skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprising no one mentioned here about https://github.com/staltz/xstream
Creaed by Andre Staltz, the creator of cycleJS and other interesting reactive libraries in JS.
xstream is powerful and also much smaller in size. Give that a try.
> [the point was] that long tail content in aggregate could be financially viable for distributors and other sellers--which seems at least somewhat true.

Bandcamp has always been pretty transparent about their sales numbers and they are at $200 million annually now. They are about as “long tail” as it gets.
What you say about traction is a good point. I think "will it be successful?" is a very different question to "will I like it?".

At one end of the scale for me is Rust. I discovered it through organic hype and I like the language but it's not successful enough for me to have found a job writing Rust.

At the other end is TikTok. I saw many ads for it before anyone I know ever talked about it. It's massively successful but it doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.
Maybe I missed the memo. I never thought of the "long-tail" about making money. I always considered freedom from curation, freedom of access, freedom from the mainstream, freedom from just what made some distributor the most money.

I never thought (or heard) that it would "give a boost" to the fringe or cause Indie films to reach wider audiences.

Just the opposite. It would (and did) make the obscure, zero commercial value, thing that on 3 to sub a million people *in the entire world* care about; distributable and "consumable".

It wasn't ever gonna make the masses suddenly like embrace unique, interesting, bespoke content that by definition only a small percentage of people enjoy.

It gave everyone access to their audience, no matter how uncommercial or unconnected to people/orgs/places that previously controlled distribution and access.

In all of that. There is a ton that is moderately commercial, enough to support a creator or small team (see every monetized YT, Twitch, Indieagogo, Kickstarter, Lulu book, etc). For sure, not enough to support a multi-tiered industry of distributors, licensors, and middlemen. The gatekeepers lost their gate locks.

The author doesn't see all of this because it so, so, so far under radar. [And they seem very focused on the commercial/profit side of things. As in if it doesn't make large commercial impact it's inconsequential. Which is weird to ignore the long end of the long tail.]

If the author is lamenting the industry failed to capitalize on the long tail. Fuck that and them. I shed zero tears.
> my comment was just proposing some kind of workable solution to what I see in the employment market where employers have degree requirements

Again, it's no solution. Employers would not consider such honorary degrees to be equivalent to regular degrees.

> The vast majority of students are students for the sole purpose of career placement, no other reason.

Plenty of people study philosophy, despite having little direct applicability outside academia. That's not to say they're wasting their time and money.

> pushing academic achievement, while ignoring the societal goal / desire of vocational education

Do you mean to say there's a shortage of institutions that offer vocational training?

I'm confident you're right that they get less government funding.

> experience based degree's would start the shift that IMO is needed back to vocational studies and away from academic achievement

Academic degrees were never about vocational studies.

Vocational degrees exist, awarded by institutions which are not universities, but if I understand correctly they generally have little traction. This might not be true of every country though.
One of the reasons for small land holdings in India are succession laws in Independent India. The entire holding doesn’t go to the eldest male/child, rather it’s often divided among siblings. The division leads to all kinds of violence and shrinking holdings over generations.

Also the most profitable farms aren’t the largest ones, which are often dedicated to growing common grain like wheat and rice, and sugarcane. These crops would be bought by the government at prefixed prices. And the assured income again leads to a lot of fighting and influence mongering, and ironically much smaller takes for the average competing farmer.

Quite unexpectedly, the highest profits are made by farmers who manage to get smart financing and grow niche crops like fruits, some vegetables, flowers, organic, cash crops etc. The highes profits in India are always made by people who carefully avoid government and activist attention, assistance, benevolence, interference.
If you are in NYC, it's easy due city being a grid system, you just have to remember which way is north/up and then you can figure out. Ie. I know after I get out of subway (a train station) I'd to go "up", up as in the default orientation in google maps which I think is north. Then I'd know that if I'm going the correct way. I'd encounter x street, and if wrong way then I'd encounter y street. So I get out, make a best guess and start walking. If the next street is what I should have gotten to, great! If not, I turn back. Also I use landmarks, lets I'm completely lost, I look for something big like a bridge, tall known buildings, ocean, or even the sun (very rarely), which helps me orient... If it's there and I see it from here then I must be at xyz.

Honestly playing videos games helped me develop these skills as a kid. MMORPG and massive FPS shooter games where you literally had to use in game compass to find the other person.
I'm not sure if networks even can have ideas. They just emit text asserting that they do, sometimes.
The issue you need to mitigate using this method is bird flu. Still, having an alternative to synthetic fertilizer is nice
God Mode: Authoritarianism is now a preset
It’s bioaccumulation. There is some potential for them to be extracting phosphorous from the rocks in their gizzards, but that will mostly be bioaccumulation too.
Here's a handy guide to uncovering such information for yourself, and being able to write a TIL rather than an IHNFC:

TUHS is The Unix Heritage Society mailing list, which might offer you some cues as to context. There's a link at the top-right of the submitted link:

https://www.tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tuhs@tuhs.org/

Rob Pike is Kind of A Big Deal in Unix, C (he's the Pike in Kernighan and Pike, a/k/a The UNIX Programming Environment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix_Programming_Environme...)) The Go programming language, and a thing called Plan 9.

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

Plan 9 From Outer Space was a so utterly bad it's ... well, just bad ... 1957 science fiction film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space

Plan 9 from Bell Labs appropriated the name from the film for an operating system building on Pike's (and others') earlier experience developing Unix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

You can download and install Plan 9 OS if you like: https://plan9.io/plan9/

Ten Thousand: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Approximately half of my life has been pre-broadband (which for me defines the arrival of the modern, very-online Internet). I find your points to be heavily biased and unrelatable. You're also conflating the media with the individual. My own experience before the arrival of very-online-internet does not match what you describe. Sure, there were media outlets and those outlets spoke about politics. However, individuals had no easily accessible soap boxes to speed vitriol and hurl accusations at others anonymously as they do now. Individuals didn't announce their preferences and every opinion to the neighborhood.
I think that worse than he believes it, he wants it to be true.
Sorry if it does not fit your business model, but in my opinion, it would be plainly stupid for anyone to download and run on his machine or server a closed source binary, especially when the goal is to give remote access through internet. And so that it is expected that this binary will open a direct pipe with the internet...
It's not about per capita, it's about total. We can not only reduce their resource usage, but also produce less food ourselves, all for free. It's win-win.
What Should We Do About Inflation? (Part 2)
I am not a layer but this web page seems to tell there are a few exceptions:

https://iapp.org/news/a/publicly-available-data-under-gdpr-m...

If I am not mistaken, this is one case:

"in line with Article 9, if the processing relates to personal data that are manifestly made public by the data subject, no explicit consent or other legal basis as enlisted in the Article 9 (mainly specific laws and regulations or establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims) is required."
Google became more and more of a narrow nightmare over time, to the point that people have started added reddit to their search keyword since the results have become so controlled away from the search and towards some paid content or authoritative source (which usually is outdated).

But my question is why can't duckduckgo be the replacement?

The worry is that Google implicitly rewards some content over other content with views, and therefore promotes some production over other production. As another user wrote intelligently in this thread:

"At some point in the past, from what I remember, they started ranking blog content lower than more "authoritative" sources, hastening the decline of personal blogging. If you're wondering why every recipe on the internet has ten paragraphs on how this recipe is their grandmother's favorite and how it reminds the author of the freshness of summer produce, it's because that's the kind of content that Google will give a high ranking"
> Imagine if 100 million people in the US decided to all at once go RVing around the country. All the areas would be full of RVs and I bet it would not be as enjoyable anymore.

Yes, I call this the "Dave Ramsey Syndrome". You know, he wants everyone to save money and not spend it so they can be debt free and have millions of dollars in the bank. But if everyone did that the economy, our consumer economy, would crash.

And you are right. I have been living in my Van since before the pandemic. It is impossible to find camping spaces now in national parks and even the Wal Marts are starting to get pissed at all the RVs again. These people too, these rich people, sit out on BLM lands longer then allowed, because it is free and they could most likely afford an RV park.
what a waste of a resource useful for the soil / grass / plants
So, you're saying PoW coins have no inherent value, only the value we bestow on them? Your reasoning is circular
Some huge number of Chinese (50%?) are still in the countryside scraping by as farmers on a few hundred dollars a month.
Why is it a list and not a table?

Seems like a pretty simple case of CREATE TABLE ethics ( id INT PRIMARY KEY, rule TEXT );
Here's a guy restoring vintage mechanical watches as a hobby, with over 600 patrons: https://www.youtube.com/c/WristwatchRevival
Maybe you'll agree with this (really good) argument against stoicism: https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/stoicism-is-not-enough
Poly Keyboard
> the thing I'm _not_ thinking about

Yes, interesting point. I think that's a good thing to investigate.
Thanks for the thoughts,
Perhaps you‘ll find Nietzsche‘s „eternal recurrence“ to be a better approach to the same question. Which is basically to ask:

„If I took this minute / this day / this month / this year of my life... and somebody were to tell me that I had to live it over and over again, ad infinitum, with everything exactly as it was, and nothing changed at all... would I be screaming Hell Yes, or would I be screaming Hell No?“

To me, it‘s an appeal not to recklessness or consumption of short-term pleasures, but to living in integrity with oneself. Not to take shortcuts which you think you‘ll somehow be able to compartmentalizations out of your life. And I think he meant it also to be applied in retrospect: Whatver you did, and whatever happened in your life... can you „own“ it, with all its apparent flaws, and pains and errors? Are you able to see yourself, and see your own life, beyond the categories of of good and bad? Can you, like a good author, take the good, the bad and the ugly from your past and create something of truth and beauty from it?
What about the fact that Java didn't want lambda in the first places, only to hack anonymous inner classes that were never well promoted until 20 years down the road people realize it's quite useful to express logic as functions ? :)
Right to be forgotten, isn't GDPR, and it only affects results within the EU.
> Countries like Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea that practiced land reform to wrench land away from idle landlords and distribute it widely, have had this success.

This is an interesting view.
how did they avoid being punished for this?

Zimbabwe tried redistributing farms but it turned out horribly for them.

Would be interested In understanding how Zimbabwe attempt was different to these countries.

Here in South Africa land reforms is a politically charged issue. Due to apartheid we have a deeply unequal society, where productive farm land is concentrated in primarily in a few hands. Split along racial lines.

I recall meeting some labourers on a farm here in the western cape. They worked on a farm that had been “claimed” by colonisers who arrived in the 1800’s, and then handed down in families.

Where as this labourer ancestors has been in that area for generations before the colonisers got there.
In that paragraph, I was only referring to industrial zones.
Would you describe yourself as a network?
> just requires some kind of service contract and meaningful release versions.

I've just switched to a company with many tiny repos and IMO it's a huge hassle. There's no automated integration testing, and manual integration testing is a huge pain to set up.

I don't even know how I'd create integration tests that run as part of the CI. What version would I use? If you need to change both sides (very common), coordinating the commits and releases is very painful.

The "monstrously complex" build-and-test pipelines are a significant cost, but the alternative is higher release failure rate and moving slower overall IMO.
You could live your entire life right. Save money, build a family, find the love of your life, and have it all come crashing down in a single instant for any number of reasons. That terrifies me for some reason.
Yes I prefer the larger control surface even if it is easier to bump than a button.
You may want to check your spam folder. We've had an issue with that already. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Clarification: Showdead should be available to any account.

Vouching does require a small karma threshold.
> Unless we do something worthwhile — fun, interesting, desirable — with those privileges, young people won’t want to apply to the society of grown-ups,

I don’t get why we have to make a life of adult freedom desirable to anyone else

You don’t have to apply, your time will just come up
How old? The commercial aspect was already inseparable from the rise of the web in the mid-90s...countless startups of the dot-com boom scrambling to find a niche to turn a profit from. Many an interesting site shut down upon failing to do so, that's certainly unchanged to this day.
Sure, see a therapist, find out why that is.
The single family home zoning has the stuff like the minumum lot size and prohibitions on lot splitting or multiple homes on the same lot, which essentially sets a floor price to qualify for living there. And a minimum price will lead to minimum salary requirements for a mortgage, effectively locking out those below that income, hence elitism.
There is no blue chip cryptocurrency. They are just as speculative as growth stocks and certainly nowhere near as stable as Apple or Bank of America.
On Identifiable Aborts
> When people air opinions they're unwilling to change

That's the thing, there are a lot more positions these days that people seem to be unwilling to change.
As for economical in the "traditional" sense, maybe not. I don't know how much success they're (still/actually) having but if you want a little glimpse into what should be possible in easily digestible docu-film format, look up "The Biggest Little Farm" (it's on Netflix for example).

One thing I took away from that is that it's maybe not economical in a "have a one crop pigeon poop farm" (i.e. you sell pigeon poop from feeding pigeons), you can have a farm that sells a lot of things that uses a lot of different animals and crops in combination in order to not have to buy in things from the outside that "traditional" farms have to.
Seen this one recently which struck me as oddly serendipitous:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25979629/

Authors
Roberta Heale 1, Alison Twycross 2
I can only emit char sequences which argue for, or against, that idea.

Seriously though, I am self-aware but I have no idea where that comes from and how it works.

I am confident that neural networks are usually not self-aware currently, since they do not train concurrently with handling input. So we can say they're dreaming the answers to our inquires.
Important to note that this is a modality, not the primary way to execute crystal code in production, which remains building a binary executable.
This saves compilation time while developing at the expense of performance.

The runtime performance of crystal executables are great, of course, comparable with C or C++ in the given web development domain, of course, where the Boehm GC isn’t a problem, given the request response cycle and the standard lib http and socket objects, etc
Rather than “be authoritarian”, you could just say “provide stable political environment”, which would include authoritarian.
It runs in the browser using WASM, not on the server. And it is a beginner-friendly programming language.
That is a fair point, but the article contains a couple of LaMDA transcripts which are quite persuasive by themselves.
He doesn’t need anything. The statement is that there’s a way to live a good (satisfying) life, the God being the creator knows that way, and he reveals it to people, who should follow it (to live satisfying lives)
Almost everyone. But very few of them will notice the same things are missing.

That is the very definition of the long tail.
I looked at it and seems this is a collection of inane ramblings about a supremely irrelevant subject: change my mind?
Interested in sharing what makes this particular work valuable, in your eyes? I‘m assuming that you‘ve read many books. So if you single out this one as an example for a particularly good read, I‘m curious to hear why. Thanks!
Smol-brain sentiment! ;-)
Or, keep the system, but allow the PTO, and individual examiners to be liable for any fees resulting from an invalid patent being granted in the first place.

Individuals (like the original project in this case) and the public at large (court/challenge costs) shouldn’t be burdened with the costs of fixing the PTO’s fuckups.
So jail the guy pouring concrete or hanging drywall instead of focusing on policies that would prevent the issue? It's bad enough that the rich often view the poor as disposable. This just makes it literally true.
Either way, with Switzerland sandwiched between the three largest EU economies, there are really no options off the table.

The solution described in the article is just one of many.
Right? It screams of privilege.
That's true, but in most of those cases you don't need to be able to use numeric character-count-based indexes into the string (which is what the article is arguing that you don't need).

You'd typically be happy if the parsing function that you're using to find the location of (say) each comma in the string gives you an opaque token for each such location, with a way to use those tokens to get slices of the string back.

So in practice we can use byte offsets into a UTF-8 string as those tokens, while the programmer doesn't really have to care that that's what they are.
The problem is that you have to go examine (dig/dive/whatever) the potential sites to get real feedback -- otherwise, you're just training the model based on your own prejudices about what good sites look like.
Approximately two-thirds of all Americans, including non-Christians, believe that Christ was literally resurrected in the physical form.[1] It is terrifying how many people in the US believe the bible is literally true in every way.

1. https://research.lifeway.com/2020/09/08/americans-hold-compl...
Ask HN: How on earth are you using your Apple computer with external displays?
I own four different Apple computers -- a 2017 MacBook Pro, an M1 MacBook Air, an M1 MacBook Pro, and most recently a maxed out Mac Studio. I also have had in that timespan three different Windows desktops that I have built and a ThinkPad running Windows or Linux depending on the mood.

I have spent countless dollars on cables and adapters in an attempt to find the magic combination. I have read DisplayPort specs, I know every brand of certified cable. I now know way more than I would ever care to know about DisplayPort and HDMI protocols. I have tried 4 different brands and models of monitor. For one of those models, I had three of the exact same model. All combinations work flawlessly with anything that is not one of the Apple devices. I have all but eliminated any of these components being the problem.

Depending on the device and the day I will get:

- Visual artifacts like snow, lines, flickering

- Failure to support native resolution on any high resolution monitors

- Failure to support high refresh rates

- Forced scaling, detecting monitor as a TV and using interlacing

- Most reliably of all, failure to wake from sleep without plugging/unplugging; doing a dance with power cycling my monitor or device until it finally works, or just giving up and logging into my Windows PC because today I can't use my Apple computer

It's never all at once, but it's always at least one thing. In the time of owning any of these devices, I have without exaggeration, not once had the expected experience of sitting down at my desk and starting my day without fighting my computer to work properly with my monitor.

Searching the internet, I can't be alone. All of the problems I have, as far as I can tell, other people experience. And as far as I can tell, no one has an answer. I'm at a breaking point after ordering this $4k desktop Mac Studio and waiting 3 months for it to arrive. I hoped that, being a device that requires an external display, they at least worked it out with this one.

They did not.

So how does the entire professional industry working with Apple computers manage to start their day, every day, like this? Am I insane? Is no one else dealing with this? Are you all just using the built in display? This has been going on for YEARS for me, across multiple generations of devices.
Can a Company Trademark a Color?
> The runtime performance of crystal executables are great, of course, comparable with C or C++ in the given web development domain

I don't think that's true. Crystal seems to be more in the ballpark of Go or Java:https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
> By the end of this year, Tesla's Giga 3 Shanghai factory will reach a run rate where that single factory builds 50% of what Mercedes sells annually.

Unless China locks down the plant due to a COVID outbreak.
You didn't know SQLite cures cancer?
Being gratuitously anti-social in a pub or supermarket already has consequences, name tags or not (you'll get kicked out). It doesn't matter if people know your name or not, they'll recognize your face, and you might not be welcome back.

Being gratuitously anti-social online might also have consequences (your account gets banned), but if creating another anonymous account is free and easy, then the consequences are trivially ignored.

You could make a distinction between anonymity and ease-of-creating-new-accounts, but usually the two are tied together.
Offices are not very noisy