skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any knowledge which wasn't transferred into a document of some kind will either be lost or have to be re-learned by experience.

High turnover in any sector is terrible for business. This is true even for relatively "unskilled" labor: informal, often unwritten practices between workers are essential to any kind of collaborative work. See the "slightly different sense" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
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Ah yes, I don't think those features made it, but I never found that to be the killer feature anyway. Perhaps someone can remake those, now that Gmail has a proper marketplace for add-ons.
Didn’t Dave Morton leave in under a month? That feels pretty “jumping ship” to me at least. It’s also worth remembering that “Musk smokes weed” was the tail end of something that really began with “Musk calls hero pedophile online, then doubles down on it,” and “Musk brings down SEC with bullshit ‘funding secured’ line.”

There’s some hysterical headlines because they get clicks, but Musk has been doing the hard work of tanking his image and hurting Tesla without a bit of help.
You're right about the resale part, but at least with the Kindle you can loan books for up to 14 days:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_...
I don't get why Ballmer is viewed as a failure. He steadily increased revenues and income under his watch. Maybe he didn't have the "vision" thing but he was a damn good CEO if you accept that a CEO's job is to grow the company.
Yes, Brave is using the Blink engine (via Chromium). Chromium is an open source project with many contributors (including Google). Google uses this as part of their larger strategy involving ads and trackers, no doubt. But at the end of the day, it's a tool for displaying websites. To what ends you use it is dependent upon your end goal. Google used to tell everybody "Don't be evil" was at the core of their being; Brave says "Can't be evil". This is a stark difference-Google maintains the capacity to do harm, whereas Brave precludes it.

The Basic Attention Token User Growth Pool was created during our Token Sale in 2017; not from VC funds.

Ad Fraud is relevant because it claims more and more digital advertising dollars each year. Estimate today put it over 20 billion. By reducing middle-men, clearing up reporting, and more, there is less revenue lost, and therefore more revenue for creators and users alike.

By moving ad-matching and more into the Browser, we make it much harder to defraud the system. Further, this system rests solely in the user's domain; you control what is shown and with what frequency.
The commerce clause?
>> I had a similar reaction, since it's not like these matching algorithms do any "learning" (as far as I know).

Learning is not a criterion for AI/ not AI. The kind of system described (though only very vaguely) in the article is a rule-based system, possibly an expert system. These hand-crafted systems were the norm in AI up until the '90s or so and are still in widespread use in various domains (e.g. in finances, or air travel bookings etc).

In fact, machine learning took off largely as an effort to avoid having to hand-craft rulebases and elicit expert knowledge from domain experts. You can see this very clearly in decision-tree learners: these basically learn the rules that a human would be creating by hand.

It's also possible that the system described in the article is using some kind of resource allocation algorithm, like a linear programming algorithm, or some such. Those are actually optimisation algorithms, so they are easier to recognise as AI by today's standards (i.e. by the standards of the last 5 years or so of press releases by Google :).

In any case- the majority of AI, historically, has nothing to do with (machine) learning and instead focuses on reasoning in complex domains.
Steve Blank is amazing at short form business writing. Very insightful.

Of course the iPhone will continue to sell well in the short term, but the trillion dollar market cap is a consequence of what Steve jobs was doing ten years ago. If Steve Jobs were alive now, he'd be working on something totally different. We'all never know!
It's not just the ad industry, publishers need some form of revenue in order to do what they do.
Almost all the new oil and natural gas in the US is coming from horizontally drilled wells.

Utah tar sands are coming online soon. Then... who knows what comes after that.
I hope they'll include a "not my trip" option if they port the feature, (which I hope, it's a godsend when travelling).
I think this choice may be partially inspired by the fact that lots of people never switched to Inbox and people like myself actually switched back at some point. For me pinning UX kind of sucked and I really missed the Gmail density of information.

What's sad is that Inbox stopped evolving almost immediately after they released it. This seems to be a thing at Google. Release something, hype it, and then just walk away instead of maintaining and improving it. If there was anyone working on that at all in the last 3 years; sorry I failed to notice that there was anything happening at all. It looks to me that there was a skeleton maintenance team at best. So, it looks like there was some infighting and the Inbox team got starved of resources. Gmail on the other hand was improved a lot over the past few years.

In general it strikes me that essentially all attempts by Google to do a bait and switch of their products in the past few years have been impopular and somewhat underwhelming in their outcome. They've killed a lot of popular products in favor of things that then flopped. They've repeatedly walked away from products that maybe had issues but were entirely fixable only to replace them with something worse.

There's something deeply wrong with how Google is being managed since Alphabet was created. They are lacking a clear direction/strategy. Is it Fuchsia, Chrome OS or Android that is going to be the OS of choice? I'm not sure they know the answer themselves. I'm not sure their OEMs know either. My advice, kill two out of three and get it done within the next 12 months. IMHO, Android would at this point be by far the most disruptive thing to kill. There's a big risk of forks surviving any attempt by Google to kill that and ending up being a headache for Google.

Similarly, which of their billion chat clients are we supposed to actually use at this point? Same advice, pick one, kill the rest ASAP. IMHO keeping and fixing hangouts is the best course of action at this point. It's the only one that's been around long enough to actually have a user base (despite it's many flaws and terrible UX).
Do you have any alternatives planned for monetization of ads? I would highly prefer to simply pay the content provider itself.
> Plenty of iPhones had only 3 years of support, and same with Android phones. At least do an apples to apples comparison (pun intended).

That's a bold claim. Only two models were end-of-lifed after less than 3 years. One more after less than 4 (3y, 11m). The rest had at least 4 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone

According to this, from the 3GS to the 5C, most had 4 years (or very close) of support. Two models approached 5 years (4y, 10m and 4y, 11m).

Everything from the 5S forward is still supported, and the 5S has 4 years and 11 months of support now.

If you failed math, you might include the iPhone X in your numbers and its 10 months of support would bring the average down. However, that's 10 months of support so far, it's not end-of-lifed yet.

The 5C is an outlier amongst the earlier models, but it makes sense. It was the same hardware as 5 but a different case, and released a year later. So the 1 less year of support is reasonable (if it were supported another year, the 5 would have been as well).

For grins:

The first 7 iPhone models had an average support period of 47 months.

If you include the next 7 models (all still supported) it brings the average down to just shy of 39 months.

If you consider that each of those 7 will get another 12 months of support from today, minimum: This time next year (excluding this year's models) they will have received almost 45 months of support, on average.
Sadly I still can't access Google News (in the normal way) from Spain though. The notice that it's closed due to the law is still there.
Inbox users have had all of this and more since 2014, though. And even if Gmail has some of these features the interface is not nearly as natural for using them.
For my part, I'm not anxious about range; price is the main issue. The car purchases over my lifetime have been $5000, $2500, $1, $4000, $11000, $8000, $12000 ... and I have never bought new.

I do not see a viable electric vehicle for me. Tesla looks awesome, and I cannot find an affordable one near me. Hell, there are TWO (count 'em, 2) used Model-3's within 20 miles of me, and they're selling for $50,000.

LOL and Model 3 was claimed as the "affordable" one. I make 6 figures, and look at my car-buying habits. * Model-3 is just not in my wheelhouse, and probably won't be for many, many years.

I'd love to buy a quality electric, and I don't see it happening any time soon. Anyway, this is just one more data-point ...

... * and to anyone who suggests I change my habits, I'll reply: 401k is important to me, saving for my first house is important to me, saving for kids' college is important to me, and staying debt-free tops everything (aside from a mortgage someday).
You are aware that not allowing boss to take advantage of you when you have choice is a good thing?

Like, Musk abuses his engineers who meekly accept that sort of thing. The theory that finance people standind up to it is something bad is absurd.
This makes it even more likely that there will be a healthy aftermarket.
I use TripIt a lot (manually forwarding emails). I don’t trust them with my email credentials. :-)

I do love the service. Their website design feels aged and worn, but the functionality is great. I love trying out confirmation emails from new travel services to see if they can parse them. And they usually do a good job.
So what are the alternatives to ads? They’re going to continue to die until there’s a real alternative.
I had the same thing happen with a music album. The publisher retracted the album and then republished it. I lost access to the old version but did not gain access to the new version. Apple refused to help out. They said I should resort to my file backups.

Luckily I kept those file backups so I can still play that album, but it can happen to any content purchased through itunes (or amazon, or ...). You're not buying it, you're renting in perpetuity.
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Not an hour ago, I talked to a client who thought an employees email was hacked because they got this email:

From: employee name (sjfjro@garbage.io)
Subject: direct deposit

Boss,
I have a new account, please change my direct deposit info.

Yours,
Employee name

They changed the direct deposit info. Need a wetware version update.
Telling people you have an anxiety disorder is exactly the kind of genuineness that is preferred by most people (in my experience), over ticking off boxes in a proscribed social interaction check list, or having a performative affect.

I did not say, and would not say, that you should not feel the way you feel. Advice on how not to behave does not speak to how one feels.

My advice does not apply to you if you have a disorder that requires you to handle social situations in a particular way. However, you should be aware that regardless of the reason why you must not be genuine in social situations you will be perceived as disingenuous.

On the other hand for those without a disorder, if you can tolerate being genuine or at least not intentionally fake about yourself and your interests you will have a better chance to connect with people.

> You seem like a person who isn't anxious about social situations...

You'd be right that I seem that way, you'd be wrong that I am that way.
It is far from 'clear' or 'obvious' that the Directive is a bad deal for content producers. Read it yourself - especially Articles 11 and 13.

The narrative funded through GOOGL (and its affiliate EFF) and other big platforms is that this is evil doing of big content distribution monopolies.

What is missing in this picture is that this Directive gives affordable enforcement muscle to all content producers, including the smallest ones.

This Directive is the death knell for these platforms, which peddle content produced by 'nobodies' (their users) without any remuneration. There is nothing natural, just or given about it.
There's a difference between a company being profitable (revenues>income) and being profitable to investors (stock goes up). Oil companies are profitable, but bad investments, especially long term.
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> In the meantime, there are upcoming EU elections, in which EU politicians will have to fight for their jobs. There aren't many places where a prospective Member of the European Parliament can win an election by boasting about expansions of copyright, but there are lots of potential electoral opponents who will be too happy to campaign on "Vote for me, my opponent just broke the Internet."

The problem is, in countries like France, EVERY elected official (and EVERY political candidate) is in favor of this, and the public doesn't seem to care at all...
First organ transplant was 64 years ago. I hope in another 64 years we look back on our current system like we do leeches now.
Those are choices you are making. Other options:

Refurb iPhone7 is $379 (USA only)
There are cheaper plans than $80.
Do you need cellular watch?

I have an iphone 6+ and I will probably not upgrade to a new phone but get the series 4 GPS watch.
It was indeed a false-positive: https://twitter.com/thomasareed/status/1039939712704819200. As for vouching for MB, I know some of the people behind the project, and they're spectacular. For years I have assisted with deobfuscating malicious JavaScript and more. They seem, to me, to have the purest of intentions.

(Not an official Brave endorsement, but I personally like their team)
Honestly, as a pretty private person, it’s nobody’s business what I do for a living. If they ask I just say “exotic dancer.” I get a laugh to break ice, and we can move on to a different topic cleanly.
You don’t let it rot. You mill it, and scorch it. That will give you a couple hundred years of protection. Then you start stacking the timbers in a pyramid. As you add more and more layers to the pyramid, the bottom layers compress, eventually becoming totally uninhabitable by bugs and bacteria. Over time you end up with a giant pyramid made of coal, and possibly diamond. (haven’t done the math on how tall you have to stack coal to get diamond)
due to range anxiety.

It helps to be married. That way one spouse can have an electric vehicle for daily commuting or banging around town, and there's still the other spouse's gas-fueled car for longer trips.
> " “By 2050,” he writes, “a useless class might emerge, the result not only of a shortage of jobs or a lack of relevant education but also of insufficient mental stamina to continue learning new skills.”"

Society places a lot of status on position.

That becomes a psychological problem when the radiographer has to become a plumber.

It is being casually assumed that the reverse scenario is necessary and likely.

It is being assumed by most people that the 'useless class' will be the less educated or blue collar class, that it's easier for university graduates to 'update' - but this is backwards if you look at the pattern. Computers displace information processing jobs first. Who does information processing? Who doesn't? Exactly.

tldr; Job difficult for you, easy for computer. Easy for human, hard for computer. Consternation from humans ensues.
Is anyone interested in building a new email client/service based on the inbox-as-a-todo-list paradigm?

Maybe something that would work with any email provider but would sync todo/done/snoozed state with our server. Or perhaps could embed that state in IMAP flags.

I'd be open to working on the backend and arch if there's interest.
I cannot remove it on my Samsung S9+ phone, just "disable"
I would feel some gut "pinch" when I would run after eating something -- more like a mild cramp on my left side. Once I stopped eating before a run, the "cramp"s have gone away, and I can go ~5mi going at a moderate (11min/mi) pace.
I've been very happy to see this sort of activity around Nim recently.[1]

Developing in Nim feels so productive that I'm starting to use it in place of Perl/Ruby/Python for smaller "scripting" tasks. As a bonus, I end up with a portable executable as if I had written my tool in C. This makes it just about perfect (for me) as a true general purpose language.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17710690
I was looking forward to March this year for a new SE. Then I was looking forward to today. Now I'm looking forward to March again.
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I've been using the X and while it's a great device, the one thing I miss most is TouchID. Things like ApplePay are less convenient using FaceID, so I'm less likely to use it. The side-button double-click is awkward and unnatural feeling. Unlocking the device when it's flat on a desk or table now requires that I pick up the device instead of placing a finger on the sensor. Unlocking on the X seems slower than with the finger -- perhaps because in order to unlock I need to have it aimed towards me, whereas with TouchID I could unlock as I brought the device in front of my field of view. I really wish they'd found a way to keep TouchID even while introducing FaceID capable cameras.
Homepod and Siri are like the Zune and Windows phone when compared to Alexa/Echo.
This give Apple 2 years time to replace the SE. Actually more one year to research, observe the various markets and to decide and then one year to implement. In any case the button seems to be dead 8-( so any small form factor phone won't be a straight successor of the SE.

The reason I don't totally discount the SE is the effective lowering of prices by Apple in the new line-up. They clearly want to grow on the lower end of the price band now.
It's curious how Internet regulations in EU end up with effects rather similar to those achieved bu regulations in Russia, or Turkey, or some other not-quite-free country — though the intentions are allegedly different.
Funnily enough, the second part of your post could serve as a one-line description for Iain Bank's "Culture" ...
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Ya. I like the idea, but it was took buggy for me on iOS.
And left a $10 million vesting stock grant on the table.
Thats so depressing that we have to have serious discussions about technical countermeasures against our oppressive EU regime. Just because of some old ignorant evil assholes. Time to leave the EU I suppose.
I tried ordering the SSDNodes 24GB $10 month server to replace my 2GB Linode server. Appears to be a scam as they immediately canceled the order after I put in my credit card. I'll probably have another $6,000 Rite Aid purchase on my card next month....
Pricing Transparency isn't about insurance. It's about people knowing the total out of pocket expense before they ever agree to a procedure. Emergency medical services only account for 2-7% of medical spending in the US so there's a lot of room for people to shop around for the best price.
I don't think anybody expects it to go away, what's interesting is what happens to the price if we dropped demand by 10 or 20% for instance. Would the price fall close to the cost of extraction or would supply restrict enough to keep it higher.
No, but it would allow LibreOffice to work with them cleanly which was the criticism I replied to (and probably allow Word to break itself less often or have 3-4 fewer implementations embedded in itself).
Yeah, treat code as any kind of data.

If it's worth a lot of time and cannot be replaced easily, back it up.
Are they also shocked by stuff like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_licensing_corruption...

It was nothing in-your-face like strippers, but still pretty immoral.
Concur. I almost passed out when that slide came up.
250 miles is enough, when it only takes me $20 and 10 minutes to drive to a fueling station and pump the 8 gallons of gasoline required to take my range back up to full capacity.

It isn't enough when I need to find an outlet I can use legally--which will likely be NEMA 14-50 240V, if you can find one--and then spend an hour waiting for the charge to finish for every 20 to 30 miles I drove off my range. That's 8 hours. Lengthy, but doable for overnight. But I can't wait 8 hours every time I drive 4. My modal road trip is 700 miles, with an overnight at 420 miles (or 280 on the return). The current state of electric charging stations is such that I couldn't drive that trip with just "level 2" AC outlet charging.

If it's just a 120V outlet, it'll take 2.5 days to recharge 250 miles of range. The electricity will still cost much less than gasoline, of course, but road trips in the US can easily total thousands of miles. It's a big country, with lots of highways, crappy passenger train service, and airline service with increasing numbers of drawbacks.

DC fast charger networks are an absolute requirement to combat range anxiety. It isn't just how far you can drive at once, but how long it takes to refill your range. Your range circle shrinks as you drive, and you need to recharge before it gets too small to have a charging station in it. So you can't just drive out your full range. You still have to plan your hops between charging stations, and if those are 180 miles apart, any extra range below 360 miles won't make a difference, because you couldn't skip a charging opportunity otherwise.
I miss the camera button on my Nokia 928. All of the Windows phones were required to have it. Now my Nexus 5X occasionally opens the camera when I don't want it to (It thinks or is accidentally triggered for a double power button press.)

I looked into phones with physical keyboards a couple years ago for my mother, and I couldn't find anything except an old LG feature phone that hadn't been manufactured in years.

I had a Samsung S3 mini that was a bit slow but worked alright. Battery was a problem, but the phone was old when I got it. It worked well for most things except extensive reading.

I had an Alcatel Idol 3, and the display was pretty low resolution for its screen size, but I would get almost two days of battery out of it between charges. Unfortunately the physical power button broke.
I totally agree with both of you.

"If you are using the internet to actually learn, you are using it wrong, that is why internet must be reduced to TV + storefront."

Regarding voting too: just compare the number of bits per ballot (log2() of valid number of ways of filling in the ballot) with the number of bits of compressed text of all changes in law during a term. It's not a vote or voice, the information flows in the opposite direction. It just projects the law on our supposed desire. demokratia or demophimia (muzzling/gagging of the people)?
Doesn't adtech enable smaller advertisers (say, self-published book authors) to reach a niche audience in a way that traditional advertising would make infeasibly inefficient and expensive?
Depends on your definition of innovate I suppose. I can't quite articulate why but I have stopped feeling excited about apple events or product launches. It never feels like there's some new capability, only improvements on previous capabilities. There's not really been a new exciting product line in a bit, I don't think?
Some people have higher IQs than other people. Should we equalize that, too?
Here I go, getting my hopes up again. I think realistically March is the best bet, but if I'm being honest with myself, I don't seriously believe Apple will release another SE-sized device.