skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno. The only qualitative changes between 1920 and 1970 I am aware of are that by 1970 a single person went to space, and introduction of nuclear power.
> but I'm really curious about why you think this.

I was not discussing whether we as a society are better off now than in the old days. (To me it is obvious that we are better off in most ways) I was discussing why it feels that the technological progress was faster in the old days than nowadays.

Why I think this? As said, I have absolutely no data, but only a hunch, that if you compare the incomes of nuclear engineer, aerospace engineer, banker and adtech engineer (whatever that was in the old days...), I would be quite surprised if the relative income has not tilted towards bankers and adtech engineers over time.
I don't see why. Whether someone is responsible includes a consideration as to whether their behaviour is governed by somewhat coherent and articulable reasons. If they have reasons for why they acted a certain way, that indicates a responsiveness to feedback that changes those reasons, such that they may not make the same choice again in the future. Clearly the insane don't satisfy this requirement.
Here are a couple of more reasons beside those mentioned:

> Internet dopamine is a huge brain-drain

> The world is far more complex now, i.e. were having to either clash with older systems/ideas or try updating legacy systems.

> Age distributions show many more old people who usually want things to stay similar.
Atari in it's prime was playful and futuristic in a way difficult to cultivate today.

That said, I would love to see some reincarnation actually get traction.
Good. Few sounds are more grinding than stupid leaf blowers

They for hours on end and kick up tons of dust for people with asma. With zero actual before other than a pretty looking patch of concrete

They should just be banned in all forms as they serve very little positive with much larger negatives
I agree, it was certainly very surprising to me when I find out
Choosing the lesser of N evils only makes sense if one is acceptable.
If neither is, a choice is useless.
Both sides have an unacceptable amount of tracking and your choice doesn't really have any consequences.
As the “man of the household”, my jobs include repairing the mailbox and putting spiders outside.

When the wife tells me there is a spider in the shower I reply: "Oh, you mean Steve?"

Spiders eat the mosquitos so that's plus.
My joke was that Windows phones home too much for good opsec.
I’ve been a soundsystem mc and organizing parties since 97. I have noticed similar behavior on the patrons attending. People either need to get tipsy enough or someone else has to have the courage and be the first one dancing. Now, even if it’s not my show, I tend to be early on dancing and that usually opens up “queue”.. ratio of lurkers is ofcourse high but the genre is more geared towards people coming to actually dance.
It's pretty clear that civilians and other organizations have access to replicators and holodecks, at least. There are civilian ships with warp drives also. Federation restricted technology is mostly military tech, like phasers and photon torpodos. I'm guessing the civilian replicators are restricted when it comes to replicating guns or bombs.
O & 0 are adjacent on US keyboards because they're interchangeable.
And any malicious actor can sell those digital assets as "an NFT" without actually holding the copyright.

See, for example, the many NFTs traced directly from artwork by real artists.
Depends the figurine I guess.
As an Asian minority I am not happy that it is now taboo to protest racial discrimination being perpetrated against me.
Which version of JDK should I use?
Linux from Scratch with Training Wheels
I can imagine almost everyone targeted by your marketing are also interested in benefiting from the immensely valuable, free* services provided by Google.

*: obviously paid with privacy, but that does mean less money leaves the user's bank account
What jcelerier said, but also as for:

> This is true in monomorphized languages like Rust

It's not necessarily true for monomorphized code. Inlining is enabled by monomorphization, but is not required.

You can see it with templates in C++: function template instantiations aren't always inlined. They are instantiated in every TU separately, if they are defined in headers, but then they may be called in this TU just like any other function without inlining. This requires the linker to deduplicate the instantiations later. In another scenario you may declare a function template in a header without the implementation, putting the implementation in a CPP file along with explicit instantiation. In that case the compiler is not able to inline this function in another TU (without LTO).

As for Rust, Rust is not universally monomorphized. The user of generic code in Rust gets to decide whether they want to use monomorphization or vtables, regardless of the ideas of the author of said generic code.
It sounds like you agree that billionaires are overcompensated relative to their contributions to society. If taxes aren't a good way to address this, what is a better solution?
Anonymize things a bit sounds like a bit dead and a bit pregnant.
> exponentially easier

Exponential in regards to which variable? Money? Time? Effort? Or did you simply mean "vastly"?

This may be nitpicky, but we should expect people to get basic terminology right – at least on HN.
the infrastructure bill is awful, but pitting it against tax policy proposals is a false dichotomy. both can be bad and in need of change.

taxes should be simple, continuous and highly progressive. if it were so, most americans (90+%) would enjoy the same or lower tax rates with little change in public services and potentially a boost in infrastructure. we’re highly inefficient and there’s little political will to change that.
Unless I’m misinterpreting the article, this isn’t banning leaf blowers in general - only those which are gas powered. Electric leaf blowers still carry the annoyance you’ve mentioned.
Right. I didn't mean to imply there are no bees here. My question/point was more on it most folks were getting distracted by other species.

I've also heard most bees are effectively invasive, at this point. And now they we have murder hornets... I really don't know what to think we far as actionable things.

Not that I'm arguing for giving up. Or rampant insecticide.
So this root cause of which you speak? You're not actually going to say what it is you're just going to complain about it and allude to it, am I right? And in doing so how are you anything but more Bread and Circuses?

If the West had always been this risk averse with respect to science and technology, we wouldn't have gone to space let alone the Moon. We wouldn't have antibiotics and we probably wouldn't even have flight. So tell me how to restore America's healthy level of risk tolerance? Because taking medical advice from online pundits is incredibly risky and yet it's seen as safer than trusting science by a disturbingly large minority. And that's just one example of how badly we gauge risk.

And to be fair, I have the same viewpoint about the irrational fear of nuclear power.
Did you retrofit a better keyboard to your 400?

I did back in the day. Bumped it to 48K too. Good times!

I love how the 400 looks with the original keyboard though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atari-400-Comp.jpg

I have one, and use it to play "Star Raiders" sometimes. The funky coke proof keyboard works fine for that.
I've been thinking along similar lines - I'd term it "the rise of the micromarket". There are a bunch of technology trends that I think may be converging long-term to erase the era of mass production and mass market consumer goods.

One is that advances in personalization on the Internet haven't carried through to physical goods. When I want to curate my Facebook or Reddit feed, I can very tightly control the information I consume so it fits my lifestyle perfectly. When I want to buy a piece of furniture or shelf on Amazon, I get stuck in this uncanny valley where there are millions of products available but none is exactly the size, shape, color, and material that I want. Why can't I say "I want a double corner wall shelf, 23" on one side and 29" on the other, 8" deep, filigreed supports, made out of pine and painted to match my walls"?

Another is that manufacturing is increasingly labor-free and computer-controlled anyway. In a factory, there's going to be a bunch of CNC machines, computer-controlled sawmills, maybe some injection molds, 3D-printers for prototyping, pick-n-place machines, etc. Most of these are computer-controlled anyway, with humans only needed to feed & adjust the machines. Could you computer-control a home or neighborhood machine instead, so that people only need to download a blueprint from the Internet or make it themselves? Why do we need such big production runs, if computers can reconfigure the manufacturing without any human labor? Why not have people buy plastic filament, scrap aluminum, scrap stainless steel, OSB or plywood or 2x4s, and then just feed the machine with a pre-built software blueprint?

A third is improved new manufacturing technologies, particularly 3D printing and pick & place machines. It feels like these are still stuck in existing paradigms, trying to fit into the mass-market industrial production system rather than experimenting with novel combinations on their own. For example, what if instead of P&Ping just electronic components on a circuit board, you used it to assemble individual plastic, metal, and wood parts that had previously been 3D-printed, and then 3D-printed joints to hold them in place? Could you use miniaturized CnC lathes to smooth down the surface of a 3D-printed part, which has traditionally been one of the big problems with 3D-printing?

Then there are environmental problems with supply chains being fragile and globalization potentially unwinding. That could provide an extra kick to hyper-localize manufacturing again.

Micro-manufacturing is the real Amazon killer, potentially. I can't see them being displaced in retail now. But if we just stop buying manufactured products and start making them ourselves, all of their advantages in supply chain management, bargaining, product selection, and logistics go away.
I don't think China has grudge against Wikimedia specifically, the official policy of theirs has always been that if you recognize Taiwan, you are no friend of them. I don't think the Chinese delegate there cares about free knowledge, further it's their job literally to say no to Taiwan recongition anywhere on earth.

So why should we be surprised that China does this when the United States federal government don't call their Taiwan ambassador ambassador, but rather director of the American Institute in Taiwan, out of respect of the same policy.
This seems like one of those posts where an exoticizing foreigner picks up a perfectly normal word and says it "means" a whole lot of extra things, just because it was used in philosophical texts writing about those things.

From other comments, it's just a distinction between "duration" and "instant". Nothing deep, exists in lots of languages. If you want to get the joy of Greek philosophy, you're going to need the philosophy. It isn't just magically included in the language.
If I am being very cynical, I say that people abuse/use the suffering of others for their own gain. PR from corps aligning with progressive aims is what I have in mind. I have seen it working with NGOs, too. Not saying we should not put the pressure on. Obviously institutions need pressure applied. But if it is always 'both barrels', we will alienate the old, the conservatives and the christians. Seeing the destruction of the political left in germany, I doubt the extreme pressure wave will yield anything but reaction. Trump 2.0.
If we had 1,000,000 apps using the same tactics but in the end only 10 get successful would think the tactics had anything to do with the success of the 10?
You have to look at the losers too.
We're very privileged to be able to wonder when enough productivity is enough. A huge portion of the world's population still lives in abject poverty and increased productivity would absolutely benefit them. And I think there were people 100 years ago making the same argument as you, that technology had advanced far enough that there was no need for more.

FWIW, I agree that the focus on productivity at the exclusion of everything else is bad, the point of productivity is to live well, but I think there's a lot of the world that doesn't live well, and I think it is perhaps a failure of imagination to not believe that we could live better as well.
it is somewhat irrelevant. Privacy conscious users could disable that tracking in iPhone settings for years.
Almost all features (maybe with the exception of gender) were aggregations over time like "share of emails the customer opened in the last X days", or "did the customer use service Y in the past: y/n", etc. If you use a pseudo SQL code like:

CREATE OR REPLACE target_table AS

SELECT

i.customer_id

... some aggregation processing data from t ...

FROM init_table i

LEFT JOIN transactional_data t

WHERE i.... = t....

AND t.time_stamp BETWEEN i.reference_date - (X days) AND i.reference_date

GROUP BY i.customer_id

than depending on what you put into the init_table, you can obtain:

- in the prod environment: actual feature value(s) for one ore more customers (reference_date = current_date)

- in the model-dev environment: historic feature value(s) for one or more customers for one or more past dates (reference_date = [past_date1, past_date2, ...])

In different parts of the system (prod, model-dev) you can use the same SQL code, you only have to replace the init_table and the target_table. Implementing a new feature system-wide basically means putting a new aggregation into the SQL code, only once.

I used PL/SQL as glue code, like someone would use python. I.e. executing SQL code in a controlled manner, creating dynamic SQL the right way (out of the box Oracle solution) and the wrong way too (sticking SQL fragments as strings together), writing code-generators, managing indexes/partitions/views/materialized views/etc. for performance tuning, implementing centralized monitoring for bug and performance tracking (and to know how the projects of my colleges are going forward), and last but not least, for packaging. At the end of the day you have a library/modul (PL/SQL package) exposing functions (PL/SQL procedures). The "library" is partially type-checked on compilation on the DB, and than you grant the necessary execute rights to the DB users (distribution to the data-scientists) and they work with the historic results on their own VM (DB schema). Current code is searchable in the DB, all the users use the same (actual) version, code history is checked in into bitbucket. If a user wants to "fork" and create new features, he/she can just write plain SQL against the prod DB on his/her own and the new code will be migrated through pair programming into the prod environment.

Sorry for the formatting.
Seconded. Intoxicants wont solve many problems, but there's times when just postponing them for a bit is perfectly valid.
Effective Python [0] is my favorite book in this category.

[0] https://effectivepython.com/
You seem to be adding in additional, somewhat frivolous conditions that none of the parties involved even alluded to. So yes that might drive down the number to a conveniently hard-to-research amount.

Let's start with your "2 months" figure. Who cited that as part of the reason for the disinvitation?
that logic holds the same with p and o, right?
Life isn't fair by nature unfortunately.

If you regard affirmative action as more fair than an admission system based on merit, please tell me in what sense you consider it fair that the more qualified person loses out because of their ethnicity? There are literally hundreds of Asian students who completely dedicated their youth to the goal of making it to an elite US university and then you're rejected because your acceptance would violate some quota... that just seems incredibly absurd and cruel to me. Not even speaking of the negative societal repercussions that such actions will have.
"exfiltrating"
I believe in the US the current annual limit before a gift is taxed is $15,000.

EDIT: the point of raising it is in the context of this discussion, we are talking about the very wealthy. A $15,000 gift to their children isn't very much of a transfer as a percentage. To hand off large amounts of wealth to the next generation, for sure the annual gift exclusion isn't nearly enough to avoid inheritance taxes.
> On the other hand, who else besides FAANG has the resources to resist the NSA, at least in small ways?

US news orgs have a duty (implied by their extra-Constitutional protections) to ferret out NSA misdeeds but editors/journalists find celebs so much more intriguing.
And you don’t have equipment gathering dust in the shed. Everyone owning under-utilised equipment is also a massive too
> please tell me about the transaction that's involved in the annual property taxes I pay?

A house isn’t a person. Saying transactions, not people, are taxed doesn’t mean that only transactions are taxed.
Are you suggesting it would be better if everyone were poor instead of just some people?
Using CloudShell / the AWS Console for anything involved sounds painful though, among other reasons due to the 12-hour console session timeout. I suppose you might be able to use screen to mitigate it, but getting logged out right in the middle of doing something important seems unpleasant. The same thing makes AWS Sagemaker Studio unusable.
Yes, in the absence of SCTs the certificate just won't work in Chrome, Safari or Edge.

You'd have to compromise at least the CA, and Google, and one other log operator. All the clients that care about SCTs have effectively the same requirement today, certificates must be logged by Google and by a trusted party which isn't Google. For example, you might get a certificate from Let's Encrypt, logged by Google and Cloudflare before it was delivered to you by Let's Encrypt.
only if you are an ancient greek.
This prediction is over a decade old. I wonder if the pace of development so far has matched Kurzweil’s projections.
> Juniors are going to over-engineer something regardless, it's one of the most valuable lessons they'll learn the hard way.

Yes, juniors tend to over-engineer. Kent C. Dodds is not junior -- he is a self-described "world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer" in this field.
Maybe that is a career that doesn't need to exist. It provides zero benefit to anyone and head detrimental effects such as noise and dust particles

I certainly won't weap if the entire leaf blower industry flat out dies
Almost every dollar that comes into almost anyone's possession has already been taxed, so you could make the same argument about income taxes and sales taxes. I doubt that I have ever owned a dollar that had not been taxed before I got it.

Same also goes for taxes on real property. My land had already been taxed long before I bought it.

Do you think that all of those taxes are also immoral?
Meet the 'tutor kings and queens' (2012)
The included email client already supports S/MIME though
Needless to say that extractability hasn't gotten easier in recent years but I'm even more concerned about archive.org's quality/capabilities — They really need to step up their game to remain useful in this area.
If this was about compassion and caring for our fellow man there would be a lot more discussion about the personal responsibility of exercise, eating clean, not being obese, etc etc. The top killers are heart disease and diabetes. Also, doctors that are advocating for medicine that can cure the disease wouldn't be censored. Scientists that advocated against vaccinating into an active pandemic so as to not put selective pressure on mutations wouldn't be silenced. This is about control and money though; there is no fair play or goodwill by the media or captured government institutions.
But AWS is huge. They employ thousands of engineers. Granted most of the complexity is due to its huge huge scale, but still it has too many features to do what youre asking. And then there are AWS exclusives like DynamoDB.

Yes there are open source public/private cloud alternatives like OpenStack but they won't solve the problem of lock in and you'd still have to change all your tooling.
I prefer free friends to those that charge me money to be my friend.
I agree. While TypeScript is good for any JavaScript project, Node based APIs have always felt like the tooling has lagged behind other frameworks and languages. I've since really started to enjoy .NET for backend tasks - but of course there are many other good options.
perverted sense of fairness.

> per·vert·ed: (of a thing) having been corrupted or distorted from its original course, meaning, or state.
Why one doctor is 'worried' about Covid-19 heading into winter
On a related note, does anyone know of any open source project that could parse the website text and generate a list of tags?
We could always pay for it...
Infocom! ZIL! ZSCII! Z-Machine! Inform!

(Yes, they excite me too! Have an upvote!)

Edit: Oh, and having 2,916 front-end frameworks to choose from. Yay.
But as this linked study points out: that's "just a feeling"...
Here's a rundown of the local stack components we've found, as well as some we've developed, for GCP at FullStory: https://github.com/fullstorydev/emulators
Saskatchewan. Recent developments are that they are pulling retired police officers out of retirement in order to enforce mandatory isolation at “secure isolation sites”.

https://sun-nurses.sk.ca/pub/docs/member-resources/COVID19/M...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatchewan-covid-...
Seems like a perfect opener for Dead Can Dance.
Honestly, that's so patronising I wonder if you are trolling?

I use Debian and Redhat happily, also do plenty of Docker. I really want to love Nix and have tried a few times (even submitting some package updates), but just kept bouncing off it and giving up.
Android phones are free like speech, not free like beer.
maybe call them “linux-compatible” ? (:
> a very similar situation

You're saying university DEI initiatives are "a very similar situation" to the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. Do you really think this? Not only no difference in kind, but close in degree?
It wasnt a no brainer for the tremendous amount of people bitching about that ban
I think a better way of phrasing this might be "Don't believe your own bullshit." Fighting reality can be an effective tactic, particularly if by distorting reality, you make the reality you want to exist come about. But you should know this is what you're doing. Understand the risks you're taking and what has to go from bullshit to reality to make your larger vision come true.

A lot of leaders sink because they mistake their vision for the world, and then block out uncomfortable information that they really need to pay attention to in order to make their vision come true.
Oculus quest 2. Reminds me of the first iPhone. So much potential, and they finally have the basics for the platform right.
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It's not just an amazing project, but also has an amazing community around it!
mobs aren't known for being logical
There's a weblog post about this by the Fed itself:

> […] the modification of Regulation D in late April has effectively rendered savings accounts almost indistinguishable from checking accounts from the perspective of depositors and banks. Accordingly, the composition of M2 between M1 and non-M1 components conveys little economic information.

* https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/01/whats-behind-the-rec...