skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about all the energy costs involved in everyone driving to the dinner, the air conditioning or heating for the venue, etc. It would depend on the number of guests which is more costly to the environment. For a dinner where you aim to raise 2.5 million, I think the dinner is going to have a bigger impact.

But again, I want to reiterate that focusing on the environmental impact here is totally missing the point. It's like saying the outside of the hospital is painted a jarring color.
My ice cubes are also made from icebergs. They just melted a long time ago!
I think you're being very selective with what you call "tooling" here. I understand where it's coming from though, and I agree that in some circumstances people are adhering too much to what might be perceived as "standards" instead of building or using something more fit to the task.

On the contrary I would also say that I see a lot of developers not being reliant enough on tooling. A simple example is getting very acquainted with the debugger in your language of choice. It's very common to sprinkle logs everywhere instead of properly learning how to step through code.
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Expected a github repo link but instead it's closed source and it costs $9 and it apparently doesn't even allow you to set the noise cancellation level. So it's $9 for an app that has two buttons that send bluetooth packets and it also reads the battery level in some clearly standard way because Android and iOS both show that natively. There's probably less than a screen worth of code.

edit: looking at the tweet[1] it's an electron app... An electron mac app for $9. Let that sink in.

[1] https://twitter.com/DannyAziz97/status/1389482681608679424
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Pandora jewellery brand says it will stop selling mined diamonds
Dude.. people don’t think about who’s making their Nikes or Apple products or tshirts. They buy these incidental products with zero concern for the people producing them. How noble are we, talking about refusing to buy blood diamonds when the very MEMS mic in a household device probably vibrated to the scream of people watching a friend jumping out a factory window.

Getting people to care about who’s winning and losing in a production lifecycle seems like something that doesn’t get fixed initially with the diamond-buying crowd when the shoe-buying consumers don’t even care.

I think what I’m struggling to get at is that the diamond-buying population at least have these earnest “noble ideals” of love, unity, etc represented by this product for which at some low level the sacrifice and blood may _add_ value (god knows what unconscious calculus is at work in the mind of a grown princess). Compare this to a pair of crap tennis shoes that you’re going to throw away, where they are completely utilitarian, replaceable, and you have zero emotional investment in what they represent. The suffering represented by the product offers nothing other than the blatant profit of the consumer. And we can’t wrest the shoes from the consumer’s hands no matter what is said about the abysmal conditions that produced them.

All of these conditions in the production of these products are known. Nobody can claim ignorance in the first world. If the population at large hasn’t had a moment of moral clarity by now, I’m not sure I’d hold my breath any longer. Either systemically the culture needs to be more open to moral awakenings (a hard sell in a world defined by deconstructionism) or a new and acceptable critique of globalism at a policy level needs radical change.

Just my .02 but I’ve been hearing the same convo about diamonds since I was a kid and it’s as sad as hearing the rationalizing of any addict.
Yes. Except this way you get to pretend your receipt for money given away (ostensibly out of the kindness of your heart) has magically become an “asset”.
Not to worry! It happens.
Right, I agree (and that's why I'm not "into" diamonds/useless trinkets) - but that's a realistic take, not the sort of thing people who are buying/receiving diamonds want.
>I can choose to pity or hate him, but having chosen I can’t pretend the choice didn’t exist; it’s something I had to do.

I've had to face similar situations in my family life, and this part really resonated with me. It's an extremely eloquent way of capturing something I've never been able to put into words. Thank you for that.
> You took one instance of Apple disrupting Microsoft's PC dominance and seem to have extended it to an entire worldview

That’s not a reflection of my views.

AT&T is not like Apple. They had a literal monopoly due to access rights.

Apple can’t be compared to AT&T usefully. There is nothing they do that doesn’t have vigorous competition and there is nothing that Apple has that others cannot buy.
"It’s 2021, and it would be pretty hard to find someone who would come out and say that women deserve to be treated worse than men by default, and similarly difficult to find someone believes men shouldn’t have rights. In that sense at least we are all feminists and men’s rights activists, but nearly 100% of everyone reading this would have felt some emotional recoil from being called at least one of those two things. Why? Because there’s a vast difference between a person who believes the stated beliefs of a group as opposed to a person who holds membership in a group as a defining part of their identity."

The piece of the puzzle that this misses is the difference in perceived reality between the groups - the definitions those groups use to define equal and the policies they think would provide equality. Sometimes the policies of the two groups in question are actually at odds with each other, and even their own stated intent (equality).
> Tell me more about how people hate writing documentation

The thing is, I don't this happens in isolation. At least not for me. I hate writing documentation because time is not allotted for it. So I have to rush it, and in the process I feel like I'm doing a poor job, which is demoralizing. I'm gonna dread it next time I have to do it.
Right - the SF Bay Area has a housing policy that excludes people who don't have the means that programmers do. Houston does not.
> In order to support the open source project, we’ll be building supplemental products and services. This aligns our incentives with the community and our open source users, with a focus on interoperability, performance, and usability.

like every open source company, they will sell additional services to companies. When you have millions of users you always find a way to monetize it, even if you think you are just a "javascript library". Redis is just a database, Word is just a text processor, ...
Think about how much the iPhone improved over 9 years of sales from the original in 2007 to whatever model they had in 2016.

Given how many manufacturers are jumping on the electric bandwagon, the extremely fast decline in the cost of batteries, the rate of progress to date AND these kinds of laws to give some good motivation, I think it's very safe to say the electric vehicles on sale 9 years from now (2030) will be vastly superior to today's offerings.
Since it didn't go into anything specific or interesting, I'm afraid it counts as shallow—especially because it's also a cliché response to NYer articles.
Neither FreeDOS nor Windows have direct write access to the BIOS. They use the UEFI capsule mechanism (i.e. let UEFI update itself on the next reboot).
This is a cool project!

My approach is to send these to Pocket, and read them before bedtime. It's a great way to end the day.
I think everyone needs different block of time to slack, to remove burn-outs and reserve more energy for next step. Some people such as John Carmack probably doesn't need that much of time to slack (he seems to use "researching how to do difficult things" and programming retreats as a way to slack from daily programming jobs) but most of us need it.
Big-time survivorship bias in this article and thread. Just yesterday we learned that Verizon is dumping Yahoo and the related media brands. Those acquisitions were a major failure.

The reason that Big Tech got so big is that they're really really good at growing their high-margin core business and have a ton of free cash flow. That's really all it is.
This goes both way: founders create start ups with the idea that being acquired is a valid exit strategy. It's hard to quantify but perhaps not that many start ups would have been founded if they didn't see as many valid options to exit, and a founder wouldn't have created the next big thing if his previous company didn't get acquired.
ty for the link. i love how the source only shows the url for a second before replacing it with the root domain to prevent people like me from copy/pasting the story url into an incognito tab

the cat and mouse game goes on, wapo engineers!
> I realized the strength of diamonds product branding

No, that's not it.

Diamonds are conspicuous status signaling. It's a very human, even animal drive. DeBeers gets a lot of hate, and much of it deservedly so, but they tapped into and exploited our nature - they didn't create it.
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it probably makes sense to use "&&" instead of ";": if mkdir -p fails cd is still being executed.
Very few cartoons are broadcast live. It's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists.
> None of these things are crimes.

Perhaps, but no one is talking about criminal charges. Torts, like the trademark violation here, are still illegal and a basis for legal consequences, you just don’t get prison, death, or other uniquely-criminal penalties for them.
The startup model is all about exponential increase of the user base. For example, Amazon was running at little to zero profit until 2015 [1]. Google and Facebook added ads years after they became extremely popular.

What you're saying makes perfect sense to me though.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-in...
I bought a toshiba NAS drive mainly due to backblaze’s stats and it came bricked out of the box :(
> Even moreso if variable names are replaced by De Bruijn indices.

De Bruijn indices are not simply variable names: they vary dynamically depending where in the term (i.e. under how many binders) they occur, which is why beta reduction is so hairy with the De Bruijn notation.
Emby is duplicating all the "sins" of Plex, IMHO.

Jellyfin isn't as nice as Plex and it's Roku app could use a UI rework, also having to put in IP/User/Pass on every client is a PITA. But overall i prefer it. It shows promise and i feel over the long haul it'll be the most consumer friendly option.
Founder of Sudowrite here.

We are built on GPT-3 but we have a bunch of things we do on top that optimizes Sudowrite for the narrative fiction/non-fiction use case.

For example, we have a description tool that, given a highlighted phrase, gives you options for telling phrases in 5 senses and metaphorical uses. Another tool we have analyzes a story premise and gives you possible twist and story turns, based on the genre of your story, and also gives you possible characters that could inhabit that world, complete with both external and internal character descriptions.

I agree that for writing stories, the hard part is in the forest and not the trees (although this isn't true for everyone). And systems like GPT-3 can help with that, too, simply because it's level understanding of text is approaching that of a human.
Guess what I find the 'remove all ads' arguments? Much less persuasive.
> I seriously doubt my car has records of my emails, pictures, videos, and social media feeds even though it has Android Auto.

Why?
Okay. I will concede.
Fish fingers sounds funny to me as an American, but actually it's more consistent. Chicken fingers in the US are the same product but with chicken instead of fish.
I think this idea of "adult baby food" is interesting -- just finger food in "fun" shapes? Like baby carrots? I think there's an element of fun and convenience that makes it attractive occasionally, but wouldn't consider fish sticks or chicken nuggets suitable for a regular meal in my house.

I'm confused by your remark about children's winter jackets though. Do you mean we'll have mittens strung through our sleeves so we can't lose them?
This is silly. All programming is already in the same order for anything not math. And even math has plenty of prefix usage. Sigma, gamma, etc.

So, I should use another term than propaganda, as that is negatively loaded. Consider it, rather, effective marketing.

Edit: and apologies on dodging the point on python being simple. I really don't know how to respond on that. I still fight heavily to read most python I am exposed to, as it would be way easier in sql for most of the etl I see.
I'd infer from the CVE naming (CVE-2021-21551) that it was discovered this year.
> and a founder wouldn't have created the next big thing if his previous company didn't get acquired.

Hershey (of Hershey's Chocolate) failed multiple times and went bankrupt each time before finally making his Chocolate company. Repeated failures are absolutely an option.
> How is that possible?

May I introduce you to the town of Baarle-Hertog? A town that is not only split between the Netherlands and Belgium but inside the Netherlands with Belgium owning most of the town with Dutch fragments inside it. Some houses have a Dutch as well as a Belgian address.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog
I imagine Valve could just build their own game streaming service. They have a massive advantage over Google there.
Isn't it ironic.

The optimum should be, of course, software empowering the specialists, so they can do more with less, providing better service to more people. But hey, a specialist costs $X in salary; a specialist + software that empowers them cost $X + $Y for the expensive license. Meanwhile, a SaaS that allows everyone to do the task lets us save $X on the specialist, and costs peanuts... plus a good fraction of everyone's salary, but nobody notices that.
I meant that Americans believe, based on media reporting, that “things that are really quite rare here happen on a constant basis”. In other words, not only does American media give foreigners misconceptions about life in America, it also gives Americans those very same misconceptions about their own country.
I don't have to prove you wrong, reality will.
The author seems to have an agenda.

There are many older stories online about what happened to rollerblading. The consensus is that it was overtaken by skateboarding. A big problem with rollerblading seems to be that, early on the learning curve, it's hard to stop. On a plank, you can jump off.
NSA has been illegally spying on US citizens for 20+ years, in direct violation of the constitution. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/nsa-spying-expos...

President Obama signed off on a drone strike on foreign soil targeting and killing a US citizen, in direct violation of the constitution depriving a citizen of a fair trial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

We didn't collectively do anything about it then, except cheer it on or say nothing, so it will continue and expand until, and if, we do.
Nah, I don't think so. + it's not an irrational reaction, can't logic out of it.
The Avro was a supersonic bomber interceptor that was going to be ready in the 1960's. It was good at one thing and one thing only (allegedly, it never flew at speed even close to the spec).

It was made to counter a hypothetical supersonic bomber that the soviets never built. Sputnik made them obsolete!
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I see slack in my personal life as having unplanned periods of time. I think it's really important for improvement to have some free time everyday that is not dedicated for a specific thing.

Because there are so many things we don't know and also many things we don't know that we don't know. So I make sure that I have enough slack in my day to allow some random digressions
> bollards

I've never heard that word till I started playing GeoGuessr.
> > Eating up all available slack is one of the more mundane ways to cannibalize the company for your own benefit.

> Otherwise known as "maximizing shareholder value."

It can also be done by the employees by slacking off on surplus.
You are right to point out the issue of survivorship bias, but that doesn't tell the whole story either.

Google without Doubleclick and YouTube would be a different animal. Facebook without WhatsApp and Instagram as well.

You can't deny the impact of those acquisitions.
At this point, I'm worried that the service wont be around for when my pre-order of baldur's gate 3 goes live.
I work for a company that has been in the same family for over one hundred years. The CEO started work there at sixteen and has worked in every department in the company. I am not saying that he wants to see people sitting around on his dollar, but he staffs appropriately and genuinely cares about the long-term health of his company and employees.

Companies like this exist all over the country; they are not glamorous jobs but they are great places to work.
I’m extremely impressed with the longevity of FreeSurfer, I just desperately wish it was extensible with different atlases.
Scoping the “starting and sustaining a business” whole user journey
It's a point I've been trying to make for a while (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) but that particular wording just came to me.

Related concepts, if anyone's interested:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
They clearly did it to capitalize on the hype around NFTs and draw attention to the fund raising event. Given we're talking about it, that looks successful, not nonsensical. Welcome to the world of marketing.
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I'd start it as a startup. Create a landing page, get some attention, get some signups. Raise a pre-seed. Build out an MVP. If you start getting traction, see if you can get someone to acquire you
The number one problem reported (testing) is something without an easy fix IMO. Testing is almost as custom as the code you write. There is no app you can buy or service you can use that will supplement writing tests or manual testing. Maybe firing the QA team "because DevOps" wasn't the right solution?
Yeah but they still have over 4x the population of us, hah.
Ah, duh. Not enough coffee.
it's very common to give unrelated titles to films when translating them, for some reason.

some times the 'local' title for films that are in English get another unrelated English title.
Natural, as in what would commonly be referred to as a real diamond (yes, I realise they're they're chemically and structurally the same).

Edit: As I said in another reply, there's nothing illogical about it. If value is placed culturally and socially on natural diamonds, then they are valuable, regardless of if that value is "artificially" created via advertising of whatever. Lots of stuff is quite stupid if you look at it objectively, out of context. Doesn't mean it isn't true in context.
Wow, wonderful news. Thanks!
> People can easily manipulate stats on documents without having to worry about someone else double checking the work.

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding how this all works. How is the “report” that will
be issued any different from a regular document? Just because it will be an NFT doesn’t mean it will be more accurate does it? Someone will still write whatever they want on the document itself and there’s no mechanism that will make this document more accurate than any other document.
> I got absurdly lucky when I found my wife, but I spent every day without her more or less miserable. It’s arguable she’s the only reason I’m able to be happy. I imagine some of these men are similar to me in the loneliness and not as lucky in finding someone, and it’s impossible for me to not feel something.

This is basically a red flag for any relationship. If the only thing making or allowing a person to be happy in life is their partner then something is wrong. Mental health is no joke and not being able to enjoy life is usually a symptom of an underlying cause. Depression is probably the most common but anxiety disorders can be similarly hard.

I think that's the strongest criticism of incels as well; having a romantic and sexual relationship is not a requirement for a happy life. No one wants to be the partner that gives meaning to another person's life, unless they're also codependent in some way. It's emotionally draining to take on that kind of responsibility.

EDIT to add: the best explanation that I've heard for the feeling men have of basic unhappiness without romance and sex is toxic masculinity; the general societal rejection of deep emotional relationships between straight men. Lonely? Make strong friendships! Spend your time with other men who like you and enjoy your company and validate you. A partner is not a replacement for the natural circle of close friends humans are supposed to have. I'll be honest that I'm not the best at doing this, to my own detriment, but I think it's basically the solution.
I worry about state corrupting problems, because they tend to linger long after you have a fix.
I dunno about that. Some 'free' Stadia pro games you can claim today are:

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA
Resident Evil 7
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Journey to the Savage Planet

They're not all small indie games (though many of them are).
> there is some real business subsidizing the failed M&As

Citation needed. This is a common claim, but it flies in the face of common sense and financial incentives.

Corporate boards simply do not approve acquisitions because they've got no better ideas of what to do with cash, that's a fantasy. Boards are held accountable to investors, and investors want to make money, not fritter away cash. Investors want rising stocks or dividends at the end of the day, period.

Like I said, acquisitions are investments and investments can be risky, and so it's super easy to say in hindsight that an acquistion was dumb and that the board must be irresponsibly frittering away money instead of returning it to investors. But hindsight is always 20/20, right? As a general rule, companies simply are not "subsidizing" M&A's. It's just not how businesses or boards work at all.
this is a really disingenuous comparison. again you'd have to subtract the costs that would've already been incurred anyway. would someone invited to a fundraiser dinner not eat otherwise? or drive? or have AC?

also, given that it's already very easy to send money to any non-profit talking about the potentially unnecessary environment costs doesn't seem unreasonable. the only reason people bring it up is because there's an alternative that doesn't incur the same costs but achieve the same thing.
Or the fuzzier "equity" vs "equality" debate.
I disagree, that's a pretty pessimistic take, it's certainly possible to have an idea they didn't have. Not very likely, but possible. It's even more possible that they quickly entertained the idea but never pursued it, for a myriad of reasons.

I do agree however that the idea alone is not going to get you anywhere.
Agreed overall but they are dominant over Microsoft in terms of the high end.