skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For 'hurt small businesses', two links deep is this article[0], and the only accusations it actually makes are:

> Like the House’s bill, the Senate’s bill would force companies like Amazon to separate their marketplace from their own retail offerings. This sounds “good” in theory, but the end of hybrid services would inevitably mean the decline of the SMBs who use and succeed on these platforms.

and

> The Senate’s legislation would also make it impossible for Amazon to offer its Prime free shipping service on millions of products, many of which are from small and medium-sized businesses. Consumers will likely turn to big retailers, none of whom are targeted by the bill and most do not provide the same seamless and robust access to massive consumer markets or promote small businesses nearly as well.

Despite these, I can't find the bill text in these articles.

(also, I hope the marketplace breakup would also affect walmart.com - they made a 3p seller marketplace that has caused confusion in customers who now think Walmart is selling GPUs at scalper prices[1] when they're actually just taking a % of those scalpers' revenue)

0: https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/26/small-businesses-would...

1: https://www.walmart.com/ip/MSI-NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-3080-Ti-Gr...
Disagree, I think it's spot on! But you may need to substitute for more modern attention hogs like Netflix, podcasts, mobile and web based games, indie games etc.

I'm sure that a pervasive predatory corporate development department backed by a cash-heavy company could reel in virtually all AAA PC games, but the long tail not so much. And the funny thing is, AAA has been a huge disappointment for gamers and I imagine investors as well over the last years, compared to its golden days.

Compare to say "owning your social graph" like Facebook, that's something that's much more robust. A good messaging platform doesn't take over the world in a few weeks like an indie game (almost) can, so Facebook has plenty time to acquire it or copy/steal their features.
That's just 'What about China', with a sprinkling of assuming that the entire left is one homogeneous group. (They're not, and most of the left makes fun of tankies too.)
The linked article does neatly, but they use 2D projection (so it's circles not spheres). Very simplified you use the broadcasted position + timestamp of multiple GPS satellites to find your location on the earth. So for a single satellite, you can (using time-in-flight of the signal) estimate the distance to that satellite at a point in time when you received its data. Once you know the distance D to that single satellite, you will know that your position (within margin of error) is anywhere on a sphere with the satellite as its center and radius D (of course this is a bit silly as you know you are definitely not farther away from earth surface as the satellite but rather somewhere 6000-6500km away from Earth center). So when using multiple satellites, you get a set of spheres and (simply viewed) would intersect those spheres - you will be somewhere in this intersection. Now if you can safely assume that your are always on the surface of the earth, you would project this (3d volume) intersection to 2d onto the earth surface - this projection is rather "small" hence less error. But if you would project this intersection using any other 2dimensions, the resulting area would be "wider" in terms of height/depth relative to the surface.

You have to picture those spheres given that the satellites are roughly at same orbital height relative to earth center and you always receive signals within your "field of view" on the nightsky - and of course assume the earth is round.
When my dad died people said I did not cry enough. I think different people are different and resent being told how I am supposed to react.

I have been watching a lot of Chinese TV set in ancient times (e.g. Three Kingdoms) and it is interesting to see the expectations that tough men, warriors, are supposed to cry. If you go to a funeral and don’t cry in that culture that would have been a serious breach of expectations and I think your commitment to the norms would be questioned.

In the last six months I have been working on a personal transformation of sorts and one of the discoveries is the cultivation of sadness to defeat hostility. I was in a situation where I had to eliminate rage against any possible provocation and i would flood myself with sadness sometimes based on my own personal losses, sometimes from fantasy and if all else failed I would go to the war memorial and start reading names.

I could not find the practice talked about in the western literature but found Chinese people knew about it hundreds of years ago. It sounds beyond the pale but I am astonished at the effect my tears can have on people, how it gets me much better results than getting angry.
Between Intel entering the GPU market, pricing their 12 series CPUs more competitively, and entering the ASIC miner market I can't tell if this is part of some grander strategy or if they're really just trying everything to see what sticks. Also, with Nvidia and AMD both having released mining specific cards last year and Intels planned foray I can't help but think PoW isn't going anywhere for years to come.
Surely nvidia and AMD both know that ethereum devs plan to do away with proof of work by summer?
When you watch Sussman and Steele give the MIT 6001 course the audience are seasoned HP calculator guys and gals

These must be the team who were designing the HP-28S and user rpl - the beautiful love child of Forth and Lisp.

And what a calculator they put out!
Nah, you need to modify the diagram to take Religions out. The religious establishment considers the military, corporate sector, and non-parliamentary government agencies to be captive to "the seculars", which they basically consider to be evil and devoted to destroying religion. We seculars, in contrast, think we mostly just don't want to give the religious big heaps of free money.
Such a meta project. Autists are splitters. Empaths are lumpers.
I like my devices cheap, dumb and offline. Nothing else.
The ad-supported part of the economy has become far too big. It used to be just a few ad agencies on Madison Avenue in New York and TV stations that were purely ad-supported. Now it's a sizable fraction of the economy.
Maybe it's time to stop allowing advertising as a tax-deductible business expense.
Encourage companies to focus on doing the thing, instead of hyping the thing.
That's the thing, these people aren't being taken to trial either.
Written by Boris Johnson's sister too..
But are those traits behavioral, or are they the mechanism that give rise to flexible behavior? Let's take language. Imagine saying that linguistic components are naturally selected for in the genome. It's the wrong level. Language happens at the level of brains and societies, not genes. Genes are used to build proteins which are used to build brains, but brains interact and learn from their environments, and even shape their environments, causing feedback loops.
It's amazing how versatile the Telegram API is.

I think the reason why it's that good is that it's literally the same API that the official apps use. There's no separate, restricted API for external developers, your app is treated in the exact same way as the official ones are. Even things like account creation and payments are exposed.

The protocol is very esoteric and hard to understand, though. It wouldn't necessarily have to be that way, it just feels like their documentation is aimed at mathematicians, not developers, especially the parts concerning binary serialization. They definitely suffer from a "reinvent the wheel" syndrome, they have a proprietary client-server encryption layer where plain old HTTPS would do, same for data serialization. Things are reasonably well documented, though, and implementing a fully-featured client with 0 external dependencies is feasible. Voice calls are a notable exception here, the calls API has very little documentation and all it gives you is an opaque blob that you're expected to give to their own voip library.
It seems pretty specific to me. If Congress writes a law that says Google can't integrate hours of operation into Google Maps, they have to defer to Yelp, that harms consumers and only helps Yelp. Viewed through that lens, you can and should think of these bills as Yelp welfare.

If you are a big fan of Yelp I guess that's OK for you, but most of us can see that it's a scam.
Interesting.

I've railed in the past about how much I hate advertising in any form, and the Snowden leaks made me hate the targeted ads even more. I'm somewhat of the opinion of "no one is immune to propaganda", at least not entirely. Ads serve effectively as propaganda for corporations, and sometimes literal propaganda towards politics.

If Google cannot make a profit without creating a massive surveillance state, then I don't think they should be in business.
It leaves out the original definition of planet, the things in the night sky that move.
Tell me you are math illiterate without etc.
A device-specific "owner password" would be fine. Physical access is not proof of ownership, so there is no need to open the device up to trivial "evil maid"-style attacks. Of course some owners will lose their passwords, so some provision would need to be made to ensure that owner-access is not permanently lost.
I really take for granted how well Nginx works across a number of web backend functions.

Some of the container/orchestration world has tried to supplant the need for it as a reverse proxy, but you get so many goodies out of the box just by sticking this in front of your app, and for very little overhead.

I remember the pre-Nginx days and all of the struggles people routinely ran into with options like Apache or other reverse proxy tools.
The overarching skillset that really smart people use everyday to explain how x works or investigate a customer issue is...google
I had the same question. I moved on in the article, and its great, but this still puzzled me. If the author cleared this up, this article would be an absolute masterclass.
Dell is in bed with Microsoft and needs to do everything they can to make you think twice about your OS
> And on top of everything else, customers thought that they could watch whatever they wanted on their attached 32" LCD screen.
The current "uBlock" is not the original project, "uBlock Origin" is the original project.

The essence of a project is not the location of its repo on GitHub, it's who worked on it since it was first created, i.e. the commit history. If you look at the commit history of "uBlock Origin", it goes back without interruption to June 23rd, 2014, back to when I created the repo.[1]

The claim that the current "uBlock" is the "official", "original" project is a marketing pitch by the people behind it, who I call out as purposefully deceitful.[2]

* * *

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/graphs/contributors

[2] https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1477665332156420096
Which modules do you miss in nginx that are free in Apache?
> Apple absolutely dominates browser engines

Where?

> In my market (mostly in the UK)

Therein, as the bard would tell us, lies the rub. UK is a bunch of islands. Unless you are building super localised products, the world is a big place with a lot of people who don't use iOS.

In case you didn't know.
If you want a really nice version of this, companies like Heckler Design, Manfrotto, Triad Orbit, and König & Meyer make excellent stands with tons of adapters for lights, cameras, mics, speakers, phones, ipads...

My current WFH setup includes a Manfrotto 244N magic arm attached with a RAM mount to a Rokform RAM ball that very securely attaches to my Rokform iPhone case. It's clamped to my desk with a Manfrotto 035 SuperClamp. The RAM adapter is P/N RAP-B-366U and the double swivel on the RAM side is a RAP-B-201U . The Rokform part is "Universal Ball Adapter Phone Mount" SKU: 337101

RAM also makes a great iPad "X-Grip" holder, along with tons of different mounts for different situations, especially vehicles and things like exercise bikes (e.g. look for stuff like a "RAM® Double U-Bolt Ball Base for 1" - 1.25" Rails" or indeed their actual handlebar mounts). These are sturdy, pro-level mounts, not the cheap disposable junk from no-name brands on Amazon.

For my Zwift stationary bike setup that I use my old road bike on, I just use a $15 Niteize Handleband to attach my phone plus a Vornado 783DC made-in-USA DC brushless fan to keep the sweat levels low.

Another couple brands worth checking out would be Joby's stuff (I have an old GorillaPod DSLR that holds my webcam these days) and "The Joy Factory" who make pro-level iPad clamps / stands.
So fix your license.
Which features do you desire? What is your ideal music player?
I don't encrypt them because then if I lose the encryption key or the encryption program or the encryption program won't run on my future machine, I lose it all.
They are "required" in that they are useful to the business.

I'm suggesting that "useful to a business" is currently over-prioritized compared to "useful to an individual." (And yes, it's driven by consumers, but if one's basic needs were met without working 8+ hours a day, maybe those individuals would have different preferences.)

And I think the claim that it's evolutionary necessary for us to have today's model of firms and full time employment is particularly out there.
In Poland there was a sort of similar story. Politicians from the opposition, lawyers, “difficult” prosecutors have been spied. A few days ago a special commission started investigation but it consists only from opposition politicians. The ruling far-right party pretends this topic does not exist. It’s a farce.
I'm mildly skeptical that a court would accept this reasoning in cases of works with many copies and someone making a change to one such personal copy.
I think your last assumption is correct. Agriculture, textiles, automobiles, and food production (not restaurants) have all seen significant automation, while office jobs have actually increased.
I don't think most people care about actually using their crypto.

At least none of the persons that i know that bought some.

( I personally sold all before December 2017 @18k . Wouldn't have done it then and i don't see what would have changed).

I think what you are missing is they you're ( potentially) to vested in it. At least that would be the default observation for many people.
Nintendo and Sony are small potatoes compared to MSFT in 2022. 70B and 150B market cap against a 2.27T one. Japanese tech companies are happy to stay in their niche. But now Microsoft has an incomprehensible advantage in available capital. Apart from the Japanese government blocking the sale they could just buy them
How about the screws and bolts on an original piece of furniture? Are they excluded from the creative work because they're some sort of standard item?
“The government’s attempts to rein in our harmful monopoly will cause a slight dip in our absurd profits and potentially protect citizens and users from some, but certainly not all, of our abuses”
There is a great course by Prof. William Spaniel about Game Theory in the context of Nuclear Proliferation. Highly recommend it for anyone who wants to know about the nuts and bolts of how nuclear policy is shaped: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKI1h_nAkaQqivWh2_XEt...

Basically, you have to choose between MAD or asymmetrical destruction. With exponentially improving AI, the situation is more like an inverted pendulum. Any small perturbation (say resources or breakthroughs in AI) would lead to catastrophic asymmetrical advantage for one side.
If you look at any countries data you can clearly see the effectiveness of preventing hospitals admissions with the vaccination. There is a very clear devide between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.

Here is the report from the Kanton of Zürich [1] from a day ago. Unlike the US, in Switzerland Pharma is not permitted to advertise prescription medications on TV and you will not have a phyzer rep on some TV show peddling the vax. Big Pharma has no say in this pandemic here, the experts are the ones giving advice to the government that then decides on what to do.

[1] https://www.zh.ch/content/dam/zhweb/bilder-dokumente/themen/... pages 27 and 28
I know what I suggested is a common complaint, seen as an uncultured take by the art world; I just disagree with the art world. I don't think context should be important for art. I think art should stand entirely on its own merits without explanation. No placard with a description. No article explaining how it represents a feud with his boyfriend. Just the artwork itself.

Of course, it's impossible to entirely decontextualize an artwork, because every viewer will bring their own backstory and interpretation... But the art should be able to appeal to viewers despite the context. Maybe that's the point: Art which is universally appealing to all humans, despite their backgrounds, would be the most magical type.

I once read a book which discussed how humans are universally attracted to landscapes which would be good for human habitation: Trees, a river, a temperate climate, hills and mountains to shelter in, flora and fauna... The average human from any time, any place, any religion, any language will appreciate such a painting. The same applies to nudes, still life of flowers and fruit, and other universally-understood and appealing (but kitsch) subjects. The same could not be said about the grey flag in this article.

And, of course, no artwork will completely meet that universal Platonic ideal, but the attempt to meet it is what creates the intrinsic beauty which modern art abhors.

I left the art world and went into STEM because of my opinions :)
Oh, I see, you want to shame people for not seeing this coming. Never mind, I thought yours was an honest question.
On the other hand, the unreadable weird-ass pseudo-XML configuration files of Apache made anyone touching them wish for something better.

I also expect ngx_lua did a lot for adoption, the fact that you could always "shell out" to lua if you needed was a huge boon even just for peace of mind.
Did you see the update that shows ads for steaming services you don't have on the top 1/3 of the screen due to an update?
> You’re an outlier in your belief systems. People don’t want messy, they want convenience and assurances.

It seems to me that people care more and more about their privacy.

As for convenience, most people I know use an iphone with an android tablet and a windows computer, so by revealed preferences I'd say their actions speak louder than their words.
That's what I thought.

I still hate Tesla's marketing. Autopilot is anything but. FSD isn't. Etc. I wish FCC/FTC/somebody (not sure which agency could regulate that) would smack them for it.
Yes. Newegg spams me all the time with offers for deep discounts on disk drives, and I take advantage.
I certainly don't like it, but I'm not surprised by it. I sort of have to file it under people voting for the Leopards Eating Faces Party getting terribly shocked and appalled when the leopard eats their face.

Like yeah, you jerks all said it was "smolani masriach boged" (stinking traitor lefty) to not vote for transparently sleazy political parties and their STRONG LEADER. Well, I stuck with my stinking lefty treason and now your guy is facing jail time and my party are in charge of the Health Ministry tackling vaccine distribution. So there.
Thank you. Thank you for your views. Thank you for the link to the documentary. Thank you for taking the time to find the words and sharing them with us. I feel we need beauty in our increasingly desolate world.
From my personal observation people with responsibiltes grieve at a later time and don't like most at the the of the incicent. It takes about 3 months to grieve some cases about a year later.
Want to be part of a nine-week cold-exposure trial?
We're not saying they wouldn't sell data if it meant 10x revenue, but it'd have to be 10x revenue sustained for eternity.

As of now, all of that data staying safe in their solos means

(A) they don't lose customers who are fine with advertising but not that data going to some DB that anyone could then inspect (since you know some company would buy it then charge others $x thousands of dollars to dig into users' lives), and

(B) they're the only ones with that data, and thus their advertising business can use it to possibly show more relevant ads. If the competing ad company can just buy Google's user data, they could sell just as well-targeted ads as Google but undercut them by x% margin, thus always winning the ad space on a website.
At least show us the bill before starting the PR machine.
Deserts have albedo, and trees sequester CO2. Looking at the first without acknowledging the second is disingenuous.

Here's the view from NASA's JPL [1]. They say the idea has merit. It's obviously not a silver bullet, and any planet-scale project can have lots of unintended consequences, so one needs to proceed cautiously. But one should not dismiss outright any solution because one identifies a negative side-effect.

[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2927/examining-the-viability-o...
> People quote fictional characters for the same reason they quote anything else. The quote is a nice package.

Except that similar factual claim is never said outside of those quotes. They are used as truism, argument by authority, but content of it is not actually argued.

> Do you feel like random quotes from a known genius like Einstein are somehow worth more?

I actually rarely see those being used to make specific claims. Those tend to be vague. As argument they would be similarly bad, but they are not used that way.

> Do you feel that quotes from fiction that people do not believe is fiction (scripture) are worth more?

I never ever seen quote from scripture being used as argument in HN.

And yes, someone treating Heinlein as Catholics treat Bible would indeed be disturbing.
I think the worst would be .doc extensions instead of .docx

Other than that, give me WP5.1 baby
Is there a specific reason the study focusses on children ? As an autistic adult it often feels like we don’t exist, most resources and research seem to focus exclusively on autistic children, as if it just disappears when we grow up.
Yep agreed, that was definitely a do or die moment.
A really good video on how that worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8u_k2LIZyo
> On the benchmarks where Julia is faster, it’s time is in bold. On the one regex one where Python happens to be faster, no bold.

You realise they didn't put the bold there manually?

> the Python code is painfully unoptimised, the Julia one has plenty of inclining, uses native vector types vs naked lists etc.

Yeah I agree this comparison is unfair, but who cares? Even if it was fair Julia should be way faster than Python! Python is one of the slowest languages in popular use. Everything should be faster than it.

The fact that somebody submitted a comparison to Python in the first place is kind of embarrassing. Like saying "look! my car is faster than a camel!".
Wrong question: wtf TV sized screen attached to whatever fitness gizmo when smaller screen and a whichever size you want wall/pedestal mounted TV will be likey cheaper and usable outside your jogging hours.
This is one of those "torn between 2 evils" situations...

Google == Evil

Government == Evil

there needs to be a 3rd option
I made two changes: switched my theme to everforest-dark and reduced scroll-lines from 3 to 1.

I was very happy to see that second option as it still hasn’t been implemented in neovim [0].

[0]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/12355