skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The companies are at least partly culpable for choosing to aggregate themselves in these insanely high CoL areas, contributing to the rent jumps, and failing to engage in the proper corporate social responsibility of working with their ambient communities to alleviate these living situations for both their employees and their neighbors.
With 10 minutes of reading (and I suspect anything less than many years of study) I can't find out what the hit rate is. How many stories do they have? How many describe verifiable events?

A single story that happens to correlate to a verifiable event is just cherry picking and doesn't prove anything. And from what I've read from other similar articles they just cherry pick a single story, correlate and call it proof.
this was resolved mostly after the PRESTIGE incident and now shipping is no more or less as shady as all other major industries.
The Flag Administrations have records of the beneficiary Owners and you can go to http://www.equasis.org/ and get plenty of information about the Owners of the vessel.
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Any price that is massively-available becomes relevant and stays relevant forever.

A price has to be massively available at a point in time to matter. It doesn't have to be available forever to matter. It feels like you're conflating the two.

The price is on a downward trend, but there are hitches and setbacks. One fair way to measure it is to use some kind of average. Another also-fair way to measure it is to go by the lowest "real" price, where "real" means you can buy something like a million sticks on the open market.

When we're talking about whether we should be impressed by a price, using the lowest historical price for comparison makes sense.

(And just to be absolutely clear, you would need to adjust the metric for a product that goes up in price over time. But for something on a downward trend, this metric works fine.)
If the partner was not supportive, his existence can make no or negative difference.
In many, if not most companies, taking legal matters into your own hands without involving your company’s legal team will surely get you reprimanded if not fired.

Just like how you would get fired if you sent out a legal demand letter to another company without legal being in the loop. Law enforcement is no different: they are not your friend.
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Merkle. Merkel is the German chancellor.
Another way to meet energy demand is to reduce population. Which already started to happen by itself in many developed countries. As standard of living raised globally, it’s probable that population will plato or decline. (With this said, I still think nuclear energy is the best option until fusion comes through).
At least Here in Germany it would be illegal. Even a dummy camera pointing at public area isn't allowed for a private person
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What a trainwreck of a comment

White men really have it rough don't they homie (lmao)
Do you happen to have links to the papers?

Edit: Looks like https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17505... and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17505...
Are there any plans to add a free tier without support or migration for say, less than 100k views a month? The pricing seems pretty neat if you're closer to the limit of the pricing ie one million page views but if you're at the other end of the spectrum then it's significantly better to go with a free solution
A lot of these criticisms are about the OS not doing enough high level stuff for the programmer. If you want to see what happens when the OS does all that, have a look at Android, where the "OS" is what's giving you sockets, key value stores, structured logging, etc. because the only real APIs it's giving you are the Java ones. Now look at the horrible workarounds you need to apply to make old code compatible with newer versions as demands changed over the years tk focus more on user privacy and battery life.

For nearly every problem encountered here there's a standard people just ignore. You can implement structured logging at OS level, like Windows does, and see random binary data drops and text files appear all over your logging interface and your file system. Linux config should follow the XDG standard so that configuration for applications can be structured into directories except half the programs don't do that. Windows provides an API for this stuff (the registry) and it's near impossible to configure an application using the registry. The registry is also combined with random config files all over the system, of course, to make it extra difficult to modify a program's behaviour.

Most nice modern features are also missing because operating systems are still being made in C, not C++. The OS doesn't have a concept of objects so yes your socket function will have to fall back to calling select(). A lot of these abstractions for basic communications have been solved on Linux using DBUS, which provides a somewhat standardised interface for many OS daemon and GUI features, all not being used because programmers forget that it exists or because programmers want to use their own solution instead.

On Windows there's COM to try and help with that and well, see where that ended up: a versioned mess of pointers and factories to try to make it easier for everyone, where functionality sometimes completely breaks or needs to be emulated because it turned out the high level concept had a design flaw and now programs won't work if you fix it.

I've done some thought experiments about structuring an OS and a file system to store data consistently and easily parsable, with modern bindings for most concepts. In the end I've had to conclude that the only way to keep the system working like intended would be to either convince everyone to do exactly as I say or to only allow me to write software for such a system. Whatever structure I can think off will inevitably be too constrained for someone else and the middleware abstraction problem starts all over again.

My only conclusion is that I want the OS to be as simple as possible with people following common standards when they write applications, such as using YAML/ini/XML configuration with Syslogd logging and XDG directory structures for user data, with the technical abstractions left at the library level. If we can just get that, most of the inconsistency problem would be solved, but even this is too difficult to do in practice as it turns out.
Build more office space and dense housing so people can afford to start companies in Santa Cruz.
Mastercard investing in technology to identify commuters by gait, heartbeat
Not the poster, but I keep getting snail mail advertisements by banks and VCs that want to invest in my next company, despite me not having done a single exit yet.

My impression is that nowadays, there are more VCs than founders, so they will invest in pretty much anything.
Labor mobility is actually declining https://equitablegrowth.org/declining-u-s-labor-mobility-is-...
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mid 30s you say, ha then yes I will become lonely because of greed
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Unions increase wages by reducing the effective supply of labor for the company, which increases the price of that labor.

https://mru.org/courses/principles-economics-microeconomics/...

It's the same principle which professional organizations use to keep compensation high for doctors and lawyers: set a limit on the number of entrants.

Restricting entry is a fundamental feature of unions: it protects those who are already in industry at the expense of potential new employees who might otherwise come in and undercut wages.

That said if you want to standardize the admissions process, a professional organization is a tried and true way to accomplish this: doctors and lawyers take a standardized test, become accredited, and can take on any job without being grilled for their technical skills.
It isn't just you, I tried and see my self staring at their blank pages for a few seconds and then everything appears at once.
There's no basis for this claim - well before Sundar, Makani and many other moonshot bets were spun out. Ruth Porat was brought in specifically to account for the wild-west type haphazard spending, resulting in the Google --> Alphabet restructuring.

Most of all, investors wanted clarity on spending, and Google reacted with the restructuring.

Let's take a moment to fairly summarize what's happened: extremely risky ideas that no sane investor would fund, received disproportionate funding, and as far as I can tell, they all failed even after a decade+ of not expecting profitability. There's no reason to pin this on Sundar - the ideas failed on merit

Also, speaking honestly, he's been rather generous with many projects (Chrome OS and related hardware, Stadia, even horribly performing pixel phone sales), despite decades of losing billions for Google.
"I think we should also carefully assess the opportunity cost of not securing the world with american power and returning to a world without a dominant unipolar power, as a multipolar world seems much more prone to conflict."

There is nothing good about unipolar power. If ran unchecked it becomes an fucking arm twisting thug ready to go to conflict every time it does not like something. Luckily while most powerful at the moment it is far from being unipolar (not for the lack of trying).
I don't know, but the behaviour of online communities makes me think that more anthropology is needed, not less.
> we already consumed all easily available mineral resources.

With the exceptions of energy, helium, and the insignificant amounts incorporated into space probes, the humans do not consume mineral resources; they concentrate them, dilute them, and move them around, but they do not consume them. For example, there is just as much neodymium on Earth as there was a million years ago, to a precision of several decimal places. The difference is that now much of it is separated from the other lanthanoids (a difficult and energy-intensive process) and concentrated in junkyards and landfills.

> Energy resources had almost finished

This is pretty hard to predict, but I think this is more a problem of knowledge and organization than of resources. The first commercial human solar energy plant was built in Egypt in 1912–3 in Maadi by Frank Shuman, the guy who invented that horrible safety glass with wires running through it. It didn't use photovoltaic cells; it used a low-pressure steam engine. (And he sold the results as irrigation water, not electricity as originally planned.) It couldn't compete with increasingly cheap oil, but at the time it would probably have operated at a profit if the Great War hadn't broken out the next year, resulting in the British Army expropriating it as "raw materials"; Shuman was quoted in the New York Times saying, "We have proved the commercial profit of sun power in the tropics and have more particularly proved that after our stores of oil and coal are exhausted the human race can receive unlimited power from the rays of the sun."

But certainly the humans managed to trap one another in a crab-bucket of material poverty for thousands of years before, and they could do it again.
I don't think it will be contained.

The market will just get used to it. Right now the fear of the unknown is stopping commerce. All the movers and shakers are elderly people with pre-existing conditions, its accurate for them to be scared.

The rest of humanity will be okay. In the meantime the market will have to deal with the fear from the elder class. The septuagenarians running for head of state and influential organizations.
Users asked for good changes and developers wanted to do what the users wanted?

Even better!
Remember that a lot of folks use fractional air charters for their business needs which provide basically no information about whose in the planes. I know of a few large corporations that own their own jets that when they have to go for something sensitive (M&A activities) they go on fractional operators (netjets, etc.). Last year was talking to a crew who told me all the diff M&A related flights they flew.
Divorce rates are going down and went down for years.
Also related: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/36177#issuecomment-56767...
Large scale drilling operations at altitude are not even remotely economically viable. Not to mention we can hardly build telescopes on mountains, let alone power stations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Meter_Telescope_protest...
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>I am lonely because my friends have all married and moved away to start families.

Why don't you have a family and kids?
My company [1] is developing a solution just like this one, with added inertial monitoring. It is meant for studying a vessel's or a platform's maximals movements at sea remotely, for fuel consumption optimization in principle, but it is also useful for black box purposes.

It does not use AIS but Iridium, so the device can relay custom information. In this case, it could have been useful to know about the vessel's health from how it was moving: it would have been very easy to know if it was going to sink if it would have begun to list to one side permanently, for example. It would have been just a matter of dropping our box and a big solar panel on deck.

[1] http://core-marine.com
most dumb idea ever is a bit strong, but yeah. If you could get OSs to adopt this, then as an app writer, you're going to have to worry about how Microsoft's jacked up version of the standard broke your content when it was moved between computers or even OS versions. You'd have the UNIX/MS line ending problem not just in text files, but with every Type recognized by the database
> There might be equally good or even superior solutions designed for on-prem or even on-device computing.

Definitely. Given that they're doing this every year, it seems perfectly plausible to do most of the work in an incremental or streaming fashion.
Where does $5.73 billion come from? I searched and found figures in the hundreds of millions [1] along with other evidence of the Reagan administrations indifference to AIDS [2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/18/us/reagan-defends-financi...

[2] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/reagan-administratio...
Yeah, I’d like to see at least some kind of ranking and an idea how big/active the ecosystem around a project is.
The War for a Free Internet
> oil sands.

The days of Oil Sands being an employment powerhouse are over. In fact there isn't much labour demand anywhere in Western Canada at the moment.
> Reminder that during the previous solar age, with abundant mineral resources, limits of development were ~500 million souls, wooden ploughs, and largely stone-and-earth construction.

Plants are a very inefficient way of converting sunlight into work. The difficulty was not a matter of energy scarcity; it was that the humans didn't know what energy was, how to bore a cylinder, or how to vacuum-silver a mirror. There are very significant bootstrapping difficulties, yes, but also very significant bootstrapping resources, if we can preserve them. Knowledge is the most important one.

> absent the preindustrial ease of access to specific materials (iron, copper, etc.)

Copper and especially iron are immensely more accessible in the humans' landfills than they ever were in ore deposits.

Artificial fertilizer synthesis does seem like it might be particularly tricky to carry out at a small scale.
Unpopular opinion from a former Googler (who never worked in X, but knew a lot of people who transfered over there):

In general, people in X get paid too much to make it "worth it" to innovate. Obviously there are exceptions, but I'd say there is a perverse incentive to string the funders (Google) along as long as possible. Line engineers are making $250K+ / year, managers are making $500K / year.

Innovation is kind of a "swing big and go home if you miss". But there's no incentive to "go home" if you have a comfortable lifestyle. You want to keep going and you can convince the management of that because you inherently know more about the tech than they do. It's an information assymetry problem.

I see a similar effect in non-X moonshots funded by Larry Page.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/12/01/insid...

Basically there's an incentive for "demo-ware" and not real innovation.

I'm glad I worked at Google rather than say Tesla, because I was doing "non-moonshot" engineering work. Tesla is notoriously chaotic. I think Chris Lattner said Tesla had the highest turnover rate he'd ever seen.

But I actually think the idea of firing a lot of people makes sense if you're innovating. It should be chaotic and messy because the whole goal is inherently risky.

I used to work in video games and they also fired people all the time and paid them like crap. I made 3-4x at Google what I did in the video game industry. But honestly it makes sense because of the financial profile of the industry vs. Google's industry. Put bluntly: you're filtering for people who really love it and are doing something irrational to innovate hard tech or create a blockbuster game.

I'm sure a lot of people will bristle at this from the employee perspective, but having worked in both environments for many years, I can see how the compensation changes people's behavior. You might not realize it but it does.
> 37,000 years of oral tradition versus .. 5,000 years (?) of written? The jury is still out.

Recency of invention is not synonymous with inefficiency.

Consider that you're trying to assert oral tradition is more efficient than writing systems ... in a written format on a construct accessed by hundreds of thousands of people around the world over many years rather than demonstrating the validity of your claim to a half dozen people around a fire.
Amazon is not a good example to cite for going against the MBA grain. No amount of convincing can get Amazon to fund a Makani style kite energy, or other X moonshots that Google funded.

As for ploughing investment to keep growing at the cost of profitability, that's every VCs formula and very well understood by the MBA crowd.
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> There was no visual on the object in the FLIR1 video.

Do you have a source for this? I've heard rumors there was an interview with the radar operator but haven't seen it myself. In any case, this is almost certainly the same object that was visually observed from multiple angles hours prior, which had been jamming the previous fighters' radars and observed passively from the Nimitz, considering it had been tracked in the general vicinity of the carrier strike group for over a week prior (passively by the Nimitz).

> I would argue that the "Gimbal" explanation West has is very convincing.

These radar systems do not typically suffer catastrophic breakdowns (such as locking onto a false bogie) from any causes shy of physical trauma or targeted jamming techniques. These things are sent back to the contractor for repair if they fall outside of a very tight spec range during regular testing, long before any discernible error would show up. Even when jammed, the state of the art wouldn't likely be able to create a false bogie in this spectrum; a jamming signal would manifest as intolerable noise throughout the image. If glare was not only visible, but allowed a system lock, that is a catastrophic system failure and not something that would be overlooked -- it would be sent back to the contractor for repair and the entire incident would be scrapped for this reason.

No malfunctions were reported on the receiver chipset, the pod, or any other component for either the Gimbal or the Nimitz recordings, to my knowledge.

Mick West is a smart guy, but he clearly does not know radar and is grasping at straws here. And he doesn't even attempt to describe the extremely precise relative orientations that would be required of two distant objects to keep the "glare" in the exact center of the lens while the fighter is moving about and recording the video.

I'm glad for his analysis to rule out the Go-Fast video as inconclusive at best. I have no interest in wasting time on false leads. But for the other two, we have legitimate, exotic phenomena that no one has successfully explained away, and it's increasingly seeming impossible to do so without venturing beyond the boundary of our current circle of knowledge.
> ({}).foo returning undefined is exactly what I'd expect. That's a basic part of how accessing properties in Javascript works,

This is an excellent and succinct explanation of why JavaScript is a badly-designed language, and why I use better designed languages when possible.

If the basic properties "work" when it makes no sense for them to work, your language is broken.

> That's what using typed signatures for your objects is for.

Explain more?
There is also good relationship advice on the internet, but it probably won't be on hate-fueled platforms like Reddit or Facebook.

And mainly, it is:

- talk to people, both guys and girls

- always stay curious to learn or try something new

- always discourage comparing people. Nobody else can know all of your strength. And you will never know all the good points about the person you're judging.

#1 will make you easy to be around
#2 will make you interesting
#3 will make you take the time to really get to know people

Together that should do to find someone nice.

But let's also talk about the other direction. Most local guys will see advertisements and hope for a nice and pretty girl. And compared with TV ads, most of the local girls will fall short. I mean even the model herself will look worse than her photoshopped images.

So why should those guys put in full effort if there's no truly satisfying girl available locally?
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It should be illegal. The company has a strong incentive to undervalue the asset, and 98% of the time IP assets are transferred to a related overseas party it is to minimize tax.

Countries would be better off if they simply did not allow IP assets to be transferred to a subsidiary in a different country. The IP stays in the country where it was created, or else sold on the open market.
Someone who comes off as attacking other departments or teams is probably a toxic individual to work with. Even if they crank out good code quickly, at some point senior engineers are expected to influence others, and attacking others is not conducive to that.

As for rewarding top performers, most places have annual or biannual reviews where people are given bonuses based on individual and company performance. The difference between underperforming and overperforming can be a lot of cash.