skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is, but anyone who would fund it would require it to be monetized in the same way. This situation will continue to persist until people are willing to pay for such a service, and subvert the advertising motive. And, even then, we have the example of cable to show us that ads will probably creep back in, and come to dominate it all over again. When people are willing to drive dump trucks full of money to your loading dock, what else can you do?
From the headline, I had guessed this article would be about how people become millionaires rather than billionaires, but that would be a whole different article.
MS's strategy as of late seems to be buying their way inyo being competitive in every market instead of dominating a few markets. I suppose this gives them a great deal of stability and allows them to develop a massive ecosystem of interconnected products and services. It's still a concerning practice... but not as obviously unethical as the monopolistic behavior displayed by other big tech companies.
Sawyer X's paradox is that he's the soldier-diplomat that walked into the Perl 5 to Perl 7 warzone to try to fight (t)his battle (Perl 7, cruftness) and at the same time defuse the conflict. He even admits to being "offensive to some" in his OP. He's a bold person, fierce in his beliefs and in his choice of words, not a victim. And so his boldness and passion has taken him to being scolded in every possible way, from personal to technical, toxic to civilized, and sometimes he fought hard, even on a personal level and finally gave up.

Here's a few comments from a thread allegedly savaged from Twitter [1]:

> So no choosing which Perl runs for /usr/bin/perl7 and which Perl /usr/bin/perl or and which is /usr/bin/perl like with some other languages? Will I be able to use 7's features without 'use v7' if I do name the executable 'perl7'? Does using 'use v7'm mean keeping all the cruft?

> Depends on what you mean by cruft

> The people actually doing work on perl core don't seem to find the 'cruft' problematic and if they do we can rip out stuff after a deprecation period like normal, so unless/until somebody who knows the core code objects I consider that an imaginary problem.

> yeah, i tried to point this out below as well think it should be mentioned that the email linked is from nicholas clark, so there's 3 core maintainers who hold that the important of cruft in perl code is in doubt

As one can see, the word "cruft" had actually become central to the discussion, even used with apostrophes - a sign that it hit a nerve somewhere? Maybe a better choice of words and overall tact would have been better in managing egos left and right.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26779586
If you're a European citizen, then you can invoke your legal right to erasure.
for what its worth i have this guy blocked on twitter - all he does is repost basic APIs you can get from MDN. classic grift playbook.
The fact that none of these companies are competing with Microsoft also makes it easier. That's not the strategy Google, Facebook etc. normally use.
Those aren't scraps. In what other world would businesses willingly throw away 16% of their addressable market right out the gate?
"But, you have to continuously drink and eat only heavy water for several days to see an effect. Replacing 20% of regular water in cells with heavy water is survivable for humans and other mammals (although not recommended). Swapping 25% of water with heavy water causes (sometimes irreversible) sterilization. Replacing 50% of water with heavy water is lethal. It’s not a pretty death, either. Heavy water poisoning resembles radiation poisoning or cytotoxic poisoning from chemotherapy."

https://sciencenotes.org/can-you-drink-heavy-water-is-it-saf...
200% this. Pretty soon I'd have to live in a Faraday cage, or put all my devices in a Faraday case/jacket.
Assume that all journalism has some from political bias, then analyze stories from different angles to develop an informed opinion. Relying on either the outlet that says "look at me, I have no bias," or the outlet that all the popular people say you can trust, carries with it a dangerous underlying assumption.
Note to others: Try not to defend yourself in an apology. Otherwise it ceases to become an apology, and instead becomes a list of reasons why there should be no accountability.
I tried running MacOS as a guest OS using VMWare Fusion a while back (2 or 3 years), and my recollection is that all the UI stuff (drag/drop, transitions, etc) were super slow.

This was on a late 2013 though, so the experience may be very different now, in fact now that I've replaced it with a 2020 iMac, I'll give it another go and see.
This is incredible for a company like Nuance.

At the time of acquisition:

Nuance: $20B, employee strength 6000. 3M/employee

LinkedIn: 26B, employee strength ~12000. 2M/employee

LinkedIn was much more larger, more 'visible' and perhaps better talent attractor than Nuance at the time of acquisition.
blockchain internet addresses?
> If you can come up with a better example, I'd love to hear it.

I don't have a side in this discussion. I just stepped in to note one reason why you might have gotten the reply you did, since you specifically noted "Don’t know what you’re getting at." I was merely attempting to illustrate why I thought you might have received the response you did.

> My argument is that the timing of inputs and outputs to consoles is heavily quantized...

That's probably a good argument. That's not what you replied with though. If you had, I don't think you would have gotten the response you did.

>> > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

That's as much a point against your comment as against the person that responded to you. Responding to a specific example instead of the position is not responding to the strongest possible interpretation. Then you get responses like you did.

Again, I'm not taking a position on this. I only bothered to comment at at because you seemed to indicate you didn't know why you got the response you did. Honestly, I thought you were likely presenting it as a slight tangent, not an argument, since it's fairly common here for people to view any response as someone arguing the other side once they get slightly heated in an argument.
This is a pretty neat idea.
I'm not entirely sure how I'd make use of the iframes, but I'm already testing this out as a bookmark clustering tool, so I find the open all feature quite useful.
Clique Clusters
Training AI on CPUs faster than on GPUs (SLIDE):

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-04-rice-intel-optimize-ai-c...
When I was at boarding school in the 1960s, four or five of us brought all our Scalextric track, cars and other stuff to school, and every weekend we would build a giant layout in one of the classrooms (this used to really piss of the people who's form-room it was, because we didn't always put the desks and tables back). We didn't just use Scalextric cars, but Revel, (I had a Strombecker, which was crap, which my dad picked up in Singapore) and very popularly Airfix Mini-Coopers, which were cheap, and went fast if you fiddled with track brushes and the motor commutator.

Oh, happy days - when you weren't being bullied and being sent out to play "rugger" in the rain and mud.
This is a nice feature that I often wish every text editor supported natively.
If anyone killed the O'Neill colonies it was Eric Drexler who figured out that you could build the solar power satellites by blowing large plastic films and vapor depositing layers of metals and semiconductors on them.

The mass of the satellites is so much less than that of the colonies that you could have launched them from Earth if you, say, modified the Saturn V first stage so it worked like the "Super Heavy" and returned for reuse and then had a family of "Space Shuttles" that bolted on top of it.

Instead we got something Ralph Nader would have warned you about so Drexler gave up on systems engineering of a space blanket factory in space for the systems engineering of "nanosystems" which would let him dream that someday he'd plant a seed and grow an SSTO in his back yard.

Today the use case is the 10^11 kg or so sunshade at the Earth-Sun L1 point but people estimate that a comfortable deep space habitat is 10^8 kg per head or so, so you can't afford to have a crew of 10,000 people working on it, but you might afford to have 50.

The moon is close in terms of kilometers but far away in terms of energy. The big advantage is that sending people there is feasible as is remote controlling robots.

Many asteroids are gassy inside with the gas retained by a 'skin' and inside (assuming you trap the gas safely) you will find abiogenic "coal" that is close enough to coal to design a coal gas plant that can build up anything organic via C1 chemistry. That consumes oxygen produced by the 'metal' line which gives iron, aluminum, other elements to produce quality steel and aluminum alloy.

If you find nitrogen on the asteroid you have a very good case for a biological economy, e.g. millions of human bodies, cattle, food, etc. That is much more fundamental to civilization than the metals and stones that the moon is rich in.
I'd be more interested in a study of how people move from lower classes to at least upper middle class.
I think there’s a different reason, companies just aren’t paying enough. Wages, even at 150-200k just really aren’t that much. 200k now is a lot less than 200k in 2010. The younger generation intuitively knows this. I don’t know anyone jockeying to climb the corporate ladder, and my social circle spans Stanford grads to no college degree at all. People are starting businesses because working for a corporation day in and out is slavery, you never make enough money to escape the debt of your mortgage. Sure, some FAANG employees do, but the number is small, and with a family, 300k compensation still doesn’t cut it, you will be working forever.

People are getting “rich” from startups because they’re actually capturing the value of their labor, which I argue, used to happen at corporations.
This is bullshit.

Source: I started a company and am still poor.
Chapelle Show doesn't drive subscriptions. Holding out on any more comedy specials is what made them capitulate.
I'm not too deep into the data side of things, but this is interesting to think about.

Aren't stuff like data lakes and warehouses supposed to address the need for a centralized datastore?

Outside of perhaps an easy-to-apply interface, what benefit would a data hub provide over just streaming duplicates from all of your databases into a single data lake like Snowflake?
We can actually just test this. Here's some code:

const x = {value: 0};
console.log(x);
console.log({x});
x.value = 1;

Running that in the latest Chrome javascript console, we see that the first version prints `{value: 0}` and the second prints `{x: {...}}`. When you expand the second one, it will show `{x: {value: 1}}`.
In theory yes. For example, certain optical elements perform Fourier transforms. However optical computing as we know it today is really a type of analog computer. Today’s optical devices are relatively large compared to transistors so difficult to make an optical computer scale very well. Also given that each optical computing stage involves optical power loss, there’s a limit to how many stages one can cascade before having to regenerate via an OEO conversion.
Especially if you have an ultra wide screen this becomes really noticeable. Vertical real estate is precious (and which way do pages/phones scroll?) - but horizontal is not.
Top Stock Market APIs of 2021
Nim in Action ebook free until April 18th (Manning Publications)
I was at MIT from 2006-11, including as a student researcher at CSAIL from 2007 onwards, and I was on the CSAIL mailing list until I unsubscribed (coincidentally) a week or so before that post.

In at least the time that I was at MIT/CSAIL, and to my knowledge thereafter, RMS was not employed by MIT nor was he a student at MIT. He had an email/UNIX account at CSAIL, and he had an office, sponsored by some very senior faculty members, and he was of course around the campus frequently - but the campus is fairly open about these things, as you'd expect from an academic institution, and it's pretty straightforward for faculty to sponsor anyone they like as an "affiliate" (though of course office space is much harder).

He continues to have his CSAIL account, though I believe he no longer has his office. I believe that's all that he means by the term "my position." He did not have a staff role or anything that he resigned.
> wasn't technically wrong

That is your opinion. Others may disagree.

> It may have come across as being insensitive

Sensitivity is a huge part of communication despite RMS acting otherwise. Arguably he'd find more success knowing which battles to fight against whom, when and how.
Can you walk me through how you're reading that? I don't understand how you have reached that conclusion.
Google Keep works in mobile and desktop. It's $free.

I sometimes use Whatsapp (Android) as a fast multimedia todo app. The way it works is that I create a group where I am the only member. I then add an icon on the home screen that immediately takes me to the group so I can start typing, recording voice, taking photos, etc. It doesn't have task statuses or even checkboxes, but it can manage lots of different data formats.
It's not totalitarian to throw kids out of the pool who keep peeing in it.
It kind of misses the point it was never just about Minsky and Epstein.

> I sometimes made others uncomfortable or even offended them -- especially women. This was not a choice: I didn't understand the problem enough to know which choices there were.

Did anyone explain him that he downplayed the role of women in the GNU project? Janis Johnson, Sandra Loosemore, and Dorit Nuzman, to name a few, all did extraordinary work. Did he ever correct his statements about no women volunteering to work on GCC? Did he even read the author lists?

Did anyone ever tell him the Emacs virgins thing is very inappropriate? I'm pretty sure someone must have done that and, if not, he must have read the account of one young girl about how she felt. The fact he did that routine for years indicates he didn't listen or didn't care enough to change. And no, it's not normal for adults to be sexually attracted to teens.

I am very sure he now has been informed his behaviour is unacceptable. Is he doing anything to change that? That he doesn't have the innate wiring to recognise those subtle cues makes it more necessary for him to listen and take action on his behaviour because he is seen as the person behind the FSF and his actions and opinions reflect on the entire community.

All these are clear indications he, and the FSF board, don't see any of these as problems and that, sadly, makes them unfit to lead the Free Software community.
You realize I work on Android devices all day long right?

I have 5 of them sitting in this room!

You might not notice, but I assure you, they clear the screen then fade back in. The exceptions are apps that have to handle configuration changes anyways like games or full screen video.

It's not always a janky thing, phones have gotten fast enough that the screen redraw is easily hidden behind a half rotate followed by a fade in, but the point is that the hacks are even needed in the first place.

Their approach to configuration changes just adds a massive footgun that trips up plenty of developers. The number of high profile apps with semi-permanent bugs like "I got scrolled back to the wrong part of the page when I rotated my phone!" insane.

A future without that is only coming once we get a replacement for the current UI framework in the form of Flutter or Jetpack Compose (both of which handle configuration changes in new ways)
Homomorphic encryption, which enables you to process data without decrypting it. Would solve privacy / data security issues around sending data to be processed in the cloud
Can you share an approximate percentage they take from a transaction for offering that service? Their pricing information seems to be hidden behind an email form.
That's why I put "far left" in quotes. What is "just left" to many might seem to be the "far left" to Mr. Graham. But I'm just speculating what he meant by "far left" and could be wrong. He doesn't elaborate on the term.
Im curious, if we wait, say, 40 more years, I wonder will the richest people again be heirs (of today's current crop of tech billionaires)? If so, what does that mean for Paul's hypothesis?
Go to the desktop version and open the dev tools console :)
Didn't he write that Epstein's child sex trafficking victim being pimped to septuagenarian professor Marvin Minsky should be considered consensual sex and not rape, despite her attestations otherwise?
Terms and conditions which would have a hard time holding up in court without a signature and witness. Maybe things will change in the future since my own bank does this for online agreements as well as a few government agencies but those do have more stringent KYC rules for online verification.
Given how they and companies like them behave, how they drag their feet and stall all the time, I am not surprised.

I suspect Facebook is too useful as an intelligence and surveillance tool to lead to some kind of meaningful legislation, penalties, whatever. If you can delete your data, then you can hide your tracks. Also, even if we assume that the US at least has in its favor a cultural apprehension toward surveillance, China doesn't, so you'll have a situation where a country is monitoring everything to death while you don't know what's going on. At least that might be the thinking. If that is so, I cannot imagine any realistic solutions. A race toward the bottom. You would need to ween people off Facebook, to cause them to leave the platform in droves. The only way to do that is to offer something better and that something would need to have privacy "built-in" in some way and either remain profitable or decentralized.
A good rule of thumb to think about it might be, how many people in the world could write code to achieve a particular objective?

If the answer is 100,000's of people (i.e. good programmers), then it's not super-sophisticated, no matter how complicated it may be.

If the answer is 100's of people, then it is super-sophisticated. Stuxnet appears to be the latter, given the advanced techniques, zero-days, and target knowledge it required.

Think of it like the difference between New York City and a nuclear fusion warhead. New York City is incredibly more complicated than a warhead, but a warhead is incredibly more sophsiticated.
"User Engagement and Data Collection Networks"
I assume you mean "former", not "latter"?
The barrier to entry is very low these days so technically Yes. At least in theory, someone can start a "tech" business with a couple hundred bucks and shit tons of sweat equity. Back in the 70s-80s, I am sure you needed a lot more capital to start a traditional business. Granted, the 1 person bootstrapped tech biz won't hit the same 1B revenue scale in 10 years but you can become "rich" if your definition of rich is not necessarily the Top 1%.
Apparently, in (class/identity) wars there are no innocents, personal circumstances don't matter, what matters is to support your ideology by any means. Like good little soldiers, they should execute and not think, they are not allowed to have original ideas. When they become too original they instantly are labelled heretics and cancelled. So they can't stop and look at circumstances when the purity spiral is crushing on their heads.
They track you even without an account, so no not everyone agreed to their terms and conditions.
I'm not sure this is exactly under the radar but I'm excited about wearable AR. No it doesn't look real but once you get past that we have some amazing tech on the horizon.

Microsoft and Oculus have hands free controls that actually work. Inside out tracking is progressing quickly. New UX patterns are getting forged.

I'm exited to see what we'll have in a few years time. In my mind its far more exciting than something like crypto but gets much less press.
Awesome, thanks for checking it out, much appreciated!

Right now, my main use case for the iframes is quickly checking for visual regressions across all the sites I manage.

Every morning I would go round to all my sites and check each one by one from a set of bookmarks, to make sure they were looking good and accurate. This way, I can do all my morning checks from one site.
Being correct is entirely orthogonal to being appropriate.
No, this is totally different. In the second version, if someObj changes after it was logged, when you'll expand it you'll see the updated value. JSON.stringify freezes the value. To get the same as the first example, but interactive, you have to do:

console.log("some label: " + JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(someObj)))
You're gaslighting into "The sky is blue is just your personal opinion" terrority.
It is possible to display more than one application on screen at arbitrary sizes, so the shape of the window should be what matters, not the shape of the display. Browsing maximized on a 27" widescreen display is an uncomfortable waste of space. Vertical tabs or not.
How do you think conquest made someone wealthy?

It was through gaining ownership of land and by capturing slaves.
For those who have signed up. What about "shadow profiles"?
That's all well and good, but it is completely orthogonal to whether or not he should be on the FSF board. The GPL was an important contribution he made to the community ... 30 years ago. The FSF has been fighting for the GPL over more permissive licenses for a while, and losing badly. Maybe it was a doomed fight from the get go, but it is certainly clear that he has not been successful.

Obviously without him the FSF and GNU as we know it would not exist, but leadership is all about what you will do in the future, not what you did in the past. So the question is, why is he indispensable to the FSF today?
While I love number pads and their designs, I tire of laptop manufacturers stuffing a numpad into their keyboards. There's no space for them. I'd rather take a keyboard without them, with bigger keys. Numpads also offset the touchpad so that it isn't at the center of my wrists. Makes it annoying.
Being more conscientious.

It's discipline by another word.

Valuing the long term over the short term. Surprisingly, not procrastinating and doing the hard thing sooner than later pays off huge dividends. I don't know why I spent decades chasing ephemeral pleasures that went nowhere and left me with not much at all over a daily "chop wood carry water" of concerted effort (even if it seemed like a mind numbing chore).
But here its only the var syntax that is not allowed, the newvar:=someexpression() is allowed, having the same effect of declaring a new local variable if I understand correctly? Edit: typo
As an ex-Sublime and ex-VSCode user, I realized that macros and Visual Block mode covers all my use cases for multicursor functionality.
I'm still not very impressed by this, as it can be totally accomplished by a pad of paper and a pen.

I'm believe the most valid use of AI/ML is to perform tasks that people either cannot currently do, or cannot easily do. For example, ai-based up-scaling of old video game pre-renders. It's not really feasible for a person to do this well, unless you simply rebuild everything with a team of artists. And you could argue that up-scaling images for a video game is trivial, since all video games are trivial. But, the point is that the task at hand requires the help of a computer, whereas a to-do list, or using a light switch does not.