skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article seems to favor a telling of the story where Jack Ma started everything with his speech and the subsequent regulatory crackdown was to personally punish him for his insolence.

But it sounds implausible to me that Ma would speak out against strict financial regulations for no particular reason and then exactly the regulations he was against would be announced within a short time. After all, this kind of thing usually takes a while to prepare.

I think it's more likely that regulators had been worrying about bad loans starting a new financial crisis for some time and Ma got advance notice that new regulations to reduce financial risk were in the works. So he tried to get the Ant IPO done as soon as possible (Ant getting regulated like any other bank and consequently growing at the same speed as any other bank, making its high valuation unjustifiable, doesn't concern him as long as he can sell off his shares first) and held his speech as a last-ditch effort to rally support for a more laissez-faire approach.

The funny thing is that Alibaba-the-company is doing basically fine while BABA-the-stock fell dramatically. A "third consecutive quarter of single-digit revenue growth" is bad news for an investor who bought at an inflated price assuming double-digit growth, but not exactly the end of the world for the company's day-to-day business.
It shouldn’t have to be explained that dedicated video game hardware and personal mobile computers have very different use cases and sharing cultures around them.

Do you share the use of your tv with friends and family?
Cohen's Mathematical Forcing
I said no such thing. I know it's destructive (especially with the ban on other substances leading to an overconsumption), but it did not lead to a degeneration.

And as studies came to light, as the scientific consensus slowly but surely arrives at the "most likely no safe amount" conclusion, it gets less and less glamorized in TV shows, and young people are already drinking less (probably because they're on tiktok and screens instead). Despite all the advertisement for alcohol.
SO had a fairphone. Broke screen. Turned out the screen replacement module was vaporware.
Facebook turns over chats to police resulting in abortion charges (2022)
You can.

> $275k for 50kg to SSO with additional mass at $5.5k/kg. Affordable rates also available to Mid-Inclination LEO, GTO, and TLI.

https://www.spacex.com/rideshare/
Ähm. Nein. That is a rumour. https://www.lg.com/de/klimaanlagen/lg-ac24bk or https://www.lg.com/de/business/klimaanlagen

You just need to be able to afford it, and have the ok to install from the landlord, HOA, whatever, or actually OWN the place. Imagine...
I dislike the word “passionate” in this context too. You don’t have to be in love with programming, but there definitely are qualities of curiosity, tenacity and pride of workmanship that are very important to high performing software teams.
Even if they came to my house to fit me with it I wouldn't buy it. What problem is it solving for someone other than Apple? We've been seeing this AR pipe-dream for 10+ years and it hasn't caught on. Not because the technology was bad, but because people just don't want it.

What Apple is missing here is that people wanted the iPhone (a phone with an iPod built in) for years before it was even officially announced as under development. It succeeded because the market invented it, not because Apple are geniuses who showed us we needed it.
“It’s obviously fairly awful of those people to knowingly circumvent safety systems of something that they are aware is already unsafe” - you have never driven through west Texas. Straight, flat, perfect visibility for miles, and very little traffic. As long as you’re not driving into the sunrise or sunset, Tesla can handle it well.
Early on YouTube was basically a repository of commercial copyrighted material. Widespread home video was not really a big thing at the time.
I'm not convinced it's positive, though I definitely understand the impulse. (And specifically wanting to take down LessWrong, which has turned very weird and navel gaze-y).

But it's a lot like the vitriol I see towards effective altruism. There's a good idea there (i.e. wanting to train oneself to think rationally, or wanting to do charity in a way that achieves the most good for the amount of money given). It's a bit sad to me that because the representatives of these ideas are flawed (rationality, LessWrong, Eliezer), or because they've been used as cover for shitty behavior (effective altruism, Sam Bankman-Fried) that the consensus becomes "there's nothing good here and it's all bullshit".

This pattern of throwing out the baby with the bathwater seems absolutely pervasive in modern discourse, you can see variations of it in people's thinking on vaccines, racism, democracy, journalism, freedom of speech, and global warming, to think of just a few examples.

Sorry, this became kind of a rant, but I really wish our internet discourse could do a better job of filtering babies from bathwater than it currently does.
Hey there! I don't remember what laptop I was specifically thinking of when I wrote that (Apologies, I started writing this back in February and got distracted for a number of months) but there is a non-zero chance I was thinking about the Asus ZenBook Pro Duo. Sorry I can't be more specific about past me's thought process :(
I agree, but I do wonder why the knee jerk reaction is "I'm not going to need it". The setup cost is basically zero! If TypeScript offers any benefit at all, why _not_ use it, since the benefits will come at near zero cost?
You left out important context:

> for the enthusiastic, apple is going to make it as low-friction as possible.

Going to a store is not low friction for an enthusiast. We've already established that the price tag shuts out all but the enthusiast.

Apple enthusiasts will do anything to buy Apple products.
> Math should be more inclusive. Math should be more engaging. I think one of the biggest mistakes both Dr. Boaler’s supporters and detractors have made in this debate is to try to slot what should be a practical, fact based argument about optimal math education into an ideological struggle invoking silly phrases like Woke Math. Dr. Boaler and her fans did not make math education worse by being too left wing in their math—whatever that even means—but by sloppy with their science and lazy with their facts. You don’t make math education better by advocating for changes based on lies, and unfortunately, that is exactly what happened here.

The assertion is that this was not leftist politics at work. Why else would Dr. Boaler advocate for what the author asserts are lies, then? The author also admits that the aim is equal outcomes and gives data showing the approach is actively worse, even on that measure. How is this not a problem of Progressivism over Liberalism?

> In response to this, science and math professors across the state have been raising alarms. In response, Dr. Boaler turned to a tactic she often relies on—trying to wrap her ideas in the context of a broader culture war, painting critics as stodgy conservatives fighting her efforts to make math more equitable and diverse. She described her critics as those resisting change. The notion that teaching this version of data science rather than Algebra II is somehow more equitable permeates the CMF in often bizarre ways.

> The CMF says data science is more equitable than other STEM fields because “data scientists work together to address uncertainty in data while avoiding bias.”

So the aim is to train people to "clean data," leading to more equity! That is, train people to use the tools to eliminate data from datasets that meets someone else's definition of bias. Why "someone else's?" Because if the people wielding the tools don't have an understanding of the underlying math (something the article opines about) they can't know whether a dataset is biased or not without someone else telling them it is and how. When someone else tells them that any data indicating X < 0.9 is biased, they can then blindly eliminate all values of X less than 0.9. Yay! "Unbiased" data! Such a manipulation would have to be done on faith rather than on understanding.

How is this not a problem of politics getting in the way of education?

The only possible alternative is that it is the adjacent hustle of big business aligned with a particular political mindset. But that only makes it mildly removed from, not entirely divorced from, Progressive policy advocacy.
Beware the Digital Whiteboard
The only way to do this is to whitelist acceptable input variables. Detecting bias is a meaningless exercise.
> It's all still going to be a million time faster than whatever you were doing in Python, or Java, or Go, or Javascript, or whatever.

Not at all. Systems languages don't magically make all code faster, they just help you write fast code. It's not that hard to tank performance if you're careless with allocations. I've seen some really slow C++, written by people who liked to use new everywhere like it's Java.

If you want not to care about this stuff, I think that Java would fit your programming style better (or Kotlin, if you dislike Java's verbosity). The JVM is quite tolerant of doing lots of unnecessary allocations.
I'm the type of person that would grab pandas to parse a CSV. Here's my reasoning

* often times, it's not just the third column I want. Sometimes it becomes "third column unless the first column is 'b' then instead grab the fourth column". Having a good data representation makes sure that I'm not mixing logic code with representation parsing code

* I don't have to care about CSV parsing edge cases. Escaped comma? Quotes? I don't care, the library will either handle it or throw an explicit error. With custom parsing code, instead of an error, I'll get some mangled result in the middle of the file that I won't even catch / notice until later down the line

* when working with CSVs, in my area (ML / scientific compute), Python is often the right context to be in.
Regardless of Apple's marketing, for the vast majority of people this will be a media consumption device first and a media creation device second, just like the iPad. And you absolutely share your media consumption devices (television, game consoles, iPads) with your family/housemates.
It does imply that the opposite kind can't be found in Europe, otherwise you would also be better off paying a lower salary for them.
Right, yeah I guess you're right. Feels a bit sad though, but that's how it is.
Cant get around in Cambridge the traffic is terrible, unless you have an ebike, so I guess everyone will be working remotely from home, but then why do we need so many houses in Cambridge?

Sure Stansted airport is 13mins down the M11 so Ryan Air can get you to most parts of Europe if you need a face to face meeting in Europe; Heathrow or Gatwick is more hassle if you have to head to the Americas, or far east, but this just seems pointless.

Saying that I think Prudential own all the land around Stansted Airport and the trick for the second runway at Stansted airport will be to build the 2nd runway quite a distance away from the first, so the eventual 3rd runway will fit between the two existing runways and its got the longest runway in the UK which is why the space shuttle flew in to Stansted on the back of a plane.

A14 has been improved making getting away for the weekend to the lake district or peak district easier, Cambridge to Mt Snowdon in Wales can be driven in 4 hours if you fancy a stomp and some hills, 3-4hrs walk up and down (pygs/miners), 4hrs drive back, aka a 12hr day, because Cambridge is really flat, and I mean really flat!

But I cant stress enough, the traffic in Cambridge is terrible and with global warming and rising sea levels, would these homes be a poor investment?

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/parts-c...
Yep, it originates from Larry Wall commenting many years ago that "perl5 is a velociraptor - what we need now is an acceloraptor" and the quote being rediscovered later ... followed by a lot of us deciding that "not amazingly recent but still epically awesome" worked for us.
I was't planning on leaving Evernote after many years of use. But I went to do a full export yesterday, just in case. It locked up mid way through four times in a row, 3x after fresh reboots. Now I'm planning on leaving Evernote.
Is that a "degeneration"? People were drinking hundreds of years ago too and there has been a lot of progress despite the availability of alcohol. (The fact that we managed to get to a point where we finally think alcohol is bad is itself, I argue, a sign of progress.)

I'm not saying it's great, I'm saying that it's legal, and it should be, and other drugs also should be, and enforcement of responsible use should be a priority.
Yeah, mental too, so long as it impedes learning.

> If your actually care only about the test results, there's lots of other adjustments you should be very interested in to enable everyone to have a shot.

Depends. If a child has terrible parents for example, testing shouldn't accomodate for that. Same thing if family income and other issues are a factor. I think you are talking about learning accomodation and that's probably fine but tests should measure ability.

I inclided physical disability only because I couldn't think of how mental disability could be accomodated for in a test. But dyslexia is a good one, carefully crafting questions and answers for dyslexic kids makes sense.
I share my PlayStation and AppleTV with friends and family. And, yeah, my kid regularly uses my iPad and family members definitely use one another’s phones on occasion. Also the Vision Pro is expensive enough that not every family member will get one — if there’s one in the house it sure would be cool if everyone could use it.
I recently found a really lite distro called Alpine Linux. It's flies on my old netbook from 2013.
If you throw some money at the project so the dev team can drink a couple of beers on you, that's donation.

If you throw some money at the project because they imply that otherwise development and software availability stops, that's paying for software.

Not saying that either one is bad, or worse than the other. But this doesn't look like the first case.
Eh, you have a point. I am not exactly keen on sharing my Valve Index with people because hygiene is important to me. My wife can use it if she wants to.

However, we're talking about a 3500 US dollar (without tax) device and a novelty. Of course people are going to share it if they can.
When you consider the alternative is no youtube at all (remember, they were hemorrhaging money), everything you described doesn't seem so bad.
> Not because the technology was bad, but because people just don't want it.

It’s hard to see how anyone who has been following the technology could make this claim.
Hackathons in Ukraine are the reasons AR glasses are going to be ubiquitous? I don’t see the connection.
To be clear, I’m not going as far as you here. I’m not saying therapy is bunk or isn’t scientific at all.

Rather, I’m saying that an individual therapist making anecdotes about their individual clients doesn’t constitute a scientific study.

Believe what you want but don’t mistake what I said for being anti-therapy.
AR is a wet dream fostered by decades of science fiction. Please don't kid everyone with this
It's a shame that this looks like it's being downvoted - the linked video is one of the better put together presentations about scientific skepticism that happens to be centered on Avi Loeb. The presenter articulates a few problems with Loeb specifically, but also more systemic problems with science communication far better than I could.
A page from 1995 about this topic. http://amasci.com/amateur/holo1.html
Ok... why do all the people that just want to clock in and get a paycheck get offended that people willing to pay a lot of money want to hire people that actually care?

Because you want to have your cake and eat it too?
> I think this is a natural conclusion from working with a lot of imperative code. The usual test you see for an imperative code block is like "mock this out, assert it was called N times with these arguments". That approach is usually redundant and tautological.

I agree. I usually see the I/O layer weaved with the data transform layer. Often in the same function call. And, usually, the answer is to pull those two layers apart, put tests around the transforms, and push the I/O to the edges. Usually...

> It looks silly when the example function is `add(2, 2)` but most functions aren't just redefining mathematical operators, but rather are encoding non-trivial domain logic.

(de)serialization functions are a good general case purely-functional example. Data is transformed and you need to verify the transform was correctly performed, has all kinds of unique edge-cases, and should gracefully inform the caller when something is wrong.
Chess in the Rust and TypeScript type systems
I’m pretty sure that’s been true for as long as there have been jobs. At least at this point I wouldn’t be working for someone if I didn’t need to think about money.
I miss electronics retail, even with its issues. Radio Shack had the Forrest Mims engineer's notebooks for learning electronics, and it was great to be able to drive down to a Fry's to pick up a component that you needed in a hurry on a weekend.

Shout out to Anchor Electronics in Santa Clara, San Mateo Electronics Supply, and of course Jameco, which are still alive.

I'm also lamenting the loss of SF Bay area electronics surplus: Weird Stuff, Halted/HSC, and the latest casualty, Excess Solutions. Is there any place left around here to find used/surplus electronics?
And of course this is posted on Medium in order to get eyeballs on it. You need all the audiences to abandon platforms for your vision to take hold. I'm fairly confident this will never happen, unless maybe Section 230 gets re-written.
IMO the benefits of TS are huge, but probably the biggest benefit is that refactoring becomes almost trivial in most cases - just change the type of a variable/function/etc and the compiler will tell you every line in your codebase that needs to change in real time.
Now official: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/evernote-layoffs-moving-...
Whither Microblogging
With all due respect, as a European myself, the ones who are passionate about tech do not stay out of the US for long. There are notable exceptions of course but the immigration statistics and subsequent brain drain is undeniable. The only notable tech company to come out of Europe in the last decade is Spotify.
I recall reading that at the time, and simply choosing to avoid Denuvo and waiting to buy titles that included it.

I'm willing to update my credence on that idea. Thank you.
People want it, but not in this form factor. Like I've been saying regarding Oculus' products for years: VR/AR isn't a bad idea, but nobody wants to strap a set of heavy, sweaty ski goggles to their face for eight hours a day. Just because the newest models are lighter/more comfortable than the old models doesn't mean they're anywhere near acceptable. I'll be passing on these until they're the size and weight of ordinary glasses.
wow, "Celeste Burgess, who was 28 weeks pregnant at the time, and her mother Jessica Burgess, who allegedly performed an abortion without a licensed doctor present. The investigation began after police received a tip that the pair had illegally buried a stillborn child." This is in Nebraska FYI. And Meta emphasized that the search warrant it received was legal and valid and did not specifically mention abortion. All it said was "a stillborn baby being burned and buried" so...
A Step Saving Kitchen, 1949 [video]
Fitting a headset is nothing like fitting an armband. If you are going to buy it you will need to try it and get it customized at point of sale
Russia is accumulating a lot of yuan. Maybe Mr. Ma needs to visit Moscow.
The big win I think will be the App Store rather than just the Apple Store. the App Store will provide reducing the need to take the headset off to use general apps.

When you use an oculus, if you need to do something like reply to a text, check an email or reply to someone on social media, you have to take off your headset or kill your current task and switch to virtual desktop.

Having all your iOS apps on it, and being able to multitask means people won’t be taking off their headset as often and they’ll not have to consider dedicated VR time.

To me, that’s the biggest software differentiator
Like the author, I also find it disturbing that "leftists" who claim great values are available for the worst crimes.

In Christopher Hitchens' case, it was the cruel US/NATO wars. Trotsky, an early hero of Hitchens, was not Stalin, but his role in the Civil War is also doubtful (in the war against Poland I think he was one of the more reasonable).

And I agree with the author: values should not be used too abstractly and unhistorically especially for warfare.
To some degree that’s probably true of most jobs though. There are some people that paint software as something unique where it isn’t some all consuming nights and weekends interest you’re not a “real” programmer.
Philip Morris is, or at least used to, selling the electronic cigarettes the same way.

This sort of exclusivity makes some people feel special. It's a viable tactic.
I think maybe by "weak", the GC is referring to how the guarantees of TypeScript are not very "strong", i.e. TypeScript is not a "sound" type system.
Thanks for the hint about einkbro saving articles to ePub, I’ll give it a try.
Does saving to ePub feature works for paywalled content? Does it save ads too?
I'm no expert but I definitely can't help but wonder if it's WiFi or Bluetooth. Maybe something like radio interference making it work 50x harder?

Around a decade ago I had a MacBook that was super sensitive to interference issues. Although I'm not sure if that results in a big power draw (the way it does with cell phones for example when you're constantly going in and out of service).
Come on now.

I get the just of the post, but after reading the content therein, this is a super defeatist take.

Who cares if you're not a skinny girly girl or a tall dude with blonde hair and blue eyes? Not everyone's into that.

There are so many things a person can do to improve their appearance before succumbing to typical gym and diet tropes (though those aren't bad things either!)

The author is 23 (though she was 20 when she wrote this). When I was 20, I looked like a _steaming pile_ compared to what I am now at 35. Dressed terribly, awkward in social situations, and surprisingly clingy. Ironically, I was skinnier then.

To close this post with something that makes this appear like HN-worthy content if you squint hard enough, I often feel the same about my career as a black/Latino person in tech.

While I would consider myself and my career trajectory to date successful, I often wondered things like "would I be in management by now if I were white?" or "I thought I did well on this take-home; would I have gotten a call back if I weren't black?"

Ridiculous thoughts, but I think them!
Only if you ignore memory layout and understand the UB on your platform. The language does not make as many guarantees as "C is simple" folks seem to think. Throw a sanitizer at any of their code, and you'll see unaligned memory accesses all over the place.
The FP4 was out in 2021. That's 5 years. But you're right, and it's actually discounted 50 eur because of that. You can wait for the FP5 if you're not satisfied
It's full of residential trash burning videos.

They film themselves burning residential trash and teach others "how to save money at the dump" doing it.

Each one of them pollutes more than an entire city.

I've reported them, because those activities are illegal, and YouTube keeps the videos up.