skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it was that expensive of a purchase to care. In the first place it was done in order to stop bashing Bezos himself (I remember how the pivoted from saying how millionaires should not exist to millionaires are good).

Plus a lot of left leaning media hate Bezos anyway.
dose them with psilocybin and do studies to see what it does for their hostility towards other living creatures.
They cancel their subscription when the newspaper makes it clear they are no longer independent.

The Post won a Pulitzer for their coverage of Jan 6. The fact they were prevented from endorsing a candidate means Bezos didn’t want them to endorse Harris.
>"Zero people on the planet do this."

You cannot reasonably make this assertion and expect that it's true. I mean, you outed yourself right there as someone not capable of a reasonable discussion. Sort of a "canary in a coal mine" of your own.

I have never once had my Logitech mice run out of batter, not once, not ever. It charges as I use it. I'll take that all day long over the "magic mouse" with a charging port underneath so you can't even use the thing if it runs out of battery an an inopportune moment. But sure, go through the mental gymnastics of excusing a really bad design by Apple because you're an obvious fanboy.
Why quantum theory is just like magic–Einstein deserves more credit than he gets
>Given the business AWS does with the US govt, the size of his remaining stake, I can't make a good case for endorsing a candidate either.

Honestly. I am not a government contractor, but I do own a small business - and I stay the fuck out of politics. There is nothing to be gained from making any political overtures of any type. I have my own political opinions, but I don't broadcast them - I simply vote. And my opinions are not those of my company or brand - because my brand/company has no political values - it has a product.

Jeff literally has tens of billions of dollars on the line, both his own and his investors' money. Preventing his media arm, which is supposedly independent, from making a political statement is just absolutely dumb, because this draws MORE attention on him and Amazon than if he just did nothing.

If Harris wins, I wouldn't put it past her to put Lina Kahn on the case of breaking up Amazon. Dumb move by Jeff, and probably a dereliction of duty as a founder who has taken public money.
traditional media is already losing the influence to be honest. Even big networks like CNN or Fox News are basically dying.

In the era of tiktok, twitter, podcasters and other services - traditional media is just too boring source of news. I would say that even the traditional search will die sooner or later.
Human curation will become more and more valuable, perhaps precisely because it does not scale.

You know which travel advice I prefer? The one from a small, local blogger that loves their city. You know where I find my music? At house parties. More and more, I also crawl the profiles of individual users for content that I might like.

The cosy web is my refuge from scale and its consequences.
Name and shame the specific articles and the specific data - I don't like it when people cast vague aspersions - it makes it difficult to refute or to corroborate rendering further discussion effectively meaningless.

Tangentially, I use Wikipedia strictly for topics of a scientific nature and usually find that it's relatively accurate.
For context: "Washington Post didn't endorse in White House race for first time since 1980s"

So, for the first time in 40+ years ... did they share a philosophical stance for why they are not doing it - one that we could point to and argue about?
I'm thinking of going full on soap opera complete with a love triangle.

Visitors need some sort of vested interest in what is going on.

When properly prompted, even GPT3.5 can write compelling short stories[1], but I'm using such tiny models for this that I'll have to do a lot of guidance to keep things interesting.

[1] IMHO it was better at this when GPT3.5 first released, it was able to do some awesome stuff!
Do you do contract work? My dream is to use a classic car kit and turn it into an electric car. Basically the kit in this article. :)

https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/first-drive-gto-engineeri...
Or that people who aren't likely Trump voters don't want to give money to an organization that eventually pays out on someone who will pay into Trump's campaign. It doesn't have to have anything to do with bias. In fact you're the one who is making it about someone wanting their biases to be confirmed. Kind of like not eating Chik Fil-A.
My experience when I last looked into Flutter was that it was heavily used in India - at least based on who participates in the community online - and much less elsewhere. That's not a value judgement, just might be a factor in why you don't hear much about it if you're not in India.
I think that in such a UI where it's trivial to mirror left and right just give an option and let the user decide their preference
> Being publicly connected with or being compensated by another entity would seem to me to present an arguable affiliation

It looks like it's a legitimate legal issue [1][2].

TL; DR It may make sense to explicitly clarify when you're using the term 'affiliate' as it is defined in 17 CFR § 230.601 / Rule 144 [3] versus "affiliate, including but not limited to []," or whatever.

[1] https://www.sackrosendin.com/blog/2017/03/landlord-loses-ove...

[2] https://casetext.com/case/iqbal-v-ziadeh-2

[3] https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/index.php?width=840&...
> ... this is more of an excuse to make fun of the design than it is a real world show stopper.

It's still a shitty design born of hubris.
One man's meta is another mans data. The classification of 'data' and 'metadata' into discrete bins makes it sound like metadata is somehow not also just 'data'.

If every morning I got in my car and left for work and my neighbor followed me, writing down every place I went, what time I got there, how long I stayed, and the name of everyone I called, it would be incredibly intrusive surveillance data, and I'd probably be somewhat freaked out.

If that neighbor were my cell phone provider, it would be Monday.

What we allow companies and governments to do (and not do) with this data isn't something we can solve in the technical realm. We have to decide how we want our data handled, and then make laws respecting that.
Access to video game consoles improved mental well-being during Covid – study
Mythical Man Month applies to new product development, when you have a product you're trying to rush out the door that doesn't exist yet.

Once the project already exists, is largely feature-complete, and is mostly in the "fixing bugs and small annoyances" phase, then Linus's Law [1] takes over. Debugging is very much parallelizable, because you can generally fix the bug without generating major impact elsewhere in the codebase, and if you have a good test suite you'll know if your fix has broken other invariants elsewhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law
How Big Tech's revolving doors erode EU antitrust laws
>The author points out that the publisher of a book of mushrooms cannot be held responsible for recommending people eat poisonous mushrooms.

I don't think this is true at all. If a publisher publishes a book that includes information that is not only incorrect, but actually harmful if followed, and represents it as true/safe, then they would be liable too.
0.58% of jobs?
On a similar note, we now know of at least two places where Norsemen were massacred by the Anglo-Saxons on St. Brice's Day (1002).

https://archaeology.org/issues/november-december-2013/featur...

It is always fascinating to see ancient written history corroborated by later physical discovery.

It is also a bit chilling to realize how our species resorts to mad brutality over and over again. Killing a bunch of random Danes in 1002 on the order of the king wasn't any better than killing a bunch of random Jews in 1942 on the order of der Führer.
Cool. I knew someone who was putting a Porsche engine into a VW, because it required very few modifications to get it to work. I suspect it's not an accident how many of the kits here are for Porsche or VW?
I am struggling to comprehend how allowing everyone between you and the services you use to view not only the metadata but the content as well could possibly be considered privacy-preserving.
That's a good thing. We don't want Meta to be adjudicating defamation. Just look at the mess DMCA takedown notices are. When you tell companies to adjudicate something like copyright or defamation, they are just going to go with an "everybody accused is guilty" standard. (The only exception is large and well known accounts that bring in enough ad revenue to justify human involvement.) This will just turn into another mechanism to force censorship by false reporting.
Glad to hear that progress is being made. I can't wait to try it. Thanks!
What about Python? They had 34 core developers in 2017 [0]. Python is used by millions of devs. They have to support a multitude of platforms as well.

Same goes for a lot of programming languages like Go: a pretty small core, the rest is external contributions. And they have to support all sorts of platforms/configurations as well (probably more than Flutter does).

[0] https://pythondev.readthedocs.io/core_devs.html
> Did HTTP over get over its "content moderation" problem? Don't want to summon the FBI.
LiveCodes is a feature-rich, open-source, client-side, code playground
Which is another signal that Matt isn’t serious about the Wordpress Foundation. The correct move would have been to form a for profit subsidiary owned by the foundation to run Wordpress.org since it’s an unrelated business activity.

It’s a well trodden path used by tons of nonprofits like the Smithsonian, Mozilla, OpenAI, etc. when they need to operate something that the IRS won’t grant tax exemption.
> I will just build an admin dashboard that allows a site owner manage their content

With WordPress, there are 5 different plugins already built that have more features than the dashboard you're planning to build, and the agency/person maintaining the site may already be familiar with them. WordPress and other PHP CMSes may not have the best architectures (Drupal was downright atrocious), but the ecosystem is thriving with pre-built, customizable tools for the 99% of customer needs.

Virtually all web hosts, including very cheap ones support PHP-cgi and MySQL, so deploying WordPress is frictionless. CMSes written in other languages have deployment more friction.
Traditionally, newspapers have editorial boards that are separate from reporting. And traditionally, editorial boards make political endorsements. This is in addition to printing editorials and opinion pieces from a variety of perspectives.

All of that is separate from reporting, which strives to be objective. Both coexist within most media organizations. Fox News pioneered the blurring of those lines, but the lines remain clear at most traditional major media outlets.

This is a case of a major paper deviating from the norm and succumbing to political pressure, which is outside of the established norms in a society with a free press.
> If he can't answer such a question, he shouldn't get to ask

No? If my employer asks me to clarify my employment agreement, I don't have an obligation to be their armchair counsel.
The Post employees (including acquaintances of mine) are begging subscribers not to leave. They insist that Bezos doesn't interfere with the news reporting, only with the op-ed pages.

I feel for them, but I don't see how they can justify that. This was a big, obvious incident, but it's impossible to imagine that it won't spread out from there. Every editorial decision is suspect.

I don't see how the paper survives this. The news business is marginal at best, at least for organizations that want to do actual journalism. The Post was one of the few remaining papers originating national-scale reporting. They eked out a living on a reputation of doing good work. All of that gets thrown away in one decision.

It's an astonishing hail-mary. Trump and Bezos get exactly one shot at this. I suppose Bezos imagines that the odds are good enough that Trump will win and he'll avoid whatever negative consequences were promised to his other business. But he will have literally destroyed this business in the process.

Not that it was ever going to be a major revenue source for him. But whatever goal he wanted from owning a newspaper, this is all he'll get.

Too bad for the employees, though.
"It takes effort for a search engine not to be able to find an interview with 34M views between the biggest podcaster in the world and the most famous person in the world."
In Vino Veritas! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vino_veritas
Illegal? Or just a civil problem? Illegal takes it in a pretty severe direction.
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It's not a matter of if Trump would. He absolutely will. Donald Trump has an ego the size of the universe, and if someone slights him in any way, he will be out for blood.
If you buy something from Amazon you've made a one-time exchange.

If you use WP Engine, you have an ongoing agreement with them to provide and support a service on which your business depends. A reasonable and literate person could construe that to be an affiliation.
That is only 1 of the many reasons why many drink only distilled water.
Given that Google Trends doesn't show that bump, I'd assume it has to do with how the data was collected. Maybe all stories with < X votes/comments older than 2015 are not included, or deleted from whatever index you used?
> at its factory in Aizu, Japan.

Which is great since it's not in China, which the world's democratic countries needs to work on uncoupling from since it's a) a totalitarian regime, b) part of the weird BRICS network. Remember that the R stands for Russia.

We should aim to keep high-tech manufacturing in democratic countries. Automation is typically what makes this possible in new factories.
> Developers are really support intense.

Shouldn't developers be the most self-reliant users possible, especially when working with open-source tools? That is, shouldn't we expect that when a developer has a problem, they dive into the code and figure it out on their own?
> Just build native UIs

Do you see any reasons why many companies/teams/devs don't want to "just build native UIs" and instead are looking for cross-platform solutions designed from ground apps for modern UI development needs?
> They can't solve every problem.

But this one. This one they certainly can.
What is the EUs influence there?
> If they bought a “budget conscious” PC, what are the odds that they’ll have hit the limits of their RAM but not any other component?

20 years ago, a budget-conscious 1.3GHz CPU for $130 was just a binned version of a high-end 1.6GHz $339 CPU. So the budget-conscious CPU would have pretty much the same longevity as a higher-end CPU.

10 years ago, a budget-conscious user could pick up a 4-physical-core ~3GHz CPU for ~$192 (like the i5-4590). Today you'd be due for an upgrade, but it wouldn't be unusably slow. Indeed, Intel are still selling 4-physical-core ~3GHz CPUs to this day, like the i3-14100.

And of course components like sound cards and gigabit ethernet ports don't really 'hit their limits'. You'll probably want to upgrade your wifi, admittedly - but a USB dongle is what, $20?
Notably they can still endorse other candidates, and the specific candidate they were barred from to (not) endorsing has immense influence on the businesses run by the owner, and the owner was directly meeting with him. It seems like an obvious quid pro quo from Bezos to Trump, hence the outcry.
They are basically implying that the government should support businesses that fall in line with the government.

Which is a strange thing to support though, but it often happens anyway.
The problem is that Matt/WordPress is not using the standard definition of affiliation. On social media, Matt suggested that being a customer or service provider to WP Engine was an "affiliation" for purposes of that checkbox.
Average user tells average HNer their computer is slow and the HNer does the upgrade.
That analogy is backwards: You'd be the one asking your employer to clarify the terms they chose and wrote themselves which they are trying to press upon you.

It's totally reasonable to ask the party introducing "shall not associate with" into a contract exactly WTF "associating" is supposed to cover.
The exact quote was: “Due to the regulatory uncertainties brought about by the Digital Markets Act, we do not believe that we will be able to roll out three of these [new] features — iPhone Mirroring, SharePlay Screen Sharing enhancements and Apple Intelligence — to our EU users this year.”

What didn’t seem plausible is that Android manufacturers didn’t seem to have any trouble bringing out comparable features, and Apple never elaborated on where exactly they see the difficulties. The whole wording reads more like deflecting blame to the DMA for the delay, rather than taking it on themselves by saying “sorry, we’re already late to the game as it is, we’ll need more time to work through this, and it’s all beta this year anyway”. It certainly seemed like a welcome excuse for why they’ll only release a US version this year.

Personally I don’t really care about those features, but Apple’s communication in recent years has gained a bit of a passive-aggressive side towards the EU.
Mysterious white blobs washing up on Canada's beaches
Your definition is much closer to Rawls’s vision of a just society and the “veil of ignorance.” While heavily influenced by Kant, Rawls comes much later.
Kant’s Categorical Imperative was an attempt to define moral laws (without resorting to a deity). The article has it right, though I might change the wording slightly to say that a “rule” or “law” that I use to guide my behavior is only moral if its universal adoption would make the world better.
Choosing to be a philosopher is not a rule. Something like, “I should never lie” is a rule which one could evaluate with Kant’s approach, by asking whether if everyone followed that rule, society be better off or not.
> cURL is basically maintained by a single person

Suppose Flutter may be an order or two magnitude more complex than cURL.
> I'm sure Matt's does, too

I wouldn't be so sure. He seems to have gone off the deep end. I know folks, including some successful ones, who legitimately believe that anything that commercially hurts them is illegal, and when a judge sides against them, it's due to bias and not the law.

(I don't know if this type of auto-victimisation has a name. You see it parodied by South Park in "The Worldwide Privacy Tour." And, less hilariously, by public figures complaining about their free speech on talk shows and at press conferences they called.)
> Tesla really deserves some kudos for pushing the 48V architecture and the Ethernet-based communication.

For the record, 42V systems were experimented with in the 1990s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42-volt_electrical_system

In the 2011 German automakers agreed to 48V as the next step after 12V:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/48-volt_electrical_system

BMW was the first the first with Ethernet:

* https://www.marvell.com/blogs/the-right-stuff-a-past-and-fut...
To be honest, I hope the greatest service Musk can do, is making electric cars somewhat acceptable to certain people, who only considered anything Diesel otherwise just by general principle.

But in general I would like my car to be as unpolitical as possible.
Reporting should be objective. Editorial opinion, by it's very definition, should not be.

Many people seem to not grasp this fundamental aspect of journalism.
If you're fine getting wrong answers after the first 73, sure. Some people have higher standards than that.
Changing screen sizes appears to be a very common theme for Apple. That way they can a few years later re-introduce the old screen sizes as the best invention since sliced bread. Very annoying. I would also have liked to see a 24"+ model.
The author (and myself, coincidentally) used to work at WP Engine. I still have friends there, I could still describe their infrastructure if I had to. How am I not to interpret myself as "affiliated?"
That logic would have made sense in April, or in 2022, or even earlier. Certainly not within two weeks of an election. Very clearly Bezos interceded on behalf of one specific candidate here, not out of general principle.
I think having a balanced news nowadays is more prestige than a paper that chases a one sided view on politics.
If you think its not popular until that increases past one of: JS, Python, Java, C#, PHP, C/C++, Ruby, Go, or SQL...I don't really know what to say. :)
Pitch accent is not accent as in English, it's not any "the" syllable. If you've ever seen any of those videos about it, you'll see these down-up-flat patterns over the whole multi-syllable word. From high to low, from low to high, or low to flat plus/and other variations.

I wouldn't compare kanji to shorthand. Shorthand is typically not easy to read, normal writing is easier. Reading written, fully-spelled English is fast. Reading hiragana is slow (and I've been reading hiragana for a long time)- it's slow, and mentally much harder than reading with kanji. The only issue (and that is of course an issue, but tiny compared to Chinese) is that there's a lot to learn before everything can be read fluently. But reading only hiragana is just.. too hard, for any serious amount of text. It's not hiragana per se, it's the language itself with its limited set of phonemes which contributes to the difficulty.
Yeah I do see why they don't want to do it and I see it as a critical failure of risk management.

If you think pinning your entire product on a cross platform UI kit when every single one (except maybe QT) had proven a failure... then yeah I think maybe you should consider actually just eating the cost of building native UIs.

The risk analysis of building against supposed cross platform "solutions" just doesn't work out. Why do we keep trying to do it?

The idea of cross platform UI is frankly "f*cked from the jump" and should never have been a goal. I think it's only a goal because it's intellectually satisfying, not because it's really desirable.
> King Sverre's claim to the throne was that he was the son of King Sigurd Munn, killed in 1155 CE by his brother. Sverre's men were known as "Birkenbeiner" because their legwear and shoes were made of birch bark. Among the rival factions were the "Bagleres" from southern Norway.

This honestly sounds like such a cool premise for a video game.

Are there any video games based on this saga?
ARIN and ICANN are centralized. WWW can run over alternative number and naming spaces but in practice doesn't do this except for Tor and to a much lesser extent i2p.

"www is already decentralized", okay but not in reality, not even a little bit.
The editor wanted the endorsement and got spiked by the billionaire owner after said owner's closed-door meeting with the other candidate. That's supposed to be journalistic independence?
The linked article is literally about people being upset about that and exercising exactly the same freedom to cancel their subscriptions, though. In which direction are you arguing?
> What is ethernet bringing to the picture?

More speed and zonal architecture:

* https://www.electronicdesign.com/markets/automotive/article/...

* https://www.bosch-mobility.com/en/solutions/control-units/zo...
People need to understand that the only entity that can violate the constitution is the government. Citizens and companies are not restricted in their actions by the constitution, only the law.
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