skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This definition is not the best since at the very least it missed that a Ponzi scheme lacks transparency and is fraudulent.

PG had one of the best definitions: "a rapid increase in buying based on the expectation of soon selling to a sucker willing to pay more". It's in an old Startup School video and I doubt I am getting his wording correct.
yawn......
I would say a level playing field is a central concept of good capitalism. But what you replied to they act like this would make everything equal, its the opposite, it should bring out the best in the system.

For a simplified example, the rules of a game like chess make it a level playing field. It doesn't make all players equal, it makes the better player clearly that.
I think that’s a fair question. To me, any third-party narration is much more haunting than what public records can show. Public records leave room for questions about “what happened” whereas a “crime story” is a story. The story part — someone using their own words to describe an account — is what haunted me personally, and I imagine individuals who are/were a subject of such a publication.
Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of it. I would go as far as saying the article is quite confusing because the author (Mike Kozlowski) says things like "ACEP achieves a full color gamut, including all eight primary colors, using only colored pigments" and then jumps to "They can display a total of 32,000 colors". Statement A contradicts statement B unless I have missed something obvious.
I think one problem with nation-wide media, accessible media, is that all the minutia is available to everyone everywhere.

It used to be if someone was a burglar and was caught and tried and convicted, the local paper might have a story in the blotter about it. Local people might know about it but most people would forget about it over time.

But today, that little mistake someone made when 18 follows them forever with a digital trail so not only do the locals remember and never "forget" but everyone everywhere knows and "remembers" forever.

I think one thought is to have different classes of sites that must abide by different rules. Sites like Wikipedia and other sites that don't contain personal information can have perfect recall all the time.

But I think there is benefit to having social media and news and other such sites with personal information/data there should be a kind of information decay algorithm that slowly but surely starts forgetting these things. Different types of data could have different decay rates, but all should mimic average human recall based on things like graph distance and so on. Archives of these should also decay (obviously official databases might have different rules).

It's probably rather infeasible today, but 10 or 20 years, we could have a GDPR like mechanism to ensure this happens.
How are gas prices heavily subsidized in the US? They are certainly heavily taxed...
I think you would still end up with "Just put the article title as the URL" out of laziness a bunch too. Or because someone with decision making power doesn't like URLS that seem random.
Yes, this is very true. Analogous to robot's txt, but a poor substitute. It would be far preferable for this state to be encoded in a side-channel that wasn't the network identifier.
I've lost enough digital photos and access to music that I've started doing this in my personal life with polaroids and a record collection. maybe I'm an early adopter of this backwards philosophy!
You are correct. Unlikely, but not impossible.
The countdown approach is a really good idea (if it can be implemented).
My thoughts exactly. I remember the hype around 4GLs and CASE.

IMHO, it's the test/validation discipline that makes the difference. No matter how easy the tooling, the 'test before production' mentality is the barrier that proves necessary to overcome.
You are framing as a dichotomy when perhaps it is not. But, so did I! ( "all in" ).
Do you think that all humans and animals are equal? It's obviously untrue by any objective measurement. Even human beings are not equal by any objective measurement.

Only through a religious lens is there a concept of equality between human beings. That either through their suffering or service to others do they gain over others who have more status, power, etc. than them. Without that balancing factor, the world is bleak and stratified.
I understood religion better after practicing and studying meditation.

The backbone of all religions is based on the personal mystical experiences of individuals like Jesus, Mohammad, Budha and many others.

They experienced some kind of personal transformation and feeling of being connected with everything around them.

A lot of religious and spiritual practices are based on developing that feeling within yourself through various trainings.

Monks for example are deep in this territory and may practice meditation for hours and hours a day. When you do that you become very sensitive to changes within yourself and start to see how various stimuli might effect you. They might experience that being charitable and loving etc unlocks deep levels of joy and blissfusness but if they do the opposite they might face a decrease in such feelings etc

So it’s not so much you have to be charitable for some moral reason but more you have to be charitable if you want to experience certain feelings within yourself that are much more pleasant than what you may experience if you do the opposite.
Johnny Knoxville the coolest man in America.
go player here.

on first play throughs (on easy then medium AI), i thought that a lot of concepts transferred over and that i just had to consider that influence increases over time even if nothing else is played there later. the game seemed pretty easy.

then i tried hard and got stuck for a few games. i could be wrong about this, but i think the game might be easier as the second player? ive been able to win as blue on hard, but not green yet. i suspect theres something im not understanding about how the influence works, since this seems counter intuitive to me otherwise.

in any case, cool game :)
I suppose they’d rather have Feinstein in charge
This dual-deity system reminds me quite a bit of the divide between the Grecco-Roman Gods and Titans.
fsspec is used in dask (https://github.com/dask/dask) if you want to see it in action.

The author of fsspec also created fastparquet (https://github.com/dask/fastparquet), a native Python implementation of the Parquet file format.

I'm really appreciative for Martin's extensive contributions to the PyData ecosystem.
No friends or networking, just doing my own diligence on where I was applying. I would find whoever I could on LinkedIn and discern their email and message them directly, asking for a quick call. Targeting younger and smaller companies helps as they’re often more forgiving to people who can provide value to support their mission.

I’d be happy to provide some specific insight offline. Feel free to reach out via email :) it’s in my profile.
Probably Bret Victor - "Inventing on Principle" (2012) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
Astronomers discover largest known spinning structures in the universe
Yeah. Any number of scenarios.

Of course, in the ‘real’ world, these kind of interdependencies exist all the time. The difference is the speed and scale with which these glitches perpetuate.

I mean, you had the same issues in the 1800s with a supply chain. But, a lumber mill in Canada that burns down would not have instantly caused houses to collapse in S. Carolina.

Nowadays, the problems happen fast. And, with brilliant IT types, the problems get resolved fast.

But, boy howdy, I get the feeling — just from reading the angst-ridden accounts from overworked stressed out techs types on HN — that we may be approaching a point where the ‘fixers’ are going to get overwhelmed by the bugs.
I found this claim really intriguing and rabbit holed on researching it for a bit... but upon further research I am skeptical. It strikes me that I'm basically only seeing articles out of News Corp outlets and random blogs which appear to be rehashing the same content. News Corp outlets definitely dominate here.

But let's agree that CNN's agenda was obviously anti-Trump because it was a major driver of their traffic... here's what really made me skeptical:

> our next thing is going to be climate change awareness

This line is really telling. The CNN tech director, ostensibly caught in an unguarded moment, draws a line directly from Trump's fake news/voter fraud claim all the way to climate science. This is really, really fishy.

It is a _moral imperative_ for humanity to live in greater harmony with the planet, which includes reducing our dependency on fossil fuels. This is not politics, it's an informed take based on science that aligns with an understanding of physics, a long record of paleoclimatological data, and things I can literally see with my eyes (I enjoy mountain climbing and have seen glacial retreat firsthand over years).

I don't believe it's a coincidence that Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the News Corp outlets, has enormous fossil fuel holdings and would be negatively affected by this inconvenient moral imperative.

I hadn't heard of Project Veritas, the originators of this claim, but a little research into their past history also makes me want to take their presentation with more than a little skepticism.

Again, I don't have any _direct_ evidence to claim that the quote is fabricated. I do believe that there are significant ulterior motives here in the reporting of this claim, and the claims are reported by outlets that themselves have a spotty record of journalistic integrity.
GPL has this idea in it: trying to define what exactly should go into that tarball. The question seems meaningful and important even for proprietary code. If some authors assume that anybody modifying their code should be able to look at git commits, that probably simply means that "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it" is a git repo.
Referring to fs in particular.
Subscribers only. Also sounds unnecessarily inflammatory.
This is fantastic news! Tech monopolies need much more scrutiny, and honestly, they need to have parts of the business model excised.

Apple's control of mobile computing and commerce, Google's takeover of the web, Amazon reaching into every business: Apple should be mandated to allow web downloads of apps, Google can't ethically be in charge of Chrome as a product, and Amazon can't operate so many business units to siphon off and destroy smaller businesses.

It's really nice to see Lina Khan was supported as a bipartisan appointment. It's good that she's young too -- she understands the technology, unlike a lot of our policymakers that struggle to comprehend the systems at play.

The government moves slowly, but they're clearly starting to dip their toes in. Change is coming.

If you're a capitalist, you want lean, fierce competition. What we have now is not that.

If you're a small business, startup, or free software proponent, this is a score for the home team. Let's keep it up! Keep calling and writing your legislators.
> So, I talked to Steve on the phone [about adding a standard pen and penholder]. I said, “Look Steve. You know, you’ve made something that is perfect for 2-year-olds and perfect for 92-year-olds. But everybody in-between learns to use tools.”
-- Alan Kay

Steve Jobs was right since most modern smartphones don't use styli. (Nothing against the Samsung S pen though.)

Alan Kay was right because the Apple Pencil is pretty great:

https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/
Huh, actually I was wondering if the AI needed to be improved. I haven't lost a game yet (three on easy, then two on hard, all as green) and I'm a pretty poor Go player.
LMGIFY: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...
Why do Hindus have a favorable opinion of Parsis?

I am Indian, I understand the typical story of Parsis and how they "adapted" into Indian culture, etc. But I don't see what it has to do with Hinduism... Parsis are pretty irreligious (all the ones I have known) so I'm not sure why Hindus would care about them much.
Do people actually love these services at present, as opposed to five or ten years ago? The bipartisan move towards antitrust is undergirded by bipartisan grassroots discontent.
She did exactly what he wanted to happen as written in his manifesto, so it doesn't matter that he's nameless.

She gave him everything he wanted, which was more gun control.

For those unaware, the shooter explicitly stated that his goal was to radicalize more people by forcing the government to take their guns. The government complied.
Having an au pair puts one firmly above the middle-class. Not necessarily rich, but certainly flirting with "affluent."
A term is a term. We've lived with worse, like "master-slave" and "male/female connector". As long as it's clear what it does and isn't vague like "dependency injection".
Yeah - I’d imagine if you needed that there are very few people that can do it. It’s a very difficult procedure to be sure. You could try and negotiate the price with the people that are doing the surgery and responsible for the aftercare.
As someone who has shipped some of the biggest products at one of the biggest companies, I don’t think software is “finished” in a manner we ascribe to most products.

I do house projects and have built furniture, and when I “finish” those, there is nothing left to do. There is literally no additional work for those projects I can think of.

I’ve never shipped software that didn’t have bugs we didn’t fix, some feedback that didn’t get addressed, technical debt (test etc.) we didn’t get to, or features we wished we added.

Software is just a different beast to a lot of other things that you “finish”.
Kobo Elipsa appears as a very strong contender.

https://youtu.be/X9UNZqfHEtU
Some intriguing elements have been reconstructed. For example, the myths of a primeval, world-nurturing cow from Norse mythology tell us that the cow-worship element in Vedic religion must be ancient indeed.
This is a good first step.

You shouldn't ruin people lives just to provide the rest of the world with some morbid entertainment, but this really should extend to homicide as well, at least until someone has been found guilty.

None of these stories are important or 'newsworthy', they are purely entertainment.

"Yesterday 31112 people died of cancer, 9346 people fell and broke something vital, 15012 people poisoned themselves, and a handful of people got shot in a really exciting manner somewhere in central Europe."
Ah, but you immediately assume the crime was a crime of dishonesty, or ?. Are you saying that no matter the crime, regardless its nature, you would reject a person outright?

What about a "criminal" who served time for marijuana related "crimes"?

Are you also saying that a crime committed should equal a lifetime of payment, even after the official debt has been paid to society? That no matter the degree of criminality, the punishment should be eternal?
I've been thinking for a while now about this.

Take negotiation or haggling over price. You know you want to pay a max of X, so you offer X-Y and on the other end the same happens in reverse until both sides hopefully reach a Z somewhere close enough to their own X that they agree to make the transaction. You alway ask for something extra in a negotiation that you can give up on or bargain with that doesn't really hurt.

If I apply this to population control via religion, your teachings should be about the absolute best behaviours. You burn in hell if you don't behave like X etc. Makes total sense to me as in reality people as a whole will deviate to a certain extent. But by insisting on X, on average everyone arrives at Z.

Of course this makes no sense to you or me or other atheists that are perfectly capable of being decent human beings without all the religious mumbo jumbo. But if you were charged with keeping a large populous of all sorts of different people under control, how would you do that? "Reasoning" with them is likely not to yield the kind of results you want, especially if we are talking living conditions of hundreds to thousands of years ago.

The trick is to be the high priest, not the sacrifice ;)
My thoughts exactly. It works as a board game-style video game. It's not meant to be played on a board with a rule book. Make educated guesses as to how much influence your move is going to add.
"skinny black male with dread locks wearing a black shirt" was the description that the police gave of the suspect.
I've really enjoyed https://www.slowboring.com/ for this reason. There are plenty of hot takes that shouldn't necessarily be taken at face value, but I appreciate how the site focuses on long term trends rather than the news treadmill.
I have certainly met people who have done their level best to write Python that /looked/ like Java...

But even they were disappointed at how un-Java Python was. I'm sure Guido is relieved.
How likely do you think antitrust action is over the next decade? Without it, it's just going to be the same 3 companies again.
Of a web developer*

There are other programming jobs with different iconic setups.
Browse on the Australian TLD, where regulations require showing the total price inclusive of all fees, not the per day price. you can still set the currency to USD (or whatever you pay with)
The pencil extender industry hates this one weird trick
When I was in college I met a few Zoroastrians who I quite got along with. They explained to me their religion and background and I've found it quite fascinating and interesting ever since -- most particularly the deep connections between it and the Judeo-Christian religious environment I grew up in.
> It maintained an underground existence, however, in all probability up to Muslim times as the constant attacks on it in the Pahlavi books show

I don’t know thr actual history at all here, but the logic here seems dangerous; the repeated attacks on the “witchcraft” that was intimately described and attacked in European Christian documents aren’t evidence that it continued to exist (or ever existed in the form described) throughout the period those documents were written.
Nowruz is basically a cultural holiday (with roots in Zoroastranism) celebrated by all of Iranians and some surrounding countries regardless of their religion.
The only reason I can think of, is people being unaware of ePub existence.

I agree with you. If you want something that can be reflowed, get the ePub version. Or, if it's meant to be made from images, get the CBZ version.
To understand more about it, I really liked reading this book: https://drgabormate.com/book/scattered-minds/
so basically just Iran Contra but not yet discovered.
I see a conspicuous lack of ISPs in your list.
I get where you're coming from, "so inexperienced" is probably overstating it. But she's been out of law school for four years, and I feel like saying most folks are at their best then discounts all the experience and learning that come from working another 30 years in the field (for, say, a 62-year old).
It's one thing to offer support, it's something else to use support to make silencing someone palatable.

I will disagree with this no matter who does it.

Even feeling as strongly as I do about this, I would personally have a hard time turning down millions of dollars — the power imbalance is so large here that it's the illusion of a choice.
...and they are?

I think the subtext that is implied with the no use case statement is really: "that couldn't be done with an existing technology (such as a database)".
In my country, Germany, the media are only allowed to publish the name of a convict in cases of grave crime or when the crime is of special concern to the public. In minor cases the right of personality outweighs the public's right to information.
I don't think journalists have any requirement to publish who the suspects in a case are.

Think about it a moment: A suspect hasn't been convicted of anything. If there are two suspects for the same crime, then one of them is guaranteed to be innocent.

And in the case of mass-shootings, we've seen that the public goes crazy. Wasn't it the boston-marathon bomber that had people performing their own vigilante work and tracking down the wrong person?

Sometimes it's better if the news doesn't get involved in pointing fingers at this stage of the investigation. Let the police do their jobs, and report something only after the police are actually sure they have the person they are accusing of the crime.

Simply being investigated isn't newsworthy.
I agree with you. I'll put it another way. Usually if the price of something goes up and becomes too high, fewer people buy and the price drops. That is a stable system. An unstable system is when the price of something goes up, so that causes more people to buy causing the price to go up more. That is an unstable system causing exponential growth, which I'd call a bubble.
You should read the article, or even just read the first sentence...
Well, the solution to that is municipal fiber and a return to net neutrality.

edit: while we're on that topic, I'm actually a little less concerned about that. Where I live I can get Comcast, Google Fiber, AT&T, Verizon, T Mobile, etc. Data caps are an issue, but they're nowhere near as bad as Apple telling me what I can and cannot run on their devices. Or Google swallowing the web with Chrome, Amp, ads, and the rest.
In Mexico we use Cornershop (LATAM company acquired by Uber recently). The prices are 2% higher than in store but sometimes it has of offers on many products that makes the total cost even lower than in the store.

Got COVID recently so I was forced to use it and had the best experience so far. 5 minutes to place an order. I gladly tip $10 to someone who needs it (keep in mind the minimum wage in Mexico is like 4 dollars per day). And I save 1 or 2 hours of my time that I could read, work, exercise, practice an instrument etc.
> Why shouldn’t a country be selfish?

As a broad term should should be self interested absolutely. In this regard it needs ot be recognised as selfish for little good reason and potentially very bad ones for the greater system. There clearly is a short term value in dropping tax rates for countries like Ireland, but medium/long term this means is other countries follow their rates down, so there is little long term advantage and your broking the system in chasing said advantage for a nation.

> Why should the Irish pay out of their pocket to bolster the treasury of France?

This is the core of the problem, Ireland is taking revenue from France. Im not sure if you aware of things like the 'Double Irish' (google if you dont as its core part of the problem) but profits being made in a country like France are artificially transferred to a low tax country so France doesn't get the tax they should on profits in their own country. This is in itself a ethical issue but if you like capitalism how long do you think there will be open international trade if this system continues and if corporate tax rates continue to drop? Countries will increasingly be unwilling to allow open global trade if they cant run their country to the rules they wish, this in itself should worry anyone that believe global trade is a good thing.
There's nothing wrong with speculating using other people's money as long as you're honest about it. Most mutual funds operate that way.
Rather presumptive to think I haven’t been through the medical system or ran into bad doctors. My experiences will be left as an exercise to the reader.

You get medical records sent and see multiple doctors until one is aware of your ailment. Strategizing on how to lie is unacceptable to me. Happy to agree to disagree on this one.

If one of my reports used work resources to collude for substance abuse I would do everything I can to fire them.