skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that money is a measure of inefficiency. Say for example you hire a mechanic to fix your car. You pay the mechanic's shop for parts and labor. The cost of parts represents inefficiencies in how they're manufactured, the markups of middlemen, the high cost of raw materials from nonrecycled sources, etc etc. Labor represents your lack of knowledge about how to fix your own car, plus the time involved to fix things on your car like water pumps that (due to uninspired design) fail much earlier than they should.

In an ideal world where you drive a solar-powered car with a dozen moving parts built by robots from recycled materials, costs would fall to a fraction of what they are now. With the same automation applied across all industries, prices would fall to the point where the opportunity cost for humans to be in debt/servitude to rent-seeking financial institutions would exceed the benefit of using money in the first place.

This is basically what happened on Star Trek and is likely to happen in coming decades with Tesla, Amazon etc as humans can no longer compete with machine labor. Things will cost less but incomes will be so low that we won't be able to afford them anyway. Personally I would argue that that started happening sometime after the late 1960s and has gotten to the point where the status quo can only be propped up by every-growing absurdities on a global scale.

An oldie but goodie:

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
You are correct. No major institutions have publicly disclosed an investment in Bitcoin, and many are legally restricted from doing so.

However, I think that market speculators, particularly hedge funds, would strongly consider opening positions in Bitcoin below $5k in hopes of a many-fold return on investment. It is high risk, but in a diversified portfolio Bitcoin may be attractive in our current market climate where the market is so overbought.
> Agreed, wouldn't it match their business model

I think you've confused “cultivated PR image” with “business model”.
It’s a mix of good and bad.

With the notch, status space is at a premium and they finally get rid of that completely unnecessary advertising for AT&T, etc. (shows up on lock screen, that’s it). Also, when I’m in the background and using Google Maps for directions or something, it’s actually easier to have the location button in the top-left corner because I don’t hit it by accident.

I really don’t notice the notch after a month or so but I also set a wallpaper with a black top (thanks to the OLED, that part of the screen is so dark that it really does hide the notch completely).

One thing that’s really stupid is web pages. So many of them have floating bars at the top and buttons at the bottom; then there’s browser UI, and then the notch has the illusion that it’s taking up even more space (when in a way it’s not). In the end each site feels like it’s crapping all over my screen space on the X. Mobile browsing needs to be seriously redesigned from the ground up; anything less than a full screen experience needs to go.
One of my favoirte movies.
The average cost of an MRI in the US is ~$2,600.
I wonder if that's because Alibaba is mostly a marketplace and they sold $25B worth of stuff with a margin of 5-10% on it, meaning they'd only have generated ~1-5B for themselves on that day.
CFCR[0], née Kubo, might be worth adding to the list if you're doing rounds.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we work on CFCR with Google and VMware.

[0] https://docs-cfcr.cfapps.io/
People sure do seem to love using “disclosure” statements around here to brag about where they work
Little did you know, you were part of of an ever growing movement of young people who's experience of Adam Curtis was ruined by that Youtube video, and who would, in the span of only two short decades, come to redefine what humanity knew about Adam Curtis.
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Why was Uber mostly singled out in this article? If anyone reads the article, it makes it seem like there is some agenda behind it, especially when seeing the full list of signatories for the initiative [1].

The article also reads with some bias as the initiative itself seems to make some sense, based on my cursory review.

[1] https://www.sharedmobilityprinciples.org/signatories/
No what I'm saying is pumping too much money in a e-sport/hobby is bad.
I keep missing calls because I forget that I have the do not disturb mode on. Maybe the next iteration will have narrower notch so that we can upgrade to get the two extra icons
Who knows, maybe that will change one day.
Since we're sharing anecdotes, I'll share mine.

I was very skeptical about the notches. But after a month of use, I find that I don't notice the missing space at all.

Most often, it really does feel like the entire screen is being used. It's almost an optical illusion.

My two minor issues with the X are: 1) the glass back makes it very slippery! (It slides off the arm rests on my couch no matter how well I place it.) 2) The protruding camera on the back is very noticable. I wish Apple would make a flat-backed phone again. When I set my phone on a flat surface, it shouldn't wobble.

Overall I was very skeptical of the X for a lot of reasons... but it's by far the best phone I've ever used. (And it better be at this price!)
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>artificial esports like starcraft 2

So chess isnt a sport?
Can you explain why a tax cut would lead to a huge bill?
The 2016 keyboards weren't as good.

I kinda like my mid-2017 keyboard. It takes getting used to, and is a bit louder than the external or my older 2013 MBP keyboard, but it's quite nice.

The trackpad sensitivity is annoying though. I had to turn off tap-to-click which I'd been used to for decades.
Interesting link, thanks. HyperLogLog is a simpler algo in a way, as it only estimates the set cardinality ("count distinct"), as opposed to frequencies of individual items.

Bounter includes HyperLogLog as well (mentioned in the blog post); it comes for free with its optimized CountMinSketch.
Robotex to launch its very own cryptocurrency
Not sure I follow - you mentioned not handling browser compatibility which implies you're not directly writing
the html/css for the site. If you're using shopify or hosted wordpress or something, I would think
most of those providers would handle the Stripe integration for you?

You also mention a passive web page, if you're talking about a static site (as in a jekyll or hugo
site hosted on S3), you may be right. I don't fully understand how that might work since if you're
accepting payment for a service, presumably you also need to keep state somewhere to track the
delivery of that service to users and such. But if you did want to accept Stripe on a static site, I
would think you could use Lambda functions in AWS to handle the callbacks without worrying about the
maintenance costs and security risks of running your own linux server.
I do this quite often, and it is indeed usually because I don't want the site to know where I came from.
I suppose the more relevant quote is:

> he no longer thought it possible that all conscious experience, particularly one’s perception of beauty, could be a “mere electrophysiological epiphenomenon,”

https://lesswrong.com/lw/or/joy_in_the_merely_real/

Though for the music one the “transcend spatial limitations of matter” is the part I take issue with. It’s unclear what it even means, but seems to imply some supernatural specialness.
You can pry my human-driven gas-burning vehicle out of my cold dead hands.
The problem with Curtis is that he lacks a positive vision of the future.
> The people that work on upstream k8s in Google (Tim et al) have a pretty limited overlap with the Google Cloud people that run GKE.

I happen to be in the building so I sat in on an engineering review for a proposed new GKE feature today. Tim was there, as was Brian Grant, and pretty much everyone else you've heard of (in the room or on the VC). There were also a good number of PMs, SREs, and the leads/engineers working on the GKE machinery.

Thus I have to respectfully disagree.
They decided to finally pay their (lower) taxes to move them into U.S banks instead of illegally holding the funds offshore
> It's like the authority to create goes from the individual first-principles (by necessity) maker, to the control over development being in the hands of an external group, and then all your time is spent keeping up with what they're doing.

This is a fundamental economic question: buy or build? Buying involves search costs ("all your time is spent keeping up"), building involves the cost of ... building.

Often the line shifts because of gains from trade/specialisation and the deepening structure of production. As products become more featuresome, it becomes more economical for producers to specialise in part of the problem. They become better at that part than others are.

It quickly becomes impossible for any single producer to out-produce the combined output of specialists.

As a side note, the tension between the cost of searching and the cost of doing it yourself is believed to be why firms can emerge out of "pure" markets. It also suggests an economic reason for why software projects grow at their margin and another reason for why NIH is so attractive.
Could you elaborate on how/why you view it as "bad"?

From my POV this is a "good" thing.

E-sports get a lot of eyeballs (views).
More eyeballs (views) = more endorsement due to increased audience.

Personally, I'm an advocate for e-sports because I enjoy playing games & watching people compete at them especially at the elite level.
Don't restaurants already effectively do this? Although voting doesn't happen in the traditional sense people will vote with their purchasing choices. The restaurant will offer certain things on the menu and ones that don't get ordered will likely get eliminated (assuming the restaurant wants to make money). From what I've read most restaurants in America tend to offer many choices compared to countries like Japan where much more specialized places can prosper so your idea could be much more efficient but I'm not sure how practical it is to get people to agree on anything.
Like a ball bouncing down a stairwell.
In addition to the attention to design detail it speaks to the brand strength of Apple that if any of their competitors released a phone with a similarly unconventional screen shape it would have been a weakness that would drastically affect the acceptance of the phone, even if it was engineered in the exact same way. The notch is truly a feature only Apple would be able to have success with.
Just to be clear, you’re worrying about the arrival of a technology which, hype aside, shows no sign of appearing anytime soon. The downsides of your plan on people who are already disadvantaged is enormous, in favor of benefits which simply don’t exist outside of the minds of some engineers.

I’m not saying that I can’t see the benefits of completely autonomous vehicles. If the technology were impending rather than in early R&D this conversation could even make sense. As it is however, it’s fighting over slices of a pie which may appear in a decade, or five decades, or more. A lot of harm can be done in the name of an imagined automated utopia, but the worst could be done when it’s still only a dream.
As I was reading this, I was reminded immediately of Isaiah Thomas' farewell letter to Boston when we has traded from the Celtics that I read a few months back (https://www.theplayerstribune.com/isaiah-thomas-trade-celtic...). Then I googled it and realized that was also hosted on The Players' Tribune.

So I guess this is a thing now, writing long-form farewell letters for fans when you are traded or cut. Honestly, I kind of like it. I've never liked IT more than when I read his farewell. And while I'd never heard of Doublelift or TSM before, and don't really know anything about League of Legends, I enjoyed reading this article too. Sports are more interesting when you know more about what the players are thinking.

I dream of a day when 120 character tweets by celebrities and presidents are behind us, and long form content is back in style.
It was an impressive aping of his style, and pretty funny (I really like the bit about the death valley footage: "And so viewers assumed that Death Valley would figure into the argument. But this was a fantasy.")

But as an actual critique it is pitiful. Basically boils down to "The pictures on screen aren't literal!" and "I disagree politically, so Curtis is wrong".

It feels like the creator has trouble following Curtis' arguments and loses the thread, which isn't hard to do with his work I suppose.
It’s not a brag. It would feel unethical to criticize a competitor’s product without disclosing the obvious conflict of interest.
The Apple branded silicone case fixes both your issues and looks pretty nice too.

I used to be a no case person, but I got one for the X because I had the same issues you did.
OK, so on your view, what could a solution to the measurement problem possibly look like?
Perhaps if you shared some more concrete detail about what it means to "own the stack" people would be less inclined to fill in the blank in a way you hadn't intended to communicate?
If Firefox disabled ads by default, a large number of sites would likely block Firefox or set up angry messages telling the user to switch browsers. Yes, you could bypass that, but most people wouldn't bother. Add in the logistical issues, and the fact that some of the things blocked are beneficial, then I see no reason to expect the conspiracy you suspect.
It goes to show that if you pump enough money into something, it will become a thing.

Who do you think is pumping money into e-sports? The biggest event last year, The International 2017, had $24.7M prize pool. The first place prize was $10M -- $2M per player. The prize pool was funded by the fans themselves -- the organizing company started with putting $1.6M with their own cash, and the remaining $23M was collected from Dota 2 fans, who bought Battle Pass and various other items associated with it. In fact, only 25% of battle pass revenue went into prize pool -- this means that fans were spent almost $100M on this, and this doesn't even include the tickets to the actual event. This is real business with real revenues, not some fake bullshit pumped by some arcane wealth.
There are terminals that do this, I believe.
Apple expects you to use a case, preferably their silicone or leather ones.

Put them on and you'll see how the back suddenly becomes perfectly flat and non slippery. The notch helps in securing the case. The changing shape of the notch also means that cases don't transfer between iPhone models.

I guarantee Jony uses a case.
I wish there was an open source Photos/Picasa type of app for power users. Something that could create and export indexes in many formats.
I too have an anecdote involving a recent dental grad who took over a local practice; he removed the cerec machine installed by the previous owner, and not long after I experienced two failures due the low quality of the crowns produced by that machine. Replacing them with traditional crowns did take some time but they fit and feel much better.
> Ahg misleading numbers. People are actually surprisingly good at driving.

What? No they are not. If that were true then hundreds of thousands of Americans would not die due to car accidents every decade. Just because there are hundreds of millions of us does not make us good at driving, if we 'only' kill tens of thousands per year.

> You can tell it's low because it's measured in "per billion vehicle-km".

You can tell that the CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere is low because it's measured in ppm. Not something we should be concerned about, right? And when we increase it by a few hundred ppm, no big deal right?

What? You are the one driving misleading statistics around. You are the one diminishing the lives of those murdered by drunk drivers. People are dying every day because humans are really, really bad at driving.

Let's say this again. People are not surprisingly good at driving. People are very very bad at driving.
I like it. The useful info on the top left and right sides gives more room to the main app in the main screen space.
1. It was not illegal for them to keep the money offshore
2. They had to pay 1 time tax on money held offshore. once it is paid they still don't need to bring it back just it won't cost them anything to bring back.
It's definitely not popular as a spectator sport.
Earnings == profit. You may be thinking of gross margin.

"Earnings are the amount of profit that a company produces during a specific period, which is usually defined as a quarter (three calendar months) or a year."
The corporate tax rate was cut, but it was also expanded to include foreign income. Companies with offshore holdings that never had income tax paid had to pay a one-off tax bill on that.

Google paid $9.9B in this one-off tax payment, which is larger than their entire margin for the quarter.
IDK, rarely does Curtis touch on the future. He seems to mainly view the past through a sort of interconnected lens that, sure, makes us look at the players as human and fallible.

IMO, that kind of critical view of the past is necessary for us to do better in the future.
Both of your issues can be solved with a case. I don’t like cases either, but most people use them, and if the camera was flush with the back of the phone, then all of those peoples’ cameras would be recessed into a hole, which is probably a bad thing.
I imagine AWS and Amazon are going to be split up. I say this as someone who dearly loves Amazon and who is an AWS SA Pro Cert / my job depends on them.

Antitrust legal theory has grown by leaps and bounds from 20 years ago. Now there are so many theories related to what a monopoly is, even in the absence of a single dominant company, oppressive pricing, etc. When these legal theories migrate from academia to politics is anyone’s guess though (not commenting on if it’s fair also, just noting).

This was 100% going to happen to Microsoft with their Office and Windows division being split up, but then the judge in the case, who was very accomplished and smart, made the mistake of sitting down for several interviews with a journalist about the trial BEFORE THE CASE WAS OVER. Microsoft’s lawyers leaped on this, and were able to save the company.

One consequence though was Bill Gates accelerated departure from CEO into Chairman and the taking over of Steve Ballmer (ugh).
> On what basis do you say that the OP's numbers are "misleading"?

It's misleading because of the units its presented in: deaths/year. Those units measure (part of) the cost of driving on the human race. They do not represent how good or bad people are at driving.

> What's the objective benchmark on what number of fatalities/accidents is acceptable per billion miles?

I don't mean to say that the current number of deaths is OK! I want cars to get safer. However, when you say "people are bad at driving, and kill 35k people/year", it sounds like it's a low bar for self-driving cars to pass. However, when you say "people kill 7 people per billion km driven", it's clear that the bar is high. Tesla Autopilot has killed 2 people so far (I believe?); has it driven 280 million km?
Except I don't "need" that because I've always been able to get the chargeback.
Why would internet advertising be at risk? Are people going to stop looking at media over the internet?
Beyond uses of local comms, N
Non-local coordination could improve long-range routing, and even support automated allocation of infrastructure (like the way some roads—especially expensive-to-build-and-maintain ones like tunnels—reconfigure lanes for different directions of travel at different times of day to match traffic patterns, but dynamically and in more places.)
I on the other hand like the style for its own sake but enjoyed HyperNormalisation a lot less than Bitter Lake or The Power of Nightmares. But the style really does not help the credibility of the story or allows following the argument and spotting potential holes in it. In the end I am left with the feeling to either forget about it or having to fact check the whole thing. There are certainly interesting points in his films but they are almost impossible to evaluate without consulting other sources.