skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this can be easily defeated by breaking companies into a cartel of smaller companies which effectively operate as is. This $600B cap should go down significantly to prevent this, something like $50B but I don't expect that to happen thanks to Walmart, Verizon and Comcast.
I had a similar discussion with a young colleague considering grad school recently. My two cents is now, with nearly 25 years post Ph.D. under my belt, that it is a union card for some jobs, and irrelevant for others. The degrees don't make the person. The content of the character and drive do.

I got a Ph.D. as I had the goal of being a physics prof someday. I knew that was an essential milestone on the path to this. Now, my goal is to save for retirement, and do what I enjoy doing while doing this, and maybe after retirement teaching physics/math/etc. at a local uni/college.

The treadmill of credentialism is an apt phrase though. I don't need a Ph.D. in my current job. Or most of my previous ones.
Some crumbs of the crumbs doesn't invalidate my argument, it just demonstrates rising inequality: in other words, the benefits will disproportionately accrue to the wealth foreign investors.
Methilation isn't a mutation. It's epigenetics - (potentially) persistent / heritable changes in phenotype (expressed genes) outside of genetic code (DNA).

It's used for many things, e.g. turning on/off specific genes in somatic cells, repairing DNA (when DNA is copied, the old strand is methilated; so you know how to fix any differences between old and new strand), and more recently, for measuring aging (Horvath epigenetic clock).
Perhaps what I'm really missing is the UI support for these features. Also ability to hard-link directories. Remains to be seen if wildland will satisfy.
These are all great questions - you've clearly thought this through. Please join up and help us solve them!
Serious Eats is a great source. Their writing on how to cook a steak in a cast iron pan is excellent, a really useful and interesting read for anyone who likes cooking steaks in cast iron pans.

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-complete-guide-to-p...
I think if Facebook got truly broken up worse apps would take its place, particularly in communities outside US jurisdiction. Say what you will about Facebook, but I believe some random FB employee can't just dive through my personal messages without consequences. Having met several, I believe their data scientists go to great lengths to strip PII and generally secure data sets in transit between teams and outside parties. Don't tell me some 3 person start-up is going to get even remotely close to that level of control.
There's only four times as many people in the USA now as there were in the early 20th century, and still only about a thousand slots for Harvard freshmen.
Interesting data driven approach to the problem. Would you be available to share more details about aggregate outcomes in private? Curious if you were able to slice out common patterns.
> Probably why the stack based turing machine is academically important.

A Turing machine is not stack-based, but tape-based. A pushdown automaton (PDA) is stack-based.
I think we're both in agreement that a blockchain is just a glorified database. That said, there are advantages to a blockchain over a database:

With a database, you can only do what the county auditor (or equivalent) lets you do / what their ui lets you do. With a blockchain, you can build things on top of it, fractionalized ownership, simple transfers, etc. It's basically a permissionless database that anyone can build on top of vs a database shoved in a closet at the county auditors that you can only use via their api and ui.
Renting land is actually not "rent seeking". Tho I can see how people make that association. Rent seeking is specifically the act of manipulating pulic policy to gain more money without providing anything in return.
If we didn't publish it, how would we attract helpers?
...you don't see anything good coming from Google search results?

...that it's incentivized to return the results that the most people are looking for? As measured by clicks?

If you don't believe the news and you don't find popularity useful either then I honestly can't imagine what you're even looking for then.
> why can't a government agency just force [a specific business] to stop [doing a specific thing]?

(I am not a corporate lawyer) Hopefully didn't take editorial liberties with your quote, but wanted it to stand on its own.

My understanding is that the US, in contrast to many other advanced economies unofficially or officially, takes a dim legal view of singling out a company for any purpose.

Either a company is acting within the law, or they are breaking the law. What company doesn't (shouldn't) matter.

Which I think is wise as a standing order, as detailed specific-company intervention renders it more subject to politics, etc. Better to stick to the laws, and then allow the courts to apply them evenly.
On a Commodore 64, the kernal [sic] was similar to the BIOS on a PC, with display and keyboard handlers, IO routines, etc. When you first turned on the machine, something had to say "** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 **", and that something was the kernal.
Speech from Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road Founder)
Anti-vaxer here, AMA about my anti-vax stand.

I will only respond to people who are serious. There is a section of the pro-vax crowd that is indeed scratching their head as to why there are some apparently intelligent people that they know are anti-vaxers. IMHO, they deserve an explanation.

Hopefully I come across as someone intelligent and sane.
If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend his book: https://bookshop.org/books/the-food-lab-better-home-cooking-...

It’s a pragmatic, and opinionated general purpose cookbook.
I'm a Spanish person, living abroad and with a penchant for cooking, and I was too very gratefully surprised by Kenji's Spanish tortilla video. Also by his other Spanish recipes such as Gazpacho[1] or Paella[2].

It's not that they are very orthodox recipes, cut and paste from a traditional recipe cookbook, but instead very good adaptations of them, taking into account ingredients availability and different contexts.

I can't really tell about other cousines, but judging how he cooks Spanish food I'd say he knows what he's talking about.

Add to that that he seems like a very decent and empathetic person and I'd say he's someone you want to listen to if you are looking for cooking advice.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD3WyeqCDHw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASP74I0B7zo
One advantage of using lisp is it would make it easier to develop complex routines. You could even import external code, so you could write/debug some hairy algos externally and then use them in the spreadsheet. Imagine having the power of macsyma and doing pdes in your spreadsheet. Or being able to do advanced vector operations on columns.

Though I am not as fond of them a stack language like forth or postscript could also be the computing paradigm of your spreadsheet.

Or if you are feeling more perverse, there’s always TECO
Is there any basis for your assumption that I don’t realize that?
Gaming is just good escapism and a way to pass time. Before gaming, it’d be TV, or reading fiction.
>I've been reading that we will be entering stagflation soon

No, we have stagflation right now. Stagflation is generally the type of inflation where production cannot follow demand. This is generally caused by supply shocks and sometimes by legislation that prevents people from working. The semiconductor shortage is causing a lack of new cars and thereby an increase in used car prices is an example of stagflation because prices go up but nobody is employed in the process to produce more cars.

However, this stagflation is unlikely to last because those car CEOs sure as hell don't want their company to go bankrupt. They'll pay more for preferential access to semiconductors and make their JIT manufacturing more resilient.
I really get the opposite vibe. He's a huge fan of Jacque and tries to make his food accessible. He often mentions in his videos that "you can do it whatever way you want, this is the way I do it". He often makes almost junk food versions of popular dishes (potato chip tortillas).
I think what you said is a very unforgiving and slightly misogynistic way of describing what has been spelled out many other places before: women are increasingly opting for more education or career advancement in lieu of becoming homemakers. They don’t make those decisions for the benefit of men. They don’t have to. This has little to do with observed femininity or the “attractiveness” of getting a degree.
If you are looking for such accuracy (where 50_000_000.00006 is different from 50_000_000.06) then you need a specialised library and do very careful coding.

If you are averaging bazillions of numbers and they range from weeny to huge and you thing 50_000_000.000006 != 50_000_000.06 for your purposes then it is hard for me to see that you are doing anything sensible.

This is, except in very specialised cases that I cannot imagine, a non issue.

Just add them up and divide, (and check for overflow, that could ruin your day!)
How about determining the quadrant of an angle? That's how atan2() uses signed zero and it's the greatest of all libm functions.
Oh, nice. Setting the date to 1800 and looking at Boston shows the "pre-fill" coastline, and even the fort at Boston Neck. No roads, though, and Logan Airport's land wasn't filled in in 1825, but it is editable.
Wait, what? Is this a rendering bug, or a typo?

> γ = 0.527721566...

I think it's closer to 0.577 215 664 901 ... see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Mascheroni_const...
Yeah, so many of these arguments about who comes from what category seem to assume that talent and inclination is randomly distributed among 18 year olds and that university where you find yourself.
Oh, there's the gap in my history class. We never learned about the economics and the fixed exchange ratio. I always looked back and presumed they were independently trading commodities the way they are today.

To answer your question, Bryan was a champion of the masses in the same way the prior occupant of the Oval Office was a champion of the masses.
You wouldn't stop a torrent. Why should the blockchain be different Discovery still happens elsewhere.
It would be cool if each cell is an s expression on its own. - but are cells the best way to show s expressions?
Astronomers calculate genesis of Oort cloud in chronological order
> One of the great puzzles of American society is the position of the Ivy League. It is a bastion of privilege and power, and yet full of left-leaning professors who one might imagine would favor the redistribution of wealth.

Re-imagining social norms -- not a conservative predisposition -- has nothing to do with redistributing wealth. It is precisely the requirement for a shared mindset, or a demonstration of willingness to adhere to ideological dogma, that requires generational and selective admission. As the re-imaginings take to greater heights of fancy, the distance from the non-indoctrinated society at large (which generally feels and thinks via principles and not ideology) increases and this requires and motivates a greater degree of insularity by an establishment.

It is certainly true that some children of the ideologically and/or culturally "unwashed" masses will arrive at the 'acceptable' socio-economic conclusion (due to their superior intellect) -- whether they acknowledge this consciously is not germinal -- but the risk to an establishment (regardless of their leaning on the fabled 1 dimensional L/R spectrum) to an 'open admissions and integration' policy are simply too great.
I think the characterization comes from a legion of homecooks online going through a cooking journey and treating Kenji's whimsical opinion as a law, especially when written down for one recipe.

Kenji's videos show how creative and open minded he is with cooking, but I've also had plenty of online encounters with folks preaching the food lab gospel.
Those are great!

> but solved it in different way

Different from what? You were mentioning that Latin calques of Greek are common, which is my impression too (ἀνά-στασις → re-surrectio, ὑπό-στασις -> sub-stantia, and non-religious συμ-πάθεια → com-passio).
“Unforgiving” and “misogynistic” are words unrelated to whether something is true or false - just something to keep in mind
people talking about how cool FORTH is. @cblum made his own sector forth. this is my tribe. i honestly thought there were no stack fans left in the world, thanks for proving me wrong.
Anybody notice when you cross a north/south avenue Bluetooth start freaking out?
Tech has been a huge deflationary pressure since the 90s. I believe that heavy regulation in this space can cause a scary amount of inflation given the monetary policy that was used to combat this deflation.
What do you mean using it wrong? The article is using it in exactly the way I described. "Throw the kitchen sink at something" is a widely used, valid expression these days. People are using it to mean expending every effort, so people seem to be using it right.

And the wonderful thing about language is that however most people are using it is by definition what it means:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description
> Because everyone needs equal access to those services. Everyone, no exceptions, regardless of how profitable it is or not.

I can see that argument about food, water, healthcare, maybe even electricity and internet but postal services? It’s pretty low down the “need” pyramid.
I agree with heterogeneous. But why do you think that auggests multiple causes. Commonalities across the neurodivergent spectrum intuitively lead me to suspect the opposite, that there is some common mechanism underlying all of them.
I would love that, but I'm not sure what GIS format data that would yield. Any thoughts?
Imagine if nobody stopped companies like Facebook from just digging into and using things like private APIs or doing stuff that bypassed silly things like public/standard APIs that would normally prevent that or ask for permission from the user. It's not like they've done anything like that in the past for things like Android, clearly an upstanding company like Facebook or Amazon would never do that kind of thing in order to gain access to more stuff that normally they would be prevented from.

And no, some researcher finding out about that happening wouldn't really cause them to change their behavior. And even IF somebody outside of the HN bubble found out about it, I doubt the vast majority of people would change their own behavior and get rid of the apps or anything.

Apple is never going to build a perfect OS with no security holes and they'll never be able to 100% guarantee that an app isn't doing something like that. But the threat of having that activity discovered and Apple straight up removing everything from the App Store is enough to kind of force them into being a better actor than they would be if they controlled their own store. (see the incident where Apple found out about something Facebook was doing with their enterprise certificate and then revoked it, crippling tons of internal apps on top of their user-facing stuff)
How would a mitm proxy have a valid certificate for slack.com?
People were running on adrenaline at first. Then the fatigue of having kids at home and not having the usual ways to let off steam eventually hit.
I get it now, thanks to you and another reply. I was never taught the economic technical details, just the socio-political history.
Yes, increasing land prices are stupid. The idea that people are investing into land is absurd.

This is actually an example of deflation hurting the poor. It's not deflation of the USD. It's deflation of land as people start hoarding land and reduce the available supply. If we could "print" more land this wouldn't be a problem.

It's like those game item NFTs. ETH goes up by 4x. Items get more expensive by 4x. It's just stupid.
Well Fedora is bleeding edge, RedHat's equivalent to Windows insider builds. Try Ubuntu LTS or Debian.
Apple turned over the data of two lawmakers to Trump Justice Dept
Iirc our post gold standard crises have been nominally at least near as bad as the great depression. Of course we have much,much better infrastructure, healthcare, communication, etc, which economists tend not to take into account for how there aren't a starving people dying in the streets. None of that matters, it's all the stewardship of the fed.
The post was shadow banned.

As far as similarities between posts, yes they are both about my experience with Amazon.

I agree HN moderators should flag spam accounts, remove automated bots, and focus on improving overall quality of HN.

What I fail to see is why the “new submissions” page is so heavily moderated that the HN moderators feel like my post was worthy of a shadow ban, when my previous post made national news attention and the front page of HN with 511 upvotes and 267 comments.

If a post is not spam, then let the users decide to upvote or downvote it.

HN proclaims itself to be a social news site, but this is clearly false. The content MUST align with the views of HN moderators or you won’t stand a chance at even a few people seeing your post. This was made evident by my post getting shadow banned by Dang within a few minutes of submission.

Also remember, shadow banning is the most severe form of censorship. By not alerting the user that his post is not visible to other users, they give the user no chance to appeal or even know that his post has zero distribution on the platform, in order to not draw attention to the censorship.

HN moderators clearly did not want me to know that my post was removed, in order to prevent threads like this appearing on HN. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if this entire thread was removed because we are discussing HN / HN moderators in a negative light. That is the exact definition of censorship. The powers that be don’t want their content moderation policies exposed, in order to maintain the illusion of HN as a site that aggregates and votes on content by your peers.

>>Have you asked by mail about that case?

Yes, I have a very lengthy email correspondence with the HN moderator who shadow banned the submission. He said it was similar to my prior post (it's absolutely not, it's a totally different topic) and that it was self-promotion (it's not, the reason why my prior post went to the front page of HN with 511 upvotes and 267 comments was because of my experience as a small business selling on Amazon.
The IP is something someone isn't comfortable with? It seems to be quite trivial to include the IP in the cookie/session and verify it's the right one.

Sure it's not perfect in a world where IP are not necessarily static (and a VPN may change it), but having to login again is not that bad, even more so if you are using SSO.
For general public I can see how that is helpful if they can't decide if a foreign executable is trust worthy or if they execute everything with admin/root privilege.

As for me, I really hate this "feature". I work with IHVs and often have to share private binaries and it's a chore using xcopy/sfpcopy to their bespoke network path, from where I guess then someone manually copies over to their local subnet.

We should have a more robust mechanism in place than to outright ban sharing of executable files. Windows Smartscreen and Mac's Gatekeeper method of online checksum/signature verification is sort of interesting.
Not gonna argue about bitcoin's merit, but this part:

> Lets remember that the law obligates the government to instruct all citizens on the use of the technology and to provide the means if necessary. This means that the government now has to provide connectivity to all citizens and teach them.

It's like proposing to dismantle old but working streetcars, because when the only way people can get around is by cars then the government will have to build decent highways. Sure, maybe the government should, but if it couldn't until now then what makes you think it will suddenly be able to?
Is that what I said? I said that these young men don't have strong positive male role models.
Interestingly, my neighborhood public library in the Outer Richmond district of San Francisco offers free Great Books-style discussion groups. I never attended a session but always noticed the schedule on the bulletin board. Googling it just now, it's apparently led by members of the Great Books Council of San Francisco (https://www.greatbooksncal.org/).

When my children get old enough I hope to attend with them. I had the great fortune to experience a Great Books program for 2-3 years in high school (a pet project of a teacher who fought tooth and nail to fund that class) and consider it a formative experience.
I meant being kicked out if the parents clearly see 0 desire from the child to further their education or get a job. I don't think there's anything wrong with people living with their parents if they're going to school or working.
agreed. I moved out as soon as I could support myself. it wasn't because I hated my parents; they're pretty good as far as parents go. I feel like it's hard to actually be an adult when you live with your parents.

as an example, my dad used to always ask when he could expect me home when I went out. not being nosy, he just had a certain "night lock up" routine for the house. it wasn't an unreasonable question to get from a man who was paying for my housing and food, but it was a question I no longer wanted to answer at that point in my life.
>Are we talking about a physical token like an old-fashioned SecurID OTP keyfob or a Yubikey? Or something custom?

I used to have a citrix fob that gave me a OTP but then my employer switched to azure and now it's all text message based. That was just last year.
> Apple has made changes in the upcoming iOS 15 where apps have to categorize their notifications into categories like “marketing” and functional categories.

I don't think that's true. They will introduce 4 different priority levels a notification can have. It's still vastly different from Android's notification channels.
Huh. Assuming it's not all observer bias and illusion, I suppose at a major intersection with clear line-of-sight in all directions, it's probably where the RF background noise level is highest.
IMHO, everyone will be better off if Facebook, Google, and Amazon are shattered into small enough independent pieces that (1) "get bought" is no longer the startup win condition & (2) they have peer level competitors in all markets in which they participate.

I’m sure Chinese Tech co’s would absolutely love to have their Western competition knee-capped by their own governments. Will make it a lot easier for them to dominate the globe for decades to come.
Yeah to be clear I don’t mean to say a liberal arts education is literally only worth $1.50. I personally place immense value on learning.

Just to point out that much like working at a high level in tech, a degree is actually not a hard pre-requisite to having an understanding of the humanities, ethics, etc.

Also just like STEM, many will absolutely benefit from the structure of a university setting.

I just couldn’t resist the Good Will Hunting quote.
You should worry about anyone with a sedentary lifestyle, regardless of whether they play video games or not. This has serious health consequences later in life.

But competing in a lot of ultramarathons isn't necessarily healthy for the long term either. In extreme cases athletes end up with heart muscle scarring and calcification. Somewhat shorter distances might be better. Everything in moderation.
If you export your docker socket to the container you can avoid the poor performance of docker-in-docker