skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two comments/critiques I would have on the article are:

- Having a shared global design aesthetic also means there are likely open communication channels through which a shared global understanding might be achieved. If the citizens of the world can understand and appreciate each other through design, what else might they understand and appreciate about each other?

- Instead of critiquing existing designs - it'd be helpful to have a vision of what locally culturally distinctive designs for a coffee shop or AirBNB could look like. Help us readers envision what a better world - that's more "design inclusive" - might look like.

The advice to the author would be - "use your outlet to be the change you want to see." Highlight that cafe in Mexico City... or Morocco... serving coffee authentically that us readers should visit.[1][2]

[1] Mexico City coffee chain - Cielito_Querido_Cafe - looks distinct from a hipster SF coffee shop -

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g150800-d24591...

[2] Morocco coffee chain replicating across Asia - Bacha Coffee - also distinct from hipster aesthetics

https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/restaurants/bacha-coffee
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Something tells me you don't know much about programming in Java. Just look up any tutorial showing how to use NIO (blocking and non-blocking).

Synchronized in this context is pretty nonsensical.
> Every morning, at dawn, before the men of Nicoya ride their horses through the mountains of the Costa Rican peninsula, they eat a healthy breakfast.

I think you're underestimating how taxing horse riding is
Well. Fuck those guys.
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thanks for proving my point.
1. francois hollande is from parti socialiste. a left wing movement and was elected with leftist idea such as removing merit grants at the highschool exam, removing financial support to middle class all in the name of equity

2. you consider 3000 a month salary high middle class I consider it barely enough to survive with a family. 3000 salary is 2300 euros after tax with a 1300/months apartment in paris and an apartment buying price of 700-800k euros lol. with 3k€ a month you wont ever own a house… what is wrong with leftist to be deluded in a way that they dont understand that literaly everyone in france is far from wealthy due to cost of life. 3k is def not enough to raise a family knowing government wont support you financially because they thin you are rich.

3. to adress your last point. yes it is propaganda because only western people discuss this topic that way. if you really want to do something about it you should go to africa tell people not to make children rather than promoting your delusion in countries below renewal rates
Love that film.
Yeah, the economy is pretty easy to beat. I've found that using the cargodist option can spice it up a bit, it makes it a bit harder to print money using passenger lines. Nevertheless, the greatest challenge for me is fixing all my own past mistakes.
Kind of. However, I would venture most real world attack scenarios do not leverage HW vulnerabilities. But wait, how do we know what is happening invisibly? And what about state actors? The answer is we do not know, but the economics do not change based on whether an attack is made visible or not. Attacks tend to follow and reveal the path of least impedance. If software attacks are working fine for most, why would anyone spend more on weaponizing a HW exploit?
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Yes this was primarily at the request of residents as they frequently had to drive 20 to 25 minutes to get to a grocery store with fresh produce (and by "fresh" I mean "Walmart". Other stores were even further. Take that for what you will).

The mayor's office did also have broader commercial development goals as the strain of growth and traffic was brutalizing the budget. If we could put a grocery store in town, that would be highly appreciated by the people, and also cut a ton of traffic
I know it’s a fine point, but I think it’s important: the title is “ON The Origin of Species…” Omitting the “On” gives it a different sense that I think contributes to the mistaken belief the book is about convincing us that evolution happens, rather than describing how it happens.
Did you ever use Scott Hacker's CD ripping script?

It got the track info from cddb, added the attributes to both the mp3 files and the BFS extended attributes.
Thanks for sharing your opinions.
Also sounds like unikernels.
This does not match what GP claimed, that when prompted with the start of an article, GPT 3 (mostly) faithfully completes it. The original article also claimed that it seemed to have been patched shortly after publication.
> All children born in France are counted in the stats

That's completely irrelevant.

Even leaving aside the "conspiracy" aspect there is a valid point in using the term "replacement" to describe the trend when you combine the effect of immigration and relative birth rates.
why series-type? (from a bit of research, seems these are also called EREV (extended-range electric vehicles, in the context of autos)

simpler engine since you can have an electric engine only and not have an ICE engine with more points of failure/maintenance?
I’m not deeply familiar with either, though I have written a toy x86_64 bootloader once. There are more levels in x86_64 (which makes sense to me that a larger address space would benefit from a sparser encoding). What else is significantly different?
W2 provides some niceties for the IRS, but the government could easily require income withholding on 1099's.

> Imagine a population of 1099 workers where half of the electorate refuses to pay taxes in order to protest the policies of the government in power.

Half of the citizens being pissed off enough to not pay taxes is an issue for the government, but I don't think the money itself is an issue for the government.

They can seize any money you put into a digital payment network, probably including Bitcoin if they can blacklist your address/coins. They can stop printing and deprecate cash, so you have to use a digital payment network.

Hell, they can just print more if they have to. You're threatening to withhold tickets from a Chuck E Cheeze.

You would need to set up a parallel economy that didn't function on USD or federally-regulated banks. You certainly could if 50% of the population wanted to participate.
Relatively fast onset gastro symptoms. Used to be fine with any beer but at about 21 started noticing the problem with a lot of largers. Asahi, Tsing Tao, seemed less of a issue. Not formula diagnosed.
I'm currently unable to log in to my Amazon account on new devices because I accidentally deleted the MFA for it. I've submitted my government ID to their recovery form multiple times. No response. Phone customer support said they couldn't do anything. Any ideas?
2FA can also be a way to get more private data, like phone numbers, out of users; which will be used for things having nothing to do with security or helping the user. Facebook did exactly this and I'm sure other companies have as well.

2FA increases risk of the account owner losing access to their account. There are a huge amount of posts online from people livid about getting locked out of their account because of some mundane reason like their phone breaking. That risk rarely seems to be considered by the crowd pushing 2FA everywhere and anywhere, probably because it happens most often to non-techies.

Things that seem easy or obvious to folks working in tech are often a huge hurdle for regular users, who make up the majority of users for many products. Many tech companies could do a much better job of considering the needs of their users, rather than building what the devs and product managers personally think is cool.
Descartes told us that animals are mere soulless automatons, not entities given the same rights and same consideration as humans.

Well ok, that was 300 years ago and views have changed dramatically since then.
> I think what drew people to model trains was the ability to create and automate your tracks.

The original home of many people who became hackers (old use of the word) was the TMRC at MIT. Tech Model Railroad Club - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club

As told in Steven Levy's Hackers book, there were two groups in the TMRC. There was the group that went on train rides and did meticulous models on top of the track... and there was the systems and powers group that worked with wires and automation (from the telephone company) under the track.

From the Wikipedia article...

> The club was composed of several groups, including those who were interested in building and painting replicas of certain trains with historical and emotional values, those that wanted to do scenery and buildings, those that wanted to run trains on schedules, and those composing the "Signals and Power Subcommittee" who created the circuits that made the trains run. This last group would be among the ones who popularized the term "hacker" among many other slang terms, and who eventually moved on to computers and programming.

> ...

> At the club itself, a semi-automatic control system based on telephone relays was installed by the mid-1950s. It was called the ARRC (Automatic Railroad Running Computer). It could run a train over the entire set of track, in both directions, without manual intervention, throwing switches and powering tracks ahead of the train. A mainframe program was used to compute the path, and all modifications to the layout had to be compatible with this ability.
Rather than being an issue of "institutional trust" it's an issue of a deep and continuing disagreement about the correct trade-offs to make in the face of a novel and quickly evolving situation - and one in which nobody had a crystal ball.

Many people who are far from the levers of power would disagree strongly with your above portrayal. It's an issue that divides people more than an issue where the masses were hoodwinked by an elite with ulterior motives.
When you've worked with truly exceptional people it becomes clear that there truly are 10x and 100x engineers and it's not just that some people did better at politics.

But plenty of companies don't know about this and do succumb to stupid politics. It's a tragedy, really.
Post Mortem: https://status.kagi.com/issues/2024-01-12-kagi-down-on-some-...
I would acquiesce that the tone of the last three sentences in my most recent response can possibly be off-putting, but I don't think it really changes or negates the overall point I clearly made in a non-sarcastic tone during the rest of the comment and the one before it. Nor is it fair to say that I'm telling you to "be more open minded about casual racism", which is a clear misinterpretation of what I have been saying here.

Edit: On that last point - by all means, disagree with the point the person they're interviewing is making regarding race, but don't ignorantly assume that the rest of the piece, and the whole point of the article, is now entirely about race and refuse to hear anything else about it. It's not fair to gripe about it not talking about how "it's an artifact of Internet enabled oligarchic capitalist technocracy" when you put the thing down right before it spent a lot of time doing just that. You don't walk out of a movie theater right before the climax and then complain about how the film didn't resolve anything, do you?

Edit 2: It's interesting to go back and read the rest of the comments here now that this post has been up for a while. Most people on HN seem to be discussing points around the concept you wanted discussed, but your comment is the only one griping about race.
maybe firefox will figure out how to get an AI to link into your bookmarks and auto publish rss feeds or something.

This seems like what RSS feeds were supposed to be, but whatever happened with RSS, it never seemed to fundamentally gain "software" traction.
Not tested. No issues at all with bread.
Given that the typical 40-year-old has an overweight or obese BMI and cannot run a mile or do a pull-up or push-up, this is a low bar. Also, the body is unpredictable, especially at old age, in which someone can go from outwardly healthy and active to suddenly dead or sick.
I think this article is being really dramatic about how “bad” and “oppressive” this is supposed to be.

Is the Irish Pub a bad thing? You can find an Irish Pub anywhere. It’s a deliberate export [1]. But that’s not oppressive or exclusionary. The Irish Pub is just good design that has universal appeal.

I wish the article would just admit that this is an appealing, perhaps timeless style that appeals business owners across the globe. Its roots in minimalism equates to low setup costs. The aesthetics are pleasing to spend time in. What’s to complain about?

Then there’s the paragraph addressing the homogenous nature of the clientele. I have to push back on that one: I doubt that coffee shops in China or Japan with this aesthetic are mostly patronized by white people.

Also, you know, affluent people are allowed to have their own tastes and culture. That fact alone is not oppressive to anyone else by default. Affluent people who like expensive coffee, minimalism, MacBook Pros, and house plants are just existing, minding their own business patronizing a class of businesses they enjoy. In this case it’s not like they’re hunting endangered animals, they’re just drinking overpriced coffee.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/04/12/523653040/epis...
It's not coffee shops, it's everything. I read an essay last year on this topic, "The age of average" by Alex Murrell ( https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average ) and it's stayed in my mind ever since. Cars, home interiors, instagram photos, skylines, self help books, franchise movies. The design of everything in our lives has become so relentlessly optimized we have a global culture that's stuck a risk-free local maxima.
That's a lot of words to say that fresh foods aren't available close by because people don't want them. They are demanding convenience foods with their dollars, so that is what the vendors provide. Forcing a store into existence by government (or other) proclamation to supply fresh foods won't make people buy them.
For example: NTRAK

https://nrail.org/NTRAK-Home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTrak
> but I don't believe they have made a profit

Wrong way to evaluate and you're missing the complaint from the artists. It doesn't matter what the company makes or loses, it matters if people end up with money in their pockets. I don't know ML counts as derivative or not, but I don't think that's important here. Regardless it is a fact that an artist does work, that work isn't paid for, and then that work is used by someone else in some way to sell a product. The complaint is specifically that they have no control over deciding if their work can be used in that way or not.

At the end of the day, everyone working at OpenAI ends up with lots of money in their pockets. Regardless of the company profits or revenue, this money is connected to the work that these artists do, who do not make any or any substantial amounts of money. That's the underlying issue and we must read between the lines a bit to understand the difference between a specific point and the general thesis.

Also, remember Stability does have revenue as well. OpenAI is being pointed at because they are top dog, but it's not like there aren't others doing the same thing. So even a very specific justification may not refute the original complaint.
Do you have any doubt that, say, Coca Cola Company could push heroin more effectively than someone on a street corner, if it were legal to do so?

Do you think heroin is more or less commonly used than tabacco or alcohol?

We've already seen from the opioid epidemic that drug companies at least are both willing and able to push massive amounts of an opioid drug on patients if it is even slightly legal to do so. Why do you think it wouldn't be much much worse if it was fully legal?

Note, I am not against decriminalizing heroin and any other drug. I fully agree that the war on drugs is a massive problem. But that doesn't mean that full legalization of hard drugs, especially the most addictive of them, is the same.
Bill Gates originally owned 45% of Microsoft and sold it as a way to diversify his wealth. If he had kept it that would have made him a trillionaire right now. It's not too hard to think that someone else can come along and actually be a trillionaire. Especially if you consider that after a certain point, you don't need any more money to live in luxury and can keep your company stock and watch it grow.
so the only thing you get is 0,5 person tax deduction per children. everything else is for lower incomes. you are right its not nothing but knowing these children will pay for the current generation retirement this is a very small upside
Maddow incessantly spreads loony conspiracy theories about her (editors') political opponents. Maybe not poisoning bodies like Alex Jones (I don't keep track of every product she promotes), but definitely poisoning minds; she is one of the largest individual contributors to our political polarization and dysfunction.
>>although I think she was often the only competitor in her age bracket :)

Of course... She still outcompeted her peers, they were just so far behind her that they couldn't even show up :)
that excuse is as good as any. keep the inflated greed prices and cut the workers to claim it's a recession.

In reality: they no longer have cheap money to keep pushing out random tech problems and need to justify the CEO salaries some how.
Auditing YouTube for ideologically congenial extreme problematic recommendations
Yes, there are workarounds that are already used in other areas of copyright infringement. It won't stop the activity completely but will curtail the scale of that activity.
The fair use defense in this situation is the equivalent of the YouTuber who puts "No copyright intended! I own nothing!" in the caption.
I am reminded of the story of the plumber who was called to fix a water leak. He replaced a washer and charged $100. The client was outraged: “That washer was only a dollar’s worth of parts!”

The plumber replied: “Sure. I’m charging you $1 for the washer and $99 for knowing where to fit it.”
So now the reason is "the algorithm" and not ubiquitous Friends reruns?

No mention of the contrast between the status quo and the rise of cottage industry tech was supposed to promise.
although I think she was often the only competitor in her age bracket :)

that is my secret strategy too
Then people will see how empty and inferior it is and want movies with actual people and writers again.
Yeah, fair use implicitly uses the constraints of typical human lifetime and ability to moderate how much damage is done to publishers with it. That wasn’t an issue before recently, as humans were the only ones who could create output based off fair use laws.
This doesn't apply to the content complexity finding, but the finding that "product reviews which are in top search results are more likely to contain affiliate links than product reviews which are not" can also be explained by the fact that if and only I am getting a bunch of hits on my product reviews, I'm incentivized to monetize that with affiliate links.
I mentioned it in another comment, but this has parallels to the Irish Pub.

I think we can just admit that good design is good design. This is extremely appealing to business owners because minimalism equals low setup costs. It’s also appealing to patrons because it’s aesthetically pleasing.

Some things become popular around the globe because the idea is so universally appealing. Coffee itself is a great example of such a phenomenon. Most coffee shops aren’t located in places that grow coffee.
Interesting. The classic problem. You offer to not meter something and then someone will use it to max capacity. Then you’re forced to place a limit so that one user won’t hose everyone else.
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> What about you? Are you doing anything related to these fields?

Yes. I have some ideas I would like to explore (currently premature speculation & not implemented or tested comprehensively) for;

1. Computationally efficient AI models for image classification (has nothing todo with neural networks). I believe the model also be generalized to other problems like regression problems Or generating music, art, text and even language translation. — But image classification is the basis of my research.

2. Some financial modeling techniques based on ideas in 1.

3. Thinking on how to build a good Iversonian language for mass adoption. (I have already thought of some important components must be built out)

> Why do you need the money to do work related to this?

It is very difficult to think about technical problems when you have to also concurrently think about financial problems (I am unemployed at the moment).

I want to create a "set-up" where I can almost exclusively think about these problems for a good amount of time without having to worry about my basic needs.

But I don't need millions. $150k can take me for at least a decade where I live.
We have a few convenience stores in my city that have started offering a small selection of fresh foods, something like a little basket with a few apples, oranges, and bananas. Some of them have expanded out into a full produce section. Others removed them entirely. Some are holding steady with the small basket. The stores are delivering what people are willing to buy in their areas.
> What this means is that whatever today’s rich countries did to get rich, they weren’t doing it in 1820.

Did he just ignore the entire British empire?
The point is that most of the time when digits are mentioned, it’s only a coincidental fact about one inelegant representation of the number — and often people are insufficiently aware of that.
In a browser context, doesn't the HTTP stack sort out any issues in lower layers such as those stemming from packet loss (e.g., packets arriving out of order) such that what's presented to the client app (and debuggable by the developer thereof) is just an HTTP response or lack thereof? That lack thereof (or additional latency) could be due to packet loss, but it doesn't have to be, and it doesn't really matter because it's abstracted away.
Please don't let this hobby die - this is my plan for when I'm too old and jaded to do this anymore
If we lived in a world were hypersonic birds flying anywhere on the globe in a matter of minutes, then I think it would be quite reasonable to anticipate airplanes catching up to them.
I think you may have the wrong definition of fitness.
Here's what Wirth wrote about it in retrospective, and yes it was explicitly designed as a teaching language with a syntax suitable for a recursive descent one pass compiler http://youtu.be/5RyU50qbvzQ
Factorio has definite model-railroad vibes. Including actual functioning train layouts. But nothing beats looking at a running model on a tabletop.