skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spotify started the EU antitrust case on Apple:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618264/eu-antitrust-cas...

Also of course, Spotify is somewhat of a monopoly of its own, or a chosen 'winner' by the music industry at large colluding.
I find it really hard to reconcile this viewpoint with reality. I personally know businesses who use stablecoins for international money transfers because it’s just faster and cheaper.

Also, every month or so an article pops up here where either some business is rekt because their payment processor’s automated process kicked them off, or someone’s bank account got closed in a similar way screwing them.

Yet the only way to self custody electronic money and transact without intermediaries is somehow ‘pointless and idiotic’.
As someone for whom programming first really "clicked" after using NetLogo in a CS class in highschool, I love the idea of this project and the interface! For kids the most important thing is to get them _excited_ about programming, and this seems like it could do a good job
can't you just set a per-account retweet threshold for their posts to show up in your feed?
This is why not all product categories are equal. Go to market is a fundamental calculation when creating any product.
Nobody knows how this all ends but a lot hinges on whether D'Angelo & Co. are going to hightail it or cling to their boardseats. If the latter then OpenAI is probably done for. Oh, and another confident prediction is that lawyers will get richer.
I recently got a comical refusal given the founders background:

Prompt: I want to train my vocabulary to sound more like an effective altruist. Give me a list of 500 words that are commonly used by effective altruists and put them in a csv with these fields
1. Word
2. Definition
3. Short explanation of connection to effective altruism
4. Example sentence

Claude:
I apologize, but I should not generate lists of vocabulary or example sentences to specifically further any ideological perspective, including effective altruism.
Streamlining CI/CD Pipelines with Code
As someone who uses Jest and alternatively enjoys and is frustrated by it, this isn't all Jest's fault. Node is just now releasing fixes for [significant memory leaks](https://github.com/jestjs/jest/issues/11956#issuecomment-180...) around ESM support within the [VM APIs](https://nodejs.org/api/vm.html) that Jest depends on.
Someone should build an EV that shreds the empty batteries and ejects them into the face of passing schoolchildren to lighten the load and better recreate the health and environmental impacts of ICE vehicles.
OP is talking about children, not computer science students.
this should not be surprising. Apple has negotiated their fees with Amazon which was [leaked](https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/30/apple-halved-app-store-....) a while back. this was before they changed the rules about devs earning less than 1million pay only 15%. i'm sure major companies like Spotify get nicer deals while indie devs and small shops pay up 30%.
That's not true. Most contracts are negotiable, and this is legal. Of course, this may change in the EU due to the “Digital Markets Act”, but this is new.

Bigger companies getting better deals has always been the reality, due to volume discounts.

We have a different idea about what the free market is.
What countries they hung out in, I think. The Bahamas is not able to hold of US pressure for very long.
Yes please, I twitched hard and also searched for it.
I wouldn't disagree at all.
Also check out https://www.navierboat.com/, a competitor in this space.

And an amazing historical progenitor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2i3EeUnku0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Plainview
More like it attended an HR DEI ESG session and decided to make it its personality from then on.
I'm sure the people doing devrel over there do their best but have to work under a communications policy that prohibits discussing things like negotiable royalties specifically to avoid situations like the current litigation.
He doesn't cite any sources either. The contract details remain murky.
A standard HR background check is looking for lawsuits from potential employees. No one wants to hire persistent litigators.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. I can see a pretty strong correlation between the parents who have the will to not simplify their lives by putting kids in front of the TV and parents who will do more than the average parent for their kids to be well-educated.
I find it weird that so many people think they should be entitled to everything for free. Who's paying the creators for the content they watch? Who's paying Google for delivering that content?

Instead of an ad-blocker, try a YT premium subscription. Or use a different platform that doesn't serve ads. Or sign up for some other subscription service. Whatever.

Do people also get mad at barbers that don't give free haircuts?
For one, 4th is looking at property crime, not "most dangerous," where SF is #37 for violent crime. Yes, SF attracts the nexus of crime around the BART stops, but that also pulls it from most of the surrounding area, which OP was talking Bay Area as a whole.

Anecdotally, I've been here 30 years and never victim of a "dangerous" crime. Fat chance you move to Mountain View to work at Google and anything happens to you.

The only place in CA someone reading a "Best City for Techies" will encounter crime is Market St. and Tenderloin in SF. The rest of it in deep Oakland, Stockton, Modesto, San Bernardino, and pockets of LA, they will never end up.
Nurses might not get paid what they are worth in all cases, but they have amazing job security.

Ironically it's probably easier to replace a lot of what doctors do with AI than what nurses do.
Could someone succinctly describe the situation between node ts and esm?

I’m not very familiar with the ecosystem and trying to understand what pain ports people are describing here in the comments.
There are hundreds of reasons why this wouldn't work, mainly the fact that almost nobody watches the same ads, meaning you're just rendering 100,000+ different versions of the same video depending on who watches it.
Looking at the OECD data, one thing that is striking is that Belgium "rejoins the pack" if you look at the tax burden for a two-parent single-earner family.

Looking at the list (OECD Taxing Wages), I'm going to hazard a guess that it's a cultural/religious thing - it looks like the drop in the average tax rate as a proportion of household income for a single-earner vs. the same income for a single person is far greater in countries with a significant proportion of Catholics.
Yeah, gravitational energy isn't enough to cause the sort of runaway reaction I'm talking about.

I'm not talking about the target increasing the energy of the Death Star, but whether the energy of the Death Star's weapon can initiate a runaway fusion reaction. Does Yavin simply go up like Alderaan, or does a good chunk of that hydrogen fuse to helium and fry everything around?
Adam Neumann is still getting huge financing. There is always a way to keep hustling.
Wasmer & Wasmer Edge might be a good option for you!

https://wasmer.io/products/edge
> Very cool, is Next support planned?

It's definitely in the pipeline!

> How much traffic can it handle and what's the pricing for cloud? Can't find pricing on your site.

So right now, it's still under development, but if you have a small/medium sized project (like 5QPS maybe), it should work. Pricing is free for now while it's under development.

> How are you different from the 20+ existing monitoring solutions?

You've listed a lot of different types of monitoring tools. You have error reporting, session replay, log muxing, metric dashboards, and distributed tracing.

Catalyst combines a few key features from each category, and makes them play well together. For example, you can find a broken endpoint via the error graph and click on the line to get a breakdown of path params, logs, and errors for that specific endpoint. You can filter by these breakdowns to find matching sessions (which is like tracing + session replay). You can basically go from identifying an error, to finding the underlying cause of the error quickly in one dashboard.

In my experience, most tools don't play well together, like if you see a rise in error rates for an endpoint in your dashboard, then you need to make a separate query in your logging tool or your distributed tracing tool if your tools even give you the fidelity to know what to look for. You end up having to compose (and pay for) multiple tools.Even platforms that provide multiple features like DataDog and SigNoz, the features are separate and don't interact.

Philosophically, Catalyst doesn't just want to optimize for setup time, it also wants to optimize for peace of mind time, i.e. you're confident if your webapp is broken, you'll know. Most existing monitoring solutions just dump data at you, and ask you pick out what's important, and a lot of times they don't give you the fidelity you need.
It’s funny how true believers in communism and true believers in crypto talk exactly the same way nowadays.

“FTX and Binance are not examples of true crypto!”

“Soviet Union and Venezuela are not examples of true communism!”
The trouble with trains is they are unresponsive to people’s needs. The #1 problem w/ trains in Europe is they are frequently two or three times the cost of air travel. So long as that is the case Europe has a carbon problem. I guess you could make air travel three times as expensive but isn’t the answer, if you don’t want far-right populist parties to take over, to get the cost of rail down?

In the U.S. we have almost forgotten the memory of resentment against railroads (eg. the word “railroading”) who would build tracks past your town but no station, instead they’d build the stationa few miles up the track where they owned all the land and could take all the profit of rising real estate values.

No wonder people were in such a hurry to tear up all the old railroad right of way as soon as they had the opportunity.

This sci-fi novel

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250883001/theterraformers

spins a scenario where people who can’t imagine they can afford to eat meat (kinda ridiculous when they can 3-d print organisms and have enough energy to spare to drive plate tectonics) reject the idea of building a planetary transit system based on rail because: doesn’t the current generation get to decide where they go and not have that decision forced on them?
> How much money and power would a gutted OpenAI have to devote to a protracted legal battle against Microsoft’s army of lawyers?

What happens when a “gutted" firm has assets whose value cannot be realized except by an actor with greater resources and time window, but those actors do, in fact, exist?
It's a good article, but it buries the lede more than half way through.
Early termination fees seem like a fair trade-off for severing a term contract early. That doesn't scream "junk fee" to me as much as hotel resort fees and other BS. If you get a better price for committing to a period of service, how is that in any way predatory or harmful to the consumer? A termination fee is like pro-rating at the non-committed rate.
I won't mind paying if it is a fair transaction - that is I'm being charged for (paying the creators + infra costs + profit). But Google is still siphoning my data and selling it to advertisers. If these companies can do business in an ethical manner, there wouldn't be this much backlash. People know that these companies will take money from their users and still sell them out to advertisers.
Except for firing execs it seems. Everybody who remains in charge at OpenAI has so many conflicts of interest now that their best bet is to lay very low. Unless they want to be in lawsuits for the next couple of generations. And so far laying low is exactly what they are doing. Has there been any substantial statement from the new CEO yet?
It's because WA allows for non-compete agreements for employees above a certain income level, whereas CA bans non-competes outright. So it's much more difficult to get top/high-ranking people to leave MS/AMZN since they might get sued by their employer.

Note that the threshold in WA is around $116K annual salary and I imagine that most senior tech employees would be above this level.

Source: https://foley.com/insights/publications/2023/01/non-competes...
The highway is paid for by taxes, the Internet by Ads. I assumed this was obvious, but maybe not?
What I mean is that the SNES cartridge for Super Mario RPG had a SA1 enhancement chip which is a processor that's faster than the one shipped with the original console, the Ricoh 5A22.

So unlike most games today which are mostly a ROM device, SNES games were actual computers on a cartridge.
Gpt 3.5 turbo is 20B
That's non-violent crime; most of this is attributed to larceny. SF is number 37 in violent crime.
I can't imagine my childhood with the pressure to maintain an idyllic image on social networks which seems to be the number one priority of kids today.
> Spotify's problem is it has to pay out ~80% of revenue to rightsholders, so Apple's 15% take doesn't leave you with a viable business.

It's the 80% of revenue to rightsholders that makes it a non-viable business.
Monopolies aren't illegal.
Bullshit. Police can quit anytime.

If you can't keep a level head as a police officer, then you are failing to uphold the oath you swore. Full stop.

Police have the unfair advantage: power. With power comes responsibility. We must hold those in power accountable for that responsibility.

Every person who interacts with a police officer has to deal with the element of uncertainty you are talking about. We give police loaded firearms. We give them handcuffs. We give them dogs. We give them combat training. We all know just how wrong it can go, and just how quickly. We are not allowed to leave!

People are getting murdered in the US by police, and those police are often not held to justice. There is an imbalance of both power and responsibility here that lives as a constant looming threat over many of us.

It's time to change this story, and that change must begin with police.
Not only is there existing case law and an entire concept addressing limitations, it frequently comes up in First Amendment cases.

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/compelling-state-int...
Investment would have been possible on terms which didn't mean that OpenAI failing was all upside for Microsoft. (I suspect the actual terms aren't quite that generous and MS would actually have to rebuild some stuff from scratch if OpenAI implodes, but Satya isn't bluffing about being confident they could and unconcerned if his hiring stunt causes the collapse)

I guess if you believe OpenAI's original stated mission was ever more than a marketing pitch, there's a good argument that it's all been bad anyway (building and licensing extremely impressive tech for their corporate partners and a growing consumer base isn't obviously contributing to making the world a "safer from unfriendly AI" place)
Maybe that "tree of liberty" quote accurately applies to corporate hegemony as well.

The tree of the free market must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of corporate tyrants.
Purely hypothetical but this presents a tiny angle which Adam could come out of this as a reasonable person... if all of this was basically him saying "I have to go. You have to go. We are both compromised and our positions are now against the charter" then maybe Sam was fighting against that because of the team he built and loves leading. This is one reason I would accept Adam's role if it is just him hanging on to make sure Sam is out before leaving himself.

But if that's the case then just say it.
Safeguarding Tor network: network health commitment, supporting relay operators
> and get your head spun around enough by trade-offs you don't know how to navigate but have to deal with immediately, and you'll get a kind of "trade off numbness"

I wonder if this could explain why corporations grow into slow behemoths, as a kind of subconscious moral cover. Most people think the causal arrow happens one way, ie. corporations grow due to efficiencies or other factors and moral rot is a side-effect, but maybe it's actually the other way around in some cases. Since everyone tries to see themselves as basically good, but they still want to make money and be profitable, they migrate towards structures with extra layers that provide extra plausible deniability and obfuscation of questionable moral decisions.
I agree with your statement - I know it's anecdotal, etc. etc. but it seems to have some credibility to it given my upbringing and my experiences.

You don't learn executive functioning skills when the opposite is modeled by your parents. You also don't learn them from other people in your community when you're focused on trying to survive day to day and constantly dread going home to an environment where you're not respected.

Every day is a struggle but I feel I'm starting to come around and realize that I can change myself for the better.

I hope everyone else experiencing the same can come to this realization too.
How do you know he received and wrote the mails.

Could have been his secretary in his assignment.

That's at least what his Stanford site suggests

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
This has been my experience as well. I introduced my son to Scratch when he was 8 and now, 2 years later, he's creating quite advanced games in it I wouldn't have thought possible.

But whenever I show him "real" programming languages, he's like: I can do all of that with Scratch as well - without having to type all that stuff.

We tried GameMaker and produced some cool results together, but as soon as I turn around, he's back at his Scratch projects.

Sometimes I wonder if it'd have been better had he started with code right away. Like I did back in the days. ;-)
I know how to sideload apps, but still install apps through Play Store. Why would I bother sideloading something if it's on the store already?
The Paper Mario series and the Mario and Luigi series feel nothing like Super Mario RPG. They remove too many RPG elements and feel much more linear. They aren't packed with secrets, mythos, and a vivid primary and supporting cast. There's much less mystery and intrigue, very little to go back and unlock, and scant customization.

Dealing with the disappointment of the new installments was one of the many things that ultimately weaned me off of regularly playing video games. I realized things didn't strictly get better, and that we often get sold things with just with a different coat of paint.
Which company could that have been and how would that have turned out any differently?

It seems like OpenAI needed deep pockets and access to computing power to survive. That limits the potential companies they could have cut deals with.
"Now nothing will stop us from persuading the public to use Edge."
Hey, so right now while it's under development, it's free. Quite frankly, I'm not too familiar with pricing for monitoring tools, so I'd love any suggestions here.
Maybe it’s just nostalgia but neither paper Mario nor Mario & Luigi come a light year away from SMRPG for me. They feel just like bland superficial attempts at a formula when the formula is actually the least important part of SMRPG. The apparent weirdness that the reviewer mentioned is for me exactly why I love it: the characters just are what they are; you don’t have to understand, their unexplainable weirdness makes them (and the game) so unique.

Game design from the 80s and 90s has an aspect that will never come back again: players could be expected to spend actual time with a game, play it without rushing, explore and find things out on their own. The world has changed and I will not say what is right or wrong, but this expectation and design will never come back.
Why? The nonprofit will certainly continue existing in name, if nothing else.
> These companies have alternatives that don't involve treating their users like shit, but the alternatives aren't as profitable.

So I assume you pay for YouTube Premium?
TLDR: Don't trust this paper as meaningful, it's meant only as a tentative step towards something which may be meaningful.

They put Alabama and New Mexico in the same category? Even when the latter has "red or green [chile]" as the official state question, and has a very different environment due to being in the high desert?

And all of South Africa into a single category? The supplementary materials say "For South Africa in the B&S dataset1, the cookbooks from which the recipes were derived are written by Afrikaans-speaking authors8, so we have used the Afrikaans language to represent this cuisine." but that is only one of many cultures in South Africa, including a large Indian population with spicy food.

This makes me regard the paper with a wary eye.

Ohhh! All of the peer reviews are published! See "Peer Review Information" at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01039-8 . It took a while to get this paper through, with lots of comments about issues.

Reviewer #1, after giving the okay, points out:

"I am aware this was a limitation of the sources upon which the study relied, and that similar biases were present in previous work, and this does not undermine the study overall because it is a “tenative step” towards better understanding, but please make this a very clear and strong caveat in the discussion and conclusions. It may also be leading to the rather odd correlation between GDP and spiciness which I refer to above."

where that correlation above is:

"the rather limited global sampling (see below) may also be playing a role here. For example, off the cuff, adding in say Singapore (which I imagine might have spicy food and be rich) and Nicaragua (which has rather bland food but is poor) could make a difference…I would not suggest the authors try to expand their sample (unless very straightfoward), but please at least discuss this possibility."
BEM sucks then you die.
FTT to the moon! Oh wait.
I had that on my list to give a more thorough look-see a few months ago after it was mentioned in some discussion about fabric replacement. Thanks for putting that back on my radar.

I had been wanting to leverage Ansible to get a bunch of functionality with little additional effort, but was trying to do it via direct Ansible API calls, and having no luck. I tried the same with pyinfra with similar results. However, I was able to build a shim that calls pyinfra, and I'm making wrappers to import that functionality into uPlaybook.

So now I have apt and systemd and pip support that I had been wanting.

The primary benefits of uPlaybook over Ansible/pyinfra/Chef, etc, are:

- Playbook discoverability. (Run "up" and it'll give you a list of available playbooks an a short description of them).
- Playbook arguments. (Run "up playbook --help" to get a list of CLI arguments the playbook takes. Instead of static playbooks you can have templatable plays that automate generic tasks with specializations).
- Lack of boilerplate for local host operations. (You don't have to set up inventories, you just run a playbook, with the limitation that you are running locally. IOW, local operation is dead simple, like with a shell script).
Youtube doesn't produce the videos. Are you suggesting they should re-encode them with the ads inserted into that particular video file? That seems worse, with little gain. Plus think about all of the additional storage and streaming cost required for that, because you'd have to duplicate that ad in all the videos now. Meaning each 15sec ad would add a tiny bit to each of 1B videos, instead of just being a separate 15sec video all by itself. And separate cached in all the places where that video is cached.

This is a bad idea.