skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stanford publications might be biased because they're American.

Politics is hard. There's no objectively "correct" politics so I won't delve into the topic further.
Part of why the vast majority of my online shopping is at very few sites, including Amazon, which I'm inclined to want to avoid but end up using anyway.
They may or may not be free to choose that depending on what the liquor authority says. They certainly aren’t free to deny someone they’ve already sold a ticket to without cause. A ticket is a contract.

But beyond those points, we already make distinctions between private spaces and spaces open to the public that happen to be privately owned. When you invite in the public you waive some of your rights to free association. I see no reason why we can’t add further restrictions beyond the currently protected classes.

If you want to build a completely privately funded members only stadium, have at it.
A book i can highly recommend is "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Professor Shoshana Zuboff from the Harvard Business School. TLDR "commercial purposes" include selling data in bulk to government agencies, which could not seize such data without a warrant and judicial oversight, thus allowing them to circumvent the very protection mechanisms that are in place to prevent extrajudical harassment in favor of creating a state of mass surveillance.
So your argumentation is:

The attack surface is already big, let's make it even bigger..in this case for pure laziness. Good point really...
A few of my friends have done startups, and I have noticed something really important about the "why me" question: it seems to be THE determiner of how much you can actually capture from starting up a company. The questions of product/market fit and timing determine whether a company in the space ought to exist. The "why me" question tells you how much your startup can capture independent of the money and work of other people, and how much of that reward you will get.

Since then, I started up a company that I think I am uniquely qualified to run, but we'll see if we get there.
As C# guy who had to work with C for a while - this language is minefield.

If you want to create your own language and want to experience what choices are subpar by modern standards - C is way to go.

If I had choice then I'd pick Rust anytime when messing with low level programming.

I don't understand fascination with C just because it's "tradition" "everywhere" or "gives you full control" - especially that, since it brought us countless security issues
They should, which is why nobody noticed it was broken.

Someone told us IPv6 was broken after we submitted here, as they use an IPv6-only network, apparently. I just posted that up there in case that was the actual issue encountered by the commenter. We're not sure why it broke yet, but we'll fix it when there's less traffic.
It’s interesting to see a few dynamics here.
1) Sanderson already delivered a huge shot across the bow with the secret novel kickstarter. TOR had to have been livid with the kickstarter - it’s 41 million of revenue from their top line, but more importantly It kick started a whole ton of other authors. The kickstarters started because a loophole in their contract, and Brandon has very successfully exploited it as much as his characters exploit magic systems.
2) Dragonsteel is basically growing to the point that it is a publishing house. Others should keep this in mind - Brandon knows how to scale a business. I think of other creative battles - think comic Bill Waterson who won creative rights to Calvin and Hobbes, only to stop publishing a few years later because of how difficult the format changes he insisted on were. This path is not sustainable for a ton of people.
3) TOR has also got to be livid in that they basically handed the keys to the kingdom w/ Brandon by asking him to finish WoT (technically Harriet, Jordan’s wife did)
4) Now he is trying to do the same thing to Audible.

Having met Sanderson before he started on WoT - Ut’s incredible how far he’s gone… but somehow he keeps going.
Live closed captions (text only) is very common and standard. Usually those are done by an external company listening in to an audio feed, and sending the data back. It used to be done with regular POTS lines and telnet, but now it’s obviously more common to use public internet based services like EEG iCap[1]

I don’t know too much about it but I had read recently that ASL sign language can be thought of as a different language, rather than a direct equivalent to text subtitles[2].

[1] https://eegent.com/icap
[2] https://imanyco.com/closed-captions-and-sign-language-not-a-...
Agreed, but there is still possibility for nuance in step 2. Something can be merely a bad idea, or it can be a disaster waiting to happen. Sometimes when people stop 1 and 3 they also lose the nuance in step 2.
Oof. I'd never heard of HBD ("human biodiversity") before. That's an impressive bit of euphemism: racism dressed up in eco language.
They did the Kickstarter to crowdfund money to publish the books under his own company Dragonsteel instead of likely using Macmillan/Tor. They didn’t set out to collect so much money, the initial goal was to raise $1M.

Fwiw, Sanderson took some of that money and backed every single publishing Kickstarter that wasn’t against the TOS or NSFW.
Apparently publishers have seriously been turning the screws on libraries wrt to license fees for ebooks and audiobooks, so the current golden age of getting them from the library may be ending.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1135639385/libraries-publishe...
My "middle mouse button" on my Mac is the Command key. It does the same thing as the middle mouse button when combined with a left click.
No I think you're missing the grandparent's point. Inflection in spoken language "translates" to facial expression in sign language.
Ideally you'll want to make both. RSS is most widely supported, while JSON Feed is (arguably) easier to parse.
The "Year of RSS" people have been sounding like the "Year of Linux Desktop" people for a while now. It's not coming back. It just isn't.
Depends, if the speech is IRL-first and video-second then a sign language interpreter is better and cheaper than installing some sort of concoction to display live subtitles (which have to be typed by a paid steganographer).

But in any case, deaf people still have the need to practice reading their language, so removing it from everywhere except IRL conversations might be detrimental to them
There's a sort of meta-tomfoolery/reverse-psychology going on in the linked post.

For "media", he picks a fringe/conspiracy-theory-ish outlet and the first supposedly technically-maybe-true-but-hum-hum-lacks-context story is about a topic which the author can handwave away with some sensible sounding suppositions.

More reputable outlets have reported on the same and related issues in ways that are harder to explain away.

For example...

"Fresh probe into spike in newborn baby deaths in Scotland"
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-61448963

"Investigation into spikes in newborn baby deaths in Scotland"
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-63097142

"NHS logging baby deaths as stillbirths ‘to avoid scrutiny’"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/16/nhs-logging-baby...
Won't AI solve all of those issues?
Doing Windows, Part 12: David and Goliath
I'd go further. Android is pile of OSS/Proprietary mud that contains Linux. And runs Java.
If you hadn't seen that Stanford guide that was recently posted what do you think your example for this post would have been?
I "have tried (and continue to try) that human-in-the-loop data growth" to enormous success, bringing logistic regression models to greater than 99% accuracy. And you can chain vectorization strategies to create more input features than simply a bag-of-words, like morphology, shape, etc. We (the software company that I work for) don't need GPT-3, because it is a specialized model geared towards generating human-like text. Most NLP problems are just parsing text for actionable information, and oftentimes, supervised models can be chained to create something far more effective towards your needs than trying to shoehorn a massive general-purpose unsupervised model into a specialized problem.
In the NYC there's already a driver co-op for ride sharing: https://drivers.coop/
I’m not sure what else Arm is supposed to do if it believes that the really big customer has broken their contract with them?

I actually think this ought to be a positive for customers who are clearly abiding by the terms of their contracts.
This is the realization that turned me off of very early stage entrepreneurship. That stuff is so boring, and also pretty much the only thing that matters in the very early stage of a startup.
Some people will respond well to this - I'm one of them - but many (most?) won't.

> tact is simply a form of dishonesty

Maybe it is, but our primate brains tend to get very attached to our ideas and opinions. People aren't rational. Tactfulness is one way to get the other side to see your argument without making them feel threatened. Is it manipulative? Sure. But in many cases it's the only path that will get results.
Yeah, I know of the "708" captioning system but it is surprisingly underutilized* by broadcasters. I think that they don't see any use for e.g. color?

* in terms of 708-only features, not on the pedantic "ATSC uses the 708 system"
I have an ESP32-C3 and it just works!

Sadly I haven't found much new it enables yet either (because at this point Xtensa is quite well supported too).
Vivaldi has had an in-built RSS client for years now, taking after Opera's original feature years back.

Edit: link since I notice they have a page about it. https://vivaldi.com/features/feed-reader/
On the opposite side of jarring there are times where an app refresh action works so fast that users think that it's broken since they didn't visually see a change (even though it did refresh and there is nothing new to show).
Japan's inflation hits a 41-year high
Nobody can type fast enough on QWERTY to keep up with human speech, so the comparison is versus chorded typing on a stenography keyboard, or someone repeating the dialogue into voice dictation software which is obviously prone to errors.
Self-hosted Miniflux, dead-easy, just works.

https://miniflux.app/
Political polarization tests seem like a really good way to drag a society in one political direction or another. Since everyone wants to be “neutral” on these fairly arbitrary tests, all you have to do is work the refs until the centerpoint is closer to your preferred outcome. Then make a lot of noise about how people, institutions, even AIs aren’t “neutral” (which is an obvious good.)
I’m sure you do, not questioning your competence nor intellect nor experience. There is just a lot of stuff to keep track of, so sharing this info for others who might happen upon our small exchange.

We’re all in this together, and there are always new things to discover for our finite selves interfacing with an infinite pool of knowledge.
I’d also recommend reading The Linux Programming Interface [1] as an alternative. While it describes the Linux API, it does so through tons of examples in C, so you can see how things are actually done in C-land.

[1] https://man7.org/tlpi/
Third party support has a lot to do with how Linux works though. There's a reason Valve basically abandoned the idea of native Linux games and invested in Proton instead, for instance. It's because everything above the kernel in Linux is kind of a garbage fire when it comes to consistency and compatibility. You usually can't even run a binary compiled for Ubuntu 20.04 on 22.04 despite them theoretically being the same OS two years apart.

Driver support is hindered by the lack of stable driver ABI, basically forcing drivers to be FOSS and mainlined. Granted, this also has some advantages.
The Neo Geo brings back such great memories. I purchased a Neo Geo Pocket when they came out because I could actually afford one. Still love playing Samurai Showdown 2 to this day.
>The biggest hindrance to it is lack of software and distro support.

https://debian.starfivetech.com/

Ubuntu is working on it as well. May already be done I'm not sure

As for software see RISC-V Summit 2022—StarFive's Efforts in Fuelling RISC V Software Ecosystem[0]

There is a lot of work being put into this, not only by StarFive but by other companies, the Chinese government (via the Chinese Academy of Sciences), researchers and hobbyists (once boards arive).

[0]https://youtube.com/watch?v=VfA2HLibOOY
Systemd is certainly not implemented in c++. I don’t think many of the authors are even well familiarized with the language. Look at the chart at the bottom of the project page.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd
Sure, but the closed captioning is still extremely good. The typists use chorded keyboards for speed and yes they occasionally make mistakes but everything is generally quite clear and accurate.

On the other hand, signing involves actual translation, not just transcription, which is much more likely to drop meaning or introduce confusion. Translation is already hard enough, and live translation is a whole other level of difficulty.
> but the first carries the connotation that this is something the government thinks you should be doing

Unfortunately that distinction was deliberately obfuscated by the UK Government during the COVID crisis. They would issue "guidelines" that you could be arrested for violating. As I recall, they began as real guidelines, and morphed into legal mandates without ever becoming laws.
> My point is that they can’t consistently write correct software in any language. Javascript for example

I don’t think Javascript is the counterexample you want to use as a good language. It is like C where safety is traded for flexibility.

If people can’t write correct software in any language, the language designers can help, which is exactly what the Rust designers did.

It’s not great for everyone because now all the scar tissue that great C devs have around what near-fatal errors they’ve made previously has lost some of its value.
How in the world in this day and age of nearly infinite resources to learn ANYTHING on the internet is this a question that gets voted up to the top of HN?

Here's an idea: pick a project that interests you and start. For any question or issue you run into, there will be 1000 Youtube videos to choose from, and 10000 online tutorials. There will be an associated sub reddit to ask questions.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16347216

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212787

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11522452
PDF can embed scripts, but I haven't done this in a long time and I imagine that apps-in-PDF would expose wonky unmaintained code paths in a renderer.

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/applying-actions-scrip...

Also search for "PDF JavaScript"...
Eclipse Collections for Java
I strongly agree. Since politics influences virtually everything, give users and let have a slider or a XY plane where one specifies expected political stance for every query.

As a very nice bonus, people playfully exploring a variety of stances/worldviews/agendas(?) in connection with topics of their interest (what they queried for anyway can only possibly lead to a healthier decision making
> site I'm going to rewrite

I personally wouldn't expect a CTO to spend too much of their own time on building a website. Usually the CTO works more in a strategic capacity, ensuring the company is spending time on things that matter and that projects are on track.

If the website-project does have a very high impact on the business and you're fine with taking this type of position, then you should emphasize the value that you bring. A well-done, on-time project can be very valuable, especially if the business depends on the website a lot and there are competitors with better sites. Your experience can be invaluable and you should be rewarded for it.

If the company doesn't particularly care about the site, nor technology in general - which is the feeling I get from your description - then you might just not have much leverage.

Most importantly, do not make yourself look desperate. State what you want and then negotiate.
I hope Sanderson can become something akin to a Rick Riordan, where “Rick Riordan presents” has become a huge household name launching new careers in childrens lit.
Kind of... but does that mean we're going to see "Check out Wordpress, it powers 30% of the Internet" or "Hey, Postgres is great!" posts too?
When programming DVD menus, this was a very common issue. I used to think to myself that at least in web design, this isn't an issue since the :hover type action is what caused the highlight. Then we got touch screens without :hover and it now haunts me again.
"Coherent" is not a word often used to describe the Linux Desktop experience. How many different ways do I have to copy and paste again? Which ones are valid in which contexts?
I use PoE adapters that have micro USB power-out plugs. The thing being powered uses either Ethernet or WiFi, depending on what it is.
> Why would I spend my time on your specific project?

That's exactly my point.

I work in a field that is really very important, but it's not interesting enough for you to work on purely for your own amusement. That's why there needs to be a financial incentive.
I think you're talking about two different things here. I never argued that they are on the same footing. That's true for every country on this planet.

My main point here was that Facebook and Google are allowed to operate in China if they follow the law of the land. I've already said that not operating there is arguably admirable but the point is that they're definitely allowed to operate there if they follow the law of the land. And the laws for them are no different than they are for Chinese companies.

Apple and Microsoft are doing absolutely fine in China. Apple's mobile market share there is bigger than it is in Europe. So yes, they already _are_ allowed to gain a comparable market share. As for regular social media; LinkedIn is also doing just fine and always has.

Teslas were the #1 electric cars sold for the last time frame I could find.

There are various areas where foreign companies are big or even dominate the Chinese market.
Well yes and no. Most of the value created goes back to the shareholders, but it's just about the fastest and easiest way to move into management (or upper management). If you do internal entrepreneurship, and land leading a division with a VP title, a few things happens:

1) You learn a comprehensive set of skills needed to run a business end-to-end, and you have the benefit of corporate resources to teach you

2) You gain the credibility needed to be a successful entrepreneur

3) Your salary does go up (quite a bit). You're not making $1B, but you are unlikely to be below $300k, and $1M is within reach. That's a fraction of an exit, but it's enough.

4) You build a network which carries over past the current job.

.... and so on.

One of the upsides is that if you can manage internal risks, your odds of success go way up, and if you mess up, the downside is rather small compared to entrepreneurship. Adjusted for risk, expected returns can be greater (to me, $10M is worth only a little bit less than $10B, but $10M is worth a lot more than $100k).

At this point in my career, I'm in an organization that has supported my internal entrepreneurial efforts, and I much prefer that to being out there on my own. I'm also primarily motivated by impact, and I can have much greater impact from where I sit. That's motivating too. If and when the organization changes, I might jump back into independent entrepreneurship, but I'm very happy where I sit.
Reminds of this post of someone who added a camera to the little cat door because the cat kept bringing 'gifts' (mice) indoors. He used ML to detect if the cat brought a gift. In that case he temporarily locked it.
On the other hand, simplicity is a hallmark of brilliance.

"Feynman was a truly great teacher. He prided himself on being able to devise ways to explain even the most profound ideas to beginning students. Once, I said to him, 'Dick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics.' Sizing up his audience perfectly, Feynman said, 'I'll prepare a freshman lecture on it.' But he came back a few days later to say, 'I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we don't really understand it.'"

— Goodstein & Goodstein, Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun (Norton, New York, 1996)
The bit I find fascinating about Reader, and its impact (I’m convinced that its death resulted in an immediate strong surge towards social media centralisation), is that it was entirely contingent; it didn’t have to happen. There are many parallel universes where Google (a) didn’t make an rss reader so dominant that it became The RSS Reader and then (b) kill it. In a healthier market with a bunch of widely used readers, things would have been very different.

(Reader’s impact was particularly dramatic because a lot of ostensibly separate products like NNW started using it as a backend…)

And, if, as seems at least plausible, over the next year or so Twitter crumbles and decentralised social media (whether in the form of Mastodon et al, blogs or something else) comes back, again, totally contingent! An idiot buying Twitter and breaking it wasn’t some sort of historical inevitability, just a weird high-impact thing that happened.
Arduino programming can be a pleasant intermediate step in learning C/C++. Specializing specially in C can be easier after that experience.
Those were capable of nothing but streaming games(didn't even have a native web browser). Why would it be comparable at all to a machine that runs games locally?
As someone who watches TV news with subtitles on, whatever entry technique they're using, the result is not very good [in the UK, can't speak for other countries].
Maybe a dumb question, but where do you find people who are skilled in sales/marketing like this? I'm learning this lesson the hard way right now.
>to make sure the lowest common denominator comprehends what they're reading

So are you saying that prior to the last 10-15 years, "lowest common denominator" people didn't understand anything about when a low pressure system developed quite rapidly around them, changing the local weather drastically -- because there was no easy-to-understand name for it?
Some random people on Twitter who don’t hold any political power.
These people are jumping the gun with the commercial application. It betrays their lack of excitment, and that transpires.

These mega-billionaires should make one for themselves for their own pleasure and then see what happens.

Worst case scenario you have a means of transportation unique in the world.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Bezos have the right approach, same with Richard Branson. For the life of me I will never understand why they don't buy themselves a mach 2 capable MIG and use that in lieu of private jets.
It's not about whether I like it or not. It's about people being hypocritical and giving him a pass while criticizing others for doing the same thing. For some reason Sanderson is untouchable.
Apple-1 Replica
That is probably easily possible with a bit of engineering.. Can't be too hard to figure out who's speaking with some NLP?
can you please share links to your projects?
Most RSS readers will only show whatever the author wants to share via RSS. Often times you need to click through to the actual blog to read the rest. That's where you can comment.

Unread is the RSS reader I use on iOS and iPadOS. It does scrape the site and give the entire article. I love it but now I wonder if it's a good idea to circumvent the wishes of the blogger. I use Newsblur as the aggregator and tie Unread to it. The Newsblur portal to my RSS feeds works well enough in the browser on computers.
Just leave 'em. Did a muBlock rule for the pop-up.