skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incorrect; he sold 50% of the rights to his catalogue to Hipgnosis. We don't know what the terms of that deal were, but it's safe to say he retained a certain level of control given that they seem to be allowing this to happen.

Edit: Here's a comment[1] from Hipgnosis' founder when the deal was announced. Pay particular attention to the last sentence.

>The exact terms of the deal with Hipgnosis were not laid out, but Mercuriadis states that iconic songs like “Heart of Gold” will not be used to sell fast food. “I built Hipgnosis to be a company Neil would want to be a part of,” he said. “We have a common integrity, ethos and passion born out of a belief in music and these important songs. There will never be a ‘Burger of Gold’ but we will work together to make sure everyone gets to hear them on Neil’s terms.”

He goes on to say:

>“Elliot was the template for who I wanted to be,” said Mercuriadis. “He and Neil were partners in crime and Elliot made sure the art was never compromised and the commerce always maximized. He complimented Neil’s integrity perfectly and together they protected the songs so fiercely that they became important to millions of people all over the world. This was personal conduct that you could aspire to, something you could believe in.

So yeah, the Hipgnosis' deal definitely seems like it was inked to still keep things in line with Neil's personal beliefs.

[1]https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/neil-young-music-catal...
Hmm, so 99% of the value you create is being skimmed off by the company's shareholders and management? Have you thought about trying to renegotiate to a more equitable split, like 10%/90% or 50%/50% instead of 1%/99%? Or is that impossible because you're in a very weak bargaining position, like a migrant cannery worker?

That seems like a major reason people might quit jobs like yours and go work for ERP vendors or other outsourced vendors: even if they create less value, they are in a better bargaining position and so they can capture maybe 5% or 10% or 30% of the value they create instead of less than 1%.
Introduction to Algorithms is a classic that every serious programmer should read cover to cover.

at my first programming job (now almost 30 years ago), I remember implementing the red-black tree algorithms in C from that book. It is chock full of really useful ideas that will make your systems better.
And that happened at the existing Pfizer facility in Puurs ( Belgium).

As far as I'm aware, no existing facilities were upgraded/expanded? https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-town-puurs-spotlight...

A big up for Belgian pharma facilities. But I'm unsure about the role of operation Warp speed on this all.

As far as I'm aware, Pfizer/BionTech explicitly avoided any funding through operation Warp Speed. They received an order in phase 3 of the clinical trials.

The core issue ( why they partnered with Pfizer) for BionTech was also not production at scale, but handling clinical trials at this scale. Which ( again/also) was not related to Warp Speed.
"Data-driven UI design" can easily be myopic and sometimes disastrous. If you blindly follow the frequency of UI actions, you may hide seldom-used actions that are critical for safety in rare moments; or you may overly optimize for pro users and leave first-time users out in the cold.
> If anyone had the resources to hire top tier software engineers to write or audit everything in house it would be Apple. That they don’t do it is almost… greedy and shows a lack of foresight imo.

Maybe it shows that even Apple doesn't have the resources to do it, and therefore nobody does.
I agree with you here there are many holes in this post that make it hard to take this person seriously beyond a conspiracy theorist who refuses to take responsibility of keys fully themselves and makes an extension argument that indeed they are also not to be trusted. This sounds like a very confused individual who needs to be told that their theories are flawed or at the very least that their lack of sense of responsibly is the exact reason why they should not be participating in being a provider of services/content.

You should use my login form without encryption based on my misunderstanding of what https is used for is not an excuse dammit!
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The problem starts even earlier.

Touchscreens (or touch surfaces) should not be used for any kind of vehicle function. period.

If you need to take your eyes away from the road, it is a shit ui.

If you can't feel but have to look to see the result of your interaction, it is a shit design.

If you need to look at the center console and down, it is even worse.

There is only one reason to get rid of all the buttons and switches, and that is design. because "ape goes ohhhh!".

And that should not be a consideration that is prioritized over safety.
Who said it has to be a "full web application"? Where are the orders of magnitude more work in parsing text and saving it as HTML files?
What’s funny is… the center screen is exactly where the speed is, as in the Model 3 there is no other screen. So this is a completely legitimate confusion.

https://cdn.carbuzz.com/gallery-images/original/270000/800/2...
If your hypothesis was true then we'd see all the DEI initiatives and blatantly illegal diversity platforms like Canvas [1] have paid off by now. But that isn't the case.

[1]: https://www.canvas.com/
Yeah, the US needs an anti-capitalist opposition that can see through the PR. Like most European countries have.

Coopted is surely hyperbole though, as it suggests control, more like riding the wave.
My point was that the wording is rather bizarre, it sounds as if the term 'UFO' is being equated with 'definitely probably aliens' instead of 'Unidentified Flying Object'

For example: I believe in UFOs, there's no way we have positively identified very last thing flying through our atmosphere. That doesn't mean I think they're living extraterrestrial visitors though
Maybe the latter plus they also want to have a ton of features, which gets hard to fit into a traditional button layout. But there's no reason an electric car has to be high tech either.
That is beautiful horrific observation by one of my favorite scientists.

You are right.
Just have some lemma near some old proof.

Still being knowledgable about science and understanding its method for finding truth is currently the best weapon against the snake oil salesmen and their buttery voices.

I talk about science the method, not the group of old men grading papers. Maybe that is our misunderstanding. For you science is the scientific community, for me it is the method.
One has a consensus, one clearly does not.
I am so annoyed by UI updates in general that this allone would be a reason to not buy a Tesla. I rather stick to real buttons in a car.
Now just imagine an owner is not millennial on Gen Z, they will never find this option.

::sigh::

Edit: This comment is tiresome. My dad owns a lot of the latest stuff and has no problem with it.
It does if you have the AC on “auto”. There’s also another UI element that displays “defogging limited by settings” if you make manual adjustments and it detects the need
The tax could be imposed on the owners of corporations. It boggles my mind that a 1% tax is a cap on the size of a business. The other way to raise the money is that the business could sell something, such as a product.
That's part and parcel of deep, amalgamated, problems our countries suffer from. I receive in crypto, live in south america and still sleep worry-free. I just do a good job and happen to heap benefits from all this shit we're immersed in (ridiculous low prices for everything) and from working for a rich country. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, no matter how deep I look. I don't even worry about how my countrymen see this, I simply don't have a reason to tell them. Creating reliable and safe systems is the one talent I have, I might as well concentrate on that and leave political issues to those capable of grasping them.
My experience is that anticipating future requirement changes do not work in general. So do not reflect in the design including the design of module boundaries the current assumptions about the future. Focus instead on other criteria, like reducing complexity or making the design more transparent.
"excuse to argue against it" is a very slippery slope.

There should be no excuses required to exercise free speech and free inquiry.

All you've attempted to do here is impugn the motives of those holding a position contrary to your own without addressing their arguments.
This is the key point:

> It’s the context and the severe consequences that make it far more impactful than a poorly designed phone app.

Tesla is making their "two ton death machines" (to quote Elon himself) even more dangerous by making the controls unintuitive.

The "yoke" is what turned me off ever buying a Tesla motor vehicle. The designers have been allowed to run rampant, with nobody keeping their "experimental interfaces" in check.

I'll wait until Toyota makes an all-electric car. It'll be simpler, cheaper, and "just work" in the sense that I won't have to hunt around for basic controls just because some dingbat in California thought it made the dash look "cleaner" or whatever.
It’s interrelated. It’s part resentment, part mediocrity, part laziness.

If the only way the rich got rich is by screwing over people, then I’m justified in not working hard, not being ingenuous, not being diligent because what good does it make anyway.
Nothing on earth, really? The single most important necessity for having a screen in a car is to show the backup camera.
It was pretty good. Seemed better than Android at the time. I'm not sure why Microsoft didn't put as much oomph into it as they did for, say, the Xbox, but if they had it might be a major player now.
Does activating the voice control cause music to stop/decrease in volume? This has always really bothered me — if I’m jamming to a song the last thing I want is for it to stop/drop away, and if the car is creating the noise shouldn’t it know pretty damn well how to separate my signal from the noise?
In the banking system every day there are reversals for many mistakes of different kinds even if the amounts are tiny and only ordinary people are involved, and if $500k is at stake, the legal system can be used to "convince" banks to do what's right even if they don't want to.
You have to pull the update, all that they push is an icon that shows up that you can click to download the update
The model 3 does have windshield wiper controls on the steering wheel stalks. I think it's only the few cars (new S, X?) with the new yoke that don't?
Ah fair enough thanks. Gravy has always meant unnecessary bells and whistles to me/
Post war America was a truly unique time and place. Literally the entire industrial world was destroyed apart from the US. I’m not so quick to blame bad policy. The world was going to catch up eventually and start competing, right?
Raspberry Pies are out of stock? When did this happen?
Sorry I haven't been paying much attention to this, is it related to the supply chain issues?
I changed the 13 in the Fibonacci sequence to 14 just to see what it would do.

It added the term "quotient(u_{n-1} , n)" to the Fibonacci recursion, and claimed the resulting formula fit the data perfectly.

What?

EDIT: since people seem to be confused about why this is wrong... according to the graph, the sequence starts at n = 0. So the modified Fibonacci sequence I created is:

n | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
u | 1 1 2 3 5 8 14

The computer says this formula fits it perfectly:

u[n] = u[n-1] + u[n-2] + u[n-1]/n

Let n = 5:

8 = 5 + 3 + 5/5
8 = 9

EDIT 2: hmm, contrary to the graph, the engine seems to assume the sequence starts at 1. So then we have

n | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
u | 1 1 2 3 5 8 14

I guess the formula works if "quotient" is defined as integer division?
You're taking an experimental prophylactic against a disease with a 99.9% survival rate. Probably higher if you're under 50. And we still don't really know how safe it is, because the 'gold standard' data (double blind testing) is absent, save for 2 months' of Pfizer data. Your benefit has apparently outweighed your cost. Fine. Mine hasn't. I like to read any and all opinions, regardless of 'bias'. We all have biases, whether we realise or not. I'm intelligent enough to figure them out. I don't need 'we' getting 'an idea' of 'the bias'. I'll probably get flagged/banned/cancelled for my opinion, but such is life.
It's also subject to an unhealthy feedback loop. Oh, this button isn't commonly used, so let's move it to a slightly less prominent place. Oh, this button's usage dropped, it must be super unimportant, let's move it behind a menu. Oh, nobody ever presses this button, let's get rid of it.
This. I'd be pretty surprised if (among those here who drive their own car at least weekly) anyone takes their eyes off the road to press defrost, volume, next track, change fan speed, temperature etc
Is it really hidden that deep?
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My Volvo has a panel screen. The defroster is still a button, thankfully, as that's crucial to be able to hit instantly. The rest of the climate control is behind a button on the screen and requires to look and see what it's doing. It's infuriating and actually feels pretty unsafe compared to twiddling a knob. Honestly I expected Volvo to do better.
I hear you, but many 'added value' features in a car need to be learned to some degree. You can just choose to drive to without these - and it's a good basic car if you do.
One and only issue is the rim width. There must be some limits how fat tire you can put on a narrow rim and vice versa?

But usually everything goes. On a backcountry tour 23-622 on front and 47-622 on back works best, because you dont want the bike to be front-heavy.
The principled way to do this is “I’m leaving indefinitely because I don’t approve of your editorial priorities,” not single out one guy and try to bribe or extort the company into breaking their commitments with him. Only customers en masse should be able to demand a change like this, because the company’s duty is to customers rather than competing vendors.

And actually conspiring against this guy just fuels the conspiracy theories out there.
I've been to US arcades and there's basically no relation to a real Japanese arcade.
Great question -- and yes!

Pleistocene glaciation in the northern hemisphere has been a lot shorter (so far) than the Cryogenian glaciations, but it is probably not a coincidence that the outline of Canada's "Precambrian shield" basically matches the outline of the Laurentide ice sheet (check out Figure 5 of the 2019 paper [1]). We're probably only talking about scraping off no more than a couple hundred meters of sedimentary rock formerly covering the shield, but that's about what you'd expect.

More broadly, as one author noted long before us [2] it turns out that most of the places on Earth where there is a lot of Precambrian crystalline basement exposed at the surface today (i.e., where later sedimentary rocks have been scraped off, one way or another) were glaciated either recently or in the Late Paleozoic Ice Age [3], which hit much of Gondwana (see also Fig S16 here [4]).

More recently, another group of researchers using thermochronology in Antarctica [5] found evidence of several kilometers of exhumation during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age, as well as perhaps 1-2 km during the last ~35 Myr of Cenozoic glaciation (n.b., Antarctica has been glaciated for a good bit longer than we've been having ice ages in the northern hemisphere).

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/116/4/1136/tab-figures-data and see also Fig S16 in [4]

[2] https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article/83/...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Paleozoic_icehouse

[4] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2018/12/26/180435011...

[5] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.10.044 (see especially Fig. 7)
Am I the only one who downloads mp3s from youtube directly? My needs are rather simple: listen music from my mp3 player/phone (so I don't need to sync anything).
Neil first asked Spotify to censor Rogan,

I don't buy this idea that stating firmly and publicly: "If you continue to host X on your platform, then I won't be associated with your platform" -- is equivalent to top-down, administrative censorship in the usual sense of the term. Which by most sources is specifically rooted in an exercise of state power (or of something more or less equivalent to it). Not the editorial decisions made by publishing entities.
There is no difference. Just label anything you want to censor as propaganda.
Yeah, the concept of "high-tech" has been conceptually bundled with the electric engine type. I for one hope those get disentangled because the limit for "high-tech" cars looks like a shitty idiocratic dystopia.
> As far as I'm aware, no existing facilities were added?

Nowhere in your linked article indicates that "no existing facilities were added".

> As of January 2022, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is manufactured between 11 sites across five countries, including the U.S., Germany, Belgium, Ireland, and Croatia, and engages more than 20 suppliers.

https://www.pfizer.com/science/coronavirus/vaccine/manufactu...
what's the purpose of a regulator if they agree with you and can't do anything to enforce the law?

it's privacy theatre, nothing more
Who makes that claim? This article basically says little more than “it’s not as simple as we thought it was”
I have no interest in arguing against any of these points here.

All I am claiming is that they are a form of dogma. These beliefs look very silly to everyone outside of this culture.

They seem silly to everyone. To every other culture in the world, and to every culture of the past.

And yet, critiquing them within this culture is dangerous.
Well no, you can use options and swaps to accidentally "gift" your money to more proficient traders or to market-making institutions or just pay it away in fees, but in all those cases you're giving the money to someone, not shredding it.
Ground up and washed into the ocean -- and then ultimately subducted and made into new magmas!
Even if you're wrong, I think it's interesting that the only lever they think they have to change your mind is "force you." The idea of having a serious dialogue is so far from their minds (maybe because of decades of training in PR disaster scenarios - chemical spills, manufacturing accidents, drugs that kill - where the establishment is unambiguously in the wrong?) that even when they're right, they act like they're wrong.

If the CEO of CNN wanted to convince their toddler to go to the bathroom, they'd start by compiling dossiers to discredit anyone with large bladders.

('They', in this, refers to the media/corporate PR/press release system that is used to determine public opinion.)
I agree, that's a very intuitive interior layout. Within a minute, I've figured out the entire car, including steering controls. Thanks for sharing!
I worked at Maxis for about six months during the middle part of the events described in the article. I started during the tumultuous days surrounding the initial attempt at SimCity 3000 (I didn’t work on that project, though I saw its prototypes from time to time), up until shortly after the EA buyout was announced (but before it actually happened).

On my first day at work there was a giant poster in the reception area which you’d see on your way back out to the elevators, which began with the text, “To departing staff:”. The SimCity 3k debacle was already bleeding their staff, and I remember thinking — even as a fresh university graduate with no real work experience — that that probably wasn’t a good sign. (I don’t remember noticing it again after the first day; it may actually have only been up for that one day)

My cubicle was about two meters from Wil Wright’s glass-fronted office, with direct line of sight into it. My major regret is that I never introduced myself to him or even spoke to him at all (I was just a fresh university graduate and he was freaking Wil Wright. And also, he always looked kind of stressed and unhappy in there and I never wanted to impose)

RE: the story’s comment “There was absolutely no explanation as to why SimCity 3000 needed to be 3D,” I again wasn’t actually on that project, but it was clear to see that it wasn’t possible to make the game in 3D at that time. This was the era of the original 3DFX Voodoo card, and there were only two of them in the entire company (and somehow I had one of them and I never understood why). But the reason I was given for making the game in 3D was that it was a decision from Marketing; it was a core game bullet point that was going to be required if SimCity 3000 was going to save the company the way that SimCity 2000 had done. No 3D? The company wouldn’t survive. So there were epic battles between marketing and sales saying that it was what was required to save the company on one side, and the programmers who would have to actually implement the game saying that it wasn’t technically possible on the other side.

It was an interesting situation to be tossed into as your first thing out of university, I have to say. Even if I was kind of over to one side working on Streets of SimCity and only seeing it in my peripheral vision.
That is perfectly legible. Many modern fonts are less legible than that.

I am curious about the opposition to cursive script that some people demonstrate, mostly in the US. In Europe cursive script is the norm; block letter writing by an adult is considered a mark of poor education.
Yeah, so for BeanHub, when you push a commit, the system will capture the accounting book into SQL database. Taking from there, I can imagine there are many data prediction model can be applied to the ingested data. I am also thinking to support "CI job" feature (run a task when you push a new commit), not for building software but for your accounting book. So even if it's not supported by the system officially, it's still possible to build your prediction model.
Those are very stylish, but for clarity I think I prefer this:
https://www.prlog.org/11835905-audi-a3-climate-control-syste...

which is a lot like my 2012 S4.
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What I really dislike about the "you don't own this, the cloud does" is apps changing without me having a say in it. Spotify is great, but if they decide they want a videoclip-playing-background then my phone at some random moment starts doing that. I feel like it takes some time / attention from me each time something like that happens because now I need to figure out how to turn it off or live with it. And I can't control when it happens, so I'm probably doing something else. This wasn't a thing let's say 15 years ago with the original iPod.

Now imagine this happening to your car. I would sell the car as soon as possible. Cars, like ipods, are tools that should not require extra attention at random moments.
An insurrection.
I worked with Perl's Template::Toolkit for many years and would still recommend it for static site generation. TT3 is the current version.
"Trustless" is referring to the consensus in the protocols, not to the entire ecosystem. This is a ecosystem built by and for humans, of course there will be trust involved.
It's a great book.

The first edition was basically these notes, with some additions and corrections.

The second edition (published in 2015) is more different. It was updated and reorganized to help clarify some common causes of confusion. I must admit that I liked the first edition better, but that may just be because I read it first.
Think in terms of financial day trading, I always had a panic button that wired to the deepest dark pool to get out of the situation ASAP, even with a hefty cost.