skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course! It's VisiData (visidata.org). Thanks for asking, let me know if you find it useful too :)
a typical hn post of esoteric theory that ppl likely upvote due to 'essential coding' buzzwords and stuff they cant understand. While there's some good content in here, posting a pdf of a some teachers lecture notes without additional context is just the HN equivalent of reddit karma whoring. At least provide a sentence saying why this is better than some other resource
I also have astigmatism which makes all dark mode websites and apps difficult to read. As "cool" as this trend and previously "hacker" color scheme has gotten, don't remove light modes!
You and pretty much every modern data centre application, irrespective of the technology stack. The typical 1.3ms latency I see kills performance across the board, but very few people are aware of the magnitude of the issue.
In this instance the company can declare bankruptcy and the founders and investors can move on to their next gig - perhaps even throw a hapless developer to the authorities. Unless hippa somehow has special provisions. They need to go after the personal wealth of founders and investors to make this a serious crime.
I don't think you need an AI for this. It can probably be an algorithm that loops through different verticals in different countries to see how well they're tackled and how saturated the market is. A VC once showed me a spreadsheet that did this.
Badge of honor!
Purdue is, the Sacklers (ostensible owners) are not.
> Strange to think that many of the folks who live there are in charge of a lot of the companies on HN (or are senior execs there).

As someone who lives in Marin I’m not sure where you got this idea. Most people who live in Marin have been there for 20-30+ years and are retired.

They probably paid less than 300k for their home.
I didn't know about that. Thanks for the heads-up!
Because you paid $1200 for a device that doesn't allow you to run arbitrary software.
Well, perhaps there could be a small modification that would allow "use in perpetuity" and rights of survivorship, or whatever. The important part is just that profiteers have to negotiate with the creator(s) so that they get some slice of the pie they've helped create.
Not all antitrust violations require monopoly power, that is true. For example, price fixing is illegal even if the companies involved do not have monopoly power.

However, several of the claims Epic made in their lawsuit do require proving that Apple has monopoly power, which is going to be a difficult argument with their current 46% market share.
I would have thought it would look something like this;

We estimate it has caused 2,2T in damage and are seeking 100B.

They are obviously very smart people and haven’t done it like this for a reason.
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The Sacklers knew this was coming and have been moving money around for years. Here is just one example: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/14/760794331/sackler-family-tran... But I've read they have been doing corporate shuffling as well.
I doubt it’s anything too sophisticated, old retired people simply don’t like change.
Zstandard is not actually that fast!

I recently benchmarked it versus the ancient "DEFLATE" algorithm, as seen in the .NET Framework.

They're virtually identical in speed using typical settings.

Zstandard only has a performance advantage if using the prepared dictionaries, in which case it is genuinely faster.

If you don't go to the effort of "training" a dictionary and using it, there's zero benefit to Zstandard.
> Is anything being done in that direction that might become effective?

Stop buying iphones and macs.
You realize they have two buildings there right?
Fuck starlink
Since you brought up ETL, you may also be interested in Meltano (https://meltano.com), an open source ETL tool we've been working on at GitLab for a few years now!

I shared some thoughts on how it compares to DropBase in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=24194916

If you end up giving it a try, I'd love to hear what you think :)
The problem with Guns, Germs, and Steel is that it doesn't really comport with the evidence we've gained from archaeology and anthropology in the 20 years since it was written. Or even what was generally accepted within the field when it was written. And if you follow Jared Diamond's other books and commentary since the initial publication, he's made it quite clear that he is going to dismiss any evidence that doesn't comport with his theories rather than adjusting his theories to match evidence, especially as we come to realize that our interpretations of primary sources and physical evidence may have historically been biased and incorrect.

As a historical note, anthropology originally develops in the 18th and 19th centuries as a curiosity about how the great empires (especially Britain) came to be great, and was generally intertwined with a desire to justify the rule over, enslavement of, or even extermination of lesser peoples. The notion that Western Europeans were superior to everyone else was an unquestioned axiom. It's only in the mid-20th century that this inherent racism starts to squeeze out of the field academically, but in the popular culture, it tends to still remain--and books like Guns, Germs, and Steel work against the goal of removing the racism from our humanities.

As someone who is interested in Pre-Columbian Americas, I will attest that the the history is actually quite fascinating. It really does challenge all of the traditional notions of anthropology, more so than any place in the Old World. A much better book is Charles Mann's 1491, which highlights what newer research has concluded about Pre-Columbian Americas.
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The most effective way to kickstart such a discussion might be sharing a blog post discussing a handful of specific aspects (could even have many of them). Then the HN discussion is likely to pick up on some of those themes. I think the current submission has not managed to provide a nucleus around which comments can crystallize — it’s too open-ended for drive-by commenters.
Why would you not seek the total cost of damages?
Someone needs to mention xkcd.com/1910/.
Consider that he tailored his message for the recipient, as most anyone would do.

Imagine if you had spent years (maybe you have, I don't know you) building an app and a business for a platform you love only to have it snatched away.

Wouldn't it bring out strong emotion and cause you to want to appeal to them in the same way?
> If one of those base level things break, everyone who depend on it, will come together and replace/fix it instantly.

I don't see how this is causally related to that dependency being thanklessly maintained by a single person. Maybe I misunderstood what you are trying to say.
Given the seriousness of this issue, why ain’t the congress probing these guys instead of going after a bunch of tech companies? The priorities seem to skewed here.
I do not think that whether you think that people should be prosecuted for thought crimes has much to do with him being right on wrong.
Hey, I'm one of the engineers behind Dropbase. Currently all imported data needs to be structured, which means that the data needs to be formatted in either values, records, index,
or column orientations (see https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p...). Right now we can only auto-detect between those formats, but in the future we're looking to accept unstructured data as well.
The first thing I thought of was OpenSSL:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7575210
If you can’t get over the syntax differences I can’t imagine why you’d ever want to program in Python. You don’t need to force yourself to like or use Python in the same way some people just don’t want to eat fish, or choose to be vegetarian. It’s not for everyone. Why try to shove a square peg in a round hole?
This is a great summary!
The GP simply made a mistake. Potatoes can't grow in hot equatorial climates and never made the jump to the north. Two more American crops are essentially as productive as potatoes and did spread widely before Europeans. Sweet potatoes were grown as far north as Mexico / the Gulf and Maize was growing from Canada down all the way through Argentina.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation archives:

https://www.abc.net.au/archives/openarchives.htm
That's the thing.

If HIPAA could pierce the corporate veil, this could no longer occur. Wanna dick around and not do your job as a founder / investor? Your personal assets are on the line.
Jail is on the table if you purposefully steal the data. I was interested so searched for examples of actual HIPAA jail time, and in all the cases I could find the conduct was egregious and with clear intent (e.g. https://mazarsusa.com/ledger/jail-time-for-a-hipaa-violation... ). Misconfiguring your S3 buckets isn't going to hit that level, though that could still result in a hefty fine. This of course all assumes that the AI company got access to the data legally to begin with.
> How could that conversation work while respecting the second law?

Well, if you start with 15 million calories worth of corn, feed it to pigs, and you get 3.5 million calories of pork back out, the rest of the energy is exerted to keep the animal alive through its life. The second law is respected.

Meanwhile, an equivalent acreage of broccoli only provides 2 million calories, being far less efficient at converting the environment's resources into calories than corn, so it is starting from behind and never makes up for just how efficient corn really is. The second law continues to be respected.

If you fed that broccoli to pigs, you might not even get half a million calories of pork back, but that's why we don't feed pigs broccoli. Still no violation of the second law.

I am not really sure where you think the violation was meant to occur?
Even if you accept that such a basic shape is copyrightable, it's laughable to have a national flag that is copyrighted and cannot be freely used. When the government declared it a national flag, they should have given him a few million dollars and bought the rights off him. They still can do this easily since they have eminent domain and it applies to IP as well.
Maybe they did an unreal amount of harm. That could just be where the math adds up. If they're responsible for 100,000 overdose deaths, with each life valued at an average of $20 million, that adds up to ~$2T.
$2.2T, or it seems actually $2.15T, is the sum damage to the state economies as estimated by economists.

Yes, the strategy here is effectively just to throw out a huge number to argue that the damage done would be impossible to truly correct. But as a general principle you can't go to court and just ask for whatever number you feel like, you need to justify to the court exactly why you are owed that much. So they ran the numbers and $2.15T is what they thought they could justify.
I was suprised for this to pop up - Becket was such a great film.
Or look at Western Colorado. I live in Grand Junction and enjoy a walkable downtown, easy access to a wide variety of outdoors, mid-sized university, and many of the amenities of a small city.

And besides the current nearby wildfires, air pollution is not the issue it is on the Denver side of the Rocky Mountains
Wow, I found this cool PDF of a document from 1917 which has calories yields per acre. It's incredible how much yields have increased in 100 years.

It records Pork at 672k calories per acre

https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/ORC00000242/PDF

EDIT: Another great quote from the PDF
"The soy bean.—Soy beans lead all other crops in the production of digestible protein, exceeding corn in this respect by almost exactly 100 per cent. This crop deserves more attention in this country than it has yet received. There is no reasonable possibility of overplanting it. "
I'd still say conversation, despite all the focus put into this. They can now be more entertaining conversationalists, but as it is, they are still dreamlike. They forget what was said 2 hours ago. They can move from one topic to another, but they can't go deeper into a topic. They don't have the childlike curiosity to inquire and learn more about things, nor a focused enough memory to tell someone about that thing later.
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> A $1250 iPhone had a $450 cost to make...

Where do you even get numbers like this? Are you looking at the bill of materials cost and assuming that to be the cost of the device, ignoring the R&D, testing, iterations of development and tweaking, and many other factors (including marketing) that go into the price of a product (apart from profit margin)? If yes, that’s too naive an assumption and bordering on hyperbole.

This is like arguing that the ingredients for <your favorite dish> cost some low value whereas restaurants are selling it at several tens of times that cost. M
> The Sackler family should be completely liquidated.

This, but literally.
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I learnt BASIC when I was young, and then (Borland Turbo)Pascal after that, and C family languages (including C and Java and such) after that. Then I learnt Python, and even wrote a lot of it at Uni and for various jobs -- enough that I'm pretty firm in my distaste for significant whitespace, and I don't believe it's because I started with C.

It may be popular, but it presents a number of challenges in Python and in other languages like YAML. If you're going to buck the C trend, at least make it somewhat ergonomic like Lua which I learnt recently and kind of like.
Reading between the lines on statements made by Raptor I'm thinking that POWER10 will not be open immediately upon release.
I don't doubt the input and output modules will need some work, but in the grand scheme of things probably not that much. The big missing piece imo is just models with better world models—and it doesn't look like the scaling wars will stop anytime soon, nor does it look like size will stop helping, at least not anytime soon. (https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/05#baking-the-cake)
I don't think this is the case. Last I read up you are personally liable for HIPAA violations. If you do something, knew it wasn't something you should do, and refused to fix it, stuff gets really bad.

To stay safe with medical data, however, you basically just need to hit whatever standard you think is reasonable. There's no established standards other than:

1. "PII" encrypted during storage/transfer.
2. Customers can request a download of their data.
3. Customers can request you delete ALL their data.
4. Fast track sec fixes above all other company goals.
I feel like you are probably being a little too harsh in your response. If you dislike the content then move along, comment, or downvote. There is no reason to be uncivil and attack the person when attacking the content would do a sufficient job of conveying your point.
We are in the middle of a pandemic that the US has been singularly unable/unwilling among the world's developed countries to apply the necessary measures to solve, and still you argue that the real problem is too much harm reduction...

I'm sure enjoying my fulfilling free life as I make plans to sit alone in my apartment for another entire year because I live in the land of freedom, where people can dine in indoor restaurants without a mask.
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The difference is that a postal service is rival + excludable. Most roads are (generally) non-rival and most people at least expect them to be non-excludable, but as you mentioned, some use tolls.

When you have rival + excludable, it is straight forward to charge on an individual basis. This efficiently allocates resources and punishes abuses.

It's not as easy to efficiently do that with non- (or perhaps less-) excludable goods. Also, when a good is non-rival, there is much less worry about abusing the system. That makes subsidies and "everybody pay the same" easier to be seen as a fair enough system.
Is There a Way to Automatically Submit Blog Posts to Hacker News
I use IFTTT.com to take my RSS feed and post it to Twitter, but I do not see a way of doing this for Hacker news.

Should there be? (I make 3-4 posts a day)

No link to my blog, because I don't post my link for a meta post. It's skeevy.
You are right, my bad. It was a typo.
> “Conspiracy in restraint of trade” would fit perfectly what Apple/Google are doing.

Proving a conspiracy claim requires two parties to knowingly participate in the conspiracy. While you may believe Apple and Google are conspiring together there is a reason Epic's lawsuit does not make any conspiracy claims - their lawyers know they'd never be able to win such a claim.

At any rate that is irrelevant to my point: Epic made several claims in their lawsuit that will require proof of monopoly power.
Let's not do this here. We're better than this.
I have zero idea what you are talking about. The person I replied to was implying that walkability only happens organically but planning leads to sprawl, which is ridiculous since there are so many counter examples all over the world of apartments and shopping developed together.

Your comment seems to be about aesthetics, but it makes no sense. Do you think shop owners usually build the buildings they inhabit? No one mentioned a uniform look and it has nothing to do with anything. It is completely orthogonal.
Implicit in your question is that the terms are valid. Epic will make the case that they’re not.

And if they succeed, then the terms will be worth nothing, and Apple would have to explain why they go around signing illegal agreements that for example allow them to punch people in the face.

If Epic fails, then yeah, the legal terms say for example that the punishment for what Epic did is a punch in the face, and Apple is just enforcing that legally.
There are many other claimants in the Purdue bankruptcy other than the Multistate Group mentioned here. Each of those claimants is incentivized to make their claim as large as possible to reduce the amount left over for the hospitals, Native American tribes, individual victims, and the many other groups fighting to maximize their slice of the Purdue pie. Full list of unsecured claimants is in this document: http://bankrupt11.com/dockets/documents/p_purduepharma414/
Actual title of the post is: “Epic CEO Tim Sweeney’s Hand-Waving Explanation for How Game Consoles Deserve 30 Percent of Fortnite Revenue but Apple and Google’s App Stores Do Not”.
Well that's my brain bent for today. Thanks for the interesting read!
Thales's Theorem
Python already has support for optional braces.

def say_word(word): #{
print(word)
#}
Really beautiful idea, and thanks for the link for John Tromp's idea. I will use your notation in my course.

I am sure, being from where you are, you have heard of "Henderson Diagrams" from SICP. They are also a great visual tool for functional programming.

From the Russian side of the cosmos, Drakon is a nice flowchart language (not a circuit diagram language), but I have never used it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON
Your doubt about more data -> better semantic knowledge about the world is well-placed and I freely admit that at this stage it's mostly conjecture, although GPT-3 does provide some evidence. However, my point is that once this hurdle is overcome, building agency on top isn't that much of a leap.
I actually don't think it will make a difference. Apple users are used to accepting weird compromises. Iphone 4 was notorious for bad reception during calls. Apple's solution: hold it correctly. People buy apple h/w for the shine, not any specific use, whose absence would make them buy something else. So they will just endure without Fortnite, MS Word, Google Maps, Youtube etc.

In fact I'm sure many people will blame Microsoft/Google/Epic and say that Apple is in the clear, just look at this thread.
dnsmasq is one of my favorite software packages. One of those rare things that seems to directly address a real-world problem, address it well, but have minimal added complexity. Extremely common on commercial appliances but also very easy to set up and manage yourself.
> The study tested male rats, female rats, male mice, and female mice. Only male rats were allegedly impacted by radio signals. If 3G is so universally dangerous to living tissue, why did it only impact one of the species tested?

That's explained pretty well by this -

https://xkcd.com/882/
I'm not joking. They're mass murderers as far as I'm concerned.

I had a cat die of melamine-tainted Chinese cat food. The CEO of the company was executed.

I've had multiple people I know die of the Oxy-to-Heroin pipeline. These CEOs are billionaires.
It’s very simple: support. Apple does not want to take any more needless support calls than they have to. When you run a trillion dollar company that handles, I would speculate, tens or hundreds of thousands of active support tickets, and consider adding in a virtually unsupportable mode in your appliance (keeping in mind that iPhones are considered an appliance to Apple), I would hope you would choose the sane option.

Also, Apple prides itself on quality. Side loading, whether you agree with allowing it or not, degrades quality because Apple loses its end to end control. See Android phones as an example of this.

All that being said, sure I would love to have the option of side loading, but if I really care that much, I’ll jailbreak.
It's kind of amazing how much of our culture is predicated on consumer exploitation. Justice and reparations seem like a pipe dream.
I think Guix provides a better dataset for this sort of analysis, given its emphasis on reproducible builds.
Why would even a NIMBY not be in favor of burying power lines? Power lines & poles don't exactly add to property values, and you'd think that underground you would get less electromagnetic 5G corona cancer rays implanting microchip vaccines too. But I guess trying to apply logic here isn't going to work...
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I expect development, offline, (and thus execution of novel/unsigned binaries) to remain possible on ARM Macs, so for at least the foreseeable future.

People have been claiming the iOS-style trusted/treacherous computing cancer will hit macOS “any day now” for most of a decade at this point, and it’s still not even on the horizon.
Meaningful content does not excuse the real cringey shit like quoted above.
Could also be said about (some) social sciences (in some contexts).
There’s a difference but it’s relatively pedantic. Netflix has interactive shows and the play/pause is necessarily controlling a remote server as well.
Not trying to start a flame war, but as an Android user, I often hear things from Apple users along the lines of what you said "I picked up an Android phone and after 5 mins I couldn't handle how they completely missed delighting the user over and over again". It all sounds rather wishy-washy and ambiguous to me, do you mind to elaborate and give some examples? In all fairness, I tried out the demo units of Iphones and Ipads at the Apple Stores and never found the interface to be immediately intuitive despite the hype about Apple's polished UI.
Dave Brubeck — specifically, “Take Five” — will be forever associated in my mind with “The Secret Life of Machines”

I’ll add a link once I have a chance to search. It’s a delightfully quirky TV program from the 1970s, and which I thought showcased some brilliantly fun, yet simple, mechanical engineering.