skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment indicates one option for monetizing the platform. For now, we do not see that as ideal. We are focused on ways to increase the value provided to the buyers and sellers [members] on the platform. To the degree the solution is working and people value it, only then can we attempt to extract some of that value. If we over-reach, usage will drop. So, there is a fine balance needed here.

We are adamant about exploring and discovering new models which do not involve traditional advertising or selling/sharing of member data.

We are also realistic and realize there are expenses to providing this solution. So, monetization is a requirement to keep the doors open.

A question for you, assuming this service becomes successful.
[1] What would be a reasonable price to pay for promoting your services and being able to easily connect with trustworthy professionals?

- Is $1.00 per year fair?
- Is $10.00 per month reasonable?
- Is a % of revenue you generate a better model?
It's ironic, because the delineation[1] between personal and private property is often blurred by capitalism, yet it is laid bare in this example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_property#Personal_ver...
But, by your exact same logic: Why bother having humans even within the simulation? An AI will out-perform them there as well.

I suggest that the original logic was flawed...
Four died of health problems, one was killed by the police, and one police officer was killed by the crowd. It’s only fair to say they killed one IMO.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/08/capitol-atta...

At least 25 people were killed during the “peaceful” BLM protests this year. The article implies that 11 is a more accurate number.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-kill...

Both of these numbers are minuscule, on the order of people killed by vending machines and bath tubs. So they are dangerous in the sense that bathtubs are dangerous.

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/dec/07/things-l...
Microsoft inadvertently played a similar game in the 80s and 90s, by having multiple price tiers for similar products in different markets. You could buy Office at a computer store for $200, or get it bundled with a new computer for $20, or for "free" by copying the disks from someone. (Don't remember the exact prices). Then there were "upgrade" tiers and an academic discount. The free tier made it impossible for anybody to compete with them, thus protecting their market in the paid tier. They even tried competing with themselves, via "Microsoft Works," and gave up.

Creative works are a very strange market, because they don't fit any semblance of a demand curve. For instance, there's no such thing as a song that's slightly cheaper than a Taylor Swift hit, with slightly higher sales. You can't compete with Taylor Swift on a price/demand curve. Also, you can't compete with free.

There's still a bit of a demand curve for live music. For instance you can pay less to hear my band than to hear Taylor Swift. This may actually be why playing live is still a better economic deal for most rank-and-file musicians. It's one reason why I'm presently un-recorded. I have no need to know how much my music is loved by people who think I don't deserve to get paid.
mRNA encodes instructions for creating proteins, and prions are mis-folded proteins. I think the concern is more, our bodies' natural mRNA is unlikely to create prions or it would be a common occurrence, but lab-created mRNA isn't made of the same parts and doesn't have that millennia of evidence behind it.
One of the largest problems is due to the negative media cycle and focus on things that drive engagement. Hopefully by stepping out of this algorithmically generated world, we can get experiencing the future and imagining their role in it.
"This is not just for the elite few"

"I have a modest 300k position"

When you look at these two statements in close proximity, you feel that there's perfect humility to the fortune of that position?
I'm trying to figure out why the GP was triggered by some random BLM statement about families.
If you had started weightlifting in April, you could be able to bench two plates by now.
The time you spend in your car is more valuable than the cost of the car itself (including gas, repairs, etc). So insofar as you can free that time with an autonomous vehicle, it can absolutely slash the total cost of transportation.

To a lesser extent, similar things can be said about your other examples.
> is still selling at a staggering 20M copies a year

Looking at their 2020 sales numbers and assuming they will be the same in 2021 is a very bad idea....

> That 2% of the population already bought the game is irrelevant

You have a very strange definition of irrelevant.

> what really matters is what percentage of the current player base will come back, or simply play more thanks to this patch

Indeed, that is what really matters. That was kinda the point of my whole comment.

Your own point, that it's making so much money despite the loading times, is the problem with that theory. If people were so upset by the loading times - why did people keep buying and playing the game so much?
I have an XPS 15 from around the same time and the 1080p display feels a little poor. What I notice most is the long pixel response time. I'd take a 1080p OLED over a 4K LCD anyday. I'd also take a 4K OLED over either any day as well. High refresh rate and/or backlight strobing would be nice to have as well. Battery life isn't as much of a concern to me. I know not all users have the same priority as me. It's nice that consumers have options.
Biggest headache that Apple has solved is updates. They are very clear if a phone is still supported or not.

The following is a conversation I had with a relative, while trying to troubleshoot their phone.

Q: "Why doesn't my Bank App work?"

Me: [after many steps]"Because you need to update your OS"

Q: "How do I do that?"

Me: [many steps later] "Sorry you can't update your OS. You will need a new phone."

Q: "But this phone is only a year old."

Me: "The phone had been out for over a year before you got it. The [manufacturer] stopped updating it. You have to get a new phone to use your Banking app."

Q: "But new phones are so expensive, my phone is still plenty fast, and the battery lasts all day, why do I need to get a new phone?"

Me: "The manufacturer stops making updates to make you buy a new phone from them."
Chris's review is really impressive. Anyone doing code review should take note.
I get what this person is going for, but you can't do "just get a job". Not in 2021. All the jobs are Grubhub, young people know that and are reacting as they see fit. As they see it the only way out is to speculate.

As they see it, they're going to be behind on bills regardless. As they see it, jobs grind people into the dust and, nowadays, many of them will leave you poorer than you started.

People need better jobs in order for jobs to be the answer. You can't ignore this. Let alone talking about the "rights" of trillionaires... lord give me strength.
> "blow"

Implying this is some frivolous expense akin to gambling your savings away at a casino or buying an expensive car is the wrong mindset. This is not entertainment; saving for your future and retirement is a life impacting matter that people need to take seriously. Yes I can't afford to and won't blow $3k on a fancy new TV. But I can afford to set aside $100 a month to put into a stock account even if I skip eating out or having a fancy phone plan.
Is there a better spam filter today?
> Now, flicking your wearable token with impatient fingers, you feel a slight force as your Hyperloop pod comes to a stop.

You lost me at “Hyperloop”. How is that a vision of the future when we know for a fact that the idea doesn’t make practical sense?
Is a startup what you truly need? Or want? Or can?
> He did work for that money

How do you know that? People who have lots of money often did not work for it, it's inherited.

> he did take a risk investing it in these shares

People often talk about investment risk like it's a real thing, but it's not. You can either afford it or you can't.

If you can afford the loss its not risky, it's just gambling.

"I'm taking all the risk, I deserve most of the benefit" is just bullshit rich people talk to avoid the fact that the people who actually do all of the work deserve more of the upside.
The idea of the "mailbox" reminds me of Dispatcher.BeginInvoke in C# on Windows. It is very powerful, but can also lead to messy code where many threads are mutating shared state and failing to fully reason about all the other mutations that can happen.

Systems with explicit communication, i.e. based on queues, encourage the programmer to limit the number of possible ways in which worker threads can interact with the thread that manages mutable state. They also require something like a big switch statement where all possible interactions are listed in one place. It seems like in actor-based code, all the possible interactions with the mutable state could be spread across the code base.

On the other hand, these hand-written message loops and switch statements are essentially the same code that the compiler would generate for an actor's mailbox processing loop. One could argue that writing them by hand is a waste of effort. Programmers simply need to use discipline. (Similar to virtual dispatch in C++, for example.)

I am curious about the opinions of programmers more familiar with concurrent architectures. Does the actor model make it easy to write concurrent spaghetti code?
> afaik it's less secure

Firefox doesn't have a Spectre vulnerability that allows websites to read crossorigin images, videos, and JS that won't be fixed for another month or 2 :)
> When I moved to the UK though, I was initially pretty "stand my ground" about only communicating in my accent -- after all, I was speaking perfectly correct English.

That's an interesting cultural difference. Here in France (at least around me) teachers insist on trying to develop an accent similar to a native English accent. From what I've read in this thread, I think they're trying to teach people Received Pronunciation. Having perfect English with still a noticeable French accent is generally looked down upon.
Signal is a US company and „do not roll your own crypto“ is an NSA meme. It translates to „only use crypto we probably know how to compromise“. That doesn’t mean the algorithm itself must be wrong, it could just be that the implementation has subtle bugs.
Hindsight is easy, that's the point. But it doesn't help you make money.
Surely this is just due to a lack of knowledge? If you're never going to use the portability, then you can get a much more powerful desktop than a laptop given the same amount of money.

Having a built in UPS is pretty sweet for some use cases though.
aren't cheaper areas cheaper because less people want to live there?
Because of all innovation is happening on Ethereum, so yes I don't want to deal with the UX difficulty of using another chain. Also I wouldn't want to invest (both time and $) into a project on a 2nd rate platform. Not to mention it doesn't reflect well on the project to not consider the network effect nor the planned L2 solutions that are here to address scalability. I highly recommend looking into Optimism. I'm not sure what the difference of AE and ETH EVM is (forked?), but I know that if you have a project in Solidity then you can launch on Optimism with little to no changes (just use their compiler).
What is a Fabian?
A land value tax taxes the value of the land not the things built on it. It hurts speculators/landlords and benefits people who build/improve.

It works very differently than a propery tax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok2uR3btMrE
Yet $1000 is cheaper than some phones from the same manufacturer. Which is, of course, an apples and oranges (pardon the pun) comparison. But boggles my mind, nevertheless.
Can someone explain technically how CAID works? Or point me to some articles/documentation?
The problem is that the mining bubble is temporary, and when it crashes, these miners dump their cards in the used market with _very_ attractive pricing.

In 2018, something similar happened; ETH mining became unprofitable and the result was that used Pascal cards were available for the cheap in the second hand market. The problem for NVIDIA? Turing, the successor to Pascal, released in September 2018.... and many people, instead of buying that, just bought used Pascal cards.

IIRC, NVIDIA even commented that high end sales were low compared to previous generations in an quarterly report.

Granted, the second hand market cannot be solely blamed for this, as Turing was really unattractively priced. (They shifted each tier up, so the $370 GTX 1070 was replaced with a $500 RTX 2070)

These mining cards cannot be used for gaming (this is not the first time NVIDIA releases dedicated mining cards. 2017 had P106 mining cards as well, and when people tried using them for gaming on the cheap++, NVIDIA blocked it through a driver update) and thus reduce the risk for NVIDIA in the future.

++there was some software that allowed you to render on a GPU, and output video from another GPU like the dedicated iGPU of Intel CPUs. Looking Glass, I think? But I don't fully remember. These days, this functionality is actually integrated into Windows 10.
This is lunacy @dang. I criticized a country for the policies it has pursued, not people. The implication here is that countries themselves are now infallible?

HN users are regularly (and justly) critical of China, North Korea and even America... are these people also facing reprimand? Or is just certain countries who get your protection?
Just work and be a slave to the system is what I took from that. Diversify your investments should have been the recommendation.
> I'm still not good enough.

How do you know this? I’ve never done leetcode, but if you have an degree in Computer Science chances are you’re as good as the average software engineer out there.

Btw, the Googler coach sounds like a scam. Don’t do that, coaches are usually worthless. Try applying to decent companies that do not require leetcode or similars.
I was going to post something similar. There has been some amazing technology in the past 30 years, but the argument can be made that we are focused on the wrong things. I love that anyone can carry all the world's knowledge in their pocket, but we have also increased the hours people spend working so much that we no longer have TIME to take out an encyclopedia and look something up the old fashioned way.
Here's the author's youtube channel. There's also an Apple podcast verison. Its interesting to compare the nuance, tone and personality that the video as a medium adds. The video and podcast seem a lot more relatable/friendly/fallably human (versus the comments here being about how the author seems preachy/boomer-esque/know it all). Perhaps its because you realize they are from Brooklyn/Long Island and its just their speech pattern to talk super confidently.

The Compound

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBRpqrzuuqE8TZcWw75JSdw
Blockchain fees are always there.
However, there are solutions - such as NEAR (near.org) who reduce them. They claim to have "10K x lower cost per transaction than Ethereum"
Regular client wouldn't feel those.
I think this explanation makes more sense. The other explanation, although mathematically equivalent, sounds weird.
> Could Jason have been slightly more professional? Absolutely. But we're all human and I can't entirely blame him

Oh, I don't entirely blame him. I just partially blame him for not seeing the obvious way this could devolve into a problem, even if it would (justifiably) seem unlikely to go to this level so fast. That is, he shouldn't be surprised there was a problem with what he said, although the scope of the problem is a bit more than I think most would expect.

Professionalism isn't just about making others feel good, it's about optimizing for useful outcomes, which includes covering yourself. Not taking care with your words is just like not taking care with your code. Sometimes there's a weird interaction and things go boom.
I really don’t like that we have the overhead of a new keyword called actor
Which ends up doing almost nothing in terms of actual tracking.
I'm working on a startup trying to make that happen now. There's an immense amount of "free energy" in the form of 120k+ flights around the world every day with that # expected to increase in the future with air taxis, delivery drones, etc. Idea is to hitch a ride on these platforms and crowdsource (cloudsource?) as much aerial image data as possible to create a map that updates every few minutes. Planet Labs and Maxar are great and satellites aren't going anywhere, but we see a pretty big unfilled opportunity in the remote sensing market.

Apologies for the shameless plug--we're on IG @notasatellite if you're interested in seeing some examples :^)
> The reality is, there is no place for humans in an AI driven world where AI is smarter than humans and robots can make stuff.

You need to read more sci-fi. The Culture series by Ian Banks is a good start.

Of course there is dystopic fiction too, but the point is there are many possibilities of what life post-ai may look like

Nothing says it has to work out the way you think so stating that so confidently is unwarranted.
The same amount?

What gamers are running multiple GPUs in a game 24/7 with 100% utilization?

I don't think it even comes close.
Crazy how that doesn't apply to Amazon (and Audible) or Netflix /s
I would say the Dear Moon project is more of an example than launching the car. The car was just for an initial test flight. It took the place of a block of aluminum like in one of the Falcon 1 launches.
Line 6 Pod Go Wireless and HX Stomp XL
Many crypto-anarchy idealists consider the crypto price bubble a distraction that doesn't meaningfully advance their cause.
Thanks. I've also found a definition of 'racial inequities' and an example from Kendi from the same chapter:

> Racial inequity is when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing. Here’s an example of racial inequity: 71 percent of White families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014, compared to 45 percent of Latinx families and 41 percent of Black families. Racial equity is when two or more racial groups are standing on a relatively equal footing. An example of racial equity would be if there were relatively equitable percentages of all three racial groups living in owner-occupied homes in the forties, seventies, or, better, nineties.

This idea of the presence of (certain) inequities as evidence of racism doesn't seem controversial to me: if we took large samples of White, Black, and Latinx households in USA, accounting for regional differences and other coincident factors in the samples, wouldn't we expect the deviation in home ownership percentages to be much, much lower?

Could you (or someone else) reference a definition of racism from MLK?
Put Your Face on a Mask
> Does AI really change that much?

About all the things you listed - housing, transportation, education, food and travel are being impacted by digitization and AI.
A car analogy that works! Good job, this is a rare sight indeed :)
We just use the git sha and they works great, no reason to overcomplicate it
Do you save any fossil energy sending a web request around the world to where the Sun shines considering the cost to send the data?

I remember reading that distributing a video games to an XBox One via internet releases more carbon into the atmosphere than distributing the game via a Blu-Ray.

The amount of energy required to send a bit per mile might be irreducible in the end or at least not scalable the way the CMOS microprocessor has been.
> I didn't go, but the photos of the architecture from the different countries were beautiful.

Apparently, the American pavilion was not among them:

Now that the US Pavilion has been open for several days, its reviews, to be generous, are mixed. Visitors, after a two-hour wait, enjoy the upbeat attitude of the student “ambassadors” who greet them in Mandarin — but few are impressed by the three films that constitute the US Pavilion’s content. (One reporter noted that the price for the three shorts, about $23 million, is more than the production costs of the Oscar-winning film, The Hurt Locker.) The “American people’s” sole walk-on are brief vignettes that flicker on the screen and then are gone. Chinese visitors are reported to have remarked, especially after the hype and long wait, “We expected more from America.” Visitors exit the theater into a large hall dedicated to fawning over the 60-odd corporate sponsors whose names and brands are the only aspects of American life and culture to which the pavilion accords recognition.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/an-epic-failure-of-planni_b_5...
Fizzbuzz question has a nuance that is not acknowledged by many. Read the question carefully.

It should solve:

3: fizz

5: buzz

15: fizzbuzzfizzbuzz

Why is this?

15 is divisible by 3

15 is divisible by 5

15 is divisible by 3 and 5

All three statements in the description are true. You never said they were mutually exclusive.
I like when my employer cleans up dust and dirt. I don’t really care about disinfectant and I might be unhappy with a robotic approach. Wouldn’t want to see this.
They wouldn't sell browsing histories; that data is a valuable asset. They would follow the model used by most "AI" products: an "AI"/"smart" service that launders candidates' history data into an opaque score. The hiring company's workload is reduced to mapping a score value onto their hiring plan, and Google will make a carefully worded claim that they are not selling personal information.
> technological progress follows an exponential curve

This is a mantra that I keep hearing, but if I compare the progress from 1900 to 1960 and then from 1960 to 2020, it almost seems like it has been flattening... Sure, we have internet and fancy computers, but the progress from 1900 to 1960 was immense: air travel, electrification, proliferation of automobiles, immense progress in medicine, space exploration, nuclear energy. Even the MOSFET transistor was invented in 1959.

Not saying there wasn't any progress between 1960 and 2020, but it sure doesn't look "accelerating"...
Indeed! I have a family account for 6 people here in Brazil and I pay around 0.77 USD per person.
Not everyone runs Arch or a distro with anywhere near the newest kernel. Not everyone feels like digging for posts online that show what wifi/ethernet/etc chipset a laptop is using so they know beforehand whether or not its going to be a pain in a more LTS minded distro.

System76 is there for those people.
If you need the $1200 today, then yes.

Most sound investing advice specifically says not to invest until you have enough liquid savings to withstand an emergency - keeping in mind that the biggest emergency one might face is usually losing your job. If you don't have that saved up - or worse, are already unemployed - securities are actually a really poor investment due to their volatility. A professional skill doesn't "go down" in the same way that a stock can go down.

If you are financially secure for the time being, then buying stocks is a good idea, as you can stick that in a tax-advantaged account for retirement. Large index funds are good for this specific purpose because you don't have the risk of an individual stock getting wiped out. You can hold onto it for a long time and get your few-percent-per-year ROI.
I'd pay for a pro version of macOS Docker Desktop that didn't peg the CPU at ~30% with no activity in the containers :)
FAANGs are overrated.
I want to piggyback off this comment and also throw in HL:Alyx for VR Games. I was honestly blown away by how good VR felt, VALVe did an amazing job and I think/hope it sets the standards for all other VR Games.