skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did some thinking about this months ago and I think the origin of the problem is how groups make decisions. I think it is similar to a Flocking algorithm. In the algorithm, each bird starts in a random direction but then keeps adjusting its heading a little based on the average of its nearest neighbors. After many little adjustments, the birds will form flocks where all the birds fly in the same direction.

Similarly, in group decisions, each person starts with their own ideas. As people interact in the group, each person learns and modifies their position a little bit. Eventually, the group's members are all thinking similar ideas.

The big question is: Does this algorithm produce 1 flock or many flocks? If there is a force bringing all the birds together, they'll form a single flock. But if there isn't, the birds will separate into many flocks that each head in different directions and do not influence each other.

Before social media, most of our group interactions were physical. If we disagreed with our neighbor at a school meeting, the school was still a force to bring us back together. If we disagreed with family, there was still family reunions or holidays to bring us back together.

But social media allows us to "unfriend". That is, to cut connections to people who disagree with us. There is no forced interactions between strident voices of one political team and strident voices of another political team. The mantra of "for the good of the country" doesn't force us to communicate and bring everyone back together. On social media, we're fracturing into many flocks.

A different social media paradigm/algorithm might include a force that brings us back together. E.g., not allowing "unfriend" or forcing people at random to interact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flocking_(behavior)#Algorithm
> The whole better off trope has been popularized by people like Hans Rosling in books like Factfulness

Hans Rosling is right.

And the success of the world does not mean we shouldn't work to improve it. It means we shouldn't be doomers and think the world is falling apart.

Max Roser said it well with "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better."

https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better
You need more than just raw calories, though. How much plant food would it take to match this in terms of protein and B-vitamins?

https://imgur.com/a/8zzvcrq

So that's just 1 pound of beef.

You could get about 500 pounds of that raising a cow for a couple of years and slaughtering it.

What inputs would you need? Not too much, if you have grass, which a lot of the earth does. Let the cow graze, find it water. Optionally fatten it up at the end w/ some grain -- probably a better use than making ethanol out of it, at least.

We used to have millions of wild buffalo roaming North America. They were a dietary stable for many Native American tribes.

Were they really living in a less sustainable way than modern vegans picking up Impossible Burgers from Whole Foods?
It was still orders of magnitude better than the web version so not sure what the argument is?

Today I'd use applications such as Slack and Spotify as posterchilds for bad applications. That they are built with web tech is not a coincidence.
I read this book when I was a teenager simply because the title sounded cool. I was in for a real surprise - it blew me away. Memories. I don’t get that feeling often when reading any more - maybe age, maybe rarity of the books quality.
the word has literally been redefined :-/
> A reminder that if we go to get things from the '90, we also have the agreement of non-expansion of NATO to Russian borders.

This is a persistent rumour, but despite what people want to say even Gorbachev himself says no such promise was made.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-...

But this begs the question, why does the west have to abide by imaginary agreements but Russia is allowed to violate the Budapest agreement?.

> When meanwhile NATO has been training in Ukraine on Russian borders for many years https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-military-success-years-...

Western is hardly on the Russian border it’s probably the furthest from Russia you could get in Ukraine.
UCLA scientists discover places on the moon where it’s always ‘sweater weather’
Great point, with their track record it’s partially a cautionary tale in Alphabet’s case!

IMDb being Amazon is so big. As if the rating system wasn’t already degrading enough, their ownership of it blows the whole deal in my book.

Goodreads was a discovery for me. We are purposely not selling the Papercuts Library on Amazon, but I had been eyeing a Goodreads account. Skipping it as well now.
Not correct, OP entered into an agreement with Stripe where Stripe would process payments received for the sale of cell phones (and not automobiles).
Intent to extend Origin Trial and delay WebGPU release
The accessibility proponent in me cries at your comment. The pragmatist accepts that it’s probably true.
This stuff just works® on Linux. It has so many features and I never heard anyone about it when I gave it a try, so I assumed that it would be somewhat broken, but no. Pleasant surprise.
One of the nice features is that when you are connected and some firefox tab is playing a video or audiostream, your phone shows you a view of the video and the controls to pause it or alter the volume.
I am really happy with the maturity of today's Linux on the desktop, and KDE Connect is a nice bonus. Super stable, feature rich, power user friendly, well integrated, zero spying and data theft. We live in great times.
I took it to mean it was improperly parked at the school.
I bought my M1 macbook air more than 1 year ago.
>They absolutely are, you cannot have one without the other

You cannot have privacy without security, but you can have security without privacy. I think DNSSEC is a good example.
Then go write your own opinionated article on your blog. For myself, I was already thinking about trying to develop a package and this gives me a nice starting point for doing so even if I don't use all the same tools to do it.
Given you're quoting dollars and I'm quoting sterling, I think it's safe to say we're all probably right for the territories we reside in.
As the author responded to you on your comment on their post; they did none of the things you're baselessly accusing them of. Bad form.
It's specific to EdgeDB. And part of what makes it great is a tight integration with our query language - EdgeQL. You can specify aliases, default expressions, access policies with arbitrary EdgeQL expressions in your schema.

Fun fact: our schema declaration language is actually a trimmed down DDL syntax of our query language.
Tried the cheeseburger recipe. Got the question: "The best indicator of freshness for ground beef is:"

I chose "(B) Smell." Because, you know, that's the answer (though I'm not sure why I'm starting out with a food safety question).

I got a snotty response that I wouldn't be able to smell things that are in a sealed package, and I should always go by the manufacturing date printed on the package.

No. You're wrong. And you're wrong about food safety, which is really not good. You go by smell, sliminess, color. The printed date is a nice guide but NOT what anyone should be using for food safety.

And on top of that, your question doesn't say that you're not allowed to open the package (which... why? in what situation would you be staring at your package of ground beef and refuse to actually open it?) (Edit: Later on it's revealed that this is a quiz about shopping. So a bit of framing/context setting is missing.)

Now I've completed the food safety and "do you know what lean meat is" quiz, and I immediately go into another quiz about buying cheese. It wants me to say which cheese is hard and how to store cheese. What does this have to do with cooking a cheeseburger? I gave up.

It's like you're trying to suck the life and enjoyment out of cooking. This is boring and nothing to do with what I want.

It seems like a knowledge graph the way you've done it is an anti-pattern of actual cooking. You're decomposing every recipe into its ingredients and then asking arbitrary questions about each one. Those questions have nothing to do with the final dish, or how the ingredients work together, or the choices you would make in making this specific dish. It's just "oh, a burger has onion, here is a random question about the history of onions."

What you need is something that shows how the ingredients interact. This is the opposite.

EDIT: I don't mean to be TOO harsh here; I like your mission and the effort you've put into this so far. I don't think a framework of focusing on ingredients in a vacuum, having people get quizzes wrong, and calling them "Junior Chef" is the way to do it.
My only means of reliable "inbound contact" is through a one-way, numeric pager. This absolutely aggravates the majority, but I absolutely love not having the constant distraction of a cell phone/email (SPAM, social, APPs, etc).

I will admit to being an extreme introvert, capable of spurts of extroversion... but being out of contact makes most relationships more meaningful (but fewer); it's most interesting to note how deeply embedded so many people are unto their own online persona (via these devices).

I read the other day that 1st base is now hooking up; 2nd base is hanging out together; and 3rd base is taking your partner out to dinner (a critique on modern-day APP-based dating). So strange; so foreign.
scikit learn (python) and dplyr/tidyverse (R) are long-running gold standards for me
Cool, let me know if you need anything at jonathan@tensordock.com!

Unlike other managed Docker hosting services, these are fully virtualized VMs, so you can use whatever tools you want, and most software applications work out-of-the-box. You can cloud game (or run virtual workstations) through Windows, too.

Our ML images come with Docker and NVIDIA-Docker2 preinstalled, so that should work with whatever workloads you'll be running :)
> because the Constitution forbids them from restricting political speech in this manner

What if texts cost you money per-message though? Isn't that why most places get permission before texting you? Do politicians have a constitutional right to drain your money this way?
Okay… but why does this work with pizza?
You can buy an unlocked phone at 0% financing. (Apple's card or your bank card might offer it).
> DataRobot is an AI management and deployment platform, which was valued at $6.3B when it raised $300M in July of 2021. In May of this year, the company let go of 7% of its staff as part of cost-cutting.

Shut the front door. We're valuing companies based on rounds that caused less than 5% of the shares to change hands? How long has that bullshit been going on?

$300M is 1/21st of the valuation, or 4.76%. That's a vote of confidence sure but not a particularly large one.
Instagram rolls back some product changes after user backlash
I can't speak for the US but in the UK they're transparent about the costs and thus you can compare their costs with that of buying directly from the Apple store. So there isn't really any room for trickery there.

Even the contract you sign has to have terms explained by the sales person because that contract can be contested if the customer claims they were duped into signing something they didn't understand. We have a lot stricter consumer laws in Europe.
for newsletters that are more "news aggregator" types that collect various blog posts/info, do they typically reach out to the authors before including the links in the newsletter asking for permission?

I've run a network of around 10 newsletters of this type for about 10 years now and no, extremely rarely (usually only if something is obviously being kept on the down low or if a flood of traffic would be likely to cause problems, such as personal projects that use a lot of bandwidth). It hasn't been a problem though. People are generally very happy to get the attention and visitors in my field, but all of our links are positive and shining a spotlight in style, not criticism or making fun, etc.
Because we all sniffed electronics as a kid....a lot.
Actually we do. They are usually called consultants and have _sold_ a company on their ability to do so.
Except people that use YT as a family video archive
So at most 100km, not at least 100km.
Why not a state of emergency over public shitting? I find that more disturbing.
The main mental model I use for this is pretty straightforward. Is this content something that could arrive standalone in my RSS reader and still make sense? Then it might be an <article>. Would this content have a styled box around it in the UI? Then it might be a <section>, unless something more specific like <nav> applies. At the end of the day though, this is a fine yak to shave and most any option you go with is fine so long as you've at least thought about what you're doing and why.
I have a generic USB mouse that doesn't work even on present day Linux. Works just fine on Windows.
Assuming those 1000 embryos belonged to e.g. 100 cancer patients who were subsequently rendered infertile by chemo, the choice really comes down to, kill one child, or effectively sterilize 100 cancer patients by removing their option to have biological children.

You could rephrase the problem as this: you have a sterility gun that will fire 100 times. You can direct it into a crowd where it will permanently sterilize 100 random people. Or point it at one 4 year old, who will be killed by the accumulated 100 shots. Which is more harmful?
According to the Oxford dictionary "literal"now means:

Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or exaggeration.

but also:

[informal] Absolute (used to emphasize that a strong expression is deliberately chosen to convey one's feelings)

That second, informal meaning is correctly being used here.

https://www.lexico.com/definition/literally
Congrats! It's up now. Curious about which Dreamhost service are you using to host your website?
Same here, work for a big company trying to manage its lender MacBooks better because new hires are coming in faster than the supply of new computers.

Not looking very bright for my next equipment upgrade season coming up...
First they came for the homeless
Amen.

I would always choose my 2020 lowest specced M1-MBA over my highend specced Intel-MBP from 2017.

Not only are they hot, they are also loud. You notice when intel users join a video conference because of the constant fan-noise [1].

Not to mention that the constant heat comes with rediculous malfunctions over time.

I considered leaving the platform until the Apple Silicon CPUs arrived. I currently run a kubernetes cluster on my new MBP with 13 pods plus 2 dev servers for some Java BE and another for a web-FE - no fan-noise!

[1] at least those with a 13 inch MBP 2017
Or maybe it's constrained supply-side due to a global chip shortage?
Screen readers, and I think it can lead to more easily understood CSS, though a lot of people are using styled components etc now
Early hunting, farming homogenized mammal communities of North America
Apple is about to find its self in need of a wartime CEO. The threat will come when China is no longer a viable place to manufacture high-tech devices. Apple has deep pockets, but they've been doubling down on China with each new warning sign. At some point they'll have to scramble to start manufacturing on this side of the Pacific, and it'll be rough.
You're doing a great job. Talking about mother sauces is definitely not gatekeeping, more like dropping knowledge on the uninitiated. It's the gateway to a vast (and in many ways overwhelming) beautiful world of classical cuisine.

Some people go their entire lives 1. not making scratch hollandaise 2. knowing it is a mother sauce 3. adding to the mother sauce to make bearnaise, etc
Apple have been plenty innovative. In the past 10 years, Apple have:

- released Apple Watch

- all displays are Retina. (As far as I can tell by looking at all the monitors from other companies in an electronics store, they all still think that 96-dpi is acceptable)

- Apple displays have a much wider color gamut (I suspect the largest in the industry, but don't know)

- Apple Silicon (as you mentioned)

- AirPods, which people seem to really love

- continuously improved cameras on iPhones; no comparison between the current camera(s) and the iPhone 5 from 2012.

- Touch Bar (might or might not like it, but it is innovative)

- new, thin keyboard design (turned out not to be a good design, but it was innovative)

- integration between iOS/macOS: use your iPad as a monitor, handoff calls between phone and computer, shared copy/paste, etc.

- macOS can now run iOS apps

- Rosetta 2: invisible translation of x86 code that even runs faster than on their most recent native Intel laptops

- privacy as a feature (arguably innovative, but compared to what everyone else is doing it is...)

There's not so many new-category-defining innovations, but Apple have hardly been sitting on their hands.
Also need to take into account decreasing cost of bandwidth. This article only mentioned disk storage as an underlying cost.
That sounds interesting. What is it called?
Which is not what GP was suggesting...

Though personally it seems a silly thing to get hung up on. I'd be more worried about the fact that for many the archetypical professional cook/chef is a man, and in fact men make up something like 75% of those who choose such a career, when it's abundantly clear that there are zero biological advantages to being male as a chef.
It seems to me that the only way to bootstrap something like this is with ad spend or viral social media content that inspires people to subscribe, but that's sort of a chicken and egg problem if you don't already have wide reach.

It's not as chicken and egg as it may seem. Let's say you want to create a newsletter about, oh.. TCP/IP, say. You write some interesting articles about TCP/IP related topics, interview some people in the field, put together some cheat sheets or something.. build up a useful Web site about TCP/IP teasing your newsletter somewhere on each page, submit things from it to Hacker News, Reddit, and relevant places enough, and eventually something will work out.
Can you expand on that a bit more? Genuine question, I'm illiterate in matters of high-finance.

What does services as a headline signify, why would it bring on regulation (and what kind of regulation), and why is that a bad thing?
If your prices really end up being industry cheapest let me know and we can make it happen.
> the success of the world

Which part of the world is succeeding? What does that actually mean? 'Success of the world' is such an empty statement. What did it succeed at? Destroying our habitat?

> does not mean we shouldn't work to improve it

Most of the more brilliant minds in the current industrialized world are working on making more money for someone (themselves or others). Who's working on actually improving it? And improve it how? By making the world a better place 'through minimal message oriented transport layers'?

> It means we shouldn't be doomers and think the world is falling apart

Nobody is saying one should be a doomer or whatever. Doomer implies losing all hope. What I'm advocating is losing hope for the current system, not for the world.
Well, it can be gaslighting but not always. A knowingly false accusation, repeated often enough and in a way to make the accused question their own perception of reality, would be gaslighting.
> HomeKit was supposed to be this big thing and it seems to have been silently forgotten.

Hopefully the reason work has slowed on this is because Apple & Google (and others) are actually getting Matter[1] right, so home automation will actually, finally work without having to geek out over all the details all the time.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/17/matter-has-been-delayed-yet-a...
This is the most apt example of "leopards ate my face" in the history of global geopolitics.
Film productions don’t do a good job of engendering good will. Too frequently have they popped up on my street out of no where and tried to prevent me from walking to my home because they are filming in front of it. Unless they are compensating people for the headache they cause, their not much more than an annoyance to a community they don’t even live in.
No modern politician survives solely on their gov't salary. Typically, politicians have money before starting out. Then, once in, they get all of those juicy "ins" that opens the doors to making more money.
Congress Wants Answers on a ‘Significant’ Cyberattack on Courts
I do seven figures on developer newsletters (just!)
I think the unfortunate reality of this is that even if you don't take care of the physical and OS stuff yourself, it will still hurt you when it goes wrong. Abstracting it away doesn't really take care of it for you, at least not in the same way that someone who really knows how to deal with it AND knows your system well does. And you pay through the nose for the privilege of that abstraction - even DigitalOcean is 2-3x more expensive than renting your hardware from a hosting provider, and things like managed databases and AWS lambda will run you 20x more than renting servers.

When AWS fails, it fails spectacularly. It also experiences outages fairly often, and you as the developer often have nothing you can do about it, but twiddle your thumbs and hope that your application was amenable to "high-availability architecture" (which is more expensive...). Finally, this particular failure mode brought down HN's servers, rented from a reputable hosting provider, and arguably this is something that a hosting provider should know.
I love the demo. I love the tooling.

Demo tips: Name your queries. Following along "query1, query2, query3" is confusing. You should following best practice (where it makes sense) during demos, and you're definitely not doing it.

The selling point of this tool shouldn't be for the developer, it should be for the manager. So add some "here are some other examples of tools we've created in a similar amount of time through a similar process" - then have UX's for different companies, industries, regions.

Non-technical management need ideas. This demo doesn't give it beyond "hey look you can create a button to update a table". So what? Every ERP and CRM SaaS has that!
Military Veterans and Their Spouses Can Teach Public School in FL With No Degree
I'd like to see a carry around device (phone format or even nano) that can dock into other things like a desktop or laptop and convert into that thing.

So I'm on my MacBook, pull out the device (like a cartridge) and it's a phone. Plug it into something else and it's a desktop. Plug it into a car and it's a CarPlay. Everything I plug it into charges it too.

A universal computer.
Related question I’m hoping you know the answer to: can I use this as a recourse against debt collection calls or texts? I get numerous calls and texts for the prior owner of my cell phone number (to whom I have no relation to be clear) that have persisted for ~6 years despite repeatedly informing them I am not the individual they want to contact and asking to be removed from their records.
I do this all the time and it works flawlessly. You must have the Clipboard sync turned on (3 dots at top-right > Plugin settings).

1. Copy your text on Android.

2. Swipe down from top and select KDE Connect notification.

3. Choose Send clipboard.

4. Disco.
That's irrelevant, we are not going over there in Nigeria, India, Pakistan etc. they'll come over here in the developed world.

It's not even a matter of policy or politics or us vs. them...it's gonna happen, like gravity happens.

It makes sense to be prepared.
If you think this is cool and would like to follow these steps yourself, here are my recommendations:

* Turing Complete on Steam (if you're into video games): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/
* The Elements of Computing Systems (if you'd rather follow along step by step in a book):https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-second-Pri...