skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave up on iTunes (and never liked streaming) and used this for a while - it's extremely nice software, and perhaps as importantly, their discourse (https://discourse.beets.io/) is great for getting help. I eventually stopped using it, in the name of simplicity, as my import rate is low, I'm fine with organizing my music directory myself, and I can edit the tags with ncmpcpp (or ffmpeg if scripting things - that's the most useful metadata editor I've run across so far, despite the fact that you have to copy an entire file to change the metadata).
The thing with these "all time high records" is they have an intrinsic trend to the upside. Consider the following thought experiment: Draw a continuous random number between 0 and 100 and compare it with the previous result. If the new number is higher than before, keep it as the new record value. Draw a time evolution of all the record numbers and you will see a straight line going up. But this is not a statistical trend. So, while I am not saying there is no climate change, the evidence they provide is questionable.
The Loot Box Problem
I have had hundreds of panic attacks in my life.

About a third of the time, it feels like you are dying and there is no rational thought that can save you from that feeling. The rest of the time, it is merely discomfort in comparison.

I also have talked to many people have suffered from panic disorder. There are many different feelings that people experience, some from sweating and palpitations to somatic sensations that are indescribable.

I personally have sensory processing disorder, and for me, having a panic attack is sometimes like taking a hallucinogenic in some regard. There are sensations that I have never felt before that suddenly exist and feel very real. It is nearly impossible to calm down or rationalize the experience.

Overall, I assume there is no calming yourself down when your sympathetic nervous system is in full meltdown. You can't think yourself out of a flood of neurotransmitter release, no more than you could think yourself out of being poisoned.

In my opinion, the advice that people give to each other around panic attacks as being mind over matter is lacking perspective.
Fluent Python 2nd ed. is available as a preprint on oreilly.com. Highly recommended.
I know Ubuntu works with the nvidia-* drivers but does it detect and select them for use by default or does it use nouveau until a (knowledgable) user reconfigures which driver is in use? And with legacy nvidia such as 340 there isn’t Wayland support and so enabling by default could lead to a broken system.

Same with a kernel greater >= 5.10 and that particular driver series. So would be nice to hear what Pop OS is doing here that Ubuntu isn’t.

If the rumours of nvidia open sourcing their drivers are true (sorry no link - just something I heard) they’ll all work out of the box one day (hopefully !).
The first actual German university on this list is #24, the ones before are research institutes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_Society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Aerospace_Center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Society
I find it strange how always the "mainstream" and "not popular enough " arguments comes up in any Elixir related post.

Does tech have to be "mainstream" to use it? I would say it doesn't.

Take Erlang, or OCaml, or F#, I wouldn't call those mainstream but they are great languages that solve real problems, and people using them seems generally very positive about them.

All you need is enough popularity and enough companies using and backing it for it to be maintained. I think Elixir has this.

Can't speak to the hiring situation but I wonder how problematic it can be given all the stories of how easy it is to onboard people and plenty of posts and comments of devs wanting to do Elixir. Even if, it depends on your situation, you don't always need a big workforce to do big things, see Whatsapp for example.
How a cofounder war led everyone to quit Instagram's trendiest cookware company
>I find his statements on German culture a bit weird tbh. Especially his claim that Germany does not have good universities.

Well, Aschenbrenner did go to Columbia for college, so he put his money where his mouth is. Presumably Helmut Kohl's sons—who went to Harvard and MIT for college, and not FU-Berlin or Heidelberg or TU-Munich or ETH Zurich or Oxbridge—agree.
CNRS has far more researchers employed than Oxford and they do research exclusively. It would be weird if they didn’t rank higher.
No, “Son” as in “male child” is derived from Porto-Germanic “Sunnus”, “person” as in “human being” is derived from Latin “persona”. It’s just a coincidence that in modern English we write them with the same characters.
We're pushing the boundaries of Anthropocene.

What changes have you made in your life since learning of "Global Warming due to green-house gases"?

Turned vegan, started walking, cycling; gave up on pleasure trips?
Belle Gibson: The Instagram influencer who lied about having cancer
I hear this trope all the time, that if I just avoided my Starbucks and IPhone, Netflix and Spotify subscriptions, I could live like a King on 10 hours per week job, in our modern land-of-plenty utopia.

But that's baloney. A 3BR average home in my city is now 6x median income, and that's with average households being 2 full-time workers instead of 1. And this isn't some 3k sq ft McMansion - another common strawman - it's the same dumpy house that a single earner easily afforded at 3x salary 40 years ago.

All the other big-ticket items that I spend 80% of my salary on have increased at similar rates.

A lot of Americans do overspend and are obsessed with keeping up with the Jones. You realize that when you go to the grocery store and 1/2 the cars in the parking lot are $50k SUVs and gigantic pickups.

But even if you're a modest person making $50k a year in a medium COL city, the cost of the new Iphone or flat screen TV you bought is inconsequential to the expenses you can't avoid - housing, health care, education, transportation, etc. All of these have almost doubled in price relative to the income of a single full time worker in the last four decades.
It's not that they read the data but that they might sell it to others
I always assumed they tracked co-mingled sourcing internally, but don't have a reason to make it public.

At least that way they could trace the people who were seriously poisoning the co-mingled well, in circumstances where they wanted to.
To be honest that sounds like lying and manipulating the public.

Not singling out Obama here because all politicians do it to an extent (the ones who don’t never get far).

Just calling out it’s not exactly a virtue.
If only that was the only weird thing about American politics.
No property rights for your family, you wave them. No legal recourse - you don't get your day in court. No roads, no driving for you and no delivery involving driving. You believe that if your compatriots were uneducated your life would be better. All worth more than the tax saved to your family... It's basically impossible to refuse the benefit of the externalities - national defence, National parks, peace on the streets. So yeah, paying zero tax is straight up freeloading on those around you who do pay so they don't live in a failed state. There are a few of failed states around. Probably don't have to pay tax if you move to one. The Bahamas is not a failed state and arguably closer to what you're advocating.

We /are/ on the same page because now you've moved from ethics free argument to one involving your version of ethics. Plenty to discuss there, that barely scratches the surface and any deeper is likely a waste of time.

There is a huge difference between genuine libertarian belief an just being a "tax karen" with a pretence libertarian justification. The only thing they really want is not to pay. The latter have really messed up libertarianism and that's a pretty big loss. Including in our tax bills if we can't or choose not to avoid it all.
(not a lawyer) my interpretation of GPLv2 is that at the very least the model would be licensed under GPL if it was trained on GPL code. The model is a derivative work. Whether the generated code coming out of the model is GPL is trickier. I would lean towards yes but I'm not entirely sure.

I think talking about exact text matches to existing code is a red herring. If you took GPL code and ran it through an obfuscator that changed every byte of the code to new code, that resulting code would be derivative and would need to be licensed under GPL too.

Thank you Microsoft for ushering in a new era of free software.
Although an interesting book, does it really fit into one of the categories?
Ahh yes, the serverless revolution! I was told that serverless was going to make my job obsolete as well. Still waiting for that one to pan out. Not going to hold my breath.
There are lots which allow you to install proprietary drivers and or codecs at install time. Or give you the choice to enable non-free repos. Not everyone cares about free vs libre. Some people want ‘obvious’ things to just work out of the box as they would on other OSes.

But of the ones above you mention that I’ve used in anger you’re absolutely right and that’s the very idea of them. To ‘just work’.
Because of the revenue they make?
Because the services they offer for free can not be compared to the money they do not pay their users?
Because collecting data over the years in a shady way until the Law catches up builds mistrust?
Asking for a higher wage.
Ah. If you're using "going out" to mean literally any activity outside the home that is not work, then sure, "going out" a lot wouldn't be not hard. Someone with a reasonable amount of disposable income could probably eat out at a restaurant five days a week, if they wanted to.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210630043947/https://www.busin...

Great commentary here:
https://defector.com/great-jones-drama/

"The absolute most generous true description you can apply to Great Jones is that it conducts arbitrage on cheap pastel-colored cookware with flimsy enamel cladding, made by other companies with less robust brands. But the truest thing you can say is that Great Jones, like so many other companies, is a skimming operation: It launders somebody else’s actual manufacture through its own aggressive branding, and takes a cut of the proceeds. The company can have the best quarter of its existence despite having no full-time employees, despite having literally no capacity to do anything other than exist as a legal fiction, because it never actually did anything. Anything! It never did anything."
I think eventually something is going to break with the CCP system. But that could easily take another 50 years or more. Something many of us will not live to see.

The Chinese government sustains itself in power through economic growth and nationalism. That then leads to the two most likely factors (in my opinion) to lead to its eventual downfall – (i) if economic growth gets replaced by stagnation or even decline; (ii) a national military humiliation, such as if an attempt to conquer Taiwan turns into a costly failure. And I think either or both factors is likely to happen eventually, but still that could be many decades away. 10 or 20 years from now, the CCP will most likely still be going strong.
Does it seem weird to anyone else that a foreigner would say this? Surely someone else living there would understand their own situation better.
> I think that there's a division between "productive" developers and "meticulous" developers.

There’s a huge difference between:

1. Writing the core logic for an algorithm from scratch

2. “Connecting things”: e.g. writing the “click” handler for a button press, adding an auth middleware to a HTTP request handler

The latter consists mostly of boilerplate code: code that thousands of developers have already written. Copilot is useless for the former, and great for the latter. It has no idea what algorithm you want to implement, since you may be the first to write it, but it has seen the code of countless other individuals who needed to write the same boilerplate.
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- https://escudodigital.com/defensa/hackeo-everis-otan-proyect...
- https://www.everis.com/spain/es/news/newsroom/everis-disena-...
Sure, the states of the world have decided that security isn't one of their core competencies - computer security, yes, but the point remains.

I find this mind-boggling but that's how it is.
I don't understand why both are called drugs in English. My language also has the word "drugs" but it's used exclusively for street drugs.
I have only ever heard that expression in the US (most frequently in NYC), never in Europe, where pigeon keeping and racing is still popular. See https://www.daviddegner.com/photography/fancy-pigeons/ (cited here) for further evidence.

We all know what Americans did to the Passenger Pigeon. A lot more than 5k vanished.
Well, Google and FB searches and messages respectively contain many personal secrets, so I understand having concerns about where that data is going and who might have access (although I am told the data controls are very strict).

But I do a similar question to you. Why is it that people are worried about their Google and Facebook data as opposed to the data at their health insurer or at their bank or their local government? That data is far less secure, the data security policies (if they exist) are relatively trivial. For business purposes, what a bank or health insurer might do in pursuit of money would screw up your life more than Google or FB trying to sell you stuff. Local government could certainly cost you far more money or get you into more legal trouble.
In a sense he's correct: meditation teaches one non-attachment as a byproduct of the practice. In business, status and wealth can be powerful creative tools. The longer you meditate, the less these two things matter, and the less other peoples opinions matter. It's simple. You meditate to let go. If you keep at it you might just gain peace of mind, and that peace of mind might actually make you a better business person in the ways that matter most.
I have tried Pop OS before, and I decided to not use it again.

1. The Pop Shop doesn't work. The whole system freezes or crashes when the Pop Shop is launched.

2. Internet is much slower in Pop OS. Tried every fix I could find on the internet.

3. The wifi was always problematic. Automatic disconnecting, not being able to connect after the device was put to sleep without a reboot, etc. The problems ran the whole gamut.

4. The power management of Pop OS is visibly much worse than other Linux distros. Laptop battery would drain much faster.

5. Additionally, it had all the problems that you get from using a Linux distro for regular use.

I now use Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Linux Mint for all my personal and work computers. They work with much lesser headache.

The power management of these distros are much better than Pop OS.

And for those saying NVIDIA just works on Pop, so it does on Ubuntu. I regularly use CUDA drivers for my projects from Ubuntu. It works perfectly. I have had no troubles. I just use the proprietory driver rather than the Open Source one.
Just from skimming through the book, it seems like its central thesis is an enumeration of all the ways in which computers and the Internet are terrible, accompanied by predictions that none of those flaws are ever likely to change. So it's not really a matter of any of his predictions being "prescient", it's just that some things have improved drastically, and others less so.

For example, he complains that nobody will want to look up information from computerized databases because CD-ROMs are too slow; consumers won't shop online because they can't pay securely; retailers won't rely on e-commerce because too few customers have Internet access; nobody will want e-books because you can't read them on the subway; there's no way to effectively search for content online; digital art will never surpass clip art and crude photoshops; it's impossible for networks to be secure because data and credentials are unencrypted; and so on.

On the bright side, he thinks that at least nobody will need to worry about online privacy, because it will be too cumbersome for anyone to effectively maintain databases of personal information.

But on the other hand, with some of his observations, it's at least arguable that they still hold true 25 years later:

> Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion. Online debates of tough issues are often polarized by messages taking extreme positions.

> An original IBM PC, now over ten years old, is fully obsolete. Likely, it will still work perfectly and do everything it was build for; after all, the silicon and copper haven't deteriorated. But you can't get software for it any longer.

> A word processor may last two years before the next version. These upgrades likely add as many new bugs as are patched, and result in a bigger, more complex program. One that's less and less compatible with old files. [...] Curiously, as computer hardware gets faster, programs run slower.

> Photo retouching isn't new. Digital image processing, however, can be so extensive yet undetectable that it undermines the foundation of photojournalism -- that seeing is believing.
Combating E-Commerce Scams and Account Takeover Attacks
I wonder how many start meditating after their success though. But yeah I think you can definitely be successful and meditate. I think PG and investors in general want to create a pressure cooker to create extreme results.
What's the distribution over time of the new records? Is it what you'd expect from a random process?
Um, thanks, I guess. I think that Amazon’s agreement is that sellers waive copyright to images uploaded. -Cliff around 11:30 in the evening
> was unquestionably biased in favor of YC

Literally the first principle of HN moderation is that we moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is involved: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That doesn't mean we don't moderate at all, but we're extremely conscious and careful about it. The first step in onboarding any HN moderator is to instill in them the fear of god, hellfire, and the internet about this.

If you want to share what you specifically saw about what specific thread, I could try to reconstruct what we did. Just in general, though, it's extremely easy to read sinister patterns into this material, for the simple reason that there are more than enough data points to support any pattern. This is the curse of the von Neumann elephant (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Or to put it another way: "unquestionably biased" is internet speak for "I saw a thing that I thought kind of looked like that".

> Would be interesting to know what they did in this case

I'm afraid the rather boring answer is that we did nothing because we didn't see it (until now, 18 hours later). It's not the sort of article we'd put in the second chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), because there's little new information there. The authors seemed to have "caught" these guys in the act of working on their startup, cornered them for an interview, but didn't manage to squeeze much out of them. So I think we'd probably all be better off waiting for the thing to actually launch. That's one of the more reliable HN principles: "there's no harm in waiting" - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
It takes some chutzpah to turn defense from your own willful negligence into a revenue center. Like telcos’ telemarketer blocking services or Equifux offering credit monitoring services (only free for the first year) to the millions whose sensitive financial info they allowed to be breached.
Here is the counter evidence: count the number of record high days and the number of record low days. For the past few decades, and increasingly so, the number of high days far outpaces the number of record low days, something your example doesn't exhibit.
"Straight" is not correct - it implies that that the maximum increases linearly with time. The maximum will clearly asymptote at 100, and since it's an increasing function of time, the rate of increase must slow with time.
If that was the case, the number of record lows and record highs would be roughly equal, assuming no shift in distribution. However, according to this paper (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...), it's not the case, with record highs outnumbering record lows.

> Since January 1, 2009 (also compiled to the end of September, 2009), there had been 11,711 record highs and 7,449 record lows, with a ratio of just less than two to one.

We can also check whether that ratio is consistent with a random process that has an even probability of giving record lows and record highs:

> binom.test(c(7449,11711), p=0.5)

Exact binomial test

data: c(7449, 11711)
number of successes = 7449, number of trials = 19160, p-value < 2.2e-16
alternative hypothesis: true probability of success is not equal to 0.5

As such, the data indicates that there is a shift in distribution.
It's not that bad ecologically, but I'm not getting why these people are reinventing the wheel.

Buying out a patent and properly documenting it should be doable.
Google Shopping Express used to do that in San Jose. I once ordered a toy spring for $3 with free shipping and had it delivered in 2 hours so I could use it as a heater coil. Good times

Within a couple of months they changed the policy to $75 minimum for free shipping. There are also fewer delivery slots today relative to demand
Interestingly IKEA has been building homes for a while in Scandinavian countries: https://www.boklok.com/

They also seem to be getting into the tiny house game:
https://dornob.com/flat-pack-ikea-house-built-shipped-for-un...
I feel bad for you. but eventually if you've failed 6 times, you have to look at yourself and understand what you're doing wrong. It actually sounds like you might have clinical depression, and that's not anything to take lightly. There is tons of help and support and if you want, I'd be happy to help.
It's so hard to watch as Amazon just let's there platform go to the dogs. All in the name of hands off automation I guess?.
> it's composed of countless consciously created and refined incentive structures

So you don't suppose there's much unconsciously created and refined structure to it?

We hear so much about anxiety and pressure being rampant in modern society. I just wonder why mention of these (and other, unwanted, disavowed) forces is always left out of all the design talk. It seems to me to be the perfect setup for the worst parts of tomorrow's "design"...
> there are ways around Shabbat rules that align with the Torah/Talmud

As with any religious practices, there’s a wide spectrum of how people follow or don’t follow the doctrine. There’s no shortage of Rabbis who have haggled over the fine details of how they apply to modern society, like your elevator example.

Personally, I like the idea of aligning and adapting the general intent as opposed to rule hacking, and it’s neat to leave that cultural stamp on the business (at some cost, I’m sure).
Record values occurring more often certainly is a statistical trend, even if the average stays the same. It's a change in distribution, just like a rising average is a change in distribution. Or is that not what you were referring too?
He's also a connoisseur and collector of slide rules and the Curta mechanical calculator!

Here's a video of him describing how the Curta performs arithmetic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OynMJB-2J1o — as well as the SciAm article he wrote on them: http://www.mycurta.com/Calculator.pdf