skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideology is another word for narrative

But it's not?

I mean I guess there is some kind of relationship - ideologies usually have some kind of story that goes with them.

But a narrative in itself isn't an ideology.

But I do agree that Holmes was able to project a "reality distortion field" in the same way Jobs could. I think that's different to ideology though.
Not exactly newsletters, but there are 2 interesting podcasts from The Indie Hackers Podcast, one with John O'Nolan and one with Louis Nicholls and it seems like they suggest the best ways of getting people interested in your paid content is just by answering a lot of questions for free on forums like Quora, Reddit, etc. Worth listening to i think anyway, the John O'Nolan one had a couple of good examples of paid content websites that have done well.
Mysterious repeating radio signal traced to unexpected outer space location
Hah, this is ironically bittersweet for me. Sadly I disliked J and K because they didn't scan like APL to me. Programming after APL in so-called modern languages seems like wordy drudgery in comparison.
I've had women relay their complaints to me about Hawking. Apparently he liked to harass pretty young women by driving his chair into them.
If a Hummingbird Strikes Your Window While Writing
I am sorry, but I don't fully understand. To me it sounds like you are describing exactly tree diffing when you say that the next node is only touched if its state object changed.

I have been through this struggle too. Of wanting to get rid of bloated tools and tools I don't understand, and the best I've found for this is Hyperapp. I've read the source code a few times (was thinking about patching it to work well with web components), so I feel it falls into a category of tools I can use. But I'm genuinely interested in understanding what you've done if it offers an alternative (even if more clunky).
Because a negative income tax increases labor market attachment, giving workers more skills, work experience and pride and increases the number of people working. A higher minimum wage on the other hand reduces the number of people working and has no positive effects on employment or skills. From a politician’s perspective a minimum wage is superior because the link between a higher minimum wage and greater unemployment is opaque but that from subsidizing employment is quite direct. Also all of the social cost of subsidizing employment is borne by the government while that of the reduction in labor supply and employment is borne by employers who can’t find workers and potential employees.

You’re right that annualized refunds are far from ideal. Monthly would be better.

Argument in video form, with diagram below.

https://mru.org/courses/principles-economics-microeconomics/...
Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?
Inspired by PG's tweet - https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1215673204125073408?s=19
That’s also an aa concept. It’s literally in the name. There’s something about print and interviews and such but I don’t recall the details.
You must be thinking about Multibus II. The original Multibus (IEEE 796) was very basic. Historical note, the DSP satellite (NORAD missile warning) ground network ran on Multibus based systems from 1988 until 2005.
I'm afraid there are some innacuracies
1. Aggregations can be stored within DynamoDB, you just need to setup how those are calculated, usually with DynamoDB streams and Lambda. You do not need to do it within the application at request time.
2. "Local Indexes" isn't entirely accurate. Its called a Partition key and you can't avoid using a partition key, its kind of the pivotal query mechanism of a table.
3. 10GB is not the limit of a partition. AWS's own documentation states that once a partition approaches 10GB it will be split.
Does Russia have plausible deniability in the case of MH17?
> (I like Elon though, for the record). I don't really think of his haters as ideological per se. What kind of ideology do you see in his haters?

I also like Elon, but the source of the hate probably comes from two sources. The first is the audaciousness of his general proposal: that we give up technology that worked for a century (oil) and try to build something entirely different. It's based on a bias towards the status quo.

The second is probably more legitimate. No question Tesla has done amazing things, but is it really worth more than established players that sell 10X number of cars? The stock price doesn't make sense based on any traditional valuation, it can only be explained by popular enthusiasm and exuberance towards the vision that Elon provides. It feels to many that Elon is getting away with things that would doom any other company because of this perception. It feels unfair, hence the haters.

Personally, I do love Elon, SpaceX, Tesla, etc, but I don't want to get involved in the stock market casino. I support what he does because of his vision, but Tesla's stock price makes no sense to me. Instead, I'll cheer from the sidelines, and invest my money in boring ETFs.
What if ‘Life on Earth’ is a game...how would you play this to win not just for survival, but also to thrive.
The proponents of "Billionaires should not exist"
pg points out on Twitter that haters are rarer than fanboys

I wonder if it is rarer, or that haters are caused by a reaction to fanboys?

It seems to me that haters often start off reacting to the uncritical nature of fanboyism, and then that reaction slowly slips into hate directed at the person.

(Not always though - maybe this is one particular type of the fanboy/hater relationship)
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Every time I've had a client ask to use one of these services it has ended up being more work and worse UX, with more bugs on the edge cases, than just doing it yourself.

I've implemented Gigya, Janrain, Auth0, Firebase and Amazon Cognito.

The only time I've seen them make sense is internal tools. The company I work at has a policy where any enterprise tool must auth with Okta which means logging into everything is a piece of cake for employees.
How was Facebook an 'horrible actor' in the CA scandal exactly?

Facebook had relatively permission APIs. The entire world knew it. Journalists, developers, Big Cos.

Nobody was screaming that there was a problem. Though there were a few issues around privacy, there wasn't really any public dialog specifically around the nature of those APIs.

CA found a sneaky way to take advantage of somewhat open APIs.

As the world started to become somewhat more concerned, and FB saw some room for potential abuse - FB rightly tightened up the APIs a little. This was long before the CA scandal blew up.

Then it became public that CA was doing some sneaky things with the data. It's actually highly debatable if they did anything wrong within the context of the information available - or at least outside of industry norms -> what CA was doing with data from FB is what everyone is and was doing with data from similar sources.

FB called on CA to erase the data, and checked that they did. It turns out, CA lied and did not.

FB did the right thing every step of the way in the CA scandal. APIs of every kind err a little bit one way or the other over time and as issues surfaced, FB moved in the right direction without coaxing.

The media absolutely misrepresented the entire issue. They didn't really make it clear what happened, nor did they clarify what exactly FB did wrong, but most importantly, they misled the public with respect to a separate, secondary issue which was 'special API access'.

The 'scandal' is that there are tons of companies like CA using private data for all sorts of reasons, it's mostly not FB.

There are definitely privacy issues around FB, and I'm not fan of them, but those are a separate issue.
Not always. I disagree with the idea that critical thinking alone is needed and that it doesn't have its own share of spectrum.

To me, critical thinking is like a veil. It describes many of the behaviors and skills underneath which are not so generally applicable. Empathizing is one of them which many critical thinkers outside of their domain forget about (it's not their fault).
A classic HN example is only a few programmers are needed to replace [insert wildly different industry jobs]

Some media influencers are purposefully obvious, critical thinking requires time and energy so once people think they figured out the obvious bait, they stop at that and move their attention to someone who calls out the obvious bait pretending to be an authority of trust. It also gives you power for denial of those untapped as conspiracy theorist or haters.
That's correct, the city was designed to house high paying government workers and politicians, still like this since the growth is controlled by the government so house development does not meet the demand. People that can't afford living there go to more dangerous and poor cities around Brasília. The city is also not designed for pedestrians and does not have a good metro system. Brasilia is unique but it also shows the worst from Brasil.
I agree with what you write about performance and stability, but there is one other metric where MacOS has always excelled: Consistency. From the way hotkeys work to how screen elements look, to how macs interact with other Apple products in your possession.

Note: I switched to Win10+WSL in 2018 - it's a good and productive environment, but I do miss certain aspects of MacOS still. I think valuing consistency over backwards compatibility is a valuable choice, as long as the people in charge have very good taste. Not so sure about that anymore in recent iterations though.
I've used Uber in various countries over the years and redlining is a huge problem they had to tackle.
It was very common for drivers in Asia to call up a customer and ask for their destination and force them to cancel if they didn't feel like it. If you didn't, they report you as no show which would auto charge you and getting reimbursed was a hassle. Fortunately, Uber shut that down pretty hard.
Contractor or not, if a driver agreed to drive for Uber, then they tacitly agreed to drive to any destination in their set range. I think that's fair.
Who should single people sign up as #2? Their mom? And what if your SO is currently unavailable?

This is a terrible scheme.
I just installed this today and have been struggling with the WPA3 on my Linksys all evening. I finally gave up for the evening, and opened HN, to find these release notes at the top of the front page.

Some of my specific issues were addressed, if I had simply bothered to read the release notes carefully. Instead, I found my update file, and updated. When WPA3 didn’t show up, I poked around forums for workarounds and finally found some answers that helped. Now my other clients couldn’t connect/stay connected, even to the WPA2. These notes clearly mention this, as well as the libup issue I solved via - -force-upgrading
Uh, No. Derivative works must be transformative in order to qualify for their own copyright. But simply being transformative doesn't give the owner of the new work rights to do anything with it.

Ex: I write and produce a new SW film, and attempt to sell it without a license from Disney. I'm going to get sued into oblivion, because their copyright still applies, in terms of setting up the setting and characters.

Fair use can apply with derivative works (ex: I make a parody version of Star Wars, such as "Troops"), in which case you may succeed in being able to do stuff with your new SW parody, but you're likely to have to pay a bunch of lawyers a lot of money first if they don't like it. But being derivative doesn't guarantee it's Fair Use.
It's not so simple.

Although this year is particularly bad (weather is contributing but accidents and arson are probably also a big factor) bushfires are part of periodic cycle that renews the vegetation and removes accumulated dead plants.
Oh, ya. Those people are a weird hybrid, I think. They're a sort of mix of hater and ideology, you're right. What it is is haterdom masquerading as an ideology.
It’s indeed strange to call any WSGI-capable framework (all of them?) tricky to deploy with gunicorn/uwsgi. All you need to do is expose the WSGI object.
Even excluding violent and chemical death, the third cause is cancer. Alcohol is classified as a carcinogen by IARC[1], the WHO[5] and the CDC[2]. I'm not well read on the subject - nor particularly well researched - but a cursory glance shows metabolic byproducts as the main culprit, though there are other factors.

As to "beneficial effects", keep in mind that the trace amounts of something healthy would pale in comparison to the negative effects of the alcohol, which is much less of a trace chemical.

Plus, other lifestyle choices could give a false positive[4]. Stuff like eating properly and exercising might not be properly controlled for, giving an unrealistically rosy picture.

[1]https://publications.iarc.fr/62

[2]https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/alcohol/index.htm

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancer

[4]https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-red-wine-good-actuall...

[5]https://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_stat...

(The first page has a downloadable PDF. Didn't link directly because it auto-downloads, at least for me.)

EDIT: link formatting, removal of extraneous "keep in mind".
> And a self-synchronizing instruction stream can be a security advantage and a fixed instruction width means Power and AArch64 are trivially self-synchronizing.

AArch64 is aligned, but not self-synchronizing. While it would not be possible to execute, reading code at an arbitrary offset can still create be valid code. I'd imagine Power has the same issue, since it's really hard to do this generally if you'd like to have a sane encoding and support immediate.

Somewhat interestingly, x86 is variable length but I have heard that it is often "eventually self-synchronizing": apparently if you start it off at the wrong offset, it will decode a couple of instructions incorrectly but usually end up disassembling to the correct ones.
This is exactly it.

CA is not actually that bad of a situation.

There are much greater privacy and freedom of expression concerns.
"yes, everyone agrees drinking and driving is stupid, dangerous, and selfish. yet there are so many bars that are located such that nearly 100% of the patrons drove to/from the bar. Yes, some may have a designated driver, but I suspect many many simply drink and drive because they feel OK to drive and walking home isn't an option"

This has always irritated me. It isn't that the bars are located where they are: It is more that walking home simply isn't safe combined with the absolute lack of public transportation. I've seen some of these bars in places that don't even have taxis available - and honestly, even if they were I somewhat doubt patrons could afford the fare since most of the surrounding area was countryside.

To be fair, even living in the city where walking home is an option, actually doing so was a bad idea in the US. This is mostly because of public intoxication laws. On the other hand, I think some states have eased up on this because it seemed to encourage drunk driving. (Police in Indiana used to wait outside of bars for drunk people to come out of them).
For what it is worth, I think it has always been this way in the UK. You put in a destination and you get a £15-18 estimate or whatever. It is even an estimate in the ads shown in google maps for Uber/Bolt/Kapten/etc
I wonder if the issue is deeper than that. It seems like a lot of people lack a “purpose” in life - something bigger than oneself.

I say this because the people I know who have died from, or have alcohol problems, are (or were) pretty well off financially. I know that’s not typical, but being upper or upper-middle class doesn’t seem to matter in my experience.
My 2 cents is, if you can drink like that, and it makes you happy, just do! it’s not clear to me moderate drinking is actually bad for you. It might actually be good for you. Also is life a competition to live the longest? Is that the only definition of success?

Just if you find the pattern changing for the worse, stop.

You might also spontaneously stop when you’re older. Lots of people do.
AFAIK, in the EU all banks are required to have "strong authentication" which usually means using 2FA via biometric authentication on your phone.

Classic Google Authenticator does not seem much more friction than that.
Don't forget eating themselves to death, overeating and sugar intake are also a big problem.
> I wonder if it is rarer, or that haters are caused by a reaction to fanboys?

Most ventures fail. Startup ventures fail even more often. If your goal was to be right most often, you would just bet that every new thing would fail. So there's something inherently illogical about being a fanboy about anything. A fanboy is definitely doing more than just looking at the odds and making a rational decision, they are putting their faith in something.

Because a fanboy derives their enthusiasm from more than simple reason and the odds, they become a threat to anyone that eschews emotion and solely uses traditional valuation models. Fanboys are hated not because they believe in a product or idea, but because they ignore tradition.
The Capitalist Way to Make Americans Stop Eating Meat
What are good answers to this in the embedded space... eg mobile?
Overcoming the Fear of Being Judged
I was definitely talking about the first category (though not necessarily public only; AFAIK there are some [many?] private companies that fit that profile). I agree that those revenue multiples are high, though I'm not sure I would refer to them as "sky-high". Who knows what kind of numbers we will see in the future ... ;-)
> And what did FB do as due diligence? Very little. When FB discovered the breach, what did they do as a response and to mitigate the effects to the affected users? How did they recover damages and/or enforce specific performance of contract terms to not only remove the data in question but all of the products that resulted in the processing of the data? Again very little.

They revoked Cambridge Analytica's access to Facebook's data, and told Cambridge Analytica to delete the data they had gathered. And Cambridge Analytica again lied to Facebook and told them they had deleted the data. That's the extent of what Facebook could have done. If Kogan broke laws - and he probably did - that's the government's prerogative to charge and prosecute him.

Likening this scenario to banks giving out mortgages that they know debtors cannot pay off is not an effective comparison. This is more like someone securing a loan by falsifying their income. In both cases the customers were harmed. Facebook users' data was used for purposes to which they did not consent, and the bank customers' money was loaned out at excessive risk. But the culprit that is responsible for this is the one that deceived the company, not the company itself. One could reasonably argue that Facebook should have been wise enough to avoid being duped, but that's still much more generous to Facebook than the bulk of the coverage I read that attempted to assign primary blame on Facebook rather than Cambridge Analytica.
Correct, new vectors will first be searched thru brute force until the index is created on that file slice.
And to add some perspective, 300000 deaths per year in us due to obesity and overweight.
It used to be this way in California too. Then a year ago they switched to fixed price rises because that’s what people wanted.
The notion of control over one's life is elusive. Our futures can be wrought by trauma, poverty and the lottery that is our DNA, and by extension, our brain. Given the randomness/contingency Graham acknowledges explains his and others' success, and by implication the various dependencies en route to that success, I'd just ask for a bit more compassion for those, whether through birth or circumstance, find themselves constitutionally unable to make the most of their lives in the sense you probably mean. Something as simple as a deficit in executive function can wreak havoc on one's ability to self-motivate, just as an example.
I have a variation of this problem, where I'd speak one language and the word I'm looking for would pop in another & the same in the language I'm actually using in the moment will remain frustratingly elusive (I speak 3 languages regularly - German with my wife & immediate environment, Hebrew with my mother & other relatives and English online/at work).
I see you bought a capitalism-induced labor product called a "thesaurus". Congratulation on being the first lefty commentator more obnoxious than the libertarians.
> The state of men in the US is really deteriorating. Men are drugging, drinking, and smoking theirselves to death.

It's very strange that the same people who advocated libertarianism and complete freedom years ago when men were in complete control, are now advocating for collectivism and support when they are in trouble.

The conservative/libertarian view should be that if men want to drink themselves to death, the government should not get involved.
This is all fine and good, but it doesn't answer the question.

If HAL is a toaster that accidentally killed it's users, it can't commit 'murder'.

Point being, HAL has to effectively be sentient to commit 'murder' otherwise the death is the responsibility of its makers in one way or another.

The question is one of sentience.

The author I think makes a mistake:

"The first robot homicide was committed in 1981, according to my files ... a malfunctioning robotic arm pushed a repairman against a gearwheel-milling machine, which crushed him to death."

What's the difference between a 'robotic arm' and a piece of machinery? None! A robot is just a piece of machinery.

So it's really an existential question of conscience - if them machine doesn't have one, it can't be 'their fault' because there is no 'their' to begin with. Just some plastic and metal.
Refactoring by Martin Fowler.
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The next big thing in transportation? The ‘un-car’
There is not enough funding or investment in longevity to consider it over-hyped. Compare it to, say, AI and VR. Or even meat substitutes.
I think the question with HAL is more existential than that; there are lingering questions about the degree to which he was actually conscious.
> Choosing to give away your property to third parties is not comparable to being robbed. Facebook collected the data on unsuspecting users and proceeded to willingly give away the data. Thus Facebook is responsible for what comes out of it. There is no way around it, and it boggles the mind how this fact is brushed aside.

This crucially omits the part where Cambridge Analytica lied about the purposes of the data that was collected, and subsequently lied again when Facebook learned of this deception and demanded that the data Cambridge Analytica collected be deleted.

You're right this isn't like a bank robbery. This is more like someone securing a loan and then running off with the money. The bank's customers were harmed and one could criticize the bank's scrutiny of its debtors. But there nefarious party is the one deceiving the bank.
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Contrary to common cynicism, it used to be extremely rare for (elected and unelected) officials to actively lie. They'd obfuscate, or refuse, or run away. But outright lies? Almost never.

The problem is: given this belief, and how common it is, why should any politician not start lying, taking bribes, etc? After all, everybody thinks they do so, no matter how they actually behave.
In the UK at least that's one of the major differences between employees/workers/self employed. If I'm an employee I'd have to take the work offered, but if you're self employeed you should be free to decline work. It's a spectrum trading rights of the employee for freedoms.

If Uber don't want to take on the role of employer, they aren't allowed as much control over how tasks are completed or what tasks are accepted.
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