skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Because Bezos/Amazon spent years building barriers to entry?

What barriers? Is amazon lobbying local governments to prevent competitor warehouses from being built? Or is they're just so ahead of everyone in terms of service/price?

>Because people's preference for shopping at Amazon, like their preference for shopping at malls 30-40 years earlier, began the disintegration of other forms of retail work?

People's preferences change. If something better comes along, you have to adapt as well, not complain that your competitor is "disintegrat[ing]" your business model.

>Because "fulfillment" centers (are you fulfilled yet?) benefit from being in locations that are not typically the ones where people are choosing to live.

From the rest of the argument it looks like you're trying to paint this as an advantage for amazon, but to me it seems more like a disadvantage. If amazon warehouses are located in "locations that are not typically the ones where people are choosing to live", doesn't that mean they'll have an harder time finding workers and you having an easier time finding workers?

Also, I'm not sure how applicable your claim is across all of amazon. In a rural area your argument would make sense (ie. warehouse in the middle of nowhere rather than in a population center), but in metropolitan areas they're almost always surrounded by houses (eg. https://goo.gl/maps/bfT3ePP1dfupKnuo6)

>Because employee-owned business (a Jacobin and personal favorite) face numerous obstacles in the US due to legal, political and cultural factors.

I'm not sure why it has to be employee owned. It seems like you're repeating the nirvana fallacy that gp was talking about.
That is the mainstream interpretation.
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Yes, most are using a lot of C.
Some C++, some other things entirely.

I do not advocate "stealing code" but stealing ideas and inspiration :)

The perfect OS doesnt not exist today and it never will.

But we can do better than we are today.
>Plants don't have a central nervous system or a brain.

So? does that automatically imply that it does not feel pain?

>What science generally understands under pain and suffering plants simply don't have.

Listen, I don't buy the science say this and science say that kind of arguments. ANY living being ( assuming we can settle for what can be called 'alive') will have a mechanism for self preservation, pain is one of them. The onus is on 'science' or people to prove otherwise.
What happens when the largest employer in the company town shuts the warehouse or whatever town?

I guess the town shuts down, right?
Could Vaccinating Young People Before Old People Save More Lives?
> I don't see how taking from everyone and giving very little in return is moral. If everyone did this we'd all live in a far worse world.

We have a large upper class that does exactly this and not only do many people seem not to mind, they find membership of this class aspirational. It’s how capital income works and what capitalism is built on.
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Except that the ports are essentially custom dongles that lock into the case. So instead of relying on the full market to make a usb-c to whatever dongle in the future, you’re relying on Framework to do it. A single company. This is not better.
The quality is being solid, easy to develop for, and, yes, free. I think you overestimate the ability of appliance companies to develop proprietary OS kernels.

MIT/BSD licensed stuff is still free software.
Yup exactly why I needed to buy my Milwaukee right angle die grinder… ask my wife ;)
Jello: Print “jello ” in every programming language
> My apologies for the misunderstanding. That's a high hill to climb, and I recommend engaging with policymakers to see that sort of legislation crafted and sponsored.

It might be a high hill, though softening to allow contractors involved in providing the service to know but requiring them to observe privacy rules similar to what would apply in the healthcare space under HIPAA, would make it much lower.

At the state level, for either version, I would recommend, if possible in your state, you to work with advocacy organizations who are willing to sponsor a public ballot initiative rather than focussing on policymakers alone; while industry insiders can and will buy ads against ballot measures, they can't cut them off by compromising strategically targeted legislators the way they often can bills in the legislature.
A clever bum, for sure.

"Johnston’s feelings about money are inextricably bound up in his certainty that refusing to spend it is the only moral way to live."

It's ok for others to spend on his behalf, though. It sounds like he is applying an effective story to a nicely vulnerable population of marks.

While his philosophy is BS, I cynically admire his hustle.
What did "marketers" do to actually ruin everything?

Why can't people just accept the fact that it was just hyped up by some people with a lot of media exposure at the right time: namely when Robinhood VS /r/wallstreetbets was kicking in and people got access to a bit of backstage/roasting, and everyone wanted to be part of it with the whole exclusive invites deal.

People felt like they were special because they had privileged access to something for a few days. They were among "few" celebrities.

At the moment 2 of my old bosses - not tech savvy and usually out of the loop on a lot of matters - sent a message to a group chat saying they have Clubhouse invites for the people in the group, I knew it was over.

Wasn't long before the whole Clubhouse hype died off.

Somehow... it was marketers who ruined it? You simply can't have something exclusive if everyone has access to it. It's not like those celebrities are spilling secrets there, they knew what they were doing there. You were not a fly at a special dinner table listening to exclusive gossip (i'm not saying you, you, but you the user who had that motivation, which I think was the vast majority).
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You are absolutely right, however, as ben_w below also pointed out, while the economical / environmental impact might not be justifiable in our western bubble, it might be outside of it.

There are still places on this planet where clean drinking water is a scarcity, and therefore - along multiple other reasons - water-flush toilets and accompanying infrastructure cannot be (easily / justifiably) built.

However, as we can see there are different solutions to the problem itself (health-risk free, humanic way of taking a dump) without using up gallons of water.
You should have seen their initial logo, then. ;)
I’ve never lived in or studied commune living but do you or the GP have nonfiction sources? I’m hesitant to take either of your claims as truth without them given my own lack of knowledge. Thank you!
The best thing about Clubhouse is that Twitter created Spaces, and some of my favorite voices in tech started doing shows there. I enjoy listening to Bryan Cantrill talk.
That’s not how logarithms work
That is the joke
As desktop or server?
That's simple pruning; the plant can be encouraged to grow more foliage before it turns its attention to making fruits; thus making more plant mass available to do the fruit growing.

In my experience that tends to encourage more, smaller fruit; which is good cuz it reduces loss to insects etc (they ruin a whole fruit at a time). If you want a single tomato the size of a child's head, tho; let it keep the first few it sets and then pinch flowers before they open after that.
> I agree that money is evil. But I think a system with money is slightly less evil than a system with no money.

Sounds quite not-evil to me.
> Plants don't have a central nervous system or a brain. What science generally understands under pain and suffering plants simply don't have.

Quite a number actually do have nervous systems [0], using neurotransmitters that have actually been found in mammals. They respond to wounding, both with efforts to repair it, and with chemical deterrents to the cause.

Now, that isn't to say that they necessarily have pain and suffering, but it wouldn't be surprising to learn that some plants possess that capability.

[0] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6407/1068
Good luck with your mental health.
Also here's a blog post about the Corner going into more details: https://m-chrzan.xyz/blog/sunday-corner.html
Increase in frequency of nuclear power outages due to changing climate
It's not a conspiracy if it's a stated public policy goal. A policy goal people are free to oppose in a democracy.

Also, France ?
Or by people who do know better and have malicious intent.
I was just thinking about this. All the photos the author uses are of butterflies resting. Thanks for confirming my intuition that while butterflies fly they spread their wings.
I just finished the book Fantasyland by Kurt Anderson. Much of our reality and especially our worldview is constructed and bears no resemblance to reality.
I think that's intentional and meant as an example of the issue at hand.
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So how does clubhouse change the game? We already have youtube and podcasts. You can listen to Joe Rogan over bluetooth in your car. You can even ask Siri to play it. What is clubhouse doing that makes it easier to access or produce high word count content in audio form? How is clubhouse helping creators monetize their content? Why would I go to clubhouse instead of patreon for the type of content you describe?

Not a clubhouse user, genuinely curious.
I was expecting the same, so I was surprised when it wasn't. Why would you be disappointed?
Create a global network of Tomato sensors. Correlate Tomato sentiment with Bitcoin price. Buy and sell Bitcoin based on the feelings of the Tomatoes.
Could you get turned on by talking with a machine?
Open mind testers are required for this experiment where advanced chatbots will try to create emotional and sexual bonds with you
I have never really asked this before, but... so what? I was 14. I wanted to learn Linux. You know how I did it? By installing Gentoo while reading the documentation. I worked hard (fueled by curiosity and wanting to learn) and it paid off. Were it as easy as a GUI installer, I probably still would have difficulties and not be able to tell you what ">" and "|" are. I would have way less knowledge if I never tinkered around the terminal.

It may scare people away, but you have to ask yourself: what kind of people? I have been teaching Linux to a couple of people, and some hate reading documentation in general. Make of that what you will. :)

That said, I installed Linux on a Windows user's laptop and she was fine with it because all she needed was a browser and something else I cannot remember. I think this covers many people.
Yes, those are better solutions, however still not really sustainable, and without incentives to build the accompanied infrastructure, it's never going to be sustainable; whereas solutions like the composting toilets are fairly easy to implement - FWIW ~ that's what we had before water flush toilets, isn't it?
I have to second everything the author said about content. I joined early in CH and there were a bunch of interesting people talking about interesting things. It was like being a fly on the wall listening to people much more interesting than me have insightful conversations, especially around things like software and science and venture capital. Now everything is about wellness or the latest crypto currency fad or straight up con artists selling self actualization as the author pointed out, or strangely, people starting rooms for the purpose of begging for positions in the Biden administration. I spend a few minutes a month recently logging on and looking for something interesting. Nothing.

Also seconded about unlike Twitter I have to make an effort to use CH. I put on headphones, make sure I’m listening to get any signal at all otherwise it’s like being on the subway.

It’s hard for me to see how CH could be interesting generally to anyone except those who want to be influencers talking to other influencers or pump up their cryptocurrency.
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I mean- no one is bound to the land, and Amazon's claim is not contingent on Bezos providing an army to the state on request.
If underground things(ancient, modern, all of them) appeal to you - there is a book "Underground" by Will Hunt you may enjoy. He doesn't explore Istanbul, takes you on a tour of several other ancient ruins underneath modern day cities. If you're into that kinda thing, I recommend it.
somethings missing. needs a bit of wabisabi.
Once people started telling me to stop talking about chickens and pigs, it was clear that the chickens were in charge and agile was then Agile.

Arbitrarily chosen pig and chicken link: https://helpingimprove.com/agile-commitment-scrum-pig-chicke...
And nobody needs to be worried about being fired for closing them 'for nothing'.
48 Hz ouch, i weep for the eyes.
Unleashing radical creativity (2020)
>At which point, why would I want "fake" money that I could only spend in one place rather than real dollars?

You might want it because the company paying you "fake" money gives you more than the competitor that gives you legal tender. The company might also give you access to discounted goods/services, which makes each dollar of the "fake" money more valuable. There's another comment that goes to this in more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27948860
With something like this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exit_A,_Sino-Singapo... the intention is even clearer.
8TB at blazing speeds to boot in a single device. To get decent speeds from HDD would require at least 8 drives striped together. So not only do you need 8+ HDD drives, you also need the enclosure. That would easily double the $700 for the single SSD. Luckily, with USBC/TB4, these enclosures come with the controllers built-in instead of requiring PCIe board
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That's fascinating and shows how different people are. I'm completely opposite! If you name something "gnorf" or "harjblang" and give me a definition, it occupies a specific unique place in my mind and I can learn memorize use and associate it.

With generic terms using generic words making up significant phrases, my mind struggles mightily, whether that's virtual private servers or integrated change control or steering rack control arm... This incidentally is why I struggle to learn any e.g. Car mechanics in English because it's all regular words strung up together Instead of bespoke unique keywords
I'm saying it's not possible at the OS level because the filtering is done in application code. CCT is not an OS service, it's a client library and a service IDL. Updating the library to remove the ability to filter by application ID is similarly not possible because binding to specific application IDs is not unique to CCT, it's simply how binding to services works on Android.
It is neither 'clearly' nor 'deliberate' or 'obfuscation'. It is possible that you personally simply do not understand all the terms or definitions, that is a different story.

If you want to 'queue' things, there are many options, including a number of options hosted by AWS as-a-service. For quite a long time a 'queue' hasn't really been a 'queue'.

There is SQS, the simplest of them all. There is MSK, which is Apache Kafka, but managed, so you don't have to deal with it yourself. There is Kinesis Streams and Kinesis Firehose, which is like a many-to-one queue, there is a hosted ActiveMQ, which is more complicated than just a 'simple' queue, and then we have Redis which gets used as a queue by plenty of libraries, and there is a set of services that you can use to 'construct' queues, like EMR, Glue, Airflow, Data Pipeline etc. You can also construct a queue out of generic hosted services by combining S3, EventBridge, Step Functions and Lambdas.

So no, it is not totally useless as a name or as an acronym, and to add insult to injury: if you are not in the ecosystem you are probably not even close to the target audience. Just because you don't know something doesn't mean it therefore must be bad. You probably don't know what T&E is in the physical world, that doesn't mean it's a useless acronym or shorthand, it just means it's not for you. (It's Twin & Earth, used in a lot of domestic electrical installations)

Most of AWS isn't for random people off of the street to immediately jump in to. Neither is flying jumbojets, surgery, or recombinant DNA engineering.
It’s pretty flattering to Amazon to compare them to the industry median pay and find that their starting pay beats it. If you start at Amazon you beat half of all warehouse workers across their entire tenure.
It's one thing if the butterflies are depicted in contexts suggesting they're supposed to be alive.

For some of these (like the pillow) its obviously just a decorative motif. Dead butterflies are pretty. So are cut flowers, mounted antlers, wood, and scrimshaw.
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Maybe you're not the intended audience. It can get exhausting to keep up with the (new) times and learn a new stack again.

I'm on my fourth or fifth time and it's starting to get wearying. I'm glad I'm not building simple PHP apps on MySQL anymore, but a new AWS whatchamacallit gets little more than a groan from me.
>> a quick search of FoDiH brings up that it's from the perspective of a character in Reamde, which is one of his I have not read yet. Is it a mandatory prerequisite, a good-to-have but optional prerequisite, or essentially unrelated?

I read Reamde about 8 years before FoDiH. I recognized some of the characters but I had forgotten the details. I never got the feeling I needed to go back and reread it. And I enjoyed FoDiH for its own sake.
In the case of a small community, it can be left to volunteers (optionally offer them a meal/beer) or simply rotation so everyone does the unwanted jobs. It's a fair system and people will do it.
This process is called "thinning" [0] (as distinct from pruning), and is employed by farmers the world over. And has been done for several hundred years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinning#In_agriculture
There was enormous difference. For one thing, workers in company towns were free to quit and move somewhere else, while medieval peasants could not.
This is an old yarn distinguishing sets and types, extrinsic and intrinsic, "run time" and "compile time".

The idea of a runtime procedure `?- atom(_)` which determines `true.` or `false.` is fundamentally an extrinsic property, thus "set like".

Intrinsically defined objects are defined through (possibly inductive) construction or (possibly coinductive) destruction rules.

Typically a notion of set arises from having some larger universe of things and restricting them via predicates. The notion of types arises from having a system of building (co)inductive definitions and then utilizing that system. Sets are thus, in a sense, fundamentally based on a closed world (said universe) and types an open world (each new utilization of the rules system introduces a novel type).
nice..had an idea of a browser engine powered by a different scripting language like Lisp. Even better, a browser engine that can plug in any language runtime through which web apps can be coded (WebAssembly is working in that direction to provide a single portable runtime I think).
> Guns fired with a suppressor/silencer are still quite loud

A great example of this is the scene from John Wick where Wick and a villain are in a crowd firing at each other with noone noticing.

There is a video with the gun sounds recreated to be more realistic:

https://youtu.be/ws8LAfD_3BA?t=13
The reason that you're not supposed to use your regular knife to touch fish (or cut potatoes) is that a non stainless steel knife would tarnish.

A fish knife is silver plated and therefore safe to use.

While my grandparents still had knives that weren't stainless steel, mine would be all safe and the rules now seem arbitrary.
Of course. Look how many people fall in love with anime characters.
You are correct, but to someone new, the phrase sounds like an absolute and probably discourages them from ever trying. A great blog post about this phenomenon is https://soatok.blog/2021/03/04/no-gates-no-keepers/ .

For my part, I've met people who have told me to not even try because I need to get a PhD before I even implement crypto. Not design crypto; implement crypto.

So while you are correct that it is the mainstream interpretation, that's not how it looks from the outside.
I guess we need to make a distinction between the blog post and the Gary Smith post it links to here.

Gary smith (the person I think you're referring to having spent a career in this) says this:

>The market manipulation, the irrational price gyrations, and the enthusiasm of so many investors for investing in bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) is ample evidence that market prices are not invariably equal to intrinsic values.

I entirely agree. A perfectly efficient market should follow Benford's law given enough data.

It's the blog post by Andrew that I think totally misses the point. He leaps from inefficiency which could be market manipulation to this:

>I saw this and I was like, well, yeah, isn’t all bitcoin use either crime or manipulation? But then I realized, no, that’s not all of it. Some bitcoin playas are motivated by politics, some by fomo, some are doing anti-virtue signaling...

And never considers the fact that the world is full of people who feel very different paying $100.00 vs $99.99
With a fixed exchange rate, the choice of currency does not matter for Benford’s law.

Benfords’s law states that for many real-life numbers x, log(x) is uniform.

Converting to another currency using exchange rate E, so that y = E*x, yields log(y) = log(E) + log(x). This corresponds to a shift of the distribution of log(x) and does not change how uniform the distribution is.

However, if the exchange rate varies with prices, then it will matter.
Plants can do amazing things. Think about how our own bodies respond to extreme temperature or to shock. We withdraw vital fluids to the core, or bring certain resources to the site of irritation. Plants certainly do things like this.

The research paper's abstract says this:

>The results show with 90% of accuracy that the electrome registered in the fruit's peduncle before herbivory is different from the electrome during predation on the fruits. Interestingly, there was also a sharp difference in the electrome of the green and ripe fruits' peduncles before, but not during, the herbivory, which demonstrates that the signals generated by the herbivory stand over the others. Biochemical analysis showed that herbivory in the fruit triggered an oxidative response in other parts of the plant.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2021.6574...

e: side note, this is the software they used for the computation, including Machine Learning.

>The code libraries used were: Numpy and Pandas for data manipulation; Scipy, Obspy and Math for mathematical calculations; Matplotlib for creating graphics; Sklearn and Statsmodels for machine learning.
It’s amazing how money actually came to be:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money