skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These were the most common before no-fault divorce became the common cause so they used to come from court filings.

In these days, some of them come from marriage counseling statistics undertaken during divorce (some states require it before disolving a marriage).

There is some specific research from small N groups where N=52 for example (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012696/)
OP is exaggerating, but Yahoo under Marissa Mayer wasn't far off. Nicholas Carson's 2015 book about their M&A during this era has lots of details.
Not everyone prefers to watch mainstream movies. This movie was never mainstream and themes like this haven't faded out or anything.
I'd argue that the fact that they're rare, special things found in the earth is a big part of the story. At least from people I've talked to who prefer earth grown diamonds, this is something that's come up multiple times.

However, people always turn a blind eye to the part of the story that involves cruelty, which is largely down to De Beers excellent marketing and creation of artificial scarcity.
I'm really enjoying this Excalidraw plug-in for Roam Research by Zsolt Viczian:

https://www.zsolt.blog/2021/03/roam-excalidraw-plugin-mvp-re...

It let's you jump into diagramming within any block within Roam.
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> This is peak absurdism. Why not simply donate the money? How is this better than a Kickstarter?

This reminds me of the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS.

Does pouring a bucket of ice water over one's head cure ALS? Obviously not.

Did creating a trend that went viral help take strides towards curing ALS? Yeah! According to Wikipedia[1] this meme brought $220 million to ALS research.

So I'm not sure you can simply say "why not donate the money instead of buying NFTs" since NFTs are what people are interested in now!

Maybe this is an instance of meeting your customer where they're at.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Bucket_Challenge
If the acquisition is mainly about talent, and in many cases, even if it's not, FAANG will expect you to interview like everyone else.

Source: founder of a company which was acquired by a non-FAANG company, but talked to a few FAANGs as part of the process.
> I like Microsoft's approach more though. It makes the market more modular, since other companies have access to the same resources.

Microsoft’s approach failed against Apple’s when it came to product innovation. That’s why Apple is now dominant.

The downsides from a societal perspective are imaginary. Things simply weren’t better in any way when Microsoft was dominant.

Having said that, I agree with you - modular could make things better.

This is what I mean by a network of companies.

We need a new model of modularity - not microsoft’s variety.
If I tell my mother to go to a specific website (example.com), she will go to google.com, wait for the page to load, then type the website into the search box and semi-randomly click a result, which isn't always the correct one. I've explained to her that if she has a web address, she can skip the googling step, but she doesn't seem to get it.

I've also tried explaining to her that the address box doubles as a search box, but she still goes to google.com to search. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The 'bug' was fixed long before the deadline - this isn't about me venting some negative energy on HN when I should be working.
Throughout my career I've worked with project managers who've consistently misunderstood the nature of bugs and how they're fixed, and I've often tried to explain why setting an arbitrary timeline doesn't help - regardless of whether they are trying to 'set expectations' or underline the seriousness of the situation.

I hoped that others - I'm sure pretty much everyone has at some time experienced this management style - would be able to give some good tips about ways to help the management to a better understanding of the process.
Sure, I used to live there. But that's no model for US cities. It's like transplanting a cow's stomach into me to help me digest grass.

The political situation and the relative expectations of the local communities are sufficiently different so as to cause European style urban planning to fail here. You have to engineer to the human and political constraints as well.

US towns and cities are drunk on debt and bailouts and that is a competitive constraint on growth.
liking things is an emotional response, which does not require free will.
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> upcoming transition away from

Read: Not here yet, so still doing the whole energy guzzling proof-of-work thing.

NFTs are a dumb fad that's likely to die out before the always-around-the-corner move away from PoW.
Tulips everywhere.

If a Chinese controlled decentralized ledger like BTC can have assets worth > $50k then obviously an entry in a decentralized ledger proving ownership of something should be worth millions…

Profit over reason is a hallmark of MMT capitalism these days.
'interdicting' of course.
I used to run the tech side for a couple of UK-based aid organisations (just out of college - basically database management and home brewed campaign work.)

We had terrible marketing response once we left a core base of existing donors - getting new donors in the door for a non-profit was (at least for us) a constant challenge. However, once some external event (sadly some horrific disaster) occurred we would see a spike in willing donors.

So this looks like a non-horrific external event - something that might make (at 2 million dollars very rich) rich donors dig deep and contribute.

Great - taking money from the wealthy and putting it to good use is a perfect use of anyone's time and effort, I hope they raise twice what they expect.

Whatever you think of NFTs, I don't care - take advantage of any opportunity to increase your donor base - its tough enough out there :-)
If the stone is the legal marker, take it on a plane to China, mess up all the nice polygons...
I don't understand your point - are you suggesting a non-profit will find blockchain easier than a regular ledger? Any organization that accepts donations now can already do all of the things you originally mentioned, for free, by simply signing the donation receipts.
"Buy a game, get free hardware" is back for Resident Evil.

https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/10495261?hl=en
> skipped by youtube-dl users

It's also ublock and adblock plus users. Estimated at about 25% of youtube viewership.

Also, the shared clock only needs to be between edge servers and application servers. And only to an accuracy of a couple of seconds. I bet they have that in place already.
At least in the united states, the majority of people are in urban centers. Additionally the market for games skews young, just like the populations of urban centers. The vast majority of people in the united states are within 2 light-milliseconds (372 miles) of some urban area, and data centers are generally located in places with good connectivity to urban areas.

I don't think latency is as big an issue for streaming gaming as you think.
Yea if I was at those nosebleed salary levels, I'd move right next door to work! Salary progression after your first 10 years or so in the industry is pretty flat when you're an IC, even if you change jobs. First couple of company moves I made back in the 90s boosted my comp 50-100%. My last two company moves were basically flat. Moving from IC to management has proven to be a tough nut to crack, the typical "need experience in that role to get the role" catch-22.

Your startup advice is decent, I just don't have the stomach for it anymore. Been there, done that, have 600,000 worthless stock options to prove it. I feel like I have better odds at the poker table.
As a researcher in AI, I accept that a lot of currently unsolved challenged are thought of as AI. But lately, I feel that AI is the problem description for all currently unsolved problems. And then some...

This surprises me, because most AI technologies have been around for a long time. Now with blockchain a couple of years ago, I could at least rationalize all excitement as people throwing new technology at an old problem. But with AI I am continually surprised by the reasons why 'an AI' would be able to solve it.
That still seems efficiency focused - adding a deliberate "off time" to try to be more effective.
Ellis' ‘Glamorama’ actually has a film crew following the protagonist. However that book is difficult to comprehend (sorta in the 70s/80s transgression-surrealism way), so I'm still not sure what the crew actually does, if anything.
I believe this is false.

I have seen several sailing texts explicitly recommend the use of a retroreflector to improve the radar visibility of small fiberglass vessels.
He'll just get a cease and desist. No need for lawyers unless he wants to fight it, or if he is making significant money off this app (which I doubt).

Good chance Bose will be aware of the bad publicity it would create to be too aggressive about this, it just would make them look bad for not providing such a thing in the first place. They have to defend their trademark, yeah, but unless this is actually a well known product, they aren't at risk of it being genericized.
This must have been a difficult decision. But atleast you have the clarity of what is best for the startup.
Read “the coddling of the American mind”, fantastic book that gives some insight into how we now raise kids to be fragile instead of anti fragile, so when things come up they get blown up into existential catastrophes.

Very very good book and audiobook. Haidt also has another great book that dives into political differences at a fundamental level, helps understand how to bridge empathy gap in current divisive political climate.
I did kind of wonder if you were making a pun, but it seemed too subtle to be likely. Bravo. :)
Nice high level overview of the language differences. I'm surprised they don't have reified type support for inline functions as something that Kotlin has, but Java does not. Very useful in providing cleaner method invocations where inline functions are an option.

I've heard the argument that it's all just syntactic sugar, but then again, every single turing complete language is also just syntactic sugar over programming with bits. The advantage of Kotlin is the ability to write less, but more readable code that is safer from NPEs. Oh, and it's much more enjoyable to use!
> Is that common in Belgium?

Jean-Claude Van Varenberg (the real name of Jean-Claude Van Damme). It is incredibly common. I've got many several french speaking belgian friends, with a french name but a dutch family name.

> Is there a significant overlap between the linguistic communities of Belgium?

I would say not anywhere near what the name / family names may suggest. The north/south separation in Belgium is quite clear and although mixed french/flemish couples are by not means rare, I'd say the overlap is still not huge. Even in Brussels native flemish speaking people are only 6% of the population.
3D Printed Concrete Architecture
Observable Plot / Observable / Observable
For those who, like me, are not knee-deep in crypto stuff, $14B of ETH appears to be about 3.7% of the total market cap.
Well, if you ever want an example of advertising working... (I realise it plays enormously on preexisting traditional cultural notions of value, but still, as mentioned, de Beers did quite the job). I had similar conversations pre-engagement, but felt forced into a real diamond once the time actually came.
> I along with others questioned why they were targeting hardcore gamers

They didn't seem to know why they did anything with this product. Apparently they offered laughably low sums of money to developer studios for porting games to the Stadia platform (Google permabanning the Terraria developer's account while they were working on a Stadia port didn't boost the popularity either[0]), launched the thing pretending it's a finished product while beta versions of competitors were more stable, lied to consumers (4k resolution etc.), and had a pricing model that anyone familiar with the gaming market would have recognised as overly optimistic beforehand.

Google shutting down products quickly is a problem, but not the one which prevented Stadia's success in the first place.

[0] https://twitter.com/Demilogic/status/1358661840402845696
Semi-related, but here's an interesting fact, De Beers (the company that popularised diamonds for engagement rings, hoards a huge supply, and creates artificial scarcity) has also invested heavily in lab grown diamonds: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-29/de-beers-...

They've been doing this to try and undercut lab diamond growing company's in an attempt to retain control of the diamond market in an era where lab diamonds are becoming more and more popular as people consider their ethical choices.
It really isn’t. It’s just a fancy receipt that also happens to be particularly harmful to the environment. There is nothing preventing a shady charity from embezzling the funds. As with everything blockchain related, trust stops every time there needs to be an interaction with the real world.
But that looks very ugly in branding for the side of a truck.
I work in public sector digitalisation and have for a decade, so this article sort of rings home with me. Especially now, having passed a year of thousands of office workers working from home and having seen a rise in efficiency and quality across all our sectors. I’m not saying working from home is an all-good sort of thing, we have also seen an increase in stress and depression related sickness, but in terms of getting shit done, things have been never been better.

Which is sort of ironic from my department, because this has also been a year where our process optimisers and MBAs have been almost completely unable of performing their usual efficiency and benefit realisation consulting in our different departments, as that’s a hands on sort of thing. Not that they’ve done nothing, they’ve been to really good work helping managers coordinate remote work and teaching both the CEO and Political layers how to use Microsoft teams efficiently.

Anyway, if we’ve increased efficiency and quality more in a year or not trying to, it sort of begs the question what good trying really does. You obviously can’t really conclude anything scientific on our anecdotal measurements as we’ve seen the major change of going remote on top of it, but it is something to think about.

Not that we will, we’re already trying to figure out how to go back to the way things were, as the majority of our managers still seem to think people work better if they spend 7 and a half hours in an open office 5 days a week.
Right, I missed it, somewhat like you missed the peer comment that already pointed that out to me.
But those accessories aren't fully integrated Apple products so I don't really understand the point at all.
(looks at all his directories which are written as phrases and ...)

[raises hand] This type of savage?
One thing google does pretty well is performance monitoring. They have loads and loads of clients connected to their services and they know exactly the performance they’re getting.

Another thing google is good at is building data centers. They have them all over the place and they’re building more.
I have always used the DOS/FreeDOS method to update my Dell firmware. Seems silly to let an insecure OS such as Windows have write access to the BIOS. It would provide an easy path to the holy grail of malware persistence.
India also demands government Id for covid vaccination. No Id, no vaccine. ( These days there is a desperate shortage of vaccines for everyone, which is another story for another time)
How did they know the owners were upstairs?

I'm sorry, but your anecdote smells. If you are robbing houses at random, the last thing you want to do is rob an occupied home. You rob an occupied home for a reason specific to that house or the owner of that house.

Most burglaries happen in the daytime when people are at work and their houses would be locked regardless.

And the most common form of home theft nowadays is package theft. Which isn't going to be thwarted by locking your home since, you know, the package is just sitting on the porch.
Yes.

Good idea, and one I hope yet another decent charity uses. And frankly its waaaay more PR friendly than 'a report on our spending effectiveness'.
> Still waiting for consumers to fund the robot revolution.

Aren't they already, via Tesla and Amazon?
I think breaking out metered heat is uncommon for small apartment unit in large apartment buildings. Or at least it was when I rented. And if electricity is already metered, then this shouldn’t be a problem...
> I'll offer an alternative hypothesis: Apple won out because they executed well year over year over year. They made that vertical integration work for them by slowly making things better faster than the competition.

You say this is an alternative hypothesis, but it is in complete agreement with me.

Without vertical integration they would have been held back by the rest of the industry. Vertical integration is how they were able to move faster.
I doubt you have tried it. It's completely impressive from the latency side. There is a certain budget you have to work with before latency is detectable by most people. More important is your display latency or Bluetooth input latency. Bluetooth latency was a big part of the reason for the wifi pro controller.
I see your dropbox comment and raise you a "did you win the putnam":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Am I having a moment or is the math off?

> Given a random starting seed, rand_nsmb will repeat an output after 1,820,529 calls, on average.

> Longest cycle: 1 cycle of length 1,708,724
Epistemic Autonomy: Self-Supervised Learning in the Mammalian Hippocampus
Supplemental services that integrate with the tool. Think code quality monitoring, error reporting, and core enhancements like a remote cache. There's a lot we're going to be experimenting with.
I have revised my vision to remove the ineffective cloud and it now includes a cruise ship fiberglass "kitcar" shell instead.
Space-aged French wine expected to fetch bid at auction
Russia/Ukraine is a big one. China/neighbors in the South China Sea.
I’m not talking about accessories.

Also - Apple does in fact make most of the important accessories for their own products, and they leverage vertical integration when doing so.

AirPods for example. Bluetooth - the consortium solution wasn’t good enough, not were Bluetooth chipsets. Apple didn’t need to wait for standards changes or persuade a vendor to make anything for them.
If you live in a major city (i.e. close to a datacenter) the latency is perfectly playable. Especially when you consider that the market for Stadia is not counterstrike pros who care about every millisecond.

I really believe that the reason Stadia hasn't taken off yet is the limited game selection, and non-existent marketing. Technically it's really good, but there's only like 3 games on there that I have even a vague interest in playing.

Everyone hates epic for buying out exclusive rights for a bunch of games, but it's certainly a strategy that has worked out for them. The Epic store is now a genuine competitor to Steam.
I’m subsidizing your emissions externality.
Getting ready to build a billion-dollar business
That was mostly Stadia's fault for tying up exclusive streaming rights. If they die all the better for the industry.
or maybe they already use narco subs to avoid detection
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I think this is probably about as close as we will come to a process that would work.

I'd say that right now the company I'm working for doesn't have the structure in place - no team leads, for instance - to dissipate the heat when it's on, and no procedure to follow when things go wrong.

These are definitely things to think about as we grow.
Thanks for the constructive reply!
Seeing pg peddle NFTs after a16z did it just a few weeks ago is kind of depressing. I guess Silicon Valley VCs must be really stinging about missing out on Bitcoin a few years ago. Not to mention that disguising what's essentially a money-making scheme as a benevolent donation is morally murky at best.
It's interesting that you cite package managers that are deeply flawed while not listing the two that are, in my opinion, the best in class around:

- The JVM Maven Central repo

- Rust's Cargo

Also, you never say exactly which product from Wirth you are referring to, I'm assuming Modula 2. If so, all Modula 2 introduced is namespaces at the language level, and while this was a pretty novel idea at the time, it was very simplistic.

Also, the reason why Turbo-Pascal and family were fast was because the compilers were not just single pass but would abort on the first error.

I can't think of any reason why I'd trade the current compilers I use on a daily basis (mostly Kotlin and Rust) to go back to a single pass compiler, even for speed. My time is precious and a fast compiler that then forces me to spend three times as much time writing and correcting my code is not a good use of my time.
Aren’t there NFT marketplaces built on top of (minorly esoteric) proof-of-stake block chains now? If they’re even going to humor the environmental cost, why not just use one those? Am I missing anything?
Sorry, I should have specified that only illegitimate ships would have a reason for doing it for the purpose of hiding from scrutiny. I do not know all the other reasons why one might do this, but it seems to me based on the content of this article that the set of retroreflector hits less the AIS signatures would yield only illegitimate ships.