skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heck, I've torrented movies and TV shows that are on streaming services I'm currently paying for. The main reason I do that is to get subtitles which aren't on the streaming services. Did you know that HBO, at least in the USA, has virtually no non-English subtitles on their streaming service? Even for HBO-original content that has been released on DVD/Blu-ray and thus does have subtitles for a large number of languages.
What we have learned is that you only need the Senate Majority Leader to refuse to act. It turns out that is the crucial weakness in the US government with no checks and balances on it. And, of course, isn't in the US Constitution.
This week? That story's from 2003!
I strongly disagree.

Microsoft is largely responsible for introducing computers to everyday people. They championed a mission of “a computer on every desk and in every home” in a way no one else was. I have strong doubts that PCs as we know them today would be a thing without Microsoft’s influence. We should also not discount the timing of highly usable Windows and Microsoft software with the explosion of internet usage in the developed world.

In the 90s and early 2000s Windows/Intel introduced computers and the internet to the masses.

Edit: Microsoft’s portable and highly desirable software lead to computer hardware being a commodity and drastically lower prices. This, combined with the timing of WWW, ignited a revolution for which Facebook is just a subset of its impact.
She should not have lied or deceived, but it would not matter much if (1) the quality of scholarly work were judged independently of the race of the author and (2) there were no racial preferences in academia.
And Microsoft announced it too

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/sp...
Facebook could not legally use phone numbers provided by users for two-factor verification either. They still did it and suffered near-zero consequences.

Currently there is no reason to believe that Facebook should be trusted for anything (based on their past actions) or that the current regulatory environment (both US and EU) is effective at discouraging and punishing violations.
> Two decades post-Napster we finally have what everyone wanted all along: an easy, cheap way to watch almost every movie without leaving the couch / listen to almost every song from almost any device.

That may be almost true for music, but is not remotely true for movies. Sure, recent releases are usually available on _some_ streaming service, but back catalog movies are often only available on DVD/Blue ray. The big streaming services are not great for movie catalogs (Netflix is much worse than it used to be). We have regressed from the Blockbuster days in that regard.
As a recent graduate with an overseas job offer who has been left with no choice but to work remotely until Japan re-opens its borders to foreign workers, this really hits home.

My student apartment is not equipped for this lifestyle. I do not have a home office in a sprawling estate in the suburbs on several acres of property where I can enjoy the sounds of nature. I live in a small apartment on a busy street surrounded by highways and golf courses who don't let plebs like me wander around inside.

When I'm at home, I just feel this anxiety about working that just never subsides. I feel much more relaxed when I'm able to be outside, but the nearest public green space is campus, which I avoid as much as possible now that school is in session. The nearest park is a thirty minute drive, but I have to check the air traffic before leaving due to a nearby airport.

At home, work seems to never end, especially with the 13-hour time difference that necessitates 10:30pm meetings twice a week. On one hand, I really enjoy this rare occasion to talk to my co-workers, but on the other hand, I can't shut off my work brain until after the meeting is over. On these days I end up going to sleep at 3 or 4am, adding to the cycle of stress and sleep deprivation.

I figured this would last one, maybe two months at the most. But now it's been four months since I started remote work and six months since I accepted the initial offer. There's no word about Japan issuing new work visas any time soon.

I want my life to begin.
Virtual school is changing how we think about screen time
Oh right - was going to say they kept the other games up so they obviously aren't doing it because they hate games or out of spite. Reasonable to believe their stated business reason.
I don't really buy the setup. Often the situations in these style articles seem completely contrived; same as puff peices.
It doesn't matter what the populations of the users are! My partner uses TikTok, and I do by extension.

The only place demographics matter in this argument is how they affect where and how the money is being spent.

Incumbents are turning our field into a fiefdom to lock in eyeballs. Some of this is just unconscious natural evolution because of the gravity their decisions have, but some of it is quite deliberate.

Google shuttered Google Play Music because it doesn't have the numbers they want and they have another internal effort that duplicates the functionality. With one choice, they changed the music listening behavior of millions of people. YouTube Music sucks at discoverability and favors replays of the same music.

In the old web, this didn't happen.

This is a small, unimportant anecdote. It's a drop in the sea of changes that are turning the internet to shit. There are hundreds of events and changes I can point to.

I'll cut to the chase:

Google, Apple, and Facebook need to be split up by the DOJ. Google shouldn't have a browser or any say in web standards, AMP should die, Apple shouldn't lock down iPhone, and Facebook should have extremely flexible data portability.

All of these companies should have their ad units stripped away and instead do bidding. There are too many negatives (spying, ads disguised as search results, etc) to having these in the same business units.

I haven't touched on it yet, but the Cableization of streaming is also something we need to address. It's a very close parallel to what's happened with the walled gardens.

At the heart of the issue is anticompetitive behavior and how it erodes the commons.

This has nothing to do with Gen-Z and everything to do with FAANG.
Presumably that they merely thought it was diluting their brand without it actually doing so.
All of those are great for me too.

Also, a hard run where you let it all go.

What's your experience with shrooms?
> Willpower is directly trainable through a number of things - working memory exercises, physical exercise, practicing it, meditation, etc.

That still doesn't mean it isn't ADHD. In fact the best results come from a treatment of cognitive behavioral sessions and medication.

Certainly, some cultures have features where the symptoms are less obvious than other cultures.
The only pirates around today in common culture are the Somalis who took Captain Phillips and Jack Sparrow. Barely anyone thinks about the former, so a handsome lovable rogue with a penchant for loving rum and being silly is what you get. If anything, that makes piracy sound glamorous.
They should've named it Laika instead.
Thanks. I didn’t actually realize Zig is itself a C compiler.

Rust has pretty great support for the C ABI based on my usage. Using both the bindgen and the cbindgen tools to import/export C ABI, is really simple. The Rust language is committed to always supporting the C ABI, where functions and types are marked as such, for example: 'extern "C" fn', and for types '#[repr(C)]'

Thank you for the links to Zig.
“The stubborn human desire to stare at one’s own face” (on Zoom)

So others do that too?
Git has weird terminology. Though a lot of commercial SCMs are also a bit strange. Example: Perforce which has depots and shelves. At least with git, I can create a branch without waiting 2 weeks for the IT department.
Tasty trade can teach you a lot of the basics... Start slow (please) with money you're prepared to lose
Do you realize big trades don't happen in public markets all at once? Dark pools, private share sales, debt-equity swap are a thing.
Gates foundation with an endowment of 46.8 billion, and around 5 billion annually to research. That is a lot of influence to direct.
True, and if I recall Apple is even a “small” LP in the Vision Fund. So Tim Cook could have bought his own stock but instead thought giving a few billion to Masa was a better trade! But hindsight is 20/20 and we don’t know what the fund is ultimately going to return. I have friends who work there - the sad part is the amount of sheer work that had to be done to keep the returns where they are today, restructuring old investments and squeezing every drop from the winners to make up for the total write offs.
JSX is HTML templating
- Agree completely on decoupling healthcare from employment.

- But don't agree on universal healthcare and taxing more aggressively over x. Aren't people already being taxed about 50%, if not more. Instead of higher taxes to withstand astronomical costs of healthcare, won't it be better to work towards that problem by reducing healthcare costs and let people decide how to spend their money. Often seems the conversation is who pays the high costs of healthcare - govt, employer, insurance etc. but not about why is it that high and how can that be lowered.
For e.g. I'd rather tax sale of processed sugar foods more to support healthcare for the impact they have on the healthcare system than taxing everyone who makes more money than x
I would direct you to the excellent _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_.
Oh my god, I haven't thought about Sonique in decades!
With TSLA it may not work so well because TSLA has had a high short interest rate historically. So actually, after the split, if we see more shorts come in to drive TSLA down, we may get another substantial move up, hence I have $1000 targets for December.
The Legend of Zelda – A Complete Development History (159 Page eBook)
They're more likely to employ counter-cryptanalysis [1] in the meantime.

[1] https://github.com/cr-marcstevens/sha1collisiondetection
> I wonder how much of our modern idea of kings as supremely powerful dictators is just a result of posturing and good PR by past kings.

Depends on how you want to look at it. Kings of ancient times where often seen as gods or god-like beings.

In the West and the Middle East these kings where well remembered through the religious sacred texts. It was part of the common knowledge, much like today Darth Vader.

A story like that of Jude would be known by virtually everyone and do much of what you'd term "PR".

In the Far East however, these mighty kings or emperors where in power in some countries up until very recent times.
> your 'simple' pipeline becomes hard core once you take into account all other things you require like grep, awk, sed, xargs, mount etc.

That's the whole point of unix. Non-integrated tools that talk to each other using plain text.
No,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20118746
>Eventually the “manipulation” will push the price to a point where other actors sell, and then more people sell and the price corrects (see yesterday and today’s charts).

Not sure how this statement helps your argument. The same happens in pump and dumps. The people who artificially manipulated the price up in the first place sell in large, duping the latecomers out of their money, and the price corrects.

>Buying equities and options in large amounts is not market manipulation.

No it is not, but this isn't a simple matter of buying of equities and options. It's a pattern of repeatedly buying equities and options by one large party in a way which allows for potential manipulation. As so, even if such a pattern isn't illegal now, why shouldn't such a pattern be made illegal? Wash trades used to be legal before 1936, but we made them illegal for similar reasons...
I've heard that its your manager's manager that is important to your career. Your manager can't actually promote you, except by recommending you as their replacement if promoted or transferred. Your manager's manager can either promote you or work a deal with their peers to get you promoted.

If your manager is keeping your performance results from being reflected upwards, you have a problem.
Multiple repos using different applications then.

And the general proliferation of Appimages, Flatpak, Nix, Guix, Docker containers, and of course local building of software all tell against the "using software from outside the distro's repos is discouraged" representation.
History shows that being a free market country provides a huge advantage towards victory.
Starting an Engineering-Driven Initiative
Can some ELI5 what this means? Is this the explanation for why the markets have been exploding in such turbulent times?
I've never worked anywhere that OKRs are actually taken seriously or followed through.

They'll get rolled out with a big hype, people will fill them out with varying degrees of diligence and understanding of how OKRs are supposed to work.

3 months later they're already forgotten and out of date. Some managers will try to keep it going for their teams, because that's what they were told to do, but that'll peter out once they realise no-one else in the org is taking it seriously.

6 - 12 months later there'll be a half-hearted attempt to reset and resurrect the OKR process, but after the first time people take it even less seriously the second time around, and after a few more months OKRs are never mentioned again.
Silicon Valley cares very much about your background.

50% of VC's are Harvard/Stanford.

FB, Insta, MS, Snapchat, Amazon, Google etc. - Ivy League or Stanford.

(Ok, Amazon and MS are not 'Valley' but ...)

So the industry is more open to 'outsiders' of the cliques than say, banking - definitely, but it's still a clique, don't kid yourself.
switzerland is not in EU
We're not running at scale, at least not the kind where performance of the library is likely to be an issue. We have around 50 tenants with a handful of users each. Tenants have up to 100's of millions of rows in Postgres - not exactly big data levels, but pretty big still.

I don't have perf numbers anymore, but I did some performance testing before I started using it a few years ago, and even back then it was much faster than EF/EFCore. The team have made many performance improvements since then. Considering the ease of use, and the fact you get NoSQL-style JSON documents that work alongside regular relational tables, basically the performance impact is as good as neglibible, IMO.

If you want to work with JSON documents, I highly recommend Marten.

It does have a Benchmarks project if you'd like to run some tests[0], and I'm sure the team would be happy to answer any questions over in Gitter[1].

[0] https://github.com/JasperFx/marten/blob/07d99ed80a1f0c436c4f...

[1] https://gitter.im/JasperFx/marten
I suggest getting a facebook account just for the Oculus quest, because it's bomb!
I am building a.. uhh.. parody.. text editor.. game.. toy called Mark Twain Simulator(1), and I did not know this. This is too great not to absorb into my project at a foundational level. It's now in my DNA and will never leave.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZlz_T_9aaU
The reason IS obvious: It's called "feature bloat." That being said, unless you install a bunch of extensions, VS Code is still pretty snappy, at least on all of my computers.
With the benefit of hindsight, the biggest thing Satoshi didn't know (or didn't foresee) was that the idea of "one CPU, one vote" was flawed, a victim of its own success, because of mining ASICS.

A consequence of that is that bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies really aren't as decentralized as claimed.

It's fascinating how things just seem to have a way of becoming centralized once enough money is involved, even when engineers thought hard about how to avoid that (see also: the internet).
But the question is how you make the jump from tiny warring fiefdoms to bureaucratic administrative states. Neither Byzantium nor imperial China sprang into existence as full fledged empires.
From the outside, developing, it can be. But running and configuring the platform from the inside pays well and has several "low-code" way of doing reasonably scoped tasks.
What about the 1yr+ claim on https://atlas-scientific.com/probes/industrial-ph-probe/ ?
There's nothing stopping Rust from doing exactly what Zig does with also being a C compiler. It's not so much a language feature as it is a compiler feature. In fact you might even say that Zig paved the way for Rust to do exactly this. I think it's pretty in line with the goals of the project and I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to go for it.

It's pretty fun because Rust was a huge inspiration for Zig, and so for it to turn around and then offer improvements back to Rust is a beautiful cycle :)
The pre-registration experiment:an alternative publication model for ML research
Satoshi used Hungarian notation?!
The photographer peeking at your phone
You can run it on a Raspberry Pi these days:

https://blog.poggs.com/2020/04/21/openvms-on-a-raspberry-pi/
https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/imew49/new...
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Notch
>I wonder if GPT-4 will be able to take over the romance novel industry.

More likely carve a niche for romances made by AI.
Interesting note that with sufficient discrimination, even non-discriminating agents will have the discrimination propagate to them. If I know that a black woman is going to have a hard time raising loans, hiring, finding a business partner and a white guy is going to have an easy time doing all that, even a non-discriminating VC will just go for the latter. After all, you're just blindly chasing outcomes. And there's no edge to be had by choosing someone who is holistically less likely to succeed because the environment doesn't favour them.
I can't find the "Yellow Submarine" skin that used to my favorite. I expect that if I found it I would be overwhelmed by a frisson of Proustian nostalgia.
Perhaps the polarization and politicization here in the US will bring about your scenario #2 that much faster...in the same way we’ve found some people can trust a therapist AI more than a human one, the same will happen for writers.
I think you forgot MSFT being the super monoculture that hard blocked linux being installed on desktop machines with OEMS. IE6 being the scourge it was and pretty much the only option until firefox came out. How MSFT killed netscape & got an antitrust lawsuit over it. The entire encryption export fight & the clipper chip fight and so on. We look at the past with rose colored glasses.

I don't think people really looked at how long lasting their hardware was back then, it was more of a happy accident. We still 'disposed' of hardware with glee, more because of huge moore's law gains. I think a lot of people still use a lot of older hardware you're not aware of either. People use cars from the early 2000s still. People using cars from the 70s wasn't much of a thing in the 90s and american manufacturers were far less reliable.
A true glimpse of the neoliberal conspiracy to convince everyone that... forming a state out of nothing is... difficult...
Rumor has it Larry Page has already uploaded himself to the cloud, leaving behind his abandoned, lifeless husk inside a closet in a Google data center somewhere.
Mendix demos augmented reality snake game created with low-code
Just yesterday I was thinking of the difference in the perceived sounds of many clock radios tuned to the same, or to different, radio stations.

Last week I came across a comment on HN having the quote "History never repeats itself, but it does tend to rhyme", perhaps attributable to Mark Twain.

Now this. That there is any significance to these coincidences remains as unclear as the thesis of this article.
I think it's either Hal Finney or Dave Kleiman. Both have background in crypto and security, and both have been deceased since early 2010s - just before the meteoric rise of bitcoin. The second part is key, because given the prominence and status of bitcoin they would have been unable to stay anonymous or silent.
It's one thing to learn something like physics for dumb engineers. Or Thermodynamics. Mechanical dynamics. Differential equations. Where it's hard to get your brain wrapped around. But there light at the end of the tunnel.

Vs obtuse half broken shit people created out of whole cloth and refuse to fix.
Only if you consider everyone that does not support full on Authoritarian Communism "right wing", and allow for zero classic liberals, libertarians, and 100's other world views.

This is the problem with the narrative on the internet today, anyone that is not collectivist, is not full on Socialist must be "Right wing"
I imagine that 90's software was like late 1800's Western United States... pioneers going west and just doing whatever the fuck they wanted, now you need a permit to replace your window in San Francisco.
Link to the study:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
What does computer response time look like when you fit your OS in L1 cache?
I plugged my company's "About Us" page text into a prompt for AI Dungeon's GPT-3-based engine, and it started off with my character using the site, then quickly changed into my character following an Arduino tutorial, and eventually devolved into a college romance drama.
"they’ll be looking for the fastest line to profitability rather than prioritizing to build something that’s big and important"

First - don't assume that the 'big thing entrepreneurs are building' is in any way 'important'.

9 times out of 10 the 'big thing' is just neat idea, a project, and may have nothing to do with profiability.

Most 'grand visions' are that.

MS, Amazon, Snap, FB, Insta, Google - they all started pretty small, and worked at a fairly small scale. Surely they had visions, but they were fulfilling needs from the get-go.

I think what you are confusing is probably 'risk profile' of smaller VC funds, who in fact, don't have the patience to worry about building large marketplaces for example. It has to do with mentality, but also the size of the funds, and their experience with bigger bets.

And of course, nothing compares to SoftBank in terms of a 'massive fund looking to support global penetration'.
TripX was pretty, but Geiss, Milkdrop, and Gforce were my favorites, if only because of the insane number of add-on visualization presets. What was always ironic to me was that most of the presets by the actual developer were pretty garbage.
Because there is a huge amount of value to extract from the artificial scarcity a patent lets you impose on the world.
》For the working parent whose productivity has been slashed by 50% and stress has gone up by 50% due to parenting obligations, WFH might be terrible.

And working at office with 1 hour drive home, makes those parenting obligations somehow easier?
The Civil War was the first industrial war, where the free market economy of the North handily outproduced and exhausted the unfree South.
Buffett for one is notably democrat leaning. Also Soros and others.
Why do you think that the public markets are a bad investment right now? The public markets are a stock pickers market right now, so something like TSLA is going to outperform a lot of different investment options over the next 5-years.
> The kind of thing you can verify at compile-time can be tested very quickly

I’m not sure I entirely agree with this. For example, a type system can ensure a function is always called with the right units, but testing that every use of the function is correct might be a lot more tedious, depending on the code base.

> and compilers with less useful type systems can be much faster.

This depends very heavily on the language (e.g., OCaml being a language with a relatively complex type system that also compiled fairly quickly), but Id agree that what you said appears to be the general trend.
Ode to desolation – life in a fire lookout tower [video]