skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marketing, in the hands of skilled, experienced marketers should not be noticeable since it optimizes audience, message, channel, and delivery.

Unfortunately most marketers are talentless hacks with poor skills who apply the same hammers to every problem, whether or not they are nails. Advertising? Email blasts? Social media? Influencers? Most so-called marketers these days just throw spaghetti at the walls and see what sticks. This is especially the case in tech marketing. The higher you go in the organization, the worse it gets. Some of the most incompetent marketers have titles such as Chief Marketing Officer and VP Marketing. That doesn't absolve lower-level titles who seem to just be skilled at "field marketing" or "event marketing" and hire PR firms who try to get "earned media" and pray to the SEO gods. Many of the reason why tech folks dislike marketing is not because of marketing, but because of the marketers.
Mathpix snip for pdf to Latex is excellent. Thank you for the free tier. It is helpful transcribing pdf math homework sets to use in the solution document without bugging the instructor for their source.
For an entire book with this thesis, see Lost Connections
Depends on the offset.

It's the environmental version of the trolley car problem, except you have an unknown number of people on each part of the train tracks.

Is it a 1:10 offset, where (holistically speaking) the zinc mine will cause 10x environmental damage as it prevents? Then maybe it shouldn't happen anywhere.

Is it 1:1 offset and we're merely insisting that the environmental damage should happen in a poorer country instead of our own?

Is it 10:1 or 100:1 where every kilogram of zinc means that's 10kg or 100kg of steel that won't prematurely rust and need to be replaced, with another 10kg of 100kg of iron ore being mined elsewhere and transported at great environmental cost to replace it? Then from an environmental standpoint it's a huge win and we should probably do it.

It's extremely difficult to know.
Tacomas get shockingly bad mileage, my buddy has one and his truck is getting 12-14 driving very normally.
> "the right to not be offended"

Sadly, I think this understates it. In the case of the article, it is disallowing "speech that causes identity-based harm." Instead of treating these people as offended, they are treated as if they were assaulted.
Write notes with your hand, paper or digital, when you notice something important.

You will almost never revisit them in a meaningful way. It is better to just focus on using note-taking to pay attention.
> Most of the island/equator countries don't have this option

Singapore comes to mind. I never lived there, and it's not exactly a democracy, but i guess this doesn't affect an expat.

I wonder what life is like in Hong Kong now. Awful no doubt if you are a pro democracy activist, but what about the rest? Certainly no shortage of warm weather too.
I like that guy too. One of the few nutrition youtubers I can find who seem open minded.
Druglike's ability to revolutionize drug discovery is enabled by Web3 technology.

Proof-of-Optimization, a novel blockchain consensus mechanism described in the whitepaper, plans to solve computational chemistry problems at a cost competitive with that of standard on-premises environments and cloud computing.

Compute contributors can run both solver and validator nodes powering industrial-scale virtual screening campaigns in exchange for $MSI, the platform's official token.

Yeah, the guy who just did 5 years for a ponzi scheme has a new company running on the Web3 ponzi platform.

But he's paid his debt to society and I'm sure learned the error of his ways (like how not to get caught so easy).

Anyway, where do I send all my fiat money for these $MSI tokens?
It would be quite ironic if Microsoft was funding "Google is a monopoly" research.
Astra Linux: A Linux Distrubtion for the Russian Armed Forces
Being able to delete your account.
It's like the reverse paradox of AI: when marketing is good, it's not seen as marketing. Think of people lining up to see Steve Jobs' keynotes.

We also underestimate the power of marketing, even the in-your-face annoying kind. I lived in Japan as a teen in the mid-80s. Even today, when I don't know the words to a song, I use the words from Calbee potato chips ads of that time that I barely understand, yet still remember nearly 40 years later.

This is why it's so important to defend our sanity using things like ad-blockers. Sure, our brains have compensated to some extent with phenomena like banner blindness, but it's not enough.
That is not true. The light reaching us from most objects in our and nearby galaxies is pretty close to the original wavelength emitted. It takes extremely relative velocity to red shift for visible wavelengths to shift to infrared.

Most stellar objects emit a whole bunch of wavelengths of light, some emit more IR than visible. Interstellar dust doesn't red shift light due to velocity but because the molecules absorb higher energy photons and re-emit lower energy photons.
> hasn't been burned yet

The latest basket in which everyone is putting all their eggs is federated login using one of a few giant tech companies (mostly Google) as OIDC providers.

Should I bother saying "I told you so" when these providers start arbitrarily blocking access to peoples' apps for stupid reasons (e.g. policy enforcement bots), abusing login privileges to harvest user data off other platforms (after silently amending their EULAs to give themselves permission to do this), or charging for the right to log into your stuff?

My money is on the last one happening in the next few years. "After January 1st of next year, the use of your Google|Apple|Facebook account to log into third party services will require a subscription..." Why wouldn't they want to collect a tax on every SSO login?

While I doubt major providers are actually abusing login credentials to access third party services (yet?) I'm sure they are gathering all the data they can on who logs into what, from where, and how often. It's a privacy nightmare, but nobody cares about privacy. Nobody will care until they are inconvenienced.
Windows was actually getting more resource efficient for a while around Windows 8 and 10 due to the emphasis on running Windows on low powered tablet devices. Then heartbleed etc hit and we lost a bunch of performance due to mitigation patches.
A "delete account" feature would be nice.
Our school had a Wang 2200 and several Commodore CBM 4016. Those were the computers I started programming with in the early 80s. The best thing about the Wang was its typeball printer. It sounded like World War 1.
Well it's never happened to me, but they say if you get a meeting invite from human resources at any point, it's clear what's going to happen.

This was a meeting with a security team though?
> In recent months I craved more time to explore new ideas again as a founder, and decided to leave Clubhouse while staying on as an advisor.

Just at an FYI to the author, this is a bad idea. Once you have left a startup, your opinions are going to be valued much less by everybody still there because, well, you quit. Your incentives are now not aligned fully, you aren’t part of the mission anymore, and this was because you decided you didn’t want to be.

And from your perspective, you quit. Don’t waste your time on them anymore, fully focus on your next project.
In the agency world, this is absolutely true. The goal is to get more work, not to do good work. Those who are good in the pitch meetings get promoted.

In an internal marketing department? Much less true. You still need people who are good at presenting and working with internal clients, but that is more based on communication skills then selling.
This post brings back horrors when I was trying to figure out from the logs why there was a sudden doubling of requests and orders on 2016-12-31:23:59:59. This is the time I learned that Linux does not distinguish the leap second from the second before it. This led me down to a rabbit hole of reading up on what the representation of a leap second was and found that there was none for Linux timestamp. Fortunately, this was in December 2019. I can only imagine the pain SREs had to suffer from on 2017's New Year's day on top of Cloudflare going down.
Yes and no. The total economic pie was much smaller in antiquity, limiting the potential maximum scope of government. Even so, entitlement spending still took up its share of ancient budgets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_Annonae
In an unregulated capitalist system, supply increases to meet demand. In our regulated hellscape, it's impossible to build anything due to existing owners using the government to prevent supply increases.
> These probably aren't going to occur anywhere outside of a bioreactor, so our action figures are likely safe...for now!

This article, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/14/bugs-acr..., posted here a while back describes evidence that real world evolution is happening. "for now!" indeed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29579337

> The study is the first large-scale global assessment of the plastic-degrading potential of bacteria and found that one in four of the organisms analysed carried a suitable enzyme. The researchers found that the number and type of enzymes they discovered matched the amount and type of plastic pollution in different locations.
Many people's only computer is locked to programs from a single source owned by the operating system developer, and adware impossible to remove without defating the device's security.

Where downloading apps from another source is possible, multiple levels of popups are triggered with warning messages optimised through A/B testing to minimise clickthrough rates.

Widewine and similar hardware DRM are now standard.

General purpose computing is still alive, but it's taken serious hits.
That's my thinking. What we witnessed over the last 30 years are more and more local maxima and extremes in regions, which typically have very mild weather. I spent significant amounts of time in a number of countries near the equator and do not recall such changes as we currently witness in Europe. But given the fact, that I have absolutely no expertise in the field, I might be totally wrong.
I do wonder if my response to La Haine has been tempered by me seeing the movies that came after it and were even more blunt and raw. It's a fantastic watch none-the-less.

Thank you, I'll have to watch the other films you mentioned. :)
Retiring before dying.
If you happen to still be using it then you'd get a lot of errors right away though. If you are extremely paranoid you can do better by migrating to a new user that doesn't have access to the table. Switching to the new user would be a normal rolling deploy, so you'd only start with 1/N errors, and your normal rollback process gets automatically triggered.

Probably not worth the hassle though.
This reminds me of a line from Great Gatsby, where Jordan says she likes big parties because they're so intimate
While Casablanca is a better movie, the scene that introduces Omar Sharif's character in Lawrence of Arabia is better, as is the scene that introduces John Wayne's character in Stagecoach.
Many incentives are for first time buyers, or single home buyers. Taxes depend on region, but everywhere I see treats primary homes, secondary homes, and rentals as different classes of real estate.

Now that doesn't mean the incentives aren't skewed. But I don't think landlords buying their 20th house are getting the same benefits as a first time buyer.
I think the real lesson here is effectiveness is more important than efficiency. The author made all the right decisions on the wrong thing.
It's not everyone else. Most countries want to get rid of the leap second.

"A small number of countries however, including Russia and the United Kingdom, want to keep the leap second."

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18855
> I'm not just mentioning: I'm linking to the facts.

Well, my experience is also fact. I use trains every week now, I have visited half a dozen cities with this ticket and used local public transportation there. It's crowded but otherwise fine. Just because these experiences aren't reported on the news does not make them less real.

> 9€ for you, €2.5 billion+ for us.

"us" does a lot of lifting here because "us" is literally millions of people (including I). This statement also compares costs of a ticket for a single month with the total subsidization over three months.

> I'm against the government doing populism and burning our money like that.

I think we have to agree to disagree here. I think it is money spent well.
The passivity against monopolies in US is a well-documented consequence of a drastic reinterpretation of the historical justification for anti-trust legislation in 1980s, driven primarily by right-wing "free market" proponents (I'm putting that in quotes because any monopoly is the opposite of free market by its classic definition).

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

Before then, things were very different. Here's an example of an anti-trust court case against a company selling shoes - read the court's rationale for applicability of regulation, and consider how many of them would apply to any of the large tech companies today:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/370/294/
If free speech doesn't apply to people you dislike then you aren't in favor of free speech.
> I have not encountered any problems with it in practice other than that sometimes I end up talking in circles

This is why I stopped giving people benefit of the doubt. With every uncharitable action of theirs, I tried to understand their perspective, explain mine, and discover a ground truth. Yet, they are not interested in finding the truth. They are interested in doing what they believe is to be true, regardless of whether it is true or not. They are not interested in getting educated. They have already decided that they are educated and I am wrong, just because we have different ideas. My strategy of giving benefit of the doubt in such a case turns out to be nothing but a waste of time.

Therefore, I've changed my strategy. If they don't respond well to my giving benefit of the doubt, I'll confront them directly. If they insist, then they'll become an out-group to me. Starmanning no more.
You can believe what you want, we tolerate flat earthers too

> I think the only answer to that for a healthy, free society is "none."

This is not true or healthy in the internet age where speech can reach all of humanity in seconds and we are plagued by bad actors without the ability to easily rein them in. Telling people to do their own research or be safe does not scale and the negative externalities end up costing society more.

A company or platform that wants to allow unfettered speech is free to compete with those who filter & curate. We can then see without doubt which society prefers
> Making variables and methods private means making them inaccessible outside the class and I gave the typical reasons/best practices for that.

The point they are making is in python there's no private method, everything is public. There's only a convention of "avoid using anything starting with "_"
NFT collector loses 100 ETH in a joke gone wrong
Yes, the 8086 wanted to be mechanically translatable from the 8080, but
No, it says 'this is not meant for you to change from the outside'. It's an implementation detail, not part of the interface and any references to it are bound to break without notice, warning or acceptance of the consequences.

Think of the interface to your class as a contract: this is how this class works, from now until eternity (or until the next breaking change ;) ). Relying on implementation details breaks that contract, the contract is on the interface not on the guts.

It won't be 'hard to change' it may be impossible to change. Because someone that relies on your class may not have access to the code of the other class!
If you hadn't ruled out Python I'd be suggesting using Datasette + SQLite FTS - I've been building a whole bunch of different search engines on that (including ones for searching within OCRd PDF files) and the cost to host is trivial, since you just need to run a Python process somewhere with a binary SQLite database file. I usually use Vercel, Cloud Run or Fly for that.

One example of a search engine I've built like this is the one on the Datasette website: https://datasette.io/-/beta?q=fts - I wrote about how that works here: https://simonwillison.net/2020/Dec/19/dogsheep-beta/
TFA explains that it largely doesn't matter if we just ignore the leap second. It's additional complexity to our timekeeping systems that doesn't buy us much (if any) value. All the super-precise systems which would be impacted by being one second off ignore leap seconds anyways.
You're right, I hadn't thought about Memex, so, the concept was there, but still, Ted Nelson coined the term.
You must not have heard of "Walmart socialism" or have worked for a small-business tyrant.

Scale and logistics are good. I think they should be managed by federation (and through regulation), but I'm sick of having bosses who see my salary (rationally) as something directly coming out of their bank account. I prefer a little indirection and mediation in the relationship.

Efficiency is good for everyone. The more time and effort you save, the more time and effort you have to waste. There are scales that are ideal for particular businesses, and that scale doesn't always coincidentally coincide with the scale a small-business owner can handle. Business should be as big as real (not paper or regulatory) efficiencies can be found at, and against those efficiencies we should maximize the flexibility and ability to innovate of individual businesses and workers.

Instead we just subsidize the biggest businesses most, and through legislation create false efficiencies to subsidize them even more (and guard them from any externalities.)
It's apparent that almost no one commenting bothered to read the article because it found no evidence linking road dust to long-term adverse health affects.
When successful entrepreneurs say "timing is everything", Clubhouse is an example of that.

Its success was essentially luck, with VCs attempting to extrapolate its success to other entrepreneurial endeavors annoyingly.
Embodied Carbon: The Dirty Secret of SSDs (8x More Than HDD)
I totally support this. In fact, I would say all computer systems should just use TAI, and display UTC to the user.

Someone should fork the NTP protocol to use TAI instead, and go from there (or at least provide tai offset).
The app I'm writing now, marries a fairly basic social graph to a location-based database.

When we began, Clubhouse was the new "hotness," and I was getting a great deal of pressure to mimic it.

I resisted, as it did not actually work with the model we had established for the app. I also had a rather pessimistic outlook on its chances. It did not make me popular.

Glad I did.
https://www.google.com/alerts

"AI Test Kitchen App"

"personal A.I."

AI, LaMDA

(my personal email address)

geomagnetic, pulse, magnetic, field, pole

Ilya Lichtenstein

jack maller

paragraf

solar, flare, sun, storm, strong, severe, extreme
There is literally no aspect of society, science, or culture that I’m willing to buy into changing to make things easier for software developers and tech companies (or in fact any companies, but only tech companies seem to be arrogant enough to suggest it). What an entirely backwards way of looking at the world.

If we can’t deal with IT that improperly models the universe, the right answer is not to change the world to be more like the shitty naive model the software implements, it is to be less dependent on the technology agreeing 100% with reality.
Jumping around is the nature of code in general, whether its in a 1000-line file or split up amongst multiple files.

For a maintenance programmer, they may already understand how everything works. They aren't following a particular code path, necessarily. Maybe they're working on a new feature and they need to re-familiarize themselves with previous chapters. It that case, it's nice to jump to a file that concerns itself with things grouped together.
Delete facebook.
> wear down the roads more

Blame your state DOT. Those trucks pay much more in taxes based upon their gross weight rating when they tow/haul. Costs of doing business.

> all the big lifted trucks I see

Nobody lifts a truck conspicuously to do more work, this somewhat compromises the suspension’s ability to handle load. A lot more people would know this if they knew anything, other than some anecdotes, about the topic they want to regulate.
I agree, and I think that's a really insightful way of framing things, though there is a caveat: Often government services are of the sort whose value would be rather difficult to capture commercially.

For example, while I doubt many would dispute that having an active police force provides a significant societal benefit, actually capturing that value via a market-based system would be exceedingly difficult. (E.g. You just caught and jailed a murderer. Now, who do you bill for that?)

Thankfully, trains don't suffer from that problem; their value is extremely easy to capture (and thus quantify) via a ticketing system. But I felt I should point out that it isn't always so easy in the general case.
We strongly consider New Zealand. Reasons are manyfold, but what from we know from friends living there, it's close to European life style but with an intact nature and mostly mild weather.
How about you make a pledge not to use a single thing made by someone in a rural area, and we'll see how long it takes for you to cave out of hunger.

Don't forget not to use any fuel, no electricity or public transportation either.

And if you live in NYC you also can't drink the water.
Thank you for your detailed analysis. When I saw it I think I zoned out, but that's part of it I think - the lack of anything of note that happens, the nothingness.

Of the three films in the trilogy, my favorite part is the letter-reading scene at the end of La Notte. A married woman reads a letter to her husband, who had been conspicuously philandering all night, and he asks who wrote it. She says "you". So sad, the fading of love as memory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOmEkqWnvsA
Well, the payload has a 20 year life time.

Solar panels, navigational lights, etc. Hopefully very little physical contact with other man made objects.

A decade of sea life before some sort of land refurbishment would be a nice value for the excel.
For people born just around midnight, especially around new years eve, a few seconds could impact their DOB by a whole year. This could affect everything from university applications to boating licenses to social security.
VW has been caught lying about the capabilities of their cars, then the executives blamed the engineers to cover their asses. If one needs a reason to forget about VW.
And how much software is used to generate what’s inside them; search for “Pentium FDIV bug”.
No it wasn't. According to the article Biden unveiled the first image. That's it and that's true.

No credit is being falsely attributed to him here.