skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple hires economists to publish report in its favor ahead of antirust hearing
Say more? Would be helpful for others to further articulate your observations and opinions. No one has all the answers. For all who have a stake a full diversity of views is best.
Enforcement has an impact that can be measured for certain activities, but not all.

For example, enforcement of DWI laws had a meaningful impact on alcohol-related traffic fatalities. Deployments in NYC targeting crime of opportunity for things like muggings had a meaningful impact.

In some cases, there may be a halo effect where addressing certain problems may reduce others. But it's not a magic bullet. Drugs seem to be an example where enforcement has limited impact on outcomes. You also have the risk of heavy routine enforcement fostering corruption. A good example is the Border Patrol, which arrests ~250 officers annually.
No, MI5 should not have more control over social media
> Winter temperatures could easily dip below minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit

Trivia: you can omit "Fahrenheit" after -40 without introducing ambiguity. -40 F == -40 C. (You can assume it is not K or Ra because those place their 0 points at absolute zero so -40 K or -40 Ra is not possible).
Yea, spring boot. When 90% of what you're doing on the backend is gluing a bunch of different Java technologies together, Clojure becomes hard to justify. Fortunately, mixing JVM languages together on the same project isn't a big deal so you can bring in some targeted Clojure where needed.

Kotlin is great because it's the closest thing to a general-purpose Java replacement I've seen. The interop support between Kotlin and Java is outstanding.
Don't Get Ahead of Yourself
A map to planning your workday: 5 steps to follow to improve your productivity
I recently came across https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DaZxZDYh8Q. I thought it was pretty neutral and discusses the major issues extensively.

And if you want an insight into Model Y build issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhvT6OIq7XE
This is nothing new in kind. The founders were fearful of mass democracy too and sought to avoid creating one. For better or for worse, they failed.
The US rate for murder is five per 100,000. So yes, one order of magnitude higher than that of Switzerland (assuming your number is accurate).

Source: https://usafacts.org/data/topics/security-safety/crime-and-j...
Not a finance person, so forgive my ignorance, but why is it "bad" that their profits come from credits? Considering they're specifically in the EV market and will continue to receive those sorts of credits so long as the policies remain in place, isn't this a totally valid way to make profits for them?
Oh wow! I didn't know that
Doesn’t banking actually use double accounting to ensure not losing money instead of relying on something as brittle as software?

Then again, Wirecard happened. But perhaps that wasn’t exactly banking.
Whoa, that's an awesome setup. Do you still have this or is your office closed?
Cowde for me? WOW... am super impressed by this feature :D

And I wanna see what u call an AI programming :D
They also don't call out that their links to amazon are referral codes, meaning they take a little slice of whatever you purchase if you follow that link.
Very much this.

(Also, in general, FPGA tools are just some of the lowest quality garbage out there... and that is saying something. They're that bad. This is a completely unnecessary speedbump.)

The rebuttal to your objection is always tools like "HLS" (High-Level Synthesis), or in English it's "C to HDL" (FPGAs are 'programmed' in the two Hardware Definition Languages VHDL (bad) or Verilog (worse, but manageable if you learn VHDL first).) These are not programming languages, they are hardware definition languages. That means things like "everything in a block always executes in parallel". (Take that, Erlang?) In fact, everything on the chip always executes in parallel, all the time, no exceptions; you "just" select which output is valid. That's because this is how hardware works.

This model maps very, very poorly to traditional programming languages. This makes FPGAs hard to learn for engineers and hard to target for HLS tools. The tools can give you decent enough output to meet low- to mid-performance needs, but if you need high performance -- and if not, why are you going through this masochism? -- you're going to need to write some HDL yourself, which is hard and makes you use the industry's worst tools.

Thus, FPGAs languish.
It's not untypical for clojure libs to appear "dead".
They will work just fine. Some libs are just "done"!
Or, as I'm asserting, it's just totally bogus.
It’s a transaction. The goals of the company and employee parties is to maximize their own gains with as little effort as possible. The moral imperative argument is very dubious, and sounds one-side to further the gains of the company party at the expense of additional energy from the employee. Raising matters of social change as if the employee should have some gut wrenching “come to Jesus” because “they’re so lucky” relative to global social and market changes is a bunch of smoke and mirrors to, again, unevenly place the gains from the employee-business relationship on the company. Business is only a transaction; maximize gains for minimal effort, between all parties.

That “million people would kill for a chance” to be at a FAANG is not the employee’s problem anymore. The moment the company extended the job offer already created “a million” job applicants who didn’t get an offer. Behaving in a way that suggests continually begging “to stay in” just to get to create the net gains for other people, the investors and top management, deserves a therapy session on personal self-worth, which is a personal problem not a business matter.

Now, as for the matter of personally going above and beyond, that’s actually a separate matter - no need for emotional entanglement of the the business reality and personal reality. If the employee wishes, as they’ve expressed, to go above what is satisfying the business (given they’ve reported no management has complained) then by all means, find more work with outside teams within the company, tactfully speak to the manager about the concern, or just leave and start a new job or venture.

The moral guilt argument over the transactional relationship between an employee and the business, though, is at best naive, and at worse unevenly extracting more energy from the employee than the business. If the company has continued to pay the employee without complain, that’s their own moral dilemma for allowing it.
That sounds like a good argument for not drawing the line at the more extreme end. But that's not where Lego drew the line. A different toy company might decide to not produce anything related to violence, and yet a different toy company may decide to abandon using the internet and all the luxuries of modern life for the reasons you specify.

But that's not what Lego did. You said you have to draw a line, and they drew a line to the left of military vehicles and to the right of Star Wars and allowing themselves to use the internet.

I grew up playing with a lot of realistic toy guns and WWII era tanks. I hardly ever see kids play with that. I don't think Lego is the only company who decided not to make war vehicles, and I think many toy companies made this decision long, long time ago.
No - the company appears satisfied with OP's performance. Therefore they're not freeloading, rather they are selling the company services at the price point the company set. If someone comes to my business and we agree that I'll provide a widget for $10k, if it costs me only $1k to make it, we call that profit - i don't give them 10 widgets or a refund. A salaried job is an agreement that i will provide X KPIs, if it takes me more than 40hrs I don't get extra money, so if it takes me less an 40hrs I shouldn't give back money.

Now there may be laws or authoritarian morals around how I should lick the boots of my boss and give away more hours or outperform the KPIs, but basic capitalism says that's just a thing for suckers.
The world is a big place, if you take any piece of content it’s bound to offend someone.

Should we ban content that promotes the Big Bang theory because it’s offensive to creationists?
It probably won't work. Though I think it could still be a fun project.
Maybe I'll use it in the same way the author does in the end.
Actual title - 'Apple hires economists to help argue its App Store commissions aren't anti-competitive' at the time of submission was 6 characters over limit and this was the best I could come up with. Please change it if necessary.
https://electrek.co/2020/02/11/tesla-building-pilot-battery-...

"Now we’ve learned that Tesla is building a battery cell pilot production line in Fremont"

"Tesla currently buy cells from Panasonic made in Japan for Model S and Model X, as well as cells made by Panasonic at Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 in Nevada for Model 3.

The automaker used those cells, which they help design, to make their own modules and battery packs, but they have never produced their own cells."
> Who said jobs can't be fulfilling?

As a worker, a job will always have elements that are inherently stacked against you and are unfair, and those elements are enforced by the same laws that force you to accept such an arrangement otherwise you won't eat and your kid will never be able to see a doctor.

You give part a part of yourself you cannot get back, your time, a limited resource that you can't regain once spent. You often do this for little to no equity in the business you spend the majority of your waking time advancing, and you often have little to no say in how or where your time is spent. For the vast majority of people, they will never be paid enough to be able to live off of their assets, and their time will be spent building wealth for those whose income is derived from their assets.

Unsurprisingly, there are some people who aren't happy with such arrangements and have a lot to say about them.
RAV4 Prime

- hybrid motor + battery

- 500 mile range on gas hybrid, 40 mile range on battery

- AWD

Commute to work during the week without touching gas, then on the weekend take roadtrips to the mountains at 50 mpg. And get cheap Toyota repairs/maintenance for everything. It's the quiver of one.
Understanding Gartner, and Its Limitations
I mean, isn't that approximately what's occurring that some people ("writers") are up in arms about, except instead of "libel" and "personal abuse" it's things like "hate speech"?
Yeah its basically optimized to look bad. The satellites are relatively close to each other. In normal operation, there's no reason to have 30 different satellites in view. I suspect these satellites were very recently launched, so they are not in the normal sun-tracking orientation.

Also, the comet is a wide object. A wide image is just more likely to have any satellite in view.
There's no indication that Inuit children become irrationally scared of the ocean because of the sea monster story they're told.
I can't use the express app with my watch, even though I got the link to the express app from my watch's documentation page :D good grief
You Don't Need Profits Anymore
Exactly. Vice are trying to frame this like some massive gotcha, but the Navy lays out their strategy openly;

> “While we do not actively recruit on Twitch or through such streaming platforms, the esports team members are there to answer questions about their experiences in the Navy. If a user specifically asks an esports team member about joining the Navy, that team member will move that conversation to a private message to first find out if the interested user is over 17, and if that user is over 17 then the recruiter will thank them for their interest and refer them to Navy.com where they can talk to a recruiter.”

Vice prepends this quote with "In an email to Motherboard, the Navy insisted it wasn’t using Twitch to recruit." which seems like a bizarre mischaracterisation to me
I don’t really see anything very different there. Voters have always been easily manipulated: by newspapers, TV, whatever. Though I suppose one key difference is that the source of that manipulation has been hidden: you used to know what newspaper pushed what, now actors hide behind sockpuppet accounts and promoted ads.
Thanks and totally agree - especially since we're trying to enable frictionless communication, we knew we had to minimize latency from the get-go.

We use the standard WebRTC model where 1:1 Sidekicks are peer-to-peer (video streams sent directly to other clients), and 3+ Sidekicks go through SFUs that we host on AWS. These SFUs deployed all around in the world (in every major AWS region), and we assign Sidekicks to the SFU nearest to everyone on their team.

Internally the metric we aim for is to keep the end-to-end latency under 200ms.
> nobody actually wanted to foster such toxic behavior

I think no one realized you could make disgusting amounts of money by fostering it. There have been plenty of flame wars on BBSes and forums, but the tension between "engagement" and "quality" always favored the latter in small, private communities (HN is a good example). However, when it comes to Facebook and Twitter, the former is always favored (due to market forces, shareholder interests, etc.).
Thank you! I wasn't aware this was possible back then. I'm glad they implemented this.
Conversation with GPT-3
I learned at a previous job that one of the biggest challenges in janitorial-services is the insane rate of turnover and difficulty in guaranteeing that a particular floor of a building has been serviced on a particular night...
I tell people, the main use case for ML is to obfuscate and launder decision authority and accountability away from people and up into abstract organizations where nobody is accountable. If there is ever a question as to why the police made a decision, they can say it was their prediction model, which is so complex nobody could reasonably expect to understand it or be responsible for its outcomes.

It's as though artificial intelligence itself were a cryptological problem where it's only real when it becomes sufficiently complex that information about who is accountable for it is destroyed.
"P.S. Is there perhaps an element of romanticism in this article?"

Totally. With all the readings about controlling anger, I missed a reference to the inuit custom of violence towards women.

https://www.pauktuutit.ca/abuse-prevention/gender-based-viol...

Although, maybe that violence is without anger. Would that be better?
GEOS https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=garmin+...
Tinfoil hat opinion: maybe FAANGs and other megacorps are happy to lose a few managers to these small companies, so they bring their big corp culture to these companies and bury them with process, risk aversion and meetings before they become a serious competitor?
AT&T says its 5G network is now available across the US
> Boring level headed opinions used to at least have a chance of rising above the noise.

... Because they were heavily promoted by the people who owned the media platforms. It wasn't because of any of their particular virtues.

Consider your bias when making this claim. What makes an opinion boring and level-headed? That it is squarely in the middle of the Overton window? Who sets the Overton window, in the pre-social-network world where the overwhelming majority of media is state/corporate-sponsored?

It's not some natural evolutionary process that caused boring, level-headed opinions to rise to the top. It was self-serving opinions rising to the top, that, because of their ubiquity, are believed to be boring and level-headed.

When viewed from a different cultural lens, many of those boring and level-headed opinions appear completely batshit insane. For example, the current American model for healthcare seems, for the most part (Everyone has a few minor tweaks they want to make - but setting that aside), boring and level-headed and reasonable to ~half the country. To the rest of the world, it appears completely insane, and anyone proposing switching to it would be a complete lunatic. In the US, however, the converse holds - switching away from it is considered by many to be absolutely crazy.

Which of those opinions is the reasonable, level-headed one? It depends on your current social setting, not on the virtues or drawbacks of the expressed idea.
That’s my take as well. It’s just marketing speak. They are raising “awareness” not “recruiting”. Similar to a CPG company saying we’re raising “awareness” of our product on Twitch, not “selling” our product.

For your average person, that may seem like meaningless splitting of hairs, but that’s how it’s discussed in the marketing world.

Amazing a whole article was written about this.
Chinese Wall = Maginot Line
I've voted in every election I've been eligible for, and that strategy hasn't exactly worked, so far. ("Voting" as a generic answer for "how do we effect change in government" is trite, oversimplistic, and doesn't actually answer the question.)

I don't think I've ever seen a referendum on military spending, much less specific policy, on any ballot.
On the other hand, the better you understand the compiler/OS/hardware, the better software you'll be able to write. Just like medical doctors could theoretically do their job without a deep knowledge of, say, organic chemistry, I can imagine a near future where software development means tweaking the inputs to GPT-3 (or some other AI) based on a deep knowledge of the layers beneath it: sort of a "computer doctor".
Hacker for Hire, Hacker for Rent
Allevi 3 Bioprinter
Following the speaker is a really cool feature, and is something we might get to at some point.

Sidekick is built to be always-on so teammates can feel like they're in the same room. Many teams we spoke to have tried doing it with Zoom or Jitsi, but they all decay because it's really hard to get people in the room, at the same time. Sidekick's features try to maximize the chances that you're not in the room alone.
It had a large discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23540162
Integrating Location Data into Pipedeream Workflows
Oh ok, Superman

It’s so easy turning over corporate culture, and the real peer pressure to avoid making others look like slackers.

Perhaps if you know how to do even better than your industry of peers, you’d be off doing so much more you’d not have time for babysitting others on social media.
They certainly fostered toxic behavior. The social interactions we see on social media—even in HN from time to time—are familiar to anyone who frequented forums in the past. The ad-supported business model industrialized it, though.
I posted this elsewhere, there are a lot of good resources and examples for the tools:

https://github.com/xupgit/FPGA-Design-Flow-using-Vivado/tree...

https://www.xilinx.com/support/university.html

https://www.xilinx.com/video/hardware/getting-started-with-t...

There are others thst cover the SDK side of things, but the HW side/Vivado is well documented.
> You're going to have to learn that, as a laborer at a firm, the quality of work you do is, at best, loosely correlated to your monetary compensation.

This has been one of the most disorienting and most important realizations of my career. Hard work, or even effectiveness, are only loosely correlated with comp. Often it’s even inverted, and that sense you get that your higher-paid betters aren’t very good and are barely even working is actually true when you get there yourself. It’s very weird but you must not tie expectations of effort or difficulty to compensation. Remember, we’re operating in an economic system where some of the best-compensated and richest people do essentially no work at all. It’s a topsy-turvy world out there. Your hardest work, highest stress, and most abusive job can easily be the one you’re paid the worst for.
I work at a company that's very much not FAANG (more of a small, niche CAD-flavored Adobe), and I do a lot of what you describe.

Namely, a lot of "whatever the hell I want," almost never asking permission, and I don't recall ever needing to beg forgiveness. The end result seems to be that I now know lots of trivia about dusty corners of our massive, legacy code-base and my manager seems to be consulting me on a bunch of architecture-level decisions. Granted, I ... exercise savvy about playing in a leaf-node sandbox vs. a trunk-node jenga tower, and I'm a fluent English speaker with a PhD-level math background so maybe I get a little more latitude than other people.

Still, I find that I feel a lot more free working here, under considerably less pressure to ship, than I did in the PhD program.
As long as the editors are "our guys" and not any of "their guys"
I've just given up on Bluetooth for rapid device switching. It's too time consuming to be figuring out which device your headphones are attached to & disconnecting/reconnecting to resolve, especially e.g. when someone calls you. Wires are very, very easy to read and debug.

I have AirPods but will only pair them to my phone.
Does the Big Bang Theory encourage violence against creationists?

I don’t ask that question seriously, just to point out that generalising things isn’t always useful. For example, “hate speech” is a defined term and the Big Bang theory ain’t it.
Anyone have an idea on the nubank stack in a bit more details?
Agreed! Another metric to add might be $/Mb/Month. That way it's easy to compare disparate speeds.
This is not true at all. We run a large setup in OVH Gravelines and another in us-east-1 and we’ve not had a single outage in 3+ years with OVH. I can’t say the same for AWS.
Unfortunately this doesn't work unless a massive group of people does it, but: stop sharing things that make you angry. They make you angry so that you share them.

So much toxicity is rooted in exploiting this dynamic.
The most important word in that quote is "current". The RNC was hacked, but it was "old" data. That data was never leaked. It isn't known exactly what time frames constitute "old" and "current" in this context.

Maybe the data wasn't leaked because it didn't have value. That is one of those multiple reasons I alluded to in the previous post. There are also several less optimistic reasons why that data wouldn't have been leaked.
That is indeed a problematic point, for non native speakers.
I don't see how wanting these features in a vehicle is a "problem", per se. Yes, we want to be able to bring our entire families and enough stuff with us to enjoy an outing. Yes, that means a slightly bigger vehicle; but yes, we need to be able to use it to commute as well.

This desire has lead to the creation of a thriving segment of the market where you can get a vehicle for ~25-35k that gets reasonable gas mileage while offering AWD and a lot of space. It works well for a lot of people - jack of all trades.

Only urbanite bugmen with no families really see this as a "problem", because that type of person never actually has all the seats in the car occupied, or bothers to load a boat on top and drive out to go camping and fishing somewhere, or otherwise actually utilizes the capabilities of the vehicle.

For you, there are small electric jellybean cars.

I would have one of those too, but insurance costs make that prohibitive. Give me an insurance-follows-driver model so I can own a shitty cheap old pickup, a family SUV, and an electric commuting jellybean car, and I will happily do that and use less fuel overall.
Browsing over Tor, I cannot read the article. Instead the entire page source is:

Banned

...
> Although these are probably not searchable.. Edit: hmm Ctrl-F actually finds "string"!

Depends on the search engine. And Ctrl-F is already unusable on Twitter Web anyway, because it only works on tweets in the viewport (or close to it)
Read 'time cops' and chuckled.
Yeah, I think lots of engineers feel the same.

We just love to solve puzzles, coincidentally this is also well paid.
Easy, just get rid of all humans in the government.

I’ll leave how to do that up to you.