skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the simpler takeaway is that OR consistently represents a branch in the query planning, where the planner now always has to do two things and merge back instead of one. It makes sense for the OR operations to always preserve this inefficiency instead of leaving the user guessing when it will or won’t.
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> Replace "planet" with "United States".

Not even. Replace United States with... some very small subset of the United States.

I guess the bubble is very real.
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And ESPECIALLY with Uber. They've had month-long disasters that were worse than this that didn't push out anyone too critical.
Although it feels inevitable, I think what’s interesting to consider is that history would indicate that Apple is likely NOT to be the company that really ushers in the shift from ~5 inch screens we hold in front of us to an AR-based world.

In the same way that in early 2000s, yes, Dell definitely moved us forward with a great line of laptops, but the Sony Vaio (and, later, MacBooks) are what brought laptops to consumers in a real way, and yes of course, Motorola and Nokia et al made the first real push at mobile, but Apple made mobile phones a mass-market accessory item.

I wonder if Apple will end up being the Dell / Nokia of the AR world, and some company we haven’t yet considered ends up really owning the revolution.
As whales come back to their natural population levels - from memory 100 or 1000 times today! - this will become a big problem.
It's recently been proven that the two are one in the same (look up the "Markplier YouTube Ban").
I find it weird people cannot understand, some dont see a point in using an assistant. Most productive people i know actually completely negate those "fancy" techs and stick to known old stuff. And those are not grandpas but 30-35yr olds.
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> Thanks to legalized corruption ( lobbying ) the rich are able to twist laws and regulations more and more to their advantage.

What you are describing is regulatory capture, and you don't have to be against wealth inequality in order to be against this. This is common ground between traditional conservatism and traditional liberalism.

> ...who is talking about absolute equality here?

The principled/moral argument goes something like this:

- Wealth inequality is a symptom of an unjust system.
- We see wealth inequality.
- Therefore, we *must* have an unjust system which
created it.
- Therefore, we should *correct for injustice in the
system* by creating laws X, Y, Z to bring about
greater equality. )

Instead, you seem to be arguing that:

- Wealth inequality is undesirable for some unstated
reason.
- We see wealth inequality.
- We would like to reduce wealth inequality for some
unstated reason.
- Therefore, we should implement some laws Q, R, and S
to reduce wealth inequality (presumably to one of
your "shades between black and white").

The first argument is a moral argument. It says "wealth inequality is bad." When confronted with the fact that no two people start out in the same place in this life, it can fall back to "So? that doesn't mean they should be stuck with where they started, because wealth inequality is bad!" When confronted with the fact that freedom means people with different values being allowed to make choices with different outcomes, it can argue against that freedom, because it considers Wealth Equality to be a virtue.

The second argument is an argument of degrees. To what degree is wealth inequality acceptable, and at what degree does it become unacceptable? That's not a moral argument. It's lost its fallback position of morality. The person making the argument has already agreed with the principle that in some cases, under some circumstances, wealth inequality is acceptable. Now we're just arguing about where the line should be.

Reasonable people can disagree about where the line should be in an argument of degrees, but neither person can claim a moral high ground in such an argument, because they aren't disagreeing in principle.

You should either strengthen your position by making the moral argument, or agree with the GP who said that forcing absolute equality on everyone is a moral hazard. Where you seem to be at the moment isn't a very defensible stance to take.
I think you're missing the point. The idea that Jeff Bezos is worth $112 billion is itself an arbitrary construct of the current set of rules, almost entirely based on current estimates of how much Amazon is worth and current understandings of what claims stockholders have on a company. It has very little to do with the amount of wealth he has in any concrete sense. If we wanted to get $50 billion from him within a year, no matter how much we're willing to change the rules, we could not do it because he doesn't actually have that much money.
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"The problem is that we think of real estate as an investment, when housing is actually a fundamental need"

This is a very important fact that is so often overlooked. Rent escalates in cities because people own multiple homes / units and are looking to make a profit so the price goes up. In the mean time housing is becoming an increasingly larger portion of the non wealthy's expenses.

Further complicating this is that the less wealthy are forced to move to poorer areas and in many states, schools are funded largely through property taxes. This means the less wealthy are forced to send their children to lower quality schools perpetuating the wealth gap.
Preferential attachment is just math.
The difference is that Amazon's core business is not built around extracting private data and packaging it into an ad targeting platform.
Hopefully that's just saying they have the right to shut down YouTube altogether, rather than denying specific individuals. But I'm not fluent enough in Legalese to be sure about that.
Maybe, but that will still either require some big player to come in and make sane decisions to tear the Desktop portions away from the garbage way they're done now, or for the community to get it's act together. I have been waiting 20 years for the latter and do not expect it to ever happen at this point.
I think the CCPA is going to scare the shit out of people when they realize it isn’t just a subpoena for a murder investigation that will get your Alexa history dumped, but some random dude who has a photocopy of your drivers license can now get a massive dump of every single thing Amazon recorded through your Alexa. That’s scary.
I don’t care about Chrome (having ditched it long ago). On the other hand, I do care about whatever Chrome implements having an adverse impact on Firefox.

Mozilla has said before that Manifest V3 is up for consideration in Firefox and that “there are no immediate plans to remove” the existing APIs (mainly webRequest). [1] If Mozilla makes the power of uBlock Origin untenable on Firefox [2], that’d be a sad day for me, and I’d probably switch to Brave (assuming it’s still able to support uBlock Origin, even though it has a built-in as blocker).

If anyone from Mozilla or the Firefox team is reading this, please lead the way on these changes in a way that improves security (one of the goals of Manifest V3) while allowing extensions to remain powerful. Letting Google dictate the terms or just following Chrome will likely make Firefox worse in the eyes of power users and those who influence others to use it.

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/09/03/mozillas-manifest...

[2]: like it did with the XUL obsolescence (for good reasons) and the removal of great extensions like Tab Mix Plus and Session Manager (without providing a way forward for them to work; session saving extensions on Firefox are still not as good as the mozdev Session Manager was).
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> It was rude, by and large, to people who deserved it

Almost everyone can justify to themselves and people like them why someone else deserves to be treated rudely. It's a lot harder to avoid being rude, even to people you disagree with. It's also better for society to disagree in other ways.
I do have a bunch of smart home gadgets (most rooms in the house have Philips hue, some smart plugs for things like a christmas tree, a smart Air Conditioner, plus the xbox control skill) I also have 2 Echos and 2 Google home (nest home?!) products.

In my experience Alexa sucks at voice recognition in creatively bad ways. Most importantly, if I want to turn on lights for a room, it has taken to making a very subtle variant of the room I asked for and then goes into a lengthy 'I could not find the room 'living rooms' what device did you mean?' (or my personal favorite, turning off the Xbox instead which turns off the tv, while you sit there dumbfounded staring at the off TV now[It sometimes turns our tv on if I turn on the bedroom lights too!]) But she says it rather slow and it's really annoying as you wait the extra 10 seconds. In most cases it would be faster to get up and actually use the light switch.

To think this is actually much better than it used to be, back at 1.0 it was very bad, finding things very far off or responding to 'turn on living room' with 'According to webster's, a living room is a room where..' Obviously the only response as a human is: 'I KNOW WHAT A LIVING ROOM IS, I'M IN A DARK ONE, I WANT IT TO BE BRIGHTER.'

The Google(NEST?!) home works great and is generally right, but saying 'okay google' is pretty dumb. (also creepy)
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I think the concern is they might also be "free" to find alternative sources of funding if that were the case not whether or not it's technically feasible to support an API that exists today.
They give a good example of a problem with translating politeness into English, and the different ways translators (mis)manage it, in one of the linked articles: https://legendsoflocalization.com/final-fantasy-iv/damcyan/#...
Why couldn't Apple (who usually makes the highest quality devices in each sector) be the company to repeat what they did for smartphones / laptops for AR gear?
Do you really think that's what he should have said? Because that sounds like a vastly dumber thing to say, even if it's "honest".

The "rogue operation" story is "good enough". It's plausible. That doesn't mean it's true of course. It doesn't have to be. Nobody has to actually believe it. It's just good enough so that everyone involved can save the minimum amount of face required to move on.

The reason that the murder can be considered "a mistake" is that the fallout was far greater than estimated. Consider that the Saudis are killing political opponents all the time with very few issues.

It's probably the grandeur of the plot that made the difference here. If Khashoggi had just been shot in the streets by "unknown assailants" (Putin style), it wouldn't have been that big a deal.
Owners are humans!
Nextcloud if you can self host it.
It's not really useful to simply tell people they shouldn't be "surprised" about something. Nearly always, what you're interpreting as "surprise" is not some opinion akin to "I thought, pragmatically, that this would not happen, but it did". Usually what you're seeing is an opinion about what happened - i.e. whether it's good or bad (to be reductive).

Also, it's a really common trope for people arguing in bad faith to reframe a reaction as only "surprise" and then attacking people for so stupidly being surprised.
What they probably meant instead was "modern US 'woke' culture". The term "far-left" has become overloaded in the past decade.
Which didn't work in Safari on my mac. Looked like it did in FF, but only got the first 16 pages for some reason.
I really enjoy baking as a creative outlet because:

- Projects are always short, ranging from ~30 minutes for really simple cookies to ~2 days when ingredients need to rest at an intermediate state for extended periods.

- You have to work within constraints (whatever you consider delicious), but you can incorporate basically anything edible into a project, so there's a lot of room for creative expression.

- Coworkers, neighbors, and casual acquaintances react really positively when you bake too much and give away the overage.
When Obama was running in 2008 and 2012, I saw bots all over the place promoting him and pushing out negative views on his competitors.

In addition to this, his campaign spammed users through Facebook and used personal information against the Facebook ToS, not unlike Cambridge Analytica.

I saw countless articles calling him a tech genius and that this was the future of campaigning.

It's sad that it only gets attention when done to help Republicans as if they are the only ones engaging in this behavior and that the Democrats can get away with it with impunity.

I don't necessarily like Trump, but I'm glad he won. If a Hillary was in office, these would all be brushed off as conspiracy theories and our elections would continue to get affected.
In fairness, my library system has a fairly steep fine system and I've gone 8 months without returning a book before.

Anecdote vs. anecdote.
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I think that kind of policy would have a bad effect on YouTube usage. Not everyone uses it to upload videos that they want to go viral or get lots of hits. Plenty of users are storing videos on there that are just for family and friends. The users who are uploading this other ~90% of 'small time' content aren't going to keep using a site that would routinely delete their content because it wasn't popular enough.
If the original translation was punched-up all the way through, I might be inclined to agree, but it wasn't. It was the only archaism in a game that was otherwise translated into modern English. The only version of FF4 to have a punched-up TL was the 3D version (only available on DS/PC/iOS/Android). If it had debuted there, it might not have been too out of place, but it was certainly out of place in FF2u.

And as fenomas pointed out, it was exclaimed in a fit of violent rage. That is not the kind of thing one would bark out in a situation like that.

The reason why it's in every single FF4 translation is because it's such a ludicrously bad translation that it came out the other side and ended up funny. It wasn't intended to be a comedic scene, but it's become one in the minds of English-speaking fans.

(Also, Woolsey never translated FF4... he just did FF6, plus a TL of FF5 that never saw the light of day because Square pulled the plug on the US release on account of the game being "too complicated" for Americans. And while Woolsey is a master of dialogue who contributed a lot of iconic lines, his Japanese comprehension was actually pretty poor, and his FF6 introduced a number of plot holes that weren't in the JP version. The GBA translation is objectively better, and if you want both a good TL _and_ Woolsey's dialogue, there's a romhack out there called the Ted Woolsey Uncensored Edition that combines the most iconic lines from Woolsey's script with a translation based on Legends of Localization's thorough analysis of the script.)
Why doesn't the theory of evolution work here? "The whales who get out of the way of ships will evolve forward"
Looks like the next one is in 2084. Assuming humans are still around, we should at least have put a few on Mars by then, but establishing an enduring colony is a much harder problem than sending someone for a Kodak moment.
Not even! Most of my friends do NOT have an Alexa
Northeast what? Sunny where I am.
I've been struggling with this myself. But extrapolating from news that some Youtubers who got banned also found their Google accounts (i.e. Gmail, Drive, etc.) closed, (someone up above just commented on this), I feel I must err on the side of caution. I mean, what do you then make of this haphazard interpretation of 'Service'?

p.s., not to be snarky, but you ought to add a disclaimer that you're a Googler in your comment!
weird, I've a 9000+ files maven monster and intellij incremental build means I've never have to wait for compilation during normal operations, and this is with a meager i7 8550u
All true, not to mention that a mobile home can be stolen if you're in possession of a tractor-trailer. A bank sending someone to their now-repossessed empty site might decide not to lend on mobile homes again.

Of course, if we had a constrained supply of mobile homes like we do stick or block-built homes, the mere existence of mortgages would drive the price up. There's a weird bifurcation in the housing market between "banks will lend on this" and "you'll never get a mortgage on this" - the latter is shockingly cheap in part because it can be dodgy, but ALSO because without the availability of mortgages you face far, far, far reduced competition. This is how I ended up buying a house (stone cottage, thatched roof, needed work) for hardly more than the deposit I'd saved up before giving up on my dysfunctional city.

The cost of a house seems to always adjust to the amount of debt available to purchase it. Sweden had an average mortgage length of 140 years until recently - now capped at 105 (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/mortgages/swede... ) - and of course anyone who thinks "I'd like to pay my house off in 30 years" has to compete with someone who will take out a 4-generation mortgage.

But that's separate from whether or not mobile homes should be permitted - hell, I can't build a yurt without planning permission (which I'd never get).

I'm a lefty greenie type at heart and actually think a bunch of one-off houses on big lots tend to be terrible for auto-dependence, service delivery, social isolation, etc. but when we started allowing the government to restrict where people are allowed to build AND didn't ensure that it at least meets population growth (not to mention letting asset owners vote on whether to create more of said asset) we laid the seeds for our current housing predicament.
Look at the cost of existing databases that do this. Snowflake, Elasticsearch, etc. Their pricing models are public.
Tangentially related - it's pretty cool seeing hackers get into Ableton. You end up with things like:

"Writing Custom Control Surfaces for Ableton" - https://diracdeltas.github.io/blog/ableton-midi/
Theoretically both, because the lower earning spouse will be taking in alimony
Could use a (2007) in the title. Previous discussion with the most comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=769163
Any idea if that siege mentality is part of the reason for sunsetting its social projects?
You could limit it's network connectivity (firewall anything but the home server). If it can't work offline, then it's kind of useless to me personally. I like tech that can outlive the OEM.
> Which will most probably cause the producers to want to reduce that inventory by not producing that much anymore

I don't think that's how that works. I'm pretty sure producers produce because there is demand and they are selling their product. They aren't producing for the fun of it.
It's also completely misleading and perhaps willfully so.

The limit's been raised. The removed API is used by half of all detected malicious extensions to spy on users. Ad blockers will continue to work fine with the new API, just like they do on Safari now.
Coming here literally to talk about this.

The youthfulness of the article is adorable albeit a little naieve.

Maybe we are getting old. I still feel like a kid and there are many greybeards that were born of the digital revolution that are "older than most."
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This made me remember this interview with James Simons on Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB_OdGGA450
Constraints are fine.

Blocking off a generic "anything you haven't been taught yet" is a hellfire of ambiguous egg shells.

Strictly speaking you might not have been taught to use division with loops. Maybe you haven't been taught about the log10 function, or you have but you haven't been taught about combining the log10 function with the round/ceil functions, are you sure you were taught about putting if's before these exact functions?

The issue is every programming question requires by its very nature that you use something you haven't been taught to solve it. So you have to know what the teacher counts as acceptable vs unacceptable, and this comes into weird edge cases where the logic behind why something would be considered part of the "you must be taught first" category vs the "you are to assume figuring this out is part of the question" category requires knowing an overview of how to teach computer science, something the students would not have.

I once got points taken off for using a recursive function as part of my solution because that wasn't taught until the next quarter. I didn't know the language before, nor did I have much experience with recursive functions as a formal concept. We knew how to make functions, call functions, do loops, and even do gotos.

I didn't even know at that time that recursive functions were a special thing that had to be taught to me, it just came to me as the way to solve the problem.
It was great on physical hosts but could not get it working in EC2 VMs
gcc has an address and thread sanitizer built in these days.

gcc -fsanitize=address ...

gcc -fsanitize=thread ...

They perform better than valgrind.
Writing Custom Control Surfaces for Ableton
Fair enough, there are other considerations besides just water that make land less practical for growing food crops. It still takes more land--square kilometers--to produce X calories of livestock than X calories of plants. It's just that sometimes there are more important factors than square kilometers. Water, soil quality, markets, terrain inclination.
The fundamental problem is that, while the voice recognition isn't bad, the assistants are all pretty much incapable of performing any sort of complex task or even not so complex tasks for which you haven't memorized a fairly precise incantation.

The very worst admin I've ever had is still about 1000x more capable than one of these voice assistants.
Amazing, really loving this! One thing I’d change is that prices keep increasing, a chair should remain the same, keyboard too. No need to have “inflation” on everything. And skills such as self starter should have price per person as levels increase
Only last week discovered this and binged the current 3 seasons, not met a sci fi series that got me as excited since Babylon 5. Hard to pin it down as well as has so much of everything that it is unique in itself, highly recommended.
All problems are small with perspective!
Gawker were told to shut up and dribble, not be less rude. Heaven forbid the owners want to make a profit instead of bland social justice content.

If gawker were profitable enough, no one would have ever interfered with the editorial process.