skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think things are going to get weird here. Where I live, South Texas, I can actually get to a more abortion friendly country more quickly than I can get to an abortion friendly state now. I can also order drugs online paid for with cryptocurrency (which I actually do already because I take a DIY approach to medicine). But I doubt the pro-lifers will be happy with this situation and that frustration is going to find an outlet.
Same, YouTube recently started promoting a lot more low quality videos somewhat in the same genre as what I like. It also consistantly hides videos from channel I am subscribed on. It upsets me so much.
This is NOT how GDPR works.
In the book "The lost art of finding our way" the author claims a big boost to not getting lost is to (simply) pay more attention to an outing as it evolves. It is indeed difficult to suddenly, half way through a trip (to a dense city, hiking trail, or whatever) answer the question "where am I?"
This isn't unpickable at all, its just remarkably tedious to do so. The fundamental information leak via how far you can turn before getting stuck is still there. You've just added a mechanism that temporarily locks-in the current key-state being tested, forcing an attacker to return to the initial position before inputting the next key-state. Don't get me wrong, that is a good design feature. But what you have made is still very much in pickable via the same old established principles of lockpicking. You have simply forced the standard technique to be more clumsy and error prone to execute, perhaps requiring some unique tool to measure the subtle differences that give the key away.
This is true to some extent, but also not a given.

A stable society/economy works like a Monopoly game, after a few rounds the distribution of wealth becomes rigid.

Perturbations are needed to trigger wealth redistribution.

This is why we need revolutions, pandemics, wars and technological innovations to reset the game.

Big money hates innovation because it is always associated with risk, and usually, for mega corps, innovating means killing the golden goose.

The problem, in my opinion, is that there is an end-game to everything, including technology, we're not there yet, hopefully.
"Gear Which Switch"?
No one’s 401k was plundered. Most of this was funded by the Federal Reserve via a combination of quantitative easing, low interest rates, and increasing the money supply. The Fed created the perfect environment for runaway speculation.
Most likely, they don't keep any backups with user data longer than a short threshold, e.g 60 days. This is pretty common practice.
Not even clear to me what parallel you’re trying to draw, even under a generous interpretation.
Just to remind folks Apple provides this service for all iOS devices automatically.
That is not a full solution to the problem of detecting untested types. What if "plus_one" works for Int, Float32, etc. but not with MyNumber, all of which would dispatch to "plus_one(::Number)".
It's not a 'CAN' can.

https://maakbaas.com/bluetooth-cd-changer-emulator/logs/from...
Many modern novels seem that way too. Not the elaborate dialog, but endless rambling descriptions.

Historical novels are often big offenders. Like the author has done a ton of research, not a bad thing, but can't bear to leave any of it out, and there is no editor to say that's too much, people don't need to know how big the potato patch at the Palace of Versailles was.
> Both are undoubtedly guilty of selective reporting.

Act 10 had been covered extensively by the Wisconsin State Journal for the previous month. You wouldn't expect every new story to say every single thing. It was already a familiar issue to us all.

> But let's be clear, are you accusing the WaPo piece of lying, not merely choosing what to cover?

I would say exaggerating. Take it from Republican Representative Glenn Grothman, who was there for both events. "It never reached that pitch (during Act 10)."

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2021/01/08/wisconsin-act...

During the Wisconsin Capitol protests, Grothman was personally surrounded by protesters, who chanted "Shame!" at him but didn't harm him physically. There's even video of this.

"Grothman downplayed the situation and told the paper he didn't think he was ever in any real danger."

I do think we've strayed very far off topic, which is supposed to be Reddit...
This type of technology has to work even when you have a "weak" moment of lapse in judgement. Everyone has those, at the very least a few in your adult lifetime.
Reading Ourselves to Death
> Splitting your code over many repositories massively increases the cost of refactoring, making it that less likely that your system will be "well factored"

The project should stay a full monolith until the factoring is more clear.

> I find this to be this a level headed explanation of the advantages of monorepos: https://danluu.com/monorepo/.

There are two issues I have with this article. One of them is when it describes drawbacks of multiple repositories, its not specific enough e.g.

> That sounds like it ought to be straightforward, but in practice, most solutions are cumbersome and involve a lot of overhead.

The other is that it assumes you have Google scale of resources to throw at the problem. If thats the case you can make anything work / monorepos or polyrepos. The issue is that small-to-medium sized organizations will not be prepared to invest the amount of resources needed to keep a monorepo working well, as the org will largly need to rely on existing available (OSS) tools which often have poor monorepo support. (Bazelifying everything has a significant cost, bazel rules are often not generic enough to work with e.g. the variety of JS ecosystem tools)
A good and convincing explanation on why LaMDA has demonstrated 0% chance of sentience. The most convincing element is that LaMDA can take the perspective of Mt. Everest, or a squirrel. "Sentient being" is just one of the rules it can take, according to prompt.

However, as an argument, "It's just a sophisticated autocomplete" is not so convincing, to me. Neither is "It only responds to input". I can personally imagine a strange kind of sentient entity - that is, a being with a sense of self-awareness - that is only aware of itself in snippets.
MMT is basically a logically mangled variety of FTPL, anyway. Both of them see expectations about the government budget (i.e. future taxes and spending) as the main factor behind inflation.
While I still use Google Maps to look up businesses, I have long preferred Apple Maps for turn-by-turn navigation in the car. The timing of the queues is much better. Google often left me driving with no idea what my next move was until the last minute. Apple Maps tells you right after you make a turn what you need to do next, so you can prepare. It's much more relaxing for me to know what's going on.

Apple Maps is also great for transit, where it supports it. In Tokyo (several years ago) it would tell me how much money to put on the ticket for the trip I was taking, which would have been pretty confusing otherwise. Not sure if Google has made updates, but at the time I don't believe they had this.
That’s like the old ‘only three people in the world can understand general relativity’.
If one believes in the rule of law, surely it can't be true that Microsoft (and others) should get to enjoy all the benefits of intellectual-property laws (when convenient) and other times steamroll them (when convenient).

Wealthy corporations are never going to be "suffocated by legalism" — they can afford to do their research privately. (And many still do.) The issue here is that Copilot is being foisted into the agora seemingly without sufficient (or maybe any) scrutiny of its legal consequences.

More broadly we are seeing a norm emering where there is so much hype chasing AI that these wealthy corporations (see also: Tesla, of course) have a huge incentive to push their experiments into the public sphere prematurely, simply to assert their primacy.

BTW this technique of front-running regulatory scrutiny can still backfire. If the initial public experience with an emerging technology is sufficiently bad, it can poison the acceptance forever. IOW, you can be suffocated by your own hubris faster than any external legalism.
The weirdest thing is they can never give you any metrics on those supposed improvements.
I think one of the e-sys or related ISTA etc tools can move the gear selector. Because the hardware is able to move itself for example from the M/S mode (tilted left) back to center when it goes into park. And I've seen that done via diagnostics, but I'm not sure it was a function of the selector or whether the selector responds to some kind of "engine shutting off" message that it gets from another module.
Exactly, the successful Asian nations had very clever techniques for this. One, was to provide subsidy/tax breaks/trade protections only to those firms that could compete on the global market. This means that firms have to find success through actual productivity and output, rather than through rent seeking.

So it isn't so much "as a rule" as "as a rule when the government has been refulatorily captured."

In fact I think you will find that most industries that are built only happen through lots of government "interference." Silicon Valley is an excellent example of this, as the early customers were all defense industry largesse. And without those extremely rich customers with very extreme technological needs, development of Silicon Valley would have stalled, or perhaps not happened at all.
I recently reread Ecclesiastes & on the second reading came across what people tend to be trying to get at with that advice. I'll try give it from the Ecclesiastes perspective

Whatever you go out & gather, is ultimately worthless. So if you're in a shit mood & thinking that some day this work will pay off, you'll find that your days are spent in a shit mood & thinking some day this work will pay off. & then you die & everything you did doesn't really matter, & you spent your time in a shit mood. So if instead you find enjoyment in the simple daily toll, that your work today is essentially paying for the food you'll enjoy today, then you'll find your days are spent in a good mood. & then you die & everything you did doesn't really matter, but at least you enjoyed your time while it lasted

So "live it like your last" is a bit hyperbolic, but at least don't justify your suffering on the idea that life gets better

To try make sense of "live it like your last", it might be better said as "go to sleep at peace with your life even if you were to die in the night"
The irony of writing an article about the long tail being a myth on a niche substack blog…
I hate to plug my own writing here, but if you'd like a much deeper exploration of the topic, you'll probably enjoy reading The Full Stack of Society: Can You Make A Whole Society Wealthier?

https://www.conradbastable.com/essays/the-full-stack-of-soci...

A lot of folks on HN have liked and shared it before so I feel like it's okay to share again.

My core thesis is that there's a stack of wealth-building strategies:

- Feudalism, aka "take & tax other people's productivity" (this is zero-sum)

- Mercantilism, aka "sell someone else's productive outputs into someone else's consumption"

- Industrialism, aka "Mercantilism but with production brought in-house"

- Globalism, aka "export Industrialism to make your customers richer so they can buy more of your products"

- Financialism, aka "centralize and allocate flows of capital across time to accelerate any of the other layers in the stack"

In reality, most successful countries combine a couple of these, but one tends to be dominant at a time. Most large countries today have passed through this stack and are currently in one of the final 3 layers.

A handful of small, well-positioned countries are able to run unique strategies based around supporting neighbours. I chose not to focus on these because they tend to be very specific (e.g. Singapore can only be Singapore because it's located in Singapore, Ireland needs to be in the EU for its tax arbitrage to work, etc.).

I would also +1 to epistasis's suggestion in the top comment -- How Asia Works is a great book. If you read it, also read Miti and the Japanese Miracle. My chapter on Industrialism links to those and other related sources.
Until the legal standards change, look into submitting prior art. The examiner and public will appreciate it.
Not in a literal physical sense. The word is used in a more general sense of "propensity", "tendency".

Consider, while all in the universe tends towards higher entropy - more chaos, less structure, less energy differential - life and other forms of structure (planets, planetary systems, star systems, galaxies, galaxy clusters and super clusters) exist and persist.

Parts of nature conspire to create and maintain structures and organization, fighting against entropy.
Amazing. This is now my second-favourite frog, with the number one still being the squeaky Desert Rain Frog[1] :D

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBxn56l9WcU
The synopsis for this is: a type of frog is very small, and their vestibular systems are too small to work properly - so jumping results in an "uncontrolled landing". And the videos[1] are about as funny as you can imagine!

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn1104#supplemen... -> Other supplementary materials -> Movies S1 to S6; S1 is a reference frog, S2-6 are the mentioned frog
Another bad source of ideas is sometimes business people without ethics (or just plain short term thinking), who don't understand or care about the technology, and override the people who do care and/or understand how things work.
Yes -- you beat me to it :-).

The built-in server is meant to be run only locally/offline (typically by a developer), just for making changes to a glossary. If you download and open the template (not one of the "full" examples) in a browser, then it tells you how:

sed -n '/START OF editor.js$/,$p' glossary.html | FILE=glossary.html node

Then you would host glossary.html (and maybe the CSS and JS if you don't want to point to the CDN) wherever you want, as it's just a static web page.

I will make this clearer in the documentation -- thanks!
very true, I guess my assumption is they are buying when the jig is up, not when asset prices are cheaper.
JS Bounceback is configured specifically for HN and lobster
I'm not sure I buy your logic (why would a less beneficial industry be better at lobbying?), but even so, is it a worse problem than economic colonialism, where no local owned firms can flourish, because the market is saturated by foreign goods by more advanced firms, and the only economic opportunities are working for those firms?

The examples of those successful Asian countries implies that the tradeoff is well worth it.
Two things.

One, teams that share a dependency version can still develop independently; they just share something in common. They already likely share other things in common: deployment target OS, cloud platform and services, shared authN/authZ frameworks, etc.

Two, a monorepo is just the SCM mechanism. As the parent was describing, it doesn't prescribe anything other than the code storage location and how branching, committing, etc. works. Yes, a lot of organizations prefer having a single version rule in their individual monorepos, but nothing about monorepos in general makes this a requirement. You can use multiple versions of the same dependency and still gain advantages from the single commit benefits, and even famous instances like Google's have exceptions where this is the case.
> If you’re illiterate or deliberately avoiding the issues I’ve highlighted, then all the best to you and your kind.

Perhaps if you were to actually highlight the issues you claim to have highlighted, it might be easier for us and our "kind" (I don't know what "kind" I belong to). You rant about the European "monarchy", and the deficiencies of European bureaucracy; what about explaining your proposals for a reformed GDPR?

But I think you are opposed to any kind of privacy legislation. GDPR steams you up because it is privacy legislation that works. Well, that's fine; there are laws that USAians make that I'm opposed to. I'm not on-board with US lawmaking and judicial processes. That's fine too; I don't have to live or trade in the USA (and I did make a choice; I once lived in the USA).

I suspect that something about the GDPR must have bitten you quite badly - would you consider sharing what it was? It would be helpful if you avoided the "asshole", "weasel", "moron", "dumbass", "illiterate" language, and focused on what happened, and what the impact was.

NOTE: there are people here that don't seem to be good at spelling, but I don't think I've ever come across a post here that I would describe as "illiterate".
I think this is an interesting discussion to have, and I’m interested to see where the lawyers end up on this.

But please don’t start with an organization as utterly biased as the FSF.
>better option for some cases

Can you tell us more about the kind of problems for which you receive better search results via andisearch.com?
Fear not, the long tail is alive and well. It's just not where the author is looking for it. This has to do with the flippening that has taken place in recent history and has not been widely acknowledged.

For decades practically everything counter culture came from the left, while the right represented the establishment. So much so that we came to believe that the left was by it's very nature counter-cultural, and the right was by it's very nature pro-establishment.

But something funny happened along the way. The left become dominant in virtually every cultural power center in America: the media, music, film and TV, the tech giants, publishing, etc. The problem is neither the left nor the right have genuinely digested this change. You see high-powered attorney's and corporate execs driving their 6-figure Telsa SUV's with "Resist" stickers on the back, as if they were some sort of scrappy underdog sticking it to "the man".

There is a vibrant counter culture in America right now, it's just mostly on the cultural and political right. Think of the "intellectual dark web", or the fact that small indie right-wing publishers have popped up and conservatives are trying to create an alternative to big tech with things like Gab, Parler, and Truth Social. A lot these things have, or will, fail, but some will not. A lot of these things are also downright awful and generally offensive, but they are counter-cultural and designed to appeal to the long part of the tail.

There are even whole series of children's books designed for conservatives. If a children's book about Amy Coney Barret isn't the definition of a long-tail product, then I don't know what is.

The author's mistake is that he doesn't realize that he and people like him, are the establishment so they don't see a lot of the stuff in the long tail, simply because it's not meant for them and others living in the short tail of things. There's nothing wrong with being part of the establishment, it's just never been considered very cool, so everyone wants to think they're counter cultural.
“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero” - Fight Club
I think the only solution is to have separate freight and passenger rail past a certain scale. (Though Switzerland without high speed passenger rail (because the Takt doesn't need it, I'm told) perhaps can delay this a bit longer.)

A last mile thing like this to help feed the separate freight network, but should thought of a solution in lieu of it.

The important thing to realize is that Europe is actually worse than the US regarding freight rail, despite being so much better at passenger rail.
What I meant was that books like the Maigret novels probably wouldn't be published as free standing books, but packed into collections, say three or four of them together, to get closer to the magic 500 pages.

I will mention that I highly recommend Simenon's writing, Maigret series and others. He's a fine writer. The TV series with Michael Jambon is excellent. The Maigret stories are the right length to turn into an hour show without losing too much of the interesting details.
Piscine in French == Swimming pool in English.

This choice of word stands for the fact that you are intensively immersed in it.

A more American English translation would be boot-camp.
> I have no doubt that Google would receive hundreds of thousands of mostly dumb, useless calls daily that they are not responsible for from every confused person out there. There's no feasible way to provide standard customer service to the entire Internet.

Perhaps it doesn't have to be 'standard' but... they seem to have no problem identifying user behaviour and tweaking the heck out of their sites (and arm twisting other sites) to increase conversions, decrease wait times, and otherwise 'optimize' users/visitors towards a certain goal (click these ads, etc). It shouldn't be beyond them to employ or develop some better algorithms to help with identifying real customer support issues and offering some degree of support (pair or otherwise). Hey - they could even sell that service via GCE and let other companies also use their customer service tool... and recoup their investment in it...
I expect the key to "next-gen WoW" will be somebody (FAANG or indy) figuring out how to mix player-generated content into something like the classic MMO (gameplay, social, quasi-economic) package. EVE Online is actually close, except that aspects of its genre and gameplay only have niche appeal.
If you actually believe that abortion is murder, then what you are saying is that you want to stop that and then make the would-be murderers to give birth to, to raise, and to pay for the victim they tried to murder. This is not a good plan.

When I held my baby newly delivered, I thought he was dead. He was not alive like the toddler who asks to read books on my lap now is. It is not a binary of life is there or not.

We also do not force in any other circumstance one human to give up their body for another. You may have a kidney disease and I have two healthy ones with no other conditions, but you have no right to my body. Children do not have the right to their mother's body at any stage.
I would find it pretty strange if the janitorial department were smelting iron ore to make their own trash bins.
The author has oversimplified complex world into something simple, as simple as possible, and wrong.

It costs almost nothing for a music service to add a niche album. That’s why they do it: if you type a search query in a foreign language into US streaming account, you will find bands irrelevant to 99.995% of US users. This music may have less “groomed” metadata than the Short Tail, but there is little reason for a streaming service to not want it.

The same could be true for movies, but it’s not. Maybe because production costs a lot regardless of the movie will be successful or not. Or because movies are for one-time consumption, unlike music. Also copyright owners try to steal subscribers from Netflix to their own app, which is easier to pull with several studios than with millions of artists.

YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, OnlyFans are examples of alive and prospering Long Tail.

I really doubt that Kindle store will ever start charging more for publishing books that target less than two dozens of readers.

Whatever is going on, it is most definitely not as trivial as “living in the world of Short Tail”.
anonymity doesn't exist period, get used to it.
Not quite true. Hide My Email is included in iCloud+, which is a paid subscription service.