skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see what you mean. In this theory it's almost like US labor faces a survivorship bias.

In your hypothetical example, a US company wouldn't really keep a factory open in the US that produces 1000 outputs per 1000 hours. They'd rather purchase the good as an input material from an overseas factory. e.g., Apple's iPhones aren't produced at all by Apple employees.

Another topic we never really reached in this discussion is how worker productivity is affected by capital investment:

Is a McDonald's worker more productive than they were in 1980 because of their own abilities and skills improving, or is it due to computerized and automated assistant devices like automatic drink pouring machines and sophisticated point of sale software?
What's interesting with Apple is that they roll out their own standards but keep them around for a long time. And thanks to their large market share, they also have a robust third party ecosystem around them too.

Back in the days every phone had a proprietary charging port. Not every phone manufacturer, no. Every phone model. The only one to have a standard charger was... Apple, with the old Dock connector [0]. It was the same charger as the iPods and spoke the same protocol. It just worked.

Then Apple got a lot of flak for not adopting Micro USB and instead going out with lightning. In retrospect, it was the correct decision: lightning is reversible and support higher current than Micro USB. Re-created the same ecosystem around Lightning for all third party accessories, again, just works.

Now they are getting flak for not switching to USB-C, but just looking at some devices (Nintendo Switch comes to mind) maybe it's not the best user experience.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_connector#30-pin_dock_con...
https://archive.is/YTGm0
Just in case there's any confusion, I've been speaking broadly about browsers in general, not Brave specifically.

I genuinely don't have an opinion regarding whether or not I think Brave is being deceptive. Rather, I've always been generally untrusting of bodies such as Brave making "it's cool, trust us" claims. It could be that they're being 100% honest and that's great, but I just can't get my own pessimism to get on board, particularly when there's money/profit involved.

Ultimately, yeah, I would say that the idea of a tool that doesn't allow me to eliminate ads entirely as it substitutes ads it says are "OK" is unethical (for/to me - if others are fine with it, cool, use Brave!). Going back to my lack of trust, I can't trust that they won't make a user-hostile decision around ads in the interest of their own bottom line down the road.
Except they usually call them “tubes”.

(Can’t find the original source, but it goes “Cant breathe? Put in a tube. Can't pee? Tube. Can't poop? Tube. Bleeding? Tube. Infection? Tube. Heart attack? Tube.”)
These operations require justification. Wouldn't be surprised to find most of the supposed drugs to come from the same people who supposedly found them.
FPGAs are certainly far more useful due to the fact that you can design and simulate them digitally and then mass produce them from that design. You can work on as many FPGA designs as you want in parallel without having to physically set up and tear down each one in turn.

They also don't cost $350 a pop.
> It may take a world-class musician a week to write a masterful symphony but it would take me way longer.

But are you a world-class musician yourself?

Yeah it would probably take me a week to run a marathon, but I've never run anything so it's not a meaningul comparison.

In all your examples you're comparing amateurs or even non-participants vs. the top professionals. Of course there is a huge multiplier, up to sometimes infinity.

That's not the typical usage of "10x developer" though. The baseline comparison isn't random person on the street who is not a developer. The comparison is other professional developers who are gainfully employed in the field.
> What I meant was: I can't tell AWS to make more efficient power switching or design an ASIC that is lower power.
Best I can do is say that if they don't I'll move to another provider.

Sure, but Amazon is already doing that, because more energy efficient hardware is more profitable for them, since they'll save on electricity they aren't charging you for. Even without a competitor, they'd be incentivized.
I wouldn’t call it worthless at all, because of the rest of your last sentence. It provides a starting point.

We need to start setting the expectation of transparency for some small subset of info to get further transparency. Change takes time, as much as we’d like it to drastically improve overnight for real life and death situations like medical prices.
I prefer the flavor from the already-roasted chicken in my stock, but yeah a raw chicken works just as well. Just needs more cooking time in the pressure cooker. My main point was that making stock at home is a lot faster if you have a pressure cooker.
Is it really that savvy? The golden goose is the iPhone itself, and the network effects of things like iMessage that keep people there. Services have a high margin, and make up a substantial chunk of Apple's profits, but they are dependent on a big iOS ecosystem.

Fortnite has 116 million iOS users, and a lot of them are pretty into the game. I don't think keeping Fortnite off iOS is going to have an immediate impact on people's buying decisions, but each time a dispute like this happens, more and more people are going to take notice of the fact that they can't play Fortnite on an iPhone, they can't buy a Kindle book on an iPhone, etc. I doubt any of these individually amount to a purchasing decision, but over time Android might be seen as more broadly useful.
And, if you restart a job, no new entry is made for the job history, so it just overwrites the job history on rerun.

This is likely because they modeled the jobs as one-per-job-def-and-commit, so they don't have a UX to show two.

This is a security blind spot, since you can do something naughty in a job, then rerun it and the logs are no longer accessible.
But surely he knows all that, so why is he pretending not to?

I've never really followed his work, but has he always been like this or was this a recent development?
So now you might get a link to Netflix website and some text, as a user lost nothing.
How is this true? Swift is very straightforward, and similar to other languages

That's the argument, most people want to program in JavaScript or C++, learning is such a bother. The Swift syntax is more characters than ObjC's syntax.
Don't tie your self-worth to your income.
I have worked for a dozen companies and I never seen them trying to smuggle something like that into my contract (but it might be because I work in Poland though mostly for foreign companies).

Personally, I would NEVER work for a company that would try to take ownership of something that I made on my own time, effort and resources.

And while I never had anybody try this one on me I had companies try other stuff.

One company tried to exclude me from my industry by smuggling into contract that I agree not to compete with them for a year after leaving them, competing defined as working in any way with other companies this particular one has any ties to. And since they produce popular banking software and also deliver contractors to practically every Polish bank, it would mean I would be excluded from every single bank doing business in Poland.

So I just politely wrote them that I cannot accept that but I can agree not to work for any company that I personally get involved with through working with them and they grudgingly changed the contract terms.

In the end, if you are polite and reasonable it is almost always possible to modify the contract terms.
Emergencies are the norm, not the exception, for most people. Elective surgeries are mostly the well-insured and the wealthy. Poor working people go to the hospital when it hurts so bad that they're missing work, and when they miss work they don't get paid.
Every growth curve is an S curve. Every time you see one of those studies where someone takes a system that is still in an early growth phase and projects it out to infinity at the current growth rate it is always nonsense.
I’ve limited my social media to a group chat with friends, an entertainment website with discussion, and an informative website with discussion (HN)

I’m no longer absorbed in sensationalist media and I’m no longer angry about some flavor of the week topic. I don’t see ads anymore and I’ve been a lot happier since. Now I can work towards minimizing other unproductive and unfulfilling screen time.
What I don't understand is how all of that MSM and Big Tech aid is not considered to be an in-kind donation to the campaign of a single party.

Don't we have campaign finance laws?
Oh but, if you read slightly between the article’s lines, you’ll notice that the law does require both human- and machine-readable publication.

The machine-readable part is mandated here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/11/27/2019-24...

As a taste of how specific this is:

(5) The file must use the following naming convention specified by CMS, specifically: <ein>_<hospital-name>_standardcharges.[json|xml|csv].

And here’s the consumer-readability requirement for 300 “shoppable’ services: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/11/27/2019-24...

They aren’t always quite as stupid as people make them out to be, these lawyers.
Could you please cite peer reviewed work that supports your repeated assertions about the role of MAOIs in cigarrete addiction?
It will turn into a feature eventually, yes!
> spreadsheets have NOT BEEN IMPROVED significantly since VisiCalc.

False -- they have indeed been improved. Unfortunately the Improv-ement didn't stick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv
Well if the thing they want is trust then lets "securitize" that. We can bundle up all the world's trust sell little trustcoins. Inevitably then whoever had the most coins would be the most trustworthy, and hence the source of truth for things like domain resolution etc.
If one can't make a compelling case to be in a higher "band," and therefore get paid more, then I'm failing to see how they could possibly make the case that they are actually 2x productive.
I would recommend visiting and getting a short term accommodation near Roma Norte. There's a few peripheral areas around there that haven't had as much price inflation, but you'll want to identify them by physically being there as there's other closeby areas that you don't want to be in (Doctores).

If you're willing to go a bit further south in the city (45-60 minutes from Condesa, depending on traffic), Coyoacan is a great area. I haven't lived around UNAM but I hear it's very lively. You could also go for a more tranquil existence even further south in Tlalpan, or go east outside the city to a colonial style town like Valle de Bravo (known for its lake and paragliding). A lot of your preference will depend on your level of Spanish and how much you like being around expats.
I have a question: before “social” “media” became a thing we* all had been using various irc chats, forums and theme websites of all kinds.

There has always been all kinds of drama, addiction, obsession, love and hatred.

But I can’t stop thinking that modern websites just monetize by growing the userbase. This model kills creativity and we are juste cattle for them to feed us with some bullshit.

And some random guy nowadays instead of registering a domain name and creating a bunch of html pages to share his thoughts and observations no matter how weird and awkward or enlightening they are, just a small comfort zone in the neverending blizzard of data traffic - this guy will go create a facebook/instagram/youtube/etc. page, get all sorts of rage and ignorance, get kicked by violating some stupid ToC rule of the bespoke “social” “media”.

Long gone the times when internet was a place where you could stumble upon something really touching.

There are nice places to visit but google favors to show crap on its first couple of search results pages nowadays

* Well, by “we” I mean to say people born before 1990 probably
Yes, our medical/dental insurance industry has encouraged the attitude of “cost doesn’t matter, because it’s free to you (oh and besides, you can’t put a price on your health, can you, you cheapskate?)” which just serves to constantly let prices grow out of control. This is an instrumental part of how our healthcare costs got so high. It also is why it’s laughable to think of medical care as a free market: you can’t even find out what things cost before you buy most of the time. Not to mention that when you are in need of care, you often don’t have the luxury of shopping around.

What we really need is for people to stop thinking of insurance as a big blanket you buy that reduces the price of things to zero. That’s not what insurance is for. Insurance is supposed to be a system where you still pay for the cost of the good, but that buffers it for you so when you get an outlier cost, it doesn’t break you. It doesn’t make the costs of things go away. On average, you should end up paying a little more than the cost of your healthcare by purchasing it through an insurance plan. A high deductible plan does this: you actually pay the cost of all your healthcare up until a certain point out of pocket, and if you reach a certain amount (which is pretty high, but significantly less than the premiums on a low-deductible plan), the insurance takes over. This makes you actually aware of the prices of things and is healthy. Not to mention the insurance is a hell of a lot cheaper.
MG, Chinese carmaker took full frontpage ad on Indian papers to saw their new car has AI, mostly meaning voice recognition commands and ADAS.
This is interesting, how we can fix that?
Well, I don't know how you organize your music "by directory", so maybe you can't reproduce what you do.

In my case, I organize it by artist / album / track number - track title; or by compilations. I then search for the album or the artist. I never have just random single tracks, so a directory is an album, which I have in Apple Music.

But I guess that you can't have any kind of organization you want, which is something that folders could give you.

> So I guess I could parse all of the collection and transpose the artist/title/album out of the filename into mp3 metadata and then I would have a ... 30,000 track playlist ?

Well, in the case of a meticulously managed collection, I'd expect the files to have correct metadata. Again, if this isn't the case, and you rely on file name / location, yeah, you're gonna have a bad time.

Just for the record, I've never bought any track off iTunes. All my music is ripped from CDs.
Lawrence Livermore develops promising antidote for nerve agent exposure
I see you haven't worked in a swift code base that is more than a few engineers. Work in a project that is 20-80+ engineers and you slam into these issues very quickly. Last time I checked the inflection point starts around 100k lines of code.

Also 'thinking' of solutions often involves writing something and then trying it out in a build-edit-run cycle, and then integrating your thing into a larger app context, which also involves many build-edit-run cycles. Most people do not think of their solution in whole cloth in their head other than in a broad strokes manner and then start writing code. This means indexing and building matters greatly for actual productivity.

Indexing issues means your ide is not auto completing, click to definition doesn't work, and in the past, even syntax highlighting failed. Also when you have some half formed code, a lot of indexing functions start breaking in an annoying way, while I don't really recall this behavior in Objective-C code bases.

In practice I've found swift being 'able to catch issues more' is mostly strict nullability, better array / dictionary strictness and enums, which would actually be relatively simple to implement in an extended ObjectiveSwift. Strict generics would be more work, but you can add it to the language also as a version update. Dart showed how it's possible to add big changes like strict nullability to a language with their dart v1 -> v2 update. Objective-C could have gone down that path instead.
What are "drugs like this", and why is the drug company paying for it?
Depends on how long they have been employed. Been working 5 months, its only 1 month, 2 years and 9 months, its 3 months, and continues till you reach 6 months. But that period, you will often have to still work.. so if you are let go, with 3 months, you have to work, but can go look for other work etc. (Sometimes you dont have to work, thats up to the employer)
You meet Bob at a bar. You hit it off with him, and you mutually decide to stay in touch.

How do you do that when neither of you has a name you can refer to the other as yet?
I carried a google pixel 3 which took excellent pictures.

That said, I now carry a mirrorless camera everywhere. The pictures are WAY higher quality and I have more control over the experience and the final output. Don't get a mirrorless if thats not important to you.

when I want to just take a quick selfie, I still have my phone. The iPhone is great at taking pictures but its never going to be a match for a mirrorless wihch has a enormous sized sensor compared to anything you'll get on a phone.
Epic's email to Apple also indicated they would not remove the code supporting in-app purchasing, but rather disable it server-side so that it remains hidden.
In principle yes, but it's good to have someone look over the previous thread to make sure it's interesting. Also, there are often previous related threads which don't have similar titles or URLs and yet relate to the same story—hard for a bot to find those.

I think maybe coming up with an initial list mechanically and then having a way for community members to curate it may be the sweet spot.
The court basically struck down rule 3.1.1 which is exactly the rule that prevents such links.
> Because I want to see something new, and there is no scarcity of resources, society as a whole gets to see something new.

You might _explore_. You're less likely to _colonise_. The only way you get the sort of geometric expansion people love to talk about is if there's a very strong imperative to colonise, and it's just not clear that it exists.
I second this. I've had friends who were homeschooled that were probably better socialized, more well behaved, etc than a significant number of the 'regular' kids at my school. Of course there could be some observation bias if the truly antisocial homeschool kids never go anywhere to meet them, while the antisocial school kids are forced to go to school (which probably makes their situation even worse).
Not so different from knitting or cross-stitching or whatnot.

Lots of crafts require repeating some elementary steps thousands of times.
> Can it process that via host hardware support (a la angle or similar)?

You don't need ANGLE for that, Mesa supports OpenGL ES natively.
This is the future of Software Engineering: fixing AI's bugs.
> for some people, it does not taste like intended

Yes, but I still think, this corner case is much better handled at the service level than the dish level. I do know they ask for food allergies before, I do not know if they ask for your cilantro preferences.

You can't say (as a critic) "this dish was flawed, because it had cilantro in it", but you can say "I didn't enjoyed it, because it had cilantro in it".
The main warning against rolling your own crypto is because you would (or would be tempted to) replace standard crypto with it.
If you have #1 you no longer need to go to a distant solar system to survive. By the time you have the tech you no longer have the need.
Every season except summer is getting shorter
I think point 2 aligns with my question. I wouldn't consider 1 to be a tech moat. More of a market moat imo. Patent moats in SaaS can be super powerful - profitability plus zero competition
Yes, now that you mention it, it was in fact LAME. I'll try again sometime with abcde in its default settings.

By the way, I once made a GUI for abcde called abcdefg (A Better CD Encoder For Gnome) but never did anything with it - it was really just an exercise to learn the GTK libraries because Zim Wiki used them too. But I now regret not publishing it just because it had such a cool name.
I doubt that that's significant or interesting enough to support a substantial discussion. I haven't read the article yet though.
> Take the simple exercise of figuring out cost/revenue of an aspirin administration. [...]

In your opinion, is this something that could be exhaustively modeled in software? What would the bottlenecks be? I'm guessing probably the biggest is the fact that the necessary data isn't digitized, or if it is, it's not easily accessible.
Mozilla is a nonprofit. Brave is not.
You're in charge of literally saving lives but you can't handle something as standard as cost estimation? How can you joke about that? Figuring out the cost to the hospital in terms of materials and labor should be standard.

Example, an x-ray.
You know you need to pay an x-ray tech X$/Hour and after doing 1,000's of x-rays, a hospital should have it down that somebody with a broken leg will require N hours (maybe .5, maybe 1.5) to setup and take the x-ray. x-ray film costs HAVE to be known. the x-ray machine life time and number of shots should be known. Then do something like a 30% surcharge for admin fees and boom, x-ray cost.

Every other industry estimates this way, what makes a hospital different?
I think if your point is "the system is broken today", basically everyone agrees with you.

If your point is "it is not possible to have transparent pricing", that seems also insane.

IMO we should pass a law that says if you can't give people transparent upfront pricing, you can't bill them at all. The idea that you can "figure out a price later" seems absurd.
what impossible fantasy! you expect software you use, which a for profit company made to,, lemme get this right,, respect your requirements, wants and make your life less terrible? and not distract you? make things easier? hah! if only our big tech overlords meant what they said about caring for us /s
You mean Bill Clinton in the early 90's? It was part of the Clinton health care reform. But maybe you're not that old. ;-)

Every president has pushed for this except Bush Jr.

Glad it finally happened even if it was under who I consider to be the worst president* in the last 100 years of US history. Doesn't mean I need to thank him. If you were being tortured in a Mexican cartel prison, would you thank the torturer for giving you glass of water?
? Thin foil in space, forming a covex mirror, ray of light focused on the surface, melting the spot over and over until its flat glass?
Helium is ultimately independent of LoRaWAN though - it's now expanding to other protocols i.e. CBRS.