skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what you get when you design a country around vehicles. High school here in NL is a 3 km bike ride. In rural areas that can go up quite a bit but it's still doable by bike except for some of our smaller islands.
> I don't think of myself as a {language} programmer. People will ask what language you code in, and I will throw out a few current ones. But I don't think of them as some particular skill that's hard to acquire. If I need a new language, I'll read the tutorials, and then I'm able to find my way. Only exception is c++, that one I still regard as a bit of a skill, where if you haven't tried it you have a lot of concepts to learn.

I took the opposite direction; I went deep into Scala, and while I was productive from week 1, I'd say I was probably learning useful generally-applicable stuff even 7 years in. You can write Java in any language, and many people have successful careers doing so, but IMO for a rewarding career you want to learn something that's not easy; getting deep into a particular language or framework isn't the only option but it's one that's easy to explain.
I think they 'like' it more because it's the Chinese communist party control and surveillance tool. So they make it ubiquitous in China. Whether they like it or not doesn't matter. Choice is not really free there.

I mean, there are some other choices but they also answer to the party. It's more for show.
Couple goes on hunger strike to protest pickleball noise near their home
There are definitely footguns with docker. I still feel like if I build the image I have a lot more control over it than when I'm trying to document build scripts, create the right package files or lock files, etc. I don't buy this argument and stopped reading when it was obvious that these issues could be solved by using a clearly specific build tag for the base image, etc.
the concept is that the primary feature that wechat provides is your identity with your wechat account. you connect to other people and you have verified their identity as well. from there it is most logical that you then want to use that identity to share work, make appointments, pay for things, etc.

the miniapp that we used the most was a voting tool. you could see who in the group had voted for what and it was very useful to have it all integrated, as opposed to an external website where none of the voters were verified to be the same people from the group.

sending money is also a no brainer once you can trust that the person you are sending money to is really the same one. and external payment system means that you would have to verify that the person you are sending money to is the same person you were talking to on wechat. that's just extra steps. if happens of course otherwise alipay would not exist, but part of that is because alibaba has other features (like the market) that people want to use, and they do not support wechat pay. i wuld suspect that if they had supported wechat pay, then alipay would not have been able to gain any significant market share at all.
At any stage in the process, from sheet music, to home taping, to Napster and beyond, we could point at the previous era's panic and say "ha ha, those old fools, sheet music didn't kill our vibrant music culture", and then go on to assume that, quite likely, nothing ever could.

And yet it sure seems like something is broken in the music industry in 2023. It feels like right now would be one of the least certain times in history to be a talented, dedicated musician who wants to make a living, let alone get rich and famous.

So, something changed. I think the tendency for many people is to just say that the reason for all this is the greed of the non-artistic, non-consumer parts of the music industry, but certainly it has nothing to do with me or my choices. I think that's probably self-serving position, and if we really looked at it we would find ourselves uncomfortably in an ecosystem where consumers demand immediate fulfillment of their desire, the industry rushes to give it to them without thinking about the future, and artists either adapt, or get replaced.

I did a lot of home taping. I did a lot of bittorrenting. Now I pay for Spotify, but haven't bought an album (physically or digitally) in years. I think I might have helped kill the music industry, and that's probably a bad thing.
No sex workers. No porn actors. No strippers. Do they generalize these occupations into the "escort" occupation when they are so very specific everywhere else? These are all legal occupations where I come from.

https://projector.tensorflow.org/?config=https://raw.githubu...
I haven't read the bill, but my first thought is that there's always going to be some threat to children, so any time you want to play pork barrel politics, you can trot out some nebulous child-safety bill and append riders to that.

Second thought is that this isn't about private interests (though it's possible). Big Tech moves and grows faster than the government. Arbitrary requirements are one way to papercut a larger entity into submission, like FOSTA/SESTA or 2257-- we'll give ourselves a way to take you down for something.

Case in point:

> The bill holds platforms liable if their designs and services do not “prevent and mitigate” a list of societal ills: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance use disorders, physical violence, online bullying and harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, and suicidal behaviors. Additionally, platforms would be responsible for patterns of use that indicate or encourage addiction-like behaviors.

Platforms would be responsible for preventing and mitigating anxiety. Platforms are prohibited from doing anything to incentivize repeat business. This is Obscenity 2.0.
Umm running the garbage system sounds rad?? I currently design open source farming robots but I would absolutely love designing open source garbage robots. Of course what’s better is community level management of waste production so we don’t even have a lot of garbage to deal with! Reusable washable containers for food, etc.
> So I reiterate, that the culprit is slowing productivity growth.

You should continue reading the paragraph you cited. Because it continues

> but that may not be surprising in view of the enormous economic losses that were precipitated by the financial crises.

So, Bosworth does not see power of the unions as the reason for the slowing productivity. He sees it in the financial crisis.

Please also see that in Fig. 1 of the article, we see that the goes up and down and up and down, without correlation to any union laws that would explain this; there were no big changes between 2005 an 2014 that would explain the numbers according to your hypothesis. Bosworth doesn't even mention unions.

> The argument is [...]

Neither of the two articles give your argument credible support. One is a pretty shallow opinion peace pulling numbers out of the air and the other one is a list of anecdotes about what looks very much like graft to me. Not sure what the second one has to do with unions.

I think I agree that rent-takers incomes are responsible for reducing the general population's. Social welfare however is not what I have in mind, quite the contrary.

> The effective tax rate of high income earners is much higher than that of a typical janitor..

These people have tax lawyers for a reason. W. Buffet even raised that issue in an 2012 interview[1]. It's become so bad, even millionaires are asking to fix the loopholes big as barn doors[2].

> This claim that manufacturing just offshored is unfounded.

How devastating offshoring was to US industry is well examined.[3,4] Just 1993-2000 the U.S. economy lost an average of 30.3 million jobs per year.

> Corporate earnings growth has slowed significantly since the 1950s

A finite world can only allow for finite growth. It's basic physics. Not that that matters; corporate profits are still sky high - and growing higher still. But labor's share is shrinking and shrinking. Again, I cite Bosworth:

> he new phenomenon is the decline in labor’s share of income for which we have no satisfactory explanation.

And as a possible explanation he refers to the already mentioned causes; reduced bargaining power through the global market and through corporate consolidation, reduced competition between companies.

> regulations that impose enormous compliance

Bosworth also mentioned regulations as a cause for the reduced share of worker. And you know what? I agree with that. Especially gratuitous regulation that allows regulatory capture or that otherwise reduces competition should be carefully weeded out.

> They keep manufacturing from returning.

European manufacturing, although also impacted by offshoring, seems stable despite much, much stronger union laws than those of the U.S. Germany especially has very strong unions and is nevertheless considered a manufacturing powerhouse.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/01/warren-buffett...

[2] https://patrioticmillionaires.org/2023/06/22/the-real-reason...

[3] https://www.americanprogress.org/article/offshoring-by-the-n...

[4] https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/new-assessment-role-offshorin...
There are places that archive public repos for preservation reasons - like https://archive.softwareheritage.org/
what do you mean? they said this exactly from first day, the license allowed commercial use unless you have more than 700m users
Ah, I see - so that discount introduces an incentive to buy unnecessary additional coats.
Well there is one unarguable one, although with consequences.

Instead of keeping some old machine with old dependencies because project is on life support and doing update to latest version of language/tools is unviable, you can just keep a docker container for it while machine it is running on is up to date.

It doesn't solve the problem of application, but it is no longer ops problem that app is old.

You can also do that partially, like keep old PHP version running with just fcgi socket exposd in a container, while rest of the app lives on "normal" VM (or other container, if that's what you want).
Yeah, that’s the generally used explanation for superconductivity
Paywalled or otherwise not loading.

> Meta Platforms Inc. plans to make money from the major cloud-computing companies when they resell its artificial intelligence large language model, Llama 2.

Yes, it's clearly licensed this way. They didn't say it was free. They licensed it explicitly so that massive companies with a billion or so users have to pay for software - I'm weeping for those poor souls.

I'm perfectly happy to see more people choosing licenses that benefit the vast majority of devs and businesses while forcing the obscenely large players to actually pay for the incredible value they're used to eating for free.
I used Wordpress with PostgreSQL in production for a few years, but that was not officially supported by Automattic like this is.
I guess this is what people expect them to do? It's their job? Is he really a whistleblower or just revealing secrets? Where is the wrongdoing hes blowing the whistle on? Not giving congress enough details?
New era of sound proofing too: RT superconductors and neodyminium magnets levitating your inner-room separate from the building.
> This article needs to be updated. The reason given is: Add more information about post-2018 developments in artificial intelligence leading to the current AI boom.

I don't quite remember anything existing and comparable over the last few decades to LLMs like ChatGPT/Claude
> it's vital to prove it [asap]

Is it? What do they care if it takes other labs a week to reproduce?
> The Crew-1 delay was three years ago. Why would he mention it in this article?

The Crew-1 delays were not mentioned once in the article where Crew-1 actually launched - he just spent the article patting SpaceX on the back for saving NASA.

Now we have this delay but it's Boeing, and it's all about the delays. And speculating that Starliner may not even launch until after Crew-9, when Crew-8 isn't even announced, but will be mid 2024 at the earliest, and that's before you realize that Crew-7 is delayed, yes by a few days, but "because of another launch" - that other launch being a SpaceX launch that was delayed.

However you spin it, this journalist has a near allergic avoidance of the word "delay" when it comes to SpaceX, and can't wait to spin Boeing delays into worst case scenarios that are entirely speculation. There's no way you can reasonably turn "we're going to talk to Boeing and announce an updated launch date" in July of 2023 and credibly say "it's entirely possible that Crew-9 will launch before it!"
https://archive.is/5oOGY

Also, apparently Alibaba is already going to license it: https://www.reuters.com/technology/alibabas-cloud-unit-bring...
To me, containers are like OOP. Nice ideas on paper but a pain the ass in practice. but again, like OOP, a lot of people do great things with them but I don't think they can't do the same things with VMs.

My theory is eventually things will come full circle and there will entire app ecosystems running in a unikernel executable which is running on physical hardware and the hardware itself is segmented. I can imagine companies like netflix and cloudflare having racks of servers with 1TB ram with no disk, booting a unikernel from the network for maximum throughput and latency and then everyone in tech follows along.
Larvae can travel briefly with the fishes. Adults are short lived. I don't know how they will adapt but I'm feeling hopeful about those.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36658166 Fractal Vise, Discussed 17 Days Ago, 99 Comments
> We're still discussing whether each of the following pieces of information should be included and welcome your feedback:

* The device integrity verdict must be low entropy, but what granularity of verdicts should we allow? Including more information in the verdict will cover a wider range of use cases without locking out older devices.
* A granular approach proved useful previously in the Play Integrity API.
* The platform identity of the application that requested the attestation, like com.chrome.beta, org.mozilla.firefox, or com.apple.mobilesafari.
* Some indicator enabling rate limiting against a physical device
The native Windows 11 windows management feature (called "snap layouts") was great for me. I get it instantly and use it easily with the pointer or the keyboard. One of the best features of the 11 version to me.

I think that for regular users is a great entry point to have a more power user experience, of course it will not be enough for everyone and a lot of power users will demand more specific behaviors.

Demo: https://youtu.be/t-hgwhYu0nU
> But on thst note, if we invested the same $billions in trains/light rail we would have great public transport networks that could do the same thing for the whole population...

No, we couldn’t.

Reengineering cities around trains/light rail is expensive; the infrastructure debt of car-optimized development is enormous.

Is it worth paying down? Sure. But its still there.
Have you tried setting up a python project with native dependencies on a different version of OS than original developer?
To be fair this video does at least highlight (2:42 mark) that their clients own all the shares in the companies, not Blackrock itself.

...so it's already a solid step above the usual "Blackrock controls the world" videos.
I guess we live in entirely different worlds, because, for me, containers have been a godsend. Standing up the average application is a matter of reading a compose file and modifying it according to instructions, or using it to construct a proper manifest for something like k8s for full production.

For toy/evaluation use, it's hard to beat "tweak compose file, docker-compose up". You now have a golden source of truth for how the entire application and all of its moving parts were set up.

Going back to deploying applications on bare metal feels positively medieval by comparison. From the admin side, configuration drift is effectively not a thing anymore. That's huge.
KQL is excellent, I miss it whenever I write SQL.
This was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864319 and basically determined to be bad science. Or at the very least bad science communication.
I'm on the other end of the spectrum. I don't want to deal with written instructions. A shell program will do but a container is the best. Give me an environment with all dependencies, software, and some decent configuration method. A config file over a volume will do, env vars are better. Dockerfile tells me everything I need to know about the environment the app requires.

I can run that container in CI, in tests (with stuff like testcontainers), on my laptop, in production, on Kubernetes, in Mesos, Lambda, whatever.

Instrumentation usually ends up in Prometheus and Jaeger.
Trading insults back and forth isn't going to be very conducive to a productive discussion. Why don't you tell me a little about your theory of moral values in cultural expression and consumption and I'll tell you a little about mine?

My instinctual position is that one's character (moral, aesthetic, civil, political, emotional, etec) is strongly influenced by the cultural media one encounters. I think encountering the wide range of human emotions and contexts available in fictional literature makes one more resilient when faced with adversity, and better able to make an informed decision that will lead constructively towards one's desired outcome. I also don't think literature is the only way to be exposed to that range of emotions and contexts.

I think the shift from interacting with a predominantly printed media to an interactive/hypertextual media has been a net negative for society, although I'd struggle to define the exact metric on which it's a net negative. I think the impact on attention span would be one of those negative impacts, but I'm aware of no hard evidence of such an impact, and would ask citations if someone made such a claim in debate. I've witnessed friends and loved ones, through their habits of interaction with online media, end up in a worse place than they would were it not for online media.

I have a handful of friends with whom I exchange books and book recommendations, and I've noticed and been saddened by noticing that most of what I get recommended is somewhat pulpy sci-fi and fantasy, and while I recommend my share of that I also recommend a lot of books with, for lack of a better phrase, more "aesthetic value". Some of the books I've been pushing on people in the past few years, with varying success, include: A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, The Great Gatsby, Mind and Nature by Gregory Bateson, Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, (v.) by Anastacia-Renee, and Winter Mythologies and Abbots by Pierre Michon. They're all excellent books!

But you're right, I am somewhat of a moral relativist. I think it's very hard to objectively compare different cultural values or cultural habits of media interaction. I think it's easy to fool oneself that one's personal preferences are morally superior to one's personal dislikes, and I'm fairly hesitant to listen to someone propound on that topic without seeing evidence of some fairly rigorous introspection and attempts to overcome those inherent, inevitable biases.
wechat got popular all on its own. nobody is forced to install wechat. there are also no government services that you might want to use that would "encourage" you to install it.
"But when I talk about modularity I mean a style of programming in which the internal details of an object both its data and its code are sealed off from the code outside that object. And to communicate with an object you have to use precisely defined ways into and out of that object. In some languages those ways into and out may be declared as interfaces. To an object-oriented language like Smalltalk the interfaces to an object are provided by methods that respond to messages."

That definition seems to put the cart before the house. Techniques like "details of an object both its data and its code are sealed off" are used to obtain/produce modularity.

Video puts several disclaimers before giving that definition but it was shared at the end of the video like you a conclusion so I can see some viewers walking away with conflicting conclusions from the video.

Both wikipedia[1] and Cambridge Dictionary[2] have better more general definitions for modularity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity

[2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/modulari...
> Google has a whole other set of customers who this is not best for, e.g. Chrome users, YouTube users.

Are Chrome users really Google's customers, though? Arguably, they're part of the product.

Youtube used to be the same, although that's changing a bit with the current aggressive push for Youtube Premium.
Yeah. Also:

Windows 10 brought in some decent tiling/snapping, and windows 11 greatly expanded the tiling options for windows.

It’s not i3 or bspwm or anything, but Microsoft does at least seem to understand desire for the window manager to help you nicely place several windows in to nice places.
I have known about her since Nothing Compares 2 U, but not known that much else about her career since then. I thought she was kind of a one hit wonder, as talented as she were she never got another hit close to as successful as that one. Do you think this is an unfair description?
See the analysis here:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/26/pers-j26.html
Is it RFKs voice? I find it a little difficult to listen to as well.
There should absolutely be separate meetings for new idea separate status updates, and ideally status update meetings should only be for chatting about what digital updates can’t handle.

Creating useful digital over-communication in the right way can go a long way to establish the “what do you need from me so I can get out of your way culture”.
I. And still do.
Really, Experian ? That should give everyone the warm and fuzzies /s

I am sure they are involved in the US with this. In anycase, it is legal for Companies in the US to donate (bribe) anonymously, so I am sure it is not documented anywhere. There has been many attempts to make that illegal, but no luck so far.
I didn't - I hadn't seen that extension before, it looks like it could be really useful in the future!

For my purposes here the feature I care most about is backups - having my content backed up to a GitHub repo feels extremely robust, since I know GitHub mirror content to (I believe) three continents.
I hope none of that audience ever goes to see Anne Clark then.
They can be. For example in SF, they should be combined and put into a bigger plastic bag[1] to be recycled.

[1] https://www.recology.com/recology-san-francisco/what-goes-wh... (see under Recycle tab)
No but they make their society depend on it. People don't install it because it's so great, but because without it you can't do anything.

They don't push it on the user side but on the vendor side.
> How you inform your backup system where to get backups ? How you set pg_hba and other configs?

Simple answer: with configuration. In Docker Compose or Kubernetes. Less often in Mesos. Maybe I want to run it on a fleet of VMs, maybe on bare metal.

> and you're doing what you'd be doing on VM anyway

Right. But with containers I can have different apps using different dependency versions. Some things use nginx, some use some other web server. Some things run with node 12, some with node 16, some things use MySQL, some other things need Postgres. This is so easy with containers.