skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely not looking forward to the day of ad-supported ebooks. "Sponsored" paragraphs injected into the middle of a chapter? Or maybe flashy banner ads alongside? Sounds like a nightmare.
That's the punchline of "When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev373c7wSRg
Look I wish Lisp was better than the rest. Because having something, anything, better than what I have now would obviously be an improvement. However Lisp clearly empirically isn’t better. It has failed in the only game that counts: the real world of software development.
Isn't this a serious crime?
Historically about 2/3rds of AAS journals revenue came from page charges rather than subscriptions, so the shortfall is not enormous.
How do you find one that’s good? Seems like it would be difficult to separate the good ones from the bad
I don't think there is any evidence to suggest any opiate is more or less addictive than any other, as you say have made that mistake many times (relevant: purdue claimed this, there's evidence showing they knew it was a lie).

They are basically all pro-drugs to morphine from what I understand.

some evidence I've read that the longer term, higher dose the great % of abuse.

On the order of 4-26% .....

i think ROA makes a difference but i can't find a quick source for that, and if you're shooting it you're already an addict lol.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdos...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3280085/#R10
An interesting reaction to what you're saying here for me is, I feel bad and have this bar while doing but when looking back I always see things in a positive way. I'm not sure where this comes from but trying to keep the Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." while doing a thing seems highly valuable to me. Thank you.
The ambiguity between the bag of pills and typewriter against a backdrop of the strip is pretty uncanny. I would like to use this tool and models for blog post hero image art.
The color palette is definitely off, but it does capture the sense of looking out a window into other windows. Given that it was primed with a description, it's not surprising that it couldn't get the right colors.
Also FAANG doesn’t pay the highest, top 10% maybe. IIRC google explicitly targets 80th percentile. Unicorns, Jane, HRT, all pay more typically.
The Reckoning to Come – A Conversation with Balaji Srinivasan
Amazon isn’t denying its CEO saved an exec from being fired for discrimination
And if the answer is “nobody will hire a Lisp programmer” then surely all the Lisp lovers of the world could create a company and crush the competition with awesome software? If Lisp really is as powerful as they claim?
Because higher-ups in Congress, the DEA and DOJ were almost certainly paid off to ignore the Sacklers. So if the Sacklers were prosecuted, they would bring down other powerful insiders.

Here is a 60-minutes interview with DEA agents who were inexplicably taken off cases:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-43K-rdQA
He doesn't go into any details as to why he is disregarding resource scarcity in the modern era. He's very wrong when it comes to scarcity.
And this is why you don't buy from bad vendors. Lenovo has been on everyone's shitlist for pulling this stuff at least once a year on some product or another. _Do not buy Lenovo, or this will happen to you_.

I'm hoping the US actually passes European-style warranty and consumer protection laws to force companies to end the practice of adding malware and/or bricking devices and blaming the consumer for it. Until then, hit these companies where it hurts the most: their wallet.
I have a fairly vanilla custom machine and hit this too. I think there's something profuooundly wrong with a recent windows update related to driver signing.
Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat (2013)
Yes

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...

Because the Sacklers weren't just board members, it's privately held, and they actively micro managed and directed their criminal actions.

Kapoor went to jail, but he was dumb enough to put on paper the reality of what all these 'marketing' tactics are: bribes and lies.
And how much money might have been saved not having some of that information available later... because that is totally a good reason to burn history.
So according to your own post above, 93331 opioid deaths in 2020 in the US alone qualifies as "doing OK" then? To me it sounds like something ought to be done about the situation. Such as, perhaps, imposing crippling trade sanctions on China and enforcing the US/Mexico border security at the very minimum, as well as making an example of large scale opioid peddlers like the Sacklers.
I always wanted a street navigator that would say: "you should have turned left back there" followed by a random insult in various languages.

Much like every human navigator I've ever had who has been as unhelpful as possible.
Are you serious? Then why do franchise owners want to get them back up quickly? Wouldn’t the goal be to let it stay down? Why would I ever come for dessert but stay for the burger?

I can get soft serve from QT for .49 cents. I don’t think McDonald’s is intentionally losing money on ice cream to get you to buy Big Macs.
What if his market research found that his viewers have a positive association with gay marriage and with restaurant workers and they could increase ratings by x-percent by making a public statement on these issues?

For example the Nike corporation. Some groups have heaped praise on them for supporting Kaepernick and related social justice protests. But was it altruism? Of course not. Their market research simply showed that their customers tended to feel passionately about that issue. So they did the math and calculated that the revenue they’d lose by taking a public position was more than made up for with what they’d lose, and better than if they’d remain neutral too - as their founder said “It doesn’t matter how many people hate your brand as long as enough people love it.”. Consider too that Nike now sells a majority of their product overseas to a very American-skeptic market.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/when-i...
I often get laughed at when I say we should backup every tools/repositories/packages through a proxy and use only that in our internal processes. I also get scolded at making use our Dockerfiles only calls scripts a developer can use on his own machine or any other container manager once the "too good to be free" tech of the decade goes full Oracle on us.

Then everyone panics when a critical build stops working because some apt repository of some decades old distros is unplugged or some shell script piped directly to bash goes dark (or someone with a bit of security common sense rightfully has a panic attack) and we have to salvage it using some ex-employees backup images.

This is also why I just don't say I do devops because it just gets to a point where the "devops guys" are just the people you give the dirty jobs nobody wanna do.
Ted Chiang should be on your list.
This was my immediate reaction as well. The entire article feels like it is attempting to solve a problem using the exact same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

I think meditation is great, but I am more inclined toward the Western religious traditions that state “faith without works is dead”. Getting outside of yourself by helping others is a much more concrete and visceral experience, with similar results on your mental landscape.
I wonder how much different would 1798 look from 1898.
McDonalds corporate has a cozy relationship with the various equipment suppliers that includes a cut of sales to their franchisees. Due to this relationship they have essentially turned a blind eye to the behaviour of the company that supplies the ice cream machines.
What I'm still curious about is re: the risks of the naturally immune taking the vaccine. If they're immune, wouldn't they have fast deployment of antibodies to the vaccine-induced creation of the s-protein? Then surely it wouldn't be any greater risk than catching covid again, right? Meaning both situations (getting vaxx or getting covid again) would likely result in mild or no reaction (presuming an otherwise healthy risk profile). What am I missing?
> Brilliant well written article.

Personally, I found it the exact opposite. It's like the author was trying to pad something simple into "War and Peace" type volume.

Gave up after just a few paragraphs, as it's clear the author had no intention of getting to the point any time soon.
It sounds to me like Tesla needs to hire some chaos monkeys to increase the reliability of its systems. They could get a bunch of vehicles and put them in odd places, with poor road conditions, to simulate spills, etc... and see how good they really do.
A breathing tube through the butt could be alternative to mechanical ventilators
A little bit more about the people who took photos and all of the photos can be found here. The submitted article is more or less blogspam

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/colony.html

As to the history of photography, when these were taken Fenton's [in]famous pictures of the Crimean War were already 50 years old. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky colour pics of the Russian empire are of about the same early 20th century vintage.
Oh FDA has skin in this game.

Gibney's documentary (highly recommend) reported that the FDA person in charge of approving the label, actually sat in a crappy motel room with a Purdue staffer.

That's like asking the oil and gas company what you think their pollution regulations should be. Which I mean depending on the administration does happen...

That label - based on one piece of flimsy, misinterpreted study - is what gave Purdue an excuse to sell a bunch of BS.
> Apple agreed with the JFTC to let developers of these apps share a single link to their website to help users set up and manage their account.

A single link? How generous of Apple.
I disagree the govt handed Zuck or Dorsey anything outside of funds through cut outs. The US govt, I hate to say, is so slow and full of incompetence they couldn't put together a Facebook or Twitter.

What I do think is the intelligence agencies are smart enough to see the collection of data and want in on it. So they likely funnel money through third parties and maybe push ideas through contacts to startups. Then later they come in and use the legal system, FISA and good ole hacking to take what they want.
> Life is so short, read nothing but the cornerstones (this may not be that) of western thought.

I'd like to recommend Bryan W Van Norden's book "Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto" for those willing to concede that maybe life is not short enough to ignore everything but Western thought.

https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Back-Philosophy-Multicultural-...

edit: my original comment was asking "Why only western thought?" I removed it as it wasn't substantial enough.
"Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret!" -- Dr. Strangelove
Not sure how that dismisses the claim. He argues that this is not a tax because Apple is not just a payment provider, but provides a marketplace? that's exactly what any state does with a tax, finance the commons. Except that in this case, Apple is staking out its own territory, competitors excluded, playing digital landlord.
No, but there are people at that level in the company who need to sign those contracts (I don't think it's loans specifically), and it's easiest to use a consistent title for everyone at that level.
I agree, Task and Registry are nice, especially for newer folks, but if you know your way around OTP you can write your own specialized version in 1-2 hours.

The protocols, structs and macros are game changers in comparison. All the Phoenix, LiveView, Ecto stuff is possible because of those.
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You honestly believe that the NBA has never had officials go soft on calls for their star players, or not call the rules for how many steps without putting the ball on the floor, or the whole under the ball carrying or whatever the rules are they decide not to call?

You think no officials of any sport did or didn't make a call because of some bet somewhere? You think a sports player didn't make a catch? You think sports players aren't using performance enhancing drugs so that you might be entertained while they get rewards?

Some people just really want to believe that television is real. It's just not healthy to have this much faith in TV.
Congrats! I've been watching conduit for a while and I'm glad to see it progressing so much.

Matrix is moving towards a model where the 'homeserver' can be embedded in each device in order for users to fully own their identity. A lean implementation that uses an embedded database is a big enabler of that vision.
>We should start thinking about how to ensure that physical IDs will always be available

Same the reason why I am extremely against getting rid of physcial money.

>Create a user controlled devices to store critical documentation like this (something like a crypto wallet but with an easier setup/interface)

Yes. This. One point in time you would have thought having everything on your Smartphone, everything simple was utopia. But reality is we need better power structure and separation of concerns. Or in reality I lost trust with Apple.
Indeed—the power of an idea is not fully captured in the words that describe it, but rather it gains full force in the stories and images that one associates with it.
I'm not sure Netflix would agree that a low monthly subscription is not enough to fund TV and movie development, but regardless...

Fairly recently I saw a very interesting proposal for this. The basic idea was to base it off of how artist commissions work, and combine that with crowdfunding. A creator can decide how much they need to make a thing - including both costs and how much profit they need to find it worth doing - can use crowdfunding to get the payment upfront. Then once they make the thing, it gets freely released.

This works out for everybody. The creator has already obtained the amount of profit they desired. The people who paid to have to created have gotten it. The people who didn't pay can enjoy it if they wish. And overall everybody who "engaged" with the content now has a better idea of how trustworthy the creator is. The people who did not pay this time may have gained enough confidence to pay for the creators next project.

Obviously, there are many realities to face here. The degree of departure from the current model is rather large. It's not something you can just flip the switch on tomorrow and expect everything to just magically work out with no pain. But I think it's an interesting idea, and one that meshes better with the realities of the digital medium than the current status quo.
The bar is then probably: "can be ugly if it's too much work to do it by the state of the art, but robust enough not to (unexpectedly) break on you at the worst time"

Maybe it's a matter of handling nominal cases, shipping/releasing and only then handling the cases more at the edge (just) after, but with nominal cases out of the way with someone waiting for results and putting pressure while you are working on your stuff. You win the occasion on working on your stuff will less stress, which might as well end up in a more robust result.

For some problems, maybe it's acceptable to handle them when they occur. It could have allowed someone who rely on a feature to use it earlier and be more productive despite this problem, instead of waiting for the perfect solution. It may allow more communication, and therefore more insight, which may help producing better results too.
I understand it has pretty good glide characteristics, MUCH better than the space shuttle, allowing for abort at basically any stage of the flight. Also they actually get given parachutes, unlike pre-Challenger STS missions.

The space shuttle was really grim.
That makes much more sense, pretty typical usage of ML as a blunt instrument.

The interesting thing to do, I think, would be to have data set of general images, and use a movie description to pull from those images.
Consider looking at CalyxOS, DivestOS, e.Foundation, or GrapheneOS on devices they respectively support as well.

I recently got a (cheap) Pixel C to try out DivestOS and was very pleased in spite of some device-specific compromises (bootloader can't be relocked, stuck at Android 8.x but with current/on-going patches).
What do you like more?
I pestered in one of the other HN threads about the Framework laptop that having ortholinear keys would be cool. It's technically feasible, but would be too expensive without sufficient quantity being made.

Looks to me that to allow for even the low-profile Kailh choc switches, the laptop would need to be much thicker. (The DIY laptop is 15mm thick. My PCB+kailh+bumpons keyboard is 14mm thick).

https://github.com/saoto28/pineapple60
This (for the ThinkPad T470) barely fits, and that laptop is 24mm thick.
At my company everyone beyond intern is expected to have one, just in case we get sent on a trip.
I'd be more inclined to want to check this out if there was a "click here if you already have synapse running" sort of thing.

My synapse and coturn server has been running since the end of last year without any issues at all, not sure I want to: collide the name (DNS) and possibly collide the @user:homeserver stuff either, as I do have issues with people on Samsung devices and managed IT devices that delete state at the end of the day. These show up as red shields in matrix clients regardless of doing the verification.
Bus factor is one of those "talk is cheap" concerns.

At even large companies, the "bus factor" is often 1, and only becomes a concern at 0.

Whenever a manager starts talking about bus factor, I ask if he's willing to budget for another developer - the answer is always no. Then when I say, "I guess it's not relly important then.", I get a surprised pikachu face. Gets old fast.
You can currently use Wallet and Apple Pay without unlocking the rest of the phone. I'm sure they've thought of this and probably made it so that only the license can be unlocked.
Sorry, downvoters, if my facts (science) get in the way of your feelings (Marxism/anti-science), then you're in the wrong forum.
As a consumer, the fact that McDonald's requires the manufacturer or authorized personnel to repair machinery is the main reason I even go there. And by there I mean whichever one I'm near.

Oh sure the mcflurry machine might suck. But I nearly never get a bad coke, bad coffee, undercooked food or crappy fries. It's always the same no matter where or when I go.

I'm willing to pay a little extra knowing I'm not wasting time or money stopping by.

This I think is what McDonald's is trying to protect.
Providing phone records of elected officials to their political opponents without a court order? Seems like it.

Or did You mean what they are hoping to find in the phone records?
I use peerjs from Node to run a WebRTC channel between clients and server to do UDP streaming of browser viewports in the pro version of ViewFinder: basically a co-browsing enabled remote isolated browser. I think WebRTC is great!

It was also easy to set up. So far I have not had to run a STUN or TURN server myself, but I'm interested in exploring this in future. I think mainly this is because I use Websockets as an alternative channel so even if WebRTC won't go through (I've never encountered that, tho), I always have wss.

My initial reason for doing this was not just to provide an alternative to UDP, it was in my experience UDP is not always faster than Websocket for streaming the screencast frames, but it can be, and seems to especially be a good option when Websocket is slow for some reason. Because of this my strategy is to measure the roundtrip time (via frame acks) for each channel, and switch to the faster channel (UDP via WebRTC or TCP via Websocket) when the real-life bandwidth conditions tell me to.

Obviously, I'm not sitting there switching this over, the logic is built into the app itself, but it was just really cool how easy WebRTC was to set up and how much of a performance boost it gave. Overall, have the TCP/UDP dual-channel option smooths out a lot of real-world bandwidth irregularities, and is how I achieve optimal streaming right now.

A source available version of the above that does not include the advanced streaming I described is here: https://github.com/i5ik/ViewFinder
The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor, because I am a river to my people! https://youtu.be/DvH6PT7I_dI
And suicide bombers blow themselves up for their faith.

Zeal is not a useful measure for the quality of teachings.
I assume they'll never repeat the mistake of having only one control rod, at least.

It would be nice if it were a thorium salt based design, so you don't have to worry about disasters anywhere near as much. (Though I understand that you still have to worry about things like many, many Becquerel of Iodine being built up over time)
> Remember that narrow window of time when Netflix had All The TV and was the only streaming platform, which you could access for a low monthly fee?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

I have all the streaming services, and yet now I find that most of what I want to watch is not licensed to any service! I'm constantly using justwatch.com and yet still many famous movies aren't being licensed by any of the services I have (at least in the US).

Piracy it is then, and I guess it's time to start canceling these subscriptions to services that no longer license the kind of content they used to.
Can you give an example of a project like that? Or at least a hypothetical example if they are confidential.

I can’t think of a project like that that people said couldn't be done, its usually just people saying “we cant do it at this time unless we get more time or reprioritize something else.”
ThinkstScapes Quarterly (Q3 2021) [pdf]
> Bongiorno, who is Humane’s CEO, had been the software engineering director at Apple.

THE software engineering director? Sounds impressive and I'm sure she directed something or other, but that's a VP-level role at Apple.
“Post-scarcity” is imaginary as long as the first and second laws of thermodynamics continue to hold.
Raising the Steaks: Japanese company 3D Prints Waygu beef replacement
and most movies should be a short, snappy 70 minutes, too.
Perhaps they are a lot less than 95% efficient, then? Otherwise we could install this system into cars and ditch half of the mechanical parts. That would be a revolution.
In contrast, humans can also say: "It's saying to abort because the sensor reading is incorrect, we'll be fine." It's tricky... in the airplane world, I think it is understood that the current state of the art is an extremely well trained and competent pilot coupled with a nice advanced cockpit is the gold standard. Where each of their responsibilities lie, and how well they work together, is where the rubber meets the road. The record is beyond question that increased automation has drastically reduced airplane fatalities, while there are also being many, many fatal accidents which are quite clearly a case of automation gone awry. Effectively putting both of them together is quite a fascinating problem, and one I think we are still in the infancy of fully understanding, particularly in brand new domains that are emerging like self-driving cars, etc.
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