skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recognize some of the sentiments, but I think I'd put it slightly differently.

We live in a society where a heck of a lot of value is created, but the value accrues to people who don't seem to be the ones creating it.

If you look at economics, the "who creates value" question has been neatly sidestepped. If you can get someone to pay you, GDP goes up by that amount. There's not a whole lot of quibbling about whether the value paid was correct, although the GDP accounting system has had a number of changes throughout the years (vast simplification). At present if you just don't do something illegal, the dollar you earned is as good as the dollar anyone else earned.

This system has the fault that it doesn't seem to connect with ordinary ideas about who contributed. If whoever ends up with the trophy is the person who deserves the trophy, what is the trophy for? There's a kind of nihilism about what work is for if the purpose of climbing the greasy pole is to reach the top of the greasy pole. Why should I bother to write good code if the thing that really has value is to sit in meetings and talk myself up to people who have no idea what good code actually is? Why should I not simply create a compliance tax for my colleagues, and become the troll who extracts payment?

I can start with things most people agree with: good code should have unit tests and documentation. And we can move on and add code reviews, from at least 2 other devs, before any new merge is allowed. And we can't have the same two guys that are your buddies, let's rotate it a bit to make sure there's no corruption. And make sure the rotation system is documented. And signed. By an independent auditor. With an industry accreditation. From an organization that is overseen by government committee. A government committee that confers with other government committees to ensure best practice.

All those people need to be paid. And they are valuable, you can't deny that documentation is important. So all these people are creating value and need some of the pie.
Facebook is most definitely centralized. So is Twitter, and so is YouTube.

While it's true that there are multiple platforms, there are a small number of platforms that are really widespread, and each one of them is centralized.

I don't know that a federated social network (eg Mastadon) would solve the particular problem at hand. There would be other benefits though, and it's possible that a federated social network would at least mitigate some of the problems. It's idea at least worth consideration.
Good points!

The beauty of a piece doesn't depend on its technical difficulty. Back when I used to play classical music more I loved playing a few of Chopin's Nocturnes repeatedly - they were about the right level for me so it was fun, and I could play them pretty well, I think. But I also spent a lot of time learning a few harder pieces (like Fantaisie Impromptu), and I remember getting frustrated that it took me ages to learn them and, although in the end I could play them sortof OKish, my efforts just weren't a patch on what a better pianist could do.

Looking back I can see that I shouldn't have picked such hard pieces until I was really ready for them. It was probably a big part of why I ended up quitting for quite a few years before taking it up again more recently with an entirely different approach.
I think the cult vibe might come from internet sensationalism. He seems fine. He says some weird unscientific stuff, but overall I think he believes in what he’s doing with a good nature about it, and I don’t see how harm can come from what he encourages. He has a very positive message.

One thing that compelled me to look into it was how little he seems to want money for his efforts. I mean, he makes money off of his name, but the iOS app for example is well made, helpful, and costs something like $2 CAD for advanced features. Admittedly the features are not exceptionally advanced, but I was expecting a higher price tag. It seemed like a reasonable ‘cover dev costs’ fee.

He’s on some podcasts of course, and you can get a decent sense for what he’s like. My creep meter doesn’t go off much with him, personally.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been using (and enjoying) wim hof techniques for a while and my assessment is definitely biased.
> Even if you believe the laptop story, his data was stolen.

They allegedly have a contractual right to the laptop due to non-payment. It's a damn good reason not to take your PC there for repairs, though.
>this big co strategy of "mine. I profit now. everyone who built up this useful thing can suck eggs" really sucks and sucks for the humans and sucks for Open Source.

Then use a different license. Hoping that a company like Amazon finds it in their hearts to always do what _you_ consider "the right thing" is just a loser of a strategy. You seem to want all of the good of open source, with none of the downsides. Good luck with that.
I need one of those color calibration cards from the sword photo. Any chance any of you know where to buy that one? I have found others, but that layout is exactly what I'm looking for.
If Jeff Bezos has a $50 meal at a restaurant and tips $0, would you blame the restaurant for not having a mandatory tipping policy? Or would you blame Jeff Bezos for cheaping out and not following the community norm?
There are zero cancer meds if humans do not dedicate resources to developing them. Right now we incentivize allocation of those resources under the promise that the successful development of a drug results in a financial reward. The change you are suggesting is not just a matter of patents but a broader conversation about economic systems.
Thanks for your work. I really enjoy it.
Ah, sorry. You're right.
Like a sibling comment said, only if r0 is small, and not just small, but goes-away-fast small. I'm not sure why no one's saying this, but the virus is adapting to masks, and at some point (we don't know when), they'll become less effective.

I'd be pushing for switching guidelines to an N95 minimum, and since there are (still?) shortages, remind people they actually last a while, they're effectively disinfected if you leave them on the table for a few days, and it's generally not worth it to wear a mask to go on a walk.
Generative Adversarial Relationships: Human creativity through the lens of AI
Funny how that's nearly a possibility for SF as well.
> Now that's considered misinformation though

Are you taking the position that science and medicine aren't or shouldn't be about altering conclusions in response to gaining new facts and knowledge?
That's a pretty liberal interpretation of democratic, or a thinly veiled claim that other languages are perhaps "less democratic". If the official body represents the will of the people, then how is it not democratic?

Saying that English is a pretty anarchic language would probably be a more accurate statement, not that there's anything wrong with that fact.
> In some way auto correct is a stronger enforcer.

I’m looking forward to the day when duck is considered a swear word.
Indeed. Someone recently linked to an article that does a pretty good job of going over the massive infrastructure costs[1]. The U.S. also has relatively well funded education[2]. I think many of the comments here reflect one of the reasons we're in the situation we are in - the inability to consider that we might be able to do things better, even when there are plenty of examples from other countries to look at. To quote from the first article:

> The answer, I believe, has to do with American incuriosity. Incuriosity is not merely ignorance. Ignorance is a universal trait, people just differ in what they are ignorant about. But Americans are unique in not caring to learn from other countries even when those countries do things better.

I think there's a lot of truth in that; look at how almost all the discussions about healthcare ignore the successful systems in other countries. It goes beyond that, though. We shouldn't have to look at other countries to consider the possibility that we could be doing things better. But whenever it's suggested that we could make things better, there seems to be a lot of hostility to the idea and push back against it.

[1] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-c...
[2] https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/education-spending.htm
You do not comprehend the concept of risk. As in, his life-continuum determined for him the affordance to seek the best treatment after compounding time in a direction you or I could never perceive. In fact, this is what makes entrepreneurialism so virtuous.

I am really starting to get agitated by this pettiness on HN. It didn’t used to exist in tech.
An amazingly good series on a topic I’d never thought I’d have any interest in. Highly recommended.
I’ve fought off a frivolous defamation lawsuit against me so I couldn’t disagree more with

“A dentist can only sue you for a bad review if the statements are untrue” and

“Overall it's just very hard in the US to sue someone for telling the truth about how awful you are.”
> no letters are silent

Except "h". And "v" sounds like "b". "c", "s", and "z" a lot of times sounds the same. And where I'm at, people say "perame" instead of "espérame".
Improving Our Neuroplasticity
It's like a real-life version of The Last Ship.
John Nagle on delays from Nagle's algorithm
Firms That Imploded Have Something in Common: Ernst and Young Audited Them
> that the left/right divide correlates as strongly with the US vs. Europe as you suggest.

Right, talking about “right and left” was a mistake because the meaning of these words are pretty fuzzy and highly context-dependent. I'd give a more precise description then:

Comments containing criticism of mainstream economics, references to Keynes, arguing that “all capitalism is crony capitalism” or “capitalism didn't defeat communism, welfare state did”, being in favor of strong state intervention etc. are going to be much more upvoted when Americans are asleep. And conversely for comments referencing Milton Friedman, praising the power of the market, economic growth as the main goal for social wellware, etc.

I've seen more than once my comments on the aforementioned themes being upvoted multiple times, then grayed several hours later, to end-up with a positive score the next day. I didn't notice the temporal correlation until someone brought it in a thread, and many people shared the same experience.

If you want to have a look, the recent thread on the Nobel prize in Economics smells like a good candidate for investigation (even though I didn't participate in the thread, so I have no evidences there).
There are people who argue that housing is insufficiently fungible for an increased supply to lower prices.
If they're still trying to fund open-sourcing it, what is in this repo?
The "helpers" you're talking about also cause their own problem in French, though. "Président" can be a noun (in that case you would pronounce the final syllable with a nasal "en". It can also be a conjugated form of the verb "Présider" (to preside) like in "ils président", in which case you don't pronounce the final -ent (it's just a silent "e").
Congrats to the entire Ionic team. Another win!
"English is not a language, it's three languages wearing a trench coat pretending to be one." - Gugulethu Mhlungu
Ah, I see, you were referring to saving `setsockopt()`, not data-carrying syscalls.

Yes that makes sense. But I guess that in most cases where you have control over the `sendmsg()`'s calls flags, you'd also have control over its buffer, so you may be able to build the buffer in userspace in many situations, thus even saving multiple data-carrying syscalls.

The `setsockopt()` approach has the benefit that it works even when you have no control over the sending syscalls, e.g. when some library does it for you that you cannot modify or configure.
>I see long threads on HN all the time of brilliant people convinced that supply and demand is just "far too simple" or "totally disproved" etc. etc.

Then there are those who think econ 101 has all the answers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

If they taught physics they wouldn't be teaching us the law of gravity. They'd be teaching us the law of "what goes up must come down".
Pfizer CEO's open letter on Covid-19 vaccine
I'd the basis for preference is something that they can't detect in advance, that makes it arbitrary, or "random" in one sense of the word.
> there isn’t a shot longer than 4s in the entire movie

is this hyperbole? Genuinely asking.
Well Mozilla spends over $50 million year-over-year on non-development costs that have generally proven to be completely ineffective: their marketing budget. So a one-time $100k cost is a fraction of a percent of what they already squander on at least one program they get next to no ROI from; pay the one-time cost for this, and the marketing they get out of being the one that made it happen comes along for free.

And they outwardly profess to be in an uncomfortable position due to Blink's stranglehold over the hearts and minds of developers. Electron plays a major role there. Something like this would go further to support the Mozilla mission than anything they've done themselves (and done to themselves) over the last ~3 years...
> One example would be that many newer words in English don't ever get translations in other languages, they just use the English word.

I'd wager this is due to the outsized influence of American and British culture in other nations, the sheer number of people who speak English as a second or third language, and the relative ease with which certain English words can be borrowed into languages with entirely different phonemes relative to the other way around.
Sorry! Thanks for the catch!
The Cold War rocket expert that Elon Musk called when he wanted to go to Mars
So, where should we go if we want random forums for every single possible subject?
I understand the issue with Firefox not supporting WebMIDI, but it would be nice if instead of redirecting to a separate page you could show the same message as a warning on the main page. Let me see the app and see that it's worth coming back in Chrome.
I use Google Photos and I hope Google will not cancel it anytime soon, or ban my Google account for no reason.
Disagree. It's a lot more fun when everyone has to figure it out for themselves. :)
Yet, your answer was the complete and correct answer!
I'll comment in a different direction. I'm personally not a huge fan of these #SeleniumNotSelenium projects. A few only support a single browser, like Chrome, while utilizing selenium webdriver directly gives you access to all browsers with relative ease.

They all seem to be trying to funnel you into a related SaaS product.

Selenium webdriver JS could really use some extra support from the community. 4.0 has been alpha for over three years.
It’ll make more sense if you read it as “business dude who probably wrote a bit of C a few decades ago” and smile that he even knows about malloc.
Prolog implements Definite Clause Grammars[0] which can express context-sensitive grammars.
In Prolog there is a simple DSL to express DCGs, but in fact DCG just uses Prolog runtime features. I don't believe there is aanother general purpose language with such complex parsing just built-in the runtime.

Here you can see my version of the raku parser, it's arguably shorter (I'm not a Prolog expert):
https://swish.swi-prolog.org/p/basic_logic_parser.pl

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definite_clause_grammar
> What would be strategies in case of Kickstarter campaign will fail?

I think you chose the wrong goal here.

I don't think you really want a one-time, lump sum donation to "unlock" your code under a FOSS license.

I would think you want regular, recurring payments to keep you in the job of writing the code that pushes the project forward.

Judging from the cron job of "Electron-so-fat" posts here on HN, there may be an audience for that. And judging from the fact that you've already raised close to $10,000 to unlock the initial code, unlocking code may be a sufficient incentive to get that audience to pay you to do the work.

But to keep that number up for recurring payments I think you've got to keep on the "Farmville" route, at least if you want to get paid anywhere near the going rate. That is, there needs to be a risk not only that you abandon the project if you don't get paid, but something the audience cares about will quickly die if the payment goals aren't met. You're kind of doing that here with the MIT license being a kind of "stretch" goal, but I think you could do it more effectively on a recurring basis with the code itself.

AFAICT you can achieve the following approach with either choice of the MIT or GPL (either version). That is:

1. you work on the next feature in private

2. get it ready for a release

3. release a video of you demo'ing the feature

4. if your recurring payment goal gets met for this period, you commit the feature to the public repo

5. if not, you delete it

This complies with both licenses-- there is no requirement in either to share the source code for a binary that you haven't released yet.

I will admit it is seems strange, as there's a chance you'll have to delete useful code if the goals aren't met. But if you don't take that approach you risk continuing to develop a project for an audience that isn't willing to pay the going rate. That, and the burnout that it causes, is a much bigger problem than my suggested approach could ever be.

Besides, this is how most businesses work anyway. No drive through is handing out the food first and collecting the money second.
> I'm not sure why no one's saying this, but the virus is adapting to masks

Citation needed
Here here! Great lesson for all. Also, very damning to peak into the kitchen to see the sausage making. If starting a high growth company is this demanding and obnoxious, what’s the point? “Making an impact” is the best answer, but then it should be something more humane than financial.
I'm referring to the physical Smart/Magic Keyboard for the iPad from Apple, not the onscreen keyboard:

https://www.apple.com/shop/ipad/ipad-accessories/keyboards

I just learned you can type command-. to send an escape on an iPad keyboard. And also as freehunter mentioned, iPad Settings / General / Keyboard / Hardware Keyboard / Modifier Keys lets you remap caps lock to escape.

https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/23/ipad-pro-magic-keyboard-escap...
Sometimes projects grow until they have little to do with the original spec.
Looks great. As a novice programmer could you share more about the stack and tools you've used to create this? Thanks.
Even if there's one poster printing company in town, they have first amendment rights.

You don't lose those for being too successful.
Opening shot? That movie only had one shot ;)
"How it looks like" is a similar incorrect and often used phrase that bugs me. Someone just mashed up "How it looks" and "What it looks like" and it stuck.
It's the result of supply-side economics exacerbated by flaws in our global monetary system.
Supply-side economics works by essentially pumping free money into big corporations and institutions so that they produce as much stuff as they possibly can at the lowest possible price while creating as many jobs as possible without worrying at all about profitability,
Thanks to all the free credit that they're getting, these big corporations end up driving all competitors out of business, then some employees of the corporations end up getting involved in internal politics for their own personal gain (zero sum games)... Employees who are value creators realize that their productive work is not rewarded, so they either quit the company or start getting involved in zero-sum internal politics... Once enough people have figured out the kind of game they're playing, the quality of services decline as a result.
> I'd compare Silicon Valley to Detroit with a century time lag.

I had this perspective for a brief moment but as Charlie Munger said "Show me the incentives and I'll know the outcome".

I think what many people are missing is that SV is heavily incentivized to be a place of big money. The real estate. The commercial climate. Etc.
The way he phrases it is "What can we say about !A and !B," according to the article. The only time he talks about "If A implies B, does not A imply not B," is when describing close answers he got to his question. I don't think it's a trick question the way he asks it, and it also seems like the sort of thing you should be able to work out with concrete examples if you aren't sure.
Pasting my own answer from [0]:

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For myself and my family, I wrote my own tool [1] that runs everyday on an "input folder". A quick google on "github photo organizer" shows a lot of others having done the same :)

It organizes all traversed photos by date (extracted from exif or from filename), and puts them in a "failed" folder if it can't parse the date.

If any photos get the same name, they are either deduped because they are exact duplicates, or are marked as conflicts (e.g. A.jpg and A_conflict1.jpg) if they are different.

Last time I used it for a large input it took 3h for 200GB, though I suspect network latency was the main bottleneck.

It's around 300 lines of python - verify the code for yourself if you want to use it! You probably also need to fork it if you don't intend to run it on a Synology NAS.

However, as I mentioned last time I pitched this, elodie [2] might be more suitable for others than my little hack. Haven't used it though!

1: (https://github.com/johan-andersson01/photo_organizer

2: https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

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0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24019612
Certainly yes, but its not historic if it was done in their time is it? I mean Islam has been around for 1400 years, this could have been done ages ago when the church was relatively new - also I believe most of those churches were converted to mosques (Muslim prayer place) which would justify some re-configuration for their usage. This is taking into account that this was their land/property, anything else would be going out of line, exceptions could be made of course for how offensive something is.
It is already a thing for breeders to require you to sign a contract to prevent you from allowing a puppy you are buying form breeding in the future.
Thank you. It makes me sad that HN commenters rush to dismiss research because they had one idea in 5 seconds and didn't consider that the professionals working for months might have already thought of that.
It's really hard to see why you would buy this system for $1100 if you can just buy a new car and get this all for free

A key phrase here is "just buy a new car". You might be able to afford that but most can't.

I don't know what Comma AI's market strategy is but I would imagine there is a huge potential aftermarket for gizmos like this in capable older motors, with that growing as time moves on and the enabling technology takes hold.
Based on this, what would be the best way to poise oneself to profit off of future changes in the tech industry?
Definitely a good place to start. It's astounding how many people you can find yourself in a discussion with who haven't gotten as far in economic understanding as grokking supply and demand, but are adamantly proposing what amounts to complex economic policies with many effects.
Note that the endowment effect does not exist when the value of the object in question is well understood. This makes perfect sense; in the words of something I read recently about the working of financial markets, "if somebody wants to trade with you, your first thought should be 'what does he know that I don't?'"
onedogright:
"I see plenty of examples of authoritarianism in the current U.S. administration"

Oooohk...
I find it stupid that intelligent people gather together in this echo chamber to talk about stupid people. Wise people just don't care
Why are seeds mentioned? I dunno, CYA I guess. It's a silly message.
No, because the boxes were swapped after the initial preference selection.
How parseTime in SQL connections work with time.Time in Go