skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a moral pivot. They're still bastards.

The economics of fossil fuel energy is becoming increasingly poor with the advancements in alternatives. It's becoming more expensive while electric storage and generation is become cheaper.

I'm sure they'll raid their way into the alt-energy market, squeeze out small businesses, do price cartels, try to form monopolies, and do a bunch of other nasty things. But they won't continue to be propping up absolute monarchies and funding international terrorist organizations like they have been. It'll be a different kind of evil - closer to Nestle, Monsanto or Bechtel.

Companies become large through aggressively exercising power. Sometimes it's mostly benign, sometimes it's bloody. Electric storage/generation looks like it'll be less bloody than oil.
Source: used to work for a direct Uber competitor (not in the US)

Drivers and platforms definitely don't want too intoxicated passengers. Reasonably drunk? Sure. Completely high/passed out/etc? Nope. It's just too much of a mess to handle. There is indeed a vomiting fee, but it's more used as a deterrent for the users: it does not cover the actual cleaning + lost rides on a busy Saturday night...

Bit of anecdata: sexual intercourse in the car is also not ok, and gets you banned. Yes, it happens. Drivers don't like it.
That is incorrect. Brew will do random upgrades when running `brew install` unless you set the non-default `HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1` [1] so every now and then when you brew install something it will e.g. upgrade the python binary from 3.x => 3.(x+1) and break all virtualenvs using symlinks.
Python is just one example, I've spend countless time fixing random broken packages due to the unpredictability of `brew install`.

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/1670
Yeah, but 20 or so years ago they realized that luring new grads with foosball tables and free soda to work on getting people to click on ads is a faster and easier way to make money than making chips which is a slow, capital intensive business where you need to think long term and respect gray beards, so there you go.
Ok in your second and third paragraph you have described an actual person doing stuff. That's where I disagree. I have not seen any proof that there was real malicious player in at least the GameStop fiasco. (But I'm not upto date on this so I might be wrong). It all just feels like a bunch of people half jokingly egged each other on
Does this mean that Netflix produced two documents that they both called 10-K's? One pretty and one generic?
>There's no competition because there's no open listening data

I wonder why last.fm hasn't managed to leverage their data more, if that was really the biggest value of Spotify. Or perhaps they do and sell it to streaming services? Idc
It's a mutually beneficial arrangement. AFAICT the charging networks will set up a charging station for free, although you may be on the hook for some incidentals.
By that definition all men are born equal and the only thing that differentiates them is luck. Luck to be born somewhere, luck to attend some school, luck to earn money, luck to start a business, luck to have a physical prowess.

Floyd Mayweather Jr., arguably the most successful boxer so far is also luck? Luck to be born a great boxer?
We're looking at open sourcing hdoc in the future, and at least offering a free plan in the near term. We'd like to give back to the community too, it's part of the reason why we host our LLVM documentation freely.

We're currently targeting businesses and charging for the product understandably presents a barrier to many people, especially in C++ land where open source is the de facto standard. Unfortunately open source tools don't make money.

How would you like your documentation to be rendered when it's processed into markup formats? Source code documentation largely hasn't changed since the introduction of Doxygen-style comments so I'm curious to hear about your approaches.
Incredible in a dark room. I had to put a matte cover on mine to see other than my reflection.
Performance Analysis and Tuning Challenge
Yeah Deezer isn't too bad. Dealbreaker for Spotify:Linux Client and Years of Play lists.
A highway charge takes about twenty minutes. Charging stations at restaurants and coffee shops do much better than those at gas stations.
It is not possible to make baby formula (the only thing besides breast milk that babies under 4 months can eat) at home.
Seriously? Fuck off vice. Such shit reporting.

GME bagholders didn't do anything wrong.

Look at the candles. That isn't a short squeeze.

That is a short squeeze into a week of market fuckery at the highest level to keep it low enough hedge funds don't go out of business and get a chance to cover at something that isn't astronomical.

Yes, if they allowed it to happen it would have bought some institutions down. No I don't think that would have actually been a bad thing.

Shits fucked and the media is all about that click bait.

Silver was a complete pump and dump carried out by the media at the behest of Citadel.

- made 400% of GME, got out when I noticed the bank's weren't going to let it happen.
They do: in my neighbourhood the two leading providers are E.on (German, EU wide) and Clever (Danish, focusing on the Nordics).

They are both expanding rapidly - for example Clever alone is planning to provide fast charging stations for 70% of the projected national demand in 2025, and growing their charging network size by around 6x.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is a member of United States congress literally blamed forest fires on Jewish space lasers. It's hard to discern these days who has mental issues and who is just conspiracy theorist. Unless a doctor has diagnosed someone I will reserve my judgement
> Nobody can buy their way out of civilisation, even if some people obviously dream of doing so. No man is an island entire of itself.

Sure they can. Find a place which is not taken already, have enough money and you're on.
That can be said for anyone, including our elected leaders. Obama was "lucky" to be gifted with high intelligence (genetic lottery), good public speaking skills and high extroversion, which eventually led to his election as POTUS. Does this mean his outsized influence was undeserving?

We need a rubric that doesn't entail boiling people down to their causal antecedents, because doing so doesn't let us dismbiguate between worthy and unworthy - everyone and everything is a byproduct of this definition of luck.
Panorama: BBC team threatened following Boxing and the Mob programme
The user can easily adjust a laptop or seating position by a couple degrees or so to avoid most reflections. Unless of course they have made a spectacularly poor choice of where to sit in the first place, in which case a matte monitor won't help much either.
We have a job that runs https://pitest.org/, analyse the report and tweak the codebase as per the results. Not sure it's ever found a bug that's likely to happen in prod but definitely gives us a confidence boost
I never looked into Homebrew as I know that its mainly for MacOS.

Since you are sort of making the connection for Homebrew to work without fuss on Linux and Windows as well, if implemented in Rust, I am asking myself what it would offer that a user of Linux and Windows is missing?

Ordinary Linux distributions already have a package management and there is scoop and chocolaty for Windows.
> (Wealthy nations) who said that a ban would stifle innovation at pharmaceutical companies by robbing them of the incentive to make huge investments in research and development.

I can’t believe that pharmaceutical companies get away with this narrative. A large portion of drugs that end up being approved for use are funded and enabled by government funding. [1][2] The Covid vaccine wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for government funding [3].

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/drugs-government-funded-scien...

[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l5766

[3] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-billion-dolla...
It's about half entitlements, 27% Medic* + 22% SS, and this percentage will increase quickly.

But that's still $3T for other stuff in average years. Plus they just passed $2T of extra one-off spending for the second time in a year.

That means the Federal government is basically taking all the spending power of the nation and then redistributing it, giving it enormous power compared to the states.
I don’t really get what you are saying. Are you talking about automated tools as a better option?

Edit: To elaborate a bit, programming is naturally limited by the programmer's imagination, too. But what alternative is offered is a much more interesting topic than just disregarding something because it isn't a perfect solution.
Google searches reveal the hidden cost of lockdown
The basic science behind climate change is relatively easy - we know co2 keeps infrared radiation, and by 1980s we saw how quickly co2 levels increase in the atmosphere.

It’s widely asserted that Exxon knew about what they are doing back in 1970s.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...
You read too much dystopian fiction. I don't see why society where sicko runs things is more likely than society where virtuous person builds heaven.
If you do, let me know!!

Somedays it really looks like I'm gonna see here AARP ads any time soon!

The community is aging and getting out of touch with the market without even realizing it
Legalization is one thing, instructing the DEA to reschedule it (perhaps with some figleaf like a scientific committee to reassess) is another.
User identity has always been a place for big tech to be deliberately divergent from open standards because identity is one of the underlying assets for freemium services.

In the case of pay for identity (like phone numbers) it was guarded as a potential source of additional revenue for multiplay offerings and micropayments.

A couple of decades along we’re sleepwalking into a time where our personal identity will become the property of big corporations that do not protect our privacy or interests.

Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage etc use phone numbers (and email with iMessage) as a not quite anonymous “lookup key” for an identity.

Perhaps now is the time to look at reinventing something like the ENUM RFC for persistent identity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping

A million years ago (before hotmail or gmail) I had a bigfoot.com email address that forwarded to your actual address - maybe there is a scope for a community funded modern equivalent now that allows the creation of genuine lifelong “email” identities.
A car doesn't need a computer, its more needless complexity and more points of failure. A classic car can't be hacked, locked or broken by software.
The crisis is direct consequence of adding useless bloatware into cars, which
only need simple microcontrollers - not latest 7nm CPUs.
> forward-thinking proposals of the past – produced by a “public” of academics, artists and government agencies

yeah, the joy of Fascism, Communism, and all those other future gems produced by the infallible agencies, institutions, and academics.

"Billionaires" don't design humanity's future. People with ideas do and only if these ideas are freely embraced by other members of the public. Freely is keyword here. And if that person's ideas prove widely embraced and successful, they possibly become a billionaire. It's an organic and natural process, fair and square; in direct opposition to this are the govt. agencies and academics who in most cases has to force their thinking on the public and as history has proven - to catastrophic results.

Naturally some of these successful people become arrogant or simply delusional and start spawning other ideas and grand plans, but that is normal human flaws and nothing out of the ordinary. In such cases, the ultimate error correction mechanism - people's acceptance - kicks in and at best Mr. Future ends up with losses, useless inventory, and some media frowns.

Author of the article has a sick and fundamentally broken perception of reality. By saying that successful people shouldn't be allowed to make things for others to possibly use (or not), he's taking away the very fundamental freedom that is responsible for making the better part of the civilized world today.
Also checkout The Making of the Atomic bomb by Richard Rhodes.
This is my perspective. (No luck yet!) From what I am hearing it doesn't matter though, I will need to get vaccinated anyway to be allowed to travel etc.
MITM injecting code on your page that visitors'browsers will happily execute. That's not hypothetical, some ISPs do it.
Not to mention testing a mobile app with a mouse is... well, not the intended use case, to say the least.
Precisely this. The DNS already supports exactly what he is proposing to instead do with some sort of JSON monstrosity.
I definitely prefer working with random cryto people than with random finance people - at least, they are not trying to pretend to be what they aren't.
the post-gas station model- the "charging network"- is lock in beyond what oil companies ever could have dreamt of.
Do second-order manufacturers ever profit from situations like this? All margins seem to go to final product makers, not to a whole chain.
To me, this is the most newsworthy bit. That and the fact that he was the Times’ (and perhaps the nation’s) top COVID reporter, yet it still wasn’t enough to save his job when weighed against an inappropriate remark from 2019.
No question that project management can range from useless to intrusive. But paying lip service and ignoring it isn't the answer.

Programmers who just do their own thing and play along with or ignore the project requirements, schedule, users, and the rest of the team are not contributing. They are doing what they feel like doing on their employer's time. Every developer can't just decide which requirements or schedule obligations to pay attention based on what they "think is best."
V8 Sparkplug Baseline JIT
Sounds like the beginning of "Accelerando" as we're slowly starting to turn our vicinity into a Matrioshka brain.
> I hate glossy screens

I cringe when someone shows me something on their laptop and the screen is imprinted with keyboard finger cheese.
There's truth in that, but it depends a bit how you install it. The OS packages are very reliable, and creating your own bundle (through a venv, or through something like pex) is pretty reliable too.

(EDIT: talking about Python packages specifically, not so sure about other things)
Gas stations are almost always near other things, including restaurants.
There are a lot of family owned small and medium businesses. Their leaders do it their whole lives long. I like that.
If it was black who were incarcerated the most because of drug laws, it doesn’t make it racist.

Moreover, even if you know upfront that black people will be incarcerated the most because of drug laws, it doesn’t make that war racist.

(Moreover the quote in the linked article clearly states that hippies were also the target of the war on drugs, which, even if the quotes are correct and not taken out of context etc., make this war at least not fully racist.)

If we of course use the dictionary definition of the word racism, not extremely wide interpretation used today.

Some people were racists of course. But most people just thought harsher law on drugs would make communities safer. And most government actors just wanted more power regardless of who is going to get in jail.

It is much much more complicated issue than (quoting the comment I replied to) “Straight facts, it was all about the racism”.
FlOrA aNd FaUnA.
most alcoholics have to drink for 20 years to get as sanctimonious as this guy does in six months.
I've mainly seen Scrum with outsourcing companies. It doesn't seem to help them produce anything useful and on-time. It does help them refer to their "process" and obfuscate what's going on (or not) with Jira and weekly check-ins and "sprint planning" meetings and so on. It's not really Scrum, just a simulacrum intended to make the client feel like something is happening.
There is this famous case of a woman who was high and trying to request a Uber ride. She thought it was weird that the app was asking her so many information and so eventually gave up. Next morning, she realized she was almost there to become a driver herself.
To be clear, its absolutely tragic that 'zombies' are walking around everywhere
That model still had the sculpted silver keys? That was, by far, my favorite laptop keyboard: I still have a 15” ‘08 MBP that I boot up occasionally.
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The true story is bigger than Bezos or any other digital 'robber barons'. Income inequality ebbs and flows, controlled by many complex factors like public policy, availability of labor, etc. In the US, this tends to follow a 50 year cycle. For instance, from the Great Depression to 1980 was, like you said, our last cycle of decreasing income inequality. During these periods, the US is governed by a vigilant generation that is aware of the consequences of income inequality, legislating to minimize it. Then, when a new generation without this memory rises to power, income inequality grows again, culminating in years of unrest like 2020. Following this, policy changes again. I expect to see reduced income inequality in the coming years, in the form of 'techlash'. Read more about this in a very perceptive article that predicted 2020's social unrest here:

https://aeon.co/essays/history-tells-us-where-the-wealth-gap...
If only. The last place I worked that used agile/scrum deliberately created silos anyway. They had a schedule devised by management and the product owners that was opaque to the team. Requirements got doled out every sprint in a disconnected way that prevented anyone knowing the big picture. A disaster, of course. Not an indictment of agile/scrum, but this kind of thing seems more common that the ideals promised by The Agile Manifesto.
We have a public health system in NZ, i.e. free healthcare.

We also have private health insurance, 30-40 percent of the population take that up.

When you go public you will need to wait in a longer line, you won't get the flowers next to your bed and you might need to ring for a bit longer for a nurse to come, but you'll often be seeing the same doctor you would have seen going private.

Last time I was in hospital the only paperwork was the admission form, and then telling the desk people my insurance number as I left.
There are far more ways for things to go wrong than ways to go right.
People don't colonize space or the ocean already because we have lacked the technology. Working to help your species thrive in inhospitable environments seems rather prosocial to me, and squarely a technology problem.

If given the option to watch innovation happen because of nation-states in an arms race, or billionaires duking egos, I'd rather the latter. My kids will outlive the ego, and may get to live in a new environ because of it.

If we get the scalable collaboration thing down as a species, we wouldn't need billionaires or politicians to move big matters forward. I hope that gets borne out this decade, where we learn to think, code, and act in coordination over shared priorities, beyond the bounds of corporations and nation-states. I look to the open source model for spiritual inspiration there, but it doesn't offer many examples of large projects that can collaborate effectively over multiple generations without central control of a BDFL. Maybe our brains aren't wired that way, that we need a just do need a strongman to get anything done. I sure like to think otherwise. We can get machines to do distributed consensus pretty damn well these days, why can't we upgrade ourselves to do the same?
> but got real annoyed for buy now messages..

And have you considered buying it?
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The Skeptics Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Not really. People thought that countries were too interdependent to wage war, but they were wrong and that had nothing to do with the myriad of reasons for the war ( rivalries, historic and current, Russian development (which put Germany waging war on them on a timeline), Austria-Hungary falling apart and trying to compensate, the UK being skeptical of Germany, France wanting revenge, etc etc etc etc)
> Somehow the thesis is that people should intervene?

People already "intervene", by enacting laws and systems that subsidize the creation of individuals like Zuckerberg or Bezos in the first place.
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I disagree. You can spend 90% of your time doing e.g. data science, and then one day you need to integrate with a DB or make a cross-platform desktop GUI application, as an example. Should you learn C++ (it takes a decade to become a very mediocre C++-developer), or Java to write a desktop GUI application?

No, there isn't "always" a better choice for group 2.

- Most software isn't CPU bound, so that defies "always"
in your argument

- You need libraries get things done

What language would you always pick for group 2? Or would you pick a different one for each task, spending an order of magnitude more time learning them?
Teaching Myself Quantum Mechanics From Scratch, Part One
Enjoy your round two with a variant though.
Work-from-home allows employees to juggle home chores with office work
I've recently had a similar experience. Clean install of vscode after using the same profile for years, and the performance was night and day.

A few days pass, and it's gone. The more extensions I installed, the slower everything became.
I'm not convinced that you're right, but I would love the Congressional investigation to try to find out. It's hard to know what would have happened if buying hadn't been shut down, and it's still hard to understand exactly why buying was shut down by different parties. Guessing if we learn the one, we'll know the other.
It would be nice if silicon required to run critical infrastructure is manufacured localy or at least not by an opponant in a (cold or economic) war. IPhones are pretty low on my list of concerns but I would like to have working powerplants, power distribution and communications.
I agree and they also killed the electric car once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F

No doubt they will try to kill it a second time or hinder sales it it diminishes there profit. In my country, we have some of the cheapest electricity in the world. Despite that it is barely advantageous financially to recharge an EV on the highway. It mostly depends on the efficiency of the EV and about half of them are less economical than IC vehicles in this setting, per magazine tests.

Since charging on the highway is already a boottleneck (recharge time x number of charging stations x real estate), energy companies lose no customers by charging (no pun) a premium for it.
Okay so Elon Musk, Collison brothers, even people like Bezos (while immoral on the tax stuff) are all extremely effective. The management at the pension fund I work at are very good at their jobs too... there’s plenty of examples of one is willing to look.