skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it’s just because I don’t want another piece of software on my machine that adds essentially no value on its own running in the background that I also have to manage to ensure that it’s not running in the background when I don’t want it to.

I’m resistant (and I think this is the case with others as well) to the idea that games must exist inside of their creator’s special portal; it’s a level of abstraction that I wish did not exist. Every modern desktop OS has some way of directly installing applications and many of them also provide their own stores (Mac App Store, Windows Store, etc.). The only thing “game store competition” is doing is creating a “now you have [x] standards” problem where the pitch of “all your games are located in one place” ends up becoming “all your games are in a bunch of places which you’ll be able to access after you’ve installed several different applications”.
oh on avg. they completely dismiss it based on current immigration policy self selecting rich Asian families. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ok, how does that explain why some people want to eat even when they're full, while others feel full after eating a grape (exaggerating)?
I miss these design trends of decades past. The gradients. The skeuomorphism. The rounded corners. The buttons that look like buttons. The letterpress text.
As a heavy YouTube user the removal of the dislike count didn't effect me at all since the number was always useless to me.

>because I can no longer gauge how worthwhile they are to try and watch.

That is YouTube's job. Their recommendation algorithm will try and suggest videos that are worthwhile for you to watch. The order that videos are recommend is how know which videos are likely more worthwhile for you to watch. After clicking on a video most people judge the video be just watching the first few seconds an opposed to looking at the likes. They will switch to a different video if they didn't find that one interesting. Another common behaviour is just skimming through a video.
We just got CRDTs for generic textual documents! yeesh. Patience!

Really? Link?
Exactly

>>Over the years, countless YouTube users have complained that their videos have been claimed and monetized by entities that apparently have no right to do so but, fearful of what a complaint might do to the status of their accounts, many opted to withdraw from battles they feared they might lose.

This fact and the aggressive-anti-support policies should setup Youtube for a class action suit.

Merely to avoid the expense of actually sorting out who is the actual copyright owner, Alphabet (& others) setup a system that systematically enables this type of fraud against artists, and provides no way to resolve it, and so they happily pay millions to fraudsters like these instead of the actual owners.

It'd be nice if the actual artists could get paid and if Google etc. could get the point that some things require actual support. Unlikely, but it'd be nice.
You sound like PG - thanks for the honesty
Football club founded by Turkish immigrants causes stir in Germany
> If the assets and liabilities balance, why describe it as "literally creating money"?

1) Say you have an account at FooBank with a balance of $1000, and I have an account there with a balance of $0. The total supply of money at this point is $1000.

2) I apply for a loan of $1000 and get it. My account now has a balance of $1000, and your account still has a balance of $1000. The total supply of money is now $2000!

Adding another layer:

1) I have an account at FooBank with a balance of $0. You have $1000 in cash in your pocket. FooBank has $0 of assets and $0 of liabilities. The money supply is $1000 of cash.

2) You open an account at FooBank and deposit your $1000 of cash. FooBank now has $1000 of assets (your cash) and $1000 of liabilities (your deposit), balancing out still. The money supply is also still $1000, now made up of $1000 of bank deposits and $0 cash.

3) I apply for a loan of $1000 and get it. My account now has a balance of $1000, and your account still has a balance of $1000. The bank now has $2000 of assets ($1000 cash plus my $1000 loan) and $2000 of liabilities ($1000 in each of our accounts), which still balances out. However the money supply is now $2000, made up of $2000 of bank deposits and $0 cash.

The money supply here is M1 or "broad money" which consists of the total of coins and bank notes plus deposits in checking/current accounts, which you can roughly think about as the total amount of money held by households and companies.

4) I withdraw $1000 in cash from my account at FooBank, leaving me with $1000 cash and $0 in my account. FooBank has assets of $1000 (my loan) and liabilities of $1000 (your account). The money supply is still $2000 but now comprises $1000 of cash and $1000 of bank deposits.

The bank's accounting of assets and liabilities always match up, as do ours - you started with $1000 of assets and no liabilities and ended up with exactly the same, while I started with $0 assets and $0 liabilities and ended up with $1000 of assets and a $1000 liability. However the total of our cash and bank deposit assets has gone from $1000 to $2000 i.e. the money supply has increased.

So yes, banks really do have a special role in the economy in that most "money" is in the form of bank deposits and most transactions involve moving money between bank accounts. It's not super-intuitive and doesn't quite fit the "common sense" view money as a set of tokens that just get moved about that's ingrained in our thinking - that works for cash, commodity money or cryptocurrencies, but not when viewing modern economies and fiat currencies where money is an IOU between two parties.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022416/why-b...
TlDr. Weapons designed to use against baddies can also be used against goodies
Lol.

Seems great from a board room, YouTube is too big to fail in 2years...

But this is just a signal that the platform is decaying to the latest generation of artists/creators...

Shame that for now they have a stranglehold on money and advertisers.
They don't need a "way out." Just put it back the way it was.

It's like finding a street full of protesters and trying to figure out the best way to make sure nobody sees them. The problem isn't your method, it's your goal.
Thank you for the explanation.

I think I agree with you. Chess is only a thing because people have played chess for a long time. Different time limits are a different kind of game -- neither better nor worse, but different from the things that made tournament-style chess popular.

Perhaps with computers it's time to retire the existing notion of chess tournaments. But people still seem interested, much as we still watch Usain Bolt despite him being outclassed by cars and even bicycles.
> The homeless. The poor. Young students. Artists. Elderly. Refugees.

They would prefer to live in an ADU instead of a private apartment?

Why can't society give them something better by building more affordable housing rather than living in a tiny home in someone's backyard?
Neat, useful for being aware of big projects I might find useful! However, the "View Repo" buttons aren't working for me in Desktop Firefox or Chrome. I also find charting stars over time a good heuristic for project trends. Might be something helpful to include.

Currently I use: https://www.star-history.com/ (no affiliation)
I think that chess.com pays some people to use their website on streams, etc.

Although Lichess isn't perfect and it's kinda annoying. One of the bad things about Lichess is how unrealistically inflated their ratings are; 2100 on Lichess is equivalent to about 1800 on Chess.com. Chess.com is much more similar to the FIDE rating and other real-world systems. Lichess is just super inflated for some reason and it makes it kinda hard to compare your progress to other metrics.
The very left-wing Americans I know hated Trump a lot more than they love Biden. They have no particular love for Biden because Biden is not very left-wing at all. Biden comes from the old neoliberal contingent of the DNC, not the new lefty progressive camp. Biden is no Bernie or AOC and only has lukewarm support from very-left people, in my experience.
I feel like the 30 second increment is a bit cheesy given the time constraints of classical chess. Magnus was down to less than a minute but can just make some quick moves to add several minutes back to his clock. If you have an increment it should only be 1-2 seconds regardless of time format.
Because it's Epic. They bought up my favorite game, ended Linux support for it, pulled it from Steam, turned it into another cosmetic money-grab, and continue to make it worse every update. The latest changes excited the community a bit but I'm positive they're part of a plan that the community is going to be absolutely furious about and then, to kick a dead horse, they'll add EAC, even though it's impossible to cheat.

Petty reasons? Yeah, but they haven't offered anything worth changing my mind over yet.
> I don't want to defend standardized tests as flawless, but the SAT has been around forever, you can go to basically any public library and get a prep book

That's great unless there are a few other kids in the same area that also need to the book and also think to get it from the library.
Yes. You can check it out here - http://analysis.sesse.net/ - just click on history. (Sesse is Stockfish with a lot of compute, you can also follow it live during the games). At 131 it says "White mates in 47".
The US spies on its European allies all the time, and I'm sure they spy on Israel too, so that's not super surprising.

As for the USS Liberty, some do argue that it was intentional, but both the Israelis and Americans ended up agreeing that it was a mistake. The US is no stranger to such mistakes either, even more egregious ones like when they killed close to 300 civilians aboard a regular passenger flight following an approved route and in contact with ATC (Iran Air 655).

In the end both the US and Israel are amoral states that act only according to their economic and strategic interests and I feel that this unites them. I wish it didn't, though.
Thanks for using the product -- head of legal and compliance here.

Emails are going out in phases. But if you log into your dashboard, you should be prompted to accept the new terms and re-issue any merchant locked cards.

Some folks will already be on the new product if they signed up during our public beta period, so if you don't hear from us you're likely already on the new card types.
Oh, this is a good point that did elude me. As long as some form of gifted programs continue existing (which, given my flawed reading of this document, they will continue existing, just by virtue of demand), I do not see it being a problem. You will raise the bottom significantly while not really changing the top.
Betting on election outcomes is somewhat similar to sports betting, but perhaps isn't as attractive to sink effort into as the events are lower frequency (e.g. 4 year election cycle) with more variability.

Another situation could be insurance - betting on rare events. Similar to your example of betting on weather events.

Yet another way to approach it could be to find situations where you make money or accrue value without selling the asset: for example, long term buy-and-hold value investing where you never sell a stake in the business, so it doesn't matter how others might value that stake. But the return on your invested capital will be lower than if you can manage to find a repeatable process for making short-term trades with sufficiently positive expected value and can recycle your capital fast enough.

Another variation of the long term buy-and-hold value investing approach is doing things like getting a plot of land and planting a bunch of fruit or nut trees, and looking after them for a few decades until they're established and thriving, and then enjoying the nuts and the fruit. Lower ROI but it really doesn't matter what other people think.
Ask HN: High availability control system software architectures
Hi HN. I'm interested in resources describing the architecture and implementation of critical control system software. I'd like to understand more specifically about how these systems can be or are designed such that loading, patching, and deploying software in these environments can be done with zero downtime.

Are there any books, code, or other resources you would recommend?
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I think we are both agreeing that ADUs are the lesser of two evils (ADU vs homelessness), but why settle when we have the resources to do better?
If you go to the store, demand a Big Mac, and complain to all present that the Big Mac got cancelled, then they'd ask you to leave. And, sure, folks would be upset about being asked to leave.
I'm not an expert, but, from what I can gather, every time someone suggest a solution online they're immediately countered by multiple strong and sound counter arguments.
The vaccines are highly protective against hospitalization and death. As someone vaccinated (and boosted) against covid, I would much rather be infected with covid than the flu.

As for life finding a way, I do think we should expect to continue to see additional waves of covid, mutation and infection, but I'm not sure why you would expect that to lead to a high risk of death?
It may stop people exploring as much outside their current favourite creators. The issue is quickly judging the quality of unknown channels.

So no, they probably won't lose "users", but they may lose "engagement," however they're measuring that at the minute.
Jumping from vascular health to blood sugar level is a non-sequitur. There are many other aspects of vascular health.

And nothing is easy about a lifestyle intervention, it is in fact one of the hardest and least likely to hold kinds of medical treatment.
Everything we do is part of our "identity". That doesn't really bring anything new to the conversation.

Math deal with concepts, forms and quantities and their relationships and their abstractions, not personal identity. There are more proper academic fields for this (such as language and art), although it doesn't remove the fact that DIE is a discredited field and should be done away with anyway.
The biggest problem I see with this article is not the obvious intended political sizzle but an assumption early in the article along the lines of the only purpose of public education is the eventual production of STEM college graduates and everyone else can and should go directly to hell and absolutely no resources or encouragement should be provided for any other educational outcome. It makes you wonder how the public school system is not in a continuous state of civil rights lawsuits over the equal protection clause.

“every child must master algebra, preferably by eighth grade, for algebra is the gateway to the college-prep curriculum, which in turn is the path to higher education.” But that's not the life path for perhaps 90%+ of the population. I don't think we can justify burning tax dollars to exclusively and solely support a tiny minority of kids at the expense of nearly all the other kids.

I would not be bothered by mindless STEM boosterism if it were not for pages like this:

https://datausa.io/profile/cip/electrical-engineering#tmap_o...

It offends me as a EE type person that the top job title for graduating engineers is software dev, where they'd have been better off with a CS degree, or no degree. Meanwhile I'm told by the other side that we have a terrifying massive shortage of engineering grads, despite that clearly not being the case and it being VERY difficult for new kids to get a job in the field. I'm led to believe by "shortage" they actually mean a "shortage of people willing to work 80 hrs/wk for minimum wage and no bennies" or "shortage of experts with decades years of masterful experience willing to accept apprentice level pay scales"

We simply seem to have too many STEM grads for our economy to support. I don't see any realistic reason for future improvement in that situation. Meanwhile public education policy, meant to serve EVERYONE, is telling most of the kids to go to hell. And those are the kids running the rest of the economy and we're relying on them to grow the economy enough to support the 5% of STEM workers whom are the only important people to educate according to "public" education, which is now really only college prep STEM education and F every other kid.

This path cannot possibly end well.

The best way to handle algebra education as applied to the entire student body, is to acknowledge that for 95% of the population, learning how to change the oil in a car or how to identify when someone is using statistics as propaganda, would be a more valuable life skill. Yes I acknowledge STEM is and will remain important for a tiny subset of both kids and future jobs, but...
Swiss biologist “Edward Wilson” created with GAN generated profile image
I wasn't implying a choice in who to enforce it against. I'm saying there's a wide spectrum what to try to enforce against. LEGO here even tried to enforce their trademark because the logo "looked like a LEGO brick". Apparently that didn't fly.

(The "using LEGO as generic label" one was a separate instance and did cause the guy to remake a bunch of videos.)
this captcha business is adversarial. I would refuse to drive a vehicle that treats me as a criminal by default (same reason I avoid airports).

Having a different class of license effect the cars performance is interesting tho. I guess you'd want to rely on biometrics so that high-skilled-drivers don't become a target to steal their license. Probably need a way to revoke licenses, which means the car will need to stay online at all times. Brings to mind those rental cars that won't unlock if they're in an underground garage or out in the woods.

IMO it's all too much complexity to rely on, a car should be a machine that goes when you hit the gas. If you want to save lives, more public transport and slower speeds + roundabouts is the answer.
Ah sorry my bad
How deflationary is Ethereum’s digital currency Ether?
My random thoughts come from the other side of the table -- my current gig is in a weird corner of the contact center outsourcing market, and we do some customer service for folks on a dedicated agent basis.

1) Be super clear internally with your goals for the outsourcing. Most customers end up with a split environment, as you are describing -- essentially duplicating pieces of the customer service management infrastructure between their internal team and the outsourced team. This adds complexity and cost, all things being equal, so you need to be clear on what the goals of the outsourcing are. This should include an analysis of what you are willing to pay for the outsourcing.

2) You're going to want to put quite a bit of effort into, and maintain control of, the training materials that you want the outsource vendor to use to train their employees. From your description, it sounds as though you MAY be trying to hand-wave that part of the problem away by supposing that any outsourced agents will be trained up to be subject matter experts on your product organically. Don't fall into that trap -- contact centers (even internal ones) are high turnover, and training needs to be clear, consistent, and quantifiable.

3) Have a plan in place that you can also share with your vendor as to how to perform quality-assurance on your outsourced agent based; ideally you would use the same criteria to objectively measure your internal staff as well, but I have yet to encounter a client who was willing/able to do that..

4) Have a full understanding of all the infrastructure that the outsource vendor is going to need access to, and be able to give the vendor enough control over that infrastructure to manage their agent base effectively. Don't make them ask you for a new agent account when they hire someone, or to remove an account when someone leaves or is let go.

Overall..

In my personal experience, the success or failure of these types of outsourcing endeavors come down to how objectively the client is willing to look at the entire scope of the problem, and whether they've clearly defined their goals. Clients who are just too busy to worry about customer service and are looking to just stop thinking about it and have the vendor "handle" it are usually unhappy. Clients who expect subject matter experts to be trained up on their product (and then continue to stay in the job for a long period of time) but who are looking to pay bottom dollar are typically unhappy.

YMMV. Best of luck in your search!
Not to mention, regardless what most people think or ones self thinks, I didn't think, or didn't like, much of the most important information and concepts that have ever been told to me.

It's fine to filter entertainment by taste and preference, but having news of the world treated exactly the same way is a problem. It's not only not a good idea, it's literally not sane.
There are values associated with pieces. Without considering the position, a pawn would = 1, Knight = 3, Bishop = 3.5, Rook = 5, and Queen = 9. I've not seen the game yet, but if he traded a Queen for 2 rooks that isn't such a bad deal.
I am they.
Seconded. This “private companies can do what they want” isn’t the “gotcha” many people think it is. Societal values exist independent of the specific implementations of laws meant to protect them, and in places where the law doesn’t reach—like the USA’s 1st Amendment not applying to private businesses—I think it’s still worth talking over “Hey, the law doesn’t really enforce this value here, but maybe it’s a good idea to abide by it anyway”. Saying private companies can do whatever they want is just stating the obvious and avoiding the question of what they should do.
Had to login just to counter the epilepsy part of this comment, though I think it applies to the rest of the topic wrt cancer as well. Keto diets can, in some cases, help epilepsy patients, particularly those with certain seizure types or genetic basis. But, like with cancer, epilepsy is complicated both in presentation and cause and to pretend that keto is any way a cure for epilepsy outside of a small minority of patients isn't true. See https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/treating-seizures-and-epileps... for high level overview.
crypto can still Work out as intended iff we become a Type I civilisation [1]. Now it’s more like some kind of anthropological stress test (and an emerging culture too. Hopefully it’s one that helps to drive people to see the urgentness and inevitability of reaching Type I or-we-are-doomed)

[1] eg Large-scale application of fusion power. According to mass–energy equivalence, Type I implies the conversion of about 2 kg of matter to energy per second https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Type_I_civiliz...
And there goes the rabbit hole…
I think I remember seeing people complain about its interface, but it's changed so much since then, I don't know if there are still people complaining.
I wonder how it improved since the last article.
Consider learning AWS, not as a permanent change but just as a way out. The demand for cloud work is really intense right now and from there other pivots are fairly easy.

If you're unsure about making the move you'll find employers generally treat the AWS certs as though they were experience.

They're not priced too bad either. I used a aloud.guru to study. It's paid and I'm not sure if it's still the best one or not. It's been some time since I used it.

The solutions architect cert and developer cert are quite similar.

So with a few months of study you could get both certs, switch to could, and then wait a bit and switch again to a vertical that seems more interesting. From there you can move away from cloud if you find it boring.

I debated writing this because it's so specific. Lots of other good paths too.

Oh also, probably not for the first one but FAANG needs cloud people too (usually).