skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure he has them, but which particular blindspots of Bill Gates do you mean?
> I should just be going to the bose.com store and cutting out amazon

I'll do that if these websites will stop assaulting me with GDPR popups 5 seconds into the site and then newsletter popups 10 seconds into the site, require me to search 10 different coupon websites to find 49 fake "no coupon needed" coupons and 1 real coupon that actually gets me the same price as listed Amazon, and then requiring me to register an account with email (or in some cases $#$*& SMS verification before making a purchase, and then unsubscribe from the goddamn newsletter after making the purchase.

Until they can learn to not annoy me, I'll buy from Amazon, and they will pay the price.

Oh and also, pay for return shipping. Amazon does.
This exact situation has been something I have wondered about for a while (what would happen if a professional athlete just flat out refused to engage with the media) and I think it's fascinating that an athlete is being punished because they won't take part in the media sideshow.

I'm fully aware that by the rules of the tournament, they are expected to, and I have no real interest in tennis, but from my perspective this feels punitive against an athlete as though the media have this attitude of "how dare she not subject herself to our dissections".

Fully acknowledging that the media are the main source of revenue for these sports and subsequently these athletes, it is still such a strange relationship the athletes and the media have whereby an athlete not only needs to be amongst the best in the world at their chosen sport, but also need to be skilled in PR and be willing to dance to the whims of the media.
Broadcast rights are for the event itself, not the news media interviews after the event.

Companies sponsor athletes so their logos appear during the event. Athletes are usually in sweats at the post event news media sessions.
Scientists know they don't know either. That's why they have error bars and won't make quantified predictions on human consequences. It's activists who believe the world will end and all that crap.
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James (“Jim”) McGill Buchanan (1919-2013), surely seemed an unlikely prospect for winning a Nobel Prize in Economics when he was born in rural Tennessee on October 3rd.
I feel like amazon has gotten much less user friendly in the past few years. Although I can filter by "prime" that doesn't seem to actually tell me anything in particular about the delivery date. And I can't narrow it any further. They clearly have the data on what things are one day, two day etc but presumably it's not profitable to let people filter on it. You also can't search for exact terms anymore, the way literally every basic search engine lets you. So you have to read through a bunch of vaguely related items even if you know exactly what you want
But engine no. 1 isn’t even close to a majority vote on the board. It’s not clear anything will change and that may have been a huge waste of money.
Only the least intelligent psychopaths get caught. The really smart ones are masters of PR; they can make themselves look more altruistic than actual altruists. They only show their true face once they no longer have a use for you.

They are excellent actors. If the best manipulator in your local community is talented, think of how talented the best manipulator in your country is... Then compare that to how talented the best manipulator in world is. That is the danger of globalization.

World-class psychopaths are as intelligent as other world-class individuals (very intelligent) but the difference is that almost all of their intelligence goes into presentation and manipulation - Very little goes into the actual craft that they are supposedly experts in. But from the perspective of non-experts, they come across as smarter than the actual experts.
For the rich it will be much easier to deal with the impact of climate change. If sea levels rise, millions of people will have to find new places to live. For rich people this is no problem because they can afford to pay whatever is needed and are welcomed with open arms in most countries as long as they bring some money with them. For poorer people this will be a real problem.
I like TDD when I’m mostly dealing with functional/library like code where I have a solid understanding of the interface/api.

Just put all the expected input/outputs in a big table test and iterate.

TDD is awful when you don’t have a clear idea about the interface and need to mock a whole bunch of internals that are likely to change.
Seems like it's both. Bose wouldn't let Amazon sell below list, and Amazon won't let Bose charge an Amazon premium.
We should definitely be moving to renewable energy sources as fast as possible, but it's not like we're going to use zero fossil fuels any time soon.

People are still going to need to heat their homes, move from one place to another, and all other sorts of things that, for now, require fossil fuels.

For those who demand immediate divestiture from all fossil fuel companies, what is your plan to do the things that we currently need these fuels to do? Let people freeze / starve?
Aren't heavy water reactors the most popular way that new countries have built nuclear weapons? Basically everyone but North Korea?
And in a perfect analogy to cryptocurrencies, newer, better technologies like hybrid engines (not to mention purely electric vehicles) support shutting off the engine completely at a traffic light and not burning energy idling an engine, and older technologies like bicycles and horses never had this problem in the first place, but people pretend that "safety costs money" is a rule of nature nonetheless.
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After college, I'd applied across the boards for a job, any job, just needed money to pay off my student loans. Got a job as a programmer for $10 an hour in VB6 to fix and update software. Everything was going well, and even got a $2 promotion after training was complete. Soon it all became clear that the micromanaging from the boss, constant looking over my shoulder, arrogance in meetings and treating me like I was stupid because my boss was the one who came up with the software idea and I was too stupid to contribute anything new to it... after a year and a half of making updates and changes to the program and growing the platform.

It wasn't the worst job and it taught me a lot about programming. Although my tyrant boss sucked, he had some heart to occasionally invite me out to lunch and even gave me side jobs to do for his friends, which I charged accordingly. But I think I'd just grown tired of his arrogance and annoyances. It was great when he wasn't at the office, but he was there more often than not.

I decided I'd just start looking for another job. With the behavior of the boss, I was just tired of the bullshit, and also wanted more money. I knew that he wasn't going to give me any more money than the $12 an hour so I'd just get another job. And that I did -- he offered me double my salary. I took it along with the other job.

The condition: I'd work the other job and come and work there at night for about 2-4 hours at $24 an hour. The "that's it, I'm leaving" moment was when I started and about 2-3 days later, he called me into his office. The senior programmer was there as well.

He asked me, "What did you do here the past 2 or 3 nights?"

My response: "The job you are paying me to do."

Him: "Well, I had the senior developer go through your browser history, and it looks like you come here just to play around while I pay you."

hands me a printout of all the websites visited

What did I see? It was all the songs from a YouTube playlist I was listening to.. apparently recorded as if I was visiting them, despite having it on autoplay.

I told him that I had, in fact, done work, showed him, and told him that would be the end of our contract, to pay me what I was owed, and that I was done.

I explained what all the YouTube videos were -- a playlist of songs I listen to while I'm working to help me focus on work. He soon apologized but by then, "that's it, I'm leaving."

Totally get how an employer can go into your account and look through your history but questioning me on a bunch of YouTube videos that were actually just music... yeah, I was good on that one. It did take me about 3 more years to get back to the salary I was making working for him, but it wasn't worth the bullshit i would've gone through had I stayed.

He eventually sold the software I had worked on to another company and they destroyed it, as he was their sole competition.
The Bloomberg Matt Levine piece covers that.

> We talked about the proxy fight yesterday, before the votes were counted. The vote was close, and there were delays, but it looks like Engine No. 1 got at least two of its four director candidates elected to Exxon’s 12-person board. That doesn’t exactly give Engine No. 1 control of Exxon, it doesn’t exactly put Woods’s job in jeopardy, it doesn’t exactly mean that Engine No. 1 can go implement its plans to invest in renewables and become carbon-neutral. It does give Engine No. 1’s directors seats in the boardroom, though, and power to influence Exxon’s strategy.

> More important, perhaps, it shows that this can work. Shareholders — even shareholders of Exxon — can do this. If Woods and the other Exxon directors decide to ignore Engine No. 1’s plans, keep doing what they were doing, and stick their fingers in their ears and shout “I can’t hear you” whenever the Engine No. 1 nominees speak at board meetings, then next year Engine No. 1 will run a proxy fight for all of the board seats and win. Exxon’s CEO and directors have to take this shareholder vote seriously, because it proves that the shareholders are willing and able to fire them. You might think that that would be obvious — that the shareholders’ “ownership” of the corporation, and their voting rights, of course meant that they could fire officers and directors whom they didn’t like — but I don’t think it was obvious, and I think in practice it often wasn’t true. Now it is.
The NFT market has gone bonkers indeed. There's a huge cost to the encironment too
There is no citation but isn’t it obvious what is happening in this unregulated market? What do you think is happening when the price of Bitcoin is driven down 70% plus every so often? Then what do you think happens as it goes sideways for so long?

Maybe I’ve just seen this cycle a few times and this is my cynical take. But I think it just makes sense.
Shareholder meetings come with all sort of measures proposed by people you've never heard of: many of the proposals may sound good on paper but usually short on specifics. They usually comes with a statement saying something like "The board advises against this measure."

Without further specifics, it's unclear what the measure was about. For all I know it could have been a thinly-veiled attempt at corporate power. And starting the article with "The billionaire also offered a full-throated defense of the oil and gas industry." doesn't really help with credibility.
Discussed at the time:

The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly: 21 Seconds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408549 - June 2010 (26 comments)
Yyy. Once you've experienced 24x7x365 instant, no-human finance, there's no going back to mountains of random paperwork, random bank policies, 1pm wire transfer deadlines, etc etc etc
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That might be true if there were no more natural mathematical representations of computation. But as I've pointed out in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27334163), there is such a representation - the lambda calculus.
Why do I feel Warren might be planning to divest from fossil fuel soon?

He could always say he changed his mind.

To the scientists out there, I don't get this statement,

"While Buffett acknowledged that the world is "moving away from" fossil fuels he said "that could change.""

1. Yes--there will always be countries that will use the cheapest form of energy.

2. Is he claiming Golbal Warming do to burning will be debunked?
So, you been ordering books for decades from Amazon. Has your book ordering experience gone down?

* I guess I’m just trying to understand what exactly has declined over two decades? Because I feel like I’ve had the opposite experience.
We need to stop listening to the ultra wealthy and continue to push hard for action on climate change.

When Buffet can solve some differential equations, give a lecture on climate and ecology, or something like that, then I'll consider listening to him.
> "How many people should we kill to reduce the effect of global warming?"

About 50 would do the job and their names and addresses are public record. They are not poor.
I think it’s worth even reading one paragraph past the headline…

“A strong push by Wall Street to open up access to Bitcoin investment is meeting resistance from a bipartisan group of lawmakers and regulators in Washington, setting up a lobbying fight over the future of digital currency.”

…as this article is not so much about creating some sort of central bank crypto, but getting the SEC to allow investment in Bitcoin ETFs.
I mean, it is being adopted by pay processors like Square, PayPal, and Cash App, and is being accepted by some large retailers like Newegg and Overstock. Wouldn't discredit that as not being progress :/
I entered my credit card on a small online store, they are legit, but got hacked and didn't even know. Months later I got three Netflix subscriptions and a few hundreds 'Uber Eats' billings on my credit card invoice. Got the money back but wasted a lot of energy.
It depends. There are ad products in which one pays per click, in which case optimizing for click through rate is more directly incentivized.
"What I have witnessed all too often is that admissible HN opinion talk stops at "what makes a computer program well-constructed", and very rarely considers "how might computer programs cause harm to their users and to society". Often times when people say "hey maybe that use of technology is harmful to [group of people not well-repesented on HN]", that discussion is immediately downvoted into oblivion."

Could you cite some specific HN submissions where you've observed this behavior? I honestly cannot recall a single one.
For other readers, Charlie Munger said that, not Buffett.
mmmm, that's interesting, how does one make recurring revenue in this market?

I saw that the event closures substantially affected these growth metrics, what does that mean? are people playing so intensely training for events that they ruin their board games and have to buy additional copies? are the events causing the most interest in certain board games? are the events selling that much of the board game on the spot?

I don't know anything about this market aside from small teams launching new games on kickstarter and occassionally one of those getting a distributor for perpetual sales.
Impressive how this completely ignores the effect that oil already has in terms of human cost.
it definitely will, after we're mostly extict.
No, news coverage follows public interest, not the other way around.

No spectator started watching a game (or match) because they saw a recording of an athlete speaking to the media pool after an event.
We use NEC E and P series TVs for digital menuboards in amusement parks.
If they need to go back to sleep after being up for only 1-3 hours then perhaps they should have slept longer? i.e. One shift
Corrections:

/int main/{s/input();//;s/return 0/exit(0)/;};/int yywrap/s/return 0/exit(0)/;/%option/s/$/ noinput/
I mean, yes. You’d need to go get the paper tickets.

Obviously there were variations on how people would do things and mail order existed but I’m speaking literally, that’s how we used to do it and when the internet came along it got way way better.
No one is demanding that every single person in the world divest from oil. Most want to remove all oil/gas subsidies and put then towards renewables.
Wow, thank you. Totally agree. So glad you have been able to put this into words what I have been struggling to explain. "Fear of missing out" is a powerful drug.
I would say most cars are complete overkill. You don’t need 300hp cars to drive around in cities.
There are folks in crypto who both consider most of the industry to be a scam while at the same time are working to fix it because there's something good here. We get hated on by almost everyone - both those in crypto for criticizing (BTC is a ponzi, ETH cannot scale, etc.) and those outside for being a part of it. It's easy to get bitter about this, but recently I spoke to a financial advisor who runs an investment fund that only invests in businesses that share certain values. He felt exactly the same about the financial industry and he's doing fine. If you resonate with this comment, realize you don't need to please everyone.
You could stop it with extreme violence, but I sincerely doubt the US will start killing and jailing people for sending bitcoin.

Thus, it is here to stay.
I remember a pushback conversation with someone in the auto industry about my belief that electric cars should have a service life twice as long as gasoline cars.

I think the difference of opinion boiled down to they believed manufacturers would be able to eliminate right to repair and thus enforce a 6 year service life on owners.
FWIW I have seen lots of trash in Nature and Science.
The number of Berkshire Hathaway shares held by Warren Buffett are roughly as follows: [1] [2]

Class A — 250,000 shares out of 640,000 shares outstanding
Class B — 10,000 shares out of 1,330,000,000 shares outstanding

Class A shares have 10,000 times the voting power of Class B shares, so Warren Buffett controls just under 33% of voting power overall.

If Warren Buffett had abstained, the climate report measure would have still been defeated by the remaining votes against.

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/company-insights/08291...

[2]: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2020ar/202010-k.pdf
Sad that a person who spoke wisely so many times is tarnishing his legacy with such powerful ignorance. It's tempting to say the world is changing outside his horizon, but he has the resources and potential to understand. No one else can take responsibility for his actions.
There may be fake fans but unpopular opinion, I'm one of the real non-Chinese fans.

Many of their posts point out tremendous hypocrisy in the west's interactions with developing countries. As a citizen of the west, these criticisms are valid.

>This is ironic because enlightenment ideals would have assumed opening economic ties with China should have led to democratic ideals in China, but that didn’t pan out.

The idea that the west opened up with the goal of treating the Chinese equally, is on the surface true, but in reality misleading.... There is a lot of covert/overt activity that is primarily meant to result in regime change, something that I expect would be a negative outcome for the poorer people in China at this stage in development.

Many in the west are prescribing that a country forget the recent past and take the actions of its major foreign adversaries (read mass criminals that voluntarily positioned themselves that way) as good faith... I don't think they have the luxury of doing that.

The leaders are in power to do what's most beneficial for their population (domestic hyper-development) while avoiding an outcome that rhymes with 'century of opium'...serving western interests is a very low priority, as it should be.

This is the century of 'Don't trust, only verify' and I too feel the employed cautious approach is a requirement.
> “Believe me, Chevron is not an evil company"

If he was just deflecting the activist investors for the sake of preserving his stock value, fine. But to go out on a limb to explicitly defend the ethics of Chevron, that's much tougher to swallow. Their behavior in Ecuador alone is enough to come to a much different conclusion.
Many years ago I was at a church singles retreat, and someone suggested playing Monopoly. At 11:30 at night. With an early worship service scheduled the next morning.

A couple of people groaned about the late hour and how long the game would take.

So I suggested some simple rule changes that make for a faster game.

The pastor's daughter said "we can't do that." She pulled out the Monopoly rules, pointed to the relevant chapter and verse, and said "Look. It Is Written."

People drifted off to do other things or just call it a night.

In hindsight, maybe I should have gone along with her literal interpretation of the rules. After everyone else gave up, it would have been just her and me playing until the wee hours. That might have been nice!
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Many European countries also charge negative interest rates. In Switzerland, where I live, bank balances above CHF 100K gets a flat -0.75% interest rate.

Just saying.
Here are screenshots of the “service fees”:

https://twitter.com/TheSofaaa/status/1399070201925312512?s=2...
Could people just stop assuming cryptocurrencies == bitcoin.

Also DLT tech doesn't require a token with "value". There is no need to create an "alternative money" It can be just a DL (Distributed ledger).
reducing everything to bitcoin and its forks is like reducing the whole internet tech stack to http and ignore everything else we can do with it.

DLT tech isnt going away an no one who seriously understand it would say so. THis is just another useless twitter BTC hate thread. People who actually understand the tech dont care about bitcoin. Its the dinosaur tech and its deprecated since like 2013 or so when the first alternatives appeared (XRPL) which dont need the whole energy wasting block lottery.
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You're second roll "trying" for doubles just meant you took a second turn, so you've sort of turned it into bowling style scoring. Pick up the spare, and get another roll.
Need trays to alternately shelve while working on different hobbies or projects? Consider rolled-edge baking sheets and a baking rack. Restaurant supply has solved the problem of trays that do not warp and have no sharp edges or corners, at sheet-metal prices.
> They won't refund if they miss their own self-imposed shipping deadlines

If they miss their shipping deadline, just select the return reason as defective, or item "not as described" or whatever, and it will let you return it for full refund.
I think it's time for us in the tech world to speak out and make it clear the emperor has no clothes here. _USD_ is sustained by a mix of money laundering, human slavery, fraud, ransom, gambling, and delusion. It has no social benefit except helping end first dates fast.

What we especially need to stress to regulators is that there's no relationship between the claims of _USD_ and our now hundreds of years of experience. It's not decentralized, it's not a good store of value, and it's not a promising piece of presidential portraiture.

_USD_ solves no problems that it didn't first create, and most of those it doesn't solve. Banks are neither of those things—at worst they're an API for fraud, or as I put it, self-funding institutional greed.

I think most of us in the industry gave USD a long leash because it's full of cleverness and seemed innovative just on those terms. But it's time we recognize that cleverness is being used as bait to defraud more people and perpetuate a con. Enough is enough.

The two things people need to know about gold are completely non-technical:

1. If it isn't backed by self-perpetuating value, it isn't worth anything outside of what people believe it is worth

2. If it works, it is only due to financial regulation

I'm not anti USD nor am I equating USD to gold or crypto. Just showing that these are mostly lazy arguments that can be applied to pretty much anything tradable on any market.