skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the lie-to-your-face characterization. Steve Jobs was always telling the truth as he saw it at the time. He was just uncommonly good at making you believe it.

Henry Ford also wasn’t lying at any point, and was not a Steve Jobs figure either. He was widely loved (prior to his anti-semitic statements, to be fair) by the common folk for telling it like he saw it.

IBM, I’m not sure what this refers to. The Watsons were salesmen, but were not widely considered dishonest, certainly not Jr.

Tesla, yes, Musk is full of shit at all points. People don’t seem to love him for it.
That's awesome. Yeah, like anything using the data to make better decisions is the way, otherwise there's no point. Even as a T1, if my BG is high, I will generally(not always) eat less carb or none for a meal. Plus the changes in insulin dosing. It's just easier and injected insulin is so much slower than what the pancreas can do(both in time to react and duration)
Singapore maybe.
Who would have thought the company repeatedly caught cheating on cell phone benchmarks would do it with TVs?
Unreal Engine 5 – Ocarina of Time Realistic Water Demo
Hybrid Work and Neurodivergence
RPGs That Don’t Use Dice
Milhouse vibes.
When i worked at the NIH, a couple times an entire institute was accidentally cc'd instead of bcc'd on an email, and for weeks after the chain would continue, consisting only of people writing "please stop responding to this chain". I don't know what you do for that...
Fair. I'm not a US person so I don't run into these issues. I still have to submit appropriate docs for FACTA etc because I do business with US companies.
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I have a few ideas that I've been wondering how to find people with the right skillsets to help me out with it, and thus this is interesting, however weekly 1:1's sound... exhausting. I could do it for a little while and maybe find the right folks, but is there a way to then limit or stop them? Or is this focused towards extroverts?
Why don’t more companies take up the gauntlet that Musk threw down? It’s such an obvious opportunity.
Not that I am impressed with Elon or hold him high: But I don't think many people would be particularly eager to go from building an autonomous self driving EV car to building an overhyped hyper-sold bug raising platform.

Being centered in australia is a plus with it's laid back lifestyle but nothing else is a plus
Thanks for sharing that experience. What did you end up doing to lower your costs?
“It basically always pays to ask a counter-question like "Will we want to change our action in some way based on the result of this test?"”

I like to ask this too. This question is also very useful in a medical context. They often order tests where the outcome doesn’t really matter for the path forward.
This gets pretty close for web applications: https://www.replay.io/

Another relevant talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml6Dp3F4Inc
Cross region or cross AZ?
Mission accomplished; now delete your machines.
Except that you still probably want a lawyer for the process of filing the reexamination request. It's more likely to succeed that way.
People say this is hard to do but I’m unsure of the reasons why. Is it possible the plumbing is vastly different between business and residential or is it just another zoning issues that makes no sense?
They require you to acknowledge some terms that grant you access to the Unreal Engine source code. They grant it by adding you to their GitHub org which has the engine source code as a private repo.
Conti RaaS group chat leaked (Eng-translation) about CSME/SMM firmware implant
Yes but that’s on top of what GitHub is already sending, plus it must be multiplied by the number of comments left on top of that. It feels like 35 straight minutes of 100% usage isn’t great on any system. It presumably sent 61 million emails.
I've studied HCI and Engelbart's work for quite a long time, and I'm not sure I would fully agree that things would have been better had Engelbart continued working on NLS, or if NLS had won out.

One simple example is with copy and paste. NLS had a highly complex and error prone copy-and-paste system. A lot of the commands in NLS were modal (vs modeless), and thus error prone. See this article for more info:
http://worrydream.com/refs/Tesler%20-%20A%20Personal%20Histo...

Another issue was basic usability of NLS. Engelbart's vision was on continuous bootstrapping, continually aiming to create more powerful and expressive systems. This vision was pretty good for technical people, but also comes at the cost of basic ease of use and entry for newcomers. For instance, think about how many problems non-technical people still have with today's PCs and smartphones, many of which strive for "walk up and use" kind of usage.

Having been in research for over two decades now, my position is that we researchers will often identify the right problem and get the right general direction, but not always the right form. For instance, in the late 90s at Berkeley, folks correctly identified cluster computing as the future, and that we should aim to create abstractions to host Internet services to make them more scalable and robust. The specifics went in a very different direction (e.g. cloud computing, Kubernetes, etc), but the general thrust was right. As another example, my colleagues and I correctly identified rapid prototyping and testing tools for user interfaces as a major need, and while we inspired a lot of ideas with our work (pen-based sketching), industry went in a very different direction (see Figma and Axure and InVision).

I think the same is true with Engelbart's work. He was definitely a pioneer and helped open up people's imaginations as to what was possible with computing, but was off on a lot of the details and specifics that really matter for adoption. And that's ok because to a large extent, that's one of the many reasons we as a community and society do research.
To download unreal engine, you need to join this org.
Conti ransomware targeted Intel firmware for stealthy attacks https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/conti-ransomw...
Teams can be secret. This might be a secret team to begin with? Anyway, I highly doubt they deleted the team since it’s used as an authorization mechanism.
They may wekk evolve again, given the right circumstances. Giganticism in both predator and prey is a response to plentiful food. It happened with both dinosaurs and mammals. By the same token, animals respond by evolving into smaller forms in food sparse environments. On the Indonesian island of Flores, both hominids and elephants became tiny.
Oh it’s completely opt-in.

It’s just once a week for those who want it and with enough users, there are always developers at some point who are interested in meeting someone new for the week.

The projects, however, are always open to start or work on (existing ones).
Unreal engine is open source but in a private GitHub repo. Anyone can link their GitHub account with their epic games account which adds them to the team.
No doubt. But this sounds like a communication problem between two stubborn parties. If someone demands a ridiculous feature and is immune to rational compromise, then sure .. state your objection, build the feature and send an invoice. In my experience this is rarely the situation. More often its a case of the real issue not being clearly articulated, a lack of will to compromise on behalf of the implementer (as much as the annoying, ignorant client), and a general cynicism from both parties as to the role of the other.
I thought paper had to be clean to be recycled, causing a lot of it to be discarded (like used pizza boxes). TIL, thank you.
Walmart actually diligences it’s vendors and manages its upstream supply chain - Amazon does zero diligence on its vendors and doesn’t manage its upstream supply chain
It's "secret". You need to be in it to see it.
Amazon is actually a great example of a company that looks like it was bleeding money or mot making any. Because the software scales and each additional online customer costs nothing to support in terms of engineering spend, and they were aggressively reinvesting in product and engineering that made it look like they were unprofitable when really they almost had a monopoly.

Arguing that Uber is not profitable because it's been 13 years is not a valid argument. They could spend and invest more than they make indefinitely if they wanted to, and it wouldn't affect their unit economics or their potential profitability. Yes, their investment in Uber eats paid off enormously. They were subsidizing Uber Pool rides because there is still an enormous market that supports multiple big ride sharing companies (Lyft, Uber, Didi, Grab, etc) and because they could afford to spend in marketing and subsidization.

Once the heat turns down they may subsidize less, maybe even wind down engineering / product development spend, and they'd have a fundamental product that has better unit economics than a traditional taxi cab company... because again, as I have pointed out repeatedly, their engineering staff is not required to support the operation of their ride service.
Pretty sure I heard some horror stories on HN about the mess that is Atlassian.
IME, the two things that Amazon beats everyone else at is - the shipping speed (logistics) and customer service / returns.

It's extremely convenient to be able to order with same day shipping, and the return policy (and returns process) is superior to everyone.

If theres a chance I might need to return something I rather buy it from Amazon, as going into a store and waiting in line is not worth the cost savings.
in the 2000s I was using Rhapsody and being mocked because people thought streaming music was stupid.
Not every software dev at Tesla works on self driving. Also would you want to work on something that'll never work? (I own a Tesla but I can't resist trolling here).
Used pizza boxes?
for those who love story-driven games, The Longest Journey is old but amazing
Not defending NIMBYs or YIMBYs but lumping this case under the anti-NIMBY tent is really stretching the meaning of YIMBY.
The problem here is that they’re not even trying. How can they not know that such PR would never be merged? For this reason I don’t think public contributions are why they send the PRs
Well, someone paid $360k for NFT's

That does not mean someone else will pay a like amount, and even more unlikely someone else would pay more.

How to value the loss?

Secondly, can't this be gamed somehow?

Put $ into NFT

Loss happens somehow, theft, or they sell again for less.

Wrap that up in some crazy business of some sorts, and could those losses offset others, or gains in ways not currently intended?
Huh. And yet why is that sort of annoying forced registration not considered 'antisocial', but this accidental tagging is resulting in calls for the poster to be banned?
Wouldn't this necessarily include "devices" like nuclear-reactor control systems? Because AFAICT there's no clear line where a "computer" stops and something like that starts.

I imagine there would need to be a special protections in the clause for "secure embedded industrial" devices like that — something like: "if opening your company's devices to free modification would create a national security risk, then your company is not allowed to go out of business in the first place; instead, bankruptcy of your company will lead to immediate nationalization of such assets as are required to keep your devices up-to-date with secure firmware in perpetuity."

(It's actually kind of weird that there isn't already anything like this on the books in America; so it was possible for the private sector to e.g. shut down all the 5.25"-floppy-disk factories, despite military missile control systems still actively depending on them. You'd think governments would wield at least contract law — if not legislation — more eagerly, to protect "critical logisticla dependencies" like these.)
I lost all confidence in them when it became clear that they actively supported fake reviews and counterfeit products. I have to imagine that the only reason some major lawsuit hasn't been brought against them is because federal counterfeiting measures are handled across half a dozen different agencies:

https://www.stopfakes.gov/Reporting-an-Online-Vendor-Selling...
> "GNC Storefront" goes in to the same bin as the rando person who put a label on some melamine powder

If toxic products are getting into consumer food I would hope the FDA or some other regulatory agency would sue Amazon to oblivion. The USA is supposed to be better than this.
Failing/misbehaving nodes are the worst. Everything from slow performance to data corruption.

Much better to lose a node immediately than to have it fail gradually.
Innocent mistake.

The kid is barely 18. The emotion and stress resulting from mistakenly sending a notification to 400,000 is likely overwhelming. Now his real name is going to stay at the center of the internet for a while thanks to being 1st on HN. I would definitely not have coped well with that much internet attention at his age. Some Github replies are more immature than the initial action and I hope he does not receive any threat.

I hope the Epic developers reach out to him nicely with constructive feedback and maybe a thanks for his well-meaning PR.
> Sending email notifications to 400,000 users for unimportant things is antisocial.

What about requiring people to join a specific team to access the source for no apparent reason? In other words, how are the conditions which led to the creation of this inflated team not antisocial as well?
archived: https://archive.ph/K3brW
We will get through this. We have the whole Series C and some more left. This was a move to put our heads down and get to work without worrying about fundraising for at least the next five years but potentially ever.
Even as police/security, they are not permitted to go out and kill people. They can act in a lethal manner if their life is in immediete danger, just like you or I can as normal citizens. That is not unique. The CEO of Securitas cannot decide to kill you and have his henchmen go do it.

The leaders of governments can and do act like that.
I’ve only had good experiences with their site and products sold on it. They do seem mixed up internally though. They’re probably going to have to treat their staff better and restructure.
Thanks for the info. Had no idea!
I was in the affected group. Quite fun when my phone's notification sound is this:

https://youtu.be/vVobKsbtdfI

meow meow meow meooow
Yes, those too. According to the American Forest & Paper Association, pizza boxes are almost universally accepted by cardboard recyclers. The small amount of cheese and grease in the cardboard bails they buy from recycling programs do not impact the quality of the paper and cardboard manufactured at mills that use recycled inputs.

> AF&PA and Industry Partners Aim to Set the Record Straight – Pizza Boxes Are Recyclable, Grease and Cheese Not an Issue

https://www.afandpa.org/news/2020/afpa-and-industry-partners...
Except that all of those things merely arise from the deterministic evolution of a wavefunction that is subject to the laws of thermodynamics.

"inventing the polio vaccine" was just a set of deterministic interactions between atoms in Jonas Salk's brain. During that entire process, entropy only increased, the universe further unwinds itself.
It's not sarcasm: I actually like PS because it builds on the concept of data pipelines, to turn them into something more object orientend.

The only thing similar in the Linux world is using sqlite as the target of pipe to do some data processing, like on a ps output, find the name of the process using the most RAM.

Structurally, the language seems both Perl inspired and something a bit like of an hybrid of LISP (for the object) and SQL (for how most structures are manipulated)
Playing back your own words in this thread;

>one gets accused of being a bigot

So you have admitted to already having a track record of being called as one.

>I have such a low estimation of Indian culture over all

>but somehow Judaism and the Indian caste system

Both the above lines speak volumes about your worldview or lack thereof. This is classic bigotry and racism. The rest of your comments are all meandering vitriol against anything and everything.

>I'm neither a racist nor a bigot,

Does not compute.
Oh, it's worse than that.

US Lend Lease to Ukraine was what, $30B? And that money hasn't been even tapped yet. I don't know the current numbers today, but I'm thinking at least $5B has gone to Ukraine in arms, just from the United States. Ukraine's pre-war military budget seems to be about $6B. US is basically subsidizing UKR defense spending for the next 5 years.

Given the US defense budget is ~$1T, spending < 10% to drastically depleting the Russian military (without even using US forces) is an opportunity that will not be squandered.

Russia can complain all they want, but the truth is they can stop this war immediately by withdrawing. It's a war of choice that they can no longer withdraw from.
You can end your mail service, I've called and asked about it for this exact reason. After the world's most resistance, shock, and awe, and a level of escalation, I was eventually told that yes this is possible but that nobody had ever done it.
I'm talking about supply as in physical supply of houses, not inventory. Inventory is a less-useful concept for me, because it fluctuates based on who decides to put their house on the market at a given time, which can depend upon home prices, interest rates, migration patterns, speculation, etc.

I still have not seen a convincing response to the demographic argument I put forth. The generation entering the housing market now is the large Millennial generation; the generation dying is the small Silent generation. For everyone who wants a house to get one, we need to be building the delta in size between these, and we're short by several million.
Thanks, that’s pretty interesting. I’ll have to read that link later.
> I understand what you are trying to say but your concept of market price is only applicable to fungible goods. "Market price" for land leases makes very little sense and only implies that it's whatever price you've managed to negotiate. There are no supply/demand curves, there is no spread, nothing like you are used to with pricing fungible goods.

To make sure I understand - you say that because each land is as unique as an NFT, the market for every single piece of land has supply of 1, and the classical supply/demand curves don't make sense/apply.

I have multiple answers to that concept:

1- From a mathematical abstraction, the key to riches would be to get one land and split it into as many sub-pieces of land as possible and sell them all at the same price as the larger one!

2- There are differences between fungibles and non-fungibles, crypto has taught us, but overall most properties are similar and allow for the exchange of a non-fungible for another. Each land NFT is unique, but there are many land NFTs, and they compete against each other as if they were fungible. Each wine is unique too, even each bottle of wine is unique! but albeit this does affect demand, it doesn't turn supply to perfect inelasticity. There are subsitutions!

> But that is not the point of my argument, your original assertion was that "the land owner doesn't have any bargaining power - his only choice is to not rent the land and absorb the loss of all value." Now you are saying seller and buyer negotiate? Why would they do if the seller has no bargaining power?

Bargaining power to increase rents to cover the land value tax - he cant change the supply of land, or repurpose it for something else.

> Why then a 1kg of Skittles on Amazon.co.uk costs more than 50 oz (1.5kg) of the same on Amazon.com (GBP 9.43 vs USD 9.98)? Is it really because British people want to taste the rainbow so much more than Americans?

I've waited all my life to a microeconomics conversation about skittles. The bigger question, sir, is why do blue skittles sell at the same price as all the other skittles, when they are clearly the worst.

Many equal goods have different prices in different parts of the world for cost of labor, supply, taxes, etc etc. I have no idea in this particular case why it would be so, but relevant to economic incidence of taxes, sales taxes do change supply/demand curves of skittles bought on amazon. Because skittles are a unique product, but also substitutable for other non-sales taxable foods, its very likely both producer and purchaser eat part of the tax hike - they both lose.
That’s basically what I was referring to, though they often have other similar lines.
Sounds like a good job for Maxwells Daemon.
You can download it via Epic Game Store without joining the org. Github organization is for contribution from non-employees as well as source code for various projects (like engine demos).
> Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable

This gets repeated a ton, but isn’t true unless you assume density never increases.

Buying a SFH and replacing it with a 4-plex would be profitable in almost every market — were it allowed, which it almost never is in the US. In that alternate universe, the SFH owner makes money, the developer makes money, and the new units in the new building can be affordable.
Tomorrow's post: "Don't build sites that can't serve two words to a modest crowd without crashing."
I haven't figured out the exact wording or requirements - feedback welcome.

My goal is not to discourage "Fully Finished" sort of products - if you have some widget that does X, and you've optimized the firmware to do X, and it won't need to do anything else beyond X, then... OK, good job, please make more things.

The target here is "consumer electronics" sort of devices - phones, speakers, fridges, washers, etc. And I don't think it has to be a "default unlocked" process, so much as "Some process to allow you to boot what you want." And if that's "I submit a blob upstream and they sign it so it can shim my kernel," well... not great, but OK.

However, the reality for something like your scenario, nuclear control systems, is that anyone who can get close enough (physically or digitally) to one for it to matter isn't going to be hindered by some pesky firmware lock.
> Start by replacing the commands with simple verbs like "walk", "filter" and "convert" and give them some default positional args

PowerShell commands (more accurately, cmdlets[0]) have a fixed Verb-Noun syntax. Get-ChildItem, Invoke-WebRequest, etc etc.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/powers...
Intel Z690 motherboard price is awful. I paid $220 for a boring basic board. I suspect that X670 boards will have higher price than X570 thanks to DDR5 and PCIe Gen5.
I don't think anyone believes working reactors' surroundings to be harmful at the level where you'd see effects in wildlife.
Even with some kind of memex, I think eventually information start to be repeated purposelessly.

I think eventually we need some kind of canonicalization in order to progress, in terms of knowledge/information organization, but I'm not sure if that's a doable in today's digital society.