skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Everybody can.

But Google Analytics is a 30 second setup, whereas setting up a log analyzer (or even getting logging going in the first place) is a much bigger hassle. Some of my stuff is on wacky Cloud Function hosting that I wouldn't have the first idea of how to go about logging.

Thus, nearly 100% of us just use Analytics. If they had an "evil" checkbox that I could uncheck to stop it doing whatever you're worried it will do, then I'd happily do so.

Frankly, I'm not sure what GA could do that would bother anybody. All it does is tell me how many people saw what page and how long they stayed there. It certainly can't tell me anything about you personally.
One of the lucky 10,000

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Is there a service or system for automatically blocking anyone from the UK? And how can we make it clear to British politicians that such a thing will be widely deployed?
Except that it's a flawed democracy in that you only seem to have two choices, with people often choosing the lesser evil, or deciding not to vote anyway because it doesn't matter.

"the left" and "the right", or "the democrats" and "the republicans" in essence, is too wide a net. "The left go off the deep end" is also, when you look into it, a fairly small percentage of the wider population.

But it feels like people are pushed to the fringes, because the Other Side is being pushed to the fringes. There's just, from the perspective of an outsider, a lot of antagonism between the two "sides".

And that antagonism is being fueled by someone. There's people with a lot of money and / or special interests who benefit off of the infighting and polarisation.
That's right, which is why the parenthesis is combined with a leading symbol like (let ...).

Mainly, you don't look at the parenthesis when reading; you look at that let and your eyes rely on indentation for structure.
Los Angeles Union station turns around the Pacific Surfliner because it's a end stop - and they've now been working for 10+ years on adding a through track which would shave 20+ minutes off the trip.

And that one doesn't need anything but a bridge over a freeway.
What I think is finally giving people Elon fatigue is his politics.

I don't care about Mr. Musk's politics. But I dumped all of my Tesla stock recently because of his increasingly erratic behavior.

To me, it demonstrates an inability to make wise decisions. And I can't trust my money to people who can no longer reliably make wise decisions.

He's impulsive, and entertaining to watch; but now I will do so from a distance. And so will my money.
Rents have increased by a similar factor, as the markets are linked. If you can buy, you can choose between buying and renting, but you can''t choose not to to pay a large increase on a little house one way or another.

What's more, unlike long term fixed rate mortgages, rent tends to increase every year according to market conditions, so when renting you can't avoid the increase by staying where you are.
What does "funded" mean? If my mom gives me $10k is that funded? If an investment firm gives me $5M, is that "funded"? And, and...
> Good operations can substitute for station size, and it’s always cheaper to get the system to be more reliable than to build more tracks in city center.

The main problem here is one of politics and human attention span.

It’s easier to drum up a bunch of support towards a construction project. It’s visible, some politicians get credit for it, and you can have a campaign that builds excitement to a crescendo before people move on to something else.

Good operations are invisible because everything operates as the margins and gets small wins. No one gets credit. If they slip just a little then no one notices, so you can borrow a little from operations to find something more visible, and it’s a boil the frog situation. And, finally, people just don’t have the attention span for caring about long-term operations.

I don’t know the solution and I’m not saying the above is good, but any solutions that don’t attempt to address the human and political aspects of public works are going to have trouble.

That was THE reason imo that Andy Byford was so promising as head of NYCTA - he seemed to be someone who would focus on the pragmatic human aspects. Sadly Cuomo made sure Byford had no chance of success.
Best example I know of:

You have M languages, and N computer architectures. You want a compiler from every language to every architecture, but don't want to write M*N compilers.

One solution is to make a virtual machine. Now, you write M language-to-VM compilers, and N VM-to-cpu compilers, so you only have to write M+N compilers.
Turns out speech about working conditions is protected. You can't be fired for sharing your wages, for instance.

I would not be shocked to hear that this results in a lawsuit over protected concerted activity.
> I didn't wanted to install an extension to the browser to do that (for privacy reasons)

SingleFile [1] is an open source browser extension that saves the webpage as a single offline HTML page. I personally prefer this to screenshots because you can do things like select text in the saved HTML page. Also if you don't trust the chrome web store or firefox addon repo, you can download the extension directly from Github.

[1]: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
Early adopters were actually quite welcoming. It's just that the usenet communities had informal social norms that took time to acclimate to. When newcomers come in large numbers all at once then they overwhelm the acclimatization process to the informal norms and it becomes a free-for-all.

It used to be considered good netiquette to not barge into a chat and start talking and peppering people with questions immediately before you get to know who is who. But the modern internet is more focused on making you engage with it at all times so the idea of "lurking" as a virtuous thing is basically gone. Platforms make a point of trying to coax and goad you out of lurker mode so you can inflict your bad takes on everyone else, so that you can prompt more bad takes from me and others in a feedback loop.
That makes sense... Is the alternative individual users using some type of smart contract to borrowers directly? It seems like in that case there would indeed be more transparency, but also that the end state of many, many leveraged positions being liquidated would be pretty similar, right?
Right, right, as everyone knows all unions and all government jobs are pretty much the same, and your phrasing clearly demonstrates your deep experience with both.
IMEI is used for surveillance, yes, but also to identify devices. If one of these devices is used to abuse a cell network in any way, the ISP might just simply blacklist the IMEI and all those phones lose connectivity immediately, or, even worse, have their subscriptions connected to malicious behaviour. Some network providers might also block the device after one of those phones gets reported as stolen.

The slight extra hassle this will create for law enforcement isn't worth the massive risk of disadvantages that duplicate IMEIs have.
People who seem to love free speech seem to never love it when it comes from people who work for them.

Going forward how Musk handle the Twitter? I see more worker discontent for Musk owned companies in the future.
>DeFi is collapsing in real time and we'll probably see oversight and regulation around this in the near future.

From the perspective of people who support the mission of DeFi and aren't just in it for the money, this is a feature, not a bug. We want these dodgy, extractive institutions to go under and not have to bail them out.
> Of course, in many firms, employment is entirely "at will," and subject to employers' most capricious whims. This is not a good thing; the subjugation of one's employment to another's whim is an oppressive imbalance of power.

This is an issue where I could imagine something actually getting done in US politics. Dems would have a hard time opposing a worker's rights issue and Republicans would have a hard time opposing a bill framed as anti-cancel culture. Assuaging people's fear of losing their livelihoods over politics wouldn't solve all our problems, but would probably help lower the temps just a bit.
> giving people Elon fatigue is his politics.
> I really get the sense that people are increasingly getting sick of hearing from or about him. YMMV.

YMMV indeed, because every conservative I talk to is seeing him as a hero who is finally speaking truth to power, and calling B.S. on the establishment (political, corporate HR, academic) narratives that have been running through the culture.

They aren’t sick of him at all - they’re cheering him on.
Hmmm not very impressive. See figure 1. Placebo and treatment group have identical depression scores post intervention, and the small difference at followup is the same amount as the difference between groups.
None of those would be great choices if your aim is to host copies of classified US government documents, every one would comply with US requests to shut it down (and possibly extradite the folks who own those servers). You're kinda stuck having to chose a country that is comfortable opposing the US. Of course, that comes with its own many downsides.
Full paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-022-01977-z

Skip down to Figure 1 to see the chart. Note that the response to placebo is normally extremely strong in depression studies, so it’s normal to see both groups improve drastically like this.

The only thing that jumps out to me is that the probiotic group started with HAM-D depression inventory scores that were notably higher. When measuring absolute reduction of HAM-D scores, this actually leaves the more depressed patients with more room to improve and can therefore inflate the perceived effectiveness of their response, placebo or otherwise. And indeed, both groups had basically identical scores at the end of the trial. They only really diverged at follow-up where the probiotic group had improved slightly more than placebo.

I’ve seen enough probiotic stories that failed to pan out later that I’d take this one with a huge grain of salt. Trying probiotics might be worthwhile if you can afford them, but the probiotic-depression link never seems to actually play out from online anecdotes of people taking them. Note that we’ve been seeing small studies about this exact topic for a long, long time.
Is your post implying being conservative is inherently bad? It seems like that’s the unspoken crux of your argument - ie you actually have an issue with a “conservative” (I hesitate to label musk as one) winning the culture war. Conservatives make the same argument about “don’t be political” when liberals are winning.

I’m mostly in agreement with what you said, but I don’t think your reasons are coming from a principled place.
That’s a problem if you’re one of 10 people that happens to. If it happens to 13000 people it’s the polices problem.
> (2) probably the ones most knowledgable on how to rebuild and fix the financial sector

They're only knowledgeable about how to "fix" the financial sector back to business as usual, essentially doubling down on the problematic paradigm that will blow up at a later date. That's a large chunk of the corruption - highly biased policies normalized as unquestionable objective advice.
Nice. There's many website versions of this out there. Big enough market?
Somewhat off-topic, but what's up with the date widget in the top right? It has today's date, and then "September 10517, 1993"
You bring up a good point, but I think old school car manufacturers don't believe that directly competing with Tesla is the winning move. If they're smart, I think they'll go for affordability, which is an utterly failed promise of Tesla. Bring down the price of full-electrics and plug-in hybrids, and you've got an audience of buyers that Tesla never took seriously. I for one would love an electric vehicle but in the year 2022 it's still not economical for me to trade in my beater car for even a used plug-in hybrid.

When there's a recession, no one's going to give a shit about a car with a bunch of bells and whistles. They want a car that they can afford to buy and afford to drive. In any case, that's what I want.
Is it ever positive?
> That's not a compelling reason to buy or continue to own a Tesla.

Well sure. It’s just the state of the world. I’d expect a Tesla owner to be someone who can handle repairs having to be re-done. They are luxury cars, after all.

For reference, I’ve owned several Teslas and none of them have been at the level of fit and finish appropriate for their price. All of them have needed some finicky part or another fixed under warranty.

The cars, though… they’re just so much fun to drive that all of that doesn’t really matter to me.

I don’t agree that is a huge problem going forward for everyone. I think it’s something that will work itself out given the incentives that Tesla has to get their act together. And it’s not really a problem for the vast majority of owners, who have other options for transport while their car is repaired.

Teslas are not Corollas. Teslas are not “EVs for the Everyman” no matter what Elon says.

I’m not interested in picking up a wrench and working on my own car. I don’t mind that Tesla is sending out newbies to work on cars because I’ll just keep taking it back until I’m satisfied. But, you also couldn’t pay me to go to a traditional dealership.
Eh he comes off as a normal human being to me. Definitely quite awful, but that's also very normal.

The difference between Elon and others is that Elon doesn't put on as big of a facade.

There are CEO's who are psychopaths and are much worse then Elon but are much better at keeping their actual persona hidden.

Elon is just as awful as the next human being. We tend to have a higher set of expectations for people in Elons position. Very rarely does anyone actually meet these expectations. Most people just pretend to meet this expectation. Elon fails at both meeting the expectations and pretending to meet it.
With all due respect. I can’t make sense of this.

Apparently, you have to be 15 to imagine gradual transitions between things (slush must be mind blowing for the little one), but 5 year olds are insisting you give thorough answers to questions about rarely-occurring abstract moral concepts like bestiality?

I know a few five year olds, and I can’t imagine then asking questions like that or caring how sensible the answer is if they did. I guess their parents just haven’t been teaching them the things you’ve been teaching yours?
People who spend too much time on twitter think they have seen the left go off the deep end. But what insane policy has actually occurred? Biden isn't off the deep end. Meanwhile the right has actually passed laws to tear apart families with trans kids, have actually passed laws to turn citizens into vigilantes to track down women having abortions, have actually tried to stage an insurrection, have actually put dishonest supreme court justices on the bench. But the left has gone off the deep end because there exist unhinged radical leftists on twitter saying crazy things.
People keep posting things like this and I legitimately do not understand how anyone can think that this is an actual option. No major politician is ever going to run on the platform of "I will intentionally make us poorer". Anyone who actually tries that will quickly find themselves out of office. Even in a dictatorship that's a great way to get yourself coup'd. These posts come across as unbelievably naive and out of touch. For example:

>Quite a few of us, not most but at least a sizeable portion, are willing to make these concessions.

I think this author either has a seriously different idea of what "sizeable portion" means or is vastly overestimating how many people support this kind of policy to begin with and would continue supporting this policy once they actually saw what it affected their standard of living. It's all well and good until people find out that they can no longer have lots of nice things which they previously took for granted.

>It means more people growing food on smaller plots.

No, that takes MORE energy, not less. If your concern is about too much energy usage then decreasing the efficiency of energy use by reducing economies of scale is insane.
I don’t want to get into politics here but you really should take a bigger step back if that’s how you actually believe it to be.
I think the killer app for crypto (money laundering/buying drugs online) will provide some kind of cushion against going straight to zero. But that is a much smaller cap.
He does not have the universal right to fire people who talk about working conditions. Workers enjoy protections that allow them to speak about their work, even if that would be embarrassing for their employer.
Ender 3 V2 - ~$250 fantastic product for the money
What makes it seem that it moved much more slowly — look how long 8-bit machines held on — was just how much it cost to get into a system. Platforms had long lives then because people were not keen on seeing their investments disappear out from under them. Note that an Apple //c cost about $1300 in 1984, the equivalent of $3600 or so today. You're going to want to see just how long you can keep that going even though technology improvements are flying by outside your door, and they really were doing that back in the day. There were multiple, barely-interacting tech markets running concurrently.
Not sure what "proper" support gets you, but I've used unlocked OnePlus devices for years without hiccups.
Was he like this back in the X.com/Paypal days?
I got it from the post that I replied to:

I see so many websites – even club websites or private blogs – that have a cookie consent banner, but which wouldn't actually need one if they'd just turn off Google Analytics. I just don't get it.

He asked why we don't turn off GA. I explained.
EU nations have strong libel and "Right to be forgotten" laws. Makes them unsuitable as archives of record.
> SpaceX was sold as different and the illusion of that is fading

Is it really? They're moving faster than anyone else right now, and hitting some good milestones on Starship. They're building a portfolio of business lines from Starlink, through smallsat ridesharing, to super heavy lift and human space flight for commercial and governmental customers. I don't see other space companies catching up soon.

The illusion of Musk being some sort of business guru is certainly fading, but I don't feel that SpaceX are losing their edge.
Lactobacillus rhamnosus. It's the strain in Culturelle. Expensive compared to others but still cheap.
A slide into a second tier country? I lament the difficulty I have in understanding how one to come to this belief after the last 10 years. It's like we don't even share the same facts anymore.
> Assange said he would go to Sweden if provided with a diplomatic guarantee that he would not be turned over to the United States,

Sounds incredibly arbitrary to make such a guarantee. I'm not surprised the government was unwilling to do so.

> ...to which the Swedish foreign ministry stated that Sweden's legislation does not allow any judicial decision like extradition to be predetermined.

The above may be wrong. Such a decision may be legal. However, that's far from saying such decisions are "standard".

> However, the Swedish government is free to reject extradition requests from non-EU countries, independent of any court decision.

As previously stated. The fact that they have such a right doesn't mean they'll use it. Such rules exist to allow for emergency exceptions.

I don't see how the sitting government (not the police), being unwilling to exceptionally override a court recommendation, ahead of the decision, implies the Swedish police or prosecution was compromised. They just did their job.
Yeah, I stopped reading at the assertion that other car companies have caught up to Tesla.

Lots of people have not internalized what's going on at Tesla. They still seem to be stuck on the idea that when the large, experienced auto manufacturers start really ramping up EVs, Tesla will be swamped.

What seems to have gone unnoticed is that Tesla has significantly higher margins per vehicle than all other major automakers, including Toyota. Tesla is years ahead on batteries. While the rest of the industry is fighting over a limited supply of third-party batteries, Tesla is buying nickel directly from Vale, for their own batteries, in their own form factor, with their own chemistry.

Tesla is beating the established automakers on scale and profit margins.

OTA Updates? Rapid iteration cycle? Supercharger network? Doubling factories every few years?

Tesla has lots and lots of problems, from servicing, to pricing, to build quality, to various ethical issues. But they're years ahead on EVs.
Yes it is. In traditional finance, especially at the big players, the bank will call the person about to be margin called to tell them they need to post more collateral, or if it looks like the market is being manipulated they’ll let the loan be undercollateralized for a short time. Defi auto liquidation makes it much easier to spiral due to unwinding after small losses.
I was not attempting to define a cult, and the definition of a cult does not matter in this context. What matters is if they're discriminating against people who are not members.
LLMs generate seemingly coherent text that can lead people into perceiving a “mind” when what they’re really seeing is pattern matching and string prediction.

This is AI in general. As it exists today, there is no "intelligence". It's all database lookups, pattern matching and probabilities. Interesting and useful in some cases --- but still just as dumb as a hammer.

Until we can logically define "intelligence", it's not possible to program a binary computer to reproduce it. Logic playback is the only thing the box we call a "computer" can do. Claims to the contrary (such as this one involving "sentience") are pure cult fantasy.
I'm not American, and definetely not an expert on your politics, but like many other digital native Europeans hold pretty strong opinions on them anyway. I would honestly like to learn what in your opinion the actions of the Democrats are that lead to you sliding into second tier. From my perspective most of the blame would have to be put on Republicans.
Another passage that really sizzles:

"The world of modern management is a world of continual surveillance and goal-oriented process. It is fundamentally harmonious, and offenses against its harmony are taken with great seriousness. It is a world of decorum, a world of process, a world of evaluation according to standards. It is obviously quite unlike the relationships of people under ‘normal’ conditions and almost all historical conditions.

‘Eurasianists’ see only its origins, and the insults inflicted upon their countrymen and fellow-travelers by it, though they seek to master this system so that they might do the same to their enemies.

Right liberals see its femininity, its lack of active vital principle, and its break with tradition and tolerance of error if it meets with consensus.

Left liberals see its inequality, invasive and exacting demands upon all, and its pervasive and inescapable injustice and lack of responsiveness to pressing needs of the unfortunate.

Theocrats see no god in it, only a worship of power, wealth, and status."
In theory, the board can still hold him accountable. There are laws that protect minority shareholders. But those board members will unlikely be around the next year.
Unfortunately, large defi institutions have been advertising to retail investors. Many of whom have not just had a haircut, but their whole head shaved.

Government regulation of retail finance is a feature, not a bug.
Thank you. I should have said "low risk" instead of "risk free".
See the "Legacy" part in that article.