skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sure, information has many channels and routes into our brains, so that's not unusual or a criticism of how you learned that bit of information. but the idea that you try to avoid competition is straight from a first-year strategy course at any business school, in which this has been taught for at least the last 5 decades, if not much longer.

capitalism, the ideal, puts competition on a pedestal, as a broad mechanism to ensure profit margins gets squeezed out of markets as they mature (that is, as risk stabilizes, the risk premium does as well). capitalists don't want their profit margins minimized, so they employ as many mechanisms as they can get their greedy hands on to minimize competition. capitalists are literally anti-competitive. capitalism is not.
Is this a Twitter buy signal?

I think you know the answer.
One big thing Signal is bad at for me is using from a computer.

They have a desktop client, but it's just a weird thing that proxies through my phone in a sort of bizarre backwards self-hosting sort of way.
> psychology (like engineering and medicine) is a profession.

Throwing engineering in there with psychology and medicine is not a very good grouping of disciplines. At least not if "engineering" means the kind of engineering that professionals in the field have legal liability for (like the engineering that goes into designing bridges and buildings).

Engineering does have "best practices", but those practices have to operate within limits that are very well understood based on underlying physical science that has been thoroughly tested and for which we have mathematical models with excellent predictive capability. The "best practices" in psychology and medicine have nothing like that kind of support.

> the process seems to work allright

Engineering, at least the kind that designs bridges and buildings, seems to work all right, yes. I'm not sure I would say the same for psychology and medicine.
The latest version of webpack removed polyfill, this broke another dependency, and i had to downgrade the react version to fix that!

Nothing like this did I ever see in the go or kotlin world.
Strangely enough, I'm not a synth guy, so I don't have favorites to recommend :-)
Sen. Wyden's already been fighting that fight for more than a decade. https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/301...
> How does a company like Google end up doing this?

I haven't worked at Google, but I have worked on other hardware that you might own if you're in the Hacker News demographic.

Usually what happens is someone wants to make some breaking changes somewhere, or otherwise stop supporting some old feature/API/use case. Or maybe nobody wants to deal with some old system that isn't a hot ticket on their promotion path.

Everyone is incentivized to work on new features, new products, and other forward-looking things, so it's not hard to get approval to just abandon something for which the cash flow has already occurred in favor of some future initiative.

Customer outrage is temporary. Some may swear off your products, but a surprising number will just shrug and buy something new, so the company wins.

Frustrating, but it's how things work at big companies who control large portions of the market.
The Land Value Tax is tied to the assessment of the value of the land. If the landlord raised the rent 20%, sans improvements (which are not taxed), the assessed value of the land itself would go up 20% as a reflection and nullify the incentive to raise rent in the first place.

The only way you can raise rents (in a way that nets a profit) under a LVT is to improve the property or provide services. If you own a 4 unit complex and you want a higher return, you need to build more units, a gym or provide on-site dry cleaning. This also means more efficient land-use in areas of high land value (i.e. densely built town/city centers). Since no more land can be produced, and speculation cannot produce profit, the incentivized usage is a productive one (building more housing where it's in high demand).

Philosophically, a person who supports this concept wouldn't view it as the landlords paying everyone's UBI. We can respect every American's right to enjoy private property, while also holding the value of that property as a public trust. The LVT payments represent the capture of that value, and the UBI is the mechanism by which the public share is distributed.
I think the answer to this is remarkably simple. You can align scientists and fields along a spectrum and group them into roughly two categories:

The scientists who make falsifiable theories and run reproducible experiments
-and-
everybody else.

On the left side of the spectrum is physicists working in long-understood areas, such as "predict the motion of elements of the solar system 100 years into the future using Newton's law and observed data", in the middle is "biologists explaining the behavior of C. elegans using a combination of molecular biology and machine learning", and on the far right side is "psychologists attempting to come up with universal rules about human behavior using studies with tiny n"

The folks on the far, far left have a fairly straightforward system that works pretty well. If you claim something like "FTL" or "new energy source", you describe your apparatus, publish your data, show people a demo in the lab, and if it's real, somebody else in the world will be motivated to replicate your experiment, or help show you why you're technically wrong. Almost nobody makes it far along this path by repeatedly publishing interesting, but provably wrong results.

In that middle zone, there's still an air of replicability, but important studies turn out to be really hard to replicate for dumb reasons, like "the temperature of the lab is off by 0.5C" or "you aren't using the exact same plasmid as mine, which I personally isolated when in <nobel prize winners lab> during my postdoc". It's actually quite easy to publish fairly wrong science, for quite some time, without anybody really noticing. For example, hundreds and hundreds of papers turn out to have copy-pasted gels, where the authors just made up results and published them and their conclusions. I guess nobody bothered to replicate that paper!

On the right side is psychologists. I don't even think this field, with the except of a few very limited areas, has the statistical power to make the strong conclusions authors come to, in 99.9% of papers. It's better to think of this area as people just sort of writing what they want to believe, and placing a pseudoscientific veneer on top. This would fall into the "not even wrong" category- it doesn't even really qualify to be evaluated as science. Or if it is, it falls into the category of "speculative complex systems theory".
What? You made a confusing statement why are you attacking me after I asked for clarification? Maybe consider taking a breather.
Every IRS, Social Security, DHS/CBP, and USPS branch are locations where they could proof your identity in person. It is simply a matter of will to implement the policy and enable the software features for government employees to perform the function.

I would also propose finding ways to drastically reduce the cost of issuing smart passport cards, and slowly transforming that into a national ID over time as the electorate composition changes. Your passport number eventually becomes your national ID number.
I’ve computed the 30% of GDP using the same maths as you did before, by taking 10K per capita over 34K of GDP per capita.

Yes taxes are higher in France. Yes some budgets and jobs might need a pay cut to apply a similar model in the US. That doesn’t sound like an impossible task.

All I’m saying is that dismissing the whole idea of your parent comment by saying that a basic income representing a high portion of GDP would imply absurdly high inflation rates is not true, as there are at least a few counter-examples.
Maybe the amount is too high. But the idea is not as unreasonable as you made it sound.

Note regarding population decline: France is reaching its peak of aged population / younger blood to infuse the economy following WW2’s baby boom. It will likely not have a higher impact than it currently has today in the upcoming years.
When it's worth it, it's very very worth it. Whether it's the right thing for you depends on your risk appetite and financial situation.

Some people say: go to big tech first, make $, get the brand, then take the startup risk

Reality is: longer you wait to take risks, harder it becomes. Recommend doing it sometime in your 20s if the adventure appeals to you, knowing that the big equity payout may not happen. You can improve your odds though by getting good at picking
I'm not a fan of his Emacs stuff, even. A lot like Ken Rockwell, I've thought - opinionated to and often well beyond a fault, will reliably defend the most recent thought to cross his mind as if it were among the bedrock axioms of his life and soul, it's not that he can't say anything useful but you always want to get a range of other opinions first, and by the time you really know what you're doing you find yourself thinking he's mostly full of it.

At least Ken Rockwell can be relied upon as a quick source of high-res shots of new gear. I already know where to find the Emacs changelog, I'm not sure what purpose that leaves Xah Lee to serve.
You should consider that sequelae like this are characteristic of many forms of being very sick. It could be COVID specifically, but neither this article nor your experience establishes that causal link.
No

but still quite standard in term of it's LaTex

There're varieties of it

e.g MathJax for online site like Quora, on others may differ

https://math-on-quora.surge.sh/
You're describing a pleasant low population density situation which is a nice romantic fantasy a lot of people long for. I don't blame people for wanting that, but you must realize that it is the exact mentality that leads to suburban sprawl.

I think on aggregate, that is more expensive (financially and environmentally) than high density cities. Take all the infrastructure which needs to be built out for these small cities (roads, electric grid etc) which serve a very small number of people and now imagine if everyone lived like that and multiply that cost with building out this infrastructure for a many many small cities. Building 30 small idyllic villages instead of one hong Kong would end up having a larger environmental impact.
I'm not saying "You just need more humans to review and kick cheaters".

I'm saying that players often have the barest bones of ways, if they have anything at all, to say who they would and who they would not like to play with.

Players refunding over cheating are also refunding because, when they discover cheating, they can do absolutely nothing about it. If they're lucky, they might get to scream into the void and hope a moderator listens. Some brand new player on a $3 key just waltzed into the pool of players and everyone has to trust them as equally as everyone else. This is not how trust works.

But then how should one do it? I don't know! Precious little work has been done here. And why? Because it's been wasted on pretending that one can trust the clients machine if we just download enough malware to it.
Out of curiosity, what does your work entail with single cell stuff from a computational perspective? I've been doing some research into molecular docking as a drug discovery method, but its all single protein.
Have you checked the display cable connections? I have a x240 and the connection to the panel has come loose twice due to bumping/dropping the machine. And I do mean the connection on the panel, not on the motherboard.
My understanding is that Thiel's public fund often takes loss because he is hedging other financial risk he is taking.(e.g. holding palantir after IPO, large VC investments in industries that may turn out to be based on immature research)
I would consider it evil to say that women shouldn't vote.
Can you try again? I've moved one of the parts off Glitch and onto my VPS which seems to have fixed the issue.
I believe if google takes anything that could be seen as punitive action against you because you filed a lawsuit they open themselves up to much larger damages.

When I was the class representative in a class action law suit, during the deposition the very first thing the lawyer defending the company we were suing opened with "I want to assure you that you will continue to receive the very best service, and we will take no actions against you for exercising your rights. If you feel this is not being honored reach out to me directly. We take this very seriously." and handed me their card. Then we got down to the deposition.

For me personally them taking that action against me would have been a win win as it would have majorly increased my payout. This was a car dealer so I would just go to another mechanic. Or buy out of state. For google? I'd need to move some files and update a few companies on my address, I have alternate factors on the things I care about anyway.
The messed up ecosystem keeps millions of people employed!
They don't even have the courtesy to list the last update date\time for the support page.
Yeah because people stopped developing any backend solutions for Python or Ruby because Django and Ruby on Rails exist.
No need to take Google to court. Just return the defunct product for a refund. Buy a product that you plug into a TV that lets you use the web.

If 90% of people get a refund, then Lenovo will sue Google.
It's years since they removed "don't be evil", is it just me or have they been adopting "be evil" motto lately?!
> Curious question to any googlers on here, do engineers ever refuse to push code change which disables a feature like this?

I really doubt there was some decision to arbitrarily disable the feature.

What likely happened is that they decided some legacy system or framework wasn't going to be supported any more. They sent out e-mails and communications months or years ago, hoping partners would do something about it.

Often, engineers are the happiest to abandon the legacy systems. Nobody likes being stuck supporting legacy code on legacy devices, especially when all of your peers are getting promoted for doing cool, fun, new stuff.
As a user, big Angular apps feel super slow and bloated.

Eg: Google Cloud console downloads like 20MB of resources.

Maybe the DX is good, but from an end user perspective, Angular is far from good.
> neither this article nor your experience establishes that causal link.

Nor do they disprove it.

Someone that was healthy with no symptoms contracting a disease and, afterwards, displaying severe symptoms would, logically, require that the causal link be explored. It could have been a coincidence, but COVID is known to damage lungs and heart tissue.
Musk also got a considerable amount of government assistance, assistance that he now says others shouldn't get.

I consider such a position to be rather strange.
Backup qbs don’t make much more then software engineers… just saying. The league minimum is like 700k.
I don't think being able to navigate these situations and not exposing yourself to them at the behest of your productivity and peace are mutually exclusive.

You might be able to tolerate something but choose not to expose yourself to it unnecessarily. In the other comment you posted, you mentioned how working from home makes you more sensitive to such issues. That seems to be a direct parallel of this situation. You should do what's most convenient for you, not forcefully expose yourself to a shitty situation for no reason.
Why wouldn't we just hire the best person for the job?
So... you think what Gawker did was bad, but Thiel was wrong to stop it?
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That said, I never played with Yahoo Pipes. It looks like Alteryx I think?
My understanding is that the first conclusive proof that the Earth rotates was the astronomical observation of the aberration of starlight[1] in ~1730. The rotation of the Earth causes about 20 arcseconds of deflection from a stars known position, which is pretty large. The phenomena itself is due to relativistic beaming, and lead to one of the first measurements of the speed of light along with Roemer's earlier work using the moons of Jupiter as a clock in ~1680.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberration_(astronomy)
So happy to have this small mystery solved. I lived in SE Asia for years where we avoided the local tap water, including for ice at home.

My kids and I observed these ice spikes every morning when I took out the trays to for iced coffees, and I always wondered why I'd never seen them anywhere else in the world.

It's almost a nice retroactive confirmation that the water delivery service we relied on was selling distilled water as advertised!
I wish there was a way to crowd fund or crowd source a push for new therapeutics. I have a rare cancer at the moment and the overwhelming majority of drugs used for it were developed for other cancers. I wish there was a way we could establish an open source community or project around creating novel drug targets as a small moon shot funded by donations from the lives that it effects.
Friedman Doctrine
I feel like a much needed accountability reset of police departments across the country got sidelined, after the BLM protests(George Floyd) that erupted turned into a call for abolishing them.
I don't want to abolish them, and would be willing to fund them even more with better trainings in exchange for better accountability. The subsequent actions would've even fulfilled some of the asks of the protestors. The ideological asks kinda ruined it.
Reels is probably >90% recycled from TikTok, with the TikTok video waterwark still on it.

The original content that is there has nothing on TikTok, and the Reels recommendation algorithm is crap - feels like a bunch of if-then statements and you have to make a massive effort to get yourself out of having a particular category in your feed (constantly swipe away as fast as possible if a video of that category comes up; but watch a single video all the way through in that category and it becomes half of your feed)

I joined TikTok recently after watching Reels for a few months (I figured it's probably just as good, right and why have yet another app tracking me), and I was blown away by how much better TikTok content & algorithm is.

Part of it is the user base. TikTok has truly some cool content for every niche you could imagine, and by and large comments are positive and funny.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
When you backup to/sync via Apple or Google? No.
I get Pluralsight for free with my MSDN subscription
Agreed, software-driven hardware devices should perform the same original functionality as when they were purchased forever, unless it's a hardware failure, or unless there is an explicit expiration on the purchase agreement.
big tech will always be a safer bet all risks considered

The question you need to answer is, for YOU right now:

1. Are the things you want to learn best served by a big tech co?

2. Or an unproven startup?
Of course, for the windshield company to be legal, they need to add sales tax to cash sales as well.
No, I don't think there is. There was a lively discussion around this recently here[1]

People ask for this from time to time, but the thing is that mathematical notation really isn't a very big deal for anyone who has taken the time to study the concepts. By far the biggest problem is learning to understand the concepts that the symbols represent. Situations where someone is familiar with the underlying concepts, but unaware of the conventional notation are, needless to say, rare. Feynman apparently ended up in this situation after discovering a lot of mathematical facts on his own, and later had to learn the names and notation that everyone else was using. But it's not a problem that most people will ever have.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30144805
Who upvoted this?!
I had my entire team of FE engs take this when it came out! It’s really a lovely tool and it helped a lot of our folks grok how to start transitioning to a flex model.
This plugs together some of the nicer features from Nuxt 3, and other toys by adding the necessary plugins to your vue 3 project, Nuxt 3 is more of a whole toolset / layer on top of vue 3, but having played a bit with it, its not really ready (which is essentially what they say also). I'm guessing once Nuxt 3 is stable and released, it is going to be well maintained as a cohesive set of features, where this is more of an opinionated configuration of plugins as a starting point.
FWIW, I don't consider type safety a major issue with FP vs. OOP vs. procedural. I think type safety is just that, a safety net. I've ported things between C#, Scala, and PHP for fun, and regularly find PHP to be more concise due to it's lack of type safety than it being a hinderance. Sure, it sucks that the IDE can't help me out more (lack of generics cough) but static analysis tools really help there, like Psalm and PHPStan. As a side note, Psalm's security scans have pointed out security issues with the original code it was ported from, so that's something...

You can do some pretty fancy things with arrays that you usually only see in FP type languages:

$arr1 + $arr2 (non-numeric keys) // scala: arr1 ++ arr2
array_merge($arr1, $arr2) // scala: (arr1 ++ arr2) distinct
array_unique(array_merge($arr1, $arr2)) // scala: arr1 union arr2
array_intersect($arr1, $arr2) // scala: arr1 intersect arr2
array_combine($arr1, $arr2) // scala: arr1 zip arr2
array_filter(array_map($mapper(...), $arr)) // scala: arr.flatmap(mapper)

in all of these cases, the original array(s) remains untouched. In most OOP languages, the array would probably be mutable (or require some juggling between mutable and immutable types, like C#). That's why its surprising. It's quite verbose in PHP, but the foundations for a FP approach is all there.

What's even more surprising is when performance is comparable to a language like C# on some random benchmarks I've run[1] (opcache + JIT turned on in PHP, C# in "release" optimized compilation). I'd consider it a pretty good contender for serious things.

[1]: https://github.com/withinboredom/distributed-hashmap/blob/23...
Perhaps, but would you really like your Google account closed an inaccessible for a year or more while the courts work it out. Can you even afford lawyers over that time period? Not sure you'd be able to find one who would take this on contingency.

And that's the shitty bit about our legal system: it's slow enough that the entity you're suing can keep hurting you for a long time until things get resolved, and it's incredibly expensive to get them resolved, especially if you're going against a company with deep pockets.

I do wonder, though, if, when you go to small claims court (where the advantage is tilted a bit toward the plaintiff), and in addition to asking for the value of the devices, you could also get the judge to issue an injunction against Google, prohibiting them from taking any retaliatory action, like closing your accounts. That might be out of scope for small claims court, though.

I'm still not sure you'd win any of this, though.
https://braintool.org - Bookmarker extension with hierarchy, notes and text search. Writes your data to a text file (in org-mode format) that can be accessed on your phone via Google Drive.
>The prof spoke in a way that implied this is an accepted truth in the legal community

So the law professor talked like a lawyer? :)