skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting take, can you expand on what you mean by that?
Mandating big social to provide interoperability seems like one way to go about it. Open APIs covering all functionality. Once proper cross-platform third-party clients can appear in which FB et al. can’t show ads, they will start bleeding users and perhaps be forced to change.
You could email him or leave comments under the article. All valid criticism has been addressed and the article keeps being updated. It's its 500th revision or something like that.
Kenneth Lay, Bernie Madoff, Martin Skreli, and countless others served hard time.

There is no such thing as a corruption-free government because it is made of human beings but I think that the US Govt has definitely trended in the right direction over time. I hope the trend continues, more transparency is a good thing.
Osian
People have free speech. If someone wants to recommend some product to a friend, they are absolutely free to do so. That's how things should work.

Companies are not people. Their speech should be fully regulated.
Demanding the right to basic participation in society is not "selfishness". This Corona pass regime is utterly insidious and evil, and nobody should submit to this moral blackmail about overloaded hospitals. The effect of vaccination on hospital admission is ... equivocal, at best. Check out the numbers for Scotland, for example:

https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/another-brief-look-at-vacci...
plenty of people have suggested that it's better for Google and other big tech companies to pay talented engineers to do nothing rather than risk them founding a company that could disrupt them
> But what if nobody asked for the source code?

That doesn’t matter. The regular GPL demands that (at the least) a written offer of source code on request is provided along the binaries. If (at the least) no such offer is provided, the GPL has been violated.

The AGPL, additionally, requires that web-accessible software have a “download source code” link on the web site. If the original software had such a link, but no such link is present on the web site in question, the AGPL has been violated.

In no case is it necessary for the end user to ask for the source code and be denied. Doing this is a pure nicety on the part of the user, offering violators a way out of being sued by that individual user, which does not have to be offered.
How would he save money?
I believe you are misinformed and have formed a false dichotomy here. It's easy to primarily use small businesses, who are doing relatively fine. The only exception I can think of is grocery stores but that was the case here long before GDPR and also isn't the case in the rest of Europe. I suspect it's to do with the geography of my country.
It's not the same.

You are almost certainly passing these through tools (even built into the browser) that are doing extra processing to make it more readable.

Let's assume, for example, CBOR ends up taking over JSON. Do you not think browsers wouldn't have a CBOR parser to make it more readable?

This isn't bolt vs welding, this is bolt vs bolt with a washer. Yes there's a small extra step, but not some sort of insurmountable hurdle.
> Yeah, M1 was a great innovation, but before that, the iPhone was the previous innovation.

Watch and AirPods are literally the most popular and profitable products in their market. The iPad dominates, too.
Dang, I miss when I could click on a category and read everything in that category. Now you just have to punch terms into a search box and hope you have the patience to get all the way through an endless scroll of pages that may or may not fit what you want to see. If you want to, say, make sure you read every review of Sony headphones your favorite modern review site did, you just can't. You just have to hope you found them all.
Try to spot medical disinformation: https://crownlyric.com/2021/10/19/loza-alexander-lets-go-bra...
> Rule of law is increasingly looked at with distain in favor of rule by arbitrary authority.

This happens right here on HN. It seems that nobody here wants trials for Snowden or Assange for instance.
”The decision for the team to move on from MAS is not based on the operational but on the opportunity cost”

Honest answer, although buried into the QA section.

They say they see the value of the technology, but want to focus on bringing this to the enterprises.
The new public health despotism
Assange is a competitor of the press that wrote about him.
That's not what I could call "working". Most people out there will simply never use such a "solution".
Yeah, you've got a dynamically linked binary.

There is a work in progress on SBCL to make it possible to create a really static binaries:

https://www.timmons.dev/posts/static-executables-with-sbcl-v...

I tried this fork and it worked for me!
not SEO but recruiters and name recognition.

Most of these low quality blogs are written by IT students who aren't top of their class and want to stand out in some other way.
I guess it depends on the products and services and where they originate. Many media companies outside the EU have simply opted out of doing business there. I know the same is true of some smaller direct retailers.
"Don't get caught."
By that logic, the M1 was just packaging an ARM CPU in a laptop and the iPhone was just stuffing a SIM card in a PDA.
WebGPU Shading Language (WGSL)
Wow, that looks amazing! Especially being implemented in pure bash!
Roadmap to getting started with Blockchain Development
Why assume anything?
>But over the years RSS became synonymous with other protocols, like Atom, that are designed to do the same thing.

These days, if you poll a "RSS" feed do you sometimes get an Atom feed? You don't see many explicit references to Atom anymore...
That young man must feel so bad for this to be his moment. I hope it doesn't overshadow his other accomplishments.
Can we trust Microsoft with open source?
Best way to host a website for 500 years?
Solution: Host a website and all the software in a future-proof virtual machine.

Alan Kay describes this is methode in [1] a Starship Conference talk about communication with aliens and in [2]the Cuniform paper.

The virtual machine solution is a solution to more general problems: how to use any software on any type of computing device at any time (even after most hardware and software knowledge has disappeared) and when even creator and user of software not share a language (as with intelligent aliens). They allow software to run bit-identical on any other software or hardware.

Smalltalk virtual machines are still running software sinds 1972(!) [4] and have been ported to the most diverse hardware and operating systems of any software I know of, even in javascript web browsers [3].

My websites are an existence proof. In 1987 I founded the first internet provider (as far as I know) and built some of the first websites in 1993. These websites have now been online for 28 years (actually longer but not in HTML format but Hypercard).

All my websites are written in Smalltalk (a programming language and operating system in a virtual machine image) and since 2007 in the Seaside continuation framework inside Squeak. All that I need to do is have a small simple virtual machine program running and responding to TCP/IP packets. The virtual machine executes whatever is in the image file, in this case a Squeak Smalltalk image and several Seaside websites).

Jecel Mattos de Assumpçao Jr. and Merik Voswinkel have been inventing and producing manycore microprocessors to execute most (universal) virtual machines like Smalltalk or QEMU under the brand names Morphle and SiliconSqueak since 2007.
Contact us at morphle at ziggo dot nl for more info about our universal parallel reconfigurable software defined virtual machine microprocessors.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wW89RHf4D4

[2] http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_cuneiform.pdf

[3] https://computerhistory.org/blog/introducing-the-smalltalk-z...

[4] https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/
If the terms of the resignation contradict terms in the employment agreement, I would think so. As long as the employment agreement is legal itself.
It wasn't just evil, it was a calculated power move. They understood the fact it was wrong, calculated the risks involved and even the damage it would cause if they got caught.

The only effective punishment for those is to calculate how much they gained from it, calculate all profits that resulted from those gains, subtract all that from them, and then apply some huge fines as well in order to leave them in an even worse position than they started. Basically reset the company to the position it was in before this move, and then make that position worse. Like rewinding a chess game but they also lose a rook or something as punishment for their audacity.
This is what people seem to forget. A company that doesn't grow for all intents and purposes is a dead company. Or in the M&A world we call it "distressed". It doesn't matter how profitable you are if you don't get grow there are serious implications - employee motivation, loss of talent, erosion of customer services, etc.
FWIW, I found it's cheaper per capita to live alone. Almost every non-negligible non-housing cost scales linearly. When I was alone I was happy in a studio; I could work, sleep, exercise, have guests, etc. all in the same room. At most I'd have a small 1-bedroom, to hide the bed from guests :)

With 2 people you need to have a separate bedroom in case only one person is sleeping, a living room to have guests (we also use ours for exercise, which has on occasion prevented me from exercising when it was occupied, so ideally we'd need a gym room too), then you need an office for each person in case someone else is in the living (or in case both are working and need space), suddenly it's a whole 3-bedroom house and it feels more confined than a studio did.
Sure, looks good, plenty to choose from, just need to get everyone to agree on one.

Although I do like ones that have some concept of a schema to reduce repeated key size and allow validation.
HN downvotes are not different from any other social media platform. It doesn't matter what the rules says, people will downvote things they disagree and that's it. It always comes to this and I personally don't see how it could be any different, even if I myself don't do it
Indeed! I highly recommend everyone to check out what the Podcast2.0 people are doing, it's really impressive.
"You have been found guilty of Deviance by Algorithm 4 of the People's Relationship Management System. Immediately report by VR to HappyCamp #17 for your Attitude Realignment Therapy"

I have said that people who have had COVID may not need or want a vaccine. I haven't said it on Twitter; so am I an "anti-vaxer" or not? I don't think I am "anti-vax" but I've had others disagree.

So obviously what the world needs to settle such a nuanced question is a python package.
Then explain how a smaller company markets goods and services in the EU without resorting the brand level advertising? Lack of targeting data makes it financially impossible until a company reaches a certain size.
I don’t know, I have all ads blocked everywhere and still discover new products. I also discovered new things, before the internet was such an ad-ridden mess that adblockers became a requirement for decent UX.
Yeah we could turn CO2 into coal or we could just stop burning coal in the first place.
> Pandemic ain't real, they just planned it

probably that part?
45,000 fb employees choose every day to work for him. The responsibility for what fb is is just as much theirs.

If they didn’t agree with fb’s actions they’d leave.
If you work for Google as a SWE for a decade and aren't well over a million in net assets, you're doing something wrong.
Replace unvaccinated with fat people or smokers who are a far greater burden on the health system, yet you don't see this moral grandstanding about them.
Thanks for telling us about the video. Let's go, Brandon!

https://rumble.com/vnxsm5-lets-go-brandon-rapper-loza-alexan...
It’s also myopic to think that moral changes are only a function of “progress” in an abstract sense. Moral changes often accompany technological changes that significantly change circumstances.

For much of human history, human life was just a lot less valuable. The child mortality rate in 1800 was 46%. That means that one out of two children didn’t make it to their 5th birthday. A death of a child is a life altering experience for people today. Back then it happened to nearly everyone all the time. What did that do to people’s estimation of the value of life?

I think you can see this in other areas as well. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the legal and social equality between men and women has increased greatly alongside economic and technological developments that have diminished the advantages flowing from men’s greater strength and endurance. An economy built around heavy factory work and construction, like the early 20th century, is going to affect perception of social roles very differently than an economy built around office work.
I'm paying for YouTube Premium and I wouldn't touch their free product anymore, if they sunsetted Premium. However, almost 35% of most videos I'm usually watching also contain sponsored ads and annoying self advertising for their channel (subscribe to the channel, click the bell icon, shady VPNs, online learning portals, etc)

How would regulation work here? I'm relying on Sponsorblock for now, but that doesn't work on Chromecast.
Media intended to manipulate. Neither truth nor falsehood, agnostic to both. Weaponized bullshit.

Sprayed willy-nilly over the population, driving us insane. Propagating down the generations, driving our grandchildren insane.

Contagious memetic cancer.

Perfectly legal?
Windows has DXVA which has been standardized for over a decade.

Linux still cannot settle on a single universal API which works regardless of a graphics system or various underlying drivers. In short it's a bloody mess.
Just like before there were targeted ads?
Haven’t looked into the details of this supposed crisis, but I’m guessing that the outrage is from the free press over the unjustified suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story in order to influence a democratic election. Am I right?
But how do smaller companies function in such an environment without being subsumed into larger marketplaces?
Submitted multiple times in the last month, most active https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28612337, 31 days ago, 28 comments.
While the business model undoubtedly has a part to play I think the bigger issue is the lack of consequences for devising such schemes. The article's right to point out the similarities to insider trading. The only obvious difference is you don't leave the building in handcuffs.
US drops tariff threat against nations who dished out digital taxes tech giants
I am currently working on some code where I am using Wgpu 0.11. I started by following the first few tutorials from https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/ and am currently writing my own parts of the rest of the program that I am making. In this process I found that the OP link is useful, and therefore I am submitting this link to HN.

With Wgpu, you write your program in Rust and WGSL, and when the program is compiled and run, the WGSL shader code is translated to Vulkan, Metal or DX12 depending on your platform.
Things rot because:

- Chemical reaction
- Oxidation (rust)
- Nitrogenation
- Sulferization
- Seleniumization (DNA breakage)

- Electron discharge
- Memory loss
- channel outage
- power drops

- Thermobaric
- Infrared Red
- heat pressure

- Atomic-level barrage
- Neutron
- Beta
- Alpha
- Gamma
- Photon
- Quantum???

- Biological
- neural reroute
- chemical blockage
- newtonian impact
- psychokinetic
I like the author's explanation for why he and his wife haven't gotten vaccinated: her doctor told her to wait until after she had the baby, which is understandable I guess. But why does that mean that the husband wouldn't get vaccinated? Why aren't they worried about him bringing covid home to his pregnant wife? The authors claim that he supports getting vaccinated, but only doesn't support vaccine mandates, is not congruous with his actions. He has no reason not to do it other than being a CHUD.

Of course there is pressure from the government to get vaccinated. We're talking about public health. It's not a personal decision anymore than the MMR or polio vaccines.
Nobody cares about DAB radio – so let's force it onto smart speakers
It's the opposite of 'forward index', the wikipedia page (and its references) cover some of the background. I think you're overestimating how much this terminology is based on one particular kind of book index - indexing even before electronic computers was more sophisticated than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_index
That is not a tax advantage. It is simply paying long term capital gains tax rate on long term capital gains.

Companies are not paying with RSUs because of a tax advantage, they are paying because it is cheaper than paying with cash.
Nothing will happen ... These tech giants have been misbehaving for years nobody is doing nothing
As an IT professional, I don't like it at all. The plethora of laws makes it much harder to do business in the EU: If you want to process any kind of data you are immediately forced to spend a lot of money on security certifications. This increased cost and velocity reduces the competitiveness of EU based companies which need to capture their home-market first. This is one of the potential factors why the EU loses out to other markets in startup-friendliness.
Well, before targeted ads there were blogs and they were well read. Not so much anymore since Google decimated that channel.
That cookie banner is mostly corporations trying to be sneaky and trying to trick people into giving consent, or just flat-out misunderstanding the regulation.

You need no cookie banner if you only use cookies as required by the service you provide to the user.

For instance if a user is trying to log in, you don't need to ask for permission to set a cookie for that. The consent is implicit.

If you want to set tracking cookies on the other hand...
protocols have two sides - a producer and a consumer. The consumer often doesn’t have control of the producer, especially in the case of analytics.
Well they advertise their own shows to keep you subscribed, and they also have product placement. I remember Lagavulin scotch showing up in the TV show Lost in Space for example, an incredibly out of place product placement.
“hooks make for more straightforward and concise code”, “easier to learn”

Proceeds to pass an empty array for no apparent reason* to a function in the first example. The later explanation completely ignores mutability and what it means for the type of value you can use as a dependency.

Hooks are nice for small components, but overall haven’t improved DX over classes much, and introduced a ton of new concerns. Yes, it makes composition easier. It also makes it harder to reason about component lifecycle when state changes are distributed among a dozen little functions with slightly different update semantics.

* I am familiar with how hooks work, am highlighting the implicit complexity
> And I think the problems in 2021 are mostly the same as they have always been: caused by vendors.

Fewer than 5% of the issues listed in the article have anything to do with HW vendors, while the remaining 95% are caused by Open Source developers who work independently and don't particularly care about the grand vision/unified system which just works.
Haha true. And the amount of money made per user with ads/adtech is unbounded, so why bound it to X per month.

This greed? would probably lead them to ruins.
Big companies dominate much more in USA than Europe though, Europe has way more small local companies that compete with Amazon etc.
The same way they always have, obviously? Also, they seem to have no problem reaching me on Facebook (the only place I can't block ads.)
Meh. It's a private platform. They don't have to give any excuses for blocking a video.

Is it de facto censorship? Maybe. But I think we as a society agree that social media platforms have a responsibly to censor harmful content in order to protect the public.

Would we have wanted social platforms to give a voice to the "American First" movement of the 1930s? [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4GyYPLHlwA
I presume you would apply the same logic to those in your own nation that smoke cigarettes, who don't get enough physical exercise, and who eat poorly - yes?

Those all appear to be far more likely indicators of hospitalization than your vaccination status, after all. Furthermore, when these overweight smokers with poor diet seek other care for their primary illnesses, I would imagine they get thrown onto the streets and told to get to the back of the line so that the more deserving people can get care first?
> I love the typesetting of the math in these old papers

I agree except that the first thing the paper does is define "1" to be a function that "produces a vector of the first N integers". Highly confusing. It turns out that symbol isn't a "1" and rather is a weird squiggle that unfortunately looks like one.
The current world top countries by income tax brackets are:

Ivory Coast 60% Finland 56.95% Japan 55.97% Denmark 55.9% Austria 55% Sweden 52.9% Aruba 52% Belgium 50% Israel 50% Slovenia 50% Netherlands 49.5%

It doesn't help that tax systems are so complicated that it can be almost impossible to make meaningful like-for-like comparisons in discussions like this.

For example, the UK isn't listed there, yet in reality the way our system works creates brackets where some people do have an effective marginal income tax rate over 60%. Worse, the system isn't entirely progressive, because those brackets don't coincide with the final marginal rate of income tax for those with the highest incomes.

Rather like the Dutch, for those of us living in the UK and those of us operating small businesses here, who are paying the full intended tax rates, it's frustrating to see the games played by the huge multinationals and UHNW individuals that are clearly forms of tax avoidance, and to see the UK labelled as a tax haven. I doubt anyone living near me feels like they're benefitting from an unusually low-tax economy right now!
Is that thing dependent on speed? 1-3 car may be okay for slow city traffic but obviously not for higher speeds. I'm just curious how it works.
>most business in the world survive

While this may be the case for capital-intensive businesses (oil, consumer goods, energy), this is usually not the case for intangible-asset businesses (media, tech). In the former, the assets will generate cashflow, whereas in the latter it's a people-centric model

What was the last time you chose yahoo over google or altavista over google?

Google was always greedy, but when it was small it was cool to be the disruptor. Now it's perceived as only greedy. This is typically the case for any successful company (from HP, IBM, to the new 'big tech').

Good (related) book recommendation btw: capitalism without capital
The benefit hooks bring is that as well as already being able to separate out components, you can now separate out React functionality into reusable pieces in a clean way.
site is currently down: https://archive.md/YV9AQ
worse, it's actually much more difficult to test states in hooks...

it's a variable inside a function -- how am I supposed to test its state from outside (ie. test runner), without resorting to ugly hacks?
YouTubers fell for shady 'sponsors' who seized, then sold, accounts
> I've seen estimates that a panel in space around Earth can generate ~7 times the power it can on Earth

How do you get that power back down to Earth where it can be used?
I am a backend engineer and recently had to improve my CSS to work on a side project. I highly recommend book "CSS in Depth" by Keith J Grant - it helped me to build a solid foundation.