skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the world you're describing, the future of technology is owned by Apple and Google forever. They got there first, and they'll forever be the victors.

They can tax it. They can starve the entire landscape of innovation capital and prevent other companies from ever growing large. They set the rules, and they have enough human and financial capital to keep the game going forever.

That's not good for capitalism, the free market, entrepreneurs, or innovation. In the ten years since smartphones came about, we've seen a contraction of other forms of computing. A contraction in the number of smartphone manufacturers, too! The world is worse for it.

This type of duopolistic advantage also creates a system where Apple and Google can grow close to governments and become a surveillance and control apparatus. That's scarier than anything a developer could do to slight you.

The status quo is great for Apple and Google shareholders, but bad for those trying to innovate and those wanting personal freedom and privacy.

Almost all of computing connects to these two companies now, and that's a fragility that benefits these two giants to the rest of our detriment.

> I explicitly do. not. want. my web browser to have access to the bluetooth and NFC APIs. Nor the screen orientation lock and full screen APIs. I absolutely do not want website notifications.

Easy enough to turn all of these things off. You're describing a setting.
Recent and related:

Apple is not defending browser engine choice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31858413 - June 2022 (436 comments)
I think this comment pretty much sums up my issue with these movements.

> I'm a part-time Real Estate investor, and I would never invest in a city that had a rental cap, since the point of investments is to make money, not start a charity.

This mindset is where these issues come from in the first place. Housing as become more and more an investment, and groups of people (immigrants, disabled folks, poor people) are not as good of investments, so they're avoided by private investors.

At the same time, private investors and builders are pushing back on tools that make the lives of these less profitably people easier (rent control, public housing).

From what you're saying, if I want to promote more affordable housing, I keep you away from it. Where's a profit in cheap housing/low rents?
Correlation is sufficient to draw additional studies to add to the discussion however.

And with a proper survey, you can actually account for a lot of these effects. (Ex: after accounting for outdoor temperatures, the Ice Cream Sales / Drowning correlation can be largely factored out).
Defined benefit pension schemes only require constant population growth because the decision makers want to use the assumption that there will be constant economic growth, in order to make the obligations seem like they cost less.

They could easily assume 0% expected return on investment, but that would make it so the cash expenses today would explode, to the same level that they would if they simply paid employees the cash. Which is why politicians like to run on campaigns promising lower taxes, and in order to achieve that, they assume future economic growth so that instead of paying someone $10 today, the government can pay $1, and rely on economic growth to provide the other $9 (assuming purchasing power of the currency remains the same, which it will not).
Where's Pete?
hot take: OP is confusing memorizing "how to debug SSL certificates" with problem solving skills
thats cool but you should pay the costs of the externalities
The rise of bad figurative painting
Automation technology has been the primary driver in US income inequality (2021)
Exactly this. One of the bigger “fans” of them — Gordon Murray — is actually producing a road legal one. The T.50, which is Gordon Murray’s attempt to “revisit” the McLaren F1 and do everything he couldn’t do (or hadn’t yet realized was possible) back in the 1990s: https://youtu.be/NT8PMXCMrsM

For those who aren’t aware, Harry Metcalfe was the founder of EVO magazine and had an outsized behind the scenes influence of Top Gear’s new format in the early 2000s. While Gordon sticks to some of his script, the two get VERY nerdy at points digging into all sorts of non-obvious minutiae and detail. 53 minutes is a lot, but by far it’s the best interview about the car by a large margin.

Harry is also a very big EV and renewable electricity nerd, and loves digging into those topics with tons of research.
3D Models – Project Subway NYC
Crypto marketing is now so pervasive, particularly in online spaces, that a ton of people just assume it must not be a scam.

I mean there's a streamer I follow and generally like, but that interviewed Do Kwon on their stream, just a few weeks before it depegged. I wonder how many of their followers were the ones that lost the game of musical chairs. The halo effect is real.

And that's not even getting into the craven scumbags leveraging influencer marketing, like Stake.
It is worth pointing out that GPT-4chan was initially publicly released on Hugging Face, but was shut down shortly afterwards:

https://huggingface.co/ykilcher/gpt-4chan

For those who want to experiment with it, it is still possible to get the model by torrent:

https://archive.org/details/gpt4chan_model

https://archive.org/details/gpt4chan_model_float16

There is also a direct download mirror here:

https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/_notpdf_/gpt4chan_model/

https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/_notpdf_/gpt4chan_model_float16/

This is a basic outline of how to run it. You need lots of RAM (24GB+) or a large GPU (12GB+):

https://pastebin.com/g7rSaCfw

The claims that this model is a "hate speech generator" are unsubstantiated. It encodes knowledge about a wide range of topics, and most of its output is neutral. GPT-3, with an appropriate pre-prompt, becomes orders of magnitude more dangerous than this.
It seems like there is a difference between "let's release it for researchers to investigate" and "let's release it for the general public to use and abuse, including all the script kiddies and malware authors and 4chan trolls and spammer sites out there."

Unfortunately, that difference can only be maintained through some kind of gatekeeping.

I like to try out the new algorithms, but I'm mostly just playing, and I don't see how they make it available to me without letting any random troll use it.
Pseudo randomly selected, then informed for like 3 days about the issues, discuss it themselves for a day then vote.

And we should do this for each issues
Station Layouts – Project Subway NYC
Rymdport has initial support for OpenBSD and NetBSD
can publicly available data be the property of someone?
These work and sound great, but stating them without a "please" can come off as a little brusque. Please add a "please" before the orders, and I'll accept the advice.
They don't even read the comment they're replying to.
Never? Many NoSQL stores are offering parity in many of the feature verticals that were historically the sole domain of RDBMS.

Mongo has always had semantics to support normalized data modeling, has schema support, and has had distributed multi-document ACID transactions since 2019 [1]. You don't have to use those features as they're opt-in, but they're there.

I know that full parity between the two isn't feasible, but to say they never can is a mischaracterization.

[1] Small addendum on this: Jepsen highlighted some issues with their implementation of snapshot isolation and some rightful gripes about poor default config settings and wonky API (you need to specify snapshot read concern on all queries in conjunction with majority write concern, which isnt highlighted in some docs). But with the right config, their only throat clearing was whether snapshot isolation was "full ACID", which would apply to postgres as well given they use the same model.
You could also "golf" it where each contestant runs on the track with nobody else present, and you compare times.
What doesnt make sense to me are people thinking that Safari will die if Apple is forced to allow other browsers on iPhone.

Don't underestimate the inertia of defaults. Safari will still be the default browser.

A way more likely scenario is that Apple no longer will be able to drag their feet, holding the web back, but instead will actually have to keep Safari up to date and competetive with other browsers.
That's because these marginalized people generally still have no political power.
The comment I was replying to made statements about both Java and JavaScript, so my questions were also about both (and whether they were different). I just added a line break to make this clearer.
I hate embellishing on resumes. Unfortunately when the game went from humans filtering resumes to automation/keyword filtering, it's and unfortunate requirement. Sanitation Engineer and all that.

Required keywords "Agile/Scrum" does not appear on this resume, rejected.
You add a xor non null check on the foreign keys?
"Their own hardware" as in the hardware that is owned by the customer who purchased it, or by the manufacturer who sold it? You're writing almost as if you believe the latter.
At some point we (researchers & scientists) should draw the line between correlation & causation.

That there is 40% less incidence in flu vaccinated patients is established by observation, but is it due to flu vaccine by itself or factors which surrounds itself in people more prone to flu or who are medically more conscious? (edit: think of analysis of variance tests among identifiable medical & socioeconomic variables). If the researchers establish a positive link, wouldn't it be worthwhile to then suppose that amyloid plaques are somehow related to viral influenza replication - which by itself sounds a bit absurd (edit: Ok lot of good reference about infections around AD. I take this back, my bad)

The alternative hypothesis is worth thinking too: Are people more prone to Alzheimer's also more prone to catching flu.
Unlike in Apple's situation, users had the full power of choice of installing a web browser on Windows PCs. They used IE for the same reason people now installing Chrome: it's the browser where the most of the stuff doesn't break.
That paragraph is strange to me, too.
First he says you should not waste time or let others steal your time. But then he goes on that you definitely should spend time on philosophy.
And when philosophy raises more questions than it answers, isn’t it the also a waste of time?
If ever there was a bikeshed to bikeshed all other bikesheds it’s people creating hierarchies where none is needed. Toml is fine, it’s perfect, it’s exactly what people would expect and remember. But instead you’d have them need to remember that it’s hiding in std. “but if everything’s in std it’s easy to remember!” Yes but then also it’s not needed. And if everything isn’t in std you leave people having to remember if toml was in std, sys, or was it found in tools? Utils? Or did they put it in parsertools? And for what reason? The user knows they want toml. And it’s not like you need to have multiple separate tomls in different places in the hierarchy.

Leaving users having to guess where in the hierarchy you decided to hide something, that they know they’re looking for doesn’t add value. No, just keep it flat and simple.
If anyone out there thinks there are still people who don't realize that "correlation does not equal causation", don't worry, we all know.
The reason that the current generation hates suburbia to me seems like a result of a cultural process that can be considered borderline indoctrination and the fact that for whatever reason suburbia doesn't move on with the times. I can understand those who are dissatisfied with the current state of suburbia (e.g. lack of entertainment options, lack of public spaces that don't look like a repurposed commercial property), though many of those issues may be attributed to the scale of the land as a whole, but you'd be surprised that the idea of moving to an apartment block from say a generic suburban home is not viewed as a downgrade by some.
Another thing is that classic suburbia often has a uniform look, which might negatively contribute to the entire perception of suburban housing, but then again, same people who complain about it have no problem with same-looking generic apartment blocks.
Agreed. Substantive due process was left intact.

Additionally, regarding left or right federal legislation: this would very likely be struck down by the same court under the reasoning that the constitution does not grant the federal government the power to regulate abortion.

Any federal legislation would have to come in the form of an ammendment.
This is the hydrogen bomb of propaganda.

Imagine assigning every single living human being a dedicated 24/7 con artist to follow them around and convince them of something. That's what will soon be possible if not already. It will be intimate con artistry at scale driven by big data, a massive DDOS attack on human cognition and our ability to conduct any form of honest discourse.

What hustlers, trolls, and completely amoral companies will do is bad enough. Now throw in state sponsored intelligence agencies, propaganda farms, militaries, special interest groups, and political parties.

Usually I'm anything but a luddite, but with this I can't help but think of many more evil uses than good ones. It doesn't help that the principal business models of the (consumer) Internet seem to center around surveillance, advertising, propaganda, and addictive forms of entertainment (like slot-machine-like mobile games) designed to suck money or time out of people.

Lesser but also very bad concerns include: the end of useful search engines due to a deluge of continuously learning adversarial SEO spam, the collapse of pretty much any open online forum due to same, and addictive "virtual friend" / "virtual relationship partner" hyper-sophisticated chatbots that hook vulnerable lonely people and then empty their bank accounts in various ways.

I really don't fear AI itself. I fear what human beings will do with AI.
Interesting suggestion. We added f-strings because we already had s-strings (pass trough to SQL) and r-strings (for raw multi-line text).

And would you rather see "My {name}" or "My ${name}"? I personally dislike the $ prefix for all variables and interpolations...
To the best of my past information, the immediately preceding government seeked raising consensus through suicidal tax cuts. Given the widespread trend in """live-for-the-day""" politics, another example but little new (dramatically or farcically).

Edit: it is one case in which the following appears exceptionally justifiable:

https://thediplomat.com/2022/06/sri-lanka-sends-2-ministers-...

> Sri Lanka is sending two government ministers to Russia to negotiate for fuel - one of the necessities nearly exhausted amid the Indian Ocean island nation’s economic collapse. // The development comes as Washington and its allies aim to cut off energy imports from Russia in line with sanctions over its war on Ukraine. Since the invasion in late February, global oil prices have skyrocketed, sparking a number of countries to seek out Russian crude, which is being offered at a steep discount
> lets consider a bunch of real life factors. Wealth, Age, Sex, Race, Educational Attainment, Insurance. Just the basic stuff anyone would think about

The study measured an extensive list of covariates [1]. The data source, "medical claims, pharmacy claims, administrative claims, and laboratory result data for privately insured or Medicare Advantage with Part D enrollees who have both medical and prescription-drug coverage" [2], excludes the uninsured and those without Medicare Part D, so that's not a confounder.

I'm having trouble finding a bias that would create this effect size other than reverse causation, i.e. people developing AD forget to get their flu shots.

[1] https://content.iospress.com/download/journal-of-alzheimers-...

[2] https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...
Try using any Google property with an effective privacy tool such as TOR, and you'll see what a joke the "Chief Privacy Officer" position is.

Their past actions consisted of collecting location data even for users who turned it off [1], making the settings so confusing even its own engineers couldn't turn it off [2], and then giving that data to any government agency that asked [3], and selling it to anyone with a few spare dollars.

So they lie to trick users into a false sense of privacy, spy on them regardless, and give that data to, among others, police, to be used against users. But this time it's different, and we can trust them.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/google-loc...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/google-privacy-settings-e...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-fence_warrant
Can you write an SQL query to return arbitrary JSON? Returning queried data in a nested form is a must nowadays.
It is prudent to analyze behavior that is not constrained by affordability when arguing about desirability. Otherwise you can easily deduce that people (en masse) genuinely like renting, flying couch, industrially processed food, malt liquor, cars that are at least ten years old etc.
To me, the stoics come across as privileged dudes who have the resources to while away their time at the top of Maslow's Hierarchy, trying to self-actualize their way into a sense of purpose.

Whenever I hear the Tim Ferriss' of the world using a stoic as a motivational lever, all I can hear is "just lift yourself up by your bootstraps."
>Meanwhile, most trains are pretty unpleasant--many cars wreak of piss, smoke, etc, people free-style rapping, trying to start fights

Important note, these kind of "only the bums use public transit" problems will go away if and only if non-bums start using public transit.
I think it's less likely the donations and more likely that the politician is a member of the well off property owner group.
Google Hangouts finally gets a shutdown date: November 2022
Isn't the worry that a specie that doesn't die off will have the older generation consuming all the resources, reducing the chance at survival by the newer generation?

Also, how do these species with extremely long lifespan adapt to changing environment?
Importing workers fails for the world as a whole, and the number of countries that easy importation works for is also declining.
Oh what I would give to be able to experience a world where the movie flopped. The same people claiming it was successful because it didn't try to be woke would have said it failed for being too woke (female pilots, multi-ethnic crew, unnamed enemy, etc).
Agree about not implicitly finding the join key. But as long as we're brainstorming imaginary features, then maybe as part of the schema, we could somehow declare the default join key to use, for any given two tables. In most cases it's pretty obvious what the best join key would be.
What is that course correction going to be? Unfortunately, it seems like the US is choosing to reduce opportunities for women, rather that reducing the economic burden of raising a family.
inspiring
http://angel.co/ is a common one, although some of the startups are a bit sketch, so you gotta do your research. https://topstartups.io/ filters for higher-quality startups
If you want to avoid this, you can go inside and request a specific dollar amount, and they'll charge exactly that. (And the pump will shut off at the right moment.)

I guess it would be nice to have a way to request a gallon or dollar amount at the pump, but I've never seen a pump able to do that.
Yes they do.
WebKIT is new IE which hinders the Web, not chromium, at least not yet.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/23/opinion_column/

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/14/telegram_safari

And the only safari rule is banned in the EU's Digital Markets Act, so whether Apple likes it or not, Safari monopoly is over.

twitter.com/OpenWebAdvocacy/status/1527101988256722944
Insurance benefits are the major difference usually. also, does your employer expect extra hours for being salaried?

but you could be the first to be cut if your 1099.
If you were mature, you wouldn't insult people and call them immature lol.

Maturity isn't even a legit concept. People are all very different. The word immaturity more or less is used here as venom. Direct insults.

So why do you want to insult me? Why flagrantly violate the rules of HN if your so mature?
IBM settles age discrimination case that sought top execs' emails
> Avoid bike-shedding about style/formatting/etc. If this is important where you work, automate with tools;

I'd love some suggestions for how to get people to avoid this type of bike-shedding. While I'd love for us to use some tools to automate this, we have a huge codebase with existing code that doesn't follow the rules, and it's not in my ability to implement said tools. (Big company, lots of overhead, will affect a lot of people, don't have a lot of time, not my department, etc.)

One of the things I hate is having a different comment for every single place where I misplaced a star or ampersand. My natural tendency is to do it one way, but our style guidelines prefer it the other way, so it's something I miss frequently. Having 30 comments in a review that are all "move the star to the other side" over and over again just makes me hate the reviewer. (Particularly if they don't provide any useful feedback.) A single comment on the first one that says something like, "This doesn't match the style guidelines, and I see several others that don't match. Please fix them all," would be highly preferable. And if, god forbid, I miss one, just get over it. It can be fixed later. It's not nearly as important as having correct functionality in our app, and I'm pretty busy!
Thank you for explaining! I think the piece I was missing is that the sigint handler is passed the instruction pointer of the faulting instruction.
I wonder what would happen if a Catholic priest decided to celebrate mass on the 50 yard line of a public high school? It may seem like an extreme hypothetical, but church/state separation principal seems the same to me. The coach's prayer time was a blatant use of publicly-funded property for religious purposes.
Defined benefit would work fine if the benefit defined was "comfortable living space, slop kitchen, basic healthcare, and a golf course" - as those can be provided at some fraction of the requirements for a defined money benefit pension.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/25/crypto-community-or-crumbl...
The SDP was and is a center-left party. You can look their platform up today, and confirm that it is neither historically nor currently hateful. Their existence during the 1920s and 1930s was primarily defined in opposition to both further left and further right political movements.

(There's also no one modern group using the Three Arrows. It's a general symbol of the left, like the wildcat or the "A." It's not even clear who they'd be a "hate group" against.)
These fans are to create _down_ force to increase the "weight" of the car.
Nothing has been proved, it would be impossible to disprove. Stated without evidence, dismissed without it.
Some aren't wasteful. I could have written my post more clearly, because I was talking about all proposed megaprojects, not just those that have been built.

I think this could have used a bigger disclosure, too. The author, Brian Balkus, works for a major construction company, MasTec (which has had its issues with labor law violations). There is a clear editorial bias.
In Utah "Network Marketing" or more plainly MLM schemes are literally the second biggest industry in the state. Strongly influenced by the Mormon culture you have stay at home moms do direct sales and multilingual missionaries using their skills for that kind of stuff. There's entire software companies that just build tools for MLM companies.