skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Understand that there is no point in pretending you have not made a mistake; pretending you have not made a mistake will make you look bad.

Look bad to whom? The interests of the public and the person who made the mistake are not necessarily aligned. Fortunately or unfortunately, sometimes not saying anything may be the best move for the person who made the mistake. Is this guide written for the benefit of those who have made a mistake, or the people who seek maximum prostration after a mistake is made?

In other words, maybe you don't like reading "non-apology apologies", but if it's the best move for someone in a given scenario, then it's what they should do. Perhaps they need to say something to keep their job, or avoid triggering some unsavory clause in a contract somewhere, but they don't care about "looking bad" (optics). It's certainly an unforced error to admit to more than circumstances require you to- if "mistakes were made" gets you where you need to go, then no point in bringing out the whole song and dance, right?
It is exactly that. And you can turn off spying on other OS'es as well, doesn't defeat the point - they all spy.
> 15. Disruption of advertising

is advertising currently "rupted" ? in a steady state of calm non-disruption? My guess is no.
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I like Cory Doctorow's explanation of the situation:
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1324391639628959745
That is the Rule of Law at play. Now, I am not saying that the US or the EU are exemplars of it. But at least...
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Nobody wants to take away their right to do so (ok well maybe some do; I'm not one of them). Just that there should be rules we all agree to when we do.

We accept this in other venues. Seatbelts. Stoplights. Nutrition labeling on packaging. etc..

No such rules exist for software, which is odd. It does seem to suggest the industry is ripe for regulation. It's always disappointing to me that we only accept limits when the law places them, as though ethics and morals are somehow not good things to pursue for their own reasons.

Which goes back to OP's point: just because a company CAN be as dystopian as they can imagine, doesn't mean they should be.
Anecdotely, I can confirm that most of the time that I read hackernews comments I tend to get depressed.
If you are interested in this, I recommend reading up on Chile's attempted central economic control system [1]. Rather than trying to find an optimal solution with linear algebra, they used cybernetics - apply adjustments in a feedback control system rather than attempt to pre-determine the entire economy.

This system was never completed because of the (US backed) coup by Pinochet.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/project-cybersyn/
You're just vastly overstating the prevalence of violence at these protests. Do you have evidence for these assertions or are you just throwing them blindly?
Seems like it could go both ways, couldn't it?

Free ranging birds are in less proximity and healthier conditions. There is less contact between them, more sanitary conditions, and healthier birds. But yes, they could have more contact with outside pathogens.

Whereas many poultry barns have thousands of chickens standing in their own excrement, shoulder to shoulder. There are even decaying corpses strewn about and being pecked. Whatever pathogens in there with them could spread and mutate readily, and the birds are likely less healthy and more vulnerable to it.

I'm not sure if there is solid evidence to claim one is more risky than the other, but I think it would be the former.
Right. But then none of that ever happened.
Here is a cause and effect: Optimal neurotransmitter function highly depends on sleep quality and quantity (and you can further the connection to movement and nutrition as well). Sub-optimal neurotransmitter function can lead to sub-clinical or clinical depression.

"Studies have shown that NREM sleep is important for turning off the norepinephrine, serotonin and histamine neurotransmitters, which in turn allows their receptors to “rest” and regain sensitivity [13]. This allows norepinephrine, serotonin and histamine to be more effective at naturally produced levels."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4651462/
Nice (altered) Anna Karenina quote.
It's kind of obvious why ballot initiatives prevent the legislature from modifying them. Often they are to overrule the legislature. So if you let the legislature instantly rewrite them then they're useless.

Also, the level of civics knowledge among Californians is near rock bottom and this thing has revealed that. 7/8ths in the legislature cannot 'overturn' this law. That's not how it works.
And you're right to be. Every consumer cohort has first year drop out. Like Universities, like festival goers, like any iterated system it shows a Pareto distribution.
We bend the knee to our HR overlords
Take note of what features I compared:

> Good job Google, you made something worse than a Walkman. A Walkman could clip on your belt and you didn't have to worry about jostling it or touching it wrong and so having it do something wrong.

Google Music was able to operate offline, and it didn't require your attention while playing.

A Walkman is offline and didn't require your attention while playing.

Youtube Music requires your attention while playing.

Not requiring your attention while playing is a critical, minimal feature of a mobile music device.
I think it's partly based on the typical iPhone user [1] being policed less [2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddhixon/2014/04/10/what-kind-...

[2] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-link-between-mo...
It's relatively easy to overeat when cooking your own meals, that's not a panacea, especially if the real problem is one of self-control.
As the article shows, your choice to take the risk may have effects far beyond your immediate circle.

I don’t begrudge you for making the choice but wish you well and hope your family stays safe.
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...that escalated quickly. Ant's business model is under the hood good old lending and banking, where their "innovation" excels at minimizing the barrier to spend your future money. This is not like Google or Microsoft, whose products are purely technology, this is a glorified financial company. And the more money they raise, the larger / crazier scale their lending will affect. Just to give you a hint, their "savings account" equivalent has way higher interest rate than the national banks, but with same level of account numbers if not more, that would need consistently piling money to sustain. Essentially they will become "too big to fail" if the IPO goes through, and you know how that went in 2008.

Yeah I guess Xi and co are scared, but for a different reason. Nothing about the foreign policies or whatever you think "freedom" is.
You beat me to it.

Actually, we are already pretty much there. [0]

You might say these aren't 3D, but that's easy to add by following these instructions [1].

You might say there isn't true immersion, but that would be the next step, and already done in a music video. [2]

[0] - http://members.har.com/cwsites/dispVirtualtours.cfm?id=21

[1] - https://www.harconnect.com/2020/07/14/har-virtual-tools/

[2] - https://nofilmschool.com/music-video-lidar-point-clouds-unre...
I don't follow. Are you arguing that the very concept of part-time labor is or could be exploitative?

If not, then the problem with Uber isn't the part-time-ness, and forcing the job to be full time is a very awkward way to try to fix the exploitation.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/starters#other-lan...
It's more nuanced than that. It's not really about cost so much as it is a new kind of thing people want and would be willing to pay for.

WeWork showed that individuals want and are willing to pay for communal office space and that small companies want and are willing to pay for "slices" of that space.

DoorDash (and the like) shows that people want and are willing to pay for more than just pizza and American-Chinese takeout and restaurants were willing to take a large percent cut for delivery-as-a-service.
The US hasn't been meaningfully locked down since July, and it was pretty lax starting in May.

It's not the government ruining people's lives, it's the pandemic.
It's already 100% legal to pay software engineers minimum wage, why don't the FAANGs of the world do it?

Is it possible that the market forces set the floor on engineer wages, not the legal system?
They can only make a DMCA request if they know where to send it.

I guess you could host a gitea server behind a Tor hidden service on the VPS of your choice.
Not necessarily the case. It can be profitable today to be "woke", we already see banks moving in that direction to appease the SJW crowd.
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Along with various present day languages, Cobol is also supported [1]

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-now-support-c...
Hmm I haven't done anything rigorous but a few staples I know the price of off-hand are the same at least, but maybe they're being sneaky. I'll look more closely. Thanks for the tip!

FWIW though I do mainly use instacart, since my amex card counts them as a grocery store/supermarket, I get my 6% cashback.
If you go to Shalizi's article, which the author links to, then you'll see that polynomial time is a based on very generous assumptions about the problem space of the economy to make it amenable to convex optimization. Under realistic assumptions, convexity disappears, which pushes economic planning into NP Complete and harder territory.
The assertion that people suffering depression can be divided into those suffering due to factors beyond their control and those suffering by choice is not supported by the article. People with a mental illness often are able to manage their symptoms. But the symptoms are not the cause of their mental illness. A schizophrenic is not schizophrenic because they choose not to take a prescribed medication that mitigates the visible symptoms of schizophrenia.

An unhealthy lifestyle is a common symptom of depression. Lots of screen time, poor diet, low quality sleep, and inertia are factors in clinical diagnosis of depression. They are things that might lead a person to decide someone might be depressed.
10/10, would have not made it through diff EQ without this site. Had to self teach because of constant professor changes. So lucky I found this site in 2012.
umm this?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53224445
That's a fair point, but remember that the map is not the territory.

We've come up with the semantic concept of "screen time" that bundles together a lot of disparate activities, because it seems intuitively and linguistically compelling. But imagine an alternate universe where the equivalent term "screen time" also included origami for some reason. The study would reach almost exactly the same conclusions, because such a small fraction of people engage in origami relative to binge TV watching. That doesn't mean that origami is actually as unhealthy as binge TV watching. The map is not the territory.
I've always found the folks at DigitalFAQ.com to be helpful. For example, here's [1] a thread about the best VHS players to buy.

I'm interested that you're trying to recover the audio only, and from an S-VHS tape. Both VHS and S-VHS could do Hi-Fi audio, and the former was cheaper, so are you sure it's not just regular VHS tape you have? (Alternatively, some professional S-VHS decks recorded PCM audio, which you'll need special hardware to play back).

In any case, as the thread on DigitalFAQ attests to, many of the best VHS machines for recovering tapes are S-VHS models, so if you don't mind the higher prices, getting a good quality S-VHS deck is a good way to go if you plan on doing more recovery in the future.

[1] http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/video-restore/1567-vcr-buyin...
I'm curious, what kind of mistake are you envisioning in this scenario?

While I do agree with you for some things, some mistakes may actually be severe and need correction in a public forum and it has nothing to do with harassement.
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Capitalism/Communism are economic systems not political. It's all about how you distribute limited resources (Simplistically - All to a few vs a bit to everyone).
In your opinion, do you think a new original search engine can survive in this landscape? Of course it would always be behind Google and Bing by about 15 years.

I've been reseasrching some ideas.
Wear a board on your front and back, with a message about worker protections, universal healthcare and walk around town spreading that message and hope it has an effect.
That's right, the Venn diagram of Google users includes almost all Android users, a big chunk of Apple users, and even more too. In general I would assume there are at least 2x more Google users than Apple users, and even bigger disparity if you look worldwide.

In the US I believe Android/iOS is 50/50, but worldwide it's close to 80/20.
The web is still the frontier, we're just interacting with it in new ways.

Those VR meeting apps still need to connect to other computers, and if you get serious about machine learning the cloud is invaluable. Phone apps are also usually less local-friendly than desktop apps.

Just because kids aren't using email or websites as much doesn't mean that they aren't using the internet more.

Although personally, I wouldn't cry if the internet matured into a sort of academic database. Mass-scale social connectivity should probably move to local intranets, like airdrop and local-area IM platforms.
Even in the "happy path" where vendors accept POs, 30-day credit terms etc, the purchasing process is still a nightmare, even if it's less so than for card payments. And it's not "just" about stressing out those that interact with the purchasing process - big organisations waste a lot of otherwise productive hours, affecting their bottom line.

When I consider the vast sums of money wasted by the purchasing bureaucracy where I work, it boggles the mind.

Everyone knows it, but inertia and fear of change are rampant in large organisations.
Yes, I'm aware. I'm talking of course about government regulations. Clearly we're not talking about the non-existent regulations imposed by this hotel or wedding planner.
This article reminds me of what I think about houses: modern houses are so cheap, ugly, no architectural sense, poor construction, etc; those old Victorian houses are so nice, robustly constructed, beautiful, attention to ornamentation, etc. But the reality is that there were a lot of lousy Victorian-era houses. And fifty years from now people will look back on the modern houses that survive (because they are good enough quality to last) and wax nostalgic.

Also, if he thinks 1970s Unix was the pinnacle of design, he should at least read about Plan 9 before deciding that we should stick with 1970s Unix. And maybe learn Go.
Sen. Klobuchar who could be Biden's AG says breaking up Google is 'on the table'
That's a rather callous attitude. Are you explicitly claiming that regardless of how much an animal is tortured, you will give over your money to the institution that performs the torture?
Excluding stock-based compensation is pretty nuts IMO, RSUs are recognized and taxed as ordinary income because they're ordinary income. Apparently "Contribution Profit" is roughly defined as "ramen profitability."

"Well you see, if you only count about 1/3 of the compensation we pay engineers, ignore bonuses, etc, we've got us a great business!"
You were an employee of some org that had a contract with Toyota. Or a contractor for an org who had a contract with Toyota.

Whoever pays you is the entity you have a relation with.
It is more tractable some argue [1] that companies like Walmart show that it is possible to centrally plan an economy.

[1] https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/book-review-att...
Strong disagree. The vast majority of subreddits are fine. Toxicity is compartmentalized to specific subreddits, which you can very easily avoid.

On the other hand, I find a community like Stack Overflow to be much worse because the BS can strike any time, any place. Between questions marked "Off-Topic", and snarky replies, and the non-replies ("We won't answer your simple question because you should not be asking that!") you can't avoid the negativity.
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> Many for sure are brilliant brains but they lack to monetize it.

...as if selling your brain was the most important thing in life.

> you have to dismantle them through the market

Citation needed.

The large majority of modern technology was developed with public money.
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As for #2, note that it was done with the combination of a Leica LIDAR scanner, an iPhone, and pulled together ultimately in Unreal Engine.
Just one recent example, this past presidential election was a resounding victory for Joe Biden. He has 306 electoral votes and is expected to win the popular vote by some 6 million people. Leaders around the world have all recognized this however the number of Republicans in federal office that have publicly acknowledged this can seemingly be counted on your fingers. A simple norm of acknowledging an electoral defeat is apparently out the window.

EDIT: The downvotes on this post are truly bizarre. Any downvoters want to explain the problem with this comment? I was answering a direct question with what most the of the world agrees are inarguable facts.
If you want scientific discussion there is plenty of it to be had.

I recommend the podcast 'This Week in Virology' [1]. Every week they have a doctor on to discuss his experience in the hospital treating patients and with studies for 30 minutes or so and then they also have several academic virologists discuss recent papers such as this one showing how Covid likely killed a healthy 35 year old with a 3 month old baby by damaging her heart[2].

They also talk about other viruses and virus related news which is fascinating.

Musk is, as usual, willfully ignorant of science and should be ignored (or avoided entirely at the moment given he's potentially contagious)

1. https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/

2. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-95587/v1
The furniture company takes on all the risk when they buy inventory. Uber drivers provide a service
Indeed. Whenever I get cut off on the freeway, I try to remember the times when I accidentally cut someone off but had no way to express "Oops, sorry!"

We all get it wrong sometimes.
I really like learning about Soviet perspectives. Often it provides a fascinating counterpoint and alternative ways of approaching a problem. So much work was done, but it is, of course, all in Russian originally.
> No. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, as Judge Brandeis observed. Proper handling of mistakes is a sterling quality in anyone, and particularly important in a leader or public servant of any kind. It pays long-term dividends.
It's a clever idea. Perhaps you could even vote for who you want to create and enforce the private regulations of your burbclave.
I've heard it said they are afraid of religion, not because they want to be worshiped, but because it's scary to them for people to have a 'higher' authority than the state.
Germany has 17x the number of device requests of France while having a similar population count and iPhone usage.
I believe engine re-use is on their roadmap. Not for the first launch, or the second, but I think the aim is to have it soon.

That said, it's "re-use" by ejecting them and parachuting them down to a safe landing, so who knows if that will work.
Not in any realistic sense.

Also the big culprit in shortening the life of an SSD are writes, unified memory doesn’t mean that you have to write more often to the SSD in fact it means the opposite, unified memory isn’t a page file.
This is absolutely a factor, though one I didn't focus on in this post. The sorts of large binary blobs that can take a lot of memory tend to be, well, large and contiguous, so perfect for moving between SSD and RAM at maximum speed.

While I haven't seen benchmarks yet, the claim was 2x relative to their current systems, IIRC, which were already crazy fast at > 2GB/s.

So it would probably do OK even just plain swapping, but really, really well moving these large blobs in and out, for example using mmap() and madvise().
> Polyphonic note editing? Utterly transparent time stretching? Even just the ability to do huge amounts of serious DSP on generic CPUs has completely altered the entire landscape of music production

Right, so now what is popular music today? Vocalists who can't sing in tune without help from technology, and musicians who never play more than a few bars at a time in studio because it is all stitched together digitally, and live performances that are just lip-synching to a playback. It's artificial from end to end.
Authoritarianism is bad for business, there are plenty of examples where big businesses get "nationalized" or where the founders are forced to sell to a "friendly party official" who then proceeds to run it into the ground.
Russia notoriously is very good at this, leading even innovative companies to sabotage their own growth as to not become an "acquisition target" of the ruling elite.

There is also the "creative destruction problem" where an innovative company is beating an incumbent, but the incumbent happens to be partially owned by party cadre and leverages its power to shut down the innovator.

In my humble opinion, the security and protection of property under the rule of law should be a human right as it's the core driver of economic growth.
I tried getting Workers to work with a Haskell Servant application compiled with Asterius, based on [1], but kept running into various errors. [2] Example of the perils of trying to use experimental toolchains, I guess.

[1] https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-10-09-asterius-cloudflare-wor...

[2] For the curious: the problem that eventually defeated me was the Worker responding with 404 to a route on /ip, defined in Servant. I tried defining a route on / with Servant and using that instead, but got 406 responses when doing that. First time I've ever seen that error code.
I think this is probably true for armed conflict, but for civil conflicts in liberal societies, I think it's fair to assume that over time things converge to a more moral and just society over time. (So, the "victors" can be presumed legitimately moral.) However, this has an assumption that a society is liberal, and provides the free exchange of ideas, which is something that seems to ebb-and-flow itself.
I just noticed it this weekend. Side of egg rolls on Doordash is $10, additional egg roll $2. On menu $6.50 and additional egg roll $1. When I noticed that, I immediately removed the order and called the restaurant directly.

The markups for ordering through doordash are ridiculous. I can afford to pay $25 for a burrito, but I'm not going to do that. That's a ridiculous price for being lazy/greedy.