skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was wrong until he wasn't.

A lot of his words fell flat as incorrect prognostications in the 2000s and 2010s, but now that we're in the 2020s, I feel the heart and soul of what he was getting at rings true.

The bright-eyed luster faded, revealing the deeper truths.

> Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats. When most everyone shouts, few listen.

Bingo.

> Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don't know what to ignore and what's worth reading.

More true with each and every passing day.

> Logged onto the World Wide Web, I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them—one's a biography written by an eighth grader, the second is a computer game that doesn't work and the third is an image of a London monument. None answers my question

Google is starting to feel like that, especially when looking for more than simple facts.

> Won't the Internet be useful in governing? Internet addicts clamor for government reports. But when Andy Spano ran for county executive in Westchester County, N.Y., he put every press release and position paper onto a bulletin board. In that affluent county, with plenty of computer companies, how many voters logged in? Fewer than 30. Not a good omen.

Computers won't make people interested in municipal issues. At the national level, it's closer to team sports with all the betting and emotional rivalry.

> Then there are those pushing computers into schools. We're told that multimedia will make schoolwork easy and fun. Students will happily learn from animated characters while taught by expertly tailored software.Who needs teachers when you've got computer-aided education?

Schools continue to slide. Phones and tablets grant access to vast educational resources, but most kids don't use them in this way.

> And you can't tote that laptop to the beach.

Gotta find fault in this one, though. I've once or twice been goaded into being oncall during vacation. That's my own stupid fault, though.
Is this the one that just recently allowed women to take part?
FWIW: is this supposed to add credibility, that you found one conservative justice?

"Too hard" really means "we're not getting what we want." Again, that is As Designed. Amendments really are supposed to represent an overwhelming consensus. Not just the blue states (or the red).
Why do you have dependency x? Why is it pinned to ^14 and not upgraded to 15?

I don't want comments as pragma or metadata, I want human readable explanations why.
Varoufakis is one of the few that accurately describes the situation we find ourselves in. We'd do well to heed his warnings.
"I have to imagine" is much softer language than "doesn't work" though...
> Sadly, office buildings are constructed quite differently from residential buildings, and it really is hard to convert them over.

That may be true, but not sure why it's relevant. If someone wants to take on the cost of doing so for an ROI, why not have the regs in place that allows it?

If doing so causes some other _harm_ (environmental, whatever), then sure lets address that but not allowing something because "it's hard" seems an odd take.

I have lived in apartments where basic commercial needs were within walking distance, and it was fine for that period in my life. I'd love to not have to drive or be driven to do that now, even with my SFH. There are several mixed-zone communities in my area where are all booming (not in the same building, but I don't see that as anything but the obvious next step).
Schiller claimed they don't need AppStore revenue, and could cap it at a billion dollars a year or something. But then they smelled the money (even though they already have the money flowing out if their ears)
Managing Contacts Is Tough
Spent the last 24 hours looking for a good contacts CRM to host in my docker lab. I found Monica CRM however it did not accept the import of CSVs. Then looking around I found a good script for CSV to VCard Conversions which is cool but because a lot of my contacts have non UTF-8 characters in their names/titles it was not working right. So now I have updated the script in case anyone wants to do this.

Ultimately as I get older I am finding keeping track of who I am working can be tough after 3-4 months a project is done. So I set a goal for myself to do better personally to organize my contacts. Maybe this will help someone out there, maybe not but thought I would post it just in case.
I remember when the first company I worked for did their first round of layoffs, the severance was something like two months. It was good enough that people were asking the CEO "why didn't you ask for volunteers?" The later rounds were not as generous.

Nobody got to keep their laptops or desktops, but few months later the company was liquidating its assets, and some of the former employees got to buy some slightly dated hardware for cheap. If I recall correctly, that was also the only month we were profitable.
I will state this briefly as a tangent. This article mentions third party libraries; the top are Arrow and Pendulum. These are a wellspring of subtle bugs due to a decision they made that I suspect is based off the Javascript library Moment: They conflate Dates, Times, and Datetimes, as a single type. If you are using their Arrow etc type to represent a Date or Time, the resulting code will be fragile, and fail in surprising ways. Additionally, if my function signature accepts a time or date, you have no way of validating the parameter, and can do things like ask for "seconds" on a date. The moment/arrow/pendulum community advocates that the concept of a date or time individually is meaningless; I disagree. It is application specific, and there are applications that call for any of the 3 variants.

Python's builtin `datetime` library has flaws as pointed out in the article, but is safer than Arrow or Moment. I think Rust's Chrono lib is the best datetime library I've seen, in terms of not surprising you with errors.
Ah, that makes a little more sense, though it will break any legitimate uses we might have now - not sure if the Home Assistant web UI talks to local devices by IP (or maybe only via their .local?) That's probably still a good tradeoff, and I am sure if they left it all up to the user plenty of people would click 'ok' without understanding, but it'd be nice to have that as an option.
The alternative was to do the same and also not merge what they had. Stuff like custom allocator support is not optional.
Napoleon kind of did, he just expressed it in more traditional religious language about destiny and the divine, as opposed to the second-rate materialist knockoff version.
Maybe let the USGS folks know? If they're anything like any other department, they have one person whose job it is to work on every single website, and they're not well-researched web developers, they're a jack of all trade who had to learn just enough tricks on a page by page basis to keep things from falling apart, with a mandate to leave things alone until they break.
I think the conclusion, about Rust having zero-cost abstractions, is completely wrong. The before code and the after code are functionally equivalent. Find all the matches, do some checking, select all of them — if Rust’s abstractions were zero-cost, the performance differences between the versions would be negligible.

Obviously, it’s a straw man argument for me to make about the zero-cost abstraction claim. But the point here, about which the blog is curiously silent, is that contemporary CPUs are fickle beasts, and they can run 250X faster, without resorting to exotic techniques, if you structure your code just so. This is the complete opposite of the zero-cost abstraction claim, which I don’t mean to be pedantic about, but is worth stating bald-faced because it’s what performance engineers have learned, that the answer is always “it depends.”
It's not, and using the term "regression therapy" shows how little Gervais actually understands about modern integration and trauma informed therapies.

Gervais is a leading toxic-positivity guy and former coach turned pop-therapist focused around "maximizing potential," so you can safely ignore anything that he says

Some people need to unpack an entire lifetime of learned behaviors and biases that impede them from trusting yourself

Edit: And as far as I can tell this whole article is a submarine for his leadership business. Makes sense, as that’s what HBR is all about at this point
If Cosmic creates a more cohesive Linux experience with fewer bugs then I'm glad they are doing it. Nothing stops me from doing my work but many bugs slow me down and otherwise ruin my experience.
Right. I think they just want to avoid being on the front-page of startup news sites with a headline like "<company> lays off <n>% of workforce," so they don't call it a layoff and try to keep a lid on how many people were let go.

Of course, because they can't say that they have to come up with other narratives which wind up sounding disingenuous at best.
> Why now and not years before?

You would prefer that the EU slap businesses around with arbitrary fines faster? Be careful what you wish for; you might get it.

Law and government do not move fast. Yeah, sometimes that sucks. However, you want your law mostly predictable. You don't want to suddenly wind up in jail because some activity is making Dear Leader look bad on Weibo today.
A video that is a Palindrome
California is doing the same thing too. Take the poor forest management and add trees being killed by a foreign beetle to the mix, and you have powder keg every summer waiting to go off.
Kinda.

In those mediums (even tabloid press), there is a lot of centralization and control, combined with limited reach for any random nutter, combined with profit incentives that push towards relatively median behavior.

For instance, running a publicly accessible Radio and TV station requires compliance with extensive regulations, and to have significant reach requires significant (fixed) equipment and capital. Which makes that person easy to find, and with something significant to lose.

Cable reduces regulation, but the ‘easy to find, and something to lose’ problem is still there to some extent. PPV type rules limited that somewhat, since because the content wasn’t public it reduced a lot of liability (“if you don’t like it, don’t buy it!”) and coupled the liability they did get with actual money to offset it.

So, if someone wants to be doing it for long, they need to be able to make enough money off it (be providing something of value) to pay back equipment, and not be pissing people off enough they are incentivized to hunt them down. While giving out the content to the public for free.

Tabloids did change that dynamic a little, but have a similar issue of how to get paid/money without getting too much blowback. And the reach is limited to a small area, so unless they get distributors or the like, it’s a similar type of issue.

The internet changed this dynamic a lot - someone can run a website/service in any jurisdiction (and banning it is hard), and it can connect people globally (so potentially near infinite audience!) with very little extra work. It cuts out all the middlemen. It’s also relatively inexpensive in capital and work hours for a ‘info bit’ to be distributed compared to any other medium.

The hardest part is figuring out how to get paid, and if you can do that you’re doing pretty good.

Interestingly, social media is essentially a sweet spot here.

They get to disclaim liability for the actual message, while being able to algorithmically pick the messages with the most engagement (typically the most incendiary!), with relatively low equipment costs, and then get paid by ‘volume’/turnover (aka ads).

It’s like being a stock broker or market during the 20’s stock market boom, collecting commissions and pushing the craziest options to the most gullible.

Fascinating, really.

And in a similar vein, the abuses there did end up creating a huge economic collapse and the SEC.

In this case, I suspect it will end up creating a huge trust/attention collapse which will cause significant economic re-ordering (and contraction) as people stop doing transactions because they are getting scammed/stolen from.

Possible economic contraction too as a lot of things revert back to older ‘known good’ behaviors due to reduced risk appetites.
hahaha yes. This kind of a layoff is actually winning the lottery.
The latter are basically a rounding error, though there is a rewrite of the Android binder driver.
I'm so grateful both to have grown up during the birth of the web, and to have read Stoll's books as a kid. I was introduced to his work through The Cuckoo's Egg, which had me absolutely riveted. And then read "Silicon Snake Oil". Regardless of which aspects of Stoll's predictions came true, I really appreciate his perspective. So many of the things he said in Snake Oil stick with me to this day. Like, despite all this technology around us, the importance of a good chocolate chip cookie recipe and the company of friends. Also learned a lot about writing from him. Like using short sentences.
Bayeslord and Nadia Asparouhova on Effective Accelerationism [video]
> instead of saddling the German people with mountains of debt and economic punishment, they sought to rebuild

They did unlearn that lesson by the time Cold War ended...
I don't like my editors being fast and pushing burden of productivity on me. I need something to blame with regards to my output, so no thanks!
It isn't different. If you want insights into psychology from people who aren't psychopaths, HBR is not for you.
> 6. I find it increasingly hard to turn things on

> Or you may have faced a similar reckoning in an unfamiliar shower, or standing before a seemingly ordinary hob. The relentless development of new ways to turn things on has led us steadily away from the intuitive and toward the wilfully [sic] enigmatic.

The rest of the article seems to be complaining about post-iPhone technology, but showers have been weird since at least the 80s (probably earlier, but speaking only from personal experience here).
What does this mean, Python 2? Are those the old type comments?
> I'm just hoping the EU doesn't decide we need another annoying pop-up or something. We've got enough of those already.

Literally nothing in the GDPR or the (updated) ePrivacy Directive requires those popups. Nothing. Nada. Zero.
The High-Risk Refactoring
I unironically like it, too.

It might not look nice in photos, but the semi-permanence of scaffolding in NYC has resulted in some pretty nice-looking scaffolding structures, some even with lighting. (John Wilson made a great episode on that.)

Beyond that, as a pedestrian you start ignoring the "ugliness" pretty quickly. The scaffolding almost feels kind of cozy, and protects you from the elements.
It shows in your Google Account settings, takes me to https://one.google.com/dwr/dashboard
this is by design. cram people in, the „car ownership problem” will fix itslef
I think they could improve the quality of life of the users a lot without addressing the "high frequency trading inside a jetplane flying against the rotation of the earth" edge case lol

(not to diminish having an accurate understanding of time ofc, GPS is the main example of an application, etc)
Very well played!
The actual article is at https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/net-zero-frank-...

https://archive.is/4mHXg
I haven't used PWAs on mobile much, but use them a lot on desktop. They're very useful things.
BYD made 3 million cars in 2023, expansion plans to target 4M this year. Not all of them are battery electrc.
I always turn off AI features in autocomplete. What I need is consistency, not fanciness.

if it's not consistent then it slows me down.

I think writing code for me is useful, making inconsistent suggestions is not.
Great to see libertarians cleaning up the failed societies of socialists
> "Just don't do the bad thing" is naive. People will use APIs incorrectly

That is the whole point! You don't have a choice for software that will not change - all you can do is try to keep it working anyway. Like they did here.

That you are not "motivated" to do things correctly is not a convincing argument otherwise.

If you don't want this behavior in your own apps, you don't have to invoke it. Using the API correctly sidesteps all of this but is not a choice when "doing emulation for software that will not change."
The best science fiction uses technology to shine a light on the inherent problems of the human condition. The hard part is not making it depressing or a stand-up comedy routine. It requires a lot of balance, which requires me to take weeks to let the ideas _fester_ in my head until they become a brainworm that I must excise. I think I hit the right balance here.
Overall you’re right about fossil fuel interests blocking progress. But you’re wrong about nothing changing until “far in the future” as well as the part about “hydrogen, nuclear”* being key drivers. China has now built so much solar PV and wind that their emissions are set to peak and enter a structural decline this year. Similar trends are occurring everywhere in the world, just a couple of years behind. It’s just taking time for people to realize this is happening, because the exponential phase of an S-curve produces such fast change that even being one or two years out of date is like reading news from last century.

* As a note, hydrogen and nuclear will be relevant, but only for the last (hard) fraction of it. Ironically, promoting hydrogen and nuclear as the “only viable technology” seems to be the latest PR campaign pursued by fossil interests.
https://archive.ph/lI13N

pro tip: go to archive.ph and enter the URL. For most big sites, it's already been archived.
Is "vendor owned open source" an oxymoron? (2021)
Boiling helps with bacteria, but not with toxic chemicals from factories. You need to capture evaporated water (or steam from boiling the water).
Looks like it’s already been filtered from the front page. It as more likes than this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39420385
"The DSA will apply to those offering their services to users located in the EU, regardless of the providers' place of establishment."
How to gain traction in two sided markets (2013)
But by not caring, you risk ignoring a valuable and sometimes critical source of information about your actions, as seen through the eyes of others. It’s a slippery slope from there to the “all opinions are equally valid” nonsense.

So you should be mindful of others votes as feedback for the reception of your creative act, but not base your internal sense of self worth on this feedback, rather weighing it as a source of feedback to inform decisions going forward.

(/s)
I was thinking something closer towards "total cost at maximum vertical integration", but expressed succinctly in a word or phrase.
> The idea of “outside agitators” coming in and having the power to change your community is a specious, pernicious myth.

Pessimistically, one could view the missions of HFH and and many HUD programs (esp. FHA) as exactly that. Every house built, bought, or renovated can affect change, and external assistance can tilt the changes. Ditto big developers coming in to "revitalize" urban areas.

However, while I would agree that local government is still generally pretty answerable to local voters, state and federal grants and other "external" sources of money can and do alter their priorities. Changing demographics, esp. simple population growth, can attenuate or amplify various voting blocs over time. Most change happens very slowly at first, but then suddenly accelerates.

No matter your politics, I think there are good examples of this. Whether it be poorer neighborhoods that suddenly get gentrified after decades of stability, pricing out families who've lived there for generations, or richer neighborhoods that suddenly get a low-cost complex built nearby to qualify for a grant or comply with a DOJ "consent agreement", the character of a neighborhood _can_ change quickly even if it generally _doesn't_. In these situations, the most that participating in local government will get you is advance warning, which is a lot less useful for the poorer example than the richer one.
Google's Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI
All the people claiming this happened are level 1 posters so I’d take it with a grain of salt at this point.
Honestly, I just wish COSMIC was less ugly.

But that's just a personal preference thing. If it helps productivity and shaking up the Linux environment, that's always a plus.
The PicoZX – A Handheld Classic Computer Emulator [video]
'30 years ago if you went to the pub you were swimming in a sea of unverifiable half-baked facts..'

30 years ago this was limited to pubs though.

And, even today, the most renowned restaurant guide is a tyre manufacturer.
I've heard from a friend that the way they found someone was laid off was by Google Calendar suddenly removing the person that was laid off from invites while in a 1:1 with their manager. The manager had no context. That kind of inhuman feeling is what exemplifies the state of layoffs in the modern day.
How to live your life in text files
Ah yes the digital-only menu, one of more idiotic cargo-culting moves (although not sure who they are actually following here, maybe just general zeitgeist). I try to politely suggest that this is their weak spot when paying and tip accordingly.
WebAssembly Runtimes
Not quite; the probability of n/2 successes in n trials is given as Binomial(n,p) not p^n. p^n is correct for a single sequence but there are many possible sequences that result half heads, half tails and so you have a factor of "N choose X" or the so called "Binomial Coefficient".

> (0.4)^20 × (0.6)^20

and I think you mean (0.4)^10 × (0.6)^10 or more generally p^x*(1-p)^n-x.
> Would you rather take a 50% pay cut, or slightly annoy somebody else? Because that's essentially the choices they're giving companies.

This is a lie, and you know it.

The choices are "don't track, don't collect and sell data you don't need" or "ask user consent before you do so".
Browsers did implement that. Do Not Track header. It was immediately used by the industry to track users
Has this ever happened? I know that in the US at least we say that "you can sue anyone for anything," but it seems a stretch to think that a company could face legal liability for disclosing internally that someone was let go.
Nope, not in bulk. They have antiscraper limits in their api. But we could web scrape it with an AI agent looking for quality training data…

It would be a TOS violation, so technically piracy I think still.
Other peoples opinion of you is tied to your income, so I don't think there'll be a shift in this aspect of life.
How to Take Bigger,Bolder Product Bets
Intriguing, but frustratingly little detail in the slideshow of what the changes entailed, and to what degree the could preserve the historic character while modifying the building envelope.
I'd love to not have to put a disclaimer there, but legal counsel advised me to.
>Please, Linux.

If you skim through the comments on the github ticket about Zed being ported to Linux, the TLDR is... they're currently working on it. :
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7015

It's a small set of contributors so expect that it will be a while.
Ok, as I understood it, you were saying that the primary reason why zoning has become less flexible is that white homeowners used the zoning process to maintain discrimination.

I was challenging that. Though my experience may not be universal, I don't think all of those issues are unique to me.
I might have even been in that house, since I was in one FLW house that he lived in.

He wanted to be open to nature, not be insulated from it. Taliesyn in Wisconsin was uninhabitable in winter. So this is an obscenity. If you buy a FLW house, you should know what you're getting into.