skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a conservative free-market bone in my body, but, sorry, no way.

Anytime there is a whitelist maintained by a profit seeking company you should be hearing alarm bells. If we put Iran on the blacklist, does it mean a social extension can't be sold to an Iranian company even if most the user are in Iran? And also how bad is bad? Is it bad if they sell my data to Google or is it only bad if they sell my data to $NotGoogle?

Do you trust Google to not weaponize that power for a (anti-)competitive advantage? "We see you want to sell your extension, the only company on the whitelist now is... let me see... oh us. We can offer you the competitive rate of 5 candy bars, you won't get a better offer. We. Guarantee. It."

Plus the PR backlash of Google allowing a sale and having it go south fast is not a good look. Google basically tacitly endorsed a rogue agent.

Finally from a personal level, who the heck is Google or anyone else mustering the nerve to tell me I can't sell my BS first-world-problem-fixing extension to the shadiest truckers on the planet. I made it, you benefit from it, most likely for free and I can't make a profit off my work by getting market value for it? Worse stil the gatekeeper of that is some near trillion dollar company trying to track everything I do? What, like what?

I'm not Facebook or Twitter, this a Chrome extension and you're proposing stricter _privately run_ regulations on that then the large corporations eating your every move like it is lunch?

For the record, I have never written a chrome extension, and have no real skin this game. But right now, thank $deity for Firefox.
> "You understand exactly why"

No, I don't understand. It doesn't make any specific point other than throwing up a strawman. A strategy used by the media (on all sides).

> "implicitly condones"

This is ignoring the explicit statements and actions to focus on the subjective narrative where anything can be implied. A cheap tactic often used by the media (on all sides).

> "I don't have a bias"

I'm sure you believe this, yet you're the only one vehemently choosing an irrelevant political side in this discussion about the media (of all sides).

> "human rights, and valuing the truth and honest behavior, as much as one can in this world."

Great, me too. Just like the vast majority of people in this world. Are you claiming some kind of moral superiority here? What is this relevant to?

Your comments clearly reveal your bias and the narrative you seek to spread. You use many of the same tactics of the media (again, on all sides) and lack the same introspection. This is my personal assessment by the way, in case you want to argue that it's an "falsehood". I'll end it here since I see nothing more to discuss.
On technology, you're just replicating wrong ideas spread in the last 20 years. China has proven itself capable of developing innovative technology and science. They have the most advanced 5G tech and already working on 6G. They are leaders in green tech. They're behind on semiconductors, but they have chosen this a top priority and I see no reason for them to have their own silicon starting on next year.
I am almost fully certain the device uses embedded ML inferencing in order to decrease latency of gesture recognition and increase battery life by avoiding the transmission of all the gesture data.
Agree. Handful of cases where thrift or grpc helps with an interface or streaming, but they seem to be the edge cases.
Since those options are already built-in, I think it's safe to say that the Firefox developers agree with you.
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Mozilla, I actually got a bit angry with some of their products lately (namely the Firefox) and stopped using it. But without it it would be kind of Chromium everywhere world.
Women have tended to be over-represented in "support" rather than "line" positions within firms. Maybe it's more historically accurate to say that they are more likely to be tasked with this work. But they do not appear to be rewarded for taking it on.
I think low-status is a complete red herring here. Someone with the right background can spend years tinkering on a project without suffering too much status loss, because they have other reserves of capital. It's like the genteel poverty of the grad student, but for founders.
This should be https://twitter.com/ZachACole/status/1319678040344088577 but apparently I don't know how to internet.
I don't think this is sound advice. Any half intelligent person will do their best to make the most out of their income through legal ways.
> it's probably not worthwhile to have a conversation.

Please don't combine further arguments (which suggest you want to continue the dialogue) with a poisoning of the well. I've enjoyed our mini-conversation so far; if you don't, that's fine, but there's no added value in this part of your sentence.

> Your characterization of the US as "centrally planned"

In my opinion, the key metrics of central planning are the size of government (e.g. % GDP) and volume of its regulation. The point at which these become excessively centrally planned is hard to define. In my opinion, they have been consistently growing over the past few hundred years in the U.S. and are about 50% and excessive, respectively. I doubt they will cease to stop growing until collapse or malaise.

> There's no private property without "central planning" (as you characterize it) of some form.

I did mention "minimal" central planning; however, again, you're making an assertion of political philosophy. I do not believe private property requires central planning. See: The Problem of Political Authority by Michael Huemer for example.
That was true once. Longer answer "it depends":

“[I]f a business collects the IP addresses of visitors to its websites but does not link the IP address to any particular consumer or household, and could not reasonably link the IP address with a particular consumer or household, then the IP address would not be ‘personal information.”

Source: https://iapp.org/news/a/are-ip-addresses-personal-informatio...
I'm stealing free protection afforded by the galactic empire to the galaxy i was born in if i don't pay the already free protection they offer.

Freedom is theft!
One key element that I think is missing in this analysis is whether the format supports cyclic data out of the box. This is an important feature for many languages since it most languages besides Rust make it very difficult to determine if the data may contain cycles or not and handling cycles can be very expensive in terms of both time and memory for serialization.
Maybe we should bring back Swatch Internet Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
I mean all fields of SB. NMR is one of the worst- my PhD is in NMR structural biology. NMR gives you some dynamics information, but it's not great, hard to deconvolve and it's limited to very small molecules. of all the techniques, cryo is probably the best right now in terms of ease of sample prep and utility of data, but my point is much more that we don't even really need to know the structure of many things to make useful progress- fluorescence microscopy is far easier than any structural biology technique and provides far more useful signal.
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"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you."
Q: What do you call the founder and CEO of a 1-2 person company that failed and went bankrupt?

A: Founder and CEO.
I didn't think it was wise, nor really my place to elaborate on the specifics of my company's finances, beyond to express-as a ranking manager-my surprise at the costs incurred weighed against common indicators a bit more relevant to a wide audience such as HN.
I've deeply wondered about the question regarding why science and modern medicine have largely ignored breath as a topic of health. Part of the explanation I believe is that it doesn't make anyone any money. But, this can't be the total explanation. It's frankly astonishing. Studying someone's breathing habits should be part of routine medical exams and general wellness check ups. No M.D. that I have ever been to has ever brought it up, and when I've asked them about it, they shrug and give me a weird look, as if I'd asked them about UFO sightings. It's phenomenally strange.
Sabbatical is often still associated with universities where students or professors take time off from their regular duties to pursue some other activity in a remote region. This is typically, but not always, associated with their normal duties, such as a biologist that lives in the rain forest for a year to conduct research. This made more sense in the past, when travel was long and expensive.

It can mean just an extended break from work, but the connotation to most is that the break is used to engage in another project that your day job constrains in some way. It also implies that you will return to your previous duties afterwards.

The trend is to call a temporary leave of absence from your job to do whatever a "career break."
That's the problem with Lisp features - you don't get to appreciate how powerful they are until you are way deep in the woods, at which point you are now another 'convert' trying to convince others to follow.

I like Scheme but having seen what the condition system could do on Lisp Machines decades ago makes me feel like we are currently living in a computing dark ages.
S-expressions are great once you've figured out functions, atoms, complex data types, etc. That's how Amazon's Ion[1] uses them: as a nice supplement to a serialization standard.

> “CAR”/“CDR” are not a part of the expression syntax

If you were implementing them for a serialization format, you'd leave out cons cells and car / cdr.

But in late-binding LISPs, which is where they're typically used, (a . b) is part of the syntax. It's worth calling out for why you don't want it: it's badly typed since it could be a 2-tuple, or it could be a list depending on what 'b' is.

[1]: https://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/docs/spec.html#sexp
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actually in future versions symfony will move mostly to php based configs instead of yamk, xml. at least parts of internal configs which were xml now are rewritten to php
let e = $.Event('keyup'); Math.PI.toFixed(50).split('').map((k, i) => {setTimeout(()=>{$.play(InstrumentPerKeyEnum[k],k,e.type==="keydown")}, i * 200); setTimeout(() => {$.play(InstrumentPerKeyEnum[k],k,e.type==="keyup")}, i * 250)});
IMHO a lot of Westerners are lulled into overconfidence vs. China because of racism, even if that racism is implicit or subconscious. China can't equal America or Europe because China isn't white.

There are arguments against China's continued rise that are rooted in demographics, politics, and social issues, but the Chinese are definitely capable of doing what Americans and Europeans do if all else is equal.

Racism is nonsense, and like other forms of nonsense believing it makes you gullible and foolish.
Hmm, really? To me it looks like a new pandemic every decade would crush the west and assure the dominance of Asian economies.

Just looking at how much better Asian countries have weathered the pandemic, it would seem that every pandemic would be a relative boon for Asia compared to the West.
Isn’t that what tracepoints are for though?

Flipping your argument, you’re basically saying that you can’t debug multithreaded code if the program doesn’t log.
This just shows that China will NOT close. It is not a weakness for a country that wants to do commerce with the rest of the world.
It still works; old devices that can only use FTP will benefit from it. For example, photocopiers often have FTP upload support for scans - so you can just slap an RPi onto it to convert that to a newer way of exchanging files.

Put it to you this way, pal: 99% of the time I'm doing containers on AWS, and 1% of the time I spend working in a factory with 8-bit Z80 powered machines that need to get files to/from a totally modern network. Little bits of legacy-adapting middleware are critical!
You can even buy robots that do grid searches for crystallography (IE, if you're desperate, can't find conditions to make a crystal, and you've exhausted your postdocs, the robot will be able to try more possibilities in shorter time). Unfortunately they don't work very well and end up being a real pain to clean.
I'm more interested in the next logical question.

Why are those folks willing to be low-status? I'd be willing to bet a good chunk of change that it's because they have a support system. Folks without that know they need to achieve at least a modicum of success because there's no one to help them in case it doesn't work out. So they settle for placing a reasonable bet as opposed to betting "everything".
> The U.S. imprisons millions of people for petty drug crimes and kills millions of people in imperial wars. Is that so different than the treatment of the Uigers, Taiwanese, or those in Hong Kong?

Yes, because in the US, we can actually have a conversation about changing those policies. In China, they can't.
Looks pretty interesting, thanks for posting.

We'd also have a use case where we think about using bincode, this seems worth to check out/compare as a possible alternative.
Oh absolutely, they picked a model system that is both very rigid and has extremely high internal symmetry, and I assume they did rotational averaging to use fewer images. But these ideal systems are very useful for determining the limitations of the underlying technology like electron detectors; 15 years ago the best you could do with a molecule like this was around 4 Angstrom resolution.
Much agreement here, and from the exact same usecase. Probably the easiest B2B API integration scenario I worked with in the past was XML + XML Schema validation. And I still think XML is more readable in many cases than JSON, because while verbose the hierarchical structure is very easy to grasp, sometimes I misread an entire JSON document at first because I missed a quick "[" or "[{" (yes I have also misread XML documents because of the sheer weight of text you are presented with, so I'll call that one a wash).

I do agree with the XML criticisms around writability and complexity, though I think if you made a Venn diagram of the actual complexities inherent in managing a multi-client document-exchange system and the complexities of XML+Schema, you'd find that they're similar--and that many people who start building such an exchange with JSON documents end up stumbling into the same amount of complexity except in an ad hoc fashion.

It's funny, I wonder if other people have the same surreal experience: as the mass zeitgeist moved away from XML I was more or less like, okay, gotta go with it, as the driftwood goes with the currents. It's interesting how the zeitgeist functions. You can tell it's happening when people look at your functional system and are like, "Uhh, why aren't you using X...?" as though it's self-evident that you should drop everything and rewrite. Where X was, over the years (dating myself) {"Java", "PHP", "Node", "Rails", "Jquery", "REST", "Angular", "React", "Thrift", "NoSQL", "Protobuf", "Hadoop"}. Some of which I quite happily used, BTW, so the interesting part is the penetrative nature of the conversation, e.g. how the quite-functional-but-not-hot technology becomes the sick gazelle falling behind the herd, even as it is not empirically sick.
Expensify CEO Emails 10M Customers Urging Them to Vote for Biden
Unpopular opinion, but I think we're giving a little too much credit to the average voter. There are a lot of low-information voters out there who don't pour through the booklets and published rebuttals and rebuttals to the rebuttals. Media saturation works. It doesn't always work, and you can always go back and find exceptions, even some very high profile ones, but if it didn't work in general, we wouldn't see so much money pouring into political advertisements. There's a reason we track and measure campaigns by counting dollars spent.
Like others have mentioned, there is no such thing in PHP. Each request is handled individually from a blank slate and the context is destroyed when the request finishes.
So most entrepreneurs want to spend their lives living out of their car?

Rich, powerful, and famous is probably the end goal for most entrepreneurs.
Especially for proteins there is not a single "precise shape" for the whole protein. It might take on slightly different shapes dependent on a number of factors (e.g. pH of the environment). Interactions between a protein and some other molecule might also alter the shape of the protein. So overall, a slight change in any of those values can have cascading effects in how it interacts with any other molecule (which themselves share the same problem).
Also https://concise-encoding.org/

It's both binary and text, and supports all the common data types, and doesn't require a schema or extra compilation steps.
While it's impressive that an AI manage to do that, you can find much higher quality content made with existing special tools.
The best organic, cellular automata like video clip that is synchronized with the music that I know of is:
https://youtu.be/_7wKjTf_RlI
i'd suggest that the subject of status schools (the takeoff point of this discussion) is itself a global appeal to status, rather than an immediate one. most people who place high status on them have no real idea why, just that they have such reputations. the very comparison of 'truck vs tesla' depends on a global, and contentious, notion of status.

this bias is especially pervasive in, and because of, the modern connected society. how do we contend with extreme interconnectedness? that, the contention (and potential resolutions) of a global social network, will be a defining feature of our times to future historians i think.
trump is on the way out.... but 'trumpism' will be around for a while, but still in the minority and eventually fade just like the Tea Party, or Occupy wall Street
To not include Microsoft when you say 'big tech' is blinkered.

They are currently the 2nd biggest company in the world by market cap. Around double the size of Facebook.

They might not be cool or trendy in tech circles anymore, but they are without a doubt a big tech company.

Their OS runs over 70% of desktops [1] and their office suite has over 80% of the market share [2]. And that's just the sectors they completely dominate in before we even talk about other sectors that they are involved in with major competitive products. Xbox, Surface, Azure, SQL server, Power BI, Windows Server, .net, Visual Studio, BizTalk, are all huge popular widely used tech products. And I'm sure there's more that I don't know.

And then add GitHub and LinkedIn if you want to count recent acquisitions that still seem to operate mostly independently at the moment.

1 - https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

2 - https://www.ciodive.com/news/Google-Microsoft-Office-collabo...
If you want a space opera with more realistic setups/politics/internal logic, Legend of the Galactic Heroes is top tier stuff
I think you'd be surprised how quickly the world would acclimate.
I use it in some rather large repos and am a very big fan. It's simply fantastic for every type of repo and project I've thrown it into.
Take something as simple as boots. In war, soldiers are usually doing a lot of walking and good boots prevent many injuries and improve effectivity of troops. So suddenly you decide to send millions of conscripts into war. Sadly you have outsourced the boots manufacturing industry to the country you are waging war with. Had the industry been in your country, you could have told them to retrofit their lines to manufacture your boots, but sadly all the knowledge, together with the population that is used to the repetitive nature of factory work is in a different country now.

Remember how much struggle there was distributing even simple things like masks and PPE during the COVID pandemic?

Of course you can solve the boots problem, but you'll have the same variant of problem for a lot of things. Solving all these problems all at once is an insurmountable task.

Even building a single Photolitography plant takes hundreds of millions of USD and years from start of planning to conclusion, with the involvement of a large number of companies from around the globe, each specialized to their own part of the process, and world leader in that part. So where will you manufacture your chips needed for your autonomous robot army?
Just take a look at China: they're paying Chinese experts living abroad to move to China and opening their universities to students world wide.
He has some sort of jump gate in at least some of his stories. I actually discovered him fairly recently based in part on the Love, Death, and Robots series on Netflix.
I've come round to the "fail hard and early" view, provided you can be sure in your design that it doesn't leave junk lying around. Because otherwise contaminated data and invalid states start propagating everywhere..
Fair enough, but the way it’s phrased sounds like someone working on obscure software like a bingo card creator. Would anyone say working as a junior engineer is ‘silly’?!
Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away
From Google:

"We’re gradually going to shut down Google Play Music, the Music Store on Google Play and Music Manager soon, with everyone losing access in the months to come. You can read our full announcement here. This announcement follows the launch of our new migration process (back in May) which lets all Google Play Music listeners easily transfer their data and make the simple switch to YouTube Music"

Interestingly, no mention of the new requirement to pay $9.99 pm to listen to your own music in the background, or the fact that ads will play on previously purchased tracks without becoming a premium subscriber.
Yea there didn't seem to be much filtering of the email recipient list... I saw a handful of people on Twitter that said they received the email even though they're not even US Citizens. GDPR violations seem likely.
Honestly, my impression of this site is that the creators don't listen to much music. I know it’s probably not true, and that it sounds pretty snobby, but for instance, segmenting by a genre as broad as Rock is too reductive. There are possibly hundreds of rock subgenres, many of which have very different audiences, with some overlap. Take Pop Rock vs punk vs grindcore vs metal vs folk rock vs whatever. And then all of the subgenres within those. Subgenreception.

IMO, community curation isn't something that will work very well with music, though I'd love to be proved wrong. Somebody said something about subreddits in another comment, and that analogy seems good. There is also another startup that collaborated with metal musicians and had them build out radio shows, which also seems promising - especially because it's addressing a very specific market.

Also, 20 seconds is way too long to listen to a song that you know you're not going to like from the first couple of seconds.
> It is really hard to organise 6000+ people to do anything.

For sure, but we know we can do it because we've already done it.
Author: "I’ve never gotten schemas and validation to actually work in practice”

Reality: Author somehow overlooked the fact that MS Office documents are all bundled xml files behaving exactly as intended

Lesson: One guy’s experience is not enough to decide which languages you use or how you build software
Ben and Jerrys is a luxury product. Being politically conscious is part of their brand and a reason they are able to charge high margins. They believe that differentiating themselves leads to long term profits. Critically, it's not just short term profits that are being maximizing. Creating a strong brand is the only way to ensure your product won't be undercut which is why firms are willing to engage in activities which build goodwill among their customers even if there are no immediately obvious profit motives. Political donations are part of Ben and Jerrys marketing budget.