skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Angela Beesley hasn’t been associated with Wikia since 2012. I don’t know when this happened to you but the site has gone through a lot of ownership changes over the years.

And I don’t care what else Jimmy Wales has done, for profit or otherwise — Wikipedia is a goddamn gift and the world would be hurt tremendously if it ever shut down. It’s probably the only non-profit I donate to regularly.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29457530

"Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop VMs" submitted four hours ago which points to the GitHub repo (TFA links to it at top of article)
The shortsightedness of the comment you are responding to is unbelievable. Things may be cheap now, but what does the future look like when there are massive monopolies forming in every sector. From farming to retail, if you don't go big, you go out. This ends in neo-feudalism, with CEO's being the new lords.

Every collaborator of this plot has been promised a place among the new nobility. That's why they are going along with it. I've seen my own community fall into ruin. Hopelessness is rampant; main street died years ago. It's bleak.
> Honestly, it sounds like they're deeply scared of long-standing FSF-backed software having to compete (or even be replaced) with alternatives that just happen not to be GPL

They are, for good reason. Big companies hate open source, despite their claims to the contrary. Look at Apple's proprietary forks of all the BSD stuff, and handset manufacturers' proprietary forks of Android. The FSF should absolutely be doing everything in their power to minimize how often this happens.
Shopfiy has risen as a competitor, giving independent businesses an alternative means of transacting with customers. Amazon has plenty of competition. eBay is another.
"There are too many safety considerations for us to effectively mitigate, it would be too expensive, so we should be allowed to ignore safety altogether" --average 19th century industrialists
It’s mostly the ability to be able to locate it afterwards i.e. to improve the signal to noise ratio. I track hikes I do with a GPS and keep the GPX files afterwards but generally don’t refer to them unless uploading curated copies to OS Maps here in the UK for other people to use. So after a few years I nuke them. As for health data, it’s quite large. My apple health data is around 100 Meg compressed now and a lot larger, in the order of 1Gb, decompressed.

I am not a hoarder as a counterpoint. I am always looking at ways to reduce what I have and remain focused. I lived with a hoarder in a house full of trash and don’t want to be that person to someone else. He also had 4TB of photos and videos that needed to be dealt with.

I think at the end of the day my life can probably be compressed to a few images and a few paragraphs…
It's like Infura, an API for querying blockchains. It is useful. It's not a "me too".

Something like 1/4 of all Ethereum requests run on AWS.
Simply being honest doesn't mean you're not unneededly insulting everyone around you. He can say he had a radically different appraisal of the technical viability of mySQL without calling everyone he works with an idiot.
Much of that turnover is the choice of the employee. They aren’t looking to build a long career in these instances. They’re looking for extra money or filler while between jobs.

I know guys that driver Uber/Lyft and do delivery and work at Amazon occasionally for extra money. So long as you remain in good standing they will hire you back quickly with the mutual understanding you’re just doing a quick thing.
The legal theories around corporate regulation started changing in the 1970s and are now the philosophy of “conservative” attorneys almost universally.

In short, if a series of actions doesn’t raise retail prices, it’s fine. Walmart beat the drum of “Made in the USA” and “Low Prices” until it didn’t matter anymore. Amazon arose during the era of impotent regulators, and just had to rope a dope Wall Street that it would someday somehow turn massive capital investment into cash.

Despite the economic engine unleashed by anti-trust actions like the breakup of AT&T and to a lesser extent standard oil, we probably won’t see significant changes for 30 years or more when demographic shifts and the cohorts of judges, etc running the show now fade away.
I don’t know anything about the outlet but that story looks pretty fine? It links to its sources at least, which is better than most tabloid pieces
Is your state ready to handle influx of federal funds for expanding broadband?
Stack safety for free?
Agreed, it would be an interesting idea to make a new coreutils with everything modernised/cleaned up to be easier to use and more consistent.
Dangerous waters. If you implement another transformer in that transformer in your transformer, you could cause recursion and it could end up in what is called a 'voltage collapse' - sucking the entire universe within the recursion.

Tread lightly. With great power comes great responsibility.
I'm extremely surprised to see CUHK on the list. I'm living 10 minutes from them and never knew they are a big player in the ML scene. A brief search online didn't show up anything interesting apart from the CelebA dataset.

Edit: After asking a friend seems most of their research is with Chinese official research institutes and Sensetime. It makes sense now.
There is also this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FUge4YAXzk
Social dynamics influence the gut microbes of wild lemurs
Failing to take additional steps before a loss is conceptually very different from being able to take additional steps after a loss. You might as well list a whole bunch of additional things he could have done before throwing away the hard drive, e.g. having a recovery phrase split over multiple pieces of paper each stored in different bank vaults (like the Winkelvii), or simply keeping a back-up of the hard drive contents. If you lose the PIN to access your bank account, your bank would never say something like "sorry, can't help, you should have done X, Y or Z before you lost your PIN, but never mind [to quote Satoshi from the article] Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more."
Doubt it. Napoleon came close to winning as it was. Having more men doesn't count for much if they're in the wrong position.
William Cleveland, "Elements of Graphing Data"[1] and "Visualizing Data"[2]

Cleveland worked at Bell Labs and his work is timeless and very practical. It isn't about artwork or making things look nice. It's about communicating information. I like to contrast his work with Tufte's. Tufte comes up with some nice stuff but I find it to be more art than science where the information is clearly sacrificed to ascetics. With visualizations I always ask myself, "Do you know more now about what is going on than you did before or is it just something nice to look at?" Way too often it's the latter.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Graphing-Data-William-Clevel...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Visualizing-Data-William-S-Cleveland/...
I’m not sure where he got the idea that these don’t exist… I see them all the time: https://containertech.com/container-sales/53ft-high-cube-sto...
Linux is something of a special case, as the vast majority of the users can "use it" without thinking about the implications of the GPL. Because, for example, there's a specific exception for software that uses Linux syscalls, and that glibc is licensed LGPL.

That's not true for most uses of other GPL licensed libraries and software, where the license makes your code a "derivative work".
Except those things didn't work. Well, I guess child labor did in the short term sense. However, slavery, feudalism, aristocracy, and fascism were all remarkably inefficient, and only able to maintain their existence through force.
More than once I've found it easier to move to a new vendor than learn how to use an updated site. Especially when a site I use is acquired by another and they want me to migrate my account or whatever. It's like, great, your founders got bought out and now you've made it my problem, congratulations I guess.

Disclaimer: I, too, am old.
MIT is a turnoff for potential contributors, not for users. A lot of people don't want to see their work that was done without compensation end up in some company's proprietary fork.
Your first link's sample pool was high schoolers and young 20 y/os - people who haven't had their brains fully form yet (which happens around 25). Further, it was funded by the Australian department of health, so ehhh who knows what sort of biases exist there.

I can't even open your second link.

Picking sources from a Google search generally doesn't help to back up whatever point you're trying to make fwiw.
> The saying goes that if you don't paid for it then you are the product.

So true. This is why I switched from free Linux to paid Mac, and why I've started replacing open-source apps with commercial ones.
That's exactly why I quit my job to start working full time on GainKnowHow.com . All the new hires during the pandemic were so disadvantaged because they just had no good way of figuring out all the idiosyncratic processes at the company.
That’s quite possible. I have around 150 historical photos i.e. over 100 years old which depict family life in Switzerland in the 1800s. I will look into that. Thanks for the suggestion.
Quick googling would suggest that steel used be be ~$550/tonne pre-pandemic. An empty 20' container weights 2.3 tonnes, a 40' container 3.9 tonnes. So raw steel cost would be $1300 for a 20' container and $2100 for a 40' container (completely ignoring that I might be looking at the wrong grade of steel, or other ingredients like the antifouling paint).
Which ones beside Vimeo?
A better keyword might be '(ultra-)liberal' rather than 'capitalist'.
Google famously sucks at customer service, mostly because they've figured that they'd have to pay a moderation team more money than whatever they'll lose from the few and far between problem cases there might be.

There is no fixing that without massive corporate reorganization, which won't be voluntary, and thus will take 10x the time with worse results. At this point this is just the Google way to do things, and making smaller fry follow this rules will probably only end up making Google bigger.

The one real way out there might be is making one-click self hosting viable again.
It is completely legal for businesses to deny service as long as it's not a protected class.

I, as a freelancer, refuse to work with certain "difficult" clients at my sole discretion for example.
I've thought about the same. I rely on Google too much. But "too much" is really only e-mail and cloud storage (Google Drive) for me. I only rely on cloud hosting for photos for a select few albums I intentionally want to share a link to, not as a full cloud of all my photos that I then rely on being there. I offload my phone and camera every now and then to local storage (NAS) at home, a hard drive in a safe deposit box at my bank, and then my Synology NAS runs an automated Backblaze backup which is very cost efficient for this use.

So I would only really need to switch

1) my mail provider to something else, which is easier today now that I rely on "messengers" more than mail, so not many people that I need to inform. Just subscriptions and account details that I can update one at a time.

2) cloud storage to something else, and there are oceans of alternatives there, many very capable.
Thanks! You have to make sure that the hex digits A-F are in lower case, so a-f.

It appears that I got my Gravatar account from a Wordpress account I made up ~1 month ago.
I do that, I never really thought of it as 'taking care of my eyes', it's just more comfortable. I have a desk lamp, and my desk backs onto a wall - I just point the lamp at the wall behind the monitor. (late 20s, better than 20/20, touch wood etc.)

Disagree on the latter though - I hate stuff big! Browser default set to 80% and a lot of things I use at 67%.
Good question. I'm not sure if the details, but you could learn more here:

https://oilmanmagazine.com/how-and-why-natural-gas-flaring-i...

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/oil-dr...

Part of the key is that when there's an increase in power demand in a grid, they usually have to use more expensive sources of power, but if they can temporarily shut off their bitcoin mining to meet demand spikes, they can more efficiently manage their network load.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/10/11/bitcoin-mining-is...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/04/bitcoin-miners-say-theyre-fi...

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-mining-fits-tex...

I don't know a lot about energy grids, and would love to hear from someone who does, but it sounds like bitcoin is a new technology that could provide incredible efficiencies to electricity grids' ability to balance their loads and supply consumers with greener energy overall.
Maybe get a mechanism of law passed which makes it difficult for platforms to sweep content from view in cases of changes of moderation. If youtube decies Charlie Bit Me is violent and they know longer wish host it, then they must provide some sort of redirect if video owner provides. I don't know?
It is until someone leaves you 4TB of them to deal with. Where do you even start?

I am a big proponent of not leaving my kids a pile of trash to sift through. See my other comment on this matter for background.
I have a minor color blindness, I believe on the red/green scale. I can't get all the circles with dots in them, and I've struggled to find online tests that could definitively call out my type of colorblindness. The results vary by test site. Each one of the pictures in the Mozilla link look different to me, and I can easily see the colors that might be missing to others.

I completely lose my mind when I find visualizations that use gradiants of red to green and brown. For example, a US state map that will have 7 different colors of red, green, and brown with a legend for each on the side. It's extremely difficult to line up which color is assigned to a state. Line charts are even worse. Please just use wildly different colors and if possible, label the lines directly.
Twitter is great isn't it...

"We need your phone number to post"

short time later

"We have leaked your phone number linked to your account to the entire planet"
Prior to the pandemic, steel was $400-600 per ton.
Yeah, but ecommerce is just one of amazon's (many) businesses.
> The proprietary company's proprietary product was always going to be proprietary.

The point of copyleft is to make this not true. Most companies don't have the resources to reimplement Linux from scratch, so they won't be allowed to make their drivers/kernel modifications proprietary.
Presumably with the browser plugin. This would of course require all your users installing it.
That might be worth to give it a try.
yeah thats the tricky thing. Google makes $256/user per year domestically in ad revenue. That's $21/month.

https://mondaynote.com/the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-every...

it's really hard not to be the product.
It is probably downvoted for the lack of context.

(The link you posted doesn't really show that kombucha leather — rather than a piece of fabric for arts and crafts — is a viable thing either.)
Sorry to hear that, but you are not the first nor the last one. See Don’t build your castle in other people’s kingdoms https://howtomarketagame.com/2021/11/01/dont-build-your-cast...
You (we) may be experiencing future shock: "too much change in too short a period of time", from 'Future Shock', Alvin Toffler, 1970.

FTWA [0]:

> Alvin Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a "super-industrial society". This change overwhelms people. He argues that the accelerated rate of technological and social change leaves people disconnected and suffering from "shattering stress and disorientation"—future shocked. Toffler stated that the majority of social problems are symptoms of future shock. In his discussion of the components of such shock he popularized the term "information overload."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock
It is incredibly annoying. My other "favorite" is AMP reddit which will autoplay some video with sound completely unrelated to the link you clicked on somewhere down the page. How the hell autoplaying video leads to ACCELERATED mobile pages I have no clue.
He says he's a subscriber to YouTube music. So he is paying.
From Yahoo Japan:
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/c737f540fd3ae5a6b170ceb807...

The original seems to come from the Kyodo agency, but they don't have published it in english as far as I've seen.

There's a video making rounds too but it looks a bit suspicious.
So ignoring your customers after they've paid you money is something we should just throw into the bin of "that's just business, folks"?
There seems to be some selective amnesia about how great mom & pop businesses were. People drove an hour out of their way to Walmart because it was that much better. Not just the prices, but also selection and return policies (Walmart was the pioneer of long term hassle free returns).

Similarly, Amazon is succeeding because it is genuinely a much better experience than going into a store. You order things, they show up at your door. If there is a problem Amazon refunds your money.

If the government should do anything its invest in a same-day/next-day shipping infrastructure that can be used by any business (say, via the post office or maybe a new package logistics agency).
This is the second amazon. paid cnbc article today.
Amazon was a founder-driven company since inception which means he had the opportunity to turn things upside down, demand accountability, competence, shut down divisions etc..

Regular CEO's have no such power, they are political beings who manage the gears already in place, placate unions, investors, their own executives etc..

It will be really interesting to see how long they continue with dynamic innovation after Bezos.

Some companies do keep it up, Apple has being doing reasonably well without jobs, Walmart was able to continue to expand a long a vector for a long time.
Curious, if we replace the word 'shilling' with advocating, and replace the word 'bitcoin' with another arbitrary technology, say Linux or Typescript, would you still be strongly opposed?

Tl;dr: are you strongly opposed to technology advocacy in general or are you simply anti-bitcoin?
It's probably FTX or Binance taking advantage of the crash.

Whether that's backed by any kind of asset other than an IOU we don't know...
Retail, as an employment sector, exists with or without amazon/walmart... and generally also employs low income people. Calling that a service is a bit much.
The original article that this one discusses, was discussed extensively yesterday on HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450420

(I don't think anyone there pointed out that 53 feet is not a container that can go on a container ship! But people were very suspicious of the original reporting along similar lines to the OP here)
Oh wow this is the Syriza minister of finance.

>In other words, I shall argue that Bitcoin is not fit for purpose under capitalism, or as a vehicle toward transcending capitalism, but something like Bitcoin will characterise monetary systems in a future world free of private banks and share markets.

Wow the open letter he is responding to is a socialist who believes bitcoin is a good idea for socialism?

Bitcoin is literally the antithesis to socialism. It seems clear to me in this article that Yanis knows this. Greece didn't get control over the euro. They couldn't print lots of money to generate significant inflation to hide their debt. Socialist governments basically dont function without heavy inflation making their people poor.

Something that has never happened in history is a fiscally conservative balanced budget socialist government with fully controlled inflation.
Despite illogical leftist primal emotional outcry, Walmart and Amazon have both been very good for the USA as a whole. Whenever any new tech or business innovation displaces the previous status quo, there will always be a temporary unrest as those disrupted lose their previous way of life. The fact of the matter is that Walmart and Amazon give Americans easier access to more affordable goods. Mom and Pop stores went out of business because they weren't able to provide the same value. That's how capitalism works, and it's exactly how it should be.

Mom and Pop then go get a different job, or if their skill sets are out of demand, they need to learn a new skill to become employable again. If Amazon and Walmart didn't pay competitive wages, no one would work there. Capitalism is the most fair system. I do believe we should have some sort of social safety net to ensure the people without marketable skills or work ethic aren't starving in the streets, but at the end of the day, life needs to be somewhat uncomfortable for non-contributors so that they are incentivized to go out and contribute to society instead of collect welfare and bring the rest of us down.
Note that this also has the chance to be a security issue, the management software can run nightly software updates on your AP's, possibly closing flaws before your "periodical" manual efforts.
Video games are disposable products, other software is usually mission critical and requires long-term support. So for games you can get away without automation but with other software it would destroy you. Testing is not free, it is a tradeoff where the benefits outweigh the costs by some margin. Video game testing is difficult to automate so in many circumstances the costs of automation may outweigh the benefits. Automated tests are just a subset of quality assurance, which can be accomplished in a variety of ways.
The language of trading is fairly precise - trades and orders are quite distinct things. Orders may or (commonly) may not result in trades.

An order that doesn't execute is not associated with any trade.

JPMorgan were fined for spoofing orders not trades.
It's more permissive, true, but it's not more free. As an analogy, consider that taking away people's permission to own slaves didn't make society less free.
That seems like a terrible idea for a rushed treatment during a global pandemic. If anything we need as much accurate and scientifically sound information as possible, if we want to make sensible decisions.
With my next business I’m aiming to do the opposite to number two, I want to address issues in a very old, traditional market and find a few thousand customers delighted with a reliable slow moving product that solves a big issue for them, and if the product were to ever get “feature complete” that would be great afaic.
Maybe he can get a loan against them, like those big stone wheels some people I can't remember used as money somewhere in the world I also can't remember.
I thought C/C++ programmers never got into the testing habit. In fact, with the dangerous memory model probably the only safe thing to do if a test fails is exit() in the child and fork() a new one in the parent… If you are in POSIX country!
I don't think this saying applies to the situation you are in. Perhaps more apt is "you get what you pay for".

For myself, I've switched to paying for Linux and open source software. I believe open source needs to be sustainable for consumers and expecting devs to work for free is insane.
Michael Sheen turns himself into a 'not-for-profit' actor
WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95
Reminder that a small percentage of a big number can still be a big number.

He who has ears, let him hear.
But you don't have to put the video exclusively to IPFS, PeerTube and co.