skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's some interesting discussion of this in Wolfram's "The Concept of the Ruliad" article in his physics project.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/11/the-concept-of-t...
What we see is another layer of cleanup of older media, where large amounts are culled from the next generation's minds, but some will still remain. The culling first gets rid of chaff, and eventually just leaves the very best examples of old art. You can watch black and white movies on streaming services today, and the average quality is going to be extremely high, as all but the very best has been washed away.

My teenage son and his friends don't just look at current media, but old one too. Kids born in 2010 that just realize there was some great music in the 70s too, and that today decide that some old videogames are still worth playing, while many have aged way too poorly. Some will get remade, maybe badly, and other parts abandoned.

Monty Python's sketches are still funny to them, but the media is relatively low quality, and that style of humor has already been absorbed into the comedy corpus. Something as absurd as the parrot sketch wasn't just funny, but also felt new to many audiences. Today you find absurdity even in something like Rick and Morty, just in faster packages, relying less on repetition to try to elevate the bit. Trying to hammer at the core joke 8 times in a row is out of fashion. Now the repetition comes with longer spacing, or from different directions: See how meme images work.
How? Do you replicate the whole db?
The linked article goes into more detail. Still pretty dense, but better than this treatment.
When plotted that way, it is indeed strange that the trend in density of large-scale structures (from Sun up to superclusters) is heading towards an intersection with the "black holes" line (Schwarzschild radius?)
I suppose this is all relative. Paying people a paltry wage, cutting their hours so they can't get employer-sponsored healthcare, routinely committing wage theft, forcing minors to be use unsafe equipment, requiring doctor notes for time off from work, denying PTO requests or shifting PTO so it can't be accrued or paid out are all pretty common with some major US corporations. And on top of that they took advantage of raising inflation to jack up prices or reduce product quantities so they could maximize profit.

So, yeah, Americans aren't working 16 hour shifts in mines anymore and child labor laws are largely in effect. But, I also wouldn't say most people are treated "quite well." That's not the media force-feeding me stuff. That's first-hand experience and watching what friends and family are going through right now.
Alternatives in terms of sellers on Amazon.com, maybe, but people use amazon because of how good of a product Prime is (or at least, for the past few years, appears to be despite it being obvious product prices go up to offset subsidized shipping prices) and because it tends to have everything available is a fast and secure way. With e.g. a search engine showing you products, you might be sent off to one of 100k stores that all need your cc info and who don't already have your shipping address.

This is partially solved by Shopify for Shopify sites, and Apple Pay/Google Pay/PayPal for third parties, but it's still often more friction to go to a 3p store.
As others have pointed out, Prophet is not a particularly good model for forecasting, and has been superseded by a multitude of other models. If you want to do time series forecasting, I'd recommend using Darts: https://github.com/unit8co/darts. Darts implements a wide range of models and is fairly easy to use.

The problem with time series forecasting in general is that they make a lot of assumptions on the shape of your data, and you'll find you're spending a lot of time figuring out mutating your data. For example, they expect that your data comes at a very regular interval. This is fine if it's, say, the data from a weather station. This doesn't work well in clinical settings (imagine a patient admitted into the ER -- there is a burst of data, followed by no data).

That said, there's some interesting stuff out there that I've been experimenting with that seems to be more tolerant of irregular time series and can be quite useful. If you're interested in exchanging ideas, drop me a line (email in my profile).
99% invisible had Brian Merchant on recently. I agree with him except on the point that “Luddite” can be reclaimed. In an ideal world that would be possible, but in practical terms Luddite means a person who is against technological change.

If you want to defend Luddite positions you don’t need to defend the term itself. Then the correct retort would be I’m not a Luddite I’m an X where X is something intuitive and short.
> Most places charge ridiculous cleaning fees, but then also expect you to do all the cleaning yourself. What am I paying for, then??

Same!!!
I got couple bad reviews from a people who charged me > 1 night of stay for cleaning fee but then complain I left dirty dished and crumbs on the table.

Like, WHAT?!!! you charge me $50+ dollars for cleaning fee and expect me to left place clean? this make no sense. Airbnb just ignored my request to remove this review, telling its between me and host
Is it a coincidence that you are in the middle of your surroundings?

No, they are directly related. All the objects, and measurements, are defined by humans according to human experience.
You don't have to have > 50% market share to be prosecuted for anti-trust practices.
How much power do such people have? (Clearly not zero, but ...)
1. It's definitely not a red flag. Solopreneurs can be successful and grow businesses to non-trivial levels of revenue and income. I myself went that path, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. I'd even argue, being solo should be the default option rather than an alternative.

2. There are 3 phases for your business:

- Verifying product-market fit (this includes getting at least 1 paying customer)
- Finding a way to get a more or less stable stream of new customers
- Building up an organization

3. Running online business from a small town is a dream many chase :) At some point you will need lawyers and accountants, you will have to figure out how to deal with them remotely (that shouldn't be hard).

4. Marketing will become one of the hardest parts of your business once you verify product-market fit. Have at least a newsletter and a referral program - they cost little but work.
all that text and no pricing page. shame.
one of my best friends going back to college (we're over 40), has never seen any Star Wars movies and it makes my wonder why we're even friends

years ago, I had a coworker from Pakistan; he liked to watch movies, but it took several Office Space references before he got around to it
I thought one of the reasons many smaller creators were afraid of it was the publication of their personal information when they register and that leading to potential harassment or if what you are creating is socially spicy it could lead to unwanted attention.
> Other than obvious things such as "Amazon products"..., in which case every manufacturer or retailer is a monopoly in their own products.

The way this argument is normally presented is somewhat intentionally obtuse. Obviously Nike has a monopoly on Nike shoes, but "Nike shoes" isn't any kind of sensible market definition because you go to a shoe store and there are a dozen brands of shoes that are all pretty fungible with each other.

But then you get into something like "GM-compatible brake pads" and that is a sensible market definition, because if you have a GM car and you need new brake pads, they need to be compatible with your car. But you'll also notice that this isn't the same thing as GM-brand brake pads. You could get GM-compatible brake pads from a variety of OEMs that are all compatible with your GM vehicle.

Or, it could be the case that only GM makes GM-compatible brake pads. In which case they would have a monopoly in that market. Not because it's a monopoly on their brand of brake pads, but because it's a monopoly on any brand of brake pads compatible with that brand of cars -- which is something else entirely.

Notice that they don't even have to be the same company. If you have a Studebaker, the Studebaker Corporation is no more, and you may have trouble finding parts. It may even be the case that some independent third party has a monopoly on some such parts, even though it's a monopoly on parts for one specific brand of car.
The inevitable fight here is between ROCm which may have, 100s of AMD engineers working on it and related verticals, at best, without significant changes at the company, plus whatever contributions they can muster from the community.

I think at least headcount check, CUDA had thousands of engineers working on it and related verticals.

I know there's a philosophy that states, eventually, open source eats everything, however, this one seems like there is so much catch up that AMD will need to spend big and fast to get off the ground competitively.
That's essentially capitalism.

Profit > everything else
>So what? I already paid taxes on my income, now I need to pay additional taxes on what I consume...why?

It's covered in the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_tax
Or https://gpt4all.io/index.html

Though doesn't currently support GPU.
With the remainder being made up of Trader Joe's and ...

... Amazon
Check it out, I feel like sitegpt is focused purely on just training your site and having an AI bot

We are focused on

- involving humans with AI using realtime chat and inbox
- crm so you can communicate with your customers
- automated emails so you can send emails based on actions
- collecting visitor analytics and profile data

These are just a few of the main benefits
Agreed; every site has a bias, and HN's is probably more moon-shooting than others. If you're not attempting to become a billionaire, it would be worth your time to ask these questions around other places where solopreneurs hang out like indiehackers.com.

I came here to recommend particularly Rob (and host emeritus, Mike)'s podcast, https://startupsfortherestofus.com/ . It's tactical instead of strategic, so sometimes that means the older episodes don't apply as well anymore, but they have a "greatest hits" list of episodes with content that's more evergreen.
Apple Releases Safari 17 with Profiles, Locked Private Browsing Windows and More
Should you have the right to press for changes that impose a cost on others?
I have a number of blogs that somewhat include these feelings:

https://jondouglas.dev/little-dark-age/

https://jondouglas.dev/the-stress-of-life/

https://jondouglas.dev/save-your-soul/

https://jondouglas.dev/obsessive-compulsive/

https://jondouglas.dev/love-of-fate/

https://jondouglas.dev/from-the-ashes/

Lots of depersonalization, heightened nerves, low lows, and desire to be alone. If you've ever read Leo Tolstoy, the best description is in his novella "The Death of Ivan Ilyich".
I totally agree.

The hard part is to get students to understand why the exercise is useful. It is easy to lose one's time writing an essay. But if you lose your time, it means you are doing it wrong; better not to do it at all.
Someone stealing my password can go hunter2ing their hunter2 in their hunter2.
MongoDB was AGPL before moving to the SSPL. So this doesn't make sense.
Awwww I'm so glad it's been helpful! One of these days I'll get back into teaching ;)
I'd love to see the scripting interface you're working on too, I spent so much time making Minecraft mods back in the day and I always wanted some kind of dynamic scripting.
> The idea that Facebook, Amazon, Google or whoever would pull their apps and force you to use their store is complete FUD that ignores that the overwhelming majority of users wouldn't tolerate an app not being on Apples store.

I think you're right, but won't that defeat the purpose of opening the stores up? For instance: right now, you can't buy Kindle eBooks through the Amazon app. You need to do it through the web browser, so Amazon doesn't need to pay Apple 30%. But if Amazon continues to list their Apple in Apple's App Store, how will that change? Would they have 2 versions of their App—one in Apple's store that disallows eBook purchases, and one in Amazon's App Store that allows eBook purchases? Or will they still just disallow eBook purchases?
> I used to work with someone who never watched Star Wars. I found it hard to imagine.

I've never watched Star Wars and I'm mid 30's. The movies just doesn't interest me; as doesn't the Lord of the Rings.

It's not that I'm dismissing them as great movies they just don't hook. I've seen clips and eh'. But I am from Europe, not the US so maybe that's why.
MongoDB rose to fame on the back of the AGPL.
For the first time in history a machine can come up with novel ideas.

Up until now, you were only really automating away the boring stuff.
> and give people a choice to buy entry into the walled garden.

No, that's Apple's decision. The garden plays by Europe's rules, or people don't get a choice at all.

De-facto monopolies are not inherently justified. Feel any way you will about it as a consumer; Apple uses their power to exercise anti-competitive control over their ecosystems. Governments will now step in to regulate the market Apple has failed to make competitive.
USPS is offering Covid tests again
Story discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34203778

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26405515
> But the characters have to be recognizably human to us, or it quits being a book about human characters.

It seems like there could be considerable distance between "likable" and "recognizably human". Lots of complaints are around the characters being "unlikable", when they're doing completely human things that are just not nice. If an author is forced to only include friendly and likable characters, there's a pretty substantial limitation on the types of human behavior that can be covered.
Look at how people are treated in places without decent labor laws or other protections. There are hundreds of millions of people right now toiling away in miserable and dangerous conditions. Middle class workers in the US and Europe are the exception, not the norm.
> Our end goal is to use this engine to create an online Flash-like hub for games that people can share and remix, akin to Scratch or Tinkercad.

AMAZING.

Hackable games are such a great in-road for new developers, and for anyone who takes an interest in software because of gaming.
Hah. Crash is the only book I read cover to cover while actively disliking it. I was stuck in an Alaskan airport for 8 hours and all the other bookstores were closed.
I suggest utilizing personalized email templates within Klaviyo. For a comprehensive guide, please watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHqUbVd8yvY.
> never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity, EXCEPT when money is involved

The FAANG corollary:

When you make it a point of pride to only hire the smartest, most elite engineers on the planet, presumption of stupidity no longer applies.
I'd argue that almost every historical figure becomes a meme at some point, even through the lens of many robust historical accounts. We don't usually care about the details of their lives, and that detail is often lost when informally shared...except for the parts that exemplify a few key traits of the individual. As such, over time, that individual begins to embody such traits, even to the point that we use it as a guide for our own efforts and aspirations. And so, as the knowledge of that person is further condensed (and frequently rewritten), they slowly become a meme shadow of the original. Still remembered, but imperfectly, and serving more as an inspiration than someone we directly learn from. US presidents, British royalty, notable inventors, the list goes on.

The funny thing is, we are often shocked a bit when we find out the real person wasn't the literal embodiment of what we thought they were, flaws and all.
Monopoly is very specific. Anti competitive isn’t monopoly.

Amazon simply hasn’t got monopoly market share or even e commerce monopoly market share.

And btw all retailers copy products. Surely you’ve bought store brand corn flakes at some point for instance.
Zero/Zilch was great, and I wish DigiPen would've stuck with it! I heard that these days, they don't even have students make games from scratch anymore, and everyone just uses Unity or Unreal instead—any idea if that's true? it would be a bummer if it were, because striving to make a cool engine (especially once Zero was there as something to aspire to!) was like the best and most useful part of my time at DigiPen.

glad to see the spirit of Zero still going strong through Raverie, though!
Come to Spain...which must have one of the worse freelance systems in the free world.
When you consider that chronic and acute autoimmune disease is totally a thing. For instance Hashimoto's disease where the immune system attacks the thyroid is chronic progressing. Thyroiditis, is acute and resolves.

It would seem the burden of proof is on those that say the brain isn't subject to autoimmune disorders. Because everything else is.
not really possible since the people that planned and staged the thing the story was about were pretending to actually do something when they hired people and rented things to fake an origin story that was then covered by the news while another team that the first team wasn't aware of went a bit overboard and brought in surface-to-air missiles and shot down a passenger plane full of dying people.

you see, the issue is not NPR being untruthful. the issue is NPR not even having a chance to check. member how "logic"/"rationality" works on faked premises? so smooth and yummy.
Sure but as I said above, instead of fixing the ChatGPT problem that happens because of the broken education system, maybe there is an opportunity to improve the education system.
> I can't help but think that Amazon should be replaced with a non-profit or regulated public utility that provides a single unified online marketplace, part of internet infrastructure like ICANN.

if the market was working correctly Amazon's profits would be driven down to zero and you'd effectively have this

> As a matter of fact I would suggest that Amazon as it exists is anti-capitalist. It is feudal.

absolutely
Yea there may be a shift in usage hidden in those numbers. As this article laments, we can't use ngrams to measure the develpment of usage between said, replied, and retorted.
Maybe so, but worldwide they're still going up. If the whole world wants a quality of life equal to the US, emissions will go up a lot. A US person uses 13 MWh of electricity per year, while the world average is 3 MWh. The difference is even bigger when comparing other energy sources.
> have to be careful not to spoil the "I am your father" reveal

I'd never thought about it before, but the prevalence of star wars in pop culture made it so basically my whole generation had that reveal spoiled in cartoons and different parodies way before any of us actually watched the movie.
We changed the URL from https://kottke.org/23/09/the-plot-of-all-objects-in-the-univ....

(Kottke is great but usually these are best changed to the original source. That URL is still a good place to start.)
Right, but in this particular example, the table is just

CREATE TABLE integers (value INTEGER);
You’re arguing about a potential vulnerability in a hypothetical code that exists only in your imagination.

Meanwhile the real code that exists doesn’t work like that. It’s not just a matter of personal style. Rust has constructs that help avoid bounds checks. It has design patterns that move unsafe code into smaller, easier to verify helpers. It has a culture of caring about safety – people don’t rewrite projects in Rust to just give up on its biggest selling point.
I have encountered people that claim to use Socratic and/or Zeteticism as alternatives to scientific method to explain why ghosts are real or the Earth is flat.

So it's possible you mentioning it got their haunches up
Sort of backwards.

First they came for the writers and illustrators, and I did nothing because I'm not a writer or an illustrator.

Then they came for the musicians, and I did nothing because I only listen to music.

Then they came for the text-dependent professional classes, and I did nothing because I'm not one of those people.

They they came for the programmers, and the plumbers sat around laughing saying "and you thought you were so much better than us!"
Picat: A multiparadigm logic programming language
I love this so much. The reality of _all_ technology is that it allows individuals to do more themselves. It condenses the knowledge domain to accomplish a task.

In my mind, there are no downsides in allowing individuals more leverage. The real downsides are with the orthogonal problem of what productivity means in civil society.

High productivity through technology is perfectly human - we're tool-builders and tool-makers. But, productivity does not absolve us of our responsibility to each other. People who suggest we should not use tools often justify their point of view with assertions of cost born by others. I am suspicious of this argument because the opportunity cost of _not_ letting people use the best tools available could be much greater. For example, had we not developed tools to create mRNA vaccines, many lives would have been lost to Covid that were saved. We don't know yet what AI will enable, but I'd rather we find out what people can achieve than focus on muddying the waters between productivity and society.
Yeah, I've worked in structural engineering with real chartered professional engineers. Most of that work was relying on rules of thumb and bodging in hacks to fit around too small customer budgets, changing requirements, contractors trying to exploit loopholes, or bad designs from architects. No job ever had the budget to do anything "properly".

Software development usually seems far more controlled than that was.
This is awesome! What would you say are the primary differences between Raverie and PlayCanvas.com?
Locking Private Windows applies to a small (IMHO) niche of user who wants to hide their private browsing, but also might have someone use their phone who doesn't also know their passcode. So, kids?
That's human nature. You won't get a better deal in Russia, China or any theoretical utopian civilization you dream up either. I don't know what the answer is, but it sure as hell isn't blaming everything on capitalism.
could you elaborate a bit on Amazon Glacier? IS there a convoluted process or its a simple cli?
This in-depth podcast from American Public Media sheds light on this phenomenon and helped spark the re-evaluation of many popular K-6 reading curricula:

https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
Yet another reminder that WebGL is terrible in Firefox. Looking forward to webgpu being standardised and widely used instead.
Exactly. I recently started a NN side project. The process for setting up PyTorch was to run `pacman -S cuda` and `pip install torch`. I was using a GTX 1060. If it was a project with a bigger budget, I could have rented servers from AWS with all the software preinstalled in no time. I don't even know if it would have been possible for me to do it with AMD, even if I owned an AMD graphics card.

People like me are small potatoes to AMD, but surely it's hard to make significant inroads when it's impossible for anyone to learn or do small projects on ROCM, and big projects can't rely on ROCM just working.
Pava Marie LaPere, 26, murdered in Baltimore is Forbes 30 Under 30 tech CEO
On the plus side, not being pipelined or out of order makes for a simpler compiler.

If they also picked a sane instruction set that’s suitable for compilers (e.g. not something like a 6502), it may not be too hard to maintain a decent compiler backend.