skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked with a guy that could do the same work as everyone else in a few hours and spent the rest of his time playing quake.

The bosses liked him. He got a ton of work done.

The only thing I don't like is that people might feel scammed. If they know what you're doing there is no issue at all.
There is a similar apocryphal story about the border between Belarus and Lithuania. The story goes that Stalin had set his pipe down on the map, and no one dared move it, so they just drew around it. The result is a conspicuous bulge in the border South of Vilnius.
What I am looking for is control over the results. Personalized blacklists and lists of sites to be (de)prioritized and also the ability to subscribe to community curated versions of the same.

And to be clear I want to be able to control these myself, not algorithm trying to guess my preferences. No guessing, just do what I tell you to.

Multiple search profiles with different priorities would be nice too.

I would like the search algorithm to be transparent, I should be able to tell why I got a certain result and how I can avoid such results in the future.
International Communia Association (https://www.communia-association.org/) is one group that I am aware of.
Loyalty as currency: Blockchain meets Taylor Swift meets BK meets Loyalty
1) technically, someone is fabricating semiconductors in their garage, but as regards the world economy your point is still valid: https://hackaday.com/2021/06/29/garage-semiconductor-fab-get...

2) the equipment used in older fabs, is in many cases not even made any more. It's much like why the vinyl record manufacturing took a decade or more to ramp back up when the demand for vinyl records began going up instead of down. Nobody was making that equipment any more. The older fabs don't use the same equipment as the new fabs, except less of it; they use quite different equipment, and in some cases newer equipment actually wouldn't be able to make the older chips. I don't work in semiconductors, but I did from 1989 to 2004, and worked on several cases of trying to move old processes into newer fabs. It's not easy or quick, and in some cases you have to move the old fabs' equipment into the new fab.
The Speed Of GCD (2013)
Most shows and movies developed by Netflix are profoundly uninspired: they take no risks and produce content that is mostly acceptable but quickly forgotten.
I'm really surprized this is reliable (of course they know what they are doing). Maybe because all the wirebonds to the dies are encased in epoxy (?) and the other bonds are so thick. Even then I would be worried they would snap off or lift their pads.

I wasn't directly involved but I still have nightmares about wirebonding. For a large partice physics experiment, we bonded electronics to silicon (wafer) sensors. Those small bonds would start oscillating and break as soon as there was any noise with their resonance frequency. It took cooling and heating cycles also pretty badly. In the end they sorted out all problems somehow, but the association "wirebond = delicate" stuck with me.
TBF, when I looked at this list, I didn't think any of these companies would decline.

Although, I didn't pick FB, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the votes were just people that picked the company they thought might grow the least. Or the company they hate the most - which no one should be surprised is FB by a large margin. It's been the tech punching bag for like almost a decade now.

The largest reason I DON'T see a decline from FB is that everyone has been talking about how much they hate FB for years. And despite that, it's still been growing like a weed.
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DVD has an issue with scratches, but bluray and later discs have a scratch resistant coating that works extremely well.
Even with free testing, having to test every other day to do some social activity is a burden. At the very least, you have to go to your local test center to do something not particularly enjoyable, and wait for the results.

I'm sure most of the unvaccinated simply avoid "unnecessary" social events, or didn't do them in the first place (i.e. "I don't socialize, I don't need a vaccine").
> I favor the latter explanation as intel has been underperforming for nearly two decades now.

Remember "Only the paranoid survive"?

Well, people steeped in Intel took that to heart. So, when they retired or died, a lot of them had no heir apparent and their knowledge went with them.
I feel we have a (not accidental) misunderstanding about left/right in the US, which serves to misdirect everyone from acknowledging class. Focusing on identity serves only to split the lower and middle classes. Whereas the elites exhibit marvelous class solidarity.
Honestly, I would applaud them for the fact that they're doing their work so efficiently. If they're the type of person that gets a task and completes it in a quarter or half of the time expected, I think I made a good hiring decision. Heck, am I actually winning since I'm technically underpaying this person?

I would consider looking into why I'm not challenging this employee. Maybe they need to be paid more or given more difficult tasks. I would talk to them and see if they wanted more, if not, fine they're doing their work and I'm paying them appropriately. Pretty simple really.

What's the point of an employer getting upset about getting what they paid for?
They're both problems.

This slowness is approaching the point where even checking for joysticks on a dedicated thread would start having delay problems. And spawning a thread per file would be ridiculous and would get even more scorn if it was slow, "why are you spawning so many threads, of course that's not efficient".
Is there anyone who believes that copyright lengths have been decided by some kind of balanced process between equal parties that carefully looked at the economic interests and societal interests or is it just monopolists like Disney buying longer strangleholds on culture to make money?

If you believe the latter, there's no point in writing about the balance of interests, you need to build counter power. We're just so far outside the regime of anything resembling reason. Talking about the balance of interests is only of use to try to decide if we should have copyrights at all in some theoretical alternate universe.
Pretty sure the Greeks have all the materials for these.

Create batteries from dissimilar metals, using clay pots, weak organic acids, and copper wire. Once you have batteries, wind copper wire around a small, rough rod of iron to create a weak magnet.

A mineral acid will produce stronger batteries, but require access to things like salammoniac and blue vitrol and the knowledge of how to heat them together and pass the resulting gases through water.
It became Real/32. Too bad the 286 version (using LOADALL to virtualize real mode) doesn't seem to be available anywhere, would be fun to see how it actually performed...
Why isn't there a stronger push to scale the terms down? Those corrupt who profit from it for more than a century have nothing to do with the authors.
Treefrog: A code editor that uses both AST and text editing commands
I think in 2022 it’s more like 15B. 10 sounds very early-2020.
In the US I think hate speech is protected under freedom of speech but I disagree with that. Hate speech leads to violence. This isn't about disagreeing with what Sam says. In a perfect world people decouple "speech" from their actions/beliefs but in the real world people act on what they believe and what they believe is influenced by "speech" (sometimes more so than by things like "facts", "reality", "science", "logic".) Now some of that is mostly harmless, like the flat earth. But if your speech results in harm then you should be held responsible and speech that we know results in harm should not be protected.
Competitive with somebody. Just not with FAANG.
I guess there's also the rise of influencers in the mix here. The commoditization of publishing means content creators can more easily work independently.
Well both things are problems which is nice to know about so you can fix them. Certainly better than not knowing about either problem.
The chip fabs of Intel, Samsung, TSMC, and a couple other companies were not being starved, no. But, nobody was starting new semiconductor fab companies like they did in the early days of Silicon Valley (hence the "silicon" part of the name). That hasn't been happening for a couple decades now.
I'd think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_metal
I think google.

FB is the obvious one, but they see the writing on the wall and are making plans. I think google is the one that has been complacent but doesn't realize it, so its the one most likely to fail. Its also the only one without effective competition, which is all the more reason it will be taken by surprise.
I simply said I liked the guy, and I disagree with him on something specific.
I am sure he believed what he said. I simply disagree with it.
Google is Alphabet. It's MAAAM, and sounds like Cartman.
The discussion with Dr. Malone is quite fascinating. I would encourage everyone to watch the entire interview and be ready to take notes. There is a lot of information packed into this interview.
EBeam lithography will get you sub 10nm, but it's one at a time.
Funding your own oracle or acting as a physician with modern knowledge about microbes and what causes disease would be a much more profitable enterprise. Disclosing that you are from the future (a future without Greek gods, none less) would be a disastrous move. You simply couldn't tell the truth and remain alive
Probably the same one that Doctorow has used to monetize all his Creative Commons novels. It's jarring that I can freely read every book he's ever written (or at least most of them), but not a short blog post about a laptop.

It's like if Ubuntu's package manager started selling the ability to read reviews of the different packages. Canonical has already built a company around giving away an entire operating system for free.
Salvador Dali's Creative Secret is Backed by Science
Arguably the reasons there are more remakes and adaptations of existing franchises is specifically for value to accrue to those IP's, in a very siloed and narrow way with minimal cross-pollination across brand ownership lines.
> Nonsense - you can get everything from trash to exceptional quality food, depending on the store you buy it from. Not disputing your point that small farmers have it hard but on the consumer side there's lots of choice.

When money is of no concern to you, sure. But reality is many people can't even afford to buy organic foods.
OSC's Ender's Game pretty much nailed blogging, in 1977.

Though the OG is probably E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops (1909).

(Animats beat me to that by 3 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784546)
> iOS, by itself, weirdly does not have any APIs for looking for workouts in its own “Fitness” app like this, so the top block is a third-party app..

No need for third party app at all!

https://kevingrahl.de/temp/shortcuts.png
I don’t understand these backup tools which masquerade as VCS extensions.

I want my VCS commits to be intentional. If they’re not then I’m just using a fancy VCS tool[1] for backup—just set up a _dumb_ backup routine that backs up every X interval and doesn’t have to care about the intentionality behind any changes made (the domain of version control).

And if you get into a situation where you haven’t committed for such a time while that you risk losing “days of work” then… seriously? You might want to get a better Git client where committing isn’t such a pain (IMO the CLI is too much typing for git(1). Magit is great).

And as already mentioned there is the reflog. Which is difficult enough for me to navigate sometimes without some pseudo-backup tool making a mess (on top of _my_ mess…).

[1] Git might be “stupid” but it’s also quite fancy.
workaround for medium: open it in a private tab :)
Most of their innovation recently is under the hood or not consumer facing yet. Kubernetes, AI, Waymo, etc
Amazing all is possible without everyone milking the same characters and universe over and over and over.

It would be way better if economic system favored many smaller competing studios producing a lot of different stuff. Better then one or two big ones, doing essentially same or similar movie again and again.
If you mean, would companies take advantage of the situation to raise prices and increase margins, then yes of course they do.

If you mean, this whole problem wouldn't even exist if the businesses weren't trying to create it, no that is not the case. They were fully as greedy and deceptive before 2020.

It should also be pointed out that some businesses involved had, in fact, too low of a profit margin to invest in new capacity, so trying to raise prices and increase margins, while self-interested, isn't always bad from the perspective of the entire economy. If you want new capacity, it needs to have money put into it to make that happen.
You're assuming he knew where he was. There's a good book called Sahara Unveiled that has several stories in it about people getting lost in the Sahara and dying of thirst. In many cases they were only a mile or two from a place where they could have been saved. The problem is the roads aren't good and are often covered by sand, so people get disoriented and don't know where they are or where they are trying to go. Plus if you leave the shade during the day you will lose water even faster. Maybe this story is fake or staged, but many people have died of thirst in the Sahara even though they could've walked out.
So?

The reasons the networks cared about the Nielsens so much was that they directly translated into how much they could charge for a 30 second ad block.

Netflix obviously does care about how many people are watching its shows. If no one is watching licensed content they won't renew licenses on it or similar content. If a new show isn't doing well and doesn't have passionate fans, they'll cancel it. (Possibly faster than a network would have.)

But they only care about how many people are watching something to the degree it increases the number of people subscribing which is a correlation that is harder to measure.
Throw netflix back and make it MAMANA :D
And back catalogue stuff too. Amazon bought MGM, something netflix should have done. Paramount is launching its own service rather than Netflix buying them.
Your original comment:

>"Ryan Petersen is a very smart person and is fun to listen to. It was sad to see him spewing BS on Twitter against taxing the rich. But he's got to protect his money I guess."

You didn't actually "[say] you liked the guy", and you didn't "disagree with him on something specific". You said he is "a very smart person" and that he was "spewing BS... to protect his money".
I don't know, that's about 2.5% of the worlds population. All paid subscribers. Haven't checked out their financials, but are they making money yet?
The Muppet in me is still holding out for MANAMA.
NIH Syndrome.

Australia was just as 'set in its ways' back in the 70s as the US is now. Yes, there was a cost. Yes it was a time of forcing our heads to work in different ways. But it was only a period of maybe 3-4 years of 'dual-thinking' before Metric became the norm.

A mere 10 years later I hit the States. Temperatures in Fahrenheit were mumbo-jumbo to me: (30 degrees overnight? So hot!! Or maybe not.) A distance in miles was weird. I had to keep converting back to Metric in my head.(Rule of thumb when driving - 100Km = 1 hour; 350Km = three and a half hours; just move the decimal point. How long to drive 138 miles? Huh?)
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Yet another:

https://search.brave.com/search?q=chrysalide+not+my+world+ly...
Walk at night? That’s better in the desert and you can use the stars to hold course.
Or there's a reason that their competition is effective. Search is impossibly hard to pull off.
I added some explanation on the page itself now.
For anybody wanting to explore this concept further, Oscar Wilde already did that long ago in The Picture of Dorian Grey.

Essentially, [Spoilers] the more the hedonistic protagonist gives into his desires, the more a physical image of him becomes grotesque. I always imagine this when trying to beat my own bad habits.
Stand on Zanzibar had the Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere televisions that inserted viewers into the action, though that's less content creation and more immersion, perhaps.
>Why would a person who is broken be right ever? Because a specifically broken type of clock is?

because even those with psychotic tendencies tend to express them with a level of consistency.

Example : A paranoid schizophrenic may tell everyone that he's being followed habitually, but that doesn't mean he's wrong -- in fact in some cases the (three letter agencies) may use this trait to their advantage.[0]

[0]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-fbi-knew-oklahoma-bomb-p...
I am honestly having a hard time articulating why I don't like the idea of people donating their money to me for what I do. I will try, maybe I am irrational?

There is so much money being passed around in web hosting review space, by companies to affiliates. I still make thousands per month off these affiliate deals. If my site were to rank at the top of search engines, I would be plenty compensated. Having individuals sponsor the work and it continuing to languish is a position I'm not really a fan of. A single sale commission can range from a few dollars to high hundreds or occasionally a thousand+. I can't imagine enough people wanting to donate a meaningful amount that would change that equation. I'd personally feel bad for every Patreon sponsor putting in 5,10,20 dollars because I might feel like I'm not doing enough with it. If those people just sent one person who ended up purchasing via a link on my site, it would likely outweigh most donations, it would also spread the reach to places I likely can't get to.

That's just what is running through my head, I don't know if that makes any sense.
> the CPGs, like Coke and P&G

Did any of these heavily buy newspaper ads before 2000? Definitely TV, possibly magazine, but newspaper? I just don't remember seeing ads for Tide in newspapers.
I read the entire article waiting for the definition of "loser" and never got it, which was a huge disappointment.

Having no basis for what a "loser" is and having the english context to know a "loser" is a negative, "people this author doesn't like" was the only concept I could relate "loser" with. There's just nothing else to pin it to ... in the entire article.

Effectively, what he is saying, is that ultimately he gets to decide who wins and who loses. There are no other rules to the game. And let's just say given those rules, I'd rather play the squid game.
Business can't make more money by not delivering product. If demand and capacity were both the same, but prices were simply raised, things wouldn't be out of stock. So either demand increased, or supply decreased, or both - but simply saying "businesses wanted to increase prices" can't explain the shortages for things that are hard to find.

Even for most of the hard-to-find things, many of the hardest-hit businesses haven't significantly raised their own prices. E.g. in-demand new cars have dealer markups but largely haven't seen huge bumps in MSRP even when sold out like the Ford Maverick or Kia Telluride. PS5/Xbox/Switch prices have been flat. Apple device prices haven't seen any unusual spikes due to shortages.

There's the interesting question for the conspiracy folks: why aren't many of these businesses raising prices? Why is Sony letting resellers sell PS5s for over $100 over MSRP still (e.g. https://stockx.com/sony-ps5-playstation-5-blu-ray-edition-co... ) instead of meeting demand where it is?

Probably those businesses see the PR hit of big MSRP bumps as worse than the short term boost in revenue from capturing more $$$ from the high current demand.
I just listened to a 40 minute summary of this book on Scribd, after reading your comment. This will be helpful. Thanks for sharing.
I don't see how Netflix will hold ground. Streaming tech is now a commodity, not a moat. 2-3 years ago I would have said Netflix is the streaming sub to have. Hard to say that now. Disney, HBO and Amazon also have great original content and huge catalogues that could sustain a family as the only sub. Apple is growing a small but quality catalogue, and bundling within the ubiquitous iCloud package. Amazon has a massive bought-in base being that they bundled it with Prime shipping. There are countless other legacy network subs and content re-packagings to choose from.

So I don't see Netflix as particular a leader in content, scale, or value.

Their best (only?) post-streaming tech innovation is the collaborative filtering. A way of finding something passable to watch that is better that channel flipping broadcast TV. Now there is so much great content that people just go straight to the show with the buzz.

If there is one promising area they lead now I'd say it's internationalized content like Squid Game and Money Heist, but I'm not convinced this is big enough moat.
There are multiple data points, evidence of heart issues being caused by vaccines, Moderna in particular because of higher relative doses. It's not unreasonable to suspect causation when the event matches a known pattern.
I can't but agree with this column. I've come to think of CBC News as the "Women's Human Interest Review" except Hanomansing of course, but getting decent news two nights a week for billions of dollars a year isn't what the Canadian tax payers signed up for. It's time for this Emperor to get some decent clothes on tout suite.
There's an all-time karma list as a feature of the board. https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
Student receives praise for bogus paper on how milk is a ‘colonizer’ of coffee
Puerto Rico identified at 70% white in the 2010 census, which might add some unnecessary complexity to your example.
So, on my system (Fedora 34, glibc 2.33, gcc11, Ryzen 5 3600) a trivial program takes only about 1 ms according to time:

$ cat trivial.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int nargs, char ** args)
{
FILE * f = fopen("/dev/null","w");
for (int i = 0; i < nargs; i++)
{
fprintf(f,"%s\n",args[i]);
}
return 0;
}

$ make trivial # just default CFLAGS
$ time ./trivial

real 0m0.001s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.001s

But if I add strace -tt, it does indeed take 9 ms, even if I redirect strace output

$ time strace -tt ./trivial 2> /dev/null

real 0m0.009s
user 0m0.005s
sys 0m0.004s

So, is author just measuring strace overhead?