skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The "post-pc" world suggested by Apple/Jobs never materialized."

I think if you could measure the man hours spent using iDevices and Android devices, as a percentage of general computing hours, you'd find that it would dwarf anything. Everyone has a smartphone now. And tablet sales alone outnumber PCs.
Can't tell if serious, but there's not a snowball's chance in hell that happens.
Omg, newsletters and email groups work so much better than most other attempts to replace. Are there data that support this claim, though?
Read this, and it gave me a lot of clarify and appreciation for my own manager. Thank you for adding this. You sound like you've got a balanced perspective on the engineering manager experience.
If you want to keep a company of hundreds or thousands people following some rule, really the only way is if you create processes that check and force that. There is no way to keep company following privacy rules (as weak as they are) without company wide protocol and insistence on it.

Otherwise, the pressure from people who want to do other things will ensure that privacy or rules will be ignored.
Bitcoin Jumps to $72,000 in Nigeria After Ban
"Literally everything matters" -- not necessarily. The world is full of stable attractors that turn any number of small perturbations meaningless. Coffee turning bad might influence you decisions a few hours down the line, but likely not months, being half a degree warmer or colder likely won't influence you at all. Meeting an impressive person as a child might change you greatly, but the other thousands of people you've met in passing likely won't affect you much.
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It won't even leave Beta.
From the article:

>The international trial was funded by the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk.

From the Ozempic website:

> Cornerstones4Care®, NovoFine®, and Ozempic® are registered trademarks of Novo Nordisk A/S.

Follow the money.
I could totally see news orgs come crawling back to FB and ask them to put all the traffic back.
Almost all 5G deployals around the world are 5G non-standalone; they have 4G LTE basestations doing handset control and 5G modulations (on their own frequency span) for data transfer.

Unrelated, this can't be a map of cell phone towers. It's probably a map of cell phone basestation locations.
And in addition considering everyone has read Taleb's books there has been accelerating interest in options which make the prices quite high and IV crush painful.

End result, even harder to win with OOTM options even if you are correct.
It still seems to me that you're working backwards from your hypothesis a little. For example, that Wikipedia article doesn't even have PPP numbers from before 1980, when birth rates first started to decline (again, likely due to the reproductive education campaign).

You're doing a post hoc ergo propter hoc thing here. China's GDP increased dramaticaly, China's birth rates decreased dramatically afterwards, therefore birth rates decreased because GDP increased. In order for your claim to stand you at least have to narrow it significantly to "birth rates in China went through the floor once poverty decreased past a certain point", otherwise you have to explain why birth rates didn't subsequently fluctuate inversely with GDP. Further, you also would have to explain why male births so dramatically outnumber female births.

But I think more concretely, the timeline doesn't match. China didn't get above $1000 PPP until ~1990, and at that rate their birth rates should still have been very high [1]. However they'd been under 3 for 10 years at that point [2].

It's much simpler to say that China told people how to not have kids in 1970, the one/two child policies held the birth rate down subsequently, and couples took drastic measures to predominately have male children while also staying under the limit in order to satisfy a sexist culture. That's a more direct, parsimonious, and complete explanation, whereas the GDP argument has to also show why the reproductive education campaign and one/two child policies did effectively nothing, why birth rates fell dramatically before the Chinese people saw significant economic development, and why couples worked very hard to primarily have male children--work that weirdly also had no influence on the birth rate.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China#Table_of...
(D)ARPA developed the research behind the Internet and GPS. Private venture capital gave us Facebook. Are you sure you want to make this argument?

Venture capital funding is a great way for product research and development to be outsourced---nobody is going to notice if the project fails but if it doesn't there is money to be had. Near-basic research has an extremely long time horizon (internet research started in the 1970s and didn't become publicly useful until the 1990s) and may never be profitable. Further, nobody wants the results of a long term research project until they already have it and can see the utility.
Well, both, but they are fairly decoupled, just like for 'regular' software developers. Pay is based on willingness to move (and get that sweet, sweet signing bonus), and willingness to negotiate.

Essentially: If you are an amazing engineer, you will likely do well everywhere. If you are a 'good' engineer, and you want to stand out, go into QA engineering where you will be relatively better than a lot of people.
Wait, what? You argued that a single app store makes apple devices safer. How does not allowing devs to sell subscriptions on their website help with this arguable safety? Don't bullshit.
Of course he wasn't "obligated". But the guy was (1) a legitimate expert on the details of how his trading worked and (2) spoke profusely and at length about all the other details of his investments. He wasn't silent. At all.

Yet he was silent as his investment conveniently went through the roof, driven by a huge misunderstanding propagated within the very community where he did almost all his profuse speaking.

And that doesn't seem suspicious to you? Look, I'm not the SEC. I can't subpoena his trade history or social media logs. But there is an SEC, and they can, and we have to believe they're looking into this.

Basically: sure, he might be totally innocent and just a lucky beneficiary of a crazy bubble. I'm just saying it's more likely that he was executing a pump and dump.
Ah, I didn't realize Gill/"Roaring Kitty" was the same person as /u/DeepFuckingValue. He's more known as DFV, no? I guess the media doesn't want to print "fucking"? Thereby leaving out an important bit!
One of my favorite hacks: I made a google appscript that scans a list of RSS feeds to email weekly digests. Surprisingly simple, and much more useful then running a separate RSS reader in my opinion.

I have to confess: little automations like this with low barrier of entry is where I find most value in tech. Simple and practical.
Eh, no, please don't try to do this, that's the first step towards a really terrible world. We always assume innocence first, there needs to be proof to claim otherwise. There were many more people who invested at the same time and got big profit just like he did. DFV didn't even sell even a portion of his position anywhere near the top (he sold a small portion near one of the much lower highs, around $100 IIRC).

You could make this argument about literally anyone on Youtube or TV talking about stocks. Don't, please.
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> Achievements and friends are table stakes these days.

Nintendo must have missed this.
This comment should be pinned to the top of every comment thread on the matter, and required reading before anyone else comments.

The Australian law is the first one with teeth, after many years of Google and Facebook smothering any reasonable measures any country anywhere has proposed. So yeah, it "feels unfair" at this point, because that's the only thing that'll work at this point, to use sovereign national power to order Google and Facebook to comply.
I'd say it's wishful thinking that you believe a majority of the population is going to visit all their news sources directly rather than simply ignore they exist.

News publishers were voluntarily posting on FB themselves to generate traffic to their own sites, it's some warped tough love view to think removing their ability to share content is somehow for their own benefit.

> It sounds as though you presuppose FB is or should be the only source of news.

Never stated anything remotely close to infer this false assumption, ironic that in the same breath you're lambasting FB for spreading misinformation.
'Some factor' was usually the previous generations' equivalent of virality - typically a blend of sexual charisma, personal charisma, theatricality, entertainment value, and shock value.

Without that packaging music is a very tough sell. Being competent and creative on its own isn't enough.

I can't think of anyone who has made it on musicality alone without at least some of the above OR enthusiastic and regular promotion by gatekeepers (top radio DJs) while they were still an influence.
> people who Really Care about their work with the Just A Job crowd

These aren't discrete categories.

There are a lot of people who care about their work and also recognize that at the end of the day, it is a job, and the reality is that they can only play a role in shaping the outcome, not dictate it per their vision.

Also, depending on the job, the team, the project, and the product, people can go from one of those perspectives to the other. There are a lot of people whose current job/role situations aren't intrinsically motivating, but then find incredible motivation due to a change in project or role (I've experienced this multiple times).
These algorithms are not human readable code. They are massively complex interconnected systems of many black box ML models. I don't understand what clarity people think releasing the "algorithms" will bring. In fact, describing ranking as a single algorithm is pretty misleading.
Is this power outage truly such a bad thing? It seems like a decision that the elected representatives of Texas have chosen to make. They basically said we would rather have much lower utility costs on a regular basis and have a risk that we lose our power every 9 or 10 years in a big storm. Everything is cost vs benefit trade off, and this just seems to be a different decision than most make.
> I’m sure each of you will be shocked to hear that Google & FB each have been hostile to the process form the start and have missed meetings

A powerful company resisting a process from which they have nothing to gain. Shocking!

If you want people to come together, you need to give both sides something to gain (or put a (metaphorical) gun to one sides head). Of course fb is going to resist a process where they only stand to lose something and the best outcome possible for them is the status quo. Wouldn't you also resist such a meeting?
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A New Take on Implementing GTD in Notion
I could see using one for proofing color print jobs of artwork, but I'd want more data on the actual pigment color profiles before purchasing one.
who needs Mad Men when you can just read HN in 2021
DeepFuckingValue(Reddit username), Keith Gill and Roaring Kitty(youtube username) are the same person.
How could they have coordinated a full agreement to block FB/Google by all news associations without this law?

Most likely this deal benefits the biggest stakeholders only. Small players would cave into opening up to FB/Google.
Yes, the premium received at the time the contract was sold.
Hmm, maybe that is particular to that model? I've only had Yubikeys that are regular USB sized, carry them around on keychains all the time dangling from a bag, but haven't had a problem in the years I've owned it. Generally they are considered pretty durable I thought. (But also wouldn't mine hearing recommendations for others for the future.)
I wonder if it's 2560x1440 (as claimed in the upper section), or 1280x720 (as claimed lower). Given the lower resolution is 1/4 of the larger, and the product description diagram shows quarters.. perhaps it's 4 displays merged into the final project (perhaps it can be further embiggened).

4096 colours seems limited though.. the 13.3 linked in January [discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21996326) looks much more impressive - although the NDA and lack of definitive numbers makes it hard to compare.
If your browser doesn't have your location for whatever reason, most maps will drop you into lon 0, lat 0, which is South Atlantic Ocean west of Africa.
Nx (Numerical Elixir) is now publicly available
Sure, things get hairy when you go off the beaten path, but day-to-day infrastructure is not the issue. As a user of Google products I don't care as much about developer velocity as I do them shipping swiss cheese products security-wise. If I have to wait a few months more for some new feature, I'll take that trade-off.
Outdoor sun-light readable signage.

A comparable high-brightness 1080p display is about the same price [1], but uses a lot more electricity and from my experience with them, they have definite lifespan (2-4yrs, despite the 100k hours light lifetime claim) if they're running 24/7.

[1] https://www.compsource.com/buy/DS322LR41/Dynascan-4769
I found it bizarre that the Treasurer gets to (arbitrarily?) pick which platforms this applies to and that only 2 platforms, Facebook and Google, were chosen. Maybe I'm just missing the information, but why isn't there just a definition of a platform this should apply to? I'm pretty far removed from this issues, but it smells like some large news organization decided they wanted to get some free money from Facebook and Google so they lobbied for this law.
Only works if it's enforced for all users though. Having all the Windows apps in the single official store is really the only possible way for it to function

Obviously never going to happen, but it'd be a much nicer ecosystem if it did work that way
The plaintiff sold 200k worth of naked calls and got margin called. What kind of a hack law firm would represent such an idiot?
Bernays was very proud of his student, Josef Goebbels, the Nazis' propaganda minister.

Bernays's opinion was that government could not be trusted to voters, so voters must be managed like livestock. His methods have been very successful, persuading generations of voters to vote against their own interests. Fully half the population of the US recently voted for an out-and-out con man, twice! But his opponents mainly represent hedge funds.
This seems like a case where an interface like Scratch to assemble transactions with a live description of what will be sent to whom alongside, then the whole thing sent for review like a programmer would do code review, would be the best interface.
There doesn't need to be constant news about Netflix changing stuff, they still don't like Apple's rules about it and there are still no links to netflix.com in the app.

> Trying to join Netflix?

>

> You can't sign up for Netflix in the app. We know it's a hassle.
You are right. By "business impact" I was rather thinking that the aggregator simply diverts ad revenue, without adding any value. If I made a business which summaries other books without sharing revenue, I would likely get busted.
I love that this project has a stream of PRs rolling in!

https://github.com/microsoft/DeleteMe/pulls
On the map, there appear to be small handfuls in Canada, even though Bell and Telus shutdown those networks in 2019 and 2017, respectively
I'll be bold and say it's the media industry has a problem.

I remember family members having problems/reservations with Weinstein's behavior back in the 90's. People like Corey Feltman have been speaking up for years.

But nobody cares because we're getting good cinema and TV, right?

A huge part of these industries are based on 'favors' and 'networking'. Toss in the theory that you have a higher-than-baseline level of narcissism in this talent pool and you lead to a recipe for abuse.
Gill has been advocating GME as an undervalued “value” play for over a year on his YouTube channel, his behavior is pretty different than the reddit pump accounts. But, he is the most visible and de-anonymized target for this kind of lawsuit.
That's actually one thing I quite liked about it - there's some option to just switch an app from one drive to another, and it's one of the only things I've found in Windows which actually "just works"
Sure, but what’s the catch?
You don’t count the 30% drop last March as a crash?

It doesn’t matter if it bounces back later that year. Any puts near those levels would have cost peanuts and paid handsomely.
> (from parent) need their App Store running in order to play their games

This is the real UX problem.

I have no problem buying from a variety of stores. I do that in real life. Most required (pre-Covid) me to walk in each of their doors.

What's a problem is requiring the installed & running presence of a particular App Store to run an app.

If I legally purchased something, why is a particular App Store even still required? If I want to re-install (new device) then I can download it again?

If we're talking updates... I'm happy to forgo update pushing. And renting software with subscriptions just needs to die.
While big players systematically game things to put retail at a disadvantage every day and nobody complains.

They are only taking action because they have an easy target they can score some political points on and who won't fight back
Not an expert, but big difference is that boycotts are against companies/businesses while cancellations target individuals.
Yeah, a better comparison would be energy usage per transaction, and completely disregard coin creation as a distinct kind of transaction (fundamentally, coin creation is just another transaction in the block).

There are still many caveats and nuances when analyzing this number, but at least it would be a valid comparison.
You're assuming that pulling or not pulling the lever is morally irrelevant, which may not be the case. To take it to the extreme, it's the difference between killing three people or waiting for three people to die so you can study them.

In the former case, you're definitely causing excess infections (some of which might die, directly due to you).
I agree with your "can't sue over loss of trading", but that's not to me the problem.

If he is a professional, Gill is in trouble. When I was working in capital markets, my contract stipulated that I had to disclose any trading activity to my employer. That's because, for example, I could be using insider information to conduct some trades privately, which is unethical and illegal. Or I could bet against the bank. Etc. I can't remember how many trainings I had regarding what I could do and not do in terms of trading privately.

Pretty sure that teasing masses on Reddit would have had me fired.
You should really go look at his YouTube, Twitter, and reddit history - because what you're saying is wrong.
Congrats! Love the idea of pre-built templates and leveraging exists data pipelines via Segment and the onboarding was smooth! I actually work at Segment and would love to share a couple things that might make it easier to understand the reports for Segment customers. Let me know if that will be helpful and can send them over.
It shows 40M cell IDs.
The number of physical cell towers is probably somewhere around 5 million. Given that the cell per tower factor was ~7 in 2014 and we got more standards to cover today.

https://wiki.opencellid.org/wiki/FAQ#I_know_where_cell_tower...
Don't Pump and Dump schemes generally involve baselessly promoting a stock with the private intention of raising its price artificially? This whole sequence of events seemed like they were pretty transparent about what they were trying to accomplish based on publicly available information.
Here are the rules for registered investment advisors.[1]

This was a pump and dump. Those have been around since at least the 19th century. Older ones involved newspapers and newsletters. Newer ones involve social media. The SEC fines people for this regularly. This time, the suckers were people who hadn't seen this a few dozen times yet.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/divisions/investment/iaregulation/memoia...
Well this will go great.
Someone else said it, but he didn't "come forward." He's been posting about his GME position on WSB and his YouTube channel since 2019. You can literally go and watch the videos yourself. This is just an investor who enjoys sharing his due diligence with other investors, who ended up being absolutely right (and going viral because of it).
Thanks for sharing this. It just goes to show that even the best of us can find it difficult to effect change in a big company. The nature of a large organization is it requires lots of communication, alignment, and on-the-ground politics to make things happen, which is definitely a challenge for those of us who just want to get shit done.
I can guarantee that the exact opposite of that is gonna happen. There's a reason why we are in the current state of misinformation. Quality journalism stays behind paywalls, while misinformation is free. In the age of constant information, anything that has more barriers to access, keeps losing its position in the ecosystem.
My favorites have got to be:

Issue "Does not dispense birdseed as advertised" - https://github.com/microsoft/DeleteMe/issues/14

Pull Request "Rewrite it in Rust" - https://github.com/microsoft/DeleteMe/pull/24
It doesn't take monopoly power to sidestep it, just the ability to choose who you do business with. You don't have to be a monopoly to exercise freedom of association.

"Here are the rules for doing business here" with a set of unreasonable rules can be an annoyance, but there's always the choice of not doing business there. "Here are the rules for doing business here, and you must do business here" is absolutely unacceptable, no matter who it targets.
Unless I'm missing something by skipping straight to 5.4, the explanation of unions is hot garbage. None of the examples are sane as they are all larger than the smallest array of a naturally-aligned type with the same alignment as the most-aligned field, such that this array is not smaller than the largest field in the union — which would be a structure with the same alignment and stride as the original union. (You could also "cover" it with a more precise struct which may be smaller than its own stride, which is what I think the paper was trying to explain, but the examples are still nonsense.)
His comments about the company's value were about the fundamentals and, to a very limited extent, about a possible short squeeze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alntJzg0Um4

And at most it seems he was giving his opinion about the company. He never said something like "everyone should buy GameStop because it's guaranteed to rise in value".
I am not Australian or defending this move. I am just saying that these large corporations won’t shoot themselves on the foot without doing some analysis.
I haven't yet, but would love to.

I'm tired of unrealistic expectations, especially when you are constrained from delivering more because of the business not making smart choices. I'm tired of being underpaid, expected to learn new tech only to have that effort being thrown away by the company.

I don't know what I could do. It seems like nothing pays very well anymore. Maybe being an electrician or mechanic would be good. My main plan is just to tough it out and then maybe I can run a small farm that will allow me to retire sooner. Margin is pretty low on that, so it might be more of a cost saving subsistence thing.