skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, it's not hatred. It's calling out the employers' bullshit. People have an inherent need to have "wins". Getting something you could envision. Used to be simple things like money, property, vacations, you know. Then the corporate psychologists figured out that instead of giving you a raise out of the corporate budget, they can let people have non-monetary "wins". "Thank you" letters, "parking for employee of the month", "product owner" titles, etc.

Pronouns are just another step in this sequence, but it's more divisive, since it comes with a tiny little power over other employees - occupying a slightly larger slot in their attention by having them remember them. All while the wage/home price ratio keeps plummeting, and retirement at any reasonable age has gone completely off the radar.

These problems affect ALL of us, regardless of our race, gender, sexual preferences, etc. They are not divisive at all, but they are harmful to the corporate profits. So the HR and the media are doing their best to bump made-up divisive issues to the top of our priorities, so we won't notice how we are being screwed.
Navigating in this history might be a challenge. But I agree. My disk is filled by dozens of random docket images yet few megabytes of diffs are not stored.
> “Apple could have gone and used that money to do all sorts of things. Instead, they’re using it to boost their stock price,” said William Lazonick

I don't think they are using that money to "only" boost their stock
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> Every show Shakespeare put on was slightly different.

And it would be awesome to have each and every one on film.

> Many comments here are clamoring for immutable masters.

Which are essentially free. We can't do this with buildings.
Definitely remember this being the case for Buffy on DVD.
I'm convinced facebook.com usage will completely tank. It is surviving on older people and newer market where it got popular later, but I believe all social websites have the cycle where it's unknown, then popular, then everybody's parents join, then no longer popular, then dead.

As for Whatsapp, it makes no money, and there are plenty of non-monetized instant messengers, so I can't see them making a profit there.

The one thing they still have is Instagram, but it's "reels" haven't beaten tiktok, and it's already filled to exhaustion with ads, so it's a matter of time before it's popularity starts to decline.

As for the multiverse, that will never amount to anything.
Well, as those 30+ year olds get older, marketers are going to give less and less of a shit about them.

Facebook makes most of their money from their ad network that mostly exists on sites that nobody actually needs to visit (Facebook, ig). In addition, Meta is spending a boat load on engineers who don't really want to work there, so they can make a "metaverse" which I'll bet most of them don't give half a shit about. Then they're going to market the hell out of it and at the end of the day I just don't think that many people are going to use it enough to make it all worthwhile.

I could be wrong but I think if Meta isn't careful in how they diversify their focus they could face a real reckoning that has nothing to do with their current political pushback.

Google search is still pretty good, and their ad network is used throughout the internet so I think they're safe.

Amazon will do whatever it takes to keep sales up, so I have faith in them. If nothing else they're a company that seems extremely capable of adapting to changing market conditions.
I am a man. My pronouns on my LinkedIn profile do nothing other than to appease a fringe part of society who thinks being incorrectly referred to by a different pronoun is an attack on their character. I don't feel the need to give in to these people. Someone who would repeatedly refer to you by the wrong pronouns doesn't care that your pronouns are on your profile. It is a solution looking for a problem.
We don’t ask questions like that around here, it induces vaccine hesitancy and sounds like misinformation. And we like to not ask questions that make us look anti mainstream.
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The biggest fertilizer input is nitrogen, usually as ammonia or a derivative, produced by reacting atmospheric hydrogen with fossil derived methane. It would be entirely possible to acquire this methane from renewable resources (cows, landfill, compost) but isn’t economical and not a huge source of fossil usage anyway.

The rest of the mineral fertilizers still have to come from somewhere, when you take them away with the harvested food you have to find them somewhere to put them back. “Permaculture” isn’t magic that produces potassium from good feelings. There are plenty of cycles for each resource and as a farmer you have to participate in them, which usually means regularly adding things to your soil.
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The biggest problem for me is that my local cable company is the cheapest/best internet provider. So, no, it's not cheaper for me than cable. Internet without cable is almost the cost of the "bundle". (it's evil) I just have cable on 1 of 4 TVs, but still.

Also you can't get most streaming content on cable, or the sports content I get on cable without 4 streaming services (ESPN+, Peacock, Paramount+ & Hulu).

So I've got a cable package w/ sports + a couple streaming services. Sometimes I'll pick one up for a month or 2 and drop it just for something I want to see. Sometimes I rent something from Amazon.

It's just a mess.

But the search is pretty easy. My Rokus, Amazon sticks, or even cable box search fine for me.
I would add: Many chips were becoming difficult to source before the pandemic hit. The pandemic-related demand and supply shock only made it worse.

Source: Spent many weeks fighting supply chain issues and leading redesigns in 2018-2019 due to the beginning of the chip shortage.

I know the shortage is associated with the pandemic because that's when most people started hearing about it, but it was a growing problem even before COVID came along.
> I remember when a Netflix subscription was like having Blockbuster inside your living room.

That's a great exaggeration. There was never a time when you could name a film and expect it to be on Netflix to stream.
There's not a simple relationship between cost of the end product and the budget for developing safety-critical systems. There are only ~1600 777s ever built. The development costs for automotive systems are amortized over millions of units.

I have no idea what the budgets actually are, and it's fine if you don't trust certain kinds of automation in cars. In fact my 2020 Toyota with lane-keeping assistance tried to drive me off the freeway at 80mph three times last week. (I probably should have stopped trying it after the second time, but I was kind of morbidly fascinated at that point. As it steered me firmly towards the grassy median, it also started beeping urgently to tell me that it wasn't a good idea.)
But at least for Netflix, they didn't make the old content. If you watch content made by the streaming site, it likely costs them less.
> Edit: Moved off the dead parent comment

How does one move their comments?
I saw the first matrix the night before it came out in 1998 in san jose ca. I remember the whole film had a bluish tint to it, it was filmed in Australia(alot of it) and remember not loving the tint. In subsequent films (reloaded and revolutions) they went to the green tint and then applied the green tint to future dvd releases of the original matrix to preserve a continity to the series.
In terms of sovereign territory, I guess you're right, but if you want to go live somewhere with no neighbors, there are plenty of places in America and Canada where you can do that.
The people who fought against the changes in dress codes claimed jeans and t's had all manner of impact on the professional setting of the workplace.

Is it really an imposition, when your profession includes declaring what OS you're using so you can create usable bug reports, to declare your pronouns on some form somewhere?
Then the answer is to hasten their decline to a complete downfall by not using or working any of them.

Unless of course pushing buttons on an orange site is going to change things...
I expect Apple will increasingly become the target of anti-trust and since they are so strongly focused on anti-competitive practices, it will impact them the most.
Interesting

> Luke's lightsaber During the training scene aboard the Millennium Falcon, Luke's lightsaber—which in some releases had erroneously appeared green—was corrected to blue for the 2019 release.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releas...
Are you saying that anyone nonbinary should get therapy to get over the idea of being nonbinary?
"How one goes about using TLS proxy?"

Note I am referring to a local proxy, listening on the loopback device and under the control of the user, not one listening on a network interface connected to the internet and certainly not one operated by a third party as a "service".

https://www.stunnel.org

Good luck.
Those are also symptoms of a panic attack, which is not uncommon for some people who dislike needles. What did the ER learn about his condition?
Yes, I'm aware. That's less money in his pocket, and less ability to have the review be available on or before the product launch. There's still some conflict of interest, even if it's lessened.

Only purchasing review units at retail would remove this conflict.
Thanks, I was misinformed and the truth is way more interesting.
It's just that demanding someone's attention without expending the effort to be interesting to them is quite rude as well. If someone's constantly on their phone while you're speaking to them, your conversation is clearly not very interesting to them so you should do better.

I find demanding someone's attention more rude than not giving attention that's requested. Someone's attention is theirs to give, not something for others to demand.

As for how conversations used to work... When people were boring or uninteresting people would zone out and just uh-hu away. Just smile and nod. It may give the other the illusion that they're not being ignored, but they are.
Only if implemented by the monopolist.

People's best chance is stopping using Google and pushing for it to be broken-up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEdgmNZnLs4

Very cool!
A properties comparison between Be and the paper's SiC ceramic is here [1].

Be is lower density, which would matter for payload mass. The SiC material has a much lower thermal expansion coefficient and change of CTE with temperature, both of which should reduce thermal deformation.

[1] https://www.northropgrumman.com/wp-content/uploads/CERAFORM_...
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> I guess this is why these discussions are unproductive, because folks on both sides of debates on diversity efforts have contradictory anecdotal experiences.

Actually, to me this shows that these discussions are really productive. Because through them we realize that perhaps we're working from different assumptions / data. That's a great stepping stone to understanding each others' views.

(Apologies if I'm misunderstanding your point.)
FWIW, I don't think Instagram is super popular with the Tiktok generation, and WhatsApp's monetization strategy is still unproven.
And yet a recent study showed at least some is heritable.
And this whole “between” populations nonsense doesn’t mean different populations have the same mean.
I don't really see the point for immutable masters since no one ever sees it in that state. No one tv or cinema is calibrated 100% to the master and it would be too expensive to do so.
Amazon / Google I think will stay strong due to their infrastructure in cloud technology. Amazon has the physical delivery infrastructure as well, which doesn't have a great competitor yet.

Apple is currently doing fine with their devices. I think the health industry will adopt some of their tech soon (like the apple watch) to get some of that sweet, sweet healthcare / insurance money

That leaves the "worst" of the group to either Facebook or Netflix.

I haven't heard much about what Netflix is doing, but things seem to be going generally okay so far.

Facebook has extremely negative news all over the media on seemingly both the tech and political side. For example, malicious targeting of children and their platform being used for fake news / propaganda. On the tech side, I don't have confidence in their current, future, or past projects such as Oculus or their extreme hype around the metaverse.

For these reasons (by default and past/present/future speculation) given the wording on this question, I think Facebook is the obvious "loser."
No article relying on references to Dunning Krueger is complete without a comment pointing out the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmn...

To wit, a newspaper, telling people to trust experts, whose words are indelibly communicated by... Expert reporters of course!

Really need to stop even bothering to read the Times. Tends to do nothing but ruin my day.
Total ecommerce in 2021 was around 5 trillion dollars. That's revenue, and split across all players.

Somehow I think Google with the ability to devote billions to solving the problem has more resources to throw at it than any ecommerce company. Except for possibly Amazon.
Whether you like either of these guys, this is getting out of hand with these social media companies.
There is perfectly logical and scientific reasoning for arguments on both sides of this issue. However, companies like Twitter are heavily pushing internal ideology.
Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach $3T market cap
Cf. Scott Alexander’s “three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches” quip[1]. This bootstrap problem has very little to do with current affairs anywhere, I’d say, and I don’t think it has ever been solved except where the more liberal (in the original sense) means of communication additionally had some sort of technical superiority as well.

Except maybe the founding story of the US—I’m not an expert—but that was literally several waves of “witches” (many of them profoundly illiberal) taking their ball and going elsewhere, and their genetic memory of the necessity of free discourse seems to have died out by the middle of the 20th century (and was arguably missing the point as to which discourse needs to be free for decades before that). Not a bad record overall, but we’ve run out of unsettled land to go elsewhere to.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...
Before, we used piracy because the media wasn't easily accessible (physical media). I now see piracy having an uptick in the future because the media is all paywalled. Five years ago, anything you wanted to watch was on Netflix, Hulu, or TPB. With the success of those platforms, all the IP holders have started their own streaming platforms which is great, but it's lead to a massive fragmentation of the market. No one is going back to paying those cable prices of $120+ a month for content by signing up for all these services, so piracy it is.
I mean Apple clearly makes a bunch of purchases, and uses its cash to doing things like buying supply capacity, and ensuring it has cash to weather storms. But then there's excess cash - they produce dividends and do stock buybacks to return cash to shareholders.

As to your claim: We know exactly how much they're worth. Those quarterly results they issue are required to be accurate, and tell you exactly how many assets they have and exactly how much debt they have.

The problem is at this point the value of shares on the stock market is detached from the underlying asset/debt ratio, and is instead based on traders beliefs about how other traders will behave. This is most apparent on for stock in companies that don't return cash, so the shares themselves don't produce a return until they're sold.

OTOH I just have standard 401k style investment accounts so what do I know? :D
I'd say Netflix as it stands today. Not enough differentiation, and their catalog continues to skew more and more towards Netflix Originals which constitute a pretty "mixed bag" IMO. If they continue to drop more and more "external" content, which more often makes up the stuff I go in wanting to see, I could see cancelling their service.

OTOH, if they keep producing enough of their own content, that is good enough, they might keep me around. For example, if they come out with another show as good as, say, Bojack Horseman, every so often then I would likely keep my subscription.

Time will tell, I suppose.
I don't think people who are voting for netflix hate it. It's just the smaller of the bunch and the one which faces most competition. So, it's a reasonable guess.

If we see any decline, which is unlikely, it would probably be facebook or netflix in my opinion. Tiktok is bigger than facebook right now and they have a very bad reputation. Maybe they will make it big with the metaverse thing, but it's a huge gamble.
Google? I think you mean Alphabet ;)

I think the problem with Netflix is there's a ceiling. Disney (which owns, like, all the IP out there... not to mention theme parks, sports and countless other things) is worth $288bn and Netflix is somehow worth $291bn!?

Sure, Netflix has some decent movies out there... but do you really think their catalogue even begins to touch Disney? Either Disney is undervalued (probably true) or Netflix is overvalued (definitely true), and Netflix doesn't currently seem to have significant momentum.

Source (Nov 2021): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-11/netflix-s...

EDIT: I posted a longer list of their IP below, but don't forget that Disney owns a majority of Hulu and their television/movies!
That's an interesting observation. IMO, we stopped linking to good content because Google was good at finding it. Now Google is suffering, and we need to go back to doing more links.
> irrelevant relative to the individual person's life, ideas, experiences, ability to express themselves etc.

I’m not sure I get you here. Of course race and gender have a huge impact on a person’s life, and thus on their ideas, experiences and ability to express themselves. White men virtually never experience racism or sexism, whereas women and/or Black people are reminded about their identity every day. All women have been bothered by men in the street and all Black people have heard numerous racist comments through their life. They are so used to it they don’t even talk about it; it’s just normal. White men can’t even imagine to what extend this goes because they never experience it. People who never experience discriminations often don’t see the problem or diminish it because it’s unfamiliar to them.
Oh calm down. The clear reason: "Mr Rogan has an exclusive deal with the streaming service [Spotify]", "several third-party channels have taken it upon themselves to post the episodes"...its a DMCA takedown, per Joe's contract.

Something about conspiracy theories makes people just stop using their brains.
Decline doesn’t require people to stop using Google search. It just requires a lack of growth, and Google isn’t really doing much of anything innovative. At least FB sees stagnation as a threat and is responding accordingly, Google seems to have its head so far up it’s own bureaucracy that it can’t execute effectively anymore.
This happened to me recently :( . My community bank upgraded their interface (probably been basically the same for 10 years+) that they've been using just fine and moved EVERYTHING around with their new app and web interface that is made to look like their app. I was so angry I switched banks (which is easier than you think these days). I sent them a letter letting them know the same. It looked "better" but is was also slower, less organized, broke their API for downloading stuff to import to gnucash, etc. It's all just such a waste.
I mean, not everyone interacts with people in person at work. I would go so far as to say that most these profile settings are used for textual communication, where it's not always obvious, but where some people still get upset over the wrong pronoun being used (possibly because for then it's such a contentious topic in their lives it's hard to disambiguate honest mistakes from passive agressive purposeful behavior).

Like you, I also wish that pronouns weren't a big thing, but the truth is that right now society has shifted a bit to the point that it is, so rather than upset people over something I really don't care about, I just try to address people how they prefer to be addressed, while noting I have no preference and don't care if you get it wrong.
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