skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's definitely something there worth talking about, but trying to broaden a term to mean more will actually just make the term less useful, and it'll be harder to talk about both things instead.

I'm not sure what I'd call "donglegate" other than "internet justice", but it wouldn't be "cancel culture".
Hopefully the hotel chefs knew how to cook them.

In a covered pot on low heat, add "protein", salt, til crispy. Serve with polenta and salad.
Capitalism is about rewarding people for creating value. It's the best economic theory ever invented, because it aligns your goals with the goals of everyone else.

Bitcoin speculation does not create value.

The stock market does (e.g. see research on potato and onion futures).
Relationships often happen under circumstances where no sane person would sign a contract. My girlfriend and I currently both share an emotional risk. If one of us is unhappy in the relationship and leaves, the other suffers emotionally. That risk is roughly equal, though. The likelihood of harm and the magnitude of harm are equal, as is the likelihood of happiness and the magnitude thereof.

I am much better off than my girlfriend financially, though. Marriage introduces a financial element wherein I bear a substantial financial liability, in exchange for effectively no likelihood of financial gain. On the other hand, she bears no financial liability, and in fact gains a likelihood of financial gain. No sane person would sign a contract like that with a business. It would be like Amazon buying out a startup with a contract that says if the merger isn't successful, the startup gets to keep half of Amazon.

Another reason contracts aren't analogous is because marriage is an intensely emotional affair. There is no sane way, that I can think of, to make emotional restitution. What's the point of having a contract that's unenforceable because there is no reasonable restitution?

So you end up in a spot where for some people, the benefits of marriage are unenforceable (not that I'm saying they should be enforceable) but the liabilities are very much enforceable. I'm not aware of any common contracts in business, finance or housing that follow that kind of a paradigm.
Query Engines: Push vs. Pull
Isn't this one feature completely replace Clubhouse?
The Future Imagined in Albert Robida’s La Vie électrique (1890)
on gaming: one of the local MUDs where i played has frequent real-life gettogethers for an afternoon, dinner of even out of the city for a weekend.

another gaming related activity is boardgames. check if your city has a boardgame meetup. if not, start one.

also hobbies
Lots of industries have to plan for black swan events that hit once in a generation. But even then that's hugely optimistic. TPS/Lean has been in widespread use since what, the 80s? What happens when war breaks out, or we end up in a serious Geopolitical Conflict (Trade War), or run into another energy crisis or shipping crisis like what happened with the Suez Canal.

Owning your supply chain is a core competency. It's just that a few decades of relative global stability has allowed us to bury our heads in the sand in exchange for a few short-term optimizations.
> Covid only being slightly more deadly than the flu for young and middle-aged people

That is not true. Flu is significantly less deadly for the same age bracket. You have to compare young healthy people dying from flu with young heathy people dying from covid.
How would compare maturity with more popular frameworks that have been around for more than twice as long?

Genuinely curious as to what you meant by that question.
war upon the locals is establishing methodology

I suppose you consider federalism itself to be "war upon the locals". That ship sailed (or perhaps burned and sank) when the Articles of Confederation were replaced by the Constitution.

continual underlying appeal as the alternative to self control

If I could only just control my compulsive, pathological desire for decent-quality intercity rail travel in densely populated regions...

The problem isn’t that some states won’t go along. It’s that you think of Hawaii as owing you fealty. New Mexico as obliged to pay tribute.

By that logic, taxpayers in New York have been paying fealty to Texans in the Fort Worth area (via the Lockheed F-35 construction facility) for years.
Put more simply, lobbyists are just the bag men. They facilitate payoffs that are laundered through junkets, book deal advances, insider trading opportunities, and who knows what else. The lobbying firms certainly have little or no idea why the proposed bill they are selling was crafted.

It’s a sobering realization that none of our elected legislators are competent to actually write laws. Occasionally you’ll see an example where they’ll have a staff attorney draft something for the purpose of political grandstanding, but that’s a sideshow compared to the amount of legislation written by the people with the real power.

The dynamic of how the sausage is made in DC is why, incidentally, Trump had to go. For all his many many faults, one thing he did right was bring buying legal privilege in the form of laws or federal regulations to a grinding halt.
That makes a lot of sense, thank you.
It's a long road from Steve Jobs' "Those jobs are not coming back" to Obama.
Higher apparent efficacy, and the manufacturers, Pfizer-Biontec in particular, have actually been able to reliably produce the stuff.
I found the quality to be lacking (looking like 480p) with desktops using the standard Logitech webcams.
I bet the Chelsea Hotel is white all over when you shine black light in there. I would never sleep in that cum dungeon.
> Source 2, at the least, does not as far as I know. Which means that DotA2, CS:GO, Artifact, etc. all only run on iOS via MoltenVK since Apple has dropped OpenGL support.

CS:GO is definitely not Source 2 (yet?), and I'm not sure about Artifact, but it was at least at one point developed using Unity.
> ...you think Tim's approach over time will yield a 3% improved margin

It's not so much about a little extra yield, it's about not running the company into the ground, which is far harder than it may appear.

If a CEO manages to leave the company in as good a condition as they found it, that's already worth a fortune.
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

Especially for a CEO, who has quite a bit of power to optimize for any measure, it's going to be very hard to craft a measure that gives the results you want and can't be gamed. The most likely outcome is something that's just a worse version of the stock price, because the stock price is just a forward-looking approximation of net income, which is what you'd mostly want to optimize for anyway (ignoring things like B corps).
Dividends are taxable at the time of distribution; the price effects of a buyback are taxable when shares are sold [1], and delayed taxes are preferable to immediate taxes.

[1] unless the holder has elected for trader tax treatment, in which case shares are marked to market at the end of the tax year
Weren't you just trying to charge people to discuss with them how cryptocurrencies will change the world?

That sounds much less like an ethusiast and much more like a salesman.
I think you're missing the other half of the problem, which is that people actively seek out "journalism" that confirms their world view, regardless of whether it is true.

Despite the mergers, there are still news outlets that produce accurate and in depth reporting, and of course it's possible to consume news from multiple opposing sources, but most people either don't care about the news or only care if it gives them a reason to hate the other side.
> Roku alleges Google has asked it to favor YouTube music results from voice commands made on the Roku remote while the YouTube app is open, even if the user's music preference is set to default to another music app, like Pandora.

How else do you use voice search for a music video on Youtube? If I open youtube and do a voice search. I'm expecting the search to be constrained to the app.
only after you have completed [REDACTED] actions!
That's a good point as well!
I find that Reddit is mostly useful for things with a small audience like local restaurants, so they're unlikely for recommendations to be fake.

For consumer goods, I find that trustworthy Youtube channels, like America's Test Kitchen, do a much better job with reviewing things anyways.
> I'm sorry but words mean what people who use them want them to mean

Yup, which is why I use the words how I want them to mean. See?

> I don't believe this needs to be zero sum, though.

Absolutely not. I'm a capitalist.

But bitcoin is clearly negative-sum. And (I don't want to retype too much from other comments) so's other cryptocurrencies.

And negative-sum is clearly bad.
> Free market Capitalism (one form of capitalism) is the only economic system that is compatible with individual liberty

Have you heard of the call on the left to “abolish the police”? I have never heard this from libertarians. Do you support abolishing police and prisons? Because that seems to me a far more oppressive institution than, say, income tax. The United States has the largest prison population in the world, I cannot imagine anything worse for individual liberty than that. Also, what about people’s freedom to do what they want with their time? Americans work the longest hours in the western world and have some of the worst labor protections. Libertarians are obsessed with freedom to consume but have little interest in protecting people’s freedoms at work. If the government monitored how long you were in the bathroom, that would be insane, but when an Amazon warehouse in a small town in Alabama does, it’s “the free market”. Libertarians hate when the government takes your money, but love when your boss takes your money, libertarians hate lazy people who don’t work, but have no problem with people who in inherit wealth and live off their investments. They love free speech and free association, but hate unions: which is a freely chosen organization of workers representing their interests. I could go on, but I fully support individual liberty and freedom, which is why I’m a socialist.
I would love it if someone could explain to me like I'm 5, why it is exactly, that CEOs are so highly paid.

I get that it's hard. I get that there are long hours. I get that it requires long-term strategic thinking. None of that helps me understand O(100M) "compensation."

I'm pretty sure that executives get paid so much because of (a) their rolodex (ie. their ability to get certain people on the phone) and (b) because the world has -- not accidentally -- become convinced that it must be so and now it is that way. And everyone believes that were it not for O(100M) CEOs companies would fail.

Lots of jobs are hard and require extremely smart, gifted people. And yet somehow only executives get huge "compensation." Someone please break it down for me Barney-style because it seems like bullshit to me.
same here. those people that became friends at work were those where we had a common interest besides work, and we would have become friends even if we had worked at different companies.
Why are you trolling on HN?

Edit: yes, Walmart's revenue is 500+ billion. What does that have to do with anything discussed here? temp667's comment is correct.

Edit 2: first you didn't understand what "revenue" is, now you don't understand what "gross profit" is.
I think they are understaffed. I know for Swift on Windows, there is exactly one person driving that effort last I checked.

The Swift Linux team might have 2-3 people. And knowing Apple, that might not be 100% of their time.
This is why travel restrictions or “essential workers" designation are ridiculous.

It doesn't help, only mostly cause misery.
That's a step in the right direction, but I sorely miss the Android "trusted bluetooth device" that would keep your phone unlocked.

I have really poor timing, and upgraded from a Google Pixel 2 to an iPhone with face id (and no touch id)just before the pandemic. Now I have to type my passcode to unlock whenever I'm wearing a mask because I have a Garmin watch and won't consider downgrading to an Apple watch. The Garmin watch kept my Pixel unlocked for me since it was a trusted bluetooth device.
Pair and mob programming
Anecdotally, people in solitary confinement become desperate for even the most mundane of social interactions. This implies there is some psychological need for them.
5G on Dual Sim is a useful update, prior to this it was only possible to have 5G on one of the accounts (The hardware SIM, I think was the default not the eSIM)
This is why I exercise at the gym instead of at home. I don't really know anyone at the gym (nor do I really make an effort to), but I recognize faces and get some motivation from being in a place with others who are all there for the same purpose. Just riding a stationary bike or lifting weights at home by myself is not a habit I have ever been able to develop.
> I think it is worth incidentally considering how incredibly lucky we've collectively been on the vaccine front. Essentially because of how well Moderna and particularly BionTech/Pfizer's vaccines have performed, people now seem to think that we were collectively owed vaccines of this quality and quantity by the universe and that AZ is somehow uniquely incompetent at not delivering something so simple.

Yeah, I noticed that too.

From the beginning of the pandemic, experts were saying "We shouldn't expect vaccines too soon, Trump is full of shit when he says they're around the corner, 1 year is the minimum delay before they hit the market, several years is possible" and then we got a series of logistical miracles and the first vaccines hit the market before the end of the year.

Now people in France are saying "our pharmaceutical companies are worthless, it's been more than a year and there's still no vaccine from them, what the hell are they doing?"
I think there's a more positive interpretation to be found as well.

Think of any type of task that you can get "in the zone", or a "flow state" with. Having an audience that reacts positively to your work can create a positive feedback loop that causes you to do better on the task. You tend to do better at things you enjoy doing.

The opposite can also be true. If you do something you're unfamiliar with, chances are your audience won't react positively to watching you do it. This can create a negative feedback loop that causes you to do worse. (I think this is changing though, with the advent of "Let's Play"s, streaming culture, and the voyeuristic enjoyment of watching someone improve at something over time).
This solution needs to run rather slow (<5mph) which would add time to the tractor run

Also it's the autonomous element that allows it run continuously (day and night) to accomplish its goal
I don't see how it's either. "Milton" was not a movie. You could call it an adaptation. As for not very good, well, de gustibus.
I don’t really see anything significant here about derisking their heavy dependence on Chinese assembly and supply chains which means they will continue to be over a barrel and subject to the whims of the CCP as well as US - China relations.

Plus the spreading of their small manufacturing fund over several states isn’t going to bring about an American Shenzhen, like with Silicon Valley, it needs to be a geographically centralized hub or nexus to get increasing gains from cross pollination between all of the firms.

Apple needs to be investing to lessen their dependence on Foxconn mainland manufacturing and logistics.
> if I have an app open, voice search works within that app

This is not how Siri or the Google Assistant works on iOS, Android, or Apple TV.
Does it leave the roots though? Seems a mechanical instrument would be cheaper and more energy efficient.

Like most whiz bang farming tech it seems too clever (expensive) by half.
Standardizing a 1000 hr bulb life vs standardizing a 30% commission to host an app, is it really a coincidence or are cartels just better at hiding it now?
Sadly it also breaks a fairly common navigation flow in SwiftUI – having 2 navigation buttons on the same screen causes nav pushes to immediately pop back.

This does however show an interesting trade-off of SwiftUI: by being a more abstract definition of a view hierarchy, they can change out implementations more easily than before to further optimise in each OS release.

I'm hoping that they're essentially going down the route of rendering SwiftUI directly to Metal, their graphics API, as I'd expect that to be much faster and less energy intensive.
Image you were in a forum with people who claimed to believe that Facebook was great, but none of them had invested in it. Wouldn't that make you doubt the sincerity of their position?

It'd be a bad idea to only listen to opinions from people who won't put their money where their mouth is. If anything, objectively analysing something is much more important to those who have stake than those who do not.
There's some truth to that but the main point was simply that anyone who bought a car, especially earlier on, saw immediate benefits. Later on they might have reconsidered if they learned how traffic jams work, saw the effects of pollution or injuries, etc. but by then they were most likely financially invested with major commitments to an automobile-based lifestyle.

That's the problem with these kind of things: the early adopters see benefits but probably not the costs, that convinces other people to join them, and it quickly reaches the point where the easiest/most profitable is to continue down that path. If you're the average suburban homeowner, you might hate the effect that sitting in traffic has on your health and time but if you can't afford to live next to the office you're probably going to treat it as inevitable since dramatic changes affect your property values.
Reminds me a little bit of Shrine of Apple, which was a collection of photographs of Apple products. The collection has been taken down and replaced by information about the photographer's book[1], but the site has been archived with a lot of the pictures[2].

[1] https://shrineofapple.com
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160306183801/http://shrineofap...
Honest answer: because I could think of the term for cycle more quickly than path.
Well, yeah.

Because "machine AI" has NOTHING much in common with how our biological brains work. And we aren't smart enough to know what intelligence really is when we can't even define it for ourselves or in animal models.

And 99.999% of everyone working on machine AI has never taken a biology class let alone a class related to anatomy, neurology or experimental psychology so it's nothing more than "flinging shit on the wall and hoping it sticks" in terms of odds of success!

Not that that would help because academia as it exists today frowns upon "getting out of your lane" or "challenging orthodoxy" so "knowledge hybridization" of two distinct silos is strictly forbidden.

Basically the methodology of AI today is NO DIFFERENT than AI 1.0 from the 1960s and 1970s which was based on the assumption that all intelligence was merely predicate calculus and a fact store.

The scientific and economic model was for that AI (and is still the model for AI today!) is nothing more than the Garden Gnome Business Plan:

1. Create a cute-but-sellable singular heuristic technique misnamed and misinterpreted as "intelligence" in the small

2. Sell the idea to implement the same thing 1000x, 1 000 000x, etc. in parallel

3. ????

4. Success! We now how "strong AI" (which never comes because step #3 is bullshit and faith-based at best; fraud at worst)

The problem is that's also IDENTICAL to the plan to create a 747 jet by putting all the parts into a shipping hold and shaking with the expectation that you'll have a fully-formed 747 pop out when you open it.

Evolution is far smarter than us and has tested all the combinations) that take us generations to check. Evolution might well have taken longer per test but it's had a longer time. The best hope is to slavishly copy nature paying extreme attention to how nature pulls it off.

That's NEVER BEEN DONE with AI!!

So it's a VERY EASY technology to short in the long run because the fundamentals of assumptions and methodology are always such Epic Fail.
> who runs the company at the top is critical to the success of most companies.

I think it's culture and power/organizational structure that determines this. Culture is disseminated from the top down, due to the power structure. If you remove the power from the CEO, their value goes away. If you change the culture without the CEO, their value goes away. So you don't need a CEO if you can force the company to change its culture and power structure a different way.
It was not possible to suit everyone's taste in a TV, after all you had a limited amount of airtime and you needed a few figures. It would help that these figures are brainless and sexy so that you can get everyone on board.

Youtube changed that. Now you can watch what you are interested in, instead of that single thing being fed on TV. You like a particular animal? (Otters), there is a person in Japan dedicated to his otter and makes frequent high-quality videos about it.

Hollywood lost control of the narrative, but not because of their sloppy work. Internet and high-bandwidth changed the game and they are unable to adapt.
We visualise certain data structures (DAGs and trees) for debugging and documentation with https://graphviz.org (EPL) and https://yworks.com/yed (proprietary, freeware).
Does it actually impact your relative productivity net of everything?

I have done that a few times even without ADHD (presumably). But stripping away all the meetings (or at least the need to stop work to be in them), the chatting, and the distracting questions has made it net out to about the same.
Defoliating weeds instead of picking them by the roots is a great way to end up with a field of weeds.
This is helpful but even here it took me a few of the clips to know which one was the bad one

Halfway through it was obvious that the remake was bad

I can still see how I would have ignored this in other games
> Roku has some issues too. Namely, it autodownloads a new random app about once a week so Im constant deleting apps from my home page.

WTF? New random apps about once a week? I've never seen this. Have multiple Roku boxes and a couple TVs with integrated Roku. Using them for years. Maybe there's some kind of "suggest new channels to me" checkbox you've got checked in account preferences?
Consider firms which are wholly owned by either 1) every single employee (worker-owned firm), 2) every employee and every customer who opts in (consumer co-op), or 3) literally every citizen of a government (publicly owned).

You own it in partnership with the other people who own it.

This is, in the strictest definition, the socialism that people are so scared of.
If you can get away with going down a Reddit rathole for three days, no one is watching you that closely. That gives you freedom to chase other things. One option could be writing a library to make your tests more interesting to write. Write the boring tests first, and then look for a way to make the process of writing them more interesting.
I'm not. I think the LoC is a single point of failure for curation. No single institution is going to preserve everything, so having multiple institutions, public and private, is far better than relying on a single public institution to get things right.
But Tesla is not a multi-level marketing scheme.

But yes, maybe it would be better to say "none", "a bit", or "my retirement depends on it". (or whatever scale you want to use)

Just because you're not a journalist doesn't mean you can't be ethical.
I guess you didn't read the article or watch the video.
Have Microsoft and Google standardized on the 30% commission?

Or is it more that "Apple stuff" is not directly substitutable with "Google stuff", and that Apple has a monopoly on "Apple stuff"?