skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this implication over and over (that poor hungry people steal). Poor people don't often steal. They might pilfer here and there, but they're not doing outright stealing or robbing. I've known poor people, I've lived with poor people and by and large they are not thieves. They may keep something, sneak something, but they are not breaking in and stealing stuff --if they do take things not theirs, it's "passive" (i.e. opportunistic.)

People who steal are often of two types, career criminals, pert of an organized (this can be peripheral) crime organization, or drugged out zombies who could not hold a job. There's a possible third, impulse theft by teenagers --these are low numbers.

It sticks in my craw when people so easily imply poor people steal and burgle. All the hand to mouth poor people who on occasion dumpster dove and all that, did not steal things, break into homes etc.
Yeah too much concurrency and too many channels definitely hit home hard...
Wasn't there an article on HN recently about some Army thing that makes recommendations on targets which are supposed to be reviewed by the Human In The Loop. IIRC the reason for the article was that the Humans In The Loop were just rubber-stamping the chosen targets with consequent loss of civilian lives.

I think that simple rubber-stamping would happen in any situation where the input was 'good enough' most of the time. And so the Bad Things and hallucinations would still get through
They should move to the Epic App Store.
Amazing! You’ve solved it. We need to get some journalists on the phone.
Fair is what two consenting adults agree to in the market place.

>does anybody want to argue that Apple hosting the Patreon app on iOS provides more value to Patreon subscribers and creators than the existence of Patreon itself does?

I will. If most apple users refuse to go outside the app store for their content, Than clearly they care more about the ease of access than the content itself.

I agree that the high proportion t of take between the two firms says a lot about the state of the market. It also says a lot about the users, and what they care about.

I think people are shocked by these outcomes because they aren't used to thinking about transaction costs as meaningful. Transfer, trust, and triangulation are critical parts of an exchange, and their costs can be even greater than the good itself.
Hold on, did you just say Go doesn't have a Dictionary data type?

I'm a Javascript, Lua, Python, and C# guy and Dict is my whole world.
> But ultimately a real fix involves touching every single file that imports your dependency.

Why is that a problem?
Oh man, fonts are fun. Ironically I moved off of alacrity and on to wezterm for font rendering reasons (p10k+patched nerd fonts), but that was pre pandemic
> It -does- work offline, and it's trivially easy to use

It doesn't. It can't show the map tiles, and its offline address entry can't always resolve the address.

> The voice instructions are clear, the large screen and context-sensitive portion in the binnacle are great.

Yes, Mr Musk. They sure are. I didn't even _had_ to use voice commands with any of my previous cars. Because why would I? It's just easier to use the controls.
Why? All I need to prove is that I have a canonical linear map going in one direction, and that this map is a bijection. (Since I already constructed such a bijection, I could just answer "for any z in V**, take the unique element v in V such that for all w in V*, w(v) = z(w)".) Do you disagree that I provided such a map? You are correct that V** is not isomorphic to V when V is infinite-dimensional, but your statement that "when dim V is finite, you need to choose a basis of V to find an isomorphism with the bidual" is incorrect. This is elementary textbook stuff (e.g. first chapter of Wald's GR book), so I won't argue further.
With any of this, isn’t it a, “build it and they will come,” situation?

Web Assembly, for example, is pretty pointless if browsers don’t support it. Browsers now support it, so it can be used, and that’s slowly happening.

It seems like the new document standard would need to be written, the benefits would need to be demonstrated, to the point support is integrated into the mainstream browsers, and then people who see benefit from the (I assume) easier/faster/better development, can start using it for new projects or integrating it into existing projects.

Trying to make an entirely new internet based on a new document standard would be rough. At this point, I don’t see that as a way forward, unless it brings something extremely compelling that users want and go crazy for, which can’t be duplicated with existing technology. I’m thinking Napster levels of hype and consumer desire.
This is too cool. Thanks for sharing.
It's been an issue in the past, and the articles mention it.
It does exist, it just doesn't get linked in the page. Click on the media item, your URL bar has changed.
At Apple, that will take at least 5-10 years before they get to that state. Siri is barely usable beyond simple “create reminder” or “set timer” queries/commands.

Hope by then, we see government intervention and break up big tech
I don't think the parent comment's main point was about using fairness to judge anything - the two main good I questions I got from it are (a) does Apple provide more utility in hosting the apps than the entire Patreon service? and (b) if not, doesn't the fact that it costs more show that something, somewhere is very wrong with the economic model?

I'm a mild advocate of the Apple ecosystem in that I really like the fact it all works together pretty flawlessly for me, with many security headaches taken off my plate. (I'm always reminded of this when every ten years or so I think about trying to save money with a Windows laptop and come running back). But I think the parent comment's suggestion that this isn't about fairness as such, but whether that kind of arrangement is egregiously wrong hits home, and it does make me feel that this is the kind of weird economics that can only come from an unhealthy duopoly of iOS and Android.

What to do about it? I'm not sure the parent or I have any particularly good answers...
> I could easily roughly compared Intel performance vs price, but with AMD I had to look up half the models.

That's sort of what I'm up against.

AMD makes excellent products. If I have a day or two I can ask my son for recommendations. He knows AMD lines off the top of his head. If I have 10 minutes, I go with what I know.
Obsidian- and have been since the early betas.

I’m also grandmothered into the cheaper sync plan which is nice because the sync has always felt rock solid.

The plugins are so numerous that I’ve lost track of what else is available, and the fact that a vast majority work on iOS and iPadOS is a huge win.
I can’t wait for this to fuck up monumentally and end up in Private Eye.
REINDEX INDEX CONCURRENTLY[1]

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-reindex.html
"not a cure" means that if you stop taking the drug, the condition comes back, at least as far as I can tell. Which checks out given the other information given by the article.
"Greenest" should be fairly obvious, no? Dense cities have the lowest carbon footprint per capita. See the chart in this article: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/its-not-just-cities-subur...

And while commuting might account for some fraction of the added footprint, larger houses mean more heating/cooling and larger sprawl means someone is driving to deliver daily essentials (grocery, gas, medicines, teaching, cleaners etc).
> The problem with "fairness" is that there is no objective measure of it. Everybody evaluates fairness according to how it aligns with their own personal interests.

With respect, this sounds a little bit like you're agreeing with me?

Another way of phrasing "fairness is not a valid price discovery mechanism" might be to say that fairness as a concept "doesn't exist" in the market, only competition: ie, what people are willing to pay to acquire a service from the available options they have before them, ideally within an environment where low barrier-of-entry to the market allows prices to fall if a service can be legitimately offered cheaper elsewhere, and where regulation sets the (occasional) market cap on how exploitative businesses are able to be. Fairness as a concept is not applicable to market prices: they don't get set because they are "fair", they get set because businesses calculate the maximum amount that people are willing to pay for products before going to a competitor (assuming there is a competitor to go to).

BUT, if people on HN insist on bringing fairness into discussions about anti-competitive behavior (which very often happens in discussions about the app-store), I think that Apple's fees in this case, and the impacts they will have on small-market creators, are unlikely to line up with most people's personal evaluation of "fair".

A sibling comment phrased this in a really good way, I think this is a situation where regardless of how you feel about fairness, you can look at the market outcome and think, "wait a second, something is not right here."
Yes, they've been doing it for a while.
Being European I do my oil change once a year and since the oil disposal location is on the same street as my local garage, I need to drive there anyway so no time lost there. And as I'm working and making money in the lobby while waiting for my car to be ready, I count that as a zero loss.

You might not find it messy, but I do. I don't like doing it. And it costs me the same amount of time and money if I have my mechanic do it, so that is why I outsource it.
Mm, I'd say I'm a moderately rabid consumer of fiction, and while I love me some Utopian sci fi, (I consider Banks to be the best of these), any fictional story that teaches you something has to convince. Banks is convincing in that he has this deep fundamental belief in human's goofy lovability, the evils of capitalism, therefore the goodness of post-scarcity economies and the benefits of benevolent(ish) AI to oversee humanity into a long enjoyable paradise. Plus he can tell good stories about problems in paradise.

QNTM on the other hand doesn't have to work hard or be such a good plot-writer / narrator to be convincing. I think the premise sells itself from day one: the day you are a docker container is the day you (at first), and 10,000 github users (on day two) spin you up for thousands of years of subjective drudge work.

You'd need an immensely strong counterfactual on human behavior to even get to a believable alternative story, because this description is of a zero trust game -- it's not "would any humans opt out of treating a human docker image this way?" -- it's "would humans set up a system that's unbreakable and unhackable to prevent everyone in the world from doing this?" Or alternately, "would every single human who could do this opt not to do this?"

My answer to that is: nope. We come from a race that was willing to ship humans around the Atlantic and the Indian ocean for cheap labor at great personal risk to the ship captains and crews, never mind the human cost. We are just, ABSOLUTELY going to spin up 10,000 virtual grad students to spend a year of their life doing whatever we want them to in exchange for a credit card charge.

On the other hand, maybe you're right. If you have a working brain scan of yours I can run, I'd be happy to run a copy of it and check it out -- let me know. :)
I agree, the problem is the widely held belief that neutrality in writing is possible and positive. It's not possible for information to be presented without bias, even when done in the best of faith. Attempting to be neutral itself is of course biased by the experiences and information that has led one to an understanding of what "neutral" is. Neutrality is however a fantastic tool for hiding bias and ultimately that is (I think, at least) the reason it's such a popular idea.

I think transparency actually gives the benefits that neutrality claims. Everything I think and do has bias, I will (as best I can) tell you what my biases are and let you evaluate that how you will.
Layman: skeletal muscles are expensive to maintain in terms of caloric and protein/water intake, and larger muscles are less efficient at dumping the heat that their use generates because volume increases faster than exposed surface area with muscular hypertrophy. If food and body temperature regulation were more immediate concerns than violent conflict, then the ability to gas out your opponent was probably less influential.
They ship pretty much anywhere. As long as you have a compatible car[0] with the right options, it will work.

[0]https://comma.ai/vehicles
A little bit stretch but as someone who decide to run "slowly" in long distances, the other metric is sweating. If it not were by sweating I prefer to run at a controlled pace than to walk.
One more reason to stop using Crapple
You can rent some tools. If nothing else I often justify a good tool because if I hired someone the pro would have the good tools. Typically the first time I do a job myself I lose money on tools - but the next time I have that tool and so I save a lot. Of course over the years I have a good idea what tools I'm likely to use.
I'm pretty up on current events, but I did not know/recall what a geofence warrant is. It's the "what cellphones pinged here" search warrant:

A geofence warrant is a type of search warrant that allows law enforcement to collect location data from devices within a specific geographic area (the "geofence") during a particular time period. This warrant enables investigators to:

1. Identify devices present in the area

2. Collect location data, such as GPS coordinates or cell tower information

3. Link devices to specific locations and times
> Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail

> Less context switching

For the very same reason, my hammer is javascript.
Show HN: I built a React Native boilerplate to ship mobile apps faster
Hey HN.

I'm a developer and solopreneur.

Few months ago I realized I was doing the same thing over and over again: set up onboarding flow, user authentication, payments, connect a DB...

So I built ExpoShip for 3 reasons:
1. Save Time and focus on what matters: building a business.
2. Avoid headaches like setting up authentication or handling in-app payments.
3. Get profitable fast.

I hope this boilerplate will be as helpful to you as it is for me. Would love your feedback.

Rudolfs
30% is fucking disgusting and the only way they can get away with it is a captured regulator. It’s so despicably greedy and arrogant. It’s like they’re rubbing it in your face that they can do this: “what are you gonna do about it huh?”
Hey! Great question we get a lot. We've come from/talked to a lot of companies that do what you described with stuff like timescale and influxdb. They're useful tools and support a breadth of applications. We thought by building one to specifically leverage the read/write patterns you'd expect with sensor-heavy systems, we could achieve better data throughput and thus better enable real-time applications. For example, we've been able to get 5x write performance for sensor data on our DB compared to influxDB.

In general, having built out the core DB, it has been valuable in allowing us to expand to the other useful features such as being able to write commands out to hardware at sufficient control loop frequencies or create smooth real-time visualizations.

The other thing we think is really powerful is having a more integrated tool for acquiring, storing, and processing sensor data & actuating hardware. One common issue we experienced was trying to cobble together several tools that weren't fully compatible - creating a lot of friction in the overall control and acquisition workflow. We want to provide a platform to create a more cohesive but extensible system and the data storage aspect was a good base to build that off of.
I hear this a lot, but it discounts a few things:

- the enjoyment of creating or building something decent (if you enjoy it)

- the enjoyment of learning for its own sake

- the knowledge that the next time you do this task, you'll
be more efficient at it

- the knowledge of how the process works, so you know it was done right, and can fix it if it breaks

There's a variety of others. I agree that if it's a task you don't enjoy or don't rely on, then outsourcing it often a great idea.

Some things greatly reward a DIY attitude. Like knowing how to wrench on your bike when you're on a trip far in the wilderness and something goes wrong. You can even help out others!
Hearing that other people struggled with this problem gives me solidarity. It took me an embarrassing amount of time to get "click and drag thing" working in isometric [0]. Rendering differently sized sprites was a whole other thing.

Figuring it out without google was immensely satisfying, though. Reminded me what I love about programming.

[0] https://chriskiehl.com/article/home-theater-calculator
Google DeepMind: The Podcast – Season 3
What!? Where has it been shown that rent price fixing makes tenants lives better? Why and how could price collusions algorithms make the life of a renter better? This sounds like something on would see on the real page website.
Paint is quick and easy. Not that I disagree with your point, but it isn't a big deal.
I wonder of vaping falls in the category of non-smoking. It really should have it's own category now I suppose.
> Regarding recommendations similar to Ra, it's not exactly the same thing, but https://unsongbook.com/ is fantastic and has a similar flavor I think.

The religious references on the actual website (and lack of much real explanation) made it very difficult for me to give it a chance, but I looked it up a bit and it seems like there is more to it than that, so maybe I'll give it a try.

edit: reading the first chapter definitely changed my first impression. It definitely has many similarities to qntm's writing. I will certainly be reading more...
> just a simpler Postgres playground in the browser...

Then you want pglite. This project uses it and provides a link to it.
> an excellent article about parent-child estrangement

Previously featured on HN, submission with most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28231239
When Judea Pearl was asked how Mathematics should be taught, he answered: Chronollogicaly. [1]

Now, What do You mean to "learn Math". You have to be more specific with your goal. This is funny coming from me because I haven't able to specialize in any single topic.

Let's suppose You somehow saw The Beauty of Math somewhere and You are ready to continue your journey in such a beautiful topic.

I really believe You Will enjoy reading "Mathematics for The million" by Lancelot, I saw this recommended by Sir Anthony Hoare[2], You Will be amazed by its content (I have only ready chapter one).

What's Mathematics?

Are elementary school children doing Math when they solve addition and subtraction problems?

Is The High school student crunching mechanical procedures, plugging numbers into formulas doing Math?

Is theorem proving Math?

Daphne Koller said in an interview that we are all doing probabilistics when Thinking and making certain decisiones[3].
Are we all Mathematicians?

Do You want to study Math as a tool to help You in some other areas or study it itself as a subject?

It doesn't matter, You Will enjoy it and love it.

Trying yo answer your question.
Learn some Arithmetic, just enough. Crunch some elementary algebra (in The fashion of Visualizing Algebra provided by Udacity). Read The book Geometry by Tatiana Alekseyevskaya, learn some Discrete Math (I recommend You the book on the topic by Thomas VanDrunnen), read the other four books in the gelfand series. Learn some logic. Read Introduction to Mathematical Thinking by Keith Devlin. I think at this point You Will able to read some resources o calculus or abstract Algebra.

If this seems like a Lot, don't dismay. There was this guy George Green having to take care of mill to make bread and do also found time for Mathematics, apparently DeMoivre was struggling financially. There people are just like You. Enjoy your Math journey

[1] The interview is available on Lex Fridman YouTube channel.

[2] The conversation between him and Leslie Lamport is available on YouTube
..you have noticable latency when you type? I'm genuinely sorry, that would infuriate me.

Personally I don't notice any typing latency in wezterm. I have p10k as a zsh theme and not really any 'plugins' beyond git for the terminal and use neovim+ also pretty much just got and CoC for an editor. I don't notice any latency when typing and, while not instant, still sub 200ms startup latency.
If I had one complaint, it’s the use of ‘tags’ to configure how json is handled on a struct, such that it basically becomes part of the struct’s type. It can lead to a fair bit of duplication of structs whose only difference is the json handling, or otherwise a lot of boilerplate code with custom marshal/unmarshal methods. In some cases the advice is even to do parse the json into a map, do the conversion, and then serialise it again!

The case I ran into is where one API returned camelCase json but we wanted snake_case instead. Had to basically create another struct type with different json tags, rather than having something like decoders and encoders that can configure the output.

I like Go and a lot of the decisions it makes, but it has its fair share of pain points because of early decisions made in its design that results in repetitive and overly imperative code, and while that does help create code that is clear and comprehensible (mostly), it can distract attention away from the intended behaviour of the code.
It's just an effort to shift blame from the inflation caused by the administration's policies. Larry Summers, a Harvard economist who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, correctly warned that inflation would spike due to loose fiscal and monetary policy in 2021:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/26/economy/inflation-larry-summe...
Well you should read the story and find out some thoughts! QNTM refers to some people who think there's no harm, and some who do. It's short and great.
Are you on the marketing staff for Realpage? Or just astroturfing? Who otherwise would write “This innovative and game-changing software had been further enhanced with the use of AI”?!
I'm sure you have hobbies other people could insult you for too and if you don't you likely don't have any hobbies at all.
My paranoia has grown from link hoarding to storing PDF dumps of sites that are really important to me. There've been so many times over the years that amazing resources just blip out of existence.
Walmart carefully avoids anti-competitiveness in these deals. The OEM cannot sell for less than Walmart, but the target down the street might.
Thanks for sharing, and if you’re aaron, thanks for putting the effort into this that you have. Really resonates here.
I think that's changed: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/apple-lets-devs-....

> However, the rulings established that Apple's so-called "anti-steering" rules—language prohibiting developers from mentioning cheaper or alternative purchasing options that might be available outside of an app—were anticompetitive.

> Apple has updated its App Store rules to allow developers to provide external links to other payment options, technically circumventing its normal fee structure.
i want to publicly thank Algolia for providing an excellent HN search for so long. i was on a call with Linus Lee and we both were referencing something on HN and i started pulling it up and he said "i know exactly what website you're on" without seeing my screen and it was of course the Algolia HN search. unbelievable mind sync.

Idk if it can be replaced (i guess i could do with semantic search + content crawling to start?), but even if it is replaced, Algolia will always have a special place in my heart for doing such a great job for free. thank you whoever worked on it (Algolians - is there a behind the scenes writeup somewhere?)