skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very cool piece of trivia. I don't think anyone would presume the fax machine predates the telephone.
this README.md should be a template for all readmes, bravo
What is the purpose of a human life? If my phone is recommending a course of action that is “best practice” for my life, surely the answer to this philosophical and political question has been answered rather than just assumed by engineers based on the perception of current societal norms of a subset of the global population.

Imagine the power you’d have if you had people literally following orders based on a system of life that you’ve designed. And follow it they might if the perception of outcomes is positive.
While it’s true that the maximum tax rates in Eisenhower’s time were much higher compared with our own, they also only phased in at almost 10X more income - to hit the max tax bracket back then you needed to have an inflation adjusted income of over four million a year versus the $518,401 for today.

Moreover, such taxes seem terribly unfair for a person who works hard to get a single payout one time, versus a steady high income for many years - someone who makes ten million one time and then nothing else for nine years gets FAR more taken from them that a person who earns a million a year for ten years, despite the same total earnings.

Why should the first person have to pay so much more than the second?
On top of that - avgeeks will buy up ANYTHING plane related, so there's an easy market to serve there
Not sure how the article is using the terms because it’s paywalled.

Generally “conservative” means maintaining the status quo. You could see how “progressive” might be the opposite if that. It’s interesting when you apply the older “liberal” label which would mean generally permissive. Obviously that label makes no sense whatsoever when describing San Francisco. In this case it sounds like they are describing entrenched interests as conservative because they want to conserve the current state of affairs. They are opposed to progress. Therefore the people opposite them must be progressive.
Can we get a 2 minute hate pile on, about how these damned wobblies are anarchists or whatever and their very words are too dangerous for civil society? Ain't that how this goes?
Whilst I agree with the sentiment, I disagree with the message.

If I don't message my sister via Facebook she won't see it. She doesn't do email for private stuff and she's not going to install another app.

If I don't message my mother via WhatsApp she's not going to get it. She doesn't understand what the fuss is and WhatsApp is already complicated for her.

I'd love to be able to message people with zero extra effort but the fact is it's a non-zero amount between us and in the end I'm the one who has to go the extra yard.

I know this because I've not had a FB account in over 7 years now. Facebook's not necessary but it sure as hell is easier.
Residential and commercial are closely linked within a geography. Eg, workers need somewhere to live. Eg, prop 13 applies to both residential and commercial property.
> For example, if you claim "I did X over the weekend" and I reply with "I call bullshit", it implies not only that I doubt your claim, but also that at least to some extent I care whether it is true, and also that you care whether I believe you or not (or at least that I think you care).

This doesn't refute anything, in fact it reinforces the theory! Why did I make a claim about what you did over the weekend at all other than to signal to you about it? And of course I care what you think, because that's the entire point of social signalling.

I could say your entire response was a signal itself, and you're not consciously aware of how signalling is driving your behavior. At this point the theory becomes useless.

A good theory has hypotheses that can be (in)validated.
> Privacy is liberty and property is property. Unreasonable search and seizure is unreasonable and prohibited (even if there is no current effective remedy) in all cases, not just criminal justice.

Your water utility voluntarily selling information about your water usage to the government is not unreasonable search and seizure, and does not deprive you of any property.

I don't think you're going to meet a lot of legal success by framing privacy in this context.
> People in the mainstream are /already/ assuming the worst case scenario

People in the mainstream don't understand what the worse case scenario is.

They give up their information and don't see any obvious consequences because they don't understand what the consequences actually are. The data gets used for things like price discrimination, which you're not even aware is happening, but then that "free" service ends up costing you $250/month.

Partisans spend all day calling one another fascists and communists, never thinking what would happen with the data in these companies if a government at the level of totalitarianism that existed in actual reality during the 20th century came to power in the 21st.
Ok, let's take another example.

The leading COVID-19 vaccine involves a lot of computers. From the production of the mRNA strands to the setup of the supply chains to communications between scientists.

And there are few things that we need more than an effective COVID-19 vaccine in order to lead a good life right now.

The computerized chain that got GP his camera is similar the the one that is used in the making of the vaccine.

GP's camera is just icing on the cake.
This seems like The Onion. Airplane wine has always been pretty terrible to me and only purchased due to being stuck in a plane with nowhere else to go.

Not sure how this will make more than just liquidating and eating the loss.
thank you for commenting this, it lead to an amazing thread.
if we're an ancestor simulation inside a universe-sized computer, the computer revolution itself is just a simulation, too.
I have a slow-moving side project in Racket. I picked it up for its reputation for being the Python of the Scheme world, but I think the analogy doesn't hold up and you're better off accepting Racket on its own terms. Racket doesn't have the standard library of Python, nor does it have the syntax, nor would you structure a program in the same way. Indeed, I think the idea of bringing a more Python-like syntax to Racket would only delay the realization that Racket is not Python with an inferior standard library, but a totally different animal.

I'm excited about Chez for the performance gains, and I think it's really nifty that it allows more of Racket to be written in Scheme.
I would say that Harari is probably a good deal more approachable than Heidegger. :)
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. The cheering on of censorship is something that haunts me more daily, and will be remembered as a great failing of our civilization for hundreds of years if things get worse.
The network effect only acts if enough people in your network use it. It is subject to a threshold with a sigmoid activation. If only three people in a group of ten want to use Signal, it's different than if 7 want to switch. So right now, as most folks use Whatsapp, it favours Whatsapp far more than it favours Signal.

It also depends on your level of seniority in that group. If you are a junior member, they likely won't switch, but if you have the social clout, you might be able to get them to switch.

For the same reason, Facebook was initially open to only Harvard, then to a few other ivies, until it opened to all colleges in the USA and Canada. If your high school friend who made it to the the highly esteemed college uses the service you are more likely to switch than if it were the reverse situation. Later these people get into important positions of society and if you want to network with them, you too can use FB.
TIL! Thank you so much for this. I didn't know.
they are when reductionism is the only tool in your toolbox!
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Wanting to keep things they way they are or go back to the way they once were is a conservative cause. Otoh, progressives pushing to allow change are motivated by environmental and social justice causes.
I had some of the best wines in the world while flying. Not on AA though.
...or, at least halfway there (both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines require two doses). One dose is probably already somewhat useful, but how useful is not super-well characterized.

Still, it's a lot more than a month ago.
Didn't a version of this have a MemoryStick or Duo port? Probably for the Mavica camera.
I'm not sure I agree, but I certainly think it's possible that that's the bigger threat.

I don't think it changes the calculus, though. WhatsApp will be concerned with all serious threats to their market share, and I certainly would disagree with the position that diminished network effects isn't up there.
Emirates or Etihad or something? Some first class cabins seem to have nicer food + wine than most restaurants.
I don't have any proof of this because that's the one I have, but I wondered if the brass versions would get discolored quickly because of interacting with the wine. Stainless is easy to clean.
>The rest of the world needs to catch up. They're behind the times.

It's not about the times. It's about biology, people are born with this type of behavior that is as biologically ingrained as heterosexuality or homosexuality. Humans tend to group with each other based off of race. This occurs everywhere including with Japanese and Chinese people born in the US. If you ever grew up in a community of people where there was a large enough mixture of Caucasians and minorities you will see that races group together automatically little incentive from others even though everyone more or less shares the same culture of being born in the same country.

You can't expect culture to override biology. What you see in the west is the unique phenomenon and everywhere else is basically displaying the biological norm. Because of biology this phenomenon is unlikely to establish itself as the norm for the majority of human existence. You cannot overwrite biology.

If you go to another country and your face stands out like a sore thumb expect to be treated differently everywhere because of nature, don't expect everyone to come to their senses and implement total equality.

The best you can hope for is equal treatment under the law, but the law is an ideal that is a caricature of the actual reality. If you have a two foot long nose, you will be treated differently in every country you go to, no amount of equality in the law can fix this.

I can cite tons of evidence for the biological origins of this "racist" behavior if that's the direction we want to take this. Either way I don't agree to even attack minor "infractions" or call it racism because it can't ever be fixed.

What can be fixed is deep racial hatreds and actual racial tensions. White people enslaving black people then segregating them and shooting them under the cover a "crime" is a real issue. White people forcing and enslaving chinese people to build rail roads is actual racism, Hitler killing Jews is racism. Other things are unfix-able and minor and therefore I wouldn't group it with the atrocities committed above.

Not to mention when a white guy goes to an Asian country they often actually can get "better" treatment along with the "bad" treatment just because of the privilege associated with the caucasian race. It's often one of the reasons why white people go live in another Asian country because Asian girls are "easier" and more "beautiful." No doubt if you lived in Asia it's likely you've taken advantage of this "reverse" racism.

By all means take advantage of it, I see nothing wrong with it, but don't expect total equality, we all know it's not going to happen if we're all perfectly honest with ourselves... especially if you're already taking advantage of the inequalities that benefit you.
How many countries are there where people don't wear jeans?
> For what it's worth I think you are wrong.

I'm happy for disagreeing opinions.

> But once it is mature

You may be right, and if it turns out that you are I'll happily change my opinion. But it seems like you agree that currently centralization is the way to go for an app like Signal. Honestly I'd love to see Signal decentralized, but I don't think it is the right move right now or in the near future. But given what you said I still don't think it means it is the right time to call for decentralization. Signal doesn't have to be the leader in advancing decentralization technology. They are already leading in secure and private communication and I don't think such a small group can be experts in too many things. They got their niche and I'm happy someone is doing it.

I'm curious though, why do you think decentralization will move faster in the future? What advantage do you see in that? I've always seen decentralization as lagging in updates because it is more difficult to get users to update and software can't exist in isolation (software rots).
A lot of rich retirees, and the only blue county in Wyoming. It might be an interesting place to WFH from, though that part of the country isn’t cheap, even crossing over into Montana things are unusually expensive.
This is a weird ambiguous question. Please be specific and respond here so we can help you instead of creating a cesspool of unrelated and unorganized responses.

What you're really asking is "How to create a SaaS app?" which is extremely broad.
"He who does not work shall not eat."

~a capitalist, presumably.
The place to argue about growth is in zoning for offices and industrial space. Once there are jobs and people need a place to live.. trying to push them out gets unethical quickly.
Where (when) else could we be? If all these lives exist (/will exist/did exist), what does it mean to say that you are living a particular one? Who else could be living it?
> congresspeople

Sigh. Political correctness needs to die.
Having lived in SF for 25 years I think trying to inject banal partisan politics into this results in garbage. Doubly so when you start saying that letting developers rip with no restrictions will fix everything. Which seems to be the HN tech bro opinion.

The city has close to 20,000 people per square mile, average. And has no greenfield left. You want to increase density? Well then make developers and tech companies pay for a subway. And another BART Tunnel. Like every other city with that sort of density.
I apologize for my ignorance here. I know pretty much nothing about chip fabrication.

My question is: How long is it expected that ASML will be the sole provider _on the planet_ for these lithography machines? Is their secret sauce literally impossible to replicate?

It’s fascinating how one of the most important pieces of tech regarding the future is held by one entity.
I think when it comes to your point 1, they deserve a bit more credit - the prioritization of Shopping is a reaction to the threat of iOS 14-related loss of targeting capabilities. The only viable long-term response is to keep the entire user flow within the app, from click to checkout. While hiding the notifications will impact some engagement metrics, nothing is as important right now as achieving the above goal.
I'm sorry to hear that, John.

I wish the best for your father.
I see more similitudes than differences in our thinkings :)

One can make the problem easier in Java by using HashMaps instead of classes, just like one could make it harder in JavaScript by emulating rigid OOP.

Which is to say, practically all languages have all the necessary technology for JSON not to be a pervasive problem. The only impediments are social/ideological.

(An idea which resonates with the original article's message)
This feels different. My non-tech friends, who I've been badgering to switch to Signal for years with no luck, suddenly just all started agreeing to switch.
i would imagine most private language learning schools use a program where they have the first couple of classes - e.g. the basics of reading and writing the script, introductory phrases - in the student's native language before moving directly into teaching with nothing but the target language. my foreign language teacher used a lot of pictures, drawings and charades to get an idea across, if simplification into more basic words failed to do the job.
Don't know why you're downvoted, your comment is definitely interesting.
Linked, but very different regulatory regimes. Specifically, the things discussed in the article don't apply to commercial space and have minimal bearing on restaurant rents that I was responding to.
one wonders whether it's literally about the marketing placement that this article gives them. I'm not in marketing, but I somehow wouldn't be surprised if this was worth more than $50,000 in "free" marketing.
If curious see also

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1290498

2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=78349

2007 (a bit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=75322

Not that much really...
I honestly don't know! Maybe report it's power consumption? When a door is open?
I read the following article today and was quite impressed. It's the worlds 2nd largest auto market and Tesla is doing very well there. The factory is not at full production and still they managed to be the best selling EV.

Tesla Model 3 Is 2020's Best-Selling EV in China, Company Achieves 11% Market Share

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-became-...
This is exactly right. Author Nassim Taleb has written on this extensively. He calls it "The Dominance of the Stubborn Minority".

A dedicated and stubborn minority can gradually impose their preferences on a majority who does not have a strong opinion on something. This why you'll order a cheese pizza if you're hanging out with friends and a single person in the group is a vegetarian.

In my own life there are many group chats that are now on signal because one stubborn 'ole grouch, namely me, insisted on it. Most people don't give too much thought to the chat app they use, so they kind of shrugged their shoulders and went along with it.
What a communist hellscape when the government won't let you move your property and forces you to sell it for less than you desire. Ridiculous.
By 'dumb' I mean it shouldn't care at all about the usb data/protocol. It should just bang 0/1s across the wireless connection.

The problem, which means any solution will turn out looking like a pair of hubs, is that USB has pretty strict timing limits on how long the host will wait for a response after it has sent a request --- and introducing (often unpredictable) wireless latency can put that time over the limit.
macOS is a pain as well. There was a fairly well documented way (in the open source world) of writing a stub driver to create a virtual display. Apple axed it without notifying anyone when their own "Use an iPad as a second screen" support came out. All the third party apps that provided that function broke overnight, notably Duet Display.

Considering Duet works again, I wonder if the mechanism they use was quietly shared with them or if it was publicly shared.
The data is handed over willingly to a third party. You agreed to this by accepting the fine print in the contract. In the US, your rights end when another other party takes possession unless it's health data.
A lot of people have had success moving their friends to signal, and that I think that is very encouraging. Well done to you, and certainly I'm trying to do my part as well.
This one has been in dev since over a year ago I think but yeah I have no idea where all the new ones are coming from!
But if the threat is people voting to expand it, they can just as easily vote to expand means tested welfare, and just as many people “stand to benefit”. There doesn't seem to be any basis at all to the speculation that UBI crosses some divide where this effect—which has long been used as an argument against democracy itself though it has never been demonstrated—will suddenly become real.
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> then either way the software is incorrect - those are both obviously 6 letter strings.

What I wanted to get at is that in Unicode, I have a chance to count letters to some useful degree. Why should I consider starting at byte-arrays?

> there are plenty of perfectly valid Unicode strings for which this question doesn't have a meaningful answer.

I don't get it. Why does the existence of degenerate cases invalidate the usefulness of a Unicode lib? If I want to know how many letters are in a string, I can probably get a useful answer from a Unicode lib. Not for all edge-cases, but I can decide on the trade-offs. If I have a byte-array, I start at a lower level.
I think the pricing you mentioned is also part of the issue.

Companies that are open source but paid something have a crazy high price for that something. I know they are going after the Enterprise market but they still price themselves out.
They already do, in the form of taxes.
Relaxing zoning codes to allow new, higher-density development is a progressive idea in contemporary urbanism. In a lot (but not all) of cases, it literally comes down to wealthy landowners vs. young non-landowners, and the former group typically skews conservative in every sense.

edit: And it also comes into conflict with political progressives for essentially not being progressive enough, since it allows for new housing to be built that some people are still priced out of. So I think the angle that they're trying to hand-wave zoning deregulation as being "good" by using the word "progressive" is doubly misguided.
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Hobbies are wood working and metal working.
>A fast low-level program was re-written in a high-level language to reduce maintenance costs. These days on HN you usually only hear about the opposite

Related, though not quit the same, is the manner in which the Cog VMs for Squeak/Pharo are developed:

"The VMs are developed in Smalltalk, using all the dynamic and reflective facilities of the Squeak/Pharo Smalltalk system. As such, developing in Cog is a delight. The Smalltalk framework comprising the various Cog VMs is translated into C by its Slang component to produce VM source that is combined with platform-specific support sources and compiled via a C compiler to obtain a fast production VM."

https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/cog/202101210320#read
China Is Joining the Global Push to Rein in Tech Giants
This was actually one of the most disappointing parts of Silicon Valley for me and one of the reasons I left. The number of tech progressives I met that possessed a murderous hate of homeless people was unreal. I still can’t believe that such a wealthy area has such a fundamental problem meeting basic human needs. Not everyone can be a tech worker, but very few of the “Silicon Valley” types can imagine someone living outside of tech, and if someone wasn’t in tech they were considered subhuman.
During my tenure at Sun the burrito tool faxed your order to Burrito Real (good, but not the institutions that La Costena and La Bamba were). Maybe this was in the wake of La Costena turning off their fax machine.

It was a dark day for Bay Area Burritos when they tore down the building that housed La Costena and La Bamba. There was some Burrito magic on that corner of Old Middlefield and Rengstorff.
> Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

What a burn!
On a site like HN I doubt anyone has heard of the teapot in the article, but I bet a ton of people (esp. anyone who has done 3D modelling) have heard of the Utah teapot. "World's Most Famous" indeed.
La Costeña is still in business. They were on Rengstorff and they're on Middlefield now. Either they're not very good or my expectations have increased considerably.

xcostena was an early X app done at SGI back in the day; fill out a form and it would fax the order to La Costeña. Arguably the beginnings of ecommerce. Back then, they were the closest available calories. This was before SuperMac Technologies started the gourmet lunch trend that companies should compete for their workers time.