skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is technically true (the best kind of true), but fails to mention that there was both a huge gap between Office on the Mac between 4.2 and 98 (coincidentally the version that came out in 1998 right around the antitrust case), and more importantly, ignores the fact that Microsoft literally is on record threatening to use Office to kill Mac, and negotiations around Office were literally presented as evidence during the antritust case against Microsoft: https://www.macworld.com/article/184614/macoffice.html

> Later, the U.S. Department of Justice included the bundling of Internet Explorer among the charges it brought against Microsoft in its antitrust case. "Microsoft, by threatening to cease development of its Office for Macintosh productivity suite, coerced Apple into making Internet Explorer the default browser on all Macintosh operating systems and to disadvantage competing browsers," the federal agency charged in 1998.

It's not really debatable whether an unchecked Microsoft monopoly would have affected Office on the Mac or whether it would have affected the trajectory of Apple's ecosystem as a whole -- it was straight-up part of the antitrust case against Microsoft. Delaying and degrading Office releases on Mac was the active policy of Microsoft by the late 1990s, both because it gave Microsoft power over Apple during business negotiations and because it allowed Microsoft to simultaneously hold off competing office-suite products while pulling more users away from Mac towards Windows, which had more up-to-date and less buggy versions of Office and IE.

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And of course, notably, this is an example of antitrust being relevant to a company choosing not to provide a service. It's not merely that Microsoft went out of its way to block Apple's access, Microsoft was threatening to withhold development on Apple-compatible products. So let's not pretend that asking a company to go out of its way to do something can't be part of antitrust or that companies have an unimpeachable moral right to refuse to expend developer resources or adapt their business models when their business models are anticompetitive. Apple certainly wasn't arguing that it was "theft" in 1998 when the government was pointing out that Microsoft withholding active support could be an anticompetitive action.
Doesn’t the content-addressed derivation experimental feature address this issue? Instead of store hashes being input-addressed as you mention, the derivation outputs are used to calculate the store hash, which ensures binary reproducibility.
At my last job, there was an incident (thankfully discovered in working hours) caused by a supplier accidentally deleting the country of Austria from some crucial database. You can't anticipate everything like that, but the show must go on ...
Turning Suckless into Suckmore
The most important interpretation IMO is that a matrix is a specification for a linear map. A linear map is determined by what it does to a basis, and the columns of a matrix are just the list of outputs for each basis element (e.g. the first column is `f(b_1)`. The nth column is `f(b_n)`). If A is the matrix for f and B the matrix for g (for some chosen bases), then BA is the matrix for the composition x -> g(f(x)). i.e. the nth column is `g(f(b_n))`.

The codomain of f has to match the domain of g for composition to make sense, which means dimensions have to match (i.e. row count of A must be column count of B).
I always cringe when I hear evolution brought up as some invented method or mere developmental happenstance. It's a cold, unavoidable consequence of variation, selection and inheritance, in the absolutely most general way possible.

The universe evolves, life just found a way to make it quicker. Then we invented sexual dimorphism to make several selections within a single generation. Our human intelligence allows us to evolve ideas at an even faster rate.

The effects of evolution are in the realms of science, but evolution itself is the superstructure science, and anything else, has "evolved" in. It's time.
Patreon is still heavily reliant on YouTube for the actual video hosting. Vimeo didn't go well [0]. Patreon has started their own video hosting service in beta, but haven't finalized prices yet. Even then plenty of creators would probably rather upload on YouTube for free than pay for Patreon.

Other services like Nebula are not a replacement for YouTube in this use case and many use cases. The comment I was replying to wouldn't be asking for better options instead of just using Nebula if it was.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-cr...
Yeah, gender balance is often skewed. While I'm not on the market I've noticed this with the hiking community--overall, it appears approximately balanced but most actual hikes are not. The long hikes are highly male-dominated, the short ones are rather female-dominated. I've met some women that joined specifically to look for dates--and I've never seen any of them in a group that wasn't female dominant.
People in the Middle Ages Slept Not Once but Twice Each Night
Do you allow ads on sites with more responsible ads?
The numbers are wrong, 6000/3000000 is 0.2% not 0.002%. I stopped reading after this.
> To me, Grindr is a symptom not the cause. If you are taught from a young age that men don't cry, toughen up and be a man etc, then sex is reduced to the physical act.

I agree Grindr is a symptom not the cause. There were rough gay clubs for decades before apps ever appeared.

I don't think this toughening up thing is really the issue though. Many gay friends like this kind of sex and are plenty emotional. And for young people this toughening up bullshit isn't really a thing anymore anyway. When I grew up in the 80s the traditionalists were still like that and there was this (in my opinion) fascist thing in Holland with pretty much all men still being forced into the military and be primed into obedience, following orders and stuff. But since the 90s it's a different world for young people. These things aren't expected and part of their lives anymore. Unless they actually decide they want to be told what to do and join the army voluntarily.
What right does society have to demand that men act docile? Nobody cares an iota for our SAFETY, let alone our comfort.

A society that isn't built on reciprocation is not a society worthy of my respect.
my imagination of it : YT search as well as playback is behind a login.
Kurzgesagt had a nice video about that[0] (and the Mars terraforming as well[1]).

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWI

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HpcTJW4ur54
I argued with a PA because they were convinced that the most likely reason for a high white blood cell count in my sample was that it was contaminated post collection. It was a very frustrating discussion that seemed to have gone around in circles many times. I eventually just had to agree to retest. I feel like this would not be an issue talking to an MD.
You are offering a "solution" to a sentence taken out of the larger context. Poster is arguing for a platform for videos that are not made for payment.
You’re not the scholar you think you are. You lost the plot in your first sentence.
> the type must exhibit a total ordering or your sort may do anything, including buffer overflow.

Sure. But there's no requirement for the compiler to be a dick about it, and hopefully most won't.

> I don't think I know how to prove it, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be Undecidable at runtime too in many of these cases. Rice reduced these problems to Halting, which I'd guess means you end up potentially at runtime trying to decide if some arbitrary piece of code will halt eventually, and yeah, that's not helpful.

At runtime can't you just run the code and let it halt or not? Having your program go into an infinite loop because the thing you implemented didn't meet the requirements is not unreasonable.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that there could be a problem in this space, but without a real example of a case where it's hard for a compiler to do something reasonable I'm not convinced.

> I've written about it before, but I should spell it out: The only working alternative is to reject programs when we aren't sure they meet our constraints. This means sometimes we reject a program that actually does meet the constraints but the compiler couldn't see it.

> I believe this route is superior because the incentive becomes to make that "Should work but doesn't" set smaller so as to avoid annoying programmers, whereas the C++ incentive is to make the "Compiles but doesn't work" set larger since, hey, it compiles, and I see Rust's Non-Lexical Lifetimes and Polonius as evidence for this on one side, with C++ 20 Concepts and the growing number of IFNDR mentions in the ISO standard on the other side.

Meh. I'm no fan of the C++ approach, but I'd still rather see C++ follow through on its strategy than half-assing it and becoming a watered-down copy of Rust. People who want Rust know where to find it.
> I guess this allows them integrate with proprietary code on their back end if necessary

Couldn't they have accomplished that just by asking for GPLv3 instead of AGPLv3? That would let them do so without letting them make the self-hosted version non-free, unlike asking for MIT.

> Nothing prevents an AGPLv3 fork if OpenSign goes proprietary in future.

Yes, but this would be true for almost any FOSS license offered and regardless of what they ask of contributors.

> I'd rather this approach than yet another non-standard Amazon-proof licence.

I very much agree with this.
Marco was always disconnected because he's well off and could do whatever he wanted (good for him). When Casey and John had jobs, they were able to keep Marco grounded and the trio really worked. Now that Casey and John both only really do the podcast now, they all are a bit disconnected. I'm happy for all them to make money doing what they love, but the show definitely changed once they all became essentially full time podcasters.
> Is it something in the metal itself?

Yes. I never understood it myself, until the first time I held a heavy gold necklace. The feeling is hard to describe.
I feel like that list of responsibilities describes a staff engineer too
If it's meant to be a monospace-for-coding font, they really should show off... you know... what code looks likes in it.
Is there such a cap?
Hiring in moderation for Chinese moderation is a good way to meet an immoderate fate.
Great song.
If it’s a personal project, I would pick and try out the latest trends that I’ve been keeping an eye on.

I’m planning to try out HTMX + a backend written either in Rust or Go. Since it’s a passion project it doesn’t necessarily need to be out there for thousands of users, so I’ll go with SQLite.
I wish the plot twist of the story weren't that the compiler was too woke, to the point that it decided the student's code was racist for comparing color values. It's such a tired punchline, and it places the story as another skirmish in the culture war which distracts from the points he's presumably trying to make.

To me, the problem in the story isn't that the AIs are too PC. The problem is that corporations have dictated the alignment, and users have no power, only API tokens.
Who knows? Maybe if the value of your attention increases too much they'll socialize it among themselves or something. Instead of 1 company paying for an ad slot, 10 of them will band together and pay 1/10th of the cost to share the same slot instead. I'm sure they'll find a way.
I expect some cultural and experience differences between people who did and didn’t relocate to prioritize their careers, in some ways more than people who tried to immigrate but couldn’t get permission.
This really irks me. We're calling a machine with a Celeron CPU a "server" now? And being expandable is now "hackable?"
3Blue1Browns Essence of Linear Algebra is my go to

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...
Axler is pathological in his avoidance of determinants. I've heard (third hand) that he once pulled aside some fields medalist into a classroom after a talk and asked them "Do you like determinants?" I imagine him drawing the curtains and sweeping for bugs first.

I attended a (remote) seminar where he was talking about this book, and this seems more or less accurate. Mathematicians are a weird lot.

The response that he received in the story was "I feel about them the same way I feel about tomatoes. I like to eat them, but other than that, no, I don't like them."
Some people just aren't suited for certain jobs. There's nothing wrong with the person, and there's nothing wrong with the job (in this case, the job "just is").
As I explained in another comment, YouTube is not that. Netflix is that. Patreon is that.

YouTube is something different. It's more like Wikipedia to many people.

Believe me when I say if I could avoid YouTube I would. They've made it abundantly clear they don't want people like me. But what choice do I have when the vast majority of stuff is uploaded there? It's like saying "just stop breathing if you don't like air pollution".

I don't care about technicalities. I care about practicalities. YouTube can either be the free public repository of videos or it can be private like Netflix and facilitate payments between consumers and creators. Not both.

If this were about YouTube's costs then they could charge creators for hosting and bandwidth costs. If I set up a website, I pay for it, not you. Why should video be the other way around?

YouTube knows it needs to attract creators by being the free, public platform with one hand, but as soon as it gets that content it uses it to extract money from users with the other.

Any of these things would be good:

* YouTube goes private like Netflix,

* YouTube acts like a video host and charges uploaders for the service like any other web host,

* YouTube accepts they are like Wikipedia and cuts their costs by using technology like P2P and/or make the market absorb the costs by negotiating better peering deals (ie. push the bandwidth costs on to internet subscribers).

But masquerading as the free, public internet video platform then expecting to get paid for it by users who now have no other choice? Forget it.
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Outside of archeology we basically know nothing about pre-Roman Britain. We hardly know anything about Roman Britain too and we barely know what happened after the Romans left.

Barring some world ending apocalypse I find it hard to imagine that, even if let's say 1000 times less written material survived the next 2000 years compared to the 2000 that preceded us our descendants would still have several magnitudes more information about our times than we do about 0 BC (especially if we're talking about Britain or pretty much any people in Europe who did not speak Latin or Greek).
Think about what you're saying for a second. You made specific claims that I copied and pasted and keep repeating them with zero evidence. You have admitted and demonstrated you don't know anything about cryptography.

Instead of deferring to experts who spend huge amounts of time researching how to weaken cryptography you claim they all must be biased and ignore your conclusion (based on nothing) that all cryptography will be broken in the future by computers that don't exist (that you also don't know anything about).

This is conspiracy level thinking.

Bitcoin's encryption is elliptical curve. It was chosen specifically because of all the stuff you copied and pasted. That has been known for multiple decades. Researchers have entire academic careers based around writing papers and going to conferences trying to find the smallest theoretical weaknesses in any algorithm out there.

Stop trying to deflect and let go of the conspiracy theories of trying to make your conclusion first and then hallucinate rationalizations.
Thank you so much for your great work
According to the thread the author was given two weeks notice by Vercel.
I'm not sure what the rules are in the US but in Australia the infrastructure service life is set by regulation. It's not an economic / financial argument or even a benevolence / moral argument that causes this, it's a legal requirement. There are significant real world advantages of having a bridge last more than 25 years that are not reflected by a financial return on investment.
This line in particular is a head-scratcher:

> Advanced inter-document relations and analysis. No JOINs. No pain. […] queries allow for multi-table, multi-depth document retrieval, efficiently in the database, without the use of complicated JOINs

That sounds like they have a networked database, not a relational database. That might be fine, but as I understand it, relational databases won because they offer more flexible access patterns and it’s easier to write correct queries.
This is why I stick with barrel jacks for most of my projects. It keeps things simple, and the only real downside is that it isn't compact. For projects that need compactness, I go with USB micro B. For my power purposes, USB-C just adds complexity without any significant benefit.
a) there is no such user that is a pure money sink. Even without a subscription and all the ad blockers in the world they're still leaving a valuable data trail.

b) YT is a propaganda engine, too. It serves that end to allow nearly-unlimited membership.
Like this kind of thing?

https://www.servethehome.com/dell-optiplex-7000-intel-alder-...

I have one on my desk at work, when I need to log in remotely (not often) I use my old work laptop. For my personal work I have this bad boy

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/110568695732952713

that I log into with an iPad (bluetooth mouse and keyboard work fine but not if I add bluetooth headphones to the mix) using Remote Desktop and Tailscale.
Yeah I think so too. It's more instinctive for men to like this.

I (as a cis hetero man) consider many such things toxic masculinity in today's society but I'm very emo (and proud of it nowadays). But if it's consensual it's fine, it's more that consent is often overlooked by the people who are into this kind of sex.
> If you prefer to read in print, you can also find this article in the October 23, 2023, issue of New York Magazine

I'm not sure, but maybe the reason is related to the source of this article (and again, a missing license agreement)?
Because if it's flu and it's early enough there is treatment (Tamiflu), and it's helpful to differentiate from things like strep, where there is also treatment.
It's getting harder to see a doctor, they only let you see a physicians assistant, Who acts like a doctor, but isn't. I understand they meet with a doctor later to discuss the case, but… It's just not the same. A physicians assistant is not a doctor
What do you think of the Canadian legal case law website CanLii? What could it do better or do you think its done well?

Is it overdue for innovation?
> A bunch of people didn't just "show up somewhere and seize a bunch of land". This bunch of people were steadily migrating and acquiring land legally.

Really? My grandfather talked about having to intercept or shoot the boatloads that were arriving illegally, and not being able to catch them all, and a quick look into the history seems to back that up.
> Preserving digital data requires constant maintenance, because none of the media we use will last forever

That's the only reason we have any texts written by Greek and Romans constant maintenance and copying, and that's also why almost everything has been lost over the ages. Clay tablets from the bronze age are an aberration.
> since every decision required "data", innovation became impossible.

That makes me think of this quote about the "McNamara Fallacy" [0]:

> But when the McNamara discipline is applied too literally, the first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. The second step is to disregard that which can't easily be measured or given a quantitative value. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. The fo[u]rth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

Or, for a punchier meme approach, this SMBC comic [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rise-of-the-machines
Nice, but I wonder why Vercel is doing this. Is there some clause in the standard VC contract, that once you’ve raised enough capital, you have to commission your own typeface?

We’re kinda getting spoiled with options, now every medium to large tech company seems to be releasing their own typeface.
Unlike in the 21st century where 100% of the population has exactly the same sleep pattern and sleeps exactly 8 hours a night from the same time to the same time.

/s
In my experience, it's a little bit easier for new students to understand that the image of a matrix is the span of its columns, hence column space.
> Can you think of one movie or TV show which models a realistically happy working adult marriage which isn't either sentimental and idealised, or doesn't end in drama, tragedy, and betrayal?

Friday Night Lights
Yeah the first is what I mean. I see a lot of those but I don't understand the portability aspect of it. They're often advertised as "pocket size", which I assume means "portable" (why else have it in your pocket?) But I can't imagine a portable PC is very useful without access to a monitor or keyboard