skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I am not in this tier of wealth but being in tech / working with VCs I rub elbows with it. They consistently suggest to get a concierge doctor and its so great because they have a small number of patients and they actually listen to them and help them get whatever medicine needs, read studies on their conditions and recommend like niche and newer treatments / drugs. It sounds great but you know I can't afford a 3k a month retainer. The medical system once again seems to work incredibly well if you have means but that sort of expense is even outside the realm of most 1%ers.
Reminds me of old shareware games too. A good practice. Glad the model works for you!
You could replace the orcs in lotr with the germans, and their leader as sauron. Does that make lotr racist? I don’t think so.
I really enjoy using docker compose to run most of my hobby and small project websites on small cloud nodes. With the remote builder functionality, it makes CICD and deployments trivially easy for me as well.
totally agree. Also, when developing in complex codebases, being able to shorten the time distance between thinking an action needs to be done and actually doing it means you can keep more ideas in your head rather than spend your CPU cycles on visually moving around your screen, clicking, waiting, etc.
Popover drop-down is broken in mobile chrome on Android unless I request the desktop site.
It's work, but it's not like a lifetime of work. MacKenzie Scott has managed to donate $14 billion in her first three years of being a professional philanthropist. If you actually want to give your billions away you can pay some people to help you do it relatively quickly. There doesn't need to be a perpetual foundation unless you want there to be.
"ii) Libraries are badly documented"

It goes both ways, a counter example which saved me from some frustration: plotly.js has a horribly bad online documentation, but their type def makes it super convenient to explore all the layout config stuff, when you're buildling a custom visualization.
What you're used to matters unless you're willing to put in some effort to learn the differences. I used (and developed for both) iPhones for years, then Android, then back to iPhone. During my Android time I got my wife an Android phone to use, and she tried for a couple days then said basically what you said. She had no idea how anything worked, and if she did take the time to figure it out, what is she really gaining over her iPhone? I returned her Android phone.

At this point there is so little difference in phones (particularly the flagships) for the average person, they should just pick what they like/are used to, and move on with their life.
In chess, piece locations are defined in terms of squares on the 8x8 grid.

In this analog version, locations are defined continuously, the checkerboard they move over is meaningful only to establish starting positions, and then is purely aesthetic.
> he poster was just proffering a friendly reminder that to push society forward it's helpful to consider these things

It is totally not.

As Ricky Gervais put it beautifully, like it or not, if you categorize the people of the past with the standards of today, you are preparing the people of the (near) future to categorize you about what you say today.

Now imagine that people think of Aristotle as a misogynist, like if it is actually important, he died 2,300 years ago after all and nobody studies Aristotle because "and now let's read about that guy who hated women, because it's something important to learn: women are trash", but

By the 1930s, a new kind of human zoo appeared in America, nude shows masquerading as education. These included the Zoro Garden Nudist Colony at the Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, California (1935–36) and the Sally Rand Nude Ranch at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco (1939). The former was supposedly a real nudist colony, which used hired performers instead of actual nudists. The latter featured nude women performing in western attire. The Golden Gate fair also featured a "Greenwich Village" show, described in the Official Guide Book as "Model artists' colony and revue theatre."

Or this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo#/media/File:African_...

Sorry if I stand with Aristotle, despite him being a man of his times, and not with 20th century human zoo.

edit: to put it simply, should we talk to German people or everytime they try to say something we should shut them up reminding them that they did the holocaust?

When I disagree with someone from the US, can I use "you are the only people in history to have dropped two atomic bombs on civilians, you are wrong by design!"?

Why Aristotle is problematic, but nobody says "he was a Trump but a lot more intelligent than Trump and actually, now that I think about it, he never said <<grab them by the pussy>>, so Aristotle was less misogynist than Trump"?

Aristotle has never been POTUS.

I understand pushing society forward, so why blame people who have died thousands of years ago for things they are not responsible of today?

Does someone really think that quoting that sentence from Aristotle will plant the seed of misogyny in people's mind?

Is this really the kind of trust we have in each other's intelligence?

I believe people can read the context loud and clear.
It doesn't seem like financial advice, but life advice.
The perfect pizza box has been invented, but Apple hoards that IP, and keeps it from The People.

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/78/74/d5/3374ac3...
On Pixel 4a Android / mobile / touch-only, even when clicking the diagonal arrows, the board is clipped; both in Chrome Android's default mode as well as when activating "Desktopwebsite" mode
We run into that very issue in our local food system. It's a cap on the ability to grow the local food economy. The solutions people have tried include making shared USDA kitchens for food processing, but that is very complicated and I have heard more of them fail than succeed.

In capitalist systems, "sometimes" seems to be happening very often. Frequently enough now, and over history, that some very believable and actionable critiques of capital have been written, re-written, re-discovered and re-packaged -- at their root being the insight that this alienation, capture and monopoly is the result of class differentiation, capital accumulation, and production under the commodity form. That's not bullshit.
> can you detect the lack of signatures?

I think a fundamental aspect of cracking consists of disabling such detection mechanisms. But if the cracker only digs far enough to ensure that it seems to work without nags, and not far enough to find Easter eggs, then it will probably work for a while until people catch on and demand a further crack.

It's really the OS that needs to detect a lack of expected signature, because the cracker isn't going to be able to disable an OS feature unless they release the cracked app as a while VM or something. But that's a thing...
(true || true) is the front door; (false || true) is the back door
I appreciate the response but I don’t have the energy to respond to all your points. However:

The west absolutely has some blame for the Ukrainian invasion. It’s a lot more complicated than the narrative of “naked aggression” and has been brewing for decades.

Also we just ended occupation of Afghanistan 18 months ago. It’s not exactly ancient history.
And all of the problems he talks about with the pizza are the result of this process applied to the pizza itself, not the box. Ingredient quality has plummeted, and the amount of sugar added is unbelievable. Some chain pizzas smell more like donuts that pizza.
>These days, if you want to just "learn for learning's sake", or for self improvement, there are tons of free and cheap ways to get a good education

I agree, but you won't have a sheet of paper proving it. It's like that infamous scene from Good Will Hunting. Question is whether you want an easy way to PROVE you're educated. Which is what a license, certificate or diploma grants you.
They didn't take into account that floats come with an estimated uncertainty, and that values that are the same within the limits of experimental error are identical? That's a really badly set problem!
Well, another solution to the industrial meat system is the industrial fake meat system. That may be a lot more viable in the short term than cultured meat.

Vegetarianism is a far far harder sell to Americans than "give up your practically worthless pointlessly large Trucks/SUVs that you almost never use for what the advertising portrays you using them as". It may be harder than "give up soda", "use bikes more", "don't live in the suburbs", etc.
This guy again?! Fabrice Bellard gives me serious imposter syndrome. He's built QEMU, ffmpeg, and the Tiny C Compiler that can run off of a floppy. Ugh. If I build one thing in my career that's as cool as any one of those, I'll be delighted.
WotC also has MTG, but they've done a poor job of making it usable. It seems that for a while now, Hasbro (Hasbeen?) has been milking the WotC stuff and would have been BK long ago if they had not acquired it.
It's a long response and I appreciate you putting the effort into it. Half way through you start making some predictions that I don't quite agree with. A lot of your argument hinges on trade which I don't as a huge deal for the US. The import/export ratio is 0.77 which is fine, there is a deficit but it is relatively low compared to GDP. Actually if you take imports/exports and compare it to GDP, US is one of the lowest in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_trade-to-...

This is important as it really underscores what a small part trade is to our economy compared to other nations. America's manufacturing output is still at record levels despite less people working in manufacturing. That is part of why our GDP is so high, the productivity of a single person is constantly increasing with technology.

I also disagree the 'elites can use their wealth to alleviate human suffering'. The elites, billionaires, etc.. do not have enough money between them to pay for better hospitals, schools, fair laws, etc.. They also don't have the ability to control prices as they're constantly competing with each other. They are a lot less powerful than you think.

The changes happening in society are more often than not capitalism itself balancing limited resources the best it can. Society is massively complex, way out of scope for any single human to understand or control. The fed and legislature printing money disrupts that self regulating process.
First Google's ad when searching “Amazon Prime” is phishing?
So I've just arrived to the US and wanted to create Amazon Prime so I've searched for "Amazon Prime" in Google.

The first ad there which look super legitimate leads to the following link - "https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEw..."

Which in turn redirects to "https://anazon.snop.eechoman.com/primeservices/action.php?ac..." which looks like a phishing page for Amazon Prime.

Does anyone experience the same behaviour? I've almost used my password there. Why the heck does Google allow such ad's?
Please add game streaming. It is as cool as it sounds and is the only way I play now (via Chromebook - first via stadia and now geforce now). My gaming PC now sits and collects dust because streaming to a thin & light Chromebook is just better for me.
A complete arcade action game for the C64 in one single line of code (2016)
really out of the loop then, because it was like 5 years ago or so :) Firefox add a button to integrate a third party service (pocket) in the default install and i think it added it to your current pinned icon areas (where extension button go). It was also not implemented as a proper extension, so you couldn't actually remove support for it, but only the icon.

Later on Mozilla did buy pocket, so it was no longer third party.

Anyways, a lot of people got super mad with the way they went about it.
That's not a fair comparison because your observation will be heavily weighted to the status quo. Construct a parallel universe B where the norm is the more expensive boxes and introduce the cheaper ones. I put my lot in with the result that in both cases people don't switch.

In universe A people will be averse to the increase in price. In universe B people will be averse to the decrease in quality. The only thing the experiment will show is humans weigh losses that come as a result of change heavier than gains.
Typescript was only not worth it when your core framework (e.g. react/vue) wasn't native ts and also didn't have ts support.

In my experience, any npm library I try to use either already has community created types provided, is too simple to really need types/extra docs, or the docs will still be pre-es6 (pre important, pre async/await, etc.) so it's not like it was going to be convenient to learn anyways.
"The entire Android app was overhauled a while back, dropping functionally and decreasing stability"

And yet it's the only mainstream browser for android that support, natively, ad-blocking. Using chrome on mobile is a joke.
The author is basically trying to set the same premise as Bolstrom's "intelligence explosion", that is that if AIs are driving the further advancement of AI then we enter a sort of "recursive" self improvement during which they advance further than we can develop constraints, eventually getting completely out of hand.

Although I don't broadly disagree with the author, I think there's two very important points of moderation.

First, the gap between "Early commercial applications" and "Approaching transformative AI" seems very very very very very large to me. In the provided narrative it follows linearly, but in my opinion the gap between, say, a customer support chatbot, and an actually-productive AI researcher, is such that the chatbot might as well not even be called an AI by comparison. Something like the following is purely in the realm of fiction for now by a long shot: "AIs assigned to make money in various ways (e.g., to find profitable trading strategies) doing so by finding security exploits, getting unauthorized access to others’ bank accounts, and stealing money. "

The second point I'd like to make is, the "intelligence explosion" scenario that Bolstrom warns of (and this author essentially repackages) has certain requirements, particularly regarding the profitability of deploying the AI.

To put it bluntly: Even in the hypothetical future where we are capable of creating human-level AI researchers, they won't be mass deployed until they are cheaper than human level researchers. If it costs a million dollars a day to operate a data center that can power the researcher, nobody's scaling that up to 100 or 1000 or 10000 researchers. They'd rather pay the human researchers a tiny fraction of that cost to continue advancing AI research in the normal way.

Just to be clear, I do think it's feasible that AI can endanger/control humanity at some point. I don't even think an "intelligence explosion" scenario is impossible. I just think that a lot of people don't appreciate just how specific the requirements for that scenario are. It's not as simple as "AI can self improve, humanity will end any day now".
Sure, that makes sense. Launch date was July 2017. $35,000 in July 2017 is $42776.88 in December 2022.
Telling someone they learned something wrong maybe isn't the best approach when trying to explain why something should not be confusing. Especially when it's a widely held view, maybe the learners are not the problem.

Most people learn JSX when they learn React. It was created by Facebook for React, after all. What does the React docs teach about className?

https://reactjs.org/docs/introducing-jsx.html

Here in the intro it doesn't even explain that you need to use className instead of class. It uses it with no explanation. Then it throws in a line about camelCasing and assumes that you understand why it changed.

Surely the JSX in depth page explains it.

https://reactjs.org/docs/jsx-in-depth.html

It does even less.

https://reactjs.org/docs/dom-elements.html#classname

Finally! In a page that seemingly has nothing to do with JSX we get told to change how we write HTML, but we're not even told why. (The htmlFor section tells us.) No wonder people are confused.

Yes, className is a property of the Element interface but it is not the attribute used when writing HTML. You're still changing how you write HTML. It is no longer standard. That is the point people are making here - JSX introduces enough edge cases that you must learn that it adds equally as much mental overhead as the template DSL for Alpine or Vue. Even if people understand the reasoning and it is not confusing, it's still a shift.
There is a third option which I'm surprised no one has mentioned so far: Ignore them.

First, people or companies using the cracked version of your software were never going to buy it. These people do not pay for software, and nothing you do will convince them to pay for it.

Secondly, whatever measures you put in place to combat the cracked versions will potentially have a negative impact on your actual paying users - the real people you built the software for.

Extra security measures or hoops to jump through; extra validation or 'calls home.' - all extra things that can and will go wrong at some point for a real user.

Why would you inconvenience paying users to combat people who will never be paying users?

Ignore them, and spend your time improving your product for your real users.

[I've had 3 desktop apps cracked and hosted on Warez sites over the past 15 years - even appearing for sale on eBay on some occasions. I was worried the first time it happened, then I stopped caring. They made no difference.]
What the hell is Forth? (2019)
This is how Oracle was born
Remarkable argument from Musk's team that no impartial jury can be made for him in San Francisco, because he has fired too many people there.
> Whenever people report that bug I feel a little joy

I hope you are super duper 100% sure the bug can’t happen otherwise. I would hate to be your paying costumer and ignored because your drm system is buggy.
There are lots of better word processors than Google Docs, but most of the docs I contribute to are hosted on it because it requires zero friction for a newcomer to collaborate.

What I want is the equivalent of Google Docs for audio and MIDI, with a thriving ecosystem of plugins and softsynths that everyone can use in any project with zero friction (and none of this "let me bounce that track to audio since you don't have that plugin" nonsense).
Guess: it's a number in a database field not "code"... :P
Even ICs benefit from learning this stuff.

There are really two paths: management or senior/staff IC. Up or out — stagnate in a low-level or mid-level role, and you will get replaced with a younger engineer who will do the same work for less, or a contractor, or outsourcing. Everyone is expected to improve until they reach either senior/staff IC or management. You can’t get there unless you learn how to deal with the non-coding parts of the job.
First time I'm seeing the word 'piffle' being used outside of literature!
GPT-3 is the best journal I’ve ever used
In regular chess you can only move discrete distances (1, 2, 3 squares, etc.) - this is analogue in the sense that pieces can move continuous distances.
Depending on the nature of the app a suitable easter egg may be that over time the outputs become randomly but subtly incorrect. Another technique is to canary mark outputs in some way (like a tell tale unique string in PDF/export outputs). In this way your sales team may be able to search for those outputs and put pressure on large orgs creating those files.
That's fine until half or more of the team moves on, then you have a spaghetti mess that newcomers have to theorize about and clean up.
Not Blink, the entity linking language model from facebook?
Whatever you do, don't punish your paying customers for being honest. If your anti-piracy measures have restrictions, bugs, or inconvenience your paying customers, you're allowing the pirates to release a superior product to your own.
"Event Horizon"[0] was a movie in which a spacecraft had a black hole used for propulsion. Somehow the spacecraft went to Hell and came back infested with demons.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/
Irrelevant, because if they move at some point in the future, users won't have to change anything.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220922164619/https://www.sequo...
Why would he use something other than sbf as his primary account?
"Regardless of how much or how strongly Chrome may have been advertised, we can't forget that a lot of IE and Firefox users ultimately decided to try Chrome"

Google for years installed Chrome using installers of other applications, like malware. I am talking of 10 years ago, that was common practice for google, on windows. So a lot of users found themselves using Chrome without even knowing they were using chrome.
youtube lets you tell them channels you don't want recommended... I don't know how well it works, I usually just say I'm not interested in a single video
Absolutely correct. If I can piggyback to elaborate:
Piracy is *not* theft, it’s ‘copyright infringement’—they had to define a legal term because the courts determined that copying content does not deprive the IP owner of whatever-it-was-that-was-copied.
And assuming OPs product has some productivity or business uses, many pirate users are simply b2b sales in embryo. As a college student I may have pirated software to help get an assignment done, (AV editing, or something), which later in my career I advocated to my business unit leader that we should buy, and I could demonstrate it too!
You don't realize how expensive these so called free platforms are until you try to leave. You will never recover much of what you invested. It is a hard lesson for many.
Part of the trouble with these is that, due to companies desiring to maximally exploit price discrimination or because of lack of economies of scale or whatever, the better thing is often unreasonably more expensive, so you don't really get a signal of what people would want without that price-gouging or other price-increasing effects.

Take refrigerators. There are a few little things they could add to every single fridge that'd make them nicer, probably for $20 or so per unit, call it $100 by the time it hits retail. So your $1,100 fridge could be $1,200 but quite a bit nicer. Instead, you can't get that stuff unless you spring for the $2,000+ fridge (think: things like rollers on drawers and shelves, slightly nicer finishes, that kind of thing). Do consumers not "want" that since only a tiny minority buy fridges with those features? No, of course that's not the case. But because there is no "cheap, but with all the cheap bonuses included, so just slightly more expensive" option, it looks that way.
Doctors have invested huge sums of time, money, and effort into getting the qualifications needed to perform their jobs, and there are few alternative jobs they can transition into if they are given a bad deal.
I acknowledge it’s psychological, but the significance - to me - is that these long loan terms exaggerate how expensive a vehicle a person can “afford”. I haven’t bought a new car recently, but I would be shocked if salespeople aren’t hyper focused on that long term/low monthly bill when trying to upsell vehicles/trims.
I buy my decentraland parcels with mana
Yeah, they explicitly had that FAQ on the OGL with stated that it was in WotC's best interest never to make a worse OGL since if they did that people would always be free to use a prior version, as explicitly stated in the license - that sure sounds like a promise. It also sounds like a description of their interpretation of the contract, which is also relevent.

The OGL does explicitly use the phrase "in consideration for", which you'd hope would make this non-gratuitous. Then again, IANAL.