skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Of course the entire "make 5000 miles away, ship it over the pacific" was enabled by the lack of a proper carbon tax.

I think this pretty much sums it up:

>Shippers earned $25 billion in 2020; research consultant Drewry predicted $300 billion for 2021 and 2022.[...] A study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that pollution from cargo ships has led to 60,000 deaths per year and costs up to $330 billion in annual health costs from lung and heart diseases.

Even after the preposterous profit-taking from the recent supply chain clusterfuck, their profits would still be zeroed out by accounting for just some of the externalities.
Investment Bank.
There's also https://web.hypothes.is/
I'm guessing its primarily road & map quality followed by whatever other 'not HD maps' they use.
Yes, that's the point of using tools from unfriendly countries -- though I wouldn't be surprised if there's data sharing there, I haven't heard evidence of it.
Current fads that come to mind

- Gatorade and similar stuff
- A movement to drink water (HydroHomies)
- High caffeine energy drinks (Red bull and the likes)
- Healthy alternatives (juices, smoothies, etc)
I bet you it doesn't even involve cocktails.
Yep, hence the loss of 25% of their market cap today haha.
Specs are hard to write because the person interpreting them may not understand you, but it's the iteration time and cost that kills you.

Make me a sandwich -> two weeks and $10k isn't viable

Make me a sandwich -> 2 seconds and free, totally viable
Eh, not really. Video game design is hard. You won't succeed trying to make social media into a video game. People like to point to things like Ready Player One, but honestly both the book and the movie's depiction of the game were stupid. They would not work. That's not how games work.
"This cat food is new and improved!"

"How can it be both NEW and IMPROVED?"
Does the behavior of a particle depend in part on every other experience the particle has had in the past? Physics has things that we can't figure out, and things that have to be observed in the aggregate, but it's much easier to perform multiple experiments with the same base conditions.

If we could clone the participants of a psychology experiment prior to the experiment, with their memories and personalities intact, we could possibly narrow the gap. Or maybe not! But that would be a fascinating finding! ;)
A newspaper of record has additional advantages. For example, the newspaper can't accidentally delete or automoderate an already published article, and anybody can cut the article out of the newspaper and save it without having to pay for electricity and digital storage media in perpetuity.
Twitter (and I'm only half joking). Clubhouse. Discord. Pinterest.
We changed the URL from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sumerian_Game to an article with more background. (It has been posted here before but not had much discussion).
> working for or at least informing US gov about his actions in advance.

Wired is!
Also educational institutions
Calling the irs could be free and simple (provided by fidelity or tdameritrade like private entities), but irs employees lobby against it. Instead you get to wait for hours on the phone and call back the next day to do it all over again.
I'm just like you. Healthy, but I sleep a lot. 10h is ok, but 12h is my sweetspot. And before people ask, I love starting my day with a Monster (caffeine + taurine + ...)

I just put that on genetic variability. Stop the FOMO on life: mornings are no better than afternoons :)
> the SNES translation is pretty rough

Sounds like something a spoony bard would say.
Thin air, although most tech companies are buying back more shares than they give out.
It's also a very American-centric view. The rest of the world is going back to forums and single-platform chatrooms and avoiding reddit/twitter/facebook, but never had an AOL/ProdigyCompuServe phase to go through.

If we could just get discord to <insert short feature wishlist> then I reckon the golden IRC days would be back with a vengence.
FBI confirms it bought spyware from Israel’s NSO Group
Part of the problem is that radio and newspapers require payment and governments are loath to pay for even paper for flyers in many cases.
I can name plenty of immersive games that were bombs.
It annoys me that bloat and performance are considered "more bad" than Google's invasiveness and not their disrespect of privacy and their self-proclaimed right to collect everyone's data, personal or otherwise.
Would you also rather flatten the boom-bust amplitude of other industries? What about web development? Do we have too many social media sites?

I ask because I genuinely can't understand what would drive someone to deliberately cripple innovation in such a manner.
I honestly don’t understand how running 50pods on a node can ever realistically workout. Especially on lower vCPU models (they mention starting with 4!)

Am I fundamentally misunderstanding something about kubernetes or the lacking cpu needs of most web apps??
I'm sure that was the intent. Maybe I was just mad I couldn't complete the task but somehow the tone of the message really angered me and I never forgot it. It just seemed sarcastic and condescending.

Don't try to be cute in your messaging, just straightforward and direct is my takeaway. Some people might appreciate the cute but others you might anger if you don't get the tone just right.
This is the comment referencing flubber that you're looking for. Flubber!
Agreed. They have really bumped up the advertising the last couple of years. Now every second or third story or post in my feed is an ad.
I don't disagree that an iPad is more capable but, after reading the whitepaper just now, they're not positioning it as a tablet or e-reader so that's not a meaningful comparison. It seems to be intended as something like an external monitor with stylus input so it's more comparable to the Dasung Paperlike HD-FT or Wacom Cintiq / Wacom One. If it's not crazy for the Wacom One to exist, then it isn't that crazy for this to exist either.
Having driven Audis for years, including an A4, S4, and a recent model A4 (and other models as rentals in Germany), I can tell you definitively that Audi _pales_ in comparison to my Telsa Model Y in terms of safety. It's not even remotely comparable. Until you've driven one on a regular basis, it's hard to explain. They are light years ahead of traditional automakers, to the point of embarrassment.

Suffice it to say, I don't foresee myself ever buying or leasing a BMW or Audi again. Telsa is so far ahead that it probably won't compute unless you've driven one for a while.
> I wonder why they didn't buy TikTok when it was starting to become popular like they did with Instagram or Whatsapp.

ByteDance was a large company before TikTok and had other successful products. TikTok actually developed out of a billion dollar acquisition Bytedance made[1]. It wasn't for sale. Sort of like how Tinder wasn't for sale because it was owned by IAC (Match, OkCupid).

Also regulatory environment in the US and in China would make it unfeasible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
To be clear, I think the problem is having a fast road right by a school and making a world where the road next to the school is not fast really means putting the fast road somewhere that isn’t full of turnings so drivers can go quickly and without interruptions all day.

The road outside my school when I was young was a 30 but too narrow and bendy for people to drive that fast. When I was older at a larger school in a bigger town it was also a 30 I think with no speed limit changes through the day. The school was on the edge of the town and as you left the urban area it became a little wider and a 40. Outside my place of work in a big city, I’m not even sure what the speed limit is but it would certainly be unwise to attempt more than 20, but that doesn’t matter because the road is for accessing local buildings not crossing the city.

I (or my parents) didn’t choose this arrangement because of some car hatred, that’s just the way it happened to be.

One question is what happens if you reverse the status quo bias. suppose there’s a 25mph street outside a school and 3 proposals:

1. Do nothing

2. Build a fast 55mph bypass road for the traffic that wants to go from roughly one side of the school to roughly the other

3. Widen the street next to the school and increase its speed to 55mph, but only outside of school hours. Keep the turnings for the school and other buildings on the street.

Perhaps there’s some yawning cultural gap between us but option 3 seems pretty terrible to me as it looks like it does little to help the traffic or the school. But maybe it would be the only feasible thing to do and building a new road wouldn’t be an option. When I look at my schools I described above, the first went for option 2 (well the bypass was more for the slow narrow bendy streets than the school) long before I attended the school, and the second went for option 1.
Seems like FB has about $55b on hand, but their market cap is ~$800b vs Bytedance's highest valuation of $425b.

Without taking into account fiscal responsibility, it's in the realm of possibility that FB could buy TikTok with credit + options.
I agree. It doesn't carry anything intrinsically interesting. You'd have far more luck porting VR into an existing popular game that is fun and making it more of a social hang out scene. You'll struggle greatly trying to make it a mainstream social media platform. Imagine a social media player that you could only log into from your computer at home.
I have fiddled with genetic programming. I don't think there is a good solution for a useful metric for comparing one code generator against another, so I don't think DeepMind should care.

Most of the genetic programming results code generated by my algos doesn't compile. Very occasionally the random conditions exist to allow it to jump over a "local maxima" and come up with a useful candidate source code. Sometimes the candidates compile, run, and produce correct results.

The time it takes to run varies vastly with parameters (like population, how the mutation function works, how the fitness function weights/scores, etc).

Personally I really like that these DeepMind announcements don't get lost in performance comparisons, because inevitably those would get bogged down in complaints like "the other thing wasn't tuned as well as this one was". Let 3rd party researchers who have access to both do that work, independently.
what in the world, I like FF6’s impact the most: truly sinister and relentless villian and coherent storyline, something 7 franchise lacks despite being so entertaining and interesting in other ways

but how many people are in this romhacking variant community?

I wanted to enjoy FF6 again, and am enticed by a better even more coherent story and stuff, but I know I dont have the patience for that turn based
format anymore. when i played it originally - on emulator 20 years ago - I still held the fast forward key most of the time, but now I can only do action RPG. The Mana series and Tales series is fine though.
Cool project. In a related note, sometime back I used to use cdnjs a lot to find the best js libraries and related projects too.

So let's say you're looking for the best carousel library, just type carousel in their search and it will show you all the popular carousel libraries sorted by github stars.
Out of curiosity, what kind of roles were you interviewing people for?
And that's why donating using cryptocurrencies and stablecoins is still going to be a thing that will not being going away anytime soon.

So please, continue to ban more users, and they will just turn to that.
Fastest growing really just means newest. Take the statement "fastest growing social media service" for example. If Facebook has 3 billion subscribers and manages to get another two billion that grew 67%. If I start a new service with myself as the only member and then convince 100 of my friends and family to join it grew 10,000%. Now I am the fastest growing social media service, until someone starts a new one that is.
I suspect that at some point NSO will stop making and selling exploits but its brain trust will simply re-organize as a new company and continue with business as usual.
A belt holster causes a different kind of infertility. A murse would too. This article identifies a problem with few solutions.
There are tons of questionable political propaganda in Tiktok too.

It's not just a kids app anymore, if you start dismissing content aimed at teenagers, you quickly get into a bubble of content made for more mature audiences: daddy jokes, bloopers, political content and more. It's surprising the number of creators above 20, 30 and more years old there.

In my country, there are even congressmen and runner-ups that post content there daily.

Anyway, the problem with it, in my opinion, is how content is promoted in the app. The next video is just a swipe away (and every time an user swipes too early, you loose "points"). It encourages sensationalist and alarmist content, the creator must keep the audience engajed without swiping it, so the more chocking, the best - just like any other social media platform nowadays. And that's where the fabric of society starts ripping.
> The modern UX ethos seems to be that settings indicate a failing of the product and if people don't like the path laid out for them, they're either wrong or they can go use something else. I think the book also makes the argument that constantly breaking workflows isn't very user-friendly either, but SaaS products routinely change their UI and workflows around. I suppose I can see the business justification for that, but that doesn't necessarily make it good UX.

Yeah, I think the issue is that once you've finished designing an interface or your software is feature complete, the company is faced with a problem: You don't have any actual work, but you absolutely need to maintain your expertise and sales.

What features can you really add to Excel at this point? What do you do when your market analysis says your application and interface are about the best they can possibly be? What do you do with your engineers when your product is, by nearly all measures, complete?

This is the problem that Google search has. And Microsoft's Windows and Office teams. We had basically everything on lock for quite awhile. Changes now are seldom improvements. They're just changes to justify the engineers' salaries that the company has to keep paying because maintaining that is a core competency. Moving all of them to a new project spoils your expertise in your own product so you can't just do that.

At this point, UX design for these products should probably shift to aesthetics, much like the auto industry did. And that's largely exactly what Windows has been since Windows 7. Aesthetic changes.
Does 2x100G mean 100G each way?
That was him!?

The Mother 3 English translation is unbelievably good, it kinda makes Mother 2's localization look like a hack job by comparison. Now I've almost got a reason to go back and give FFVI another pass...
As long as I can sumo slam the ghost locomotive I’m good
I hiked 30 miles over 3 days once and it was an epic adventure, leaving me exhausted. It's hard for me to even imagine what a 700 mile trip like this on foot is like! And the PCT is almost four times longer....
They treat their top level (principal) people fine but the others like trash. Forcing people to return to the office unless they get special permission from their team (something no one I personally know has ever gotten, although if you have a twitter account with at least 50k followers the odds goes up considerably.
Yes but it's famous because it's the exception to the rule. It's definitely a failure to replicate, but that does not necessarily mean that math has a replication crises in the same way the social sciences do.
> “Sideloading would enable bad actors to evade Apple’s privacy and security protections by distributing apps without critical privacy and security checks,” he said. “These provisions would allow malware, scams and data-exploitation to proliferate.”

It's true, my Macbook Air is completely overrun with malware due to its ability to run browsers other than Safari. If only Apple would have done something!
In 1940, 70% of all coffee grown in the world was drunk in the USA, according to https://espressocoffeeguide.com/all-about-coffee-2/worlds-be... (obviously WWII had a big impact on global supply chains and consumer spending)

US consumption in 1946 was apparently ~20 pounds of coffee beans annually per capita, or an average of around 2.5–3 (8 oz?) cups of coffee per day for the ~3/4 of adults who were regular coffee drinkers.

Per https://www.retrowow.co.uk/food_and_drink/coffee/coffee.html

> Most people [in the UK] made coffee in a jug. You boiled the water and added it to ground coffee already in the jug. You let the ground coffee settle and it was ready to pour through a strainer and drink. Some people then boiled the coffee again.

My impression is that coffee preparation was comparable in the USA. Neither paper filters nor instant coffee were common until decades later.
I learned to read using this game, along with Chrono Trigger and a smattering of PC games.

I was an extremely advanced reader for my age, thanks to obsessively playing these games growing up. They had me re-take the standardized tests because of it.
I would love an action rpg version. I love this story but can no longer enjoy the gameplay combat style.
> Perhaps the US used to drink espressos in the 1940s, I'm not sure. That's if this fact is even accurate.

Espresso was unknown in America back then. Rumor has it that GIs, when exposed to it, diluted it with hot water, giving us the modern Americano. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3%A8_Americano
Aside, but super surreal...

I went to that page, see the top item is Starlink, the next link is "Welcome Danga Interactive AS32150". That's kind of a small AS compared to Starlink's 146K, but then I realize that used to be my AS, tummy.com.
Cant wait for this frustrating company to shut down.
What MMOs do you think are still worth playing?
Moving towards chicken in general was a big one as chicken has soared in popularity.
Please, Star Wars, Forget About Tatooine
People like to hate on Facebook, but how is any other social media different? They are all free services that profit from your personal information. Some just have better PR than the other.
I'm not talking about fixing Kubota machines. I'm talking about availability to buy add-ons and parts. Tractors are multi-functional pieces of equipment that you buy attachments for.

Just look at the huge list of implements here: https://www.kubotausa.com/products/tractors/utility/m4-serie...

So great, you bought a Kubota. Your nearest Kubota dealer can end up being 400 miles from you. They don't ship these things, you come buy and pick them up.
Disagree about them "betting the farm" on metaverse. They may be throwing some advertising dollars behind it, but it is clear that the bulk of their efforts are still focused on their core apps (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) and the competition with TikTok. I doubt the product and engineering teams are as invested in metaverse as Zuck wants the world to believe.
Right -- you need to run the argument again.
DaVinci-style drone with 600-year-old screw rotor design
As a former Poor College Student™, I feel fairly confident in saying that that would still be devastating to the ecosystem if it were table stakes to be meaningfully able to use the software. The zero one infinity rule[0] applies to pricing; zero cost means zero friction, and adding any cost at all is a huge barrier.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule
Apparently, we don't need it...
Bitwarden let's you use 2fa from your password vault if you pay $10/yr.
Not to mention the "states can break constitutional protections by simply paying third parties in civil suits" thing.
> improving sleep is the easiest to fix with the biggest immediate benefit

Tell it to all the insomniacs.
Tesla publishes the human accident rate, and the autopilot accident rate.

If another comparable car company published their human accident rate, and you were willing to assume that the baseline human accident rate should be the same for both brands, you could evaluate your hypothesis that Tesla is shoving the tricky situations onto humans.
The thing I most dislike about settings is that many products once they create settings for a thing then don't put thought into sensible defaults with the logic, "oh they can just change that". So in a way settings can be a crutch.
Then again, if a secret state org hacked the sites, part of the plan would probably be to place stories crediting a rouge individual and discrediting the idea it was a government org. Obviously not proof the story is false either, but like so many of these things, conclusive proof or even evidence of attribution is not given.
The US already has a federal law mandating Government Access Television, and many states have corresponding laws[1]. The costs for it are already built into our cable and other distribution costs.

Similarly, every state that I'm aware of has both a Public Access Radio station and carries NPR broadcasting.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-access_television
Valve has a lot of them. Netflix has somehow attracted a lot of really good ones. Google has a certain cream of the crop too.
I will assume your comment was sincere.

No one said farmers are not able to repair other brands.

The point is not all dealers/part suppliers are within a geographically reasonable distance. Think in hundreds and hundreds of miles or states away. Not just the other side of town.

John Deere on the other hand has rather dense distribution by comparison.
Which sort of pundits? You said "pundits...their monopolies". Are you referring to people with a vested interest in the companies/monopolies? If so, that makes sense. They have no reason not to say that, whether they believe it or not.

Yes you're right. However on HN and similar tech/geek areas, the common theme regarding FB for a decade now has been direct or indirect implying of its coming demise. Which was what I was saying in my comment. Those people are not correct. It is being said in this thread and other recent threads too. If FB is still a $5-600B+ company in 2025, then these recent comments are also not correct.

Which is to say, it's hard to imagine FB dropping lower than the ~11th biggest US company and ~15th biggest worldwide[0] company at a $600B market cap in 2025. A valuation they did not cross until May 2020.

[0] Right now they are 8th in the US and world. Top 5 for earnings. Usually 5th-6th.
It wouldn't be illegal in the US, but it would be in many other countries.
Do we have any hypotheses, anecdotes, etc for why that's happening in these regions?
The author's ridiculous tone detracts from their point. I'm sure it works well with people who already agree with them, but it isn't going to convince many people.
This is the explanation I believe.

It would be easy to say "today's movies aren't as interesting as the ones of 20 years ago" but that would be ignoring that I changed in those years - namely, I've seen a lot more movies and read a lot more books and watched a lot more TV.

It would be unsurprising for someone to say "not everything I liked at first still holds up today."

But I apply the same reasoning against my forward-looking watching/reading: "I've seen so much more now that fewer things impress me at first, as I have so much more to compare with."

So a book that's only mildly capturing my attention? I can speed up my reading, skim a bit more over the uninteresting parts. A movie? So much harder!
The early internet was largely America centric.
Could “misinformation” be a misnomer? I think the problem is in the way it’s consumed that is similar to a rhyme or a chant, rather than accuracies of information contained therein.