skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think aliases are only used in interactive shells:

$ sh -c 'command -v ls'
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The Tl;dr

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2021.

Operating cash flow decreased 1% to $54.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $55.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2020.

Free cash flow decreased to $2.6 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $29.5 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2020.

Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $8.8 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $18.4 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2020.

Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $3.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $17.9 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2020.

Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 523 million on September 30, 2021, compared with 518 million one year ago.

Net sales increased 15% to $110.8 billion in the third quarter, compared with $96.1 billion in third quarter 2020. Excluding the $0.5 billion favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 15% compared with third quarter 2020.

Operating income decreased to $4.9 billion in the third quarter, compared with $6.2 billion in third quarter 2020.

Net income decreased to $3.2 billion in the third quarter, or $6.12 per diluted share, compared with $6.3 billion, or $12.37 per diluted share, in third quarter 2020.

“We’ve always said that when confronted with the choice between optimizing for short-term profits versus what’s best for customers over the long term, we will choose the latter—and you can see that during every phase of this pandemic,” said Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO.
Mechanic retires after 75 years with the same company
I've heard it in a context of physical media degradation, including floppy discs and CDs as you mentioned, but also SSDs, HDDs and so on. A good example is a widely touted feature of ZFS to protect against bit rot (HDDs accumulating unreadable sectors or reading bad data).

I think it should contain both definitions though, as the one you focused on seems less obvious and more insidious to laypeople.
> politics: that rare area where there are no real experts, and it's every man for himself

There are experts, but things are so politicized that everyone dislikes them (the acts don't agree with anyone's partisan position) and reads what is appealing. I think that was the OP's point, but it's a dangerous notion to think we all know politics roughly equally well.

Political science can be highly informative and predictive, as can research in adjacent fields such as international relations. It transforms my understanding of what others are saying (with partisans being reliably absurd).
Stupid tourists on mushrooms have killed themselves in Amsterdam more than once by defenestration.
I don't disagree - call it the uniquely human tendency for self-domestication.
You could multitask in VR, without even anyone noticing?
I'm assuming we don't have any factual disagreements here, it seems like there is just context ambiguity and we're talking past each other.

For instance, when you say 'consumer tech', I don't only think of social media, internet search, and media/content sites. It is true that people spend a lot of time on those sites, and many of them rely on advertising revenue to support themselves (sometimes exclusively, sometimes partially).

When I think of consumer tech, I think of it more broadly[1], and the larger stack. One example part of that stack is hardware and physical devices, which are required for anyone to even access such sites. We wouldn't 'always be connected' if not for advances in mobile/hardware.

To touch on the slippery concept of 'if ad-supported services use paid-for services, they are effectively ad-supported then': this is a weird take and word game to play. Why stop there? Where does the ad revenue come from? Advertisers. Where do the advertisers money come from to pay for ads? Mostly not ads themselves, but from a host of different revenue models. So using this logic, ad-supported services are effectively a bunch of different revenue models? (so could one then hand-wave away the ad revenue model altogether?)

[1]" https://builtin.com/consumer-tech
Honestly I very much welcome different RTL based languages. VHDL and Verilog are just so bad. But HLS seems to just be the wrong way forward.
Pluralism is not a problem, because civic disagreement is not a problem. I was responding directly to the parent comment:

> It's America--everybody thinks everybody else is living their lives the wrong way.

I'm explaining why it is that others think they are living the wrong way.

> One is that we're engaged in our own internal culture-war around liturgy, the dwindling priesthood, and what to do about social issues that pit Western society's priorities against long-standing Church doctrine. When the most prominent Catholics in the news aren't acting Catholic, that drives us crazy.

Absolutely, and it's because the church in America is splitting into two cultures. On one hand, there are catholics who want to be American, and fit in with secular society. On the other hand, there are those who don't see it as that important. These two groups have different cultures.
Gosh, you'd think that after CAMBRIdge AnalyticA, and to a lesser degree liBRA, CAMBRIA isn't the best name for the new headset...
A great thing about the POSIX standard is that it's publicly available. See: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition...

You can see more about "command" here:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/c...
Once we figure out how to repair the tooth enamel properly, there will be no need for fluoride in dental care. We're still relying on epoxies & other glues.
What kind of fluoride? Fluoride salts can be extremely stable even at very high temperatures. They were used in prototype molten salt nuclear reactors and uranium hexafluoride gas is used in uranium enrichment.
60Hz: I agree with you

1080p: I disagree, that can either be good or bad depending on the content. E.g. original iPhone was only 320x480, but Apple made it feel good.
Just did two builds in this case and absolutely love it! Re:Hair/dust, the side panels are so easy to remove that it's been no problem to just hit it with a duster every once in a while. It's small enough to easily take outside for a cleaning, compared to the effort needed to clean my full tower.
Dang it. How am I supposed to tell people that when I talk about "meta-programming" I'm talking about Lisp and macros and cools stuff like that, and not that I'm programming for some shady-as-sin company?
Try shrooms or acid before Ayahuasca. DMT is something not to be taken lightly
It's not that they cannot. They don't have an incentive to do it.

If I'm being paid for my performance while I'm a CEO, why would I spend money today (and hurt my performance today) to fix a problem that MIGHT affect the company in 20 years
Anyone else find it hilariously dark that this page says:

"The metaverse will be social" and when you click "Watch the Keynote" it takes you to a login screen for Facebook?
Revenue is an instantaneous metric of a company where as Market Value is a reflection of sentiment integrated over time and relatively compared to competing options for capital (such as other stocks, bonds, even present vs future purchases if inflation is material).

They will always be quite disjoint when viewed with an single/small number of revenue data points.
Is this surprising? We know that vaccines are effective, but breakthrough infections are definitely possible. Given this information, a household environment (no masks, frequent contact, indoors) would be the worst case scenario for spread.

Even the best sunscreen won't protect against 48 straight hours in the sun.
> Love him or hate him, with a tax on capital gains someone such as Elon Musk would not have been able to drive Tesla to profits thus forcing the automotive industry towards EV's.

Yes he would have. One, because there is a tax on capital gains, and he did; you probably mean an unrealized capital gains tax, but... Two, it is quite possible (and explicitly a motivation of the proposed law, so impossible for any honest critic to overlook) to borrow against public tradable assets, and if they are gaining value fast enough that a 20% tax on unrealized gains would significantly erode your holdings you can do so at interest rates far below the value growth, essentially without limit (that's how people fund lavish lifestyles without taxes on unrealized gains already), so he would be able to use that method to pay taxes without any dilution of ownership.
Yes, they do not have a controlling stake (50%+1) but both Bezos and Musk are the largest shareholders in their respective companies wielding huge influence.
If I estimate a model to predict an anomaly using data that never has any realized anomalies, how well will that model do out-of-sample? While framing this as a bad unrestricted ROE maximization problem is a nice simplification, it's not clear that having everyone move to a restricted ROE maximization subject to keeping assets large enough to insure against some unforecastable shock is welfare enhancing. That could be a lot of wasted insurance.

I will give him credit for cleverly spinning this logic all into a pitch to kill the unrealized cap gains tax proposal!
I will be keeping an eye on this in case I can use it to scrub my (adult) self from "the internet" as well. I expect this is why the Google team has to evaluate each one, to ensure it is not abused by someone uploading a picture of, say, someone who pissed you off and effectively deleting their legitimate presence.
> Having things sitting around unused is a huge reason that US car companies got their asses handed to them by Toyota and their TQM/LEAN system they developed.

It didn’t help but I think that’s more of a symptom of building shoddy products: part of why inventory backed up is that Detroit was producing cars which simply weren’t as good. Toyota didn’t have a shortage of demand, and neither did Saturn. If you make shoddy, poor-handling gas guzzlers, yes, you’ll underperform on sales. That doesn’t meant the only option is less inventory.
It's also so fucking unoriginal... "hmm we need a parent company that owns all the other companies, what should we call it?"

I'm not sure how the structure is, if Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus are separate companies owned by the holding company also named "Facebook".

Obviously the websites/apps will keep their names, just a design will change, e.g. if you load Instagram, the splash screen says currently "Instagram, from Facebook", and it'll be "... from Meta" soon enough.
Given that NYC has been fluoridating since 1965, and how insane people are on the topic, I’m sure we would be aware of actual problems long ago.
GitHub Codespaces X Bluetooth Keyboard = VS Code on iPhone
But sometimes it does.

I worked in audit for several years and the auditors will challenge any estimate made by management that the auditors deem material to the financial statement readers. And the useful life of how long computers last is an estimate by management. While at most companies useful lives might not be an estimate worth looking at, Alphabet has enough computers for this to be a material estimate (likely due to GCP) that is subject to management bias. The public auditors are there to ensure (to a reasonable extent) that management can't manage earnings by changing estimates like this.
You're describing a related term, "link rot," that refers to outdated references to the data.
That would be quite the GAAF.
Thanks for clarifying! The constitution is pretty far from fiduciary duty legally, so I apologize for not interpreting it more charitably.

(In general the maximize profit meme does need to die tho)
Oh, and on dosage, I'm from the UK. In my experience in the US a single joint is rolled to a potency I'd consider equivalent to "a mug full of whisky", not a pint of beer!
There was at least one crash that he simply shouldn't have walked away from.

https://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archive...
I think Oobleck is my favorite -- but do they really plan to capitalize it?
I happen to be re-watching this right now, and it blew my mind to see those graphs and not see the show lagging a few years behind the reality. How is this possible? It borderline seems like the background research for the show must have actually talked to the mass manufacturers of the stuff...
Eben: “Sadly there won't be a Raspberry Pi 5” for their 10th anniversary (40:25)
> I’m not a doctor or a medical expert

> The Art of Manliness participates in affiliate marketing programs

Seems like a terrible resource. Much better would be blood work at your PCP (and a possible referral to an endocrinologist).
There can be no going backwards. Only forward!
Of course, anything taken in excess has risks.
One of the two is true:

1) The market value of a company is true, aka the owners of this company must be taxed for the real value growth in their portfolio (since it constitutes income), even if they do not sell

2) It’s a casino, a share is just a ticket that may worth nothing or a billion. In that case we don’t need tax protections. The owners of the tickets must be taxed only when they cash out. The governments should actively disincentivize gambling into this and ensure the pensions of its citizens by funding public projects and enabling future growth.

You cannot have it both ways.
Tech reporters are parents on the sidelines of their kids' soccer game
My Phanteks Evolv Shift Air 2 mini-ITX case was about 120 € (with one 140 mm fan) and I don't think it was that expensive. And it looks really nice + fits beefier components.
I'm not sure how the structure is, if Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus are separate companies owned by the holding company also named "Facebook".

I'm pretty sure the websites/apps will keep their names, just a design will change, e.g. if you load Instagram, the splash screen says currently "Instagram, from Facebook", and it'll be "... from Meta" soon enough.
This is an extremely interesting idea - I wonder if they'll start some kind of "invitation beta" for this fraction of users you describe.
this is the Alphabet thing all over again.

doesn't change anything.
The remote British island hoping to see more visitors
It's so weird that they changed the company's name without any actual product launch. I mean, yeah, obviously this is all about deflecting criticism, but TFA is right that the "metaverse" idea feels less-than-half-assed. It's like they're announcing, "We're out of ideas, so how about we jump this shark?"

Nobody particularly wanted Second Life, and I see no reason to think Facebook has cracked it. It feels like a sophomore effort (not the effort of sophomores, but a mediocre follow-up to a big debut).

Facebook has a valid use, for the fairly prosaic chitchat of friends and family, as well as more general communities (including the community of businesses people use, arts they consume, etc.) It developed some downsides that weren't necessarily obvious, though one really should have seen at least some of it coming since spamming and scamming long predate it. Network effects made it ubiquitous, and they weren't prepared to be the world's dominant anything.

"Meta" doesn't fix any of that, and feels like they're declaring that they don't care about their existing use case because it's no longer growing explosively. It feels desperate.

Which, of course, we all knew. I'm just ruminating on what's going to happen to the things that Facebook does that are distinct from whatever other mindless entertainment they're afraid of losing market share to. We all go back to email lists?
It did the same for me on my Intel MacBook. It's long been uninstalled now.
I'm trying to word this kindly, but I think you should instead look at the concept of "Parasocial Relationships" if you think it's appropriate to diagnose Mark Zuckerberg with Acquired Situational Narcissism.

You do not know him, you have not met him and it does not make sense to try to diagnose a public figure based on what you've been presented by either his own press releases or media coverage of him. You and the person you have replied to have bought into the idea that no one at Facebook challenges him despite having not worked at Facebook or personally witnessing this.
I'm not going to argue with you in general about the dangers of ketamine et al, I have seen it myself. But personally (this is anecdata) I have never had the compulsion to use it like so many others for some reason. Quasi-autism, a very strong internal governor limiting any compulsions <other than work...>, my NON-use of it as a substitute for cocaine like the majority of people... Drugs are only the tools for trying to manage whatever internal psychological processes are driving you to take them and if those processes are too 'strong', people go down the path you speak of. It is not the tool's fault, etc.

I was using K as a temporary vacation from reality aka k-hole. Lovely wonderful experiences and I innately knew it was helping with the depression. The most important factor was the set/setting/almost ritualistic use. And I don't do it anymore, never did it so much like so many other people.... and no compulsion to either. I have been sitting on some MXE for a decade now as well... I am an outlier??

Ritual is an element that is sorely lacking in the majority of westerner's use of psychedelics - it does comes with the ayahuasca package "just because that is what you're supposed to do" aka drugs tourism. But the other stuff... This element of ritual is what I think you're overlooking. Ritual also would have prevented DM Turner from taking ketamine before taking a bath which is a very really bad idea; he was really blatantly ignoring the risk factors for whatever reason.

This reminds me of a psychologist, Mexican I think, who in the 70s IIRC was using datura and other such things in his work helping patients. He's a bit obscure and I haven't found much info (I will hunt down my notes if people insist). So my opinion is that dissociatives have their use, but you really need to know what you are doing which most people do not. Personally, I think salvia is very useful... but I am sort of autistic and there is an Internet theory I came across that only the autistically inclined really take to salvia; neurotypicals can't handle the weirdness at some deep level. I have no proof of this but from what I've read and personally know, of course...

As an aside, I met Ann and Sasha a number of times 20 odd years ago. So I personally find it a bit irksome you're using such a handle. You've agreed to change it which I commend you for... For the newbies who know the name, but not that he's dead, it would be confusing. But you are relaying correct and valuable information, so that is good - except for the wide ranging generalizations ... ;)
No, even profitable, it's just that they can't be bothered to disable their tracking.
Lol...you want him to have built more than one of the most successful businesses in history? It isn't one idea that got him here.. Everyone's a critic.
Ironically you have more than one way to address stuff locally.

And of course they don't necessarily work with each other.
As was pointed in many other places, you should also check the output when an alias is used.
> MMOs have been very viable from both a business

Really? Everything that's not named World of Warcraft seems to die out, usually in less than a year. It's a genre that's been a notorious recipe for failure for most companies not named Blizzard.
An update about Lucy’s telemetry
What I am curious about is if the unrealized gains tax will lead to more and more company boards being run by massive retirement / hedge funds such as black rock. All these companies will then be essentially forced to the ROE / share price over all model as all the BlackRock's of the world care about is share value because that's what their customers want from them. When that scenario is combined with a massive economic shock, what happens?
Zillow Home Buying Algorithm Outbid Buyers, Now Faces Selling Houses at a Loss
> CubeSat : an artificial satellite ... with a volume of 1 cubic meter...

Wait, I thought there's an official "spec" for CubeSats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat) and that is 10cm x 10cm x 10cm, so 1000 times smaller in volume. Also limited 1.33kg, but that seems less relevant.
Use the stockpile to sell / provide such masks to the VA, Military, and other government organizations on a FIFO basis so the stock is never stale. For stock that can not be moved quickly enough donate it to other countries that may need it.
I'm a Kiwi. I've never heard it used like that?
bit rot is your second paragraph. zfs has ways to handle bit rot in hard drives as an example.

Not sure there's a word defining what you mean. Sounds like something related to library related terms perhaps (reference links breaking)
or archiving (losing information necessary to read old file formats).
As with almost all controversial health discussions, everyone loves to talk about elemental chemistry and hates to talk about ionization.
Worse, 20+ tweets that don't provide any more nuance than the original tweet, so this literally could have been one tweet
They rightfully are compared with laptop chips. Desktop chips still beat the M1 but they are in a different class.
Note that this curtain isn't put in place by the EU, nor that compliance with the GDPR is hard.
> gigantic waste of everyone time

Debian is extraordinarily successful, so the time seems well spent. Who here has managed an equally successful project?
Remote access brain implants for Parkinson’s
that media coverage though ...
You've got a point, but the discussions are most of the time not about the theoretical characteristics of an architecture on a process node that it will never use. It's people beating each other on the head about which mega-corp has CPUs a few percents faster than the other.

From a historical point of view, a systematic shift to hotter, more power-hungry chips was never a good sign (see for example the various Pentium 4s and the successive incarnations of Bulldozer and Piledriver). I hope it's a stopgap and that they have a new Core 2 masterpiece being readied, but let's not kid ourselves: it does not look good. the Physics of heat transfer put a limit to the gains in performance you can achieve if you don't also increase efficiency. It's cold comfort to know that your CPU would be wonderful if cooled with liquid nitrogen when your desktop throttles under load.
Of course, I am very responsible with my illicit drug use. Probably did < 50mg across several night and am not planning on doing it again for 6+ months. Good advice though for everyone!