skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably just because it's much much simpler. How do you objectively compare the delivery difficulty of 100 lbs of potatoes vs a diamond ring? Should the delivery cost of 100 lbs of diamond rings be the same as 100 lbs of potatoes? What about 100, 1-lb boxes vs 1, 100 lb box? Size also makes a difference. You could charge per item, based on weight, like postal shipments. But then you also need to have accurate weights and dimensions. And transporting two boxes to the same address isn't twice as difficult as shipping one box. These aren't insurmountable problems, but as long as most people aren't complaining, there's little pressure to change.

edit: changed shipping to delivery, to avoid confusion.
Robert Miles has an interesting response to the claim that corporations are AIs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pUA3LsEaw

To paraphrase: yes, corporations function as agents, but their maximum performance is limited by the capabilities of their employees. A corporate AI may have a much broader set of skills than any single person, and may be able to tackle many concurrent tasks, but as an "intelligent agent" its decision making capabilities probably don't scale exponentially (or even linearly) with its headcount. In the sense that a corporation's maximum intelligence is likely to be in the same ballpark as the smartest humans, it can't be seen as a true superintelligence.
> The worst part is that people somehow have this linked in thier mind with climate change, as in fixing plastic pollution is going to help with that.

It sometimes feels as though climate change has sucked all the air out of other aspects of environmentalism. If you want to get people to pay attention to something, you first reframe it in terms of climate change. Want to protest the deforestation of the Amazon? Don't bother mentioning habitat loss and extinctions, people no longer care about that; focus on how it will impact CO2 levels. If the matter cannot rationally be framed in that way, do it anyway. Littering causes climate change because if we admit it probably doesn't, people won't care about it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190102054648/https://slatestar...
The notion of a lemon is a car that was made on a bad day, so there are lots of defects that show up over time. The laws vary but generally say that if a car needs several major repairs in its first year you can demand a buyback.

The underlying assumption that justifies a category of "lemon" is that needing N repairs is evidence that it is more likely than other cars of its model year to need an N+1st repair because failures are not independent.

This may have been true of earlier technology, but it doesn't match the way modern cars are made. Mainly, the granularity of subassemblies is much higher, so for example in a Tesla they replace the entire rear powertrain or entire battery pack as a warranty item.

Lemon laws should have required some periodic statistical adjustment to determine whether lemoniness actually exists in a given brand or not.
Intel surged before because it had the volume of sells thanks to the PC market to throw at the problem.

Apple alone sells more ARM based devices than the entire personal computer market and probably the server market. Apple also has more money to throw at it. Intel couldn’t make 4G/5G work and sold that division to Apple.

On the server side, AWS is designing its own chips (disclaimer I work for AWS but nowhere near that division).
Freedom of speech isn’t the issue. He can be allowed to say what he does, but that doesn’t exempt him from the public consequences of lies and abuse.

It’s admirable that a company can reach a $200 billion valuation in the USA weeks after the CEO tells the SEC to suck his cock. The issue is with investors who aren’t questioning if that’s a sign of lack of ethics.
> There are numerous other people involved in the system that have roles that serve to rein in prosecutors if Aaron allowed the process to fully play out.

That "fully playing out" you refer to is a process that would have most likely involved appeals carried out while Swartz served prison time—probably longer than 6 months.

I think you're following the prosecutor's playbook in trying to make 6 months and assorted other harassment sound more reasonable by comparison to decades of prison time, when it's still an unreasonable proposition. The consequences of a guilty plea were certainly not going to disappear from Swartz's life after six months.
I fully agree with everything you said about this being a big electro-mechanical challenge, but the dude pointed squarely at the controller with "processing bandwidth...real time control" quote.
If your witness refuses to cooperate, the case is often dropped if they can’t get a conviction.

When cops ask “do you want to press charges” what they really mean is “are you willing to follow through with everything if charges are pressed”.
Tried Edge and liked the interface, but after a couple reviews concluded it was even worse for privacy than Chrome, I reverted to a mix of Firefox and Vivaldi. It's frustrating, because Microsoft spent the time to make Edge a really enjoyable experience, but there's no point giving up one privacy vampire for another...
Interesting, this seems in principle to be similar to a (hypothetical) concept of "prosecutable torts" in English Law, indeed some of the examples (trespass to land, defamation) are torts in English Law.
This might happen in Western countries, especially in the US where people have guns, in the case COVID-19 pushes the real economy over the edge.
These kind of laws seem to get bipartisan support from lawmakers, has been my experience.
Elsewhere thoraway1010 indicates that (n=1) a quoted wage by deliverer is $22-28/hour for driving ~13 miles/hour. Even if you allocate a whole dollar per mile as driving cost, that's still waaaaay above the federal minimum wage. IME, people who don't work minimum wage don't realize how low minimum wage is.
Not so sure about his future prediction ability. This, for example, like most "the sky is falling", didn't age well:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/07/that-si...
> It’s time we had an honest conversation about the benefits of colonialism, not just discussing the negative aspects of it.

I really wish this is not a troll and we as humans are past this thinking.
And it still doesn’t. The high end Android market is minuscule.

You can see how little it threw at creating competitive processors for wearables because the market just wasn’t there compared to Apple.
> Quite literally people may die if you don’t.

I never liked this argument. Partly because if you take it to its logical conclusion, any sufficiently successful individual would be paralized - which is an obviously wrong conclusion. The more successful you are, the freer you should be.

The solution is to also look at gains, not just losses. Billionaires can kill people with a tweet, but they can also inspire and, yes, save lives with a tweet.
How do they have worse impact? I thought they're made of renewable lumber and compost better than plastic?
Yes, it's a spell of idiotic faith that's somehow been cast over people. I've tried asking proponents of recycling about about this and the only answers I've managed to squeeze out of them are:

1) Landfills leach toxic chemicals into the water table.

2) Landfills are on scarce land which will run out oneday, making waste disposal more expensive.

3) It can be inconvenient to build over a landfill because you might hit a bale of plastic when drilling holes for your piles.

4) Plastic bags can blow away from landfills and end up in the sea.

5) Landfills may eventually erode into the sea.

1) Isn't true of all plastics or all landfills but nobody wants to encourage the use of the harmless ones. 2) and 3) are such small problems, it doesn't make sense for the whole world to pay whatever it costs to slow them (not even stop them). We'll never run out of land, just prime land in existing cities which is already mostly "lost" to development anyway. 4) is easily solved or a non-problem and probably even worse for recycling. 5) is just a response to a recent news event.

Nobody wants to consider if recycling or banning products costs more than the purely financial future landfill cost problem. I've tried asking someone about the relative costs when they gave me reason 2) and they just responded by saying that their conscience feels better knowing they're doing what's right.

Some of their ideas to solve it cause increased greenhouse gas emissions, like you mentioned with the energy cost. Many people even want to burn it!
All sides hate the idea that something you said 10 years ago online in a private conversation between you and a single other person cannot be searched for.
it already has. ref: arab spring.

perhaps social media was not the proximate cause but it certainly was enabling.

even civil war in the US was a good thing. whose to say a next civil war won’t also be.
Since we don't yet have the means to objectively/scientifically record what the scent actually smells like, perhaps the bottle should stay closed?
With electronics, at least, outsourcing to China is no longer done because of "cheaper labor", if that was ever the reason to start with. It's because they do a better job of it.

Tim Cook:

> There's a confusion about China. The popular conception is that companies come to China because of low labor cost. I'm not sure what part of China they go to, but the truth is China stopped being the low-labor-cost country many years ago. And that is not the reason to come to China from a supply point of view. The reason is because of the skill, and the quantity of skill in one location and the type of skill it is.

> The products we do require really advanced tooling, and the precision that you have to have, the tooling and working with the materials that we do are state of the art. And the tooling skill is very deep here. In the U.S., you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I'm not sure we could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields.

> The vocational expertise is very very deep here, and I give the education system a lot of credit for continuing to push on that even when others were de-emphasizing vocational. Now I think many countries in the world have woke up and said this is a key thing and we've got to correct that. China called that right from the beginning.

Source: https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/apple-ceo-tim-cook-this-...
Hedge Fund Chatham Wins Bankruptcy Auction for McClatchy’s Newspapers
>the 2 arrested clearly have links to the Canadian government and/or intelligence agencies.

One of them used to be diplomat so yes, he has connections to the government. The other has no connections (that have been reported on at least).

And where did you get "intelligence agencies" from!? Do you have a citation or did you just make that up? You know, like spreading FUD?
Why Fast, Why Now?
Migrate from RAID1 Disk to ZFS on NixOS
That i7 is on par with 2011-2012 era macs (https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/1821, https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks).
Albanian here, want to clarify some things:

1. The situation was never that bad as the post makes....

It is similar to the current June events in the US (unrests/protests), but sans looting of random businesses, just burning of the PM office (instead of a police precinct).

2. That politician, was not killed by the government, but it is rumored (never verified) that he was setup by his rival leader of his own party. The same guy who very conveniently then went to the streets and demand the government step down. His own bodyguard was somehow intermingled in this thing.

3. Also, 0 foreigners were harmed during these protests, or past ones... I know Embassies have to take precautions, in Albania foreigners are treat as 'guests' of the house, and treated well. (even during protests). Sounds weird, but that's how it is. It is like the whole nation has the 'responsibility' that the foreign guests have a good time when they visit.

It is from old traditions/customs, dating back to ancient times...

4. This is an example of good American intervention, by then Bill Clinton's cabinet, which was very competent. They basically called the 'bad guy', and told him that the US would not recognize this government, as it was not democratically elected, and you will be considered an outlawed gov. and isolated from the rest of the world. That was enough, for the 'bad politician', to step down, and let a provisory government with members from all major parties to take over until the next elections. The coup-de-ta was over in two days with just one phone call, and probably spared the country from further unrests.

I know for some reason American involvement gets a lot of flack, but great examples of 'just/correct' and successful intervention almost never make the news. It is always the failures that do, unfortunately.

Ps. Also, Albania is a very beautiful Mediterranean country... while it is lacking in infrastructure, It is just as beautiful as neighbors (southern Italy, Greece or Croatia, which most americans are familiar with).

https://pixabay.com/images/search/albania/

https://www.thetravel.com/20-breathtaking-photos-that-will-m...
Do we need a Theory of Everything?
seconding the request for a self hosting option, as well as the payment of a licensing fee (which I'd be happy to pay, as this is also something I've been looking for)
No, it isn't common. Source: someone who actually does this stuff.

Audio processing and decoding is all about maintaining intermediate results at appropriate precision. The magnitudes involved far exceed the bit width at the output of the pipeline. The only reason you would ever use fixed point is for speed... which is no longer necessary, and needs to stay that way.
I used to have bad anxiety and panic attacks when I was in my early 20s and in university and also dealt with insomnia a lot. Exercise and the other tips in the thread can help if people can't sleep due to bad sleep hygiene or just the problems of modern lifestyles, but when the reason are mental issues or stress and anxiety which seems to affect a lot of people during the pandemic it might not always help.

What helped me a lot was to pick up an advice I got on fear during panic attacks from a psychologist, which is to let go of control. If one tries to control panic and can't then it's easy to develop a 'fear of fear' when you fail, as it's ultimately simply not possible to control these things always.

Same helped with insomnia for me. It's very easy to be worried of going to sleep if all you think about is how long you're going to lie awake, how good your quality of sleep is and so on and you end up wired the moment you go to bed and it becomes its own mental thing. While it sounds dumb and trivial to simply stop worrying about it, it's actually a relatively hard thing to do.

It didn't solve sleep problems for me completely, which isn't the point, but it's made me sleep a lot better, and most importantly made me less judgemental about being tired a day. Mechanical solutions like forcing myself into a rythm with discipline never tended to work for me well.
> I wish the US had seen this with equal clarity 30 years ago.

We're too busy arguing over irrelevant stuff, unfortunately.
I'm also really interested in this. Khan Academy used to have a wonderful one, for pretty much all of math up to about undergrad level, but it's gone, for no reason I could find [0]. This seems to be the code that was used to lay it out [1].

[0] https://khanacademy.fandom.com/wiki/Knowledge_Map
[1] https://github.com/beneater/kmap-editor
As a remnant, yes.
Thank you for taking the time to report this! I will fix this issue later today.

Edit: The fix is now live
Over-achievement of my goals is not my goal.
A great tutorial fo developers to get started on creating AI based chat apps
i feel like i saw this movie before. ah yes, PowerPc.

Steve Jobs reveal transition to Intel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghdTqnYnFyg

i don't know if the history will repeat itself but it will be interesting to watch.
Isn't it the other way around? Haproxy.org is not responsive and looks like it was designed in the 90s.
Brexit hasn't happened yet. The transition period ends in about six months, so it's too early to say if he was right or wrong
Private industry is certainly not immune from incompetence or accounting scandals. Wirecard just happened, and history has many other examples. Corruption exists in both private and public sectors.
No. It's consumer products like food packaging. Not industrial waste from producing export goods.

Unless you're saying you want to economically cripple them so they stop being able to afford packaged food or just die out entirely?
It’s accepting Tesla’s framing. A nicer term would be “established”. Legacy used here has the sense of being a white elephant.
> Another thing is their reputation within Europe is... well to put it as one Albanian said to me laughingly: "They're scared of us. They think we're all gangsters"

As an fellow European, I think most people around here would just lump it together with the rest of Balkans; so nothing personal against Albania specifically :) And having couple of (internal-ish) wars does tend to leave memory, especially if they happen on your back yard (from global viewpoint)
Your iPad doesn't have a T2 in it. That's the name for the ARM coprocessor inside of newer Macs (2018+), which IIRC shares some similarities with the A10, including (probably) the media block.

The 3700X contains its own encoding blocks which would make a better comparison.
Yes climate impact via co2 load is important. But persistent environmental pollutants is also important. That's the essential problem of plastic.

The ideal is a closed carbon loop, and the primary blocker here is the continued use of oil, coal, and gas.
> There are copious news reports from the time that state the charges filed against him carried those maximum penalties

Yes, and those reports fail to accurately communicate the possible range of punishments that Swartz could’ve received.

At the time the prosecutors claimed that Swartz could’ve faced at most 7 years. A very harsh, but unlikely sentence.
I'd agree with the hypothesis that a PhD let's you hang out and get paid to do a lot of math. My brain is pretty spent from writing code -- I don't have time to spend doing more math.
That, and the packaging helps prevent shipping damage.

Those who have ordered something fragile and received it broken because it was underpackaged so much as to be nearly naked will know what I mean.
But is that hour an actual clock hour, or only counting the time you are working and being paid according to the app
I mean, an i7-8565U is old too, and was released before they could get the spectre/meltdown fixes in hardware.

An i7-10510U (which is the closest thing I could find, an upper mid range ultrabook part) is significantly faster than an A12Z.
You posted this below and didn’t need to copy and paste it again.
Don't you think that companies are just reacting to the fed/bank of england etc keeping rates at 300 year lows?

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/monetary-p...
After the murder. They were fired the very next day after murdering a man. When we call it an "incident" our sanitized language steals all of the context and meaning of the event.

When a person drinks too much at a Christmas party it is an incident. When someone has a nervous breakdown in public, it is an incident. When someone kneels on a person's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, as they beg for mercy, say they can't breath, and then cry out for their mother it is a murder.

They were fired after murdering a man. Can you imagine that standard being applied to literally any single other field than police officers?
> "Most white people think the slavery/genocide of america's past is just that"

Why do you believe that it's just white people opposing this? (I'm not white.)

Why do you believe it's just American's opposing this? Alternatively, are non-Americans permitted to continue using these terms?

> "I'm honestly a little intimidated to leave it, but it feels like a cop-out if I set up an anonymous account to say "I agree!""

It's so de rigeur these days that you shouldn't feel bad about that. There are bad actors on all sides waiting to pounce on anything that anyone says.
Can Facebook provide postmortems on their iOS SDK crashes?
What if manufacturing isn’t the source of end-user lemoniness?

These cars go through QC - maybe some QC folks are more slipshod than others, and the main source of lemons are the ones who were inspected by terrible QC inspectors?

Or maybe the lemons are perfectly fine cars that were damaged in shipment and were repaired badly?

Regardless, the lemon laws still protect the consumer.
Abakcus: A collection of mathematics and science stuff
So much experimentation. After a couple of weeks trying the loot checkout system now this.
Maybe, but lava tubes are also really boring. Can see we do the karst stuff on Mars?
AFAIK only Ryzen APUs have hardware accelerated encoding.
Go to Asian and see how much plastic is domestically used. It’s far more pervasive (in my experience) than the west. Everything goes into a plastic bag.
What illusion are you talking about?
I like to write letters with people. HMU.
Pinboard is an abandoned graveyard, I requested a download of my archived bookmarks, got it like 6 months later - not 'under an hour' as promised, better late than never I suppose. I wont be renewing.
The Landscape of Money: Explainer video on the 3 layers of fiat money plus CBDCs
Which is why strikes like this rarely work: it's a prisoners dilemma. The reason why they work for say, factory workers is that those unions are much stronger, and there's a lot of social (and sometimes physical) pressure not to cross the picket line. Hell, I'm sure there are a lot of workers who are trying to convince people to strike, but won't themselves. And after all, doing otherwise would be irrational.
He didn't have to wait for appeals that might take years, but he didn't even wait for a jury or judge to weigh in on the situation. That could have let him off without spending any time in jail.

The first sentence of my first comment said the prosecutor was too aggressive. I'm not trying to make 6 months of jail sound reasonable for his crime. I am trying to point out that suicide is not a reasonable response to the situation Aaron was in.
This is why a carbon tax makes a lot of sense. Increase the cost of doing the wrong thing and let the market decide.
But most people actively receive health care infrequently, compared to a daily or weekly cadence for consuming groceries or coffee or whatever. As a fraction of the plastic waste that a typical person generates, how much is medical?
Just found this:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK507250/

"extended periods of stress result in progressive Mg deficit"