skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep saying this, I’m not trying to validate it, I’m trying to understand it. And anyway, almost all of your points also apply to supermarkets. You think app stores and supermarkets are somehow different kinds of markets but they are not. Economically, apps and food are both commodities, and App Store and supermarkets exist to concentrate the audience in order to generate profit, not for their suppliers.

Australian supermarkets are renowned for screwing their suppliers, for example. It’s probably no coincidence that their gross margins are similar too.

Maybe you can come up with another established market that deals in huge volumes of undifferentiated goods in a single market? Large DIY stores come to mind. Apart from scale, why do you think the economics of the App Store are appreciably different from these other marketplaces?

Anyway - I seem to be jettisoning all of my karma trying to explain how we can frame the problem in order to understand it, because understanding something is the only way to change it. But nobody seems to understand my points let along agree with them, so I’ll stop now.
Video author says these were supposedly used for demolition charges and not likely used for communication so you guessed right
Don't be so certain - if you add up the top competitors to the iPhone (just as expensive Samsungs, Huawei, etc), they're about the same amount as iPhones. Do these people not have disposable income?

The gap is quite obvious - because of the multitude of free alternatives on android, users are far more likely to not spend. The competition is way higher.

Developers want to destroy the walled garden but the fact is their product will be instantly devalued.
I think you missed the forest for the trees in my comment.

> I would end with a question: What observations and data, exactly, are you looking at? What conclusions have you drawn? Can we use contraposition to flip around any of those conclusions and find deeper or simpler truths?

None. I'm arguing that if Professor Hsu wants to model an experiment and a thesis, collect data, arrive at a conclusion, and publish a paper, that should be absolutely fine and provoke no outrage, even if some feel "that's a direct introduction to ethnofascism via eugenics". Let the reader of the paper be the judge if it's "ethnofascism". I'm prioritizing the scientific method over hurt feelings.
I have been enjoying this conference so far. The presentations have been great.

Many thanks to the people who put this together in such a short timeline.
There's a lot of dogmatic cargo-culting elsewhere in software too, but it tends to get a lot more force behind it just because it's "for security".
On the "actual detail of specific things" comment, I think generative AI will get a long way there to be convincing. But almost more importantly there are two non-obvious things that people don't realize when thinking of why this won't work.

1) the camera is focused on the subject mater, and we don't offer free roam. The subject is always the focus and we more around that subject. Because the subject matter is focused, the real-world camera never captured that information anyway. The person taking the photo or the person viewing it, doesn't know what is there and what isn't, so to convince them of what they are seeing, as long as the subject matter is re-created, should be fine for 90% of the content. We're not re-creating crime scenes, we're giving you a new way to experience your memories.

2) we mis-remember so many things anyway, that these details that (as mentioned above are likely not important) will the viewer remember that the person walking past behind the person taking the photo had a blue shirt on or yellow. Will it matter? We already have a flexible relationship with media, as so much is photoshopped to get the image the person wanted to take vs what they actually took. I suspect we will go deeper down this rabbit-hole and be more and more and expect to be thinking to ourselves "it's a nice photo, probably isn't like that IRL".
At Revelstoke there is a particular part of the ski boundary that has signs like this. Something to the effect of "there is a cliff beyond these trees, and people have died here, go no further".
Fringe view among geneticists, or fringe view among the public? (And honestly, I'd like to see those criticisms - I'd hate to be defending a guy who's genuinely wrong instead of just politically incorrect, which has been the impression I've had so far from SSC and elsewhere)
Synthetic food.

It's already happening with meat made from plants, but going further, you shouldn't need a cow to make milk, or a fruit tree for orange juice, or even a whole wheat grass for flour.
A subscription fee closer to 10% starts to look attractive at least for smaller ventures. By dealing with taxes, exchange rates and credit cards, that is a fairly nice set of things to not even need to think about.

But the developer APIs/processes for dealing with in-app purchases are brutal and virtually unchanged over the past 5 years.
> "See, X is genetically inferior to us, that's why we shouldn't treat them the same".

Hiding science is not the way you attack bigots; you attack their immoral views directly.

My partner and I used IVF to have our first child. We had several fertilized embryos result. We were given the option of DNA sequencing and implanting embryos that met our genetic criteria. We didn't opt for it, but if we decide to have additional children and the data showed we could select for traits that were important to us (intelligence, height, athletically predisposed), I would absolutely opt for it. You want the best for your children (in my experience), and this is yet another selector in life to give them every advantage.

So, I do keep these things in mind. This research is going to occur (if not in the US, likely China), regardless of the uncomfortable feelings of vocal opponents. Get comfortable or get left behind.
Being a Firefox user, I have set dom.event.contextmenu.enabled and dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled set to false, so that I can continue right-clicking and pasting.
It is also misleading because a lot of businesses, especially small ones, do have a single point of failure: Get banned by your payment provider or payments frozen for some reason and you are done. Get dragged into a lawsuit by a customer, done. Have your restaurant fail a health inspection, done (well, far too rarely, but happens).

And COVID-19 also shows that larger businesses can be more resilient to unforeseen catastrophes, although I would hope something COVID-19-like to be rare enough not to matter too much.
>The obvious fallacy is that this is comparing a stable, successful business to a risky job.

Hmm... the point being made is that all jobs are inherently risky. There are factors beyond your control.

You can't work harder or smarter to keep a job when the world turns against you.

The economy, a new manager, changes in structures, business direction and so on can leave you high and dry. Your previously secure middle managers job can vanish over night.

It's happened to me and many people I know.

Further to this, there is no such thing as a career at a company. You don't have anything. A job title is temporary and once you are out, you are out and that's that.

You might never get a decent position in a company again. You just don't know... full-time work is risky!
I wanted to try this out, but getting nightly GHC was a bit harder than expected. Threw up a repo on how to set up nightly binary on buster and compile with -XLinearTypes:

https://github.com/rjeli/hs-linear-example
Like a wikipedia, but condensed, useful, and navigable. Preferably able to store offline / locally or decentralized. Would have to identify what basis is necessary for rebuild and what is luxury. A large majority of things today are simply luxury. I love the idea of it though and would def try and contribute somehow even though my skill and knowledge base isnt comparable to others.
He raises a good point that appearing on a podcast is a red herring. Suppose he actually just discussed say physics on the podcast? It would be more a question of what he said. Or, if he just said, "whoops, I had no idea who this guy was". Who he chooses to host on his own podcast is a different story.
I've used a similar technique I learned in the oilfield.

To solder a splice - 1) strip both conductors to be soldered about 1/2" and form a loop on one. 2) Stick the second conductor through the loop formed in the first and bend a loop around to join the wires. 3) Cut or break about 1/2" of solder/flux and lay on something flat, clean, and hard - 2 out of 3 is good enough here. 4) Use a hammer, flat rock, end of pocketknife, etc to flatten the solder until it is about 1/8" wide and maybe twice as long. 5) Wrap the flattened solder around the loops so that the join is covered by solder. 6) Strike a match, use a lighter, a torch, etc to melt the solder and flux into the joint. 7) Cover with weather-tight electrical tape and go on about your business.

It never failed for me.
IIRC Blu-Ray players needed Internet connections to validate discs... I think?
Counter point: Georgetown ON has great internet, Halton Hills, not so much. And it’s a 10 minute drive from Mississauga...

So it’s easy on a rural road even near a big city to have very, very few options if the cable company didn’t bother to run a wire down your particular street.

Not sure if it has changed since, but here’s another example: https://www.theifp.ca/news-story/8404569-xplornet-north-halt...

I imagine we’ll hear fewer stories like this within 5 years now, but it’s been a long time coming — even if you have LTE service, it’s not cheap enough for data-hungry TVs and PCs.
I scrolled through way too many posts, and not a single person mentioning whether they tried to reset the firmware via USB, and saw no support person suggesting it either.

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/2015-blu-r...
Wadler might argue that linear types being merged changed the world!

http://www.cs.ioc.ee/ewscs/2010/mycroft/linear-2up.pdf
Just because you work a 9-5 job doesn't mean that all of your risk is tied up in the fate of a single employer, subject to their whims.

For most people, if something happens to their current employer, they can go get another one! In this economy especially, with a decent skillset you can probably go get another job in 2-4 weeks.

The real risk is much closer to _how many employers exist that might hire you_. If there are only a couple of businesses that need people with your skillset then that's a problem. If your skillset has a wide demand though then it's fine to only collect your income from one source at a time. If one employer dries up go take your skills elsewhere.
Anyone interested should check out Dr Ramachandrans research at UCSD. Capgras delusion, Phantom limb, synesthesia, mirror neurons, all great rabbit holes. Also some great documentaries, I think Secrets of the mind is one, and also the Boy with the incredible brain ( savant/ seeing shapes for math etc) Great stuff
This is definitely the case of the dam finally bursting. For example, a famous geneticist who left said this: https://twitter.com/ctitusbrown/status/1271082397656735746?s...

I also have friends on the faculty. This is the dam bursting and should have happened a long time ago.
Yes! This is where revelation came from for me.
Firing Bullets Through Propellers
I've taken a couple not-entirely-unsuccessful cracks at running a small business and worked for others in the same vein and can tell you that, at least for a software business, the dirty secret is that a lot of businesses out there are totally dependent on 1-3 large clients.

Established businesses, on the other, hand often do have a diverse customer base and other means to overcome economic headwinds, and they can be seen as a mechanism that bundles those things for you and gives you a portion of that security.
Only half as good as UTF-16.
There is no singular "intelligence" and measuring it is certainly not linear. Splitting hairs between a population of people (specifically blacks) who only 200 years ago were killed for being able to read certainly doesn't make for a compelling or worthy investment in research.
There was no dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women in that paragraph. Please don't dilute real issues with your general awkwardness and discomfort.
there are a lot more things that make APIs "robust".
described is only a tip of the iceberg - data/type checks due to de/serialization. Your API may be perfect in terms of type correctness and structure, and contain SQL injection.

There should be also load balancing/HA, rate limiting, authn/authz, injection, all sorts of protections against OWASP top10 type attacks.
Not always true. Depends on the product.

There is a lot of Indie Hackers who make more than a 100k a year on their products (check out indiehackers.com for case studies)
Birdcage Liners (2018)
Hsu remains a professor with tenure at MSU. Faculty and students only called for him to be removed from an administrative position.
You mean submit a paper?
He wasn't nearly as controversial as today. Your standard for controversial and Steve's are different.
N64 LLE emulation – ParaLLEl RDP – How the upscaled rendering works (Technical)
Amongst geneticists. If you want to learn more you can read here: http://ewanbirney.com/2019/10/race-genetics-and-pseudoscienc...
I wonder what the accessibility for html in svg is like. But really, isn't this just an iframe with a different name?
I think there's an error in the analogy. Finding a new job is like finding a new customer, not like your business failing.
Geometric algebra

It's an algebra which unifies linear algebra with quaternions and tensors.

My implementation in Julia is at https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl

We have a chat community of geometric algebra enthusiasts at https://bivector.net
It's better to separate devices. Use a Bluray player just to play Blurays, and use a TV just to display video. To play network content use a RPi+Kodi or at least a dedicated mass-market streaming device that will be highly incentivized to maintain first-class support rather than its firmware being an afterthought.
Is there a way to quickly toggle those on and off?
I see, but transferring the AES key directly over TLS is the worst scenario because now you be certain Zoom has it, no?
> There aren't big population-level differences, aside from basic cosmetic differences due to genetic drift

What lets you assert that? There are most certainly genetic clusters that correspond to "races" - that's how sites like 23andMe work, after all. And these variations aren't just "melanin content" or "nose structure" - the obvious one is sickle-cell anemia, but a lot of other genetic disorders are racially correlated too.
So you want to reject someone's will to collect more empirical observations and data on a certain issue... based on empirical observations and data you already have?

This makes absolutely no sense. Either we can investigate some issues, or we can't. @markdown is a bit more honest when they say we should not research the issue at all, because the answer is very unpleasant. But note that race is only the ultimate taboo in the west; researchers elsewhere, in particular in China, will continue this research. And I think it's worth having people in the west researching this area, so they understand this research and can, indeed, challenge it when necessary.
Love it, the productivity of tracing GC with the tools to do more fine grained resource management when needed, congratulations!
> 0 - For simple things PIDs work well, but then you don't need an entire course on Control Theory to learn how PIDs work.

Kalman filters seem pretty useful, especially with phones and stuff having an array of different sensors that can be combined, and probably require a class more than something more simple like a PID controller.
Many of those questions are laughably-easy for anyone to figure out.

Also once, I got locked out because they used incorrect data to generate one of those questions. Once I got in, I then had to dispute that data.
There really isn't.

The current argument is weasly though, approaching it as follows:

Race is a social construct and not a genetic one. Humans exist on a genetic spectrum. Therefore you can't box humans into distinct groups there. Therefore racial differences are moot.

This is based off the grad student unions linked sources. It's also weasly as all fuck. Race may be a social construct, but it does correlate strongly with a number of genetic factors. As such, race serves as an aggregate variable for a large quantity of genetic variation. And it can be shown that between populations of different race, there's an observable difference at a genetic level.
The segue from winning at board games -> winning at business is great, but then it goes into slightly too much detail about Appian.

I‘ve accepted that native advertising & PR are everywhere, but still... I wish it could just be a cool story about a billionaire board game champ (awesome!) without the embedded enterprise software ad (lame!).

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There are even publicly traded companies that, for instance, build their business entirely on say, customized solutions for Microsoft software. They might have diverse customers, but they are very dependent on the ecosystem that is controlled by another company.
I thought about that, but when I looked it seemed like you needed to use the menu to do it, and since it resets about every 5 seconds I don't think it's feasible to actually use the menu. I could get the one I had to open/close the tray reliably.
> For problems which are not well defined, and where a lot of decisions need to be taken, especially when they verge toward the arbitrary, it’s a lot easier to have people in a room and hash it out.

AKA when random I/O is needed, minimizing latency is the key.
> Hmm... the point being made is that all jobs are inherently risky. There are factors beyond your control.

You don’t control all of the factors in your own business, either. You listed the economy as a risk for full-time employment, but it’s an even bigger risk for small businesses. Big companies tend to have large war chests to ride out recessions, or even take advantage of recessions.

With a small business, the company’s bank account isn’t that far removed from your personal bank account.

Being in control of everything also means that everything is your problem. That’s a two-edged sword.

> You might never get a decent position in a company again.

That would be extremely uncommon. Moreover, if you’re not qualified to get a job in the industry, I don’t see how you’re going to be successful running your own business in the industry.

Running your own business is more difficult and more work than getting a job in an industry.
Then make a phone app for it that can push software updates if approved in the app and not automatically. Login with the app, use it as a remote, etc. I dont know, just brain storming.
Ask HN: Shopify self hosted e-commerce alternative?
What do you recommend to physical product business which gets about 25-100 sales a day?

In case you are curious, what I sell it's 3d printing fimament which I make in my garage:
https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-home-for-cheap-6c908bb09922

I am a programmer but I do not like building something which already exists and e-commerce platform is boring for me also Shopify while is good but I need self hosted one for ideological reasons.
I posted multiple clear, specific, and falsifiable claims. Feel free to address them. Or you can keep posting snarky quips completely devoid of concrete information - up to you.

You can label (factual) statements with whatever emotionally connoted phrase you want; it has no bearing on whether they’re correct.
Well,

I wrote a device driver for Windows 8 that would mount a .torrent file as a virtual disk way back in 2011. We pitched the intellectual property around to several large companies. The only interest we had in the technology was video game companies... where we could mark file pieces as 'high priority' and allow the player to play the game even when the game disk was partially downloaded.

The IP was sold to a company developing their next-generation console video game system as part of a 24 million dollar package and never saw the light of day. I suspect what they really wanted was the associated patents.
Some password manager browser extensions circumvent password paste prevention, so that's worth looking into.
If one needs absolute performance, then their only option is bare metal, as the OS can also induce every kind of delay, including RTOS, so manual == performance goes a long way until it is actually true.
Creator of The Great Suspender extension steps down from development
Lark Suite
It's like a store not needing the protection the mob offers
Can you elaborate on the details that your colleagues conveyed to you?
No, and some early models didn't even have network connections.
Obviously the people who work in your company should then quit and create their own stable businesses.
No internet needed for the Blu-ray Discs I’m aware of. I have my Sony player disconnected and have no problem playing movies.
Be careful to distinguish between rhetoric, opinions, and facts.
> Why would the euro be in real trouble.

How about zero net economic growth for 20-25 years and no prospect of that trend changing?

Countries in the Eurzone who have seen negative real economic growth since 2007 or 2008:

Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain

The only growth economies over the past decade are smaller: Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ireland

In 2008 Germany's GDP per capita hit $45,400. In 2019 it was $46,500. That's a massive real negative contraction given the debasement of the Euro and even a tiny bit of real inflation per year. That's the most potent economy in all of Europe and certainly in the Eurozone. The outcomes for France, Italy and Spain are that much worse over that span of time. Now Germany is facing a big hit to their advanced industrial foundations, as China and electric cars eat into the things they do particularly well. Germany will suffer de-industrialization (which they've held off longer than anyone else) and they have no replacement plan for that situation. Will Germany somehow come up with a massive, global tech economy to rival the US and China? There's no evidence of trend in the past decade. How does the Eurozone fare well without Germany moving it forward? It doesn't.

In the time the Eurozone has stagnated the US went from a GDP per capita of $48,300 to $65,000 and the US economy will again recover from the pandemic faster than Europe's economy, broadly, will; for the exact same reason it did with the great recession. That will add further weakness to the Euro by contrast.

Here's what that stagnation looks like: https://i.imgur.com/ep9kSOw.jpg

Besides that giant problem, Germany is going to again face enormous pressure around the way they inflate the value of the Euro at the expense of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece (making them not-as-competitive on exports). As with the non-recovery after the great recession, that problem will again be amplified and felt as these economies attempt to recover from the pandemic recession. They all know it's unfair that Germany gets to free-ride on a cheap currency (cheap for Germany, expensive for Italy & Co), producing the world's largest trade imbalance.

So the Eurozone is already on year 12-13 of negative growth. They were just beginning to inch above the great recession line of 2007-2008 in nominal terms. Now they've been reset by a minimum of five years, given how slow the major Eurozone economies have been growing. More likely, it's going to be a lost 20-25 years in total, stretching from 2007 to 2027 or 2032 approximately. And then at some point the next recession will hit, and on it goes.

The Euro is not going to do well accordingly.