skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author jefftk is getting unfairly downvoted maybe because cynics just see it as a version of, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

I will offer a contrarian opinion as a user whose salary does not depend on advertising: the advertising model for using Google search and watching Youtube videos works better for me as a consumer.

The alternative of paying $9.99/month for Youtube... or micropayments for each search query or a "Google Search Engine yearly subscription" ... or Patreon donations for video content ... are all more user hostile for my use cases. I don't like ads but they are the most friction-free way to consume a wide variety of content.

I've been using Google Search for over 20 years for free which is pretty amazing. Would I rather replay history and pay ~$120 every year (~$2400 ?) to search for web articles? No.

That said, there are also many corrosive aspects of advertising. Advertising should be open and transparent. If the business of ads are truthful, I will sometimes pay to see ads. E.g. I pay $10 ticket for a home & garden convention show so the manufacturers in booths can advertise their wares to me. The opposite and immoral idea of hidden ad tracking is Facebook trying to convince Apple not to show confirmation dialogs about ad IDFA tracking.
There's nothing wrong with ads. But the only adtech we need is <img src="ad.jpg" />. Anything else is indefensibly unethical and anti-user.
Here’s a completely bizarre experience I had that I attributed to bad luck.

I saw a weird triangular drone/plane flying close to an airport. I went to take a picture of it (to identify later) and my phone died. Just up and black screened. An hour later I was eating dinner and turned back on with ~43% battery power remaining. It wasn’t a particularly cold day, but I attributed to an old battery not handling the temp well. I don’t think it was aliens, or even a UFO (except to me.)

…but if it was an alien UFO, I wouldn’t be surprised if the folks who traversed space to be here could ID a lens and disable my phone.
I want to add that I think we should make a clear distinction between (1) “believing” in aliens and (2) believing aliens have visited us.

I am for instance virtually certain that life in general and intelligent life in particular abounds in the Universe. I am even more certain that any accounts people tell and have told of alien sightings are lies or misunderstandings.
One perspective on money is that it's a resource-allocation system. I think more transparent, accountable, reliable resource allocation potentially has enormous social value.
IBM said they're still doing single patterning EUV on 2nm.
This comment completely shocked me. Quick zillow verifies it... If you had asked me, I would have guessed <$200k.

What drives those prices?
Indeed. Like a decentralized social network driven not by ads, but likes that gen coins.

PeakD.com

Or a digital currency with the privacy and fungibility of cash.

GetMonero.org

Or an ad free streaming platform.

Odysee.com
The federal minimum wage is a distraction since so many states have higher ones.
If this is about Mighty, the bad parts of it aren't technical.

- Even with today's concentration of information, there are several independent information sources left... and they want us to access them from a single point of failure?

- Who pays for this and how? How do I install my own ad blockers and anti tracking extensions on Mighty? Am I supposed to just trust them that they won't sell my advertising profile?

- What happens to the sites Mighty management disagrees with? Do they become inaccessible? Or they render badly? Especially since they're an American company and society is getting ultra polarized over there...
I struggle to have sympathy for people who elect leopards and get surprised when their face is eaten.
Exactly! More developer discipline required.

What ever can be checked by the compiler, as part of the language, is automatic free productivity to me.
> I for sure prefer to write a backend where no teammates ever introduce blocking calls.

Please note that forcing an execution model in the language will inadvertently cause headaches for some kinds of domains. Since clojure makes no wild choices the language can be ported to other runtimes (.net, js) and benefit from future runtime improvements without breaking the language (JVM virtual threads, value types).

Since the core is small and lisps are extensible, we can have a multitude of choices in libraries. So if you really like typy things you can check out core.typed, spec, schema, malli etc. If you want async you can check out manifold, promesa, core.async etc. If you want non-blocking effects handling you can check out missionary or darkleaf/effect.
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That sounds great to me. The existing definition of "math" sucks.

Practically all of the math that I use on a daily basis I got before 6th grade. Everything after that was tracked towards a calculus that I don't use even as a software developer. At best it was a kind of sideways lesson in how to reason, such as geometric proofs. But I could have been taught the same lessons more pragmatically in the context of, say, interpreting statistics or basic accounting. (Debugging a general ledger error is a great exercise in reasoning, using nothing more than addition and subtraction.)

Math is about language and culture. The most important math lessons should be "How do you formulate this real-world question as a math problem?" The quality of word problems that I got in school were godawful. And to judge from the homework I saw copypasted into Quora, they haven't gotten better. (I hated watching students copypaste their homework but I hated the questions even more. They were practically begging students to think of math as a pointless exercise.)

As for social justice -- well, I'd like to think that social justice is something we can all agree to be in favor of. And math is a tool for helping figure out what social justice is. That doesn't mean we'll all agree on it, but most Internet discussions of it that I've seen appear to be less about legitimate disagreements and more about how to lie with math. I'd love to see students taught how cherry-picking works and how to build good models. We won't still agree, but at least we'll know what the legitimate differences are -- and then commence the hard but genuine problem of finding accommodations for each other.
I'm still learning about Cinder, but my initial impression is that there are many similar techniques used, and maybe one interesting difference is that with Pyston we've focused more on out-of-the-box performance while Cinder has had an opportunity to co-optimize the runtime with a particular codebase and presumably gets better results if you're able to do that.
For those that don’t know. DSLR or Digital Single Lens Reflex.

When you look through the viewfinder your looking through the lens due to a mirror and a prism that sits on top of the camera. When you take a picture the mirror flips out of the way and the image goes straight onto the film/sensor (after the shutter opens for a precise amount of time). There was some interesting tricks with light path to the the autofocus sensor. The prism is great because it un reverses the image.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_single-lens_reflex_c...

Because of digital you can read the sensor and now show the image in a small screen in the viewfinder instead.
NAND isn’t ever all being used at the same time and even then it can get very hot. SSD thermal throttling is a genuine issue.
How’s that any different than keeping it updated while it’s in the tree? If it’s stale and someone comes along to fix it, it’ll be in the same state it was when it would’ve been removed. Stale code needs to be updated regardless of where it came from.
How to make perpetual income every month
Path you don't care enough to go down != dead end.
I agree, this is a common (and justified) sentiment.

I had a high school teacher give us a book about print advertising (this was way before the internet was a common thing) and how it deceives. How they sell cars with sexy women, how instead of selling a product they sell an unrelated image of success (which is not really tied to the product). It was a nice book, with lots of photos and examples, and all about how advertisement is designed to deceive and encourage a "need" that wasn't there before.
Does Thiel count as reasonable?
So I often hear that argument about other ways to make money. Other than a paywall what is the other way ?
Reddit User Discovers AirTag Debug Mode on iOS 14.5
Basic chip trying lots of different things with the manufacturing technology to profile them/see how they work. It's a proof of concept.
This will probably be a boon for single cell organism bioengineering.

However, due to the fact of having to stick a reverse transcriptase into the mix to make it a functional platform, and the need to knock-out ssDNAase activity to achieve viable transformants, may ultimately prove problematic in multicellular organisms.

Outcome: Any industrial microbes in use today, will become better, through empirically directed multi-site-mutational screening, subsequently improving yields.
Okay but they should be paying taxes locally.

I don't know about Montana but in my state I pay state income taxes, county and city property taxes, and state, county, city sales taxes.
That scientist brave enough to be a so-called 'stalker' at least deserves name recognition, shouldn't they?
What's Behind the Shopify Effect
I thought their title mis-summarized the text (text says 25 million Norwegian Kroner, title says 2.5 million Euro). Actually it's close enough, Google says NOK 25 million is EUR 2.484 million.
The last time the federal government had a surplus was 2001. If we can manage to sustain a twenty-year deficit for expeditionary wars, but can't to sustain the health and well-being or our own people, our priorities are incredibly inverted.
New Ideas aren't crazy. Crazy Ideas are crazy. That's why people say it won't work, because it sounds crazy. It sounds crazy because the person proposing it hasn't made a good enough case for it.

Getting people to agree with a new idea is about salesmanship. If people think your idea is crazy, you suck at sales. Coffee's for closers.
I didn't mean looking at future promises - that's part of the crypto game. I mean if the project mostly does what you expect from it now and continues development towards the rest - why does it matter if people see it as a scam on the crypto front? You're getting the value you need out of it.
Indeed, how dare they! https://www.ft.com/content/fa1e0d22-71f2-401f-9971-fa2731357... ("Vaccine makers say IP waiver could hand technology to China and Russia")
Data analysis/science has its place in a game imo. Balance is important (but equality of all strategies and classes should NEVER be the goal in a game, it's a recipe for staleness). In general though, people are terrible at using data properly. You can look at a spreadsheet and see that a particular faction is underperforming at high ELO, but a blind buff to damage or economy will often not be the correct move. Similar to how single player campaign difficulty settings will sometimes just be a glorified multiplier on enemy attack/health. A proper difficulty setting changes enemy behavior. There is a story everywhere that there is data, but people tend to be way better at sorting a column in Excel and sending an email about it than they are at investigating (and effectively communicating) the underlying story. Games (and businesses) need less analysts, and more scientists.
I see little evidence he would want to talk to them, indeed his way of life is an insult to their discipline and their discipline is a threat to his way of life

Consciousness of history is inoculation against the sort of "thought leadership" PG sells
With Republicans, you can always assume that the cruelty is the point. See for example, forced child separation for the nursing babies of asylum seekers.
> free trial model

tbh kinda seems like a paywall with extra steps for buy in
How is https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/1 not OFAC Compatible?
Search Funds have generated double the IRR of VC Funds the last 10 years
The tokens issued in this case (on of the few) have a purpose which is not speculation. If large amounts of speculation is undermining the business itself then yes I think that might qualify as a form of abuse? Happy to use an alternative term of your choice, ESL etc.
That is amazing. Thank you!
I think a lot of people - dare I say it, even PaulG - are missing the point of Mighty (or not putting it into words properly).

Mighty isn’t betting on the internet continually getting more bloated, or being better than a thick client. Even for a poor person working mostly in Figma, buying a decent laptop will be much more cost-effective.

What they are really selling is the equivalent of upgrading your laptop to a new model while it’s still running. Hardware shopping is time-consuming, stressful, and never done proactively - so you suffer in silence till the new one arrives. Then you have to replicate your old workflow and warm the caches.

The two biggest threats to Mighty are Apple/MSFT building “snapshot” recoveries in new hardware (almost AMI-like), and real adoption of saving bookmarks, history and passwords to the cloud by signing in to Chrome (most I know are hesitant). As has always been the case in this industry, the
hardware is irrelevant.

This isn’t game-streaming, where you unlock hardware economies of scale because most users play a tiny amount a day on average. Your browser is always on.
Just a random thought. What would happen if you dumped nuclear waste in a volcano? Would that burn it off or cause an explosion?
My father in law is a General Contractor and said right now is the worst time to build a deck. He’s scoped a couple deck jobs but they all backed out due to cost increases.

If you can wait until next summer you will probably save a lot depending on the deck size. Compare wood with composite decking and you might get a favorable composite price.
Dont break things merely exaggerated as a requirement in dynamic typed langs.
>Bricks don't interfere that much wireless signals and for new bricks no additional insulation or drywall is needed

How acoustically active are the rooms in a house like this? I can only imagine how many rugs and tapestries hanging on the walls would be needed just to stay sane.
Same argument could be stretched to say..."same folks could hide themselves from your eyes"
Seeing dead children and people with their legs blown off made all the commentary on CNN and Fox seem so understated.

The US understood that the media's unprecedented access & real time accurate portrayal of the Vietnam war was one of the reasons Americans got disillusioned with the war. Your sensitized reaction to the real scenes of conflict are common. The US doesn't want to make this same mistake again.
Let me remind you, in case you forgot, that the Muslim ban EO happened 7 days into Trump's tenure (as well as shithole countries remark). That's about all the "chance" I was prepared to give.

If that's how you lead foreign policy 7 days in, you don't deserve to be president. Full stop.
The “alt-left” label is a bit eye roll inducing to me because it seems completely synthesized as some tit-for-tat term for political argument and slurring. Whereas alt-right originated from reactionaries as a more of a self descriptive term (for some reason I thought it was Steve Bannon who first coined it but Wikipedia says it originated with Richard Spencer). Admittedly though it got appropriated as another boring catch-all slur.
> deliberately most-dangerous failure mode (vs fail-safe) is sociopath-level pathology

Is that a clinical diagnosis? Are you aware that many car brands have multiple levels of software deactivation for every safety critical feature, onboard and remote? Are you saying that all vehicle makers are sociopaths, or that you’re unaware of today’s designs?

> The user, through a variety of readily conceivable of technical or user errors, could easily use the product, thinking they had protection

This is speculation based on FUD and willfully ignoring the process they described, and it seems unlikely to me.

> This could have been done much better

Yeah probably, especially the marketing.
Unrelated to forestry, but you make a point that I'm curious about. If or when electric cars take over, what's going to happen with all of the farmland that's planted with corn for ethanol production?

It looks like around of 1/3rd of planted corn in the US is used for ethanol production for cars. https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10339

I have a feel a lot of farms are going to turn in to more sprawling suburbs when some monster subsidies get passed to build out these abandoned farms.
> n this case I see how it's worse for fishing sites, but not how it's bad for consumers: their willingness to buy fishing equipment translates into support for all the sites they visit, and not just the fishing sites.

It's bad for the consumer because their privacy is being violated and their metadata is being sold, in order for advertisers to track them everywhere they go online, so businesses can try and extract all of their spending money as efficiently as possible.

It also is bad for the consumer because it's bad for the collective whole: instead of quality content online everything is being driven by outrage and clickbait in order to serve as many targeted ads as possible.

Personally I don't even want to support that ecosystem or those sites.

It's also bad for the fishing site because now their niche targeted ad slots that used to pay decently in order to target people with an interest in fishing are pushed into the same race to the bottom low return ads that are being automatically targeted. So they lose too.

Only winners are huge publishers that don't have any niche audience to target because now they effectively target every niche. And Google of course. Basically the two groups who I want to win the least.
Holy shit, billionaire assassinated in his own home, ongoing investigation but no real leads.
Are these claims based on anything but "common sense"?
I assume you're referring to my comment, since I mentioned both Haskell and Rust.

_I_ am not capable of writing a robust, large scale application in a dynamic language. I do not have the discipline to second guess everything I do. I will at some point forget to write certain tests. Or test only the happy path. Or make a silly typo. Maybe I'll rename a keyword and in one place not notice that I'm renaming a keyword that will come from a completely different map. Or I'll forgot to namespace keywords and wonder where they come from.

I have no doubt that there are people who can write rock solid stuff in C, or Bash or Dash.

I can't. Therefore, yes, its dynamic nature is what leads me to rule out Clojure. I want to be lazy and focus on the logic, the algorithms and data structures. I do not want to be my own compiler because I'm not good at that.
> The traditional way of doing this is to buy ads on fishing sites.

Before digital advertising or Google reading emails to find out you're going on a fishing trip, how did people buy fishing equipment?

Whatever we did then, we can probably go back to and be much better off.

Like why do I need "relevant ads" on a blog about urban planning? What problem does that solve for me?
I didn't mean some internal thing, doesn't the SEC give % rewards to whistleblowers?
>I've seen all of them clearly and thoroughly explained away.

No, you haven't. Every "debunking" has itself been thoroughly debunked.
I'd rather get a nickel for every bit of data that I did not give explicitly consent to be collected, and a nickel for anytime that bits cross referenced, sold, shared, lost, transferred, or otherwise handled in a way that was not explicitly defined in the eula..
I hate ads. I always hated them.

It doesn't mean I hate people who work on ads / ad software. It doesn't mean I want to cancel them. You, and the others in that field, don't have to justify yourself. You don't have to donate to charity to feel better about what you're doing (it doesn't mean "stop donating NOW", it's just.. do what you feel is good, like you are doing now).

There's a lot of bad going on in the world. Ads are shady-grey area. I know how to fight it and have my internet ad-free. You're ok, don't let negative comments get to you. Cheers!
I find all ads reprehensible regardless of tracking and yes, I believe adtech engineers aren't responsible for that. Specifically, author of OP doesn't have to justify himself. He enjoys his job and I'm happy for him.

Blaming technicians for the negative externalities of their industries is a dark path. Are we going to blame lawyers who defend rapists? General Motors assembly-line workers? Engineers who work for oil companies?
They want to differentiate themselves as much as possible from smartphones to survive.

As smartphones have continued to get better (first via optics, then via software/computational processing) it has been the physics that has kept full frame (and medium format) relevant.

Personally I was a huge fan of m4/3 for the lower weight/smaller/open format interchangeable lens system but one cannot deny the cross-over between it and smartphones is perhaps too close to survive (Olympus is already out).

APS-C isn't as bad as m4/3, but why invest tons of resources/time into a format that can also get swallowed by the megafauna that is smartphones (via e.g. periscope lenses)? Instead, they can offer consumer grade/entry level FF cameras, with no lens system dilution or headaches trying to implement an inter-compatible
flange focal distance (between APS-C/FF).
Buildings are alive like flames. They are living manifestations of a culture.

The Cathedrals stand because they have been maintained by each generation -- and each generation has added something: a chapel, a statue, a ceiling boss. To this day you will often find them surrounded by scaffolding. It detracts from the view but it's as much a part of the process as the stone.

Angkor Wat is no older, yet it has crumbled. Its maintenance ceased for generations. The difference is stark.

(Angkor is now seeing something of a revival. Restoration work has occurred over the last two or three generations, and more will happen now as the Khmer people become wealthier again.)

These buildings are a reminder that there are long-term dynamics of birth and death and reproduction that outlive the individual.
PHP and JavaScript and Python are also dynamically typed the solution isn't yet another incompatible type system, there are so many type systems that don't work together, spec is also turing complete

Turing completeness in a type system allows you to use the type system as a meta coding language which is a fantastic amount of
string to hoist yourself with, putting meta languages inside languages is a miserable place to be

I'd argue that most people just want the language to check for mistakes, clj-kondo is great and effective at doing this
https://github.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo/blob/master/doc/edito...

If you want types at your system boundaries like on your API then specs or malli is great for that

A great thing that Rich Hickey always advocated is separating out problems and then solving them individually I think modern type systems try and take on too many problems at once, static analysis tools are great because they're uncoupled by time and are laser focused on detecting mistakes only
The Red Queen Hypothesis
You may prefer alpaca[1] which is in the ML family and on the BEAM. Someone could target Core Erlang [2] or BEAM byte code directly and offer a pluggable frontend for different syntax, Mix would almost allow that. I think it's just a huge lift to make happen and get everything to play nicely with BEAM semantics. But that's just like my opinion.

[1] https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca
[2] https://blog.erlang.org/core-erlang-by-example/