skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt you will ever see even firefighters with low utilization. They can use extra time to do inspections to make sure there aren't any fires, or put on presentations at neighborhood association meetings teaching the public about fire hazards. If they aren't doing those things and there aren't any fires, they're just lazy.
You should probably have two checkboxes, so you can more accurately see # who would pay vs who wouldn't. My current workflow just uses OneTab to collapse these, name them and save to a page or export if private but I could see myself using this.
God’s Discipline (Ultimatle Guide)
God’s discipline: The God that we serve is a God of discipline, when you serve God

and abide under the discipline of God , truly, it hurts when you’re passing through it

but the reward will be peacefulness to those who abide in it. The Bible says in

Hebrews 12:11: Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous,

but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness

unto them which are exercised thereby (KJV).
My previous office went through that cycle.

Circa 2000 (and continuing through the 00s) there was a massive cutback in administrative personnel. By the time I got there (circa 2010) there were essentially no administrative support personnel except for those at the very top. During the 10s they realized that they were spending around $10k/year/person on travel related stuffs not because it was necessary, but because of the time lost to deal with the software that was supposed to remove the need for the full-time administrative staff.

By the end of the 10s, they'd restored the administrative teams and were spending much less per year on "overhead" (non-billable hour) even if you counted the admin teams as only overhead. Down from around $10 million to less than $1 million by just having a dedicated team that dealt with travel and finance stuffs.

The problem was that most people only traveled once a year, at best, and so they had no real experience with the unintuitive software. The average traveler was spending a week extra per trip, which was not billed to customers, dealing with reservations (1-2 days total pre-trip) and finances (2-3 days total post-trip).
Um, no, I've never gotten disappointed. I've been married for a decade and the hubby and I don't do material gifts, ever.

I'd be much more disappointed in some useless trinket I don't need and would feel obligated to keep.
@dannyaziz97 can you explain why you're promoting this on twitter and in the title as you reverse engineering the iOS app when you've used a pre-existing library that does all the work? It's quite dishonest to not lead with building on the work of others to promote your product.
If you think that's bad, wait till you see what happens when the husband isn't interested in sex! Guess who's fault it is in that scenario.
>but isn't this also the wrong "direction" of relativistic time dilation?

No. When you go fast time slows. Thus the rest of the universe appears to be going faster.
>having a romantic and sexual relationship is not a requirement for a happy life.

It is for many, many, many people.
The latest NFT craze is primarily for one-of-a-kind items. I'd rather see an org like Noora Health sell unlimited NFTs.

What's exciting is the capability for decentralized apps to interact with NFTs. For example, other ethereum-based games are able to detect and interact with cryptokitty NFTs without the permission of the cryptokitty designer. As a blockchain token proof of donating to charity, you can imagine apps that encourage more donations by recognizing donaters in special ways to help build social capital.
Why do you think it's stupid? He is legitimizing blockchains with the hope that the price will grow (infinitely) and he will be at the top of this human pyramid.

Ah, and what about saved lives? Pyramid supporters don't give a sh*t about lower levels of the pyramid. That's the main point of building it.
Such a great episode
Or equality of opportunity vs equality in outcomes.
I'm just curious, what kind of school did they go to - was this in the US? Was it an affluent-suburban public school? Private?
I don't believe in free will.
Sigh ...
Spelling above. Sorry.-
Its so, so rich to see criticism of "leftism" as "becoming a religion", when the right in this country literally worship a golden idol of The Former Guy at their politics conventions.

"No one sane opposes racial equality, conservative or liberal." Hmm. Is the likes of Tucker Carlson "sane"? He and other mainstream right wing "thinkers" consistently put out viewpoints that oppose racial equality and oppose anti-racism.

Are you an anti-racist?
Um, the concept of "econommies of scale" is something that has existed since the start of the industrial revolution. This is nothing new to Big Tech.
On the bright side it didn’t lose you your data!
"Destroy capital" is unavoidably speculative, I think. I'm not sure it's the most useful frame. No need to be abstract if we're referring primarily to a few large companies/conglomerates.

Instagram, Whatsapp, Youtube, Android, Doubleclick, etc.. Those acquisitions are undoubtedly a major part of how Google & FB got to here... and here is a good place for shareholders. IMO, it's hard to argue management destroyed value, but we don't ever know alternate realities.

Either way, I think there's a strong case that "competition for monopoly" is the key dynamic here. A business similar to adwords-google but with only 1% of the market share is worth way less than 1% of adwords-google. Think of Yahoo/MSFT's attempts at adwords' runner ups. How much is reddit worth, relative to FB? There are lots of examples. Even if the market does have multiple contenders, the power curve tends to be mighty in modern, software-centric economics.

For a variety of reasons, strong pressure to consolidate appears to be the case often. Whatever those reasons, this creates/describes a strong incentive to consolidate. We know empirically that consolidation happened, and acquisitions played a role. Consolidation also happened in cases where acquisitions didn't play a major/obvious role.

Tax laws are one of those reasons, but not the only ones. There's low interest rates, the laws of other countries, the business cycles, financial markets, etc. It's financial markets that have the operative say on capital creation vs destruction. They value FB highly, and have usually seem pleased with M&A in terms of demand for the stock.

There are also "natural" reasons for M&A, and consolidation more broadly. Software is cheap to replicate/scale and is often winner-take-most. Media is similar. Ad markets (and marketplaces generally) exhibit network effects. Networks (like social networks) exhibit network effects.

IMO the whole theoretical/legal framework of antitrust is quite bougus, in 2021. Monopoly isn't just about pricing power, and whatever else ancient economists observed in previous centuries.
I am not sure how ownership is defined for apps in the app store. I know they have access to better lawyers though.
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Part 2: https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/restoring-a-sun-sparcs...
The Wages of Password Re-Use: Your Money or Your Life
Mergers & Acquisitions are a foundational part of building any major conglomerate or corporation. Every industry does it. Energy, Media, Technology, Healthcare, Finance, Food, Clothing, whatever. Big Anything can be measured by this, but the sheer number of them does not mean as much as how much of the market they suck up through each one.

The unstated end goal of every capitalist organization is to become a monopoly. Do people just not want to acknowledge this? Because that's kind of what every decision of competing corporations is always leading towards. You can't gain infinite capital unless you are always absorbing or eliminating more of the competition. The whole point of competition is not co-existence, it's domination.
This story is the opposite of what I'd call weird. It's a major celebrity human-interest story, which must be all over the news.
>on sale 9 years from now (2030) will be vastly superior to today's offerings

I hope you are right. Discounting the environmental and societal impact of mining the materials needed for these advancements and the electrical generation, my concern is selfish. We drive for vacations and sometimes push 12 hours a day. A quick fill up of gas in the minivan seems better than an hour or two of charging.

Others have mentioned hybirds alleviate the long distance concern. There are minivan and larger vehicles already using hybird technology, so it should work out. It is such a wild change to think about.
Overtone? https://overtone.github.io/
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awk is quite handy. I often use it in place of other tools like sed and cut depending on what I need. Usually I use it for quick oneliners, and on occasion bigger things. But typically more than few lines I end up reaching for a shell script or Python/Perl.

Minor simplification on the line numbering example, there's a builtin variable for counting records (NR or FNR) so no need to introduce your own counter:

awk '{print NR "\t" $0}' < somefile

There are other builtins that are quite handy as well. The only thing that bugs me at times is when I want to print a range of records like column 5 to end, where the total number of columns varies. I wish there was a simpler way to do that like a column range selector. This is where I sometimes use 'cut' since its so simple to do column ranges (unless the column separators have consistent whitespace; then cut doesn't work).
I think you're on to something important here - the word "efficiency" is used to describe optimization in two different mental regimes: one, "how to meet a given quality of work with the minimum of friction/wastage" vs two, "how to perform the maximal work within a fixed resource allocation."

They sound similar, which is probably why we use the word "efficiency" to describe improvements in both regimes, but the fundamental constraint is different: in the first case, it's the standard of work that must be achieved; in the second, it's the resources allocated to the work. I'd summarize the first "do enough with enough" and the second as "do more with less."

What you describe sounds like "doing enough with enough:" given the work to be done, how can we remove resource-draining obstacles, idle loops, etc. and identify "what the work really should be?" - is that a fair assessment or am I off the mark?
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Balancing Performance, Capacity, and Budget for AI Training
Honestly because neither feminists nor men's rights activists want equality, despite whatever they purport to be about.

Just like there's a political spectrum with the crazies at the edges of both left and right, there is also a spectrum on gender issues, race, or any other social issue. The crazies are to be found at the edges of that, again on both sides.
“Your phone died, you’re gonna get in the car, plug it in, and there’s going to be this nice convenient USB port for you. When you plug it into this USB port, it’s going to charge your phone, absolutely. And as soon as it powers up, it’s going to start sucking all your data down into the car.”

That used to be just something seen in hostile devices. Now it's standard equipment.
Even looking at just the paid games still has spam, or spam-lite I suppose. This next sentence might sound too cynical, but it's real for me - Are there any good mobile games that aren't just a mindless-repetitive-task, engineered dopamine drip, with micro-transactions?
Bodywork: MLOps tool for deploying ML projects to Kubernetes
Yes helicopters aren't flying cars.

But if a machine automates 90% of a process, like a dishwasher, why shouldn't it be considered like a robot, say a 90% robot?

Practically it does have the same effect.
Great delivery with no app stores involved. I can totally see this app grow to support more devices.
This relates directly to automated testing. Unit test coverage is important, but equally important are functional tests from the perspective of a user executing real workflows.

The full picture of app behavior is invaluable to the new or learning engineer, or even experienced engineers learning some unfamiliar subsystem.
I can't answer that but i can say that i'm probably 100+ miles from the nearest google dc.

Not sure if any of the network checkers run on gcp
Tcl Familly Stay away from these presales
Your wake will get you. They are titanic signatures.

Fun fact: a significant part of the Lockheed Sea Shadow program was wake suppression.
Monitoring Streaming Data with Kafka and whylogs
This is correct. The Church Tax is only collected if you belong to denominations that collect it. The state takes a cut on the collection, so Church Tax indirectly benefits other citizens.

On the other hand, it's pretty unsettling to be asked your religion when you register your address for the first time. The church in your home country can sometimes onboard you without your knowledge, and you end up paying the church tax. This happened to French and Italian friends.
> Forget competitors, you can't buy the touch ID tech to create things like door locks.

Doesn’t that mean there is a business opportunity for someone to make touch technology for door locks? Apple isn’t the only company that uses touch sensors.
Except startups usually has a couple of people with nothing to fall back on, who will fight tooth and nail to try and succeed.

Your average Google VP is far too comfortable - and with nowhere near enough humility - to stoop to that level.
I think I'm going to coin a term here:

"AI Gaslighting" <g>

It's like, if Phillip K. Dick didn't write a futuristic dystopian novel about that phenomena -- then perhaps he should have! <g>
Depends on the SSDs and the cause of failure. There have been high profile cases where a firmware bug meant an absolute cap on hours running.

I've been involved in server farms with thousands of (mostly Intel) SSDs and (mostly WD) spinning drives; the spinning drives tended to have pre-failure indicators, but we couldn't figure out any indicators before SSD failure and generally they would just completely disappear from the bus when they did fail. The failure rate was signficantly less though. Our write rate wasn't very high and tended to be small writes; for busy disks, more than what we could do with a spinning disk, but usually not near the capability of the drives.
Yeah people who say this are so wrong, companionship and a significant other is a required for a fulfilled life for a majority of people. We evolved to have this, and most people need it. You shouldn’t depend on one for happiness, but there is nothing wrong or weird about longing for one.
I agree with you that it's a way more interesting journey, but it is by no mean "easier". Especially since OP was talking about getting acquired at the end. Just keeping your business alive is hard enough, let alone being acquired by one of the FANGs.
isn't sex/partner/pro-creation at the very root of all forms of life? If you can't have sex then nature is saying you shouldn't have sex.
This really makes me wonder; kid suicides and the pressure in school as a causal factor is something I have heard of from multiple trustworthy sources in the US, including teachers.

When I was growing up most teachers ranged from strict/disciplinarian, to casually mean, towards the kids who were lazy and/or didn't understand things. Even really great teachers that were otherwise kind and really helped kids did this - e.g. one (of the kind, helpful ones) would make sarcastic jokes at the expense of kids who didn't do their homework, making the entire class laugh at them (one of the gentler ones that I liked was "oh, you forgot? It takes special talent to forget something when you haven't bothered to read it in the first place!" or smth like that).

Some of my college professors said things like "you have to understand how this concept works, or next year you may be trying to understand how Kalashnikov works" [as an expelled conscript in the Russian army - basically a prison from which college exempts you].

Still, I do not know a single person in any of my classes in school or college, or anyone I knew really, who has committed suicide... and to the best of my knowledge nobody has attempted it either.

What is special about the culture/upbringing/environment/... in the USA that makes pressure and "meanness" (for the lack of better word) such a problem for kids?
It seems that's more of a poorly thought out policy that is being subsidized. It's focusing on removal of an attribute (grass) rather than an outcome (drought tolerant native plants replacing lawns to manage water requirements, tempature management, and rain water). A better option would be to fix the poorly implemented subsidy program to set specific criteria that creates a beneficial environment.
The Motivation Problem: Why is it so hard to live well in the modern world?
There are actually a few of these.

https://github.com/zpl-c/tinyscheme/blob/master/source/schem...

And Scheme in one defun (SIOD), although it seems the recent version of this has been split into multiple files.

The video game Abuse also had a simple embedded Lisp:
https://github.com/videogamepreservation/abuse/blob/master/a...
I'm not sure I follow your point? Do you mean Lisp should evolve its syntax and try to find a representation that doesn't need so many parenthesis?
I've had the pleasure of watching Andrew Sorensen perform with Extempore multiple times. The improvisational and creative musical capability of Extempore is astonishing.
> we should also make separate companies just as tax efficient

Corporation taxes should be progressive too. Huge corporations are harmful to society, we should incentive many small ones to take their place.
That is not cyber squatting... it's not like they are trying to get people who accidentally misspell Bose. I don't think they are trying to deceive either, they are making it crystal clear that this isn't a Bose produced app, but they are also making clear that it is FOR Bose devices.

And it isn't a "clear violation of trademark law" either, almost nothing is clear in trademark law until a court makes a ruling.

Regardless, fine, big corporations will do what big corporations will do. I don't think the Bozeapp guy is risking anything other than having to change the name, or possibly pull the app. Big deal. "Hope you hire lawyers" is an extreme comment.

I wish more of us in communities like this would cheer on the little guy, rather than jumping to the defense of big litigious companies (before they have even acted). Reverse engineering a protocol, because the big company didn't bother accommodating your device, seems well within the spirit of a forum called "Hacker News." To me, reverse engineering a protocol so you can add functionality is no different from what hot rodders have done to their automobile engines for a century. You're figuring out how it works so you can make it work more to your liking.

(and yes, in my opinion it is totally a David and Goliath situation)
When the joke was first made (Mr. Burns using the phrase), it wasn't "common" knowledge, but it was a known thing. Like one of the "fun facts" you'd find on a cereal box, or in between segments of a TV show, or as a Jeopardy question.

I remember seeing the episode and understanding the joke... it was just meant to make Mr. Burns appear *really* old.

Maybe I just had a ton of useless/esoteric knowledge as a kid -- that's likely too.
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You're making general points about divisive topics (marriage and religion in this case). The odds of interesting conversation on the open internet are low when the topics are intense like that. HN threads feel like an intimate conversation (something we all like about it), but they're really broadcasts to a large audience. On polarized topics, the odds that some message will land explosively in some portion of the statistical cloud are high. Some of those readers will rush into the comments to heatedly answer some provocation, and off we are to the flames.

We don't try to avoid divisive topics altogether, but we do to try to wait for solid opportunities - the ones where the odds are less skewed to flamewar. Threads are sensitive to initial conditions, the most important of which are the title and the article (in that order). If we start off with something substantive, where there's enough information for the mind to sink its teeth into [1], we're more likely to get reflective responses rather than reflexive ones [2]. In other words, it's best to play the good hands and fold the bad ones.

A blockbuster billionaire story with a sensational title and no additional information will probably produce discussion that burns hot, fast, and shallow. People will react reflexively with their pre-existing associations about the personalities involved and the generic topic (divorce, in this case). That is the sort of discussion that HN is not for. We want the kind that burns slower, goes deeper, and wends through unexpected places.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I wonder if using double underline or underline+overline for external links at the beginning of the web would have stick.
For another similarly compassionate view of “incels” see:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-roman...

Edit: fixed link to point to the right article
Engine-X or N-Jinks?

Discuss.
As a lone wolf I totally disagree.

I think that we are engineered to have sexual and romantic partners by default. And there are some, like me, that somehow we can live without one and not fall into addiction traps ( drugs, party, videogames... ).

But we all have friends ( most ) that are not like this, the difference for most of them between being single or not is big, and I don’t agree that they are depressed its just human nature.
Why? Stadia let me play games with friends I wouldn't have been able to otherwise on my 7 year old macbook air.

Not everyone has a gaming pc and gaming consoles. I played Destiny (which is free) for a few months to try out the service, and it works fine for me.

The community is easily way better than any other platform's community. It's a lot of casual/older players who just want to play a bit, not hardcore gamers who stream and watch streams. So. much. less. toxicity. It's wonderful.

For the games I bought - I expect Stadia to shut down at some point. I never really replay games once I've beaten them, so I don't care if they end up disappearing from the library at some point.

I've easily gotten my money's worth. Stadia definitely isn't for everyone, but I'm very glad it existed.
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And, aside from the range like the GP said, will still be fully tracking all usage. Why does the car manufacturer get to see and sell my location information?
This is a sensitive topic that's hard to bring up and keep things productive in discussing it. So often I see examples of bad behavior, and the commentary is often to demonize and treat the offender as an outcast.

We aren't going to make progress until we start considering that the offenders might be acting out due to internal turmoil and trauma, and that we should be trying to help these people, not outcast them.
I'd still call it hostile though...
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