skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I replied to someone on Twitter about this as I mistakenly thought they were the author, but the interpreter line in the example script should be #!/usr/bin/awk rather than #!/bin/awk.
Well, I don't like neither US nor EU meddling with people in other parts of the world.
> I think the reason Lisp self-asphyxiated is because people don't get it.

As programmer who has spent most time in Python/Java/C but has dabbled in a few lisp dialects but isn’t sure if I “get it”: how can I know if I “get it” or not?
I got my wife a ring made of YAG and platinum setting. I got a custom cut, and designed the ring myself.

The YAG (yttrium aluminum garnet) is https://www.stagandfinch.com/product-page/Paraiba-YAG

It looks like nothing else out there.. And she's happy that we didnt contribute to the slave and blood diamond trade.
I don't think you're quite the target audience for this then.

It's $9... And most apps don't give you access to source. This seems very reasonable.
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Perhaps mimetism. Do you lump say all fashion under that category as well?

I think there is an unofficial "pecking order" of society. People treat you differently if you roll up in a new Mercedes vs a new Honda. If your purse is a Louis Vuitton or a Walmart brand. They all functionally do the same thing, but society uses these things to lump people into camps.

In that same regard, I've seen women who are not materialistic seem embarrassed to show off their modest ring which is wrong. I think a lot of people treat engagement rings in the same way as designer bags, and nice cars.

We can say it doesn't matter, but if society ranks you differently I think it does matter on some level.
> Given that he has a history of quoting Breitbart, the primary newspaper of “actually racism against whites is the issue”, I do not buy that.

You have no idea if that's true or not or the extent of his comments. You're going off of an unsubstantiated claim and treating it as fact.

> I also don’t buy it when they rush to scrub a ton of his chat history after this. That’s fishy as hell.

They didn't scrub history after this. They deleted those forums a week or two before all of this (according to the article), in an apparent attempt to stop the political chatter. It seems when that didn't work they came out with the no politics policy.

> The irony of course is that this entire situation was accelerated by DHH and Fried creating a new policy saying “no politics or get out”. The people stopping all debate here are management, not the amorphous “left”.

There is still zero evidence that any of this has to do with white supremacy, so someone making that claim is ridiculous and is meant to stop all meaningful conversation. Once someone makes that claim the entire debate becomes about that claim and there is no turning back from it. That is very much the reason it is used so much.

It seems they have/had quite a few political activists that were causing contention in the company. I don't blame them one bit for wanting to quell political stuff while on company time.
They most likely mean an alternate account. Like an alter ego.
Because houses and cars are useful, the GP pointed out that being uselessness is the entire point

>the high cost and useless-ness of the gift are a feature not a bug

The other thing is the marketing says diamonds are "forever," presumably like your love, but houses and cars require expensive maintenance and are easily damaged. Not good if you're buying something symbolic.

Not that I personally agree, far from it, we didn't make any jewelery purchases when we got married.
This is all correct! I've worked in the diamond business for almost a decade now and see people complain on HN and Reddit constantly about diamonds all while barely understanding the industry at all. The common complaint of "you can't sell them for what you paid" is a dumb complaint because they don't understand the HUGE markup the stones receive at retail.

Here's the profit margins that the stones receive along the way:
- Miners selling to cutters - 10-15% profit
- Cutters selling to wholesalers - 3-5% profit
- Wholesalers selling to retail - 10-20% profit
- Retail to consumers - 100-200% profit

Everyone on these threads is always mad at the miners and I never see any anger placed on the Jared's, Kay's, Zale's of the world (all owned by the same company btw).
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what about trees, the cheapest and most efficient "carbon capture machine".

with that prize money one can plant a whole lot of forests

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-many-trees-to-plant-to-s...

https://edenprojects.org/
That's already a thing. They fog the streets at night in the closest town to where I live, in the summer. Consequences - every bug dies as well as mosquitoes. This seems slightly more targeted than that approach.
Instead of a diamond ring, I went with a saphire ring. My wife likes blue and it was all I could afford at the time (~$800). She loved it either way and knows we were dead ass broke at the time and doesn't complain.

She works as a physical therapist now and wears a silicon ring because she bent the wedding ring giving CPR to a patient in a hospital a few years ago (patient lived).
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The study was partially funded by public money through the Economic and Social Research Council, and partly through a foundation called The Huo Family Foundation, which I do not believe is publicly funded.
This is a common problem in Asia. One of my friends works on helping disadvantaged communities in India get identified (get government identification, get voter IDs, get their actions tracked) and another works on making sure their homes are tracked on government services.

Governments only serve the people they know about. The standard of service for these people increases substantially when they're no longer invisible. They get a ration shop, voter booths, that sort of thing.
it would encourage developers to minimize those things. in LA, for example, the city had a subsidy to replace thirsty lawns with drought-tolerant landscaping. many property owners replaced lawns with fake plastic grass... that requires a concrete substrate. so we got more heat-concentrating surface and worse water/drought management. this kind of tax would have encouraged property owners to consider better alternatives.
Macros are bolted on in Lisp!? Ok, can you expand a bit on what a language with (syntactic) macros at its core would be like, please?
This has me thinking a sci-fi story centering around how hard monitoring large swaths of space actually is (with maybe some Expanse-style dicey politics for spice) would be pretty cool.

This is already basically there, but the real-life ramifications for the people in these regions undercuts the enjoyment of the tech-political drama.
>Don't apply logic to fashion choices

Fast fashion is literally harming the earth, screw everyone who says that and thinks about that, I absolutely reject it and we SHOULD apply logic to fashion choices that directly harm us and our planet.
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> What are the things that currently limit their growth, maybe it would be good to find out and use those?

Loss of habitat, for example.
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I found it very effective, because I'm curious about VCV Rack and modular synths in general, so the journey through the technical background was technically interesting. (Also the sweet-ass soundtrack provided by the in-page Winamp was exquisite.) It also gave me a solid sense that the author was not just a drive-by whiner, but a solid contributor to the ecosystem with a passel of really fascinating ideas either already executed, or on deck.

With the groundwork thus established, the eventual crumbling of the community was all the more engaging.

It affected me because I'm the target audience -- someone who cares deeply about both modular synths, and about communities being good to their contributors. If someone's merely one of those things or the other, the post will probably strike them as rambling in one way or another, and that's arguably fine because they're not the target audience.

That being said, tearing down a post because it didn't speak to you is, exactly, a shallow dismissal.
Fake. The ribbon connector was not connected to anything. It was just snot-glued on the back of the display. All I/O was on separate modules directly connected to CPU bus.
Mosquito females cannot submit genetic samples of potential mates to a sequencing laboratory. They cannot determine which of two males has a "bigger genetic mix".

It's really easy to anthropomorphize the mosquitoes or to anthropomorphize natural selection; we shouldn't ascribe that kind of agency to them.

Instead, reason about the consequences that we observe after the fact: perhaps the modified male mosquitoes are drawn from a different population than the local, unmodified males, and the groups have slightly different colorings. A random group of females might prefer the modified color, a different group might have no preference, and a different group might prefer the local color. After a few generations, the latter group will dominate.

That's not because the female mosquitoes or Mother Nature made any kind of effort to find mates with good genetic material. No such agency was present in the process. Instead, those random behaviors that incidentally resulted in selecting good mates were more likely to be passed down.
Googler, opinions are my own.

Youtube isn't the only platform where Google does video transcoding. I don't know them all, but here are a few other places where video plays a part:

Meet - I'm guessing for participates that on are different devices (desktop, android, ios) and depending on their bandwidth will get different video feed quality. Though, the real-time nature of this may not work as well? Though, Meet has a live stream[0] feature for when your meeting is over 250 people, which gives you a youtube-like player, so this likely is transcoded.

Duo - more video chat.

Photos - when you watch a photos video stored at google (or share it with someone), it will likely be transcoded.

Video Ads. I'd guess these are all pre-processed for every platform type for effecient delivery. While these are mainly on youtube, they show up on other platforms as well.

Play Movies.

Nest cameras. This is a 24-stream of data to the cloud that some people pay to have X days of video saved.

[0] https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9308630?co=GENIE.Plat...
I don't think your metaphor of a famous writer's pen is apt. For that to work, we'd have to be able to reproduce writer's pens in a lab for less money and less ethical violation. Probably a better analogy would be using some rare squid ink vs. using manufactured chemical ink.
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When I had a requirement to do this, I used the one true awk and compiled it statically. Didn't require mucking around with all the libraries.
I'd say it's more like:

"Okay class, a very small percentage of diamonds are made via child labour, a few poor people dead, terrorist groups etc while most are made via modern mining practice. That is where diamonds come from. On the other hand, a successful marketing campaign has occurred declaring that all natural diamonds are made by torturing children. It may well be that your iPhone's supply chain causes more misery. How many would still want a natural diamond because diamonds are forever?"
Why only the richest companies?

Wouldn't everyone be copying all the best ideas from everyone else? Wouldn't that be a good thing? Both in general and for innovation?

(And even if only the richest companies did this, they would still have to compete against each other's copy-cat implementations of those ideas.)

We don't necessarily have to re-hash this discussion, other people already had it, eg at https://sciencebusiness.net/news/79887/The-Great-IP-Debate%3...

In any case, whether patents help or hinder innovation is an empirical question that deserves study! Instead of just assuming that they _must_ encourage innovation, because they say so.

You can also get a start on the literature by following the sources of this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_and_patents#Innovati...
Honestly, I'm kind of surprised that any software engineer could be okay with us releasing anything genetically engineered into the wild.

We can't manage systems that we designed to be highly decoupled and very manageable with out introducing bugs or triggering unintended consequences (sometime pretty catastrophic to the system in question). These are systems we ought to know everything about, because we built them, and that we've intentionally designed in such a way that a fault in one part of it shouldn't affect other parts of it. And yet, we often find they do in ways we never would have predicted. I'm talking here, of course, about software.

Genetic code is a system we don't fully understand, that's vastly more complex than any of the software systems we've built, and that is highly coupled in ways we're only just beginning to understand. Tweak a gene that we're pretty sure does one thing, and it can have effects in completely unrelated systems we never would have predicted.

And yet, we're going to mess around in that system and then release it out into wild ecosystems (another highly complex and highly coupled system that we don't fully understand). Ecosystems that we don't completely control. We have no rollback ability for these releases. No way to undo it.

And we have no way to thoroughly test these changes impacts on the systems.

Even in a culture with the mentality "move fast and break things" we don't act this cavalierly towards the systems we're working in. It's absolutely insane to behave this way. And it's only a matter of time before it bites us in the ass in a truly catastrophic way.
If you don't refresh your look every few years, you just start to look "old". I think it also drives upgrades--people stuck on old versions see a different look that seems "fresher" and they'll want to upgrade, too.
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Many, many people care about fonts!
What is this, by the way? I'm having a hard time searching for it.
There was the story about Elon Musk's family ties to apartheid and an emerald mine in like 2017-2018. That's where that comes from.
Not US-centric - they're popular in the US and Canada, Japan, China and SE Asia.
Yes, although that doesn't seem to be the proximate grievance leading to people quitting. Pretty dumb thing to do though.
> Meh...

> tool was subpar

What were there actual issues that you faced?

Kind of rude to put it down with vague comments and recommend something else.
I'm in my 30s and finally going to college and can confirm that many of my fellow students (most in their teens or early 20s) believe that .org domains are credible. I've pointed out that anyone can buy one for $10 so hopefully some have taken that to heart, but I wonder where are they getting this from?
How can a company be sustainable if it continuously loses more money than it brings in?

If I sold a bunch of dollars for 95 cents, my revenue would be astronomical. But does that make it a sound business model?

Which is a better business model? An Indy writer with 3000+ people charging $100 a year for a newsletter (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) or a multi million dollar news organization employing dozens of people with higher revenue losing millions per quarter?
At least for Google's case YouTube videos are usually transcoded in idle datacenters (for example locations where the locals are sleeping). This means that the cost of CPU is much lower than a naive estimate. These new accelerators can only be used for transcoding video, the rest of the time they will sit idle (or you will keep them loaded but the regular servers will be idle). This means that the economics are necessarily an obvious win.

Of course if you do enough transcoding that you are buying servers for the job then these start to save money. So I guess someone finally decided that the R&D would likely pay off due to the current combination of cyclical traffic, adjustable load and the cost savings of the accelerator.
When it's possible to skip baked in ads (SponsorBlock[1]) -- the whack-a-mole will continue no matter what. Even if it means you can't watch videos in realtime but have to wait for them to fully download to rip the ad out, someone will figure it out.

At that time everyone starts talking about it and I gotta imagine a bunch of new people become adblocking users.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26886275
Why don't we have valid an reliable biomarkers for depression then?

What is a 'normal' level of catecholamines?

Not disagreeing that the mental/physical dichotomy is arbitrary.
Personal theory (with varying amounts of evidence):

Companies that can make Work From Home (WFH) happen are ones that actually do something with their employees. Companies that are Asses in Seats (AIS) are companies that mostly do not have people that actually do something. This will vary by team and division in a company as well. Some managers that do not do as much 'real' work will want AIS more so than WFH, and it may change as projects come on and off the schedule. It's a spectrum.

The reason is emotional. AIS managers and companies feel that if they can see the employees working, getting coffee, hear the typing, etc, then their knowledge that no one is actually doing anything is calmed down. Their monkey brain gets a bit more quiet as they have a bit more 'cover' for their boss. 'Look, see, all my people are doing something. I know it's not really anything, but my boss may think it really is something. Phew!'

WFH managers know that their employees are really doing work and therefore aren't worried about the next promotion. Stuff actually does get done.

It's not the full reason, by any means, but I feel it accounts for some of the discrepancy.
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Why did it stop being practice to put buildings on bridges? Seems like a great way to generate extra space in a city. You need the bridge anyway. Might as well put extra things on top of it. Imagine offices and housing all the way along the SF Bay Bridge. Could have a little electric train to take people along it.
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How many of those were automated bans because some other related account was taken down?
By now Intel has released an open source encoder (BSD-2 + patent grants), tuned for their Xeons:

https://github.com/OpenVisualCloud/SVT-VP9
More relevant to this thread, the PB-2000C has a Prolog option. I have one with that card.
For sure, the fact it cannot support shared memory is one of the biggest drawbacks. Maybe catching shared memory setup and marking the pages as not readable, then catching read accesses would work.
I am SO excited by that.

As a halfhearted collector of niche or obscure input devices, I'm totally fascinated by these ideas for new ways inputs could be used to influence the music, and new ways for music to accept influence from inputs. If VCV's poor treatment of contributors ends up spawning a whole new idea in modulars, everyone wins.
3. Come from a wealthy family.

4. Claim to have worked a ton of low-end jobs in your auto-biography to be more likable.

5. Act like you can work 16 hours a day EFFECTIVELY on 4 hours of sleep, WHILE learning new things.
What ethical grounds? Based off an article you read a few years ago about 1 mine in 1 African country that accounts for < 1% of all global diamond supply?
Planets could be accelerated by SMBH mergers, but they wouldn’t stay orbiting a star through the process. It’s slightly more plausible for a one to form afterwards.

As to the density of earths hydrogen, that’s a function of earths atmosphere. Under sustained bombardment, assuming the planet kept an atmosphere, it’s going to have significantly less nitrogen in the upper atmosphere as that’s destroyed by collisions with relativistic hydrogen/helium.
Looks like this is mostly dead. Last significant news was from 2017, where they were working on a FPGA version.
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> Unfortunately, a sustained population loss would be incompatible with economic growth. Fewer people would mean a decline in business activity, imminent labor shortages and a worsening age imbalance that would leave more senior citizens without enough caregivers.

Same old reasoning that we've heard a million different times.

Can't we simply increase immigration when needed. Japan is a bad example because they are a xenophobic population that doesn't accept immigration. Tired of this this bullshit take every single time.
If anything the jokes of the vintage years have got better with age.

Not only because I understood the cultural references or occasional 'adult' jokes more, but also because of the layers to a joke.

Like many Pixar movies, the same gag can make you laugh in different ways as a kid, as a know-it-all young adult, and as a middle aged person.
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"Unfortunately, a sustained population loss would be incompatible with economic growth."

This is a pretty hefty dose of globalist neoliberalism right there.

I think we may want to put question marks around 'rapidly declining population' as 'a problem to consider' (In Japan it's decline in birth, Hungary it's emigration) with existential considerations and consequences.

But the 'warm bodies is growth' mentality which is actually part and parcel of the industrial revolution ... needs to be rethought.

US, Canada, Australia, and Brazil etc. need to think about this a little more.
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I remember when Skylab crashed, it was not treated as a joke, and there was some effort to find ground crew veterans and reestablish minimal control in case it was headed for a major city. There was considerable uncertainty until a day or so before the crash where in the world Skylab was heading.

And Cosmos 954 was definitely no joke.
You can imagine all you'd like, but the statistics here are exceedingly clear.
Reminds me how the author of sapiens failed at self publishing selling just 2k copies and then went kn to republish with better marketing, strategy, which led to over 2.7 million copies

I think writing is no different than a startup, it takes incredible amount of time and strategy to make it through.