skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood how a developer making 40-60k euros could survive in a big city like Berlin, until I visited. People are complaining rightly about increasing rent prices, but they're still extremely reasonable, at $1100 a month. Groceries are /dead cheap/ compared to the US (-30% to -40%), and the food quality in grocery stores is frequently quite better.

You get 6 weeks of vacation, and don't have to worry about going to the doctor.

Compare that the the US, where you can be earning nearly 200k, get a few weeks vacation, save some money but everything feels temporary. Go to the doctor too much? You're let go for not meeting deliverables. Need more time on vacation? No. Don't have time to enjoy living where you're living because you're at work dawn to dusk? Well thats the price of not having to worry about rent.
And of course in 2002 very few people were predicting that China would achieve the scale that it has at the pace that it has. A lot of people were predicting the rise of China in the 1990s. Almost nobody was calling for their GDP to 10x so rapidly, going from $1.4t in 2002 to $14t 17 years later.

That resulted in an additional $45-$50 trillion in new wealth in just China alone. The knock-on value creation is probably equal to that globally. Most predictions didn't see that coming at that scale and how it could further lift global S&P 500 type companies (and the US stock market along with it).
I think we'll find that distinguishing between "children's content" and "family-friendly content" is difficult not just for YouTube's algorithms but for humans as well. I suspect we'll see even more channels get hit by this simply because they're not identifiably "adult" in any way.
I have a strong disdain for vulture private equity models, such as going into maintenance mode and ratcheting up the pricing. I have folks I’ve run across in my career for SEO, UX, frontend, and work with them to explore methodologies to improve the product so customers extract as much value as possible, while setting pricing to be fair for value delivered. Their success is our success.
You're in fact absolutely right.

I've had countless encounters with C-level execs who could recognize that if theur point of sales software was down, it meant a loss of x M€/day, or that if this SCADA system crashed it meant casualties within the work force. They could be rational enough to attach a price tag to these events

Despite this, it always went back to "yeah but last time my computer crashed, little Timmy fixed it, it's a no brainer, and my IT director has these things called backups".

The same people have contingency plans for anything non digital (including services like Blackwater guys or kenyon and so on), but digital has "no real consequences".

I hoped the Maersk disaster of last year would lead to a change of mind, but unfortunately we're not there yet.
Do you believe that relying on their creators to be honest about the content is a better bet?
I dunno, unboxing videos often satisfy (part of) the urge that made me want to get the thing in the first place. It's like the psychology finding that telling people about your goals makes you less motivated to achieve them. Part of my motivation to buy the thing was to get the experience of unboxing it; now I feel like I've already gotten that.
Technology Will Soon Give Us Precise Control Over Our Brains and Genes?
Sounds great, thank you!
Why are these baseless accusations allowed on this forum? Is this not against the rules?

1. I'm long TSLA, through a couple ETFs.

2. This is projection. There's a constant parade of accusations of "Big oil FUD" whenever someone says anything remotely negative. Meanwhile, it is known that Tesla, and Elon personally, pay PR firms, private investigators and astroturfers (sorry, "social media influencers") to control narrative. Read the lawsuit depositions and financial disclosures.
Thanks this is really interesting. I'm definitely not experienced enough to classify problems into top down or bottom up though guess that takes years of experience.
Nobody has six hour workday and nobody thinks anybody has that. It’s only in the imagination of the writer of this marginally factual article.
Because it front loaded all operations so that they happen outside of the benchmark. Depending on what you want to do it makes sense but the original intention of the benchmark was a brute force query benchmark.

Have you seen the sticker on the NUC? 116 billion rows per second at 233.61GB/s. If you spend even a single second thinking about how absurd that number is you would start to see that the two benchmarks measure completely different things. Even with a quad channel Xeon CPU you won't see significantly more than 100GB/s memory bandwidth. Those 116 billion queries didn't actually happen. It's just a synthetic number. The result of the query was calculated during insertion of the temperature record before the benchmark has even started and then they just calculated the theoretical number of queries you would have to do for an equivalent result and slapped that fictional number on their NUC.
The end of peasantry was long before the rise of corporate, industrialised agriculture.

Like so many human activities, fashions, and innovations, the reduction in numbers required to work the land started off providing a benefit and ultimately went much too far. Looking at the destruction such as algal blooms in countless water courses from over fertilisation, steady soil erosion, loss of wild flora and fauna caused by industrialised agriculture and the colossal fields with a single crop, as far as the eye can see in every direction, it's hard to call it progress. It's change. Milk in shops is older than it was, homogenisation allows older milk to pass without notice. It's not progress, and hasn't been for quite some considerable time.

We have large, pretty, consistent fruit and vegetables, but there's been a 50% decline in nutrient content since the war, and a similar decline in taste -- frequently replaced by sugars. We've hugely increased systemic risk from use of monocrops as all it takes is a single virulent disease to put the entire world's production at risk -- see bananas.

Even the productivity gains are overstated. On the old mixed, family farm the raw individual crop productivity was far lower, but the chickens, pigs and plants overlapped such that the waste of one provided food or fertiliser for the others, the animals provided some degree of pest control, and as a whole the productivity was far better than usually assumed.

Industrialisation begets simplification, begets monoculture, for the sake of profit not progress.
‘wow, you don't even have your own domain. you sound poor.’
Denoting inaccurate street markings is a prosecutable offense in most jurisdictions.
This is how MBAs farm
but what percentage of the workforce is actually working in jobs related to solving these problems?

i'd argue that the "anti-work" sentiment here is more to do with lack of fulfillment due to an epidemic of bullshit jobs, rather than not wanting to work.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bullshit_Jobs
whichever hash is first
I recognize those headlines. I don't believe I clicked a single one of them though (if I did I likely closed it as soon as I saw it was a video). Not that it matters. I opened this HN article wondering what it was all about.. saw several others had already commented they had no idea what it was about.. so I looked it up. And here we are.
I wonder if Apple knows something about what Intel has in store, or if they just doin't care because the performance of their ARM-type chips will be so vastly better they can emulate x86 and still be faster than what Intel has.

That being said, the Mac Pro with a 64-core Ryzen chip and 4TB of memory would have been absolutely nuts.
> LVT does nothing to distinguish between value resulting from the actions of the owner—apart from a very limited set of formally recognized "improvements", mainly permanent structures—and value resulting from the actions of others. And even if part of the "unimproved" value does result from others' actions, these others are not, in general, the ones receiving the tax.

The same is true of the existing system - currently owners pocket all of the value increase despite the vast majority of it being nothing to do with them. LVT is a recognition that most of the value of land comes from the actions of others - not just a handful of immediate neighbours but the whole surrounding community (e.g. most of the value of land in a given city gets its value from the entirety of that city) - and so should rightfully go to an organisation that represents that community as a whole.
The linked series of comments (which, to be clear, I've only skimmed — there's a ton there) show zstd 22 sometimes coming behind Brotli 11d29, sometimes ahead on compression ratio; usually coming ahead of Brotli 11 on compression ratio; ~5x faster on compression throughput and ~2-2.5x faster on decompress throughput. To cherry-pick some numbers (the table after "259,707,904 bytes long open_watcom_1.9.0-src.tar", dated "TurboBench: - Mon Apr 30 07:51:32 2018"):

Name | Comp. size | Comp. ratio | C. MB/s | D. MB/s
brotli 11d29 | 21117099 | 8.1 | 0.52 | 515
zstd 22 | 22249772 | 8.6 | 2.32 | 1270
brotli 11 | 22898691 | 8.8 | 0.57 | 662

So in that particular instance, zstd 22 comes out about 5% worse (+1.1 MB over Brotli 11d29's 20.1 MiB) on compressed size, but 3% better (-640kiB) vs Brotli 11 at 21.8 MiB. So... maximum compression is within a small margin; compression and decompression speeds are much quicker.

I think it's fair to say that zstd struggles the most at the extremes. On the fast extreme it loses (marginally) to lz4; on the slow extreme it (maybe) loses (marginally) to brotli. But it's relatively quick across the spectrum and provides a lot of flexibility.

It may make sense to continue to use Brotli or xz for static assets that are compressed infrequently and read often. But for something like HTTP Content-Encoding, where dynamic pages are compressed on the fly? Zstd would shine here, over both Brotli and (vanilla) zlib. (I know Chrome has some hacked up zlib on the client side, but I do not know too much about it.)
> Whether something is heretical depends on the interviewer, and whether a heretical opinion will impact your chances of being hired also depends on the interviewer.

I agree a lot with this. It's not crazy for someone in San Francisco to suggest we should ban or severely limit cars, but saying this to the rest of the US might be considered heretical.

Similarly, saying that death is wrong and we should be focusing scientific achievements on life extension and immortality might be entirely normal in SF, but wildly heretical elsewhere.

"Heretical _where_?" should always be the follow up question
I guess I read it more as valuations get bloated which makes the returns more difficult but not that business profits themselves are "harder" to get in an effort per unit sense.
In a nearby galaxy, a fast radio burst unravels more questions than answers
YouTube has a (system-level) way to mark content as NSFW?
twitter can delete it
Nah, this is what Facebook built and it caused Cambridge analytica.
I think this is overall better, but will this disincentivize people from creating good children's content? My kids have learned things like American Presidents and Astronomy from decent videos on Youtube kids.
I'm not being cynical. The lifeblood of major consulting is the sales life cycle, which includes branding, relationship building. Lobbying costs. Responding to RFPs. Advertising. Trade shows. Expensive offices (to give the appearance of credibility). White papers. Paying off Gartner etc. so they put you in the 'good quadrant'. Partners at some firms spend nights a week having people in the industry over for dinner, nice wine etc..
Here's hoping we didn't hit a local maximum.
Uh, what opportunity did Facebook miss? This is exactly what they're doing with the Quest. Yes, Quest isn't $100, but at $400 for full entry it is by far the cheapest 6DOF VR solution on the market. It is already sold at a loss, and its hard for 30% of app store sales to justify a $500-$900 (guessing) loss per unit at $100. Even with the most privacy destroying datamining and advertising I don't think Facebook could justify taking that big of a loss on the hardware. As components get cheaper Quest will price drop. This is one of the problems with VR market adoption. People essentially want cutting edge hardware, for nearly free, games for free, and don't want to be monetized in any other way, to the point that people complain about how evil Facebook is when they suggest you link a Facebook account to your Quest.
Look at how disgusting the LOL toy line is, the toy itself is plastic garbage, wrapped in layers and layers of plastic garbage to provide that "unboxing rush". Children shouldn't be trained to be Wall-Es, they should be experiencing the beauty and pain of Charlotte's Web. Capitalism wants your children to be mindless, programmed consumers.
Merc is actually targeting younger buyers with their newer models, like the A class, which is competing against BMW 1 series, and are in the VW Golf segment (pricier than the Golf obviously). Probably more for trust fund kids...
Using Foursquare data seems easier to me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14052444
> Continued carbon emissions threaten billions of lives.

It does not.

Climate change is real and will cause serious problems. It will emphatically NOT threaten billions of lives. The people who tell you that are either misinformed or lying.
Check the "highest paying companies" thread.

One of the top comments leads to a discussion of unlimited PTO. There's a long reply in there that lays out a bunch of "here's how" bullet points. Working at an unlimited PTO place, they were right on the money.
Progress implies improvement. s/progress/change/
It can't be "grasping" to make a winning argument about the actual legal issue in the case. What the government is asking for here is for Khosla to keep open an easement to the beach. The most important question is whether, as a matter of property law, any such easement exists.

You have know idea what Khosla was thinking at the time he bought the property. His Guadalupe Hidalgo argument is actually based on 1984 Supreme Court precedent. He could easily have been fully aware of that when he bought the property, hoping to use it privately.

The reason that it wasn't "his first rebuttal" is because of the tactics the State took. The State didn't argue that there wasn't a public easement across the property. It took the abusive view that it could effectively create such an easement by prohibiting Khosla from building a barrier to keep people from crossing the property. That's why the first issue that came up was whether he needed a permit to do that. But attacking the permit requirement first isn't some sort of admission that you don't have a private property right.
Agreed. I think holding executives criminally liable for their company would change a -lot- in a good way. More hiring, increased wages, increased safety standards just to name a few. I know if I were liable and in charge, I'd only want the best of the best working for me. And if it's customer facing, I sure as hell am not hiring the kinds of people typically associated with minimum wage jobs. Then again, maybe paying those folks more would lead to better behavior, who is to say...
Scientists find new way to sustainably make chemicals by copying nature's tricks
If this were really true, you’d expect to see most people with full freedom to set their own hours gravitate towards that 30-hour mark.

Professors working 30-hour weeks would write more papers than their harder-working colleagues. Business owners would show up for 30 hours a week and go home. Fruit pickers, paid by the bucket, would pick more fruit in 30 hours than their colleagues could pick in 50. Professional athletes who spent less time training would beat their harder-working competitors.
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The quality from the corporate farm is probably worse. But the buyer is a distributor that doesn't really care about quality. Corporation can use financial engineering, economies of scale, and low pay to make profit from an otherwise unprofitable farm. Sometimes they can strong-arm modestly profitable farms into a sale.
A quick google search will educate you on how you are wrong. It's not extremely rare at all.
I can't speak for France specifically but if it's anything like the UK and Ireland then farming families are dis-incentivized to sell land because its costs nothing to hold, and always increases in value. As a farmer you might not even own the land you work on but rent it for the season, and large corporations don't work well with that kind of uncertainty.
Not really. There are plenty of waterproof devices with headphone jacks. Here's an entire headphone amp embedded in liquid resin: https://runawaybrainz.blogspot.com/2012/04/audio-crystal-cmo...
> Or perhaps it's been there all along just now it's getting more attention.

It's been a slow build to add layers of targeting on as the media machine grows. It started out with time-based targeting by showing ads for home goods during the daytime (e.g. soap operas were used to sell soap to housewives). Cable TV was a big step forward -- you could craft shows that appealed to narrower demographics like 8-14 year old boys and then sell ads targeting those demographics.

Psychographic segmentation became prevalent along with cable TV and direct mail, but it was limited to a few dozen "personas" until Google came along and allowed keyword targeting, which then gave way to social targeting. It got exponentially more effective with each step, which is why it seemed to come out of nowhere.
Those people could work 30 hour weeks. It's not illegal.

For comparison socialists and statists want to make it illegal or very hard to work over 30 hours. That's very different.
> I agree with this analysis, and find it overall reasonable, but it seems to need a little more evidence, e.g. do we have any data that shows companies who put "generic managers" on top on regular fail more than those who put engineers on top.

That could be hard data to gather systematically. It's not like businesses fail immediately when you put a "generic manager" in change. A company can coast for decades before problems become obvious, and generic management confusing things even further by focusing on manipulating the most visible metrics (e.g. stock price) while taking actions that damage long term prospects.
The meaning of the Apollo 8 Earthrise image
Movie company sues user who allegedly downloaded torrents through a VPN service
The state doesn't even need to invoke eminent domain to build such a road as Khosla has offered several times to sell them the necessary land. The issue is that the state doesn't want to pay.
Such videos are themselves ads, presented as if they're not.
Generally speaking, people want public access to the whole of the California coastline.

Any legal findings impeding access are a failing of law.
I agree he wasn't entirely to blame. Regardless, the handling of the MAX incidents was inexcusable. The moral deficiencies were innumerable.
> If this is a public right of way, then doesn't it take just a single surfer to come along and improve the right of way by clearing obstructions? A cordless sawzall is like $100, and bolt cutters are much less.

No, for the same reasons you can't demolish your neighbor's house the instant you found out the surveying was done wrong and it's on your property. There's a lengthy legal process involved before you get to do that.

Cutting the lock would be destruction of someone else's property. Their actions are a separate legal issue.
And how haven't things improved for the vast majority of people on Earth in regard to food security?
This doesn't solve the number one problem of kids content on YouTube -- they are leaving it up to the creator to decide if it's kids content. It's still not human curated.

The nice thing about Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/PBS/etc. is that a human decides if the content is for kids.

YouTube is still trying to get away with "letting the machines do it", which works for most aspects of their business, but not this.

I used to let my kid watch YTKids while I supervised. But no more. Even with my supervision it just jumps to some insanely inappropriate video, too quick for me to shut it off in time, and it's already done damage.

When a scary clown jumps out and screams, that's traumatizing, even just for a moment.

I have no trouble letting them watch all those other platforms. Heck, I let them watch PBS unsupervised.

But YouTube Kids will never play in my house again until I know that every piece of content on there has been reviewed by a human before it goes live.
Linux tech tips made a surprisingly long stream of videos, all boldly blasting how they were 'perf leader'. I'd be surprised if brands don't follow youtube and such a little.
I think there's a big difference between moderation according to standards, and false reviews.

It's comparatively easy to determine if any single post is using banned language, is abusive, etc. The single post can then be removed.

False reviews, on the other hand, are virtually impossible to identify individually. People's opinions on a book legitimately differ. There isn't an obvious way to distinguish between a review that's part of a harrassment campaign or paid brigade, versus one that's genuine. It's only in aggregate that something seems to be wrong -- but how do you fix it? How do you select which individual reviews get removed?

Moderation is not really a solution here, because all individual reviews will be approved.