skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got put onto this quote/video by @garry here on HN, when he included it in his most recent YouTube video where he discusses how he made his channel grow & be successful. It's definitely something I've struggled with for a long time, and I wish I had found it sooner.
The Pendulum Swings Eternal
I would be interested in reading more about this topic if you have any recommended references?
Dupe. 3.9 came out on 10/5

Discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24691565
It might be, but again the data doesn't really bear it out as a unique thing to the US. The US looks like other industrial nations in aggregate.
I'm using it. Enjoy it so far. Unfortunately, that's my first tool for building the pitch deck. Not sure how it's better than Google's
You are thinking of DOS / Win 3.11 era. I also had to play with DMA and irq jumpers.

Gp post is thinking on Win 95 to XP era. When CDs were common but internet was usually 56k .
"If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. And if it stops moving subsidize it" --Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
I’m curious if anyone knows why they didn’t use Antlr for the new parser. My (limited) experience using it has been nothing short of fantastic.
Disclaimer, I work at Pitch!

Thought I'd mention we are hiring :)

https://pitch.com/about#hiring
I hear that private equity doesn't always result in the 'load with debt, take profits, walk away' playbook, but many of the famous examples (Sears, Toys R Us, this article) seem to all be of that playbook. I wonder what kind of regulation could be created to prevent this activity while preserving good management and not overly penalizing bad luck or bad timing.

Something like a time bound window were the principle beneficiaries have to repay their profits extracted, with actual federal prison time as a likely possibility. Wouldn't take too many examples of prosecuting the most egregious folks before the entire sector cooled.

The counter argument is that this action accelerated the 'creative destruction' that capitalism is known for - where weak companies are harvested by the an apex predator for profits before being committed to bones. But I think that ignores the real societal impact of some of these, specifically in this example where marginalized groups have lower access to health care and standards. If we can eminent domain private property to give to private groups (because the extra taxes and jobs are a public good), couldn't we also take a stronger hand in regulating some of these private equity actions because of the destruction of public good (and taxes and jobs, etc?)
This is what a Mafia Does. This is what American investment capital has become.
You've committed the classic blunder of applying 2020 Nuspeak to a book from the 20th century. The distinction between Jihad(a badwrong) and Crusade(a good source of warm dopamine feelings) didn't exist as it does in our lexicon today.
> 20% of that, 14,000 searches per second, seems a meaningful number of searches to scale to.

This is only part of the story. 20% to me is not really meaningful. More importantly, Google wields power to affect the 80%. 20% is a paltry alternative.
What about retired people who aren't really retired, they are just drawing on their pension sooner than they'd like, as a desperate alternative to employment money to lengthen their rental runway to homelessness? Or they are drawing on a pension while doing food delivery gigs on the side to top it up to pay for essentials?

I'd suggest a useful definition of "unemployed" for the purpose of evaluating if there's a problem is: "needs a job but can't get one".

That covers retired-but-not-really people, and students who need to work for a living at the same time but are between jobs. But not children, or students with enough to live on from their parents.
> People (including journalists, politicians... high stakes stuff) assume that unemployment captures most unemployment.

No, this is intentional deception. The party out of power talks about "real" inflation rates and "real" unemployment rates, and the party in power touts the official numbers.

The best number to go by for unemployment has always been the prime age employment (not unemployment) rate, and all honest discussions of the current state of employment start with it.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060
PTO? Like paying a different Physical Therapist to take over her clients. She might profit 0-200$/day.

Medicare will pay 50$/hr and that's how much a "pick up" Physical Therapist.

The boss thing is a double edged sword.
I read it through google translate, that sometimes may miss/mitranslate some details, hence the doubt.

But still if this (hatred specifically directed at the NOS network) is the case, than - unless all other TVs' vans are also blanked (for solidarity) - the only "blank TV van" is easily identified as belonging to NOS.
Going back at least to the Clinton administration, and probably earlier, every president gets accused of manipulating unemployment rates by using U3 instead of U6 or some other metric. But as far as I know, it's always U3 used between administrations for comparisons but pundits will be pundits, switching their view depending on who is in office. It's the same with "plays too much golf", "uses Air Force One for campaigning" for every incumbent, and of course "goes on too many vacations". Just something to keep in mind no matter who is in office at any given time.
I made it open-source, it doesn't collect any data, nor need to register. Basically it's just a bunch collection of open web dictionaries, and to make them more convenient to use. For me dictionaries are important, languages are information, and information is freedom. I hope everyone could benefit from this project.
This is unfortunately, me.. I've slowly come to the conclusion of not using to avoid it completely (that's to hard), but rather timebox it when i catch myself drifting
Lessons from Airbnb and Early Apple
You have it completely backwards: "the way I always do" is chat-based. Has been for over a decade, even at work, where we barely use email. HN is the exception.
Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
Has anyone used a service to clean up your online presence/remove you and your family from data brokers (such as people finders, white pages, etc)?
> but I find the timing suspicious.

This has been in work for over a year. This is not suspicious to anyone that's seen the headlines
If everyone knows how the unemployment rate is built[0] is it so bad that it's built that way?

No matter how you build a single number to represent a really complex problem (i.e. what is "living wage", what is "really wants one[job]"?) you'll get a bad answer.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm
I am an American that does not own a car since I live in a city and can live without one. However, for the vast majority of Americans a car is a necessity. There are places with no public transportation and no sidewalks. The only way to get around is to drive.
Completely agree.

The next question becomes, does she turn away patients or start to become the hospital system she left and treat for 37 minutes or multiple patients.

She's highly recommend in our area and has started to believe only she can help these kids.

Money is not really a huge topic, but rather time and quality.
> The department will allege that Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc.

This is the part I was looking for. Of the tech companies, Alphabet has been the most proactive of creating a business of businesses to avoid antitrust.
Well if you look at those "in favor" versus those "thinking about it" which is code for no it is easy to see that those in the former were pushed aside this primary cycle.[0]

so the concern is real that Google could escape with a slap on the wrist pending an administration change. Too many like to pretend otherwise but big tech knows whose its real friends are and their party likes the money. So expect a song and dance with enough exceptions and escape routes to be business as usual

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020...
Amazon would seem to me like the much easier target with the sketchiness around AmazonBasics
Fair point about your comment, I'm just trying to make my point based on the original generalization I replied to: Part of it is simply wrong even for the US (see siblings), and the rest cannot stand as a generalization for the rest of the world, which "any statistics about students" doesn't account for.
This rate seems like it would hide the extremely real phenomenon of people being forced to work after 55.
Question: which figures are reported more prominently by the BLS?

I am asking because my country's equivalent tends to report unemployment figures, based upon a similar definition to the US, more prominently. This is especially true if a casual seeker is unfamiliar with the terminology used while reporting these figures.

Incidentally, it is also worth noting that one does not have to believe that the numbers are cooked up to believe that they are misleading. Having a consistent definition is important when comparing figures, unfortunately having a consistent definition also means that the reported numbers may not reflect societal expectations over time (e.g. regarding retirement or multiple income households).
of which about $0 goes to actual content creators.
That does not make current female employment unrelated to independency/emancipation, just like wester female employment is related to that too.

That just means that contemporary woman is not seen as shirking her mom responsibilities when working. While the children are definitely seen as mothers primary responsibility, working is part of that. It also means that there is less expectation on women to be artificially nice or helpless and dependent compared to American stereotypes.

Unlike in America, woman working is not interpreted as woman being anti-family. Unlike in Germany, mom working is not interpreted as mom failing her kids.

Also, it is not like the first women stepped into Russian factory only after revolution. The women did worked prior that, obviously. Whether on rural farms in villages or in factories or as cleaners or selling stuff at marker etc. The aristocracy expected women to not work, but generally Russians have been poor and had to do stuff to survive.
I think this is a deeper point than it appears at first, there’s been a trend towards the democratization of software, e.g., Figma is easier to use than Photoshop, mobile software is simpler than desktop, Google Docs is simpler than Excel. But the high-end just continues to be moving in the other direction, in the case of the example here, bleeding-edge design is moving into the 3D space (my guess is Cinema 4D for the 3D elements on Pitch's homepage), and 3D packages are an order of magnitude more complex than either Photoshop or Excel. I.e., instead of taking successful simpler software's lead, the high-end is actually getting more complicated.

For awhile now I’ve been predicting a moat forming in creative professions between people using high-end (usually desktop) software, and the low-end (either mobile or mobile compatible). Historically, this was never the case, e.g., all designers used Photoshop, all music producers used Logic or similar. Now with truly viable low-end alternatives like the Affinity Suite, and Final Cut deliberately moving down market, or the absolutely rich audio ecosystem on iOS, it’s almost like two “classes” of creator are being formed.

Presumably choice is a good thing, but I think more and more the work of people focusing on the high-end is going to stand out from the rest, and career-wise be more in demand.
It can infect Vero E6 cells or equivalent, given they said it's "live". But is this enough to infect someone?

The answer is, AFAICS, "unknown". I'm surprised a lot of studies of "virus persistence on surface X" don't (yet) do animal experiments to confirm there's enough to infect something else than cells growing in a monolayer (which don't have physical barriers or other aspecific defense mechanisms).

OTOH, current (scarce) evidence still points at fomite transmission to be not very prevalent at the very least.
Interesting.. I’ve seen the messaging wars start up again every 5 years. The current iteration is business oriented with slack etc.. but that doesn’t mean it won’t be personal again.

Mobile is all about power management. Apple got that right and really nailed the UX.

I don’t think Google knew that playbook at that point. Maybe Rubin did but even MSFT blew it.
The gain was mostly in the form of payouts to Scott Walker's political cronies. I'll give you one guess which companies the hundreds of millions in highway and infrastructure "improvements" contracts went to. (Also, why did we even need to do those "improvements"?) Don't even get me started on the 3/4 of a billion dollar loan that the small suburb of Mt Pleasant took out. Which wouldn't be a problem, in a non-corrupt world, Mt Pleasant would have taken out a loan, and Mt Pleasant would have to pay it back. But in Wisconsin, Scott Walker, to help out his buddies down there, made a guarantee that tax payers everywhere except Mt Pleasant would have to pay back the loan. So now people in Dalton, Fox Lake, and Eau Claire have to pay the loan that people in Mt Pleasant unilaterally took out.

We can't even unwind that guarantee so that the people of Mt Pleasant have to pay their own bills. Because when we kicked Scott Walker out, his buddies in the legislature stripped the new governor we voted in of any power to unwind said deal before he could take office. Corruption in Wisconsin runs deep my friend.

So believe me, there was "gain" by corrupt parties all over the state. Just because Foxconn only breaks even, doesn't mean no one made money. It only means Foxconn won't lose money. The losers are all the taxpayers of Wisconsin, except for those taxpayers favored by Scott Walker.
> We deeply value the Azure Notebooks community and all that was created over the past 4 years.

The headline and this sentence seem contradictory
Bill Gates used the same contracts to maintain Windows monopoly. Google is also a bastion of liberals.
The real world effects, aside from a little slower parsing speed iirc, would only be noticed by the compiler / parser writers.

Mainly making it easier to do syntax extensions...

For Python devs there will be no real-world effects...
Fantastic, 3+ years and really enjoying a true sense of freedom. It has some downsides like everything
Personally, I despise these interfaces. It’s not “chat,” I’m being provided with option prompts and everything. Why squash it all into a linear, 1D chat dialog instead of just a regular web form to do a simple task like increase your withdraw limit?
Except your computer doesn’t know what the purpose of a cookie is, in order to decide what to do with any particular cookie.

Neither does the user, not by themselves anyway. Only the website knows really.
And the opposite is true too, which is my point. Maybe OPs circle is too tight.
Has paulgraham.com never had TLS or is it just more obvious now because of Chrome UI changes? I find the old-school style & minimalism helps focus on the content, but shouldn't he at least have a LetsEncrypt cert up there or something? Or is the argument that because the site has no interactivity, it's not a big deal?
Were they obviously jokes? Because in hindsight, a lot of that behavior looks like it was really clandestine signaling allowing neo-Nazis to find each other
Just in case a Go team member walks by. I love Go. But I need to be able to reload my plugins. Same Go-version, same environment is fine. Additional code-specific requirements would also be fine. But please make it possible.
You're not getting down voted for your opinion - you're getting down voted because "it's about time" is not a useful comment. This isn't reddit... tell us WHY it's about time using a reasoned argument.

If everyone just spouted their gut feeling, the comment section would be infinitely long list of people saying nothing, and HN wouldn't be an interesting place.
The whole point was to convince other people to buy in to a system which guarantees early participants will be subsidized by later ones. The spiel about banking sold well to libertarians and other people who’d given up on regulating banks but you shouldn’t trust the surface message any more than you’d trust a beer commercial saying the point of their product is making attractive people want to have sex with you.
If it helps, the London metro is ~3200 square miles, and has more than twice the population of Atlanta (14 million vs 6 million).

Paris is ~4600 square miles with 13 million pop.

Berlin's full metro is actually comparable. It's about 11,000 square miles, but it's also nearly 1/10th of ALL of Germany.
> Actually, it's clear that they intentionally got their _app removed_. The termination of their entire Apple account was a step I wouldn't have expected Apple to take because it underlines the fragility of their authentication system. Now, player who signed up to Fortnite on their phones can't continue to play anywhere else, probably making them regret using the Apple sign-in in the first place.

- Apple never indicated that they’d remove Epic’s SIWA support, and there have been reports that Apple went out of their way to make sure the support would survive the account being terminated [0]

- Apple’s developer agreement allows them to terminate the account of an offending developer after 30 days; Epic’s account was terminated 45+ days after breach.

[0] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/09/29/epic-games-unre... (with the caveat that John Gruber shills for Apple, but also has some good contacts within)
The article redefines unemployment to include underemployment.This is just one example of fudging terms, not trying to educate the public. Experts use difficult and precise terms so lets use our own.

BIS has 6 different measures for labor underutilization. The widest is U-6: "Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force"

U-6 is 12.8%
Encarta was charged with multimedia. It was a really new and exciting experience for a kid growing up before Flash sites started really even became popular. Loading up Encarta, you'd get a musical intro with flashes of footage from shuttle launches, famous speeches, native American tribes, animals, etc. Then immediate after, you get a button called "Explore". Clicking that zooms you into a web of categories, with each one zooming further and further down into more fine-grained topics where you could get previews about what you were about to discover.

The articles were concise and full of video or other interactive pieces. Certain topics would have a brief sound recording as an introduction. I even remember you could assemble a dinosaur to learn about the different parts.

Every prominent UI interaction, from a button click to expanding a context menu, had a unique and satisfying sound. That would be a huge problem for most people with most UI today, but given that there was so much media being played, it fit in naturally.

The interface itself was basically a web browser, so it helped to teach kids about simple concepts, like navigation, hyperlinks, bookmarks, internal vs external resources, and so on. It was a great pre-introduction to surfing the web.

For a kid, I think Encarta would be a much more fun and engaging experience than Wikipedia when choosing an encyclopedia. If you want to see what Bill Gates envisioned for multimedia learning around the time, you should check out the (hilariously cheesy) videos that came with his book "The Road Ahead"

And don't even get me started on how cool the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia was at the time.

(Am I really getting nostalgic over encyclopedias over here? ...)
FAANG basically.
2010 City of Bell, California Scandal
> The burden of evidence to introduce chat logs in legal proceedings is much lower than you would think. Often screenshots of Facebook messages are used, or SMS records (which are also easily spoofed). A judge or jury will likely not entertain the possibility the messages were fabricated unless you have substantial evidence to the contrary.

This is true for now. It seems likely that fabrication of screenshots etc will start to appear in legal cases, and as soon as it does, the burden of proof will shift.
Ryuk in 5 Hours
> until VCs... start pouring money into hard stuff

this is pretty unlikely. big government projects (.mil, .nasa) are better at kick starting the hard stuff.

america has gotten so fragmented though that I doubt we'll ever have a moon-shot scale project ever again.
Landing page is not loading (CSS missing) on iOS with AdBlocker (Firefox Focus) enabled, perhaps something you could look into.
Please read section about comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thanks
I don't mean to be too negative, and yes these comments are not about the product itself, but I really dislike the excessive animation, scroll feeling heavy, and the fact that the video is playing and not playing at the same time really annoys me.
There are two places where it is possible to see early, "lame" work. One is YouTube - most channels with well-made videos would retain their earliest works, and the first few dozen can be quite instructive.

Second is GitHub - the first few hundred commits of many successful open-source projects. It is a wonder to see sprawling codebases starting at its first commit, and plodding its way over years before gathering momentum.
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I hope that this is just the beginning of a revival of antitrust that extends to many other fields besides SV tech firms, too. However, only SV tech has the combined scorn of both parties. As some as the more entrenched power comes under attack, antitrust will again become a partisan issue.
Good luck with that. Startups aren't chasing real estate. Gov Cuomo sunk a load of money trying to build a startup hub in western new york and it didn't work at all.
Ah that explains a lot. Thanks.

I had Three on my mobile, don't remember the exact number but the speedtest was single digit. Moved to giffgaff when the contract expired and they tried to increase price and to force me into a new 24 months contract.

Checked a map. The masts are around the corner for both.
U.K. Preparing Covid-19 Vaccine Trials That Deliberately Infect Study Subjects
Show HN: I made a curated Moon page for anyone to learn why we explore the Moon
This also reminds me of university costs. They're allowed to continuously increase prices non-stop, but then the politicians want to just cancel student debt. They probably should have just capped the prices instead
Team to Go (Transcript)
While I'm sure there are plenty of people who see it this way, it's not 1939 anymore. If it came to war, there would be a plethora of ways China could devastate the US's infrastructure and terrorize its civilian population.
Ditto on the disclaimer but wanted to emphasize that all jobs are remote-friendly!
DDG complains they can't win the auction:

search engines who squeeze money out of every last drop of people's personal information (including ISPs and arbitrage players that will participate in next year's auctions) are easily able to outbid search engines like us that respect people's privacy

https://spreadprivacy.com/search-preference-menu-auctions/
In that sense you'll get people such as Bill Gates as unemployed as they are not on the payroll.
It's clearly time to EOL Python 3 and start using Python 4.
The UK NHS was founded as an avowedly socialist endeavour and I fail to see what is fundamentally wrong with it?

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

NB I'm not claiming that the NHS is perfect but I suspect most of its problems actually stem from management consultants and politicians rather than medics or patients.