skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "but end with 'please comply with your license agreement and stop reverse engineering our code, already.'"

We should reject the term "reverse engineering", and use the more accurate "examining how something works" instead. Only then does it become clear how grossly overreaching the laws and licenses that seek to prevent it are.
Why would you want a unified inbox?

That may have been fine when your Blackberry was issued by work and used 99% for work. Now I'm not sure what mixing my work emails/slack with the saturday evening hangout group chat on whatsapp would help with.

Tbh not even mixing work emails and slack would help, since we tend to use slack for the present and email more for passing long term goals/reference info.
> correcting people who are clearly misinformed on clear matters of fact can cause offense

This is modern anti-culture. It's a climate where "opinions" matter more than knowledge and consumerism matters more than democracy.

There are many employers. I am an employee, but I am first and foremost a citizen in a Democracy... If I have the courage to defend it and the will to learn/educate.

An educational system worth the title should provide understanding of society and democracy.
The difference is that there is no new informational knowledge coming out from the East Europe affair. It's just matching expulsion numbers, but none of the parties (or the general public) learned anything new (as with this disclosure).
it's several people's perspective. labelling authors and personalities according to 2021 america's standard of race is a bit ephemeral, as it assumes that a. everybody agrees with america's definitions b. those definitions are here to stay. assuming that rashid al-din, al-idrisi and khalil gibran have anything to do with each other despite coming from three extremely different places and three very different historical periods is a bit obtuse and doesn't do them any justice.

it's fine that america labels people by skin colour for their own political purposes – although i'd be interested in seeing what the difference between the average italian and the average lebanese is, in the classification – but if we're doing any sort of analysis of humanities, it seems a bit amateurish.
> Progressivism is the new Christianity, taking over the pagan landscape

Perhaps your comment is a bit of a rant with highs and lows, but this is a rather powerful analogy.

Growing up in Spain, a country with a very strong Catholic tradition, I hated the Church and its invasive prescriptions. Still to this day I count my lucky stars not having spent my younger years during the Franco dictatorship, where being Spanish was inseparable from being Catholic by law, or worse yet, during the Inquisition where by law you could end up in burnt alive in a public square.

Now, however, it's mostly Progressives who assume this role of telling people what to do. This includes companies of dubious moral standing (Google, Uber, and others) who are constantly reminding us of what's Good, mostly for marketing reasons.

I can't stand it now, as I couldn't back in the day with conservative Catholics. Can't everyone just fuck off and stop preaching their shitty gospel?
Your first paragraph is spot on. Some people are hell-bent on developing AGI (and these people should exist), and there are some doing SOTA-chasing by tweaking hyperparameters to the extreme and overfitting the data (these works are _mostly_ useless), but most people do not realize the amount of AI we have right now, right this day, is enough bring in fundamental and permanent paradigm changes in as many fields as you can think of.

And you are onto something when you say that "empirical records" can be learned by ML models, and a huge amount of grunt work is required for that. Every tom, harry, and dick can overfit to MNIST today, it used to be hard someday. And note the amount of grunt work it took to build MNIST- thousands of human hours. Building Datasets does not pay you back instantly, but it has benefits for all. I know some people who are paying money out of their own pockets and creating niche Datasets and making them available under MIT Lisence.

Hope that more and more companies and people do that for really niche fields.

And I don't completely agree with not understanding things that DL models do and relying on them. We have started to understand much of it. ML interpretation is a field with mot much success but I am hopeful. We did not know jack about how very deep CNNs work, but that changed with the Zeiler-Fergus paper[0]. Later with things like Grad-CAM[1]. Now we are trying to understand latent representation fully. We (even I) can create GAN generated pictures with different haircolor, different kinds of glasses, etc. from scratch.

I read not more than two days ago that Microsoft and Peking Uni researchers found a way to identify "knowledge neurons" in unsupervized pretrained embeddings in NLP and they can edit facts with that [2].

So, I am optimistic about our "interpretation" future.

[0]: https://cs.nyu.edu/~fergus/papers/zeilerECCV2014.pdf

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.02391.pdf

[2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.08696.pdf
Also, people might work differently, as there will be different distractions in a post covid world.
You have democracy in your capitalism already, that's what your elected government and their regulations are.
> We need to embrace it and make sure it's used properly

This has never worked, period.
Visualising a merged, data-sharded, rollup-centric future for Ethereum
Neither this or OPs seem to give any acknowledgement to Japanese pinoeers (particularly YMO and its members)
Many "progressive" activists are like Soviet apologists a few decades ago. Totally sure of their righteousness, blinded by their ideology, unable to accept differing viewpoints.

I sure don't want to work with those who bring their hateful ideology to the workplace.
But the major places apparently really liked to accept cards - the only place I ever got to pay less (6% off!) by paying with card was in Yodobashi Camera in 2017.

In comparison here in Europe many smaller shops still refuse to take cards or you used to be charged extra when paying with card.
Why doesn't that mean that coins can only be transferred through the sneakernet? If you get coins from someone else do you have to trust them to have the plot still around?
I was one of those independent artists and frankly it was sometimes a lot harder to get booked in the early to mid 00s because people started to identify themselves with those labels. The techno crowd were generally more open minded but outside of that things would often get ridiculously pigeon-holed.
It is a fair comparison in my opinion. Steam came into the market when it was one of the first ones to establish digital gaming scene. Now the situation is different, we have many launchers and with that knowledge of what things worked in older launchers (eg. steam, origin etc.) they could've easily pulled a better launcher.
The amount of basic things missing from EGS is ridiculous (compared to other launchers that are available right now). At this point, it is a free game generator. Now that doesn't mean EGS can't fail or anything but they aren't even showing any interest in upgrading their platform whatsoever and for that they don't deserve anyone's attention in my opinion.
I try not to have a strong opinion about amazon workers, because I am not an amazon worker, so it isn't my business. If they want to unionised, that's their right, if not, that's their right too.

That said, I was deeply unsurprised by the result of the vote. I looked at the pay and benefits and thought "I wouldn't rock the boat if I were them".

It seems odd to me that people think a union would be popular here. Unions I've dealt with were a nightmare of politics and ineffectiveness. Partly that's their own problem, partly its a result of legal frameworks that they're stuck in.

I was also surprised how much of a fuss people made about Amazon when 101 other companies are worse and older and get a free pass (Walmart still has more employees than amazon in the US I think).

I think this and other issues around big tech (Google and competition, Apple and supply chains) are more about their failures to engage in PR than them actually being worse than average. I wonder if we will see a move from all/any of them to plug this gap in their moats
Identification of Neuropsychiatric Copy Number Variants in a Health Care System
I agree that you're probably correct that Wout did win. However, I don't think you've correctly lined up the center of the wheels, nor the rear of Wouts wheel.

For the center of the wheel, Wouts looks slighty too early and I think due to the larger size of Pidcock's hubs it's hard to determine the center here too. As for the rear of the wheel, Wouts gum wall tyre is hard to see.

So all in all, it does seem likely Wout held the lead. However, a well times bike throw can change a riders speed momentarily for a short period of time and based on the video Pidcock's bike throw was significantly more effective than Wouts. So while I'm not going as far to say Pidcock would have won, I'd say there is a chance Pidcock had the lead momentarily, and that moment may have occurred as Pidcock crossed the actual finish.
I have a few (really lovely) conservative friends who have expressed to me that they feel they can't express their political opinions outside of close friends and family because of the social risks involved with doing so. While I hold some "controversial" political opinions they're mostly related to fiscal policy rather than social policy so I've never personally felt like I couldn't express myself if I wanted to -- although I prefer not discussing politics in work environments.

However, last year I decided to start promoting conservative views I don't necessarily agree with that my friends hold to see what the consequences of this would be. I think people would be surprised at how open most people are to be honest. I've expressed conservative views on immigration, trans-rights and Trump as if they were my own and had very little push back outside of Twitter. I can contrast this with the fact that I've seen some people over the last few years express left-wing positions at work and have had at least equal push back. I especially remember one guy who expressed how he felt we should remove statues of historical figures who did things we wouldn't approve of today and got a very strong negative reaction in my office.

I wonder if the real problem here is that people who are conservatively minded are just naturally less comfortable with social conflict. I know my progressive friends are in all regards much more opinionated and seem far more comfortable with conflict, where as my conservative friends tend to be the types of people who avoid conflict.

Perhaps it's an age thing too. Older people who are generally more conservative and perhaps also less interested in getting into a heated debates on Twitter or in the office about some slightly controversial political position they hold. This difference in willingness to enter into social conflict may explain why conservatives feel they are in a minority despite making up about 50% of the population.

All I can say to those who feel oppressed is that as a bullied kid something I learnt from a young age is that it's hard to look myself in the mirror if I start trying to adapt my behaviour to please others. I much rather be myself and hated than try to conform at the expense of my identity. Be proud of who you are and never feel afraid to express yourself. If you're hated for that, so be it. It's better to be yourself than a coward.
Agree. It's always such a 'just so' with these kinds of articles about Detroit techno. That being said, I think Kraftwerk is actually a little underrated in their influence. I know that probably seems hard to believe given the praise they got, but there was something about the spectre of 4 white robo-mannequins that triggered some latent afro-futurist impulse that, for me, goes back to Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane.
Shocking how even on HN people are not aware that the world population will NOT grow indefinitely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348
Doesn't matter, you can reduce it down to the wallet. (At least) someone has (or at least has at one point had) access to it.
"You don’t see any irony?"

If any, it's not indented. My once lecturer in logic would have delighted in giving this text to the class as an exercise, the students would have then set about analyzing what I'd written. He then have said 'this is what you actually wrote, but is it what you actually meant to say?' Answering 'no', I may have been given a c-grade pass if he'd been feeling generous on the day. ;-)

Your implication is absolutely correct, it's crappy writing written in a hurry. My question now is did you get the overall gist of what I'd said? (It would also be interesting to know what good AI would have made of it.)
Is the grocery store "double dipping" because it takes money from you to buy the food, and also takes money from companies to place products in special promotional end-of-aisle displays? Back when people bought physical newspapers, were newspapers "double dipping" because they charged both for the physical print copy, as well as charging companies to place advertisements there? Were Nintendo and Sony "double-dipping" because they charged consumers to buy their consoles, as well as charging cartridge makers for the chip required for the game to actually work?

Is Google "double-dipping" because they're selling you a phone and then using it to advertise to you?

The iPhone has the Apple Tax on apps priced into it already. If they didn't have the revenue from Epic, they'd have to either find sources of revenue (like spying on you to sell you more stuff) or reduce the quality of the software / hardware.
And then you need to filter the output of the bubbler because microparticules will be suspended in the gas flow, and then you need to sterilize it, because you don't know what's growing in the bubbler, and then cool it down (is sterilize by heating it), and then you need to regulate the pressure of volume, etc....

hacking-rig an industrial oxygen generator is a very different thing from being able to generate breathable medical oxygen - when you're done with all the steps you'll end up at something that's very expensive and difficult to maintain in the end
That's actually something that a compiler warning can do for you. It clearly doesn't warrant a new language.
Voting goes the way I think it should = people rationally voted for their best interest despite all the propaganda

Voting doesn't go the way I think it should = people were clearly swayed by propaganda and didn't vote in their best interest

Either we treat people like adults and trust their voting or we don't. One doesn't get to pick and choose which voting is "right".
Yes, a nuclear modelling software called MCNP is widely used and written entirely in fortran. Some of its source code can date back to the dawn of computing in the 1940s!

Edit to say I missed your newer project specification; MCNP is still under very active development and frequent updates, if that counts.
You know what annoys me 1000x more than elitism? People who are elitist about not being elitist.

This is just some guys opinions on music, let him talk about them, you don't have to agree.
> One is Conservative voters, who have been vilified by the hard left since the 1970s, not least because of a sense of betrayal with the erosion of parts of the historic Labour voter base as people from working-class backgrounds moved to white-collar professions and abandoned trade unionism, and this has been particularly apparent in the arts. There is a "Shy Tory" phenomenon that has continued to confound pollsters.

not to be a nit picking noo noo, but both wings of each party mock and vilify the other party. (just have a look at the various twitter streams for your local labour/green/tory/libdem party.) its what they've always done.

The labour party hasn't been about trade unionism since at least 1995.

The problem you are asserting as effectively a freedom of speech issue isn't that, its tribalism. The brexit debate is a good example of this. The country is split 50/50 (+-10%) between remain/brexit. It is therefore impossible to present an average view.

This is because its such a polarising issue. Made worse by the fact that we can see so much froth in real time about each tiny plot point. We are used to now seeing the most extreme arguments about each trivial thing (the BBC won't show you THIS. or the MSM are so biased towards x) we are simply not used to coming to a consensus anymore.

We have lost (or never had) the ability to listen to the "other" side and find common ground. In all debates we seem to be shouting loudly at the "other" side, so that we can get a reaction from our own.
> the heirs did not earn or work for.

> heirs have an advantage they themselves did not earn, own things they did not work for.

The heirs did earn it, in the same way that anyone earns anything. Agent X voluntarily gave something to agent Y in exchange for something of equal or greater subjective value.

In this case, the parent (X) gave their wealth to their child (Y), and in return they get to satisfy their "empire"- and family- building ambition, which in subjective utility terms to them is superior to alternative uses of that wealth. Perhaps they've been working all their life for this motivation, it drives many people. A perceived level of accomplishment that extends post-death.

That's the nature of a decentralized, high-freedom world. X and Y will often transact and it's not clear what the subjective value exchange is.

As long as that transaction isn't hurting you through negative externalities, it's my opinion that you have no business interfering in that transaction.

> I don’t care what they spend it on, I never claimed to care.

I believe you do.

If at age 60, they buy 500 Ferraris, that's okay. If at age 60, they instead send that wealth to their kids, that's not okay.

The former transaction (wealth <--> Ferraris) is okay.

The latter transaction (wealth <--> subjective value from family/empire-building) is not okay.

Personally, if I was rich, I would derive much higher subjective value from giving that wealth to my kids than buying 500 Ferraris.

> The heirs didn’t work for it, they’re no more entitled to it then I am.

Charity beneficiaries "don't work" for the money that's given to them. Are they entitled to it more than you?

I would say yes, because it was a voluntary exchange from the charity to that individual. We've no business in interfering in that.

We may think that the purpose of the charity is stupid, but that's the private, decentralized decision that they've come to with their own wealth.

> It is in the best interest of the nation and the individuals living at that time that the assets and wealth of that nation be accessible to anyone living in it.

I don't put too much weight on these broad utilitarian arguments.

In practice, it so often ends with an undesirable outcome. If we did a 100% inheritance tax, do we know the impact on frivolous consumption or people's motivations?

In theory, nobody is really a utilitarian anyway, people's determinations come from biological/a priori frameworks and a subjective sense of fairness and justice with a tinge of impact from jealousy and self-interest (I'm not accusing you of that).

Reasoning from a set of basic axioms which generally, but not always, point in the right direction has a better track record, in my opinion.

> (like plots of lands)

A land tax would be great.
Rediscovering the .plan File
It's been maybe fifteen years since I read up on those rules, I assume some things changed, but there weren't much details on this then. Do you have some relevant quotes?
Microsoft: LinkedIn topped $3B in ad revenue in last year
> Unions are just bringing democracy into capitalism. How can any red blooded American oppose them?

Well they had a democratic vote and decided they did not want to be represented by this union. That's democracy working.
The wifi tracking was done by the company CityTraffic https://www.citytraffic.nl/en/ . They stored a (truncated) hash of the MAC address in their database. The Dutch Data Protection Authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Data_Protection_Authorit... discovered from the data collected by CityTraffic that there was some person who every night, between four and five, walked through the city center. The person has not been identified. Dutch source: https://www.tubantia.nl/enschede/big-brother-in-enschede-pri...

The municipality of Enschede is going to appeal the fine as they are stating that they are not tracking people, but only counting people.

This is the first time the Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined a government organization and their decision could have far reaching consequences for tracking people through collecting MAC address with Wifi stations in public spaces.
It's huge but having worked in the industry, I'm not surprised :-)

The landscape of video games in the past (+/-) 10 years changed quite a bit. Nowadays, it's the biggest type of money making entertainment product (by a magnitude more than movie) and the acquisitions of studios start a multi million figures, up to billions. Seeing suits in gamedev studios now became a common occurrence.
Score Product Ideas Like a VC
I found that I manage a lot of incoming messages directly from the notifications. That is about 80% I would say. For example I delete messages or mark them as read, or I can jump directly to the specific app to write an answer.

Does it count as a "unified inbox" of sort?

The issue I see is for my parents. They tend to get confused if they have multiple messaging options.
Innovations in satellite optical payloads and earth observation from space
The latest episode of the Space Industry podcast
Naah, it's been over three months and Biden hasn't fixed even half of the government problems that have been deliberately introduced since Reagan took over in 1981. Which of course goes to prove that the Democrats suck.
OT but what bulls*ht that first paragraph is ahaha, talk about an intellectual circle-jerk.
He's, uh, not a fan of the Dutch.
> Before Steve Jobs decided to control everything, most devices and operating systems supported downloading software from 3rd party sources and running it.

Game consoles are the canonical counter example. Even consoles without cartridges, never supported software that didn’t pay a cut to the console manufacturer (+ a really expensive dev kit). It’s not some evil genius idea that Jobs just cooked up.
Well, RSS stands against the entire Google’s business model, so the Reader was doomed from the start. Google later went all in to discredit and eliminate the entire idea of feeds and aggregators, as it was dangerous for its business, which required maximizing users engagement and removing their ability to skip ads.
I just published a Substack on how to score your product ideas like a VC.

This one definitely comes from the heart having spent years building things that not enough people wanted. So I put together a simple model on Google Sheets which helps you rank concepts between 0 and 100 based on numerous inputs.

My hope is that founders can use it at the ideation stage to make better decisions about what opportunities to go after.

I'd welcome any feedback.
> Not sure it'd go as far back

The hypothesis is that our hominin cousins may have been different from us psychologically. In particular, they may not have thought about abstractions as homo sapiens does.

In other words, they may have thought us mad. I look at the world and I think I can agree!