skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn’t the 1800s anymore. The documentary, from what I’ve seen of it, discusses quantitative easing - which arose because of insufficient oversight over wallstreet. A lack of oversight that arose from repeated lobbying, weakening of the regulator, and faith that “the system will never allow it to happen” and “these are the smartest guys in the room”.

The old social contracts worked in an older world, which didn’t have mechanization and labor was the source of industry.

Today, network effects mean gmail is free but the user is the product, and other configurations which would seem extremely odd in the 1800s.

The FED isn’t even the problem for what you are trying to resolve. I cannot understand why people tend to focus on it.
The other big component of this that's missing to me is how much he was asking delta to buy it for. If he really invested 100k into it and was asking for some reasonable multiple for his code+idea then it's probably disingenuous of them to not just pay him for it (and maybe pay for him to help dev it).

That said, maybe he asked for something absurd like a billion dollars for what was effectively "a good idea." Hard to know without that and the fact that the information isn't in here leads me to believe that the answer doesn't land in his favor.
What is possible on these kind of processors at the minute?
I like the idea and the work they put into this, but I would personally never replicate this implementation. I never know a persons circumstances, state of mind or willingness to harm. They know where I live. I believe in engineering solutions that guide people into the right path no pun intended. In this case I would have a fence.
Advertising is a super creative industry. One time we targeted people who worked at a particular (large) company in a certain capacity with ads that were specific. This is just standard Account Based Marketing, but we had great conversion rates and one of them was like "I saw your guys' product advertised to me between Words with Friends turns like 'This is how [our company] can help [his company] with [problem we anticipated they'd have]' and I was like woah this is cool, is it kinda creepy? I don't know. But it's cool!".

That needed some pretty clever set up from the marketing folks, company-specific graphics and stuff, and the pipeline to be per company. It was cool, man.

I mean, yeah, sure, lots of you guys would be like "OMG I would hate your company for that" etc. etc., but it turns out that's not how directors at big firms think.
I think this is a typo:

> aleph-0, which is the cardinality of the set of real numbers.

aleph-0 is the cardinality of the set of natural numbers, and (as you say) is not the cardinality of the real numbers.
> platforms have abused that trust and track everything they can now

The frog boiling that got me to block tracking and advertising in every way available to me was the era of the advertising hyperlink (late 2000s). An article would have what looked like hyperlinks to other stories or sources but were really just links to ads for products that matched that keyword.

If your cursor even hinted at hovering over them they would generate a popup with some obnoxious ad with a "close button" so small it was virtually impossible to click it without going to the advertiser site. Such sites would almost invariably spit out pop-unders, resize browser windows, and try to install browser toolbars.

When that style of ad got popular I started blocking domains in my hosts file and using GreaseMonkey scripts to block ads. I haven't stopped in the decade and a half since then. I don't oppose advertising nor do I necessarily oppose tracking since at the very least I can't hide from a server's access logs. I do oppose the absolute bottom feeding of AdTech companies.
Be careful what you wish for.

If ad publishers like Facebook generate less revenue per ad impression (which is what these tracking changes do), publishers will inevitably end up showing users more ads not less (to make up for the lost revenue).
Seaside http://seaside.st/ is a web framework in Smalltalk that will run on Pharo (and a number of other smalltalk systems).

Also they have a GUI system ready so you can develop desktop apps (I'm not sure what the deployment story is like these days, but I assume it's fine).
My personal objection is that it purposely confuses things.

It's worded in a way that connects declining with not being a team player. Obviously that's an intentional construction and to some people it makes perfect sense. It also is emotionally manipulative because it intentionally seeks to manipulate the receivers emotional state so that they comply. Some people will comply to resolve that discomfort. The inherent power imbalance distorts the situation.

It also confuses the language of personal relationships (affective statements) with the workplace. To me, this is in the same realm as getting employees to view the workplace as a family. Again it hijacks the our relationship cognition centers in order to engage in exploitation. Declining in a regular relationship has regular relationship consequences. Declining this kind of statement from a boss has livelihood consequences.

The solution in the workplace? Just say it plainly. Bringing NVC into the workplace is fertile ground for emotional manipulation.
Honestly I hear as many complaints living in Washington of WA natives criticizing people from Texas moving to Washington and how they're going to ruin XYZ. That was a poorly worded sentence but hopefully you get my meaning
Good points… sure education doesn’t mean patronizing, and that “civil” vs “selvage” dichotomy is where it went all wrong - especially if is the bias comes from a society based on consumption and materialistic wealth. And i tell you social networks are the real plague here in this sense.
If people are interested in this stuff, there’s a great course called Paradox and Infinity going on right now on edX. You’ve missed the first two homework assignments, but there’s still time to get going in the course.

The course is based on or supported by the book On the Brink of Paradox.
(my comment was hyperbole. it meant that 'solving' the climate crisis will become a problem for the 99% cuz the rich will not stop making money for the sake of the future of the planet. if they had to stop, they would've by now)
would be good to have a plan comparison (e.g. rent vs buying house).
PS: how should I setup a morgage in the system
This seems to be a statement on the level of "cruelty is the point of conservatism." It's non-serious, even if we pretend that there's never been a conservative policy enacted that didn't deliver it's promised goals. It's noteworthy for how it completely fails to give an example of a conservative city or state in the US that faced and solved similar problems.
This might just be me, but I've always found that TVs in public have this weird pull to them. Even if I have no feelings at all about what's on the screen (a soap opera I've never seen?) my gaze is still repeatedly drawn to it. If there's one around I generally try to position myself so it's not in my peripheral vision or I have to spend some effort ignoring it. It feels like whatever it is that keeps kids, as we say, "glued to the screen" doesn't always go away in adulthood.

I would definitely find it relieving if someone showed up with a TV-B-Gone and clicked it off.
Except it was happening, that is why gang of four book uses C++ and Smalltalk on their examples.

Had IBM kept selling Visual Age products instead of jumping into Java ship, history would have turned out much differently.

Or if the Strongtalk guys hadn't return back to Sun and basically turn a Smalltalk VM into a Java one.

JUnit was also born in Smalltalk for those not paying attention.
I've read the original paper before, and I think people are misusing its title and the number 7. If you read closely, the conclusion of 7 being a magic number is a bit of satire. In fact, just think about the title itself, a "magic number" with such a wide range?

The paper discusses various studies where the "magic number" (mean) varies between 5 to 12. And at the end Miller sort of throws his hands up and poetically concludes, "And finally, what about the magical number seven? What about the seven wonders of the world, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins, the seven daughters of Atlas in the Pleiades, the seven ages of man, the seven levels of hell, the seven primary colors, the seven notes of the musical scale, and the seven days of the week?"

So it's pretty clear "7 plus or minus 2" is not meant to be interpreted quantitatively, but rather it's that: depending on the task, there is some limit to our working memory. I think a more accurate title would be "humans seem to use chunking for various short-term memory tasks". And should be tempered by the standards of rigor from the past; compare Miller's paper to the precision in a recent paper like this one: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/151291/1/Thalmann.et.al.Ch...

Cue all the spammy "10 UX design principles that everyone must know" articles that put the number 7 on a pedestal...
We don’t know but looking into the past hints at the future.

Cantor, Hilbert and Gödel gave us Church who gave us Turing. Turing and Flowers gave us the machines as well as the theory. All of them put together gave us type systems and types are how you formally prove that your 747 software is free of, if not all bugs, then at least certain large classes of error.

There is a clear line of connections from Cantor (1890s) to jumbo jet fly-by-wire (1990s.)

Countability of sets and Cantor’s diagonal argument — the subject of the first part
of this article — are some of the first topics teenagers learn about in high school CS (if you’re lucky and on a very modern course) or CS101 (if you’re at a University.) Types are sets.

Who knows what today’s mathematics will bring us in the year 2121?
(the comment is hyperbole, not literal.)
Definitely not just C. Also most certainly people are using Javascript to program these boards. Espruino is a NodeJS like environment which is extremely featureful and supports alot of peripherals.

https://espruino.com/
Great! Maybe that'll drive people away from these platforms and we can have our brains back.
Public speaking carries real potential for negative outcomes. I don't think fear of it is irrational.

With experience and exposure, we learn how to manage risk and what our limits are. Same is true of learning to swim or learning to drive, but it's not true that a fear of swimming or driving is irrational or unwarranted for someone who hasn't done it often or ever. No, it's completely appropriate.
Yes, the things you described also have a profound effect on our carbon emissions. Agriculture also accounts for a large portion (those people leaving poverty gotta eat! And they wanna eat meat), and a large portion of agriculture is animal agriculture. So if eliminate or drastically reduce our reliance on animal agriculture, it stands to reason that we'd have an effect on overall carbon emissions.

Are there other things that can be done alongside reducing our demand for harmful products? Totally, and a lot of those things will involve regulation of industry, not individual changes in habits.

But the good thing is that we don't need to do one or the other, we can do both. I invite you to start doing what you can.

> and may actually diverting attention away from it

I find it hard to believe that trying to get people to change their consumptions habits in order to reduce our reliance on CO2 and Methane heavy industries is going to result in more carbon and methane. Do you have anything that actually says that folks who are motivated to make changes like this are somehow _less_ motivated to address climate change after?

It seems more likely that folks who want to virtue signal ("Climate change is awful, but _I_ won't do anything to help") are those who already weren't gonna do shit, so no loss there, really.
Yeah especially since my desktop GPU doesn't require an additional fee to use the encoder, it's just included as it should be.
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Thank you - I appreciate your comments.

I wasn't nitpicking. This is actually a confusing part of economics, and the language of economics (which I'm trying to avoid) makes it worse. :)

Let me give you a few real examples, but with contrived numbers for illustration.

1 - Suppose you can buy either chicken or beef. Both cost $1. Now, due to some reason, the price of beef rises. What will happen, is that some people will buy more chicken, even though the price of that didn't change. (Maybe they can't afford the beef now, maybe they're frugal, etc.)

2 - Next, suppose the same $1 for each, but the price of beef drops. Now, since it is the cheaper source of protein, some people will buy the beef instead of the chicken, simply because it's cheaper.

3 - Third example (a bit more involved): The prices of both are again $1. You and a bunch of friends decide to go without beef for a month. The price of beef will drop. Now (and this is the key part), because the price of beef is now cheaper, some number of people will buy it instead of chicken.

What has happened in example 3, is that the second half of that example is actually the same as example 2. In your example of the town buying 10% less beef, then supply will eventually self-correct, but only if nothing else (prices, prices of substitutes, supply of substitutes) changes. This push-pull action on prices and quantities tends to bounce around - that's why prices of beef, chicken, oil, timber, etc tend to change frequently.

I hope this helps.
And none of the people in this thread did provide even a hint of an answer either...
Remind what the ASIC acronym means
"Workarounds" is also the wording they use on the Privacy Sandbox page: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...

("Mitigating workarounds: As we’re removing the ability to do cross-site tracking with cookies, we need to ensure that developers take the well-lit path of the new functionality rather than attempt to track users through some other means. ...")
We had Pai who was clearly against net neutrality when he ran the FCC and who worked for Verizon as in house counsel prior to his appointment to the FCC..

I don't see why Khan should be recused just because you have a prior opinion, published or not.
> The bohemians just suck at capitalism.

So it's not true, since the point was about capital.
> why is it moral that the people that do all the work have no control over their working lives?

Basic principles of civilized society like respect of private property (which is the company which is owned by shareholders) and respect of contracts, and these principles are more important than employee wishes to play CEO.

> Creating a company requires capital.

So this is the problem. Some people worked hard to obtain that capital. They studied hard, got top notch education, deprived themselves of private life, had very high risk of failure (majority of entrepreneurs fail). And their work resulted in them being shareholders and top management.

While others were smoking marijuana, downshifting, working 9-5 at best, taking long vacations.

And the second ones demand the same rights to control the company. I don't see how that is fair. It is having a cake and eating.

And I have another answer to that. Want to make decisions in the company? Then get hired as CEO. They don't want to hire
you as CEO? Then perhaps you are not qualified to do company-wide decision. And if you are not qualified to do company-wide decisions, then probably you should not make these decisions working entry-level jobs.
An Agile Manifesto for 2021
>I just start getting absurdly irrelevant ads.

I'd count that as progress as they are easier to ignore. The ones I don't want are those that are relevant enough that they might prompt a change in my behaviour.
Because cardinality of finite sets is intuitive, but cardinality of infinite sets is less intuitive and totally different. The natural numbers plus a sandwich is mixing the two together in a single argument, which doesn't really track.
May they absorb nerd-god powers from the soil.
The method being called "non-violent communication" is a self referential intention for people practicing it to hopefully commit to communicate in a non-violent way. It is not making an interpretation or judgment on other communication styles which may or may not be violent. By calling itself "non-violent communication" it is in no way saying that all other communication styles are violent.

I have seen and felt NVC is a hard skill to cultivate because it takes good will, patience, and a lot of introspection to learn. From the speakers side they have to be aware of their feelings in the first place, and then additionally what needs are prompting those feelings, to even start to be able to communicate that. Even learning the gamut of feeling words and types of needs is an eye opener. And then on top of that is when listening to others, the practice of hearing their feelings and needs even when they might not communicate it in a clearly non-violent way. It seems the key is valuing the relationship between the people communicating and having an intention of openness, honesty, and genuineness even if you might in the end agree to disagree.

If one party does not want to participate then there isn't necessarily space to communicate this way. And either party can choose to remove themselves and not participate and, that is ok.
FWIW I have lived in Oudezijl, near Nieuweschans, have a son who lived in Groningen, Middelstum, Ter Apelkanaal and Beerta. What you personally have not experienced has no bearing on my own experiences, even if the localities overlap. Consider that the world is larger than your personal slice of it and that those things that do not happen in your slice in fact do happen.

The drug trade in Groningen is alive and well, you can take that to the bank. And if you still don't believe it then maybe have a chat with some LE and see where that takes you.
No, it can't. Its range is now so low it's no longer practical. Expecting people to accept a lot less is not realistic.
I should have been clearer, sorry. I wasn't considering those competing against FB for ads in the same medium. I was thinking more of rivals for ad spend generally. Perhaps some of it would revert to print titles, or broadcast, as a result. I'd like to think that sometimes an advert can be effective even if you can't measure its impact precisely.

Perhaps I am unduly influenced by the sorts of ads that I like, which tend to be posters, billboards or, just occasionally, TV/cinema/online pre-rolls. My favourite example would be the success of a Levi's ad from the '80s, see [1]: ‘It was a piece of magic’: How Levi’s ‘Laundrette’ ad led to an 800% sales boost

Yes, I realise that no small company can afford such advertising as that, but in a previous life, when I spent about a year in advertising sales for a local newspaper, I was wined and dined about a dozen times by local firms who'd let me come up with ad copy for them, and sometimes a campaign, who (rightly or wrongly) attributed a sales boost to my efforts.

Anyhow, you make a good point nonetheless.

[1] https://www.marketingweek.com/levis-laundrette-sales-boost/
@dang This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27842648 from several hours earlier. Exact same source article link even. Should be merged.
Doesn't this just provide another (perhaps more nearby) remote?

You still end up doing some kind of large checkout.
The basic problem with trying to solve the problems with versioned releases with monorepos is that the code in the repo and the code in production are not the same. If you change your service’s API, just updating all of the other clients of your service in the repo is not sufficient to skirt the problem of different clients expecting different APIs.

Re the tooling issue, I’ve frankly never seen it solved. I presume Google’s done it, because they’re a bit messianic about the whole thing, but outside of them, I suspect all monorepo implementations fit into the “Communism” model of working great in theory.
Sure thing! From the beginning I set out to be as respectful as possible of people's data, but I gathered from the last HN post that I needed to improve some of the communication on that. Hopefully the summary helps, as well as some of the new data storage options for subscribers.
>Asking too many question during an interview isn't a thing.

Not so sure about that. I recently interviewed where I asked something along the lines of, "So what would my daily responsibilities look like?" They refused to tell me what I would be doing day-to-day. No specifics on technologies, platforms, would I be helping internal/external groups, etc. Could not even get them to elaborate on specifics in the job posting itself.
> you agree to abide by its rules or to move to a different society that better suits you if they will accept you.

Except there's no such thing as free immigration right now (except within the EU) and even if there were it would only be a market among offerings and there's no option for non-participation since states dominate all inhabitable territory on Earth.
Well $200 in 1980s is something like $500 today. I don't think I own any piece of software costing that much.
There is one unfortunate artifact from NTSC that is still with us: overscan. For some reason TVs will take a digital signal from HDMI, crop off the edges, and stretch the image. So some video game consoles and streaming devices allow you to shrink their output to compensate. It’s madness.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan
How did you come to trust Alchemix with that much capital? I'm not familiar with them, but just checking their site doesn't give me a lot of confidence about sending tens of thousands of $ to them.
Any examples you'd like to bring up? It's far more common for politicians to claim to be progressive up until the point of assuming office, only to revert to status-quo business as usual afterwards. Obama is the most famous recent example that comes to mind. Ending wars, closing Guantanamo, restraining police state spying, making college more affordable, and implementing socialized healthcare were all campaign agenda items of his that were never achieved even when his party had a super-majority (most never even mentioned again once he was in office).
> Bitcoin has been around longer than the iPhone

Bitcoin was released in 2009. The iPhone was released in 2007.
Application specific integrated circuit.

The Intel / AMD CPUs are an ASIC that execute x86 as quickly as possible. Turns out to be a very important application :-)

My point being: you aren't going to beat a CPU at a CPU's job. A CPU is an ASIC that executes assembly language as quickly as possible. Everything in that chip is designed to accelerate the processing of assembly language.

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You win vs CPUs by grossly changing the architecture. Traditionally, by using a systolic array. (Which is very difficult to make a general purpose processor for).