skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Much higher (100x) for a strategic acquisition from a company like Microsoft" is grossly exaggerated. There were only 171 companies worth more than $88.3bn (<100x a billion) as of December [1], a number that may have even dropped during current market conditions. Activision Blizzard is worth today ~$60bn and Microsoft is buying it at ~$68bn [2]. It's one the largest acquisitions they've made, and the largest publicly known amount by far [3] with LinkedIn (2016) second at $26bn.

Agree that Valve is likely worth at least 10x a billion, though.

[1]: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/A-tale-of-2-markets...
[2]: https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-a...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
what's your process for forgiving someone?
Disagreed. I see this as perfectly rational in given their business model and regulatory environment they operate in.

Their business relies on ad revenue (derived from video views) and they are no regulations that hold them liable for hosting dangerous content, nor for mistakenly-deleted content.

Therefore the rational thing to do is let the mistakenly-deleted videos down (reviewing them manually would cost too much) while leaving anything else that doesn't trip the spam filter up (since they generate ad views).
As a gigging musician I've found that pedals aren't without their own UI/UX problems. Nearly every pedal has a gain control ... but they can interact in non-linear ways. Tiny changes make a bigger difference when the overall-gain is low, compared a chain with more amplification. When you're plugging into a venue desk (and not going through an on-stage Amp) ... it can be a nightmare trying to figure out what combination of gain settings and pads would work. Worse is that important parts of that are often hidden; pads are usually toggles just hidden on the side. And there's no feedback UX ... I'd love a simple VU meter on a DI or EQ-stage pedal for example (Studio V3 tube amp pedals have this, but it's not common). I have hundreds of photos on my phone of my pedal board memorializing the settings for a particular song, piece, or venue .... because good luck saving state across multiple pedals. Strymon have their own standard for this, but there's not much inter-operable, or you can spend on a multi-thousand dollar multi-effects pedal. Anyway, I could rant for hours about pedal UX.

But yes, way better than my Tesla.
Among the reasons the Emmett Till case gained such prominence was that Mamie Till Mobley, Till's mother, insisted that he have an open-casket funeral, and Jet magazine ran a photo of his corpse on the cover. If you've seen a photo of Till, it's probably of a sharp-dressed youth in a coat and hat, as featured in this AP piece. That's not what was returned to Tills' family.

The question of whether or not to show the harms of unlimited violence are rising again with the proliferation of mass shootings in the US, war in Ukraine and elsewhere, and other forms of violence.

The Bill Moyers link below does show the funeral photo. CW: mutilated corpse.

https://billmoyers.com/content/key-moments-in-the-fight-for-...

The story of Tills's funeral is covered by Smithsonian Magazine here:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/emmet...
What you're saying is a revalation to me. I did not realise the US
medical science was split along economic/regulatory lines. Surely this
is doing everyone a disservice?
"I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat."

SCNR :)
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George Akerlof's work on information assymetry, especially his 'Market for Lemons' is super interesting and I can only recommend reading about it. He won the Nobel price 2001 for it.

https://you.com/search?q=George+Akerlof+information+asymmetr...
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/george-a-akerlof.asp
Might have been a photo-op.
And in my jurisdiction, after I took a two year training school on my nickel, then work 7500 hours as an apprentice at slightly over minimum wage, then did the extra stuff to be a contractor… you'd be able to.

The requirements seem extreme, though I did break a fan blade in my indoor air handler while checking its temperature, total noob mistake. If I were hiring a trusted contractor I'd want someone better than me!

Ideally there might be room for a grade of lightly trained technician which can handle the easy stuff and do some of the time consuming diagnostics then just throw in the towel and say "You need a better man than I."
Related:

Nissan Motors vs. Nissan Computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622386 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)

Nissan.com (is not owned by Nissan the car company) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24369990 - Sept 2020 (102 comments)

Nissan Motor's Lawsuit Against Us - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20680958 - Aug 2019 (1 comment)

Uzi Nissan Spent 8 Years Fighting Nissan Motor Company to Keep Nissan.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16670141 - March 2018 (83 comments)

Nissan Motors LawSuit Against Nissan Computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919367 - Dec 2017 (5 comments)

Nissan vs. Nissan (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030968 - Aug 2015 (21 comments)

Why You Can’t Buy a Car on Nissan.com – Now I Know - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9692059 - June 2015 (4 comments)

Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6073980 - July 2013 (85 comments)
You think that spouses are giving each other chocolates so that they will die off quicker?
It's complicated (surprise). But much of it comes from deep russian culture - there has been no private ownership concept. The tsar is the only owner of everything and gives or takes if he decides to do so. It doesn't matter how rich and/or powerful you are. People are just used to it that rulers sometimes give and sometimes take all back. "Lost everything? It's normal, life goes on."
That comment blatantly implies that secularl and liberal ideas are incompatible with valuing tradition, morality and spirituality. It makes unquantified assumptions about how the person was raised and their life experiences.

There's nothing charitable about it at all.
They're even called foot pedals, so the hint is in there twice.
https://github.com/jteppinette/python-logfmter

I made this library to make global structured logging in Python super easy.
> Donham set off the case in August 1955 by accusing the 14-year-old Till of making improper advances at a family store in Money, Mississippi.

This is so misogynistic. The responsibility for kidnapping and murder falls squarely on the men who did it.

Blaming a woman for saying she was sexually harassed seems pretty backward.

In addition, consider this was 1950’s rural Mississippi. The power imbalances between husbands and wives would have been huge. Any man capable of such horrific violence to a 14 year old child, would more than likely have been a domestic abuser as well. I really doubt that she had a lot of options for going against her husband.
This isn’t murder though. It would be perjury or something along those lines.
8:30 or later. Good. I say start it at 10. Let the kids sleep in and be happier for it.
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The federal reserve is screwed no matter what they do. Reduce interest rates? Lending increases so much the value of money is inflated away to nothing. Increase interest rates? The music stops playing, the borrowing stops, the economy grinds to a halt and enters a recession.
"Gamers are the most entitled consumer group I've ever seen."

The industry is filled with people who are entitled, the idea that game devs and publishers aren't entitled when they've been stealing PC games for 30+ years since 1997 beginning with ultima online (MMO's were the industries bid to undermine the PC game market and back end every big budget AAA title, we got steam six years after UO, lineage in 98, everquest in 99, etc).

That means every mmo would have been a regular PC RPG with level editor + multiplayer embedded in the exe like every PC game during the 90's and early 2000's before they figured out the average gamer was a computer illiterate moron.

Windows 10/11 and TPM proves the average game developer has it good, microsoft is finally killing piracy and removing ownership of PC's with the help of intel and AMD over the next 20 years, so just remember, in Microsofts, intels and the game industries new hardware drm world, you will not have access to your games, you will be able to be banned from games you ostensibly "own" because the game industry has been engaging in industrial scale game theft and fraud by selling you incomplete software applications VS quake 1-3, warcraft 1-3, diablo 1-2, in the 90's.

The entire tech industry desperately wanted to take us back to mainframe computing of the 60's where software and hardware vendors own your PC and you have no control over it.

So gamers don't measure up into the giant ego's of game devs and publishers who literally lied to the public so they could kill the PC and jack up game prices and remove basic features like multiplayer.

Google the list of all the games who've had their multiplayer shut down, that is only possible because the games are coded fraudulently to begin with, where as the 90's games mostly all still work just fine if you want to play them lan or over the internet because they were honestly coded local exe's.
Firstly, ~125 years ago, there was a crash in the insurance industry. The insurers which offered tontines survived, all of the others disappeared.

Secondly, the trust is managed by a board of trustees that have a fiduciary duty to look after the best interests of members rather than the best interest of shareholders.

When the next crash of 2008 scale or worse occurs, would you prefer to be a general creditor of an insurer (which has a debt to equity ratio of ~12:1) or would you prefer to be a beneficiary of trust with no debt which manages assets like the Harvard or Yale endowments whilst being legally obliged to look after your best interest?
They should also outlaw busy work. Just wasted human life comes from that
ya ppl look for coffee and find programming languages
or frameworks when they're looking for something else xD
I don’t think the future of the metaverse will have anything to do with 3D actually. The 3D/VR stuff is more of a fad than a long term plan.

The real vision behind the metaverse is thinking that many of the things we currently do in person (i.e., concerts, going to bars, school, work, etc.) will eventually move online. Meta wants to position themselves as the “platform” for this.
It probably caused the power surge. What he describes is a fairly common failure mode. The compressors are hermetically sealed, and the weak point is where the AC is plugged into the compressor casing. As they age they corrode once the plug loses its own environmental seal driving up the capacitance of the junction, or the compressor starts to draw increasing amounts of current to start and run, resulting in the plugs melting. Basically its any number of effects, but the result is that the plug shorts/melts/etc and the compressor loses its seal at the same time.

Generally this kind of failure was a couple hundred dollar fix. Pull the compressor, braze on a new one, flush the system, vacuum it down, and refill.

Only now, the refrigerant can cost a grand, the markup on a $200 Emerson scroll is 4x, the fact that you need a license to work on the system means the tech charges $200 an hour, and it all adds up toe selling someone a new system, that is likely going to last 1/2 as long because R410 runs at 2-3x the pressure, the major manufactures have penny pinched every gram of metal out of the condenser/compressor tubing so its as thin as possible, and a half dozen other factors means that the 30 years a good R22 system would run for is unheard of now.
I think a key issue is that people that want to go the gym don't want it to be crowded. Under the current model, supposedly gyms rely on people paying memberships but not going. But also, the people that are actually there also want it to be well under capacity so they don't have to wait for equipment, etc. So even if you're really confident that you would go to the gym often enough to recoup your costs, would you want to go to a gym where everyone else has an extra motivation to go?
I'm not sure if there is an undertone of a joke here. It doesn't seem that way to me, but if that is the case then that in my head would be the most forgiving scenario. Even then your comment feels accusatory, judgemental, and the sort of thing a bully might say.

Please try and realize that people are different. Not conforming to the "ideal" construct of a child in western society might not be the worst thing. Diversity in thought and opinion does not _only_ come from race and gender, it also comes from nurturing thoughts and perspectives in our own kids that might not align with the norms. This doesn't mean saying everything is great, but being an adult, and discussing various facets with them rather than shut things off.
For Snapchat/LinkedIn/Instagram: just close your account and put email filters?
Yeah, because they won't just stay up later then.
Q: Provide a detailed Data Flow Diagram. This diagram should provide a detailed, step-by-step description of how data...

A: Data comes in, data goes out. You can't explain that.
It's not useless, because steelmanning isn't a process to win an argument. It's to improve yourself. A hostile, irrational person can still (occasionally) be right, and if they are, you'd be better off knowing that.
No, but they don't make promises that the opposite is going to happen.

| This is all extremely strategic

If the strategy is to show your business partners that you are unreliable
> ...seem entirely normal criticism to me...

Creating a blog, with an obvious smear title like "V is Vaporware" and making comments like "I recommend against using it for anything...", is not "normal" criticism. That is attempting to go above and beyond, with drama and smearing.

To include following such blog posts up with more linking, smearing, drama posts, and attempts to use such to get more attention for one's self at the expense of the V language.
It’s always really funny when “security” companies have a centralized DB that grants tons of employees permissions to browse it. What were they thinking?

Could have been much worse.
Push --force-with-lease is part of my muscle memory since I `rebase -i` so much in my workflow. Why do you think the article should mention it?
Needing to work mostly. I have the skill set to teach and considered becoming an elementary school teacher at one point in my life. I know socialization is a big factor but I feel like that can be accounted for with lots of extra curricular group programs and an active effort to introduce them to kids their own age to make social plans with.

I’m mostly interested because of the fact that private tutoring performs at roughly the 98th percentile compared to classroom teaching. I think that’s a big enough gap that I consider education an unsolved problem. Plenty of kids would be capable of going to university at sixteen instead of nineteen if they got an individually tailored education instead of being put through one-size fits all programs.
I was (and still am) genuinely looking for work and to help companies build their products. My thought process was that if they're looking to hire an engineer, they're looking for someone to build their app, and I was offering a way to do that for them, faster.
This always reminds me of some dudes in France who decided to counter attack the scammers. They basically steer the conversation off-script to something more tempting to the scammers, and then make them do stupid things. Like "I am sorry there is nothing I can do for you, but while you're here, we're looking for some partnership to develop a new NGO in Benin". And then it turns out the NGO is called the "Sauerkraut brotherhood", and in order to get the funds, you need to join the brotherhood, and send videos of you and your family singing an anthem praising sauerkraut while being dressed up in "traditional clothes". These threads could go for months.

http://didoune.fr/blog/2012/03/08/les-croque-escrocs-et-la-c...
Please tell us more?
If the afternoon nap is the issue, then how about siestas?
There's never enough liquidity to play these kinds of games in practise unfortunately.
> Are public employees not allowed to pray on the job?

The school district practically begged the coach to work with them to find an avenue for him to express his religious beliefs through prayer, without creating a coercive environment for students. At every opportunity, the coach declined to find a way forward that didn't violate the establishment clause.

It's important to know that "prayer in schools" is a rallying point for conservative christians, and the coach's behavior was intentionally provocative. Holding big, public prayers like this is a strategy designed to continually test the limits of the establishment clause, with the goal of ultimately breaking it.

A piece of anecdotal evidence that I always think about when stuff like this comes up - I went to a very, very conservative christian school. Prayer was pervasive (as you might expect), but it was never used to make a public scene like this. Ever.

Finally, his behavior is an affront to prayer itself, which Jesus himself makes clear in Matthew 6:5-6.

> And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

It says a lot about his motives. That's not exactly an obscure passage of the Bible.
I think he's implying that his boycott imposed a cost on him, and therefore had more meaning, because had they behaved differently, he would have liked to have owned a Nissan.
In the US, a "saucepan" is still usually considered a small pot. Only cooking nerds even know what a saucepan is.
People also are only fungible to a point (depending on role). If a company makes organizational or directional changes and the role someone was hired into doesn't really exist any longer, there's no guarantee that they can do a very different role equally well and/or that the company will necessarily be interested in making a person who would never have been hired into that role from the outside work out somehow just because they're with the company already.

Mind you. Companies can do more with internal development/retraining and institutional knowledge is a thing especially with large organizations. But, at some point, no one's going to be happy.
Honestly, that's awesome and I'm glad you're having fun with it haha
Their parents will still likely wake them up when they go off to work.
> So long as we are burning natural gas for energy, it's better to use it directly in your home, vs have someone else burn it, make electricity, then use that.

Only if you're using resistive heating. Heat pumps run on natural-gas-produced electricity can be at least as efficient as direct natural gas combustion for heating, and they automatically transition to cleaner sources of energy as the grid does.

> you would have to use reusable ones hundreds of times, and never wash them - ever, for them to be better

I understand that this is the case for cotton bags, IIRC due to high water use in cotton production, but for other types of reusable bags the threshold is lower.

> people reuse around half of them for garbage bags

This estimate seems like it's significantly too high. I do most of my grocery shopping at places that don't provide free plastic bags, and yet I still end up with far more single-use plastic bags than I could ever use for garbage. I would guess that no more than 10% of single-use bags actually get reused for trash.
I've seen messages in Facebook comment threads where the usual approach is using short phrases like "Hi", "How are you", "I really love your posts" and some of them end with asking for a friend request (so they don't have to initiate one).

It may be a way to add a degree of positive reputation to those compromised accounts like another commenter suggested.
That won't work for young kids if the parents have to go to work by 9.
Yep. Have to agree. It works, but is really messy.
As well as dark/flat file calibration - it can get pretty complex:
https://nightskypix.com/calibration-frames/
https://www.astropy.org/ccd-reduction-and-photometry-guide/v...
Need for daycare (with busy parents) and socialization (in the absence of neighborhood friends).

When working from home, it is difficult to do serious, thoughtful work when your young children are running and playing around the house.
At least for those who had their gallbladders removed for gallstones, it's more likely this meal happened to trigger a gallbladder attack (whether from the lentils or something else in it). The lentils being undercooked could have triggered gastrointestinal issues in the other people, and maybe some of the ones with gallstones whose gallstones and gallbladder issues were then discovered by coincidence.
Yep, I suspect that will be the path forward. Same high level strategy, but integrated into a single package. It will be interesting to see if the babysitters remain state machines or if they grow into tiny little microcontrollers.
Yak shaving: * a task, that leads you to perform another related task and so on, and so on — all distracting you from your original goal.*

Though depending on your local vernacular and what "yak" might mean to you I can see room for confusion.

I used to go to a town named "Knob Lick" which my English acquaintances found quite an amusing town name.
I am one of the people affected by the daily harvest lentils. I did not need major surgery but ate them after Daily Harvest sent an email saying they were perfectly safe and to make sure they reached 165F.

Daily Havrest has offered me a $10 credit towards future orders even though I became very ill from their negligence and have spent thousands of dollars with them in the past on their service.
It is. It's just that capital is the might of today. Money to influence legislation, money to withstand long legal battles, etc.