skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree 100% and thank you for providing examples.

I would pay a premium for a music service that isn't providing such incompetent recommendation engine.

Unfortunatly Apple Music is even worse at that. I have canceled after 30 days of heavy metal being pushed down my throat day after day - the only genre I do not listen to.
Maybe because there already isn't enough time to adequately expose and train kids to much more fundamental ability/knowledge(?) Basic arithmetic being one, and w/o it most of any finance-related knowledge lies out of reach.
You can't just tell people how much taxes they are paying...

Eg in Slovenia (small EU country with 2M people) many workers (even old ones) have no idea how much money the country takes from their wage.

In school we covered stuff like "compound interest" but no-one ever thought us anything about taxes.

We have a net, gross and a gross-gross wage (gross-gross being the actual amount the company pays for the worker).

Most aren't aware of the gross-gross wage. The difference between gross and gross-gross is that it's basicaly the same taxes as between net and gross, but around ~80% of it. So this part is never talked about. When job wages are specified it's always in gross. So basicaly most workers truly don't see that the actual taxes are almost double than what they see in the difference between net and gross pay..
Completely disagree. Even $100/mo invested into an index fund using a Roth IRA in your 20s will have a huge positive return on your quality of life later on. Millions of workers can afford this and don't do it because they haven't been taught/shown the value.
Here’s the source code encoded as two images: https://twitter.com/galacticfurball/status/13197659867911577...
These people are voluntarily sharing the ads they see with researchers. It's a completely different situation.
Just found hese references, they may help:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/scientists-cat...

http://qulab.eng.yale.edu/documents/papers/zlatko_paper.pdf
On a moto g7 power the Android app can't do gapless playback, even with downloaded files.

I listen to a lot of mixes, so this is untenable.
ha! i knew i shouldn't have moved all my music to google. lucky i didn't and kept it all for many many years. haha. go fuck yourself goolag.
Torrent clients don’t name themselves “Game of Torrents” and have test cases for downloading TV shows.

The problem YouTube-dl ran into is they literally named themselves after a prominent streaming site that is copyright holder friendly and also literally tested, in their codebase, the ability to do a thing that arguably violates the DMCA.
Banks and all sorts of companies prey on people making financial decisions based on their emotions.

Oh, you became homeless because you bought a house way outside your financial means (because everyone buys their own house, need to fit in) and couldn’t pay for a couple of months because you got fired, and had no savings (why save, if you can live for today and buy all the fancy stuff to impress people who do not even care about you), and the evil banks took your house?

Well it’s your fault, you did all this on your own free will.. good luck!

All sorts of f’d up things like this happen due to financial illiteracy, and parents cannot be trusted to teach their children finance, because most parents are financially illiterate aswell.
Finance doesn't create value, most of the times actually destroys it. Moreover, you're looking at this with a clearly US-centric perspective, in many other countries we don't need to know about retirement schemes, school loans and health insurance policies (you seem to have forgotten that insurance IS finance, but this might be just another example of the reason why this is hairy).

So, if tomorrow all of this changes, you'll have millions of people with really useless knowledge. And who changes these things? Politics. This is politics. Won't it be better that people learn about politics, philosophy and history so that they have the tools they need to actually understand and change the world around them?
Second this, eons is also amazing.
Thanks ... your tool seems to be the solution for my problem :D
Valid arguments.

I would push for teaching _all_ the young adults about how to navigate and read "legal constructs" (history, the vocabulary, the available tools, the process of making laws, codes, how to fill complaints, etc). That way they could dive into finance or any other domain they may find useful.

Law right now is reserved to a few expert who are interested in it, but that give them too much power
that's a great question!

I'll try to answer as a parent in CA/US, where I spend most of my time (for some other countries, they don't actually have such a huge looming financial sector, other countries seem to go for the "focus on the fundamentals and the rest will follow" approach)

Elementary to middle school in CA seems to be about having fun and getting a sticker, many times I heard "these grades don't count anyway". Kids learn stuff that's "fun" and read books that are "fun", that's about it - except maybe a couple of semi-serious classes in the later grades. Even if they did teach finance, due to young age it probably wouldn't even register.

High school seems to be a mad dash for college-like credits and classes. If it doesn't serve either (1) student's interests (e.g. sports), or (2) college requirements - core subjects or easy A's, or (3) the current district agenda (scrambling for test averages, or common core, or SAT or lack thereof, or whatever the hype of the year), it will get little attention. Finance doesn't really seem to fall into any of the above.
That’s not my understanding. That’s precisely the benefit France enjoyed when it decided to scale up its nuclear power. Right now very few new reactors are built so the benefit and the expertise are gone. But if a country decides to scale up rapidly in the same way you should see that benefit.
some lib recommended to remove all the redux boilerplate of react, uses proxies. It's mostly irrelevant though, the point is there's too much code running to do what should be simple things.
EM Information Theory of Consciousness
You could look into newpipe, an alternate youtube player for Android. Or look at RSS feeds for the channels you want to follow.
You’ve obviously never looked at swift.
I appreciate your efforts here to re-expose what used to be a common understanding of this history.

As it happens, on my fraternal grandmother's side we had family that fought in the Civil War for the Union from Iowa. One day I'll look all that up and figure out what units they fought in and where they're buried.
Also, none of them are True Scotsmen.
RIAA already went after YouTube. That’s why Google added the ability to scan for copywritten material. Google wanted YouTube to be a friendly place for people to view content. That meant playing ball with RIAA.
I would say finance when operating at its best, recognises and enables value opportunities.

When those value opportunities are mutualistic (I.e. financing a new venture) its doing its job in a way that benefits us all.

The problem is that much of modern finance generates value through extraction rather than a mutualistic gain.

For example a private equity firm displacing a union contract; or squeezing suppliers; or jacking up drug prices.
Doesn't this seem to violate thermodynamics? You need to fight entropy to encode information, which requires energy, right?
But service workers are also usually employees and have disability and unemployment insurance. They also often pick their shift times. You can have flexibility without being a contractor.
This sounds a lot like the Google approach, and I've seen a number of persuasive arguments that this is why they have 14 different, semi-competing chat apps and shutter most of their new services a couple years after introducing them. I expect somewhere in the middle there's an optimal balance between a completely top-down approach and one with too little hierarchy.

Of course the counter-argument is that Google still does quite well, but how much of that is due to their search and advertising monopoly, as opposed to the result of more recent innovation?
I'm curious what you mean by there not being enough time. Kids today spend more time in dedicated schooling (as opposed to apprenticeships or whatever) than kids of yesteryear and although the information density of everyday life has increased substantially, it's not like basic arithmetic has become more complex in the last couple thousand years.
Anyone working on ytdl will have a full copy of the history at home, undisturbed, so distribution is working as it should. There is no single point of failure.
bookmarking dark crystal to read later.
I don't get it. If the landlord wants the filming to happen so badly, why doesn't he kick in a few grand to compensate his tenant... That's a lot easier than kicking and screaming all night.
For technology to be truly sustainable, everyone must have access to it
> he/she does not not lend money to them, but takes away from instead

The employee takes money from the company, not the founder. Those two are only the same for the pre-seed phase of a startup. It's also unlikely that any people are employed before some investment round has been raised.

Once some investment is raised, the money comes predominantly from the investors and not from the founder. At that point the risk for the founder is mostly gone.

I'm not saying that there is no risk at all for the founders, just that it's concentrated in the pre-seed phase of a startup.

> This is none of the employee's business to assess founder's risk exposure

If you are asking me to join your very-early-stage startup, you can bet your ass that I'm going to probe you on your risk exposure.
Conduction is sort of dismal. Materials tend to conduct either too well when you don't want them to. And too little when you want them to.

If you want to move heat from point a to b usually you want to use a fluid. That why I tend to assume for geo thermal plants you want to drill into rock where there is a lot of hydrothermal action going on.

Something absolutely weird is Japan has basically zero installed geothermal power.
It seems like a really popular opinion that school should teach “life skills”. But as someone who left school not knowing how to do his taxes, cook his own food, or fix my car, I can assure you that the internet is more than enough of a resource. School just needs to focus on reasoning about the veracity of what one reads.
Even in the dark ages (e.g. '97) we could watch the fragment of the avi videos as they downloaded.
> As someone who made a great many HyperCard stacks...

I don't suppose you still have the files for those stacks lying around? I maintain the HyperCard Online project, a collection[1] of over 3,500 HyperCard stacks on the Internet Archive directly emulated in-the-browser.

I've made an uploader[2] that anyone can use to contribute their own stacks to the collection. It accepts all formats of stacks (all the .sit, .bin, .hqx-style compression formats that were common in the 80s/90s, disk images, and just raw HyperCard stacks).

It's always great to see what stacks folks are uploading - recently a large number of Japanese stacks were uploaded, covering a wide range of topics.

[1] https://archive.org/details/hypercardstacks

[2] http://hypercardonline.tk/
You just put the glasses on top of the headphones:
"Turboflex has a patented hinge design that pivots through 180° to offer real durability and robust sides that flex whatever the angle."
I'm a bit divided, on one hand I agree with you and I even used md5 for things that don't need security, but then I started thinking about it, and came to conclusion that you never how your code might be exploited in the future.
This comment won't age well.
Zuckerberg was a developer which kind of breaks this argument...
You may like the .NET ecosystem.
Modifying your analogy...

But if rather than biblically literate medieval peasants, we had biblically literate medieval scholars founding universities to study not only the Bible but also the classics, mathematics, the sciences, the arts, we would have the early foundations of the modern world. Consider that the oldest universities (Bolonga in 1088, Oxford in 1096, Salamanca in 1134, Paris in 1150, Cambridge in 1209, and Padua in 1222, and Toulouse in 1229) were primarily founded by Christian scholars who sought administrative and academic freedom (e.g. Padua's founding) because of their convictions based on the Bible that free inquiry is essential to finding truth.

My analogy, implied for tech, would be that free access to source code and technology is necessary to build strong foundations for technological freedom, as the biblical source code was necessary for building strong foundations for free academic inquiry. Jesus himself connects his word with knowing the truth and says the result is freedom - see John chapter 8.
"legal violation" is pretty vague. You might be disobeying their ToS, but it's not copyright infringement, since you own the copyright.
Let's just ban internet protocol, while at it. :)

On a bit more serious note I wonder how much internet traffic is used for "illegal" purposes?
This is ridiculous. Python won scripting because it offers a sane way to do sequential, shell-ish things, without having to wade through "man bash" or searching stack overflow for the umpteenth time about the syntax to do something that should be trivial but is anything but.

Saying that younger devs only know python is like a FORTRAN engineer in the 90s saying young devs only know java. No one needs to apologize for growing up learning better mature readable shit.

The number of gotchas and tricky nonsense in bash could (and probably does) fill books (array indexing, string comparison, quoting, toggling 'set -e', many more). I don't doubt that there are clever grey beards that are wizards that know the arcana. That doesn't mean arcane should be what you build an engineering culture around.
We got taught about basic finance. It was poor: The teacher had a friend from a care dealership come in to teach us some things. I was 13.

But more importantly: What a wide swath of folks need is how to survive poverty. So many people never get to the point of even considering a CD or IRA. Most folks only really need the bank account for paying things. 401(k) simply because that's what is offered by the employer, and you have to get paid enough to really use it. Sometimes $5 today really is more important than $10 when you retire since it means food to make it to retirement. MSA is similar: You need the extra money. No point in a MSA if you can't afford insurance anyway.

If you can't teach how to afford poverty, the rest is useless and completely tone deaf.

Likewise, most folks aren't going to open a business and many won't invest in markets.

Realistically, what we need are online resources in plain, simple english that explains these things and/or classes that are mandatory for folks starting businesses. The younger the person, the more likely the person is to be pretty good at consuming information on the internet. Just make sure folks know where to go to get good information.
Time to use gittorrent! https://github.com/cjb/gittorrent
Still remember the Northeast blackout in the 2000s. If that lasted even a few days, all smartphones would be dead. Will keep this bookmarked.
Photos continues changing interface every few months, every time without any clear reason or logic. The underlying product is solid, but photos(and other Google products) definitely feel like they have some very expensive designers who continuously have to justify their own existence by changing the interface over and over and over again, without any reason to keep changing it other than securing their own jobs.
How I Structure My CSS
Are you aware of the fact that the problem isn't "solved" yet and they are still frantically building storage tanks to store the thousands of liters per day of contaminated water that gets pumped out of the reactor that is cooled by sea water preventing a boil down? [1] Just a few days it was discussed dumping some of the contaminated water into the sea [2]. While this is underway an army of people is trying to shovel contaminated earth of the whole prefecture into plastic bags and store them in huge piles.

I wouldn't call this "few ill effects".

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-nuclear-fukushima-l...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-disaster-water-idUS...
https://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto2004/31520306/multicollis...

Although looking over this again, there is some caveats in that if both hash functions suffer from shortcut attacks, you might not be able to combine both shortcut attacks depending on the details of the shortcut attack.

Regardless, in the sha1+md5 case, even if you cant combine both shortcut attacks (big if. Not sure if that's true or not), the complexity of the sha1 collision is roughly the same as a birthday attack on md5, so i think you still end up with close to same big-oh as if you could combine both shortcut attacks.

Disclaimer: IANAC.
It has 60 years to catch up with C and 40 years to catch up with C++.

Don't mistake winning a few battles with winning the war.

So far C++ hasn't had much foothold on kernels and embedded, despite several victories.

Also note that NVIDIA is on ISO C++ and they have changed CUDA architecture to fit C++11 memory model.
If someone gives you a gift you think is broken, you ask them to empower you to help mend it. And if they offer to get it mended, you at least offer to go with them.

That said, yes accessibility should be prioritized.
Nvidia-Arm deal will never happen
Greeks rejected heliocentricity due to conflict with lack of stellar parallax
Unlikely to happen, except couple of small niches. Rust is too hard to learn, compiles too slow, hard to interop with C, and less safe than VM-based languages.

P.S. According to hackernews filter bubble, Lisp should have killed Java decades ago.
It feels like VSCode is starting to become an OS, pretty soon it will be the only app you need, to do everything!
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Flagged not related to tech.
You pay your phone company for service.

They also mine and sell your activity.

Recently on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24756042
I remember using youtube-dl back 8 years or so ago when I was an undergrad in India to download MIT OCW lectures (and others e.g. SICP vidoes, Coursera), because bandwidth was limited, download was capped, and 3G was too expensive. I could watch these videos anywhere, and whenever I wanted. And I'm pretty sure non of those videos had (or even have) ads.
I migrated everything to Spotify using Soundiiz (for a fee), it's much closer to GPM than Youtube Music.
The trick is that ESP* chips implement a lot of the stack in firmware. This saves a lot of IP in dedicated hardware that allows for price reduction, but has it’s drawbacks, mostly in terms of energy consumption.

There’s also a good amount of problems involved in having a non-auditable (non certified) piece of firmware running in a coprocessor that handles communications, and being closed source and Chinese doesn’t help.

The difference is generally that the maker space doesn’t need to be production ready.

By the way, Murata has modules on the ~6$ range (depending on what features you want)
Some time in the last few hours the devs have updated their site (https://youtube-dl.org/) with a notice about the takedown and removed the broken github links. You can now download the latest executables again. I'm looking forward to seeing their new home.
yeah, life is so much better now that we can exploit labor to get ubiquitous and cheap rides
> Why stop with torrent clients? They should ban all browsers, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted materials!

We're talking about an industry that normalized rootkit DRM and persuaded pretty much all hardware manufacturers to implement expensive encrypted pipelines to lock you out from trying to even take a glimpse of content playing.

After a few years of working near this industry I really cannot overestimate how rentseeking and scummy every single part of it is. They will abuse you without a second thought if there's a cent to be made.
I probably have no idea what I'm talking about because I don't work in this space, but in a previous life, our company was looking at Nordic for chips, and they had some pretty solid offerings for bluetooth chips. IIRC it was around $5 per chip but I may be totally wrong. It was one of these I think, and it's been about 3 years since I looked into this https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Low-power-short-range-wi...
Excuse me, what does this guy actually do besides being mr trying extremely hard to impress my bosses?

These are not lessons, these are random thoughts.

Shopify's website is starting to compete with Stripe for 'what am I even looking at'? I can always tell when sane engineers have completely lost control of a company and useless marketing and buzz-word-gurus have taken over. The cycle is complete when a company claims they're using 'AI' or 'machine learning' to help your business. Is Shopify there yet? I can't be bothered to click through their random offerings to find out.
You could ask the same question about civics, or science, or shop class, or any one of the other subjects that schools have cut in order to more effectively teach to standardized tests. Most education these days is about meeting No Child Left Behind/Common Core standards, and since those standards primarily specify reading and math, well, that's what gets taught.

School isn't about preparing children with the skills necessary to navigate the modern world. School is about teaching reading and math. The steelman version is that reading and math are fundamental, and the other skills can be learned independently if the child has the necessary literacy and mathematical background. In practice, though, that doesn't happen.
2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete
Just now on the HN front page:

GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015) (printf.net): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874994

While in the current topic my comment adout decentralization is downvoted to the bottom of the multi page comment thread.
I'll be honest though: I wouldn't have referred to numerous historical encyclopedias and visited countless museums to learn about history, if I hadn't started out playing a demo version of Age of Empires 2 when I was 6. Once I saw a map of Jerusalem in the time of Jesus, and for the next two weeks, I was hell-bent on creating a Jerusalem on the map editor in AoE. And a few years back, on a work trip to Israel, I ended up visiting the city just to see the places I had built out nearly 2 decades earlier.
Languages first need to be practical. Allow me to make productive desktop, mobile and web-apps with Common Lisp with minimal setup and headache and I'll become a Common lisp fanatic the next day.
If you don't mention anywhere if you are getting treatment or not how do you expect people to help you with context?
I don't think those fundamentals were better taught to kids in the past, nor did I state it.

In my opinion kids were and are taught way too many ancillary or even dubious (sheer propaganda) stuff, and not enough fundamentals (arithmetic being one, critical thinking another, logic, collaborative work...).
Right, it was the fact that we can now seemingly measure the time it takes for such events to occur that caused me to take note.

The fact that the electron has been observed in two places at once as it makes a smooth transition from one state to the other is big news I reckon. Note, I've posted two links about this above (re the pdf, at this point I've only had time to read the abstract).
We need more VTSAX and less english majors. Start saving young and income doesn't really matter if your trying to FIRE.

Also healthy eating habits and information about birth control should be taught in addition to financial literacy and at the expense of the current curriculum, but it is not because politics (both left and right here).