skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had this realization somewhere in life. Many jobs (not just CEO) are highly dependent on "story telling" in a general sense. Which is a stylish way of saying, "being able to explain yourself and your motivations."

In grad school (molecular biology/genetics), various lab members would return from scientific conferences and the most common comment was "You should have heard <so-and-so's research talk>. She had a great story."

It made an impression on me. You can do the best research, make the best product, write the cleanest code, etc. But you will suffer if you can't tell the story.
In this case if the Epic lawsuit is successful and drives down the 30% Apple cut it may save macOs as an open-ish platform.
It's really odd that these researchers think they deserve access to this information. The successful will probably go to work at competitors to FB down the road. Such entitlement just because they give themselves the "research" title.
^ Underrated comment. If you want to gain a real sense of how people thought and felt during the computer revolution, read this book.
It is far more notable that there is exactly one known Denisovan fossil, namely the distal phalanx the whole "Denisovan Genome" was sequenced from. One could argue that she was just another Neanderthal, but that didn't do the vanity of the authors of "Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia" [Reich2010] justice.

Regarding the admixture, the analysis doesn't indicate the direction. If a Denisovan had offspring with an ancestor of present day Philippinos and the offspring stayed with the humans, that would create exactly the same D-statistics as if the child stayed with the Denisovans.

I think the most believable scenario is that humans migrated through an area that was already inhabited by Neanderthals, some of them had fun with the locals, and the Denisovan is an offspring of such a family. That's much easier to believe than Denisovans, who somehow never left traces in the fossil record, living all over Asia and contributing genes to all present day Melanesians.

[Reich2010] has a single sentence to rule out this scenario: the fossil is a tiny bit too old to be affected by the migrating modern humans. That relies on stratigraphic dating (C14 fails at around 50ka), and that relies on the assurance of the archaeologists that "most of the site was disturbed, but this fossil is from the undisturbed part!" Yeah, right.

As you said, Denisovans, assuming there was ever more than one, and assuming they weren't just Neanderthals, probably swam to the Philippines. Isn't it amazing how much we can learn from a single pinky bone?
Singapore would be a toss up in terms of privacy, but it is excellent and friendly for work-focused, law-abiding, norm-conforming kind of people. I don't mean it in a bad way.
I guess the Elixir "custom sigil" is a generalized version of the Ruby or Perl special quoting styles for things like regexes or shell commands?

There are at least a couple of prominent versions of that: a great dynamic language version is JavaScript template literals <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...>; or in the static language world there's C++ user-defined literals <https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/user_literal> (tho if I remember correctly they are horrible for strings unless you are using a recent version of C++)
What matters is that if you splash some on your hand, you have time to rinse it off before the flesh melts off your bones.
If you want to go down a rabbit hole on theories of advanced pre-ice age civilizations, here you go.

https://youtube.com/c/brienfoerster
It's well-known that given enough stress, many marriages that would have otherwise been relatively healthy can be pushed into insolvency.

For example: controlling for other factors, the divorce rate among married parents who have a child with autism is measurably higher.
You mean before we count their high environmental cost? Cities are higher net tax contributors due to population density. If we're going to fairly consider the equation, we have to include their high emissions over the decades and the price of that.

Fossil fuel based electricity & heat production is by far the worst offender, 1/3 of all emissions. To say nothing of the food requirements of cities (agriculture alone being ~11% of emissions), which are potent emissions contributors.

As such, should cities be made to pay for the vast destruction they've caused over time? Across a century, US cities were heavily utilizing cheap coal power to sustain their elevated population density. They took a very low cost, low penalty ride on helping to destroy the planet.

Global climate change didn't happen in a day. There's a fair question of distribution of cost, reparations for the fossil fuel consumption & use of cities in the form of a tax to cover their century of past sins.

A person might retort: yes, but, cities are more efficient than rural arrangements pound for pound. The issue is total emissions output, in the discussion of total cost (net tax +/- contribution equation), which is what the threat is with climate change. Low population rural areas can't destroy the planet with their resource demands, only large populations can do that.

Then a person might retort: but what else were all of those people in cities going to do? Not exist at all? Starve? Go without electricity? I'd suggest environmental reparations via taxation for the net damage the cities did cause (if we're looking at fairly balancing the net tax contribution equation, that is; if their inflated tax net gets counted courtesy of elevated population density, then we must also consider their environmental cost).
Apple is getting services revenue on the Mac.

At least half the Mac GUI Apps I use are delivered via the Mac App Store. That number moves towards 100% for my non tech friends.

I continue to use iCloud because I have a Mac.
In this case I’m building software whose primary selling point is “trivial to install on practically any cheap-ass $1/mo shared web host, just unzip and FTP the files to your website folder” - which is the whole reason it’s written in PHP in the first place.

(The more I think about it, the more sad I am that it’s 2021 and still no other language has come close to PHP’s low barrier to entry...)
As I said there are plenty of examples in history of transporting humans against their will, and yes those historical examples include canoes and rafts.

I think it’s much more probable there had to have been complex social relationships between these groups rather than the only possibility being that 1 species of prehumans developed single person boats used to migrate to these islands and then a second species of prehumans independently developed boats that also held a maximum of 1 person and used them to migrate to the same islands already inhabited by the 1 group, and then the 2 groups interbred per the article.
I feel the context has to be emphasized here. FORTRAN won't appear until a year later and LISP for all three. It was no distraction: it was so early that much of CS and computing history branches out from that event.
It’s remarkable how many real problems can be solved with a good story. Storytelling is how people who don’t do things themselves can direct larger numbers of people to do what you need.
I remember 10 years ago I was so interested in and hopeful that learning algorithms would revolutionize diagnosis and treatment in medicine. Instead it really looks like all these algorithms, after being trained by biased apes, are only cementing bad policy behind faceless decision makers. The government loves them because it removes accountability and access; especially when they can use private entities to do so.

I think there are two things at least that must be done:

1. Make individual people accountable for the decisions that 'AI' systems make.

2. Foster a culture of critique within AI development and deployment.
Ask HN: Is your office adopting a semi-remote policy? What’s your thoughts?
> This move would affect Apple the most, as it uses Lightning cables, while most Android phones use UBC-C.

Not sure I believe that, most existing Android phones use micro USB, only newer ones use USB-C. But they don't mention the mountains of other stuff that use one of these two plugs. What uses a Lightning cable?
I think the issue was more with “random” than with “unpredictable”.
Additional question for my understanding - this needs an app running in the background to send the signed token at every other time interval, correct?
> At some point there is simply too much capital and because of the reinvestment dynamic it's all in the hands of the people with the lowest time preference.

> everyone else whose involvement in the economy keeps shrinking

> Wars create the need for growth

This sounds very similar to a book that was recently recommended to me. [1] I've not yet read it, but I understand it makes the case that, historically, an eventually diminishing middle class is the natural state of things and wars and other disasters have been the only things to effectively reverse that trend.

I'm not necessarily so pessimistic just yet. Certainly there are other things than war we could spend money on to get the same desired macroeconomic effects, and I think there is a general understanding among (some portion of) the establishment of the economic issues at hand. And even if enough low-hanging investment fruit has been picked so that companies have trouble finding profitable investments at 0%, if enough demand is produced that will increase the number of profitable investment opportunities (factories etc) and eventually raise interest rates again (and that path probably makes more sense than interest rates that are substantially negative, do you really want "investments" that return less than the resources they cost?).

The infrastructure and families bills seem like steps in the right direction, the proposed families bill is ~1.5% of (current) GDP/yr, which while not close at all to WWII is substantial compared to most recent policies.

But even if we could navigate the post-0% environment it doesn't mean we will. I think there's a reasonable risk that political dysfunction will prevent us from addressing (potentially solvable) economic problems, leading to further dysfunction, in some sort of self-reinforcing process.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Great-Leveler-Inequality-Twenty-First...
"Being entitled" is a weird way to say:

Researchers routinely work long hours

with little pay

out of altruistic motives

to the benefit of everyone.

Would you say doctors are entitled when they seek patients to study?
Did everyone knew Andrew and what his role was?

Though I must admit that design resource is hardcore :) I must try that at the office and look at the reactions.
Perspectives on the Pandemic: “The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine”
>His entire corpus basically deals with how to escape nihilism

You must admit there is some sort of grand comedy in this: Nietzsche's one 'novel', "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" entire plot line is about a man who tries to warn society of the evils of nihilism and instead of being scared-off by it, all the people he warns fall in love with the idea (ie. willing trade their dangerous freedom to gain safety).

Its a deeply ironic that the current pedestrian understanding of him is that he advocated "atheism and nihilism". You almost couldn't make it up.
> The successful will probably go to work at competitors to FB down the road.

What do you base this on?
The problem there is that reinventing decades-old technology while believing one can simply shrug off uncounted millions of hours of technical problems and troubleshooting by doing so is in fact extreme hubris. Keeping the existing stack is much more humble.
The startup game probably is a lot of stress for at best moderately-better rewards 99% of the time. I don’t doubt your friend is very smart and talented, but to get that level of success you basically need luck.

That’s not to say you can’t pursue a startup. But if you do, don’t hurt your life and burn yourself out, and recognize that the chance you’ll end up like your friend is very slim.

If you’re looking for money, i imagine that there are less risky ways to end up with a decent amount, though not several hundred million. But i don’t know, you’ll have to ask someone else. Also, recognize that money ≠ happiness, though being poor basically = unhappiness.
Ask HN: What Covid Lifestyle Changes Are Permanent for You?
During the pandemic lockdown, I was relegated to cutting my own hair. I surprised myself and actually, I like the look and the time and money savings. I don't think I'll be going back to the barber.

That makes me wonder what other changes people have made that they will stick with. A lot of folks picked up hobbies, video games became even more prevalent, some people grew gardens. Some of those changes were likely just made to kill time and solve boredom and loneliness and once the restrictions are lifted, many will returm to the life they enjoyed pre-pandemic.

What changes will stick with you?
My JSON parser ( github.com/nanoscopic/ujsonin ) has these things:

0. Looks essentially the same as JSON

1. Core data types, and customizable data types can be added easily.

2. Arrays, Objects, and arbitrary nesting.

3. Comments ( both /* */ and // format )

4. Multiline strings ( by default; carriage returns are no problem within strings )

5. It is JSON with relaxed restrictions and slight addition for actual named types.

6. I've written C, Perl, and Golang implementations so far.
Did this lead to DTSS (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_Time_Sharing_System>) (and, thus, BASIC)?
I do think some of the more "advanced" features are definitely a mistake. StrictYAML (https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml) is a limited, much saner subset of YAML that I wish people would use more: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/features-removed/

No coercion of y/n/yes/no/on/off to booleans (these were also removed in the official YAML 1.2 spec, thankfully), no direct object representations, no anchors or references, etc.
If value judgement is incorrect. What is the proper way to judge a system of thinking?
Fruit is fructose + water + fibre + natural flavouring.

Confectionery is sucrose + other carbs + filler + appetite enhancers.

While you can over eat fruit, the water and fibre make it very difficult.

With confectionery, it's literally designed to be easy.
Yes.

So much yes. If you are not giving her the opportunity to learn the difference between locally installed and runnable programs vs. those that require the Network, they are losing out. If they can't get a feel for how a system is really just a carefully lined up set of bits and bobs wired together whose specs just happen to match;they are missing out.

So much tech literacy is lost with these abominations of budget devices.

Don't cripple them. Get them a General Purpose PC. Let them noodle. Help them break and fix it. You will not regret it, you'll all learn something, and it'll give you an appreciation for what we're slowly losing as industry runs away toward remotely arrestable computing.

The PC is Archimedes' lever of the digital world. Don't deprive them of the chance to come to grips with it.
Debian Bullseye Is Released
Really ought to have "Thomas Sowell (2012)" in the title.
Hmm, could have potential but it needs some better moderation. It seems to consist mostly of knee-jerk reactions to local stores selling out of a very specific random product and calling it a shortage, or vague statements without any useful details. "HEB is out of Valentina hot sauce" and "Walmart has limits on basic food".
Some school administrator managed to rediscover segregation from first principles? I can't believe this isn't the onion
Showstopper![1] covers Windows NT in a similar vein and Dealers of Lightning[2] is another good read that goes into some if the really interesting history of Xerox PARC.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Showstopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generat...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer...
We will do Tue-Thu on-site, Mon and Fri WFH.

I think being in the office helps me learn faster when being on a newer team. WFH is great for a bunch of reasons, like saving time, saving money, and being available for family medical issues.

So I feel split. If my commute was short, I would like the mostly in office model. I don't get paid enough to live closer though.
Among your multiple obvious trolling against proven anti-COVID-19 measures, this may be the most preposterous suggestion.

Perhaps there is some data on how harmful halloween masks are to kids. Or on pubescent Muslim girls/teens... (/sarc)

You are assuming the existence of some implausible 2nd or 3rd order harm (masks harm kids and they are so un-adaptable that it couldn't possibly be mitigated), and then claiming lack of data from another implausible obstacle (that this supposed harm is so obviously bad that no ethics board would allow it to be studied) all as a pretext to avoid a proven-effective measure to prevent a first order, and often deadly harm.

The burden would be on you to show actual harm from wearing a mask when thousands do it without harm all day every day (for work and for disease prevention)

Also it is not just about the kids whom you wrongly assume to be invulnerable - it is about not making another petri dish to both further spread the disease to those whom the kids come in contact. I watched as the infection rates tracked in Britain, Quebec, Israel, etc. all rose with schools going into session, and fell in school breaks.

Public health measures are not about you. Its about everyone taking on just a bit of responsibility to contain a deadly pandemic, and not freeloading on what collective immunity is provided by the more conscientious and intelligent around you.
"Most of the world’s largest emitting rivers are in Asia, with some also in East Africa and the Caribbean. In the chart we see the ten largest contributors. This is shown as each river’s share of the global total. You can explore the data on the top 50 rivers using the +Add river button on the chart.6

Seven of the top ten rivers are in the Philippines. Two are in India, and one in Malaysia. The Pasig River in the Philippines alone accounts for 6.4% of global river plastics. This paints a very different picture to earlier studies where it was Asia’s largest rivers – the Yangtze, Xi, and Huangpu rivers in China, and Ganges in India – that were dominant."
Schopenhauer!
> The better comparison is Skylake vs Skylake-SP, from which AVX512 is estimated to cost about 5% of the tile area

That analysis might be slightly underestimating the area penalty of AVX512, because the consumer Skylake cores that didn't have AVX512 execution units still reserved space for the AVX512 register file. (And given that fact, it's all the more surprising that while Intel was repeatedly refreshing 14nm Skylake for the consumer market, they never added the rest of the AVX512 bits or redid the layout of the consumer cores to reclaim the blank space of the register file.)
> Sure hiring and selling need some storytelling but that is just a very small part.

I beg to disagree -- storytelling is the main part of hiring and selling.

Hiring is convincing the employee you want why this company is the next chapter in their personal story, and how they fit into the story of the company and the product. Storytelling is the creation of meaning, and people take jobs because of what they mean for your life. For some people, that meaning is about making the world a better place, while for other's it's about how this job will generate more cold hard cash than you could anywhere else.

Similarly, selling is telling and justifying the story of how this product will change the customer's life for the better.

Integrity? Vision? Technical specifications? All part of the story you're telling.

Not all jobs involve story. If you're building an algorithm, story doesn't really factor into it. But convincing people is always done through a story -- "here's why X is better than Y". So to whatever extent your job in convincing people, it's about communicating story.

CEO's do other things too. Deciding which strategy they want to pursue isn't story, it's strategy. But then convincing everyone else to go along with the strategy -- that's story.
Problems have lots of solutions. Often a company looking for say “SaaS application to streamline expense processing” has 50+ options. How they pick one from that 50 has more to do with how memorable the company is (storytelling) than the features (engineering).
He explicitly says that the 'framing' gets his emotions stirring.
The Light Phone: Minimal Smartphone
I don't necessarily mean raising awareness in the general population in order for people to perform insignificant actions, but to at least consider prioritizing policies and regulations that aim at addressing the problem. Be it voters, members of governments, diplomats...

What do you suggest instead? I feel like you are criticizing me, but I'm not sure what cause you want to advance by doing so.
Money is a poor metric for determining your overall success or failure. Particularly if you don't elect to take full command if your economic output by going solo and instead working for others.

I choose to run a startup. My motive is to improve the world and the lives of others. Which is much harder to measure. Money is trusted to this, but not the only measure. I'd rather make less in many instances and improve things more because this fits my goals.

I advise to re center yourself in your own life goals. The only person it makes sense to measure yourself against is yourself.
"Other opposition leaders"??? Not Donald Trump, I bet.
Just remember non-linear effects can go both ways.
Bauer: An Emacs+Nix IDE
We have plenty of Neanderthal genetic sequences. So seeing even just one Denisovan sequence showing a large divergence from all the other Neanderthal sequences is enough to demonstrate a separate, distinct population.
FWIW, the new (2+) Yarn does not use hoisting, and you can disable it on Yarn v1 as well via nohoist: https://classic.yarnpkg.com/blog/2018/02/15/nohoist/
Thanks a lot, that's quite valuable!

I was hoping to introduce both new and old readers with the "Context" section, but it seems I failed at that.
The new post contains all of the content of the previous one and extends it a bit, which is why I didn't link the old one.

I removed the "Context" section now and replaced it with two short sentences addressed at readers of the previous post. I hope this makes it easier for new readers.
You can instead use dedicated directories, virtualenvs, chroots, firejail sandboxing, systemd nspawn containers.

(In increasing order of effort)
So, the marketing is working and people are increasingly aware of privacy issues? In that case, would you say this statement:

>don't tell me you believe privacy was at the usual consumers mind when they bought their devices... this is ridiculous or you don't meet many normal users.

Is true or false? Because you seem to be contradicting yourself. Are people aware of privacy or not? Is the marketing working or not?

I suspect you were trying to say that people weren't aware previously. Is that correct? Because I don't think anyone would disagree with that.
Estimated yearly improvement rates per technology
Amazon didn’t just buy these addresses, an AWS service was just assigned them due to some future known growth. Amazon bought the rights to use all of the 3/8 network years ago and is just now allocating some additional subnets of that to AWS services.
For #2 if we say "Then it would be incorrect to think that X is morally wrong" is there an "X" that is always true in all places and for all times? I ask because "boiling a human child alive for pleasure" seems to be safely chosen to be something that everyone in all places ought to be able to agree is wrong but there have been other chosen Xs at other times in our own culture that have changed and are now no longer considered "morally wrong". This would seem to indicate that the X is subjective. How subjective is it? What is it a function of?