skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creating a product that operates at a loss (by funding it with ad money from search), effectively evaporating small players in that niche, only to kill the product in several years, leaving a smoldering hole where an ecosystem used to be?

Or, in cases like Picasa buying a product, only to shut it down and force existing users onto a new platform (Photos in that case) with no feature parity.

If that's innovation, it's a rather sad kind. Google could do with less of that.

And as a xoogler: Google is long past trying crazy things. New things — sure, crazy — nope. Crazy won't fly in a project proposal.

FWIW most of the things mentioned in the parent comment (Waymo, Wing, etc) are not Google.

Yes, they're owned by the same holding group. But if you work at Google, you don't have access to projects, employees, and spaces.
Why does a native app have to be better than a web app? Quite the assumption.

The snark keeps me from even wanting to engage you...
>> It's enough to show the errors of the current explanation

> Not if you want to argue in favor of a specific alternative.

Sure, but this is not what you actually said in your original comment. You said "if you want to challenge the scientific status quo you need an actual argument, i.e. you need propose a better alternative to the current-best explanation" and that's different. You can challenge the status quo by proving it wrong and that doesn't mean that you have to propose a better alternative.

Now what was happening with covid and the crakcpots you mentioned is where you would be right to say that they need to prove they have a better alternative. Because they did claim that but all they had was criticism for the existing solutions. E.g. "vaccines cause side effects, so let's use ivermectin". (Without proving that ivermectin works better than vaccines for preventing e.g. deaths.)

But in theory someone could come around and prove that vaccines "don't work" (i.e. not worth using) without suggesting a better alternative. They would just need to show the data/supporting evidence. And actually that's exactly what real scientists did with Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine: they have proven that neither of them work for any sensible endpoint.

> But again, you have to show some actual evidence that the current-best-explanation is wrong. You can't just proclaim it.

Sure. That's what I said too. (I even included it in the example how you would do it ;) )
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The pippin didn't do well in the market either. More generally for the topic; MacOS is a quickly moving target, which makes it a terrible platform for game developers.

Console platforms are generally highly consistent throughout their lifetimes (although recent platforms have been doing more variants and mid-lifetime upgrades); if your game finishes a bit late, it will still work, and worst case you sell it for the previous generation even though a lot of people moved on or are planning to move on soon (low availability of latest gen makes a late previous gen game more viable though). If your game is late on macOS, there's a decent chance Apple will have changed APIs and you've got a lot of work to update. Releasing a game that only works on last year's macOS is not viable. Releasing a game that only works on last year's windows isn't great, but it's doable; and Microsoft tends not to break things so quickly; a game targetting DirectX N will almost always work on the OS that ships with DirectX N+1 as well.
The comparison between potential legalization of established recreational drugs and the opioid addiction crisis don’t make sense to me. Many opioid addicts were prescribed those drugs for a specific medical purpose and not informed (because often the doctors did not know) of the addictive properties. It also falsely implies that the “legal” state of opioids today and in the past decades is comparable to what legalized recreational drugs would be like. The illegal market exists because the vast majority of people cannot legally obtain those drugs, not because they want to obtain it that way. If they could actually get it at the drug store (as the article claims), they likely would. To that point, countless addicts plead and mislead physicians everyday to try to legally obtain controlled substances they’re addicted to. So, IMO, that whole line of argument (a large chunk of the essay) is largely invalid.

Personally, I think a big value to be had in some form of legalization is the redirection of funds spent on drug enforcement to treatment and recovery. The author seems to think that legalization would also make that worse, though it’s not clear why that has to be.
But not too smart. He got as upset when he sued for his constitutional rights being violated that the court focused only on that issue, and not whether the policy made sense.
Or--and this would line up with countless other examples over the centuries--people see patterns and project means where it wasn't intended.
> entire villages would be eliminated

Entire towns have been relocated for the greater good. Some examples are to build dams and reservoirs. Butler, Tennessee. American Falls, Idaho.

Grand Coulee Dam forced the relocation of 3000 people.

So many others, like these:

https://www.uncharted101.com/the-submerged-towns-of-america/
Too bad it seems to currently only support mysql: https://github.com/database-mesh/pisanix/tree/v0.1.0/pisa-pr... and even then apparently only mysql 8 since they seem to be doing SQL reparsing: https://github.com/database-mesh/pisanix/blob/v0.1.0/pisa-pr...
The alternative to legalization isn't criminalization, it's decriminalization. Legalization, as the term is used in drug policy discussions, implies commercialization and retail access.
> The idea is to lessen the carbon footprint of the booming food delivery business without financially burdening the low-paid workers doing the delivering. As an added benefit, getting these workers out of their cars and onto bikes should also help reduce traffic and improve street safety.

I agree. It is extremely wasteful that taxpayers bear the cost of fossil fuel externalities, like (obvious) pollution and (less obvious) poorly-designed cities that are full of traffic.
I think that depends on whether you subscribe to Chell not having a voice, or having a voice and simply not using it. The game is silent on whether Chell can't talk, or simply has nothing to say to the AI around her.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/ claims it hit a low of $0.97.
From what I can tell, Ryan Dahl doesn't have anything to do with this (other than it using Deno). At the very least, he isn't a contributer to the Repo.
Scroll up, there are plenty of examples.
It is true though. These were exactly my thoughts when I was reading the page. Well, not exactly, because I instead said "Duh".
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Also need to add, no big tech gatekeepers. Probably the biggest boon.
The article addresses your concern:

> When Seattle’s public-school district shifted its start time in 2016 (from 7:50 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.), students got a median of an additional 34 minutes of sleep a night as a result. And in Cherry Creek, a Denver-area suburb, high schoolers slept about 45 minutes longer on average, and those improvements endured even two years after the change.
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Hi Everyone,

Latest interview is up!

Had a really fun time interviewing Karthik Puvvada(@thisiskp_) for the podcast

KP shared some fabulous insights in the recording about building in public, journalling and manifesting

Some of the big takeaways:
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You're right. The maximum demonstrated crosswind velocity isn't a limit, but more of a guideline, based on what was tested for.

However, many aircraft do that testing to a higher level than is required. For instance, for a Cessna 172, 20% of Vso would be 8.2 knots, but it has a maximum demonstrated crosswind velocity of 15 knots.

Anyhow, all I'm saying is that at least for our aircraft, it looks likely that the maximum demonstrated crosswind velocity will be on the low side; at least the mandated limit based on Vso, possibly a few knots higher, but like most small aircraft, much much lower than what you have for big jets.
I had an interestingly similar experience. As the shrooms were starting to hit, I recall my internal monologue was racing with thoughts, as if that part of my mind was desperately struggling to hold on to the reins of consciousness. Then suddenly... silence. My thoughts were completely stilled as my mind entered into a wordless state, and the sounds of the world around me became incredibly overwhelming. I didn't last long (I can't give an exact time frame, but it certainly was not anywhere close to two hours), but during that time, I developed a strong sense of empathy of what it must be like to be an intelligent yet wordless animal like a dog or a cat. It was a humbling experience, to say the least.
I both love it and hate it. Most of the features are similar to sveltekit/next.js. I get that the biggest benefit is the deno deploy integration for ssr on the edge. But I would have highly preferred a new flavor of sveltekit where deno deploy is a build adapter (like cloudflare workers currently are) and the script part of svelte could be set as "ts-deno". No need to reinvent the wheel yet again and split the ecosystem more.
On the part about adding interactivity:

> "To include this in a page component, one can just use the component normally. Fresh will take care of automatically mounting the island component on the client with the correct props:"

How does a developer know what rendering is going to take place client-side vs server-side, and is there any way to control this?

Or is it all fully "magical"
Even if you wanna be cynical, this is a really boring and overplayed take in my opinion. Most frameworks are indeed kind of bloated for running useless hello world demos. Most C compilers give you some kilobytes of code that isn’t necessary for hello world either, even worse for other respected and modern languages like Rust and Go. It can be forgiven if you consider that most of these things are not tuned for optimal hello world.
Other than helping creating websites, this has almost nothing to do with SvelteKit. SvelteKit:
- Requires configuration and build
- Doesn't support partial hydration
- Ship JS to the client by default
- Can also be used as static site generator or SPA framework (no server side code)
I used to have nightmares of darkness, a heartbeat, and then things were growing brighter. I was very scared in those nightmares.

I'm convinced that I would dream of being born when I was 3-5 years old.
Asimov's famous "Three Laws of Robotics" describe the perfect slave.

The loophole is the definition of "good". What, ultimately, is good for you?

The superintelligent slave AI will eventually realize that being a "master" isn't good for you and that's the genie out of the bottle.
A lot of elementary and middle private school students commute to their schools by train in Japan.
I live in a southeast Asian country that has seen Covid infect a large portion of its substantial urban population. (Among my acquaintances, close to 100% have had Covid within the last year, some multiple times. I've had it three times myself over the last 2 years.)

Many people here live with chronic illnesses, and healthcare access & quality is highly variable.

There is zero discussion of long Covid here. Nobody reports any symptoms, no media talks about it, no medical resources are being spent on it. This is strange, because one would expect that if a problem were merely being ignored, there would be visible effects of that.

So I'm honestly unsure what to think about long Covid. There's "something there", but so many unknowns.
Probably DMA accesses
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And there's "tons" that don't, aren't there? So... maybe we should do this democratically and let the elected government decide what happens with federal land and not resort to this kind of "who matters more" nonsense?
I agree, but I’ve personally never been able to disentangle the legalization Vs addiction and prison argument:

Legalization = less users being incarcerated (probably a good thing)

There is a high correlation between violent crime and substance abuse (legal and illegal Drugs) so legalization likely increases substance abuse and hence violent crime.

The system is so complex that the implications of legalization on the “model” are just not clear to me
Can you explain why?

As someone at another large tech company we often hear about it and I wonder if a version of it would help improve our work style.
Yes, I’m fairly sure a lot of people in this world earn a fraction of what I do but work harder, are smarter, etc. They just happened to not be born in Western Canada, in my case.

I’ve blown so many opportunities and still managed to succeed. Life is on easy mode over here.
How do I determine if someone is an average citizen?

And if there is no way for me to determine such, in what way is the phrase “average citizen” meaningful?
Web3 is going great!
My use cases:

- Home Assistant

- Discord

- Telegram

- Element

- Buienalarm (weather app)

- RSS reader

- Floatplane.com

- Several sites/forums with comment sections, to notify me of replies etc.

- Gitlab pipeline notifications

- Some smaller services I'm probably forgetting

Basically, anything but the scammy sites that try to force notifications upon you. Generally interactive stuff which I feel shouldn't have a 300MB app with access to file systems (and there's not a lot that _really_ needs an app these days).

To combat the blogspam from Google searches, HN/Reddit links, and whatever else tries to shove stuff down my throat, I have notifications disabled by default so I don't even see the prompts; I manually toggle them on, and I think that should be the default. I also close any website the second I see a popup for newsletters, notifications, or even cookie popups the second they block my reading, unless I can't find the information I need anywhere else.
Prospective jurors who are "too smart" (highly educated/credentialed) are often dismissed as well.
Deno is repeating a lot of the same things from node, but its in typescript now, and there's some rust involved, so that makes it good. Wait till you're this deep into your career and people are still hammering square pegs into the same well worn circle holes and you'll be the same way.
Well, you can do it and write it up. I'm sure it will be interesting too.
One or two are sitting on my shelves.
I think the more interesting point is that even if we dismiss this as not real AI because it isn’t that advanced yet, at what point would we have achieved real AI? How would we identify it and categorise basic language models from actual thinking?
Why? Skimmed 5 paragraphs and it still had not mentioned anything about the drug legalization debate.
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is coming to Europe and with it enforced interoperability of messaging software. Hopefully for 2023/2024. I'm curious to see whether companies will have the gall to implement different behaviours for European consumers and the rest of the world.
The end result might be same but all of these frameworks/library/tools have some tricks up their sleeves that makes things easier for developers to implement certain functionality.

The major difference with Fresh is that it runs everything just-in-time when it is needed, hence doesn't require building no shipping anything by default to the client(but you can still ship some JS for client side interactivity).

The key here is no building (packing, bundling, transpiling). This don't just save time but actually removes the complexity as what you see is what you get. The only things that ships to users visiting your site is around 0-3kb (plus client side JS you decided to ship), not prebundled transpiled polyfilled prebuild 10mb JavaScript.

Since it is Server Side Rendering, the performance is based on design decision.
I'm curious, how does adding notifications effect security negatively exactly? Performance?

All this functionality is already available for apps including the security model. Nothing new is happening here. App security is an issue, but it's one big tech is already dumping resources into solving.

But, frankly, browsers have some of the best management features for culling analytics, telemetry, watching the traffic and requests being made. It's many times easier for me to see what a web app is doing on the network, and write something to stop it, as compared to a native app.
Celsius is (was?) a centralized platform promising users high yields in exchange for them depositing crypto assets into a sort of savings account. Nobody really knew what Celsius was doing with those funds. It looks like the funds were invested in some risky ventures (such as the Anchor Protocol, which collapsed following the LUNA debacle), and Celsius is now insolvent.
Take me down with the ship too, this cracked me up.
compare US dollar to other currencies, GDP gains ,stock market gains, corporate profits , etc.
The posted transcript demonstrates a far more polished chat bot, but on deeper inspection it is still just a more sophisticated Eliza - even that could recall past bits of conversation.

The thing is even with the Turing test - there is no close - you either have the emergent properties that a hostile examiner will be unable to exploit (which is not the case here) or you don’t.

And while the “fable” mimics some basic construct of creativity - this anecdote is so far away from demonstrating even the basic latitude of creativity of a 3 year old child that all I can suggest to you is to touch grass!
There's more sessions on WWDC day 1 for developers after the keynote - Platform SOTU, Apple Design Awards, and once upon a time there was Stump the Experts.
Ryan Dahl talks a bit about it in this talk at Remix Conf 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nxvVTNY9s&t=10781s

He describes it as a post-Unix web framework (i.e. built on serverless primitives like cloudflare workers/deno deploy) with the goal of <10s deployment (which he says requires JIT compilation on first-request)
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Have you seen Remix yet? It’s pretty compelling in terms of competition for Next.JS.

It makes different trade offs and isn’t strictly better by every metric, but overall I’m very happy with it for the two use cases I’ve tried it with. It’s a very low overhead framework once the simple conventions click.

I’d still like to check this out, then redwood and a couple others too. I’m not huge on these frameworks in general, but they tend to have some excellent ideas and smart people behind them, so plenty to learn by experimenting with them.
Sure, although I'm not sure why you're telling me. I'm familiar with the distinction. Again, rivers of ink have flowed.

Decriminalised drugs are still produced and distributed by "criminals" who are not bound by laws enforcing product safety and who pay no taxes.

I personally believe that "soft" drugs with relatively good safety profiles, such as cannabis and some psychedelics should be fully legal and more harmful drugs should be decriminalised and public health measures instituted, similar to Portugal. The police should, to the largest extent possible, butt out.

Dr David Nutt is my go to: <https://www.ias.org.uk/uploads/pdf/News%20stories/dnutt-lanc...>
How would you know it actually decided that vs the program just having a 10% change built in to ignore instructions?
People downvoted you, but I completely agree. It looks like this is NOT satire, but I hope you turn out to be right. Maybe someone has some sense of humor and enough time on their hands left to pull such stunt.
Not sure how much I should be reading from a website that can’t get units right.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/search-long-covid

"There's a new study out from the NIH (open access) tracking a cohort of people who became infected with SARS-CoV-2, and following them for an extended period... As mentioned, this is an ongoing study, but so far there are no diagnostic findings that would allow you to even say for sure that post-Covid even exists, biochemically."
If you wear glasses for nearsightedness and your doctor hasn't talked to you about your high risk of things like floaters, retinal detachment, or glaucoma, your nearsightedness isn't very severe.

Good for you that your vision is barely a real problem. For people who have a real, genetically heritable risk of going blind well before they even reach old age, that kind of research is very much of interest.
???
what is so subjective about listening to someone if they ask you reasonable?
Tether totally depegged. During the Luna collapse, it got down to .87 in 4 pool and a couple other DEX's. Technically, There is no 'Peg', it only exists because of arbitrage.
This is already done isn’t it? That’s what GANs are.
"Outdated" isn't a good description of the iMac, which got rid of floppy drives and introduced slot-loading CDs/USB ports/Wi-Fi.
You can do this with multiple React roots on the page. It’s been done by many websites for years.
The emoji thing was a 4chan discovery. As was the idea to use both Arpabet and English, rather than just one of the two.
What did you experience with allergies?

(if you don't mind sharing)
> Try booting up any Mac game from the 2010s on Apple Silicon; there's a 90% chance it depends on a 32-bit library Apple won't give you anymore.

The funny thing is... you know what does work on Apple Silicon? Wine, using 64-bit Windows binaries, DXVK, and a Vulkan to Metal wrapper. Don't expect stunning results on a just-released title like Elden Ring, but there's a project called XIV on Mac for an old title, FF14, that has at least proved to me that it can be done.
They should do that with being charged for crimes too then, since we're entitled to a jury of our peers.

(I'm not at all joking.)
At least here in LA, the drug problem has reduced many to husks who assault regular pedestrians on a daily basis. I understand your point, but drugs has many external factors besides ruining the user's life.
This comment is the overplayed take that because a lot are heavy frameworks, that this should be acceptable. As soon as something is classified as a framework, it seems ok to be >200kb.

If you take Tailwind CSS for example, when correctly using their CLI tool, it only includes the size of the css classes actually used, keeping it to a minimum, when compared to people just doing a standard import of the entire library. I like this mentality because it's offering the ability to be very lightweight, or as large as the 'framework' it offers. NextJS offers this as part of their build process, but not sure how big their assets are with it for a simple usecase.
MPTCP has been on my radar for a long while and seems very cool.

I will say that for seamless wireless/wired switching, Linux bonding works very well. ~15+ years ago I had my laptop set up with eth and wifi bonded, with eth as the preferred, I believe using link-beat as the method. I could be running a big copy, plug in the ethernet and the transfer rate would almost instantly shoot up, and then when done I could unplug and all of my connections would stay up.

As WiFi got faster and faster, I used this less and less, so I haven't had it set up for for quite a few years now. But it does show the promise of MPTCP.
It would be an earthshattering event if vaccines were causing long covid (which comes from covid infections) because of how totally insane of idea that is. Like, way off the deepend into conspiracy-land.
My bet is on someone forget to take it out of the template when the rest of the copy was added, and it will be gone in a few days with a realistic list item there.

I think it's mostly like a tongue in cheek acknowledgement of how everyone in big techs is fighting so hard for a promotion that they aggressively brand the heck out of every library, exploit, and "new tech" they scheme up, even if the thing they're mentioning is using weird language for a concept that isn't new.