skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the GP, but the argument could be summarized as:

Intellectual work takes time and effort only once when it is created. Copying information is so cheap, it is close to zero. Yet, copyright holders accumulate copyrightable material and try to earn money from it in perpetuity. This is the classic case of rent seeking where the concept of ownership is used to take value from the labor of others.

I don't fully agree with this interpretation, but I won't say that I totally disagree either.
Someone liked it https://developer.run/31 - and expresses preference over Dolphin, which I don't understand because I find that Dolphin does all that but with the benefits of KDE integration.
Your driver's license being photo copied is one of the first steps in buying a car at a dealership.
Way higher capacity for underemployment with the "gig economy", which was less prevalent in previous recessions.
The logs part made no sense, at least as I've always seen GDPR interpreted. It depends on what goes in the logs.

If logs were exempt, it'd be really easy to just ignore GDPR by sticking everything in logs.

There is no magical GDPR fairy that prevents you from needing to comply with deletion requests because you've made your data formats awkward and hard to track/trace.

There are nice articles about how to anonymize log files so they don't need to contain identifiable information. For example, what is generally okay is storing part of an IP. If I just store the odd digits of the IP:

1) I'm probably okay for not being able to identify individuals.

2) I can do most analytics without issues. Unless I have bazillions of visitors, the identifiers are unique.

For nitpickers: Odd digits is a dumb hash for illustrative purposes. In practice, I'd run the IP through SHA, and store just the first few bytes -- enough that visitors are unique most of the time in my log files, but not enough to be able to meaningfully map back to a person.
It does, German passport rate apparently under the most visa friendly ones. Not that I will ever have the luxury to actually try that... Never say never, I hope!
I think my experience in async in other languages has shown how rough async in Python is.

Unless async is the default python, it will always be an after thought and introduce needless complexity when working on large projects that require a lot of external libs.
> for anyone using other protocols like WS

Yes, if you do WebSockets, async really is a must if you don't want to have one thread per active connection. Each thread takes 8mb of virtual memory, not sure how much actual memory.

It's also nice for a backend that's doing a lot of proxying apis to another backend.
> Their product is simply inferior in every way

I disagree and I play almost exclusively on Lichess. In chess.com you can:

1. set up multiple pre-moves and

2. play several variants that aren't in lichess, including 4-player chess (this is mostly the reason I sometimes use chess.com).
> Real money" is backed by more than just electrons.

Yeah, it's also backed by violence. Not really any more tangible or less arbitrary than electrons, which are how the banks create money.
Interesting story of a quest to install a desalination plant. I was listening to one of the persons pushing the deal on a podcast. He had a baby at the time he started, his son is now about to go to college. Each time he would go to court or attempt the permitting process there was endless red tape. NIMBYs win again.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...
> Open source crypto protocols are completely irrelevant without connections to crypto companies

Bitcoin, an open source crypto protocol, launched without the existence of crypto companies.

Mt Gox, instead of helping btc, almost set it back years due to the hack.

Bitcoin grew adoption and scale on tor/DNMs and localbitcoins, both of which had organic, non-exchange economic activity which kept accounting in pure crypto vs returning to fiat/needing an exchange.

The attack you’re describing is a 51% attack, and it had yet to happen due to protocol design on the main chains. If it does, I suppose you’d be right.

But I generally think you don’t understand how the tech works and what proof of concepts exist to disprove your opinions, or at least strongly counter your opinions. and without addressing why they’re wrong you have a weak argument.
FWIW, the Codidact project has been plugging away at building an OSS replacement for SE:

https://www.codidact.org/
Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Processor?
Does it help? Would it maybe be more useful to focus on the people that run the game, and try to make them change the game by changing rules?
Previously, built a SaaS from scratch (70+ FTEs) and sold it to a larger org. I miss building. I miss working within a team. I am an entrepreneur, but I've been an engineer since I was a teenager. That's my true passion.

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consider polar coordinates. reject cartesian dogma.
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They also manufacture most of the precursors for fentanyl, so it's not like the poetic revenge stops at TikTok.
Not particularly creative, but I have two in use (both rPi 4s):

- running Carbide Motion to control a CNC
- running a backup of a wiki and forum which was taken off-line so that I can refer to it

I really should set up a media/file server and work up a suitable backup strategy.
Wonder could you write one with Plaid.
Never go full async
Why would anyone use Oracle Cloud? The company has proven themselves to be incompetent and useless time and time again.
Fitness tracking doesn't necessarily imply location tracking. Even if a device does have a GPS (one of the ones they are testing does not, one does) that doesn't necessarily mean it stores location history. Most fitness tracking just needs to know you movements over the last few minutes.

Also, as you note it is people who deal with satellites. Isn't that almost all done at fixed bases in friendly areas? If a satellite operation is being conducted to support something like a covert mission in hostile territory for example, the people running the satellites are back in some control center quite possibly back in the USA.

It's not like if special forces had trackers that an enemy could use to see where they are heading for a mission. For the satellite guys all missions are the same from a tracker's view: drive to the office and work your normal shift then go home.
The last time we bought a car, the salesman tried the 4 square nonsense. I declined to look at monthly payments and was evasive about how much I wanted to spend. I just said, "as much as I need to, to get the car I want at a decent price, which according to my research should be X" or "my monthly budget is not your concern, I am willing to pay X for this car".

Once I had the final price on the car, and it was very comfortable to me, they STILL tried to get me to sign a 'contract' using the four-square numbers. Just monthly payment amounts, no length or other information.

They literally wouldn't move forward until I signed it. Like, wouldn't let me see the manager to finish the deal. The price was so good on this one, though, that I didn't want to just walk out.

So I took a black sharpie and crossed everything out, wrote the total price, and signed it at the bottom.

It wasn't a legal document. It was literally just a sheet with their handwriting on it saying "monthly price agreement". Nothing finance related, no legal jargon anywhere.

Ridiculous. Just absolutely ridiculous, and for what purpose?
As I understand it, that just applies to quantum mechanics. For example, in computer science, we certainly try to prove the properties of algorithms, such as their computational complexity or their soundness and completeness etc.
I don't use TikTok but even in my mid 40s fell victim to Instagram reels. What's astonishing to me is that I have a level of self control that's way more than the average individual (for instance I have taken cold showers for ever).Even with such an otherwise resilience I fell victim to Instagram reels and their infinite supply of mindless entertainment. It took a week for me to unshackle and get rid of this imbecile nonsense. I still have the app on my phone but am actively not opening it. My hypothesis is that if you can do this for a continued duration, then the existence of the app won't bother you. You can't go around deleting everything from your life. You lead your life on your terms, despite the distractions.

So the addictive forces are quite powerful and for the average individual, it's really hard to get out of this addiction.
Yep. At this point I get maybe 5 emails a day, and most of them were hand-written. The Gmail red badge rarely stares at me. I can work in peace.
The lights service doesn't have to know anything about the reminder service.

The reminder service needs "one line of code (tm)" to go "After five minutes, send <this> to the lights service".
Because Google is an R&D company not a consumer product company.

It doesn’t give a shit about UX, but generating piles of data for PhDs to generate statistics from.

Sundar bailed on the moonshots, but it’s hiring culture was already established and he’s not been able to turn the focus to interesting things relying on statisticians and leetcoders seeking the so called prestige of churning out nothing.

It’s funny how big corps LARP changing our world but the careless resource waste, rent seeking, gaming agency through corporate propaganda all smell like traditional political correctness to me.
Unfortunately regulations will always be one step behind. Asking for them is victim mentality. We’re responsible for our own choices.

Everyone might get addicted to TikTok for some period. But everyone needn’t stay addicted to TikTok. (Of course I use “TikTok” as a placeholder for any infinitely consumable feed of targeted content.)

Regulation has a place. For example, an obvious and easy win would be to pass a bill requiring any product with a consumable feed to offer and default to an option to sort it in reverse chronological order.

But regulation is a reactive and slow strategy to shrinking a problem that continues to metastasize. There are more proactive social strategies available to us. Education is free. Self-control is free. Unfortunately, they’re only “free” modulo the minutes of attention we can allocate to them from our finite lifetime supply.

I wonder, how many minutes of education or self-introspection is required to prevent one future minute of app usage? I’m optimistic this ratio is favorable, so that once people sufficiently internalize the effect of infinite consumable feeds, they will naturally reduce their self-sabotaging usage of them.

People will adapt. It will just take a while. Sometimes you gotta get burned to learn not to touch the stove. In the meantime, we could require the products to provide resources and tools to reduce addiction (like HN’s noprocrast). And we should also find a way to blunt the impact of social media on those who have not yet begun their journey with its addiction (like children, or people yet to be born into our satirical dystopia of a society). If kids are glamorizing social media before they are old enough to use it, they will not have an easy experience separating themselves from it later in life.

Cigarette smoking rates are way down since twenty years ago when we started convincing children it was gross and uncool. We can do that with social media too.
Low wages, high inflation, general financialization of everything resulting in more people working or working multiple jobs to keep their heads above water.

Much less expendable income means economic contraction.
> they advertise one price but actually have tons of mandated fees when you show up to purchase

I had a similar experience booking a hotel room recently. Despite advertising a rate of $x, when I'd click through to complete the booking, towards the end of the process every single one would tack on a mandatory "service fee" of somewhere between $40-80. It seems to me to be a way to keep their room rates artificially lower to stay competitive on the price comparison websites.

(Maybe this has been a thing for a while - I haven't booked a hotel in years)
Started using it a couple of years ago when I was mostly using a single operating system, now it saves my sanity by providing the same good file browsing experience across all systems.
The $300B meme stock that makes GameStop look like child’s play
College textbooks have been pretty ridiculous for a long time in their quest to stay relevant. At this point though they're facing some big threats:

Tons of information freely available on the internet, some of it already structured into a curriculum.

Open source textbooks that are free online or cheap in print.

E-Books, which are much easier to copy than a textbook, hence the NFT scheme.

I guess it's only logical for them to try and survive, but if feels like a losing game for everyone right now.
Also it's an open secret that enforcement is poor to nil on the above setup.

The major checkpoint is at custom control, where choosing your words carefully will be important. I'm sure Google offers some good advice on this.
The concept only makes sense for physical objects.

The problem are the definitions of "piracy", "robbery", "theft", etc.

There's two ways you could reasonably define them: by the loss, or by the gain.

From a simple ethical/logical viewpoint it stands to reason that if a gain can occur without a loss, that's good for everyone - so we should define theft to have occurred only when a loss is incurred (and hence intellectual property theft wouldn't be theft, and the very concept of IP makes no sense).

Unfortunately just because it's good for everyone doesn't mean it'll obviously work out that way. Defining theft by the unauthorised gain of something (regardless of whether there was a loss) lets those with the authority to grant rights to those gains profit. That profit can then be used to create incentives for others with authority (through lobbying, for instance), creating a situation where despite the fact that it's in the common interest to define theft solely on the basis of loss, it's in the interest of those with authority to define it as any gain which is not approved by an anointed member of the authority structure (either economically or politically).

Intellectual property is stupid, counter-productive, hurts culture, hurts innovation, and generally doesn't do an ounce of good to the vast majority of people on the planet Earth.
> has lost hundreds of billions in shareholder value

Who gives a shit about useless thieves with no ability to actually produce or do anything worthwhile??! Fuck the 'shareholders value'. We need to do more for and pay the PEOPLE better, who get things done. Ya know, the actual workers. All that a 'shareholder' does is extract money/value from other peoples hard work.
I am using the Stackoverflow Keyboard. How am I supposed to type code now?
Right it’s a pretty good shortcut / shorthand for recessions, but no substitute for experts making a judgment call on multiple factors.

The 2020 recession declared at the start of the COVID pandemic didn’t even last one quarter.

Per your source, 2001 wasn’t consecutive quarterly drops in GDP but NBER prefers monthly stats over quarterly anyways.

This means of the four recessions in my lifetime (1990,2001,2007) 2 out of 4 (2021 and 2001) don’t align with the shorthand of two quarters of consecutive negative growth.
That's the traditional definition. When your friends get laid off, it's a recession. When you get laid off, it's a depression.
I'd love to see The Jetsons but in the Expanse universe where hard futurism is at least decently respected.
That seems a fairly stupid line to draw, to be honest. Do you know how the silicon your code runs on is made? Do you know how the fibreglass the CPU chip is stuck to is made? How do they get the copper to stick?
WTF is a status cuisine? I cook French and Italian food. Simple, delicous, and teach you the fundamentals of cooking. Plus every dinner looks like I went and paid $200 for it at a nice restaurant.

Cooking has a few rules.

1. Use good fresh ingredients
2. Care about what you are cooking and who you are cooking for
3. Enjoy yourself
Yeah, sure.

The entire world revolves around the American Race Problem. As it always does from inside your bubble.
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In my own experience developing a new kind of system from the ground up, I can only say that you have to talk to yourself, but as an extended conversation over a good number of years (a decade in my case). It is essential to occasionally stop working on the thing altogether, and clear your mind of all thoughts relating to it (if possible). If your system is truly compelling enough, it will call you back from out of the depths of your subconsciousness. Then you can see it afresh and be able to evaluate it as it truly is.
Not being swamped is also not a badge of honor.
Great to see improving support for async here. I am a big fan, but IMO python async code is just different from other async langauges. I used async extensively in python and compared to other languages it is a pain to use because unless 100% of the the libs you want support it you will get stuck on some sync library. Async in python is not even a 2nd class citizen. Its more like a 3rd class citizen. Its gets better every year but it is minuscule compared to regular sync code, so very few tutorials mention it and nobody teaches it as the default way of doing things.

In order for async to be popular it needs to be the default way of writing python. Right now its an after thought for writing “high performance” python. For example asyncio version of redis got 72,114 downloads this month. The sync version got 26,825,663. Thats not even in the same universe.

Historically, using something like gevent is a more drop-in solution for python if you want lightweight threads, but it comes with its own problems. Gevent gives python what Zig has that automatically turns all sync IO calls to async and your app is now magically using greenthreads.

However I think gevent in the past was the crutch that prevented a lot of lib authors from writing async libs.
it aged really well

I have the opposite reaction: today, it reads like panglossian baloney.

In early days of the web, many people had blinders on, because we had dreams of the internet bringing the world together in love and harmony, etc. Fewer people are like that now, because social media has made the internet's flaws hard to ignore.

It's possible the author himself would have tempered his optimism if he wrote a follow-up article today, but it appears he passed away in 2004 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Sussman) so we'll never know.
It’s this kind of project that makes me want to run a shellhost/service/“club”. So much interesting stuff happening in the terminal these days for high-productivity individuals who are sick of the way the web has gone.
But the media in general is showing other perspectives. Be it on other channels, be it by showing people what "that despicable other side is saying". And there's always neutral media too where others can check.

Sure, media is a huge problem. But people behaving like animals, having no empathy, taking no taking time to reflect upon what they say and taking no time to check other perspectives is what's doing the real damage here.
The Most Surveilled Place in America
What is the mile-high big-picture view of this publication?

The CEO was unveiling the interim results; the listeners were business reporters that traders read, and the CEO’s motivation was to increase the share price.

Traders don’t always reinvestigate technical claims. Objectively, the claim has poor odds of being achieved, since customers have no incentive to use a system where they lose resale value. Furthermore, the technical underpinning they suggest has scalability issues, miner fees, and purchase latency, all of which disincentivize use.

The goal, though, was not to tell the world what they would do with certainty, but instead, this:

> Shares rose 10% at 11:12 a.m. in London on Monday
We bought our most recent new car in February of 2020, RIGHT before the whole world blew up.

We have gotten calls from the dealer offering us up to 10k over what we originally paid for the car since then, even with the mileage we've put on.

Absolutely amazing, the world we live in.
That just means the rich elite of facebook could use their money to buy mid western meat for the people :D
That's a ridiculous re-writing of history. Russia has documented interference in the election [1]. Also, most Democrats protesting not my president and stolen elections do so because Trump was elected while losing the popular vote. Republicans just made up lies and then tried a coup on democracy, that was just barely prevented by republicans with a backbone. It's crazy how close we came to dictatorship, helped enormously by people like you love to be contrarian and say "both sides"

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/russian-interference-in-201...
If this is a teach all the kids programming, I would go with bottom left, or center as origin. No need to complicate it for people who will never use it again.

If this is intro to coding 1 of N. Then go top left. They will have to learn the map is not the territory at some point why not with this easy example. It will also help when they try to take what they learned beyond the course.
Could you clarify?

I suspect you mean that people would prefer to spend a lot of money on fuel rather than moving. Maybe they feel that overall moving would be a quality of life decrease.

That's not a trap, it's a preference.
Used to hang out more on IRC for various platforms and tools but those are less active these days. https://netsplit.de/channels/?net=Libera.Chat has a decent list on Libera Chat.

https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/ can be a good resource for talking with folks of diverse experience and backgrounds about architecture.
Nice to see someone born in Florida represented.
Theres nothing about tokens on a blockchain that would prevent publishers from running this same “edition” scheme, IIUC. It would just look different.
Wow nail on the head. Just did this and out of the first 8 videos, 5 were reaction videos, 4 with the exact same "shocked" faces. Scrolling down the page it is much the same. How can google allow whatever algorithm to present such homogenous content on such a general platform?

Notably though, if I log in and visit my home page I have only one video of this nature on the front page in the first ~50, so it does appear possible to teach the algorithm you will not engage with such content even without conscious effort.
That's very kind of you! We have enabled voting so he can request on his / her favourite features and we constantly add new ideas!
I used to be a big user of Total Commander back in the Win9x days (then Windows Commander)

I was actually too much used to it and I had a hard time using my friends computer at all using the default Windows explorer.

I probably updated to WinXP at some point and didn't reinstall it. Never felt the need to to install a double windows file manager since then. Even if it's clearly better than the default option.
Doesn’t every industry try to push out competitors? Either by buying them out or remaking their product.
Thinking that film is bad isn't really "hating woke culture", though.

In fact I know plenty of "woke" people who also think that it sucks. Some maybe semi-secretly.

The film has plenty to be criticised.
Aside from the last sentence, I agree, and a fun reminder that raising prices is a good way to mitigate against high demand / low supply.

That said, I was expecting to be countered on the inherent riskiness of my position, as I'd forgotten that it is indeed mutually beneficial but for that.