skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Newspeak's goal of a complete regularization of English, and the elimination of all redundant forms, is actually an interesting idea IMO. Business jargon often moves in this direction, e.g. "learnings" instead of "lessons". And it's not always a horrible dystopian idea - Chinese has standardized over time and become more accessible to the masses with each iteration.

EDIT: I apologize for my doubleplusungood thoughtcrime. Oldspeak good! Newspeak bad! Oldspeak good! Newspeak bad!!!
This game is awesome. I also love that they have support for reinforcement learning[1]. I wish all the research in RL and video games was on open source games. Slight bias on my end. :)

[1] https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GettingStartedReinforcem...
Many founders are that unusual sort of person who likes working more than anything else, and a lot of them get the idea that this makes them virtuous and everyone else ought to feel the same way.

"Sure, we don't pay as much as some, but look at all this work you get to do!" I've interviewed with people like this. They honestly think that's an incentive (if you're a "good" employee).
Dow kicks out underperformers and brings on good ones from time to time. That ensures only the good ones remain. I wonder how those changes affect performance.
Follow-up question:

What are the advantages of sortable UUIDs with embedded timestamps over having an auto-incrementing id column, a created_at column, and using the composite primary key (created_at, id)?
Wealth, like beauty comes from within.
I wonder about correlation vs causation. Before the internet existed, many people recognized that America was a declining empire. Advisors to presidents recommended bad courses of action - like aligning ourselves with the rising empire of China - which have only accelerated the decline. The internet is the reflecting pool that shows us what our age of decadence / Weimar republic / kali yuga looks like.
[1] https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/verisign-q3-2020-doma...
A guy I went to college with was there for the birth of the web. I remember him coming back that Fall, and him showing me, on one of our campus NeXTs, this new "World Wide Web" thing. "Cool, I guess. It's like Hypercard," I said, "but not as capable — but it is networked...so how is this better than Gopher? What's the use case?" "Just wait," he replied, "you can't build on Gopher like you can on this." Times changed quickly.
Based on the example of USA Inc? Over this time period what about Germany Inc? Or China Inc? Had Hitler used his artillery to wipe out the British Expeditionary Force retreating at Normandy, UK Inc investors would have lost their shirts.
And an area that QA should be aware of, during testing. and maybe to update automated tests.
During a heated argument, a person I know argued that humanity advanced as fast as it did during the 19th century after aliens invented(!) electricity and gave it to us.

Took me a while to process
The note was more about how good the supposedly ‘unexciting’ rates of return actually were, not about market timing.

risk free bonds are yielding 5%
When I said that my boss can appreciate good work I wasn’t talking about a “thank you” note ;)
"This prompted immediate and predictable backlash: both for the layoffs themselves and for the tone of the email. According to ProPerm.ru, the company is investigating to find the employee who leaked the email."

Lol them not expecting such a tone deaf email to get leaked really cements my suspicion that any idiot can find himself in the captain's chair.
If there’s a point to terrain, it’s that a living critter like a human is a complex system and disease effects and responses are complex. The idea that a human being is a biome, with vast numbers of non-human cells active within and necessary for health, would have been shocking in the 18th century and is still sometimes a bit disquieting for me (because it sort of makes me a “we”). There is a terrain in there. Science is better at finding answers to things that have a small number of variables than a large number. (If, for example, autism in offspring is increased by a subtle effect of multiple classes of chemicals during a particular phase of pregnancy followed by another subtle effect in the child’s first year, we will have a very hard time teasing that out. Not pathogenic, but perhaps you get the point.)

As to the rest- we observe bacterial, viral and fungal infection in non-humans. Germ theory works well for them too. Germ theory also predicts how disease gets transmitted and which diseases get transmitted (the one you have is the one you give).

Flat-earthism is easy enough to debunk in person (if time- and energy-intensive, you just need to spend enough time flying and sailing), and relatively harmless. Anyone acting on terrain beliefs can infect a large number of people with cholera or typhus, that’s a bit more dangerous.
> Jira, Confluence, Gmail, chats, documents, dashboards

Metrics almost as bad as “butts in chairs”, “physically in the office” and my all time favourite “spending 4hrs a day responding to emails”.

I mean it’s possible that these 150 people were doing absolutely nothing… in which case these metrics can be a decent yardstick I suppose, but you can also generate a ton of activity in collaboration tools and contribute very little actual value.

It’s like the help desk tech who just closes the easy tickets because that is the metric they are evaluated on.
> One thing he says: "The opposite of addiction is connection."

Makes a lot of sense - I once read that a defining parameter to determine addiction is how it affects relationships. Addicted people often fight and eschew relationship in favour of their addiction. I am reminded of this often when I see kids fight with their parents about how much time the spend on their phones / tablets / computers instead of doing other activities.
I remember the first time someone fired up Mosaic on a Sun workstation at work. At first the only pages were alma mater pages because no one had an IT department that knew how to set up a webserver yet. It didn't really dawn on me until people started putting up lyric pages for bands, and the speed at which you could access the data via links. I had been using FTP (and archie and gopher) up to that point, which involved a lot of typing and taking notes, and hyperlinks/bookmarks were light-years easier. That was the lightbulb for me.
Watch it just be the employees who went on VK on their work computer instead of using their private phone.
> It's not well known that the (US) CAN-SPAM act does not apply to political and religious organizations.

This is because the politicians in office at the time of writing the "CAN-SPAM" act explicitly wrote in their own exemption for themselves for campaigning purposes. As to why religious orgs. also got included, I don't remember -- one wonders if it was simply to obscure the blatant "we are making ourselves above this law" look for exempting themselves from the law.

They (the politicians that time) did the same thing with the "Do Not Call" phone number list, politicians wrote in their own exemption for themselves for campaigning purposes, and then added an exemption for charity orgs. to the law as well.
What is the male to female ratio on the island?
How does this compare to TradingView?
https://theconversation.com/covid-vaccines-focus-on-the-spik... is probably relevant to your question. The short answer (this was also discussed recently on TWiV) is that spike is the earliest interaction with cells, so focusing on it hopefully causes the immune response to mount earlier as well. But, as described in the link, other proteins may be viable targets as well.
> If one bought and held the Dow from 1921 to present, the total return would be 500,000% (5,000x)!

One of the great challenges of human existence is we do not live 100 yrs to see those returns. Instead we're living, blind to the exact details, on the choices of those 100 yrs prior to create the X% returns of their choices _for our lives_ . One way to get people to make such choices is to create a love for whomever comes next. Children used to be a "skin in the game" sort of scenario where you didn't want to mess up the future cause you had a vested interest in it. Between selfish culture and few people having children, i'm not sure the solution .

While many say that ending aging / increasing life span to 100s or 1000s of years would be disastrous, I actually think it might fix a lot of issues as we'd have that timespan of a personal interest to optimize across.
Who is paying and who has access is only one part of the puzzle. Most people only care about access, but they don't understand why that access continues to be limited.

Why do journals exist? It's not to provide information. Ever since the Internet was invented, we can distribute information virtually for free. Everybody knows this. Yet the journals persist for decades. So their purpose is not to provide information.

Yes, of course, their reputation is invented and legacy. It's been shown time and again that papers published in "reputable journals" can be quite problematic. But everybody knows this too. It's not like academic institutes are completely brainless. They know they could have somebody "less reputable" publish their information and it would have the same scientific merit, or that they could even publish it themselves on a blog. But they don't; they publish on the "reputable journals", even though the reputation is clearly not impacting the research results.

So why do these publishers exist? The true purpose of paid, "reputable" journals is to provide an excuse for research institutions to dole out money to people who meet a quasi-arbitrary barrier to the money. They know they don't have any good system of how to assign money, or who to promote, because in general it's hard to quantify. So they hide behind "the reputable journal" and thus the "reputation" of their researchers. This way they can receive more money (because "our scientists are published by reputable journals") and they can dole it out just as easily.

Opening access and reducing cost is a great idea. But shunting money away from journals will result in the entire research industry scrambling to put together a replacement that will allow them to continue being funded, determine how to dole out that funding, organize journals "for free", and retain some sort of rigor/due-diligence/quality from the publishing process. Can this be done? Sure! But we should make that our goal and not ignore the big pink elephant in the room, which is that journals are still a necessary evil for research funding. If we want to get rid of paid journals, let's actually think through the resulting impact and build a resilient system to replace them. Imploding them and "hoping for the best" is just going to hurt research.
OK then, replace "kernel" in my previous comment with "kernel plus a bunch of lower-level userspace". If anything, this makes things worse not better. It means we're re-introducing the possibility of duplicated effort and gratuitous breaks of compatibility in that lower-level userspace, which is exactly what we were trying to get away from via AOSP.

This makes it more important rather than less to work on an AOSP alternative that's far more in line with existing Linux practices in the mainstream, non-embedded ecosystem. And let's face reality, the chip vendors aren't doing it.
You can do that in the Japanese ones too!
No? The journals did their job - the paper wasn't published. The broader internet (and largely a single celebrity) then became vector for a con-man to amplify his misinformation for profit.

I'm using that as an example of something that could become commonplace if you blow up the journal system. Then every paper becomes "I feel this is right because blog-A which aligns to my beliefs says so". Institutional legitimacy is not something that is built overnight.
> The WWW was pretty great [...] We now do signal amplification of the worst of humanity

Aren't non-Web ("anti-Web"?) platforms the greatest driver of this?

You mention IRC and bittorrent. Nothing really Web about those, either.

Are you thinking of WWW and The Internet as being interchangeable terms?

Isn't this just a generic and vague luddite-doomer rant?
This is interesting, but the article itself doesn't mention the state-of-the-art in wireless power transmission. Where are we in that field? How close are we to something resembling beaming power down from space?
Respectfully, you inferred the conclusion "So clearly it must be some variety of that!". GF doesn't say that, they merely say it may be like that and that the explanation given in the article doesn't agree with their experience.
I should give it a try again, last time the AI beat me so badly every try...
I checked out the part out that mentions backup cameras, and it’s got misinformation contradicted by the report I already posted above. For example, the people talking claim nobody tried to analyze the benefit to people other than children, which isn’t true, and they claim the benefits of backup cams “didn’t work out”, while the report above shows the calculation isn’t expected to pay off until 2028 and isn’t expected to reach maximum benefit until around 2050, but will on the whole be a positive to the economy. “Not that many lives saved” just seems like such an awful position to take, when we’re taking about per-vehicle costs that are less than a week’s gasoline.
TradingView is a charting tool. We have TradingView in our app as well. But trading involves lot more than charting. Second difference is that it is a desktop app and the connectivity is peer to peer with the exchanges.
What was your base investment that you made 300% profit on if you don't mind sharing?
Also a very small study of N=246, which is why the confidence interval on the OR is so large.
Congrats on the launch! Which trading API provider(s) did you choose and why?
non-paywall: https://archive.is/COcpb
How to Use Bitcoin to Get True Freedom with Money
No. Lots of other measures do, but not the DJIA.
So, conflicting thoughts:

1) "keep their medical insurance and receive medical pay equal to four to six monthly salaries"...is pretty good. Better than the severance package of most companies in the U.S. However...

2) "we will help you find a good place, where you will earn more and work even less. Sasha will help you get a recommendation, including the one from myself..." is not going to be worth much, since he just very publicly said "these people who we laid off are all slackers". Which was totally unnecessary, not even a mercenary business reason to do that. Looks like a rookie mistake. You should not screw people over, but you especially should not screw people over for no reason that benefits you or anyone else.
Tech Firms, Feminist Icons Back Groups Whose Leaders Helped Cuomo Smear Accuser
Today no one seems to care about inflation in Europe or in the US. It seems to be a subject confined to economists that every day people don’t care about, if they even understand the concept (no one under 50 has really witnessed it in their adult life). So people are all for unlimited money printing.

It is interesting to find old articles and read what people cared about at the time. Inflation was often a top concern, and politicians running their campaign on curbing it. Some old movies also refer to it (that stolen money which will melts away while you await behind bars).

Our current complacency in term of budget deficits and monetary policy will wake up that sleeping dragon.
> and allows health officials to make informed decisions based on vaccination rates.

Barely. Forecasting is being done on antibody levels at least in countries that are running good real-time surveillance studies. Hence why Israel/Germany/UK are deploying third shots and many other countries will do the same.
Nope. It’s price weighted. Hence the comment on how dumb it is.
I've been seeing this in news articles as well. Swipe someone else's article, run it through a synonym-replacer algorithm, and have Reddit bots post it on a bunch of news subs. Presumably the thesaurus work fools Google's just-a-copy detector.

It's the next step in clickbait monetization. Why settle for low-effort content when you can have no-effort content?
Thank you for adding nuance. This topic is indeed in sore need of more nuance.
I wish they had kept the method secret. Getting these papers retracted is less valuable than being able to secretly keep tabs on them.
Thank you. We connect directly with cryptocurrency exchanges. We wrote our own connectors for their APIs. We do not use third-party data or API services.
It's possible, but that's also something that needs constant power and effort. Living in a cave or piling up rocks might be much more resilient
I think OP was referring to cases like OF creators posting to places like r/roastme where thirsty redditors can see that they're hot, check out their profile, and see the pinned link to their OFs. That kind of thing is not likely to be automated.
If you were an employee of this company who left, would you resign and look for a new place or would you stay?
How systematic are you talking? I happen to know an OF creator who promotes herself that way and she doesn't do anything in an automatic fashion, just creates her own submissions to subreddits and gets burned by such moderators.

I happen to agree with formerly_proven . When my OF friend described how she submitted topical stuff to subreddits in the hopes that others would follow up on her profile, I was like, "what's wrong with that? Isn't that how people are supposed to promote themselves? Giving out free, relevant stuff in the hopes you'll want to know more about them?"

I mean, isn't that how ethical self-promotion is supposed to work? Join a community, obey their norms, contribute, and if they like you, they'll follow up? How do you expect it to work?

<insert caveat about how you have no reason to believe this experience, since the sensitivity of the issue requires me to use a throwaway and hide her identity as well>
They appear to have a lifetime option?

“Enpass lifetime premium: $79.99”
I expect there’s a fair few HNs readers with fond memories of using DEC equipment in their very early careers.
Leaving the comfort zone (podcast episode)
Yeah this is what I did.
> Wow what an underhanded insult.

Actually, he just signaled why the firings happened. People were claiming to do work, and there was not proof they actually did work in their email, documents or the systems they were supposed to do work in.

Any worker who has carried tons of (usually "rockstar", "bad-ass" or "pedigreed") people who don't even understand the work they are pretending to do (or worse, supervise) knows this is a rampant anti-pattern in business and in many cases has the potential to transform the business. When I was younger and worked for a boss, I used to really hate watching 80% of the others disappear at 4:30PM without regard to customer expectations and come in in the morning, only to start working around 10:30 after making the morning rounds (coffee, chit-chat) the next morning... only to hit a critical lunch with the team at 11:45-1:30pm.

In every company I've managed or started one of the facts I try to be on top of is "actual work done per day". I've found that if I look at productivity and use that to inform who gets invited to help make decisions. It makes a profound difference. People who work hard tend to come to meetings prepared, are respectful of everyone's time and most importantly know the facts about their work. You end up with better decisions.
> found to be spreading untruths

So we'll just ignore the substance of this story because yt's algorithm labelled them for something else they spoke. That is very ... unwise, to put it politely.
Is that a lot?

I think I've got Firefox up to 3500, indeed I mentioned this when I went to a meetup hosted by Mozilla, and they said that few people use more than 14.

I think some of the tab tools start to make it unstable, but the root issue is that it'd be good to clear down browser tabs often.
This is the greatest crime against the web, IMO.

The growing complexity for the past decade has been driven almost entirely by Google. I'm now pretty convinced they did it as a part of an explicit strategy.

It's so insidious - on the one hand they are improving the web, on the other hand, the complexity they are driving makes the web more vulnerable.
This is absolutely the typical result, and it may well be the result here. However, I wonder if it is going to change now that more people are working remotely. If you never saw those people in the office anyway, will it bother the typical person as much that they don't see them at work anymore? It may be that "survivor guilt" is less a rational response (if they're laying people off, maybe I should look for somewhere else before they get to me), and more an emotional response to the empty desk next to yours. If you're not even at the desk, you're at home, and it all looks the same as it did before the layoff, maybe the emotional response is not the same.

Or, maybe not. Just a thought. I guess we will find out soon.
I have no idea what the cause is, but I'm surprised at how often I've seen people use an unlicensed Sublime Text copy at work.
I've always thought oil came from dinosaurs, and had no idea about the plankton connection until this article.

In other words, I woke up this morning "knowing" that oil came from dinosaurs, and I will go to bed tonight knowing it came from plankton.

I'm 63.
There is 1000 year gold, but no 1000 year people
Most of the pushback I hear here (Italy) about the ability to just get tested as an alternative to vaccine certification is the cost. It's perceived as a tax on the freedom to not vaccinate.
> to literally 80% of all humans having them on their person at all times.

While the number is high, it's not _that_ high (closer to 50%), at least from the sources I could find[1]. Where are you getting the 80% from?

- [1] - https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-many-phones-are-in-the-w... - check the references in the bottom for digging deeper
A 1Password subscription costs $36 a year. Their previous standalone product cost $50 per desktop OS you wanted to use it on and had a major version upgrade you needed to buy again about every two years.

If you needed it on both Mac and Windows, the subscription was cheaper.
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I'd put my money on directly modulating incoming solar radiation instead

From the first time I saw the animations of the planned Starlink fleet, I started wondering if one could use a satelite fleet to manage incoming solar radiation.

I've commented about it a few times before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18474244
> Too wonk. Please simplify.

Buckley v. Valeo: “you can spend your own money without limit on political ads, if you aren't coordinating with a campaign”.

Citizens United: “...and that includes if ‘you’ are a corporation, not an individual.”

Neither restricts the ability of the federal government to restrict spending by or coordinated with campaigns, or donations to campaigns.
The Philippines also have 7-Elevens, but with nowhere near the variety of amenities compared to the Japanese or Taiwanese versions.
>a simple yet powerful native desktop trading terminal.

Electron can't be even charitably described as "native". Honesty in marketing is so depressingly rare.

If you won't even be honest about your technology stack, how can I trust you to be honest with the important stuff?