skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No disrespect intended, but unless you have insider information, this is almost certainly luck and, used as an example, is simply selection bias.

The markets have never been more efficient. Beating the market consistently over 5 years, particularly these last 5 years, which have been part of an unprecedented bull run in the market, means nothing. There's been many hedge fund managers who pulled off outsized returns over those sorts of timeframes only to go on and fail in subsequent endeavours.
>> A terrible analogy, they aren't hurting anybody,

> Hence the term boiling the frog

Tell that to the frog!
Doesn't work on Safari (14.0.2). No sound. Had to fire up Firefox to hear the notes.

Also, site is not secure (no https).
A few different outlets have tried this over the years, and it's never gone that well, as far as I know. I think that was originally the model for Tinypass, which merged with Piano Media. Not sure if they still offer that model or not, but it's the most recent I can think of.

The reality is that for all but the largest news sites, this model won't really work. Say you're in a medium-small city. Even in your best case scenario of like 50% of the population reading your site, you'd still only likely get such a small sum per-article (10-20k pageviews, maybe?) that you'd still have to supplement revenue with advertising and other revenue streams. And now you're back where you started!

I love the idea, but I just struggle to see it happen at scale.
Why colon?
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I think that's true. But nevertheless it's not right that those from certain backgrounds should have to do this work while those from others do not.
I could easily take pictures of you in public with a phone and there’s nothing you can do about it.
I’ve already had a drone hovering outside Daughters bedroom window.

A couple of years ago, a guy up the street got a "drone" for Christmas, and spent the next couple of weeks flying into the backyards of everyone on the block, presumably to look in the windows or see what else he could get away with. I don't know why he thought that was a good idea, especially since the thing was noisy as hell.

It stopped suddenly. I don't know if someone called the police, or hit it with a tennis racket, or what. But by Saint Valentine's Day he was back to racing his remote controlled cars up and down the block, instead.
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I really like this method as opposed to using a bare Git repository. For one, it's conceptually simpler in my mind; you don't have to understand Git internals to get this working. Secondly, this lets you pick and choose which config files you want to "install" on a machine.

I feel obligated to share my Bash script, dotfiles.sh[1], that accomplishes what Stow does, but with a few tweaks that I found particularly useful:

dotfiles.sh targets the user's home directory by default (i.e. stow -t $HOME).

dotfiles.sh never symlinks directories, only files (i.e. stow --no-folding). (This was the straw that broke the camel's back and made me roll my own script in the first place.)

dotfiles.sh makes backups of local config files and can restore them if you remove your symlinked version.

My script is quite old now, and I use it so seldomly I'm not convinced there aren't bugs. YMMV.

[1]: https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dotfiles
How did Tuchu's highlighting compared to the abstract?
Or at least have Apple send them Mac Mini hardware not in a Mac Mini case that would hopefully lead to a more integrated or robust solution than a computer sitting in a sled. Would this be beneficial?
You can bind to the loopback interface so the server isn't exposed to the network. I am not sure if Windows will choose to show the scary dialog in this case. To be absolutely sure, according to Stack Overflow you can request admin privileges (standard for Windows installers of course) and add a firewall rule yourself allowing any network communication you want.
People do not need educating not to spy on teenage girls with drones, they do not need training to not do it.
I put it into my no-longer-in-use hardware shelf. It tends to "light the darkest hour" for me (e.g. on unexpected failure of my new daily drivers)
Yup, this is true. But that is not unlimited. I doubt if most central bankers would accept taking the health of major indices as a target. If some indices start to look very overvalued, or if pumping the markets starts to cause inflation more generally, then there will be a pressure to take the punch bowl away. Interesting times.
I don't think systemd-homed does anything for dotfiles, let alone portable dotfiles. The user record only contains (the path to) a skeleton directory used to create the homedir if it doesn't already exist. Populating such a newly-created homedir with your dotfiles is still your responsibility.
I'd use it if its sync capabilities weren't iCloud-only.

From a business and development point of view I totally get why they opted for iCloud: It allows them to focus on their core business and delegate the supporting domain of data synchronisation to someone else.

Unfortunately, since for my own business I'm using Google Workspace and Google Drive that's not really an option for me.

Bear rightfully claim that they're GDPR-compliant. However, they're kind of just delegating that issue, too, since Apple, in contrast to Google, doesn't provide a GDPR-compliant data processing agreement to business customers. It's debatable if such an agreement is really necessary in this case but as with all things GDPR it's better to tread carefully.
Thats exacly my point; when the police is under increased public scrutiny this type of dodgy shit gets offloaded to the private sector with little to none public interest of oversight.
In order to have stuff that can be passed around, whether digitally or physically, people have to agree on who owns what, in what state, and where it is. In the real world, government and physics basically do this for us. In the digital world, private companies and their apps are usually the ones setting the rules and hosting the services, and as you said, you can trust them or not. But blockchains offer another option - to have logic and assets that exist independently. Yes, we have to agree that Bitcoin or whatever is that thing, but network effects should pull apps together, just like today we are on one Internet and not many intranets. I don't really like theorizing about it though. This just has to be demonstrated, and people have to want to use these apps. Curious to know what you think of Run!
> our elders ... dies more then young people

Um, yes? That's what happens when you get old. It's not lack of humanity, it's just reality.

I see no infrastructure, or tech, or social changes that will stop people from getting old and dying.
I made a similar site to Tuchu a while ago that attaches the highlights to the pdf: https://anishthite.github.io/ailight/. It's a bit slow though, I've been trying to get it to run faster.
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Thanks for the great catch. Fixed.
Lots of historic reasons for why Canada and the USA build with wood, but beyond that and going forward, I expect we're going to see even more of a pivot toward wood buildings as both countries try to meet their climate goals. Concrete is a big CO2 emitter while wood is CO2 storage.
>If you don’t like their computing model then don’t use it. Railing that they aren’t supporting your vision lockstep is pretty freaking arrogant.

If you don't like/agree/see value in this persons comment then why are you engaging with them? That's how silly your position sounds.

Now back to the substance of your comment.

>Or maybe different people have different needs and don’t care if every device is “open”.

How could "not open" be a need of someone?

>These are tools. Does the tool do what I want with the least amount of friction? That’s what they care about.

How does an Apple engineer documenting the design add friction in any way to what you're doing?

> Indeed Apples existence and continually pushing computing in new areas has benefited everyone in the last 40 years - whether you use Apple or not.

Apple has helped popularize the smartphone as a consumer device to consume music/media, do light business on (emails, IM, documents, etc) and do a few minor creative tasks digitally such as drawing, music, etc. They do get a lot of credit for that. They have also co-created an application platform for other businesses to sell software. But then they robbed 30% of their sales too - They get negative credit for being so greedy.

Your argument that they have "continually pushed computing" is a bit of a stretch. Give us your best argument/examples/facts.
In such cases it’s normally intent that matters. A lot of laws are based around intent, which might seem like a huge issue but that’s why terms like ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ are used.

If you’re regularly selling photos from your regular drone flights then that’s hard to argue about. But a once off because you happen to take a news worthy photo is another story.
Why are you comparing apples to oranges and claiming to care about science at the same time?

We're comparing the violent and fatal attacks of one breed of dogs with violent and fatal attacks of other dogs. How or why are you comparing that with bath-tub drowning? Might as well compare it with car accidents too.

Even if I come to entertain your train of thought, drowning in a bath tub isn't the same as watching your own four years old child's limbs get torn one after the other, and bleeding to death infront of your own eyes while being helpless against the beast (one example, hundreds more exist clicks away if you choose to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pYVPeQKDeI)

Plenty of people provided scientifically backed links in this thread of evidence that pitbulls, as commonly understood and anyone can define with their own eyes, are responsible for the majority (over 70%) of fatal and violent attacks. You've chosen to ignore all of those and provide a SINGLE case of a "professional victim", while at the same time laughing and telling us multiple anecdotes mean nothing when we gave you hundreds of videos of dead children, dead elderly and horribly wounded adults and pets, all with their full names, locations and exact circumstances proving the animal was a pitbull.

I don't even understand where is your passion coming from. By banning their adoption, those dogs won't get hurt. The existing ones will live in their homes for the duration of their natural life and the shelters won't have to resort to tricking people into adopting them (https://www.toledoblade.com/local/2012/03/18/Many-shelter-do...).

What's the harm to society if the US adopts the same UK regulations? Or what's the good to society by keeping these dogs around for adoption?

Me and others here for the BSL, are doing it after experiencing or hearing about horrifying experiences from these very strong dogs and what they can do to a child, elderly or even a strong adult.

Are you trying to somewhat equate this to racism or something? Because it is not. All humans adapt and become civilized and equal to one another through education and parenting regardless of race. That's not the same for animals. A snake will remain a snake, and a tiger will remain a tiger. A wolf can become a dog, but only after many many generations of select breeding. A pit-bull with violent history killing pets won't become a fluffy playful doggy just because you're smiling at it.
We reached an inflection 'amazing!' point when we are able to put '100 songs in your pocket'. That was really a shocking thing given the limitations of CD/Tape etc..

But the real inflection point may come when 'all relevant information in your local disk'. The tapes here in question can maybe store every book every written!

We may be able to put the entirety of Wikipedia, every film, TV Show ever made, every book every lecture on a little disk.

The only thing we'd need to access in realtime would be contemporary data like traffic flows, weather situation etc..

The ability to store 'that much data quickly and easily' locally, may quite fundamentally change the equilibrium we have right now with the cloud and lead to a more natural decentralization.

"All of YouTube from 2008 until the present, 99 cents at the local gas station, on usb-like contraption"
AutoDelegate (AI productivity tool) is hiring a front end “founding” engineer
It would, for the younger age group and it will probably move that way. But the current generation often (but not always) have little interest or grasp of technology, especially computers and games. Additionally with dementia and general cognitive decline it makes it hard to learn new systems and games even if there is interest. But for the gaming generation, care homes certainly look brighter. Imagine the levels of VR in 20-50 years time!
I started using https://www.bandlab.com/ soon after lockdown started.

It's a collaborative DAW that allows you to record, save, and mix music in the cloud, and even lets you share access and collaborate in real time with others. It was great for sharing ideas with my band when we couldn't really meet up and play in person.

It has a few performance/audio syncing issues being in the browser, but for what we use it for it's an amazing tool.
Different things at different times. In this case just that Apple knows Mac Stadium is one of their bigger Mac mini customers and works with them.
Birdshot?
Does this work with sunglasses and facemasks?
> long term care insurance

LTC insurance is a scam. They will do everything they can to not pay, and most LTC facilities have an organizational structure that makes that possible.
This is geared for enterprise settings, not home use. I believe someone mentioned these drives costing $25,000. I do agree reasonably priced tape drives with TB of space for home users would be great.
High velocity low mass shot pellets propelled in the drone’s general direction via pyrotechnics or similar?
iOS 9 and below, IIRC, the timer app stopwatch screen would really flake out after 1000 hours. By 'flake out' I mean it would slow down the updating a lot - screen got somewhat jerky and slow to respond.

From iOS 10 onwards, 1000+ hours doesn't seem to phase it at all - no slow downs.

source: 1490:43:24 ago I started my timer, but I can't remember why now.
Like Intel, Apple has chosen to add some instructions to the processor which accelerate certain operations (in this case matrix operations). Unlike Intel, Apple has not yet chosen to actually document the M1 architecture. This is where a vertically integrated company like Apple (or IBM back in the day) can leverage "inside knowledge" about their chips to achieve performance that is not readily comparable (or reproducible) on a different instruction set architecture (ISA).

Historically (see IBM vs Memorex) obscuring your interfaces has been a losing proposition in the long term, even while delivering favorable margins in the short term. Unlike Intel which needs to get third parties to write software for their chips, Apple writes their own software and so it means they can hold on to their advantage while third parties (like the author of the post) reverse engineer what is going on.

It will be "historically significant" if Intel adds a feature to their chips in order to stay competitive with this development. The last time they did that was when AMD introduced Opteron. All in all, its basically just a puzzle that people who are interested in how things work get to work on in their spare time.
I once had an unexpected deposit show up in one of my IRA brokerage accounts. Given the size of the amount, it must've been a transfer. Anyway, I called up the broker and they said they would figure it out, just don't touch the money. It took a good 3 or 4 months, but it was eventually reversed.
> A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in.

I think about this quote often in my day to day programming. Object oriented programming is so full of stateful objects and it's easy for programmers to add listeners to all sorts of events. Even on the cloud side now you have all these micro services and trigger functions and small changes can have cascading consequences.
I mean if that were true then he could afford rent, clothing, a $10 library card, healthcare, education, etc.

Like there's this peculiar mentality in America that is absolutely psychotic. While those so called "menial tasks" are no doubt important, rather invaluable to functioning of society, we should not imply let alone pretend, that they provide enough. So in terms of sheer economic value, if we believe our current way of measuring labor, those "menial tasks" are in fact not valuable. Because if they were they could provide a decent life, let alone being able to provide roof over your head.

What I find bewildering is how so many Americans, even here, can justify the sheer waste of time, and psychological trauma, with "If he graduated with minimal debt and was able to get a good paying job, I'm not seeing the societal waste".

Such justifications either feel like exuding gross privilege or worse a result of some mass Stockholm Syndrome.
1 month rent penalty.

The move did not save me money considering the security deposit and moving costs despite the lower rent, infact it cost me 200$. But i got a bigger home in a nicer area. Well worth the 200$ it cost me overall.
> Most things that are faster or more flexible than NumPy are much more alien and difficult to work with.

Yes, this is a better statement of the optimal trade off in NumPy.

> same style of programming could be implemented in a library or language where those operations really do take advantage of parallel hardware

I think this is well vindicated by Theano, Tensorflow and APL before them.
While building a tea timer I naturally stumbled into this exact solution.

Edit: sencha.app for those curious
I imagine trucks will become mobile drone carriers with drones landing and taking off with packages as they travel through the city.

I saw a mockup video of this once. I think it was for UPS, but I might be remembering that part wrong. The upshot was that it's not useful in cities, but could be used to make exurban and rural deliveries much more efficient because the delivery truck doesn't have to trundle down a bunch of long driveways.
That's good. But when will it ever move out of the enterprise market?

What I really want is an affordable Tape storage for us common folks / home users to archive data long term. It's really a pain to keep transferring your old backups every 2-5 years to a new CD / DVD / portable HDD. There is a market for home users that really don't want to put their data on the "cloud". And this generation is really creating so much data, some of which, I am sure they would like to store long-term.
I had a 1 month lease penalty clause. I thought it was pretty standard.
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There are many electric vehicles that look normal. Tesla’s truck is not one of them.
Without even drones, trucks could be motherships that dispatch deliverers on electric scooters for the last quarter mile. Scooters could catch up with the truck, dock to recharge and get new packages and then roll out again
Inflation most strongly acts on those who have no alternative, and only save in currency.

Broadly speaking, this means the financially unsophisticated.

It doesn't necessarily mean the poor, as (a) they have debt > savings, (b) modern inflation primarily accrues in assets rather than staples, & (c) competition for employees inflates base wages (if low unemployment).
Interesting idea. I thought that everything in business is automated already. Can you give some examples?
Fundamentally it's the economic reality that determines norms. In demand people are tautologically treated well. It's relatively easy to negotiate when you have bargaining power. A tech worker can simply tweet or post on HN and something will happen. Just look at Timnit Gebru or the poster in this very thread who petitioned a high-ranking employee at Stripe. For non-tech people this is inconceivable science-fiction. For them, regaining bargaining power implies mass unionization and social unrest. If your status is strongly diluted the response has to be proportionally strong to have any effect. It has happened before multiple times, which is the reason we can work 8 hours a day today and have some standard of rights as opposed to say the 19th century.

Technically you are quite correct: it's up to non-tech people to decide to be treated better. But the reality behind that phrase hides a far more complicated reality than the mere words would imply. Just saying that you'd "rather work in a field where people show basic respect" completely elides the reality of the situation. It's like telling a trucker who just got automated "Well just learn some code and work harder, buddy!"
Seconded on recommending factfulness. It's been very helpful to me in seeing the world more the way it is rather than in the negative light you'd get from watching sensational media only.

I actually made a preview of iirc ~10 pages that I found to be very powerful near the beginning of the book, but I don't just want to post it to avoid copyright issues. Shoot me an email at factfulness202012@lgms.nl (just link this comment in the subject or so, no body needed) if you are interested.
- blogging - I'm trying to write as much as possible, but never ending feeling of being tired doesn't help

- being a parent of 2 - it's really time-consuming, but rewarding :)

- developing small/silly games with Construct 3

- working out in general, as I've planned to get back to tricking soon (haven't done it in 7 years!)

- playing games (very casually: Stardew Valley, Spider-Man on PS4, etc.)

- programming (some open/closed source projects)
Doesn't really sound like it's aimed at you. Tape is for serious long-term, high-volume storage. If you've got a limited budget for the tape device it's probably not designed for you in the first place.
Love that last line! Wonder what will happen drm wise in the future if we get to this point.
Completely off topic, but: Do you have a blog or a twitter feed? I've been reading your comments on HN for a while, and you often have insights and observations that I find valuable.
Round half up is the typical expectation for most people in rounding to the nearest whole value.

It isn't displaying a "fake" time, it's rounding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_up

Edit: Note, Round Half Up != Round half away from zero but that isn't important for this scenario :D
The idea of police drones flying around is honestly even worse
Should I be worried that I identify with each and every of those three camps?

Depending on the project at hand - and perhaps also depending on the day - I am any one of the three?

My one extra nuance would be the "less is more" attitude rooted in UNIX tradition.
It was about 10 days after the incident that he was in custody. What did the 3 eye witnesses say? Did they make positive identifications? Did the officers involved in the initial incident claim he was the same person? Were any of the 7 officers the same ones who encountered him in the hotel? How about the hotel staffer? Did they make a positive ID? Was 'Jamal' a hotel guest?

Seems like there should be a discussion about all of this in the article.

Facial recognition as the sole evidence must not be used to make arrests.
Is it really so hard to add a flag -safe that rejects or warns on garbage like what's in Prelude (lazy IO, partial functions)?
The vacancy/spec tax spiked the amount of rentals hitting the market the year it came into effect, adding 8000-11000 that year depending on if you factor in new builds.

You're only gonna get that big impact one time, but it goes to show that the tax was worth doing.

Doesn't solve the problem by itself, but the tax will help.

The amount of units that suddenly appeared showed that there was a small percent of units "leaking" from every new build that never hit the market.