skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think another argument is that the game is enjoyed in many forms, over radio, over television, streamed over the internet - and all of those rights must be purchased, etc. If the game statistics are another form of enjoyment, then it is another form, and should be subject to the same ownership issues as the other channels.

OTOH, I think the argument is very weak. First, precedent is strongly against the players here. Player stats have never been licensed to my knowledge. It's not clear if this is for lack of trying, or if the market for that data used to be superfans, and it was too small to matter.

That said, in any argument I tend to side with the underdog. I think it would be great if Athletic voluntarily shared some of their revenue with players! It would be a good move for them, because it would take wind out of the sails of the counter-parties, and it wouldn't acknowledge the players right to their data, except tacitly.
You know what I consider engaging writing? HN comments

Good HN comments are longer than tweets but shorter than essays, they strike a perfect balance of expressing an interesting idea in a reasonable time. And they always have an underlying, implicit amount of playful pedantry that makes them even more fun to read.

This very comment was fun to write because not even I know if I'm being sarcastic or not.
Prior to this pandemic, my diet was best it had ever been. After a month or two, I started eating burger n had coke.

I thought to myself its not the worst thing that's gonna kill me. Crazy but several decisions were short term for the first few months of covid.

Initial panic of covid did change my routine. But I am back to old self now, as the panic has gone down
I think betting is likely to have an unusually negative economic impact on the players. Loss avoidance means people are more likely to remember players ‘underperforming’ expectations than exceeding them. That’s going to have a negative impact on their marketability as paid sponsors independent of actual performance.

It’s questionable if they can win, but demonstrating damages may be the easiest part of this case.
Where can I read up more on such applications?
Given software engineering is less than 200 years old while civil engineering is a few thousand years old, I don't see this as a negative at all.
No, the majority of French households are using gaz.

The reason France faces power cuts could be because they recently shut down a nuclear powerplant (which is a non-sense considering nuclear doesn't emit any CO2 and we'll have to buy coal electricity from Germany instead...)
> With cheap energy we are not constrained to ever denser mega cities with their social, political, and safety problems.

If we want to leave room for intact ecosystems, dense cities are the only way.
You make it sound like that's a bad thing. If my city becomes Diesel free in the next few years I won't ask where the money came from.
> However, if you're planning to attach a keyboard to your iPad most of the time, just get a MacBook Air instead. On the flip side, if you're getting an iPad Pro, you should really be planning to buy the Pencil with it to take advantage of its strengths.

Agreed, the big thing about the iPad Pro is the pencil and note taking/markup/doodling abilities. However even so chances are that someone has the keyboard attached most of the time and is still a heavy user of the pencil on iPad. Meaning that the iPad is the right form factor.

Extrapolating further, even if the Air supported pencil, the form factor would mean that using pencil on the upright screen would always be compromised. Then the added appeal of the iPad + Magic Keyboard is that it’s the perfect form factor for note taking/annotations/doodling /drawing and it has this powerful processor and keyboard when you need it to.

So to me, even if the Air and iPad Pro start to have overlapping features, the form factor difference alone gives them enough differentiation, both being useful.
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Well until you start signing everyone's paychecks, we have to live by other peoples rules.
He's closer than you'd think. The US constitution gives state legislatures virtually unchecked authority to choose their own electors regardless of what state laws or courts say, without needing any other justification (eg. no evidence or even claims of fraud required).

Some, if not all, of the legislatures of PA, MI, GA, and WI will be sending their own GOP electors.

Those electors arguably take precedence over electors chosen by other legal processes, like democratic votes, according to the US Constitution. Because this issue does not concern state laws (or fraud allegations) whatsoever, the matter will go directly to federal courts.

Looking past the smoke screen of poorly supported fraud allegations and popular reporting's misdirected focus on the obvious lack of merit of said allegations, last night's impromptu PA legislative hearing was a major turning point in this situation.
Tech-savvy people always seem to miss the mark - but as someone that struggled to get my tech illiterate parents to be productive on a personal computer...giving up and just getting them an iPad was a revelation.

It's not a difficult proposition:

1. iPad for consumption
2. Mac for production

It's really that simple - though the ipad pro kinda blurs that line a little bit - but it's mostly for those creative types that want the "drawing experience" which the mac does not provide, mostly as a response to the Surface line of products. I can see where a graphic designer would have a Mac for "day to day" stuff and then jump to their ipad pro to do their "work drawing". Maybe having the files synced in iCloud so that they can do the final touch-ups on the Mac. Some might just buy the USB tablet or whatever and that's fine for some, but I would think the majority prefer the draw-on-the-screen feel and experience. iPad excels at that, so it makes sense to have the "pro" version with the extra horsepower for that niche market and a premium.
I remember at university, we had a lot of exams with heavy emphasis on essay-based answers where I'd frequently see my friends and peers ask for second and even third answer booklets. As a left-handed person with poor writing technique, writing continuously for a 3 hour exam caused me a fair amount of discomfort and pain, so i'd take a lot of breaks. So when my friends were leaving the exam 30 minutes early, having filled three booklets, I was staying to the very end - struggling to fill even one.

In nearly every example of this, I got (marginally) better grades than them.
Really really doubt this is true.
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I remember asking my dad "can you get me Frontpage, I'd like to create a webpage". He gave me a book on html/css instead and it defined my career.
What Google open sources and doesn't open source is strictly a business decision. The technical details don't matter. Things like Spanner remain proprietary because Google thinks they can make money with it. They charge $10/hour just to have the replicas up and serving traffic; letting Amazon install it and charge $9.95/hour is not something they think is going to make GCP a lot of money, so we don't get the source code. Things like Kubernetes, on the other hand, are open source because Google wasn't "winning" in that area -- to get people to use GCP, they had to get people to break the dependency on proprietary things like CloudFormation. Otherwise, people would just stay at the market leader and not switch to the second place option.

Plenty of people outside Google use protocol buffers, for example; I've run into them at every job I've had since Google, and in plenty of strange places that probably never cross-pollinated with Google (the most surprising place I found them was in Hearthstone). They're pretty popular and people aren't really surprised to see them anymore.

I think there is also a middle ground where people inside Google don't think there's interest, but there is. For example, I very much miss Monarch. I don't think the code is making them a lot of money; my understanding that the Cloud monitoring stuff is completely different. But it is way better than Prometheus or InfluxDB. Queries that are trivial in Monarch you simply can't do with those products. (The one thing I found most valuable in Monarch was that pretty much every query started with an "align" step. And I just haven't seen that anywhere else, so it's hard for me to reason about what the query is actually doing.)

As other people mention, the mere task of picking the transitive closure of dependencies out of google3 is hard. In fact, maintaining a bunch of non-monorepos is a huge chore compared to monorepos once you have the right tool. It's thankless work, literally, so I can believe that's one reason why there aren't more internal Google tools open sourced. But, it can be done if there is some thanks for doing the work. When Google split into Alphabet, work was done to let companies leaving Google take their chunks with them. There just had to be some sort of business reason to justify the tedium.
Who is the house, in this case?
And sometimes rivers over flow and change the landscape, what's your point? The medium and message interact together and have pros and cons to different methodologies. Is painting a bad art form because the canvas is too restrictive to convey a message?
No Perfect Reorg
Web backend work at scale is all about building and maintaining distributed systems. Just consider the company where Go was designed ... And indeed, it's still a language of choice for teaching systems design[1].

[1] MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39...
If you Google phrases similar to the ones cited in the article, you'll certainly find the racist stuff, but most of the top results will be context and rebuttals. You will be in a position to learn the truth (whether you avail yourself of that or not.)

If you're going to design a search engine that responds to factual queries with a single statement, it's reasonable to expect those statements to be true.
Last time I used it: yes-ish. "Tags" are public and posts can be set public (perhaps scoped to the server you're connected to. I don't recall). You can tag bits of content pretty easily (IIRC you prepend a # to any word you like). You then explore the contents of tags like channels. Public posts with tags then show up under those tags.

The SSB/Patchwork creators were discussing a while ago that the network was actually content-centric. They described it as "islands of content" around which people navigated. I'm not gonna try to defend that, only to repeat it.

Anyway... I think this is distracting from the main point. It doesn't _really_ matter if SSB wins out over HTML+CSS+JS+HTTP+RSS+ActivityPub+WebMentions or not. What matters is encouraging people to leave social media walled gardens by giving them tools and reasons to do so. Or, at the very least, somehow giving the content they create an easy means of escape, and bullying the gardens to open windows onto the wider world that don't involve one-way tactics like OpenGraph.
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As far as justifying SUVs go... if you're looking for a nice car, subcompact SUVs cost pretty much the same as sedans while offering a lot more trunk space and nice features like electric seat adjustment, nicer center consoles, etc. that might not always be available on sedans.

In my case, my decision was made by the thousands of poorly calibrated aftermarket LED headlights I regularly see in the US. They blind me all the time in a sedan, but in an SUV I'm just high enough up that I usually don't get totally blinded.
What are slot pointers? Is there somewhere I can read about them?
Here's a related article not behind a paywall

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/53557706
solve the over breeding, no abortions. a African female has 5 kids vs the developed countries which are 2 kids per female.

Africa is underdeveloped having more humans it can not support it is extremely irresponsible
So your justification for owning an inefficient car is that you have a second home? I don't even know where to start with that.
I believe the Swiss Referendum model is similar to what you are describing [0].

However, it has quite a few issues as well.
The three biggest ones I can think of are:

1. Voting on single issues requires very engaged citizens that understand how their voting decisions impact the bigger scheme of things. Essentially it leads to the pitfalls of single-issue politics [1]. Political parties on the other hand, allow people to sort of vote for a direction. Ian Shapiro describes this phenomenon [2], but it is a long read.

2. The transition to and bootstrapping of such a system is very hard. It may work well in Switzerland, but that's because people are used to it and it's established. In a place like the US, where voter turnout is already low for a general election, it is hard to imagine why people would show up for specific issues.

3. If the issue at hand is very important to a small minority, but 99% of people don't really care, voter turnout will probably be low as well.

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/pros-and-cons-of-the-swiss-referendum-...

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-issue_politics

[2] https://shapiro.macmillan.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files...
The thing that's "holding back" the iPad isn't hardware. It's the economics of the App store.

I'm sure Apple are very happy with the niche the iPad dominates in - it leaves plenty of room for Mac laptop sales.
You Need to Spend More Money on Software Tools
> - More car to kill people with in the event of an accident

> Always keep in mind that accidents may involve a person on the other side.

This is self-negated with moves by the broader population towards SUVs. The end result is that SUV on SUV crashes will simply include more mass (structured to crumple more effectively as well) protecting occupants in all cars involved.

Your car buying decision should be strictly around your own safety. Your driving habits must factor in both your safety as well as the safety of others; if someone else drives inappropriately and causes a crash and their wellbeing is impaired or concluded as a result of both their driving habits as well as their use of a less safe car, the fault shouldn't be on you for having a car that's safer for you to drive. Perhaps that's what you meant to convey when you edited my quote.
Very cool concept to have compute and memory unified.
On first glance, this seems to fall in the middle between GPU & CPU based computation, but this is ultimately a graph processor. So no magic computational-memory performance panacea yet unfortunately ;)

I wonder if graph processing might be more broadly applicable than matrix processing as done on GPU's. Atleast 'sprinkeling' computation between memory seems like a good idea for HPC. Moving data is expensive and slow.
If they win, instead the firms could simply give them the rights to remove their data, which honestly none of them would exercise. Not being in the professional sports statistics databases is worse, even for poorly performing players, as it implies that aren't famous or noteworthy enough to be included. Under GDPR a person doesn't get to cherry pick which data to delete right? Either you request all your data to be deleted by a firm or you don't, right?

GDPR clearly needs an exemption for anything that is already publicly available data.
D seems like it would be a great choice for HFT. You get the productivity of GC when you want it and then you can have @nogc for critical sections of your code base.
I don't know why but I love looking at the historical "crudge" that builds up in situations like this! Especially from people that don't specialize in software.
> Player stats have never been licensed to my knowledge.

Of course they are, that's the entire business model of data analytics companies - the customers are:

- clubs and national teams themselves (e.g. German national team coaches Klinsmann and Löw were famous for early adopting data-driven training)

- sports betting services, casinos and similar enterprises

- TV and radio stations so that the commenters can (at an instant) pull facts like "player xyz has a 80% successful pass rate over the last 30 games"

This stuff is called "soccer analytics", the (German) Wikipedia has a decent article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_Analytics
afaik were this to happen France would just import electricity from other countries like it does every day? https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/cross-border-electrici...
heroku connected to amazon, it is also affected.
The fact that you aren't considering asian or jewish immigrants to be American is somewhat telling of your view of America in general. Immigrating to the US for better economic opportunities isn't the US building "on the shoulders of others" as you put it. Those immigrants are Americans, and they are almost exclusively why America sustained technical dominance post WW2.
I think software developers have a range in terms of responsibility from plumbers/electricians to civil engineers. We could save the designation “software engineer” for someone who has to go through the requisite ethics and case study courses like all other engineers. Otherwise maybe programmer/developer. (I’m gatekeeping I guess)
Pretty much. Also, WHOIS privacy is such a mess that I really don't know if I recommend people set up too much stuff themselves what with all the awful people in the world.
The simplest solution might be to detect that a question is heading in that direction, and refuse to answer it. I.e. filtering on the question rather than the answer. And erring on the side of caution is probably prudent.

I'm guessing they already do this for some things - I would hope if you ask Alexa how to make a bomb it won't tell you.
What apple really needs to create and I believe has been positioning themselves to do so for a few years, is a surface like device that runs OSX in docked mode and iOS in undocked mode.
I bet a lot of the owners are parents of toddlers. Getting a child in an out of a childseat is a great deal easier with SUVs. The extra cost in fuel is negligible for most people because they don't do mega miles.
That is a really weird analogy. Using extreme scenarios to argue your point is never going to put you on a strong footing.

Anyway for most systems deployed the customer usually wants to maintain a business using it. If the system constantly falls over, cant be readily changed etc etc that is going to cost the customers business compared to its competitors.

Add that a lot of developers work for the same company as the customer and that is just as much the developers responsibility.

99.999% of bridges built would be expected to hold up 10 years later and require minimal maintenance. I'd wager all bridges even temporary army ones would be expected to not unforeseeably fail. See the Morandi Bridge tragedy.
Successful forex folk seem more inclined towards having a strong understanding of economic balance than trading price action directly, but there are those folk too, with the latter being far more common in the casino end of the market.

As for 'up and to the right', nobody trades forex with cash. Separately from a purely structural perspective, many kinds of spread trades are possible just like in equities, where either leg may not be another currency pair but some other related instrument (energy, bonds, ..).
Legal, cultural, and regulatory solutions require convincing large groups of people, or already occupying a position of social influence or legal/regulatory power. Technical solutions have a lot of positives, one of which is that often one person or a small group can implement them. There's just a lot more potential leverage.
I don't think many people in Europe really prefer SUVs, perhaps it's just the best type of electric car that is on offer or maybe the one with the biggest subsidies.

Of course I speak from my point of view as someone who was raised in The Netherlands. In The Netherlands I never saw many SUVs on the road.

Elon Musk is actually contemplating [0] to produce smaller EVs for the European market and I think those could become very popular indeed. Smaller cars are generally just nicer to use in compact crowded cities.

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[0] https://electrek.co/2020/11/24/elon-musk-tesla-hatchback-ele...
Possibly, yes. If I am unfamiliar with the restaurant, or I have a question regarding their menu or my dietary restrictions, if they do not have a website with an email address or contact form AND they do not react in reasonable time, I will not eat at that restaurant.
Thank you so much for the very interesting and detailed explanation!
For me it's summed up in one of the addict stories that I read somewhere, where the guy said the hallucinogenic "spirits" basically told him to get off hard drugs or they would kill him.

He's been sober since.
https://github.com/evansm7/vftool provides a simple, CLI-based implementation for this.
I feel like the breaking changes must be because they're used to working in a monorepo, where you can just change the code and the clients at once. No need to worry about compatibility
I like the idea of color coding the components as chunks. I think it might be even easier for a beginner to understand that way compared with syntax highlighting.
Interesting but I’m not sure I trust it.

Test 1:

Title A: Trump

Title B: Biden

Winner: B - Biden

Test 2:

Title A: Trump Sucks

Title B: Biden Sucks

Winner: B - Biden Sucks

Note: Sorry about the political stuff. It was just the first one word thing I could think of that would likely have clear winner loser.
Big Data Analytics in Spark
I'm not a free market capitalist, so I'm surprised I"m about to write this... but we should try to get The Market to solve this.

If those of us who're privacy conscious stopped paying Amazon money, we could use that money to create/buy privacy-focused alternatives. I'm not talking about Amazon the shop (although that's a good avenue of attack too), I'm talking about AWS. Stop using AWS. Loudly take your money to another cloud supplier. Amazon competes on volume, so remove the volume. Leave them with warehouses of redundant servers until they have to sell them off. And then buy one.
Your analysis is good, but your synthesis seems absurd. Class conflict would be good for productivity? Clearly no. You made your case for the failure of a society run by financial parasites, but so far it seems they’ve defended against class conflict by converting a huge number of people from a productive and capable working class into financial dependents of income redistribution from the middle class. This has been the character and the result of all such ‘class conflict’ so far, and it only makes things worse.
I fully understand the thermodynamics of ICEs and that every electric motor in a car is easily more efficient in converting power into torque.

However the efficiency of converting sun into electricity is around 35%. While driving your car carries a heavy battery of 100es of kilogramms which can only store 1/3 of energy per volume compared to eg. Diesel.

So in my calculation the net efficiency of diesel is higher.
Hash maps are not functors similarly to how sets are not functors. That is because they do not preserve function composition.