skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point isn't that the long tail hadn't existed before, it's that more people have access to it through new technology. In other words, it's the difference of approximating a probability distribution with 1 billion points instead of 1 million.

Before the internet, long tail effects were present with the 1M that could get past the gauntlet of labels and distribution conglomerates. After the internet, musicians had better avenues to get money more directly from fans and fans had better tools for discovery.

You characterize it as being a zero-sum game but I don't believe this is right. I think it's easier now than ever to generate a (small, potentially liveable) income stream from 'mediocre dance music', niche writer, etc.

There are more full-time musicians and musicians earning a living than there were 20 years ago [0] [1]. This is directly due to the internet being the distribution channel.

I would imagine other fields have been effected similarly though I haven't seen a broad study.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/2013/05/30/massive-growth-independe...

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/raine-group-indepe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_point
The biggest problem with these services is they never last. It's easy to set up something like this, but there are so many of these services and so few non-technical people understand the need/purpose of them, they don't get the traction required to be viable and disappear, thus perpetuating a vicious cycle for the overall "disposable email" sector as folks realize that you can't trust any of these services to stick around...
And now that money printing is being unwound by the central banks. Money is now being take OUT of M2.
To anyone who thinks two hours of free time is horrible - don’t have kids and don’t do anything big or great.

I went to a pretty intense university to study computer science with a baby. I had zero free time. It was 100% class, study, kids, and barely any sleep - for FOUR years!

All the people I know who do great things? Zero free time. They work like animals to fulfill dreams and responsibilities.
That we had to fight for them be created. Eternal hash war.
We didn’t wave a pen or type a keystroke to magic them into existence.
Exactly. Pressing the mode selector switch a few times to get it to sport/sport+ takes much more looking down compared to pushing the gear selector left while you keep eyes on the road to think about a quick overtake. And this is for cars that aren't 90% touch-screen controlled like some recent models from other brands.
Did anyone get $500 that didn't signup for GitHub's payment process or putting their non-standard `.github/` folder in your repository? This feels like a FOMO play to get more users to add GitHub mirrors to their project to try to dominate the Code forge space and tangential donations (which is why they did a loss-leading match program in the beta). I'd rather not prop that up; I'll stick to Sourcehut and Codeberg/Gitea.
I imagine my last day is going to be spent hooked up to a life support machine in a climate controlled environment as various close people trickle in to say farewell.

I’d prefer to spend the close of my 20s doing something else like raving on a warm beach with a bunch of people who don’t know me and won’t miss me tomorrow, and hopefully finding one or two fellow travellers who I can keep in touch with until my dying days :)

exploration vs exploitation
I stopped reading after the second paragraph. The author just started complaining about Breitbart and Epoch Times being in the news recommendations

I'm not saying I endorse those news companies. It's just like... I thought this was going to be about google search or something that actually matters
...the supreme court of which country? I don't know but from one of OP's previous comments they sound to be from western/central Europe (which in itself is like a dozen possible countries).

The norms and values they might have, might not be reflected by your "supreme" court.

I also don't think this is purely about legality as much as about how we, as a society globally communicating via the internet, want these things to work.
You are a fool if you think time will balance scales of inequality. [1]

Sure, Musk and Bezos are the richest men in the world, according to publicly available data. That doesn't mean these other families are all poor. Some have squandered their wealth. Others have magnified it. And all that still have it have become better at hiding it from the public, something that the "new" rich don't have much experience or capability in.

The poor still, well, are poor. New kings for old kings doesn't change shit. But alas we should wait out the neo-feudal age, that's your plan?

[1] https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...
> I would say that US democracy is about as functional as European union democracy. Remember how EU declared natural gas as "green"?

Oh I do. And I know the reason behind that headline - the fact is we absolutely need gas infrastructure to allow diversifying from Russia in the short term while preventing dozens of millions of people from freezing in winter or to allow gas peaker plants to assist solar and wind so we can shut down coal and the decades-old nuclear clunkers.
Whenever I hear/read that phrase, I always picture myself lying in a hospice bed, hooked up to all sorts of medical equipment.
You can't get grapheme clusters but you can get actual codepoints by spreading a string into an array, ex [..."abc\uD83C\uDF08"] is ["a", "b", "c", "\u{1F308}"]
To throw a curveball, taking a cue from plants (1), a zygote is only a gametes way of making more gametes.

Human zygotes do reproduce asexuality resulting in twins.

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternation_of_generations
This article is interesting but it really needs proof-reading. There are some missing parts, poorly structured parts that are hard to understand. Would be great to read the corrected version
They do work themselves out, but sometimes the timeline for that can be 50+ years. Which is basically your entire youth and productive lifetime. It is pretty cold comfort to know that income inequality that makes home ownership an impossibility right now will work itself out in a few decades.
> 1. where are you getting "deaths of thousands of young women" from? According to the CDC the mortality rate associated with live births is 23.8 per 100,000. In the US there are only 629,898 abortions per year. Multiply those numbers out, and you only get 150 deaths.

backalley abortions.

i'm 100% anti-clotheshanger.

it is interesting that a lot of people on this site need to be intellectually spoonfed into understanding that this is the major issue that most pro-choice people focus on.

you can't magically turn all those abortions into unproblematic births without seeing deaths due to backalley abortions. it is like arguing that by banning drugs you can make drug use go away. you just discount the desperation those women are under and consider them criminals and are okay with the stochastic death penalty.
> The examples of those successful Asian countries implies that the tradeoff is well worth it.

And the examples of many, many countries which used "industrial policy" to implement awful ideas like import substitution (i.e. "developing" towards autarchy, not increased trade openness and market discipline) can imply the opposite.
People drive cars to work, school, etc.

Look at the infrastructure required for that and what we spend on it. It’s massive.
The UK has continued doing bad things. So has almost every country.
A tool for making miniature rope! Awesome!

https://www.byrnesmodelmachines.com/ropewalk5.html
Pass the following law:

If a person seeks to block an abortion they must agree to adopt and raise the child until age 18.
I have found that I sometimes need "down time." This may involve sitting in a recliner, reading junk fiction, or watching vapid TV shows.

When I am "on," I am really "on." I like to be constantly "producing" stuff. I tend to not do much "farting around." All my work needs to have some deliverable goal.

It's not necessarily for the best. I probably miss out on a lot of creative exploration. I'm very empirical. I think that abstract thinkers may come up with some really cool stuff, and they may do that, while sitting in a coffee shop, staring vacantly out the window.
Just run Firefox and the multi container plugin. I also use the temporary containers plug-in which will open a new container with every new tab you open.

If you’re really bout it, get a few proxies and use foxyproxy to randomly route your tabs. Try to avoid too many fingerprinting prevention plugins because that actually makes you even more unique (according to effs panopticlick)
The smart idea is to adopt neo-liberal free trade AFTER you have made sure your local business people can stand the competition.
AES, the criminal math. Every day countless innocent bytes are diffused and confused JUST because someone might be watching. Where will the madness end!
Yes, the old world bees sometimes do pollinate the native crops too, and vice versa. It's not a completely separate Venn diagram. The studies discuss and analyze the degrees of crossover.
42 is a spin off of Epitech. At Epitech, the student pays each year directly. 42, your first employer pays back the school. Something like that.

dotCloud/Docker was built by graduates from Epitech. Not sure if you can draw much conclusion. Maybe that this style of school does seem to work.
> It doesn't stop micromanagers from micromanaging.

One of the flaws with Scrum in my opinion is that it enables micromanaging. It makes it easier. The whole concept of sprints with tasks and hardline prioritization before the work is in progress is a micromanagers dream.

When you adapt Scrum suddenly there might be micromanaging where there were none before. It happened at my last employer.
Well, you saw my personal opinion about why I prefer Javascript and proceeded to lecture me about things that you think are better. ;)
I think "had" is at the core of the problem here. How does one become »"had" my name in GPT-3«?

And how is one even supposed to discover that your data is being processed and regurgitated by this company on another continent?

I find this question interesting not so much from a "what are the current international laws/treaties" perspective, but more from a morality "how do we want this to work, ideally?" perspective.
I think in some sense I agree with that idea. I think most people actually want to work and be a part of their community. The problem with modern Libertarian types (and I think Peterson is one) is that it's this utter Little House on the Prairie fantasy that has no idea how to deal with the modern realities of capital, and how it can subvert your freedom more effectively than the government they seek to vilify. And I think most people sense that now intuitively even if they can't put that into words. I believe Marx called it alienation of labor, but of course he's been quite effectively vilified as well.
Besides that the SAS vs R is something still ongoing. I heard the aame point made in favour of SAS in Public Health, Clinical trials analysis and set up and different public administration. They trust the algorithms provided by a closed source certified vendors and not an open source alternative.

At the same time, correct implementation of statistics is hard and testing it to be correct is harder.
Very nice! This is how it should be!
I’m not all that interested in advancing my personal prominence. This is why I originally didn’t even show myself in the videos
I don't feel I have any difficulty airing positions I feel online without anonymity. I sometimes end up arguing, but rarely in bad faith. I stand by what I say, though my views now may be different to those of previous me and I'm happy to debate that too. If you can't stand by a position, maybe you shouldn't air it.
Exact opposite experience for me, I can use this thing without looking and it does exactly what's expected. It also does manual shifting the right way around, pull to shift up, push to shift down. That's how every sequential racing gearbox works. But somehow a lot of non-sports brands do their manual control the wrong way around.
How is one single kid cared by 2 adults so time consuming?
Try navigating using the ATAK app, it can pull in maps and topology-

https://wiki.civtak.org/index.php?title=Getting_Started#Over...

Overview
This is a tutorial to help you go from "Zero to Hero" (or perhaps zero to competent user?) on ATAK-Civ. ATAK is a very powerful, enterprise-quality collaborative geospatial situational awareness (SA) tool. That is, it helps you get around like any mapping tool (e.g. Google Maps), but it has a tremendous amount of additional functionality and it is very extensible, though most of the plugins developed either at Government expense or for Government use, are not released to the public. ATAK is much more powerful and easier to use when used in conjunction with a server. See Server options below.

Time Expectation
If you have a device configured with ATAK already, it takes about fifteen minutes to get the basics squared away. If you are coming into this fresh, it may take you a couple hours to configure a device and learn your way around.
Empathy for what exactly? OP posting his real name all over the internet, next to his username and his email, in his CV, and then complaining that people (and AI) can easily find it?
Do you think 20 years from now people will be using (some variant of) BitTorrent protocol, invented in 2001 for peer to peer file exchange? I do.
Today I learned that there are actually six provisions in the Code of Hammurabi for that, covering different effects to the mother and (according that system) standing of the mother!

209. If a man has struck a free woman with child, and has caused
her to miscarry, he shall pay ten shekels for her miscarriage.
210. If that woman die, his daughter shall be killed.
211. If by a blow he has caused a plebian's daughter to have a
miscarriage, he shall pay five shekels of silver.
212. If that woman has died, he shall pay one-half mina of silver.
213. If he struck a freeman's female slave and has caused her to
have a miscarriage, he shall pay two shekels of silver.
214. If that female slave has died, he shall pay one-third mina of
silver.
Once again, I'm looking for evidence, not your say-so...
When was this? Do the true believers still exist?
Except this isn't a constant time comparison. You still reach the "no more turning" angle at whichever pin is incorrect first. This is more like forcing the password to be fully retyped after each failed attempt. A good feature, but not a feature which eliminates side channels which might be there.
I regularly watch economically prosperous content on youtube that would have had zero chance of distribution 10 years ago.

The game is different and it's too early to tell if things are better now than before. We're seeing a lot of no-talent rich kids ("influencers") as they take over the commons. Facebook used to be a way that anyone, in theory, could gain social influence. Now, it seems to ratify one's lack of influence; if people (e.g., employers, literary agents) look you up on Twitter and see less than 5,000 followers, they assume they can get away with shit.

This being said, I think we are past the nadir. We're going from an age in which we had incompetent curators to one in which we don't know who the curators are. As they say about traditional vs. self-publishing, the problem for self-publishing is that there are no gatekeepers, and the problem with traditional publishing is that it has lousy gatekeepers (lousy because they care more about short-term marketability than literary merit). How this is all going to shake out is anybody's guess.

What concerns me is the amount of power tech companies now have. It's great that a talented nobody can become a Youtube star, at least now... but what happens if Youtube decides to change its algorithm to punish leftist content? How do we prevent spurious copyright strikes? How do people who are de-platformed for illegitimate reasons (this literally happened to me) seek justice? How do we make sure we're not just building another reputation market that rich people will corner? That's what the tech companies want, after all, for the sole reason that it's most profitable.
Great decision.

When activism enters the workspace, professionalism leaves.
The thing I fail to understand about socialism and government as a form of alternative to corporations is this:

Corporations are groups of people focused on a given goal. Your solution to a group of people making what you consider to be bad decisions or morally wrong decisions is to involve more people? People are the problem. It doesn't matter what they call themselves - a country, a government, a corporation, it's all people all the way down. Why will one of those supposedly be a benefit and somehow make better and more ethical decisions?
In that case those great things they’re doing is probably fulfilling their innate desires.
Do people miss the Google of old, or the Web of old?

The Web used to be very information dense. It was built from the ground up by specialists and enthusiasts, educational and governmental institutions, and groups of like-minded individuals.

Then it became commercialized and commodified. Entire industries popped up to shovel mass-produced crap to masses of people through Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. Forums became subreddits, blogs became tweets, homepages became Facebook profiles. And we’ve hyper-optimized the attention economy to keep us hooked on clickbait headlines and 30 second videos. The Web just bears no resemblance to what it was 10-20 years ago, and web search results are a reflection of that.

Maybe there’s a way to restore the Web of old. But that seems like putting the genie back in the bottle. More likely, IMO, something will eventually replace the Web, and Web search along with it.
That's what we call moving the goalposts. You clearly have something more specific in mind, so say that, instead of generalizing and making shit up.

I don't have an exact count, but my guess is that my software is deployed to millions of Windows workstations. That doesn't happen if Rust was "pretty much focused on Linux workloads, mostly."
The government is always "captured" by some interests. The meaningful question is what could incent governments to pick the most widely beneficial policies. Trade policy is one of those sectors where it seems especially easy to make socially bad choices, so being extra careful can make sense.
Why not? Vibrations can travel through solid metal. You might be able to make a custom tool that sends vibrations through the core enough to cause the wafers to move up and down even if the core is turned.
> Also, IMO, phones aren't worse than what my parents' generation did to waste time which is watch TV.

I'd argue phones are much worse. The TV stayed in one spot in your house and you had to share it with others. You didn't put your TV in your pocket and take it to work with you then put in on your desk. You didn't take you TV with you on dates or social outings and check it when you where bored. You didn't fiddle with your television while you where driving, etc., etc., etc.

If you knew someone who watched a lot of television in the 1990's, they perhaps where in the presence of a television 8 hours a day. That's a lot. However, by contrast, if you had your phone with you 8 hours a day and locked in a drawer the rest of the day, that you put you among the lighter phone users among us.
It changes different settings in the font. In GitHub's case, they use the font "Alliance No.1". ss02 doesn't appear to have a visible effect, but ss01 changes the letter a from a rounded body with a stem on top to a rounded body with a straight stem on the right. You may have custom fonts disabled—these feature settings do the right thing on GitHub's and ProtonMail's ("Arizona") fonts, but make your system fonts do weird things. Both sites appear just fine for me on Firefox on Linux.
The "disposable" in "disposable email" implies that you don't intend on keeping the address around. Under that use case, the service disappearing after a year or two doesn't cause any issues, because you don't have anything persistent attached to those emails in the first place. Besides, many (most?) other email services prevent you from recovering an email address (usually because a random address is assigned to you and there's no way to pick/recover a previous address), so you're already discouraged from using them for any persistent services.
Oh, and the blocking person must also pay all medical / hospital / incidental costs. Plus they must provide medical insurance.
Tesla laying off workers who just started, withdrawing offers as job cuts begin
Scala/Scala.js is an amazing ecosystem. It simply astounding being able to take code from the frontend and move it to the backend by simply importing it in a different project. Using the same domain validations everywhere is also mind-blowing.

Thanks for the effort, these are really cool demos.
> home ownership an impossibility

LOL. Maybe you need to move somewhere unfashionable. You know, be around all those yucky people who go to church & stuff.
I can‘t second your critique.

The author describes a valid “problem” in many western societies:

That many youths are not eager to take over the reigns and responsibilities of adult life. Arguably “western” society suffers from a lack of generational “handing over” of the many important roles and functions that a complex society requires to persist and build a successful future. That however, is probably a whole debate on its own.
More video of them jumping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ngnnhcT-s
Amazing. I need these set to actual commentary on the Olympic ski jump.
RuboCop – The Ruby Linter/Formatter That Serves and Protects
You mean instead of the Internet?

It's a matter of some controversy but the public Internet that I'm using to reply probably should be capitalized.

Discussion of the issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#Terminology including usage before computer networking.

In particular the article mentions

This reflects the tendency in English to capitalize new terms and move to lowercase as they become familiar.
Yeah "phone addiction" is just the new TV.

Though there are some dark patterns used by social media to promote it, that's kinda true. In that sense it's more like social media addiction.

Of course TV also had its dark patterns. Like the cliffhanger.
Also if you consider the implications. "Just take a new identity online every 2 months" sounds easy to say, registering an HN account is certainly not a big deal, but it implies that you must also delete cookies from all browsers (desktop, laptop, phone), delete data from all apps that use the Internet and you want to change your identity on, reset your TV if you make use of things like netflix there (because if it has internet, then it probably also tracks while watching regular tv). While doing this, the devices must remain offline, then you change your IP address, then you can use them again. Else, an app will ping the mothership before your IP changed and get a cookie that it will use again after the IP change, binding the IPs together and leaving a trail of your historic IP addresses on some server.

It's a lot easier if you share an IP with a hundred other people, such as with a VPN or CGNAT or many schools/businesses. Then you can just reset the cookies you want without it being able to fall back to another unique identifier.

This isn't even considering device fingerprints such as created using html5 canvas or audio APIs.

I don't do this myself, I'm just saying there's a lot more to it than picking a new HN name.