L., in the comment section apropos wishes for a book)
Lyft’s $300M Deal with AWS
If only donations could be targeted to specific causes and not massive faceless pools of cash which can go anywhere.
I think there was less money in the sector for the first 10 years or so of YC than there was during the dot-com era, so I don't know that it's true that the opening of funding markets to first-time founders is a consequence of too much VC funding.
What’s the message here? Give up before you’ve tried?
> BUT if we are honest, anonymizing log data is rarely a priority. Even if it is, leaking sensitive data can happen easily in a lot of different points in the infrastructure. In actual application code, client + server exception tracing (just imagine a deserialization exception which contains part of the input) , web server, load balancer, proxies, service mesh... There is a lot of interesting stuff hiding in the logs at pretty much every company.

I think so too, and I agree with you.

A couple of months ago we had to discuss with a colleague that wanted to log the request/response body because "without it, it makes debugging almost impossible". We certainly don't log, and we made sure that even exceptions don't spit internal data, and if it happens, it's only an exceptional case, a bug (so far, I didn't see). It's tough, because of course when you have access to plain data you can do anything you want to, but we owe our customers this additional step. Laziness can't be justified in this context.

However, generally speaking, I think it's a common practice in many companies, it's not the first time I see this happen, and I bet it's not gonna be the last.

It's a matter of mindset. The more I read such articles, the more I lose trust in even large companies. Typically smaller companies don't care, in order to move "fast". However, when this happens to large corporations, where does it end? Today it's facebook with the passwords, tomorrow it might be amazon with tons of credit card numbers because of a legacy system not anymore maintained...
I wonder if in addition to mainly physical products and entertainment subscriptions, Amazon could serve up ads for any product outside their control.

They already do “sponsored”. But what if they index just about anything people buy? Insurance, Cars, Dell, Dropbox, etc., and undercut the clutter (non commerce results in SERPs). Many people skip Google searches when looking to buy things and go first to Amazon; why not add commerce in general?
I got 'stuck' at a similar place during the recession around '05. One of their projects was just demo-ware we were selling as finished product. When I wasn't on the project it wasn't so much my problem, but as time went on they consolidated all their work on that one, in part to improve their financial story for investors. So then I'm working on a slow trainwreck that I didn't get to set strategic direction on when the project was young and flexible. So many antipatterns repeated throughout that code. I learned to hate/fear caching on that project (ex: you can't cache a table scan, unless the entire table fits into memory, and then it's not a cache).

When we got bought the founders complained about how it wasn't enough to retire on. Aww, poor babies. We were too early (Apple introduced a similar product 6+ years after we started ours), so the payoff was only enough for them to live comfortably for the rest of their lives. Except they immediately got condos downtown with unobstructed water views so I doubt that lasted very long.

I think you had the same problem we did. Potential investors take competition in a space as validation. Legitimate competition just solidifies that validation. The moment you folded, the screws got tightened on the other company. Either they didn't get any offers at all, or with terms that were terrible. Founders don't want to be treated the same way they treat their employees.

(This thing where companies get bought out and discontinue their flagship product is, in my mind, a failure mode. That's not success if you make things for a living. Somebody, not us, got rich, while we have a project on our resume that was a failure by our standards, but makes us more attractive to the next guy who wants to pump and dump a company. An attractive little cog for their big wheel. And maybe, just maybe, enough from shares or bonuses to get a loan on a new car)
The quantitative evidence of a decade of QE says otherwise.
On the (sad) bright side of living in the Bay for awhile, if you ever move anywhere else, housing will probably all look like a bargain!
It is much easier to copy paper and tablets than our snowflake storage formats.
last Archive.org snapshot of Eric Lippert's MSDN blog:

http://web.archive.org/web/20190301145321/https://blogs.msdn...