skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As it was in 2007, it is only "mostly dead". I am reminded of this every time I start work on my Dell machine running Windows 10, which is also maybe mostly dead, but not dead enough? Microsoft seems to still occupy living spaces in the enterprise desktop marketplace. So what exactly is mean by death here? Innovation? Dominance? Marketshare?

And death where? The application space? The cloud space? Most comments I've seen here suggest Microsoft still lingers in these domains. Its tentacles still manage to reach Cthulhu-like into spaces that weren't expected.
Tao-Teh-Ching (A Parallel Translation Collection, Boisen, 1996) [pdf]
but it doesn't mention why not to use it.
Well, a good theory should a) not contradict observations and b) allow to make predictions that are confirmed by subsequent observations. So far GR has been delivering on both points, including singularities, so currently there is no sensible reason to suspect that it is not correct.
The most important thing is rest. Especially at the right time to just avoid this syndrome.
i like some ideas to beat blues here: https://ivypanda.com/blog/how-to-beat-the-monday-blues/
"überleben [other thing]"?
Potentially getting their DNS redirected would cost even more. (Also there are no "transfer fees" - although maybe GD unscrupulously does that?) So it's only a time consideration.
Some people run BSD to avoid needing containers. There are different approaches to keeping the entropy under control.
Interactive Brokers has paper trading accounts.
> Assets in registered wallets will simply not be relayed to unregistered wallets.

I find this hard to believe. I think it's more likely that the gov't would treat crypto like fiat, and make it law to report any income in crypto. It's not like you don't have to pay income on any salary you receive as cash, and cash is even moreso untrackable than crypto.
Lessons learned (journaling)
Those here who think that Paul missed the mark on this one either didn't read the article or (more probably) fall into the category of the person he talked to in the story he told. If you experienced personal computing in the 90's and early 2000s, you can appreciate his message as, "Who are these guys and what have they done with the Microsoft that we all knew and feared?"
I think the core assumption of this essay is that innovation can be had only with startups.

This is something I personally believed as well in the past, probably because of my experience with highly hierarchical companies and middle management.

This idea changed after hearing how teams work independently from each other at Amazon.

I'm not sure if this is really the case at Amazon, but I believe that if a company is able to organise itself so that you essentially have an internal market of tiny startups instead of teams (so they have freedom to pursue their products, they can fail and they can be hugely successful) you can replicate most of the startup benefits.

I've been trying to propose this model in the companies I've worked at - but generally there is always some Napoleone on top who vetoes risky bets or force teams to work on non productive endeavours.

You can get approved some practices that give more freedom to individual contributors, but important decisions always need to be directly or indirectly approved on the top.

I'd be curious to know what M$ did internally
Since 23andMe can figure out your geographic origin from your DNA there must be differences. Studying the nature of these differences might make some people uncomfortable but just as with subtle male/female differences, these studies could lead to amazing improvements in medical treatment.
As a fellow Belgian: while that statement is true, even if you would substract the overcounting, Belgium would not really budge in the rankings.
2004? If you ever get the opportunity to travel through time, go back to 2004 and find one person with any tech sophistication that didn't think that about Yahoo search.

Oh, and the article was dead on. There's a lot of examples, but the only one you need to consider is that Microsoft now owns Github.
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Honestly, no I haven't. Whenever I'm trying to build something, I want to get v0.1 out there as quick as possible.

I know there may be issues regarding what you've said, but from my research it varies from country to country (in the US I believe 30hrs is the minimum threshold for full benefits). In hind sight, the language I used on the website is misleading so I'll change that
CRISPR'd Cows: USDA change could accelerate gene-edited animals
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Same here. I don't know why but I do. I know windows software will still basically work after about 10 years, especially now. But I still feel scarred from earlier steam sales where devs just dropped the ball and let their games rot to be only compatible on Windows 7 or jesus even XP.
Even when that's done it never seems to be officially supported. Probably because too much is out of their hands to make any guarantees.
Of course on the individual level Google hoovers up the smartest in the world! As a company though, social network shambles every time haha.

I don't know how they'd mess it up, gut feeling really. I do honestly wish you the best of luck outside of my cynicism!
Apple removes app promoting private parties in pandemic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25581382
I wouldn't be offended, but I would be horrified. It's an awful comparison and one that I'd never make. I'd think poorly of anyone who discounts lives that easily.
From what I've been reading online, Netherlands sounds like a bit of a utopia(!)
I've been working on something like this too (knowledge graph research).

https://github.com/altilunium/Note : Forked from PmWiki
https://github.com/altilunium/rtnF : Re-written from scratch

I'm still struggling to differentiate this from a wiki, since its main feature is still the [[WikiLink]]. The best thing i could think up for now is to modify the wiki's UI and UX for personal note taking usage. To create "networked-notetaking application". Pivoting my research goal from "organization-knowledge-management" to "personal-knowledge-management".

The idea of "knowledge-graph-based social networks" is cool, but dont you think that the "post + comment thread" pattern, the "interest group" pattern and the "one-to-one direct communication" pattern are irreplaceable in a social network ?

Even the wiki itself is using a rudimentary system to simulate those pattern on top of its knowledge graph structure. Lot of people, communicating together by editing the same single page, just like using a single blackboard together. (For example, see the "Talk" page on wikipedia)
Consider that Stadia is not the only cloud gaming platform. Also, even if the overlap between Stadia and consumer Linux is small, it's still probably much bigger than the overlap between Windows and consumer Linux
You can drop a lot of means tested support for the poor. But I don't think it was to abolish all welfare for special needs groups.
Note that I am not for Section 230's removal (mostly because it makes sense to me that platforms should be able to host negative content). However, if it were removed, would that mean bogus reviews become a liability for Amazon?
if 70k a year is very very low to you, you should really start travelling after covid ends. the poorest billion people on this planet live on 1 USD a day each.
These days GCC and clang can inline function pointers in many scenarios even through function calls, but it wasn't the case even a few years ago, and they still fail to inline in many important cases.

Inlining pointers requires doing constant propagation and the compiler can give up if it has to track too much stuff, while in the lambda case, the type of the comparator is always available.

Also lambdas can be removed in the early inliner stage exposing them to more optimization opportunities, while function pointers have to be inlined after constant propagation.

As usual, it is a trade off, so there is no substitute to measuring in your specific scenario.
Cryptocurrencies Are Antifragile
Do you have a full list of reactions? Where can we find that informatiin?
The goalposts (as AI was originally envisioned) are still at the same place, at human equivalent performance in general.

Depending on what is still not solved, people point out different things at different times to illustrate that we aren't there yet.
I meant it economically, in the sense if it is a threat to startups
I don't think their contributions to OSS, or them buying GitHub or NPM, says much about them.

Sure, developer's perception of m$ improved, but the what I find surprising is then buiding Azure / Teams.
But Apple is a US company... lots of US companies take advantage of (domestic) prison labour.

How is the US not part of this discussion???
>It would be one thing to do this in the natsec context, where such an approach is understandable, but it is another for a private company to surveil and intimidate someone who has legally purchased hardware. Video games are amazing entertainment and (sometimes) art, but their importance in the big picture is out of sync with the disproportionate nature of these measures.

I agree with you. However, Nintendo has/makes more money than many countries. I'm sure it's entirely justified in their eyes.

The better topic would be a discussion on how to change our various cultures to act in the greater good first and profits second. Even as I write that, I laugh at the impossibility of it.
My apologies, my comment should have been attached to the parent :)

Thank you for your comment! I agree with, well, all of it -- as it stands now the Agora is decentralized only for users that can control their own infrastructure; and is indeed usable at all only by users with a certain degree of technical know how.

I intend to do what I can to fix this and make the Agora [[maximally inclusive]] -- it is not arcane as a design principle, but rather due to limitations of the current implementation. Put another way, I consider the current implementation just an MVP that might allow us to test some interesting hypotheses and perhaps bootstrap a more inclusive distributed architecture.

https://anagora.org/node/maximally-inclusive
They are saying that if a game runs on Stadia then the vendor must have already done the work to port it to a Linux-based platform, since Stadia is a Linux-based platform.
Because there always will be a risk, and a cost. Protecting everybody from everything at 100% is just impossibly expensive.
Yes. The wacky back-seat epidemiology is new with the many vaccine candidates. Most people won't get an actual choice, they'll be offered what their healthcare provider offers and they can take it or leave it.
I don't see it.

"Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better" as per Taleb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile
It's possible to consider "why has HN found this interesting" without also thinking "this shouldn't be on the site!".

I'm very much onboard with what you wrote, but I too saw this post and wondered what it was about him that took his death to HN's front page.
This is some Cyberpunk crap... If justice doesn't do anything about stuff like these imagine what they would do in the future.
I couldn't find a paper that talks about the specifics of this very problem. The ones I've found in the past fail with outliers like a bike going through stopped traffic and or the scenario above.

The best approach I could think of is they expand the time they're looking at to classify the vehicles before the outlier situations.
It does, in the exact same sentence.
Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety is far from enough
All I'm suggesting is to not be complacent if you've already had the virus. Your immunity, like mine, may not be long-term persistent. Get the vaccine even if you've already had the virus.
> Name another OS you can play AAA games on

I'm very surprised that Apple hasn't tried to tap into this market. I miss gaming since I'm on exclusively on Mac. Once in a while I get an urge to set up Steam etc., but then the effort involved makes it tough for me to overcome the inertia so I leave it at that.

Why don't EA Sport etc., launch native app on Mac? Would someone from the gaming domain/industry comment?
Resting well.

Babies will usually cry because they're too tired to sleep and can't sleep because they're too tired from crying all night. Adults sort of fall into this pattern too, especially when they feel like they need to sleep more, and get too stressed out to sleep. Some of the most productive people and fastest learners know how to fall asleep as soon as they want to, and how to get enough rest.

Siestas too.

Besides sleep, there's relaxation in general. Social media is probably the worst - it floods the brain with things, that aren't all that relaxing, but some mistake it for relaxation because it's mildly entertaining and unproductive. Everyone has a form of relaxation that's refreshing for them, and a form that's unhealthy and addictive. I relax well with Netflix, but many feel stressed out with it and binge on bad shows.

The better you rest, the more you enjoy life, reduce depression, and the harder you can push yourself.
Anyone know what rewriting for M1 actually entails? Guessing maybe you just recompile all your libraries for M1 and fix any errors and warnings that crop up.
Yes, I talk about stuff that bothers me. I feel rather well (thankfully I'm one of those who have options - I feel bad for poorer people though), but there isn't much to say about that here, this forum's audience doesn't like people posting things like "I like that" or "Thank you" (I tried, got downvoted to hell). I treat people just alright, don't worry about that - different viewpoint is not treating people badly.

I don't see how that's relevant to Star Trek and Star Wars not being a useful model of reality. As I said, I like these TV shows (I love Star Trek! Just rewatching DS9...), but it's entertainment and nothing more. These TV shows made people believe computers will never be creative, and look what happened - computers are more creative than logical. Check out some real life AI-focused philosophers, e.g. I like this institution: https://www.cevast.org/.
I love Stripe and everything about it: their main product, docs, website, risk-taking with new products. They are one of the very, very few net-positive VC-backed companies to come out of Silicon Valley. I'm going to be sad when they go public though and things inevitably start changing for the worst. I hope the 2 brothers stay active with the company and continue to steer it in a good direction even when all the shareholders are breathing down their necks.
Yes, Valve steered towards Linux right at the time Microsoft made some noise about privileging its store, when they were bent on mimicking Apple in all things. MS seem to have come to their senses later on, but by then Valve had built too much stuff to throw it all away.

This should really be a case study: don’t piss off your customers and developers before you have all your ducks in a row. Something that clearly others have not learnt, e.g. RedHat with their CentOS fumble a few weeks ago.
> And I actually admire their soft touch approach.

Interviewing family members, hiring someone to build a schedule of your coming and goings, and so on... Does not seem like a "soft touch" approach to me. To be frank, it's something I would expect of the Yakuza, not a game company.
I was taking it to mean 70k a year to burn, with all of the "normal people" bills like mortgages and car payments.
There's something deeper at the core of his observation IMO -- that our consciousness has some connection / dependence to the universes overall notion of symmetry through it's biological make up. His theory of consciousness looks at these quantum microtubules that are found in proteins ... so what he's saying is that maybe there is some sort of computational power within "wet brains", in how those brains relate to the broader environment that is difficult to precisely characterize. Silicon AI is fundamentally incapable of tapping in to these forces due to the lack of such a connection.

The point is that the computational power of the brain may be non-local and non-constrained to the physical dimensions or neural capacity of the brain.
That's true. It got rich by selling weapons to war criminals and hidden bank accounts to tax evaders.

That and chocolate and pharmaceuticals.

It would still be nice for them to make a first step.
Agreed wholeheartedly. The level of discourse on here exceeds all other forums and has managed to do so while avoiding the increasing trend of culture wars on social forums.

I definitely think the mods are the key. As well as the trend of simplicity. It really keeps things focused on where they should be - good discussion.
Yes, after a big outbreak. I was talking about the time, when there were a few single cases. In Munich, this worked once, in Heinsberg, it mostly worked, but there the spread was larger due to the infected attending an event. And a lot of cases in Germany were caused by one person in Ischgl which acted completely foolish.
You were not kidding. I checked the top Science & Technology 18 streams. 14 were using Windows.
The other key take-home is that nobody got a serious case so that's 100% effective at preventing the collapse of the healthcare systems of the world.

It's really good news all round.
US approves sale of $290m in bombs to Saudi Arabia
And unless you are in a high risk group, there will be millions more that will have gotten the vaccine before you even have the chance to make that choice.
The moral of the story seems to be to only publish such research anonymously?
You're right, the overall goal is clear to everyone. But progress in AI is often dismissed because it doesn't achieve that final goal, regardless of how impressive the progress is; cf the first part of the quote:

> They keep pushing it to later!
I am someone who spends enormous amount of time mindlessly skimming through internet glued to my phone. It makes me worry that due to this habit it will be difficult for me to do any novel work due to lack of deep thinking.
> I've invested significant effort in working and having a job, and, I wouldn't have have done that if I knew I could have still "gotten by" without

I have massive doubt about that statements from a social and behavior perspective.

Imagine you were transported to a society where housing, food health care, and entertainment was free, but you belong to the lowest social economic status group that existed. Everyone else are above you in term of status. While cultural rules and norms dictate that people still treat you nice, they will not see you as their equal. Members of the other sex will, for reason which is not needed to be specified, select others with higher status. Your social circle will be much smaller, possible zero. Siblings and family members might treat you differently than those of higher status. Your stress levels will be on average higher than of other people, and your health lower.

Would you be happy? Housing, food, health care and entertainment is after all still free.
Robots, labor markets, and universal basic income
Tit-for-tat is fine, but don't at the same time write a letter demanding the ACM bans cancel culture.
If the software is new or obscure then it'll be blocked by Defender unless the user knows the override ritual. Code signing may help.
You can have manual tests (automated through VBA if you wanted) and reviews. The review tools are lesser known features built into Excel. I know from my experience accounting firms will take your spreadsheets and code too and audit it. I’ve worked with bankers who would effectively run a suite of tests before using their updated spreadsheets. These concepts aren’t unique to programming.
https://www.securitynewspaper.com/2018/05/04/make-subdomain-...
To piggyback on this, Nintendo has profited from using forced prison labor in China and prison labor in the USA. Both are defined as slave labor by domestic and international law.

It's not surprising that massive multinational corporations engage in unethical practices, but these free market activities are perfectly legal in their respective jurisdictions.

I'd agree that spying on families for modifying video game products is unethical. I'd also argue that slavery is unethical. It's really eye-opening once you realize the scope of slavery and other unethical practices when it comes to our major everyday corporations.

Uyghurs, Falun Gong adherents, and other political dissidents make up most of the slave population in China. Many of them work in growing and processing cotton, and the largest Western clothing companies rely on this cotton. Many people are wearing, eating, and using products of slave labor right now without even realizing it.
I just finished the course and what a complete pile of garbage. It seems to reinforce group think more than anything. They ask for a lot of free form responses that are graded by peers and it's obvious that there is a correct and an incorrect point of view. I'm not sure which I'm more afraid of, unaccountable corporations or self appointed technocrats.

They talk about ethics washing but don't seem to consider that this course is a part of that cycle.
I understand what you are saying but it cannot fall on existing communities to accept people who doesn't align with the communities goal.

And to your real question: its nothing different than saying movies and video games inspires a CRAZY PERSON to do harm.
I can read 'Mein Kampf' without building gas chambers, and I'm sure you can too.
Awesome site, thanks for it! I am going to switch to it! One request: on mobile, when going back to HackerDaily from clicking a link, it loads the HackerDaily page at the top, so that I have to scroll back down to where I was. Minor inconvenience, but compare it to HN where I browse back, and HN loads right where I was. Again, thanks for this!
Losing the web is forgivable in retrospect: the web is a very big place and MS still has a very respectable Internet business thanks to Azure. What they can't be forgiven for is their focus on winning the living room rather than investing in mobile. If PocketPC had followed the same consumer/developer-centric trajectory as XBox, I think the mobile world would look very different today.
>The better topic would be a discussion on how to change our various cultures to act in the greater good first and profits second. Even as I write that, I laugh at the impossibility of it.

We don't do politics here, but this sounds very much like Capitalism vs Communism, just in the sense of "Greed Motivation" vs "Community Motivation"

Of course, greed motivation always ends up consuming any ideology, even those not specifically built on top of it, doesn't it?
Lone dev in low-cost country (Romania) and seemingly churning out a title every few months. Say 5 titles per year at 30 euros with 200 customers is 30.000 EUR per year, or 2500 per month - a very respectable salary even in countries like Italy or France. Throw in a couple of freelance contracts and you’re doing pretty well.

The only limit, really, is that it works only as long as there are very few competitors.
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