skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can definitely make a good guess at it in some cases. It’s often easier when the writer’s not very good at e.g. plot.

Getting too good at it usually means you start automatically spoiling a lot of books for yourself, though. “Why’d this character show up in chapter 3? What do they do for the story? Ohhhh they’re secretly the villain” or “why are we spending so much time with this character right now, in this way? Oh, the author’s gonna kill them.”
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> They are physical causes but they are abstracted from matter.

That sequence of words doesn't even denote a coherent concept. To be physical is exactly to be a state of matter/energy.

> The underlying cause originates from the math/logic, not the material instantiation.

No, logic, including math, describes the relationship between abstract concepts. It doesn't cause anything. Implication is not causation.

> I’m trying to address the typical atheist layperson scientist who hasn’t thought through immaterial reality

I'm Catholic, not atheist, and I have no problem with immaterial reality, or even immaterial causes of material effects. But I do have a problem with the simple error of describing immaterial concepts as being physical causes, or with describing systems of concepts and oc describing their relations as causes of anything, except insofar as belief in them causes behavior in the believer.

> I know there are reasonable counter positions to argue why math isn’t real, but I don’t subscribe.

There are certainly senses in which “math is real” is a valid or defensible statement, but bot in the sense of it being a physical thing which can exist as a cause.
Sounds like the initial table has just one row and one column, containing the entire 16mb csv string.
Or, you know, a shrinking population. It turns out the “demand” part of supply and demand is equally important, as Canada is now realizing.

If only people could point that out in the US without being accused of racism.
Market bubbles aren't caused by stocks trading back and forth. They're caused by irrational exuberance and macroeconomic factors.
My nextdoor neighbor is a shoe salesman (in the US). He traditionally dealt with a region of retailers on behalf of his employer, a multi-brand company like VF, Clarks, Born, etc. In his previous role, he was asked to try to figure out how to add Amazon as a B2C channel. He did, and it essentially became his full time job. A couple of years ago he was laid off, and when his new employer (differently shoe company) learned he knew how to "use Amazon" he was immediately reassigned from field sales to full time online. According to him, there are so many quirky and esoteric things about selling through Amazon it's nearly impossible to figure out how to get started, much less understand nuances of pricing, taxes, shipping and returns, and -- as you said -- Amazon support is conflicting and inconsistent at best.

Nowadays, I'm fine buying consumables from Amazon if I need them asap, but for any name brand stuff I specifically want, I prefer purchasing elsewhere. If reviews were trustworthy, it'd be one thing, but with Amazon having turned into AliExpress, it's impossible to know whether any of the Chinese brands are actually trustworthy and of high quality.
> every word in that phrase is used in the usual English sense.

Sure, but when you're reporting on a legal development, it makes sense to use the appropriate legal terms. This is especially true when the substituted word sounds like the word most lawyers would use. It makes the author sound like he doesn't understand that this is a term of art. It might add variety to the piece, but when I'm reading reporting on legal matters, I'd rather see terms of art used throughout, rather than have the author "mix it up" with these sorts of substitutions.
There's a pricing death valley in between "can be trivially expensed" and "needs to Go Through Purchasing"; there is a huge step function in the cost for you, the vendor, to sell into that enterprise that occurs right at that cutoff.

"What costs? I sell bits over the internet, my marginal costs are zero!" I mean the cost of either your time managing an enterprise sales cycle yourself or hiring somebody to do it so you can actually work on your product, times many many potential clients (because most will fall out of the sales funnel, so you need to have lots in flight to get some in the door by the end of the month).

It can be untenable to price a product anywhere between $500/mo (or whatever the cutoff is) and $20k/y.
> Why would this need to be addressed so singularly?

I don't know, I didn't write the law. They must have thought this is the better approach to start with. Perhaps they consider fighting one gigacorp at a time to be easier. After all, Apple has been left to grow unchecked until became larger than many countries.

Sure wish the US would just handle Apple the same way China has handled Alibaba growing too large. One can dream, right?

For context, they basically just said "you had your fun, it's over" and forcibly split the company in many smaller ones under new leadership.
> I don’t think that’s excessive either. But if one user is using 384 TB of bandwidth each month, the ISP needs to pay for that bandwidth somehow.

Subscription fees should be set to cover the costs of bandwidth. Right now ISPs want to advertise unlimited service for a certain (already excessive) price and then complain when users actually use the service they're paying for as advertised. They've changed their ads many times over the years as a result of being called out for their word games (see for example https://consumerist.com/2010/03/02/comcast-unlimited-usage-d...)

If the ISP has a reasonably capable network the few users who are using tons of bandwidth will be more than made up for by the majority of users who barely use the service at all (the check email/weather/facebook/sports scores crowd)
society and culture are conformity, so to live in a society and/or culture and have some kind of influence or impact, you need to provide some kind of value that others deem as "good." We don't live in a bubble.
Interesting, thanks for sharing those links.
Have not yet read anything by Ballard but will start with the short "Studio 5, the Stars" which you shared!
The way I read it, the article was a rant about how people shouldn't be using ngrams to prove things.
It's a bit odd to think of a password as a "non-scarce resource" when they protect scarce resources.

I expect they're not often visible, though.
> I suspect that many people associate durability with electronic media simply because it becomes obsolete so rapidly that we don't experience it in the same way.

Or probably because paper or other media has already stood the trial of time, there are some papyrus dating around 2500BC that’s more than 4000 years ago, now think if any of the tools needed for current media will be available 4000 years from now.
The funny thing about slogans is that you can almost always count on the sloganeer to embody the opposite:

- Don't be evil

- Drain the swamp

- Hope and Change
For the most part it, it's successful, but often times it isn't (which was my point!) We can take the FAA and 787-MAX as another example! Mostly successful, but still not really 100%
You've never heard of sweatshops or labor trafficking?
Eyra is an interesting Rust project
Looks like I'm not alone. But I don't, and don't think Mark does (he's a MySQL guy I believe), claim to be a Postgres expert.

http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2023/09/trying-out-orioledb.h...
The last few years have made disbarment seem like a reasonable tool to use far more often than we do.
The trouble with this argument is it applies to your thoughts about reality, not just to your will.

Your argument implies your thoughts at time t are solely the result of your state at time t-1 and your environment. But if that's the case, your thoughts aren't about reality; they're just a result of reality, a result of whatever state you happen to be in.

But if your thoughts aren't about reality, why should your argument about free will -- or about anything else -- carry any weight?

Causal processes are not the same as logical reasoning, and if you reduce the processes of the mind to the former, you remove the possibility of rational argument.
"eyra is a set of libraries that aim to replace the role of the traditional libc in modern programs. It is written entirely in Rust, not counting the bits of Assembly necessary to tie the entire thing together."
> There is no way those non-physical thoughts are changing the physical processes; they happen after the fact.

How can the truth of this statement be proven? Non-physical thoughts cannot be observed, so they are out of reach of being tested for being correct.
I think it's would be useful for someone to list out good reasons for and against bootstrapping: When it works and when it doesn't.

For a few months I was in discussions to be CTO of a company that was kinda-sorta bootstrapping. (They had a very small amount of angel money.)

Ultimately, they wanted me to quit my job without pay; I realized they were 3 cents short on a dollar; and we parted ways.

Given their space, they really needed to raise money for what they want to do. (More than the fact that I need to get paid,) The space they're operating in needs someone to grow fast because there won't be a lot of room for lots of small players.

But, if this was five (or more) years ago, I think bootstrapping would really work in their favor. (Different market conditions and expectations.) I might have even been able to take a lot more sweat equity at the time, too.
Why did you move there?
Prophet has gotten a lot of attention since being released in 2017, I think because the idea of a fully automatic solution is very appealing to people. One of the original developers, Sean Taylor, recently posted a nice retrospective on the project's successes and failures:
https://medium.com/@seanjtaylor/a-personal-retrospective-on-... He quotes one of his earlier tweets:

If I could build it again, I’d start with automating the evaluation of forecasts. It’s silly to build models if you’re not willing to commit to an evaluation procedure. I’d also probably remove most of the automation of the modeling. People should explicitly make these choices.

Having worked on similar Bayesian time-series forecasting tools at Google, this matches my experience (though I've never used Prophet seriously, so please don't take this as any direct judgement of it as a software package). There is a lot of value in a framework that lets you easily experiment with different model structures (our version of this was the structural time series tools in TensorFlow Probability, see, e.g., https://blog.tensorflow.org/2019/03/structural-time-series-m...). But if you're forecasting something you actually care about, it's usually worth the time to try to understand yourself what structure makes sense for your problem, and do a careful evaluation on held-out data with respect to whatever metric you're really trying to optimize. A fully automated search over model structures is cute, but even when it works, it mostly just ends up rediscovering properties of the data you could or should have already known (e.g., of course traffic to your work-related website will have a day-of-week effect), so the cases where it really adds practical value are harder to find than you might like.

Even in the age of deep learning, I do think these relatively classical Bayesian models have a lot of value for many applications. Time-series forecasting tends to be a case where:

- you don't have a ton of iid data points (often, only a single time series),

- you'd like forecasts with principled uncertainty estimates, e.g., credible intervals, giving you a range of scenarios to plan for,

- you often do have a pretty good idea of what features are relevant to the process you're predicting, and

- you want to understand in detail what features the forecast is accounting for (and what it might be missing),

all of which play to the strengths of more classical, structured statistical models, compared to more data-hungry black-box deep learning models. So the basic ideas in Prophet and similar tools do still have a lot of relevance going forward, IMHO.
Will they ever go after Ticketmaster?
Haha yes, thanks for pointing that out
If company towns were to come back, it wouldn't be in one fell swoop. It would start with "good deals" like this...
Neat; it's a bit dense for non-physicists, though. Who's up for creating an SVG version of this with links for the words? I don't think I could do it justice with my very minimal understanding of physics and SVG.
Is vertical integration illegal?
Anecdotally I hear that freelance article writing dried up pretty quickly now that you can just ask GPT "write an article about my dry cleaning company in Phoenix" and similar bottom-of-the-barrel content tasks.
I think you completely missed the article's thesis. It's not about whether people lose their jobs, it's about whether people lose their livelihoods. Millions of lost jobs is inevitable, but millions of ruined lives is unacceptable.

> In the era of A.I., we have another opportunity to decide whether automation will create advantages for all, or whether its benefits will flow only to the business owners and investors looking to reduce their payrolls. One 1812 letter from the Luddites described their mission as fighting against “all Machinery hurtful to Commonality.” That remains a strong standard by which to judge technological gains.
Windows Terminal Preview 1.19
Google podcast is going away next year. :(((
Me neither, M1 MacBook Pro with Ventura 13.6, Control center is only 0.1% CPU.

After switching to M1 I haven't looked at Activity Monitor for a long time, as CPU was never my issue. I just realized Microsoft Outlook uses 43% CPU, very astonishing given just one exchange email account is in there.
I suspect it's because they don't want to pay for software engineers as hardware engineers are much cheaper. I was contacted by their recruiter last year and it turned out the principal engineer salary was at the level of entry FAANG salary, so I suspect they can't really source the best people.
And they don't even need to scan your eyeballs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ
Amazon has been cognizant of this[antitrust risk] for a while now I believe. The internal systems are all set up to run independently, most systems are modular and already run as separate entities with permissioned access.

Proof: worked as an SDE for AWS and Amazon for 7 yrs.
> If I ask you a question about the thing you claim aptitude about, and you cannot answer it

That's the trivial part, nobody denies this. The harder part is the reverse: if you ask me a question about the thing I claim aptitude about, and I can answer it, does it prove I have aptitude for that thing, or does it prove I have the aptitude to answer this question?

If I learn by heart the 20 math problems you gave me to practice for the test, and then you test me on a similar problem, then I will be able to "do stuff" that is not completely meaningless by just mimicking the previous problems. Students often do that, and get the average even though they got the wrong answer. Many times, looking at their errors, you can be pretty sure that they just don't know what they are doing. But teachers cannot give none or all the points (or all minus 1 if there was a small mistake), it has to be a gradient. In my school system, students who get just the average grade for math problems have absolutely no clue what they are doing. If they did they would get one of the best grades. Still they pass.

Same goes for tech interviews: people learn algorithms and keywords and problems by heart just for the interview. Doesn't mean they know how to write good software, just that they learnt those things by heart.
Interesting idea - has anyone tried this?

Does Amazon retaliate and ban you permanently if you win?
seconded.. very interested in this approach as well!
The hilarious thing is I'm actually an AMD fanboy, I've made a point to only get their GPUs (and CPUs) for the last decade or so. But I'm still annoyed and frustrated that it's taken them so long to get their act together on this.
I think it's clear that China is not the one to push for development of something that may flip the current state of power between government and the people.
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>The USA sold lots of weapons to Iran pre-1978. That didn’t stop war from breaking out in the 1980s (Iran-Iraq) or after (all of the smaller battles/state-sponsored terrorism

It is almost as though something happened in 1979 that shifted the government.

We really don't know if the war would have happened if the Shah hadn't been overthrown. As far as I can tell, Iraq thought Iran would be weak due to the revolution and took advantage of the situation. If the Shah stayed in power and the US continued to provide weapons, Iraq quite possibly would not have attacked.
> that map gets translated into something like variables, or even Tailwind Variants

Sure. You can punch tailwind until it behaves like the formatting templates people used on PHP before CSS generalized them. This will indeed fix the problem.

The only thing I got to say is "blegh". You are adding code to get the "90's-dynamic" behavior into a framework that added code to remove the cascading behavior from the framework that came with code to emulate the "90's-dynamic" behavior with a few extra bonuses.

But yeah, it works. I have no idea why one would choose to go that way, but if one is constrained into it, that's a sound direction.
Elephants, Not Unicorns
> If you're starving/high/whatever and you violate someone else's fundamental rights, the reasons/excuses you give as to why your control was compromised seem irrelevant.
> If you're starving/high/whatever and you violate someone else's fundamental rights, the reasons/excuses you give as to why your control was compromised seem irrelevant. Actions and outcomes count, not intentions.

Yes, people _often_ people give rationalizations of dubious merit. These are muddled, complicated 'reflections' of the full reality. So it is wise to not give them too much weight. (But it can be very interesting to try to parse them, but that's another topic...!)

Next point. From a predictive point of view about public safety, the context and situation matters. For example, consider the case of an addict who regularly steals because he is driven by the addiction. If he can break the habit (hopefully with help of many kinds), the theft problem largely goes away. Understanding the dynamic helps us understand downstream outcomes.
Curious what people think about this idea. I personally like the idea of the elephants, but am a bit surprised seeing it proposed by a VC, because it seems that elephants might be best off bootstrapping.
This is a nice sentiment but labor doesn’t create value in a world of robots. We need a radically different system of wealth allocation.
The Twitch drops literally cause people to watch for X hours when they don't voluntary want to. I often have it running in my browser because I want the exclusive, yet I don't listen or watch.
It's a small industry and the walls have ears. Don't want to reduce your ability to get another job in the industry I guess
> they were acting out of desperation to preserve their way of life

Should I have the right to preserve my way of life when it imposes costs on others?
They force sellers to use their payment processor. If you don't, they charge an extra 0.5% markup on top, which basically means that no 3rd party payment processor can be competitive on price.

I think you can also measure their power in the same way as Amazon - The % of fees that they capture as a percent of sales volume goes up every year. Slow squeeze.
So you're saying that the only two alternatives are you either call it 50-50 or you're a zealot? Weird take.
You do not need > 50% market share for the government to go after you for monopolistic practices. If Amazon made that case in court, they would be laughed out of the building.
The problem is that developing the perfect UI for nontechnical people to assemble reports probably requires a bespoke frontend for your business, and one that likely lags behind the reality of its changes. Most businesses instead opt to just hire semitechnical people that can do a bit of data work and give answers to the report-writers, as they can accommodate business changes over time and understand how to construct new queries out of the overall business' data sources.

Maybe that'll change one day with AI, and when it does that will be bought by every big company in the world (-:
They would argue they are discriminating based on nationality not race.

I can't see that argument working in a court of law...
I don't think your analogy holds up.

Take the iPhone. Its a lot more than a Linux system repository. Its hardware. Its software. And it's also regulated things, like health records, payments, radio emissions, and a host of other things.

So you see, its nothing like a repository. Now, if EU said, "Hey Linux Repositories, you have to let these other parties include their code in your repository", well, that might be a better analogy.
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No, standardized tests like the SAT have predictive value for performance in university, above and beyond your class grades.
> Amazon does not have a monopoly on online shopping that’s absurd.

“That's absurd” is an inadequate rebuttal to pp. 39-71 of the complaint detailing the basis for the claim Amazon has durable market power in two relevant markers.
Google "wage theft US" ...

I think some people treat people well, but I've met too many small business owners who bristle at paying minimum wage.
Indeed, by natural selection I meant evolution based on random DNA mutations. Of course, technological and cultural evolution (aka memetics) will persist.
I found a bunch of them, here’s one: https://github.com/Devzstudio/tailwind_to_css
Large employers in Germany will enforce the max 10 hour rule for non-managers not from the goodness of their hearts or because they don’t want to be stuck paying overtime, but because here, they have a good chance of having at least some of the liability if you are involved in an accident.

When my skip-level’s boss spotted me in the office at 7pm during a very serious outage, and told him that I’d been there since 6, he commended my efforts and insisted I take a cab home and have them bill the company directly, no matter how far away home was, and stated that I was under no circumstance to set foot on company property before 8am the next day, and that I needed to have at least 10 hours between arriving home and leaving for work the next morning.
I've seen it in the mini versions of stores in NYC.
Tinkercad and scratch were never tied to a browser! Why go with wasm?
Very slick! Are you planning to wrap it in a react component and put it on npm as well?
A workgroup/kernel can launch other ones without talking to the host. Like cuda's dynamic thing except with no nested lifetime restrictions. This is somewhat documented under the name HSA.

Involves getting a pointer to a HSA queue and writing a dispatch packet to it. Same interface the host has for launching kernels - easier in some ways (you've got the kernel descriptor as a symbol, not as a name to dlsym) and harder in others (dynamic memory allocation is a pain).
If someone is running the business alone, what do they look to get funding for?

To expand, grow, to hire people so that the "bus" scenario won't materialise.

So if someone asks it - they are either taking a piss or think that you want to run with their money (as many think this way of the poor).
I lost most of my allergies after using leeches against knee pain. Would totally recommend.
What's the real reason?
But who has?
It's all out there in the open if you know where to look, huh.
But once you are dead you will cease to exist, so whether you have no debt or 1 million dollars of debt, as far as you are concerned it is the same.
Sometimes it seems that Google is trying to get me to hate it more than Microsoft.