skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've just started immediately telling them my high level project if they ask why I am doing something. Even though I really doubt it will aid understanding and fixing my problem, since my high level projects are highly obscure research projects, it at least saves time. And then they'll either go away, or give a solution to my original problem; if they start questioning my research project I can just ignore them, though that has not actually happened yet.
Sorry: I specifically meant "the iTunes Music Store", which was where I was going with "end-to-end rethink". iTunes existed as a music player, but it wasn't until they provided a way to buy songs using it as part of a cohesive service that it was game changing for the industry, and that wasn't until the third-generation iPod came out.
That lecture I was in described "The random waterfall model", in which you find a scientific paper, randomly pick one of the references, go to it, and continue -- and IIRC, at a small percentage, jump to a random other paper. The professor was not describing his own work, but one that was published a decade or three before.

As far as I can tell (and could tell the day I heard PageRank described a few years later), there was no difference between that and PageRank, although there is a huge practical difference in that scientific papers can only ever refer to those that were published before them (or at least were in preparation at the time), whereas web pages are edited and can point to any other web page.

The "reference rank" application is not a DAG because of the "in prepataion" links, although it is not very far - so the "jump to random paper" is much more important to produce a useful stationary distribution than in PageRank - but it is otherwise the same.

Page and Brin did a lot of interesting things, many of which weren't trivial, and were hugely rewarded for that by society. But PageRank was an application of an old idea to new medium, not a new idea - in a way that (on its face) should not deserve patent protection.

I remember Google's first days - the main selling point for the majority of people I knew was not "it finds what I want when other search engines dont" - people had learned to direct AltaVista properly more or less. The selling point was "It gives an answer in milliseconds insteads of tens of seconds". In fact, I remember complaints because it lacked the "and/or/not/near" and other features that AltaVista and Lycos already had.
Thanks, point taken. And of course there are approximations and simplifications necessary when you try to explain this subject to high school students. I mean, that is the age when you still draw parallels from the physical world and it is easier to digest electron as a very small fast moving "ball" even though it is probably not.
What is the best way to learn how to execute at a very high level as Google does?

We are a 25 person tech startup and while our culture is amazing we struggle with execution. This is an ongoing struggle for us; it’s so easy for a young startup to misunderstand the importance of execution.

Is reading books enough, if so, which? Should we hire a COO from a company with a history of excellent execution (how to tell?). Are there courses to take? Or is it just about prioritizing excellent execution with continuous learning?

Some resources that have helped so far: Scaling Up (book) and
First Round Review blog.
So when can we expect DeepMind vs OpenAI?
I've never heard of your ridesharing example before. When people do that I still hear it called carpooling, just perhaps, "we rent a van and carpool".
Yes due to the reasons you are thinking but also yes for a more interesting reason, relativistic beaming results in more of the light being aimed in the direction of motion meaning more total light will also be delivered.
The problem is health benefits are typically tied to and provided through employers...
We say that a macroscopic body is “electrically charged” when there is an excess (or a lack) of electrons in it - which merely creates a disbalance between the electrons and the protons. We say that an elementary particle is electrically charged to indicate that there is a nonzero probability of it emitting or absorbing a photon (which leads to creation of the electromagnetic force).
It could use a little more context. I also was confused at first and the graphs seem to me to want to make the topic look more technical then it really is. Nevertheless, it's a very interesting perspective into a field I'm not familiar with.
> It'd be nice to think the investors are paying for it, but the kind of employers who hire unskilled workers are typically not in high margin industries.

This is one of those cases where you're just abstracting things away from the issue at hand to justify your position, which hides nonsense like this because you're talking theoretically rather than concretely. But if we look at the actual companies targeted, no, GrubHub, Uber, DoorDash et al are NOT low-margin industries. With worldwide services like this where your costs per-unit are basically only server costs, the margins are extremely high because your costs approach zero as users increase. The costs these companies incur are mostly money they reinvest into business development.

For example, Uber taking a loss on rides should be seen as reinvestment into the business (trying to undercut competitors and drive them out of business) rather than a result of the fixed costs of a ride.

> You no longer even realize its cost, because you never receive a bill for unjustifiably high insurance premiums, you just get paid that much less or pay more when you buy stuff.

You don't think employees notice when they are paid less? You don't think customers realize when they pay more? If you really want to make the claim that employees don't notice lower pay and customers don't notice higher prices, that's tantamount to admitting that the free market doesn't work.

Yes, obviously investors will pass the cost off to employees and customers, but if they pay an unjustifiably high insurance premium and try to pass that cost off, they open up a business opportunity for a competitor to pay employees better and/or charge customers less by buying cheaper insurance and passing off less of that cost. There are additionally some regulations in place that prevent employers from passing off too much of the cost to employees or customers (i.e. minimum wage or fixed taxi fares).

The advantage that a big company has is that when they shop around for insurance, they're much more likely to be able to get a good price than an individual because they're a large, valuable customer.
Show HN: A Language for Programming GPUs
During brain development synaptic pruning takes place. Huge part of child's brain just dies out. If the child has this process accelerated due to hardships, or is in the environment not stimulating enough to help brain to decide which neurons to kill ... it's just horrible to think about.
> "It hijacks open-source APIs and places them on top of its own proprietary solutions, thereby siphoning off customers from the open-source project to its own proprietary solution, as it did with the MongoDB APIs."

Basically, there is no such thing as an "Open Source API". APIs are not software, and we've already seen the damage that treating APIs as software (for copyright purposes) can do.

The proper abstraction for APIs (and protocols, and file-formats, etc.) is the standard, which ideally admits the possibility of multiple interoperable implementations, both proprietary and open source (patents being the joker in the deck, unfortunately).
That does not follow, though. It's not like people are generally optimizing their bundle sizes when they are in services where that costs money like AWS or there's a quota like Netlify.

Not having a limit liberates you to deliver other types of content and you have something less to worry about. It does not imply not worrying about optimizing your users' experience
Here's the product based on the spider venom:

http://vestaron.com/products.html

It's a spray on insecticide and has gone through EPA approval.
Apple wins patent for automatic retrying facial recognition authentication
I get that we don’t want to glorify killers, but I don’t see why we want to instead show victims
Absolutely. I use my non-google email account as my login for Google. Seamlessly works for everything. People can share Google Docs with me, etc.
> I clone the upstream repository first, if I see a project I want to poke at, I don't instantly fork and clone my fork.

And that takes at least as much as time as pressing fork does. Leaving pull request flow at least no slower than sending a patch. That's what you were claiming at start.

> Some rando that quits on not knowing how to use a bug tracker isn't a good contributor.

How do you know that a person who doesn't want to spend time on terrible tooling isn't a good contributor? Are you using a crystal ball?

> Somebody who takes time to learn how to use the tooling will be more beneficial to the project,

Or let's just focus on working on the code not spending time on the cumbersome tooling? That'd be even more beneficial.

> You can build your own Chromium, but that doesn't change the fact that the web engines are getting centralized.

Let's talk about this "issue" when GitLab, a FOSS solution, owns 10% of the marketshare.

> Clearly there is no negative impact as these projects are so successful.

Only very few FOSS projects are that successful, who knows how many more would be if better tooling were used from the start.

> It will devolve into "But it works on Gitlab CI".

And you claim it hasn't for Makefiles, awful automake, e-mail systems? If anything the use of newer tools reduces the monoculture and stagnation.

> Managing GH/GL bug tracking is difficult, as it lack features.
> No advanced statuses means that maintainers have to rely on hacky statuses using labels, which can get hairy really quick.

How big of a percent really uses "advanced statuses"? Clearly looking at Linux "advanced statuses" are not needed for even the biggest of projects. Systemd also manages very fine on GH.

> Oh, like HTTP and FTP? Oh, wait, we're still using those.

Thankfully both are dying. If you start bringing up stuff just for the sake of "see, old stuff is being used, it must be good" then keep in mind some countries also have gay people lynched, must be good, right? (Of course not.)

> Maybe IRC? Oh wait, that is still used in development.

But IRC's numbers are minuscule compared to all others. It pretty much shows that it's not as good as other solutions.

> Walking by foot. So lets stop walking by foot and use bikes everywhere. Oh, you can't ride a bike in a building? Seems like we'll need to change our buildings too!

Oh, the building is 5 stories, let's use stairs only! No, that's not how it works, we build elevators and escalators because stairs are not convenient. Oh, btw, there also are buildings where bikes and scooters are used.
Chinese students are cash cows for universities. Wouldn't be surprised if they found a way to argue against complying with any such mandate that endangered this rather important profit center. As far as the Chinese government goes, they could require pre and post briefings for all students studying in the United States. It wouldn't avoid the students being exposed to what happen in Tiananmen Square but under the right conditions, with the right carrots and sticks, they could be made to either be skeptical or disinterested in the truth. As Upton Sinclair said 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'

At Auburn University in the late 90s there was a seemingly random murder of a Chinese grad student and his wife. The local police were mystified because it didn't match a typical homicide and there appeared to be no motive, not even robbery. Eventually it turned out that the student was the son of a important regional politician back in China. His enemies had the son and daughter-in-law murdered in the United States to send him a message. Similar demonstrations of the long reach of the Chinese government could be made to students studying in the United States if they as a group started creating difficulties for the official narrative.
ssh doesn't accept the password from stdin. Don't just guess if you don't know. That's worse than not helping at all.
Their server component is FOSS and you can self-host. You need to do a bit of extra config on the devices but it’s documented. Disclaimer: I’ve never tried it myself.
That would be the deal. Either I "pay" via targeted ads, or I pay with cash. If you want to mix the two, then you've lost a potential customer (and I just continue to use my ad blocker).
> You can’t just be an administrator and say, “well, school shootings are bad, but statistically they aren’t a problem, so we don’t need to do anything.”

FWIW, you are talking to the son of a school administrator who did just that. (or, more specifically, who facilitated the introduction of text alert systems, security systems, etc, but who successfully resisted metal detectors and active shooter drills)
Oh Wolfram, never change. Even in a very charming and personal obituary about someone he obviously admires, Wolfram's ego shines through. As does his bizarre claim to ownership of all of complexity theory. No one cares that Gell-Mann left you out of the index of his book, Stephen.
Only their portables, though. The SNES had 4 plus two shoulder buttons in 1990, 10 years before the GBA. Honestly, I always felt like that was a missed opportunity for Nintendo, since the GBA was basically powerful enough to run SNES games, but lacked the buttons (and the screen was smaller). Made it impossible for it to be a port machine for all those great SNES games...
In most other (Western) countries, "2+ shot in one incident, excluding the perpetrator(s), at one location, at roughly the same time", would be seen as a mass shooting and probably reach national media. There's a reason why the US has the highest gun death-rate per capita in the "developed" world [1]. The problem is the high gun-ownership rate [2] - other countries also have bad mental health care, a strong media focus on suspects, or high depression rates but America's gun culture is quite unique

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
[2] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/2/16399418/u... (and the following chart)
Yes... a _company_ (Apple) won under a cohesive brand (iPod), but _that product which was being reviewed at the time_ did not. Nothing about what happened with later products retroactively changes whether the physical product that people had in their hands was good or not, or whether their review _of that specific product_ was fair.
This is certainly a difficult problem, and I think that as we learn more on this subject people are going to be increasingly uncomfortable with the answers available to us and what it means for the products we create.

What I feel is that, regardless of regulation on a societal level, it is up to us as individuals to decide what we feel comfortable with in regards to the products we create and the risk of harming others that we are willing to take on. We should be able to acknowledge the fact that - regardless of whether or not addiction is a personal failing or an inescapable biological flaw - intentionally leveraging and profiting off of it is an unethical action. It is exploitation regardless of the nature of the flaw being exploited.

It's complicated, because I think there are many types of products that can't avoid the potential for addictive use. In those situations, we have to ask ourselves whether we're targeting that addictive use, or whether it's an undesired side effect that a user may come across - and in that latter situation, to find ways to mitigate those harmful outcomes. If we want to provide outcomes that help our customers and provide them value, we need to be willing to accept that we may have to create awkward-feeling and profit-limiting mitigations.

Flawed as it is, education and the promotion of people developing self-awareness about their addictions is a strong tool we have for mitigation as long as it isn't something buried where users won't easily find it. Setting limits or ceilings on spending (spending of both time and money) is another mitigation. Avoiding monetization models such as gambling mechanics that inherently exploit addiction is another. Promoting and sticking to direct sales of products for discrete costs is another. But there is still so much we need to learn, and many potential pitfalls.
This is fascinating! I had no idea! Thanks for sharing this, I'm inspired.

From the point of view of conventional, reductionist models of human biology, the only basic physical health effects, given a reasonably humane spaceship life, would be the risks of collision.

Otherwise, I'd think 1 g would actually make a space journey more livable!

(Velocity is entirely relative, so traveling near the speed of light really doesn't mean much of anything in terms of basic physics/chemistry in the traveling frame. Physics undergrads are told that: light/physics under 1g of acceleration, by the theory of general relativity, is going to behave in exactly the same way as light/physics under 1g of gravity from mass.)

Now, as far as psychological/spiritual/emotional health are concerned, that's another matter. Relativistic effects would extract you from the context of time that gives meaning to all of your relationships with other Earth life, and with Earth itself. It'd be very deep.

Okay but now I'm remembering the article recently shared about Posner molecules and the possibility of meaningful quantum biological organizations in the body.

If our bodies physically depend on, in some yet to be articulated way, quantum information being exchanged/entangled ecologically, and if we depend on the synchronicity of these exchanges (say for example to inform some deeper biological sense of meaningful time)... Well then moving close to the speed of light would take those processes to a different tempo. To what degree are our physical bodies in temporally dependent relationships with their environment or ecologies? How critical are these relationships to basic functioning?

Now I have to agree that we don't know what effects on physical health might be!
"had to coax them out"

I see what you did there...
> People are there to voluntarily give help. They also get loads of really stupid questions and venting does help with keeping them providing help.

Ha, imagine hearing this about volunteers at a hospice. SO boards are infinitely less important, but volunteers shouldn't be losing their calm at the same people they're helping
Same. These days, I just set my phone on the counter and let it play the news, or a good podcast.

All I could think of, given the part you quoted was the precommand recording.

[Bio sound] "Music please Alexa."

You know someone is checking those for research, improvement.

Maybe somewhere in the bowels, pun intended, of Amazon there is a literal squeak of the week leader board.
Who said anything about legislation? There's no need for legislation around this.

The problems so far with micropayments infra is that publications don't believe their readers will prefer payment over ads. Which is unfortunately largely true, so anyone starting a micropayments company will have a lot of trouble developing the network effects (both on payer and payee side) to be successful.

I don't know the solution to this, but I'd hope it's not legislation. Well -- a possible solution might be legislation that makes it economically infeasible to run sites on ad revenue and selling data. If we make it onerous or impossible to allow sites to collect and sell data, and make it harder for ad networks to target people, sites will have little choice but to implement subscription schemes, or, hopefully, adopt a micropayments-type structure.
balena founder here. balenaOS comes with all the infrastructure needed for robust host OS updates. We expose this functionality to our users via a button in the web dashboard. We don't yet have an automated, rolling upgrade style mechanism.

The main consideration for a feature like this is that sometimes containers have dependencies to interfaces exposed by the operating system which are not always stable. This is especially true for IoT usecases because containers will typically interface with some device connected to the system.

Tangential to this, we're working on an extended support release schedule (a la firefox) for balenaOS. I could see us building an automated OS update mechanism on top of that. We'll definitely think about it, thanks a lot for your feedback :)
Analyzing the meaning of words is characteristic to philosophy and is not a sign of “clear thinking.”
> there is still going to be a lot of informal discussion about it amongst users of the community (including banned users that are evading) that is going to generate increasing amounts of drama with time.

It is precisely the lack of this drama, the discreet manner in which they can censor and pretend they didn't, that I object to. People should know how they're being manipulated, and then talk about it - the so-called 'drama'.

But of course the censor would prefer to control the discussion without letting people know.
> very hard to obtain guns that have high potential of killing people

The problem is literally every gun has a “high potential of killing people” unless you are talking about a museum piece from the 18th century or something. Politicians today may act like a certain subtype of weapon, such as “assault weapons”, are especially dangerous but mass shooters are already sadly showing this isn’t the case. Both this VA beach mass shooting and the Virginia Tech mass shooting were committed using pistols.

The vast, vast majority of guns sold and owned in America would fall into the categories of: rifles, shotguns, handguns. All of them, regardless of the caliber or whether they are “semi auto” or use a different modern reloading mechanism (revolver, lever, bolt-action) are deadly weapons.

Regarding our law, the constitution requires the “right to keep and bear arms” be protected. Courts have allowed various bans around the edges of the right, but have prohibited banning any widely-used category of modern firearm: _The handgun ban and the trigger-lock requirement (as applied to self-defense) violate the Second Amendment. The District's total ban on handgun possession in the home amounts to a prohibition on an entire class of "arms" that Americans overwhelmingly choose for the lawful purpose of self-defense. Under any of the standards of scrutiny the Court has applied to enumerated constitutional rights, this prohibition--in the place where the importance of the lawful defense of self, family, and property is most acute--would fail constitutional muster_ ( https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/554/570.html )
And to add to what you said. Tim Cook is considered a supply chain and operations master that had just as much to do with Apple’s resurgence under Jobs as Jobs himself.
This is more or less totally false more than any other hardware vendor Qualcomm delivers working phones to its chipset customers so that they can copy and modify the designs and so that they succeed it's the failure of Intel to provide a well-integrated working product to customers that made them flop. Qualcomm provides demo phones and schematics for every generation of chipset.
We finally have the closest thing to a guaranteed jobs program that's ever existed in the USA, and California (and New York) wants to destroy it? This is disgusting.

If I want to drive for Uber, all I have to do is pass a background check. When I want to drive for them, all I have to do is turn on an app. When I'm done, I turn off the app. I can work whenever I feel like it. Very low stress! I get wanting to "protect" workers but this ain't it. I want Uber/Uber-like things to exist so I can earn a few dollars here and there if I need to.

Ugh, sorry, this makes me so angry and other people have been much more eloquent on the subject.