skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But billions of people will get access to all the worlds information.

The web is mostly only useful to a tiny percentage of the working class who have been somewhat able to get a successful formal education, and who go on to take up a spot as a privileged knowledge worker/labor aristocrat. For capitalist owners there is no toll-booth they cannot get past (through acquisitions/informational duopolies).

Today's education system is itself a traumatizing Hunger Games-esque competition (it was to me), and ends up debilitating and wounding most of the working class, convincing them that they are dumb and incapable [1], and most of all competitors to conquer. The public facing web you talk about ("all the worlds information") is actively hostile to beginners/learners, and is mainly designed to control the feedback from what today's dominant institutions/organizations are spouting out at us (it is far from the two way 'global village' McLuhan talked about).

I keep seeing access to Google, Wikipedia and YouTube touted as some sort of standard or benchmark for online knowledge equality, yet this narrative just serves as a self-justifying tool to remedy the survivorship guilt most labor aristocrats feel. As I wrote recently:

> It isn't access to Google search and Wikipedia that made the best scientists and engineers, it was access to commoditized knowledge which is enclosed, re-enclosed and then rented out in small amounts to the highest bidders (i.e. the so called 'prestigious' universities in the global north). In other words, it's held hostage behind corporate firewalls.

What we need is a distributed knowledge commons, as well as fully open-access scientific production systems. This means abolishing the IP regime and abolishing Silicon Valley. [2]

I see two of the highest leverage points for this being 1.) the Valueflo.ws vocabulary and system, which can help us rapidly replace today's corporatized siloed Enterprise Resource Planning software/systems, in favor of a fractal inter-organizational networks (similar to project Cybersyn in Chile under Allende [3]), and 2.) the holochain/ceptr (metacurrency project) framework, which has the potential to completely rewire/rearchitect the web using it's BitTorrent + Git + cryptography qualities [4] (keyword: agent-centric).

[1] Why I started my own Sudbury Valley school,
https://www.reimaginedonline.org/2013/06/why-i-started-my-ow...

[2] Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu, https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley

[3] Cybersocialism: Project Cybersyn & The CIA Coup in Chile (Full Documentary), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJLA2_Ho7X0

[4] Reinventing Applications by Nicolas Luck https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applicati...
It’s good practice to review that you have an appropriate commit message in squashed commits before pushing.

not sure what you mean by “auto generated message” - “squash” during interactive rebase will by default ask you to edit the commit message before generating the commit, prefilled with concatenation of messages of all the squashed commits.
Why are commercial publishers even necessary anymore? They are obsolete.
Talking about bandwidth, aren’t we talking anymore about how all those big services clog the pipes by delivering content that users want instead of small websites who deliver content that users want, and how this is unfair and how we should tax the hell of Youtube and Facebook and Netflix for being most of the bandwidth that is consumed?
It could matter in edge cases, perhaps someone runs this on google3 or the linux kernel and it takes 10 seconds versus a minute+ on something like Perl (not sure if that's the case).
Group Policy on Windows Workgroups
Do you use that feature of windows, tipically used on domains?
I’m working on a software that centrally manage GPO on workgroup computers.
What do you think?
> As recently as 1999, it was commonly stated that babies could not feel pain until they were a year old,

how would it even be possible to reach that conclusion?
They're not imposing tax penalties, they just got rid of the tax breaks.

You can no longer claim a mortgage as an 'expense' when calculating your profits.

That's not how it works for other companies, loan repayments are not classified as an expense to reduce your profits.

So now they have to pay the same tax rate as other businesses, where before they were getting a huge tax break.
Came here to say that too.

Marten DB is really good!
> and were thinking about a acq with Yahoo

> and it would be nice for y! not to have them

> their content quality is worse than ours ... if we pick them up it would be defensive vs yahoo

> I think we should talk to them, if nothing else to make it more expensive for Yahoo

Holy anti-competitive moly, how can these people talk like this while (supposedly) knowing the laws in the country they operate in? In clear text emails on top of that... Google supposedly has the smartest people working there, but doesn't seem like it's true for management.

I hope they get to pay for this, at least to prove that no companies are too big to get sanctioned for anti-competitive behavior. If they are not, I think we can all conclude that the government has lost all of its spine.
Yes but the instant Google bought them they stopped burning millions on bandwidth, because even at that time Google had more latent fiber than anyone else. As I've said here dozens of times hardware has been the key to Google's success. Fiber in the ground is a big part of it.
Well, that's the boring part of the findings. The interesting part is about regular excercisers drinking more
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/5771 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/pull/8874 this might be of interest to you.
How I judge liberalism doesn't matter. I don't call the shots. I am asking you to think about how most people judge liberalism. It's not popular, which you can see in e.g. opinion polls on various things. Can an undemocratic liberalism hold fast? Is it even liberalism at that point?
My problem I run into with these sorts of things, and to some extent normative ethics, is that they frequently contradict one another in reality. So you might be in a situation, and one piece of the advice would suggest one course of action, and another would suggest the opposite, and there wasn't any way to reconcile them.

I think they're well intended and can be useful to think about but beyond something like "these are useful things to be aware of or to keep in mind" it's hard to apply things in life.

Perhaps it's reading too much into what's intended by the authors of these sorts of pieces, and maybe they're just trying to communicate some help, but this particular piece is "advice about advice" so in that regard I think these issues are relevant.
Another advantage over spreadsheets I forgot: more guide rails and more common ground (shared practices, howtos, support) with other users. Spreadsheets are a tabular report construction kit, PTA is an accounting system construction kit.
Bosses turn to ‘tattleware’ to keep tabs on employees working from home
Even this article is paywalled. What a shame!

Thank god we have SciHub.

https://sci-hub.st/10.1126/science.352.6285.508
Rollerblading was popular with the Millennial generation. It died when we got our driver's licenses.
About needing permission from the blockchain.. the challenge is exactly how to make a permissionless, non-censorable blockchain!

Indeed in many (but not all) cryptocurrencies, if the miners collude they can censor a given transaction they don't like[0]. This is pretty bad, but at least it can't happen in secret: if and when a transaction is censored, we can always point to a specific transaction in mempool that is getting ignored. Privacy coins like Zcash and Monero makes it infeasible to track who is transacting with who, and thus can only be completely shut down or not at all. At the moment, they are the best bet for people that want a permissionless digital currency.

A lot of work in the crypto space is being done to tackle this problem[1], and most people in this space reckons this as a real problem. It's not fully solved, but this wasn't claimed: as said before, cryptocurrencies are indeed incomplete solutions.

[0] In Bitcoin there's a group of miners that is attempting to censor transactions based on US law https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/05/07/marathon-miners-hav... - and they are willing to give up a lot of money in the process. So far they control less than 50% of the network so they can't really enforce their views. And all of this just means that Bitcoin is indeed censorable.

[1] Here's 6 yers old blog post about this on Ethereum https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/06/06/the-problem-of-censorsh... - with censorship, Bitcoin might ban some drug dealers from transacting; but Ethereum, being a smart contract platform, would be totally worthless to enforce contracts. So they have an incentive to solve this.
So at a high level, you need the ranking because you need to do computations on individual elements of the set (e.g. random samples) to refine the estimate. Which is not necessary in a lot of ordinary combinatorics problems, but is here because this one is so hard. Cool, thank you!

I can imagine this project being of interest in the seminar of the right university department.
Let's rewrite this article in a sentence or two:

"Reliance Jio will soon start selling an Android phone which they have called Jiophone next, and it will cost Rs. 3500... probably."

This is total spam. The title has nothing to do with the content of the article... The phone isn't introduced by Google, it's introduced by:

> Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, doing business as Jio

and guess what, the article is total speculation:

> As far as the pricing is concerned, JioPhone could be priced as low as INR 3499.

Emphasis on 'could be' added by me. It isn't released yet and apparently the author is just guessing what it could cost... based on what?

Besides, how is it surprising that this is subsidized? This device is network locked and handicapped.

Jio phones are totally handicapped. They don't even allow users to open a wifi hotspot because that would compete with their wireless routers. Maybe that's what they are 'collaborating with google' on.

This isn't news it's an advertisement.
Linking directly to the PDF is usually the wrong choice. When you find a new paper, you often want to get the citation metadata, which the PDF document rarely contains in a convenient form. There are often multiple versions of the same paper, and you may want to determine which version you managed to find. Is it a preprint, the final authors' version, the published journal paper, an early version published in conference proceedings, or an unpublished extended version of the paper?
That's how I read it too. The discrepancy was deemed "I'm broken and need to shut down" instead of something more benign in a condition they didnt realize might happen. That a critical difference since all 3 will think "I'm broken" as happened here.

That stuff can be hard to get right. Glad they found this one with 10 meters to spare.
> 16 years later, home video is still the core value of YouTube

Is it? I guess it depends on what you mean by home video. Is it "Me at the zoo"[0], or independent content creators like PewDiePie or Veratassium? Compared to Hollywood most if not all Youtube channels are completely different, but when I think of home video and early Youtube I think of personal family trips, not NileRed.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw
Thanks for the recommendation, always happy to see people getting use out of ofxtools.

Unfortunately, it's far from true that all institutions supporting Quicken downloads can be found via ofxhome. That list was originally sourced from parsing MS Money API, and has been only sporadically updated in a manual case-by-case fashion. Also ofxhome is set to go away pretty soon.

But we do what we can
Do people generally know the laws of the United States? There are a lot of laws.
My intuition from my scene was simply that skateboarding was the cool kid thing to do, and if it wasn't skateboarding it must be lame. That stigma had it's application on BMX, scooters, even different types of skateboards weren't free from the mockery of skateboarders. It's not skateboardings fault, it was just the culture. I like to think it's changed and thanks to the internet you can always find people doing what you like.

Back then all I had was rateaskater.com to share the sport with.
I feel like this could be interpreted as, "It's ok to have a problem with drinking as long as you're also getting exercise." I don't see what is to be gained by assuaging people's conscience in this way.
> It’s hard to get up & exercise when you’re hungover

I’ve heard this from almost every runner I know, yet I have never ever found it harder to exercise because of a hangover - in fact, I’ve done many of my fastest 5km times after a heavy night. It curtails neither my desire or ability to get out and walk/hike/run — on the contrary, I often feel like going for a run will be a surefire way to cure a hangover (and atone for the behaviour that caused it).
You’re overthinking this maybe. Every problem that is solved, is solved by an individual, not the group of established folks working on it. Hence, even if the age of the solver is evenly distributed, you’ll have hard problems being solved by young people. And that’s what gets remembered.
You nerds needs to leave chess alone and learn how to have fun without putting your fun through a computer.
That's the best part about a good idea once it's out there! It's hard to kill. Really wish we had come up with an alternative to 20 streaming sites...
When I played ice hockey, roller hockey seemed pretty popular (never tried it myself) if nothing else than a way to do more of something a bit similar, since ice time is pretty limited (by rinks being few and far between, and mostly not used for hockey) here.

(Haven't skated since coronavirus, hadn't realised missing it so much until your comment.. I'd only just managed to get in with a new team's rec session too, having not really played or even skated much after graduating.)
I had a lot of personal issues going on at the same time I had committed to running the marathon.

Spending hours on the road alone in your own head knowing you've inflicted extra suffering on yourself through the personal choices of drinking gives you lots of time to reflect on your priorities.

For me at least, preparing for some kind of sporting competition makes it really easy for me to fix any drinking or eating habits as it becomes so obvious how much of a hindrance those activies are on my progress.
This email seems to be about 6 months before they released GWT 1.0. Their toolkit to compile Java to JS for web UI's. They likely already used it internally by then.

If I remember correctly at the time they also used lots of Java on the backend.
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I agree, NiMH rechargeables are better than alkalines in almost every way. They don't leak and destroy the electronics. They can be recharged 500-1000 times, so they don't end up in a landfill after a single use. They have a really flat voltage curve. They have lower internal resistance, so can provide higher currents than alkalines.

I think the only exception might be in ultra low power devices which last over a year on a single charge. But even then, I am likely to use the more expensive NiMH, because I'm so fed up with leaking alkaline batteries.
Right. In this case we have a completely-unprecedented triple failure of the primary flight control system causing loss of auto-brake, spoilers and thrust reversers; a wet runway with less than expected braking action; a tailwind landing and still a happy outcome.

Honestly defense-in-depth seems to be working OK here.
In Denmark we still have a 'daler'. It's used (probably mostly by people of a certain age) as a nickname for a two kroner coin.

The old rigsdaler was replaced by kroner in 1875, and each Rigsdaler (daler) was worth two kroner.

https://www.nationalbanken.dk/da/om_nationalbanken/historie/...
(in Danish)
It seems fairly obvious that what the people are discussing in the linked email thread is anti competitive behavior. Here are some excerpts:

> and were thinking about a acq with Yahoo

> and it would be nice for y! not to have them

> their content quality is worse than ours ... if we pick them up it would be defensive vs yahoo

> I think we should talk to them, if nothing else to make it more expensive for Yahoo

You don't make statements like that and then explain it with "It didn't seem like they would scale and we don't have enough devs". The decision on if the buy YouTube or not (or another video company), was clearly influenced by the "risk" of Yahoo buying the very same company.
>investment

That's exactly the problem right there. A house can be a place to live or an investment, but not both. I myself think it's a bit to silly to spend labour and resources building a concrete box for the latter purpose, so I'd much rather houses fulfill their purpose as homes for people to live in.
That said, kids also don't know how to use computers anymore. Kids growing up right now, many of them don't know how to operate a desktop computer and some of them may never touch anything that isn't a walled garden mobile device / tablet. For example, pretty much all millennials understand the difference between software running locally on their device and the "backend" components running on a server somewhere (and that something could be completely client-side without a server). Zoomers have a hard time understanding this distinction and ask questions like "how is this program opening without internet?" (I would know, I mentor 100s of them as a coding bootcamp mentor).
Do you really expect people who are dumb enough to take animal versions of medication to be able to figure out a proper dose? I certainly don’t. Even if it were safe to take the animal versions of ivermectin in the appropriate amounts by doing the proper math, you only hear about the ones who failed not the ones who successfully did it.
s/literally/directly/

The word “literally” has no synonyms and if it dies it will leave a massive lexical gap.
No proof, but I think that their short lived popularity is what killed roller rinks. Everyone wanted to inline at the roller rink, but you can't really skate slow in inline's - so they eventually banned them. So everyone wanted to inline, but couldn't do it in the rink so they stopped going. Then a lot of them closed before the popularity waned.
At what age? I also used to be in tip top shape in the morning and even crave exercise after a night of drinking. Great way to wake up and shake off the hangover heh.

Up until 26 or so.

Since then I just started feeling like shit and can't do anything if I drink more than 4-5 beers in the evening.
I suspect what you're seeing is a bit of "I've got a hammer and everything looks like a nail" in relation to the fancy shiny GWT thing that some teams at Google built at the time. IMHO GWT was an awful toolkit and had a slow and terrible development cycle, but there was a lot of hype about it back then as if it was solving the bridge between dynamic front ends and backends written in Java.

I wasn't even at Google at the time but had management types trying to foist it on me at a company I worked at, and it was frankly a failure. I'm not sure if Google Video was done in GWT, but it certainly had the look of a GWT product.

When I came to Google in 2012 there were still some products using it but it was mostly recognized for being clunky and those products have been migrated.
Except that I don't need permission from anyone to spend some cash in my pocket. I'm talking about literally entering a shop I've never been before, buying something and leaving.
There is. Torrents. The UX can be amazing if you know how, but we dont want spoil the party by sharing.
Currently working in this field and this is actually the cutting-edge(!!) but it will be 100% possible/robust within the next year or so I believe. Really cool ML techniques being used for htis.
OP’s remarks are more accurately paraphrased as “how can the executive of a major tech company leave a paper trail of illegal-sounding things, surely someone so high up is aware of how antitrust laws work.”

OP doesn’t say anything about the general public being aware of the entirety of the legal code.
What's so irreponsible about it? Any website can waste your download/upload/CPU/RAM/disk. WebRTC does not make anything worse, but rather allows for a plenty of useful applications, some of them might help to reduce centralization which is the plague of the web IMO.
> "who are these non-scientists who will pay for scientific papers? Journalists?"

Patent researchers. I was one. Except I never paid a fee just to look at a paper, purely because I don't know if it's any good until I read it, and there are HUNDREDS of papers I have to skim. You can always find it or something very similar for free.

Once we know it's an important paper, then our outside law firm would pay the fee, and it would disappear in their monthly bill.
Did they control for any potentially relevant confounder like age, education etc.? No?

That said it would be interesting to do a follow up study and check how these social party tigers who liked to drink and to do sports ended up when they are 70. My guess is they do less sports but drink more. Maybe they even go to the sport club to meet their friends and to drink.
I didn’t get that at all. They talked about the funding round as a signal for what the asking price might be, and then “Mike from Sequoia” because they know Mike and therefore know which partner at Sequoia to reach out to broker a conversation.

As for location. Totally. It was likely critical.

Disclosure: I work at Google.
> Combinatorics gives us lots of ways to calculate the sizes of sets, and in my experience, they rarely if ever involve an explicit enumeration.

I don't think that this is true. I think that explicit enumerations are rarer than exact size computations, which are themselves rarer than asymptotic size estimations, for presumably obvious reasons; but a bijective proof (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijective_proof) is still regarded as the gold standard in combinatorics, and as a desideratum.
Like you said the hard parts are the unstructured data/images/tables. There are pretty-good(80% of the way there) solutions tho. But nothing that could handle millions of paper without error
>How is that person greedy compared to people with multiple houses?

They're greedy because they think the world owes them cheap housing just by virtue of being born. The person who owns multiple houses actually did some work to earn the money to pay for them, they're not the one eyeing other people's property with envy.
By April/May in the US getting vaccines was very convenient and there was barely any wastage. The wastage is because we are trying to make it convenient for the antivaxxers to get it hoping that they'd change their mind, rather than help other countries.
I also survived. I would highly recommend https://ddmgaragedoors.com/diy-instructions/ . Their videos are excellent.
> so much so that it makes me question my own maturity / adulthood, but nowhere near enough to suppress that enthusiasm

Part of maturing is realising that a kindred spirit is something to cherish. Trying to maintain a facade of maturity is what becomes immature.
It's worse than that IMO. Apple has (very publicly) announced that existing CSAM can get scanned for, so it's dangerous to possess it. Newly-created CSAM, however, is much safer, since until it gets added to a database these perceptual hashes will be less likely to detect it. So Apple is indirectly encouraging the creation of new CSAM.

Of course Apple's scanning isn't the only thing that encourages such creation, but it's a newly publicized thing.