skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the characters have been changed (in personality/storyline and in ethnicity) from the books and from the games. For example Yennefer is no longer a mature, smart person but now is a stereotypical "I'm a strong independent woman" character that has the personality of a 15 year old. Triss is completely different from the books and game. Fringilla magically changed to be black even though EVERY other Nilfgaardian is white. Side characters were changed to be black but still act as if they come from the same background as their original book characters. This doesn't make sense in a medieval Eastern Europe type environment.

This is what I mean by shoehorned in. HBO Rome did a great job of integrating racial diversity in a plausible way that made sense in the context of the story. Egypt/North Africa historically had Numidians in major leadership roles. The Witcher does not bother to write a story that makes sense with the replaced characters.

Again, I'm not white and even I can notice these changes.
> Well of course, blacks in the US are over 12% of the population and are 12% of the L5s in FAANG companies. Which of course is not the case - less than 2% of Facebook's technical workers in the US are black, 3% of Google overall is black etc. It's clear that diversity is not prevalent at all in Google, Facebook etc.

Is it? Keep in mind that the target hires for these companies are grads from serious CS programs. Are CS programs 12% blacks? Were they 15 years ago (when a now L5 graduated)?

It's like setting shop in Puerto Rico and favoring whites because, since Puerto Rico is part of the US and the US is ~55% white you should have that same proportion in your business.

The real question is, and that's an uncomfortable one, is why aren't we seeing enough minorities in serious CS programs.
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In my experience, traditional "analog" systems degrade far more gracefully and this applies to automotive too; there's usually a long period where you notice things getting worse slowly due to wear, before ultimate failure.
Sounds like what is happening in parts of Australia today, only under the context of COVID...
Rogan had a prescription for the human version, please do your research.
Lithium recycling DOES NOT exist in practice at the moment. Pilot projects exist but nothing at volume. It's 0% effectively.

There is excellent lead battery recycling of lead - >99%.
The government is fully capable of doing two dumb things at the same time.
The product is getting worse over time due to content providers cutting them off in favor of their own services.

It's a lot easier for Disney and their ilk to build streaming services than it is for Netflix to build Disney's content catalog. Props to Netflix though, they've been punching above their weight in that area.
ok, sounds good, now start dismantling them
This is really good. But make sure that you read the NASM documentation(It's really good) https://www.nasm.us/xdoc/2.15.05/html/nasmdoc0.html .

Specifically my main gripe with this is the fact that X64 code changes alot of what this is assuming and can lead into ALOT of pitfalls. So make sure you read https://www.nasm.us/xdoc/2.15.05/html/nasmdo12.html (The x64 bit programming section) if you do follow this guide.
I think the argument might be different opinions on the value of social networking.

Personally, I think "social networking" has value, but trying to use Facebook is a net negative for me, so I don't get any value out of it at all! On the other hand, I get some value out of SnapChat and TikTok, for as little as I do use them.

That doesn't mean one of them will "win" and overtake Facebook for social networking purposes, but it does mean there is competition, and the original open question of how valuable social networking of the sort Facebook provides will remain into the future.
Netflix needs content which results in the maximum number of subscribers at a given point in time. Which has some correlation to eyeballs but is very different from networks selling ads based literally on eyeballs (and their demographics).

This requires some combination of quality (whatever that means exactly), pop culture relevance (Squid Games), and good enough filler so that less selective viewers don't run out of stuff to watch. Of course, they can program for niches more than traditional broadcast TV did too.
Nope. Out of those 900 discs I rented, I've only had to return maybe 2 or 3 as unplayable, and Netflix will immediately send out a replacement or the next disc in your queue, without waiting to receive the return.
Tesla, for the most part, is skipping that validation and just shipping cars. The warranty issues from Tesla have been notorious, but their business model is to ship cars as fast as possible and deal with warranty issues later. They were able to side-step much of the chip supply issues by either shipping cars without certain features (no adjustable seats, no USB-C ports, etc.) and also switching to newer 7nm+ parts, like the AMD Ryzen x86 chips that they've started shipping in the past few weeks. Their direct sales model allows them to easily change the price on the website, and so far, they still have unbelievable demand.
Facebook if antitrust actually does its job properly (notably, give back Whatsapp to Brian Acton and Jan Koum, don't require a log-in to view public Instagram photos, and don't tie the Oculus to Facebook accounts)
How is it any different than remembering and using people's preferred names?
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Add "FAANG alumni on resume" to that list.
It's interesting to compare this to Ghost in the Shell (1995) a key influence on the Matrix. It also had a re-release in 2008 which brought the color palette in line with the GITS extended universe, but that re-release is consistently referred to as 2.0 and is understood as a separate release.

This kind of sloppy mastering across different platforms suggests that whoever is in charge of ensuring the original films are available in high-quality formats is not doing a great job.
Accounted deaths are a fraction of actual. The Economist used a pretty good model to estimate 15.3mm excess deaths globally back around November
Sounds like you're open minded - the upside is you make a couple million in the next couple years. Your downside is you're unemployable and dealing with potential lawsuits. Anecdotally I've known people that have made "errors of judgement" and it took them years to find another job.

But let's say you pull this off. What then? You say you want to start a company but you're deluding yourself if you think it takes a couple million to do that. Constraints are a gift, you're more likely to burn through the couple million.

Maybe you could retire. But I don't get the impression you're the type of person to retire - you're already retired if your jobs take "5-10 hours a week".

So I have to ask what's the point of taking on the massive risk to your reputation? Is this something you're proud of? You're clearly already well off.
They want the netflix interface to be the only queue you use by default when your brain is tired.

If they are just a content provider to apple, they lost.
The thing you have to consider is genetics (parentage). Most don't men don't want to raise a child (and all the effort involved in that) that is not their own (without consent, outside adoption, etc). It's a very reasonable position and the basis for this arrangement appearing in most religions and legal systems.
Funny, I had it auto open at 8am and close at civil twilight automatically, and it was the auto closing that was the much bigger deal for me.
Which ones. They can index their own, but for the others only the public stuff. Facebook has a lot of things private so nobody can see them except your friends. (they are by no means perfect, but a lot of things are private and only seen by friends - most of it isn't of interest to a search engine anyway but comments of the form "I love X product" could in a perfect world be indexed as a sign of what people find good)
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>Also, people die

I deleted Facebook last year. At that point, I had 420 friends, 10 of whom were dead. One of them I discovered was dead while going through the list of all my friends making notes of who they were. This was despite numerous posts on her wall about her death. The damned algorithm didn't bother to show me that bit of news.
That is literally its definition
Safety is a lot easier to achieve with fusion because it stops producing power instantly when containment fails and the amount of energy in the plasma isn't that high. It's hard to make a fission reactor both large enough for commercial scale and safe without cooling.

The second benefit is not producing high level radioactive waste. With fission you can't really get away from the decay products of your fissile materials, they're intrinsic to the process. With DT fusion you get He4 which is stable and neutrons. The neutrons are dangerous but will either quickly decay or be absorbed by something. By controlling what gets exposed to the neutron flux you can in principle achieve arbitrarily low levels of radioactive waste. That's a serious engineering challenge to get as low as possible but my understanding is that it's not hard to produce much less than with fission. You also want to produce Tritium which will later get consumed in the fusion process leaving only a moderate amount stored at any time so if things go well its not a long term problem. If the storage ruptures in a gentle then it escapes high up into the atmosphere. In the event of a containment breach you're probably going to get super heavy water steam which is an issue.

The regulatory framework is a real concern, depending on how many rules carry over from fission reactors. Back in the 1970s the term "fallout" carried connotations of people dying painfully in hours after exposure which is a different association than people born after the Cold War have. Also electricity generation back then was done on a cost plus basis so the people running the fission plants had every incentive that their costs were increased as much as possible. That isn't how we run our electricity grids any more so there aren't strong forces on the industry side fighting for tighter regulations.
I notice the article suggests he was 20 miles from a village. That sounds walkable in a couple of nights to me, as a fat middle aged man. I am pretty sure someone used to the terrain and climate could do it in a single leg.
FAANG == Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google.

It's an acronym specifically for those companies, which is why Microsoft was excluded.
Not a FAANG
Goofy context here:

‘sgbeal and I were doing some fossil dev work ourselves (I’m personally not at his level of fossil-fu, but am a long-running user and contributor). Our work was in a fossil repo (he in Europe, me in North America) and we were using the chat[0] feature to discuss our work when we noticed and discussed the GP post. Fossil has been self-hosting for ages, now is it self-correcting? /s

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Maybe "an interface to a traditional world sim with more window dressing", is all you need?

Especially if the traditional world sim is fairly rich itself (not like, as rich as the most rich that had been made before, but still decent), and the way the GPT part connects to it is good enough.
Weinstein himself was visibly shaken when he was "canceled", i.e., nearly attacked by a mob of ideologically brainwashed students.

But I suppose that was just a master plan to cash in on the IDW.
Just because they weren't armed doesn't mean it wasn't an insurrection. Republican leadership (McConnell) have used that term to describe it. They disrupted an important session to say something they thought was important, bringing tactical gear that would not be appropriate for a protest. What exactly were they protesting, while milling about in the Capitol building with several in-groups looking for political leaders to capture?

Oh, right - they were protesting a free and fair election that they lost. Their evidence was 100% baseless conspiracy theories - except in the rare case when fraud was found, it was found to be fraud in favor of their ticket (and extraordinarily limited in scope).

JFC, if you can't see that 6Jan was a bad thing for democracy, I don't think there's much more to discuss. I, for one, am excited for every day those assholes spend in prison and believe their coordination should be used as evidence of a coordinated attack on the US' legitimately elected government.
> the journals will be fully supported by article publication charges (APCs) assessed to authors.
Elimination of feelings is not a desired outcome and if extreme can be classed a disorder such and depression, dissociative disorder or psychopathy.

I found Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT and Wise Mind) very helpful in dealing with troublesome emotions and then Zen which, as you say, is about not letting them control your behavior or your thoughts but calmly observing them come and go. This is also part of ancient Greek and Roman philosophies such as Stoicism and part of what ancients like Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus were getting at.

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I've heard that too, but the way they backload RSUs feels kind of risky. You kinda have to tough it out 3+ years or take the loss if you need to move on earlier.
>it's not sped up by putting more on the production line or more engineers on the design side

Of course it is.

If revenue fell by 90%, nvidia would spend much less on R&D and progress would be much slower.

If revenue doubled, nvidia would spend much more on R&D and progress would speed up.

If revenue fell to $0, nvidia would go out of business, spend $0 on R&D, and progress would halt.

There's a direct, although not linear, relationship. The more money there is, the faster progress is (as long as you trust nvidia to spend it wisely and execute)

I don't mine crypto, but I like fast tech, so I say let the money keep flooding in so we all benefit.
You must have missed the news on Chesa Boudin [1], San Francisco's district attorney. He's so far extreme left that criminals essentially have free rein in the city because his office refuses to prosecute anyone.

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Wow.

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Exactly, FAANG is a thing of the past, now the MAMAA is the Big Five

(And TBH, it had been a surprise to be FANG, not FAMG to begin with)
I much prefer searching for something in the TV app and having my options to buy/rent/subscribe than have to deal with the cable monopoly.
Why? Fission is expensive partly because of the safety requirements- and for good reason. Fusion is far safer.
> Apple's real vulnerability in my view is that most of their value arises from extraordinarily high margins which in turn are driven by perception / fashion.

Well put. The iPhone is going on 15 years old. Once-hip iPhone users are becoming parents to children and teenagers that are getting their first devices. The iPhone will go the way of the Blackberry in the next 5-10 years and Apple will need to reinvent itself (again, without Jobs) in this time or see a rapid decline.
Needs an explanation of its algorithm, and the ability to set your own weightings.
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Agree with you there. You've got a founder led company making visionary plays that have every appearance of being on the right track. The Quest is not just a tech marvel, it was also the best selling game console this Christmas. The overall vision will take a few more hardware iterations, but has huge potential to replace smartphones, laptops, game consoles and offices. At this very moment there's another comment thread talking about how the web is an SEO spam graveyard and Google is ripe to be disrupted. Those thinking the disrupter is going to be Duck Duck Go are kidding themselves.
That was at least a carsharing car. It's a well-known fact that these need connectivity (your only means of unlocking them is the app, after all) and have a severely limited area where you could drive them. Though that one time when I took a carsharing car 70 km away from the city where it apparently couldn't communicate (but my phone had LTE) it didn't disable itself, it just didn't lock when the app thought it did. So it does depend on the particular way the particular company implemented its remote control unit I guess?

I'm talking more about the situation where it's your own car.
The word fang is pretty catchy.
》the treasury of the colonies held in British banks went on to pay the pensions of the colonisers.

I meant post independence, which is the definition of neo-colonisation.
Google is the dominant search engine essentially everywhere except for China and Russia.

Amazon's marketplace dominance is pretty US/UK specific, and even there, there are plenty of alternatives. Amazon marketplace is actually only available natively in a small handful of countries.

I feel like most people in this thread are grossly overevaluating Amazon's ability to stay relevant. If a competitor pops up with consistently better prices/better products/better marketing then they'll steal users from Amazon and over time dominance is lost.

What exactly does Amazon have that prevents me from stopping the use of it?

Google has excellent quality search results and a ton of products with a huge lock-in to their account ecosystem. Apple has fantastic product quality. Meta has a ridiculous network effect in three of the four products I use it for -- I can't even leave two of them (Whatsapp and FB) despite not even liking them! And Netflix consistently produces and publishes some of my favourite shows.

Amazon has nothing I can't get elsewhere, it's just a bit more consolidated. With the exception of AWS, and as I said upthread, who knows if that will remain the same company.
> It makes me wonder why we don't have more bands of underhoused Millenials going off into the wilderness to found new cities.

the young people i know come to cities in an attempt to establish themselves socially (i.e. to explore and make connections with more people like them). density (in terms of people per unit of travel time) is hugely relevant to that: leave for the wilderness and the breadth of social ties open to you substantially decreases.

this seems to me among one of the central generational conflicts in cities. young people primarily prefer city life for growing their social opportunities (and so a lot of them are interested in development/upscaling to facilitate that). AFAICT most families and older people come to cities for proximity to the basic needs, and either they don't value cities for the social component, or they're established enough that what they prefer is the stability of maintaining their existing ties v.s. growing new ones (so development/upscaling just gets in the way).
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