skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an example of a ring that was trying (rather hamfistedly) to manipulate HN, which was caught by our systems and neutralized long before the thread you're linking to ever happened. As I said at the time, if anyone can find an example of a story from those accounts making the HN front page, I'd like to hear about it at hn@ycombinator.com; examples of cases we missed are hugely helpful in plugging holes. But certainly the vast majority of their efforts went nowhere.

People try every day to plant stuff on HN's front page, and every day our anti-abuse systems catch such efforts and apply different types of counter-action depending on the case. I'm not saying no one gets away with it (obviously we can't know that) but I can say for sure that anyone getting away with it would have to be way smarter than that group.

In case anyone's interested, it happens that I've been working for the last few weeks on a new type of anti-abuse system, which is designed to more tightly enforce this site guideline: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We don't tell people in wheelchairs to stay at home while the rest of us get on with life. We accommodate them because pure survival of the fittest is the baseline of how animals live and civilization is about evolving beyond that.
I hate going to the store. And a store has only a few brands.. I have to drive around to compare prices.

With covid most of us are online this year.
shrug not everyone thinks the same way - about topics or meta-topics.

I'm not trying to be nasty or anything - I just vehemently don't want what you're trying to say is a good thing. It's akin to me not wanting my right leg chopped off, and someone trying to persuade me to listen to the arguments on both sides. No thanks; I want both my legs - or in this instance... I want my unsullied app-store.
And some elisp to create and bind a keymap for those capture invocations might look like:

(let ((capture-map (make-sparse-keymap)))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-n" capture-map)
(define-key capture-map (kbd "w")
#'(lambda nil (interactive) (org-capture nil "work")))
(define-key capture-map (kbd "h")
#'(lambda nil (interactive) (org-capture nil "home"))))

Doing it as a separate keymap makes it easier to change the keybindings if you later decide to leave C-n at its default binding of next-line - something I actually recommend, since being able to perform cursor movement with keybindings that don't require moving your hands away from the default position has actually proven a lot faster in my experience than using the arrow keys. Navigation via isearch (C-s forward, C-r backward) is faster still, and something I'd really recommend making some time to try out as a newish Emacs user.
Honestly, the problem is that most people who get an MBA seem to do it just so they can get a promotion and more money. Especially at larger companies, the vast majority of these MBAs will likely never be in a position with enough authority to truly innovate or use most of the skills. I feel like it's just a prerequisite for climbing the corporate ladder.
No, what we need to do is stop using closed, centralized platforms which are controlled by someone whose interests are wildly different from our own. (And I don't care who you are, your interests are wildly different from Zuckerberg's.)

The solution is not taking away legitimate rights from someone else, it's taking control back from them.
There is no such thing as "cash is guaranteed to come in at a future date". Counterparty risk is pretty much impossible to remove, only to trade away to another party.
I make a bit under $20k per month base (a bit under $30k with equity) for a Silicon Valley firm, doing Python and Java and Go and the like, and I suspect I have a lot more career portability. That said, it's extraordinarily impressive for Europe, even the expensive parts of Sweden!
I have a nice akgs wired headphones, but every time I stand up or move i pull on the cable or have to remove them. with my Bluetooth headphones I can go to kitchen grab something and go back quickly.
EV cars will be 95% of all cars sold within 20 years. Most likely much faster.

Lack of early, large and decisive investment in EV shows a stunning lack of foresight from all ICE car CEOs. Suicide by inaction.

18% is more market share than the biggest ICE car companies (VW and Toyota have ~10% market share).

This shows that Musk handily outperforms all ICE car makers in his sub-market (EV cars). It's not like Tesla lacks competition in EV market (NIO, BYD, XPeng, Nissan, GM, Hunday, Renault, Rivian, Lucid...)
A moat is what enables you to avoid being in a race-to-the-bottom commodity business. In a commodity business you get just enough returns to cover cost of capital plus a little bit. With a moat you can get 20% - 30% profit margins: Coca-Cola, Apple, Google. A moat is also what builds an enduring business. The moat is what prevents other people from just doing that same thing you are doing but at a lower price. A moat isn't rent seeking, it is (or at least can be) out-competing. The iPhone was a huge moat for Apple for many years; they were 2 years ahead of everyone when it came out, so much so that engineers at Microsoft and RIM both thought that the announced product was impossible. The M1 is similar, everyone is probably two years behind, if they can even catch up. (Eventually they will, because Apple probably can't ride the process improvements that long)
Time spent with coworkers is just time spent at work. It's not voluntary so time spent away from work once retirement hits isn't about transferring all of it to friends. Retirement includes time for hobbies which can be solitary without the connotation of loneliness or a social pariah.
I recall something about a degree not being a requirement to be hired by Tesla, but I’m assuming anytime this sort of headline makes the news (supposedly the federal government did something similar recently) they almost exclusively mean “for software developers”. I would be incredibly shocked if Musk was hiring self taught, say... material engineers or any other “traditional” engineer.

I’m not really a fan of credentialism, especially when it can be expensive and painful as hell to obtain them, but I don’t put much stock into most “anti education” type stuff.
Most of the republicans I know are disappointed, but not so severely that they want to go killing people. That sort of extremism is very fringe. Also, even if you count the mellow majority, they're far from 50%.
What are some example reasons why Ross paintings are of amateurish quality?

I've seen plenty of motel paintings, watched plenty of Bob Ross episodes, but the comparison doesn't seem fair. Motel paintings are often printed - you can tell by the CMYK dots if you come close enough. Ross at least seems to use actual oil paint on canvas supported by real solvents which seems a lot higher quality than the usual school process using acrylics or temperas. (Although granted using liquid white seems a bit dodgy).

So what is Ross missing. Not enough detail? Does not take enough time to paint a painting? Not enough paint on the canvas? Not photorealistic enough? Too photorealistic?
Running the numbers usually gives you numbers like 50% overbuild, but even if you're right, a 5x overbuild still is significantly cheaper than nuclear.

A 5x overbuild would give you massive amounts of "free" electricity. I'm sure the world would find something economically useful to do with it. Maybe you could use it to generate green hydrocarbons from atmospheric CO2, killing several birds with one stone.
The problem I have on a six year old laptop running Linux is that, only sometimes, when powered off, everything closes normally, systemd exits but then the laptop never goes off. It has happened to me on other laptops. Not a big deal but I really wonder why.
I saw a video a few years ago where they failed to land a rocket on a platform and it blew up...
> Their emissions per capital are low

Well I do see far more electric vehicles in Beijing and in Washington DC if that's what you mean
> it's still just blatant political censorship on a massive level

Uhhh... no, banning lies and hate speech is not "political censorship". That implies that lies and hate speech are legitimate political views.
Is anyone in USA so inspired by politicians that they would slightly inconvenience themselves in response to a polite request by a politician? If anything I'd expect the effect to be negative, especially with polarizing people like Pompeo or Pelosi. (You'll never convince me that a significant portion of mask-wearing in "blue" states isn't due to Trump's famous opposition to masks.) Many of those who wear masks do so because we are aware of the respiratory pandemic underway, and not pathologically selfish.

Certain sports stars or perhaps "country" musicians could have a one-time effect on mask rates if they really went hard, but each time we fire one of these bullets it's used up. If "Florida Georgia Line" go all-in on masks, they won't be cool enough to tell us about vaccines.
Not to mention the smart digital signal processing these will leverage to deliver better sound quality, which is a potential innovation to headphone design at large that Apple is uniquely positioned to create via their existing expertise. As a happy XM3 owner, I think if these are feature by feature identical to the XM3 they will be quite overpriced. I also think that itself is very unlikely, and that they will have additional qualities justifying the price premium.

There's lots of room to improve, for example, the quality of your voice as picked up by the mic, especially in windy environments. Speaking of that, walking outside on a windy day can be really intrusive with the XM3s because the ANC tries to 'cancel' the wind and you get weird sounds in your ears. Those seem like cases where Apple is well suited to make dramatic improvements via DSP. Tech like the noise canceling the HoloLens 2 applies to its mic (to cut out noise from around the speaker) seems well within their capability. I don't make much use of the XM3's "smart" features because they're pretty compromised. Their 'transparency' mode/partial noise canceling mode is really more intrusive than useful. It doesn't sound like I am partly-canceling background noise, it sounds like microphones are selectively filtering some of what they pick up into my music while I walk outside.

So I think there's definitely enough space for Apple to innovate on sound quality and other aspects of the wireless headset experience to justify the margin.

Edit: Also, multi-device pairing and handoff is super janky with the XM3s. Worth mentioning, I had the XM2s beforehand and the mic was literally unusable on conference calls no matter where I used it - people would complain and ask me what was wrong with my phone every time. Wireless headphones are not a solved problem.
When you file your state business taxes, you put down how much state sales tax you paid, and then you get it back as a credit (not a deduction), so you basically get it all back at the end of the year, if you have a resellers license.

Also, some retailers let you file your resellers license with them and then they don't charge you sales tax because they know you are a vendor who is going to resell it. This system is often abused by small businesses who buy personal items along with their business items and then don't pay tax on their personal items. In theory they have to file use tax at the end of the year (the same use tax you're supposed to file if you buy something out of state and aren't taxed on it), but most people don't.
> If you don’t pay, it’s rather slow.

I have several free sites on Netlify and none of them seem slow at all - all three sites load in under 450ms on Chrome.

How much faster are your sites loading? Is it a shared VPS or dedicated?

Just curious how you categorize "rather slow" is all.
That's why the developer has a manager who is a human who can talk to them and find out what they are working on, instead of a robot that can only process tickets created and tickets completed.
> if we were optimizing for general well-being...

Fair enough, I wasn't clear: we _should_ be optimizing for general well-being, and among other things I think minimum-effort disease-prevention (masks, distancing, reasonable sick leave) are completely reasonable asks.

Similarly, we probably shouldn't be relying on a mega-consumerist culture that, when suppressed for whatever reason, has far-reaching economic effects that doom millions in developing countries to hunger/whathaveyou.

But these issues are not in opposition, we just have a crappy system that doesn't deal with both of them well at the same time. I think it's unreasonable to frame it as "well we can only address these issues in degrees, lest we make the other worse" and not question the system that somehow frames disease prevention and feeding people as opposing goals.

It's certainly possible to address this disease without such drastic impacts, but it relies on the population having an empathic mentality. Look at Japan, as an example[0]: Similar in terms of development, but with a much less invasive response they've only suffered around 2.3k deaths _total_, when the US is already seeing that number daily.

You are completely correct that "a huge % of the population is not happy with the current actions and policy being performed," because we have examples of cultures that are weathering this storm FAR better than those of us in the USA are.... but I think attitudes like yours are contributing to our failure to deal with this pandemic well.

[0]: https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/12/12/the-japanese-autho...
All systems with value at stake attract fraud, including paywalls (credit card fraud, obviously; circumvention too). This does not mean we give up and go home. On the contrary, Google and FB take all your data and do strong antifraud work on their native ad-inventory properties. Brave aims to do the same on your device without all that tracking, along with other projects such as https://hcaptcha.com and its protocol foundation, https://www.hmt.ai/.
Except the Android of today has not much in common with the Android from ten years ago. Android might be open sourced but is by no means like the linux that you'd run on your PC and is being increasingly built to wall you into Google's services while Samsung and the rest try to remove Google as much as possible from the equation and sway you to their services. Basically you're the cashcow they try to heave around. What a mess to be in.

Oh, and let's not forget that while Android itself is open source, the Android on your phone right now is full of binary blobs for even the basic shit. Camera driver? Image processor? Fast charging? LTE modem? Fingerprint sensor? OLED calibration? most of them are binary blobs specific either to the chip/sensor manufacturer or the OEM who designed the phone as they consider this stuff proprietary IP they wish to keep secret from the other Android OEM competitors. Move to LineageOS and you risk loosing a lot of your phone's fancy features because of that.

I love my Androids but it's still a mess and the openness is slowly going away(since Android 9 we lost call recording capability which was a huge blow for my use case). At least we still have f-droid.
Unfortunately I think part of the answer is somewhat political in nature, which I'm not willing to get into an argument over.

The other side of the problem is that lawmakers have no incentive to set aside money/time/resources for pandemic preparedness.

A quote from HHS Secretary under Bush, Mark Leavitt sums up part of the problem nicely:

> “In advance of a pandemic, anything you say sounds alarmist. After a pandemic starts, everything you’ve done is inadequate.”

Another example of lawmakers having no incentive to think about the future:

>The Public Health Emergency Preparedness program’s funding has gone from about a billion dollars in 2003 to $675 million this year, while the Hospital Preparedness program has gone from more than $500 million at its peak in 2004 to less than $300 million today.
> And I'm sorry that you take this laughable stuff at face value.

If you have just 2 minutes I would kindly request you play below video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZXkAv7yKgw&list=UU8Ioh4atND...

Her testimony starts at 1:34:45.

If I'm not supposed to take her testimony at "face value", how am I supposed to take it?

Am I supposed to:
1) Assume she and the others are lying to get Trump elected?
2) She was on an acid trip and it never happened?
3) Something else?

Please - help me understand. I am genuinely interested in why I should dismiss her and not pay her any attention.
It can reset on a schedule. Everybody knows it's coming. It ensures that debt's don't grow so much that they warp other aspects of the economy. I believe it was done in the past to avoid the large scale virtual enslavement of the poor via debt. It was meant to be a relief valve of sorts.
I don’t frequent car forums but I always wonder if it’s the same over there. Every time a new Mercedes comes out do a bunch of people start complaining about how a Ford is cheaper or something? It’s like people struggle to grasp the idea of a luxury brand.
that 90% would have had the same opportunity if the opening was higher
To add to this, temperature plays a really critical role in oxidation/corrosion of stainless steel (and other metals). The scale that forms at high temperatures has a different composition than what develops at lower temperatures. In certain environment, the scale remains on the surface, inhibiting further oxidation, but in other environments, the scale is continuously removed, eventually destroying it.
Most languages are context sensitive.

Most language tools are context free.

How did we go so wrong?
I used Scala2 professionally for a few years. Recently picked up Typescript, it has become a very usable Java++ language.
https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/comparison/products/headphon...

I have the B&O H9 3rd gen and I love them. I have no idea whether they stack up to what your write on the tech stack side of things, but the sound is phenomenal I think and that’s what matters to me. The mic is useless, but I don’t ever use them for anything but music anyhow.
Service Merchandise was also a (regional) giant that would have been very well positioned to compete with Amazon (their model was already warehouse-focused with "showrooms" ala the Ikea model, just somewhat more electronics/toys/consumer goods than furniture focused), but it too was raided and gutted (just before Sears and in some ways the test bed for what eventually happened to Sears).
> I have a pair of Audio Technica A700s, about $150 new that are now 12 years old; I'm on my 3rd set of earpads.

So you buy a new set of earpads on those every 4 years. But we can also compare with the same-market-segment-as-AirPod-Max (wireless+ANC+mic) Bose QC35, where many people have to replace their earpads _every_ _year_⁰ at $35 a pair (or $20 for third party ones that might last longer but definitely feel worse). So the question I think will be how long the pads last on these. Do you have to replace them every year like with the Bose ones or only every 4 years?

⁰ - QC35 ear pad extreme comfort but lack of durability is basically a meme among owners now.
Why do you consider the survey design "sloppy"? E.g., doom-emacs is a well-known emacs distribution; there nothing weird if 18% of survey respondents use it.

Whether the survey respondents are a representative sample of the general emacs population is a different question, and one which is very hard to answer given that we have no other data about people's preferences in emacs. Hopefully, the survey will become more popular with time, so we'll see results approaching the "true" values.
If it works the same as in Germany you only pay no VAT if you buy from a company in another EU country as a company.

Therefore the EU has both a sales tax and a VAT depending on if you look at individual countries or the EU as a whole.
The article argues that there is no useful measure that operates at a finer grain than “tasks multiplied by complexity”.

I think that complexity is hard to measure and therefore easy to game.

At GitLab we only measure tasks completed, the number of changes that shipped to production, with the requirement that every change has to add value. This measure has been used throughout R&D https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/performance-in... to assess productivity for multiple years now with good success https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/08/27/measuring-engineeri...

When you tell new engineers about this target they see a great opportunity to game it, just ship smaller changes. It turns out that smaller changes are quicker to ship. Lead to better code and tests. Have lower risk of cancellation and problems in production. And lead to earlier and better feedback.

Inspired by Goodhart’s Law I'll propose the following: A measure that when it becomes a target improves productivity. ~Sijbrandij's Law
> How come number of Covid infection rates is rising, while flu seems to be eradicated? If the measures help against the flu, why not against Covid?

I don't like appeals to authority, but this perspective that people who have spent their entire lives studying epidemiology have just got this all wrong, don't understand what they are doing, and that appeals to "common sense logic" will reveal the truth ... really irritates me.

I mean, just as a basic starting point, most people have immunological exposure to the flu, so a fairly effective method to prevent spread of the flu virus will have outsized effects on the incidence of flu (even more so if that fairly effective method is even more widely utilized by those most at risk from flu). But no humans prior to the end of 2019 had immunological exposure to SARS-COV-2, and so any "leakage" in the efforts to stop its spread will have much greater impact than with influenza.

More generally, this is really basic epidemiology, and I don't understand why you think it's so useful to question this stuff in this way.
based on https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918... key conclusion from paper

The findings highlight the importance of understanding, conceptualizing, and empirically testing tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood (TIV), and suggest that victimhood is a stable and meaningful personality tendency.

Key graf from Reason article:

The study distinguishes TIV from narcissism. Narcissistic individuals also experience moral superiority and vengeful desires, but these feelings tend to spring from the belief that their authority, capability, or grandiosity is being undermined. TIV, on the other hand, is associated with low self-esteem. And while narcissists do not want to be victimized, high-TIV individuals lash out when their victimhood is questioned.
Windless days and cloud cover are phenomena that actually exist and are observed. The behavior of beta particles suddenly changing is not.

Yes, 5x variability in wind production has actually been observed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Erie_Shores_Wind_Farm_out...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windpowerprediction.png
I absolutely love that book! I can’t recommend it enough.
Not sure how many times I was on the phone with a client who wanted a few quick updates. I just edited the repo on github, checked it in and BOOM! Told the client the changes were live while we were still on the phone.

That kind of ease of use does wonders for your customer service numbers.
Maybe you should write a truth table/source code macro!
I’ve been interested in Scala recently, although I’ve heard it’s been unfortunately pigeonholed in industrial use. Would you say it’s worth takin up now or wait for Scala 3?