skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does the nature of venture capital force companies to be exploitative of their users? This is only true for a super narrow category of consumer startups--social media companies (specifically like 3 of them). And the reason those companies exploit their users is because they can and the nature of competition, not because of VC money.

If anything, I think it's the other way around. Users are exploiting the VC-backed companies. Because there's so many investors reaching for yield right now, the money is abundant. Startups are burning through cash to acquire you, so you can reap the benefits.

I've got 5 delivery apps on my phone and rotate based on which is providing a credit. Ditto for ridesharing. When I was doing a short contract in a different city last year, I got a mattress from whatever mattress-in-a-box company offered the longest trial period, and returned it. I've gotten 3 months of WeWork credits for doing nothing. I could go on and on and on.
California Workplace Discrimination System Sheds Light on Caste System
well, I know XPath 1.0 was released in 1999 because I was doing stuff with it.

CSS 2 as I remember was some years after that, and googling it seems to be August 2002.

At any rate in this example

//*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' foo ')]

I don't think the interest in using XPath is at all related to being able to check what class an element has, and in fact the linked discussion does not have anything to do with that, so I mean yeah, that's pretty bad but not anything anyone is asking to do in this scenario.
In the first segment of the video, the Chinese for "Ramen" is two characters pronounced "Ra" "Mian". They're being used for sound, rather than meaning (although mian is often used as shorthand for "miantiao" = noodle, so it's a nice double entendre).

Some of the Japanese speakers wound up interpreting the characters by meaning rather than sound, leading to hilarious translations.
True, my system is 1-phase, N-latched.
In what ways are they unrelated? Learning is just another activity that people do. Like sleeping or assembling ikea furniture.
I have 0 experience installing a booster seat in a Ferrari, but frankly I would expect any form of child seat to be installable without risking this kind of incident.

I don't have the knowledge to get into any specifics about this. The point is just that there are plenty of valid use cases for having a child seat in a Ferrari.
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I think that Netflix (as an example, but also most streaming services -- even HBO max at this point) are aggregators though. Disney can afford to charge this premium because their content is so differentiated. For aggregators with commoditized content, it will always be a race to the bottom for pricing to reach maximum users and spread the high fixed cost of content across them.

I would look to other content providers rather than other streaming services to anticipate who might follow Disney's pricing model. And even though this was probably just a strategy they took to deal with the circumstances created by COVID, if it works, they may stick with it. I could see theater and early access on Disney+ being released at the same time, and you can choose to go spend $30 at the movie theater or $30 in the comfort of your home.
You reply to the parent with exactly the sort of opinion they despair of?

Hacksmith is transparent this is how they fund builds.

I realize we've become entitled to expecting people to work for free for our entertainment, but expertise, shop equipment, parts, and build time are not free.
Oh hey I use your vamp plugins and sonic visualizer a lot! thanks for your work.
No. HTML is not XML, other than SVG and co.
is this supposed to be sarcasm? in case its not: just because you've created something that didnt exist before doesn't define you as creative. quality and ingenuity also matter
And so instead of the "mobs from the population centers" ruling the country we have the "mobs" from a few swing states running the country. How is that better? When it comes to the Senate why should dirt in one state get so much more say than people in another?
Routing

If I create AWS VM with IP of 1.1.1.1 no traffic will be send to it because all other systems on the Internet have routing tables that point to the real 1.1.1.1.

I can send fake traffic from that VM as 1.1.1.1 but it won't get far and no one will send responses.
I'm not working on zedstore. I just like peppering the folks who do with my wishlist items (bitemporalism! query time forecasting and progress measurements! support for query results in binary formats like Avro, ORC or Arrow! kittens and unicorns!) while they try to do useful work.
I created a decent reference for myself so I didn't have to do a web search whenever I forgot the name of one of the property values:

https://dwayne.xyz/utils/flexbox-css-grid
I agree with the spirit of your statement. However, the VOting Rights Act places strict requirements that mostly prevented some of the most egregious forms of voter suppression that we are seeing today (strict ID laws, fewer polling places etc.). The VRA was gutted very recently and it has directly lead to a resurgence in these un democratic laws.

So for people who may have been vaguely aware of American democracy for the past few decades, it is a fact that America has become less democratic in that time.
I think I've related this before, but one of my favorite bug reports, and the most interesting Order of Complexity I've ever documented was one I filed for TogetherJ.

Well before anyone coined the term 'monorepo' we had built one, and the architect and some of the leads noticed that each time we added another module to a TogetherJ project, the time to open the project shot way, way up.

I got on the case, and determined that with about 80% of our project loaded it took 28 hours to open the project. At this point I reported it to Together, and they said it was something to do with scanning the data for each module and the workaround was to keep all the data at the monorepo level. That got the load time back down to 20 minutes (less if you ejected some of the less interesting modules from the project). They also fixed the problem in the next release.

About this time I actually sat down and plotted the trend line, it fell almost exactly on an O(n^5) curve. I've seen n!, I've seen x^n loads, but I don't think I've ever seen n^5 before or since.
The market is also incredibly shortsighted most of the time. Trump being obnoxious and overall just bad - depending on your perspective - and Trump being right to want to do something about China are not mutually exclusive. It was a growing problem that needed to be addressed. I hope the president for the next 4 years and beyond handles it well.
Zim Desktop Wiki for work stuff.

Google Keep to share grocery/shopping lists with my wife.
My coworker told me stories like this and I thought that it was a coincidence or he just googled similar keywords without remembering it. But then I got a new phone and one day it (very unusually) suggested me anti-diarrhea pills. It was an interesting sensation, because guess what I was doing for last ten minutes before seeing this ads.
A web app to help reverse engineer WebAssembly binaries
> Some researchers have been known to use Korean pronunciations of words to help triangulate to what ancient Chinese characters would sound like

That is rather an exaggeration. Korean and Japanese can be used as guides for Middle Chinese pronunciation, but they aren’t all that useful compared to using China’s own rhyme tables and running the comparative method on the Chinese dialects. For stages of Chinese before Middle Chinese, neither Korean nor Japanese are useful at all.
Your response on definitions actually supports my point on the matter: definitions follow from knowledge ("a phenomenon that everyone agree exists") and are modified in response to new knowledge ("if that definition turns out to be adequate..." - and if not?) As before, "energy" stands as an example of how it works, and "computability" did not enter the lexicon until there was a use for it.

Nevertheless, I agree that in the specific case of current AI, using the word "intelligence" is misleading. I do not, however, think this misuse has any serious consequences, as, to reverse how I put it before, usage does not establish truths about the world.

>> which are not "just" machine code either

> I'm using "machine code" as proxy for "instructions/lambdas/whatever for a computational model of your choice", which they certainly are.

Then that is an unfortunate choice of proxy, unless, perhaps, you intended to imply that it is a priori impossible for intelligence to be created by running x86 machine code. It was not clear to me whether, by introducing machine code into the discussion, you were not making some sort of argument from incredulity against the possibility of AI.

> My point is that any association of a formal concept (math, models, etc.) with philosophical concepts (intelligence, "truths about the world", consciousness, etc.) is always on thin ice, because natural language and formal concepts are hard to mix. Especially so when the concepts at play are so ephemeral.

At least since Newton, mathematical models have proved very useful in discerning truths about the world. Are we to just assume they will not work for the biological phenomena of intelligence and consciousness?
Until you found proof for a hypothesis to be correct. At witch point you usually stop trying to falsify that hypothesis. Applying that to the Wuhan lab theory, the correct way would be to properly falsify the natural jump from animals to humans first. Scientifically falsifying it. I have yet to see such proof.

EDIT: Of course these proofs have a certain likelihood of being false, hence all the p-value chasing and confidence-level adjusting.
Ask HN: How do you implement and monitor contract compliance in your products?
What are the standard practices to implementing and monitoring of legal contracts for different products across your org? Say, every user that joins the service should be an adult.

We currently have teams owning products implement the legal contracts by working closely with legal. And an internal audit team that does periodic audits to check the compliance.

What are other ways to achieve this? Has anyone tried having a central compliance team that owns all thing compliance to offload product teams?
Machine Learning on the new micro:bit
I think we need bare-metal serverless, same like we have bare-metal clouds. For that we need something like kubernetes but for serverless environments instead of containers.
The mainframe model is viable (and legitimate) again because you can buy 128 core machines. That’ll have no problem running at people’s businesses
BTW, there's a pretty good discussion of pingback compared to webmention here, including how to bridge between them and some of the spam problems too https://indieweb.org/pingback
If you can't afford $30, then you never will.
Nothing! But the point I'm making is that Dolby Cinema isn't appreciable for most consumers' home theaters and that price point might be a bit different for someone who has a home theater with the capabilities and has spent the time/money calibrating it.
Anecdotally as a native English speaker, I find spanish much easier to guess the meaning versus french or german.

I believe the author means Japanese/Korean are easier to learn if you know the other, versus English which is comparatively difficult for native C/J/K speakers.

In my experience, studying Korean did make studying Japanese a lot easier. There are some shared concepts, but Japanese is still quite difficult and different from Korean. From what I can tell, my Korean friends have an easier time picking up Japanese than English.
Nice puzzle and an even nicer solution, yes.
If anyone is interested I solved it this way:

SPOILER BELOW HERE!

Over time each coin will do a sequence of

head - tail - x tails - head - tail - x tails ...

where x is determined by chance.
Flipping a coin repeatedly the number of tails to expect before a head is 1 tail.

So on average the sequence of each coin is

H - T - T - H - T - T ...

i.e. when stabilized 1/3 of the coins are heads up and 2/3 are tails up.
> It seems like there is no convincing argument to the contrary either.

That jobs are created seems to me to be more convincing, but I leave that as a matter of opinion substantiated only to the degree that I have in my OP.

> There is also something a bit odd in my mind about looking at human existence in terms of needed occupations.
> Isn’t the entire point of technology to eliminate work?

From a certain point of view, yes. Economically valuable work is only needed to the degree that it costs something to attain a (licit) good and to the degree that the good is desired by someone else. If those desires could be satisfied without cost, no real opportunity for a market exists because no need for exchange exists. But I cannot imagine that that situation could ever obtain. And therefore, because it could never obtain, the only thing most people can exchange for a desired good is something obtained through the exchange of labor for capital. So it's a bit moot since labor appears endemic to the human condition.

I just don't see why automation of one thing necessarily means a net loss of jobs. If anything, automation entails complex technology and complex technology, among other things, requires labor to produce and to maintain.
Isn't this largely confirmation bias though?

I know a lot of systems which used standardised structures as a migration pattern, but those are the things that were basically painless to replace; and those that weren't painless stuck around.

Ironically those systems which had easy exit paths are often replaced by things which don't.
T cell immunity is hardly vague. There have been multiple peer-reviewed journal articles published on that topic.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C24&q=mem...
huh, never thought of that before but that makes complete sense. All the farms I ever worked on were newer mostly created out of irrigation projects from the new deal. All mechanical at that point.
> There was a whole probably 4 years (at least) to register to vote up to this day. For the prepared...

I moved from one state to another in June. I did not have four years to prepare. I was also not allowed to register immediately, you must reside for some months to register. Also this state has voter suppression to make registration more difficult. They certainly do not have online registration, but they piled on extra Covid difficulties lately. I did manage to register however. What you are saying is ridiculous.
Sure, now next step is to determine if a military member in civilian clothes is considered military or civilian. Speaking from first hand experience we call ourselves civilians then.
> Learning Chinese is like learning Latin before learning a Romance language. The added benefit is that Chinese isn’t a dead language.

As a native Korean speaker this is an apt analogy, even more so because it won't help much initially but will help a lot once you've got to the later stage of learning. This is of course a valid strategy if you want to eventually learn both Chinese and Korean.
Chinese itself wasn’t much of a tonal language until a little more than one thousand years ago. Modern Chinese tones emerged in the Middle Chinese era as a way to avoid homophony/preserve distinctions of meaning as a lot of old final consonants were lost.
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My knee-jerk impression is that the European countries don't have the will to deploy their military in a show of force, which is different from saying they wouldn't technically be able to defend their borders from actual force rather than creeping intimidation.

On the other hand, the US actually LIKES the show of force, and sees it as a strategic strength, to the extent that they're overjoyed to have an ally to protect as an 'excuse' to flex muscle in the region.
You know about it though. Bringing a problem into light is the first step to fixing it and thanks to our remarkably robust press, we’ve fairly well catalogued our issues. Now, our government moves glacially by design to avoid overcorrection but it’s reasonable to assume that these issues will get fixed in time.

The issue not being talked about is solving the first-past-the-post system but I don’t think that that’s unique to the US.
Technically socialist on the way to communism, managed by communist party. Officially communism was on the roadmap, but not reached by the time the regime was dissolved.
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Since we're bringing up fun facts about Dutch capitalisation, when the first two letters are "IJ", which pronounced as a single letter (a vowel) in Dutch, then both are capitalised.
This is my favourite explaination. I have had this bookmarked for over 10 years and keep coming back to it:

http://www.felderbooks.com/papers/bell.html
Interesting... Can you elaborate more on this idea?
If you routinely have low humidity it's amazing what a whole house fan will let you get away with. It pulls air from the outside in through your house, then exhausts it into the attic. Even on very hot days, as long as the humidity isn't crazy it is very effective at keeping you cool. I routinely go without running AC into days that go into the low 80's. Living in the mid Atlantic I've been pleased about just how much I have been able to use a whole house fan.

They have come a long way too. I have one from QuiteCool Systems - instead of a fan bolted directly to the attic rafters with crappy metal louvers that rattle and don't block out drafts when not in operation, it has a powerful fan on a segment of ductwork - when you install you install it so there is a 90 degree bend in the ductwork and it attenuates the vast majority of fan noise. Indeed, I hear more from the motor rumble through the rafters in the attic where it's mounted than I do from the fan/air noise.

It comes with an insulated and highly efficient damper too. The system took less than an hour to install and I was easily able to pull power from an outlet in my hall, put in a switch then continue to the attic with the fan.

https://quietcoolsystems.com/

Mine has more than paid for itself - less than 650 watts vs over 2800 watts if both my AC units are running. The only problem I have is my house is a little over 2800 square feet and if I let it get warm (say I am not home and close the house up then come home hours later) the single fan I have is not powerful enough to cool - I need to add a second unit so I have better peak air flow.

I think I will add the unit that has two smaller fans, then at night when I still would like a little airflow but not a hurricane I can have more a gentle breeze. Needing to have more control over airflow at night is something I didn't anticipate. I have tied my home automation system in - I can read the temperature from my Nest thermostats and turn the fan on/off as needed. I also have the scripts check the status of windows/doors through my alarm system. One danger is if you have gas appliances that are not direct vented you can back draft them - my water heater is in my basement and it's not direct vented - it relies on a flue so you need to be careful you don't reverse the flow in the flue. I have a couple of extra CO2 monitors in the basement and after five years have never seen a blip but it is something to be aware of with any gas appliance. Heck if your house isn't balanced a bathroom fan can cause a backdraft in a flue.
As I mentioned elsewhere, your use case likely mitigates the network failures. A given user is likely talking to only one node; you aren't getting writes to one, reads to another, let alone conflicting writes across nodes. Nor are you dealing with anything where inconsistencies create real problems, such as dealing with real world money (your users are more likely to go "Urgh, I thought I had enough X for that! Guess I have to go farm some more", not "WHERE THE HELL IS MY MONEY?! I DEPOSITED $1k LAST NIGHT, WHERE IS IT !?"). Nor have you solved your core problem better than an eventually consistent system would have (though possibly in a more energy efficient way, per your claim).

There's also a bit of irony asking "what do (I) think", and then objecting that my comments are made 'without arguments'. No, there are pretty clear arguments, to which your only response is "well, I have operated a successful MMO". I never said you didn't, nor that a DB that handles partitions incorrectly can't be useful (hell, I've written production systems reliant on Mnesia in Erlang, which in the event of a netsplit just...splits, and stays split, because it fit out use case). Just that your claim that "CRDTs and Paxos like protocols don't make any sense", and that just doing what you did is sufficient for any distributed system, is reflective of you, not of reality.
In this case, the problem arises, because they are using Mr de Zwart [sic], but can this not by avoided by simply using the full name? Mr Thomas de Zwart?

Previously I wasn't a big fan of this style, but it has grown on me, and I see it now as similar using "they" instead of he/she for an unspecified person. Why assume anything about the name, when you can reuse it verbatim when needed?
Exactly, Thanks!
I generally tend to compare these
With an article from this site

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pdp-chief-mehbooba-mu...

Its a famous Indian news site, majority just fail. Not sure why
The only reasons Europeans care about the US military presence in Europe are (1) the economic benefits and (2) the signalling of solidarity against Russia. Actually countering Russian military capacity really isn't an issue any more, and Britain and France have enough nukes to act as a deterrent.

Russia is a threat, but in the annoying neighbours who keeps holding loud parties, deal drugs and litter the streets and who's dog keeps crapping on your lawn kind of way. You don't want to do anything to encourage them, but actually your uncle is in the police and you have two cousins in the Army, and if the neighbours tried anything really serious, reality would assert itself pretty fast, and not in their favour.

The US is keeping it's military presence in Europe to serve US strategic interests, yes versus Russia but also with respect to the Middle East. US operations in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan are heavily supported from bases in Europe. Pulling out those bases would cripple US ability to support those operations and project power across large swathes of Euraisa and Africa.
Hello X near the content you're looking for is a confirmation that you're logged in; without having to look at the header (which is usually more explicit). Having a friendly name there is an attempt to use less space.
Yeah maybe not the best idea, XPath has a pretty different use case than CSS. But it does seem a shame that more complex "nth-child" selectors do not just use something more flexible/programmable like xpath.

As it stands CSS keeps adding one-off selectors such as nth-child, only-child, only-of-type. Such is the feature creep of web standards as they are, a continual addition of one-off APIs for specific use cases rather than a robust orthogonal programming platform that people can build anything on top of, like WebCrypto instead of adding integers.
I was thinking about the second one you linked, even though it's not exactly what I'm saying, one of the points being made is similar. Also the first half of this: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E... is related.
The cheapest tool you can find is surely the sort in your programming language's standard library. Writing your own sort seems crazy to me.