skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scratch. It's the perfect programming language for kids that age and especially makes programming games easy and natural. I've taught about a hundred kids that age programming over the years through scratch. The ones who get inclined eventually move to python.
Apple's storekit offering does not permit that, which I am not sure would survive a court challenge.
I think we all need to read Enterprise Integration Patterns.

You would have an idempotent queue + a circuit breaker pattern. If the queue depth is too large - you break the circuit.

But if your profit per request is higher than your infracost per request - why not autoscale till the cows come home? Within reason of course.
I never herd that before, thanks.
They certainly haven't leveraged that supposed leverage, since Apple Music doesn't even come close to Spotify from a usability standpoint. I'd wager most people would stick to Spotify in that case, were I a betting man.
Yes, but not anything usable on IGPs.
Actually, they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_bidding

Modern programmatic advertising enables each user to be pimped out to whichever manipulator is willing to pay the most. In just a few dozen milliseconds, Facebook will send out your personal data to participants in the advertising system ('bidstream data'), select a winner, and serve their ad to you.

Note: Your data goes out to bidders, and someone pays Facebook for it. That sure sounds like selling your data.

This is not some farcical, imaginary backdoor to collect data and spy on people. It's happening right now. "Patternz", an Israeli spy-tech company, run an advertising service as a front to get free access to bidstream data from 87 ad exchanges and SSPs including Google, Yahoo, MoPub, AdColony, and OpenX.

They take those bidstream data, de-anonymize them, and permanently record them. They claim to have profiles on billions of users including their location history, home address, interests, information about 'people nearby', 'co-workers' and 'family members'.

See also this slide of theirs: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-5bA6QW8AAyfSK.jpg, entitled, "We help national security agencies detect audience patterns and user behavior using digital advertising data mining and analytics".
Are teslas and other EVs rated at 430 mpg equivalent?

Because Ive worked at the DOE, as a scientist, researching green, sustainable, fuels. I know my thermo and my grid. I guarantee you that that number is BS
> FB has the advantage that everyone is basically a verified user

When my wife sold a standing desk recently on FBM, approximately 60% of the respondents were scammers. They offered above the asking price, but wanted us to pay for a courier, for which they would repay us with cash in an envelope. The whole thing ended up so annoying and stressful, we said we'd never sell anything on Facebook again.
There is now; ACA plans have a max out-of-pocket amount, for which I'm very grateful. My bankrutpcy was pre-ACA.
At long contexts.
I learned about this stuff in grad school. The course wasn't mandatory for everyone but my supervisor made it mandatory for me due to the nature of the research I was doing: "Computer Systems and Performance Evaluation". It was basically focused on queuing theory and state space modelling.

Reading through this whole discussion thread really makes me want to dig up my old notes and whip up a blog post with a Jupyter notebook or something that people can use to really dig into this and start to grok what's happening because a lot of it really isn't that intuitive until you've been steeped in it for a while.
Agreed, it starts by talking about AI and then when the actual law is written it does not use a single qualifier to identify AI. It's written in a way that almost makes me think some public figure is mad they got lampooned on SNL or some comedy sketch.
The idea that the entire universe is just one big static 4D object, with your entire life embedded in it like a book, just doesn't sit well. The passage of time is the most directly apprehensible aspect of reality. If it's all laid out there in the bulk, why is there any particular sense of 'now'? Wouldn't all points in the bulk be on an equal footing? Any moment on any trajectory of anything would have to be as real as any other such moment, so why does consciousness present us with a particular 'now', that evolves with an apparent flow of time? It doesn't seem like anything within a frozen bulk universe could explain that, which leads to either the frozen bulk model is wrong, or that the flow of time regresses to some kind of outer, external reality. Not really satisfied with kicking the can.

Blah. Time for more coffee.
> 3. Doesn’t Sootify also take a 30% cut to allow artists on their platform?

LOL No. Spotify would not be in so much trouble as a business if it did anything like that.
>Healthcare's like national defense;

Finally someone else who gets it, every time I say this I get strange looks.
I wouldn't put Trilium and Logseq in the same bucket, I spent quite some time with Logseq (and Obsidian, and SiYuan, and Joplin, and Anytype and some commercial offerings like Notion) before settling with Trilium, so I can pretend having quite the comprehensive view round the topic.

How I would describe Logseq is that it's an outliner (it relinquishes the concept of folders in favour of pages containing nested blocks inheriting form their parent's block/page properties). It's possible to structure information hierarchically using (hierarchical) tags/page prefixes, and it's possible to use templates to instantiates new pages with predefined attributes, but Logseq metadata model is manually managed and potentially (probably) inconsistent: changing a template definition won't change its page instances, defining a parent block/page attribute without a value doesn't imply/suggests that its children will override/provide a value for it… Maintaining libraries of "things" (people, locations, events, …) is a manual job, and it didn't take me long to realize that the tool was giving me more work to do than was helping with it.

Contrast that with Trilium, which has even simpler and more effective principles: everything is a note, and notes can be nested. Notes can carry (optionally inheritable) attributes, in such a way that all metadata within a subtree are guaranteed to have attributes and properties from their parents (e.g. all notes within "People" can have "Name" and "Date of Birth" attributes), and, as expected, adding after the fact new properties to the parent automatically propagates to the children. Polymorphism (notes specialization) can be achieved following the same principle by placing notes under dedicated hierarchies (e.g. "Colleague" can be a subnote of "Persons" with specific properties like "Department" and a constant value for "Company"). Notes can co-exist (like symlinks) in multiple hierarchies at the same time (so you are not bound to a "top-down" or "linear" organizational model). And on top of that you can create new notes (and notes hierarchies) by composition instead of by inheritance (like "traits composition") by defining a note as having multiple templates. Trilium makes all that spontaneous (doesn't get in the way), explicit (you can easily explain why things are the way they are) and flexible in case you later find a more suitable structure for your notes.
From 2019:

> https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-fires-back-spotify-pa...
That's pretty interesting - I'm able to replicate his results, even though they don't match my own experience.

I think it might be because I search for different stuff - for more technical subjects, I get better results. (A tiny example - searching "python dict" gives my python.org as the #1 result on Kagi, but the #1 result on Google is w3schools and python.org is #2)
You're exactly right about the chevy tahoe reference. I wasn't sure if anyone would get it. I liked that post a lot, because as much as I think LLMs are going to be useful they have limitations that we haven't solved yet.
The first smart gun with facial and fingerprint recognition
There's one infinitesimal wake period during the age of the universe, and this sounds like making excuses to not do the thing you want to do.

Rip off the band aid and feel some pain.
To really drive the point home, representing an IPv6 address in the same way as an IPv4 address (4 dot-separated numbers) would make it look like this:

536939960.3187088857.1487198345.2501756647

(this is 2001:db8:bdf7:1dd9:58a4:d889:951d:c6e7)

You can't even squeeze that into a `sockaddr_in`.
That never happened. Telling people covid escaped from a lab was never a threat to democracy, it was just considered to be baseless speculation. It was also frequently paired with accusation that it was deliberately released or engineered. As of today, we still have no proof it was a lab leak.
I hesitate to engage, but I'm curious. What, in your opinion, is "HN Worthy" exactly?
The current Digg is doing its best to destroy the goodwill they collected with the slightly-less-current Digg.

I started going there regularly about a year and a half ago, mostly because they would feature articles that I wouldn't find in my other typical websites. But in the last six months they have been optimizing to death, cutting anything that's not an instant success and publishing variant after variant of anything that's mildly successful (yay, another article on Twitter memes!). Clickbait titles are there too, along with a new-ish comment section that's 90% spam.

It's been a sobering lesson on what happens when you put growth above everything.
This is something governments with an interest in protecting employee wellbeing could step in.

The employer pays for the time you're engaged in working AND trying to work by commuting. That 10-15h/week would, as you say, show up pretty quickly in reports.

But incentives are tricky. I can imagine companies would add the requirement that you live 10min from work because they only have budget for that much time spent on transportation costs. Like with RTO, that would backfire but I'm sure companies would insist on that instead of remote work.
Can the application developers then send links via email/text instead?

Either way it's mind boggling how the court didn't shut this disgraceful racketeering down
> Let's not forget that it's already not commercially viable to distribute consumer-targeted software on their desktop/laptop systems outside of their store.

Please. macOS isn't iOS, and the App Store there is a guy shining shoes on a corner compared to the iOS App Store's megamall. Most macOS software sales don't happen there, and you can't even buy many flagship macOS apps (like Adobe's Creative Cloud suite) there.
Remember when that guy crashed his car, but was saved because he didn't buckle up, being tossed from the fiery wreck? I remember.

Don't wear your seat belts kids. /s

The lack of understanding and nuance in approaching topics like this is orders of magnitude more harmful than the mistakes that were made.
you are largely talking about pundits on tv stating russia will not attack.

While basically everyone else remotely connected to the topic were convinced russia is prepig for a war.

You dont build fobs supply dumps and move massive amounts of equipment to 'scare' neighbour.

That being said, russia's 3day operation has probably a lot of dictators and would be conquerors thinking. A modern war is not that easy and can quickly lead to a massive resource drain. Russia attack a weaker neighbour from 3 directions. It had technological, logistical, economical, manpower and first strike advantage. And yet here we are.

That is definitely something even delusional dictator will consider.
This is what I don’t understand. A company violates a law, makes 10 million in profit from breaking said law, and gets a 1 million fine.

Surely it ought to be: pay back all 10 million, PLUS compensation to the people from who you illegally got money, PLUS a fine, PLUS holding the actual people making the decision (because surprise, a company is just actual real people doing stuff) at the very least financially accountable.
And my prediction, based on a pool of 3, is that this 1% will be gone a day later.

Have you tried co-pilot? It is the worst. My 3 year old gives more coherent answers and paints better images.
"Integrating the trauma into your personality and by extension your life" isn't optional. Biologically, the trauma changed both your body and your mind. Your neurological and endocrine systems do not respond to stimuli as they would have if you had not experienced the trauma.

It's highly analogous to a deeply damaging physical wound. It is part of you now, whether you want it to be or not. You can't undo it, and denying the reality of it won't actually help you live a healthy life without it.
This is a great callout.

I think for a newcomer this is where loading an existing game (like Celeste...) and just changing sprites or updating logic gets you some of the non-built in features for free - but at that point you're more modding someone else's game more than creating your own. I can see how that path could be a non-starter for some folks (no matter their age).
Apple achieves that performance on the IGP.

Once the context grows, even M2 Max CPU alone really starts to chug.
Well sure. That's the default response: "It's not us, it's you". But I can't help thinking "We have dozens of dedicated 'agile leaders', several dozens more 'agile coaches' who have various certifications, commitment from management and have hundreds if not thousands of people who have gone through multi-hour (at least) agile training. If we're still doing it so obviously wrong, maybe it's the methodology and not the people.".
So what is the author saying here? Seems to be: "journalist" reading other articles and writing their own derivative articles - good. Machine doing the same thing - bad.

The fact that so much of the news media produces no original reporting is the problem. The fact that they can easily be replaced by machines is a symptom.
Wow that is truly shameful. P.S. thanks for uBlock Origin and uMatrix
I look into the finance box / Just to check my status
Would this be allowed:

https://www.theonion.com/frail-emaciated-mlb-players-still-a...

In case you aren't a baseball fan, that's a photoshopped image of baseball player Cory Seager.
It takes under 5 seconds to recognize the gpt smell. I guess some people think this is still compelling?
For what it’s worth I draw the line closer to your preferences than you think - we would have stopped the CPR much earlier and let him go but everything happened so fast and we were never given a choice.

He breathes under his own power and is actually physically very healthy. We give food and water and basic care, but he is in hospice and we will not revive him if his heart stops again.

My line is that I won’t starve him to death and I won’t stop his heart myself. That’s my line. If everyone had this line the worst of the horrible lingering deaths from heroic but doomed medical interventions would be averted. On a purely utilitarian basis, I think that would be a world you would prefer to the status quo, no?

I’m sorry I don’t have your exact beliefs. If our positions were reversed I would respect your decision rather than call you names or speculate about your motives in a public forum.
Choose an online firm such as Charles Schwab or Fidelity. Find a mutual fund that tracks the S&P 500. Put money in there when you can. If you're young and want to take more risk for a chance at higher returns, you certainly can. But the idea behind the simple S&P 500 mutual fund is that the mutual fund will be comprised of the top 500 companies in the market and so your gains will pretty much match the gains of the market itself. It's a simple way to just put money into the market and get safe returns. You can read "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing" by John Bogle for more details on this. I actually have about an 80/20 split between two funds. The 80 would be towards the S&P 500 and the 20 would be towards the equivalent but for international markets.
ZetaGrid
I'm frustrated by the fact there are zero archives out there of TwitterX, Instagram or Facebook. Even big brands have shuttered their accounts and now none of their content exists anywhere any longer.
I stand corrected. Sorry for that, not sure what I read; Wikipedia and the Sun (of all papers) say there were four, not fourty
> There's no product in the world that would hit a limit if autoscaled globally on AWS
> but nobody is making that product

Nobody is making that product because nobody has money for it...(or the demand to supply that money).

You can auto-scale without AWS, actually, its called measuring server load and auto-ordering new machines when your load increases (and keeping machines turned off on standby for spikes).

Or you can go hybrid, and load-shed to a cloud...which would be the smart thing to do.
For nice interactive search of configuration options I always go to https://postgresqlco.nf/doc/en/param/
The biggest risk is random mobile apps that disable HTTPS certificate checking, run APIs over plain HTTP, etc. On public Wi-Fi, anyone physically near you can intercept or snoop on that traffic.

Browsers generally do a good job of ensuring HTTPS these days, but still you should pay attention to make sure you're on HTTPS when using public Wi-Fi.
Sure, but policy makers are thoroughly aware of that and it's why no policy in the world endorses making energy less affordable or available. It's the entire reason that greening the grid is so slow and expensive because it has to be done without causing blowback or hardship. So, Peterson is very much arguing against a strawman.
This is laughable... Neural networks also have basically unknowable abstractions encoded in their weights. There was some work not long ago which taught an ANN to do modular arithmetic, and found that it was doing Fourier transforms with the learned weights....
Starting to really wonder if the information space we call the web is in-trouble? Like it actually seems like it's happening, everything is getting polluted with AI dog shit?

My Instagram feed is under attack too.
https://archive.is/UG1wQ
Inflation and money supply increases are normal market dynamics too.

The connection is that aggregate supply and aggregate demand intersect at the current price and output levels of the economy. If aggregate supply contracts, this shifts the output level lower, and the price level higher to compensate. Basically, there is a shortage of basic goods & services needed for the economy to function, so the market price mechanism is trying to incentivize people to work on those sectors that are in shortage.

Drilling in a level, these aggregates are divided into consumption (current needs) + investment (production in expectation of future needs). A supply shock in a basic service like transportation means resources need to be reallocated to cover the increased cost. That means decreased investment, and all of the potential investment opportunities competing for a smaller pool of savings (which is just the excess of current production over current consumption). This drives up the "natural interest rate", the cost of capital in the absence of central bank interventions.

The central bank has a choice between feeling the impact as inflation (where prices rise) or recession (where output drops). If it holds policy rates below the natural interest rate, the money supply increases, and you get inflation. The economy remains out of balance; the market is trying to shift resources from investment to consumption, but if rates are artificially low, investment will be artificially cheap and too many people will be writing software we don't need while we don't have enough truck drivers. If it holds policy rates above the natural interest rate, the money supply shrinks, and you get recession. This is letting the economy come back into equilibrium, but it means that all those software engineers will be laid off and have to get jobs as truck drivers.

The Fed's choice is one of these. They can influence whether we feel the supply shock as a painful recession where lots of people lose their job and have to retrain, or whether we feel it as higher prices as the market tries to correct. But because a supply shock is a real drop in output, it means worsened standards of living regardless.
Pretty chilling reading. A disturbingly similar situation occurred in AirAsia Flight 8501 (Airbus A320): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia_AirAsia_Flight_8501#.... Similar to the AF incident, the autopilot disengaged and the flight control switched to alternate Law. The aircraft began to roll and the first officer over-corrected back and forth while also pitching the nose up and causing the plane to stall. The pilot and the first officer were both providing opposite inputs (nose down and nose up respectively) which cancelled each other out, preventing recovery from the stall condition. The plane crashed into the ocean, killing everyone onboard.

I'm starting to wonder if there's something inherent in the design of the Airbus side-stick that makes this sequence of events (i.e. banking, overcorrecting, climbing) more likely if the aircraft suddenly switches from normal to alternate law.
I have forced alignments, too.

E.g. for the True Story of Ah Q https://github.com/Yorwba/LiteratureForEyesAndEars/tree/mast... .align.json is my homegrown alignment format, .srt are standard subtitles, .txt is the text, but note that in some places I have [[original text||what it is pronounced as]] annotations to make the forced alignment work better. (E.g. the "." in LibriVox.org, pronounced as 點 "diǎn" in Mandarin.) Oh, and cmn-Hans is the same thing transliterated into Simplified Chinese.

The corresponding LibriVox URL is predictably https://librivox.org/the-true-story-of-ah-q-by-xun-lu/
I use it daily and I enjoy using it. It's been pretty helpful and I've gotten used to it, so much so that going to Google is just... not useful.
Well said. When I share a similar perspective some people seem to assume I'm extremely extroverted, or don't have friends or hobbies outside of work. I'm not very extroverted and I do have a full life outside of work. I still prefer a decent office to WFH, which makes me feel extremely isolated after awhile.
IMHO the keyword is 'microservice': Compile times of 30sec for a microservice are not acceptable for me, btw. The projects I am referring to were bigger, and the time to compile/open projects in IDEA where _not_ acceptable at all. (Btw.: I am speaking about Scala experts, not some new grads which didn't know what they were doing.)

Concerning your type erasure example, the id function obviously doesn't need to know anything about types. In the real world, types have traits/interfaces/expected attributes etc. and type erasure prevents the compiler to verify this when using binary dependencies, which is obviously _not_ what one wants in a statically compiled language.
What I don't quite get is why only Apple is getting this treatment here. By that logic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter/X etc are engaging in exactly the same kind of "tradeoffs", yet the dominant comments on here are usually (rightfully IMO) condemning those decisions while unconditionally defending them for Apple.
Right but you are not a 3D scanner are you?
I think SSC had a forum as well, which ended up getting shut down.

I honestly don't dig deep into that whole Rationalism cult (I deal with enough of those fucks professionally), but I definetly noticed an overt change in tone on HN in 2020. It was partially covid related, but the timing of most new accounts fits with the same time period SSC shut down.
If you had a remote job, would you take a 40-minute round-trip bus ride twice a day just for the enjoyment of it?
Yes, they have been around for many years. I used to use their paid service.