skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free will does not exist, so telling people they have a form of free will called "making choices" is a misdirection. You aren't actively making choices even if you feel like you are. You are only reacting to the stimulus you receive from the environment. Change the stimulus, and the behavior changes.

Your definition of free will is useless because it doesn't accurately reflect the reality. I make what "feels" like a choice, but it isn't really a choice.

This kind of reasoning actually does lead to better consequences, not worse.
Fascinating.

Do you have links to Sean's papers? There doesn't seem to be anything on his blog.
>Heavily Democrat

You are making an assumption that Republicans only donated to Trump and not to Biden. The Bloomberg article is about donations based on profession and large employers, not political affiliation or party.
The "marvelous enough" argument always feels disappointing to me. Sure, Occam's razor, Russell's teapot etc etc. But it feels like a blunt tool, too easy to wield.
Do we have enough knowledge about the universe to claim there isn't anything like that? Do we have sufficient methods to measure everything that is going on?
The Sliding Window Algorithm
1-click ordering is a product innovation, not a technical one
It's all compile on machine, there's no package repository, only a Recipe one.
> On the one hand, losses are mounting, up from $4.3 billion in 2018 and $4.6 billion in 2019, but revenue is also seeing strong growth, up from $5.8 billion in 2018 and $8.9 billion in 2019.

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That debt, acquisition and paying of employees is fraud. You are just pushing the risk onto those other entities with poor price discovery.
Deconstructing the Filter Bubble: User Decision-Making and Recommender Systems
I think you two are in agreement that the function is lacking.
So... Now that Jeff is retiring, whom I should address emails after various support teams fail at their jobs? Before it was jeff@amazon.com, now, I would assume, andy@amazon.com?
Irving Finkel is a gem. His talk “cracking ancient codes” is lovely too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfYYraMgiBA
It was really common to type in random words as domains expecting something. People would make mistakes so people would buy domains with common spelling mistakes.
BWS is actually an Australian liquor store brand. Beer-Wine-Spirits. Memorable enough once you get used to it as well.
That's a nice song you're playing to yourself.
> Interest isn’t predatory

It is by the very fact that the lender is owed money in the contract by doing basically nothing. Proper investment balances the risk between parties, so that one party does not have an inherent advantage over the other. This is part of running a moral and just society.

> Look at the enormous wealth created by capitalism

Red herring. The system is fundamentally unstable, by the very fact that people are on the lookout for the next economic crash because it's built into the system. When that happens, people with money are able to acquire even more assets, increasing the divide.

I'm all for people making money, as long as they do it the moral way. Interest is immoral and predatory.
All people only have 24 hours a day even if they're rich. It's easy to combat them if you care more than they do; all these huge tech companies have surprisingly little political power and constantly lose local battles to activist groups and retired homeowners.

Bezos can hire people to do things for him, but clearly this has limits, he isn't sending hitmen after Amazon critics even if he could pay them $1 billion Amazon shares each.
>After quitting Facebook a couple of years ago

I read that as: After quitting Facebook as an employee a couple of years ago

Which made this:

> I tried to log in to my Facebook account back in December to say Merry Christmas to some people, but I am locked out. Facebook asked me to send in a government photo ID, which I did. Nothing has happened since.

Sound so very petty and cold blooded. You know, the Facebook we all know and love ;)
The theme is naiveté.

That governments are doing this with impunity, and probably have been since the dawn of "civilization".

That whistleblowing will make any difference to those responsible.

Edward Snowmen cops it (admittedly it seems this viewpoint is decreasing) for "not following official channels". Official Channels is voluntarily putting your future in the toilet.

The purpose of Official Channels is akin to HR Departments: to minimise the damage to the parent entity. More people need to be aware of this for their own good.
Whenever I hear someone say something like “scientists aren’t researching X because they’re scared!” my response is generally “Have you even Googled to see if such studies exist?” Sometimes these statements hold up to 30 seconds of Googling, often they don’t.

And even if they do, perhaps studies have been done searching for spectra of industrial byproduct, but the results were “we couldn’t find anything in the survey data we looked at” and the researchers had a hard time publishing it. Or perhaps there’s a conclusion somewhere in the literature about imaging providing a reason why detecting such spectra with our current tech is unreliable and we need to wait 5-10 years.

Cuz like, come on! What scientist doesn’t want to find aliens?! Anyone who discovered the slightest dispositive proof of ET intelligent life would be on a one-way train to the Nobel prize, global adoration and fame, a lifetime salary on the lecture circuit, a named element on the periodic table and everyday people knowing their name for centuries. The incentives are totally there.
I work in ML and the sciences, so nvidia is a huge huge part of my daily life.

intentionally crippling a DE out of spite so it cannot run on the drivers i use every single day is also a crappy look. https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html
F7 Ventures Challenges the Fundraising Status Quo
It does look like him.

3D faces from famous paintings
https://www.cunicode.com/works/artfaces
Now I can't get the picture of Amazon employees in dark robes repeatedly reciting the tenets out of my head...

That being said, where's the proof that having PEs is better than having architects? If we look at results, I don't see any evidence that Amazon's creating better software than Microsoft on any quality axis.
Google launched GAE in 2008 and GCS in 2010. GSuite ("Google Workspace") launched in 2006 and is also part of Cloud.

I think GCP is in a decent position with momentum today, but it's definitely playing catch-up after a near decade of missteps and fucking around.
The batteries are going to be a consumable if users continue to demand a wireless experience, which most of them seem to prefer, regardless of whether that’s delivered as a dongle or integrated into the headset. It would be nice if we didn’t demand so many things with batteries in them, but that isn’t IMO an Apple problem, that’s a demand pattern. Encasing them in the product might even keep batteries out of landfill. An old AA or laptop battery is easy to pitch, a $550 headset is much more likely to be repaired by someone in a position to recycle the battery.

Bluetooth and the integrated form factor is a risk, but I think that’s not a ten year concern. It would be nice if they had a physical port for the eventuality though.
It would be hard to unify that with it's beliefs.

It wouldn't surprise me if Andrew Schlafly indeed would believe that the suggestive pictures are indeed intended as promoting male fitness, as it was originally said to avoid the censor.

https://i0.wp.com/www.towleroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/...

They are but fitness buffs, socializing, respecting each other's bodies and efforts.
That's a lot of speculation. We don't yet know why one of the Raptor engines failed to relight. The Raptor is a very new engine with only a handful of minutes of flight time. Keep in mind they also replaced a couple of the engines before the flight. I imagine SpaceX still be considers them development engines.

You can also see some debris fly off of the bottom of the rocket just as it's performing its flip maneuver.

With SN8 Musk tweeted casually about it, but he's apparently taking a hiatus for a bit.
The question they are asking is if it’s going up & up what will ever cause it to go down?

The standard answer is the government. Which is fine but reduces a moral position to an operational one.
I'm not an audiophile but I am a disabled user which is why I can't buy these. I can't lift up my right arm all the way up so I typically don't use the right-side headphone controls on headphones.

The AirPods Max aren't reversible (idk of any headphones that are?) and the fact that they put the controls all the way up top means that even if I reach over with my left hand, I can't really reach the controls. This absolutely sucks. I love that they're physical buttons but yeah, this sucks.

I have the Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones which have some controls on the left (I wish they were configurable) and "touchpad" controls on the right. 90% of the time, the only gesture that works on those using my reach-around method with my left hand is the pause button. That's it. It sucks. I wish it had more physical buttons.

So can someone give me reversible headphones, use those physical buttons that are better than gesture-based touchpads, and make them reversible? I'd really appreciate that :/

Until then, the WH-1000XM4 are at least usable by someone who can't use their right hand to control headphones. The AirPods Max are not.
Actually it is the same situation. The launch was fine. What blew it up is something nobody has attempted before.
3D Faces from Famous Paintings
and you look like a vain sheep when you pull out an iPhone
I'd be interested in hearing other use cases.
"If you get it right, a few years after a surprising invention, the new thing has become normal. People yawn. And that yawn is the greatest compliment an inventor can receive."
How do they turn those losses into profit? Raise prices by 50%?
I always find comments like this interesting. This is similar to the comments I see whenever anyone says something remotely nice about a wealthy person on HN. What does going to Princeton have anything to do with being laughed at for selling books on the internet ? Who claimed he had a rags-to-riches story ? It oozes insecurity and envy.
Why would it "have" to be measurable with today's technology?
> To be fair, Amazon has probably the worst corporate reputation among public-facing companies, up with Walmart when it comes to labor issues.

The US healthcare system, oil, gas and coal companies, weapons manufacturers, factory farms, fast fashion sellers, soft drink and dessert companies?

I mean, Amazon and MS are in ESG investing indexes, so they must be doing okay. Those indexes won't even allow nuclear power in.
I wonder if the browsers themselves weren't responsible for the reversal of this trend. Back in the day, if you typed something into address bar, there wasn't a "fallback to search" like we have today.
To add to your comment:

In his chat with Elon Musk, the RH CEO said that Robinhood was given the $3B bill at 3am in the morning, and got it down to $0.7B after saying they would only allow closing out of positions for "meme stocks".

By his own words, RH took the first step to "change the game", which I am not really seeing discussion of anywhere. The DTCC certainly did not change any rules for them, but this still feels unprecedented.
This evidence supports the form over function argument: one can only conclude Apple sassily put the charge port on the bottom to make it impossible even to think of using the mouse while a cord is attached.
Scotty from Marketing: my way or the highway

Google: the highway

Scotty from Marketing: we don't respond to threats[0]

[0]: https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-22/scott-morrison-goo...
This instantly reminded me of the story about Microsoft posting a dev a dead fish.

https://olhardigital.com.br/en/2020/05/23/news/the-strange-s...
Antitrust aside, has there ever been a business reason to split up Amazon? I doubt anyone inside the company ever took that talk seriously.
Serious question, do you think threatening to remove google as the default search engine is a serious threat? I use ddg and tried Bing when they were paying people to use it, but I have no illusions that google is by far the most superior search engine. It would be weird if they switched the default.

But then again... apple maps.
SpaceX Starship is way outside established industry specifications.
Of course proving a simple design and sticking with it is safer! Not going to space and being content with remaining on the ground is safer still! Water is wet! The sky is blue!

We can all see what happened: the soviets stopped spending money on innovation and tried to re-frame their stagnation as operational brilliance. Sure, Soyuz has a reliability niche, and I'd rather ride on it too, but I'd rather fund efforts to advance space exploration, even if they wind up being a clusterfuck like the shuttle.
The former, probably not. But the latter fits within the context of "21st century Sears"
It's odd to claim companies are obligated to maximize profit in a thread about Amazon, whose retail operation isn't profitable and basically exists because Bezos hypnotized investors into giving him free money forever.
I don't get why this maxim is constantly touted as if it were a fundamental truth. Corporations exist in a social and legal framework that we agreed to create, and that we could change so that money would not be the sole measure of value.

You might say that's the way things are right now, but if you stop there it sounds like fatalism. I'd rather say something like "let's find ways to regulate corporations so that they have to care about our basic rights". Sorry if I'm misunderstanding your comment.
I'm not quite sure that we need new categories of prohibited conduct, when existing categories fit.

We could debate the particulars, gray areas abound here, but areas of concern include:

Tying: which is offering unrelated goods or services only as a bundle. Things like Android licensing (effectively) requiring Google search defaults to use the Google Play store (no longer the case in EU); possibly the Google(+) login requirement for YouTube account fits. By tying the otherwise unrelated small product with the big product, the small product gets more market share, and this can be abusive.

Dumping (or predatory pricing): selling (or giving away) a product below cost to drive out competiton. Android or Chrome could fit here; but the case is murky because the US (at least) is looking for harm to consumers, and sees free browsers and free OS for phone reducing the price of the phone as a consumer good. But there's some feedback loops here that aren't great for the consumer.

Something that comes up that's hard for me to put into a category is cross promotion. When Google highlights other Google services on search results, that sometimes feels abusive (or is reported as abusive). Especially when it's not really apropriate for the search query. This is the category news complaints seem to be in.
Wikipedia Embraces First-of-Its Kind Universal Code of Conduct
It is similar on GoboLinux as well. There is a Recipe repository that contains build scripts that you invoke with Compile, which automatically compiles and installs the package.
gnu wayland thank you very much.
Because we get more than we had before. As costs go down, the risk of innovation goes down, we're able to be more responsive, able to do new things. People are able to have more variety to meet their individual needs and preferences.

In short we get more or work less and the overall quality of life for everyone increases.
"they immediately owed taxes on options they had just exercised"

On exercise yes, but not on issue. I think you're mixing up people buying their options (exercise) with issuance of the options.

No taxes are owed at grant or vest on options, whether NSO or ISO.

Upon exercise (buying - regardless of whether there's a sale) of NSO a tax is owed on the spread between the FMV (usually the 409a valuation, if pre-ipo) and the strike price at grant. This can be considerable and I'm sure is the tax event you're thinking of.

Savvy employees with a cooperative employer often exercise at grant time -- before the options vest -- writing a check almost immediately after hire. This is an early exercise. If this takes place before the value changes (before the board updates the 409a valuation) then there is a taxable event but the spread is $0. The employee then follows up with an 83(b) election to notify the IRS that they wished to be taxed now, rather than later at vest, which ensures that income tax on the spread is never paid. It all becomes regular capital gains.
There could be a delicate dance somewhat similar to what Soviet lunar lander was planned to do at launch: start all engines, and if all is well, shut down those backups. Here with Raptors one could imagine launching two engines, but if one runs well - during the startup sequence - shut the other down mid-sequence.

But this is totally question to Raptor creators. Might be not really feasible or even meaningful.
Maybe AirPods Max's battery lasts better than AirPods because its space and weight isn't limited like that so Apple can configure looser max/min battery use level to lasts more.
The right-wing (libertarian?) belief here is usually that doing things for the benefit of society doesn't actually benefit society, because irony always wins.

I don't know if this is true, but you'll only talk past each other if you don't acknowledge it.
Given there is before and after code, perhaps the translation can be automated. If the whole code base were auto-translated, what bugs could be detected and fed back to the C implementation? I'm assuming there is going to be hesitance from the FreeBSD community from migrating their codebase from C to Checked C, but that doesn't mean this work needs to come to nought.
On top of bounded memory accesses, it'd be interesting to see better thread, signal, interrupt, etc. safety support. I guess at some point this just looks like Rust.
> Short squeezes are not good for the market, period

This is an opinion. To briefly articulate some arguments that take the other side:

Short squeezes are a disincentive for hedge funds to take undisclosed bearish positions in otherwise healthy companies, and for options dealers to sell cheap call options on those companies. They also increase equity value for shareholders. A squeeze can reduce the debt load for a company by incentivizing bondholders to convert debt into equity, and the profit potential thereof may help a distressed company issue convertible bonds to raise funds.
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I think Google's brand power is by far the most important thing here. When people don't find what they're looking for on Google, the figure it's hard to find, or they need to learn how to query better. When people don't find what they're looking for on Bing, they think it's Bing's fault.

Edit: as for your actual question: possibly. In my opinion the quality difference between Google & Apple Maps is greater than Google vs Bing search.
From a foreign (non-US) perspective I find these Australian laws quite understandable, practical and rational.

Google and Facebook are both US companies, with a strong online presence and great influence in Australia (and other countries). But obviously it is in Australia's national interest to see that this kind of influence is directed by Australia themselves, rather than corporate or some foreign interest.

It is undeniable that due to overwhelming monopolist control that many of these foreign US companies have over today's internet, stronger government oversight and regulation is a must to protect the national interests and sovereignty of any democratic country.

To this end, ideally we need the regulator to mainly:

- Implement strong privacy rules in favour of the citizen (with strong emphasis in limiting data collection, sharing and usage without users permission, and ensuring data is stored not outside the country, among other things).

- Create legal standard "templates" of the "terms of conditions" (on behalf of the citizens) for the various common online services and force the corporates to use these, instead of the ever-frequently-changing and one-sided contracts they force us to accept.

- Ensure online discourse is limited from foreign influence (e.g. to fight foreign online troll armies that try to influence elections).
I was certain you had to have made that comment up, but I googled it[0] and indeed it comes from a serious audiophile publication.

https://www.whathifi.com/au/best-buys/accessories/best-audio...
And canceling Amazon Prime requires you to click a button saying you want to cancel four times.
There is a market for infinite adverts. You remember ShopTV and other TV marketing channels streaming advertisements 24/7?
complaining won't help me join a meeting.
Correct. But actually being a direct descendant would, and that's what we're talking about here.
"The king is dead, long live the king!"
I think they are doing it the most efficient way (similar to the Falcon 9) - that is with 0 hover.

The timing doesn't mean much because an entire engine didn't light... so it would have flipped up right faster and slowed down faster. Timing on a failure case doesn't really work.

Also it was only 1 engine compared with two, they could gimbal independently and have one course correcting while the other decelerates
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You can choose to develop rockets - especially of such size - this way instead of putting (much) more efforts in calculating how it would behave and prepare for all cases.
i partially agree with you. robinhood is ran by rich guys who make money when people use the app - regardless if the traders make money or not. and i agree that index funds are a great way to get exposure to the long term growth of the economy.

however, giving people the ability to trade on margin and options just like the big shops is an equalizer. robinhood wasn't lying there. the problem really is:

1) education

there's a significant inequality in knowledge. the average person isn't taught market fundamentals, theory, or the technical details of how stuff works (how does a call work? what does T+2 mean?)

2) capitalism

the market is tipped in the favor of the big guys, because currently the financial market is incentivized to keep these guys not just afloat but jacked up. big gains = everyone is happier. as such, very smart people, like physicists, are attracted to the financial sector where they are paid the big bucks to make insanely rich people even wealthier, instead of working in academia or an industry where they can contribute their abilities to bettering the entire world. i.e. working on green energy or reducing environmental impact or improving productivity
Lipstick on pig ?
Just because I have an ARM processor doesn't mean I'm on a phone too.