skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of the problem is that we equate cost to value. Unless I am employing a CEO who previously earned big bucks and has taken a pay cut, someone on $50K simply doesn't seem to be as good as someone on $500K.

Of course, there are people who could do really well on less but then how many of the cheaper CEOs would then ask why they can't be paid more if their companies are making multi-millions and it is a lot to do with the CEOs strategic decisions?

To be fair, a lot of leadership is about confidence in yourself and people who are confident will often ask for a high salary.

To be fair, I don't know what the distribution of salaries in the UK is but there are plenty of company directors and CEOs who are definitely earning below £100K-£200K, even at financial companies. (about $140K-$240K) whereas in the US, I think it is much higher.
Sounds like having two machines would cost them some space and increase the reliability.

Do the franchise owners want that increased cost and reliability?
No creator, no teleology, no theology, no poetry, just Richard Dawkins:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Watchmaker

I thought it was common knowledge, but maybe I'm getting old.
Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail
Slack was the first distro I installed, around 1998 - stack of floppies and all.
I feel like there should be separate sets of advice for people in their 20s, 30s, 40s etc.

Anyway, I've met quite a few very lonely people (seems contradictory, but loneliness doesn't necessarily mean someone isn't going out at all) and a the few things that did work for them - at least temporarily - were:

-Getting a roommate, or moving to a shared apartment. There's nothing weird about doing this in your 30s anymore - housing hasn't been affordable for a while now. Doesn't mean they'll be your friends, but at least your social skills won't deteriorate any further.

-Volunteering. Be it an animal shelter or an open kitchen for the less fortunate. It's so much easier to connect with people if you have a common goal and there's always work to do at such places.

-Gaming - controversial, but certain games lend themselves to creating a community.
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so you see no value to:

- DeFi

- decentralized data storage.

- a decentralized & censorship resistant video streaming platform.

- Artists getting compensated fairly via NFT's.

- Banking the bankless

- DAO's (btw, how can DAO's work better without being decentralized? hahaha)

- A decentralized and censorship resistant social network

- Sythentics. What is a better solution to tokenizing assets in your opinion?

and on and on..
How Long Can the Norovirus Last? – Health Lines
Drones also have poor flight time to recharging time ratio. Which means you need more of them to get the job done.

Farms are designed to be serviced by farm vehicles. A vehicle makes a lot of sense.
"To some degree, modern populism consists of people recoiling in horror after realizing just how dumb you can be while holding power. But it's easy to notice other people being wrong and quite hard to do any better yourself." italics for emphasis

I think this is true in some cases, but not necessarily in all the issues we today. We're all just human and we all make mistakes. I think the part where it is ok to think we can do better is in how we handle those mistakes. It seems that most leaders tend to be hypocritical, blame the 'other side' for failures, and even ignore failings. Of course, it seems that's the way people get to be in power in the first place in the current political environment, so the people who act differently rarely stand a chance at the federal level.
absolutely, also linux user groups.

everywhere i travelled or lived i was easily welcomed to be an active member of the local user group and from several i have friends that still remember me a decade or two later.

i don't even remember any smalltalk phase (except for the smalltalk programmers group :-). there usually was some topic or someone with a question and we launched straight into technical discussions. all i had to do was show up and participate occasionally.
55kW at 240V is only 230A. A typical house gets 200A service. It’s a lot of power, but you wouldn’t have to move mountains to get it if you worked at a lab that needed it. It could be had for less than the price of many used cars.
The discussion is why the board does not select cheaper CEOs. In the case of these supposed funds that are not interested in the stock long term, is the claim that a more expensive CEO will deliver them better short term results? If not, why would a fund that cares about short term results want to overpay for a CEO?
I doubt they have the scale to make owning a fab worthwhile.

Certainly, unless they branch out into selling more mundane chips, they would have a problem using the capacity in their fabs for their own chips once those fabs get older.
>So it seems Drew is biased here, he is biased because his service is being used by thieves to make money.

Thieves using my service to make money is what pushed me over the edge into writing this piece, but I have a well-documented history of criticising cryptocurrencies. Here are some examples on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This looks really cool.

Also, thanks! I just discovered unDraw thanks to this!
Well the technology looks really cool, but in real life all of us are cogs in the machine. You might work for a company with 10,000 employees, and you don't get to feel significant at all. I don't know how well this would extend to a game, do I really want to feel like I'm completely insignificant even in virtual reality.

Or would I rather be on an eight person team and know that my actions really matter
Agreed! It's a tough world out there in the fight for relevance. Besides Go and Rust in the recent languages that more or less clamor to compete with C++ are Swift, Nim, Zig, D etc. and honestly I don't know if Rust or any of those will save us from human error or incompetence.
What makes the other vaccines better than the AZ one?
Gimp 2.99.6 Released
Yes - we do and are seeing rapid inflation.

We see rapid asset inflation across the board. Check recent commodity prices across copper, lumber, food, water etc. Everything has been rising dramatically during the period that the world has been practicing what you call 'Quantitative easing'. Inflation isn't just related to Forex if all the worlds currency's are inflating, albet just maybe faster than the USD. And the only reason the US is not inflating faster than the rest of the world is because the IMF is based in USD.
Most people here could benefit from talking to everyone and honing that skill, especially single guys, instead of just lambasting it as “small talk”.

When you don’t talk to people, you throw out a great amount of serendipity in life. e.g. Most of my friends right now and women I’ve dated I’ve met in lines at the coffee shop, parking my rental bike at the dock, and other unlikely places.

I wasn’t always that person so I empathize with the knee jerk kick against the idea, but it’s time to evolve, guys.
At a trillion dollar marketcap (more for the whole crypto sphere), it's obviously not inconsequential.

If you believe it's a speculative, ponzi scheme (not saying it actually is) where the money winds up in Singapore or wherever, do you want your population investing in it?

>[In 2018] Some estimates state at least 30 percent of South Koreans have invested in them. Simon Kim, CEO of Hashed (Korea’s leading crypto fund) told me that number could be as high as 50 percent among white-collared professionals.[0]

Would you not be worried about this?

[0]https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/14/why-south-korea-is-crypto...
100% agree and that's what my original comment was trying to get at.

I can see selling two models, one autonomous, one three point hitch / PTO. The advantage of the latter is clear to me.

But then the product starts to look a lot less sci-fi, doesn't it? We already have pull-behind weed burners that use propane torches and not lasers. The only "magic" would be in the AI recognition systems (which I have questions about.) Perhaps one could not get investment $$ for it then :-(

Also propane torches seem more efficient to me than converting diesel combustion to electricity to heat energy.
I stopped reading the article when I realized the student was 14 at the time of the post.

Anything posted by someone at that age, especially on a temporary medium such as snapchat, should have an implicit "for entertainment purposes only" label on it along with a EULA that says that unless it might cause immediate danger to someone else that it should be treated as satire.
Yeah so? Crypto improves the ability to evade. You must agree with that.

Thus it will increase the problem of people benefitting from society but not paying back into society. Taking resources that would never be able to grow in a vacuum.
I use Sankey diagrams with D3.js for a lot of security architecture work.
A two-qubit engine powered by entanglement and local measurements
Where are you going to fly, such that the destination country is not part of the global banking system, and thus will have records of your bitcoin transactions redeemed for currency?

North korea? Yeah, i’m sure they’ll just let you offload your BTC and live the high life.
I think the logic is that if you can describe what you need delivered (by the contractor) then an automated system could take the same inputs to deliver the same output.

It is not necessarily always true right now (you can't get robot building contractors just yet) but that is not to say the logic is true that the outsourced work could be automated.
can I get an ELI5?
Some other differences between the new bridge and the old bridge that would account for higher cost:

- The new bridge is designed to handle a much larger capacity than the old one, which was built starting in 1952, when there were many fewer commuters from distant suburbs trying to get to the NYC area.

- The new bridge has a bicycle/pedestrian path.

- The new bridge had to be built while the old bridge was still standing. Its construction costs presumably included the demolition of the old bridge and the rerouting of the highway, first from the old bridge to the first completed span of the new bridge (which initially handled traffic in both directions), then to the second span when that was completed.

- The old bridge was designed with a a life-span of only 50 years, so it was built using cheaper materials. 50 years seems like a very short life-span for a bridge. For example, the Brooklyn Bridge, opened in 1883, is now well into its second century of operation (although it has undergone various renovations, it hasn't required demolition).

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tappan_Zee_Bridge_(2017%E2%80%...
There's a game, Judgment, which opened my eyes to this. Because a core part of the backstory of the game is that the main character won a case as the defense which is seen as a huge deal. He's like one of the few defense attorneys to have ever gotten to not guilty.

The game takes place in a slightly fictionalized version of Japan and is made by a Japanese game developer noted for making games steeped in contemporary Japanese culture. I guess that's important to note.
"Among those people, there’s either a group of three who all know each other, or a group of three who have never met."

If your wife's friend knows no one, then you can make a group of three in which no one knows each other.

Just pick yourself, and not the person you know from from work or your hobbies. or pick the person from work and not their +1 or yourself. In this manner, in a group of 6. You inescapably have one or the other.
The loss of trees on Pacific islands seems like a decent example.
Ok that's a weird default...
Telegram outsources parts of its development into multi-stage coding contests[1] with prize money. I don't know why they decided to keep two separate versions in the end, but I assume they both came out of the Javascript contest.

[1] https://contest.com/
Not denial its objectively nonsense. There was no collecting of crypto or something the like. Its not illegal to have or sell. Exchange are still available. They banned its use as payment (the average holder does not use it for payment). The ban is nonsense ofc but its not what you suggest it is at all.

The fact that some local probably mismanaged exchange goes bankrupt after many people panic withdraw does not support you idea either.
Brutal Reality of Foundation, Opensea and Rarible
“Moving the goalposts” has long been identified as a problem by AI enthusiasts, but the opposite is also often true—an AI is built to solve a limited or highly restricted form of a problem, and then proponents claim that the goalpost has been moved when it’s observed that the general problem remains unsolved.

It feels to me that we started calling ML “AI” when deep learning became powerful enough to work on less clearly structured problems like vision and NLP—but “find patterns in complex data” does not seem powerful enough for what I would consider “intelligence” (artificial or otherwise). I don’t think that stateless/idempotent ML is capable of what most people would recognize as intelligence; in part because I suspect a history is required for a system to be self-correcting over time.
The Rise of HuggingFace
Why even bother adding an edge?
I disagree with you, I find the API quite uniform, powerful and enjoyable to use (I'm only annoyed by the recent increase in rate limiting). They offer a nice list of every method and all the parameters, and what they're for, and all the return objects are also documented. Everything is on that single page which is great for CTRL+F.

There's also wrappers for many languages that will have auto-documentation on IDEs like IntelliJ and usage examples.

What I really dislike is Telegram's avoidance of E2EE. Very sketchy.
You're spot on. That's why Harvard Busiess Reviews "best CEO" list is a trailing version of multi-year TSR (total shareholder return) combined with some ESG metrics. It's the best you can currently do.
If YouTube can't balance damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't automated content filtering to a level that isn't causing outrage every month (in both directions) I don't think there is any engineering team that can. Whether it exists or not the problem still remains on every large user generated site on the internet.
Who pressed them to accept both the Oxford conditions, or the EU conditions?

The EU wasn't throwing cash around, they just upfronted €336 million out of €750 million[1].

[1]https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/az-nets-396m-down...

>Let's not pretend the EU was throwing cash around, trying to fund expanded production, because they weren't.

I really don't get this argument, in case you didn't notice, the production capacity of the EU was already there, it was the UK and USA that had to catch up to it. It's not by random chance that the first vaccines came from EU, it's years of investments there. Now you might say, it's yet not enough - well you're right, specially if half of that production capacity is being exported.
Given how the price doesn't seem to have increased in 10+ years (if ever?), this doesn't feel that unreasonable to me.

Spotify swallowed the increase in UK VAT back in 2011, so really I think the increase is overdue.
>You need profits for stock buybacks.

You merely need capital. Lots of buybacks are funded by debt
Are they not? I thought qualified dividends (that is, dividends on stocks that have been held long enough to qualify for long-term capital gains) are taxed at the long-term capital gains rate.
Now that video has a lot of advertisements!
I wonder what a fully automated Steve Jobs would have scaled Apple into.
I see about 5 movies a year in the theaters; maybe 1 if you don't count children's movies.

I listen to a lot of music, but almost none if it is music represented by the Grammy's. Of the Record/Song of the Year nominees, I was only familiar with one.

Bottom line for me is that the content being put out by Hollywood and the big music labels is just not compelling enough for me to spend my attention on. Why, then, would I care what is the "best" of a bunch of art that is irrelevant to me?
A Storage Cabinet Based on the IBM 2401
Reminds me of atomic gardening, where the radiation is deliberately introduced to perform mutation breeding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
A lot of these places have subsidized energy which is what makes them attractive for crypto mining in the first place. The majority of the crypto revenue is not going to be spent in their local economy so its a net negative activity.

The other factor is crypto is a very easy way to launder and move money outside of the government's view so pretty much any government hates it from that perspective.
any payment that is not cash will have some sort of middleman. whether it is apple pay, visa, or your bank, or some other payment service.

the key issue with digital payments is to verify the payer and the payee. the nice thing about having that built into wechat or telegram is that most payers or payees are already verified because i am already in contact with them
> Do we really want to build our society to survive viruses with the fewest causalities or are there perhaps higher ideals (freedom, self determiniation) that we should aspire to?

I don't see why these have to be mutually exclusive goals. Arguably, there are better ways to get an entire society to cooperate toward a goal without resorting to authoritarianism. This sort of societal engineering is demonstrated in religions, cults, and political tribes all the time. If we can harness it at the scale of an entire country, or even a majority of the world, we could accomplish quite a lot. It's been done before, and today's technology could theoretically enable it at a level that's never been seen in human history. Though we currently seem to be experiencing more of the dark side of the whole phenomenon.
> That in a group of at least six people, there are three people who all know each other.

If that's all it was, you could just construct a group of complete strangers as a counterexample. But as others mentioned, you left out the OR part.
I think it has more to do with the audience’s propensity to be more interested in investing long term into world and relationship building.

People want more than a 2 hour connection with a story it seems like. They’d prefer to know Jon Snow for 5 years than for 3 hours.

So it isn’t that the audience is unwilling to invest into deeper stories, it’s just they don’t feel like doing it via short term relationships anymore. I’m sure Nomad Land has a point, but I think audiences are kind of over that now days.

Serial drama is the powerhouse now days, not the epic movie.
> Ioandis' original study was in Santa Clara County, CA, where they estimated 0.17%. I don't see how New Jersey, for example, materially differs in a relevant way in terms of population statistics from Santa Clara.

I doubt it emerged early enough for this to be specifically relevant to the study in question, but something like the more-transmissible-but-less-deadly California variant would be a pretty big differentiator between California and New Jersey.
> When you swap out somebody who does a decent job for another person who performs at about the same level it's not really that noticeable.

Which interestingly is the same effect as swapping out somebody who does nothing for someone else who does nothing.
It seems obvious now after COVID-19 has shifted our view of online events.
Nice. We finally found the guy who believes this fairy tale!
USD in a US bank account? IIRC Gemini, Coinbase Pro, Kraken are the most reputable US exchanges. Not necessarily the very cheapest.
None of Office Space, Clerks, or Magnolia were enjoyed by masses upon initial release. And some that got acclaim on your list have faded a lot since then (e.g. American Beauty).

You know what was enjoyed by masses from 1999 that you left out? Star Wars Episode 1.

Check back in twenty years to see what movies from the recent past hold up, and how many of them aren't from Marvel...
Class solidarity.
Is there a principle that says that we pay our peers high salaries to help justify our own?

If I get away with paying all my devs $30K, I can hardly justify my own $100K salary!
Really? I mostly see issues with the energy cost. It can be useful and terribly inefficient.
That's true. I got caught up in the first half of it.

It would be significantly harder to make a ring of six.
Of course it is, it is click bait. Salon (and Vox) are notorious for it.
That is just not true:

- The contract clearly states that AZ can produce outside the EU, the comission just has to agree. Since AZ tried to get doses from the US & India, it's very likely that wouldn't have been a problem. You can also see on Schedule A, that parts of the allowed sites for the initial doses for the EU were in the UK.

- The Belgian plant is producing fully (contrary to what was claimed by the CEO, see https://www.politico.eu/article/belgian-plant-blamed-for-ast...)

- The Halix plant was only intended for use for the UK (see: https://www.politico.eu/article/after-failing-to-deliver-ast...) and it was later on decided to use it just for EU supply. Furthermore, the manufacturing agreement was only signed at the beginning of December (https://www.halix.nl/2020/12/08/halix-signs-agreement-astraz...)

This just seems like AZ just ... didn't contract enough companies to even remotely archive the numbers they promised for Q1 (and now Q2). I don't know what their thinking was, but hopefully this lawsuit will be able to shed some light on that.
"vanilla javascript" usually refers to something like manipulating the DOM directly, without using frameworks, transpiled languages and similar. Both of them seems to be using a bunch of different tech, from typescript to wasm, jsx and more, not sure I'd call that vanilla javascript.

On a second note, I'm surprised that both the new web versions are so similar. Seems just a couple of margins changed and other minor changes (profile picture filling the background vs being a centered circle for example), but built differently. Wonder if they both worked towards the same design maybe?

Edit: found explanations to the multiple-codebases behavior further down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26943653
Imagine a world where you can’t argue about anything without disclosing the exact amount of stake you have in it.

Skin in the game works both ways. FOMO is a real thing.
That's totally normal here. You also get downvotes for talking about it, like we both are now.
> There are far better ways to handle Externalities than a carbon tax.

What are they? Pigouvian taxes like carbon taxes are near universally endorsed by economists as a market oriented method of improving outcomes.
"Stop Ordering Stuff Off Amazon"

I do this a lot: going grocery shopping almost every day even for one or two items during periods when I'm basically homebound. Just the act of being around other people helps tremendously my mood by the time I get back home.
LOL that happened to me once. I was at some unrelated event and was wearing a company shirt. Someone mentioned to me that her husband worked there. She said his name, and I remarked that I didn't know of him. She sort of stared at me and said with a tone of incredulity, "he's the company vice president!"
Also try appending:

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I use PlantUML in org-mode as well! That's actually where I started, but found it much easier to recruit other people to write their own documentation (with sequence and state diagrams) by not requiring them to use Emacs :)
Or you could load a heavier material for ballast, and gradually transform it into a lead zeppelin.

But seriously, why can’t you just tie the zeppelin down? Is there not any sort of cable material with enough tensile strength?