skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought - if I was a savvy executive, I wouldn't even speak directly - simply work through subordinates doing all the wrangling.
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This is amazing. Thank you for sharing this story. As someone who failed a lot with B2B, I appreciate this. Also your bottom-up comment (startups rolls up into bigger customers over time through growth or acquisition).
This flies pretty opposite to what the lessons the author got from their experience ("Keep your users in the loop, always. Do not go build in isolation.", "If you make assumptions about your users, they will find a way to surprise you.")

I kind of feel your view is a variation on "if you built it they will come", which is true in some cases, and will wield spectacular failures in ton of other cases.
Whatever amount of spike protein you were exposed to by the virus was far worse for you than what the vaccine would have given you. Viruses reproduce themselves and cause uncontrolled, exponential production of spike protein. The mRNA vaccine provides a controlled dose and the lipid bubbles that deliver it don't reproduce.
The GUI wasn’t stolen. It was licensed. That it was stolen is completely false.

And on switching power — did any other computer company think to use it? Apple did. And borrowing that tech did revolutionize computer power supplies.
I'm going to go against the grain here and point out that in Sergey's email he says that Steve is fine with Google hiring Apple staff if the employee initiates the contact with Google. (ie apply for the job)

I don't think its unreasonable for two business owners to be upset about actively attacking each others business.

I think if Apple and Google had agreed to not interview or hire staff that worked at each others company then that would be crossing a line. IN this case they are harming their own business by not hiring the best candidate for the job.
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Right, so you're offloading the markdown processing but not the actual React render logic. Reasonable enough for this case, but doesn't translate to the majority of scenarios.
> Oh wait, sorry, I forgot about all the vaccines we require children to receive before they can go to school.

Weren't those just for public schools? If someone was homeschooled, couldn't they have made it to adulthood without those vaccines, and then never again be asked about them?
It's unreasonable to ignore these abuses. If the pro-vaccine argument is so persuasive, why must they perpetrate censorship and coercion?

Vaccines are widely recommended because they offer enormous benefits. However, they are not without risk or contraindications. People who claim otherwise are spreading misinformation.

People are right to be worried about the COVID-19 vaccines. Without proper studies, their risks and benefits are unknown. We're discovering this information by observing what's happening to the humans who took the vaccines after the fact. This is less than ideal, to put it mildly.

COVID-19 happens to be a potent enough disease that the potential benefit of these vaccines outweighs the risks. We must still be careful though. It's possible that we'll find that the benefits outweigh the risks only for certain age groups, for example.
This certainly happens quite often. However, speaking purely anecdotally just to add a data point - in my current team at a big tech firm, none of my teammates have left because of compensation. We've had quite a bit of turnover over the years and the vast majority left due to a myriad of other reasons, many even having taken pay cuts in the process.
It's not free, it's just not something you compensate with cash. Let's not pretend that HN does not derive value from the people using it- that's a key component of the business.
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I'm sorry but I'm not sure I follow the reasoning here. If we say that I posted the video (which falls under "imparting") and you intentionally searched for that video and viewed it (which falls under "seeking and receiving"), that seems like voluntary communication between us I would think. Fred may not want to see that video but that's a separate interaction between myself and him; I would wholeheartedly support Fred being offered tools to prevent my hypothetical video from being shown or offered to him. But blocking/removing the video so nobody can see it based on Fred's preference (or even the preferences of many like Fred or YouTube's preferences), how is that fair to you, who wanted to see it, and how is that fair to I who wanted my audience to find it if they looked for it? Fred might judge the video harmful but that gives Fred no standing to interfere any more than a stranger has a right to interfere with you purchasing a book from a bookstore because it's harmful.
I'm very excited about SimulaVR and watching you guys closely now. Great work and can't wait to get my hand on the headset!
That’s a curious stance, considering that “News” is in the very title of this site, and presumably a description of its content and intent.
Until now, which vaccines did you have to show a vaccine card and photo ID to prove you have every time you go to a restaurant?
Another problem with trinary numbers encoded with a + and a - is that there are multiple ways to encode the same numbers because of the -.

On the other hand, it would be easier to program for Integrated Circuits since they react to + 0 - electrical charges which normally go through "chopping and lopping" procedures to make analog signals digital.
It's snarky bcs people are sick of hearing sales pitches for moon money.
How do you represent negative NaN in IEEE 754?
Hand to hand conflict is rarely ‘incredibly’ dangerous but if a knife or gun is involved the stakes are much higher. I know someone who felt uncomfortable because a stranger was threatening another person at a restaurant, spoke up, and got stabbed and hospitalized.
They should have removed Windows.
>>>Nothing stops people from China from flying to Europe and then the US.

What portion of the traveling population is willing to take trans-continental detours like that? Some controls are better than NO controls.

>>>Yes, it was racism. Yes, it was pointless.

Are you saying that strict controls on population movements originating from the source geographic region of a virus should never be implemented as an early step to containment?

Obama did it in 2014 in response to Ebola:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/21/us-limited-e...

and Asia did it to varying degrees in response to SARS in 2003:
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/news/battling-the-spread-...
If a known liar tells you a thing, the correct thing to do is weight that statement with zero confidence, not to believe its opposite. You gain zero information, one way or the other.
This article doesn’t really explain event sourcing and some of the trade offs with event driven architecture in general (additional complexity).

I’ve heard Git is an example of event sourcing. It has all the info for you to be able to determine the current state from scratch if you needed to. I’m not sure why you’d see event sourcing as the next stage of evolution for a CRUD system.
Quality-of-life: old job paid well but wanted too much time and was high stress.

New job pays less, but now I have a life outside of work, I am happier, and I am healthier (both mentally and physically).
Ok, because you asked nicely!
That's not a press release, it's a summary of government data, which they source here:

http://news.gov.bc.ca/files/8-31_PHO_modelling.pdf

And here:

http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19...

You still didn't answer the question of what would you actually believe. It seems like you might just call anything you don't like "the media". Let's see where you get your information.
it highlights the abject trust rich people place in certain friend of a friend associations. same thing happened with bernie madoff.
I think people don't really follow meetings either. We had a ton of going back to the transcripts to prove topics have been discussed.

There is no magic bullet, if someone has the power to make decisions, you are always at the risk of having them change course at any point in time. The only think you can do is deeply convince them it's in their interest you succeed.
Sure, all of this is possible. Really improbable, but possible.

But what are these chances compared to a real infection with coronavirus, which has more proteins than the spike protein and causes more havoc in the body?
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When I read release notes like that I immediately assume malice. I don't believe that the information is not available or that the devs are too lazy to bullet point _at least_ the major changes or vulnerabilities fixed. I think this is generally an excuse to slip in tracking/etc without resistance.
patio11's story on his idempotency issue which led to repeatedly calling customers' customers comes to mind [0]. He personally called all affected customers!

[0] https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1405704339969220615?lang=...
Ask HN: How did Capcom go from fallen giant to premier gaming studio again?
I played a lot of Capcom games back in the day. Then there was a time where they produced nothing but stinkers.

Recently they have been hitting nothing but 10's for me. RE2 remake, RE3 remake, RE Village, RE 7, devil may cry 5, these are all solid games with great innovative mechanics. Not to mention their engine is so premium and incomparable to anything else out there, even Unreal.

So how did they turn it around? How did they come back so hard with such fire?
> The big difference here being that the app developers are happy that this has happened

I don't see why this would make a difference. Say I'm working on a project. There's a hole in my project. And you offer something to fill the hole.

But your action can't then bind me to refrain from fixing my project. Once my project no longer has a hole in it, you've lost a line of business. But you've lost that line of business because it solved a problem that was correctly fixed. The situation now is obviously better than the situation before. If I needed permission from you to fix my own thing, how could that conceivably improve anything?
Are you gonna buy a lambo?
> De-platforming is always going to fail because your opponents are hydras.

The strongest evidence against this is that the groups being deplatformed seem really, really upset by it. Seems like they wouldn't be so concerned if it wasn't effective.

> "Yay, we crushed Milo Yiannopoulos!" Er, wait, how's that going, really?

Pretty well, given that he hasn't been relevant to anything in years.
I watched the Project Veritas video too. I noticed that the featured health care worker did not say two things she definitely would have said if they were true:

1. She did not say that there was any coercion to avoid reporting adverse events. She just said it took too long to enter the data into VAERS (30 minutes) so people weren't reporting every event.

2. She didn't say the hospital was overflowing with people suffering from vaccine side effects, or that that number was remotely comparable to the number hospitalized with COVID.

So what's the likely truth?

1. Vaccine side effects are underreported, but mostly because people are not making much of an effort to report them, not for conspiratorial reasons. This is far from new - both underreporting of relevant events and overreporting of irrelevant events are common with every medical intervention.

2. The health burden of COVID still vastly outweighs anything happening with the vaccine.
You should consider extracttable.com

P.s: I run the linked resource.
That's true in principle. In practice, I've seen Emacs undergo non-trivial changes and yet none of my personal Elisp code has ever broken. I'm not sure how that happens—perhaps the core abstractions are sufficiently simple that they don't need to change much themselves and only higher-level things change, so code written against the core abstractions doesn't get broken.
You don't have to like Jobs, I never did when he was alive, but shitting on him (as is now a cliche) for his choices of treatment is an awful reason.

The peanut gallery is not to be trusted on how curable his cancer was, and this article says nothing firm about anything.

If someone chooses not to be tortured for their last weeks of life, in order to have those weeks, that doesn't make them unscientific or suicidal.
> the advantage in theory is that they're also basically incentivised towards market stability for your stock, and a return over time for their retail investors? (Not saying I agree, just, in theory)

Post hoc justification garbage IMO. It's not like the market isn't littered with the remains of tech stocks that went through a traditional IPO and still crashed.
From the article :
"Insiders say that marketing missteps and duplicated development processes meant IBM Cloud was doomed from the start, and eight years after it attempted to launch its own public cloud the future of its effort is in dire straits"

I would say that this is a symptom of a deeper malaise. From following IBM over the last decade or so, I've come to believe they are facing the consequences of the "EPS 20" [0]. They had the EPS 20 for so long that the core R&D and other enablers towards the EPS 20 were sacrificed. Former employees, your views?

[0]https://www.barrons.com/articles/ibm-slips-reiterating-20-ep...
yes, aggree with you on the hardware.

yet, what's new for me is the combination of not caring about security, scanning on your phone (not in the cloud) and implementing a world wide localization network.

the road to hell is plastered with good intentions ...
People don't hate Bitcoin, they just hate the MLM style marketing pitches from randos.

Sounds great btw, amazing product, can't wait to sell it to my friends and neighbors.
Some people think that the chance of death from a vaccine is not worth it, however slight that chance is. For the young and healthy, risking catching the vaccine shouldn't be that big of a deal despite all the hype about "long covid". With the virus having been around for two years now, there's a strong argument to be made about natural immunity.

I think they knew that they had a lot of ways to make a better vaccine, and they will work on that, but I don't think it's going to be done quickly enough. So, I guess we all just have to go along with the booster shots until they "get it right". The government got heavily involved in the process, so it was bound to end up half-assed. There were people that said they would never let the government force them to take Trump's rushed vaccine. They wanted to create a disruption and a huge resistance to his efforts. Biden came along and "changed" it, and now they sing the praises of the vaccine and the unbelievable science behind it endlessly.

You have an enormous pressure to take the vaccine by the behemoth government and the people that write the paychecks. If people use one of the only avenues they have to not get forced into something they have their own reasons for not buying into, I don't really blame them. The people you argued with about the vaccine have nothing to do with ordinary people and their decisions. If I was a lowly worker, I would probably just take it because I guess I would have bigger problems.

There may not be much weight behind the anti-vaccine argument, but there's a lot to be said about better governance that probably would have involved doing things that actually work instead of having to point to things that didn't happen, especially with the angst about not enough people having complied with the emergency measures. Of course, the skeptics believe we mostly did the wrong things in a bout of panic and the need for post-hoc justification grew alongside the mass hysteria. There was the option of focused protection, yet it seems we neglected many people in care homes while the government got busy fighting windmills. We also seriously tampered with natural processes and normal lifestyles. That may have been counterproductive. We are now in a situation where there is no herd immunity, high-risk people are finding it impossible to avoid the infection forever, and we lost a lot of opportunities as the world was on pause that it everyone's life may objectively be worse than should be expected even after all this time.
You know, I haven't thought much about this. I use a lot of third-party packages and have a lot of my own custom code, but things almost never interfere. In the few cases that crop up (for example, awkward interactions between org-mode's completion and the completion plugin system I use), it was so easy to add some code to my .emacs file to fix that problem that I had no real problems with it.
> But COVID deaths on top have gotten us to the point of WWII death rates in 1943

Except, they didn't, as we discussed already.

> think failure to interpret the study correctly does not actually make it incorrect. Try reading the whole thing instead of cherry picking numbers to try to prove your point.

I don't need someone to interpret numbers for me, that's the difference. The rest of the 'study' is drivel. Not to mention, the data's already cherry picked.

> What's there to "believe"?

For starters, we have to take their numbers at face value. We know they're not aggressively collecting adverse reaction data, we know they're not doing much investigating vaccine caused death and illness, we know their numbers are most likely skewed to show the vaccines are beneficial. Despite this, the best they can come up with is a report that shows the mortality among vaccinated is higher than the unvaccinated.
The mafia would be so proud
He generally puts together an agenda and does ask about how I'm doing, always asks whether I have any problems or want to talk about anything.

Don't get me wrong at all, he's a lovely person and means well. The 1:1 does not irritate me as such, my week is not loaded up with meetings. If that was different, I would gently try to change things. I also think he is getting pressure from above to meet various metrics like 1:1 time.

I just don't get much out of it that couldn't be replaced by a couple of minute slack or email once in a while when things come up. And I accept it might work well for others.
Really curious what exactly were you expecting to come out of it?
I am tritanopic (yellow/blue blind) in one eye. It doesn't affect me a lot since I can resolve colours more correctly in the other, and unless something is partially obscuring my vision, I rarely notice.

However, when lights are dim or something is obscuring my more properly-sighted eye, I do have a harder time distinguishing blue from black and purple from brown, and a few other colour confusions (yellow/white, green/teal, etc). Still doesn't really affect me in any notable way, other than people around me getting a laugh out of my inability to name all colours the way they see them.
This 'used to be' the way to write OS code -- well, not quite this well-organized, but, yeah, the MACRO facility was used to clean up the rough edges, and functions (subroutines, methods, ...) provided big chunks of, well, functionality. The TOPS-10 OS did this. As did TOP-20.
It's important to consider the context here. What seems significant, in lieu of the eventual exposure of their wage fixing scheme, was what Steve Jobs didn't say in his response. Read the emoji as "that works" rather than just "I'm pleased".
I would love to see some stats on this, because I'm very confident you couldn't find "many". There have only been 8200 deaths in the USA following a vaccine dose, and they aren't even confirmed to be caused by the vaccine. Compared to the 690k COVID deaths I think you're much, much more likely to find people that are antivax that died from COVID, than provax that died following a vaccination.
I remember reading something by Art Spiegelman, whose father was a Holocaust survivor, about how his life felt unimportant because nothing could compare to what his father went through.

But then, he rhetorically asked, if surviving the concentration camp was success, did that mean the vast majority who didn't were losers?

And I think his father said something to the effect, that it was random, there was no "survival of the fittest", so no, matter of factly, the dead were not ones who failed.
How do you know that reality is 'being geometrical, is infinitely informationally dense'?

You might be interested in the Bekenstein bound (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound):

> In physics, the Bekenstein bound (named after Jacob Bekenstein) is an upper limit on the thermodynamic entropy S, or Shannon entropy H, that can be contained within a given finite region of space which has a finite amount of energy—or conversely, the maximal amount of information required to perfectly describe a given physical system down to the quantum level.[1] It implies that the information of a physical system, or the information necessary to perfectly describe that system, must be finite if the region of space and the energy are finite. In computer science, this implies that there is a maximal information-processing rate (Bremermann's limit) for a physical system that has a finite size and energy, and that a Turing machine with finite physical dimensions and unbounded memory is not physically possible.

Lots of math works out well that as a continuous approximation, eg the Navier-Stokes differential equations seem to describe fluids well on everyday scales. But we know very well that water is made of molecules, so we know that this particular continuous approximation will fail at small enough scales.

By the way, the closest thing we have come to for teleportation is cutting-and-pasting of quantum states. So no classical, digital computers involved there.
Meh this sounds like scare mongering. If someone is tired at the end of a long shift, what do you think they are going to want to do more?

a) spend 15 minutes writing up a ticket, and possibly waiting for the police to arrive before handing you over to them

b) take you to the back office and let you sit for 5 minutes while your phone charges

Nobody is going to send you to prison for the first offence of not having a ticket (a physical ticket could be lost or damaged to a point where it is unreadable too). They would probably issue a fine, but you could appeal that. Buying a digital ticket you'd have a digital paper trail showing you bought it - which you wouldn't if you bought a paper ticket.
What was the fiery part?
> respectable sources of truth like the CDC or the WHO.

lmao
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The public accepts hypocrisy because most people are themselves hypocrites in one way or another.
Sometimes it's wise to ignore what you want. So many times I started a project only to end up with 3 libraries and a custom build system. It's like I can't help myself. It got to the point I was too embarrassed to publish these things on GitHub.