skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's Plays were already an established format before Twitch's predecessor started.

Sure, there are people who are early adopters of anything, including plenty of things that never pan out.

My mom certainly hadn't heard of Let's Plays in 2008, but she can name a few streamers now. To have predicted the success of Twitch is to say with a straight face that in the mid 2000s you thought that people who absolutely did not play games then (or even consider it) would regularly watch other people play games; Twitch probably has more concurrent users right now than there are people who had heard of a Let's Play before 2008[0]. To be clear, I'm not saying that you didn't predict it: I'm saying that realizing that Twitch would be as successful as it is today is uncommon.

> The Wright brothers were the first to succeed of a large group of people attempting to build working airplanes.

Agreed. However, at the time the Washington Post famously opined on the Wright brothers that "It is a fact that man can't fly". A lot of the mockery they faced is probably apocryphal at this point, but certainly many people thought that powered flight was unlikely/impossible. Similarly, many of the early adopters of transistors were laughed at because vacuum tubes were the clearly superior choice [1].

My point here isn't that no one believed; some people have done a great job of reliably picking the right horse. My point is that for many innovative ideas, more people doubt than believe. And that (with the benefit of hindsight) it's easy to imagine you knew the right horse from the beginning.

[0] https://kotaku.com/who-invented-lets-play-videos-1702390484

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4XknGqr3Bo
Milwaukee has been reviving the beer garden concept for about a decade now. It works well - even in county parks! But not in January.

https://county.milwaukee.gov/EN/Parks/Explore/Beer-Gardens

Of course, it's a big part of the cultural heritage in Milwaukee, so municipal beer gardens may be a pipe dream in more puritanical cities.
Wow! StellarX is the coolest tool I ever experienced to create my own immersive experiences and simulations. No-coding, easy and intuitive platform. Great job OVA! You are nailing it!
Picture of the mentioned 46yr old (beef) strew mentioned in the article: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

I'm not sure what material it's on to keep it heated. But something like coal I assume.
Netherlands and Belgium do it too.
> but I have a hard time figuring out why I’m so uncomfortable with Apple’s decision here.

You are facing what marketers fear the most - a "cognitive dissonance". Basically, when words don't match deeds, you start questioning and start thinking instead of blindly believing someone. When customers start to do that, it creates a lot of headaches for brand managers and marketers because it implies that you are starting to lose trust in them, and that obviously doesn't bode well for a company's profit margins.

With respect to Apple here, I have been quite vocal on HN for a long time that Apple has been repeatedly LYING to us that they care about our privacy. They absolutely do not. They are using the exact same tactic that Google used in the beginning - pretend to be trustworthy and than slowly change the terms and policy to mine our data for profit. In fact, Apple has been increasingly becoming more and more intrusive in mining our personal data. And their marketing narration has been to try to paint this as a good thing - that they are protecting our privacy by being the sole custodian of it, but you have to "trust" them to do the right thing.
That’s right but GGP was suggesting lying presumably to exceed such exemptions.
> As the market value goes up, it costs him more, as his property taxes will go up.

This is a hilarious way to look at it. Please, will the rich of the world burden me with their wealth so that I may pay the tax for them?
Citizens United wasn't just about for-profit corporations. The namesake organization Citizens United is a nonprofit as well.
A solution of about 4% NaOH is generally recommended. Submerge the pretzels for a few seconds just before baking. It does something to the outside layer of dough that results in the brown crust of the pretzel. In addition to the pleasant color, it also affects the flavor. Also, it makes it easier for the coarse salt to stick to the outside of the pretzels.
NaOH immediately causes stains on clothes and wooden cutting boards and countertops. Obviously it's also bad for your skin and especially the eyes, so be careful.
And which of those laws was written to allow hardware manufacturers to artificially limit what you could do with a product you had bought just because it happens to also have a software component?

The corruption of copyright to serve entirely different purposes from its original intent, with the goal of artificially giving a manufacturer ongoing control of hardware products after purchase, is a buyer-hostile abuse of the legal framework that should have been comprehensively blocked long ago, whether it's related to your personal computer, your vehicle, your TV...
How will you get anybody to work at an abortion clinic, slaughterhouse, or publisher of pornography given there is some nutjob who would be angry with them for it? The same way - they get paid money for it and have benefits, duh.

Escalate appropriately to targetting family - you know the same way they would if crazed vegans attacked a meat packing worker. Anyone so cowardly they cannot accept working for a living for an entity /with a legal monopoly on use of force/ has no business being a police officer. If they cannot accept being protected like everybody else we don't want the cravens.
HN Is fine, I was referring to the site linked in the topic
If a scrappy unknown set of non-Stanford, no yc network referral-having founders filmed a founder video introducing a version of this product with no money or traction, would they have gotten an interview invitation this morning?

Probably not.
Thank you for sharing this. I just dragged a download from Safari into the file system via the Files app. What a clever feature.
(2007)

Meta: he states "I am now 55 years old." Given that he was born in 1952, that would mean this article is from 2007:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_(editor)
> Uber very publicly threatened to shut down in CA if they did not get their way with respect to AB5 and the suit alleges that they continue to threaten layoffs. If that isn't an attempt to coerce drivers to vote a certain way by threatening their jobs, I don't know what is.

They 'threatened' to shut down the same way a shopkeeper 'threatens' to shut down when the mafia boss wants 100% of the profits. It's not punitive shutting down, it's existential shutting down.

Uber as it exists right now (with the service level, coverage etc.) cannot exist if AB5 has its way.

(Could the downvoters please reply explaining what I said wrong? I think the numbers make it clear that Uber doesn't have the margins to do what AB5 expects it to do while not changing prices drastically)
> Depends, unless you're talking about very large structures like office buildings, factories, or malls in which case the structures are definitely worth more than the land.

Or large apartment complexes. But isn't that where most real estate investing goes? Detached single family homes are mostly owner-occupied.

> Generally, no. Under a triple-net lease, they would not get to deduct these costs because they're not paying them. Most commercial properties are leased on a triple-net basis, so the tenant is paying maintenance costs.

But then the tenant is paying correspondingly less rent, which means less taxable income to the property owner. It's a wash either way.

> Also, I'm not sure if you are aware of this but an S-Corp does not pay corporate income taxes

You're right, I meant C-Corp.

My point being that if the investor is a "corporation" in the sense that it's paying corporate income tax itself, that has little to do with the thing it's investing in. If it buys ownership of a REIT and the REIT itself doesn't pay corporate income tax, and the corporate tax rate is high, that's more advantageous than the same corporate investor buying shares of Union Pacific, whether or not the entity doing the investing then pays corporate income tax on the income it receives from the investment.

> Yes, that's the point, but more to the point, that's the entire point of real estate investing.

It's one of the two options. Option one, you zero out your taxable income while building equity, and then sell to liquidate. Option two, you zero out your taxable income while building equity, then once the loan is paid off you get to keep the rental income, which can be used as down payment on additional properties if you prefer to invest further rather than pay the tax and spend the money.

> Right, but the flip side of you divesting is someone else investing, at appreciated costs from you paid.

The point being that high turnover during periods of low taxation isn't a result of people wanting to get into the real estate market, it's a result of people wanting to get out. So it tends to cause housing to become more affordable rather than inflating a bubble because people hold who would rather sell if not for selling incurring a major tax bill.

> They have actual businesses, and correspondingly tend to spend more on upgrades during periods of higher taxes.

That's evidence of what I'm saying -- when corporate taxes are high, people move investment from businesses to real estate. Making improvements to real estate is investing in real estate. Lower taxes and they stop because they make more to invest the same money in other businesses.
This might be a good time to be in grad school to weather the storm for a year or two, and then benefit from the likely upswing afterwards (if someone is intent on academia). Unless a substantial proportion of colleges go bankrupt and the number of job seekers increase even more.
How are the nearly $2 trillion of bank reserves at the Fed contributing? That’s a significant portion of the total money supply.

Most of the corporate cash isn’t in equity funds, it in US Treasury debt. Apple holds >$50B of treasury securities, for example.

The low inflation monetary policy has some benefits, but combined with our ass-backwards tax system also makes for strong disincentive to do anything with excess cash.
Every step into censoring polite conversation about mundane topics is a step towards tech companies arbitrarily keeping whatever information they deem fit a secret. We could become unable to share information we want and have a legitimate reason to share with remote coworkers simply because tech wants that knowledge to be kept dark.

The public vs private dichotomy makes no sense anymore, discord isn't keeping you private from the prying eyes of passerbys and saving you from public embarrasment. 99% of normal people don't care what you say about the price of green beans in your "private" channel.

Discord is keeping your information in their databases and silencing you at their tyrannical whim. The dichotomy is having your community and stored knowledge blackholed by tech companies or posting somewhere the people can save what you wrote from exctinction.
The first time I was in Europe on a road built for humans to walk on, I kept looking over my shoulder waiting for a car to make its way down the roads. I was pleasantly surprised.
I think you can do it from command line. Set up a few profiles (2 to start with/test) and run them from command line. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/62.0.32...
This claim seems a bit exaggerated. Microsoft Research Asia, as one example, has been doing neural machine translation for a large number of languages without relying in English for quite some time; and models are used in production scenarios too.
It’s more of a perspective and opinion thing. For example I would not say that an integer is its twos-complement representation, but I am very happy to hold onto that representation as a kind of key for the “real thing”.

Similarly, in a vector space there can be abstract vectors, which exist no matter of what basis you choose to write them down. (Choosing a basis = choosing a way to encode them as a 1xN or Nx1 matrix).

Often in the theory, general theorems can be proven very efficiently using these abstract vectors, but most of the time when one wants to actually do things to those vectors, picking a convenient basis and working with N coordinates is the best choice.
Sure - remember those noisy dot matrix printers?..
Expensify's CEO emailed users to encourage them to 'vote for Biden'
No, you're twisting my words, or simply misinterpreting. The expectation in public is that random individuals have the right to photograph you.
I suppose Android can make money from % take of sales. Obviously it works for apple :) . Maybe not 30% though
Exactly what's considered "outdoor" in that respect depends on the jurisdiction. For example DC's current regulations allow tents to count as outdoor dining as long as they have no more than one side closed [1]. Other places allow more enclosed tents.

[1] https://coronavirus.dc.gov/page/coronavirus-new-and-expanded...
Interesting post. I've tried this sort of thing before, being more conscious of "time left", but I found it just made me anxious and depressed. I'd continually second guess whether or not I was working on the most meaningful thing, felt guilty, and I'd be overly impatient and agitated when forced to work on something I didn't care about.

I have had better success thinking in terms of 3 year chunks; seems to be a good balance between giving myself time to get big projects done without feeling overwhelmed, but not so far off that today's actions seem too insignificant. Still practicing though. (On a side note, just about everything I work on takes more time than I'd like, which is continually frustrating. I haven't found a good way of thinking of self-set deadlines in a helpful way.)
Is there any reason that you absolutely have to build a community on their platform? This seems like a perfect reason to start your own tech company.
I just tried this, I stand corrected, but I remember this (the last clause) not working in numpy. It's possible my memory is flawed:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> vec = np.array([1, 2, 3])
>>> mtx = np.eye(3)
>>> np.dot(vec, mtx)
array([1., 2., 3.])
>>> np.dot(mtx, vec)
array([1., 2., 3.])

It's possible though that I was remembering not that it doesn't execute, but rather that if you do mess up the multiplication order and do it in the wrong direction with anything besides trivial diagonal matrices, you won't get a type error, you will get an incorrect but valid result, which is arguably worse than a type error, and way more frustrating, especially if start by testing eye, which is the easiest thing to do.
But files aren’t “Web Scale” (2013)
That's Astroturfing at work - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/08/what-i... ... it's easy to forget that Apple is a trillion dollar company who'll do anything to protect their profit-margins and business model.
> The real underlying problem is that we've been papering over our underemployment crisis with these low-skill, low wage jobs. You can't turn them into viable careers by legislative fiat.

It's worse. We have been papering over the lack of any social security net and lack of affordable healthcare by forcing these things onto an employer-employee relationship.

If you try to rethink the system from the ground up, there is no logical reason health insurance needs to be tied to employment. Employment law should be about removing highly coercive situations, but other than that, adults should be allowed to provide a service in return of a payment without getting embroiled in byzantine regulatory requirements.
Ancient Maya built sophisticated water filters
> chopping long-form content into small pieces

I've watched most of the fiction. This is not true. It was all designed for short form.

They knew this -

"“What you can’t do is take an hour-long TV show and chop it up… it has to be written and shot for this use case,” said (Quibi CEO Meg Whitman. “If we are successful, there will be plenty of competition. We will have accumulated a library [of content] that they can’t go buy.”

Their mistake is hard to exactly call. It is definitely minutes of entertainment available though.

I think you need to get short form TV to the same pricing model as TV movies then dump a lot of money into a library.

A idea I think would be to try and get more length, like 3 hours rather than 90 mins. So you make "TV movies" (Obviously learn to script and shoot for short form) that are 3 hours long that cost less than double the cost. Viewers can binge on a special night. Their can go to bed no problem, so no pressure a long movie gives you (The Irishman). It's relaxing. It feels like value.
There's nothing simple about shell scripts. Idempotency is the main thing - and a great thing.
cmd-B does nothing in a standard text field. If you mean text fields with code to handle keyboard shortcuts, you can just as easily have cmd-B surround text in asterisks as trigger wysiwyg bold formatting.
“BigCorp Ireland, Ltd” buys a bunch of treasuries.
Ruling out the truth of something is information-free, and mentioning an RFC by ID is information-free. Got it.
This is very much too little too late. Hopefully soon we’ll have the WASM sandbox hitting master in Envoy and that’s going to enable a lot of really cool use cases like hot deploying custom filters into your side cars.

https://istio.io/latest/blog/2020/wasm-announce/
If I am not mistaken, it does not necessarily follow unless it turns out to be a sound argument in every possible world.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16156/huawei-announces-mate-4...

Another 5nm chip.
Speaking for myself as a photo nerd, the name annoys me because the app has nothing to do with silver halide. And for my own bona fides, I haul a large format camera out into the world on a regular basis and develop the film in my bathroom.
How fo you keep track of 4 seconds? Do you constantly count until 4 in your mind?
Uh both MacOS and Windows have tier-1 support on x86-64
> Then came smart phones and I heard that Android ran Linux. So I was like wow finally a computer in my pocket where I can do everything I can on my laptop!

For linux on mobile, You want Sailfish OS - https://sailfishos.org/ not Android. Also see https://jolla.com/ who made it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83_effect
That sounds interesting, I'd like to try that
What I meant is that a sine wave drives the speaker at its frequency, so I'm not sure where frequency distortions would come from.

Except for moving the mic and getting a doppler effect and maybe sympathetic vibration, all of those distortions retain the fundamental frequency. To the original question, I guess all these distortions might make it harder to to distinguish between similar tones. My point was that even shitty speakers should reproduce the frequency reliably.
Even now Dropbox is cash flow negative and it appears that Jobs was right. DropBox is a feature not a product. I can buy the entire Office Suite with a combined 6TB of storage for Dropbox’s 2TB plan. The same price for GSuite.

I’ll consider DropBox successful when it is consistently profitable and cash flow positive.
Isn’t it crazy what people will do to preserve their way of life when it no longer makes sense and there are good alternatives? Not every food works as takeout, but it’s hardly a deprivation.
Fair enough, though I do not think the evidence from evolution moves the needle much with respect to the timeline. For one thing, evolution was not dedicated to the achievement of intelligence.
Even if it’s a real violation, what damages can they prove? Uber is trying to help them
Well you’d be lucky if you were able to define your goals as such that psychedelics or meditation were attributed as productive, instead of in many ways the polar opposite of amphetamines, I think.
your words where: "due to the shift in reasonable expectations, soon people will have no (expectation of a) right to privacy in a public space"

I am not twisting that, i am just saying the same applies to "in your home"
In the words of Munger, "Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome"
Why not just change the encoding to UTF-8? That would probably also reduce the file size since most of it is ASCII, potentially even halving the size.
Amazon spent billions on infrastructure and kept pouring money back into the business. At most points, Amazon could have been profitable.

But AWS is where the real margins are.
You need to build somewhere. Many ISPs will make it difficult or impossible to run a server on a home connection.
>I used to buy Apple computers precisely because I did understand computers

Maybe because computers were always complicated and messy to use - so someone who understands computers would appreciate a 'friendly to use' computer? My Dad is the same.

Steve Jobs anyhow, always wanted to make the computer as user friendly as possible, so that anyone should be able to use them - not just some super skilled tech person (which is what I meant in my above post). Hell, Steve even hated the concept of a multi-button mouse... deeming it as something unnecessary if the UI was simple enough.
In Japan a lot of people seem to use e-bikes with two baby seats attached to them - despite the fact that that's actually not legal.
The logs will be destroyed ... except for the backup, of course.
> "License" is an American concept that doesn't exist in France and much of the world.

The concept of license exists in France even if the word used is different. In common law countries, we say that a contract must be supported by obligations on at least two parties in order to be enforceable. What we call a license fails that requirement because it is one-sided and merely gives permission to do something, usually with conditions. But the distinction is largely academic and the concepts are similar (e.g., permission to do a thing is functionally the same as a promise not to sue if the person does the thing). From your article, it appears that the word contrat is used in France for for both bilateral contracts and these types of permissive use agreements, e.g. contrat d’utilisation, which seems perfectly reasonable because of how similar the concepts are. So, the concept clearly exists in France even if the word used is different.

Similarly, the rights that common law countries call copyright are encompassed by Author's Rights, specifically the "economic rights". Author's Rights, however, also include "moral rights" that are not a part of copyright. Those rights may also exist in common law countries, but they may fall under some other area of law, such as "Right of Publicity" or "Right of Personality".

In both examples the concepts and rights exist (mostly) in various legal systems, even if the words used are different or if the rights are found in different sections of the law.
Nice! In that case, I may want to pick your brain about automatic transcription of scream sounds...
I think a serious effort on animation is absolutely underway in Houdini (the new 'KineFX' released in 18.5 the other day is a foundational element of this, as I understand it.)
Haven't heard anything other than vague hints but they may also be working on something that could start to eat part of the sculpting/painting pie (zBrush/mudBox/etc).
Modelling wise SideFX are going great guns (they hired some of the awesome Softimage devs when Autodesk shut that down). Houdini's modelling toolset now at least rivals if not surpasses what is available in Maya out of the box, however there is a massive amount of inertia in this department. Modellers seem to get a bit stuck on specific tools, so things don't tend to change until new modellers start coming in, bringing the new tools with them.
Why not just grab some other parts of Linux? Or, better yet, link your application right into it?