skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, critically, how much are we willing to collectively sacrifice to move that percentage of people in a positive direction?

This begs the question, at least to some extent. A big lesson of modern economics is that lots of things are win-win.

For example, if you could eliminate years spent in prison by spending more on K-12 education, that looks like a big sacrifice if you don't have the prison counterfactual to compare to, but it's potentially the cheaper path.
The punchline is this:

"It's 2021.

The research participants are in their late-30s now, which means they've had plenty of time to shape their own destinies. But we can clearly see that the experiences of their childhood had a huge effect on their financial situation as adults.

It also has an effect on virtually everything else in their lives."

You cannot infer the direction of causality from this data, i.e. that the traumatic experiences themselves cause the poorer outcomes. I remember reading about how in Chicago someone had noticed that kids who did better had more books at home, so they decided to give poor kids books. Certainly not a bad thing to do, but just giving them some books is not going to make them like the better off kids in all of the other (highly correlated) ways that they're different.

Just as an example, one of the traumatic factors they identify is if a kid had witnessed someone being shot. The wealthy kids are way less likely to see anyone get shot, because if people were regularly getting shot in their neighborhood, they would move. The poor kids' parents don't always have that option. In this case it could be the poverty itself, not the shooting that is causing the poor outcomes. But then you get into why the parents are poor in the first place, and there are many causes, but a lot of them get passed down to the next generation in one way or another.
> sometimes annoying so.

Agreed.

I've been an regular NPR listener for like 15 years now, and if I had a complaint about their reporting, it would be that they shy away from being based if it could potentially alienate the right wing audience.

It's good to be empathic to your audience, especially when reporting on sensitive topics. But tiptoeing around the facts because it might give ammo to people who already hate you shows a lack of self-confidence.
Most fresh ingredients last at least a week. What kind of salads are you making that a single person can't finish before they go off?
STE used to cost $2900 USD for the print copy. So . . baby steps, I guess?

STE, unlike Simplified English or International English or its many cousins, has what I like to call the "ISO Kiss of Death". Basically, with IKoD, you get a cabal that takes over a spec, and then it defends the spec like a kung fu master defends his secret style. Thing is, the cabal also mandates how documents get written, so now you have to go to the secret Kung Fu School to learn the Secret Style if you want to, yknow, deliver a product.

This can go on for decades, multiple decades, before something maybe breaks the chain - some busybody in procurement, or a major national embarassment, or an overactive journalist revealing how making a PDF file managed to cost two hundred million dollars. Or someone raising their hand and saying, um, sirs, very sorry to interrupt, but this is all common capability in the Lands Outside the Secret Temple.

Fighters from secret temples never amount to much.
Do you realize that having the time and resources for those things is a privilege that many in poverty don't have?
You know, in economics growth is just about everything. When did one last hear of falling or negative economic growth being praised? Point made.
I'm as glad as anyone else to see an abusive company get some scrutiny, B U T . . .

Everyone is complaining about Ticketmaster but they're still giving them their money, so how are they supposed to respond? They are not being financially incentivized to change their ways. This feels a lot like the video gamer who hates Video Game Company XYZ with the passion of a thousand suns, yet like clockwork buys their video games again and again.

Show tickets aren't even a necessity. They're not like food and water--nobody has to buy them. Each and every dollar Ticketmaster collects is from a fan making a voluntary purchase of a luxury. Purchasing from a company that abuses them.
Stephen King was saying that writers shouldn't deliberately seek out fancy words just to sound fancier. PG seems to have a certain set of trigger words which are well-known and which many people would use without a second thought, such as "delve" or "burgeon".
You may win the judgement in small claims court, but how will you collect? That is another dilemma.
I still have to manage the service or the code. I don't wanna worry about software updates.
> having an interesting time just listening to the radio

The NPR member station you're listening to is distinct from National Public Radio, Inc. The former controls its own programming. Uri Berliner was employed by the latter.
> [...], these are standard image processing algorithms which are already plugged into the digital processor of a 15 years old camera.

I don't know what to tell you other than this is not the case at all. Computational photography failed miserably in the standalone camera market. Photographers love manual control. Cameras with built-in computational photography features flopped hard, nobody bought them. Standalone camera innovation is therefore limited to make it as easy and reliable as possible to get a good shot. Everything else is done in post processing software, such as Lightroom or Photoshop, never in camera. For the record: My 15 years old Canon EOS 5D Mark II can't do a single thing I listed in my comment aside from basic noise reduction for jpeg images. And that camera was considered revolutionary at the time. But the camera sure as hell makes it easy to capture the shots I need, and post process them on my computer to get exactly what I want.
Do you share a part of you charge with the people that contributed? If not, what you're doing is the same as what others did when they took your work and profited from it.

You've all agreed what can and can't be done with your code based on the license you used.

If you want to make money with software, it's proprietary or dual-licensed (A)GPL with CLA. Anything else you'll bait and switch on people.
https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/
> how they're not responsible for their awful system,

Yea, this is something that has to be protected by consumer rights laws. Otherwise companies will be like "It's unfortunate we have a monopoly, but fuck off and give us your money. Thank You. Your case has been closed".
So rationing? I wouldn't call that fantastic. Why should someone who's barely interested but willing to go for $10 more deserving of a seat than a super fan willing to save up to shell out $150 for a seat?
> Everyone is complaining about Ticketmaster but they're still giving them their money, so how are they supposed to respond?

This is why monopoly is a market failure. There isn't a market mechanism that can correct this.
Heh. Ask him if the people at the deli he works at are generally competent.

I have a somewhat awful belief about humanity: that about 70% of people work jobs they’re not very good at. Most of the time this is ok, because so many jobs are bullshit anyway. Bad real estate agents still sell houses. Grumpy sales people still sell product. Social media managers - well, let’s not go there. But it has some strange consequences - like how most therapists are (in one study) less useful for the patient than journaling. Or in my opinion, the prevalence of crap software.

Ask about his work. Ask if his coworkers made a fax machine, if it would work reliably. If he gets it, you’ll know. You’ll see it in his eyes.
Youtube doesn't have a monopoly.

Nobody else wants to compete because just look at the comments in threads like this. Everyone is entitled to no-ads no-subscription. Again, read up on the story of vid.me, who actually was stealing market share from youtube for a while.
> You realize how expensive fast food is if you are at all used to cooking at home from scratch all the time.

But cooking from scratch all the time has a time cost, too. Many families are time poor as well as money poor so there's a balancing act to be done.
Yep. They are more latency sensitive than the continuous portion of the day.
TimescaleDB primarily serves operational use cases: Developers building products on top of live data, where you are regularly streaming in fresh data, and you often know what many queries look like a priori, because those are powering your live APIs, dashboards, and product experience.

That's different from a data warehouse or many traditional "OLAP" use cases, where you might dump a big dataset statically, and then people will occasionally do ad-hoc queries against it. This is the big weather dataset file sitting on your desktop that you occasionally query while on holidays.

So it's less about "can you store weather data", but what does that use case look like? How are the queries shaped? Are you saving a single dataset for ad-hoc queries across the entire dataset, or continuously streaming in new data, and aging out or de-prioritizing old data?

In most of the products we serve, customers are often interested in recent data in a very granular format ("shallow and wide"), or longer historical queries along a well defined axis ("deep and narrow").

For example, this is where the benefits of TimescaleDB's segmented columnar compression emerges. It optimizes for those queries which are very common in your application, e.g., an IoT application that groups by or selected by deviceID, crypto/fintech analysis based on the ticker symbol, product analytics based on tenantID, etc.

If you look at Clickbench, what most of the queries say are: Scan ALL the data in your database, and GROUP BY one of the 100 columns in the web analytics logs.

- https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/blob/main/clickhous...

There are almost no time-predicates in the benchmark that Clickhouse created, but perhaps that is not surprising given it was designed for ad-hoc weblog analytics at Yandex.

So yes, Timescale serves many products today that use weather data, but has made different choices than Clickhouse (or things like DuckDB, pg_analytics, etc) to serve those more operational use cases.
> The more we talk about it, the angrier people get. That's truly the only reason to even have a conversation about my ancestors I never met owning your ancestors you never met.

Maybe the "statute of limitations" for these things should be long - not to mention the idea that racism wasn't magically fixed by ending slavery and the "owning" you mention. You don't think anyone was actively racist and causing harm 10 years ago? 20 years ago? 50? So if person Y's grandparent was harmed by, say, person X's racist grandparent in the 1950s, and that caused person Y's family to suffer for generations compared to what likely would've happened otherwise, and that's leading to ongoing societal harms, it could be legitimate public policy interest to try to even out opportunity.

Of course, this hasn't actually changed in the last few decades - terms like "equal opportunity" and "affirimative action" have those words in their very name.

But certain interests have made very successful pushes in the past few decades to brand policies under those umbrellas as "actually the real racism", or paint everyone supporting them as "actually trying to guarantee equality of outcome," while continuing to beat the very-old drum of "people being worse off implies worse ability, it's just science" which couples oh-so-very-nicely with the more active forms of denying people opportunity that hardly ended in the 1960s.
I still listen live on their app when I can, but a lot of their programs are also available in podcast format.

I'm sure its hard to compete with so many alternatives to the same content.
It doesn't seem unlikely to me at all. Lots of people are smart or successful despite coming from a broken home. Weird example but Eminem was extremely poor growing up.
> That only 1% of revenues come from tax dollars has little to do with that part.

If the public creates something but doesn't fund it very well, that thing has to go out and find other kind of funding, which means they have to sing for their supper. This will most definitely influence their content and reporting, because otherwise they simply don't get to exist at all.
> driving that leftover oil to the recycling center.

Right, because people who don't have money/time to cook real food are definitely doing that. Besides, deep frying is not the only way to cook potatoes.
I thought the “so far” was implied by science - this is what we know about the universe (so far).
> If you think of hypertext as a medium, it's been pushed to its most logical extreme already.

I think this is an odd framing. It's not about pushing things to further extremes, it's about using all these mediums that have been allowed to wither and die. It's about getting out of the sterile high-walled gardens.
Chargebacks are only as aggressive as the bank's customers are willing to enforce by leaving / suing against the vendor's level of customer expectation of service. Outside of a vocal minority, no one is going to want a card that doesn't work on amazon.

The playing field has been rapidly shrinking, and the customer base is much more stressed and unwilling to fight.

Not to mention that's also roughly around the timeframe that binding arbitration really got pervasive.
I still don't have a matrix account anywhere because of that. Let alone the others. I want my own identity, but I don't wanna host a whole server. It'd be cool if fastmail offered such a service
"The story of German scientific forestry transmits a timeless truth: When we simplify complex systems, we destroy them, and the devastating consequences sometimes aren’t obvious until it’s too late."

I really agree. so often simplification alone is not enough. it should be a guiding principle, but not ignorant of the necessary complexity
While all of what you said is technically true, you left out the fact that Tor sites are majority about illegal activity, such as hiring assassins, ordering forged identity documents, and buying and selling controlled substances. I'm afraid that kind of kills the nostalgia for me.
This American Life is from PRI not NPR. Radiolab is NPR however, though of course not really news-focused.
If you monitor your own movements you’ll find plenty of sequential procedures. The big difference with how these robot arms move is that they are firmly planted on a large table, whereas your arms attached to this self-balancing, lightweight gyrating torso.
My take (not OP) is that it's not so much the technical features of Lisp itself, but the fact that other languages evolved competing features. Over the years, they have slowly chipped away at Lisp's advantages. 50 years ago, Lisp was uniquely powerful with no rival. Today, Lisp is yet-another powerful language to choose from.
Big Integer in Zig
The barrier to entry for running your own site (something dynamic, as opposed to static hosting) is essentially the same in 2024 as it was in 2004. Gotta get a domain (and keep it registered). Gotta have an SSL cert (letsencrypt makes it better). Raspberry pi can run a lot, but getting your consumer ISP to give you a static IP is still more money. Definitely more VPS options now though. But self hosting your still basically looking at the same experience as 20 years ago, with slightly better options. Ipv6 had this promise that everyone could have mutiple public ips just for themselves, but this hasn't really been realized to its potential for some reason. We never reached that point where average Joe can run their own web presence without relying on some provider or "walled garden" owning them. If your average Joe and you want to share your thoughts online, best option today is a walled garden. How could it be made better? Average Joe can't run mailman, and certainly can't run their own mailserver.
Then it isn't around. It's walled off. And it will disappear.
Yeah why does Taylor Swift not simply build multi-billion dollar stadiums in the middle of hundreds of cities across the country? Is she stupid?
I mean it's a known fact in that there are published articles that calculate the fully loaded cost of a (the most discounted) fast-food meal and compare it to the fully loaded cost of buying ingredients and preparing it.

The economics all look great- about 10-30% cheaper for raw costs- except that the articles also include costs to prepare the meal (time cost, resource cost of fuel) and cleanup (time cost and often more garbage/cleanup).

also, the article that were published were mostly published about a decade ago, when the prices for fast food were a lot lower. This changed in the past few years as fast food prices went up a lot, even more than inflation on basic goods.

I typically don't include citations because nobody is here on hacker news to argue about the finer details of academic studies that carefully control for all the factors, and most of us don't have the time and inclination to read the studies in details to see where the problem lie. Instead, we build generalized models of the world that incorporate a great deal of different data and use those to explain our observations to others. My own model is based on 30+ years of shopping and preparing my own food at home, as well as working in fast food (MCDonald's), talking to franchise owners (always an interesting perspective into how McDonald's works), and regular restaurants.

Note: I live in California, a state with a different economic distribution than any other state in the country (with New York and Texas being the closest comparable states in terms of wealth distribution, relative prices of groceries and fast food, amounts of transportation required to obtain food, etc). Some people I know hunt for their own food- they enjoy the sport and it produces enough meat for a family to eat in a year! Obviously, that's a case where fast food isn't really cheaper.
Yeah, really. Heck, even No Man's Sky and Star Wars Squadrons qualify and they're way more mainstream
> What it does is making them realize that it’s not them who are doing something wrong but that their surroundings are flawed. The problem begins when children start to believe everything is their own fault.

This is only tangentially related, but I think your point is critically important. Relatively recently I did ketamine infusion therapy for depression, and it was life changing for me. Ketamine is a "dissociative", and one thing that it seriously helped me do was separate my "self" from my depression, which I've never really been able to do before despite decades of trying through therapy. That is, now that I see depression as a chronic condition I have (say perhaps analogous to people that have to deal with migraines), as opposed to something that I am at my core, it makes it much, much less scary and threatening to me.

In my experience, I've noticed that the people who I think of as the most successful (both from a society-wide and personal perspective) have the clearest view of what is their control and what they can accomplish, and also what is not. A huge benefit of this is that when they see an obstacle that some person could potentially overcome, even if it would be very, very difficult, they tend to think "Heck, why not me?" And when they do hit setbacks because of the unpredictability of the world, they don't take it personally, they just tend to think "Well, the world is chaotic - is this new problem something that can reasonably be overcome?" I contrast with a mindset I had for a long time (which a large part I think was a consequence of being bullied) that if I put a lot of effort into something and just didn't succeed, it was fundamentally because I wasn't "good enough", so why bother trying that hard at something else as I'm likely not going to be good enough there either.
TicketMaster announces ChurchMaster in the year 2027.
Is it going back or picking up where the other left off?

I think these have inspirational historical bases as opposed to being renfairs.

They are in the hands of a younger generation.
They mean 24 weeks in a residential, 24 hour a day program, where you sign an oath never to speak in anything but the target language, and which is largely attended by people in the armed forces whose career will be affected by their performance. The level is probably about B2/C1, and they expect these people to immediately go to work in the language.

English shares a lot of vocabulary with French, so that's a lot less for English speakers to learn.
Sad truth, honestly. I still have a fairly sizeable mp3 library primarily from CD purchases decades ago, and later from Amazon music downloads.

I don't listen to it. I stream from YT Music these days. It's just easier and more convenient. Plus my musical tastes and preferences are really, really, really strange. Streaming ticks all the right boxes.

I fought going this route for the longest time, mostly on principle. I lost that fight.
It's people who want the polarity to be "what we say" and fake news.

NPR and other liberal media works really hard to not pierce the facade of conservative arguments even when they consistently create incongruous reasons and end up explicitly stating that they're doing things for political benefit and no other reason.

Anyway, like most conservative media, NPR is just a target to chill and try and draw them into producing news that better builds the conservative facade of "rational" discourse they want people to believe is the basis for their decisions.

As opposed to the racism and corrupt business practices that is the entire American Republicans.
The thrust of the videos is not political in any way. The channels host videos of bad cops just as eagerly as any other channel. They just want views from content that they don't have to produce themselves.

The fact of the matter is though that for every bad cop interaction, there are about 10,000 normal ones.
Unfortunately the advertising was so awful I just navigated away.

This site was close to spam on a mobile device.
It's interesting that the majority of those comments are focused on a single issue. It sounds more like a preconceived notion rather than an informed criticism, where one would also likely be annoyed by discussions of economic injustice, ideas around UBI, taxation discussion, the criminality-or-not-of-Donald-Trump's actions (a primary thing Berliner himself actually mentioned in multiple instances, even!), etc...?
Imagine someone driving around neighborhoods with a laptop and a very good antenna.

1. Detect vulnerable networks in computers

2. Pretend to be a USB keyboard.

3. Trigger blind key combos that will visit a website, confirm downloading a file, execute that file, and "OK" privilege escalation prompts.

4. Move on to the next block or cul-de-sac, while the malware finishes unpacking and reporting home for further use.
Fair enough; I'm pretty sure I've listened to This American Life on NPR at some point but it was probably just a syndication thing.

Yeah, neither are really news-focused, more human-interest stories or deep dives into newer tech.
Japan watchdog to instruct Google to improve search ad practices
totally agree. I think one other angle to potentially consider is that, like many other things in the industry, this has an outsized impact on smaller artists. singers make most of their money through touring so fans might be more inclined to wade through live nation's scheming in order to support artists with a smaller base.
which bank if you feel free comfortable sharing?
It's an awful visualization.

I understand the motivation of trying to (literally) humanize the data points, but it would have been much more successful if there were vertical groupings as well as horizontal ones.

Right now it's 3 buckets + colors, but you could literally make it monochrome, make it an actual grid, then you could see which cells are completely empty, which is impactful.