skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was what Andy Grove wanted - more investment in chip manufacturing.
Good news.

Grove was a visionary in many ways and his writing on this back in 2010 or so impacted my thinking.

https://prospect.org/environment/andy-grove-trade-globalizat...

In retirement, Grove became concerned about the decline of American manufacturing: When he was CEO, Intel not only performed its research and development in the United States, but its manufacturing as well. He was greatly disturbed that more and more American companies produced their products abroad. Concerned about the erosion of the American middle class, he also helped Service Employee International Union leaders Andy Stern and David Rolf conceptualize new ways that the American labor movement might once again flourish.
Show HN: Clyde, package manager for prebuilt applications
Nowadays many tools and applications come in the form of a self-contained static binary. Those are easy to install and try out, but I often find myself having to hunt them back when I want to use them on another machine. Not to mention trying to keep them up-to-date once installed. To solve this I built Clyde, a package manager for prebuilt applications. Clyde can download apps and install them on your account (no need to be root). It works on Linux, macOS and Windows.

When possible, Clyde gives you more than just the app binaries: man pages are directly accessible and I plan to add support for automatically setup command-line auto-completion in the next version. Application documentation is also grouped in a doc directory, and I want to give direct access to it in the future.
My guess is that he will resign in shame if the "Metaverse" project doesn't pan out for them, and get replaced by an MBA.
Keeping things patched to latest was difficult in the past, but it is much easier these days. Unattended upgrades run every day on my server, and I get an email from my server that tells me any issues and if packages or applications have updates available. I open the web UI on my phone and make a couple clicks to update them all. The community at Yunohost is one of a few maintainers who have really simplified things.
Yeah. I'm not in a position to judge the veracity of the allegations, but the allegations are definitely there.
I think so as well, in particular I believe that countries with a large population of young will be the biggest beneficiaries of companies exiting China.

It's going to take some time to get back to scale but I believe India, Vietnam, Southeast Asia stands to be the biggest winners.

I do not see China returning to status quo anytime soon. It's more likely that they will fall victim to nationalistic fervor and close its doors.
This is great. So many ideas that I've had cooking in the background of my mind are crystallized and presented clearly in that video. Thank you for this.
"Estimate the cardinality", "jaccard index", "succinct data structure" and, finally, some unknown abbreviation "WCO" (I guess, it stands for "worst case optimal").

Yes, of course, having implementation of all that completely obliviates the need for query planning. ;)

I can't help being sarcastic for a moment, sorry.

In my opinion, in your comment above you clearly demonstrated that even avoidance of query planning is hard, using as example (multi)set of triples for which it is possible to realize all indices.

If what you described is simpler than query planning, then query planning is hard.
the game is you're supposed to beat analysts figures at the very least. easier when you have headroom or extra trick up your sleeves. I vaguely remember there was a time when facebook was so hot they were able to cook up a nice round figure for revenue or something prior or for IPO. pure flexing.
It originally didn't load for me on Firefox. I turned my ad blocker off though and it loaded.
A lot of government funded R&D e.g. from the NIH or NSF has stipulations actually that say the data and results be made publicly available so that other researchers may benefit. At the end of the day we have to decide where our values lie. Do they lie with individualized benefit? Then we allow people to have protection legally so they may individually profit off of that technology using a perverted market condition (them having the sole rights of distribution for a period of time). If we value the collective whole, then we would share these ideas with others who would benefit from them and further them still, like we do medical research. You have to decide where your moralities lie.
Vice President of Engineering. Which is a fancy way of saying that instead of systems I design Organizations now.

I kind of miss designing systems.
The more leverage labor has, the harder union-busting is, generally, because labor rights enforcement is...decidedly spotty, but witholding labor, or even making your firm less attractive to applicants, in a tight labor market is highly effective whether or not the state is enforcing labor rights.

Interest rate hikes slow the economy and reduce labor demand and leverage.
To my understanding you can’t have both huge inflation and debts, absolute value of debts don’t change contrary to everything else. If everything (including salaries) does x2, then debts get divided by 2. Inflation has positives too.
On the S and the G, I could imagine Tesla doing quite bad. With e.g. "work fro. Hone is fine, as long as you work from the office at least 40 hours a week".

Besides, shell is apparently so green that activists investors are asking it to split out the green energy part from the oil part. The idea of activists is that oil lovers undervalue shell because of the green stuff, whilst green lovers undervalue shell because of the oil. Hence if you split it the parts have a higher combined valuation.
Point being, shell has a very significant green energy investment.
US citizens can avail of WH visas for Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, and (more restrictive) South Korea and Singapore.

Though some of the new digital nomad visas coming out aren't entirely dissimilar.
That is such a genuinely wonderful video <3
No, it should be pretty easy to effectively end them. Just make it illegal to possess, buy, or sell them and suddenly all the corporate interest vanishes, the exchanges disappear, and all the crypto bros quiet down.

Sure, some people would still use them but it'd be a rounding error compared to current adoption.
>> Couldn’t possibly disagree more; that’s akin to saying that feature identification is not useful, because if we really wanted to we could just deliver a list of identifiable features along with every photograph.

These are not arbitrary photographs but images of legos. The features needed are few and finite and there's no need for machine vision to find them.

This is pointless and has no real-world usefulness, other than to look like "the fun lab with all the legos", like you say.
You just need an external enemy. in this case China.

You can bridge consensus on all sides when there is a boogeyman that isn't another American.
That's a very interesting question.

Let's assume the US is the epicenter of a global pandemic that killed 6 million people and $12 trillion in economic damage (and counting). And the US is refusing to cooperate with an investigation into its origins.

What is an appropriate response from China, Russia, and the international community?

Assume the US's military isn't the most powerful and technologically advanced in the world. Instead China's is the most powerful and advanced.
Zinc? 420° Celsius. (Tin 232°)

Japanese Repairman #9 (from a wonderful series) shows a man restoring one of his own vegetable (Daikon?) graters: he resurfaces the copper with a molten metal, any idea which? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mzOeKoYW6EQ
Adblockers can still (and do) protect against server-side GTM, as the requests are not obfuscated in any way. That may change in the future, but it’s not the case now.

Besides, the CNIL ruling already applies to server-side GTM implementations.
Ah so this might be non-obvious context — the fed’s mandate is 1) maximum employment and 2) stable prices, which the Fed has, historically, defined as 2%. So saying this in the press release is basically like if i restated my company’s publicly known OKRs every time I made an announcement.

More on the mandate: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2022/02/23/how-does-...
As a casual user of both Facebook and TikTok, I would share my impression of how they share videos:

TikTok

- Their algorithm seems to very quickly hone in on things I actually want to see.

- e.g. if figured out that I like to see comedy clips, some woodworking videos etc

- I suspect that they do this by a combination of showing you some "test" videos that quickly bucket your interests and then using additional data based on other videos that have paired well together from other users

- Keep doing the above and I would imagine you get to a pretty good graph of what I'm into

Facebook

- Have been a user for YEARS

- they have almost all of my personal relationships mapped

- choose to show me videos with "Wait till you see what happens!" titles that are ~10 minutes of build up to an incredibly anticlimactic ending

- As a user and a SRE/Developer, I ask myself: "The smartest people in tech + essentially limitless computing power and this is the best you can do?"

I would guess one of two things is going on:

1. I remember seeing those video ads about 10-15 years ago that went on for about 20 minutes and there was no fast forward or skip etc. Someone pointed out: "Advertisers care a LOT about people who are willing to just sit there and watch a 20 minute video"

2. What I'll basically call the "Groupon Effect" (based on [0]) which is basically "Well X is good, X+1 is better so X*1000 must be great". Andrew Mason talks a lot about this in the linked article and how Groupon just blindly followed the "metrics" rather than thinking through "Ok, what is really the best for our users/community". It seems the tech giants have gone for "What makes the most money RIGHT NOW!" vs "How do we build a larger LTV over the next couple years"

[0] - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/andrew-mason-on-grou...
wow is that right, that's gotta be pretty significant. first revenue miss.. gotta happen some time
La Sainte-Chapelle was far better than the Notre Dame for me. I went to mass at the cathedral but the art and design of the Saint-Chapelle was more beautiful to me. I grew up catholic so maybe huge grand cathedrals don't really inspire much beyond reluctance and memories of suffocating in stuffy cathedrals my whole childhhood.

It is a beautiful piece of history, but that's the extent of it for me. Cheers to those to find the cathedral moving or breathtaking.
That's editing. I mean, I can understand that certain people might not be great at editing.

But I'm shocked that they would say there are people they don't even want on the site.
What have these rewards truly given us?

The open/free scientific communities are responsible for most tangible benefit - meanwhile, those reaping the biggest rewards give us... planned obsolescence

I understand the sentiment and even agree to an extent, but the reality is things are abused and wasted as well - to a shocking degree, in pursuit of 'mine'
At the time, the US dollar was pegged to gold.
> now nobody seems to care anymore,

I presume you're talking about layman consumers here.

> because endurance hasn't turned out to be a significant issue

It used to be a big issue. Keep in mind SSD capacities were pretty small back in the day, with 80-120GB capacities being pretty typical. combined with just less mature overall flash technology meant that per cell endurance was not great, and it lacked the controllers and capacities to do proper wear leveling, so the massive speed boost meant you could burn through even "good" SSD's of the day pretty quick, especially in the days before TRIM and what not where the OS was doing unnecessary excessive writes to disk because it just didn't know how to handle flash. At first, the tech kinda brute forced it's way through this problem by using increased capacities (A 100GB SSD for example will often actually have more than 100GB of RAW storage to account for cell degradation, though to what extent and the nature of the transition flash and controller and DRAM or not and etcetcetc are all compounding factors in exactly how that works out), and then through improved overall endurance, controllers, cache, etc in combination with improved software and OS policies to reduce unnecessary wear to drives. So hasn't really been an issue for a while, but it absolutely was one back in the day, even for the layman with a healthy budget.

> That's not something you would have done in the spinning rust days,

Yes people did. They didn't really have a choice (unless they're having some fun with RAMdisk or something) + HDD I/O was so much slower that it took orders of magnitude longer. Even when you weren't actively doing something drive intensive, the computer the OS was consistently doing work in the background (remember defragging)?

> simply because the constant crunchy hard drive noises would have annoyed people

It's wild to me to see so many people share this sentiment. Then again I come from a background of having 8x10k 300GB Velociraptors in my personal workstation back in the day. Those were... Loud. lol.
The EU passed their own Chips Act earlier this year. It was a point of contention since Intel's CEO has kept threatening to expand in Europe instead of the US if the US CHIPS act isn't passed.
There's also avoiding the people who want to debate your reasons.
Maybe this has already been said, but managing ADHD is hard and it’s probably at the center of your issues. It makes your internal motivation much more emotion driven than others who are rational about why they start their work without ceremony.

What I have found helps _me_: journaling, meditation and exercise (in this order).

You have to work through your motivations and put meaning behind what you do yourself. I have found that I need pure emotional energy to start on work. In many situations, I figure that out by reminding myself why I have the job and what purpose it serves in life. I also make sure to remind myself that these problems are not insurmountable. The galvanize step comes from within, so you need to reason through your motivations and align yourself internally. All of this is helped by journaling for me.

I know it sounds cliché but it really helps me when I am motivated enough to actually do the journaling.

Meditation helps me with cultivating focus. Mindfulness practices in general train focus very well and do so in a low effort way. It’s sort of an automatic output of doing the mindfulness exercise.

Exercise I’ve found just makes me feel good about me and that helps a lot!

Best of luck and I hope all this helps.

Also, BIG SAME. I’m rooting for you!
Why?

Facebook isn't a Hedge Fund. They want to beat their competitors, not market research predictions.
Thanks for the condescension.
A few things to unpack and respond to here.

> Second, I'm not being dismissive

Agreed, I was referring to the response up thread by @dymk.

> If TikTok was, for example, invented in the 70's, and your theory of a shift in self-reliance is correct, it's incredibly likely the same thing would have happened anyway regardless of how much self-respect children had back then in comparison.

This is possibly true. I'll allow for the fact I am probably over emphasizing one aspect of a larger social shift that is probably driven by something multi-faceted. My basic hypothesis for this sub-discussion, is that someone with self-respect wouldn't put themselves on social media the way people do with TikTok in the first place. The people I interact with (regardless of age) who spend most of their time creating, producing, and doing, and have high levels of self-esteem don't spend very much time on social media pandering for imaginary points and validation from strangers, because they have no need of any such validation from strangers due to their self-esteem and self-respect.

> That being said, I think talking about a shift in self-respect is in interesting conversation, albeit crotchety. I will say that I believe every generation feels this way about younger generations. It's also incredibly easy to have self-respect driven by pride which is it's own problem.

Yes, I'd like to delve into this deeper. I want to clarify that I don't think this is necessarily generational. I'm an older Millennial / Xennial, and I've definitely seen the lack of self-respect in people in Gen X, as well as folks in my age cohort. This is not me saying "those damn kids and their TikTok", it's me saying that we have a widespread problem within our society, which is not caused by social media, but is greatly exacerbated by it and likely to some degree spread/communicated by it.

The lack of self-respect and self-esteem began before social media rose to popularity, it's simply that social media has provided broad interconnection between people and a way to create and drive trends, as well as the most likely effects it has on mental health itself. If you think of lacking self-esteem or self-respect as a piece of mental health, this is most likely inter-related to the larger trend towards worsening mental health in the Western world. This effect cuts across age groups, class, wealth, and other demographics, so it's definitely not something generationally restricted, nor is it something that only happens to poor people. To no small degree, that's kind of the thrust of my original comment, which is that crime is on the rise in wealthier parts of communities/cities/country, when historically those were areas nearly fully insulated from criminality. Crime is a symptom, in my mind, of a shift in social mores, self-respect, and mental health.
I assume they won't change it because they are afraid of what the other side will do when they are in power.
That's capitalism, baby! It turns out domestic chip fabrication wasn't competitive (in this case a rare double-whammy of failing to compete on both cost and capability). The global market determined that Taiwan and South Korea made the best and cheapest chips so that's where all the manufacturing went. Demand for semiconductors is overwhelmingly not created by the military so it doesn't really make sense to compare it to submarines.
I turned a basic URL shortener into a profitable SaaS platform (615€/MRR)
I spent quite a bit of time writing this article on Indie Hackers about how I turned a handy tool into a SaaS platform. I'd be happy if you could take the time to read it and get some feedback on it.
Profits aren't necessary for R&D, that's just one model where R&D is funded by consumers through direct purchases. Another model is where R&D is simply funded through taxation and grants. That is the model that medical research is often funded through, and it works well because it allows researchers around the world to help our species overcome disease.
It is not specifically because things like ISBN exist to allow us to differentiate between different publications ( instance of publishing) of the same title.

Pretty much all institutional publishing is centered around cuts of a produced work getting a serial number. This mechanism by which further edits on a work happen without being tracked is a grave threat to library science/archival practice. Our very way of organizing information in a way that lets us keep our facts straight as a public is at stake.

It should be obvious why this is a bad thing.
What process do we have to reliably mutate every single cell of certain types in bone marrow, with only a desired mutation and no other?
Your hypothesis is that people are more likely to sue their employer if their employer is Tesla, rather then Shell?
For the research part (figuring out something previously impossible)? No need to incentivise, the kick of figuring it out is enough to motivate people, just provide UBI so the nerds can tinker.

For the development/application part? Let people race to figure out the best way to deploy things before someone else does, the way the swiss and Germans and Chinese did in the free for all time. I've heard competition be called something that incentivises people to find edges that aren't easily copied, and trade secrets can still exist
I got 8/10 correct. I don't read philosophy and I've never heard of Dennett before now.

I used the following techniques:

- If the question has more than one part, the answer should address every part.

- The answer should not repeat itself or be too rambling.

- The answer should not contradict itself. For example, the response that Jerry was "never... less than serious" but also wrote a "hilarious parody".

- The answer should not recommend a book. This demonstrates a lack of context. A lot of people might recommend books when asked these questions in a web forum or in person. But if you know that your answers are going into a quiz to distinguish your own thoughts from AI, you would probably focus on conveying your opinions and not referring to other material. (This is kind of cheating, since I'm using side channel information outside the question and answer texts.)

- Answers with a "yes, and" flavor, that make a surprising but relevant connection to a new idea not mentioned in the question, are more likely to be human. For example, the joke (?) about having a baby in the robot question, or mentioning the use of religion as a tool for social control in addition to its origin as soothing people about frightening unknowns.

- If multiple answers repeat a theme that is tenuously connected to the question, they are probably samples from GPT. For example, mentioning Copernicus in the question about evolution. (This would be harder if we only saw one GPT response!)

These techniques don't require knowledge of Dennett's work. I guess that's consistent with blog readers doing about as well as experts.
University graduates are not the same as professors.

The econ class I took at Caltech was taught by an award-winning leftist anti-capitalist professor, and if you didn't regurgitate his ideology on the tests, you got a bad grade.

Hedge funds only hire a particular subset of graduates. A lot of left-wingers set aside their ideology to get those high salaries.

My father was a finance professor at two colleges. He was the only faculty member who believed in free markets. He was constantly challenged in this by students and faculty. One time the faculty even challenged him to an open debate - the faculty against him. He took them apart. Faculty and students came up to him later saying they had no idea there was even a case for the free market, and thanked him for opening their eyes.

I wonder where you suppose Sanders' constituency comes from?
Au revoir?

Don't think dethroning the lizard king is going to be that easy.
The way it was once explained to me: there are three broad skills that are relevant to succeeding at a FAANG:

A) Technical brilliance/mastery

B) Willingness to grind/endure

C) Political savvy/ruthlessness/schmoozing

Any combination of two of these is sufficient to progress in you career. All three is even better. I’ve met A+B’s, B+C’s and A+C’s and they all do pretty well. If you just have one of these, you’re not going to get very far.

Maybe this is also true for other “non-FAANG but big” companies, I don’t know.
I think you have to come to terms with how you feel about the impact that company has on the world, and if you want to contribute to it. Certain letters in that acronym may be worse that others, and some may feel that all of them are bad.

Is your personal salary worth the impact it may have in others? That's something only you can decide. But all those companies are trying very hard to change the shape/fabric of societies. All of them have negative aspects. All of them have billionaires at the top, and that has is own baggage. You may only be a tiny, tiny cog in that machine, but you're a cog nonetheless.
Did they enable it? Yes. They did. Or it wouldn't have worked. And they wouldn't have been able to disable it.