skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah like underground hyperloops or your self-driving car earning you passive income as a taxi. The game is to inspire and get heavy subsidization
>Straight from the company's market cap.

That's not how it works for a publicly traded company in a free market.
Historically announcing a dividend has usually caused more people to be interested in buying, which increases your market cap correspondingly.
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There is no difference between `object["hello"]` and `object.hello`. So in Typescript, all you need is `interface`, that's it. Everything (except primitives) is just an `interface` with keys or index signatures.

> Of course. With dataclasses that's what Python itself does; that's a pure Python module:

Sorry, I meant that you can't create an equivalent class that typechecks the same way. For example, when you define a dataclass with fields, mypy and pyright are capable of inferring what args and kwargs the constructor supports. But that's because it was implemented as a special case. For example, see the mypy docs [1]. If you just alias `dataclasses`, you lose type support!

Pydantic is a library with similar semantics, and the only way to get typechecking support is to install the pydantic plugin for the typechecker you use. The language simply can't express it.

[1] https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/additional_features.ht...
We got a brief reprieve with a very centrist Biden admin. We'll almost certainly elect a Republican in 2024, which will enable and embolden all the crazies again. There's only so much kleptocracy an economy can take, so my predictions:

1-2 years out pretty much like now.
5-10 years out, gradual sliding into a weird economic situation where the folks in charge say it's all great because conservative dogmas are in place, but things gradually slide into disrepair,like in Kansas under Brownback.
After 10 years, things may be so out of whack that the US might try to import people who have an education, like Tulsa did a few years ago.
You can also view it on Flightaware, which doesn't have the popup: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/GTI747/history/20230201/...
To be fair we did have rounded corners, but they were a bitch to make.

Possibly part of the reason that tables got well overused.
My problem is this being framed as the human condition, as if some people doing labor for others to survive is some immutable fact from on high.

It’s a relatively new phenomenon, part of an economic system created by people who reap outsized benefits compared to their own labor. It’s also a system which has promised efficiencies which would reduce work, which it’s delivered but very unevenly and mostly inversely proportional to the people actually doing the work.

We already live in a post scarcity society for some, but the people who get to enjoy that are generally not the people who make it possible. My problem is that the people who make that possible don’t get to enjoy the fruits of their labor, and people who are actually disabled are totally at their mercy. All because we’ve collectively decided capitalism is some kind of unquestionable, perpetual compromise which never has had to make good on promises to anyone who wasn’t already wealthy.
Curious if anyone has instrumentation to measure wavelengths for something like this. For instance, I have a 60” TV. What output would a #FF0000 image produce at full brightness?
It's not clear it's even possible to effectively monetize pure messaging platforms like WhatsApp - there aren't many successful examples of highly monetized chat apps. Chat is pretty much the hardest thing in all of social networking to monetize and there is no guarantee Facebook can effectively monetize WhatsApp without sabotaging its primary purpose (communication). IMO there is a reason WhatsApp is still basically unmonetized right now.

How does Facebook stand to monetize from AI? AWS and Google monetize through their cloud offerings, but Facebook went the library/framework route with PyTorch. That seems like a big question mark if they can capitalize on AI in some form outside of their own internal systems (like ad optimization and general monetization/product improvements, which everyone is doing at the same time).

They have a ton of cash, but can they effectively use it? They are burning a lot of it on VR which isn't catching on the way they envisioned. Facebook is at a point where they are already huge so to maintain 'growth stock' valuations they have to keep delivering quarter over quarter results that move the needle in the billions and billions of dollars. I don't see a compelling case for them to do that based on these pillars.
My grandfather was a mechanic on the first 747 to roll off the assembly line. Quite a majestic career the 747 had.
You're unlikely to get healthy debate about JS at a conference where's predominantly investors that care more about ROI than the tech itself.

Same thing with the web3 conference described in the OP where it seems it was predominantly for cryptocurrency investors, not hackers.

Most of the hacker-focused web3 conferences I've been to have had a healthy amount of debating and criticism over things that are not working in the space. I can't deny them looking very much like a cult though…
No, bog-standard forums were commonplace long before anyone heard of "web 2.0". And web 2.0 was just about the ability to use AJAX to create dynamic webpages, and HN is basically as static as it gets. I don't know where the perception that "web 2.0" means "social networking" is coming from, but it's ahistorical.
Interesting. Here's a previous discussion about Windmill:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31272793 (9 months ago)
> Couldn't they have just paid FlightAware to add some data to the track?

Huh? Why would FlightAware agree to this? What would the point even be?

By that logic Boeing could just pay to have their carbon numbers falsified too. May as well falsify the population numbers too while they are at it.

You can criticize the carbon emissions but why advocate for falsifying data? They could have just... not done the flight.
>SVG: Draw rectangles and triangles. If you don't have a script tag in it, totally declarative

I totally agree. It is declarative the same way how HTML is.

I don't see how SQL and SVG is similar from the viewpoint of approaching the problem. In SVG you concretely define what you want, and that is happening. In SQL you don't define the data you get, like ok, this cell will be 5, another will 8. I understand what you want to say, I just see those completely different ways.

>can be combined, can be filtered, and all without a single function or loop in sight

This is the key here, because this is exactly true to functional programming.

Compare SQL->LINQ->lambda expression

If they work the how you say, then

SQL - declarative

LINQ - declarative and functional the same time

Lambda exp - functional

This idea is completely nonsensical for me
Ask HN: Does an unused root URL need to redirect with HTTPS?
So I have a website.

It's set up on the www

http://www resolves fine
https://www resolves fine
http:// redirects fine
https:// doesn't resolve

Is that likely to be an issue, and is there a good fix?
Doesn't this do nothing for the cause of legislating away personalized ads, though? Not wanting ads at all is different from being a consumer of non-personalized ads and buying stuff from them when it's still relevant so that companies can still survive without your personal data when it's regulated.
> You don't get people whinging about having to update any other OS

I think you just missed them. iOS gets constant issues - at least they stopped breaking the alarm clock. Each MacOS is a "what will I have to debug for a day this time" experience. Linux depends on a distribution, but Ubuntu at least is trying hard to join the release-breaking group.

The only one I personally never complained about is Android. (I'm sure others have...)
https://www.coinbase.com/blog/authentication-matters-coinbas...

https://images.ctfassets.net/c5bd0wqjc7v0/3Ku5foxu1kUTXa3l5x...
> Why do so many Youtubers have that annoying open-mouthed smile in all their thumbnails? Or similarly exaggerated facial expressions? There are plenty that don’t, but your metrics look better if you have an exaggerated facial expression in the thumbnail. As a result, your video gets shown to users frequently.

Vs back in the good old days of movies where hollywood cast all types of actors and not just young hot ones /s

I feel this is mostly just glamourizing the past. Kids these days, etc. The defining feature of counter culture is that it is not mainstream.

If you only consume mainstream media you won't consume non-mainstream media is as tautologically true now as it was in the past.
You're making an emotional argument (LGBTQ people get disowned by families) against a logical argument (LGBTQ is supported at so many levels of culture that it no longer counts as "counterculture").
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As the post points out, Python web frameworks have historically not prioritized improving the performance of serving static files, and that seems… fine?

If we assume that all projects have a finite amount of engineering effort available, then triaging is expected. The best practice for production web applications for decades has been to serve them from behind a reverse proxy. From there, it is usually fairly trivial to use path matching to serve static files from the reverse proxy itself, a tool that is much better suited to this purpose and can easily saturate any link you throw at it without breaking a sweat.

It seems perfectly reasonable for the maintainers of these web frameworks to defer improving the performance of static file serving indefinitely given this.
Why do you have the icon size set so large? When I used a Mac I always kept the icons small and disabled auto-hide because I disliked how long it took for the bar to pop up.
That's shifting the goalposts from the parent poster who was saying "all you need is the grade for your future career prospects," not "you are educating yourself independently."

Let's not pretend most people happy to cheat their way through to the eventual level of their mediocrity are doing so because they're doing a bunch of other learning.
Is this you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwAioN2mtsA
Actually, on second reading, I take it all back. This line is ambiguous and technically makes the user responsible for "all" fees, which presumably includes fees to the service provider. Even more shady is these fees aren't stated

"If charges cannot be processed through your debit or credit card, or if your bank draft or electronic funds transfer is returned for insufficient funds, you will be responsible for any fees incurred and Zip will have no liability with respect thereto."

As a reasonable human, I read this to mean no fees paid to the service provider.

As a proficient reader, this means the user is agreeing to paid undisclosed fees.

Is this an example of over broad TofS turning away customers, or TofS designed to screw over customers?
Good point. We've always been all remote, so I forget about that one, but I'm sure it's significant! When I started it was just me, and then just me and a friend of mine, so obviously didn't make sense to get an office just for us. Then we hired a third person, but again it was easy enough to make it work. For a long time I assumed that at some point I'd eventually have to get serious and get a real office. But then one day I realized... no one was going to make me do that.

It's certainly been a continuous process learning how to effectively manage a remote team (and manage in general), but agreed that at least for us the advantages definitely outweigh the drawbacks. It's actually been nice as remote work has caught on elsewhere, because though it means more competition, it also means much better tools as well as a broader knowledge base to draw on.
Because you have to mouse over, wait half a second, then find and click the app you're looking for? I'd rather trade screen real estate for time.
Isn't 4% the usual guess at the Lizardman Constant?
10,000 respondents out of 160,000 students without other filtering information is hardly useful data?
Could you give some concrete examples in ChatGPT's? This field is very abstract to me.
ChatGPT suggests factually correct or popular policies… The death penalty is objectively more expensive than life in prison, and the right to abortion is supported by a majority (in the US at least). You’re basically doing [a steven colbert bit](https://youtu.be/UwLjK9LFpeo), but unironically.
And I suppose Boeing put down $1.00 on the bill of sale? Give me a break. It's not a handshake deal on an El Camino. Give the IRS some credit here please. If this was feasible every bank and e-commerce site in the world would be hosted in international water.
But that's... exactly what I described and asked how to avoid...
I was going to recommend The Monkey Wrench Gang.

But Desert Solitaire is wonderful. One of my favorites...
> I bought a small amount

This is why it's really hard to win big buying individual stocks. You finally pulled the trigger, and you won, but you never even had a chance to make more than a small gain.

Say you even bought $100k, which is probably much more than most mere mortals have the stomach to "place a bet" with. You'd be up 60k, which is great, but probably not life changing. And now you have to decide if you want to cash it out or let it ride and risk losing it.

On the other hand, it doesn't take much intestinal fortitude to park 100k in VTSAX and sleep well every night.
And yet there really are many, and their hatred and bile spreads out across the internet, their 'fun' little things (like Q) spread out and fuck up real life too.

It's a great example of how irony often doesn't really exist.

Oh you were only playing at being a total arsehole ironically? That's not actually a good thing, and you've helped give cover to actual arseholes, spread their message and hatred, and now people have died. And all because you think it's fun to be edgy. Congrats.
> You are right about the dangers of Tik-Tok but it would not be so dangerous if we had a healthy market here that could keep up with it.

What do you mean by a healthy market in this case? You mean social media, right? Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, NarcissisticScrollParade, etc? What is lacking? I don't mean from a historical particulars point of view (e.g. TikTok found a recipe that seems to work for now); I mean from a structural point of view. What properties of the _market_ are not functioning well?

And, to accept your premise for the sake of argument, who can revive the US social media market?

China pumps tremendous resources (money, connections, etc) into TikTok.

Are you suggesting that a "healthy market" is a good solution to a state sponsored competitor? By "healthy market" what do you mean? If you mean the "free market" as defined by many economists, then we need to recognize the well-known patterns of market failures. What market failures do you see?

Perhaps you recognize how nation-states can and do interfere with free markets quite effectively, at least from a nationalistic perspective? The US does it for agriculture. Since at least the Cold War, the US has poured resources (funding, careers) into mathematics and engineering for the benefit of American industry.

Let me know where you are coming from? I'm not trying to rehash underlying economic philosophies; we don't have to subscribe to the same economic theories. I'm interested in what you specifically think is happening and why.
I suppose our fundamental difference is over whether these apps are best compared as tools or as works of art. When I evaluate and compare tools, in addition to cost, I'm looking at things like speed to perform key tasks, ease/speed to navigate the UI, reliability, error rate, user mistake-rate, latency, accuracy, feature discoverability. Does it effectively do what it says on the tin? And are these attributes greater than or less than those of competing tools? These are all things the developer can take as feedback, file as bugs, go back and improve, and re-measure.

If it were a video game or movie, then sure, subjective comparisons of the media content would make more sense. Does the plot make sense? Are the characters likable? But then, it's just one reviewer's opinion vs. another's rather than actionable measures of quality.

I'm looking at the article from the point of view of the developer accepting criticism and wanting to take corrective action. If I released a utility application and a reviewer told me [not your words, but for example] it felt cold and without pizazz, and it didn't zing and pop and it wasn't sleek enough, I wouldn't know what to do to fix this.
It works for Roblox because the game is the content. Likewise for Mario Maker, or WC3 custom maps. It works because players evaluate the content based on how fun it is.

But if I'm building something like Diablo I'll have a carefully crafted progression system for my game. If the "content" is in-game items then the best items will be the most powerful - that is, the ones which let players skip to the end of the game. And if my game's progression system can be completely ignored because someone owns a space laser they bought in another game for money, it ruins the game for everyone.

- The art becomes a non-cohesive mess.

- The players who don't have a space laser feel like their in-game progression has suddenly become meaningless. Clearly the real progression is being able to afford items with real money out of the game - and they don't play diablo to feel poor.

- And the player who has the cool space laser has all the struggle and progress taken away from them. A sense of fulfillment is created by struggling at something then eventually succeeding. You can't feel fulfilled if you don't first struggle. (Thats what the middle of a game is for.) If you skip that by spending real money, its not fun. Even pay-to-win games have loot box mechanics and a money based progression system for the people who pay.

You can make the art be cosmetic only, but that has its own set of problems. Fashion is valuable in part because of scarcity. Fortnite, Team Fortress and Dota2 create that scarcity by controlling what assets are included in the game. Scarcity is ruined if anyone can mint another NFT of the same jpeg with a single pixel changed. And you have the obvious problems of people drawing "adult content", and so on. It works for VRChat, but most of VRChat's content is off limits to most players (on devices like the Quest) because of how non-child friendly it can be. An in-house art team could easily be cheaper than the moderation team you'd need.

Virtual worlds with cryptocurrency derived items seems to be a lot of smoke and not a lot of fire. Given how many people are excited by the idea, and how much money there is to be made if someone gets it right, I find it telling that there still aren't any compelling games built on these concepts.
Fortunately we don't have to speculate because the professor herself explains why:

> Some of the young students in my class take up these offers, and this further demoralizes other female students seeing this happen (i.e. only attractive women being offered tutoring sessions).

The more attractive women are receiving all the positive attention, and the others are hurt by this. Which is completely natural, but...welcome to the world. Life is unfair, and being attractive opens doors that aren't available to others. Are people obligated to show equal interest in everyone, regardless of their actual feelings towards them? Men who expect this from women are usually derided (and rightfully so) as "incels".
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Honestly with 15 minutes of reading on how to light a photo, anyone can take a headshot with a phone camera.
This is not just moving but fully inverting the goal posts. Nobody at any point was disputing that a machine can’t ape non-profound or rote or meaningless human output.

The original discussion was precisely an objection to the attitude underlying "How is *GPT taking in data and producing an output different than a human learning a skill and making prose/code/art?" and the answer is right in your premise - not everything a human does is not profound. A human can intend to mean something with prose or art, even if not all prose or art means something — but any meaning we see in ChatGPT’s output is essentially pareidolia.
The point, I believe, is that sometimes generating bullshit requires some understanding, so it is a worthwhile exercise. Just like running: you end up where you started, so it may seem that you did nothing. But obviously you exercised.

Asking a student to write an essay is similar: it is an exercise. Of course that essay won't be published or read by anyone else, but that was not the point. Just like you were not running somewhere, you were just running for running.
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bundle creates a single file that contains everything in A not in B, so e.g. the delta between the state of the repository yesterday and the state today (for all the refs in it). You just need to produce the "rev list" to save.
These bags aren't gonna hold themselves.
Or if your local power company is Hydro One that has known Suspect Insulators on the transmission lines strung above the distribution lines, you'll end up having 44kV pumped into lines that normally carry 7.2kV with the end result that appliances expecting 120VAC at the wall will get a whopping 733V surge, frying a whole bunch of electronics and nearly starting a few house fires. That could never happen, right?

Ooops, it happened here last year.
Someone give me one reason why a game developper would want to give an inch of support to someone moving to a different game than theirs?

Let me rephrase in realpolitik terms: why would Epic let anyone move their stuff out of Fortnite and into Apex Legends?
If the difference is so small it's hard to measure, then that sounds like something that's not worth testing to me. Meaning that it's also ok if somebody changes the implementation later on.

On the other hand, if it's performance critical code in a way that's important to the project, then running a manual benchmark once and hoping that nobody accidentally breaks it strikes me as poor practice.
If it’s not targeted but only 1/10000 people would be interested, general advertising could be too expensive.
Disney is just trying to manage their theme park more effectively, and sell you some stuffed animals and t-shirts. 99.99% of people are not going to any lengths to avoid the unsophisticated stuff they're already doing, so they gain nothing from spending any more effort on it.

I imagine OP understands this though - they're opting out on principle, not out of practical reasons.