skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any company in any country that over-collects and/or misuses the personal information of its users (or anyone) should be penalized in the same way.

Where are the Americans claiming otherwise? It's perplexing to see all this shadowboxing with a made-up argument that we shouldn't hold FB to the same standard as Tiktok.
It's when the decision is "whatever I want" where the demons await...
My personal favourite is wankbreath. It doesn't even make sense, but the first time you hear it you can't help but consider what it could mean.
People die all the time. It's a natural and (we are pretty sure) unavoidable side-effect of living.

It might be awkward and untidy, but so is pooping. The universe makes no value judgements. It's not embarrassing, it's life.

If I went to Mars and died, meh, no big deal. Sorry about the mess. Feel free to recycle me any way you want, I certainly won't care.

I've read some science fiction where they deal with "bodies in spaaaace" by recycling them in a garden, specifically for human corpses. If you've got a colony in an environment with limited biomass, you probably want to hold onto everything organic. At least your remains can help make oxygen and pretty flowers for the still living.
Google maps is hard to replace for me, being out with friends and someone says “here’s my address” and we just map it, too easy.
> Americans are always the first to cry foul when others, such as the EU, put measures in place to curtail the amount of data collection that happens by US firms

Who complains? FAANG shills? I haven't heard anybody outside of this site complain about such a thing.
Am I reading the chart correctly that 'dickpuffin' appears exactly once in the coda?
what's the point in banning people for non destructive parties?
False. Soot increases solar absorption. Cutting coal has multiple desirable effects.
The C-128 had both a 6502 like the C-64 and Apple but also a Z-80 that was set up to run CP/M much like the Softcard for Apple.

I was lucky to get a C-128 for free just around the time everybody was switching to PC's, though my main computer at the time was a 486DX2 running Linux that I named "Ryo-Oh-Ki". I remember using that machine to capture sounds in an anechoic chamber and then plugging it into a serial multiplexer to login to the internet with SLIP and upload files to the Unix cluster I was using in grad school.
Tax evasion? Not made in the EU? Not made within EU human rights standards?
>I just can't believe that a powerful country like America is letting a not-so-friendly military/civilian complex infiltrate it for somewhat unknown purpose.

Because it provides a very convenient back door for our three letter agencies? Speculation, but the data that True the Vote was able to simply purchase on the open market legally was pretty shocking in its detail. What's to prevent our government from doing that? They haven't respected the 4th amendment for decades.
It had better be good, at $5 per can.

I'll need to try it. I'm not a great coffee snob, but I do know the difference between a good bean and a bad bean. I'll admit that I'd slightly miss the variability that you can get with a natural product, but most people most days just want a cup of decent-tasting, caffeinated black water. (Often diluted with milk, and further modified with other chemicals so that it tastes like something other than coffee.) That's fine, just as there's a difference between fine wines and "table wines".

I'm on the fence about the environmental benefits. It comes at a cost to poor farmers -- but farmers who are massively abused. This is $5 for a can of coffee that is hopefully better than the $1 I can get at 7/11, for which that farmer would earn perhaps $.02.

If Atomo were to make a side business in also making the "fine wine" equivalent for coffee, paying farmers much more per pound to make the fanciest coffees, I'd feel more at ease about the whole thing.
That’s as even more ridiculous scenario. It’s incredibly high risk, militarily and politically, for no real benefit over other ways of dealing with such targets.

You’re entitled to your opinion, but your reasoning is nonsensical.
Which is also why any climate agreements that don't include the third world are pretty much useless. They'll just drive the energy-intensive stuff out of the country, harming their economy for little actual improvement. Kyoto etc are just kicking the can, pretending to do something to shut up the rabble.
Too bad that too-clever site caused Chrome to crash. :-(
Confrontation with US over Taiwan: If you are OK with Texas leaving the union, then you are entitled to support Taiwan independence. Enough said. Pick your side, and stick with it.

1. Those are not even close to equivalent. For so many reasons.

2. Sure, Texas can leave if they want. Florida and California too. Definitely Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
ADCs are slow. With four levels they're probably using comparators.
Sad to feel sorry for a company that smugly told people from Twitter not to apply
Sometimes I break grammar rules for effect...in that case, I like the rhythm of the single-syllable words "write well and write fast" better than "write well and write quickly".

But you're totally correct. Maybe that's not the best place to flex rule-breaking :D
"We need to keep in mind, the DRAM ICs themselves have a hierarchy with latency trade-offs" Yes this is the thing -- I'm not a hardware engineer or hardware architecture expert, but -- it seems to me that what we have now is a set of abstractions presented by the hardware to the software based on a model of what hardware "used to" look like, mostly what it used to look like in a 1970s minicomputer, when most of the intensive key R&D in operating systems architecture was done.

One can reasonably ask, like Mr Kamp is, why we should stick to these architectural idols at this point in time. It's reasonable enough, except that the alternative of heterodox, alternative architectures is also heterogenous -- new concepts that don't necessarily "play well with others." All our compiler technology, all our OS conventions, our tooling, etc. would need to be rethought under new abstractions.

And those are fun hobby or thought exercises, but in the real world of industry, they just won't happen. (Though I guess from TFA it could happen in a more specialized domain like aerospace/defence)

In the meantime, hardware engineering is doing amazing things building powerfully performing systems that give us some nice convenient consistent (if sometimes insecure and awkward) myths about how our systems work, and they're making them faster every year.
Yes, but there may be a benefit to launch a part of the Human world outside of the biosphere, e.g. the most polluting industries.

It is worth thinking whether it is a good thing or not that a very risky industry (for which an accident could be really disastrous) can take place on the Moon.

We can also launch a bare minimum, and then let automated builder robots unroll the industry from local resources (e.g. lunar silicates, other metals,...).

This can be how huge photovoltaic grids could be built on the Moon, for example.
True, but the distinction is revenue-to-cost per unit of growth.
yeah this is too good to be a hapax logomenon
A common justification is that you have to carry around large amounts of cash or other fungible valuables. If I dealt in gold or diamonds I wouldn't want my home address to be public either.
In the great short books category, Willa Cather’s plains trilogy books are like 150-200 pages each, they’re fast reads and the prose is excellent — I’d start with ‘O Pioneers!’
> K2 and Everest

Sport for a few people. Otherwise no gain.

> amazing task

The moon and Mars, all pain, no gain.

There is no gain, utility, worthwhile accomplishment for humans in space except for just a few humans in low earth orbit.

There is nothing "amazing" that we know how to do sending humans beyond low earth orbit: Yes, we can build the rockets and put people on them, but there is essentially nothing they can do out there. Instruments, robots, yes. Humans, no.

The US had some men walking on the moon. While they were there, they accomplished next to nothing. In simple terms, the whole effort was a publicity stunt for US presidential politics. And, all these decades later, no human has returned -- there is a big reason for that, there is no reason for a human up there.

A human needs a space suit, huge, so clumsy the human can do next to nothing productive. Else the human needs a big, complicated space ship (station, bubble, tunnel) where, again, there is not much they can do, amazing or otherwise. Gee, they could take a lot of PDF files along and read about literature, science, ..., whatever.

What we want out there is instruments. If we need more, would want humans to do, we should just develop suitable robots. Otherwise what we want out there is military, where again there is no real utility for having humans there.

Humans just have no real role out there. Sorry 'bout that. Robots? Yes. Humans? No. Simple.

If we send humans, the main result will be collections of frozen dead bodies that will still be there 1000 years from now. That will be a big embarrassment, and all for no good reason.
There are users out there (likely even people that you know, because statistically it's a lot of people) that habitually never remember passwords and their login flow is almost always "Click Forgot Password, Enter Email, Receive Email, Click Link, Enter new Password they also won't remember" so from that perspective magic link flows save at least two steps!

Even power users that have trained themselves to use a password manager generally have more steps than they think they do to open the password manager, enter master passphrase/biometrics/etc, copy and paste the password.
> Market structures (including "smart markets", with elaborate and perhaps quasi-arbitrary rulesets driving desired outcomes) are quite egalitarian

Even smart markets aren’t egalitarian. See for example the response to the DAO hack.

And real markets aren’t egalitarian, see the bailouts.
I did t even know there were comic books on substack
How are they selling $2 for $1? It's pretty much all employees. How many engineers do you need to support the platform? Probably not a lot. The other expense is paying upfront for content, but a few of the accounts I follow they did this for (e.g. Matthew Yglesias), they came out ahead (e.g. guarantee $250k a year while netting closer to $1 million for subscriptions) [0]. They can cut this out as well if they had to. Their platform is still strong.

They just need to scale back their hiring excesses and bullshit jobs likely created.

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> I understand your concern, I honestly do, but Americans are always the first to cry foul when others, such as the EU

Even if this statement is true(likely isn't based on the support at least seen online), aren't you supporting the GP? If EU blocks data transfer to US, US would cry and not EU. It is a positive outcome for EU. Similarly, here China could cry and it would be no harm to US.
> Heh, ok then. So when everyone has skin in a real game of existential threats, hierarchy prevails and leaders lead with direct commands and followers follow. When they come home and the threat is gone, more relaxed egalitarian structures take over.

I think it is more nuanced than that.

On the field, the ones who call the shots make tactical/operational decisions. Often these types of decisions are drilled.

When they get "home", they make strategical decisions. What to improve, what to work on, where to go from here etc. Those are more complex and social and they have a big mid to long term impact on further tactical decisions and so on. You want the brainpower and the buy in of the whole team here.

I think this distinction is very important.

Small, tactical decisions should be made efficiently and followed efficiently. You prefer that they are close to automatic, but in some cases you need to improvise. That's not hierarchy, it is clean, efficient, fast communication. It's only hierarchical if the people who execute are not on board up front.

Strategical decisions are different, they are planned up front, so you need to consider a ton of possibilities, situations, tactics and you need to consider people's capabilities and needs.

The most effective political organizations tend to lean towards this model of strategical decisions being made democratically. You make the rules together and decide the direction together. But when it comes to the day to day, people just execute what is previously discussed in a more automatic manner, with corrections and improvisation where needed.
Another system that had an object-based non-linear address space I believe was the "Rekursiv" CPU developed at Linn (yes, the Swedish audio/drum machine company;
EDIT: Linn. Scottish. Not drum machine. Thanks for the corrections. In fact I even knew this at one time. Yay brain.) in the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rekursiv

I actually have a copy of the book they wrote about it here somewhere. I often fantasize about implementing a version of it in FPGA someday.
They can't, but the reason has nothing to do with software license. You can write proprietary software and Google/Facebook/Twitter/Apple/TikTok still can't get your data. And Google/Facebook/Twitter/Apple/TikTok use plenty of FOSS software to run their platforms.

The privacy of your data is more impacted by where it is and who controls it, not the copyright license of the software that moves it around
I would guess mostly marketing—building the brand and the audience. Also recruiting writers to the platform.
Amazon never made any profit because they were always reinvesting. If they had scaled back to "normal business" levels of ambition at any point they'd have been "normal business" levels of profitable.
You can't just bolt on other theoretical negative factors to change the usefulness of the analysis itself. This conversation is not about bad or irrelevant certificates— it's about certificates in general.

The candidate included them on their resume for you to evaluate, so evaluate them. Nobody's arguing that candidates with only free LinkedIn certs and nothing else should be given equal consideration to those with formal education.

The question is whether or not people with any certificates can ethically be dismissed out-of-hand because they list certificates on their resume. The answer is still no.
Nothing wrong with a little rule breaking! But you have to establish trust first, so yeah, maybe not best to do it first thing. :)
I'm not sure if the question asked is even the right question (what tone to use isn't the problem). The code review should educate the developer submitting it if they don't know the points you are making. If they do know the points, I would tell them to review their own PR before another person since it helps everybody. We shouldn't be asking for approval for code that's not even double checked.. that throws the responsibility for catching bugs on the reviewer and not even the writer.

If they already self reviewed the code and it has problems, you can write a more detailed message explaining why there's a better way to do things. This way it doesn't come off negatively because the comment is a constructive suggestion. You may also have to compromise some lower priority feedback for development velocity as long as the submitter understands and can improve in the future.
> what's the point of great margins if you have no scale

Profit? Niche ownership? Reliability? Durability? Expertise?

It makes sense to worship the Church of Scale in a VC-adjacent forum like HN, but it’s not the only way to business.
What type of hobby or interest?
growth? How many $5 subscriptions are people going to pay for factless opinion pieces by self-proclaimed experts of everything like Glenn Greenwald
I think the bigger issue is what is their competitive moat? I can't think of a single thing that isn't going to be replicated elsewhere. Unless they start cross advertising between their different newsletters or something to create some type of network effect.
Economic forces are not slow. Renewables are radically cheaper than any other energy source. Getting out of the way of such change is all we need for it to happen very, very fast.

Distracting people with things that will not end up working brings catastrophe nearer.
Highlights from the Comments on San Fransicko
https://www.arm.com/technologies/custom-instructions
Had to look it up, seems kinda gross: https://www.newsweek.com/substack-rejects-twitter-employees-...
It's a thing of beauty. I hope they play Pink Floyd during the visits...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_%28Pink_Floyd_album%29
No, it’s not different.

That’s why Meta is blocked in the PRC.

The west should do the same for TikTok.
I’m not sure with what purpose would anyone do that. Tracking? Assassination? Stealing? There’s simpler an more effective methods for any of that.
And, ready access to renewables is a a great boon for everyone.

Civilization not collapsing immediately, maybe moreso.
Pro-China group attacks US rare earths plant in fake social media posts
Well, there was this guy a couple of thousand years ago who made some remarks contrary to your point: turning the cheek and loving your neighbor. He also went as far as saying to resolve conflicts before you're put in front of the judge.

Many millions of people follow his words & think it still relevant today.

He also had a special way of recognizing & calling out hyprocrisy.
I wonder how long the VCs want to wait. Can VCs take over and sell the company off to try & recoup their investment?
> What do you need a pickup for?

At my age the time wasted by not having the right tool at hand stings bitterly. Especially when the job is absolutely necessary.

Mostly use the truck for getting around to rural property off the paved roads where 4x4 and high clearance are necessary, or when hauling stuff is necessary (and diesel torque is often a virtue then). Another use is for trips when a lot of items (maybe additionally dogs and/or horses) have to come along. I often bring a bicycle to facilitate mobility and save on fuel economy (short trips are wasteful). I do a small amount of local driving, but it’s not unusual to only use the truck every other day or two. I might get an EV for short trips if the cost/utility model is favorable.

I picked a model that was fairly common, durable, produced in large quantity, known for easy serviceability, and various other qualities I deemed relevant to me personally.
More likely the linux fs is fast enough not to need the optimization. Unsurprisingly git was designed to run well on linux .
Places that routinely get such heat (I grew up in one, also) are normally pretty dry. They are talking about 31C *wet bulb*.
Facebook has insane growth, even today. It had double digit revenue growth for over a decade. For instance, in 2021, their revenue grew 35%, the year before, 20%. You'll see similar numbers if you look at their MAU and DAU. With that kind of growth over a decade, pretty much any valuation is cheap today. Sacrificing even a little growth for revenue today is a bad tradeoff because of compounding effects.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/268604/annual-revenue-of...
Similar to Pear Therapeutics that SPAC merge announced at $1.6B on about $500k revenue 12 months to date. Professional Analysts put stock target at twice first listing price. Had been around 10 years. Products in market for years. Market cap now $235M.Trading at or below cash.
Please don’t use the “look at Amazon” example. Amazon had positive margins early on and was using cash to buy and build real assets. Amazon also pivoted to an entirely different business where most of its profit comes from - AWS.

No, AWS wasn’t born from Amazon selling excess capacity.

That’s just like saying that if every company rehired its first CEO it could be worth multiple trillions.
To be fair, parrots aren't carnivores that directly eat the native wildlife.
Can someone give an ARMv8.N vs ARMv9 comparison?
They have lost some prominent and apparently successful publications to competitors with lower fees and apparently better service (I can think of two at least who have moved to Ghost). Will be hard to build scale and profitability when your best writers have an incentive to move elsewhere.
You pay writers to come to your site and all the other marketing gumph.
This could end up being an interesting case study for the "that app is so simple, I could build it in a weekend" crowd.

People ask why Elon Musk is willing to pay so much for Twitter when the software could be replicated at much less expense - the software isn't the point, the network effect is. It doesn't matter how good your Twitter clone is, if no one is using it, then no one will use it.

If TikTok is banned (or can't grow in the US due to being removed from app stores), there's actually an opening for a clone. I wonder what sort of TikTok clone would succeed - one backed by existing social media companies? One that's just like TikTok, or one that introduces some killer new feature?
I've yet to see QC add custom instructions to their cores.
What's the value of their subscriber list?
I think it’s really important to note this isn’t “THE” FCC making the request. It’s one FCC Commissioner expressing their opinion. It has no legal authority. It’s basically meaningless. Nothing will come of it. It’s just complicated air flow that will briefly spark internet outrage on “both sides” of a debate over an issue that doesn’t even actually exist because the FCC hasn’t even done anything.
Doh, cross-posted the exact same thought!
On the first point, EU courts overturned the ruling on the landmark apple tax decision (that said, I also agree the global tax system is awful and favors bigco's). What phone is made in the EU? When I lived there the most popular devices were Apple and a variety of Chinese and Korean brands, none of which were produced in the EU. Which are made within EU human rights standards? I've never heard this claim before about Apple products.
Some more details:
"Substack laid off 13 of its 90 employees on Wednesday, part of an effort to conserve cash amid an industrywide funding crunch for start-ups.

Substack’s chief executive, Chris Best, told employees that the cuts affected staff members responsible for human resources and writer support functions, among others, according to a person familiar with the discussion.

Mr. Best told employees on Wednesday that Substack had decided to cut jobs so it could fund its operations from its own revenue without raising additional financing in a difficult market, according to the person with knowledge of the discussion."

So to be fair to Substack, while their valuation is crazy it's not like they are burning through VC money with wild abandon. Nice to see some restraint instead of a CEO feeding delusional hype.
I’m not sympathetic at all with this idea.

They shouldn’t have built shops and restaurants because there’s a council estate?

On gentrification, if you own your flat then you have won the lottery, for its price is 8 times what it was 20 years ago. Similarly if you can use the so-called “right to buy”. If you are renting privately, you should get you MP to vote the abolition of section 21, which is an uncivilised law. That should sort out all issues related to people being priced out of the area.
It's quite the opposite. Reciprocity hurts more with physical goods.

In a trade war, if a country bans export X in retaliation, the citizens of the country also hurt because they have to pay more to buy from other sources.

But with a social web site, citizens lose nothing by having to switch to another data-sucking web site, especially since their contacts are now less fragmented across social media sites due to the ban.