skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How real are the colors? I think I read before that for some reason the colors are not shown as they really are on footage from Mars.
All three of your examples concern people with a vested interest in arriving at a certain conclusion established long before they ever actually look at the text in question. No communication medium will solve the problem of humans trying to bend that communication to fit their pre-existing opinions.

For neutral observers, I would definitely argue that text is far more concrete than photos. There's a whole host of reasons for this in my opinion, but one that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is that humans are used to seeing images in three dimensions, whereas photos are typically two-dimensional. By removing an entire axis of data you're introducing far more room for ambiguity than could have existed previously.
And payment processing.

Remember the sign on cabs that said they accept all major cards, only to find out the "card reader doesn't work?".
Now that we've moved the goal posts, is it still more of an environmental cost than just imagining it was fossil fuels or energy that being pulled away from other use cases?

The answer to your question depends on which power source we are referring to. Where Bitcoin is a sustainability solution, it is reducing waste by products which were already being produced and now are not being produced because they are used for energy.

Bitcoin is a multi-billion industry whether you respect its existence or not, your arguments will simply have to get more nuanced to have a real conversation about what's happening.

Organizations that know better are intentionally omitting the source of energy, in their discussion about the amount of energy. Don't fall for it.
So many sites back in the late 90's had similar backgrounds, good thing most of them stayed in the 90's
The problem is a lack of detailed choice. I use a lot of Apple’s products because I think they’re generally decent, but it seems like right now I can only make one choice with my phone - Apple or Google. But buying an iPhone not an android phone doesn’t mean I want Apple to control my life.

Some examples: I hate it how there’s no adult content allowed in the App Store. Or how if I build my own version of Signal, I have to disable push notifications and things because I haven’t paid apple enough money or something. I hate that last I checked, I can’t buy books in the audible app. If my camera breaks, I apparently can’t get it fixed by anyone except Apple. I hate how Apple charges my bank for the privilege of using the NFC chip in my phone, which I paid for.

It’s ridiculous to demand that Epic games makes their own phone if they want to sell me their game. Ideologically, this is capitalism. But capitalism works best for everyone when there’s healthy competition. Wielding their superior phones to enforce a monopoly in other parts of the ecosystem is anticompetitive and anti consumer. And I’m glad someone is finally standing up to them.
Pretty sure both cars you mentioned in that video are Cruise, which is why you're able to see them as it's 905 nm. Your patent links to Google, but they don't make the cars in your video.
I experienced the same when I moved from China to US. In China the first time I ever experienced lost of signal was somewhere in the mountains in Tibet. Signal is just everywhere there.

US is incredibly bad on that. I live in the bay area and I can make an easy 30min drive to a place with no reception from any carriers.

I'm wondering why...
While it's true that we had a pandemic, a roaring 20s is far from certain. And for the rest, I think it's even more premature to declare a Groundhog Century.
Market share is relevant if they're going to be prosecuted for the same thing Microsoft was prosecuted for: abusing their monopoly power.

Anchor v Rule:

although market share does not alone determine monopoly power, market share is perhaps the most important factor to consider in determining the presence or absence of monopoly power

Weiss v York Hospital:

A primary criterion used to assess the existence of monopoly power is the defendant's market share.

Maybe Apple can be prosecuted under some other legal theory, but that's a separate question.. and if we have to get into that, that's just more evidence of my point that Apple and Microsoft are different situations and aren't comparable.
A new lap of the arms race is almost always increases the likelines of war, not decrease as every side believes in superiority of its weapons.

Equally so, believe that nuclear retaliation we will stop a war "will only hold so until it doesn't"

In WWI every side knew how terrible, and devastating the artillery has become — to the point of making the infantry warfare obsolete, and plainly suicidal for an enemy with inferior artillery.

It's just both sides mutually believed to have a trump card, and that the one suicidal there was their enemy.
This is a concern but even big companies have a strong incentive to remain in the App Store because it is bundled with iOS. For example, Microsoft Office is still available in the Play Store despite the possibility for Android users to install alternative app stores. Some developers will leave the App Store for alternatives that do not offer the same level of user protection, but I do not think a huge exodus will happen, considering that it has not happened on Android.
Will Australian news media bargaining code stop news via VPN?
But Apple doesn’t take a cut on my Spotify subscription, afaik.
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Interesting, I had to think about this for a moment! It's not entirely intuitive, but I think the answer is "because there's no one else to make liable."

What if the unlocked car was in your driveway, and the person who got in was your seven-year-old daughter? Now who's responsible, and why? The child is a minor, so legally she can't be at fault, but the parents should have taken appropriate precautions, like locking the door.

Likewise, if a bunch of people are killed by a remote driver in North Korea, you can't arrest the hacker. And if there's no one to arrest, our society has no way to discourage the crime. So responsibility moves up the chain.
I heard it was frozen politicians tilting at windmills.
If you read through the paper where they present switch transformers, they train all models to the same performance, so for example t5-large, at 770M parameters[1] is just as good as this model. That’s only 1.54GB

[1] https://huggingface.co/t5-large
And what does that video tell you? At best, it's a surface level observation of a framed window of space. If you watch a video of me, do you know the thoughts in my head?

Admittedly we are gaining resolution in our recording of history, but even today it's extremely sparse and I'd argue uncapturable in full.
"It's not like the mafia is forcing you to open a business in Chicago. you don't like it? You can move elsewhere. People move to Chicago because it's highly profitable."

Pretending this doesn't have deep parallels to the mafia is childish. Keep pretending and we'll have Tony break your kneecaps.

There are plenty of parallels between Apple and the Mafia. Just ask Epic, who's kneecaps were busted for not paying the Don his share.
First: Elixir has strong dynamic typing. JavaScript has weak dynamic typing.

Second: As someone who uses Elixir for their day job, Racket for PL research, and Python for some CS classes, I can state with 100% confidence that Elixir is much closer to Lisp than Python. Elixir has macros that operate on the level of abstract syntax trees! Indeed, I think that is how most of this project was implemented.
Since this type of model can be used for the task of "question answering", would it be possible to create a search engine with this type of model?
Everything isn't overvalued. Avoid the ARK stocks, smallcaps, and crypto. Everything else is sensibly valued.
It's not my opinion. It's fact that court doesn't compare open platforms (Windows, Linux Distros, macOS) with closed ones - iOS, Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation.

Please see preliminary hearing video where judge rejected such arguments like yours. Epic lawyers failed very badly.
It's still pay to win with middlemen controlling what's going to hit millions of ears. Now there's like a wild card, where a few people "go viral".
If you already hold fixed income assets, you do not want rates to rise, because when rates rise, the price of your holdings will fall. When rates fall, those interest bearing assets look better in comparison to the new bonds (e.g.) that are being issued, so their price rises.
The question this leaves me with is does Texas rely more heavily on natural gas power due to their usage of wind/solar power sources?
I think it may be related to data source. As a Chinese I can say signal is basically everywhere, far better than US.
Ugh, metacomment about this fucking page.

This page implements its own custom scrolling behavior that tries (but fails) to mimic the smooth scrolling behavior that is default in most web browsers.

It probably feels like something is slightly off if you have smooth scrolling enabled, but it's extremely and obviously jarring if you have it disabled.

Why do people keep doing this?
I went this route.
Once you are in QA it is extremely difficult to get out. Everybody views you as "a tester" no matter how good your development skills are.
If you genuinely want to be in QA as your career, or if you are truly desperate for work and willing to spend the 5 years or so it will take for you to dig yourself out of QA, then do it. It worked for me.
But if you really want to dev, do not take a QA job unless you really can't find a dev job.
I've worked in retail and this is spot on. There are people who did practically nothing but update tags all day. And yeah, any change to the existing software is going to be the real issue. Everything they use is old.
I didn’t mention signal. Do you claim Telegram’s channels are not novel? Do you think the FB owned WhatsApp doesn’t do whatever it can to drive engagement?

Everything is constrained in some dimension. To assert that E2EE as a constraint immediately removes “whatever novel methods” from consideration is non-sensical. Is CH not constrained by being audio only? By being invite only? By being iOS only? By being mobile only?

I’ll ask again, why is it that users should be denied privacy guarantees because an app is proprietary and wants to drive engagement growth? Do you demand the same for telephone lines?
But the value of bond investments will go down as the rates raise
Regulating Valve would stifle competition. This is the current free market, where we have competing launchers and therefore innovation and price wars.
So the law is horrifying, but you really hate these companies so it's OK. Even if I agree with you about these companies isn't this an excess of 'ends justify the means'?
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I'd consider Twitter a successful big competitor to Facebook in terms of social media. They're not 1:1 in features but they're public social media spaces meant to make posts, find people, have a profile about yourself, somewhere cited by mainstream news and everybody has heard of. Facebook use is declining last I heard anyway while Twitter rises.
A year ago, Greenwald was a hero here. Now, everyone downvotes any mention of him because he reported a story across party lines. Truly pathetic. I fucking hate HN sometimes.
I agree. I consider delegation of high value or visibility tasks as a combination of 1 and 2. Regardless I recognize it as being very important overall.
SpaceX helped Sea Turtle, Inc with a generator
You do if you call it "patronage" rather than "investment".
unless i can one-click apply there's no value here worth paying for.
As a developer, I emphatically disagree about the "same job" aspect. QA requires a pretty different mindset, one which developers lack entirely. This is particularly true about testing things like storage appliances, routers, switches, and such. Putting such complex systems through their paces requires specialist QA folks, including loads of manual QA'ing in addition to heavy automated QA. That said, despite how critical QA is to putting out a product that's even remotely serviceable, the market for QA folks generally pays lower. Apparently, if you are putting out reams of code and tossing it over the wall to the hapless QA guy, you deserve to get paid more. Much more.

I have the misfortune of working at a place where some "bright" person got the bright idea of "eliminating" the QA budget because "developers should be able to do everything a QA can". QA was dissolved and existing QA specialists were told that they had to learn how to program, or get lost. The product quality went down the tube and the place got grief from (Fortune-500) customers who write fat checks that run into the millions for support alone. That has been a train wreck in slow motion.

The simple fact is that you can maybe get away without separate QA staff for a something like an internal website, but for anything else, assuming that developers will test their work and put enough thought into even the most common use-cases and certify that the system as a whole works is delusional.
I own and have read both. They are fine books, but they don't deal with the potential for violence with much depth. It's hard to know what "hard" data to use to estimate potential violence, but an economist isn't getting higher than a B- if they leave the term out of their regression entirely (as Pinker does).

Pinker also says repeatedly in both books that humans feel worse about the way things are than they should because our picture is anecdotal and distorted.

Maybe, but we might also dislike the present age because there are possible future worlds that appear much worse than the futures worlds imagined by past ages, even if those ages themselves were more violent/less educated/more unequal/etc. than our own.
That's great, its a good investment.

Also, buses exist, and they work quite well actually, especially if you remove cars from the road

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit
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No, good marketers also pick good artists. You can't polish a turd. However most of the products we like are only so popular because of marketing. So in a way the answer is yes?
>30% is one of the lowest fees in the market.

What? This is simply not true. If anything, 30% is the standard for app distribution. Steam, GOG, MS Store, Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo, Apple App Store & Google Play are all at 30%. If it's a lot or not is opinion.

>Amazon's Twitch takes 50% fee

Twitch is not an app store, it makes no difference to this discussion. It just happens to be higher than 30, so you mentioned it. For example patreon takes 8-12%, but that does not matter either.

>Also Tencent, who is behind Epic Games lawsuit

Tencent is not behind the Epic Games lawsuit.
You realize that the vaccines aren’t approved for children under 16 because there weren’t any in the trial.

How would a challenge trial in health 20-30 year olds help when most of the people dying are over 70?

Do you just wave your hands and extrapolate?
The ability to purchase a game on iPhone then use it on an Android next because I decided to change phones is invaluable for customers.

This is something I'm pretty sure Epic would provide with their own app store.
Good God, just buy an Android. You people act like Apple’s shoving iPhones down your throat.
> This ends in hyperinflation.

If productivity continues apace, if value added to the economy continues apace, I don't see why it ends in hyperinflation.
> The wait condition is associated with a mutex, which is locked by the user when calling wake() and that is also passed locked to wait(). The implementation is supposed to unlock and wait atomically.

In POSIX it is not necessary to lock the mutex before calling wake(). In fact it is better unlock the mutex first, and then call wake(), because otherwise the just-woken thread will contend with the waker. Given that fact, the race really is unavoidable.
> It’s also in ascii

No it isn't:

> 10:48:55.380 document.location.href

> 10:48:55.384 "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26166797"

> 10:48:57.723 document.characterSet

> 10:48:57.726 "UTF-8"
Facebook news ban hits emergency services and government health departments
> spoke like John Moschitta imitating yoda

Thanks for this
Do it incrementally:

Ban parking minimums, so developers stop putting parking lots in their buildings.

Tax lots based on their assessed land value and give them credits for providing housing units. Developers will build more units and less parking. Surface lots will close down or dramatically increase rates -- either way, people will find alternatives.

Require transit lanes for all major avenues, and enforce their use.

Increase taxes and spend that money on transit.

Make transit free, which will make it much easier for people to just hop on for their trips.

Invest in trains. Bus rapid transit is kinda terrible, but it could be a stopgap until your trains work well.
TL;DR: Can't access Xfinity support page via Xfinity connection, submitted support request but it is still broken. "Xfinity doesn't care."

I had a somewhat similar problem last month. Upgraded Comcast business service, we had it for a few years and just wanted to change some terms and get newer speed levels. They had to replace the modem (I assume newer speeds enabled by newer DOCSIS version).

After the update, could no longer resolve the Slack DNS name for our account ("ourcompany.slack.com"). Called support and asked if there was any sort of interception they were doing, like when you have to activate your modem sometimes they do weird things. She said absolutely not, they don't do such things. I pushed back "I know for residential users sometimes you will intercept traffic to put up a over quota message on web pages." "Residential does that, but we never modify traffic."

Tech suggested changing DNS server on the modem, which they did. I asked if it was going to knock us offline, and as I was asking I noticed my interactive sessions all locked up. I said "I guess it will." Tech replied that it absolutely wouldn't, guaranteed. "Well all my sessions to the office just went down." Tech said "It must be your server." All my office servers went down for 60 seconds when you pushed your button, sounds plausible...

I just got fed up and hung up. I figured that tech probably has great stats because they get people off the phone quickly.

Anyway, I did some more thinking, and tried doing DNS lookups of that that name from other IPs in the same range that the AWS DNS server for slack.com used. They all returned NXDOMAIN rather than REFUSED. If I did the queries from my home connection, I would get the ANSWER from the correct server and REFUSED from the other IPs around it.

So I called back with this information. The new tech really didn't understand what I was saying, but he did get that I was saying reasonable sounding things. So they escalated to Tier 2.

An hour or two later Tier 2 called back. I explained the symptoms again, and they said "That sounds like our security product SecurityEdge. They turned it off and sure enough, everything worked fine.

Contrary to what the first tech said, they DO modify traffic sometimes.

The "SecurityEdge" was bundled into the new package deal we got, and defaulted to being turned on. But we didn't even know to check it. Worse, I didn't do the order, so I didn't know it was even a thing.
Probably the blog post should be the linked article?
The difference is plenty of companies can make storefronts - look at Steam vs GOG and all the other options for gaming on Windows.

You act like companies wouldn't produce viable alternatives given the opportunity... and you act like Steam isn't better because of the competition.

Apple is putting forced restrictions on their platform because they want to squeeze everyone who comes through their doors. Apple acts like they are the only ones who can create a "brand, real-estate, parking lots, etc" when in reality, it can be done a lot better by any number of other companies - the only reason they can charge 30% is because of artificial restrictions put in place so... they can charge 30%.

Walmart doesn't want Target next door... because then they'll have to actually innovate to keep their customers.
I’m self taught and my story is similar, however in my day, there was no bootcamps. I busted my ass at hackathons to get noticed and moved up from there. I’m a high school and college drop out

When I’m hiring for positions I cross out the school or bootcamp “education”. My top priority is to see what you’ve done in the past and what you’re passionate about. If I like a resume I want a code sample, most have their GitHub in it. I review the code and see how well it’s formatted and how it’s organized. It takes awhile, but I think it’s worth it.

So, keep at it, do some small projects on GitHub you’re proud of. Bonus if you can find a project and contribute to it, even documentation counts in my book. Mentors are also helpful.

You got this!
I wonder if it is better to stay with the plane crash rather than to leave it, like the article mentions ?

Maybe if the crash is in a jungle like the last survivor, it is better to leave your landing crater and find help.
Well I don’t think that’s supported by the data, because they can do that on android, and Epic is suing Google too.

You’re also framing the market in an arbitrary way to support your conclusions. Every company could be said to have a monopoly over their own customers. Any argument that Apple monopolizes Apple customer, or that Google monopolizes Play Store customers could also be used to say Valve monopolizes Valve customers, or Sony monopolizes PlayStation customers, or that Samsung monopolizes the market of Samsung smart fridge customers.

You need a lot more than just that to make a compelling argument that the behaviour is illegally anti-competitive.
Here in Spring Texas, I’m seeing rolling blackouts since Tuesday pm. Few hours on. Few hours off. Having a gas fire and stove is killing it for us. I’m planning on switching one of our water heaters to gas so we can be covered for hot water in power outages.
> It seems like a great way to waste 40 hours of your life every week.

This seems like the more depressing take to me. Most people don't have the good fortune to work in jobs they truly love - yet many of those jobs are still important and not at all a waste of your life.

To take an extreme example, most rubbish collectors probably dislike their job. Yet doing it provides an important service to society. I would never tell the person who takes my trash away that their efforts are a waste of their life...
The range is pretty broad -40 to -200, but in colder region they put additives that prevents gasoline from freezing so it can save you.
If Texas were more connected to other grids and transmitting above a certain threshold of electricity across state lines, they'd become subject to federal regulations. They might have to ensure that their electrical system was built to handle a 10-year cold weather event, and that would cost money.

This way, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) can write a report after the 2011 Texas cold snap that took down the Texas power grid. FERC can recommend that companies which generate or distribute power be required to verify that their systems are weather-proofed before every winter and before every forecasted cold snap. And Texas can simply ignore it.
100% correct. Journalists are just looking for the adulation and affirmation of their fellow progressives, and do so by attacking the weak and defending the powerful.