skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hope you like them! And if you are looking for more, consider giving R.A. Lafferty a shot as well. Another very unique, intelligent SF author without a lot of peers who wrote like him.
Bought and refi'd on the way down is what many people did. I was paying extra but at 2%, what's the point and why would I ever move unless I had to?

2014 - 5%/30y

2015 - 3.75%/30y

2016 - 2.75%/15y

2021 - 2%/10y
>That’s some expensive free marketing

No, it's free.

They need to make the models already in order to sell them as managed models.

Giving them away costs nothing once they're made.
Well, that's interesting.

One one hand, I understand that in principle all names are made-up, and if traditional names are considered traditional, it's only because they have been around long enough. On the other hand, I question how kids who are forced to grow up with such, erm, unusual names end up feeling about it.
> Error handling absolutely breaks the language for me.

I think you missed my point. This is not about whether I personally like go (I don't) or its error handling (I don't). It's about which aspects, historically, tend to lead to a language's demise over a few years. The claim is that error handling is not one of them.

C isn't great with that either. It's still heavily used.

The supply chain issues are more relevant, but the key question then is whether the language and ecosystem evolve to avoid this. Golang has shown to be flexible and generics were unthinkable not too long ago. Now they are there.

Neither golang nor C are my favorites, and you can argue all you want why golang is not for you, but that misses the point entirely.
Google Analytics 4 is not ready for prime time.

I have reviewed many Google Analytics alternatives. You can read about them here: https://algustionesa.com/google-analytics-alternatives/

One thing to note is that many Google Analytics alternatives suffer from data accuracy issues.

They record and count analytics data differently from how Google Analytics does.

Therefore, before fully transitioning to Google Analytics and being surprised by a drop in visitors, it's advisable to use any analytics alternative alongside it first.
Please dont post quora links.
Whilst the questions and answers might be interesting, the whole site its just a minefield of ads, SEO spam, forced logins, etc…
The us was exceptional by circumstances, and now they become just another xerox of europe.
This applies to many things, including lots of things we think we “got to rationally” - much more than we want to admit is rationalization.
Sometimes those bankers were disrupted by Judeans coming in an smashing up the nice open plan lending atriums. Really need the firm hand of government to prevent repeat offending
Titanic: First 3D scan of the shipwreck unveiled
Absolutely.

It's part of the reason why office work is so difficult and working from home is not. Sitting in a office is quite tiring since I have to use a lot of energy to restrain myself. I'm the type of person who paces when thinking/talking on the phone, talks with their hands, bounces my leg when sitting, fiddling with something in my hands when talking, etc..

The best description I can give is it feels almost like a bad itch. I cannot control when something itches, but once the urge to scratch presents itself, it's almost impossible to resist. Trying to force myself to not move doesn't make the "itch" go away. It just gets worse.
> it's not even remotely a new problem created by this particular technology

True. But this technology (again, if the proponents are correct) threatens to do it on a truly unprecedented scale. It was bad enough -- barely tolerable in some cases -- in history. Getting it even worse seems like something nobody would want, let alone cheerlead.

I am deeply, deeply concerned that there are people willing to gamble with the lives of innocent others (not to mention society itself) like this. It's something we need to be addressing now, before it happens.
What an ironic post given that the author's domain is "Empathy Novel". Or was that intentional?

Here are some ways this author is misguided:

- "Appeal to emotion is bad": No, it's a totally valid business strategy. Literally all good marketing (Apple billboards, etc) is appeal to emotion. Sure, maybe you're "above" that, but many people aren't. Lots of people want to feel like they're a part of something instead of just being an emotionless business robot.

- "Substack relies entirely on external traffic": If I remember correctly, Substack has said that traffic from Twitter is ~2% of their inbound traffic. I could be wrong though. Also, so what?

- "pay hundreds of dollars per year to read their goddamn blogs" - Substack is literally mostly free. What is this guy on about?

Honestly it seems like a guy who didn't see any personal success on Substack maybe because his writing (and logic) aren't superb, then received a poorly-timed email from Substack and decided to vent about it.
> PC hardware means benchmark results which means benchmark websites/blogs which means the "as we tested in our previous article" phrase is common so it will just put it there in the answer even if makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

"Don't forget to like and subscribe!" -- A Hackernews' 3-yo daughter, saying goodbye
I work with a lot of non-profit Drupal clients and we've switched them from GA to Plausible Analytics because of GA4. It's not free, but it's cheap enough that they're willing to pay in order to not deal with all this bullshit.

Plausible has a really simple interface, and we're able to embed the dashboard within the Drupal admin interface too so they don't even need to log in to a separate service to see their stats.
I'm not too sure of this trend of rebranding 1980's monochrome LCDs as the "new" e-paper.

The refresh rates are nice but it's really not the same, and in direct sunlight on a hot California day you can see a world of difference between the contrast and glare of a high school graphing calculator and a Kindle.
It also wasn’t the basis of my argument, it was just a passing remark in just the first sentence.

Would have been nice if you read more than just the opening sentence before announcing that it was unconvincing…but each to their own I guess
This is partly about interest rates. People are locked into 3% mortgage rates and can't justify walking away from that to get a mortgage with a 6%+ rate.
Good luck. As soon as you tilt the screen towards you so you can read it, your dashcam is now capturing video off at some weird angle.
Embrace the Clash: How Disagreements Can Propel Your Startup's Success
Little nitpick, but :not() is not a new feature by most definitions of new. It has been in browsers for over a decade (closer to 15 in browsers not related to IE), which is an eternity in the world of web technology.
> Did we manage to somehow regulate away existing systems to stop this?

No, but other countries have. We just don't do regulation because we're America or something (and because the FCC has been gutted). No European country has the same level of spam phone calls that we do.
To use AI to alert you to when you're not paying attention.
It can be surprisingly easy to keep something running - especially when all that can happen is mechanical failures.
I still use Palm Desktop (c1996)
There's no prepay penalty in the US. I got a fixed rate at 5% on my current house and currently pay 3% due to having taken out new loans to pay off the old one (a.k.a refinancing).

A 30 year rate fix with no prepay penalty is incredibly borrower friendly because you can (nearly) always take advantage of lower interest rates, but don't have to worry about your rate ever going up.
Houses are still pretty expensive, even with interest rates where they are.
It's not wimpiness, it's an essential acceptance of cruelty that is accepted as a neccessary part of the american psyche where not just individuals but businesses have that freedom.

"If I was the company owner or the boss, I might do that to in order to protect my money"
nice article tbh! i'll consider some sort of OPML -> vore url list thing, it probably won't be too hard to implement. if the textbox could just take raw OPML & do the conversion transparently, that would be ideal.
The complete downfall of quora is surprising tbh.

Trying to cash out before they reached critical point? At one point about a decade ago through my spotty memory they are pretty on par with reddit in terms of adoption and reputation.
> I personally don't mind deletion of antivax stuff because I'm not antivax

The term antivax is a problem.

Very few people are actually anti all vaccines, and nobody should be pro all vaccines for everyone all the time. There have been actual truly failed vaccines, are you "antivax" if you wouldn't volunteer to take them? Should articles about past failed vaccines be censored from the internet? Of course not.

The term is sloppy and careless, but people love it, probably because it lets you be part of a team. But everybody means something different by it.

Nobody should presume any new implementation of a class is good just because there have been previous successful implementations. Reality doesn't make things so easy for us.
Google to delete accounts inactive for two years in security push
I intellectually believe that could be true but NYC anecdotally seems more crowded and is definitely more expensive than ever before.
The problem with Substack is they'll never make enough revenue to cover all the VC expectations they raised without turning into a network effects/semi-walled-garden social media platform.

They just don't know it yet.

You can see this dilemma first hand in that email they spammed everyone with today. It starts by saying:

"Unlike most other online media platforms, we don’t seek to lock our customers into a walled garden by controlling their relationship with their audience"

Yet, at the end of the same email they tout the benefits of their walled garden and customer lock-in:

"37% of my paying subscribers had existing Substack accounts. 27% had saved credit cards on the Substack system, which made it a one-click experience to sign up for my paid newsletter. 11% came from platform features like Substack leaderboards, recommendations, or promotions."

So which is it? Are you an open platform, or are you a network effects business pedaling access to that network for a 10% cut?

The evidence is clear when you look under the hood. Substack won't allow you to recommend any non-Substack publication on their growth widgets. They try to get readers to download the Substack app to fully own the eyeballs that creators bring them. They've even launched a Twitter competitor. They're not building some non-profit open protocol here...and that's okay! Let's just stop pretending otherwise.

Personally, I think Substack should lean fully into becoming the next Twitter and stop trying to play the "good guy" card. Shut off custom domains and fully own the traffic like they're trying to do anyways. If they were to lean into the walled-garden social aspects, maybe the platform wouldn't have looked so rudderless to investors and they wouldn't have failed to raise their last round.
Seems like a reasonable point of view from Sam. Better to have some kind of AGI catastrophe when some kind of Butlerian Jihad is still possible.
Turtle DNA Raised Serious Human DNA Privacy, Ethical Concerns
No, a "recurring deadline" means that on the classic project management tradeoff of scope-time-resources(+quality?) you consider that a fixed scope MUST be delivered by a fixed deadline, and any variation means that you may (have to) spend more effort or dump quality to achieve that; but a "recurring habit" is an approach that you devote a certain systematic amount of effort+quality by the deadline but expect some variation in how much results will be achieved that.
While the USA exploits undocumented workers in agriculture etc., its not like being documented is a huge step up either. In Canada, there's a whole (sub) class of legally imported labour under the "Temporary Foreign Worker" program that's exploited in a similar way.
Looks good!

Is it me, or the "low" latency is not that low? Like a 1-second delay, also the cursors don't seem as smooth for the advertised "120hz" update frequency.
> IMSLP is great for finding quick scores of random stuff, but the editions are often pretty shoddy, like either super outdated with weird editorial decisions that no one's agreed with for the last 50 years, or someone's totally amateur transcription full of errors and equally weird decisions.

You picked my interest.

- what makes an "edition" ("score"?) outdated?

- can you give examples for a weird editorial decision, maybe by additionally providing an alternative good editorial version?

- what happened that something deemed correct (?) over 50 years ago is nowadays something no one agrees with?
The Maximum Human Lifespan Will Rise Dramatically This Century, Researchers Say
You do exactly the same thing when you use phrases like "the right wing".
Their own systems are garbage too. I hate newer cars. I can build a better stereo with 5 speakers for under $500 and it would blow away what any car company can engineer into their 42 speaker stereo.
Oh boy, that reminded me of a flame war that started when someone wrote in English, "I demand ..." when they were really just _asking_ for further details about something. They woke up the next morning to find a thread dozens of messages long of people arguing back and forth about whether this person was rude or not. Once they explained that French was their native language and how they would write that sentence in French, things eventually calmed down.
Ok, we've canned the title above. Thanks!
Okay, I had utterly forgotten "hovars without flapping", thank you. Or damn you, I'm not sure which.

And just to be clear, we definitely need more turrents, commando.
The difference is accountability. If you start the burn, you’re responsible. If 100 people build homes that create a hazard, nobody is responsible.
I represent half that country. Are you familiar with sexual dimorphism, comrade?
> In these cases sellers would have to basically pay the bank the difference

Or they can default. Mortgages in the US are typically limited recourse, not full recourse. Of course that makes you a pariah to lenders for the next several years...
Duck Duck Go and Bing have both indexed my blog but Google has yet to. I've been increasingly disappointed with Google's search results the past couple of years. Might have to give DDG a try!
> Today, both the audience and the objectives have changed. The overwhelming majority of the audience is now computer-literate and can be counted on to figure out how to use the basic features regardless of how poorly designed or inefficient they may be

Except that the majority of the audience has no idea how a computer works, what is a directory/folder and that the USB stick has a filesystem on it.
This link was posted here recently, and was the most understandable explanation I've found so far: https://e2eml.school/transformers.html
Subscriptions for apps are like paying the service fee to a skilled mechanic for your car's maintenance and upgrades. The developer acts as the mechanic, using the subscription revenue to continually improve the app's performance, security, and features. Just as the mechanic ensures your car runs smoothly and can add better features (tinted windows, reverse camera etc), the developer can deliver regular updates, replace outdated components, and introduce innovative features. Subscriptions support ongoing app maintenance and enhancement, providing users with a reliable and up-to-date experience, similar to how a mechanic's services keep your car in optimal condition.
Indeed, this is not related to Dream Theater’s John Petrucci.
NASA’s Webb Finds Water, and a New Mystery, in Rare Main Belt Comet
What you are talking about are engineering investments. Generally you have to make the case for those. Management will generally not want to make those, because they are costly, and require long term maintenance. You have to prove that it will be good for business somehow. No one gives this to you, you fight for it, or build it without asking
Easier for quick prototypes, for sure (although I switched to Rust from Haskell due to even worse compile times in Haskell and my disdain for monad transformers). Also, Rust can't currently do nested pattern matching through Boxes, which can be annoying, coming from Haskell.

But for a high performance compiler, manually managed arena allocation will beat out a generational GC.
The difference between Windows XP SP2 in 2008 and Windows 95 is much bigger than Windows 7 and Windows 11. By 2008 nothing mainstream was supporting Windows 95 at all.
Thanks a lot for sharing. I liked the explanation, although it seems to be not a perfect matching between attention and kernel (as far as I understand). Since as I undestand x_o = Qx and x_i = Qx and y_i = Vx but it doesn't map to Wu dot Wv.

Anyway just curious do you or someone else have more sources in this format?

At least this way it is very helpfull to think about the methods. Kind of agree that the formular does look very very similar to well known methods. But on the other hand, the author doesn't explain the transformers in a similar simple way since it is not obvious why you could stack kernels and get better results.
I used to love Belkin products. Not anymore.
Those houses will just get snapped up by investors.

By all means build but you also need laws to prevent houses from being snapped up by those who don't intend to live them.
VoidTools Everything
Twitter Reportedly Acquires Job Platform Laskie in First Major Deal Under Musk
> The small group can form their own union. They just won't be a part of the big union anymore. Like I said, they need to leave the union/state/country.

How is this different than, let's say, Amazon telling a group, "that's fine if you want to organize, but you'll have to find another company to do it at" and then firing the group. I believe it is illegal for a company to prevent a group from organizing, but apparently it is legal for a union to prevent a group from organizing.

I'm not sure what the solution is, I'm not that knowledgeable about unions beyond recognizing that people within a union lose their ability to form a union (because they're already in a union). I also recognize that once a union is large enough, sub-groups within that union might want to organize independently, but they cannot. Probably what I would argue for is making exclusive contracts with unions illegal.
Quoting 1984 when discussing the history of a programming language really detracts from any point you’re trying to make.

It’s not like we’ve seen some massive regression in compiler performance. Circumstances changed, and the Go developers changed their minds. What would you do?
Target expects organized retail crime-fueled losses to jump by $500M this year
Paw Paw would be the best local replacement for tropical flavor
And this is exactly why people congregate in places like Silicon Valley and New York. If you lose your job there's a 98% chance you can find another job you like within commuting distance.

For people in relationships it also means both people being able to pursue a wide spectrum of changes in their careers without moving, and one person don't need their partner to make a sacrifice in their career to pursue change.
> If there's a possibility of an asteroid coming that will wipe out life on earth, waiting until our telescopes can see it to start taking action may not give us enough time to react.

How would we even know what to do until we have a concrete target?
Actually so does ChatGPT with browsing.
Was arable land easy to come by for a poor Roman or would you be more likely to have a landlord requiring some cut?
Superstar substackers make upward of $1M a year and can afford the team.

Myself I developed a paid API gateway (oddly commercial API gateways that bribe bloggers to spam spam spam to promote themselves and have a huge marketing budget offer every feature other than charging to access your API) and an email newsletter script that ran serverless in AWS. Both have run for years without me looking at them. If they had a baby that would be a substack replacement.

Quite a few ‘creator economy’ types who have had problems with the big platforms have struck out on their own like this guy

https://www.combatvetnews.com/
> Something as simple as Win+Shift+S is an amazing improvement which required a third party tool under Win7 but no more since 2010CU

Snipping tool has been built in for a while now
Speaking for myself, the primary draw of larger houses are more spaces dedicated to particular tasks/hobbies/etc. So it might not be square footage that's the goal but the higher number of rooms that usually comes with that.

For example my house is ~1800sqft which is very comfortable and a massive upgrade over the apartments I used to live in that were half as large, but as someone who works from home it'd be nice to have one more room than my house has to use exclusively as an office to maintain mental partitioning between work and downtime. Similarly it might be nice for my garage to be a bit bigger so I could better fit in a "workshop corner".

Is that sort of thing needed? Absolutely not and many get along just fine with far less, but it'd still be a welcome quality of life upgrade.
I would argue the issues that both of you raise are rooted in the fact that there may not be enough hand-holding at the beginning of the newsletter building process.
If you haven't logged into your Google acct in over 2 years, it will be deleted
You should do a roadtrip! Dystopia US has some nice pockets. Affordable is all relative, of course.

It's pretty much impossible to "win" in housing unless you're investing major sweat equity, or factoring-in intangibles like satisfaction with a like-minded community or peace of mind.
It's telling that you see this as a trial. Nobody else does; there is no defense or prosecution or any of that.

The reason Apple prompts for genuine parts is to devalue the stolen phone market. If repair shops could put in any old camera, there would be a lot more incentive to sell stolen phones to repair shops, therefore more incentive to steal phones, therefore more stolen phones.

Apple's a giant company. I have no emotional connection to them. But most of what we're talking about here makes sense from a business and even customer-friendly perspective, or at least as a reasonable tradeoff between ease/expense of repair and likelihood of having your phone stolen or pwned.
lol

The courts will decide there's "no clearly established law".

https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/micah-jessop-br...

> After local police officers searched the homes and business of Micah Jessop and Brittan Ashjian, more than $100,000 in cash and $125,000 in rare coins went missing. Jessop and Ashjian sued the officers and the City of Fresno under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a statute that authorizes damages actions against state and local officials for constitutional violations, arguing that the officers’ alleged theft violated their Fourth Amendment right to be free from “unreasonable searches and seizures.” The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that under the doctrine of qualified immunity the officers cannot be sued because, according to the court, it is not “clearly established” that this type of theft violates the Fourth Amendment.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/05/30/police-geo...

> For instance, last November the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that Tennessee cops who allowed their police dog to bite a surrendered suspect did not violate clearly established law. There, the victim cited a case where the same court earlier held that it was unconstitutional for officers to sic their dog on a suspect who had surrendered by lying on the ground with his hands to the side. That was not sufficient, the court reasoned, because the victim had not surrendered by lying down: He had surrendered by sitting on the ground and raising his hands.