skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we don't see it actually working / harming in the medium/long term

I am not sure about that. There's a lot of consternation about this currently, many people think that there are serious long-term harms currently being inflicted. The fact that Biden picked a strident anti-trust advocate like Khan to head up the FTC suggests that there's political support for the case that there's active harm going on right now, as well.

The article provides a few concrete examples, and while I think Amazon is sometimes unfairly treated in the press, this is a case that I find quite troubling:

> In 2009, when Amazon noticed an e-commerce upstart called Quidsi making inroads with a subscription business aimed at parents, Diapers.com, Amazon made a bid to buy it — while launching its own subscription service, Amazon Mom, that offered even steeper discounts. Documents later revealed as part of an antitrust investigation reportedly showed Amazon was willing to lose $200 million in a month on diapers alone to neutralize the threat Quidsi posed. Quidsi gave in and sold to Amazon in 2010.

And on the core point of the article, whether Facebook Bulletin is an example of predatory pricing -- I think that the FTC doesn't understand social networks, made a huge mistake allowing FB to buy Instagram, and the current regulatory framework doesn't work for social networks.

Zuckerberg understands social networks. As he put it:

"There are network effects around social products and a finite number of different social mechanics to invent. Once someone wins at a specific mechanic, it’s difficult for others to supplant them without doing something different.

“One way of looking at this is that what we’re really buying is time. Even if some new competitors springs up, buying Instagram, Path, Foursquare, etc now will give us a year or more to integrate their dynamics before anyone can get close to their scale again. Within that time, if we incorporate the social mechanics they were using, those new products won’t get much traction since we’ll already have their mechanics deployed at scale.”

Through this lens we can analyze Facebook's strategy. Zuckerberg (correctly, I believe) thinks that it needs to win in each of the finite number of "social mechanics" that will be invented in order to maintain dominance over these modes of sharing. If it can't buy competitors in these spaces, it will create clones and run them at a loss to prevent them from taking off. Hence "Bulletin"; copycats are in some sense inevitable, but if FB undercuts Substack on their platform fee and/or overbids for content creator contracts, then they could drive Substack's valuation down and ultimately acquire them, just like Amazon did to Quidsi.
This is a good example of the line being skirted, with the Church (not sure if it came straight from the pope) saying not to vote on a single issue, but consider all issues.

Which in this case meant: it's ok with us if you don't vote pro-life. Wink wink.
>Lola hardware language

Huh - hadn't come across this before but very nice HDL
> a 10-year expiration means your cap table is in flux for 10 years, potentially, which makes calculations, acquisitions, etc, tougher

I don't agree at all. The primary effect of a longer exercise window is in not returning expired options hastily to the pool. Otherwise what's the difference if the employee continues to be an employee and doesn't yet-- ceteris paribus--need to exercise or forfeit.

Why do you suggest unexercised options of any stripe muddy the waters? If the option is worth anything at all it will be exercised at a liquidity event.
I am on a VPN
That really doesn't seem like a good test for determining whether we remove a company's first amendment right not to distribute speech it doesn't want to.

The New York Times has revenue greater than the tax revenue of a few dozen nations. Should the government force the New York Times to carry any editorial anyone submits?
Awe man you forgot...

Kojak with a Kodak
It ain't tractable in general either.
https://imgur.com/a/gaoJfST
"I really doubt we will have the capability of building "a machine in the likeness of a human mind" in my lifetime."

It's really hard to predict the future. Look at what a horrible job most people did a hundred years ago (even 50 years ago) predicting what life was going to be like today.

Many people did not believe man would ever walk on the moon (even right up to the time it happened), same with desegregation and the fall of the Soviet Union, for starters.

Science and technology are especially hard to predict, as many advances are a result of accidents and surprising discoveries.

I wouldn't write off strong AI, though I'm not sure it'll happen as a mimicry of the human mind.
You might also be interested in "here strings", <<<.
On mobile. (Firefox on iOS, in case it matters)
We homeschooled. Whenever we worried about socialization, we grabbed our kids, dragged them into the bathroom, and beat them up for their lunch money.

I'm joking, but the point is, socialization in public school can take some horrible forms. (At least, it can in the US. Maybe schools in Australia are more sane.) That socialization isn't necessarily a good match for adult society, either, or even for university.

Socialization is still a concern. But socialize your children to adult society. They don't need to be socialized to public school society.
Not if they haven't passed the cliff. Unvested options forfeit.
Yes, as we all know, homeowners bias towards American liberalism. What political clarity coming from Sr_developer.
I wonder the same for large (especially international) companies, government bureaucracies or other organizations. With thousands of employees and branches in different locations, it must be impossible to get a full understanding of the state of the system.
Moffett Field in Mountain View has a road that crosses a taxiway and it doesn't even have gates like this one does, just a stop sign and a sign that says "yield to aircraft" which I always thought was excellent advice.

I only had to stop for a plane once. It was a flying observatory. OK I admit it: this wasn't an accidental meeting; I knew it would be flying and hung around so I would have a story.
Don’t forget

What’s yer 10 20?
I’m east bound and hammer down
C’monnn back!
Per the WWDC talk on it: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10096/

> In iOS 15 and macOS 12, Private Relay will apply to all web browsing in Safari, all DNS name resolution queries, and a small subset of traffic from apps.

> Specifically, this will include all insecure HTTP traffic, such as TCP port 80.

This implies that app traffic won't apply to HTTPS traffic, which supports my assertion, but then later in the video:

> Not all networking done by your app occurs over the public internet, so there are several categories of traffic that are not affected by Private Relay.

> Any connections your app makes over the local network or to private domain names will be unaffected.

> Similarly, if your app provides a network extension to add VPN or app-proxying capabilities, your extension won't use Private Relay and neither will app traffic that uses your extension.

> Traffic that uses a proxy is also exempt.

So this says that HTTPS traffic will be included, which disproves my assertion, and seems more likely to be true.
Actually I think those were Vaxen

https://gunkies.org/wiki/VAX-11/780#Dual-CPU_experiment
Is it contrary or is he’s saying that ivermectin can be a good alternative to the vaccine? It still doesn’t mean vaccines don’t work, but why not authorize it (especially in places were the cases are high and hospitals are overwhelmed with a vaccine shortage, why not try?). You can skin the cat multiple ways. You’re going to have people who don’t want to take the vaccine or vaccines effectiveness is starting to drop (https://www.google.ca/amp/s/globalnews.ca/news/8003930/israe...) and we need to come up with another plan.
How is age not a sophisticated enough of a line (up to medical conditions and scams)? If someone has the right to vote and the right to bodily autonomy or basically any of the rights in the Bill of Rights, then that person should be able to do whatever they want (biohacking on themselves or even suicide included). Their decisions might be stupid, but as long as they are affecting only themselves, then I have no problem with it.

Compare this to mass scams: If many people are tricked (by a person or by a mass histeria) to do something, then it makes perfect sense to have a regulatory agency step in (e.g. FTC, FDA, SEC, etc). And compare that to people with a medical disability: if someone is permanently or temporarily mentally impaired, then some of these rights are curtailed.
You use the detector as a camera and wait for a black hole merger to use it as a flash.

Seems pretty doable with a number of detectors. The more the better the “photo”
<sarcasm> Psssh.. it's all math. </scarcasm>
> I can't help imagine how much fun would be to have a Mind taking care of a few things for us

Near-Earth object detection and deterrence would be at the top of my list, followed by climate change mitigation and environmental protection. The use of autonomous drones to monitor poaching and illegal forest clearing may soon be a reality.
I work on Displays and we've seen microwaves cause link failures on poorly shielded display port cables. RF interference is really fascinating.
I can't speak for all of Canada since health care is handled at he provincial level, but I think most provinces don't cover prescriptions except for the young and elderly, and even then prices are capped anyway.
> For example, if everyone took a rapid antigene test twice a day, we'd be able to track new infections very quickly and before those can spread any further.

Cornell University used on-campus labs to PCR test students up to 3 times per week, and that level of surveillance testing mostly kept things under control. There's a talk on YouTube explaining how they used models to choose the necessary frequency of surveillance testing within subgroups [0]. I thought it was an encouraging example of models and data driving policy to actually solve the problem at hand. So yes, there's evidence that surveillance testing works, and it doesn't even need to be as frequent as 2x daily. Testing is also important because we won't necessarily always get a working vaccine as quickly as we did this time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqrFgYzhyPI
Cell phones use Radio Frequency (RF) signals, and so emit RF "radiation". This is non-ionizing radiation, which cannot strip electrons from your cells, ergo cannot cause cancer.

RF can burn you, physically because of heat, if the RF signal is strong enough and you're next to the source. Cell phones are not powerful enough to do this.
Perhaps changing from the high frequency tax period of every 12 months, to every 24 months, would cut tax overheads by 50% for individuals and small business. and the compound growth of a business over 2 years than 1 year, and then being taxed, would allow businesses to grow faster, and collects more tax revenue. recuing tax frequency further to once every 4, 8 years, cuts costs, allows for more compound growth before the assets are scythed.
Governments have tools at thier disposal, not available to individuals and business who are required to create value to remain solvent, such as printing money, bonds, etc. The governments should look at using these tools, the way a government has national research, education, healthcare or defence, using its privelaged / monopoly posistion to provide those services, it should provide a tax service to its people, so the citizens can create value and grow it exponentially without the annual fuedal taking the kings share of the crop routine we have as default.
maybe, humans have great olfactory sensitivity and can rival dogs with some smells, but our nose is to far from the ground to be useful for many tasks and in-turn leads to lack of use and we kind of ignore it and generally don't get how to use it

https://www.livescience.com/59070-human-sense-of-smell-sensi...
I write my scripts in Zsh and Python. Maybe once in a while Perl, if I really want Sed but can't figure out the right incantations with branching and the hold space.

Why? Because they are programming languages that have features that I want.

Bash has more features and functionality than Zsh. It's also pretty much ubiquitous. If your scripts are only meant to run on your computer, and you don't need them to work under Busybox or whatever, why constrain yourself to the limited set of features in POSIX sh?
I have always wondered what the implications would be if a country decided to tax based on Revenue, say 5-15% of Revenue, rather than Profit.
Yes, it means that companies that make a loss would still owe tax. But there will always be companies that end up in the red and eventually fail.
Yes it will mean that some companies cannot expand as quickly, but the companies that are re-investing 100% of their profit into growth and expansion at the moment are effectively doing so with tax money that should be going to their government.

If you look at app stores, etsy, amazon, etc. they all take a 5-30% cut of revenue before any costs and expenses are considered, and it seems to work for them.
Sydney airport does this too, with a motorway running under the main runway.
Most people want a life where they don't spend most of their waking hours in small boxes called apartments, where they actually raise their children and eat and sleep in. They even want a place called "outside" where they can let their kids play on surfaces that are green and not abrasive to the touch and on their own.
Moguls, Deals and Patagonia Vests: A Look Inside 'Summer Camp for Billionaires'
Well if the stock tanks you’ll probably be laid off. I don’t see any upside with this model for the employee.
Great to see someone actually studying this and (unsurprisingly) finding out what anyone who has had to work in an open-plan office knows all to well.

This is sorely needed work and there are many opportunities for follow-on studies!

Since this study was a simulation, I'd like to see some studies comparing actual open plan offices with other work environments, notably cubicles, walled offices, home offices (both for people who do and do not have to care for household members), and other shared work environments such as labs, libraries, cafés, etc..
Most of the Arduino Nano clones on the market have already been substantially or completely redesigned. It's a pretty trivial board, in all honesty; given the desired pinout and dimensions, a skilled designer could probably turn out a Nano clone in a day or so.

The Arduino Pro board in question here is substantially more complicated, but I wouldn't call it particularly innovative either.
>Their decisions might be stupid, but as long as they are affecting only themselves, then I have no problem with it.

I suspect people generally agree with this, but will extend the "affecting only themselves" a degree out. Did a Father who orphans a child due to drug use only affect themselves? Did the narco terrorists who were funded by his purchase only affect himself?
If that's the goal, why not publish full schematics under a non-commercial license? No, it wouldn't be "open source" according to OSI / FSF, but most people would be happier about it than the status quo.
Whoa, no mention of WindiCSS yet — https://windicss.org/
I'm speaking more to the shuttle cost overruns, both in design and mission. I'd argue that the reusability aspect was central to the idea of a "shuttle" and if it failed at that, it missed its mark.

I agree 100% that there are organizational causes to past mishaps. As to whether or not it was avoidable...I tend to think they are rooted very much in human psychology and we think about risk. The same issues occur today within NASA (EVA 23 is a good example [1], despite the 'organizational' fixes put in place after Challenger and Columbia). Humans are really, really good at rationalizing the answer we emotionally want.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Hansen_PressC...
>Only after the gap is closed, there can be talk of peace - and then, still, we will need to become immune to nature's other trappings, because most of humanity can't survive in a purely natural environment anymore. Once heat, cold, pathogens in water and hungry predators stop being a threat, we can finally start living in respectful symbiosis with the natural world.

Well done. That's a Tolkien Elf. They are immortal, which is the first part of your declaration. Yet they are not immune to "natures other trappings", rather they are more resistant to it, but it seems that crucially, this is not viewn as a threat. This may be due to elves having less selfish natures than humans and more willing to "become part of nature". So it turns out having the right mindset (or nature) is also important. Also, Tolkien elves care deeply about their own kind, so i'm not sure how to reconcile that with what i just said.
Not for most people. Most people in the US trust institutions without even realizing/thinking about it. I don't think they care.
I remember sitting at a restaurant some time pre-covid, and watching this young couple a few tables over with their phones on the table. Every 1-2 seconds or so, something dinged or buzzed, or the screen lit up. It was like Las Vegas on their phone. Beep beep beep ding ding flash. And like Pavlov's dogs, every time the phones lit up, they interrupted whatever they were doing (talking, eating, whatever), picked up their phones and started playing around with them. I would be an insane basket case after 30 minutes of this, but they somehow managed to get through an entire meal with essentially a casino light and sound show erupting on their phones. How do people's brains manage this without melting down?

For me? Mute + Do Not Disturb mode 24/7. No notifications, no texts, no phone calls, no sounds, period. I use my phone on my own terms, not when some app summons me. I can't imagine my brain surviving any other way.
> especially when I started his savings account at something crazy like a 500% interest rate

Yikes. What are you going to do when your child learns about compound interest?

The "Parents are untrustworthy and break promises" lesson sounds like a bad plan to me!
So use a shebang that specifies Bash, or invoke it with `bash` on the CLI.

The default scripting shell might be important for typing like X11 startup scripts, but I don't see why you have to use it for standalone scripts just because it's the default.
https://i.reddit.com/r/patient_hackernews/

https://old.reddit.com/r/patient_hackernews/

https://teddit.net/r/patient_hackernews/

I'm not endorsing Reddit's increasingly user-hostile, disrespectful, and contemptuous UI/UX.

I am pointing out that there are altnernatives, both by Reddit and others.
It's just the pattern of people camping into one or the other extreme, which tends to occur with every topic. Nuance and depth is mentally expensive, whereas extremes are trivially easy by comparison and super fast (because you can discard so much explanation, discussion, thought and reality-binding once you decide to pursue fantasy).

It's identical to: AI sucks vs AI is amazing. Well, no, it's a complicated subject and always will be. Those extremes snippets are worthless bumpersticker-thought.

AI will very rapidly conquer all, becoming a practical Earth deity in the span of decades. AI will disappoint perpetually, progressing at a snail's pace for decades to come.

The truth is dramatically more likely to be inbetween the extremes, and going there intellectually doesn't lend itself very well to short comments.
I agree with you completely. This whole question of artificial intelligence presumes that intelligence is even a thing, and not just some form fitting for predictive reasoning that happens to be closely aligned to the well-being of the larger organism (human society).

The equivalent in silicon is functions fitting whatever purpose, but not strongly, for no particular reason except that they have been able to exist within that context across many, many, years.

The efficiency of a function may not be efficient, but it hasn’t been selected against…yet. That “DNA” source code might include a lot of cruft, but who cares as long as it works and people will download it anyway?
I would add a `#!/usr/bin/env bash` at the top, so readers know that it's meant for Bash.
Like a goofy person “hamming it up”

Amateur radio operators can seem undisciplined compared to professional or military operators.
Yeah, they are not being very clear, which is nothing new for Apple. But usually, you get closest to the truth if you look at what their intent is, and in this case, the intent is to limit the ability to track users, and there is no reason they would make a distinction between web users and app users there.
Butler also wrote an interesting essay in 1863 called "Darwin Among the Machines" (the title which was later borrowed for a book by George Dyson). Butler was probably the first person to realize that natural selection could apply to machines as well as biological organisms

https://web.archive.org/web/20060524131242/http://www.nzetc....
Someone posted this graph[1] recently showing how Coinbase application installs have dropped off significantly in the last few months.

It makes me wonder how much growth there is left if adoption amongst casual users has declined so precipitously.

1. https://twitter.com/Dogetoshi/status/1412465283181260811
I think it's advisable to make decisions with reflection on actuarial tables and expected utility. Basically any activity whose likelihood of death or injury is below the base rate of same for the population in question is "safe" compared to more risky activities. For the risky activities mitigations can be taken (safer vehicles, bicycle helmets, vaccines, masks, education, supervision, etc.) to make the risk more acceptable. Not all mitigations are worth taking, and some extra mitigations are worthwhile; safety does not equal happiness, and everyone has their own risk profile and risk tolerance.

I think what happens when people pretend that 'normal' activities have zero risk is that they become both fearful and complacent from cognitive dissonance, e.g. refusing to wear masks but too afraid to get a vaccine. This is the degenerate situation that results from people not being comfortable with reasoning about probability and expected outcomes in everyday decisions, in large part from lack of practice.
Nothing inherently wrong with those features. The problem is some corporation owns this data, not us. It would be fine if it was some local software instead.
Fun fact: you can do this with Sed and Awk, too. No more hideous unreadable one-liners.
Well, a large power could have paid. But for reference, even the lower negotiated amount in 1825 was more than the entire Louisiana Purchase.
Most home schooling families I know of find others nearby and do group learning or activities on at least a semi-regular basis- plus joining local sport or acting or hobby clubs, or church groups. The image of a maladjusted home schooled kid who never met another child is something of a bad trope, I think. There are tons of resources and "toolkits" online.

As a first step, I would recommend looking up a local group (or at least one in your state, since requirements vary) and talk to parents who have already done it.
I've heard good things about Montessori. I've also heard good things about classical education which is inspired by the trivium and quadrivium (there's actually a revival going on right now, I believe largely among Catholics[0]). The influence is Dewey is taken to be disastrous.

[0] https://catholicliberaleducation.org/map-of-schools/
For what it's worth, you can have "nested" syntax highlighting of SQL inside Bash scripts, with Tree Sitter in Neovim.

You could also read the contents of the query file into a shell parameter with the `read` builtin.