skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks like it solves a very real pain point for anyone getting started with Emacs, and likely many people who have been using Emacs for a long time sub-optimally. Could save hours or days of learning about how to configure Emacs.

Reminds me of a Spring Initializr, as a way to quickly get started with a new tech tool.
The Florida Land Boom of the 1920s was a bubble:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_land_boom_of_the_1920s

But after 1935, Florida took off and grew like crazy. Even if you bought at the peak of the bubble, by the 1940s you had still gained some value.

The USA stock market went through one of histories greatest bubbles from 1927 to 1929. Afterwards, it took the stock market 24 years to recover. But by the mid 1950s, the stock market was rising to new heights.

The DotCom boom was clearly a bubble in 1999, but eventually many of the ideas became far more valuable than the heights of 2000.

If the bubbles form because investors are looking too far forward into the future, eventually the future does arrive, and then you see a period of sustained growth. That is exactly what happened in Florida, with the bubble in the 1920s, and sustained growth beginning 15 years later, at the end of the 1930s, and lasting for several decades.

My point is, if you wait long enough, the economy will often grow beyond even stupidly famous disasters. To be sure, you can probably find better investments. Buying into the stock market in 1929 and then waiting 24 years to get back to that level is not great for growing your wealth. But given time, many assets do grow beyond even the bubbles.
Security risks, faster deprecation, and less flexibility.

If another dependency changes it's api, you immediately have a problem. Your answer may be to fix the version to a static value abd forget about it - but if a security vulnerability is found in that dependency afterward, what do you do? You probably won't even catch it.
This is really cool. I'd recommend it for people who are into customization but want a solid foundation to start. For people who are looking for a more batteries included experience I'd recommend Doom Emacs.
The article you linked makes it sound like sensor and rocketry failures on some platforms that were retired 15 years ago, nothing to do with a general fear of BVR missile use. Also I believe the willingness to engage unidentified radar tracks has more to do with the nature of the conflict. I doubt the same restraint would be shown in a war against a near peer foe.
How complex are a humans thoughts if not raised by other humans? How much of complex thought is transferred generationally through example and language. An octopus biology may be capable of extremely complex thought, but as a species they are limited by their inability to document and propagate information in written form, unless they have some kind of telekinesis and can beam and download memories from each other.
They do mention Andy Pavlo in this publication by the way: https://habr.com/ru/company/yandex/blog/660271/ saying that YDB was inspired by his and Michael Stonebraker's NewSQL ideas.
It's the same problem as streaming services and a-la-carte programming. Maybe a side effect of subsidizing writers instead of subscriptions; it'd be easier to pull a "subscribe to 2 writers and get a 3rd subscription on us"-style deal and let the readers figure out who gets paid that Substack-funded bonus if they were spending more money on reader growth than popular writers, but it'd be less likely to result in the kinds of content they have now.
The good news is that people like this CEO are pissed off because things have changed. Welcome to America Mr. CEO, where I can sit on my ass until you pay me enough that I fell like working for you.

You don't like it? Well you can set an example and you can start working for $9/hour.
I doubt they care, they ship their installer with adware

It's a nice software, but the people behind it are shady
Goodhart's law[0] should be posted above every experimentation team.

The idea that "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" is something that every data scientist/statistician knows, but almost none heed in practice.

The worse lead companies that I've worked for are the ones that claim to be "data driven". Countless dashboards showing various progress towards various targets without even a hint of understanding what the big picture might even be.

One of the biggest insights I've had over a career working in data science is that the person solving a problem based on years of experience without any numbers backing their decisions almost always is making choices close enough to optimal that it isn't worth the extra energy to push it optimal.

An example is that the person selling hot dogs at the park is probably pricing them nearly optimal. You could bring in a team of dynamic pricing experts, build a data center to mine costumer data, and I'm willing to bet a few hot dogs that difference between the model optimal price and what the hot dog vendor is selling is not enough to justify the cost of figuring out the difference.

I likewise would not be surprised if the real, long run benefit of A/B testing does not justify the cost of both employee time and especially the SaaS products that help manage these processes... but let's not do that analysis because my salary depends on no one checking this.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
How the prob of null hypothesis being true changes given a significant result
I mean I'm not opposed to people voicing their opinion as long as it's legal content and there's no algorithms that can be abused to push one article over another. I do believe this is an issue with other platforms like Twitter and Reddit; you can give everyone an equally sized soapbox to voice their whatsits on, but because of their algorithms and the other part of user interaction, upvotes, they open themselves up for algorithmic abuse, pushing the "controversial" opinions up higher.

This was pretty obvious in 2015/2016 with the Trump campaign managing to get a lot of exposure everywhere.

But it's also a self-reinforcing thing, because e.g. Twitter has earned millions from all of the engagement that anything Trump did on the platform; he tweeted, millions would flock to the replies, and tens or hundreds of millions would know that he tweeted through the thousands of news outlets that pounced on it. I'm pretty confident that if it wasn't for Trump, Twitter would've petered out years ago.
Web3 is just a marketing term for decentralized systems/applications using a blockchain.
Their "hidden feature" is massively simplifying the setup of a blog for someone nontechnical who wants

(1) A modern "minimalist" themed blog focused on written content
(2) An email newsletter with the same content
(3) Optionally allow paid subscribers

I've tried everything in the blog world, and most are a headache to maintain. The closest would be Ghost, but they haven't done as well on the GTM side. Substack has set itself apart by landing "tech twitter" influencers who philosophize... which is probably why you're seeing it bleed into the HN world.
nailed it. That's a bias I'm surprised very few people are able to grasp in the Internets, the same urban liberals ( from any country really ) or higher class tend to favor Western social networks, or be simply pro-Western, thus completely biaising the " I'm [Insert your nationality here] .. blablabla "
It's especially rampant on Global South or emerging countries, while the richer people can actually afford slacking on Reddit responding to a mostly Anglophone audience.
The British Columbian government is working on a Beneficial Owners Registry that would attempt to address this issue, though there was a recent article that suggested the registry was struggling to get set up. It's a tough problem.
> surprised this isn't a major diplomatic incident

It all depends who the (UK) Government is "friends" with. Let's not forget the infamous Russian Novichok poisoning cases in Salisbury - those naughty Russians! The Saudis execute 81 citizens in a day, and Boris visits the day after to beg for oil and gas - those naughty Saudis!

I'm not surprised it isn't a major diplomatic incident!
I've also had to do something similar to "forge" supporting documentation for medical claims. In order to claim FSA money, I had to provide detailed invoices. My hospital, however, was a big Kafka fan. They would only provide invoices that had a date and an amount, and those would take about 8 months to arrive. In order to get a detailed invoice, you had to call...but the catch is that detailed invoices were no longer available after 6 months. After every service, I'd have to immediately call for the detailed version, but if there were any after-the-fact adjustments due to insurance, I'd never be able to get a detailed statement.

To remedy this, I'd doctor previous invoices, and then print, scan, and fax to hide any editing artifacts. Keep in mind, this is all to get my own money that I'd contributed to the FSA. After that year, I just stopped using the FSA because it was such a pain.
Study contracted by Jigsaw, "a technology incubator within Google".

PDF for those who don't want to sign up for a free account:
https://www.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CS07_P...
There is a longer/older issue with more recent comments here: https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/60
Did they mention that Substack paid them to post? I believe disclosure is a defining factor between astroturfing and "just" marketing/sales/paid promotions.
I wonder how it would play out legally for someone to fork and relicense the codebase as GPL. Could cheat engine successfully sue to take down the new repository?
I went to college at a public university here in the states. When we got to the evolution chapters of Biology, multiple kids walked out in the middle of class sessions.

One day the professor came in and very sternly told us something along the lines of "If you disagree with this and you want to walk out, that's fine - remember, you're the ones paying to be here, and you're adults and that's your choice. But I'd like to re-emphasis the 'you're adults' part - it is unacceptable for me to be receiving angry letters from your parents. If you don't pass this class because you walk out, that's on you and you need to own that consequence." ~ oof, it was a rough Monday.
If it's for political reasons, then why only two years? Voters won't be going to the ballot box for another 4 years or so.
That's what I've been reading. Kamil Galeev (@kamikazani) has done an excellent job of describing how the Army has been intentionally castrated.
I didn't manipulate the data in pixel level. Maybe because I render PDF in 2x which causes 4x more pixels?
I mean. I'd probably post less shitposts on HN if someone offered me a financial incentive.
It is amazing how many large-scale applications run on a single or a few large RDBMS. It seems like a bad idea at first: surely a single point of failure must be bad for availability and scalability? But it turns out you can achieve excellent availability using simple replication and failover, and you can get huge database instances from the cloud providers. You can basically serve the entire world with a single supercomputer running Postgres and a small army of stateless app servers talking to it.
*looks in back yard*

I'm going to be a fucking billionaire. I'll finally have a car with doors that open like this!
I'm not a security expert in the least and I have never heard of this company till it folded, but I've got a question. How do they prevent someone from later acquiring the domain down the line, and then talking to these devices for malicious purposes? Do these devices expect a specific certificate, and won't communicate regardless of the domain?
Superstition is as powerful as it ever was.
Let me clear up a huge and very common misconception: an (alleged) GPL violation like this doesn't mean that you, the recipient, suddenly has the right to demand that the rest of the code be released as GPL. All it does is give the copyright holder of the GPL'd code a legal claim against the developer of the infringing product. It's unlikely that even the copyright holder could get a court to award anything but monetary damages. Courts are very reluctant to order specific performance (i.e. release all of your code as GPL) of a contract instead of just granting monetary damages. (Like a reply points out, the copyright holder is likely to win an injunction against further infringement.)

Importantly, the new code in the infringing product is still copyrighted, and that copyright is owned by the person who wrote that code even though they also violated the GPL license of other code.

Edit: Good point about the SFC/Vizio case. I would be surprised if the SFC wins, but it's a clever argument. It would be a major earthquake for the free software world, but maybe not an earthquake in their favor. No one is going to touch GPL code with a ten foot pole if it gives the entire public standing to sue you.
No wonder Boris can't stop horsing around
Web 2.0 Is A Scam (2005)
> As a result then it's surely inherently more (likely to be) balanced/matching up with reality?

I see almost nothing on TV that matches up with the actual daily life in America, so no - seeing more US TV doesn't help in that respect.
> For a while, placards stating something like "In this house, we believe in science" were showing up all over the area I live in. It's very odd because concepts like faith and belief are inherently religious, and don't have any place in scientific inquiry.

Belief is not “inherently religious”, religion is one of many kinds of beliefs. Science is centered on a particular epistemology—a belief about what makes a belief justified—rather than opposed to belief.
Now ? I think it's too late, your question sounds bizarre, Russia is indeed helping them. But I guess there are quite a few pro-separatists NGOs out there. Not the ones aligned with Kiev though, so they are leaning pro-Russia.
This is very cool!

An idea for going further still would be a blog, including a content management system, that is a single, self-contained, self-modifying binary. Write a new blog post, save it and the executable modifies itself to contain the new post and be able to output it.
Virginia doesn’t specifically regulate ‘self-driving’ cars. Should we?
Only 50% of the gain included for taxation. One could include more (say 75%).

They could also bring in additional property transfer taxes for reach home, taxing people more for each additional property they buy. Singapore does this.
That could be the case yes, still I feel it should be better, let me do a quick test as I have some spare time.
Here's Michael Bay having a panic attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeClZfVwOk4

Note that aside from some minor body language cues, there aren't a lot of outward signs of panic. How it looks and how it feels are very different.
I don't really support it one way or the other, as a reader I will go wherever the writers that interest me are.

One thing I think is powerful is that they let you own your audience. If they ever fuck up, writers can just bounce. It means substack should focus on tools writers want, rather than building an indentured trap by holding their audience ransom like most other publishing platforms do. The platform's politics don't matter if they can't deplatform you.
"We also had demonstrated that a focus on treating some theories as harmful, and others as not, ultimately wasn’t the most fruitful way to look at conspiracy theories. More fruitful was to be aware of the difference in types of conspiracy theorists themselves. Those who are newer to a conspiracy theory are the ones you are more likely to be able to reach with the facts, and therefore Alphabet’s efforts to counter misinformation will be likeliest to have impact the further upstream they are. In other words, it’s important to catch people at the
top of the rabbit hole, before they really fall down it."
I remember seeing meme pages doing this on IG when they introduced the covid warnings. Sometimes, when you would screenshot the seemingly innocuous image and mess with it's contrast etc, you could see they hid words like "covid" or whatever in the image that could only be seen by the image scanners.

I don't see anything in this image. I supposeeee, the picture of 4 teletubbies vaguely looks like the meme featured in this article: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-jerome-powell/

So maybe it's because of that. I have no idea how you would reverse engineer that the teletubbies would trigger the warning tho.
Red flag. People forget interviews are a two way street.

You ask a Leetcode question, and then assume the candidate is lying without even asking "have you seen this question before?".
"web3 is a scam" is a popular narrative[0]. I decided to check what people originally said about Web 2.0 for comparison.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083470
> Massive corporate landlords aren't providing a service to meet a demand. They're actively creating demand by driving up the cost of home ownership

This accusation would make a lot of sense if the corporations in question are either (a) a monopoly or (b) an illegal trust, colluding with each other, and through (a) or (b) the corporations enjoyed sufficient concentration of the housing sector that they had pricing power — the ability to restrict the supply and raise prices to make money.

This is not the case. The housing market is fairly competitive, and many different buyers, sellers, homeowners, and home-builders participate and compete with each other. Prices are rising for other reasons: a reduced number of homebuilders, in the aftermath of the 2008 crash; various political land-use, zoning, environmental, and similar homebuilding restrictions; a reduction in the overall labor pool, which impacts the labor in new home construction; labor and other supply chain impacts on the availability of components that are used in new home construction; and a significant pandemic-induced shift in real estate usage patterns (almost everyone wants more space now).
Local detection of dark matter with future missions to Uranus and Neptune
For me, configuration a tool or system is actually a likeable experience. It's almost a hobby to keep tinkering with my various configs.

Of course, that doesn't mean every tool should require massive amounts of time invested in configuring sensible defaults. Not everyone wants to do this.
Good idea! A random distribution on rotation seems a more user-friendly way instead of setting 10 rotation values.
The Guardian video is here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jiBXmbkwiSw

The paramilitary group which organized the camp was officially integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard. One of its members recently joined Zelensky in addressing the Greek parliament: https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/07/greek-azov-fighter-zele...
US mortgages are 30yr fixed. In Canada you cannot get a fixed rate for that long and 5 years is the norm - everyone here effectively has an ARM. This is why rates are almost always higher in the US.
The git issue is hard to follow. They reference having GPL'ed license code, but the author claims there is only LGPL code in it. The issue poster then says at one point GPLed code was used....but then doesn't show commits where it was added or removed? There is an additional git issue that is referenced, but this only talks about the original license of the repository.

I could just be bad at following what is going on too, since this is the first time I have seen this.
Carlos Ghosn was the right man, some people didn't like what he was doing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeoeJyJmN4

Funny enough, same story as with Alstom, and the countless other non-american success story

We can see it happening with Samsung too and their Exynos chip, forced to die
nice to see that in the stdlib! I don't see any mention of compression, I assume that can just be handled by something like upx, right?
Likely, but it probably ends up being "harmless fraud" and even if prosecuted the judge would be like "what?".

If the bank really cared, they would ask for the PDF and have you mail the wet signed documents in.

Likely the requirement for a wet signature is left over from earlier times (think fax machines) OR they are trying to ensure that the person actually signing is the person signed (in other words, YOU did the signature, not you asking your wife/broker/whoever to apply it for you).
> Could a better thought out measure achieve the same goals? How would you do it?

It's a problem that needs to be solved on the supply side. Trying to solve it on the demand side is like trying to damn a river with a sieve.
I stated that lazily. If we counted hospitilizations (which I would argue is the number that matters), then they would tell you that those are overcounted because many people go into the hospital with COVID, but that's not what they are there for and many more contract it while there. But the number makes it sound like all those folks are in the hospital BECAUSE of COVID.
I think you make a good general point and I will agree, but it needs to be said that not every bubble will recover, for example the tulip bubble, beanie babies and so on.

Crypto, NFT .. who knows, only time will tell who was right.
It's not that simple. Debian is the way it is because of its principles. You can't remove the principles and keep everything else working the same way.

(But, of course, this isn't an uncompromisable principle, as evidenced by the existence of the non-free repository. Packaging basic firmware on the same image as the rest of the system isn't the unthinkable action that people are talking about, but silently running them would be.)
why are they able to do that? it's their site, they can do whatever they want with it
Running Grafana Loki using MinIO as an object storage endpoint
Let me clarify this: Yandex would clearly do better without the war but unlike many other companies it will come out ahead as it can pick up a lot of business through "import substitution".
The Fed[eral Reserve] specifically? I'm simultaneously surprised and not.
> The other question is why does it appeal to writers, in particular the more popular high-quality, high-prestige writers that are attracting readers?

Getting paid directly for writing, without dealing with the administrative overhead of things not specifically built for writing, like Patreon.

We can talk about censorship all day until we're prohibited from doing so by a private entity and move to another platform, but it won't change the fact that the writers yelling the most about it could've easily set up a Patreon with a monthly plan and published long-form text there. Plenty of people still do it. Substack just does that one thing better.
So many things done on these computers seem "heroic" now, given how profligate we are in our use of memory by comparison. Write a compiler of any sort in 48kB of code+data? It sounds impossible today. Oh, and of course every million instructions took several seconds, so be prepared to wait.
This sounds so wrong tbh, first that you would get a 1900X which was the smallest Threadripper, and that you would then use it in an application which doesn't use all of its PCIe lanes, which is what differentiated it from the 8-core Ryzens.

May I ask, why you need to run Windows 11?
AT&T divested Warner last year, and I believe Fox and News Corp are technically independent (again, the Murdoch link).
You want a citation that the Russian economy is poor?
There is plenty of housing for plenty of people in most parts of North America. The 'problem' is that what people _want_ is cheap housing in urban centers, a.k.a cool spots. Because that doesn't exist, we claim to have a housing shortage.
> fade away as a once good club

Newcastle were good once? ;-)
I'm about halfway into his book. I'm not someone familiar with the education field so I just nod along during his discussions of the studies, but that introduction chapter was so good. I want to send it to everyone I know.