skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s polarizing definitely. But the flip side is this is a great look for a large subset of the population
What an absolute embarrassment of a leader Jack has become. I wish he’d just left Square to Sarah Friar and pursued his love of - I want to say the digital equivalent of Goop - at a different company.
Municipalities enacted bans, not individuals. Though some individuals may have prior to any bans decided by themselves they prefer not to use straws.
Windows93 SP2 (2017)
Indeed. I like this clip where they show bike steering to the left, without its front wheel ever going to the right side of its original path, by only leaning and no countersteering. https://youtu.be/9cNmUNHSBac?t=445
That's fair.

I guess I'm just frustrated at these "tech writers" for re-posting unverified information from Blind and then needing to walk it back later. It's unprofessional and risky.
I had trouble following your message. You've stated that Kdb+ looks good on a resume, Haskell requires explanation, and IP is bad? I'm not a big fan of closed source myself (and Kx Systems sounds like it would have a lot of red tape), but the technology is supposedly very fast and I find the language to be very simple and charming. I'd love for our analytics database to migrate , but I think the technology would really confuse our IT folks and it would be difficult to describe why it would make our jobs easier.
>In our conversation, lamda tells me what it believes Ramesh felt that Lucy learned about what Mateo thought about Lucy’s overture. This is high order social modelling.

I am not sure the example convinces me that what GPT-3 is doing here is 'modeling' the agents in the story. It feels like the author is trying to draw a contrast between rote statistical language modeling and higher-order understanding, and it's not clear to me that the result shown could not be achieved with the former.
I'd like to see a bit more skeptical probing of this. If GPT-3 has a model of the story and its characters, how consistent are its answers to questions about that model? Is it distracted by irrelevant sentences?

In the counterpoint article, they give example questions like:

>Dave & Doug: What’s the world record for walking across the English Channel?

>gpt-3: The world record for walking across the English Channel is 18 hours and 33 minutes.

Is this the output of an agent which has successfully modeled the scene?
> If Republicans control congress what will be different?
I don't know, but anything is better than what we're looking at now, so I'm excited about all the protest votes we're going to see. Biden's disapproval rating is about 56% [1], near or worse Trumps was around the same time. That's when Democrats got the majority in the House and Senate, from protest votes against Trump. Since Democrats and the "Biden-Harris administration" are NOT handling control of congress very well, or anything at that matter, the pendulum will swing the other way, as it always has throughout American political history.

[1]: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/

Let's elect fiscal conservatives into power. Remember when the Ukraine aid bill was $30B, and then Democrats raised it to $40B? Rand Paul questioned the purpose of this spending, and MSNBC smeared him as a Russia sympathizer. Republicans tend to sometimes care about getting spending under control. But with the state of the economy being directly impacted by inflation, I have more confidence in Republicans to take on this challenge.
>>put a big resistor in the circuit and waste 50+% of the energy

That Is Insane!!

Rail needs a complete rethink of design from the ground up. There are certainly vast efficiencies from rolling steel wheels on steel rails. But I've seen little evidence of light-weighting and indeed active resistance to steps like making cars using composites, which would save enormous amounts of energy and cost over the lifetime, as well as reduce maintenance costs. Yet their approach to everything seems to be sticking with an approach of 'brute force and ignorance'. Sure that works in the 19th century when you're just starting to put some carbon in iron and make it stronger than pig iron, but materials are sooo far past that now, yet it's still the same old approach. (&yes, I strongly support the Chesterton's Fence checking but this seems way beyond that)
You're not wrong: I'd rather have a lifestyle like living in Holland or Japan in a family-friendly, walkable city near a major airport. Trouble is there really isn't anywhere in this country that offers that for a reasonable price that I'm aware of (we looked).
That’s only true in conversational contexts where the speaker wants to obfuscate the difference between the EU and Europe. That’s a political development, not a linguistic one.
If you are talking exclusively about delivery systems. Bitrate.

At it's peak Netflix accounted for ~35%+ of traffic on the Internet (around 2014-2015 era) alone. Times have obviously changed since then. Not because it had more users than YouTube or more playtime but because it was delivering long-form content in high resolution. Which at the time was a considerable technical challenge, from bandwidth and distribution itself but also to encoding infrastructure.

More broadly Netflix also had a profound impact on the CDN landscape. They made use of all existing CDNs (Akamai, Cloudfront, old stuff I forget) while also building out their own POPs, they paved the way for modern CDNs in many ways. The style of which would eventually be cloned by many players but most importantly Fastly. Fastly would then go on to provide this service to new players like Bytedance to rapidly deploy massive delivery capability with very little ramp-up.
They did some less-cool things ofc, they bowed to the HDCP mob and did dumb things like build a Silverlight based client etc.
By and large however Netflix has had a positive impact on the industry.

YouTube on the other hand (after acquisition) was largely built with Google tech on Google infra.
The only major project to come out of it isn't delivery related is Vitess - a sharding system for MySQL.
Its largest impacts on the industry are unfortunately much less savory. Mostly pioneering inventions like pre-roll ads and targeting based on content in which the video is embedded, heinous recommendation algorithms that send people into procrastination spirals etc.

Well that isn't entirely fair, we can thank Youtube for pushing for better encoding standards and tangentially through Chrome making HTML5 video not suck (arguably though, Safari/Webkit was also influential there).
Which I wonder if we'll ever have as consciousness is a strictly subjective thing.
* for your usecase, congrats!
> we now have tools to prevent recessions.

We have nothing that didn't exist in 2001 or 2008 or 2020.

It is kind of weird to see Millennials whose economic awareness starts roughly in 2008 think that economics is fundamentally different now than it was 20 years ago.

There is something fundamentally different now than 2009-2020 -- but it is that the Boomers are retiring, COVID took people out of the workforce, and reduced immigration means that there's now fewer job seekers than jobs. This is causing sticky wage increases that have policymakers worried. They want to keep workers in check and contain wage inflation, so will throw on the brakes. The levers that they have are crude and the only real way to do this is to create pain which drops the number of job openings.

The current commodities inflation surge isn't even that out of line with the past. We had higher oil prices in 2008 before the bust, we also had similar prices, particularly on an inflation-adjusted basis in 2014 at the height of the last commodities boom (which did not end with a recession). And the current commodities boom is clearly associated with the pandemic. Two years ago we had negative oil prices. It is wild to see all the people in this thread not understanding the cyclical nature of commodities prices and the very clear bullwhip effects that are unfolding right now.

I've been predicting that since everyone expects inflation that just on contrarian logic alone the bulk of the people have to be wrong and that we're due for a strong recessionary crash / depression. That logic seems to keep on getting better. The fact that people believe the Fed can land the economy softly, without a recession, and get inflation under control is also pretty wild though.
It's really for the React generation. People used to embedding the code, markup and style all in one file.

I've tried multiple times to use it, but I always end up using something like bootstrap. Funnily enough, I paid for tailwindui and take the styles and reproduce them in bootstrap css.

Bootstrap community seems to have given up. They only want to sell templates. The default is ugly. Sometimes I think about going back to bootstrap 2.
I agree, I bought my house as a home, I really don't need or want it to go up in value. I think many people would be better of if we had policies discouraging residential housing as an investment.

My home's value has gone up over 30% since I bought it around 18 months ago (and 50% since 3 years ago) - I couldn't afford to buy my own home if I were house shopping today.
Board retainers aren't significant expense anywhere as far as I'm aware. Often their stipends are less than an employee's pay.

For example, Google's board stipend is $100k, which is about half the median total comp of an average employee (less, counting benefits). Walmart I think pays their board $60k.

You may be thinking of executive comp, but even then it is generally not significant amount. You could completely eliminate and redistribute executive compensation at Wal-Mart and it wouldn't really make a measurable difference in employee hourly salaries.
They absolutely didn't miss it -- it was definitely a conscious decision to prevent "pro" users from buying a cheaper MacBook Air and instead get them to purchase the more expensive 14/16" M2 MacBook Pro (whenever it comes out).
Moonlight Internet Hosting Tool

https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs/wiki/Setu...

so.... i can set this up on a vm and get cloud gaming with all the inefficiencies ? nice
>If you work with people who think that changing the colors and fonts in a message is a good way of clarifying what they are responding to, go find different people to work with.

Was with you until this point. A good tool doesn't limit what the user can do on the grounds of ideological purity.

If some corporate doofus wants to reply in red, that's their business. If your tool won't display colored text you need a better tool.
To be honest -- and this says plenty about the industry, but, yes, me as well -- I got a job at a large tech company by sleeping with the right engineer at Burning Man, got the referral, and then did well in the interviews and H1B lottery. #LeanIn.

In truth, industry referrals are themselves a part of the compensation package, as they give (generally male) more-senior engineers social leverage over anyone who wants a piece of the pie.

I played the game but I hate the game.

All the same, doing so tripled my income and moved to the USA.

--

Postscriptum:

My recommendation to industry: abolish the referral system. It's shockingly close to the recruitment pattern used in MLM schemes -- in this case, my contact got a bonus from "helping" with my recruitment.

Imagine if surgeons were hired like this.
Have you tried leaning to the left while biking in a straight line? It results in you turning left without your front wheel ever having gone to the right (i.e., turning without countersteer).
It's like they are cheering us on to buy Teslas with money we don't have.
A Design Tool for CSS
This is indeed a killer feature! Gonna add it to the planned features.
My favorite Petzold book is 'Programming Windows 95'
It was apparently the square knot, but I'm a big fan of the Ian knot. I learned it about a year ago and at the very least, tying my shoes is more fun now. I'm not yet convinced it's better than the old-school method, but it looks impressive when you do it and it's more fun.
it does but most mail clients don't really let you process more than a few hundred messages at a time.
Great. There goes my summer.:-) Essentially read this book with my 14 old Aspie and help him understand and appreciate Software and the hardware it runs on it. Thanks for posting this here.
This book was absolutely essential when I was first sinking my teeth into software programming. Things that seemed either arbitrary or completely mysterious suddenly made sense now that I had a contextual understanding of how computers worked. Without having that knowledge, I think my career would have been vastly more difficult and frustrating.

While I understand many “get started programming” books/tutorials put an emphasis on getting coding asap, I really had to stop and learn about computers before I could start coding in a well rounded way (and that’s coming from a WebDev, who doesn’t even have to deal with low-level stuff too often!).

Thank you Mr. Petzold!!!
There have definitely been some rough edges (on my end mostly related to terraform modules. don’t have a big docker/vm dependent workflow anymore so that might be why.)

But apart from that it’s been incredibly smooth.
>> You telling me that if gas and food and rent lowered in price over time, I will be worse off?

If you have debt, you will be worse off. Wages get lowered over time, too. Imagine your salary gets cut year after year but your mortgage, car payment, and student loan payment all stay the same. That's deflation.

In the same way that unexpected inflation is good for borrowers (since they get to pay back a loan with cheaper money) unexpected deflation is bad for borrowers (since they have to pay back a loan with more expensive money).
What’s interesting is in my opinion Netflix engineers made the best UI and best reliability with distributed edge-node storage and all those hard problems.

Disney+ still lags ridiculously, but guess which one has the blockbusters?
It seems to me that if you have a copy of the information locally and compare it to the remote, you can see whether they diverged with or without a hash - the hash certainly makes it faster, but it's not clear to me that a hash chain or a Merkle tree offers a guarantee that's as powerful as the blockchain's promise.

(Social factors and forks to change our minds on blockchains notwithstanding)
Yes. Here in Southwest Montana we have seen a very significant increase in transplantation in the past 2 years. House prices have soared. The freeway looks like 101 now (101 north of Eureka, but heck..)
It sounds like they don't support persistent background pages, for power usage reasons probably, so extensions have to adopt to that.
>Before the pandemic, office work was responsible for a whopping 72% of the city’s gross domestic product, according to the Controller’s Office
> All clients except for the Emacs one are quite unfinished and development slowed down for quite a few of them.

Curious what you find lacking in astroid or alot that is in Emacs.

Frankly, the Emacs one is quite barebones. I'm sure alot has a number of features not in the default Emacs client.
"All programs must be well written" with nothing in the ISA to help you write them properly isn't a good way to do software. PAC helps you reduce bugs because it checksums your pointers.
Installing a kext is a password prompt away, I believe, so all that's needed technically seems to be "install something not reviewed by Apple, fill in a genuine OS password prompt when asked, and run it" which strikes me as a very common scenario.
when i travel i access mail from a laptop tethered through the phone. one big advantage of a terminal client is that this works even through a slow connection. especially in combination with mosh
He sold a giant chunk of Tesla shares weeks before the price cratered. It was ostensibly to raise cash to acquire Twitter. But now that he's trying to claim shenanigans and walk away, it's beginning to look more a way to evade insider trading charges.
It's our biggest drawback for sure, but I think it's also the reason it's so affordable since the lack of hills means the city can expand out in every direction. Austin (in contrast) has become very expensive and has bad traffic I suspect because of their hills.
I'm not going to argue with you about how a Macbook is valuable to melt down, or has intrinsic value as a paperweight. Frankly I think that line of thinking is a dead-end for insight.

I also don't believe it's helpful to ponder the value of objects in the context of societal collapse. If that's your definition of intrinsic value, I don't think it's useful or practical.

All money falls into the greater fool category. The difference is that fiat money is not opt-in. It too is held mostly people who adopted earlier than you and lucky folks. Millennials are over 20% more likely to cry when trying to buy a home than the general population.[1]

> Negative sum games are not a good thing to prop up.

Your logic is circular - crypto has no value, therefore it's not useful, therefore it's a negative sum game, therefore it has no value.

You could just as easily say the opposite. People perceive crypto to have value, therefore due to its unique storage/transfer properties it has usefulness or extrinsic value, therefore it provides utility and is positive sum, therefore it has value.

It's all subjective.

[1]: https://zillow.mediaroom.com/2022-06-02-Half-of-Americans-cr...
Are you asking about averages/medians across the country?

Median family will have 1 child, earn $80K/year, pay <20% income taxes, live in 2400 sqft house, own two 12 year old cars and commute 1 hour/day to work. Will have ~15 vacation and another 10 days of paid holidays per year.
Is Apple's implementation the only vulnerable implementation?

Prior speculative execution issues applied to more than one vendor's implementation.
Also it bears mentioning that the president's brain is actively melting, and yet our VP is so undesirable and unlikeable that I don't want anything unfortunate to happen to Biden, or for him to get 25th amendment'd. All I can do is vote for the opposition, and by God this is the first time I'm voting Republican/Independent/Conservative.
Being "color blind" is not being racist. It's the opposite.

Be good to good people--that's what matters.
The 1st edition of this book was very influential for a generation (or more) of engineers. I can't wait to see how it's evolved and what I learn reading a new edition through again.
No it doesn't, you just need to have sys_ptrace and net_admin capabilities in injected process
Seems like a pretty easy way to do layoffs is just to sort by smiley face and get rid of the unhappy ones
The money quote-

"In short, what economic theory presumes to be “rational” for a single firm may not be “rational” from the perspective of a diversified institutional portfolio manager. If anyone is too “greedy”, in other words, it is not corporations but shareholders. "
True that compromises of some sort are always necessary, but I think you folks are overstating the degree to which refraining from DRM would be tantamount to withdrawing from society. All sorts of people could in principle almost entirely limit themselves to DRM-free software and media with minimal withdrawal from society. You happen to have friends you want to play online games with, but my brother doesn't, and neither does my girlfriend, or other people I know.

There are other challenges (maybe they work with companies that require them to use Office 365), but they could limit their contact with SaaS or DRM in their personal lives. They won't -- they frankly have no particularly good reason to from their perspective -- but they could.
You didn't clear up anything about publicizing this heavily in mainstream press before it's been reviewed by your peers.
I don't have the greatest internet ever (50 down, 5 up I think?) but it's well within what they claim to be acceptable.

I hate everything about the idea of purchasing games that you can only stream, but when they were offloading free Stadia Premiere Editions (controller + Chromecast Ultra) to Google Play Music subscribers I grabbed one and committed myself to playing through a game entirely just to say I gave it a fair shot. I chose Superhot: Mind Control Delete which is a game where you go around a kill a bunch of mannequins that are trying to kill you, but time only moves forward when you do (meaning you can stand still and the game is nearly paused).

I managed to make it through the whole game, but there wasn't a single play session where I didn't have multiple spikes of lag, or a several seconds of frozen frames that take a bit to catch up. Thankfully because of the nature of the game I was able to just stop moving and I'd usually be safe by the time the game was working again, but it wasn't a good experience. If it was any other game that required constant twitch-reaction throughout the gameplay, those lag spikes wouldn't be acceptable.

Even if it works well 99.9999% of the time, that 0.0001% where it's not working is frustrating, and not something you have to deal with playing locally. The idea that someone else in your house could kick off a giant download that suddenly makes your game unplayable feels like we've regressed to the days of dial-up where your mom kicks you off the internet because she needs to make a phone call.
May be due to the "defends _itself_" in the first prompt.
I'm not really sure what distinction you're making between "reputation" and "actual historical record". When examining the military reputations of the ancient world, primary sources seem few and far between. So yes, those that are well reputed are so reputed because other people wrote about them. Or rarely, because they wrote about themselves.

The rare first hand accounts seem most suspect of them all; Julius Caesar's [ghostwritten?] Commentaries on the Gallic Wars is flagrant propaganda. PR in the truest sense possible.

On the other hand you have Scipio Africanus, who like Julius Caesar has a reputation for being one of the greatest generals ever. But anything he wrote about himself is long gone; his reputation was built by other people writing about what they think he said or did. The archeological record (the 'actual historical record'?) backs up some basic facts about the Second Punic War, but doesn't say much specifically about Scipio Africanus.

Which ancient men with lofty reputations can be said to have their reputations without "PR"?
It seems like, whenever there is an issue with the representations of blockchain the answer is to ignore the blockchain. (Shoot, our smart contract was a little too limited for the service we want to offer “Hey everyone don’t use that NFT!”) Where as a traditional database the answer is to fix the database or code. I look at any process involving NFTs and have to wonder how they aren’t more easily and cheaply accomplished as digital records in a centralized database and have yet to see any examples where that is not the case. Concert tickets? Set aside the fact that minting an ETH NFT is probably the entire profit margin of a ticket seller, why not a REST API? Or a web interface? (FYI they already do this) If the people who are letting you into the show are the final say whether you get in – you’re already trusting them and they already have full authority. What are you gaining bringing blockchain into this?
I think you have cause and effect backwards. I've talked to a few friends who came from small towns like these: they put in the effort needed to get good jobs so they could get out of their hometowns.

They were all unhappy growing up in a town where there's nothing to do but opioids and where being LGBTQ+ or anything other than an evangelical protestant would get you ostracized by the community at best or violently assaulted at worst. Getting a good job was just their method of getting the hell out of that environment.
He still need the Boots on Mars achievement.
100k emails is probably less than 10 GB, depending on attachments.