skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the idea of using plain text with simple formats, but I always end up with the same problem: they're unusable on mobile devices.

When I'm travelling, I'm too tired to take out my laptop. If I wait until I'm on the computer, I mist recall thoughts a day or two late, after the details faded and the emotions evaporated.

Instead, I just write a few lines on Google Keep during lunch or dinner. It leads to much richer journals.

Currently, I use Markdown and a little widget on my timeline thing: https://github.com/nicbou/timeline
Tech giants in China are developing ways to bypass Apple’s new privacy rules
Perhaps:
The public official is raising funds (from investors) for a new toll road. They discuss LOTS of possible locations for the toll road and they don't want to freak out the locals with "highly unlikely" possibilities. Of course, public opinion will be assessed on the "best" 3ish options.

A more relevant example might be:

A public official is looking at various failure modes of the electric grid. He wants to raise money (or redirect funds) to shore up "the biggest" problems. Private discussion might include hyperbole like "this risk is worse than you realize"- and this might unnecessarily worry the public.

Of course, CSPAN is public, and no one watches that. So, whatever.
Thanks - this comment nicely summarizes the math involved here!
You have to be willfully ignorant to believe a proposition that no one cares, and willfully naive to believe everyone will.

Look at https://ourworldindata.org/economic-growth and take 5 minutes to look at the data on the rest of the site and you will understand how much life has improved not just in raw numbers (there are more people living above the poverty line than existed 100 years ago), but more importantly in percentage terms - a far smaller fraction of people live in poverty today than in 1880.

In fact, the number last time I ran it was that less people live in abject poverty in 2019 than did so in 1880 - despite a 7-8 fold increase in population.
Phycological? Not sure what you mean - I don’t think you mean Fungi do you ;-)
Thanks! We loved geeking out on all of these data structures and algorithms.

RE comparisons: Do you mean comparisons of some production profiling data with versus without this compression?
Didn't see this mentioned, but Wordpress and Drupal have had a huge impact on my early career.

Wouldn't count them as developer tools per se, but as a software provider, I could serve a lot more customers with ease and confidence thanks to hundreds of thousands of man hours put in by the Wordpress and Drupal developers.
> Every line of code they wrote was, whether they wanted or not, shared code—they didn’t get to choose what was smart to share, and what was best to keep isolated to a single endpoint.

I am know very little about Python, but does this mean that Python has no way to encapsulate code at a level larger than a class? Something like a package or a module. It does not seem like it should be necessary to break a system into separate services just to get encapsulation at a module of subsystem level.
Google’s new Nest display wants to watch you while you sleep
Which is just another reason why it is so awfully frustrating flr me that they won't fix their extension apis:

I fully believe the extensions were really a huge part of Firefox' moat.
Huh... maybe I have a degenerate copy for having it so long and I should try running the compression commands myself.
> What’s preventing people from buying an Android, though?

Nothing is stopping them, but the question was why Apple's policies are bad. If people need to buy a completely new device because they can't use the apps they want, then I would say those policies are bad.

They're bad for Apple because they make apps on the app store less capable or not available at all. They're bad for developers because they make it far more expensive to do business on iOS devices. And they're bad for consumers because they make apps on iOS devices more expensive, more confusing (unable to sign up / upgrade / manage account) or just plain unavailable in this case.
Guys like you are not able to be convinced. You accept scientific articles such as this one as evidence of "alarmism". But you'll dismiss other scientific articles about climate change because they are "alarmist". You'll cherry-pick whatever's convenient to you. Debating with someone who can't be convinced by rational arguments is futile.
I am curious where does it leave libraries like Lombok that basically ports a non-record type Java class to make it more record type-e by adding things like @Value, @Data annotations. Are those libraries/frameworks going to become obsolete now?
Wikipedian here. We edit because we're contributing to free information. Free information means anyone can use it for any purpose, including commercially.

I think this move is great. I'd rather have this money go to the foundation, than ParseAPIco.
You don't have to do the power all at once - use powermod - then you need at most a square to fit. And when that doesn't fit, there are still more math tricks to keep it small and fast.
The distinction doesn't really matter though, does it? Makes no different if it's Googlers as opposed to Google itself.
> balanced

Said no viewer anywhere. I’ve never encountered anyone who thought Comedy Central was advertising a balanced view.
I am working on FINT, a gRPC test client that combines functional testing and performance testing in a single application. Been doing this for over a year and the software now has an extensive list of features.

http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/full-list-of-features

http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/
> Shakespeare made a living from the performances of his plays, not the written documents.

But if there was no copyright, why did the Globe owners pay him at all? Just perform the old plays for free!
He was payed for creating something new, copyright was worthless because we did not live off selling old works.

Copyright couldn't help Shakespeare to create more or better plays anyway, he was limited by how much boot-licking the Queen was acceptable to the audience, and how many "obscene" stuff he could sneak in without angering the Queen or the Church.
Where would a bitcoin exchange fall in this categorisation? I've seen BTC referred to as a digital good in some pieces.
Wish I had met Hinton while at U. Of Toronto. I was slated to do a PhD with a guy from the Medical and Zoology schools studying human vision and who was applying NN’s with Hinton’s help. Early ‘90’s when ‘soft computing’ was all the rage.
The race for AI supremacy started when people started doing CRISPR in their basement. It's not "ideological" for the US to go first, it's the only option.
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+1 for Ruby on Rails, I was developing on ASP.NET back then. It would have taken me at-least a week to develop 'the blog'. Rails had so many great ideas baked in (apart from MVC/ORM) viz. dev/production environments, migrations, default locations for css/js/images.
I was hoping this was about gists being publicly accessible even when they are private...
Nice implementation, can you share what you used to build it?
The CA proposition system is bad, but I think it's because it makes us vote for things we don't understand. All kinds of interest groups regularly get on there, not just the plutocratic/corporate ones, but it's usually to do bad things.

The worst one is Prop 13 but everyone really did benefit at the time - of course it ruined the state for anyone who hadn't been born or moved there yet.

And the reason there's a really confusing prop about dialysis every election is that a labor union is putting them all on the ballot literally to troll the dialysis companies they're trying to unionize. Nobody actually wants them.

It does seem to work when representatives would be too embarrassed to vote for something, so that's why states are using it to legalize drugs.
Ya - if you look at list of complainers - folks running loot boxes, lock in uncancelable subscriptions etc, crazy privacy violators (Facebook). there is so much money in this though I don’t see how they don’t get political folks to force apples hand - joined by a surprising number of HN devs - the focus on what is best for user is long gone
Many of those early EA games were so... well done, inventive, and really captured your imagination.

MULE, 7 Cities, Archon, Pinball Construction Set, Skyfox, Adventure Construction Set, Music Construction Set, Racing Destruction Set, Heart Of Africa and Bards Tale were all... relatively mind-blowing (although my mind was only... 12-13 at the time!).

They seemed to be capable of both pushing the computer past its limits and expanding the idea of what was possible in game (or just... with the 'construction sets'... what was possible).
Good job, University of California.
Don't do the score thing. Just. Don't. Where there is money involved like this, despite whatever good intentions you may or may not have, reducing people to a score invites gaming and bad actors.
Hopefully, there will be a day/release in the Java world when we will be able to write 10x - 20x shorter programs (in terms of LOC) with most mundane stuffs disappearing under the hood. Sighs!!

It will be interesting to see the reaction of project managers some of whom still measure productivity in terms of lines of code/# of commits! (yeah, they do and still exist).
I appreciate the IA, especially when using wikipedia. But there is a huge conflict between privacy and unrestricted access to information, which is why companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Microsoft, etc... build walled gardens.

You have to at least recognize this dichotomy and "avoid choosing a team". The idea that copying information is a right is exceptionally popular in open internet forums like the one we are in right now, but it quickly encounters practical limits.
That's a pretty common issues in VC. I run a more traditional seed stage firm and we have to deal with similar issues. It's not uncommon for the IRR in the first few years to be artificially low given we have to hold investments at cost until they raise priced rounds. And when there's finally a wave of price marks your IRR will jump to a more accurate level it can usual maintain.

e.g. Our 2017 vintage fund was sitting around 45% IRR for years, and jumped to 93% almost instantly this year due to markups we could finally account for. We always knew the value was there, but couldn't reflect it in the numbers.

Likewise our 2019 vintage fund is currently showing 20% but we're fairly certain it'll jump to 40%+ in the not too distant future.

This dynamic makes it hard for emerging managers to show their performance relative to other fund managers with older vintages— even if you're excellent it'll be hard for LPs to recognize until 5+ years in, if that. It's just the nature of VC.
> We cannot expect everyone to be familiar with every accent and dialect, so we have General American and Received Pronunciation as standard accents (and Standard English), which helps communication especially with weak English speakers and ESL speakers.

This proposal just moves the threshold, while making it even harder for weak English speakers to consume media. To the extreme, sufficiently strong accents and dialects effectively are another language, and we acknowledge that learning another language requires effort and exposure: I think we agree that this is beyond the threshold.

> Standardising on one accent over others so that more people can understand the speaker is a bit of a self-fullfilling prophecy, that is. If everyone is constantly putting on a particular accent, how is anyone going to learn to understand all the others?

I don't think it's necessary, beneficial, or feasible for someone to understand all the accents and dialects of English and keep updated on their evolution. One should learn to understand accents and dialects at least to the extent of interest and also to the extent that it helps intelligibility with the people around you. (This rule, applied to media, favors media using GA and RP).
Unfortunately, I need CUDA for work. However, with a desktop and static resolution (not changing from laptop 4k to dock 1080p all the time) I can comfortably use X11, and without power management issues (no battery on desktop) I don't have to switch between Nvidia and integrated graphics.
Nanoseen – NanoseenX saves people's lives making seawater drinkable
This obsession with making EVERYTHING a service is killing technology in so many ways.

This device could and should operate fine with an offline application run locally on a computer. Support that, add extra incentives for the cloud services, and call it a day.
I'm not the one arguing they should be able to stay on. (Or you, for that matter.)

I counsel you throw your "principles" in the bin where they belong. Maybe find some new, less toxic, more sound principles.

Or just become a Republican. Why should I care?
Python has functions, classes, modules, packages. I don't know why separate codebases would be necessary.
>Is there any limit to lifestyle inflation?

There ought to be a point at which continuing increases in income fail to generate increases in either life expectancy or the proportion of adults who are able to work (not necessarily working). It would be necessary to distinguish this from the effects of anti-aging technology, but it should be possible in principle; improving diet/sleep/exercise and reducing pollution exposure isn't "anti-aging technology", nor are childcare/education.
No one is saying it's inherently exploitative. Or at the very least, I'm not. It can be exploitative because if the other jobs in the area are inherently worth $X/hr (because they provide about that value to the company), then you can get away with paying $X/hr in that area even if the job is inherently worth significantly more (because it provides more value to the company).
You're absolutely right, there are huge swaths of airspace that rarely see traffic. Imaging satellites have an inherent advantage when it comes to total coverage but proportionally, a small % of all images captured in an orbital period are of interest at that point in time. We look at our approach as an opposite, complementary offering that optimizes for revisit in well-established and predictable routes around population centers (and whatever else lies in between takeoff and landing).

Most airports are zoned industrial and located within or on the edge of cities and towns, so we can provide more frequent updates of areas that are of greater value to customers monitoring supply chains, construction/site development, estimating traffic flows, etc. High-revisit is equally important at cruising altitude over much of the country where demand for agricultural/environmental monitoring, crop yield data, etc. is of similar interest.

All this to say coverage is a known limitation, but based on those reasons I think (hope) we'll become the yin to satellite imagery's yang.
> You can make a lot more and better AAA games if 50% of your time isn’t spent on life chores.

That's what the robots are for! And they never complain, never need to sleep, and are always one software upgrade away from amazing new capabilities.
I hear you. It’s not nothing, maybe I’m ranting too much. It’s cool tech & this company looks to be at the forefront of it. I have an eyebrow raised. I hope they sell a bunch of these cars!

My main POV that I rambled around I guess, is I’m trying to temper expectations. Browsing through this thread, I’m just seeing too many folks who are expecting way too much out of this technology. I’m almost certain it will not deliver on the high hopes most people have for it. Even if that hope is you don’t have to charge on your very short commute.

It’s easy to get hyped up reading the marketing material on this company’s website. The idea seems great to the lay person. But the fact of the matter is when I hear Elon Musk say publicly that he and his team looked into it, & they determined it’s not an idea worth pursuing, I believe him.

Engineers & physicists way smarter than you and me have done the calculations. There is only so much energy you can get out tiny solar panels on a car body. Period. We’re talking about the laws of physics here. Conceptually it sounds amazing, in reality the result is lackluster.

Everyone wants to look at it with ‘best case scenario’ mentality, but day to day it’s just not going to be that effective. Again, not saying it’s nothing. There are some benefits.

But the added complexity of manufacturing? Could it be scaled larger than the 13K preorders they have? What happens when the panels start failing and need to be repaired? What happens when you get in a fender bender and half your ’solar grid’ goes offline, will you be willing or able to pay a specialist to repair the intricate solar grid in your car body?

It’s just a lot of effort and resources that could be focused elsewhere. Everyone is so excited because the concept sounds amazing, but the downsides & complexity are real. I seriously doubt this will power your car even for small commutes.
I'm a PhD in math. Modulo is a function in that it maps integer to integers. Power is a function mall mg integers to integers. Both are operators in the math sense, and one can talk about operators commuting.

So the terms are correct.

As far as programmers, modulus is an operator, complete with operator overloading in many languages and satisfying operator precedence. So operator is the correct word there also.

Here's the idea from math
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/20968/rules-for-operator-...
If crypto miners want to run on renewables, they can pay the cost of the resources to build those renewables and then enjoy the power they create for free.

Crypto mining on its own is not bad or evil. Only ruining our environment is bad.

How this would work in practice is you charge it at power generation. If the power company uses coal as a power source, they are hit with a carbon tax which gets passed on to the customers. Then every power company that doesn't use dirty sources has cheaper prices and all customers move over.

In the mean time you can use all profits from a carbon tax to discount other taxes so the end user pays no extra but they are constantly pushed to cleaner sources. This has been tested in the real world and it works very well.
> Plenty of those people depend on copyright law to prevent studios from stealing their scripts and producing them without paying the writer.

Like that never happens now. How many independent creators did successfully sue a studio since copyright law has come into play? How many pitched a script to a studio, only to be rejected, and having the same idea rewritten on a spec by others?

Is it worth it to keep Steamboat Willie under lock and key?

Might as well tax the IP secondary sales and just give every living author with works registered in the Library of Congress a stipend.
I spent a few minutes on the site and I'm still not sure what it even is. A CMS?
> The very first thing this article says is the data is from a cyberattack on European Medicines Agency (EMA), and the data was sent anonymously to journalists.

It could just as likely be a hacker acting out of altruism, similarly to the one who broke into that italian company a few years ago. If someone didn't trust that the megacorp was acting in good faith, what they did here is probably the most effective (though morally ambiguous) way to hold them accountable.

The only question now is, are we going to brush their work aside without examination, blithely labelling it "misinformation", without any further thought?
This is obviously a subject the author cares passionately about, because the article uses a lot of exclamation marks.

But this tidbit struck me as hilariously out of touch:

> Let's imagine your bank let you sign in to 3rd party services in a similar manner. How many people would click through on "Let ACME corp act on your behalf on your Citibank Account". I think most people would be super scared of permissions like that. Instead they'd want very specific permission like, only permission to deposit money, or only permission to read the balance, or only permission to read transactions, etc...

It is so, so much worse than that. Most banks don’t even provide OAuth APIs, so to hack around this third parties just straight up ask for your bank username and bank password so that they can turn around and log into that site and scrape the HTML UIs that come back from logging in.

“I think most people would be super scared of that.” No doubt these people exist (hello!) but like, there’s a whole industry built around this.[1] Possibly the banking example is not the best piece of supporting evidence for the article’s claim.

[1] https://plaid.com/
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Don't most theater artists work at Trader Joe's anyway? It's not exactly a lucrative job, modulo Broadway.
Excel does not actually do a simple clipboard copy. It copies the cell references and when you paste, it adjusts the cell references and formulae and puts them in the destination. If something changes the structure of the spreadsheet between copy and paste, it cannot guarantee that the pasted formulae will still work. For that reason, it clears the copy buffer.

It’s a complex problem to manage all of the cell references in a dynamically changing spreadsheet and early on the Excel team chose to keep it simple.

You can see a version of this if you do a cut > paste. The source does not move to the clipboard, it just gets highlighted. When you paste, Excel does a move operation that adjusts the references on the fly.
Good point. And that applies to nonnative speakers of other languages, too. Immigrants to countries like France, Sweden, and Japan are likely to experience such discrimination even if they speak the national language fluently, as are linguistic-minority citizens of multilingual countries like China and Russia.
How are we determining that the land value increased because of speculation, and not because the land continues to become exponentially more valuable do to its location in a popular area?
So by your accounting, if I purchase a home in Stockton, CA right now, then in 40 years when I'm old and can't afford the taxes on my lifelong home because Stockton is huge then, I'm to be kicked out for a more productive use?
> I am know very little about Python, but does this mean that Python has no way to encapsulate code at a level larger than a class?

Python has packages, which contain modules. This doesn't seem to be a reference to the lack of encapsulation, in any case.

Though it seems to be projecting a social problem (absence of a policy involving active decisions on when particular code can be used by endpoints) onto architecture.
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