skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: Ignore this comment, I was mistaken

I don't believe that will ever happen due to the underlying Vitess tech [0] that PlanetScale uses

[0] https://vitess.io/blog/2021-06-15-online-ddl-why-no-fk/
I'm not sure that the Bitter Lesson is the end of the story. The Bitter Corollary seems to be that scaling computation also requires scaling data.

Sometimes that's easy; self-play in Go, for example, can generate essentially infinite data.

On the other hand, sometimes data isn't infinite. It can seem infinite, such as the aforementioned NLP work, where computation-heavy ML system can process more data than a human can read in their lifetime. However, our LLMs are already within an order of magnitude of reading every bit of human writing ever, and we're scaling our way to that data limit.

"Clever" human algorithms are all a way of doing more with less. People are still more data-efficient learners than large ML systems, and I'm less sure that we'll be able to compute our way to that kind of efficiency.
https://archive.is/kuMf0

> Last year Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, asked workers to “think and reflect” before asking for pay rises.

I literally laughed out loud. Everybody should have been asking for pay raises the last two years for at least enough to cover the inflation rate.
There is a third possibility: climate change is a thing and it’s NOT Man made. This is the true worst case senario. We both hurt the global economy (especially of developing world) in a futile attempt to stop it while still having to deal with the effects.

To be clear, I do believe in anthropomorphic climate change, but in a vacuum the situation is not as “sensible” as you say.
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"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

-- Daniel J. Shea, Jr. (1985)

From the Preface of The New Plague: Organizations in Complexity by W.L. Livingston
Equating someone that recommends some magazine, that then publishes a story about sex, to child sex abuse, is a bit of a stretch. Since you browsed HN, which had a link to an interview, with someone that read an article once about sex, does that make you a child sex abuser?

A lot of sci-fi authors have 'weird sex' stories. Not only was it the sixties, they are sci-fi authors in the sixties, writing about alien sex and all kinds of out of the box thinking.

I could just as easily say, don't vote Republican, they have a large percentage of sex abusers in office. Or, don't be Catholic.
Our biggest competitor fails in every Core Vital, and their page takes 13 seconds to load. Ours loads in under 2 seconds. They rank higher in every market. They run national ads and have tons of backlinks. Core Vitals aren't that important when compared to other things. If you're in a less marketable industry, your CLS being .01 better than your competitors isn't going to do anything. I can make my core vitals score absolutely perfect, but it could hurt user experience along the way. It's not a perfect metric by any means. Just something people bring up during sales pitches at this point.
From your first link:

> There was no evidence that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy or other Ukrainian government officials were behind the attacks which spewed natural gas into the Baltic Sea, the newspaper reported, citing U.S. officials.

I'm not really following why Greta should be condemning the Ukrainian government if there's no evidence they had anything to do with it.
I'm not convinced there's a hidden answer, or anything. He saw a very poorly managed operation, went "I could do that", and then fucked up even worse. Shareholders probably knew Twitter was overvalued, so selling at market-price to one madman was better than trusting another not to capsize your investment. So, they did what any reasonable investor would do, and they fucked over the users.

Let it be a lesson to anyone who puts their faith in a private platform. These people don't care about you - they just get paid to pretend to.
We are all "the people" even when acting in our official capacity as government employees. It also doesn't bestow shit. It says our rights are self evident and forbids the government, which includes the judiciary, from stomping on them.
Yet you can still apply styles - to an extent - to most of these. Even just margin/padding will affect many of them.
The post is probably getting downvotes because people can't tell whether it's complaining that people are being reallocated from middle class to poor; or whether money is being reallocated from middle class people to poor people.
> Freedom of speech is literally the first thing in the Bill of Rights.

Not necessarily talking about this injunction in particular, but I would like to address this argument. Yes, freedom of speech is very clearly expressed in the Constitution. But there are limits and exceptions to every right in the Constitution, certainly including speech.

There are many things that are indisputably "speech" and yet are also illegal: fraud, extortion, libel, slander, perjury, threats, impersonating a doctor or law enforcement officer, etc.

I think it would be difficult to make a case that our society would be better off if we defined free speech in so broad and absolutist a sense as to permit all of these. So our evaluation of any particular issue must be more complex than "it's speech, therefore it is always automatically okay."
They go in increments of 50m. If you asked the width people go to, it would be 25m.

So your comment about avoiding the metric system is not really accurate. We don't say the Earth is approximately equal to 150 million kilometres from the Sun, we say one AU. We just use numbers that can be comprehended.
When Apple got in to Open Source in the 2000s, they defined it as:

>"The basic principle is to involve as many people as possible in writing and debugging code, by publishing the source code and encouraging the formation of a large community of developers who will submit modifications and enhancements." [0]

Apple's use of open source was eye-opening to me. I liked Darwin, and watching it sadly go extinct was a weird bummer.

>As of January 2023, Apple no longer mentions Darwin by name on its Open Source website and only publishes an incomplete collection of open-source projects relating to macOS and iOS. [1]

I think the simplest answer is anything based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines:

√ Free redistribution
√ Inclusion of source code.
√ Allowing for modifications and derived works.
√ Integrity of the author's source code (as a compromise).
√ No discrimination against persons or groups.
√ No discrimination against fields of endeavor, like commercial use.
√ The license needs to apply to all to whom the program is redistributed.
√ License must not be specific to a product.
√ License must not restrict other software.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20000901055855/http://www.openso...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guideline...
Yes, but comparatively lightweight for being one. The devs don't use large frameworks like React and write pretty barebones JS. It shows.
> A supporter of free speech should be horrified by this ruling. If you’re not, imagine an injunction of similar scope where the political sides were reversed.

Governments don't get free speech. They get all sorts of restrictions on them that citizens don't.
Prettier won't guarantee XML well-formedness. You should use a different tool for that, or an XML pluggin for Prettier.
I'm sure we can trust the Economist to provide a neutral and unbiased take on this idea. /s
The economist is a nonsense idea.

Already been shown that inflation is being abused to raise prices in many places.

Now it might not have started this mess, but it's for sure keeping it going.

It's the ECB itself, normally Unilever's friend, who argued such: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/27/corporate-p...

Now fair enough, the ECB should point the finger at itself for it's monetary policy.
Government regulation and the Fed will continue to exist in some form, at least to some small degree, so you will always be able to claim markets weren't "free" enough to properly implement a free market system. But if that's true, then it's moot; if a free-market system requires absolute purity from government to perform as intended, then it's worthless, because that will never happen. In other words, its proponents admit it's a fantasy that will only exist in their heads. As such, I have no reason to care about it or about how great some people think it is.

Fortunately, most economists already agree that market failures exist, and that free-market economics is bunk.
Teflon tape is used to seal water pipe joints?
I can't see how this could for a readonly database, but how would you resolve collisions on writes and don't make them super slow in the process?
I guess the Cuban government is the greediest corporation in the world.
How is AI being used to enhance customer experiences?
Here is an old New York Times article on the (leaked) pitch deck that Musk presented to potential investors explaining his plans for Twitter.

https://archive.ph/9PG3M

Here is an article about Musk's plans for "Twitter 2.0" now, I think, called the X application.

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/Elon-Musk-Shares-Roadm...
Higher CO2, longer growing seasons and hotter temperatures are good for crops. "Climate change" will tend to increase rainfall as well. There are technical solutions for the other issues. An air conditioner is a $200 one time purchase, we subsidize much more expensive things. Elderly people tend to stay inside. I think you can relax.
From personal experience with early stage startups, it is quite a low bar. I've seen companies "acquired" for pennies on the dollar, after almost the entire staff is laid off. Somehow, this is considered a success even though you would've had an better outcome investing your time and money in almost anything else. Employees lost, investors lost. The founder often gets a cushy job they could've had anyway.
I think the question was "how did the phone company know the location", and GPS may be part of the answer.

In the US, E911 requires all phones to be able to report their physical location. Phone companies may use this ability to respond to police location requests. I don't know one way or another, but it seems likely.
This is pretty much exactly the opinion I'd expect the Economist to hold on this issue - that profit margins surging was just a coincidence.

It's as unsurprising as RT's opinion on who blew up the Kakhova Dam was.
> Specially since, in the chance they're actually right we'd be both saving the world and improving people's health

It's funny you mention this and the "god" example, and yet you are an atheist. Can't you make the same argument about the existence of God? It might be unlikely that a God exists, but just in case He does, it is infinitely better to be religious.
Because you'd end up in hell otherwise.

(This is not my original idea, it was brought up the first time by Blaise Pascal)
Do you have recommendations for exporter that preserves the notestack/notebooks?
I’ve looked and it seems that one can still install the old 2016 OneNote. I still have a cd key out there somewhere. I’m going to give this a go.

I still manage to save my modern OneNote files locally. I save them to my Dropbox for syncing.
I don't yet see an ACLU statement on this, though it seems up their alley, and they have a more recent statement on a different case. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases.

(Incidentally, the Ars Technica favicon looks very similar to the ACLU's.)
Mimeograph aka spirit duplicator used a stencil that you could write on or type on and then use alcohol to then dissolve the raised part of the stencil and transfer it onto the paper. It worked well for simple stuff but kinda poorly for halftones and could prob only provide 300 copies before you'd need a new stencil.

Xerographic from Greek "dry writing" differs in that you use a fine powder (toner) that can be electrostatically charged and then drawn to paper using a light-sensitive drum.

The genius of the AM machine is that it could be used to print on practically any medium including metal, dogtags were printed in this way. Also, data could be saved in either punchcard format or later electronically. The last big use was for imprinting credit cards.
You are still going on about that delusional idea, that some party used a tiny yacht to load it with tonnes explosives to get thru the giant pile of stones and mud above the pipes, and then manually put it in 3 or 4 separate places precisely on top of the pipes? And then nobody say the ship in highly controlled sea, and nobody found any explosives debris afterwards, not even the "offended" party with quite capable fleet?

And all that with what motivation? To harm themselves? Harm own economy? Or as KGB likes to say "to frame poor ruzzians"? As opposed to the country who had clear motive (avoid financial sanctions for stopping gas supply, which they actually did already)? And which had an easy and non sci-fi tool to do it? (maintenance payloads inside the pipes)

Come on, stop with the propaganda. Or at least find some fresh one. I have an idea for you - that Ukraine actually bought Prigozhyn wholesale. How's that for a delusional idea? Great, right? Better than cocaine used at Ostankino.
It's hard to say. In a lot of ways, they can address the same market, but from different directions. Evernote is a single-user focused app that extended to collaborative notetaking, Notion is a knowledge base app that can be used by individuals.

The market is different, and Notion has always had a present limitation of how much a free account can get away with, even if it is generous. There's a pretty stark difference in saying "have the whole enchilada for free" at first and then "now we're limiting the devices you can sync to" or "now these other features you had are no longer free", vs. "your usage is always metered, and there is a generous free tier". I do imagine there is some sense in that if the free tier threshold was reduced that would cause some pain, but setting the expectation of "lunch is free, all you can eat" and then pivoting to "lunch is still mostly free but now you have to pay for desert" is going to make anyone mad that they have to pay for dessert now.
There's been a miscommunication. I want you to provide the timestamp that makes you think the Apollo dev was serious.

I've listened to the recording and it's obvious he was joking every time he asked for the $10 million. I want to know why you think otherwise and am asking for the exact timestamp where you believe his threat could be interpreted as serious. I honestly have no idea which part of the recording could be interpreted as a serious threat and I don't believe such a timestamp exists, hence my inability to find it.
That looks pretty good actually, but now I'm going to move the goalposts and wish for a similar box with less color variety so that you can build, for example, a white house with a red roof, instead of having to cobble together various colors.

Still though, I just might have to top off the kids collection with one of these boxes. Good find.
From the article:

> "equity has been damaged by 32x and Sega CD," and that Sony has "effectively leveraged their considerable equity from consumer electronics."

The second part is exactly it.

Sony was, and still is, in the best position to license 3rd party games for their consoles because of their extensive partnerships across several industries.

Even today Nintendo is left to survive off their own 1st party games.

I don't agree the 32x or Sega CD were ever the problem. Sure they lost money on those products, but they still had a very strong brand. I think they knew at the time that wasn't going to be enough to continue in this space and they just weren't going to beat Sony on 3rd party and Nintendo on 1st party on their home consoles which is why they started cutting costs. Today they are very far from a failed business and made a good call.
Even in your worst case scenario, heat pumps are about as efficient end-to-end as a natural gas furnace. And renewable power is only going to become more common over time so it could get better.

To a consumer, comparing nameplate efficiencies as you say makes the most sense. I can easily find out how much a joule of electricity and a joule of natural gas cost me. Then multiply those with efficiency to see which is cheaper.
https://jpc.dev/insights

Planning to be more active over the next 6 months, stepping up to at least one post a month
I'm not aware of that, everything I read about climate change is pretty conclusive on the fact we're doomed.

Some scientists say we might have created feedback loops so even if we "solve" the problem, our end might be inevitable. Would be cool to see more positive takes on it but can't find many.

Also makes me laugh seeing environmentalists being against nuclear power when by now seems to be our only solution stop CO2 emissions (together with renewables of course).

The people who should be trying to get the solution are also making the problem so much worse.
I feel like people miss just how hard he tried to not buy Twitter. It seems clear that he was doing his usual market manipulation/dick swinging on social media, and went a little too far. He tried to bail, Twitter took him to court and before the court could force the sale, he said "OK yeah sure. I'll buy it."

It was a clown move, by a clown.
Of course it is, but a large portion of HN users are in the US. (approximately 41%, according to https://toolhub.tech/blog/Demographics-of-Hacker-News/)
In wartime it’s called profiteering and in some countries it counts as treason, which is to say it can get you hanged.
This isn't a coincidence.

Vector clocks, roughly speaking, build upon the idea of Lamport Clocks. This isn't to say that one type of clock is better than the other. The choice between them depends on the task at hand and involves a set of trade-offs.

Anyway, Leslie Lamport, who is considered the founding father of distributed systems as we know them today, introduced the concept of Lamport Clocks in his 1978 paper "Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system" (for which he later won the Turing Award).

According to Lamport, that paper was directly inspired by the special theory of relativity. In his own words [^1]:

"[...] special relativity, in particular, the four-dimensional space-time view developed by Minkowski in the famous 1908 paper. I realized that the problems in distributed systems are very much analogous to what's going on in physics [...]"

So, I don't know if these algorithms were reinvented or (re)discovered because, as you rightly say, they happen to operate in our universe.

[^1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfRouGH0oMg"
Yes, and those models can be contorted or misrepresented [1].

[1] https://docs.house.gov/meetings/SY/SY00/20160202/104399/HHRG...
I have been using it extensively during the last few weeks. I've very thankful for such a clean and practical API, and I think it will become the central solution for ingesting heterogeneous text in the Python ecosystem.

However, I'm afraid it is not there yet. Other libraries like PDFMiner give higher quality outputs and specialized libraries like Camelot are still needed to extract tables as reasonably well formatted text. It also needs a lot of extra tooling for web scraping. Sure it can read plain HTML from a URL, but it cannot run JavaScript, or control things like User Agent. It could be argued that such features are not within the scope, but it is rather bothersome for a library that presents a magic `partition` function for most standard text sources.

I'm sure it will get there soon though. It shouldn't be hard to integrate with state-of-the-art parsers and tooling, and the simple API undoubtedly brings a lot of peace of mind.
Under developed argument. It gets to the interesting claim:

>> Though there may be examples of opportunistic or anti-competitive behaviour, the effects are unlikely to have been material.

Then completely fails to substantiate.

Wasn’t worth the click.
I absolutely love plain text notes. Maybe you could understand that just because you think something is unpleasant and ancient, the rest of the entire human race might not agree? Shocking I know.

I can't stand any formatting whatsoever on my notes. I love plain text because it stays exactly as that: plain text. I don't want my dashes to be turned into spacers, I don't want my asterisks to be turned into lists, etc...
> It’s not all blue crap off Amazon.

To be honest, those little blue unmanaged Netgear switches aren’t bad at all. We have dozens of them in our lab at work running 24/7 for like decades and have never had a failure that I remember.
It's on its way!
> Police need a warrant

if the information they gather is to be admissible in court as evidence against a person. Police do not need a warrant to save the life of a person.
Did you export the Evernote into plain text?
The latter, can barely use many banks these days without two factor authentication on a phone.
I've had it used on me personally without a warrant. There are no deep controls on this tech. You just have to know someone who can do a favor.
I suspect (hope) that by the time a person is old enough to have a job, they have developed some sort of value system and are at least roughly aware of what that value system is.
Seems like all those corporations should be paying for cleaning up their mess. Why would we pull funding from other programs. That would be socializing the the cost while the few reap the reward.
Slow? I suppose.

Sad? Not in the slightest. Twitter is easily replaced. It benefitted from the network effect: regardless of its technical merits, it was the place where people already were, and therefore the place to be. Its only "moat" was that there was no other single place to go, rather than something fundamental to the technology.

If it disappears, another will quickly form. The only sad thing is that I, personally, would just as soon there not be any place at all for vapid hot takes that for some reason get treated as news.
There are only 256 bytes. CJK characters can be produced by outputting these bytes in a certain order. LLMs are capable of outputting multiple tokens in order because even many words are multiple tokens each.
It's going to happen.
We are working on foreign key constraint support right now. :)
What about the physical and psychological damage if the scientists are right and things get really really really really bad? If the ocean levels really do rise 10+ meters, won’t that cause even worse psychological damage? If places like the Middle East really do become uninhabitable, won’t that cause even worse psychological damage? Millions of refugees. If the vast majority of sea life dies, won’t that cause psychological damage? What about the Atlantic current stopping and the effects that would have on Europe? What about the increased drought and crop failure? What about invasive species moving farther North? More animals going extinct? Etc. It seems to me that the psychological damage from any and all of those will be far worse that what you are worried about.
Can people stop pretending already that these governments actually go through legal systems to backdoor and spy on people??

These patriot act type laws are just there to normalize their spying crimes in your eyes. Also to make people self censor themselves from criticizing their government.

No they don't prevent any sort of attacks because the attackers wouldn't be stupid enough to talk over their personal phones.

Let that sink in. They take away your privacy while not preventing any big attacks.
This is the way. I really like that I can include arbitrary HTML when I need it, without complex escaping. Anyone who builds web pages already knows the syntax.