skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlike subsequent generations, boomers weren’t born with the internet, and they’ve developed habits that fall outside of the internet like reading physical periodicals and subscribing to cable TV that they’ve kept for the past 30 years.
Try going to an actual corrupt state with colonial foundations. Canada is heaven on earth with zero problems in comparison.
Author is arguing for the opposite.

You'll see down below a case for inlining functions that are only used once, and the quote "As for one liners that are called only once, just inline them. The small functions guy can take a hike."
You might like the book Turtle Geometry. Has fun exploring a similar direction, some.
I think any system that rewards high performance also has the potential to reward (good enough) cheating. This letter can be motivational, and show the intense pressure to cheat in academia at the same time.

I'm not a PhD student, but I stopped after a masters exactly because I didn't want the pressure we're discussing.
It's not about paying people to be sick, it's about how you shouldn't be denied income because you happen to get sick. The source of the income is less important.
> we effectively have infinite vertical space

It's only infinite if you scroll for infinitely long time.

I think the author's point was about how much code you have on the screen at any given instant. Without having to scroll or jump.
>> Don't you think the counter argument to this, is, "No it's not that easy to just go to bing when you buy out the default search on rivals' browsers and operating systems and have the browser and mobile os with the world's largest market shares"?

I’m looking for an analogy for you. The claim is that Google has monopolized the search market. It’s difficult to find actual monopolies in real life bc generally antitrust regulation works well (pace Lina Khan).

Think about a small city with two independent hospitals which then merge. That’s closer to a monopoly. There is a potential harm to consumers here bc traveling to go out of your local market for hospital services brings real costs: travel time, inconvenience, etc. That gives the newly merged hospitals power in the market. (Maybe not to the level of a monopoly, but likely substantial market power nonetheless.)

Applying something like this analogy to your counter argument: literally all the consumer has to do to avoid Google’s so-called monopolization of the search market is type the letters “b-i-n-g-.-c-o-m”. That’s entirely different from the hospital case.

It’s going to be very very very hard for the government to establish that google has anything like monopoly power here. Remember: making a better product and as a result having a large market share is not a crime. Google is going to say that since consumers can costlessly switch to a competitor who is also free, the reason they have 95% market share is bc their product is better.

I find it very hard to imagine that they will lose this case. It’s possible! But it seems really unlikely to me.
After 08, the industry was flush with cash and acquisition valuations were lower, so they didn't really need to obtain cash from loans for the acquisitions (which is the LBO model, where you put less upfront cash from your AUM).

The low interest rate environment could have been utilized by PEs like you mentioned, but there were other industries where the same play book could be used for much higher returns - like real estate, tech acquisitions, etc. Why bother with a leveraged buyout of a family owned business for 10% returns when a debt-fuelled real estate purchase will give you 25-30%?
Sorry, but in any other market for goods, being the main supplier, the biggest supply-side brokerage, the biggest exchange, and the biggest demand-side brokerage would be considered a blatant antitrust violation. Somehow, Google thinks they can get away with it in ads.
Generally: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

<https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>
Discussed 3 days ago:

Uber CEO stunned by $52 fare for 3-mile ride - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37000811 (101 comments)
i've got cut/copy/paste on my context menu in 11...

check out autoruns [0] for easily cleaning context menu, startup junk, etc.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/aut...
I don’t know if it’s my expectations evolving after using swyping for a while but it seems to have gotten worse over time.

There’s gotta be a word for this phenomenon.
> Environment replication is a solved problem.

Unfortunately, no. Dockerfiles aren't as portable as you think, and not architecture-independent. VMs are better, but even then, performance isn't portable either.

The last artifact I produced included builds of 3 web browsers from source--it was over 10GB. One doesn't just "build Chrome in a dockerfile".
I forgot to add that most of my "custom" implementations are also open-source, to avoid repeating the same boilerplate over and over at different places. Its not "pythonic", and it is at varying degrees of maturity, and honestly, they are mostly for internal use in my projects (documentation is incomplete, interfaces may change, etc), but if you want have a look:

https://github.com/oddbit-project/rick_db - postgresql query builder & object mapper - it is built around the concept of pure data objects (no indirect references do open resources) that can represent application data between layers; It also features a forward-only migration manager;

https://github.com/oddbit-project/rick - plumbing, validation & assorted logic - provides service locators, registries, containers (including dependency injection); validators, forms & request validation (with support for laravel-style validation chains), and a bunch of other stuff;

https://github.com/oddbit-project/pokie - flask-based web meta-framework, focused on REST api design, that brings components from the other two projects into an modular applicational framework;
Hmm, just says Loading and not actually loading for me on my phone.
When exp(45) overflows that 64-bit integer doesn’t seem so impressive.
Everyone made fun of people that said, "I did my own research" during Covid, but if you've been failed by the medical system once, you're used to this.
Do you know how this compares to snapdrop.net?
The scarier possibility is "thousands of wrongful convictions due to ineffective representation."

... scarier and hard to discount.
Not sure how far you got in the article but Norway is specifically called out as the country with the best policy the US should mimic to address the problem.
You could do this at the gas pump/charger with built in scales.
Road bicycles go over 100PSI. Motor bike tires have a similar pressure to cars.
Please read my comment in context. I was responding to this quote from the article:

> it’s an industry where women get to call the shots, and that women profit off something that men have been told they’re entitled to for free: sex and attention in equal parts.

The article says for free. It doesn't say "for just being an attractive guy" or "for just being a nice person". For FREE. That's what the article says, not my word.

Also your comment is just appending more things to the list of things that men are expected to do...
It's also David Brooks, Who has exemplified out-of-touch upper-class centrist conservatism for as long as I've known his name. Maybe he's having a moment of redeeming clarity, or maybe he's just being hypocritical.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/article/3211098/china-populatio...

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/17/1149453055/china-records-1st-...
>Slapping new taxes on EVs might seem like a head-scratcher, especially since around 4 in 5 cars on Norwegian roads are still gas-powered. But the country’s new weight-based car fees are a sensible move to address two critical drawbacks of oversize EVs: These models exacerbate climate change, and they endanger everyone else on the street. Other countries—and U.S. states—should follow Norway’s lead.

Just... no. That's a luxury we don't currently have. Get as many ICE cars off the road as quickly as you can, then worry about right-sizing by levying taxes based on weight. Why on earth would you give ANY disincentive to people from buying an EV? If someone wants to blow $150k on a hummer EV instead of buying another diesel pickup, great! Anyone claiming it's somehow more dangerous to a pedestrian is just being belligerent - if you get hit by the average 3/4 truck doing 60mph you'll be just as dead as the hummer despite the hummer weighing slightly more.

I think people in the US fail to realize that even the heaviest passenger vehicle does almost nothing to a road in comparison to a single semi-tractor. You can find various studies but even the most conservative put the average OTR truck at 2500X the damage of a passenger vehicle:

https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...
I'm also Canadian and the only person I know personally who's angry about this owns a news site that primarily advertises through Facebook.

I'm not seeing the downsides...
Yes and no, the more a doctor sees a particular diagnosis the less likely they are to consider anything else.

Honestly of all the professions that could be enhanced by AI, medicine has the most to gain. An AI can remember a much larger data set than any human and look for correlations among many more dimensions.
Unlike you, I have data to back up my argument. It’s not paranoia.

If you’re willing to ignore data just to preserve your narrative, that just shows that you don’t care very much for facts and you’d rather remain ignorant of what’s happening.

The only constant in life is change, and the best way to account for it is with quantitative data.
>> The government is claiming that the search market is being monopolized, not by having the best results, but by paying $45 billion dollars/year to various browser suppliers to make Google the default browser. That's the illegal act.

And google is going to say correctly that consumers are free to switch search engines. They are free to enter “bing.com” in google chrome and it will take them right where they want to go: to another search engine!

I note above that I am not sure google’s payments are pro-competitive. They probably aren’t. It’s fair to be uncomfortable with them. But to make an antitrust case on monopolization of search you are going to need more evidence than those payments.
Apple decides to use port 5000 for Airplay
I think the skill is on how to ingest science paper, choosing which paper worth time to read, etc...

These skills are developed when they study phd
Isn't it true though?
This is interesting. Does this mean builds from Amazon, MS, Redhat may have different features?
Would you drive someone 4.5 hours from DC to NYC for $250? The drive back would be $0, so $250 / 9, minus gas and mileage. It's very little. Meanwhile Uber got $650. I wouldn't do it.
Surround.vim: Delete/change/add parentheses/quotes/XML-tags with ease (2022)
You're calling people white supremacists just because they make some of the same points white supremacists do. White supremacists also love orang juice! Are you one also? Why do you drink fruit juice???
If it had not been surged price, it would have been a hell of a deal.
It's better in that it's free, but it's been defunded so much that it's beginning to fall apart.

Private healthcare is basically broken out the gate, public healthcare can be much better but it still does need to be funded.
I've skimmed the legislation multiple times, and the only thing close to a "link tax" is the theoretical ability of the government to create one if that's what's deemed fair.

I've yet to see anything that explains how a negatiations framework translates to a "link tax", but explaining it wasn't Google's goal when it coined the term to fight the bill.
You’re saying that like you disagree
> Fewer children means greater economic strength.

I don't think you understand the utility of having children. Neoliberals love this position because it effectively supports importing as many immigrants as possible for megacorps to pay bottom dollar to. There's an entire industry (industrial farming) that loves this.

> Less stress means better childrearing.

The context of this statement is not supported by the unmitigated economic disaster we are currently in, and have been in, since at least the great financial crisis.

> Abortion is an unmitigated good for most women who choose it.

Have you ever wondered why you can almost predict the location of abortion clinics by the number of pawn shops and pay day loan centers? When you break down those locations by race it may become more clear. Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist and racist [0][1] who wished abortion to be used to clean out the mental defectives. Her own words: “the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective,” [0]. What's funny is I could've swapped her name out with any 19th and 20th century dictator and you'd believe me.

It would be wonderful if activists stopped hiding behind the banner of freedom and acknowledge the roots of their alleged "unmitigated good".

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/07/21/pl...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20221104040930/https://www.pbs.o...
I think it's pretty likely most of the things you mention are frozen, now that I'm skimming your comment. It's really long.

Have you worked in a commercial kitchen? I thought it was pretty tough but quite rewarding to make big portions of tasty food.
Governments are for the people by the people.

Cheering on Facebook is cheering against your own interests.

Companies need to learn that they play in and extract resources from our sandbox.

If they want to continue to play in our sandbox, they need to play by our rules. They need to act in a socially responsible way. There are even laws about corporate governance pertaining to this.

You don't have to agree with Canada's laws (I don't), but you do need to recognise that they are their laws. Being hostile like this is a good way to make enemies.
This community's politics competency is pretty all over the map.

Competency in technical areas and competency in politics or history aren't strongly correlated. Watching the technorati running the FAANG-tier companies of the world fall on their faces over and over on these topics is a strong indicator that it isn't an issue limited to this community.
Other non-Canadian news sources are still available right?

People will just waste time on those.

Frankly, if Canadians are reading news about Canada mostly from foreign news sources, this might weaken the Canadian government’s control on political narrative - since they can’t pressure foreign news sources like Reuters, CNN, or Fox News, much if at all.
Could someone be the CEO of McDonalds thinking a Big Mac meal in the US costs $3?

Big “It’s one banana, Michael, how much could it cost? $10?” Vibes.

https://youtu.be/Nl_Qyk9DSUw
https://archive.is/UpYTx
Some of those other claims are quite strong, IMO. There’s a good case to be made there.

However, asking for a structural remedy like divestiture after so much time is going to be a tall order, to say the least. Generally courts don’t like to meddle directly in the way firms are run (correctly, in my view).
It’s a complete lie. On a $116 surge price trip, drivers get an extra $5.[0]

THIS is how Uber finally turned a profit. None of that Kalanick bullshit about how only self driving cars can make Uber profitable.[1][2] It’s jacking up prices and pocketing the difference.

Never trust a tech bro. They’re all grifters and liars.

[0] https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8LCks4j/

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/08/19/s-self-d...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/28/ubers-self-driving-cars-are-...
I am surprised that we even get drinking water with all this A.I. colliding with stuff.
There are vast quantities of public domain books freely available online, Gutenberg.org, Archive.org, standardebooks.org to name three. The latter in particular emphasizes careful production and proper editing, in effect republishing old books in modern editions, but not on paper.

I guess I can see how a person might want to promote some old book whose present-day relevance is being overlooked, but the utility of actually printing hardcopy seems minimal.
I've long since decided that my write up on floating point will be titled "Floating Point or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate Fast-Math".
Indeed, I'm not sure whether it was in an emergency situation (or if they're referring to NYC versus NY state when they talk about NY) but I regularly travel from DC to NYC and vice versa on Amtrak and it costs me around 100 bucks each way, even in the middle of the night which has some pretty good deals.
Greyhound nyc to dc is like $20 and has a dozen buses a day. Plus you have Amtrak. Why take an Uber?
The "schedule at the mercy" issue has more to do with really bad estimates of commute times. The bus rapid transit in Seattle has good estimates so even though it might be slower it is at least predictable. My understanding is that MTA's ancient switching system can't be effectively computerized, hence the poor estimates.

Citi Bike ridership indicates a lot of pent up demand for missing-middle transit, but the execution is pretty bad compared to on-demand bikes in Seattle (although I haven't been back there in a few years and I've heard it's gotten worse there too, so, grain of salt). The electric Citi Bikes are chronically unavailable, meaning you're stuck with huge clunkers that make you work up a sweat at the first hill. Also it can cost 2-3x as much as the bus or metro for a single trip. It makes way more sense to own your own bike, but that still doesn't fix the fact that half your trips invariably contain some section of "cross this four lane road without a marked bike lane".
getting all of your calories via a rice cooker is a bad idea but getting most of them that way is okay for most people

right now i'm doing a carnivory experiment myself, which is somewhat expensive and rules that out
+1!

And further to your point, if a DA's office keeps arresting people incorrectly, they won't keep that job.

The fact that we as a society are not okay with just arresting the wrong person is how we started talking about 'stop & frisk' and its shortcomings in the public domain. It's how we had BLM summer and many other protests after the killing/arrest/etc. of innocent people.

and that's how we should respond when the wrong person is arrested

who can I call when "the AI got it wrong"? It's worse than google customer service.
I have logged into gmail via safari recently so I’m not entirely sure I know what you’re referring to here???
It's disappointing that people on media platforms get satisfaction by labelling those of us sensitive to MSG as xenophobic, however, I understand that it's human nature to invent enemies such that one can feel a sense of self-righteousness. Perhaps the food industry is providing some form of compensation to them in exchange for promoting MSG. Artificial opinions for an artificial flavor enhancer - still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I think Tim Berners-Lee would approve.
I think the focus is more on chips before 386 and knowing which packages require which cpu, than 8086 specifically.
My impression so far is (in general), Forth are practically limited to doing embedded/microcontroller development.

For us, web/mobile/desktop app devs, beside:

- 8th (https://8th-dev.com)

- Factor (https://factorcode.org)

Any suggestion which implementation we should look for?
He says exactly this in paragraph 9. What article did you read?
Unless you’re alleging I somehow control what’s deemed historic and what isn’t, I don’t think you’ve used the term “gatekeeping” properly.

The context of historical preservation in California, is self importance and a very successful power grab by shitty people wishing to control others.

That’s not unique to SF, but it’s a little rich when in a liberal city they’re preventing the construction of energy efficient housing, or even basic green retrofits.

Why would I want to tie my poor life decision to put roots in SF to my online persona?
Windows 95 could be very snappy... except when you started copying files to an external hard disk, or if your disk was too fragmented, or if you ran out of memory and things started being swapped out, or you had a buggy hardware driver, or you had a virus, or you had an antivirus program, for that matter...

I think there's a lot of nostalgia at play here. There's a lot of ways in which modern computing is far nicer than it was in the past.
Funnily enough, your observation was the basis of my criticism. I can state it semi-socratically.

What is this article about?

A woman who did sex work at a massage parlor.

Summarize what she did, then.

I... can't.

I actually thought in the beginning that it may have been sensual, not sexual. Then she described it as sex work - which changed my mind - so it was sexual (incidentally, I have heard this critiqued in pieces before in creative writing classes - preferably a reader should not read 1/2 of your story and then mentally have to reframe everything that came before a sentence which unintentionally repositions everything).

And not to be indelicate but... how? What did the sex part of it actually involve? I can think of a whole lot of variations of that, which run a big gamut of intimacy and (I imagine) danger, but I can't tell you how she fit into that. The fact that she bought condoms partially answered that, but it's still an incomplete picture. Also if she had a boyfriend or girlfriend during that time, how she talked to her parents about this, friends - how was security handled, health, pregnancy - basic social/workplace questions - all a blank.

Maybe these were limitations imposed by the magazine itself and (ironically enough) the very power structure that she mentions as a threat. But I couldn't tell you what she actually did as a masseuse, which seems like a weakness of the piece.
This seems to be a common problem for tools that use a metal head and a wooden handle. Hammers, trowels, shovels, etc.
https://archive.is/TNWmc
And having to check the cable means you have now retrofitted your car?
This is a refutation of the claim of being entitled, not a complaint. If you're ready to be rejected, then you're not entitled. Reading sentences in context aids comprehension.
Go play SOMA.
So a normal, healthy person should be able to ask someone to hook up as easy as saying hello? The few people I've met who did that did not seem more healthy and well-adjusted than the rest of us; quite the opposite in fact.
Not true. Look at the market for meat. There are lots of farmers, a small number (really three or four) processors (who appear to carve up the national market into non overlapping regions) and then a large number of retail customers.

To me that looks like an actual antitrust violation but the DoJ and FTC aren’t investigating bc they are obsessing about “big tech” uselessly and bringing bad cases they are going to lose!

If you want your regulators to actually do something about a lack of competition in the US economy (which they really should be doing!) there are a ton of markets worth investigating before they waste their time on this loser of a case.
https://archive.is/leoQW

Who Murdered Apotex Pharma Billionaire Barry Sherman and Honey?
this is really interesting. I've never thought on using this or any jupyter-like tools to document working software. Maybe I'll try it later
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https://archive.is/yceWX
yes, but you learn to look for other things. a mixture of walking patterns, hair lines, other nuances. you have to learn.

btw subsaharan Africa has the most genetic diversity on the planet.
> It's theoretically impossible to compute with the general reals. Full stop.

You could limit yourself to the computable numbers. Although you do have an issue determining equality on general computable numbers...

But yeah, I would agree that floating-point is generally the best compromise out there for a general-purpose computational approximation to real numbers.
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