skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes logical sense from a supply chain standpoint, but I fail to see how the fact that Apple is good at designing chips has any relevance whatsoever to the idea that Apple may or may not be good at manufacturing those same chips.

"Everybody knows" that a big chunk of the M1/mac performance dominance right now is due to their buying out huge amounts of TSMC capacity at leading edge nodes. Thus, much of the recent M1/M1Pro/M1Max "great leap forward" (pun intended) are directly attributable to TSMC specifically.

If every ROI-seeking multibilliondollar hedge fund in the world can't build a leading edge node fab or two to compete with TSMC, what suggests that Apple's money would do any better?

Note that this isn't rhetoric - Apple may well be able to do this, and better than some/most; I just don't have any data at hand (myself, it may exist) to suggest that the Apple cash reserves are in any way smarter at this task than big institutional dumb money reserves (which dwarf Apple in market aggregate).
Yep, see: https://sites.google.com/site/tmoipv6/464xlat
You would be correct. I do not see any logical data to say that this is "the next big thing".
> tariffs on key industries to keep manufacturing here or at least in North America

would businesses be ok with that? it seems alot of expensive investing at home when it could be done cheaper overseas...

im pretty sure massive lobbying would incur... but maybe im not seeing the whole picture.
> ... what's the intellectual equivalent of the minor leagues?

It's called bar trivia and it's awesome! I'm not a super smart dude, but I love going to a bar trivia and seeing what I get right (despite never having watched the show, I guessed that the motor home in The Walking Dead was a Winnebago) and what I frustratingly get wrong (despite being a huge fan of pop-punk music, I couldn't remember the title to Green Day's hit song Basket Case).
Small nit: NIFO is another word for price gouging.
The term was coined by Jim Cramer who really doesn’t care about compensation or tech innovation
Sideloading on a Roku is actually significantly more difficult thank sideloading on Android. You can also only sideload one application at a time.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think that Google has a leg to stand on here, but they're the least of the villains in this story as far as a captive app audience goes.
> Just in time everything. No excess capacity.

JIT requires excess capacity by definition. Response time of a process running at 100% utilization is unbounded, which is the opposite of JIT.
Business advice plagued by survivorship bias
> At least this way you know they didn't receive it and if you really did care about them specifically you have recourse.

That was the point I mentioned in another comment: They are notified and if they can't bother doing something tiny for me to get the email, chances are they're not vested in contacting me.
Dividend tax rate is the same as capital gains rate which is what you pay when you sell your stock if you've held it for a year.
I assume you mean 2 kHz, right? Normal human hearing doesn't go beyond ~23 kHz, and certainly not into MHz range.
> Empirically it seems to me that people nowadays are more scared of death than they are euphoric about life.

Have you not talked to a teenager lately?
I would like to target the Brave search crawler/bot, but they’re hiding themselves like every other spambot:
https://twitter.com/tinusg/status/1453862793933897729?s=21
>I'm not sure why this is being brought up, other than for the shock value.

I suspect that you don't understand why I'm bringing up the human consequences for the same reason you've claimed that "the "Even Greater Depression" wouldn't affect the average person either, because everyone would stay in the same place (on average)". Bezos and his peers can lose hundreds of thousands of dollars of abstract net worth every day for decades before they even notice, let alone have the material conditions of their lives change in the least; the modal person will be dead of exposure in a few days. It's somewhat incredible that you'd even try to make the argument, actually.

>Surely he'd prefer to be the leader of a global megacorp, travel anywhere in the world, partake in various space-related adventures, and not be trapped in a bunker?

Aww, shucks, I'm confident Bezos will be able to continue his worldly lifestyle until things go very poorly indeed. That said, the very existence of the owner class's anxiety-bunkers is a sign that they're not entirely behind keeping the global economy running and serving the people, don't you think? If there's only one escape pod and it's for the command staff, only us crew need suffer the consequences of their tactical decisions.

>I'd be pretty pissed if the US government somehow revoked by right to leave the country.

I never mentioned this, and I'm not sure what relevance this has to anything either of us has said. I'm beginning to believe you're not arguing in good faith.

>Similar to your fears about amazon taking over, this seems to be unsupported by the data

AWS didn't even need a pandemic to achieve running most of the DoD. Not sure if you've been following the housing market, but Zillow didn't need an economic crash to go all in to rent(al)-seeking behaviour. At least they seem to be dropping the ball on that one, but think of how much more effective buying up all the houses will be once everyone's underwater on their mortgage and unemployed? I'm also a little surprised that you'd show me a chart that shows that this historical low of landlord house purchasing represents a fall to 20%. Since you're so familiar with CoreLogic's data sets regarding this, I'm sure you're aware that in 2000 it was between 5 and 10%, and trended upward until only recently. Unsupported by the data, my eye; you're just closing yours to the important parts of the story.

>The great recession lasted from Q1 2008 to Q3 2009, according to the fed. However, this doesn't seem to correlate with institutions buying up houses?

The other way to phrase this, of course, is "having ballooned in the past eight years, the proportion of home sales to landlords snaffling up housing stock continued to rise, even during an economic crisis, and rose precipitously after the crisis was 'over'".
You don't need a book on economics to understand this. Just read some real, actual history books to see that after a war or revolution of any kind _nobody_ is better off. Start with the French revolution and just go over all of them in order. A hundred million people who died at the hands of the fascist or communist governments in the past century are, one would hope, a sufficient proof of that.
Symex mode is a DSL for specifying paredit-like movements. It's implemented in terms of paredit and other libraries.

https://github.com/countvajhula/symex.el#introduction

Libraries like this are the most emacsy because the whole point of emacs is that it isn't just a good editor, but a platform/language for building good editors.
They will contract Intel.
> Roku sells between 25 and 40 percent of all smart TV's in the US.

Color me extremely dubious. Perhaps Roku TV + Roku devices connected to a TV are about 25-40% of "smart TVs" but I doubt even that.

I have literally never been to a single person's house with a Roku TV in their living room. But a Roku hooked up to their TV? You bet. We have 2, my mom has 1, and several of my friends have them as well.
Way way more dangerous through.

This is the kind of
Flying where it’s pretty routine to fly UNDER power lines.

The pay isn’t usually all that great either, and you’re often working out of some remote camp with minimal amenities for long periods.
Is there a private or on-premise version for non-public registries?
>obsession with RoE is a big part of the problem

Is this even still true in a super low interest rate environment?

Yeah in the 80s and 90s, tying your resources into inventory would have cost a lot in terms of missed opportunity to invest the money elsewhere. But with financing rates near zero or even sometimes negative in real term, wouldn't even the wall street guy be like: sure keep some inventory, cash is cheap right now.

This RoE argument seems very last century to me.
I remember reading a very big thread about MDMA on Bluelight [1]. They were trying to figure out why the MDMA manufactured today is very different empirically compared to the MDMA manufactured in the 80s. Lots of very interesting chemistry discussion
One thing I particularly remember is somebody bringing up the example of their cat. Their cat had some digestive issue and couldn't poop so it was prescribed medicine. One brand of medicine worked wonders for the cat, while a generic brand didn't work at all. Both were supposed to be the same exact molecule!

[1]: https://www.bluelight.org/xf/threads/what-is-wrong-with-the-...
That's less catastrophically flawed than I thought it would be. Having a tax-free provision for privately-owned or authorially-owned copyrights fixes my main concern with this.

What you're talking about with patents could be handled by just taxing licensing revenues. That would also work for creating a copyright value tax. However, I'm pretty sure we already have ways to tax the proceeds of copyright and patent licensing.

Also, while "buyout to uncopyright the work" is better than "buyout to own the work for yourself", I still think there's some problems with this. Public domain doesn't just mean "everyone owns it", it also means "everyone can reuse it", and when you do that you create a new copyright on that derivative work[0]. This is part and parcel of the reason why copylefts and share-alike licensing exists. It lets you lock things open. Would Microsoft be able to buy out Linus Torvalds in order to evade the GPL on Linux?

[0] This is also why nominally public domain characters like Sherlock Holmes are actually fiendishly difficult to reuse. The estate that owns the still copyrighted part of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work can still sue if your reuse of the public domain character is too close to their copyrighted expression. Notably, this means your Sherlock can't be too human.
One issue is that RFC6724 will cause most clients to prefer IPv4 when the IPv6 address is a ULA (unique local). But if you're hitting a NAT either way, then maybe it doesn't matter.
I know science fiction has really hyped up the idea of a metaverse, but I just don't see it happening culturally.

In most fiction where a "metaverse" or equivalent is popular, the world is in shambles. When you think about it, of course this would be the case. Why would people reject the real world for the internet?

The reason why social-media is so popular is because it's basically a way to highlight reality and engage with it.

I honestly don't see the metaverse taking off. Facebook should've went in the other direction IMHO.

The pandemic has shown very clearly that people want to engage with one another in reality, not on the internet.
There's a law that says that as resources becomes easier to consume, people consume them more. Like when increasing the capacity of a road doesn't reduce the time spent in traffic. Wouldn't that apply to software? I feel like it's a bit unfair to call software "slower and bloated" when you wouldn't call a road "bloated" because it has a new lane. People can do more things now.
Bahahahaha!! Pathetic.
So you subscribe to a newsletter, apparently by the dozens every 6 months, then take zero action to show disinterest for a long time, and during this time expect the sender to read your mind about whether you still want it?

Seems like a fabricated problem. How about not signing up for junk in the first place, or taking the 5 seconds to unsubscribe as it comes in?
Infinite money doesn’t translate into infinite R&D, unfortunately. As pointed out by books like The Mythical Man Month, you can’t necessarily speed up development by adding more engineers/resources.
> I'm a hardcore believer in the ACTUAL Agile philosophy, which is rooted in lean

would then the work of juran, demming, goldratt et al, be good reading as well?
3D TVs were the clearest market signal that the market doesn't want this. It was not subtle. And yet everyone just acts like that didn't happen.
Keyence is very well known in industrial automation. Many vision and light-based products, largely for sensing and quality control.

High quality components, reasonable prices, attentive, educated technical field sales, will stop calling you if you express that you'd rather not hear from them again.
> “wE aRe ThE mOSt EfFicIEnt wAY Of AllOCaTinG CaPitAl” arguments from very wealthy founders

"most" does a lot of work here since it's a relative term. I'm not sure I'd exactly call them efficient but I'm not sure there's a _more_ efficient way that I've seen.
No, it's Piketty's controversial book, one of his points was his analysis of historical data showed that the only time the ratio of wealth between capital and labour R decreased was during wartime, especially the two World Wars when incredible amounts of wealth was destroyed, seized or simply reverted to states because there was nobody left who could claim it.
AFAIK human natural niche was persistence hunting. Due to our body shape and ability to sweat, we can outrun prey species in the long run. That's how we're engineered, by natural selection in Ice Age Africa. Persistent trekkers that can throw sticks and stones.

Later, we domesticated dogs and other species, then made more and more advanced technologies. But at it's core? Our niche was that.
When it becomes available for a low price it will become like a portable phone.
My story would echo this same sentiment. Incidentally, running `man command` on OS X actually does not reference a '-v' option at all, instead only stating the more verbose `command which`. Both appear to work, but it further highlights your (our) discoverability issue(s).
You're correct. When I buy a TV, I'm not buying Roku, either. Because I have a Roku player https://www.roku.com/products/players
Or over smartparens?
An interesting interview, it's nice to see a little more substance behind the decision.I also appreciate that the interviewer did ask some of the sterner questions e.g. Facebook throwing money away from it's business

Maybe it's just the years of science fiction talking but I can't help but see this in a dystopian light. I don't want my social world to be created by"Meta". I want to use social media, and the internet more generally, as tools which enrich my life but don't dominate it. Directly opposite to how Zuckerberg pitches "Meta" in this interview.

My experience of the pandemic has taught me the primacy of physical, human, interaction. A VR headset isn't going to bridge that digital void. What's more, the internet is already addictive enough, already threatening those interactions I value. I recently read the short story "The machine stops" by E.M. Forster (available at http://www.visbox.com/prajlich/forster.html ), and I can't help but feel Facebook is building towards the dystopia it presents.

I'm deeply uncomfortable with the vast scope of these ambitions. I'm lucky enough to be informed and privileged enough I can choose to ditch these companies but I worry for the many who can't.
distinguish flag: Supper stupid question title because the noise exists in the environment before you know.
Stop Being the Hero
> it really is quite a good standard,

I think we need to start judging how good a standard is by how easy it is to implement for its intended purpose.

The purpose of IPv6 was to superscede IPv4. 25 years later, only 1/4 of the top sites from this link are IPv6 enabled. That's... well, at some point you have to stop blaming lazy sysadmins or stubborn vendors and start considering that it's genuinely just a bad and hard to understand standard.

In 2050 we'll still be on IPv4. That's how bad I think IPv6 is. Technically impressive? Sure. Viable as an understandable network paradigm and designed for widespread real-life use? Looking like no.
True, but it's hard to compare China to the US market. Health, Safety, Welfare and Sustainability are allowed to accept more risk in those "innovative" markets. That being said, San Francisco might be the hardest US market to build in given the complex politics, culture and competition.
I bought a high-end Sony LCD in 2016. The picture (still) looks great but the UX was awful. Laggy trash Android TV build with a manifestly underpowered CPU. It’s not connected to the internet these days - just to an Apple TV and game consoles - but the user experience is still awful - changing inputs, adjusting image settings, etc - all painful and a world away from the LG C9 upstairs.

LG has plenty of its own problems, but I’d never buy another Sony TV and take every opportunity to shout it from the rooftops.
How the heck do you pronounce that website's name?
Anyone know why there is such a discrepancy between www and non for so many companies?
Right, but the point is that prediction markets remove the subjectivity, and I am saying they don't. They are just wrong in different ways.

Rewarding individuals? So we swap one set of "experts" for another? The point of this is that no-one is an expert. The problems are created not because we don't have prediction markets, but because we treat "experts" with reverence.

The comment about randomness you made to another reply...with any event, there is some part of the outcome that is unpredictable. You could have perfect information, and still would be unable to predict it every time. Some events have no information that can be used to predict them, so predicting is just the event's previous frequency or last value.
I went to Fedora myself.. even though it kinda has a cringey name now-a-days thanks to meme culture :/

“tips fedora” “neckbeard” etc. I’m actually afraid to mention I use it to some groups!
I'd say emotional over-investment is at least a big a problem with founders and family businesses.
You can file a lawsuit but you have to prove that that leak in particular did you harm
The passport is not really meant to be a biological document. More a civil one. For example they don't measure you before writing down the height field, it's probably inflated for many people.

They could also have both info in there.
> What happens if something in the middle breaks and you don't have a buffer? What happens if there is no iron shortage but the steel furnace blows up? Aren't buffers important in such situations?

Okay, lets have two factories that convert 5-iron into 1-steel (Factorio ratio):

* "Buffer Factory": requiring 7000 steel to buffer up / 35000 iron before working at full capacity.

* "JIT Factory" : requires 200 steel to buffer / 1000 iron before working at full capacity.

The JIT-factory can sustain for 5-seconds without any inputs. (Belts in the game pull 40-items per second). The Buffer-factory can sustain for 175 seconds. You're seeing this as a good thing. It is not.

When you hook up a new source of iron to the JIT-factory, it only needs 5-seconds (assuming 5-belts of iron: 200 iron/second) before it starts up to full capacity.

When you hook up a new source of iron to the Buffer-factory, it needs 175 seconds before it goes back into full capacity. (The 175 seconds of buffering "need to be paid" at some point. In the case of Buffer-factories, that payment is done _before_ your end product is even finished).

JIT-factory is more useful. You shutdown when you run out of material (aka: using less electricity. Using fewer resources. Using fewer items).

The Buffer-factory needs 175-seconds to shutdown after running out of material. It also needs 175-seconds of "booting up" once you hook up new sources of material to it. That's electricity you're spending, resources you're using on BUFFERING that's completely a waste.

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Yeah, it sucks to be a worker in the JIT-factory, because your managers want to fire you during these low periods. But you can't deny the underlying efficiency of the strategy. Of course workers want the 175-seconds of buffering periods (aka: to be paid even when the factory is unproductive). But that's short-sighted.

I'm not saying that workers "Deserve" to get screwed here. But fundamentally speaking, the JIT-factory is clearly more efficient. What we need to discuss politically is how to protect the livelihoods of the workers during these periods when supplies run out.

But building systems where you have long periods of "boot up" and "shut down" just so that workers have something to do? That's not useful at all. And anyone who has played Factorio will see this instantly when thinking about buffers.

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Now I don't know the "ratios" of chips to cars. But lets say 100 chips create 1 car for simplicity.

Lets say Ford gets a shipment of 100,000 chips next month. Should Ford build 1000 vehicles? Or should Ford build 500 vehicles (and buffer up 50,000 chips) ??

Think about what the buffer actually means. Obviously, building 1000 vehicles is the answer. The sooner the vehicles are done, the better. The buffer only wastes time and energy.
This ignores an important use case.

Hard to imagine, but there might be people you do not know yet wanting to contact you in a way beneficial to you.

Maybe for a serious job offer. Somebody secretly in love with you. Somebody admiring your content, and wanting to publish it in a book. I'm sure there's more examples.

Such people would need to pay to contact you, and possibly/likely won't.
Metastatic.
> It's perfectly valid

Yes.

> and common

Not even remotely.

> Variables silently dropping off characters causes problems for these use cases.

Sure, you should just silently drop it off when you export it instead, because that makes far more sense.
If we use relativity to explain certain phenomena and the theory fits but it turns out that in the future, there's a much more complete explanation then people will probably look back and say that relativity was the wrong steps to the right answer even though those "wrong" steps are serving us quite well right now.
I've heard (purely anecdotal) rumors that North Korea basically runs on Meth. I'm not sure if that is true but I suppose it would explain a lot.
Not arguing the fact they do respond.

Just that the timelines on products are very long especially with hardware. There are no fast or simple pivots, and not usually in months - more like years on many things.
Would it? How do you think a standalone Instagram would make money? It would still be run by the same management, maintained by the same developers, and still owned in part by Zuckerberg.

The only thing that would change is that Instagram devs W-2s would say Instagram inc instead of Facebook inc
Not just holdings and cash in hand, but $0 tax liability as a result.
Entirely. Almost seems like word play to soften the blow of critical headlines.
Yes but let's say, pre-writing people needed to remember 100% of all information they needed to use - which writing people can offload to tablets and parchments.

Pre-agriculture people had it worse, they needed to remember 100% of all pertinent informations by the hunting band, which had a max amount of 50-100 people. All the predictive abilities for preys in their lands, natural disasters, medicines, rituals, etc.

It's logical that adoption of technology and farming led to lesser pressure for memory recall, at least for the median human.
Here is the tweet thread in a more accessible format.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1453753924960219145.html
It's a shame square monitors are not more common. The HAL-9000 console had 8 of them!
For scala i did Oderskie's course on coursera. Helped a lot
I'm going to ahead and ignore this, although I appreciate the post and fully appreciate the magnitude of the climate-based disaster we are steaming into. It's just too much to get bad news on a weekly scale now.
> I actually think in retrospect, those friendships were probably more important than the homework

That might be the saddest thing I've ever read, and perhaps the first time I've ever felt sympathy towards Mark Zuckerberg.
The Flynn effect is reversing (2006)