skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is much more serious that the Microsoft case.

Even more so when you consider how much larger these companies are set to get yet (Google will double in size again within ~5-7 years). It's the Microsoft case if Microsoft had been allowed to continue to build its power out for another 10-15 years unchecked. In the 1990s a parade of magazines ran stories about how Microsoft wanted to set up a toll road on the Internet, to position itself to take a bite out of all ecommerce. They were of course meant to be scare stories to garner attention as Microsoft wasn't close to accomplishing something like that at that point.

And yet, here we are two decades later, Apple and Google control two big Internet toll roads and are drastically larger and more powerful than Microsoft was in the 1990s. IBM was seven times larger than Microsoft in 1997. Microsoft of the 1990s looks downright quaint by comparison, an emerging big tech company playing at being giant (back then there were still far larger and more powerful corporations); today, Apple and Google - big tech broadly - are the most powerful and largest companies. Caterpillar, GE, 3M, General Dynamics, GM, Ford, Honeywell, etc look like sad jokes standing next to Apple or Google.

Google for its part has three monopolies which have amazingly been left entirely alone: search, YouTube, Android. They must have signed one helluva protection deal with the intelligence apparatus back when PRISM was getting set up, they got a ten year get out of jail free card (it's in the interests of the intelligence community to have these giant intel-hoovering companies that sprawl and span the globe).
> No, a second or third-generation french of italian origins is not recognisably non-french at a glance.

I thought we were talking about first generation immigrants. I agree with you that second or third generation immigrants from Italy are hard/impossible to recognize, but that's not the case for others.

> That's from 140 years ago. It might as well be from yesterday, with the nations of origin changed.

There's rarely mentions of nations of origins in the news these days, journalists mostly talk about "young people", probably because pointing out the countries of origin would be racist, and also because sometimes the people mentionned have been in the country for a few generations.

> And it's hilarious that you're now using north african immigrants as a model minority alongside asians as a cudgel to hit others.

I wasn't hitting other minorities, I mentionned how some acted differently before. These days having to sacrifice your culture to integrate yourself in a country is seen as a bad thing. Before it was the obvious thing to do. I'm not passing judgment on any of those views, but highlighting that the mentalities have changed.

> Hundreds of thousands of italians moved to france during the first diaspora: the italian population in france went from 63000 in 1850 to 330000 in 1901 (this does not include seasonal worker). The country was barely 40 million people. And over a million non-pieds-noirs immigrated from northern africa between the 50s and 70s.

We have around ~150k people going in the country every year (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_en_France#Solde_mi...), with ~100k people becoming French each year. Considering the population didn't double since 1850, we now have more immigration in terms of percentage of the population compared to the two events you mentionned.

Again, I'm not passing judgment on anyone. I'm trying to understand why people felt that there was way more cohension in the 70s-90s (when my parents grew), and if their sentiment is true.
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned here is that adipose tissue (fat) contains aromatase, an enzyme that converts testosterone to estrogen. Thus it seems likely that weight loss would increase testosterone levels, or at the least lower estrogen levels which counteract much of the effects of testosterone.
Huh, it's been exactly the opposite for me. Whereas before I could glance around the office, see who didn't have headphones on, and initiate a quick discussion when appropriate, I now need to actually schedule a Zoom meeting on the calendar.

(This isn't a blanket argument against work from home—people have different prioritizes.)
They can be anticompetitive on their platform as long as their platform doesn’t have a lock on the market. So say, if you didn’t need to buy an iPhone and could buy an android instead, and if that actually happened in practice, Apple could reasonably argue they didn’t have a monopoly on the market even if they had a monopoly in their own platform.
Another reason to take sleep apnea seriously! I just started using CPAP about 6 weeks ago and it's been life changing. I'm full of energy now! I have no idea what my testosterone levels are but my sexual health has improved along with a lot of other things. Although I chalk that up just to being well rested, not something as specific as a hormone.

If you think you are having trouble breathing at night or are sleepy all the time please consider looking into whether you have sleep apnea. It's very common, has many serious systemic health consequences, and can be easily treatable. I wrote a blog post about my experience with diagnosis and treatment here: http://www.somebits.com/weblog/life/cpap-obstructive-sleep-a...
Silicon Carbide wafers can withstand higher temperatures, which makes dumping heat easier.
Push to talk solutions make a pretty good middle ground.

Have all the background noise you need to have, as long as I only ever have to hear it when you're actively trying to speak. If I still can't hear you over your noise, then you have a bigger problem.

If I have to listen to your noise even when someone else is speaking, then we all have a problem, which PTT nicely solves.

Anyone who spend the 90s / 00s competitive gaming likely already has their preferred PTT key, that they can push while continuing to still be productive in whatever activity they're already engaging in.

Some tweaking may be required, given the different input methods used depending on the job vs the game, but that was true of different games back then too.
Gotcha! Thank you.
Sure, your heuristic may be suspicious of 3D renders, but has it considered men in robot costumes?
> Getting vaccinated, then getting COVID is always an option.

The point of your immune system is to fight a virus when you conduct it and the point of getting vaccinated is in very simplified terms to "train" your immune system for when that happens.

So, would you rather conduct the virus without having been vaccinated or after having been vaccinated?

I only had some biology in school so I'm far from an expert but it seems pretty weird to me that people think a vaccine will give them actual immunity, as in, they won't even be able to get that virus anymore.

Now in terms of mRNA and DNA vaccines, I personally think that this is how vaccines will generally work in the future, for many reasons. Although do note that there are all kinds of COVID-19 vaccines, about 30 around the world with different technologies being used. Only the "top" ones use this new technology and they are mostly used in more wealthy and developed nations. I can't really comment on your last paragraph, personally I don't know anyone who has had any complications from these vaccines, although here we only have Pfizer-BioNTech (mRNA based) and Moderna (mRNA based). AstraZeneca which is DNA based did not pass trials in my country.
I'm skeptical of any book where the title practically screams "the profit motive for this work is making people think they'll magically be more successful and smarter just by reading it!" Success takes work. Sure, certain books can help you broaden your perspective, acquire knowledge, and maybe even get better at applying it, but these books and their titles tend to attract silver bullet seekers--those that want instantaneous gratification for minimal effort. At least Du Sautoy is a bit more modest in the text itself, assuming the article is accurate in its portrayal.

I think there are a lot of books that can help make you more successful, or better yet, help you have a better relationship with your body, mind, and spirit. Spoiler alert: none of them were written in the 21st century and none of them were written by business owners or social scientists. None of them have titles that read "Thinking Smarter" "The Road to Success" "10 Techniques for Climbing the Social Ladder"... etc. All of them lack the word "Secret" in the title. None of their blurbs have words like "greatest" "ultimate" "shortcut" "smart" or even "rationality"--a modern golden calf that human beings never possessed in full in the first place.

I'm not saying all the books in this category like the ones mentioned in the article don't ever have anything to teach us--they might have some nuggets, but for me alarm bells go off whenever the title, blurb, etc. try so desperately to convince prospective readers that they'll quite literally experience a shift in their thought patterns as a result of reading a single work, by a single author, from a single century.

In reality, thinking is practiced, just like anything else. If you want to think differently you need to dwell with different forms of thinking. It's not a simple transaction whereby I read X my brain morphs into Y. But speaking of modes of thought, transactional thought is pretty much all that remains so it's no wonder this genre is so successful...

The author of the Guardian piece is right to cite Horkheimer toward the end--nearly every day I find his work more prophetic and applicable to our contemporary situation:

> A deeper problem with the smart thinking genre as a whole is that it commits the sin identified half a century ago by the Frankfurt School philosopher Max Horkheimer, in his Critique of Instrumental Reason (1967). “Reason is considered to come into its own,” he lamented, “when it rejects any status as an absolute (‘reason’ in the intensified sense of the word) and accepts itself simply as a tool.” Fifty-four years on, this idea – that reason is “simply a tool” – is so internalised as to appear the most basic of common sense. What is rationality? Why, says Pinker, simply “a kit of cognitive tools that can attain particular goals in particular worlds”. The inevitable upshot of such an impoverished view of reason, Horkheimer thought, would be “the automatising of society and human behaviour”, and a “surrender to blind individual and national egoism”. Present readers may judge for themselves whether he turned out to be right.
Have any of the waterparks or amusement parks been asked to cut back at all?
I didn't say they're the same. I'm saying people coming from OO complain all the time of lack of generics, inheritance (besides composition) etc.

I teach basic go at my job to help people wanting to migrate, they start the go journey thinking go will do "less" because we don't have all features as their main language. Which reminds me of this phrase:

> 'You cannot reduce the complexity of your problem by increasing the complexity of your language.'
The beauty of most species is entirely relevant to whether or not it should be eradicated.

Conservation biologists and botanists recognize that beauty and, more generally, charisma are what gets the public's attention when the former seek help for their conservation efforts. As such, you'll often see the most charismatic species--pandas, whales, and seals, for example--on conservation brochures. People only ever open their wallets to support conservation efforts if they see pictures of charismatic species.

This is not just a marketing ploy. The public really only cares when charismatic species are threatened with extinction. A midwestern grass or an ugly insect? Not so much.

So the beauty of the insect or the way it cares about its eggs is entirely relevant in the public opinion, which in turn determines public policy, to whether or not it should be eradicated.
Interestingly, solving symptoms can be important. My wife went to the physio with a sore back. He treated it with massage, of course, but equally importantly, he told her to take (over the counter) painkillers in substantial doses for 2-3 days. He said it was important to “solve” the pain. My interpretation is that this is a superficial fix but it’s important so that the body/brain doesn’t get accustomed to feeling that pain. Break the habit, so to speak. I see an analogy with what GP wrote.
> Sports team always sounds brutal and unforgiving to me.

Good. Life is brutal and unforgiving. This modern cushy plush lifestyle that many of us enjoy is unnatural. A little toughening up and suffering is long overdue. A lot of it, for many people in the world.
Prop 22 is a poorly designed solution to an even worse AB5. I don't even use Uber or Lyft, but I feel for their drivers whose whole purpose of joining those businesses was because it allowed them independence.

These companies should put the screws to California if they're forced to comply, and charge lots more here than in free states. It might hurt their business in CA, but that's the case anyway (by design per the legislature's goal). Maybe just pull out altogether, and only serve free states.
There's an example of that here: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.ht...

<ctrl-f>Creating a Streaming Transcoder
I wonder how many of them would give that data to Amazon either. Thats some of the most valuable data a pharma company has
This is a great practice, echoed by serious writers and technical writing guides.
It needs a trigger otherwise there will be plenty of bots to "arbitrage" on the said "price mismatch".

Whenever there is capital control, there will be "black market". The question is about depth and whether enough depth to influence the price everywhere.

The scenario you describe is a liquidation crisis for cryptocurrencies at large (everyone runs to Fiat). This certainly can happen, but needs a equivalent size of a trigger.
The precedent for building obedience by describing your organization as a “family” goes back a very long way.

The most notorious example is probably The Family International, a cult founded in California in 1968:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_International

I don’t refer to companies or other organizations as families, or even “like a family.” There are better metaphors when you aren’t trying to manipulate people, and not describing your workplace as a family also avoids provoking the trauma for those employees who have issues with their family of origin.

If you describe a company as being like a family, are you giving managers permission to cast themselves as authority figures over employees they will treat like children?

It’s safest to steer clear of describing companies as families, with employees as members. Pitfalls abound.
The Blind Boy Who Could See Through Echolocation
I love Nonviolent Communication, although I'm not good at implementing it and might never be. Research seems to know that so many of our traits are innate and are extremely difficult to change.
If people aren't aware of the notification will the water quality decrease be followed by an increase in hospitalizations?
It really only makes sense to bet on appreciation if you can leverage yourself into a property. I.E $200k down payment on a $1mm home means you’re making x% appreciation of the $1mm on a $200k cash investment…

Otherwise your best bet is just throw the money in a more liquid, synthetic vehicle like a REIT
Thank you! I don't understand how they think this would deter me from using sci-hub when they leave me sci-hub as my only option...
If they knew how much money there was to be made in that, they would be lining up like no tomorrow.

See: bitcoin.
Water cooling would handle this without issue. No need for fancy tricks. A big heat spreader and some 2" piping would be more than enough.
There were fewer “elites” then. You are agreeing with me without realizing it. We now have what amounts to millions of little popes — nothing more than school children with high credentials in mostly nonsensical fields calling for widespread excommunication of heretics from their privileged positions in government and social media. If Galileo lived today we would never know of his positions- he would be immediately deplatformed, entirely erased from the historical record. This is elite overproduction.
Are you a medical professional researcher? You are wrong though.
Blocking legitimate access seems like a great way to introduce a whole school to sci-hub...
Because many truly talented people suffer from Imposter syndrome, or they do actually know how good they are, and are afraid of alienating people by demonstrating superior ability.
Desktop OSes aren't alternatives to mobile ones. They serve different purposes.
The claim was that amazon prefers 3 letters, so the list supports that claim.
How to self-host and share your videos in 2021
Mimic Seafood will make “vegan raw tuna” using tomatoes
From the very Twitter thread:

"Our vision is that we [Apple and Google] work as if we are one company."
I don't think we really need to think about "reaching in and changing internals". Vaccines are very literally specific inputs into a reactive distributed system with distributed memory/persistance. We are crafting inputs based on our understanding of system internals and prior system behaviour to similar inputs, but they are very much inputs.
So currently chips are printed into regions that are limited in size by physics, to a 3cm square. And processing power is traditionally increased by stacking them in upto a dozen layers that are interconnected at the edges.

Here, instead of that, the circuits are overlap-printed so that a single wafer can support a set of 80 connected circuits, which are now physically cooleable because of the flat design? While they must be sacrificing some interconnection richness, because of geometrical placement, for AI applications this probably doesn’t matter so much. Very interesting.
I don't think the key issue in intl relations is morals, but I agree that if they want to get along, they could. As you say, adjust. Realpolitik...But I think it will come down to what Talibanistan can do for them, and what problems they can avoid creating for China.

It's interesting because in some ways Taliban could pose a big threat to Chinese ambitions because they could potentially act as a base to drive more Xinjiang extremism. They also might be able to support Chinese tech manufacturing via rare Earths but that's probably not as easy to ensure as people seem to hope. I think it's no accident that before they even took Kabul, and before the 'collapse' was covered in international media, Wang Yi already met with the leader of the junta. They don't even send Wang Yi out to meet second-tier European countries I think. Not always.

Is it reading too much into it to say that the choice of Tianjin as the meeting location is deliberate? Sure, maybe it's just because the FM seems to be doing all their meetings in Tianjin lately, but looking at the history of Tianjin may provide some clues. It has a history of somewhat turbulent and politically significant international relations, conflicts and incidents:

- Site of Tianjin Church Massacre in the 19th Century where Chinese killed Christians under the pretext of the missionaries were kidnapping and brainwashing Chinese children

- Subject of the Treaty of Tianjin, where British and French navies forced China to concede opening the city up to foreign trade after a failed anti-piracy mission by Chinese against British pirates

- HQ of Boxer Rebellion which was then recaptured by an alliance of 'foreign invaders' the rebellion sought to expel

It's probably nothing, but certainly a place where you can recall interesting historical events in conversation, and throw ample references to conflict with the West, and international trade, perhaps two things that may make Talibanistan useful for China.

Finally, Tianjin used to the administrative center of the Viceroy of Zhili (in the Qing dynasty) which directly encircled the imperial capital Beijing. So in a sense if Beijing was the center, Tianjin was the capital of the area outside that--sort of a metaphor for China (as Beijing), surrounded by foreign regions with which it has relations. Tianjin was that capital of these 'external regions' so an appropriate place to hold foreign relations meetings.
Some historical language names that are also first names:

* JOSS - male - 1966
* Pascal - male - 1970
* Ada - female - 1983
* Perl - both - 1988
* Haskell - male - 1990
* Lua - female - 1993
* Ruby - female - 1995
* Delphi - female - 1995
* Julia - female - 2011

Honorable mention: Erlang is a (male) god in Chinese Buddhism.

Some caveats apply. Many language names are also surnames, I leave that to future work.

See also: Beryllium
Fusion experiment breaks record, blasts out 10 quadrillion watts of power
How much additional water does a waterproof need per day? I imagine they reuse as much as they possibly can.
Except when they are. There were windows phones briefly. And linux will run on phones. And Android laptops. Such choices were not around in 2001. PC users in 2001 would have killed for the number of options available to phone users today.

The 2001 decision was comparing desktop options at a time when they weren't any. Today's mobile users have plenty of options, plenty of brands and OSs to choose from.
Ben Underwood miracle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnH7AIwhpik

Getting around by sound: Human echolocation (first published, 14 June 2011): https://neuroanthropology.net/2020/09/16/getting-around-by-s...

My Inspiration, Ben Underwood Dies at age 16: https://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-inspiratio...
Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.
I agree with you. The one thing I will say though is, it is necessary to look at the vaccines more in depth to make a judgement.

For example, I would vastly prefer the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA based vaccines over the AstraZeneca DNA based vaccine.

That is because the AstraZeneca vaccine uses a "harmless" carrier virus to carry the DNA. The problem I see with that is that your immune system also builds resilience against said carrier virus, rendering future shots of the vaccine more ineffective. Because of that, they might have to "update" the vaccine if more booster shots in the future are required.
Surface area and also heat rejection temperature.
>...savanna or most wildernesses.

Reading this while dual wielding mosquito bats like a Jedi while the mosquito repellent is nauseating me at my suburban house in India.

My school books proudly claimed Alexander the Great died because of the Malaria he contracted during his campaign in India.
Clear twitter cookies or open the link in incognito
Every former co-worker who I've talked to when they left Google did so for at least a 20% bump in total comp. The few Googlers I've talked to who left for Apple got equal or even a little less total comp.

Anecdotal, but once you get some years of Big Tech experience under your belt, I do think you become comparatively more valuable to smaller companies.
That is true of every culture, period. In France, white people that comes from metropolitan France get discriminated against by black people living in Martinique, La Réunion, etc, because white people are the minority here. It is human to think that our in group is superior.
I think that’s why VSCode is so popular. It’s a very powerful text editor, not a light version of an IDE.

On the other side, I’d never use vsc to edit a normal text file…
Just a question: could the author create a new Facebook account and never use it except to login with his Oculus? He would lose his game purchases, though. Once you use a Facebook account with Oculus, is the device not wipeable to factory status?

This guy’s story is why I try to split book and other media purchases between Amazon, Google, and Apple - so, if I lose any account I only lose about 1/3 of my purchases.
Is this the end of household chores?