skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, good point.

But Tesla is an actual business. People are actually driving around in actual cars.

Not so for Theranos (no product at all). Not so for FTX (ponzi scheme / pure theft).

But fair enough. In a way the difference to WeWork is just that Tesla hasn't (yet) collapsed under the weight of overinflated promises.

Edit: SpaceX is actually the largest launcher of satellites. Paypal is an actual service used by… billions?

He's not delivered everything. Not even close. We were supposed to be on Mars by now. But the rockets ARE launching actual payload.

Starlink has actual customers.

I'm not deifying Elon, not at all. But the comparison to SBF and Holmes is ridiculous.
I'm trying to spin up the lobsters software on a forum. It's meant to be a pseudo comment section for my blog, as well as a place to discuss anything that is intellectually stimulating.

If I succeed, do you want an invite?
Indiana Jones films make no sense.

Their depiction of non-Western world is ridiculous.
I don't think this is true. There are a lot of applications and services that I avoid because they are so slow that they are painful. I don't think you should be worrying about ensuring that your API is always <10ms but good general performance patterns (especially considering the scaling as you write code, limit yourself to O(n) unless you can be very sure that `n` will always be small) can keep you within interactive performance without needing to worry too much about it.
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He's the perfect profile for having the start of a P/NP proof: a full professor in computer science, but not really in the subfield of CS theory.
other companies care about owning the platforms, if they own the platforms they get to squeeze everyone who uses them. Much like everyone wants to be a payment provider because taking a cut on every payment is very, very lucrative

Microsoft gave up on trying to create new platforms, the main reasons in my opinion are:

1) Regulations are going to come down hard on platforms

2) User-happiness and developer happiness is reduced if you squeeze, eventually bringing down the platform

3) Dependence, if your platform starts to fail you can't pivot because your business is just completely reliant on owning the platform. You can see how google owning AdSense is screwing them over now

4) Dutch disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

Microsoft seems to have figured out that owning a platform is not a long-term recipe for success. If anything it is like being an oil-rich country, eventually the only thing you can do is exporting oil. Probably because they went through it with Windows and Office

So the definition of success depends on what you think success is, Microsoft just changed what success means for big tech companies, providing an alternative route. We will see if they can stick with it or if they will try to build platform-moats again (it is very tempting to do so when you find one)
Remix Icons are also solid: https://remixicon.com/
If I find a non-fiction book interesting, I will often find similar books to read for related perspectives or do focused web searches on sections that I don’t understand well or find particularly interesting/useful.
My biggest problem with pip-compile is that it's really slow. Pip-compile runs can take upwards of 20 minutes, depending on how many dependencies your project has.

We use it because we don't have any alternative. I'd really love to have a faster tool though.
What happens when you have a legal obligation to delete or anonymise data for some reason?
Outside of silly, your proposition also allows to encode more information into the name. Race could be geographical origin, class can be if it's state-sponsored or independant, level the "level of danger", and gear the methods used. You can even add an actual name to easily refer to them. But the issue is that in both of your examples the coded descriptions aren't really shorter than the real descriptions. I guess this is the issue, they want names that are a bit descriptive but not a full description, and you gave a full description.

Still, I agree that half silly is the worst (at least to me), it sounds like "corporate-allowed fun" which ruins the point.
I think that given the declining share of profit coming from windows, it wouldn’t be surprising for me if it just gets worse.
From the article:

> The data had, the report indicated, been sent to a so-called “Red Team” for vetting, but, according to the panel’s report, “none of the Red Team cyber experts were able to open the files.”

Nobody "got cute with election data". There was no data to begin with, it was all gibberish. Claiming that you have proof an election was stolen is Serious Business, and Lindell didn't do his due diligence before going to public with the so-called data.
I wish I shared your optimism that any kind of server I set up in 2007 would still be fully functional today without any kind of maintenance, let alone that it will still be around to serve my grandchildren.

An FTP server already wouldn't serve my needs given that there's no such thing as mobile sync to an FTP server.
That's different because reissuing a modernized version of a classic does not obliterate the classic. If somebody wants to experience it as it was originally created, it can still be made available.

As you've rightly observed, censoring the paintings was destructive.

Now, this is apart from the moral argument about whether we want to allow rightsholders to offer "modernized" versions of classic works. But it's still notable that the classic work does not cease to exist in this case, which makes it fundamentally different from the one you describe.
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> Nothing is stopping Apple or Google from shaking MS down for more dollars by bumping up app store profit sharing splits

The government is stopping this kind of thing, anti trust, monopolies and all that. It is only getting worse for these platform owners
well or else you will get intel naming scheme of using 10nm ++++++
Only works if they have been moved. Addresses start out as hashes of ECC keys, not the keys themselves
I do this for a living and no, most office towers from the last 50 years are not ripe for mixed use living. It can be done, but the unit economics are sobering.

Historic buildings lay out well, but it's still very expensive. We are converting a historic building in downtown St Louis right now opening in June, and it is very expensive, historic tax credits mandatory to make the numbers work. Shameless plug: www.victorstl.com

Very expensive to convert the space, different utility demands (many more bathrooms), mechanical ventilation needs are very different, office towers have very high opex, requires a team to run them, and typically have exorbitant RE taxes.

All that for the privilege of a sub-par living experience, i.e. rents will be low relative to market. severely limited daylight, no balcony or fresh air (windows aren't operable).

Many office towers and their associated leases were vanity projects for corporations wanting high profile space in a high profile areas to attract employees and prestige, but business culture has, in large part, moved on.

My small business moved from the "elite" downtown high rise to a boring little office park closer to our team's homes, and nearly every aspect is significantly comparatively better. Shorter commute, no high-rise elevator wait, no walk to the garage (and another elevator and wait to congestion to exit at quittin' time), no panhandling when you want to step outside for fresh air. I do miss the high rise view, but otherwise my office and business functions exactly the same, with the added perk of being able to make it to my kids' activities whenever I want.

Elite is no longer "main and main hi-rise" but working wherever you want whenever you want. Elite is Zooming in from an Aspen CO ski lodge. Has been for some time, but the daily expectation for in-person meetings has been cut. Now, revisit the high rise calculus again...
Let's think like a programmer implementing the sieve of Eratosthenes.

You can think of the sieve of Eratosthenes as starting with an infinite string of 1 bits, then for each prime p, you AND it with a periodic infinite string that's all 1's except for 0's at multiples of p. Then repeat until you get to sqrt(sieve_size), with the next p being the next 1 bit in the string.

AND is associative so you could alternatively AND together several of the periodic strings first, then you get a string whose period is the product of the periods.

Could you use that to optimize? Yes. For example if your big sieve is 1GB, naively you'd need to do four 1GB passes to knock out four consecutive primes, say 11, 13, 17, 19. But you can instead calculate the combined action of those primes by doing four passes over a (much smaller!) bit vector of size 11x13x17x19, then apply that in one pass over the main 1GB sieve. (I guess you'd want to tune the max size of the small bit vector based on your cache size.)

Further optimizations are possible, e.g. you could special-case the smallest primes. With a trivial indexing change, you can have your sieve bits represent odd numbers only, and halve the memory requirement (or double the largest prime you can find with a fixed amount of memory). Subsequent primes (e.g. knocking out multiples of 3 so your bit vector only contains bits representing numbers of the form 6k±1) involve less trivial changes to the indexing logic with diminishing returns.
> gravity isn't really a force

Yeah, this fact made me cringe at explanation #2: the guy keeps saying things like "gravity is the only force that is felt by all kinds of matter". Stuff doesn't "feel" gravity; it's not a force, it's just the shape of spacetime. Also, gravity doesn't just affect matter; photons are not matter, but are affected by the curvature of spacetime (i.e. gravity).

/me not a physicist; but I'm not a baby either, and I don't appreciate babytalk oversimplifications.
I get the deislamified part, but I think I missed why you mentioned crusaders? Did I forget some specific line, or was that your own comparison?
The article talks about 90% of all consumed beers are "Lager" which definitely isn't what I would expect when I hear "Lagerbier". The "90% mainstream beer" is called Pilsner in Germany (unless you're in Bavaria where the mainstream beer is probably Hefeweizen).

PS: I'm actually surprised by the article, I thought this type of beer was first brewed in Pilsen/Plzeň (thus the name "Pilsner")
No. Because ChatGPT will be available on other platforms that people already use, Microsoft phones will have awful user experience and overall polish, and iOS/Android will soon have something (better integrated) that is likely nearly as good as ChatGPT.
You have to add a lot of scaffolding to postgres to make it semi-immutable. datomic just is, wanna know previous user email, just go back and see. Out of the box, without thinking about it.
Dropbox has 500 employees?
I loved my Windows Phone.
Also - Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization - from 2 days ago (464p,325c) :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35690398
Blockchain still hasn't had a killer app that made people want to use it.

LLMs do. Guess we'll see if it's really flexible enough to fit into a lot of business models, but it's not exactly the same thing.

I don't see it as the wildest thing that say, a corp using cloud storage might want an LLM trained on all their documents so instead of searching for where X employee who left the company 3 years ago stored some information that was on page 9 of a document from 2017, you just ask the model and it pulls the info and links you to the source doc.
Can you really talk to all of the parents of all of the kids your child goes to school with and spend time with?
I use Crest Pro Health to brush and Listerine Flouride Zero Alcohol (This is sodium flouride) if I’m too lazy to brush. Only reason for name brand is the taste.
ah, there is some regulatory oversight and there's awareness of the safety aspects.

Not much, but, there is some.

After working on infotainment, I'm doing my best to avoid purchasing a car with an infotainment system. I had to compromise and got a Civic with an infotainment system for my wife, but I'll probably stick to late 2000s, early 2010s for as long as I possibly can to avoid them. Seriously hate touchscreens, and there's just not enough value in an infotainment system for me to be OK with what I'm losing by having one.
Terse.
You are using very loaded word for something that isn't even remotely true.

People choose which ever party or candidate should represent them in the government, they can at any point decide to vote for new candidates or parties.

Protests are not a legalislative form of action but a means for citizens to raise their concerns.

Microsofts value does not dictate its power, power dictate power.

They got multiple industries under their thumb and have been caught trying to subvert and or destroy competition.

You're welcome to try and create a country where violence, territory and military is democratized/privatized it doesn't change the point that we choose to live in countries where the social contract is that the government has monopoly over certain goods.
The sentiment here and in most of industry is: “and that doesn’t matter.”
There is a really good video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZdmS-EAbHo
Of course he was hired by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Of course he was.
I've read the article. It exposes a well-known point of view in philosophy of science that has been debated at least a hundred years. It doesn't begin to cover that question at all.

Notably, the idea that a new theory simply takes existing "observations" and adds to them is historically unfounded. Indeed, many theories start as thought experiments that contradict observation and later turn out to be better models, not the other way around.

You also may or may not be familiar with the concepts of theory-ladenness and the commensurability of theories. If not, I suggest doing some reading about that so you can appreciate why those questions aren't as straightforward as you seem to believe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory-ladenness
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commensurability_(philosophy_o...
NYC has some useful history here. The entire downtown area was expected to become a ghost town after 9/11 because companies fled from there and it was entirely an office district.

Office to residential conversions and new residential towers have completely transformed the area, arguably making it much better than what it was before.

And the largest office to residential conversion in America was just green lighted there.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/24/longtime-nyc-home-of-the-daily...
I agree with him on this. If something is sensitive in modern times, it's better to leave as-is and attach a warning like WB did with some Looney Tunes cartoons saying "It's a product of its time and no longer reflects modern values". We shouldn't mask the past; if we do, we will fall into the same trappings that we spent decades ridding ourselves of.
I would argue race was better handled in the antiquity. Rulers could be of any race, slaves could be of any race.

Some slaves who were teachers or artists were also probably happier and more respected than a lot of "free" people of today.

I'm obviously playing devils advocate here, but as I said in another comment: we always think we've figured things out better than the people before us.
Well no shit. I could have told them that.
And once that hardware is selected for a given range of vehicles, it's literally impossible to change. Updates to some parts of the software stack are also basically impossible at a certain point.
I wish there would be a Google Drive equivalent of this.
>You can put duct tape over your federally mandated backup camera display if you really believe they're so distracting that they cause you to run over more people in reverse.

>But maybe you should just stay off the road instead, so you have less blood on your own hands.

Tape won't undo all the other changes to cars that OEMs engaged in once they were required to have a screen.

Congratulations. Your pet regulatory change has reduced back over deaths by under a hundred a year. In a vacuum with spherical cow that's great but reality isn't a vacuum with spherical cows. And now that you've put this hardware in cars and engineers have taken advantage of it you've increased back out accidents and merging accidents (both are inversely correlated with rear visibility) and you've made many of the critical 2nd order functions of operating a car less intuitive and more distracting to use. You've but you don't care about that because the metric you were gaming (back over deaths) is marginally improved. And when called out by people who want to look at the big picture you respond with insults. Screw you and the safety vest you rode in on.
Having worked in this industry for two decades (and a Dropbox user since its public launch) the "product strategy" of most of these companies is close to just spitballing. If you want a recent example you can look at Facebook lighting almost $40 billion with their Metaverse product.

To add to that, Product leadership at technology companies has evolved to be much less technical, so they aren't going to have any deep insight about AI that, say, a software engineer who has worked in that field might have.

But hey, if in a few years Dropbox launches a popular AI-based feature I'll gladly eat my words because I'll probably be using it. They could benefit from enhancing their search functionality, for example -- but that's just a nice-to-have feature, not something revolutionary.
Most companies work that way already, even small ones. Doesn’t end the world (doesn’t make it a perfect place to live in either).
I have a method that works really well.

I only read books on kindle, and i use kindle highlights. After I finish a book, I usually wait about 1 month or so, then I download the kindle highlights and turn them in to Anki flash cards and review them every day.

The type of cards i make are

1. vocab i didnt know
2. interesting paragraphs
3. other examples using cloze

SMS works, and this method definitely works, but it's a lot of work. One really good thing that comes out of this is even if I cant recall exactly what I wanted, I always can remember the book it came from and the kindle highlights give me the page number to go read it again.
The article says (emphasis mine):

> WhatsApp users are getting a long-requested feature: access to the same account across multiple cellphones.

This has been supported by Signal for years by linking devices. You can have the same Signal account on the primary phone (the one you verified through SMS OTP), a tablet and/or a desktop or other device. Messages (and message read statuses) get synced across devices.

Open Signal, go to Settings, then to “Linked Devices” and then choose “Link a New Device” to set it up. And unlike the previous WhatsApp desktop solution, Signal doesn’t (and did not) have the requirement to have the primary phone close by to act as a proxy. You can leave your primary phone anywhere (like on some other network or offline) and still have the linked devices work fine.
Trying to censor the hatefulness out of Roald Dahl is a futile gesture. Performatively-cruel comedy is a core feature of classic British children's lit. Tweaking a word here or there is absurd. If you don't want books that viciously mock people for their appearance, their weight, or their ethnicity, you should probably avoid them altogether.
What exactly is the metric for "best" here?

I consider MS's record under Nadella to be a mixed bag. Azure is probably Nadella's biggest success, but it's hard to come up with any other significant market in which MS has excelled under Nadella where they were not previously dominant.

From a user perspective, many MS products I use have improved and many have changed in ways I would consider to be detrimental. VS Code is probably the only new MS product that I've started using regularly - and I'd only consider it to be a minor improvement over Sublime Text for my use cases.
They meet crash standards, yes. But the interior design of them encourages unsafe driving. Between putting almost everything inside a touch screen and pushing autopilot (which encourages drivers to pay attention less), they are creating more distractions from controlling their 2-ton metal boxes.

Drivers are licensed operators of heavy machinery that travels at high speed. Let's not encourage systems that turn us into more dangerous operators.
"So what? You've got physical buttons? Big whoop. That physical button that takes 500ms to respond is still as dangerous. You've just removed one problem.
"

At least for me, response time isn't the issue. It's being able to reach without looking, feel the position of the button I want in relationship to other buttons, and then press it and get the desired results. That is something that can't be duplicated with a touch screen, particularly one on which the button I want isn't on the very top level.
Seeing a lot of the replies here focus on the EU's prevalence of anti-hate speech laws, there's clearly one genus of the audience that sees the EU as being "restrictive" on their kind of free speech. Which is not surprising in the least.

As an American, I see nothing wrong with the EU's measures against hate speech. In the past decade, I've seen exactly where no limits on it leads to.
1,800 more laid off from Gap Inc HQ and Upper Field today
When I was a kid, I was taught to 'narrate' the books I read - fiction, nonfiction, whatever - just 'tell it back in your own words' at a reasonable level of detail. That helped a ton with retaining most of what I read, as it trained me early on to remember it clearly. Don't really have to bother with explicit retention methods.

That, plus generally reading because there's specific information that I need to get out of the materials. Working on some project, need to know how to do something, find & read resources that help me do it.
Blockchain and NFT brings no real value to most people.

My non techie wife and all her friends love ChatGPT and use it daily. My kids friends use it to do all their homework.
Which is pissing off my kids as I won’t let them use it.
If Germany had kept its nuclear plants available in 2003 today (which was completely feasible), it would be 100% coal-free TODAY. Imagine that. There is zero excuse. Any ton of CO2 emitted is a problem.
There's https://docs.datomic.com/pro/reference/excision.html - but like in other data models you also might choose to not store sensitive infromation like PII in cleartext in the main DB at all. At least in earlier versions excision wasn't supported in the Datomic Cloud version.
Again, with your hypotheticals—when was the last time you needed to do any of that with Postgres or another FOSS DBMS?

For the vast majority of use cases, a FOSS DBMS and a free-as-in-beer DBMS are indistinguishable. If you're in a category where they're not, then don't use Datomic, but this is still far more than a publicity stunt.
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> If there were any type of particle that did not feel gravity, we could use that particle to send out a message from the inside of the black hole, so it wouldn’t actually be black.

What about gravitational waves? Could you propagate a gravitational wave from inside the black hole to the outside? Or is it stopped at the event horizon?