skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this essay to be abstract to the point that it is difficult to understand what the real point is. In contrast, I’d like to recommend my essay, already much discussed here on Hacker News, which covers the same subject (the difficulty of change at large firms) but with a detailed look at one of the world’s largest car rental companies:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/why-are-large-companies...
Here's the mainstream media stoking vaccine misinformation repeatedly, including attacking the safety of the vaccine, masks and travel bans. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Dr Fauci: "A vaccine that you make and start testing in a year is not a vaccine that's deployable" [8]

Andrew Cuomo: "I think it's going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine, and they should be." [9]

Kamala Harris: "If Donald Trump Tells Us To Take It, I’m Not Taking It" [10]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/05/kamala-harri...

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/31/us/coronavirus-vaccine-ti...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/18/what-andr...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-biden-idUSKB...

[5] https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-05-17/coronaviru...

[6] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-promises-coronavirus-v...

[7] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/02/health/surgeon-general-co...

[8] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/02/politics/donald-trump-cor...

[9] https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1318165775354560513

[10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAjCeMuXR0
This is a 68040. I had a cut down version (68LC040 — low cost) in my Mac LC475 in the mid ‘90s. You have no idea how slow it is haha.
We don't have exact data for the entire product life cycle emissions, but the data I provided give some indications of the difference in scale. What we can see is that

1) Household emissions represent the largest share of global emissions

2) Household emissions are very roughly proportional to expenditure

So while we don't have exact numbers, the 1/5'th estimate is actually roughly on the spot given the disparity in household consumption. I'll also just reiterate my point that temporarily building infrastructure in order to catch up with western countries is not blameworthy in itself. While the production has much room for improval in terms of emissions, it is wrong to blame China for the emissions simply for existing.

At any rate, the narrative that China is the most blameworthy actor falls flat on its face. The take-away should be that, as the German paper mentions, that we must drastically reduce household emissions in order to reach our climate goals.

Instead, the debate is mostly political and one-sided, where the ideal (i.e. most convenient) goal for western policy makers appears to be to put an end to or hamper China's infrastructure projects which are crucial to the welfare of the Chinese people, and by extension, the peoples of other nations affected by the Belt and Road initiative. To me, it suspiciously looks like the climate debate in the media has been to some degree hijacked by forces that seeks to undermine China's Belt and Road initiative.
> Machine learning is theory-free

This is backwards: Theory is machine-learning free, because we havent begun to systematically analyze the machine learning boxes to figure out where the theory arises out of it. If our brain can do it, then we can do it with the machine learning systems, but the relevant field is very underdeveloped. We still call ANN systems "black boxes" but eventually we 'll have to open them and start naming the parts inside. Much like how thermodynamics arise from statistical mechanics, theory will arise from connectionist dynamics
Yes, it didn’t end up being a homicide — not for the lack of trying, though. He shot his victim in the head.
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Ehh. I’ve worked as an architect alongside solutions architects and also directly under them. It’s a tough job but this whole post seems to be saying it’s hard because communication (engagement) with upper management is bad? This is an org specific problem not a systemic one.

(My own anecdotes while working as an architect within an enterprise: some upper management - director level - engaged very constructively with architects and principle engineers).
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If you try "Wii shäl miit tu dei in Nyy Jork" in Google, it works quite well in Inglish too, except thö "Nyy Jork".

It would be easy to organize meeting of all Anglos and accept this as an alternate spelling. Polish have some weird sibilants, so that it could be the starting point.
I liked the post. It is clearly aimed at people who think that we are close to achieving AI and that AI "knows best".

It might be obvious for most people here on HN that we are very far away from true artificial intelligence, but most normal people aren’t and the marketing bullshit around calling statistical models "artificial intelligence" paints the wrong picture. This article shows why.
I think the assumption is that point sources will have carbon capture.
My (much) older brother has severe dyslexia. He's bright, and now owns his own business, but in his school, they'd already reached the capacity for SEN provision, and he was refused a diagnosis. He could have massively improved his literacy if help was just available, but at that time, it simply wasn't. Branding anyone who doesn't immediately take to school an "idiot" is incredibly myopic.
Maybe one factor is that among all Activision-Blizzard subsidiaries Blizzard makes the least amount of money, around 1/5 according to the Q1 profits. Both Activision Publishing and King make far more money by expanding into the most lucrative game sector: mobile games targeting China. The one mobile game that Blizzard is making in collaboration with NetEase (the infamous Diablo Immortal) is yet to be released. It is far more likely that CEO (and by extension company shareholders) wants to dedicate more resources to expanding into mobile market than all those old and dwindling franchises that Blizzard has.
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Lying to the public to maintain power, keeps their hands on the government purse.
Loss of trust in institutions.
Loss of sense of prestige in the traditional tracks, they make up for it by becoming authoritarian to maintain sense of utility.
Yes each one has an elaborate story and a pile of cash behind it.
It's very true regarding propaganda. Personally, I noticed that TikTok mirrors my interests and views very precisely in everything but politics – all the political videos I happen to see in my feed are to the left of my views and never to the right.
What I gathered so far seems to imply, that yes, in the US you can do this. But in germany or france for example, you cannot. So since I live in germany, this is very annoying: I am against licences out of idealism, but I am not allowed to do so. The only legal way to have my original work in the public domain would be dying and wait 70 years.
YouTube is an American company.
I would argue torture is punishment, but punishment is not justice. Strongly recommend "Discipline and Punish" by Michel Foucault as an introduction to how our society operates in regards to social control.
They are a competitor, after all
No sure if this is an acceptable workaround/alternative [0] for Germany but on the "Request My Data" page (https://www.amazon.de/gp/privacycentral/dsar/preview.html) you can request all of your account data and this should include the following file with all of your orders: Retail.OrderHistory.2/Retail.OrderHistory.2.csv

It has the following format:
"Marketplace","Order ID","Order Date","Purchase Order Number","Currency","Price","Price Tax","Shipping Charge","Total Discounts","Total Owed","Item Subtotal","Item Subtotal Tax","ASIN","Product Condition","Quantity","Payment Instrument Type","Order Status","Shipment Status","Ship Date","Shipping Option","Shipping Address","Billing Address","Carrier Name & Tracking Number","Product Name","Gift Message","Gift Sender Name","Gift Recipient Contact Details"

(Note: My last export is from January so the filename or format might have changed in the meantime.)

[0]: It provides more data but is annoying / time consuming to use.
I don't see people doing that though. Do you?
Didn't work for me on a Mac laptop
Brother software has always been the worst experience for me. Its like some ancient Windows XP setup that you have to download from a 2003 website that sometimes gives errors and isnt very helpful. Uninstalling feels like Norton, where you probably need extra software to remove the crud it left behind.
Enterprise always operate on (usually oldish) stable versions so that allows some breathing space of time.

and a good enterprise will have a reasonably well defined road map that can be used to set expectations of future risk/ technical debt
Lol so if you don't do murder, don't want murder, and don't want to do murder... then why are you here talking about murder? What's your skin in the game?

Do you see the absurdity of your argument? It makes perfect sense to criticize something you find profoundly unethical even when you're not directly concerned by the situation.
Enterprise IT usually wants to push change without getting their hands dirty.

Downstream that means you get people who don't care about about their profession just following orders, or you disrguntle them because they don't understand why they're not able to define a reasonble architecture and instead have to follow the edicts of that weird out of date team that gatekeeps and aren't involved in the problem.

Of course, reality is sometimes the product teams don't quite get the full picture and need a guiding hand, but from my experience having someone removed from the practicalities of the situation usuaully doesn't help.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure it is authoritarian, but there is support for this action. It might be something to do with its general classless style of politics or it could be due to a very recent coronavirus scare in the major city after months of peace. I also suspect that culturally users there don't have the same history of freedom of expression as other places. I'm guessing but it's interesting.

I hope a disinterested and calm australian user can see through what's going on and educate the rest of us.
Blizzard’s reputation was tarnished the moment they sold out to Activision. Soon after, they starting using the Activision monetization methods, churning garbage “games”, etc.
Tip: Buy an AxiDraw instead, their boards and drivers are open-source and you pick the pen! :D
As a frequent user of tiktok i have to say that it's the closest think to real (aka non curated) social media.

It shows you stuff you like to engage with and not just viral videos. It shows you popular videos and videos with 10 views, most of it relevant - to the point where it doesn't matter how many views a video has. They have solved the discoverability problem other video platforms have.

Sure, they might ruin it with propaganda in the future, just like twitter/youtube, but atm it's the truest social media app out there.
Italy isn't that wealthy though. Wealthier people care more about a ton of things, like rates of automobile accidents and fatalities, the environment, etc.
In the late 80s life expectancy in Italy was around 70, now it's well above 80, and a large part of the difference is due to how many died 55-65 to cardiovascular problems or cancer.

A lot more of my relatives died of heart attack or cancer in the 80s than those from the next generation did in the last ten years. In fact in the last few years I witnessed many people getting surgery for those same heart issues or cancer that would have killed you a couple decades back.
Good stuff, I'm interested, what's the use case here? And what trade offs compared to nodejs are we making?
Darklang is being rewritten in .Net

Flowtype has horrible performance, which in my opinion partially explains why it has lost so many users to Typescript, which has much more predicable and fast performance even though it's written in JS. The project is basically dead
I've never understood why this is segmented by outcome instead of intention for these kinds of cases.

If you shoot someone in the head you should be tried for murder. It's what you intended to commit.
> her conviction led to my emigrating to more civilized lands

Here's to hoping you left the US altogether.
Great news.

I had blocked Sky News from my Youtube account as didn't want to see it's content but was still having Sky News content pushed to me in the app. I suspect because of the recent News Media Bargaining Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Media_Bargaining_Code. Now Sky News has gone completely from my feed.

Being Australia and Rupert Murdoch's business, I suspect this won't be the end of it and they'll be some rushed through laws so this never happens again. The News Media Bargaining Code was for propping up Murdoch's businesses after all.
Yes, all these align with Liberal mentality In YouTube leadership
He's just good at seeing the big picture, you see :)
Bezos didn't get to where he is today by spending his own money. Why do that when you can spend tax payer's money instead, and keep on amassing his immense fortune.
Australians, for whatever reason, don't have the same concern for civil liberties that Americans have. I can't explain why, but as a citizen it's a little troubling.
Yes, this rhetoric is dishonest and erodes the rest of the piece. It is so painfully obvious manipulation that it steers the reader against empathising with the tortured kid.
What kind of IO operations Redis does? The replication or disk persistence? I thought that prolly runs in other threads not the one which is serving clients
I meant “way to go” in ending up a situation where a grant from the government can’t be delivered in time, so a more expensive and damaging alternative becomes likely. It’s just poor organisation or coordination. I didn’t mean anything about the validity or appropriateness of the moratorium, or the ending of it. That wasn’t clear from the way I wrote my comment.

It’s a pity the article doesn’t go into more detail on the distribution. I felt that they kind of hinted that states had been slow to distribute the money to their constituents, but it doesn’t go any further.
Very good resource, thanks for publishing your thoughts.
The reference model is similar in spirit to the PRINCE2 overall framework: https://www.knowledgetrain.co.uk/res/prince2-processes-activ...
First skimmed, then read through the article carefully, but it seems the text doesn't actually explain "why" printers do this. What am I missing?
I am not from USA and the idea that a country limits the amount of doctors it produces sounds ridiculous to me.
I played WoW during late TBC and WOTLK (late 2000s), and then I came back for WoW Classic. The thing that disappointed me the most and ultimately made me leave for good is how toxic and bitter the community has become.

Long time players treat Blizzard like an ill relative they are morally obligated to take care of, instead of a company that is supposed to release enjoyable content. Some of the middle aged and even retired people I played with treated the game like a Facebook gossip group and had shockingly immature behaviour.
> It can be very quick at picking up some niche interests of yours.

Except that none of my interests can put anything useful in a 60 second video.

What's an example of a "niche interest" that TikTok picks up and does well on?

TikTok seems to be well adapted to create the ADHD dopamine hit to waste time, but is it of any use beyond that?
Slight devils advocate. Is everyone happier with mandatory schooling for longer? It isn't that we shouldn't give everyone the chance to learn, but maybe some people really would be happier dropping out at 14 and just getting a job. Being at school where all you do is fail does not make for a good life experience!

I think the answer is probably that we don't want parents pulling kids out of school early just to earn money for the family? So legally requiring they stay at school longer protects.

Just a thought
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The whole private sector censorship reminds me of a very good piece by Matt Taibbi:

> "People in the U.S. seem able to recognize that China’s censorship of the internet is bad. They say: “It’s so authoritarian, tyrannical, terrible, a human rights violation.” Everyone sees that, but then when it happens to us, here, we say, “Oh, but it’s a private company doing it.” What people don’t realize is the majority of censorship in China is being carried out by private companies.

> Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN Bureau chief for Beijing and Tokyo, wrote a book called Consent of the Network that lays all this out. She says, “This is one of the features of Chinese internet censorship and surveillance—that it's actually carried out primarily by private sector companies, by the tech platforms and services, not by the police. And that the companies that run China's internet services and platforms are acting as an extension of state power.”

> The people who make that argument don’t realize how close we are to the same model. There are two layers. Everyone’s familiar with “The Great Firewall of China,” where they’re blocking out foreign websites. Well, the US does that too. We just shut down Press TV, which is Iran’s PBS, for instance. We mimic that first layer as well, and now there’s also the second layer, internally, that involves private companies doing most of the censorship."

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-matt-orfalea

This is even more applicable considering the current administration, press secretary have all openly admitted to forcing tech companies to censor viewpoints under the guise of "misinformation".
That’s a very slick page!

By inspecting the animated diagrams they switch from text rendering in a PRE element to a CANVAS renderer when the page width shrinks below a certain size.
When you say reasons, for me those reasons vary from "we have a PKI and I'm lazy" to "EA told me we have a strategic PKI that I have to use".

And it's typically not the former, because getting the network connectivity is usually way more effort.
I think you are assuming the company charging for labor is paying for lodging, food, and other expenses, and that doesn't break even.

But that isn't how it is: the prisons charge companies or the government for labor and charge the taxpayers a day rate for the service of incarceration - additional prisoners mean additional profit.

Like most graft in the US, the issue is that private companies get to make a profit on public expenses. This is "more efficient" than having the government do it at cost (see also: medicine).

The practice in this case disincentivizes rehabilitation, means people lobby for things like 3 strikes, or trivial parole violations, mandatory minimums etc. The incentive structure creates systemic reinforcement. You go in to the system and it doesn't particularly want you to come out.
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Wow, seems like a pretty extreme approach to block your own internet access.
I would guess that those who are getting sicker at younger would just have died.

Let's say hypertension is now diagnosed at 50 instead of 70. How many people used to die of a stroke between 50 and 70 due to undiagnosed hypertension?
I am in a similar situation at my work; can you give me some pointers on how I might able to validate the same premise at my company? TIA
Well, almost everything has more predicable performance than Haskell. And I love Haskell.
It sucks that they thought that was a good idea. A good hard look should be taken at the environment that led to that.

Also: why not teach them to be better, do you think 13 year olds are incapable of learning?
It's easier for me to find a job as an Architect as all I need is to know the outline AWS/Azure tools and some ability to bullshit. Compare that to having convince recruiters that my background in MATLAB modeling can be transferable to do Python development. I'm happy to bullshit and collect a paycheck.
Sky News peddles everything from flat earth conspiracy to vaccine FUD. I blame a lot of the US's problems with polarisation and truth losing its meaning to its culture of cable news talking heads which pander to anything and invite anyone just to prop up their ratings. We in Australia have mostly avoided that, and Murdoch, via Sky News, is intent on changing that. As an Australian, I want Sky News to disappear because its success would bring a kind of politics to Australia that causes harm.
I think this gives a good political reason but does it explain it culturally?

For example the right wing, I've heard but could probably be wrong, is quite pro censorship generally?

Compared to the USA that wasn't the case. It's a bit puzzling. For example an American Democrat might say "I hate sky/fox news with a passion but I think Google shouldnt be making these decisions"
An anchor would usually refer to the collection of gear placements equalised together, not an individual placement. (Although rarely you might have a 1 piece anchor). The term anchor is more a description of the purpose than what it's made of.
All sentiments aside, some kids and teenagers are extremely dangerous. It could be that such a punishment came out of the desire to protect others (e.g., own kids).

Society does not have an answer to the more extrem cases of deviants, sadly.

But that consideration aside, putting a 13 year old into solitary confinement for years is a crime against humanity. The barbarian nation that does this should get a good old-fashioned regime change.
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> Why was COVID disinformation produced in the first place?

There are documented cases of "influencers" being approached to spread false information by a PR agency linked to a foreign government (1) Russia in this case, but this is a game that many can play, and likely do.

I think that the idea is "zero sum" thinking: If they lose, then I win. And also a willingness to "play with fire" for reckless short-term gain, forgetting the old adage "Do not call up that which you cannot put down."

1) This story:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-57928647

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/25/influencers-sa...

https://www.businessinsider.com/agency-suspected-russia-ties...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/world/europe/disinformati...