skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- More time is spent on taking care of loved ones

https://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-amer...

- Less time commuting (companies get better at managing a distributed work force)

- the 50% of people not connected to the internet start to get access

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/18/almost-50...

- wages are driven down globally by this additional 50% coming online creating more backlash in democracies.

- Increasingly countries will use China's great firewall tech to keep out Western influences and grow local internet competitors

- high speed internet gets deployed in war zones with drones and we understand why the US is against Chinese 5G companies.

- high speed internet (5G etc) means that many jobs that couldn't be off-shored are near shored for a mixture of tax and cost savings - taxi drivers, pilots, delivery trucks, fork lifts with a mixture of AI and people

- cashiers become sales people as stores fight against online sales

- percent of people working in manufacturing drops to 6.5% from 10.5%

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USAPEFANA

- a group of people add 30% to their life span due to drugs that reproduce intermittent fasting and other drugs that seem to work on mice.

https://www.amazon.com/Lifespan-Why-Age_and-Dont-Have/dp/150...

- China goes to 30% of world GDP and US reacts by going to cold war

https://www.statista.com/statistics/270439/chinas-share-of-g...

- Japan builds up its military in reaction to china

- Housing manufacturing and education continue to not have productivity gains.

- Nuclear fusion is still not any closer to wide scale deployment

- Cities in Europe and Asia go E-bike friendly while Americans stick to their cars.

- The muslim world will become more pro-women's rights based on Saudi Arabia's lead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k0SvAEvM-I&vl=en

- Banks will stop touching cash except via ATMs and will convert branches into sales offices to push their online offerings. Goldman Sachs in reaction merges with Revolut.
People give Amazon gift cards because they think of them as basically giving cash without giving cash. I know it's not universal but, for me, an Amazon gift card just gets deposited straight into my Amazon account and applied against new orders until it's gone.
That's wild, agreed that is out of step. I usually book fairly last minute so I haven't seen those prices personally, but I know they exist. I surely don't believe we should favor air over train.
I know this is Hacker News and we like to blame politicians or rich non-engineers, but isn't the 737-Max case a case of very bad engineering that they could have done better? Maybe management had a hand in that, but the final outcome is the engineering was terrible and it's not simply the fault of deregulation in the 80s.
Furthermore common actions such as re-encoding a video for streaming will generate a copy of the content that's identical but a completely different hash which will generate an ecosystem of real and deepfaked content with a similar amount of noise that deepfaked content thrives in.
John Locke would like a word with you.
Awesome article - thanks for sharing!

I'll support the authors (and their conclusions) by clicking on the ads links on the site /j
What were the issues with JSON? Snowflake is the best cloud data warehouse when it comes to support for unstructured data and far better than Redshift, Bigquery or the others. Snowflake also has geo support.

It doesn't support streaming data though so things like Kafka aren't a good fit yet. They have a connector but it's basically a little app that automates consuming from Kafka, writing files to S3, then loading them into your tables.
Cool! I'll add one more thought that I think might be particularly useful

> Granular permissions not only at row level but field level too. You can share parts of data with others for editing or have it view-only with ability for commenting and accepting suggestions

In my org (and I suspect many), many of the Sales/Operations people maintain Google Sheets with links into our internal apps. Generally it's TODO lists or other little organizational/workflow type stuff

What I think makes Airtable so powerful is that foreign-keys are first class. You can create a table and include references to rows from other tables. This allows the end user to create tables to support their workflows directly in the same tool they use to manage the data, and means I don't have to build that same functionality into the CRUD app (and until you're deep in a workflow it's hard to get it perfect, so there's always back-and-forth).

A good permission system would allow me to create a set of "core tables" that I tightly control the schema of, but allow others to still create tables which reference this one.
Ah, gotcha. Yes, improved tooling in this area would add a lot of value to the feature.
Shutdown of US coal power facilities saved over 26k lives, study finds
Look at the risks.
Regulation and price controls aren’t the same thing, which you seem to be implying.
Not to underestimate that cheap far distance travel probably decreases the probability of big wars by a reasonable amount.
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> So he's either got to foot the bill to keep it looking nice, or end up with a garbage beach.

Seems like a perfectly fine tradeoff to me. The beach belongs to the public, and not all beaches are well-maintained. If he wants to keep the views on this beach (that he does not own) nice, he can pay to maintain them. Pretty sure running the beach for the next 100 years would be a drop in the bucket for him anyway.
he placed the gates and guards. The state has fined him for doing so and ordered to restore access. But since he is rich and the fine is small - he did not comply and was just paying the fine and keeps fighting in courts
Well, goodreads is owned by Amazon. I'm not at all surprised that their lackadaisical attitude toward abuse cuts across the whole business.
This isn't like owning a front lawn, this is like owning the pavement, but not the front lawn- but insisting no one else can use the front lawn because (whilst you don't own it) you can stop them accessing it. In fact in your metaphor not only does he not own the lawn, he lives in a state where it's not even possible to own the lawn, he bought the pavement knowing he could never own the lawn and has been illegally obstructing access to the lawn for decades.

And now somehow he has people on the internet arguing that a billionaire should be allowed exclusive benefit to public land- as if of all people, the billionaire is the one that needs the public handout.
Absolutely, I 100% agree with this. I wasn't arguing that the current system is anything even close to ideal. I was trying to point out that now that we, the public, have paid this horrendous price, we are still not using the information gained. A company that shows that they will put profit above their customers' lives should be abandoned very quickly by its customers. That isn't happening and the fault for that lies with the customers, IMO.
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If I were him, I would be very thankful for what I have (as I am am anyway) and would share my success with others. In this case it would mean opening it up and footing the bill for the maintenance of the beach. Why not? Does he really need more money pragmatically? It seems like the good will, feeling of joy coming from helping your local community in which you live, and leaving the world better than you found it would be more than enough return for the investment. I'm a "working stiff" and happily contribute to the upkeep, cleanliness and worthy volunteer organizations in the community I live and get far more from such than it takes from me.

Edited- spelling error.
Yup, fair enough.
It was, but the owner is a billionaire who thinks he is above the law.
If you're tired of shit like this, you gotta vote for people who want the city to be more tech-friendly and have sensible rules. In particular, vote for me ;) https://buss2020.org
His monopoly on land is granted at the discretion of and subject to regulation by the state, just as many other actions are.

My front lawn can be eminent domained to build new power lines, so clearly the state has greater authority over property than your argument represents.
That's probably why you are reading ycombinator and not on your private island.
Yes, lets keep hoping the Market will solve everything, and that somehow, the trend of consolidation will magically reverse itself on its own, despite how ever fewer companies control each market. Wouldn't want to realize people have more power than just what they buy.
Nope. If you did, I'm pretty sure the EPA would shut you down. Emissions regulations aren't quite as strict for tractors as for cars and trucks, but they are headed in the same direction. I don't think it's possible to meet emissions without computerized controls. And once you've put hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of electronics on the tractor, it's hard to resist the temptation to add DRM.
It's equivalent to Apple II. You can get pretty far with the naive solution of atomically completing the instruction, and incrementing the cycle count appropriately, but there'll be some issues until you switch to a cycle accurate state machine with all the warts (false accesses, etc.)

NES actually gets a bit grosser because the PPU runs (IIRC) five cycles for every three CPU cycles or something like that, and you need to handle that case. I've seen some emulators that just run it off of a 15x clock, and sparsely run cycles on the CPU and PPU (but most of the master cycles don't do any work).
The original title, "Lax Security and Moderation at Goodreads Allows Trolls to Spoof People, Harass Authors" seemed pretty straightforward to me.

How is it misleading or "linkbait"?
Yeah, ironically the whole point of SingleFile for me is that I can locally edit webpages to strip out ads and other crap so I can send them to friends or family who might not have ad blockers.
> Which is amusing as the lawyer Thiel used is constantly suing on behalf of single-digit millionaires to stifle free speech all over the country (including threatening to sue the NYT for reporting on Harvey Weinstein's crimes)

Harvey Weinstein isn't a single-digit millionaire but a triple-digit one, his net worth is estimated at $240-300 million. This (and the lawyers work for Thiel) is consistent with, though does not imply, Thiel’s contention that the wealth at which one has effective access to the legally system is much greater than that of a single-digit millionaire. Not sure what other “single-digit” millionaires you think he is working on behalf of, but your one concrete example certainly isn't one.
`mem::transmute` is roughly equivalent to a `reinterpret_cast` in C++. It treats the bits of a u8 as an i8.

In the Rust definition of safety (mutable xor shared, no data races, memory safety, etc), treating the bits of a u8 as an i8 is safe and can be done with an `as` cast.
The plant requires more upkeep than most solar plants.

It sounds strange that a staff of "dozens" would make it unprofitable, though — most coal/oil/gas plants employ dozens of people and pay for their fuel.
I read through Brian Kernighan's Unix memoir and it had an interesting anecdote about performance reviews. Turns out that Brian was a department head for quite a long time at Bell Labs and at first performance reviews were all "You're doing great work, keep it up!" but eventually someone at corporate added a "areas to improve" section. So for a couple of years he got away with "nothing, great job", but then the upper management came back with "nobody is perfect, you need to fill in that field." And he's like "What would you put down for Dennis Ritchie?"
How is their alleged Canadian nationality relevant, and where did they attempt to hide it?
Indeed, another common false assumption is that sex is something women don't want, especially casual sex. They're invested in the idea that sex is something a woman has to be bribed into, preferably with a lifetime commitment to her and her children.

Not only is that incredibly demeaning to women, it's self-defeating. If they could just believe that many women actually enjoy sex for its own sake, if they can have it without being abused, harassed, and stuck alone with the consequences, they could get themselves laid a lot more.
They seem to not know Purdue is a near-top or top tier stem school.

Mitch’s annual open letter just came out today:

https://www.purdue.edu/president/messages/annual-open-letter...
Then he should be kicked out of the court in a less than 5 minutes. Why is it being discussed?
Schadenfreude is strong in humans especially young people (main demography of internet) and multiple papers link increased effect of it in people with depression.

It feels cyclic, increased internet usage leading to mental health problems leading to you caring less about others and isolation with negative thoughts being magnified online (who are curators?) and other normal users being driven towards it through social conformation and increased internet usage is probably caused by failures of parenting, school, society and environment. Lack of mentorship and models. Some of it could be attributed to disconnection and huge disparity in problems people face - inequality, literate supremacy, global impression and visibility in what you can get.

Social media might be perhaps incentivising some of the behaviors but it's not the root cause of it perhaps?

Maybe the notion of a good healthy society is finally crumbling due to visibility?

Being forced to admit that world is unfair most of your day is not very healthy imo and its effects are stronger the more big of a disparity there is.

I think education could help there with compulsory classes on how to deal with negative thoughts, differences and other problematic behaviors before you need to drip into antidepressants and years of therapy.

Oh not to mention the statistics trend, the one most 'rationalists' fall for. I am tired of extrapolation and over fitting in everything these days.
It hides problems so so well.

1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=scha...
The case is not about the beach itself. It's about land near the beach through which one can travel to visit it. Is Khosla obligated to provide the public with access to the beach by crossing his land? Ordinarily this kind of right is represented as an easement on the property, or as a roadway separate from the property, neither of which exist here.

The previous owner built a gate on the property, which was open and closed at their whim, posted "no trespassing" signs, and charged for access to the road and beach.
Love your blog! Recently got interested in longevity research, as I was surprised how much closer to reality it is than I imagined, and also as a possible future industry to work in, and your blog has been one of the best resources to both get up to speed on the topic and also keep up to date!

As you are as familiar as few people are with the topic, I'd like to ask you for some advice, if possible: What do you think is the best way for someone like me (currently biochem undergrad, with ~7 years broad software engineering experience), to have an impact in the field?
Shouldn't then car industry executives be also to blame for negligent killing of the ones whose death was a result of a car failure related to planned obsolescence?
I find this absolutely useless for libraries.

For things like Ubuntu yes, it makes sense because you wouldn't just run a command to upgrade your os.

However, your code you usually has a bunch of libraries that depends on. When I upgrade a library I don't care when the new version came out, all I care is that doesn't have breaking changes.

With semver I can get this information at a glance, calver on the other hand just says "newer version".

As others have mentioned, some combination of both approaches might give an extra data point for "freshness" especially if you're managing multiple versions, but even then what's wrong with just bumping the minor/patch?
But when you order the Death by Chocolate, it doesn't actually contain any chocolate.
Eh. It's not about the reneging its about the communication and intent.

From experience its a very small marketplace (esp with big checks). So there is a very high expectation that people act with longterm consideration of one another and subsequently their reputation. Just disappearing, or changing terms without a material change is dishonest period.
Thank you for this! This is exactly what I was looking for.
Feels like an edge case to me. Not exactly something someone who buys a private property would think would be possible e.g. to have to pay for upkeep for public property.

Seems like the gov’t should figure out some sort of reimbursement program in situations like this.
«A small team of engineers can displace thousands or tens of thousands of workers without creating any new opportunities.»

A corporation that did that would have significantly increased its profits, and this new wealth is often (not always) indirectly redistributed to society. For example the corporation could increase its production (ie. hiring more workers), or increase salaries/bonuses, or increase stock buybacks (therefore benefiting stock owners whoever they are), or spin off new business units, or decrease the prices of their products/services to further improve their competitiveness (hence benefiting customers), etc. Rarely does a corporation sit on piles of cash doing nothing (one notable counter-example: Apple.)
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It is common enough that there is an entire organization (Angel Flight) dedicated to it. Using private planes and private pilots which are significantly less safe than commercial.

Another example is family members overseas. Many have to choose between providing for their family vs. being with their family. Affordability of flights can have a huge impact on their quality of life and ability to take part in the moments that many of use take for-granted.
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I went to Makersquare(now hack reactor) and I can tell you #10 is definitely true. There is no network of job openings and most people found jobs outside the school. Half found jobs half didn't. The ones that found jobs out of the bootcamp were extremely smart.

The TA point is also true. The letting go of lower quality applicants was also true.

I think the Camp was more fulfilling for me because I had previous programming experience so I could dive deeper into the material since I had some fundamentals already in place. If you have no previous experience, you are f'ed because the material goes by to quickly to deeply learn anything.
I think your point still mostly stands, but I wouldn't really consider Dotty, Ceylon, or Jython contenders for reasons of "not done", "not used", and "not even close to supporting a modern version of Python", respectively.
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So in theory, he could make another access road further down and leave that one open?

Still doesn't explain all the houses and cars directly on the beach. Does he own all those houses too?
>And now somehow he has people on the internet arguing that a billionaire should be allowed exclusive benefit to public land- as if of all people, the billionaire is the one that needs the public handout.

No I didn't say that. If the exclusivity is not part of the sale then it should be trivial to kick his butt. The fact it isn't is confounding to me. Perhaps because I am not an American.
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Sounds great.

Now let's get some real gems like Hollister Ranch and Vickers Hot Springs opened up again.
I don't see how it could ever be "profitable" as a cash generator for anyone.

Nor should it be. It's a public benefit.

As such, it should be revenue-neutral.
We need to separate the data layer from the app layer to allow free competition again.

I don't think that Facebook will be replaced with something so similar. I think what we need is an open data-platform that can contain (in a controlled way) social media data along with other kinds of data and then allow building social media apps on top of it. Otherwise we'll always be stuck using whatever the biggest supplier builds for us.
I'm sure a surveyor would have informed him of California law.
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this is a little dense, but the preface has a nice statement on neurobiology, and wikipedia has some interesting articles on neuroscience and cognitive psychology. I suppose I'm looking for a popsci book on how computer science, psychology, neuroscience, etc all came together in the last decade to become so effective in hacking our brains and influencing our decisions. Or perhaps it's been there all along just now it's getting more attention.
Telemetry done right is not privacy invasive. There is nothing wrong with them seeing a count saying x% of users use this feature.
I use DEVONThink, and it saves stuff in Web Archive (WARC) format when I want it to. Like Evernote clipper, but better.

I also use httrack to download files offline, which I can then have DEVONThink index. Bam, offline search engine!
Idk, I wanted to try path and never even got the chance because it never launched as far as I know (for the web at least?)
why is this even here? it happened more than 2 decades ago.
Are those profitable though? Farming is heavily subsidized by the EU.
Also isn't it a lot more comfortable cross-breeding in a sleeper car than on a bicycle? (Asking for a friend.)
In my opinion, we all have the choice of not flying on Boeing planes any longer. If a company shows that they are willing to put profits above their customers' lives, then customers should not do business with that company any longer. The customer has to provide an incentive to the company to not do this. Going out of business is a very powerful incentive, I believe. If a company can kill a couple of hundred of its customers and still continue to make money, then why should it do anything differently, especially if the decision that caused the deaths also caused higher profits?
Isn’t that the premise of twitter?
I question ISA’s some, but overall what Purdue is doing in the educational space (particularly the tuition freeze that’s more than 8 years old now) is _impressive_. Posting this for awareness and interested in any hn thoughts.
I do this right now on Facebook; you can unfollow anyone. I'm not following anyone and I have no feed. But the problem is people aren't going to voluntarily do this, and it's a big pain to unfollow hundreds of people.

This needs to be baked-in to have any real impact.
> Every Thursday before dawn, a rabbi drives the perimeter, checking to see if wind or a fallen branch has broken the line. There are usually a few breaks, so a construction company is called and the rabbi gets in a cherry picker with fishing line in hand to repair the eruv. That's the part that costs so much.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci...
Funny enough, I had a class on this in grade school, taught by the school librarian. It included quoting, AND, NOT and OR style stuff you could use in library search systems and it is pretty much all irrelevant now, but it was cool at the time and I wonder if it helped to be exposed to that kind of boolean logic early.
> Australia is not as bad because of the sport culture. "My personal trainer said no" is acceptable and most places I have work have had a mild to zero drink culture.

That's a pretty specific edge case.

If you're sitting at the pub with friends or work colleagues and you're the only one not drinking, you can expect some irritating comments.

I've learned to deal with it. I've figured out the main reason people push a drink on you is to justify their bad choices (e.g if you're at the pub with Bob and he's sinking 12 pints tonight, he doesn't want a reminder that he's killing his body and will have a terrible hangover in a few hours).