skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is addressed in later parts of the book, and I really only focused on the first part in my comment.

How to keep capital 1) maximally productive, rather than rent seeking, and 2) keep capital from fleeing, are all about what incentive structures the government sets up. And for every single industrial country, government policy has been key to growing infant industries into functional, independent, adult economies.

At every stage of economic development, the rules seem to change for of which policies enable or maximize economic growth. (I fear the US is starting to flub it now, but they may still save themselves!!)
if going by what the writer wrote about the length of Aron Swartz incarceration is true, then that's way too much (35-year sentence). I mean he didn't kill someone even though what he did might be illegal. I just feel they just wanted to eliminate him. it's also totally unfair that he was erased from the history of reddit without good recognition for his work and contribution.
I think it's completely unremarkable that I can tell you [random HN person] that an argument is useless because people aren't interested in changing their minds, and you attempt to counter the argument.
Learning from Las Vegas: Sustainable vs. Susceptible
+1 Kagi. I expected to get bored and go back to old habits but it's been very impressive and has "stuck" as my default for quite a while now.
A great help is to decide on a productive alternative. So, let's say, you have an urge to get the phone then reach for a book and read a few pages instead. Or, do a few push-ups, or what every you decide.

Having a replacement activity helps a lot.

It's interesting. It used to be that some addiction programs with the same idea but for drug addicts was to have them smoke a cigarette if they had an urge to do drugs. Yes, it helped with the drug addiction but they got hooked on cigarettes. You sort of wander if it was a solution.
Apple will
How can you write an article dissing Google and not mention YouTube?
This post seems very disingenuous, it could even be a FUD. I can't help but think the author has some ulterior motive.

Anyway, my advice: Treat your current username and your real name as if they were the same.
Make a new username and don't connect it to your real name again if you wanna be anonymous.
I pasted that code into a REPL (including setting flag=false, which seems to be implied) and got:

false
flow for false.

How did you get your output? Your post implies that if statements are broken in Julia. Untrue.
Thank you. This validates my decision not to become a competent violist. When I see orchestras play, I sometimes wonder if I could have made a career of it.
I opened the campus with Gaetan in 2016, and I still remember the first day of the first piscine.

The first... what? Fishes?

Wikipedia tells me that "piscene" means:

Piscine: pertaining to fish.

It is also a French noun meaning "swimming pool"; see La Piscine (disambiguation).

The Latin word piscina (or sacrarium) denotes a shallow basin placed near the altar of a church.

None of these make sense in the context of its later use ("...we started the first cohort with around 300 students, and grew to just over 1,000 over the next 18 months with another 1,000 in the pipeline for future piscines..."). It seems to be used as a vague synonym for "cohort"?
Why would you say the opposite of the what wiki says?

Shooting a person with a canon over and over does not prevent time evolution of the person.
Absolutely biased, no doubt. Not a word in that story about why the bill, maybe, should have failed. Not a single quote from protesters.

Both are undoubtedly guilty of selective reporting.

But let's be clear, are you accusing the WaPo piece of lying, not merely choosing what to cover?
> it doesn't run just one way

So then you agree completely with me that apple is engaging is some anti-competitive practices, you just think other people are also engaging in anti-competitive practices.

That doesn't refute my point. You are agreeing with me that yes Apple engages in anti-competitive practices that limit user choice.

So back to the original point. You said this "if the best product wins in a competitive marketplace".

This statement is false because Apple is engaging in anti competitive practices that prevent a competitive market from happening.

So that is "where the problem is". The problem is the anti competitive practices that you agree with me that Apple is engaging in.
Yes, but it's a much longer and flatter tail.
It kinda sucks now but I agree.
You bring up some interesting opinions on the greater economy that are worthy of debate and discussion, but I'm not sure how a lot of them are super relevant to the general point made.

As far as your opinion that everybody loses money when the market goes down, well, that's not exactly true. There are numerous financial instruments possible where you can make more money when some asset goes down.

I'm not sure that dissuading greed is either a possible or desirable goal. The economy works, and resources are created and flow, precisely because the motive to benefit yourself exists. Every voluntary trade is entered into because everybody values what they get more than what they give up.

As far as those who are no longer economically productive, there's a lot that can be said about that, starting with an observation that there are people that never have been economically productive and never will be economically productive.
Google should not be using the same data from different products it owns - or at least give users an option. I really don't want my YouTube Shorts to be impacted by what I saw on YouTube. I don't want my Google News (as @addicted mentioned) to be impacted by my reading habits on YouTube or even my recent search results.

Personalization is everywhere but I really hope that Google also allows for customization by the user. Till then, I really have to diversify my product usage from different companies to have some illusion of control.
Louisiana’s insurance market is collapsing, just in time for hurricane season
I think you're putting too much faith in GDPR and right to be forgotten. I'm guessing you've got Portuguese citizen from a parent to be covered (not aware of any Brazillian rights), but I'm not sure how much that applies to fake names like "BoppreH" or "Elton John" compared to a real person.
Time isn't free and the number of "issues" that many projects have to deal with due to entitlement derangement syndrome makes a maintainer's life miserable.

This is why most high volume OS maintainers are either employed by companies just to maintain the code or they are younger with less life commitments.
What an odd comparison, BTC is essentially one of two "blue-chips" in crypto. Comparing it to a AAPL or BOFA would be more apt. Or comparing RH PLTR to a shitcoin (ApeCoin has called to essentially nothing.)
Your accusing Muslims of knowing that the point of religion is something different from what the Quran says? That's quite brazen.
Would love to hear your thoughts on others to try. Thank you !
I really look forward to interfaces that let me use my own index of data from my network.

Manyverse[1] and Iris[2] are good examples of apps that will enable this more in the future.

I just want to search “harry potter” and see everything my friends have written about it. If I follow some institutions or encyclopedias, I should also see what they write about it. And I should be able to choose which sources I want to rank higher in search results.

1: https://manyver.se

2: https://iris.to
Here’s what a Long Tail business model looks like in video games:

Start working on an indie game. Along the way, record Unity tutorials to begin building an audience. Post some texture packs to the Unity asset store, then some level packs, then some rigged and animated characters. Share some footage of test gameplay. Start getting audience feedback and fans. Release plot notes on the web. Maybe turn some of that into books (Infinity Blade) on Kindle & iPad, where the cost to publish is zero. Release the full base game as an open beta, but charge for it. Release the final base game at a low price or as free to play. Charge for DLC (Civ VI, StarLink) or skins (Rocket League, Fortnite), or a single player campaign (Halo). Twitch stream your gameplay. Once your graphics are awesome, make a movie (Final Fantasy).
Not every heroin user in a park leaves their needles behind, just as not every person who eats lunch in a park leaves litter behind.
ill set the stage again a bit for context,

I don't own a plane or fly in 135 charters, I'm a member of a flight club that owns a few planes. As a member I effectively rent the planes from the club at a very reasonable rate with a small fixed monthly cost for things like storage etc. The planes are not used for primary training and are only available to club members. They are very well equipped IFR capable aircraft that are very well maintained. The club is small enough that its pretty easy to get a plane when you want/need one. With that in mind here are some cool things the club has aloud me to do.

1) I have moved a few times since I got my PPL and some of my friends have as well. At this point I have fairly close friends all up and down the eastern seaboard. The plane has aloud me to see them regularly without very much complex planning and often for lunch or breakfast when it would otherwise need to be for the whole weekend. Just yesterday I flew down south a bit to meet a buddy for breakfast that I otherwise would not have been able to drive to do do such a thing. This has been a really nice aspect of flying.

2) We have some family that lives close but not super close (7ish hour drive). The plane has aloud us to be part of their new borns life in a tangible way. Similar to seeing friends that I otherwise couldn't

3) The plane has expanded my weekend trip options. We have explored islands, gone to further cities and seem more than we would in a car. There are just north of 16,000 airfields in the US and only a small chunk of them service commercial traffic. I can get my little plane into pretty much all of them and land super close to lots of interesting places.

4) Ive been able to leverage interesting one day opportunities: Is there a once in a decade eclipse coming, best viewing spot is 600 miles, lets take the plane for the day. Is there an airshow somewhere lets fly in and check it out. Ferries booked to Nantucket for the weekend, take the plane. Want to get some chowder the vineyard for lunch, take the plane. Wedding in the Hamptons, traffic looking like its gonna be 6 hours to get there, take the plane. Buddies bachelor part is far and you need to get there friday potentially stuck in hours of beach traffic, take the plane (and pick up some friends along the way!)<- all things Ive done.

Before anyone jumps to "its super expensive to do those things" the fact is, in a reasonable GA plane its about the same cost as driving +fees for dealing with cars these days. My plane gets the gas milage of an SUV and most airports charge less than $20 a day for ramp parking, free if you buy some fuel typically. Some cities have silly $2 mandatory parking fees or what ever but if your careful about picking which small airport you go to in a city you can usually fly in for VERY cheap or free if you buy gas and you generally need to buy gas anyway... With tolls and gas prices the way they are its usually not much of a price difference to take the plane even after rental costs are figured in.
I would argue #39460, #39385 and #39183 mentioned in the post are all correctness bugs in Julia itself.

I feel there is this weird disconnect between what is being said by e.g. Yuri, me or Dan Luu, and what is being heard by some of the core devs, and I don't understand where this disconnect is happening precisely. That is very frustrating.

I think delving into the issues with communication will only turn sour with no benefit, so let's not go there. Instead, let me be much more concrete. When I say that Julia does not put correctness as a high priority, what I mean is:

* Julia is not well tested, as can plainly be seen from the code coverage. Having all functions covered by the test suite is the absolute minimal standard of testing - I would argue that is not sufficient to consider something well tested considering Julia's generic methods. But even covering all methods with tests is still not done for Base Julia.

* When I file a bug that is eminently fixable e.g. #43235 or #43245 (or several others), it is not being fixed after months, it is not being milestoned, and new releases are being pushed out that contains the bug.

Do these two points not illustrate that more could be done to reduce the bugginess of Julia? I legitimately don't understand that one can hold the view that these two issues are not a reflection of correctness not being prioritized in Julia.

There is a broader point here about how Julia's language design and lack of safety features or tooling makes it very difficult to write correct code and enforce the correctness of it. But I feel if we can't even agree that Julia ought to have all its exported methods covered by tests, and all its bug reports fixed, then I can't see how we can have a discussion about the more complex and nuanced topics like how to enforce interfaces or contracts.
I've heard it doesn't work for everyone. I've been vegan for 19 years and am fine
Sure. Not saying he's bad at lockpicking. The point is more are you an expert yourself or how do you know he's THE guy to talk to? For reference, what are the main lock picking competitions in the world and which ones has he won? Can you name them?

When I looked it up out of interest, he isn't mentioned as the world expert in actual lockpicking forums. I found a couple of other names but in any way, it makes more sense to have it tested by a group of experts than just a single person. One person may fail, but if an entire convention full of the best lockpickers can't pick your lock, that's a much better indication the lock really is unpickable.
Yep, no way to do anything about the sea. Just ask the Netherlands.
We need to recreate the DMOZ web directory - probably in a federated variety with multiple competing "editors" for any given topic area - before we can hope to really do better than Google/Bing/DDG web search. Human curation is the best and most resilient alternative to SEO spam.
I’m not sure I understand . What do you mean by domesticated ? Wouldn’t it create mass confusion to have multiple communication channels. I’m part of an orb that has slack and discord and I find it really annoying having to check both
Doesn't bazel already calculate a minimum build set based on changed files?
ONDC Search Trends Analysis with Node JavaScript and Beckn Protocol Server
After the USENIX article, interesting to see others researching into the matter.

Lets see how well it will stand the attention of the security community as more eyes slowly turn into it.
They made great progress in NLP, which is a big part of what Google Search is about. Also, they have the compute infrastructure for it.
This post is flagged for some reason - maybe because it attracts our basest instincts and discussion will not be constructive, but maybe more likely because people feel strongly against the assertion in the title.

But I'm going to out on a limb and agree with the author. Not only that, we will most probably have a world government for many of the reasons mentioned, but mainly because after the next big war, it will become evident for everyone still alive that we can't have individual nations going on a rampage with nuclear weapons (biological weapons, etc take your pick) any more.

It will probably not look like a national government, it simply will enable the rule of law, globally. Which is what we need. Preferably before the next big war.
"Dunce", "dumbass". You lost this argument a long time ago - hurling insults and epithets tends to have that effect. But I'm sure you'll press on, and invoke Hitler soon.

> guess what? Us resources get your personal data.

From posting to HN? AFAIAA, HN only gets your IP address. GA gets your search history, which is a bit different.
Yes, and you’ve made me wonder if I may be mixing up bit of Free and Long Tail. I’ve read and recommend both.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitual_be

It's an African American idiom which has bled into Gen Z vernacular, from what I've seen.
> If you have a good process for external dependencies you can apply that to internal.

Yeah... but usually good process for external dependencies requires a lot of ceremony and takes maybe days to update one dependency. If the same happens to internal dependencies we will be just slower at making changes for no good reason.

This is more of a cultural thing. In fact, we are creating complicated solutions to mitigate this problem, only to go full circle after a while: people implemented Service Mesh via proxy sidecars, it added more layers (than just embedding this into the RPC library), but even doing so is easier than persuading downstream project owners update their dependency in a timely manner, so it takes off. And now they are going to chase for "proxyless" due to "performance". Oh well.
I don't get it. All these joystick gear selectors work the same. Push and hold a button and move it to the setting you want. What is unintuitive and annoying about this?
Vista: Photorealistic Simulation of Environment for Self-Driving Car Training
I get many emails 'from' one of my financial institutions asking me to give them feedback on how they're doing. These all come from an email address that's from a different domain. This dissuades me from giving the institution feedback that I do think they need.
Thank you very much for your concern, but my anonymity was very very casual, and it doesn't bother me much that it's now lost.

I was hoping to create a conversation about privacy in language models and it's slippery slope, and in that it was partially successful.
akebono.stanford.edu will never die
It’s fascinating to me how being against a particular behavior being mandated is now considered being against the behavior.
For familiarity, especially since many automatic shifters have a pseudo-manual mode to shift up and down.

also in case the manufacturer shares the center console part with models that have fully manual transmission.
Don’t give the public sector too much credit when it comes to using data. They don’t do analytics. It’s still eyeballs on a live monitor. That’s not data science. While they have tons of data, they have to pay for a company like Palantir. If they’re willing.

Your anecdote about tracking for years, it’s street webcams from Fry’s Electronics using 640 x 480 video resolution. They’re starting to change it to 1080p. Meanwhile we Zoom using 2K and 4K cams. So tell me more about your city?

Why steal at all?
BIS Annual Economic Report – 26 June 2022 [pdf]
The author is actually complaining about a lot of half conspiracy theories around reddit.

They don't even touch on the Eternal September of reddit. Every thread is full of the most mundane observations possible, lazy puns, entirely expected The Office references and sayings which have been said literally thousands of times before -- followed up by someone going "this is the most perfect comment" all of which is wildly upvoted.

It feels like it is being botted by a simplistic lazy circle jerking ML text generation algorithm. Maybe it is. But it is definitely drowning in https://xkcd.com/1053/.
We already have tools that handle this for us for OSS libraries, such as dependabot etc.

Good factoring can probably be quantified too: dependency chains should be shallow and graph connectivity should be low. The more dependants a module has, the more stable its API contract should be.
Getting the original to actively train their clone replacement? That is some black mirror-level creepy.
> don't bother opening it, tried on mobile, whole screen has some grey overlay…

It's the "Accept Cookies" overlay, obviously poorly tested on mobile.

Safari's Reader mode fixed it for me.
same for:

10,000 hours

grit/growth mindset

1000 true fans
> If all big companies donated $500K a year to open source, that'd be a pretty significant change in the environment, wouldn't it?

If those other companies stood to gain as much for $500K spent on marketing, they'd be doing it too.

GitHub isn't somehow more benevolent than all the others. I happen to like GitHub for the product it provides. I just find corporate marketing using maintainers as a proxy is lame. But good for the people who received the money, however.
Cool looking book. Interested to see how it ages in the next few decades.
But they can only be used to retrieve information that is already out there. This is still just using GPT-3 as a search engine, it's just a weird search engine that isn't made to purpose and most of the time produces nice-looking nonsense instead of valid data.
Lee Valley has a line of miniature hand tools that they make in Canada, but not much in the mini-machine tool category, https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/tools/brand/veritas/miniatur...
> I’m fully aware of the utility of jargon in writing a business case, it lets me skip over the difficult, the warts, and the questionable. I wonder if there’s a correlation between failed projects and how jargon heavy the initiation is?

I'll say this, based on my experience working at a particularly dysfunctional organization: in these kinds of environments, skipping over the most obvious questions seems to be the norm. Most of the time, when I was exposed to a new project, the explanation gave almost minimal explanation about fundamentals such as:

1. What is the time scale of the project? (e.g. weeks? (probably not), months? (that would be a moonshot), about a year? (maybe...), many years (yikes!))

2. What phase is the project in? (e.g. conceptualization, technical design, implementation, etc)

3. What specific teams and people are working on the project? Who is in charge? What kind of leadership will they offer? (e.g. selling the project up the ladder, project-level, technical, etc) ...

Also, the following questions were usually in play:

4. Where can I go read about the project details?

5. Why does it seem that each person who hears about the project has a very different idea of what it is supposed to do?

6. Wasn't there a previous version of this project? What was it called again? Did it ever launch? Why didn't it ever go anywhere?
Got a diagram of your setup?
I left my husband for Martin Shkreli, the most hated man in America
>Here’s the thing that made me write this - I used to load up Google News a lot, I’ve now switched to bookmarks. It’s one thing for promoting junk news sources, but recently I’ve seen them cary both Brietbart (known for historically running a “black crime” section!) and the Epoch Times (a disinformation site being run by an actual cult) spouting absolutely false covid denial. I can’t support this in any way. I’m done.

It sounds like rather than a news search engine & aggregator, the poster would rather use a curated news service (e.g. CNN) that gives them a single particular viewpoint. Or at the very least, would like their sources to be vetted or editorialized in some way, as opposed to the original Google mission "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful".
Study Confirms That Major Labels Control Spotify Playlists
There's a fallacy here. The bottom-line economic effect of having a lot of "wealth tied up in art" is incenting the preservation and/or creation of highly valued art. You can't even meaningfully take that wealth away in the aggregate, because it's pure paper wealth; it's a side effect of how much we happen to value some objects.

Slumlord properties have the same theoretical problem as land, in that concentrated ownership can act as an incentive towards bad management; there's not much economy of scale when it comes to managing rental properties, so policy should incent dispersed ownership instead.