skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first time I've come across the term, and I'm a bit baffled by it.

It could be that my quick web search just turned up poor definitions, but if so, I'm hoping you'll correct me from your own understanding.

It sounds like it's saying the word "god" has no referent, that it's conceptually vacant. But it seems obvious to me that there are literally hundreds of concepts people do mean when they use the term, some of which cannot be vacant by definition (i.e., "that than which nothing greater can be conceived," because it's a definition that depends on being just within the vacant limits of understanding).

So what do you mean by it?
The thing is he never said "you shouldn't support founders over age X"; but rather "the cutoff in investor's minds is around age X", which is very different.

BTW the quote is easily findable, and the value for X he used was 32.
Some of the arguments here fill me with good hope that the semantic web is going to be the next revolution.

After all, it very much feels like a revolution with the amount of people saying it'll never work.
You were right to point out multicast. Its a great way to do cache discovery if nothing else. Saying that its de facto not effective at saving spectrum bandwidth handwaves pretty much every last mile detail thats relevant in networks like these.
Because it's a part of the type signature and cannot be accidentally ignored. Every possible error case must be handled when unwrapping the error value.
Traditional usenet clients were the most efficient discussion software in terms of usability. Everything since then (web forums, Slack-like clients, Discord, HN, etc.) has been a step backwards. That’s very much substance in my book.
> … horribly written … ridden with absolutely unnecessary allocations … no idea how to write efficient Java code…

If those claims are true then how could your alternatives not be vastly superior?

> … a standard way…

What are your JMH measurements?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
> I would love to see someone try to build something even remotely complex

I think they are advocating we stop trying to constantly make things that are complex, or can one day handle potential complexity, and try to make things more simple from the get-go.

Sure not everything can be Simone [simple*] html, but anecdotally, I can see the value in advocating more simplicity (but not at a raw html level). So much of what I need to work on and maintain are over architected "just in case"
Apple, Activation Locks, and the Great Database in the Sky
Go to eBay right now, and buy any Activation-Locked Apple device. It's OK, I'll wait.

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OK, now: try to use it to do something. Anything. Something as simple as write a NOTEPAD note, or play one song from iTunes.

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Nope! You are surely getting screenfulls of information telling you, this Apple device has been locked and only the original owner can unlock it.

I suppose this is to prevent people from stealing Apple devices and reselling them to pawn shops or on eBay and Craigslist, and it must be working. Soon even the most savvy thieves will know, don't even bother to try to steal an Apple device or a Tesla car, for as soon as you do it gets bricked from all the satellites in space.

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I'm writing this because I bought a nine year old iPad on eBay and have spent the last two weeks trying to get through to AL-SUPPORT Activation Lock support at Apple, asking them to unlock it. And of course they don't care, I am not the original owner of the device, and unless I am, it is as useless as a digital brick. Battery life, screen quality, beautiful craftsmanship of the item itself, nothing matters. It just sits there telling me I'm practically a criminal for even owning this device.

No matter that the original owner gave up on it long ago, when even the simplest apps like YouTube and Gmail stopped working on it, by design, intentional planned-obsolescence coming down from Apple themselves. With the iOS getting relentlessly updated every year, all the apps get forcibly recompiled and anything old just doesn't work any more at all.

They don't care about this device any more. It was just a real-world dongle they used to get information from and about the original owner, information they've got stored in their giant database in the Cloud. They don't really care about me at all.

and I can imagine the universe is littered with these devices, an Oort Cloud of them completely surrounding the planet, mentally bricked by the iOS updates and physically bricked by the Activation Locks, I'm a criminal for owning one, and were I to bring it to an Apple store to complain, they would have no useful help for me at all, "Buy a new one!" they'd tell me.

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Who is the problem here --- me, or Apple?
still not a definition of a 'good company'

If I would have to guess, OP may want to go into a non profit or a creator based company like Kickstarter or companies that have joined to be a B Corp [0]

[0] https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/
Vinay Prasad MD wrote a good explanation about why it will be impossible to avoid this virus.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
While that looks like a great monitor, it's a 21.6" 4K OLED monitor that seems to retail for over $3000. It's less of a ridiculous option than the $6000 Apple 32" display, but for most of us (including, I'm fairly confident, original article author Casey Liss), it still falls into the "if you aren't sure you need this, you don't need this" category.
It's not dubious, it's factual and interesting, bearing in mind that the study was conducted in Zurich, which has very good public transport and is quite walkable.

If shared e-scooters mostly replace walking then the comparison with cars is not relevant and indeed they result in increased use of resources and energy.
Strongly agree with this. I'd add that shared vehicles of any kind make multimodal transportation far more feasible.

For example, I can walk to a bike dock, take a bike a few miles, then dock it. I can then bus/rideshare home as a result of weather, timing, luggage, etc.

It's certainly possible to do this with owned vehicles to some extent, but with far less flexibility.
>>Makes sense. You could own an ebike or scooter for years, but the shared ones have a much shorter lifespan, sometimes as little as a few days or a week. Vandals, people riding 2 to a scooter, etc.

Your personal assertion bears no relationship with the case, and rationale, presented in the paper.

The paper's author's simply found out that shared e-bike/scooter users answered in a survey that if they did not had access to that mode of transportation then the next best option would be walking, and thus the authors proceeded to conclude that shared e-bike s/scooters are bad for the environment because if they didn't existed then people would walk and walking doesn't pollute as much.

To me, frankly, that sounds like specious reasoning. Walking is only an option in routes which are not that long and are not served by affordable public transportation with an acceptable availability. It makes no sense to depict a mode of transportation to be bad for the environment only if there is no alternative, and it makes no sense to assert that the same mode of transportation became awesome for the environment if a preferable but more polluting mode of transportation is suddenly provided.
More details would be helpful here. Are you B2B? B2C? What are your fulfillment constraints? How big are your deals? How long is your sales cycle?

Knowing only what you've shared, I'd want to know if you considered A) Hiring your 1st salesperson or B) Making your first marketing/growth hire
People bring up this semantic web thing in Web 3.0 discussions all the time. I still don't know what he was talking about. I don't think it happened, though?

Semantic Web 3.0 and blockchain web3 stuff both suffer from at least one shared problem* -- the internet is a living, evolving system. Web 2.0 was labeled in retrospect to describe a general, but clearly visible change in the way websites were build. Much easier to predict something that has already happened and which everyone can see.

The only prediction I think that we can make about the internet is that it will defy any predictions that we make about it.

*Not to say this is the only problem either had -- for example, web3 also suffers from a wide range of credibility issues, IMO.
Your a man after my own heart!
Yea I agree with the social aspect of it, but social aspects can be made to bend and break a physical limitation is impossible.
Hand-coding a website using only rudimentary HTML tags (eg, <p> or <br>) and nothing else, resulting in a charmingly-ugly yet functional self-published site. Roughly speaking, like much of the internet was in the 90's.
and how often is taking a shared e-bike a gateway to getting a personal e-bike..
At some level every productive job enables bad things to happen. Farmers grow food that allows people to eat and code up ransomware. So at some point you have to decide that you are satisfied with your job being far enough away from the people directly doing bad things, and also satisfied that your job helps people do some good things as well.
For many many people, 2 years is not a reasonable life expectancy for a $1000 monitor. My current home monitors are 1 (€400 27" 1440p165 IPS), 4 (€500 27" 1440p144 IPS) and 7 (€250 21" 1080p60 IPS) years old
>I went to college mostly as a means to get some distance from my horrible family, and I advise anyone coming from a rough family to go to college just so you don't need to do with your family as much. You don't need to go to a good one, even with a GED. You can always go down to community college a few cities over.
That can more than be enough.

What major did you choose?

How did you manage to find an apartment and the means to pay for independently one at 18?
Hey steve, arjun here from doola, this is really valuable feedback because *we do your taxes (form 5472/1120) AND your annual compliance as part of our plan! Our messaging / copy clearly doesn't indicate this / message this properly so we are going to implement a fix asap that improves this.

As to justifying the cost for our plan, if you factor in the cost of having a lawyer/CPA do your IRS filings (there can be heavy fines up to $25K for not filing or incorrectly filing form 5472 https://www.doola.com/blog/filing-requirements-for-foreign-o...) and certain CPAs can charge well upwards of $1000 for this filing alone + your annual report with the state + registered agent, US address, our entire perks and rewards database (https://www.doola.com/rewards), and access to us on a monthly bases for free tax consultations, LLC amendments etc, we've heard there is lots of value BUT we are always on the lookout to add more and as a little sneak peek, stay tuned for some bookkeeping, payroll + banking stuff we have in the works (note we can help with all three of these things now but we do it through partners, we have some ideas to more tightly integrate / embed this in to our offering to provide even more value and a better customer experience).
The “roadie wrap” technique works on Christmas lights - you can’t do a satisfying throw and have the cable unfurl perfectly like you can with a roadie wrapped power cord but xmas light strings are usually too long to throw out to unfurl anyway plus the lights catch on the wires so throwing is out but putting the loop on the floor and having it perfectly unwrap as you pull the end never gets old :-)
The presence of e-bikes popularizes biking infrastructure in cities.

Cycling infra suffers from a catch 22: if there isn't any, people won't purchase bikes and thus won't bike. If people don't bike, cycling infrastructure isn't in demand.

Shared e-bikes lower the barrier of entry to cycling and thus people push their cities to invest in cycling infrastructure. Which increases cycling as a whole.

E-scooters are horrible but i suspect they have a similar positive effect long term.

Course correction on decades of car dependency may require over-correction in certain cities. E-scooters are likely that.

Here in Brussels, the sudden popularity of e-scooters caused a few e-bike startups to appear and get funding. The e-scooter boom faded but e-bikes gained as a result, and demand for cycling infrastructure is way up. Now the city is seriously pedestrianizing everything, which would not have happened had there not been these low barrier of entry alternatives (public transportation is very mediocre).
Sure, but how much better are they for the environment than owned cars? Shared buses?

I'm not particularly convinced by the figure in 5.2. While the personal automobile costs may be accurate per average mile, it's not clear to me if it is accurate per short-trip mile.
> They werent using public transportation, rideshares or cars to begin with, so it isnt reducing them

That seems counter-intuitive. If I had to get somewhere not served by public transport, I would simply drive there. Having a conveinient way to get an e-bike once I get to the closest transit stop is the thing that would make me consider not taking the car.

Did these guys get public funding for this?
That domain! I’m surprised it didn’t trigger any security filters.

That said, this looks really cool. I like it integrates with your own editor.
Tesla owner blew up Model S with dynamite rather than pay $22K to repair it
Most commenters seem to completely miss the problem of agreeing on the strategy before agreeing on the color. That agreement is at least as difficult as the problem of agreeing on a color itself (because the space of possible strategies is, in some sense, larger than the space of colors), so this is in some sense a recursive problem. The article itself touches on this meta-strategy agreement problem, but then completely ignores it when presenting other strategies (and doesn't go above the first "meta" level).

You could argue that humans have a certain inbuilt meta-strategy for agreeing on strategies and are all inherently different enough to symmetry-break the situation eventually. But the problem supposes everyone is a perfect logician (not a fallible human), and so relying on this "inbuilt meta-strategy" is as mathematically interesting as the answer "people put into this situation will often succeed". (Note that, when pairing up most top-level comments in this thread, if they were executed as written, you would end up with people either failing or never finishing.)

I also think that randomness is, mathematically, a cop-out for two reasons: It requires some external source of "symmetry breaking" (although I suppose humans are decent enough at picking random numbers), and it only gives a probabilistic solution (although this will be good enough in practice). And it does not in itself contribute to solving meta-problem of strategy agreement either.

In terms of a solution to the problem as posed, we can reason that, since the other side is a perfect logician, they will not choose a (meta-)*strategy that can possibly result in a "deadlock". For example, they will not choose "I wait until you write 'blue' and then say 'blue' to the host, and I will never diverge from this strategy" as this runs into a deadlock with the same strategy but different color. "Deadlock" here doesn't necessarily mean "fails to break symmetry", as some strategies don't require that ("choose the average of the two RGB values").

The question remains whether there exists any provably non-deadlockable (meta-)*strategy. If, for every communicated strategy (and this includes any level of meta-strategy), a different strategy is conceivable that results in a deadlock, the problem has no solution. I don't know the answer to this, but here are some thoughts:

- Are what I called "deadlocks" above not just symmetry breaking failures on the (or a certain) meta-level?

- We can average colors to avoid the need for symmetry breaking in color choice. Can we do the same on the (meta-)*strategy level somehow?

- If messages must not be of finite length, it feels like there should be some trick to obtain a solution. But I guess we are interested only in finite message lengths.
Hey! Responded to steves comment above with more color on what is included in our plan (tldr we do include IRS tax filing + annual compliance and more) but it is again very valuable for us to see that we are not messaging this clearly enough on our pricing page!
As someone who's always been somewhat mediocre at JS and html/css programming, but finds himself needing to build something new every few years. I'm constantly amazed at how much easier it's become to build something that I would have wanted to build before, but didn't have the experience or time to build.

I recently built a dashboard/reporting site for Neo4j that's completely config driven (delivered from the backend), which can refetch the config (with a gmail style "Settings have changed - Refresh" notification) and have only changed parts of the site update. It has tables with resizeable columns, filtering, search, ordering, virtualization, server side fetch, etc. It has progress charts, bar charts, counts, markdown rendering, json schema rendering. It has inputs that autocomplete, with single or multi-select. It's fully responsive, and works perfectly on desktops, tablets and phones.

If I would have tried to build this three years ago, I wouldn't have been able to do a fraction of these things. So, rant away, but the frontend community is amazing and they deserve way more credit than they get.
I always use my Index in 90 Hz because 144 Hz is hard to drive. You have to generate a frame for both eyes in under 7ms.
Maybe people could just make and sign posts in an appropriate group that you can subscribe to/diff/edit as you please.
Sure but you’ll have folks doing that whether an idea is brilliant or utterly idiotic. That in and of itself doesn’t really mean anything other than the idea is polarizing.
The Little Book of Rust Macros - https://veykril.github.io/tlborm/introduction.html.
I was trying to be snarky, implying that it's easy to make a site with no tech when that site has no feature and no content. I am quite curious at what you're trying to say, because I caught the sarcasm but none of your meaning.

Your first sentence goes my way, but then... I don't know.
For capturing, HDCP is also a DRM (but now broken). Even Cinavia exists for recording by camera.
There's nothing stopping you from hosting a functional website from an IP address.
Hi! Arjun here from doola. This is spot on, we have worked with 1000s of customers and we believe we're experts BUT that doesn't justify not having enough value in our offering and we are always on the lookout / prowl to add additional services/products to our suite to truly provide a "one-stop-shop" offering!
DNS fulfills a direct consumer need -- to more easily access a website. I'm hard pressed to say what a claim on a JPEG fulfills. Sounds like it makes the world harder to navigate for consumers, like a tollbooth on a public park.
(I am concentrating on scooters as I know a lot about them. I know much less about bikes, but you are asserting they are both great so I get to concentrate on either.)

You are literally throwing an opinion at a pile of data :(. This isn't a "framing" issue--some narrative you can just throw out--this is an actual study that is claiming the exact opposite of what you are asserting.

The biggest issue you are missing--which, FWIW, isn't new from this article: we also knew this years ago, though the analyses were less formal--is that these scooters don't actually replace "personal automobiles".

Now, you might claim "well they do for me", but you are in sufficient minority of people that you just don't matter. As this very study directly shows, these shared scooters mostly replace trips people would have walked or bicycled, not driven (in either a personal or shared vehicle).

The core problem with them is that the majority of trips people use in personal automobiles are for shopping and commuting, and the shared scooter programs don't solve shopping use cases at all and have only minimal impact on commuting (due to a combination of the distance the majority of commuters--weighted by their miles commuted, which is actually critical even if it sounds circular--are commuting combined with the extreme clockwork certainty they require in being able to reliably find a nearby scooter even at short distances).

It gets a lot worse for the scooters also--which this study does seem to be factoring in--because they tend to be somewhat "disposable" in a way you might not expect or appreciate given the battery they require: they are left outside constantly and as a public goods issue tend to get treated very poorly and even directly destroyed. In my community, they seriously end up in the ocean, due to a combination of people leaving them on the beach or even directly throwing them in.

(In our local community, the scooters mattered so little to the scooter company that when they were impounded by the police for various reasons the companies wouldn't even bother coming to pick them up; the local police were freaking out about what to do with the giant pile of scooters they were accumulating ;P.)

They also have to be collected and dragged back to electricity to charge, and then re-balanced across the city. This tends to get done in inefficient ways by random people doing "gig economy" work, and those vehicle trips--which were mostly done using low fuel efficiency trucks--to pick up and move the scooters after every handful of uses has to be taken into consideration.

The reality is then that people who go around insisting that these scooters get deployed everywhere are just making the environment worse: they are making very little impact on car trips while more than compensating for their benefit in production/waste, charging/rebalancing trips, and reduced usage of actually green transportation (such as bicycles).
Eventually that folds over after becoming brittle.
And to tag on, there's even a 6-second 4K video of that deployment step: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020300/a020339/WEBB_H...

That's from this link:

https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/deploymentExplo...

I feel so spoiled that NASA provides video clips of each specific deployment step.
Then study is doing a bogus comparison then. All forms of transportation are bad for environment when the alternative is people are forced to stay home.
> I still don't understand why people keep harping on about choice.

Because they don't want the choices other people made for them.
Internet Literacy Atrophy
Sure they do. I’ve used those parental controls myself.

Every single app in the App Store has an age rating. An underaged user can only download apps in the age categories that their parents have specifically authorized.