skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, one of "why so you say yo can? or "why do you say you can't" is a good follow-up question to you.

You can very clear choose any of both, but you have methodological and societal restrictions on both, on differing ways so you can't choose either one freely.
Conservancy are the primary enforcers of the GPL for the Linux kernel project and Bradley Kuhn has done a lot of that work within Conservancy and other orgs.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/
Windows 98: good then.

Windows 2000: not great.

Windows XP: pretty good.

Windows Vista: not good.

Windows 7: pretty good

Windows 8: not good.

Windows 10: pretty good.

Windows 11: _guess?_

Can you fill in the pattern?

Microsoft’s history speaks for itself.

Older HN members can probably comment about Microsoft’s earlier history and see how far back this pattern goes.
I think I found school tolerable, or even fun, because I was able to figure out the proper way to exercise agency within the confines of the system.

As an analogy, as a kid when I played with Lego or K'NEX, my favorite thing to do was not assemble kits but instead come up with my own designs from the parts therein. Working within the system, but being a creator rather than a consumer.

At school, I wasn't just trying to learn the material they wanted me to know, I was also trying to reverse-engineer the tasks asked of me to figure out what the teachers most wanted.
The theme park exemption for this attempted law is absolutely hilarious. It has no justification whatsoever other than helping Disney.
How much of these overwrites are cover ups for failures? Certainly some percentage, just not sure what.
> It seems that the more you ask of people, and the more you have them do, the more they are able to later do on their own.

This is almost so self-evident as to be banal… and yet this fundamental observation about humans is roundly ignored and outright rejected by most institutions charged with educating our children.

This essay feels like it could’ve come straight from John Holt or John Taylor Gatto—highly recommended.
I can put myself in a gun-owning-and-agreeing-with-the-insurance-idea frame of mind. Given the risk pool and payouts, setting the premium to be for insurance needs and not as a punitive lever seems to be important. The person who uses a stolen gun needs to be primarily liable, this fund should really be a reinsurance fund.

If I own a gun, pay premiums, and my child kills themself with it, do I collect the payout? (Sorry if the article covers that point, adblocker preventing from reading it now, I’ll scan the dead tree version tomorrow.)
> And now the tariffs tool is gone for good.

> There is little room to raise the tariff again without hurting US itself.

How so?
> The movement to limit the most profitable investments only to “experienced” i.e. already wealthy investors is one thing that prevents average people from accumulating wealth.

This is ridiculous. High-quality, virtually zero-cost index funds that track the market (or various subsectors of the market) are available to essentially every American and have been for decades. These investments have produced returns well in excess of the average performance of the overwhelming majority of investment professionals.

Further, their risk-adjusted returns have been second to none. Throwing novice investors into the deep end of the pool with the consolation that some small fraction of them will beat the market and some minute fraction will win the lottery doesn't help "average people" accumulate wealth. Every available metric we've tracked has repeatedly shown that "average people" have the best performance from low-cost index funds with a long-term buy-and-hold strategy. Every other strategy has demonstrably worse performance on average.

> If an average person is allowed to walk into Vegas and put their whole life savings on black, or spend it on lottery tickets why shouldn’t they be able to buy a stock? Less nanny state, please not more.

It is wild to me that every single person detracting from my comments seems to believe that "retail investors should not be investing in individual stocks" is some sort of call to have the government step in and prohibit individuals from investing in $TSLA.

Nobody is asking for that.

We're saying that Robinhood is playing an extremely dangerous game with their clients' well-being by promoting risky and irresponsible decision-making around their livelihoods. This has been a successful strategy for them so far, but it has relied entirely on the unprecedented bull market we've found ourselves in. I'd bet large sums of money that their internal metrics show their customers perform significantly worse on average than the market overall, and I'll double that bet that their customers will fare amongst the worst when the next correction hits.
Last version of OS X before mobile ate the world.
Legal owners have created an environment where guns are plentiful and easy for one (be they a law-abiding citizen or a criminal) to get their hands on.

It's about time they be made to pay for the increased danger they have brought to society.
Daycare. The point is that school is, first and foremost, a daycare. All the talk about education is just marketing.
Here's mine - early 90's as well. My rural highschool had three computer labs, one with Macs for doing school newspaper type stuff, one with ancient TRS-80s for doing programming, and one with ancient PCs for learning typing. The PCs were on a network, and it was set up so you would boot the PC and it would log you into the network server, which would run a batch file from your home directory on the server. Seating was first-come, first serve.

So I made a batch file fragment that would copy itself at boot time from autoexec.bat into your profile script, and/or back from your profile script into the local autoexec.bat, to be run by whoever used that machine next. A couple of days later I checked back and it had replicated to every machine in the lab.
Mostly the issue with developers doing their own QA is the time is never allocated to do it properly. They are expected to design, dev, test, release, participate in improving team processes every week. Testing almost always gets cut due to the constraint of reality. Barely enough time is allocated to dev itself. Everyone talks about the advantages of devs doing their own QA, but what it means is that they just cut QA out altogether.
Any process can be Markovian given a sufficiently complex state :)
$ cat stouset.comments | grep -i "government"
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Indirectly yes. Online firms should have to carry hacker insurance, and pay a penalty for when they get hacked and personal data is widely leaked. This will then show up in increases prices that such firms charge end users.

Security ain't free. It's either compelled via law, or via tort. Right now, the 'insurance fee' is tort if enough companies are sued.
This had been my experience too. I don't think I had been more productive - many times I've just stayed late poking at the problem I'd normally leave for the next day when working in the office. Most of these times I still solved it the next day with the new ideas after a night's sleep. Not to mention I've got many ideas from random discussions with colleagues, which ceased with the WFH. So return to the office is a win-win for me and my employer: I work less and I am more productive.
Lol, I thought I was the only one to hear music from extractor fans!
In my experience what's worked the best is making the team that own the product (or feature or what have you) cross functional and let everyone own everything.

Of course everyone brings different skillsets, and of course everyone has falls into their natural domains accordingly, but it really shouldn't be that Bob and Alice have exclusive domain and responsibility over this and Jane over this and John over that. It's a product and a team for a reason.
Commercials are also important media that must be archived. I watch some old TV show, old TVCMs that reflects old days are also interesting to see.
Is the cost of living in the Bay Area really $100k+ more expensive than AZ? Or does the difference in state income tax offset that?
I'd assume the mould is a deterrent.
Yeah, I don't want to be asked out at work - ever
I don’t know about the Polish version but I assume it’s similar to the kind you get with onions and a sour cream based sauce in appetizing stores in NYC.

If so, I wouldn’t say it’s an acquired taste. It’s a bit fishy but even as a child I liked it.
One of the problem with meta analysis is the lack of pre-registration of most of the studies about ivermectin.

There are many studies in many places. Imagine just for a moment that some new drug has no effect. Anyway, 1/20 of them will get a fake statistical significant result. The problem is that this study with a fake good result has a high chance of been published. The other 19 have a high chance of not been published, because the doctors lost interest, because the journal don't like null results, or other similar reasons. So if you make a review of the published studies, you will only find only/mostly the ones that get a good result due to a fluke.

This is not an imaginary problem, this is a known problem. Imagine Big Pharma has a new drug, and they want to it approved. They can hire 100 universities/hospitals to run a clinical study, suggest that only the ones with a good fluke result get published and then they get about 5 good papers about the drug. Perhaps they don't even have to make a suggestion, because it's boring to write a paper about a drug that does not work so the medic just don't write it, and it's boring to read a paper about a drug that does not work so the journal just publish it. It's the same effect, and nobody is lying ;) .

The solution for this is pre-registration. Before starting the trial, you must register it, explain what drugs you are going to use, what are you going to measure. With pre-registration, now the 100 studies are public. If you later find 5 good and 95 inconclusive or bad or disappeared, you know in the meta analysis the 5 good studies are only flukes.
> Launch prices have been fairly consistent for about 50 years

Is the claim that Falcon 9 and Heavy prices, total and per kilo, are comparable to any platform from before 2010?
> SpaceX planned to achieve a turnaround time for F9 of 24 hours. So far, the best they could do is 27 days.

They didn't plan to achieve this. It was an Elon's tweet when they only started recovering F9 booster, even before B5 (please correct me if I remember incorrectly).

SpaceX can be anything, but they're still a business. There is no reason whatsoever for 24 hour turnaround for F9. First of all they have a fleet of eight F9 boosters. Boosters are waiting for payloads, not the other way around like in the past. Even with Starlink, 2021 cadence has only been a launch every 10 days so far, and with that SpaceX already put more payloads into space than everyone else combined in 2021, governments or commercials. Why invest in something with no return, just for bragging right?

Second of all, and this is more important, F9 is the past, Starship is the future. Why invest in a dead end product when the future is such a game changer? They are on the cusp of launching SH/SS in the near term, according to Gwynne Shotwell just a few days ago.
Here is "Talks at Google" session on this topic from author - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSAYlu0NcY
Good. I hope this works out well.
I would like to start out by saying that I am a great fan of Paul Graham, his work, his essays, YCombinator, HN, etc., etc.

However, I have to sharply, and I mean sharply disagree with this one essay...

You see, I will put this essay against one from antiquity, and that one is the 5th Labor Of Hercules:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/stables.html

>"Hercules went to King Augeas, and without telling anything about Eurystheus, said that he would clean out the stables in one day, if Augeas would give him a tenth of his fine cattle.

Augeas couldn't believe his ears, but promised. Hercules brought Augeas's son along to watch. First the hero tore a big opening in the wall of the cattle-yard where the stables were. Then he made another opening in the wall on the opposite side of the yard.

Next, he dug wide trenches to two rivers which flowed nearby. He turned the course of the rivers into the yard. The rivers rushed through the stables, flushing them out, and all the mess flowed out the hole in the wall on other side of the yard."

PDS: See, King Augeas was expecting that Hercules would clean up the stables the old-fashioned way -- by using his strength to clean them out manually.

King Augeas was expecting that Hercules work hard for him.

Hercules did work hard, but additionally, Hercules also worked smart -- by digging only what was necessary to direct the river or rivers -- and letting the flowing water, letting nature itself -- do all of the work!

Now compare this to MapReduce.

Compare this to Jeff Dean of Google, and all that he does.

Jeff Dean and MapReduce leverage computation power (think of them as the streams of water) -- to do all of the "Heavy Lifting".

They work hard -- but they also work smart.

They utilize an infrastructure (Hercules with the water from a river, Jeff Dean wtih the power from distributed computing/distributed queries/MapReduce, etc.) which when skillfully directed, at their hands, performs all of the hard work for them...

They work smart.

Now this being said, I'll close by saying that I am Paul Graham's greatest fan -- I think he is one of the greatest intellectuals in the world today! And I agree with 99.44% of everything else that he has so wisely and eloquently said or written in the past!

And I love his essays, YCombinator, HN, etc., etc.!!!

But we slightly disagree -- on this one! <g>

In a friendly way, of course! <g>
I imagine the anti-malarial drugs they are talking about are the ones derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisinin , which won a Chinese researcher a Nobel Prize a few years back.
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/06/30/ivermectin-is-the...
We are all of us :)

That's awesome! VR has lots of potential but i'm not (and it's not) there yet. Your project sounds really novel. I've equated mine to a 3D database because you can do inner/outer joins, search, filter, and materialize "views" in 3D space.

I'm nearing a demo stage, been at this for a few years - but wow will i need to revisit my code before I expand on future development - it's a lot of code to sling and compared to my day job doing web dev in MVC, leaves a lot to be desired architecturally.

Great job on blogging about your project - i need to get better about that.
> We're collectively asked to give up our lives to these companies.

"Give up our lives"? Ridiculous. The vast majority of paid jobs in the US are either on a 40-hour workweek (which is a fraction of the 168 hours in a week) or by the hour (wherein you can work far less, even if not an arbitrarily small amount).

This is utter hyperbole, and even more so when you compare American working hours to Asian ones, such as the infamous Chinese "9-9-6" schedule (72 work hours a week).

> To willingly give over our ability to determine how we order our days.

Well, yeah. That's kind of how jobs work. You provide labor and get capital in return. You're free to opt out and not work if you want.

> To look the other way as our various employers build a literal dystopia.

Nobody is asking you to look the other way. Unions exist for a reason. Political activism is legal and actively practiced.
Newspapers kept extensive archives, they called them 'the morgue', and depending on the newspapers and era, they either had microfilm/fiche or actual physical clippings. When I was studying journalism in college I would get access to all the newspapers morgues. Really anyone could call up the newspaper and ask for something from a past issue, although if they needed to actually do much searching there were other hurdles. They weren't public libraries, but they served their communities.

ETA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgue_file
A big benefit from putting in the effort to estimate is from the side-effects having to get clear on the what the problem is and what constraints apply. So much useful information gets flushed out when you're both under pressure and are trying to give a reasonable estimate.

Then, often, toss the estimate.
Early retirement
One of the biggest tragedies isn't just that the childhood is wasted, but that many people never learn to have agency once it is available. I'm not saying you need to start your own business or anything like that, but it seems like most people live their lives never questioning the scripts that are given to them.

The basic life script we all seem to have in western society seems pretty awful when you think critically about it. Essentially we waste all out vitality and youth making other people rich, so that one day when we're old and infirm, we can finally do the things we like with the short time we have left. I think most of us never even think about it because it's too bleak of a reality. I feel somewhat fortunate in that the work I do is something I would generally enjoy doing even if I wasn't being paid for it, but I still have a nagging fear that what I could be is much more than what I am yet I lack the proper tools and perspectives to become that person (and I don't think that just starting my own business, like a lot of people here want to do, is really sufficient, it's just a small part of inventing your own life script).
But my question is, what's the cost benefit?

$1000 would buy a pretty large solar still and you can spend the extra $4000 on a solar phone charger if that's something the locals need. Meanwhile there's little that can go wrong with a solar still and if something does go wrong, they can likely fix it (even if temporarily) with duct tape. Losing their cell phone charger and cooktop to electrical failure sounds like less of a problem than losing their water source.

An inductive burner, cell phone charger, desalinator, etc all sound great on a $200,000 boat where the owner is wealthy enough to keep it maintained and probably keep spares. But putting expensive and complicated electronics in a village so remote that they don't even have reliable water seems like a mistake.
I grew up in a very poor rural area in China (1990s), and I have never heard of anyone getting malaria in my whole life.
Is Facebook's “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy?
You can't _only_ do that, but it seems like a reasonable place to start for REST API's. I don't think there's anything to change in your product, just that the docs should recommend ways to reroute as early as possible in a request lifespan (eg, at the routing layer or before).

I'd worry about a POST route that does some expensive/slow reads/computations in the first half of the request, and then only writes at the end – lots of lost time! Would have been much better to say, hey, for this route (or for any POST route in _my_ application), please bounce to the region with the primary db instance.

Actually, while that could be done at the application level with reasonable latency, it'd probably still be better to allow the user to write some rules at the proxy layer for the "first guess".
> A better

For what goal?
I'm not arguing with you; I'm just pointing out that running passed 6 castles on the way to a particularly defensible one was a tactical mistake (assuming your goal is to hold on to as much of the bailey as possible, rather than just "win" the argument). Your point is a good one; the claim that guns are without externalities is obviously false.

A more interesting claim for you to attack: externalities are hardly the only thing that matters. Governments need to choose an operating point between citizen freedom and preventing the harms caused by those freedoms. Without just pointing to the exact same numbers you used, why is your operating point better than OP's operating point? What are you exchanging when you move from one to the other? Are you actually increasing Pareto efficiency? Who is harmed under your operating point that is less harmed under OP's, and why should we be willing to harm them?
The Sydney desalination plant is entirely powered by Wind:

https://www.sydneydesal.com.au/caring-for-the-environment/10...
>> No. We both aren't

>You say I'm not ... but then you say, explicitly in so many words, that I am:

>> You are speculating how copyright law should handle ML code synthesis.

"We both aren't" is not the same as "You are not".

>> edit: Maybe you mean I am, and you aren't?

There you go. That is exactly what I wrote.

"No. We both aren't. I am discussing how copilot operates from the perspective of a user concerned about legal ramifications. I backed that concern up with specific factual quotes and animated images from github, where github unequivocally demonstrated how copilot copies code. You are speculating how copyright law should handle ML code synthesis."
Sheriff departments provide crime stats for their county. The number of violent crimes, even in relatively safe areas, is pretty high. For example, in San Jose there will be about 30k violent incidents this year. With 1M population, it's 3% probability of meeting a drug addict with a knife in your kitchen. Unless the homeowner is a ninja, he or she will be at mercy of that junkie. Guns aren't a hobby, but an annoying necessity. Edit: 3% means "once every 30 years".
You could also just run retroarch an any android device and pair it with a controller.
> You trust the government to do that for you?

If they disagree with me, they send me a bill for the difference anyway. The only way that's changing is if I provide them with additional information they didn't already have. If after that we still disagree, "whether or not I trust them" is philosophically moot: there's a resolution process for disagreements.

And if you don't trust them to get the number right, nothing stops you from filing your own return with the information you believe is correct.
You have to trust somebody, or nobody. What source would you rather believe to corroborate or track these things?
The bottom line is, you can not prove it was manufactured in one of the labs we know exists in China (and was partially funded by the US) because you cannot get in. Since we can't get more than red flags, then it's just a baseless conspiracy theory, right?

China's behavior with SARS was the same: lying about figures, refusing to cooperate etc. This time, as usual, the CCP's (local government) initial move was to silence whistleblowers, which helped it spread.

America's mass media and big tech, which is dominated by the Left, almost refuses to say anything negative about China.
> As you can see, it's saying that rather than pinning RAM (as previous fixed-function approaches did in the 80s), this system allows you to request memory dynamically

I must have missed the "as you can see" part since I see nothing in the quoted passages that would contradict the notion of a device configured by the contents of some SRAM or DRAM cells. At the very best one could say that the text might be ambiguous. After all, "cost is further reduced by employing only static or dynamic ram as a means for holding the state of the system" is a statement that you could easily make about a bog-standard von Neumann computer as well.
Can be, yes. Devs aren't always the best group to do that with though.

I've had quite a bit of user training in a product I work on, but unsurprisingly the QA group of people who in their primary roles use it daily and have degrees in the problem domain are way more effective at finding non-obvious problems.
After Snow Leopard, every update made the Mac slower and slower. It seemed intentional to make you update the hardware because sometimes after restarting the OS behaved normally, but most of the time MacOS was sluggish and didn't reach full CPU usage.
And I guess you read my comment so closely, given that you apparently completely missed my edit?

Get over yourself, man.
No. We have Gmail-for-workspaces.

-current red hatter.
And of the eight external links on that page, four are now broken.