skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At risk of sounding like a SJW here, I think it's an interesting point you made that merits further discussion.

It seems to me that you're arguing about blind people as a market segment. By virtue of being blind there might always be products that blind people just won't benefit from, I get that.

But there's a reason (offline) accessibility is regulated by law and somewhat incorporated into daily life (e.g. wheelchair ramps). If it weren't, blind people (and others with disabilities) would be even more marginalized than they already are.

Would it be okay if Walmart made their stores inaccessible to blind people? I guess they already do, it seems pretty difficult to navigate those aisles with product tags.

While modern life outside of the internet has been developed for a long time, the internet is still relatively fresh, and making sure those who are blind aren't prevented from participating in the internet is generally a good thing, I think.

But perhaps your stance is that the problems of those with disabilities should not be the responsibility of those who do not have those problems, which is a valid argument.

Alt tags don't change whether blind people can see and they're not supposed to either, but they do allow people who would otherwise be prevented from being a customer, to be one.

You don't have to sell paintings to blind people, but they do buy them; 3D paintings, extra-textured paintings, even paintings with braille.

Selling charts to visualize data is a certain way of making data more accessible to certain customers, why not extend that to the visually impaired?

>Just because some people can't use a product, doesn't mean you shouldn't be allowed to sell it.

You're definitely allowed to sell a product, the question is: should you be allowed to exclude potential customers based on factors they cannot control? Marginalized groups have better lives than they used to in history, but I'd argue a lot of progress can still be made.

Whether the onus should be on the people (blind or not) themselves, corporations or the government, is a very different discussion about responsibility and the limits of choice that I'm not gonna go into here.

Again, I do see your point as well. Just wanted to point out some things.
Well now we know who is your master.
Buy as much BTC as you can now and then Dollar Cost Average into it over time. Keep stacking. Ignore the price.
Send to the wallet and forget.

Give the kid the money at 18 or 21. Kid will never need to work again.
Lol this was pretty good I have to admit.
Google's search quality has definitely gotten worse, but DuckDuckGo is still worse than Google. I have DuckDuckGo as my default search engine but occasionally will Google something that DuckDuckGo can't find and Google has it on the first page.
> hint of worshipfulness

"my scientific idol, the legendary physicist"

Certainly a strong hint, isn't it?
> there is sea of alternatives

None of them even remotely have Twitter's reach, and more importantly content creators ranging from heads of state to Nobel Prize winners to A-list celebrities.
YouTube literally keeps showing me the same Playlist of videos every day, and absolutely refuses to let me get anything fresh until I behave like a good cow user and watch the videos they want me to so they can milk my eyeballs with ad views.
I agree with you as an engineer. I disagree with you as a human being. Why be so formal during the interview process when the actual working environment will be anything but?

If they can tolerate the ridiculousness of the interview process, then they might be able to tolerate the ridiculousness of actually working there.

Ask anyone who's worked at any of these companies, and they'll tell you it's pretty fucking ridiculous a majority of the time. Even at the very biggest companies, IT shoots from the hip, and boy(!) does the interview process reflect that.

If we built houses the way we build software, the entire world would be homeless.
(1) It's a long term trend and (2) It's no accident.

If Google Search was perfect you'd never have a reason to click on an ad.
So porn is the highest form of human expression?
The key is that none of these have free alternatives, besides NY Times and Washington Post (I don't know what Charter is). Twitter has many free alternatives so it'd be closer to the bottom of this list.
Just the low employee count is not a bad thing in itself. Whatsapp had I think 50 employees when it was sold for $19 billion.
I seem to remember Al Gore basically telling us the world would end a while ago.
I thought at least some of those worked out without generating intermediate Dockerfiles or invoking "docker build". After all container images are just basically tar files with some metadata.

Or do you mean it's conceptually the same, just implemented differently? I agree there.
To which I would add that naming a system "Pragmatic" may well be an act of unspeakable hubris, one that the gods would surely punish with a plague of architectural astronauts...
I really like the Goldberg machine analogy. Consider it stolen
You seem to be saying that event sourcing and event streaming are mutually exclusive.

In almost all cases of event sourcing I have seen, event sourcing is event streaming, but more. When you say event sourcing, where do other services source from, if there is no stream?
Yes, event sourcing typically uses a database instead of a real "queue", but it still functions like a queue. You still need consumers to subscribe to events, in order to populate state, as timely as possible.
Reading the Documentation Is the Secret to Innovation
Isn't there a selection bias going on here? The only entrepreneurs allowed in the club who don't fit the go-for-broke mold are those who make it there by being celebrities in other ways (thinking Fried/DHH or someone like Maciej Cegłowski).
What do you mean by "worse" - it's hard to assess something defined in a qualitative manor quantitatively.
“Ed Thorpe’s Princeton Newport and its successor …”

He’s been at it for decades. What did Ed figure out half a century ago?

Btw, Ed’s a math guy also:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp
Not really, "nearly half" is a significant proportion considering that only 30% of americans have anything above a high school diploma
On the Party and the Princlings
The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk
A billionaire CEO is less free than often believed. They cannot say what they want without carefully crafted PR, they have to meticulously justify their strategy to stake holders, etc. pp.

Of course their capital can be used to enact change. But the best way would be to do that through policy if you want to preserve democracy and not live to the whims of oligarchy.
Personally I am still not convinced climate change is completely caused by human activity. But I think we are accelerating a natural climate change.

“Climate simulations generally do not reproduce this kind of warming in the Arctic Ocean, meaning there’s an incomplete understanding of the mechanisms driving Atlantification,”

My takeaway: because we still know so little about the mechanisms we should be more careful about our environment. It's very naive to pump tons of CO2 into the atmosphere without knowing what will happen.
The same thing probably applies to ageism. Sure, you can tap dance around putting a lot of specific dates on your resume. But generally it's pretty obvious within a decade or so. And, if you really go whole hog and don't even put any durations, you probably don't want to look like you're maybe just out of school if you've just had a couple long duration jobs--and the company's application form will probably make you fill in dates anyway.
Don't silence dissent, just charge for it? This is the dystopia that scifi taught me to expect..
>They would break a promise - surely not?

What, again?
Good read. Here's the answer to the title question:

> I also learned that “impossible,” when used by Feynman, did not necessarily mean “unachievable” or “ridiculous.” Sometimes it meant, “Wow! Here is something amazing that contradicts what we would normally expect to be true. This is worth understanding!”
"scientists"

No. Popular media. Scientists will say something like "wow, this particular study shows us hitting 1 degree of warming by 2010, and 2 degrees of warming by 2030 at the current rate, which would lead to gradual melting of the ice caps", and in the popular media that becomes "SCIENTISTS PREDICT ICE CAPS WILL BE ENTIRELY GONE BY 2010!" Because the nuance was not understood, and alarm gets readers/watchers.

I will also remind you the same people who would claim it's slower than expected because of what scientists have said in the past are the same people who will call out that in the 1960s scientists were predicting global cooling as evidence why the science is wrong. I.e., even though those positions are counter to each other, they both work in service to "the science is always wrong" narrative, and that's really the bias at play.
1) "But this regulatory ruling isn't even about Facebook's dominant business, it's about the potential harm to the advertising business"

Yes, using it's dominance to control a market and decide where people get to advertise, rather than people having a choice.

2) If you think Giphy is easily-reproducible, it shows how little you know about things in general.

3) "And if you're going to go after a company for dominance in advertising and you go after Facebook and not Google?"

1 minute of research would show you that the CMA already are and have been at Google's doors too. More recently about Google's power when it comes to third-party cookies; which is for advertising.

The CMA are pretty much always going at the big companies for something.

It seems like you need to understand what you're talking about, before you try and talk about it.
The Chemical Company of the Future
It's just as many, if not more features, and overall more productive unless you need something only VS can do (like some advanced debugging). Only VS2022 can finally match some of the speed.

You either already know the difference between VS+Resharper and Rider and are just looking to argue, or you don't and you're missing what it can actually do.
Recycling of tectonic plates a key driver of Earth’s oxygen budget
I'm not sure about that - after a couple of initial waves, interest in the concept does seem to be receding a bit, as the reality of their ultimate pointlessness becomes apparent amongst the swell of people who might at all be interested.

I'm sure there'll always be a fanbase, just as there are with trading sports-themed trading cards or whatnot, but beyond that? Myeh.
> people are saying it is "slower than expected".

Can you give me some citations for this? I've looked around a bit and all I can see is "faster than expected"

In fact sea-level rise is another great example of what I'm talking about. Dr. Richard Alley gave a fantastic talk this summer about how we can expect very rapid, very sudden ice sheet collapse, and therefore should also experience potentially very rapid sea level rises[0].

However, as he repeatedly points out in the talk, because these sudden collapses are incredibly hard to simulate and predict they are excluded from all IPCC models. He doesn't deny that predicting when and exactly the impact is an incredibly hard modeling problem, but at the same time makes it pretty clear that this known unknown, so to speak, is very real and very likely to have a major impact.

Edit: you should watch at least the beginning of the talk because he explicitly mentions a 2008 piece in the guardian and other cases of "slower than expected".[1]

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MnX_sjXMio

1. https://youtu.be/0MnX_sjXMio?t=100
Yeah, but he was never really "in" with the current lot (not corrupt, different political party, not an old boy) and he hasn't been part of a government for 7 years.

It's time for a new hire/donation/whatever
I would not trust more than 10% to fiat, it’s a weak money that bleeds value every year due to debasement. It is the worst thing for a savings account. What you think is a lot today will be worth little to your child. That is the curse of fiat. With Bitcoin, a lot today is a much larger amount of value in the future.
Looking at the chart toward the top of the article, I couldn't help but get a similar feeling. A huge spike of self employed workers in the early 2000's that preceded the crash and Great Recession. I'd be curious to see statistics on what these self employed workers were doing in 2004-2007, but I assume many of them got into the idea of flipping houses?

Either way, I worry that in a few years time we'll see a market correction of all these self employed workers and I wonder what its impact will be. Will they just go back to corporate life? Will it even be that easy to do so?
As both a Haiku and RPi fan, I agree they would be a great combination. RiscOS has run on the Pi since the first model, and if that combination's performance is anything to go by, Haiku would likely run circles around Linux on Pis.

The problem, as others have said, is the lack of dedicated manpower. This is one of those situations where I wish I was a developer, I'd dive right in and try to get Haiku to daily-driver stability on the platform. There is work being done on porting to ARM already, and my hope is that as the X86/64 platform matures, focus can shift to ARM and the Pi specifically.
You're wrong, JS has immutable strings & so VMs use ropes to make mutable usage & slicing fast

https://gist.github.com/mraleph/3397008
https://twitter.com/rauschma/status/1269964154275799041
An ETF is probably the better option.
Comparing SPAs to SSG and SSR
New Software Engineer Rejected 357 Times Before Receiving a Job Offer
Googles approach depends on their security chip located in their datacenter and not auditable by anybody... The usual definition of "end to end" doesn't include that...
Prepare your Web App for localization (internationalization)
But that goes both ways?

If I told you “my model predicts a 50% chance you be diagnosed with cancer and a 50% chance you wont” how do you make a decision. When both are equally probable?
Note that I said:

Not single points of failure, but a few major
(AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare) points of failure.

And I most certainly didn't say or imply that such failures would "take down the internet." Rather, I said:

Take any one or more of these down and there are
major disruptions in commerce, connectivity and
communications.

That's very different from what you appear to think I said.

>Because it's convenient. Decentralization has a constant cost. Centralization benefits from economics of scale.

But there are costs to that centralization too. Not measured in dollars, but in freedom, creativity and choice.

>Peer-to-peer solutions work fine, and you don't need multi gigabit synchronous links for that.

Do they? If that were the case, we wouldn't have these behemoth tech corporations.

Decentralized solutions exist, but aren't currently viable for a variety of reasons. I chose to pick on asymmetric network links (the asymmetric part is the important bit, not necessarily total bandwidth, although that's important too) as a blocker to decentralization.

Feel free to disagree, but decentralization needs to be about more than just distributed block chains and services hosted on centralized server plantations.

Edit: Fixed usage: Asymmetric, not asynchronous. Sorry, still drinking coffee here.
My partner recently bought a folding ebike for 600 GBP and it wasn't even their entry level model. It is a great bike. 2-3k EUR is not entry level.
This is how the entire VC market works either get bought or IPO.
I don't know anything about these laws and companies so forgive my silly question but... what about Giphy's responsibility? Can be bought against their will? Or do they sell just to cash in? Because if they do it sounds to me like they have no better morals than Meta.
It seems like a perfectly reasonable power to me, i certainly would not vote against regulators being able to do so if I were a UK citizen.

As an American citizen, would you want to restrict regulators from being able to block the business of a company that merged with a CCP controlled company in China?
> wysiwym/wysiwyg Markdown editing

I use a folder of markdown files as my Note taking system. For that I don't want a split screen setup.
Bet sizing, maybe? It's certainly destroyed some big funds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp#Bibliography
You're just describing a growth strategy. The whole time they're burning cash they're still providing value to their customers. Nonprofits don't make money either and still provide value.
I'm explaining how clojure's data structures are different from OP's screen buffer example.
> Hubris does support shared memory via leases, but I'm not sure how it manages to map them into the very limited 8 Cortex-M MPU regions.

What I did in a similar kernel was dynamically map them from a larger table on faults, sort of like you would with a soft fill TLB. When you turn off the MPU in supervisor mode you get a sane 'map everything' mapping, leaving all 8 entries to user code.

The way LDM/STM restart after faults is amenable to this model on the M series cores.
This is going to be quite spectacularly broken here in the UK.

It is entirely legal to publish a photo of, say, someone walking down the street without their consent.

It is _not_ legal to do so in such a way that implies endorsement. So you could publish a photo of "people busy shopping in Oxford Street" without getting signed model release from everyone depicted in the photo. But you couldn't publish the same photo and claim "these are 500 happy people who've just bought the new ZogPhone at the Zog Store on Oxford Street!".

That's fine. Typically, every summer, UK newspapers will print a front-cover photo of a crowded beach with a headline about "here's lots of people enjoying the sunshine". (We're British, we love talking about the weather.) And that's the case throughout UK media. I used to edit the best-selling magazine about inland boating. Every month, our cover would be a photo of someone happily steering their boat on a river or canal. We didn't get model release: we didn't need to under UK law.

Those front covers can no longer be tweeted. Twitter now says:

> Under our private information policy, you can’t share the following types of private information or media, without the permission of the person who it belongs to:

> NEW: media of private individuals without the permission of the person(s) depicted.

Is Twitter really going to take down the front page of the Guardian or the Financial Times because they haven't got signed model release for everyone in that crowd photo? I'm not convinced this has been thought through.
I have to wonder how supporting RISC-V and amdgpu does not count as modern hardware.
At least for hip hop, I'm definitely not seeing this. Maybe some mainstream stuff will heavily use auto tune, but even acts which are mainstream, like Nas have no need for it.

By and large it just depends on what you're in the mood for. Something I love about the internet is how easy it is to find niche music.
If the market cap starts falling, yes
I thought people built businesses because they had to eat, and selling something useful was an effective and morally acceptable way to obtain food-money. Sure, most people aren't sociopaths, but businesses don't exist primarily out of philanthropy.
I was with you until the ‘woke France’ stuff.
China sets rules to safeguard drivers' rights in ride-hailing industry
See other reply that shows CO2 emissions were negligible until 1900?

How are we driving mass warming in 1900 when CO2 emissions were barely 1% of what they are today?
Because your money are in a bank (which is generally a bit more difficult to break into), and if the thief takes some of the shiny toys you are still left with your identity at least.
Yeah, just read through the GitHub issues thread and it's rather flimsy justification for not implementing it that seems to boil down to "because I don't want to". A real shame, since I'd always admired the project.
AoC 2021 Coalton Contest
The results keep getting "refined" so as to suit the popular 80% of queries, while getting much worse for any technical or obscure queries. Forced synonyms and "people also searched for" are typically useless and almost infuriating. Once you get off the first or second page, the results get even worse-- with pages entirely unrelated to the query (e.g. not even containing the searched phrases). They are probably testing/already implemented some sort of multi armed bandit type optimization like on Youtube's search results where they just show any popular pages (ignoring relevancy) to see if they yield a click.

I've used DDG for the past ~5 years, and it is typically worse without using a hashbang like !so for technical queries. I guess that is what the web has evolved to-- knowing which mega-site you want to search against rather than discover new sites?
Amazing how much effort the "security expert" shills are putting into making sure the highest possible number of people use Microsoft/Google/Apple as their trusted authority.

ungoogled-chromium is the best we have today, and it is a shame it gets actively attacked and not actively defended. This qua3k guy would contribute a fix to ungoogled-chromium if he was genuine.
They're smarter by focusing on RISC-V imho.

The future, rather than the past.
Mitosis: Write components once, run everywhere. Compiles to Vue, React, Svelte,…
I bought a folding bike, never bought a lock and that worked for me.
Oh my god, I wish more people would say this, and understand it. When thinking about any projection, “might not be that bad” == “could be much worse”.
But if your frame buffer is text, you can store the text in a rope data structure like JS vms do

So you don't necessarily have an allocation for every single character, but you're still able to share memory between buffers

I've implemented a game engine with immutability (makes for fast cloning in AI search) where much of the game state is shared between clones. With reference counting it also means if there's a unique reference being modified then no copy is made. This same trick is used by Python to optimize string concatenation
>> ASML might retain their monopoly for a few more years but I think this move will eventually result in Chinese building even better machines and likely more practical and for less money - as is the Chinese way.

The complexity of ASML EUV light sources is incredible. China might just use a synchrotron for that. Sure there are issues to resolve but it seems like it has to be simpler in the end.
Ah the old "We're a non profit charity foundation for the good of all... IPO"...
Twitter bans sharing images/videos of private individuals without their consent
Sounds like a group that didn't understand the tool and just put it in place. Metrics and tools make good servants but poor managers.
O00oh a computer in a keyboard, that's never been done. If they start selling those keyboards, and that type of thing, I'll be shorting for some easy money.
Twitter need better relevancy. Their ads are some of the worse I've seen on any platform. The other thing they need, as pointed in the article, is other streams of revenue. Like LinkedIn for example. They sell a premium subscription to a small subsets of overall users (Twitter Blue is trying to do the same), have a successful job board, etc. The article mentions Twitter is making money of selling data. That's a good stream of revenue but they can do much better. I doubt the new CEO would make a big difference though. I think it's a bigger management issue than just replacing the CEO. We'll see how things turn out.

So to respond to the original article by Ben Thompson, I don't think it makes sense to charge all users, but it does make a lot of sense to charge a subset of the users. People (companies) who use twitter for marketing for example.
Haha, pulling a bit of reverse psychology there?
It would be fascinating to see their engineering backlog.