skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some discussion yesterday, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28361807

it's interesting because it's clearly exciting & leading edge tech. unlike most Tesla tech which ultimately has consumers using it, where we all get to assess strengths & weaknesses, this tech is going to remain inside the Tesla castle, unviewable, unassessable. we'll probably never know what real strengths or weaknesses it has, never understand all the ways it doesn't well, or as well as competitors. it's going to remain an esoteric dollop of computing.
2xSaI: The advanced 2x Scale and Interpolation engine (2001)
“Go to definition” has been around even longer, since at least the early 90s
Your workplace isn't used as a platform for "democratic discourse"
It only works though if income distribution is somewhat sane and people actually buy the housing to live or for renting out. The issue is that a small part of the population is so rich that they can afford many apartments/houses without living in them or renting them out. Those individuals have often enough market weight that they can distort the market all by themselves. Creating an arbitrary shortage to drive up prices for example
I have no explanations but runnable code: https://www.nayuki.io/page/binary-indexed-tree
> They defined Scientology as a pyramid scheme (rightly) because of its “pay for revelation” business model.

but "pay for indulgences" is fine?
What a strange sentence.. As if "Docker" is some third party. They're referring to themselves in the 3rd person.

Be warned
Anne Appelbaum is a hack. She cherry-picks her sources to feed her narrative in literally everything she writes. Her faux even-handedness is just a rhetorical device to push her actual agenda. Bin.
Perhaps we should turn to more pressing matters?
> So what Apple/Google should've done is give larger publishers a volume discount. Of course this should force them into binding arbitration and otherwise challenging the discount should void that discount.

Binding arbitration is a uniquely US-legal system thing that is not legal elsewhere. (And imo it is better to have a more neutral third party than an arbitration private firm that has one of the parties as a recurring customer)
Same people who pay for the roads and traffic signals?
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I'm not sure this is the appropriate context, though. There are plenty of people today who think it's "cool" to be counter to the dominant culture, including active research and security analyses claiming to show flaws in voting security. The difference is that the dominant culture has shifted strongly in a direction that you and I favor, so we care about being excluded from it in a way we didn't in 2005.
Will point out that this housing is hardly sustainable, it's paid for from the remainders of Fugger's wealth (he is the richest man in the world, accounting for currency changes and inflation) as well as donations from the church (probably in order not to be dragged to court for late debt payments, the church borrowed a lot from Fugger).
I've thought that the baby boom savings cycle explained most of it, but neat to see some numbers contesting that. But this paper seems to assume that US asset prices are determined entirely by domestic demand which seems wild in a world awash with sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, diversified savers, and emerging market wealth seeking a safe haven.

I see some work attributing pensions, etc. to demographic deciles, but ctrl-F "foreign" comes up 0.

Does anyone know of any estimates of what fraction of net inflow into US financial assets are domestic vs foreign?
It can get worse than that. They can offer to sell your source code to your competitors. And print out the offer on your office printer during a visit to your facility.

Yes, that really happened to us. Their code didn't work very well, either.
I know a CTO with plenty of wealth and space that sits at a kitchen table with a laptop instead of setting up a home work station.

I know information workers who have workplaces that would gladly pay for nicer monitors or keyboards but don’t bother to even request them.

I know a couple with a brand new house that has a miserably squeaky front door that could be silenced a half dozen ways in under a minute.

People of all kinds contortion themselves into knots, giving little notice to the daily, near constant twinge of their circumstances but don’t improve them.

Tolerating ads is just one example of this.
Author here -- hi! :)

I just wanted to say thanks for sharing this, it made my day. I started ABS a couple Christmases ago as I had a week off and the constant thought that there's gotta be a "nicer" way to script things, without the verbosity of higher-level languages...and I'm happy to see folks finding ABS useful.

I haven't updated it in a couple of months as I find it pretty "complete" from my perspective, but I also have some crazy ideas every now and then that I know I'll want to throw into the language.

Again, thanks for giving ABS a try!

PS. I wanted to credit Thorsten Ball for his books, without them I would have never been able to build ABS:

https://interpreterbook.com/
Why can't the comparison context be from one year to the next year?
On a few occasions, I have quit interesting arguments with people I respect, because it was in public Facebook comments and I could feel (and see, via reactions) the baying crowds forming camps on either side. And sure, hypothetically it could go to PMs, but these weren't close friends. "Gladiatorial" is exactly the kind of feeling I get from it.

I don't think messageboards used to be this way before the proliferation of 'share' buttons and engagement-tracking algorithms. In the old days, people had to choose based on the thread title whether they wanted to read it. Today, Facebook notifies you: Trevor and Dan are going at it again.
Equally important to whether the vote is fair is whether people believe it is fair.

No one but the world's best computer security experts have a hope of comprehensively understanding a computer voting system. Even on the odd chance the entire software and hardware platform were open source and verifiable, it's probably beyond 90% of us here on Hacker News to even begin going about that independently.

The result is the election is no longer constructed out of an understandable system based on folk physics we all comprehend instinctively. We all understand the integrity of a physical ballot box, physical papers, and the difficulty of mass fraud against such a decentralized system.

Switch to fully-electronic voting and we lose that. It becomes a black box. Press a button. Get a result. With no faith in the process that rendered it. Our democratic result ceases to be the result of average citizens counting papers and becomes something just handed down by experts.

I'm not American, but if my country ever moves to eliminate paper ballots I will protest. I do like the idea of a terminal that prints your human-readable ballot for you as an assistive device, though.
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Thanks, a better explanation
Note that Docker Desktop and Docker Engine are separate products. Docker Desktop is the desktop application package that makes Docker user-friendly on macOS and Windows. Docker Engine, the container runtime itself, remains free:

> No changes to Docker Engine or any upstream open source Docker or Moby project.

If you develop on Linux, no changes are needed.
atoms are better
Team Communication Methods
> Nobody uses the native input elements

What are you talking about? The vast majority of sites use native input elements.

The percentages are going to be different, though, depending on whether you're talking about text boxes, dropdowns, or date pickers. (After all, Safari only introduced native support for date pickers this past April, according to MDN's compatibility table [1].)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
I usually too many windows open, just like too many tabs, and I don't like seeing them grouped because that requires an extra step to click the right window.

All these windows don't fit bottom/top Taskbar and therefore I put my Taskbar left or right of screen.
I’m not sure if I’d categorize all military, political, and government uses of copyrighted media as “non-commercial.” For example, if they use your photo or video in an advertisement that they pay to have played on TV, is that still non-commercial? That’s sounds pretty commercial to me.
"trans" isn't a gender. But, I am trans, and advertisers are more than prepared to advertise to me. So I'm not sure what the goal would be there.
Interesting use of the example image, I wonder if Apple is thinking of iMessage on the web, after we've seen FaceTime for the browser. I wouldn't have thought it a possibility, but it's strange they used that example.
https://github.com/abs-lang/abs/issues

Feel free :)
The most American of answers.
Hey I live just a street down from there. It's an interesting place and Fugger was certainly one of the more interesting people to grace the face of the earth, though it looses it's charm if you see it on your daily commute.
I will assume this will end up just how banking regulation ends up, the banks makes the same amount of money (or more) and the loss from regulation is made up somewhere else (higher fees, worse interest rates, etc).

Pay-per-download seems to be a very likely future for apps using external payment systems, free or not (which is only fair, you are after all leeching off the App stores in that scenario), charged by Apple/Google to the developer.
The defining characteristic of cancel culture is people with massive platforms who spend a lot of time trying to get people fired for saying then they disagree with complaining when people are rude to them on twitter (at best, much the time they are crying about people politely pointing out mistakes in what they are arguing).
> Face to face, people are usually pretty civil and they don't easily call name on one another

It used to be the case that this was true even with written and remote (telephone) communication. Now with the way people behave on facebook and twitter (and yes, hacker news), snark, insults and exaggerated outrage are the "new normal" for non-business written communication.

The younger generations haven't known anything different, so part of me wonders if we'll see a shift in face-to-face communication that more closely mirrors how we see people (poorly) behave on social networks, or whether the threat of real physical violence of an in-person confrontation will keep that in check.
It’s way less than 1%

Waay less.
I think there is most definitely a line where there can be no reasonable or safe way for someone to try and communicate privately and should definitely go to a third party to sort this out as a first step. I've heard of stories in academia where freshmen are literally physically cornered by staff, where someone is being stalked by a student who is unstable, where a student is physically threatened, where a student is offered extremely inappropriate quid pro quo for grades/research opportunities, etc.
I have the regular i5-6600 in my game system and it does have it so I am almost certain that chip does as well (and a quick search shows up someone with the k version who was able to enable it). For some reason the setting is under "peripherals" for me, I guess most likely the setting is hidden somewhere for you as well.
The wool line made them popular, but the tree runner in my opinion is my absolute favorite shoe.

My white pair has survived about 10 runs through the wash, and damn if there isn't a better looking shoe to wear sockless.
My house is set up like you describe. The whole solar/battery system never interconnects with the grid, and is instead set up like a generator. There is a transfer switch to choose between "generator" power and grid power. If there is some exceptional weather and the battery gets too low, we switch to grid. If the battery is full and the day is sunny we often dump power into the car, air conditioning, or whatever.
I like their shoes because they're not crazy styled. Normal standard shoes - no bullshit. They're comfortable and if a pair wears out I can buy the exact same shoe. Have you ever tried to replace a pair Nikes with the the same shoe? Its impossible.
I think even the broad outline of the article is flawed.

The vast majority of life at all scales persist through primarily maximizing "growth" (replication), implying that the associated risks (cancer, resource exhaustion) have been acceptable and are sufficiently mitigated through various mechanisms.

It would be hard to find a superior strategy (or metaphor) that won't be catastrophic once your ecosystem shifts.
In 2021 you'll lose your job for saying a specific word, in the context of discussing the word, definitely not using it as a slur, while openly being materially anti racist and deploring the use of the word as a slur.

Even the fools on Capitol Hill on Jan 6, if you were to poll them, I suggest >95% of them would consider it inappropriate to use that word as a slur.

So that's the furthest thing from what you are imagining.

I think this kind of fear-mongering is tantamount to a kind of bigotry because it mostly misunderstands the nature of the Capitol Hill rioting, and all those other kinds of 'scary' activities. And FYI that was scary, just for other reasons then you are suggesting.

Words do have power, surely, but the conflation of 'someone said something' into a giant national war is just hyperbolic.

We're confusing 'someone said something dumb, maybe because they were angry and shooting their mouths off' - with 'the return of slavery!'.

Ta-Nehisi Coates tells this tale of a very minor confrontation between he, his child in an elevator, it was the most inconsequential encounter, but he elevated to the status of ultimate importance. In his deluded view, it wasn't even a 'symbol' of racism, rather an act of deep rooted power that a white person could actually 'lay hands' on a black person as if they 'owned their bodies'. God forbid someone who might step on someone's toes as brutal act of racism?

The paradox is that the legitimate observation of 'Critical Theory' as applied to the propagandist narratives that we've told ourselves in the past, could just as easily be used against those who want to elevate every action towards some ideological importance.

Most people I speak to in person are actually kind of reasonable, I think we are all getting sick of this, maybe over the next few years we'll start to be desensitized to elite huffery on Twitter.
The Dalai Lama's Patek Philippe
I would check in a few weeks :)

https://github.com/abs-lang/abs/issues/447
Just wait until 5g is everywhere and companies will just add its functionality to your tv and connect regardless of what you do.
Linux containers ought to update and extend their product subscriptions too.
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Why not compete on merits instead?
Aah Brendan Gregg. Forever famous as "that guy" who shouted at a disk array[1]. :)

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
Meh, it's just for the headline. If someone shared the article and the title is scraped, "we're" isn't as self-explanatory and required you to look at the URL for context.

The article itself uses "we"
After realizing most shoes are animal-based or synthetic, even if they're not leather, I've set out to find a pair which is non-synthetic non-animal-based and I've found these (and giesswein's which I didn't like).

Bought them, really comfortable, great refund policy (could test out 2-3 pairs to find my right size), would definitely recommend.
China is producing their state owned e-yuan. They are rolling it now and in 2 years that will be the currency most transactions they do will require. 200 million has already been issued as a pilot. When e-yuan becomes the de facto reserve currency of trade, the dollar will suffer thge same tragedy as iceland.

The US will need to take out loans from the IMF, from China, from other nations in ASIA to buy e-yuan. China will pay us back in the dollars they have but will demand e-yuan for anything we want to buy from them. Now the Fed is enjoying its last hurrah. Printing money like its going out of style (which in fact it is) (Actually the Treasury prints the money but they wouldnt print unless the Fed issued bills and bonds to sell.)

When austerity hits home, the rich and privileged classes will have a new 'news bite' with which to beat the 'lazy unemployed'. Helicopter money will disappear. Austerity measures will include wage and price controls (like Nixon did in 1970s), sky high interest rates. And a booming underground economy as Americans learn to dodge taxes like the Greeks do. We will become like England. They were the host state to Arab oil money. We will see China buying up valuable parts of the US simply because we will have nothing else they want. Dont fool yourself, their weapons have reached parity withours. Their chip industry is at most 5 years behind ours. Their ML is at parity with 'ours' -facebook, google. OTOH, facebook and google might just move to china for the free-er capitalism they will have.
Reminds me of a thread a while ago pointing out that a single show dominates the MTV programming lineup almost every day [1]. It's as if there is some algorithm running without human intervention that feeds on itself by reacting only to current viewing habits:

foreach (show s in lineup)
if (s.viewers > THRESHOLD)
lineup.replace_with_more (s)

Obviously resulting in this weird local maxima where no other shows get broadcast.

1: https://twitter.com/MTVSchedule/status/1422934028253081603
Common store bought Indian pickle ingredient analysis
This is a nice summary. VFR into IMC and pilot task saturation/distraction are such killers in the broad GA space. Literally forgetting the fly/operate the plane.
Well, good thing they didn't have to compete with today's mobile OS's back then. Android back then was abjectly terrible. They definitely had a shot at the second spot behind Apple, especially in low-income countries.
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You could try listing them here. May or may not favorably influence the price, in the same way private forum sales can sometimes go more interestingly than eBay et al.

(Translation: I'm benignly curious what apps :P)
Time to ban/firewall DoH then.
I hate those tutorial popups and refuse to engage them.
From the original article:

> Fugger charged residents one Rheinischer gulden a year, the equivalent of one month's salary at the time.
>I personally find it very comforting that (at least at in principle) both the rich and poor wait in the same line.

That's rarely the case. For stuff like consumer goods (ie. getting the iphone on launch day, a few years ago) the rich person can buy it off a scalper, or pay someone to stand in life for them. For healthcare they can just fly to a private clinic.
Their balance sheet looks very healthy for a growing company with a strong gross margin and very sustainable net losses relative to the capital they've been able to raise. As long as they can maintain their brand position in the space, the multiple they last raised at doesn't seem absurd to me at least.
> It sounds like if you had your way, you'd be quite the authoritarian. Do you hear yourself?

So every forum that has mods to moderate the posts that are made is "authoritarian"? Do you listen to yourself? It's not authoritarian to ensure a certain level of quality or level of discourse. And what's going on in these comments does not meet any reasonable bar.
This assumes humans consciously and continuously make decisions by a thorough and comprehensive review of their own interests.

In practice this can provide a subtle influence without having to undergo that depth of analysis.
I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about how, because it was founded by puritans, puritanism in general seems to have become part of the US' national/cultural character. You see it in many forms throughout the years in ways you just don't see in the UK, even though we otherwise share a great deal of cultural background.
> Fucker advenit

Strikes me as an excellent name for a Christian rock band.
They do that to pay proportionally less (not zero) and the countries they are paying proportionally less to are interested in being the fiscal hosts of those multinationals.
I stopped following any groups or pages, and I'm only friends with people who I'm on a first name basis with. This is probably Facebook as originally intended. The signal to noise ratio is only middling and my usage has gone way down
Sort of interesting how the edge of catastrophic failure has moved out in both cars and commercial aircraft.
How many places are democratic that are a platform for democratic discourse?
Additionally this change is effective starting August 31st 2021 - i.e. now.
Which comes with it's own host of issues, particularly involving networking.
Alas, extreme programming is not nearly as fun as it sounds
No shit sherlock...
Because your choice isn't "invest or not" but invest relative to other potential investments in the marketplace.
> This is an absurd overgeneralization

You're right. Allow me to rephrase: in CL it is easy to write a compiler for a new language because you don't have to write a parser or a back-end. It is so easy that it is a plausible task for one person to write such a compiler and make it truly useful, and indeed there are several extant examples. In other languages it is much harder.
Reminds me of Family Guy's Amish prayer where the period between 1815 and 1835 was just the right amount of technology for God's approval. Not too little, not too much.

Where does society draw the line? It was okay to grow to this point (or 20 years ago or whenever the arbitrary dividing line was), but now we need to stop? Why not 100 years from now or 500? Maybe if we stop now we won't get to a post scarcity world where aging has been cured. Maybe we won't terraform Mars. Who knows what might be possible.

Or more simply, do we stop growing and make life harder on the developing world? Or is it okay for them to grow to this arbitrary point and then stop with us? What if the solution to climate change comes about from technological progress due to economic growth over the next 30-50 years?
>> Did I use the work when talking about it in a blog post? Am I in violation because there's advertising on it? Did I use the work to help make a video that gets a million views? Am I now in violation because I get a small income stream off of some other piece of work that used your non-commercial work on its periphery?

This is where the GPL shines. It doesn't prevent commercial use in the text, it even IIRC explicitly allows it. You don't even have to think too hard to know if you're in violation (did I distribute and did I include source code?). OTOH the requirement to include full source code of derivative works under the same license clearly goes against a lot of commercial use cases.

I think the distinction between software and "content" is the utility of software. With content, distribution or viewing/listening is the primary purpose of it. I suppose showing GPLed source code in a video might raise questions of weather the video needs to be GPLed, but that seems like strange edge case (can we brush it off with "fair use"?) even most authors wouldn't care too much about.
You can change your password and use a password manager as a proactive measure.
Should all monthly reports for this project start with a paragraph introducing the project itself? I don't believe so. I don't think this article was written with the general HN userbase in mind, and there's nothing wrong with that.