skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In-Depth Interview with Volodymyr Zelensky: The Worst May Be Ahead
A good rule of thumb is that it hacker news claims there is a huge unserved market for some product, there is almost certainly no real demand for it outside of this website.

I’m not sure I have actually ever seen an iPhone mini in the wild. It seems to be almost evenly split between the pro and the pro max.
Depends on where you live and your company. In the US, the laptop is company property, and so is anything you produce on it barring some other agreement.

I think this is less true to an extent in Europe, where at least some countries establish privacy rights to employees when using company equipment- at least when it comes to Internet browsing history and private emails. I'm not sure if creative works like personal side projects would also be protected.

Really though, when it comes to using company time or property for personal gain, the only real answer is "talk to your lawyer".
You are digging in the wrong sandbox if your goal is to find ethical behavior.
I love all-way stops on intersections where all roads carry broadly equal traffic. They're just so efficient, and very low-tech. But I hate them on unequal intersections, where a yield on the smaller road makes more sense.
I mean, I think people believe that there would not be that many deaths because China has a heavily vaccinated population and a less strict lockdown could still be stricter than anything the US did, perhaps something closer to Australia.

On the first point, I think that the Chinese vaccine is much worse than the mRNA vaccines against Omicron, but I'm not sure what that would mean for death rates.
On the second point, well, I guess the Chinese government tried that to some degree, but didn't feel it was going well.
You are taking an extreme "trust everything or trust nothing" position that I didn't make. I'm saying China has in the past spread misinformation about covid even denying that it even existed when in the first place. People should be skeptical about data from China regarding the situation. I'm not saying disregard it just give it extra consideration before accepting it as gospel.
Probably the same 3 reasons that seem to drive most authoritarian stay-the-course decisions:

* Can't admit the original plan isn't working without appearing weak.

* Operating on information corrupted by "compounding optimism" from every level of subordinates.

* Repercussions for bad outcomes are unlikely.
> But I think this is the exact fear most of us have of authoritarian governments, that minority voices get silenced or worse and that justice is not equally distributed.

How is that an authoritarian government problem? You do realize that minority voices get silenced in every government and justice is nowhere equally distributed. Unless you are asserting the US, Canada, Australia, etc are/were authoritarian governments. The mindless propaganda when it comes to china is laughable.
PageRank is based on conectivity so the gibberish content needs to be linked to by other highly ranked content to become an issue.
Anti-Social Media? This App Tells You Where Your Friends Won't Be
Coastal cities around the globe are sinking
Yeah, and so did Donald Trump before he got banned in 2020; his followership wasn't at all representative of all of Twitter (and that's even considering many people who actively disagreed with him probably followed him purely because of his position of power)

If you polled the audience at a regular-season San Francisco Giants home game against the Los Angeles Dodgers as to what team they support, you'd probably get an overwhelming number of responses indicating support for the Giants. That does not mean more people support the Giants than the Dodgers in Los Angeles. They're two different populations, so you can't generalize the outcome from one to the other.
You would be surprised, Instagram is showing pretty dramatic revenue growth over the past 4 years and it doesn't seem to be slowing down. Global expansion into developing markets will continue to fuel that 'funding' for social media companies. On the ad side, humans seem to be pretty ok with buying more and more and more stuff.
That was a fun read. Franz is a good company. My consulting customer a while back also hired them for a while - really smart people. Jans Aasman, mentioned in the interview, gave me funding to write a book that was partially on AllegroGraph (that book, very indirectly, led to my being invited to work on a knowledge graph project at Google).

For those interested, I recommend downloading the free version of AllegroGraph as a docker image, and the free version of their Common Lisp IDE. Their latest IDE is web based, with a background Lisp app. Neat idea.
It's not that different than refraining from using non-POSIX syntax in shell scripts that are meant to be independent of a specific flavour of unix, or sticking with standard C rather than making assumptions that are only valid in one compiler.

There are shades of grey, of course. Bash is probably ubiquitous enough that it may not be a big issue if a script that's meant to be universal depends on it, as long as the script explicitly specifies bash in the shebang. Sometimes some particular functionality is not technically part of a standard but is widely enough supported in practice. Sometimes the standards (either formal or de facto) are expanded to include new functionality, and that's of course totally fine, but it's not likely to be a very quick process because there are almost certainly going to be differing opinions on what should be part of the core and what shouldn't.

Either way, sometimes you want to write for the lowest common denominator, and moreutils certainly aren't common enough that they could be considered part of that.
Seems understandable to me. The explanation isn’t just “copy pasting” their privacy policy, either. You are misrepresenting that thread and discussion.

They’re not a perfectly secure E2E encrypted zero-trust system. They do require some measure of trust to use. This has always been true. Don’t use them if you don’t trust that they won’t misuse your data.
Just because one tiny fund screwed up once does not mean that it is anywhere near likely that any ETF would screw up in a manner that would trigger this poison pill.

$15bn is tiny, presumably we’re talking about big ETFs like SPY here.

And anyway, you’re pretty much agreeing with me. It’s absolutely possible for a big fund to make a huge and hilariously stupid mistake, but this twitter poison pill does not meaningfully affect the chances of that happening.

In a world where you can shoot yourself in the foot in a million ways, it is utterly pointless to speculate about this one extraordinarily unlikely situation.
At that point the users just buy one of those nvidia TV sticks and move on with life.
Yet another example of something that many people wouldn’t think would be a crime, but would send them to prison for decades!
Suck Suck Blow has many redeeming features. One that's GOLD imho;

duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion/

Running a hidden service is just so jolly gentlemanly. And it works in
the total absence of JavaScript and no matter what utter lies I tell
it about my randomised-per-request UA, and cookie black holes. The
obvious dark side is that it's closely connected to Amazon.
Thanks! No worries, I appreciate you writing this.

> I can see the objection that a more convincing example might be to demonstrate the "false" DK effect in an example that does have some signal

More than that - as it is, the argument is meaningless to me. It states that DK is trivial in a world where all people have no ability whatsoever to assess their own performance. OK, and finding dinosaur bones is uninteresting in a world where dinosaurs roam free. Both are true, but both are irrelevant in our world (considering my priors). To give a less hyperbolic example, suppose I found some population of people whose weight and height correlate much less than we currently measure, through some biological mechanism of very high variance in bone density or something. To me this article is like saying "well yeah, but this finding is uninteresting, for example if you take purely random weight and height you get an even stronger effect of short people with very high bone density and tall people with very low bone density".

Regarding all the rest - I don't really understand all this "comparing things which both contain the same single sample from a noise source". I'm currently willing to bet (albeit not too much) that any synthetic data experiment you'll come up with, that doesn't display an effect through the DK analysis, will turn out to be based on assumptions that strongly align with my prior, which is that subjects' self-assessment of their performance is correlated to their performance, with 0 bias (on average) and noise that is small (but not negligible) compared to the signal. Would be interested to be proven wrong.

> Pure noise like the random numbers in the example displays a powerful DK effect due to autocorrelation that says nothing interesting

On the contrary, finding out that the distribution in the real world is like that ("pure noise") would be very surprising (therefore interesting, in a sense) to me.
Elon Musk considering bringing in partners on Twitter bid, sources say
I don't think the EU is being extorted, exactly. It's simply that, for the countries that have done harsh sanctions on Russian gas, it's basically free for them: they weren't importing any anyway.

Germany has a real and significant dependence on Russian gas. It would actually have an economic effect if they sanctioned it tomorrow - companies would go bust. It would, however, be totally doable. It's not the case that it's a unbearable cost to pay, it's simply that it is a cost.

People make out that Russia has the EU over a barrel, but it's more the other way around them: energy is literally the most fungible input. Having higher energy costs is bad for your economy, but it's not nearly as bad as having your major export (gas) embargoed. It's not like they can just pick up all their pipelines and point them at China.
It isn't localized to UK, cases have been reported in Ireland and Spain as well.
Yeah it does look like their initial success has set them up for a much bigger shock with Omicron. It's so much more infectious and is actually still rather severe. Most of us here have been vaccinated and/or have some natural immunity from prior waves, which made Omicron seem mild.

China seems to have a perfect storm of a healthcare system already stretched thin, low immunity among the population, and a super infectious strain.

The lockdowns are probably their best option but they also need to ramp up mRNA vaccinations in tandem. Zero COVID is unsustainable.
Agree, he's used to regulations. But, it's not just the legal rules, but the unspoken social rules we have as well as groups and factions he'll have to deal with. I could totally be wrong, but at least for me, I don't see him being good at or even enjoying fixing the problems of social-networking companies. Seems like a distraction from SpaceX and Tesla (which is more than enough)
The pasteboard, like many things in OS X, is from NextStep. As for why they called it a pasteboard and not a clipboard, I have no idea, presumably someone thought it would be more descriptive.
Mandating vaccination and getting it to 100% would probably reveal their own vaccine isn’t as good as the mRNA ones at preventing hospitalization and death.
I wonder if there were many preppers in Shanghai.

I wonder if how many new preppers there are now throughout China.

Of all the reasons people prep, "long lockdowns" was never one until very recent times.
I co-ran a co-working space for many years in a zeitgeisty tech city as a side thing to keep my companies rent cheap (kind of.)

We were early holders of bitcoin meetups, we threw crypto events, we gave away schwag with those guys who 3d printed guns. We hosted "Young African Leaders" events (yali) and hosted some amazing people from overseas. We hosted the local 2600 meetup and other maker events. We hosted the local colleges Asian chamber of commerce events.

We threw parties with thousands of people filtering through our converted warehouse space.

We had actual communists and unabashed capitalists and new atheists and couldn't care less multi generational atheists and old burnouts and young idiots, people abandoned by their families, from loving families and Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus.. We had classes for robotics, pickling vegetables, we burned a lot of stuff and made some huge art installations.

We kicked people out for being shitty and insulting (which was extremely rare among members, totalling 3 people over many years). We occasionally reprimanded people who were fine in person but abusive online.

Hell is other people. I miss what we built and the ideas and companies and the hope and economic power our members could tap into.

But I do not miss the bad behavior, the guy who seemed cool and nerdy until he gets drunk and starts trying to physically corner women. The attempted rapists who came to some of our larger warehouse parties and had to be removed by police.

The assholes who came in with bad faith arguments or the copious number of bad faith actors trying to monetize our more inexperienced members.

We were a meatspace, old internet, freedom of speech group and we kept our facilities a little dingy just to keep things more maker oriented and attract less of the superficial.

Having seen it all in person it's always the bad faith actors, the predators, the non-makers and the fragile egos that come out. We did a good job in person having ideological, cultural and class diversity because "making" was our prime member criteria.

I don't see how it's possible on the internet at large. I've seen many terrible people in person and at least there were consequences for overtly evil or lying acts, I just don't see it happening on the consumer internets social media platforms.

Great perspective to read about and rings very true with my years "sitting at the city gates" in our modern times.
The only application of large-scale natural language processing in law enforcement of which I completely approve is classifying comments like these which totally misunderstand the concept of speed limit, identifying their authors, and inviting them to an all-expenses-paid driver retraining session where they might have the opportunity to regain their recently revoked driving privileges.
That’s a pretty wild misapplication of Mr. Occams blade, I’d think. There are much simpler explanations than that.
>Fair, but which countries? It may explain some of the huge disconnect I’m seeing (demographics).

I think a lot of places have them. Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, the UK ... basically any European country. I mean it's not like every (or even most) one-way street is like that in those places, but they're common enough.

There are also "advisory cycle lanes", where there is physically one car lane, but cars can go in both direction. They are expected to (slowly and carefully!) go into the cycle lanes either side in order to pass each other. Speed limit is very low on these ofc.

>Would you agree, though, that in roads that are designed for cars (most of the US), that’s an obviously bad idea and recipe for getting maimed or killed?

Actually no, "roads designed for cars" tend to be pretty wide. Take an existing two-lane road, cut it down to a single lane down the middle and have half-width cycle lanes either side. It's easier to do that on a wide road than a narrow European city road. (American lanes are too wide anyway.)

The problem is not "roads designed for cars", it is politics designed for cars. The roads are not immutable, they can be modified, if there is political will. It can be done: Netherlands was rebuilt after WW2 to be car-dependent in the American pattern, and then that was undone in the 1970s onwards after the oil crisis and record pedestrian fatalities:

https://one-handed-economist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/...

There is a myth that European cities have always been pedestrian and bike friendly because they inherit their street design from a time before cars -- not always so! Things have gone back and forth.
And yet now this accidental experiment exists because of Obamacare which settles a longstanding debate in the US as to whether healthcare coverage actually saves lives -- while Europeans go "Well, duh? Why was this ever a question?"
You might like to try using src, a simple single-file VC: http://www.catb.org/esr/src/
I'm on Twitter most every day; I don't follow Elon Musk (I try not to follow any big twitter accounts, rather than curate interesting smaller accounts); I didn't see the poll until two days after it was already closed; I think it's fair to say that most people who saw the poll were

a) Either followers of Elon

b) People the Twitter Algorithm decided were most likely to interact with it -- I.E. people who would be interested in what Elon has to say

Just because Elon tweeted something doesn't mean all of Twitter saw it.
Thank you! Why would it be an expensive troll if no money is changing hands?
I don’t think anyone questions the effectiveness when we literally didn’t know how Covid spread or how to treat it and our hospitals were getting overwhelmed.

The question is if they’re a useful endgame tool, after we have testing and treatments and vaccines. Absent the authoritarian measures China is deploying, the answer appears to be no: enough people skirt the rules to permit community spread.
It wasn’t a missed opportunity. It was intentional. When he became popular enough to get into the main debates the Democrat party changed the rules to exclude him.

It has led many to believe the party leaders don’t want his message out there
Great work. I love HyperCard. I'm too young to really have properly played around with it but I think the idealism is superb. There really needs to to be more popular software inspired by acid trips.
When you say inline markdown shortcut, is an example of that pressing Ctrl-B on some highlighted text in order to surround it with asterisks?

And is the idea of mentions that we can use Lexical to provide nice things like pop-up auto-complete of a username / automatically transform the username into a link inside of the input text?
The bottom of the article states:

> Bytebase offers a web-based collaboration workspace to help DBAs and Developers manage the lifecycle of application database schemas.

So, I guess it’s not surprising you’d be annoyed by not being able to change schema constraints :)
Not just age. Depends on the city where you live, how you grew up and your priorities. I would say it’s harder for people that grew up in suburban communities to live their 40s/50s in a city. Meanwhile, I know people in their mid-life (40-60) that actually moved back from suburban lifestyle to NYC downtown life. From my personal perspective, even being retired in a city would be better than living in a small community where everything you do on a daily basis is exactly the same. But again, I understand others’ perspectives and everyone has different things they enjoy in life.
Chinese local authorities will lose their jobs if they report any COVID deaths to the central government, so they don't report any (and why the central government was slow to be notified of the first Wuhan COVID cases in the first place). It isn't very complicated, that's how an authoritarian government works. They might actually be doing a good job, but the net effect to those of us on the outside is the same as if they were doing a bad job.
> They DEFINED themselves in terms of Microsoft,

Sun completely forgot they were a hardware company. They made great hardware, but while Microsoft made it easy to develop software for Windows, Sun didn't make it easy to do the same for Solaris (maybe out of fear it'd benefit their remaining hardware enemies IBM and HP). They didn't even try very hard to build low-end machines that could do PC tasks at competitive prices.
I don't really get this rule in the context of a startup. In poker, the point is for there to be a win-lose arrangement where you are the winner. Are you saying that one should only consider joining a startup where they consider the founder(s) to be a "sucker"? I doubt that's a good plan.
You are assuming their reported death numbers are accurate. You are also assuming the deaths caused by these policies won’t end up exceeding that number.

Neither assumptions are backed by evidence.
absolutely awesome

i am an old hypercard programmer, and i have a passion project I work on:

https://hyperscript.org

which is a scripting language for the web, based on HyperTalk
They show up in the search results for me
It should be obvious at this point that China doesn't have hundreds of thousands or millions of covid deaths the same way other non lockdown countries do. We can definitively say that based on this specific outbreak in Shanghai - There's no possible way the Chinese government could have hid outbreaks at this scale for two years now. That doesn't mean their approach didn't have problems. But whenever I see comments like this about them hiding the true covid numbers it seems in in bad faith, especially because we're looking at direct evidence in this specific case that it wouldn't have been possible for the government to do so. Are the Wuhan numbers fudged? Probably. But it's pretty clear based on the failure of zero covid to contain omicron that it more or less worked well to stop the spread against Covid zero, alpha, and delta.
I remember emailing Scott McNealy in 1995 telling him urgently that he should opensource Solaris. If I had persuaded him it would be a different world today. We would not have had to live through two decades of NT on servers.
There are so many news reports of people dying of non-Covid, treatable diseases because of lockdown. Something as simple as not getting prescriptions filled (can't leave your home to get prescriptions, delivery services also shut down), or not being allowed to go to the hospital for routine procedures like dialysis. Starvation is but one way people die in a strict draconian lockdown. The article is full of harrowing stories unrelated to starvation.

China has successfully used this lockdown to make sure no one dies of Covid in Shanghai; but no one is keeping track of the deaths caused by lockdown.
It lasted for a very short time. OTOH, OpenIndiana is still reasonable if you want a Solaris.
btw, this story is notable in that, unlike the other cases brought by the NSLDN, this student opted out of the arbitration clause in her ISA and can therefore sue in civil court. This confers numerous advantages, including being able to compel discovery.
Yeah— examples of centralized authority being very bad at some very important things doesn't automatically mean centralization is the the problem, that those defects aren't present or worse in power structures that form in less centralized systems, or that the drawbacks of decentralization don't outweigh the benefits. Doesn't mean the opposite, either. Politicization has a way making complex problems appear to have simple solutions.
I’ve tried, it’s next to impossible to get an exception, at least for English-language Wikipedia.
I really like Fancy Zones from PowerToys[1].
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
I've been asked to reword my peer reviews to be a function of leadership principles only. And my promotion is justified as a function of them as well. They run very deep. I cite them on a weekly basis.

The two new principles are less than a year old. They aren't taken as serious as the other originals. The culture is already established.
life is "fractally" complex. Sometimes I feel computing is also fractally complex.
Name a single successful (non-niche, stuff like INTEGRITY doesn't count) OS kernel created post-Windows NT 3.1 that's commercial. Even Mac OS X still runs Mach as a kernel. The model is dead, because of the internet. OSes have MASSIVE network effects.
I was under the impression that there was a animal reservoir of covid out in the wild. Is that not true?