skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple, along with a bunch of upstream suppliers, brings together some glass, some plastic, some metal, and create an iPhone out of it. The value of an iPhone is greater than the value of the raw materials. Thus, it's a positive sum game. Same goes for owning a stake in Apple the company.

One person buys a Bitcoin that another person sold, which is zero sum. But miners burned real energy paid with not-Bitcoin to process it, thus value exits the system. Thus it is negative sum.
Peak Silicon Valley. Shit on the latest trend. Say engineers should "make the world a better place.". Well done.
A Map of Lexical Distances Between Europe's Languages
Technically Mexicans are "Estado Unidenses" too. The official name of Mexico is "United States of Mexico"
What are you saying
You are referring to browser tabs?
I recently did a few consecutive full day bicycle trips around the Netherlands and rode on many roads like this. I felt safe and drivers were respectful and patient when passing.

I would never ride on one of these in the US. I can already imagine the Amazon delivery van or work truck parked in the bicycle section, forcing me into the center. I can also imagine the impatient drivers accelerating way beyond the speed limit to try to pass me while I'm riding in the center. I was a bike commuter in NYC for years, and am a regular recreational cyclist in the Bay Area and LA. So I have pretty significant experience riding in the US, and all of that experience is telling me that this is a bad idea for US cities.
Graham: Synchronizing Clocks by Leveraging Local Clock Properties [pdf]
If you open the market now, wouldn't European countries struggle to get formula because US has a much higher buying capacity?
Wasn’t Project Warp Speed a Republican idea?

Hmmmm
Probably not a good idea to pick an unusual year as your baseline if you want a reliable conclusion.

The trend of both graphs appears to be a modest increase over time, obviously with annual fluctuations.
No, but one assumes Apple would want to hire outside this demographic.
Seems ridiculous to ban the user, remove the post, and lock the comment section. In a conspiracy theory subreddit of all places. This is like the perfect content for a subreddit like that.

Once again proving that the moderation model of Reddit also completely ruins reddit 95% of the time
>legal to hook a 2 stroke up to a bike

It's rather common where I live, not weird at all. Those are only loud when unmodified and every kit comes with a standard gas tank, perhaps banning them altoghether isn't an answer?
The woke horde is already inside Netflix and running the show.
Packet Order Matters Improving Performance by Delaying Packets [pdf]
I think the Evan's book about DDD is the worst by far. The one from Vaughn Vernon is better imho (more practical without losing the theoretical aspect).
I would never trust Google for anything critical for that reason. Google Drive is just another backup for my photos.
I don't think what I described was entirely fraud. I think people honestly underestimated how correlated the failures could become.

(But I won't deny that there was also fraud, and economic incentives for inflated ratings.)
No better than any random orbiting lump with the same mass, and quite possibly worse. If you want to clean space debris put up something like a big disc of aerogel.
Is that a joke website or are they actually trying to tie the end of Breton woods to the quadrupling of lawyers per capita since 1971?

The number of people who drown in a pool strongly correlates with how many films Nicolas Cage has appeared in [0] but that doesn't make it a causation.

[0]: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
New York has a lot of wide shouldered roads in snow country that effectively work like these. They are meant to limit plow damage and heaving at the edge of the road bed. They are also a superior alternative to demarcated bicycle ghettoes because you get much less grief when you aren't "where you belong" when conditions necessitate it.
They will of course, and I think few people actually have a problem with the general principle of shying away from controversial content if you drill into the specifics. For instance, I think fairly few would be surprised or offended at Netflix refusing to stream Triumph of the Will.
Russia is currently at a perfect position to fight back against this. I'm no fan of Kremlin, dictatorship, or wars, but if an ordinary country wants to rebel against the international "copyright" cartel, they would face sanctions. Russia is already under enough sanctions that no more can be realistically added, and it also has an existing pirate culture and a developed network infrastructure.

I would be happy to see if they start sponsoring pirate groups to undermine the right holders from "unfriendly countries" as a form of economic warfare.

It's already legalized for certain classes of software[1], but I think it has not yet formally extended into other types of content.

1. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5240942
The product needs to be Chrome Premium, which blocks all ads, on all platforms for a fee, where a share goes back to the sites you visit most.
Quite possibly, but if you had a labor shortage you would waste your time managing the prima-donnas for lack of alternatives. If you're about to do layoffs anyway, no need.
Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage
10base2 is totally different. 10base2 is thinwire coax - as opposed to 10base5, thick ethernet.

With 10baseT, the T stands for "twisted pair," as opposed to coaxial cables. Everything we're talking about here is going to be baseT, for twisted pair.

In 10baseT full duplex there are only 4 of the 8 rj45 pins used. In 10baseT half duplex there are only 2 of the 8 rj45 pins used. I don't remember which pins off the top of my head, but you could easily experiment to figure it out. I'm sure it's using one of the two pair used in full duplex.

You don't need to wire anything differently. When you select half duplex mode in your driver it will start communicating over only 2 pins. This sometimes happens naturally with faulty or broken cables, when it looks like the other pins aren't connected properly.

100baseT is more or less the same as 10baseT in terms of pinouts, but at a higher frequency.
Dai is an algorithmic stablecoin, same as Terra/UST, their supply is determined by an algorithm.

USDT is a centralized stablecoin, same as USDC.

So in your argument that comes quite close to "No true Scottsman" fallacy, what is the exact criteria that you are using to separate out the "stable" stablecoins from the "unstable" stablecoins?
It’s vocal, for sure, but it’s not that tiny. You can’t simply dismiss the concerns of 10-30% (+ allies) of your potential audience.
Well, if it helps, 4chan has been talking about this for at least a month, complete with maps of various food production facilities that have suffered fires or otherwise suddenly gone out of commission.
Why an Indian couple is suing their son over grandchildren
Good points, I like the analogies. I would also not classify prions as life originators, but rather thinking if a similar model would have been employed by an intermmediate non-nucleotide based replicator. So basically chemical folders that would gradually evolve the replicator molecular complexity.
I saw articles about that on news.google.com several months ago. Maybe the way they filter your feed?
How Bad Government Policy is Fueling the Infant Formula Shortage

https://reason.com/volokh/2022/05/13/how-bad-government-poli...
I've been using it for over a month now and it's great. Search results are on par with Google,if not better. (Probably better, subjectively, since I switched mostly due to getting annoyed daily with worsening results. Ignoring my search terms was especially annoying.)
The privacy aspect felt like a bonus, but now I never want to go back.
"Do nothing because the results aren't instant". Great advice.
You are referring to the US dollar correct?
How has the chasm gotten wider? “We” is an interesting euphemism for “you”. I’m content with the randomness.

I also think you are limiting your approach to who you are responding to: athiesm is a belief system about there not being a God, there is a different word for people who just don’t care at all.
I don't think that offending people is truly the first principle. If that were the case there would be zero content. The attempt is to not be offensive to the specific sensitivities a specific group that is vocal in popular culture and that supposedly has the power to take down your brand. It would be interesting to see if that group really has power if all companies would stand up against them instead of folding.
Read yourself.
Option 1: Direct to reader.

The act of paying is a pain point.

There is always hesitancy because there is always a decision, there is always a need to make a judgment.

If it is every article, there are more pain points.

Write a newsletter.

Take subscriptions.

Option 2:

There are organizations that pay writers for content.

Sell to them.

Good luck.
There are platforms for it.
I'm not offended by their content, I just think the quality declined faster than they've raised prices. That's why I cancelled. Most of their original content is about as exciting and predictable as talking to a GPT-3 bot.
> ... Richard Stallman, a very problematic character ...

The link to `problematic character` is an open letter to remove RS from FSF's leadership position: https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

That open letter then stated that:

```
Richard M. Stallman, frequently known as RMS, has been a dangerous force in the free software community for a long time. He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety.
```

Without providing actual facts or links to external sources.

Anyone mind to provide a bit more context on RS' behavior problems?
>” Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that's where so much of our popular media originates and is set.”

For additional evidence, the setting of most of “Breaking Bad” (now continuing as “Better Call Saul”) in Albuquerque, New Mexico led to meaningful economic benefits for people living there, such as increased tourism (from https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-xpm-2013-a...).
Yes, the parent poster is being disingenous IMHO.

Federal gov'ts could do all these things, and did, before the advent of the current neo-liberal governance in the 80s and 90s. The choice not to be able to do so, to strip governments of planning and industrial policies, was a conscious policy choice made by several consecutive administrations and governments across the whole G20 (at least).

Even more so federal governments especially did these things during war times. And we're basically in a proxy war with Russia (and IMHO, for the first time in my memory this might actually be a conflict with an actual morally justifiable cause), yet governments in the west have not put themselves on a footing yet to really weather such a war.

We should have put ourselves on that footing during COVID. Or hell, to deal with the climate crisis. And now here we are with this latest situation in Ukraine...

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Gates chose to put a VC (Technology Venture Investors) on the cap table even when flush with cash.
> Number 2 is a fancy way to describe a primary use case being money laundering.

That's not entirely true. I think a more principal use case for Number 2 is purchasing things (dark web drugs, gambling, etc) outside of the usual centralized financial system rails which would stop them at the edges.

Bitcoin seems like a poor choice for money laundering because of how traceable it is; you'd need to use privacy coins for that, and even then, it's questionable (51% attack is doable in the same way that many Tor nodes are compromised).
This is quite outdated, I believe. With the launch of NU5/Halo2 in a couple of weeks, all transactions will be private by default. Plus, even without that change, the shielded pool is way larger these days. Finally, a fairer comparison with Monero would have been to trace a shielded to shielded transaction. This should be literally impossible with Zcash.
That cuts pretty hard the other direction though. Going into debt on a house with half the income of other people around you is a huge reason why foreclosures happen.

Worrying about 15 years is short-sighted too, that’s not very long. If you pay it off in 15 years, and then you have 2x the income of someone who didn’t go to school, you’re 35 making great money and in a job with better prospects and mobility than if you didn’t have debt but took a job that didn’t require a degree. This is, of course, statistically speaking. Some people do manage to do very well without a degree, but it’s pretty important to understand that it’s not even close to the average outcome.

My personal experience with student debt was that it got me a job out of college that paid well enough that I paid off my student loans much faster than I’d anticipated. I thought it was going to be 10 years, but it was more like 3. (To be fair I didn’t borrow that much, and cost of college has been rising faster than inflation ever since I graduated.)
BigTech no more “gives away” products than anyone else. It’s part of a bundle. If you take the DropBox example, Jobs called out DropBox as a “feature not a product” years before Office 365/OneDrive, iCloud Drive, and Google Drive were a thing.

Microsoft is making money hand over fist on Office365.
I’m British, married to a Canadian, and you need to be clear that your comment is entirely about you and your insecurities and not about Canadians.
An IQ test cannot distinguish between a subject who originally came up with a problem-solving technique due to innate intelligence, and one who has already seen that type of problem and learned the problem solving trick from someone else (possibly from having challenged numerous IQ tests).

There is some alignment between IQ tests and academic work; an academic background gives you a few tricks for solving those kinds of problems.
Presidential blamers are always going to blame the one from the other side of the spectrum.
But not all IQ data comes from military conscripts (and might therefore be tainted by people not taking it seriously nowadays).
Ditto, surely this is better than what this blog post suggests?

var Constants = struct {
FooBar string
FizzBuzz string
} {
"FooBar",
"FizzBuzz",
}

If you must have

type FlagID string

then this should work also

var Constants = struct {
FooBar FlagID
FizzBuzz FlagID
} {
"FooBar",
"FizzBuzz",
}
I now know, that if I lived in Ancient Rome I wouldn't have been wind swept by Christianity and converted, or If I lived in Salem I wouldn't have hunted witches. This is a religion we are dealing with. A mob and a stupid time in history to live. Netflix pays very well, you shouldn't need to protest at work. Grow up.
>... quality has been dropping sharply the last few years ...

This is the same trajectory that Disney is taking. They are losing subscribers also as people are becoming tired of the agenda driven content.
AC charging won't really change over the next couple decades. There's limits to how much power you can supply from a house, and essentially all AC charging is basically fancy extension cables.
Sidebar, but the "Cuties debacle" is nothing more than a moral panic. Cuties is a great movie about an immigrant kid struggling to cope with a broken home by escaping her parents and becoming a "normal French girl." She doesn't know how to fit in so she tries to gain acceptance with her non-immigrant school-friends by hyper-sexualizing herself. The story a searing criticism of the sexualization of children, not a celebration it. The dancing scene that everyone complains about is deliberately constructed to disgust the viewer, not to titillate them: you're meant to see it as the protagonist's lowest point, when they realize that they are pretending to be someone they're not in a bid to escape her parents' marital trauma. People got upset about it without seeing the movie. It's a great movie.
I think the one university that closed in Illinois due to a ransom attack made possible by Crypto will in the long run prove to be more valuable to society than all of crypto. If only we had some way of preserving all the things crypto destroys.
I was a bit sloppy and I apologise, but if you take a given cryptocurrency, it's not possible for it to be a volatile investment and a stable, useful currency at the same time, those are completely at odds.

If you take Bitcoin as an example, it's too volatile to be used as currency, and most vendors accepting Bitcoin price items for sale in dollars, and convert the Bitcoin to dollars rather than holding them. It's not actually used as a currency.

Stablecoins could conceivably be used as currency but then they're not a volatile investment. Except if they become volatile UST-style and thus become useless for any purpose.
Creating and moving cash also requires power and can be used for illegal transactions.
Are there people passing laws to fuck with people with bipolar disorder? Are there people telling you that you’re incorrect or even mentally ill because you identify as a recovering alcoholic?
This reeks of propaganda. There is zero chance Putin doesn't have full knowledge of russian troop presence in Ukraine, and you can't really deny that he doesn't have troops in major cities he wants to control.
This is not true. People that are not aligned with the company's values create negative enterprise value.
Lego’s next batch of official unofficial sets go on sale May 17th
I can't count the number of C++ codebases I've worked on where either myself or some other engineer implemented an ad-hoc, incomplete "sum type-like" enumeration system, e.g. in linting, pre-compilers, etc. In my case, I've done it without even knowing what these were--my background is physics, not computer science. The concept isn't terribly difficult to understand, even if the jargon name for it isn't widely known, or is associated with more type-theory oriented languages.
today i saw someone on HN call piracy controls "anti-consumer laws"
This rant seems to be premised on the idea that IQ measures how badly one desires to be smart, but there's no evidence that "[struggling] to be smart" can affect your score.
A big problem is that many of the big class actions are on shaky ground and it’s actually advantageous to settle rather than go through the motions and lose. After all, the company is offering you $100M not because they’re wrong, but just to get you to go away. Why not take it rather than risk losing it all?

Not all class actions are like that, but a lot are.
Because I choose not to watch something that implies it may be sexualizing young girls? So by this logic if you see a trailer for a movie that's highlighting the dangers of child pornography, but from the trailer it seems to be showing and possibly promoting child pornography, and I choose not to watch that because I don't want to unwittingly view a film that promotes child pornography, I have now unreasonably cast judgment on this film? I don't think that it's unfair for me to criticize a film if the way they promote it seems to insinuate it's a film about ethically horrendous and illegal material.

The producers created the trailer to promote the film. If the trailer looks like it's promoting ethically perverse material, I have every right to cast my judgment at that point and say this film is not for me.

I'm not going to sit through a film that seemingly promotes itself as the sexualization of young girls because someone told me that it has a good message at the end. And that's fine. And it's fine for people to cancel a subscription because of that presumption. I'd rather be safe than sorry when it comes to stuff like this.
The ‘safe’ keyword in the title is a Siren’s song to certain types of Rustaceans, so it’s not surprising.
It seems Rust has basically no overhead versus C, but it could have negative overhead if you use cross-language LTO. Of course, you can do LTO between C files too, so that would be unfair. But I think this sets it apart from languages that, even with a highly optimised FFI, don't have compiler support for LTO with C code.
Those people (and bots) will blame everything on Biden regardless of veracity.
KING!

Thank you!!!
I don't think there needs to be a conspiracy. From what I've read about Google (I have never and will never work there), ICs are incentivized to build and ship new stuff, even if it isn't successful, so Google ends up building a bunch of stuff that isn't successful.

It's not at all hard for me to believe that a company that has built, shipped, and killed multiple chat apps has also built and killed multiple subscription and micropayments systems. Then, the employees who are pushing adtech can use those failures as evidence that adtech is the only way.
The main thing is some companies doing hiring freezes & layoffs. Twitter has started rescinding some offers, Meta implemented a hiring freeze, Coinbase & Robinhood stock are in serious pain, etc. This kind of stuff is making most speculate that tech is about to be in a lot of hurt, especially for less profitable companies.
https://tilde.town/wiki/conduct.html

The aesthetic is late 90s, but the attitude towards censorship is squarely late 2010s. Neocities is better; much less pozzed.
As if Netflix is not filled with woke propaganda already...

Note: Expect sentiment downvotes in HN
Especially considering Trudeau hasnt lead a massive genocide or tried to take over the continent.
> hypersexualisation of young girls

Which is what the producers did to create it in the first place. Hence why it was unethical. I'm sure there are some snuff films with interesting character development too.
"Look at the early Covid pandemic and the shortage of face masks and other protective equipment. Look at vaccine production and how countries that could manufacture the vaccine prioritized domestic distribution first."

I don't think those are very good examples. A large part of the PPE shortage problem was from not restocking the national stockpile after the 2009 swine flu pandemic, in part from a bi-partisan, multiple administrations by both parties capture of that program by Emergent BioSolutions.

Which then abjectly failed when it had to deliver cell culture grown vaccines in its Baltimore plant that was in reserve for pandemics (fortunately that didn't hurt so much because the Janssen and Oxford vaccines are ... subpar, and Protein Sciences approach which works for flu generally failed or were extremity late (Novovax and Sanofi Pasteur)). We had part of a system and failed to use it properly. On the other hand if we as in the US were sharp we'd have bought the equipment Honeywell ended up scrapping when they shut down mask making in France.

3M for example does make masks in countries like the US and even keeps an extra set of equipment to double production in case of emergencies like this. But of course just doubling normal production isn't enough, and they and other companies like some that got crushed after 2009-10 found it hard to compete against very cheap PPE from the PRC, and refused to risk their companies again after COVID started hitting.

For vaccine manufacturing it's a tall order to expect political systems to be ready for once in a century events. This wasn't so bad for us with COVID since we could tool up during the development and testing of vaccines although the Indian national government abjectly failed to do that, but there was always going to be issues here, especially in learning curve issues.

Also how do you prepare for the best vaccines being mostly completely new technology for mass manufacturing? Even for fill and finish BoNTech's vaccine has at least at some point temperature requirements way beyond normal medical freezing, the latter any of us could achieve with a frost free consumer freezer.

In general, though, you're right, but solutions free of their own corruption problems are very hard. Plus tariffs are regressive taxes.