skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VC’s don’t want you distracted from their one shot at your next 18 months. They’d rather you go for broke and flame out rather than building a 5-year runway that allows you to slowly tune your ideas.

Neither is better than the other, but one might be better for a given situation.
covid isn't going to reach some new all time high infection rate because one monitoring system in one state was down for a few weeks (if that's the sentiment here. article doesn't load)
Yes, plastic degrades mainly through oxidation, water, and UV exposure. The danger is that these kinds of things just embrittle the plastic, causing it to crack, flake and powder into smaller pieces ("chain scission"), which we believe are still endocrinologically significant. True biodegradation would mean the plastic is reduced to base chemicals like CO2.
Reminds me of Doomwatch: the Plastic Eaters

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0564476/
I see you have never played Nethack.

Granted, in Nethack you "Role Play" as a murderhobo, so it's not quite the narrative focus you are looking for, but if you want multiple ways to solve problems it has an incredible amount of player fuckery built in from decades of development.
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Looking at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Arweave/comments/gu5elw/arweave_per...

The advantage it has over IPFS is guaranteed permanence and the incentivization is core to that functionality.
What we need is software architecture review, not git diff review.
We implemented a banner on a website that is using our own Matomo instance, but on a different domain, because some other customer projects use the same Matomo instance. We weren't sure if that counts as owned by a third party, so it was decided to implement the banner. Better be safe than sorry.

I don't think that it is always trivially obvious how to correctly comply, like some other comments claim. Especially when you really want to eliminate all legal risk and avoid Abmahnfallen.
Those are not video games.
Article contains a good number of sloppy inaccuracies. Here is one.

> What truly amazes me is that a man as Roel Pieper, who is a professor of Computer Science no less…

> On 1 September 1999 Pieper was appointed as a professor of Electronic Commerce, a newly created chair at the faculty of informatics and technology management of the University of Twente. Pieper ended as a professor of business administration and corporate governance at the university of Twente in 2013. [1]

Information Science != Computer Science

See also [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roel_Pieper#Career_in_the_Neth...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System
In a bygone era, everything was built of forms, tables and bullet lists. It would be interesting to experiment with a browser that drops JS support in favor of a more robust list of native components.

Alternatively, the modern browser has basically evolved into a virtual machine anyway. You seem to be suggesting that we could do exciting things with a more intentional version of that idea, and I don't disagree.
In most states the financing bank owns the title to the car and is the "Legal Owner" as opposed to the "Registered Owner" who is the one who is buying the car.

The used market is likely different but for new cars from Dealerships, GM Financial, Toyota Financial, Ford Credit etc are Billion Dollar subsidiaries.
>> I’ve been thinking recently about detective games, and in particular, the “deduction mechanic” — the gameplay system of linking “facts” together to produce a new and interesting conclusions that forward the story.

Pedant's corner: deriving new facts from known facts is logical abduction, not decudtion.

The way that Sherlock reasons is abductive reasoning, although he calls it deduction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning#A_Theory_o...

I guess the term never really caught on in the popular language.
IMHO this distinction is just conservative vs liberal.

Honestly, I am not a fan of political compass, I think there are three independent dimensions based on three major moral values:

- conservativism (value of authority and cultural preservation)

- liberalism (value of individual freedom and meritocratic progress)

- socialism/progressivism (value of equal participation in society and democracy)

Each of these gives a worldview and a way to address equality, freedom, justice, authority; and each suggests what societal and economic institutions should look like. They can be also combined, they are not always contradictory. And each system has its own "vice" - type of selfish corruption.

Left vs right has shifted through history, originally it was liberalism+socialism against conservativism, slowly liberalism was coopted by the right instead.

That's why the OP's axis is a tension between conservative and liberal, because it is missing from political compass. But it was always present in capitalism (in fact Marx described it as capital accumulation - liberals who accrue property thanks to "merit" become conservative incumbents).
why is a single ID card for everything called "survillance".

Sure, I would have preferred if this wasn't so leaky. But can someone tell me how this is surveillance if they're not tracking transactions, conversations or my individual choices (which I assume they are not)
> The way QoS works for VoLTE for example, is not by putting application layer knowledge at the link layer. Instead the services that activate and route a phone call, have the ability to send a rule, called a traffic flow template, to the underlying LTE network.

So you need to put link-layer knowledge in the application layer, and on anything in between the app and the network link. Your app needs some API to do this, and it surely isn't a transparent connect(2). And if you want full support, then when hook up your LTE access point to a consumer-grade wifi-router — or maybe your business's router, as a backup if the primary link fails — you'll need some way to relay support there as well, and to your desktop software running Windows, and to OSX and Linux, and your Docker container.

It's all doable, it's just a massive amount of coordination in exactly the way "throw me some packets!" isn't.
What makes plastic something with a negative potential?
Was lignin a "thing with negative potential" until some organisms capable of dissolving it appeared?
What makes humans a separate thing from "God" - are they not a part of the same nature that created them (and lignin)?

Don't get me wrong - plastic pollution is a serious issue. it just seems to me that the "negativity" of plastic pollution lies in making life more difficult for humans.
Appearance of lignin surely influenced whatever forms of life existed at the time, we just don't care that much because we were not around (though carbon deposits from that time were surely useful as a source of easily accessible energy). We are born and we die in a world where lignin is biodegradable and not much of a hassle so we might be inclined not to call it "negative" even though it shares some similarities with plastics.

Things sometimes play out in our favor (like the aforementioned coal deposits providing easily accessible energy) and sometimes they don't (like the CO2 from burning all this coal pushing the chemical composition of our atmosphere outside of favorable range of parameters). I don't really see any advantage of introducing additional beings into the description (I don't think it enables us to make more accurate predictions), though I guess it could be an interesting thought experiment along the lines of the Gaia hypothesis (or the Medea hypothesis for those of more pessimistic inclinations).

I apologize if I made myself unclear or impolite - I tried my best to make this response as understandable as possible while trying to keep it reasonably short.
> Google analytics is going to be essentially outlawed in the EU.

One can only hope.
I'm not a fan of debits / credits for folks not going into accounting properly.

Porter has a book - the alternatives to debits and credits, using financial information.

Basically accounting is an equation you keep in balance.

Assets = Liabilities + Equity

You can understand how any transaction "posts" by keeping this equation in balance (or solving it).

You borrowed $100K? Your liabilities are + 100K, and cash (an asset) is also + 100K. Books in balance.

(Change in) Equity = Income - Expense

Extends this formula to your profit and loss statement if needed. Errors accumulate in the balance sheet as well.

Note that balance sheet is more important. With two balance sheets at different times I can see my net income for that period (no categorization of income / expense needed).
Sorry but I got a proper laugh from this comment
I wouldn't say it's THAT influential. It's a very good SF book though. Too much SF and fantasy writing is dorks geeking out on space travel or witchcraft or whatever, with very little literary quality in the writing itself. Dune bucks that sad trend.
>you are FORCED to implement CSD on GNOME because their Window Manager will not paint the SSD for you, even for old application that existed before GNOME3 was created.

No, this is not true at all. Old applications and toolkits that existed before GNOME 3 was created will use X11, and the legacy decorations will still work there.
My upbringing was evangelical Christian... thus my distaste for theological supremacism.
I prefer FPS and side scrollers. I don't play RPGs for the role playing, but I do notice that the role playing is implemented incredibly poorly.
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Who said anything about video games?
Incase you missed: https://www.livemint.com/money/personal-finance/income-tax-r...
I took the 101/201-level accounting classes at a local community college before my partners and I started our IT support contracting business in 2004. (For me, instructor led training is a preferable delivery vehicle, but the results might well be the same if I enjoyed self-education for this kind of thing.)

The dividends paid by having basic accounting knowledge were twofold.

It definitely helped me run the business better-- particularly when it came to working with the CPA who handles our taxes. It also helped me in communicating the operation of the business to the partners who have less of an accounting background. I've ended-up doing all the bookkeeping for the business and I think we've saved a ton of money versus hiring an accountant to do that basic work. (We still hire-out for tax-related work because I don't want to sink time into learning those intricacies.)

The other major benefit, and arguably a larger one than the first, is giving me credibility when I talk to Customers' finance and accounting people. Properly using the terminology they're comfortable with to describe their business problems feels like it has helped me land relationships and projects. Obviously, I can't spin-up a "scratch universe" to test that hypothesis, but I do know that I've seen tech-heavy and accounting-light presentations by other vendors go over very badly with some of the same people.

Finally, I'd argue bookkeeping and accounting is, arguably, the oldest "information technology" discipline in humanity. Much of IT springs from the history of bookkeeping becoming computerized ("automatic data processing"). I think knowing the history of IT, be from the dawn of computer science birthing from logic and mathematics, or the first practical applications of IT to human problems, is valuable to its practitioners.
Knowing that Musk had the project to let your car drive as an automatic taxi without you, this is not surprising. We will have to get used to cars doing stuff without their driver.
Code is a tricky word. It’s very ambiguous.

What if I lift a minor function? What if I study yours and base mine off of it? What if I type it all except for three lines I pasted from yours? The whole idea that a recipe can be owned is fascinating.

Actual recipes, btw, are not considered copyrightable.
Rocket Acquires Truebill for $1.275B
Magnetic ‘hedgehogs’ could store big data in a small space
Judging office tower vacancy during a mass pandemic that encourages work from home seems harsh.

And the salesforce tower is only 3 years old. It takes time to fill those up.

The original WTC took 30 years (early 2000’s) to achieve full occupancy[1]. The new WTC was at 90% right before the pandemic, 6 years after opening[2]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_(1973%E2%80...

2: https://www.breakinglatest.news/world/the-occupancy-rate-of-...
Frida? That's https://frida.re/ ?
The real question is the triggers for the meltdowns.
Specifically, if there's a big sensory component here, that's the place to start, well before the psychotherapy, SSRIs or talk. If what's getting you to explode is some kind of sensory overload, no amount of talk will solve that.

We each have an optimal bandwidth of sensory stimulus in which we function. For some, it's pretty broad. For others, it's very narrow and complex. But the large majority, those who come across as perfectly normal and well-functioning, never even pause to think about this - and most people's bandwidth isn't that broad.

So the first thing I'd do is read about your sensory system and think hard about what throws you off in terms of sensory input. There are sure to be questionnaires online on this.
It may be that what will help you far more than drugs or sitting still is installing a swing in your backyard.
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If you mean the technical details of attention models, the original paper “Attention is all you need” is not too difficult to read. If you’re more interested in applications, hugging face has a “course” on their website that walks through the high level topics of applying transformers to natural language processing (can’t remember if they cover transformers for other topics).
Pardon my ignorance if any, but I find financials and accounting as quite boring things. Most problems in these are about tracing numbers, reconciliation and mismatches. What thril one can face in these areas? Any examples of challenges you see ?
> The button is guaranteed to be present on all displays by default

Mine doesn't have one, it does have a touch activated area that's not findable by touch because it's completely smooth.
Yes exactly. Stripe built a whole business on this concept by creating an easy to implement, trustable experience for otherwise dodgy looking small shops. Trust is huge, and a sketchy looking form destroys trust.
The original paper that introduced the Transformer architecture is quite accessible and outlines a lot of the history and rational for the design [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf
I do not have my identity in whether I am even with or ahead of other people. That makes it easy to simply not play the game.
On the other hand, if you were, like me, an early adopter of the Raspberry Pi you probably find your old Pi 1 is too slow to use for demanding applications these days. But doing a bit of bit banging and software or hardware SPI to control a strip of LEDs is well within a Pi 1's capability, and the Pi comes for free if you have one gathering dust.
"Banking panics and deflation ceased in 1933/1934 with FDRs gold-confiscating shenanigans, and at that point things started to recover, which was well before WWII."

Maybe all the bad banks had been consolidated by then, after years of Depression?

"No, because creating money expands the money supply and raising taxes does not."

But why would money supply matter - you can simply raise the value of the existing supply to the same effect? What does "money supply" mean, the number of coins?

"The Keynesian approach "

yeah but that is "just" the Keynesian approach. I know he is popular, but that doesn't make it automatically correct.

For starters, why does "economy" even depend on a government? It sounds like a special case where a meddling government is present.

"Per this argument, what goods are being created and distributed doesn’t actually necessarily matter, which is why even government spending on economically worthless things like war equipment (much of which was abandoned in Europe as not worth bringing back after the war) will still work."

You have to admit it does sound slightly crazy, though? Interesting point about the useless war equipment, but again it seems like that is not the only thing war does. Maybe it simply took millions of otherwise useless workers out of the picture by killing them, for example? There seem to be more aspects to war than useless spending. "Confidence" may have risen by winning the war, too, not just by government spending?

After all, if the government spends too much, then trust in the money is also being eroded.

"Not if the government won’t deficit spend"

But then you can't say it is the gold standard, but the unwillingness to deficit spend?
> Did I somehow propose "one size fits all" in any of my comments in this thread?

Yes, even if you don't realize it.

UBI, "Journalist Dollars", "Political vouchers" and pretty much every proposal from Andrew Yang are all starting to sound like variations of the old joke about the farmer getting in trouble with the inspector about the feed given to the pigs until he decides to just give each pig $10 so that they can eat at the local buffet.

They all involve blanket solutions without looking into any context or idiosyncrasy of any of the separate regions. It reeks of this coastal elite mentality that believes that people on the periphery want to live like those in the big economic centers.

> The USA has been an experiment (...) The next framework now needs to be laid out.

Read again and tell me how you are not implying that one framework is to be established and implemented. How are you not advocating a top-down solution?

> focusing on creating online platforms and systems to further strengthen education-learning, communications and reaching like-minded and like-hearted community is the key.

Yeah, that has been the technocrats wet-dream about the Internet. I've been hearing how the internet would help educate people all across the world since I got my first 14.4k modem. But instead of this utopia you are painting we got Donald Trump, Orban, the Chinese "social credit" system and a continuous detoriation of "Western democracies" that benefited only but the tech elite.

No, thank you. This is not the world that I want to my live in and my children to grow on.
They're providing context, not flexing.
You're thinking of pair programming. That's different.
I mean it does take a certain amount of effort to reach first jhana. I don't know if I'd say it takes "effort" to maintain it, but if you lose focus for long enough you will fall out of it. I've never personally experienced the higher jhanas so I can't speak to what they are like.
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It’s sort of interesting to think about. One epidemiologist I follow mused that we could end up with delta and omicron co-existing, with omicron hitting the vaccinated (but not boosted) while delta continues to wreak havoc among the unvaccinated. It’s hard to tell if omicron is actually more contagious than delta, or if it just appears to be because of its immunity evasion.
Valid point. It's much more complicated but suffice to say it can be changed by a majority of full node operators, of which miners are only a subset. The meta checks and balances preventing such an occurrence have been proven for Bitcoin. We haven't seen miners succeed in reversing the halvenings, for instance.
I seem to recall Dreamweaver was also good at pretty websites. And it is hard to deny that flash enabled some massively interactive sites back in the day. Of a nature that I don't see much nowadays.

I suspect if you are wanting to create interactive things scratch is a gem.
he declared bankruptcy
> For example, nobody in the economics profession would refer to the financial system as being 'centralised'. It is not. There's no central planner.

There is and it is called the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. By setting the EFF rate (or QE policy if EFFR ~= 0%) of the global reserve currency, they control many facets of the financial system and broader economy.

It's not very fine grained control ("bake X loaves of bread"), but it is centralized control and planning.
What? What happened to next week? Do you know something happening that will prevent next week from occurring?
I climbed inside a blue whale
It becomes bad when your customers are combining those softwares in a recursive majority.

The only reason incumbants are kept alive is so we can pretend we have a choice.

My excuse is it's hard to use a adjective as a verb.
I am both exaggerating and serious. Say you are a US company and you run a gopher site. You are not allowed to have the IP addresses of European visitors transmitted to you, that is what this decision is saying right? You are not allowed to allow them to establish a connection to you at all. This seems impossible, but this is how I am reading this. I would (honestly) like to for someone to point out my error here, without any "they probably won't do this because it doesn't make sense" arguments.

I don't know what makes a US company eligible to be sued in a EU member court. I guess you have to be doing some kind of business with European customers, so a non profit blog may be ok?

How do you solve this? You have to create a legal entity not connected to you that can purchase a server within the EU and then somehow syndicate your content to them without establishing a strong legal connection.
It's bee extensively, directly tested by randomised controlled trials using vitamin supplements and no effect was found:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/do-vitamin-d-zinc-and-ot...

"The researchers found that people receiving the supplements, whether individually or combined, had no improvement in symptoms or a faster recovery when compared with otherwise similar patients receiving neither supplement."

Also it's just an absurd fantasy to say that 'they' are stopping people taking supplements or being tested.

"Despite questions about the overall benefit of these supplements, many doctors began prescribing them routinely in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic..."

So some doctors have been doing this and all the options have been explored, and the kind of evidence you'd need to push this at the population level just isn't there. Look, the information is out there, these supplements are available, you can get tested for deficiencies any time you like, go for it. There is no conspiracy, it's just that overall many medical professionals feel that this has been studies and they just don't agree with you that this is a significant factor, that's all.

Why do you think they disagree, if not a genuine difference of opinion? What's the alternative narrative? The entire medical profession across many disciplines and diverse political opinions and different nationalities is united against humanity?
I’m sincerely not trying to be mean, but it’s possible you were previously simply bad at entrepreneurship.

There is this dominant narrative that entrepreneurship is primarily about raw willpower and persistence despite the odds. As a 20+ year entrepreneur I do not believe this to be the case.

I believe the primary skill is observation. Yes, we need to try different ideas, but what really makes a product work is listening to the market and identifying opportunities to create value. You’re not fixed on a product/solution ahead of time, but are just paying attention to needs and how those needs intersect with our unique abilities to create value.

When this is working well, it looks like luck. Over time we develop multiple viable business options and we get to choose the very best ones. Instead of a slog, success comes relatively easy.