skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pet theory is that marketing and publicity as a craft is subject to an unfortunate combination of two factors: 1) successful results are hard to measure quantitatively and 2) the skill itself is focused on selling stuff.

As a result, once the market of successfully marketing products and services has reached equilibrium, marketing specialists are no longer competing and being selected for being better at selling marketable items—they are competing and being selected for being better at selling their own services to executives up to C-level.

It's easier to optimise the ability to sell one particular service to a known and relatively homogeneous audience than to optimise the ability to sell any arbitrary product or service to a broad and infinitely diverse population. Hence for instance the truism of "no publicity is bad publicity". What better way for the marketing crowd to evade the negative consequences of unsuccessful, controversial or even broadly hated campaigns?

Now I'm not saying that all successful marketing specialists follow this pattern. What I'm saying is that they are no longer at an advantage with regards to the bullshit sellers.
This is just the way I see it: unless you make a deliberate effort to scrub yourself off the Internets, most people leave a bewilderingly enormous digital footprint. I think that's what makes the analogy with the physical generation not really work: that generation had a scarcity of records, while we have an absolute over-abundance. For most of history, most of our conversations, creations, the way we looked, etc. were not recorded, so I just don't see this over-abundance of preserved records -- which is quite a novel thing -- as being important to the human experience. But definitely appreciate your perspective, thanks!
Oftentimes marketing is focused on those who aren't "problem aware" which can bring genuine value.

These types of marketing messages focus on bringing a previously unknown problem/inefficiency to someone's mind and show the solution.
Because the doctor is performing the operation, and people are always responsible for their own actions. "They told me they wouldn't ever regret it and I foolishly believed them" isn't an excuse for avoiding responsibility.
> EVs are a massive, massive improvement

To be honest even this is a bit of an overstatement. An MIT study found that a huge chunk of the lifetime emissions of a vehicle is in the production alone. EVs, mostly due to their batteries, have much much higher production emissions.

And given how dirty our current energy production is (and the added costs and inefficiencies of storing and transporting electricity) we won't feel the benefits of EVs offsetting the initial added costs for many many years

Also given how notoriously unreliable certain brands like Tesla have been (27th of 28 in Consumer Reports reliability index) it's possible that the added maintenance costs will push this break even point even further down the road

But as of right now all we've really managed to do is push these emissions from the first world (combustion emissions) to the third world (production emissions)

EDIT: link to MIT study: https://energy.mit.edu/research/mobilityofthefuture/

Around 40% of an EVs lifetime emissions are from production alone. Tesla's tend to be even higher because of the larger batteries and less efficient production
I couldn't find any recent news about this -- the most recent article I found is Oculus' blog post from June 2021. So I don't believe this particular tweet is providing cover for any recent decision, but the implication you are making (that Carmack has to provide cover for the advertising efforts of Meta) is probably accurate.
Honestly, you've been attacking me personally for quite some time now for no reason (I've done the courtesy of not attacking you, perhaps you could try to do the same?) so I'll not bother responding after this. At any rate,

> You'd know that if you went ahead and looked just slightly beyond your blind hate of commercial IDEs.

Maybe you missed me saying I use IntelliJ professionally in the previous comment? I'm a happy, paying user of JetBrains IDEs, I've defended them several times on HN myself. I don't hate commercial IDEs; I hate being forced to use them.

It's extremely bizarre that you assume I'm trying to cheap when I'm trying to be principled: I believe the presence of free (as in speech) solutions are essential for me to seriously consider a language. Being tied to a corporation's whims to efficiently use it is ridiculous; I was a happy F# hacker myself until I saw the more recent moves MS has been making. I think what they're doing - replacing omnisharp with a closed source solution and the debacle with trying to make hot reload a paid VS feature being two major, recent issues - show that MS simply cannot be trusted to run a language ecosystem without trying to force its users into behaving as they want them to. There's simply no reason to invest any time into the dotnet ecosystem when there's very comparable languages with comparable performance and ecosystems which don't have this issue.

> And then you go ahead and praise a tool that implements LSP...

What? I'm afraid you've completely lost me here. It doesn't matter that MS came up with LSP, so long as the protocol is open and people can implement and use it without MS's approval. Dozens of editors that have nothing to do with MS implement LSP, the fact that it was made by them is almost incidental.
Launching another one wouldn't let Bell and Northrop extract a 2,000% budget overrun so it's not gonna happen.
"Their greatest existential threat is a united europe, who frequently meddle in its affairs and approach further by way of NATO expansion despite in some cases explicitly promising otherwise."

This is a lie. 'not one inch eastward' never referred to NATO expansion to other countries. At least according to the man who received it, Gorbachev.

If interference in a neighbours affairs and then threatening the very existence of that neighbour are undesirable then I'm sure you'll agree there is no more apt example of the silliness of starmanning some Russians who support its present expansionist actions.

You can seek all the interpretations your want. The example wa to illustrate my point that there's no rhetorical solution to find between an imperialist wanting some land and the sovereign nation holding it. Not between the adversarial geopolitical leaders and not between victims' families and war criminals.
revolutionary ideas will always come from outside, because institutions naturally can only form around what they already assume to be true... but taking that to mean institutions serve no purpose is terribly shortsighted

one thing that does have to go though is the implication that the peer-review process is 'science' and anything outside of it is 'not science', which is just embarrassing
> That is what is known as a "mistake". It happens and one day it could happen to you, so don't laugh at the people going through it.

Alternatively, it’s called “risk management” and people with conservative risk management feel the urge to laugh in the bad times because those with liberal risk management are often not afraid to brag about it during the good times.
Many years ago, I realized that Microsoft did not want anyone to use the Start Menu. I switched to Classic Shell (now Open Shell) and never looked back. Yes, I would recommend this to a friend -- even my mother.

http://www.classicshell.net/

https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
Great article and super informative, hoping it takes off as it should !
Mark up IS NOT INFLATION.

Higher MSRP would account for inflation. Car prices actually have not raised that much over the years, as improvements have been made to the manufacturing process to keep costs down.
Hypercore: protocol, predates the Tether/Bitfinex stuff, I'd argue neutral. The Beaker Browser work was incredibly cool IMO. Website: https://hypercore-protocol.org/

The other stuff: wary.

(e.g. https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2022/07/25/tether-bitfinex-hyperc... seems to me to be wrong about Hypercore being a "company")
Sad to hear
climate change.
> I won’t explain to you why you’re wrong

What are you here for then?
Wages have generally tracked inflation - slightly behind the curve.

They led inflation (maybe were a big contributor to inflation) this time around.

I'm not sure why you're convinced that wages aren't going to keep up with inflation.
George Carlin's take on the middle class squeeze: The upper class does none of the work, and keeps all of the money. The middle class does all of the work and pays all of the taxes. The lower class is there to scare the shit out of the middle class.
ENS is a good example of a working concept of blockchain domains and is the only type of NFT that cannot be 'right-click saved', unlike the JPEG ones.

However, Coinbase (part of the 7 admin keyholders of ENS) had a closer look at .eth addresses and their use in their wallet and decided to remove support for it and instead use .id for their Coinbase wallet. [0]

Why did they do this? It turns out that:

"New crypto users with no previous exposure to ENS would make the false assumption that the ".eth” domain only works" for sending and receiving $ETH."

I guess it really does make sense to anchor both .eth, .id, etc on Handshake [1] after all. The concept of ENS is fine for .eth, but it doesn't seem to be enough to prevent this sort of basic confusion.

[0] https://twitter.com/matt_willemsen/status/154901782285598310...

[1] https://handshake.org
Why is it assumed that you're only ever professionally working on code? Do none of you work on side projects, or open source projects?
Interesting. From brief googling, it sounds like there were similarities/synergies, but "literally a KH11" is going a bit far.
The common wisdom is that they're afraid of being sued. For example, imagine someone with Bipolar disorder in the midst of a manic episode scheduling and performing a tubal ligation. Then later on, they accuse the doctor of malpractice for not identifying them as being in a state of compromised decision making capacity and denying their request.

It's really simple to say, that the patient asked for it and that the doctor acted as expected, but it doesn't prevent the lawsuit from being filed. If it's especially egregious, it might be dismissed with prejudice, but there's always a chance that it goes further than that.
Are superior terrestrial 'scopes even possible, anymore, with Starlink interference getting worse each week?

Serious question. Or can its interference be filtered out effectively?
Monopolists are non-representative governments.
Doctors are not supposed to harm patients even if the patient is above the age of 18. If the patient is likely to regret the operation, doing the operation is causing harm.
Not sure about that. I had a freind who wanted a vasectomy. The doctor said that his wife's permission was first required.
One way for something to be extremely challenging is for it to be impossible
Land value taxes. Wean people off real estate as an investment into real estate as a liability.
Hey, thanks! That's one of the main and crucial differences between Mech and Eve, actually. The main reason I went with tables in Mech is because of the robotics domain. Robotics has a lot of linear algebra and much of the math can be parallelized naturally. This means in Mech we can store columns as contiguous arrays, and take advantage of SIMD optimizations. The triple store in Eve worked well with the whole relational algebra nature of that language, so it was a natural fit there. Not so much for my use case.

Maybe there's room for an Eve-Mech bridge where Eve can be used on the knowledge representation side, and Mech for the lower-level motion planning stuff. That's a fun thought!
As I understand it (... haven't tested recently) you're right that it's not usually a win on modern architectures, and the compiler could do it wherever there's enough register pressure that it might actually help (if anywhere). It's still neat, but I don't think there's any reason to be writing it unless you are on a particularly constrained system with a limited compiler.

I assume you're being downvoted for your slightly incorrect caveat.
Bitcoin doesn't discriminate between green energy sources and fossil fuel energy sources. It encourages production/consumption of fossil fuels just as much as it encourages production/consumption of green energy sources. There's no particular reason to believe that Bitcoin will accelerate electrification.
An empty home in rural Iowa is not a substitute for a home in a thriving urban area.
I understand everything you're saying, but I somehow keep reading it as "they're supposed to be bad, that's why fish and chips are so loved, they're the best in the world at being bad".

I mean, yes, but still, I want my potatoes crunchy, not soggy and oily.
Unfortunately there isn't a way to know ahead of time which complaints are frivolous and which aren't. They don't know whether the person who is calling in a complaint is a busybody worked up over nothing or if it's a jealous ex who wants a leg up in a custody hearing or if it's someone has misinterpreted what they've seen or if it's someone who has just witnessed the tip of an abusive iceberg. A quick visit by a trained professional is not particularly expensive and is much more effective means of data collection than a slow trickle of information from poorly informed and possibly malicious random people. Considering that this case worker is probably not getting pulled off a "real" abuse case to do this visit but is instead going when they have an opening in their schedule and would otherwise be idle, the claim it is drawing away much needed resources is questionable.
That's definitely possible.

These sort of images are typically re-arranged to fit nicely in a figure for publication. It's now more common that any figure that has a western blot within it, you also have to provide the raw unaltered image. Though this wasn't standard practice at the time.

As someone in the field, western blots are terrible for a number of reasons. Even if you get nice bands and you're honest about what you show. The companies that make the antibodies for these commonly sell people duds that will bind to a number of unknown things, and people blindly trust that since the website said it's specific for protein-XYZ, that's what they're measuring.
Namecoin is a notable failure: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/namespace...
It is its own little universe and not representative of the majority of America. People I know who make silicon valley money by working remote coastal jobs and living here in Kansas all live in the nicest suburbs around, in 3-4,000 square foot McMansions with pools, and lawn care to mow their lush perfectly landscaped yards.

These people are making probably 200k with a working spouse. They’re in the same salary bands as local doctors and attorneys. Quality of life based on income is very different in middle America.
It only counts votes from users registered prior to 2008. See the following link to this and other undocumented "features" of HN: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker...
I would argue that anything up to and including assisted suicide performed with informed consent deserves less hesitation than performing arbitrary surgeries on unwilling and unconsenting children. Being willing to do that but not sterilize someone just makes you a hypocrite.
It’s so shocking that they don’t want their field to be discredited.
If you only see an accidental ban in this story, you need to reread the story. Twitter, by way of its employees, violated its own policies in the follow-up.
Particularly for heavily politicized topics, "trust the science" usually means something like "trust that the people that the media has designated as scientific authorities always follow the scientific process, understand statistics, and are objective searchers for truth; moreover, don't try to substitute your expertise for theirs."

The scientific community can't simply no-true-scotsman every claim pushed with the banner of Science that turns out to be false or fraud if it wants the true claims to be considered seriously.
The Bitcoin Network has the potential to replace large parts of the existing financial legacy system.

The key word here is potential --- as yet unrealized.

One of the reasons it is unrealized --- the exorbitant energy use required.

Articles like this only help further associate "crypto" with "fraud".
EV's are an improvement compared to "the same but with petrol" but the thing is, but we are squandering an opportunity to have cities where people can bike and walk places (the reason they can't is the cars) and other issues are coming to light, namely the heavier weights and faster acceleration making them even more dangerous for people using bikes and walking than fossil fuel cars.
This is my primary complaint as well. It's nearly impossible to find a product even after specifying the exact name and type in many search tools. Even something as simple as a bolt with a specific diameter gets flooded with irrelevant products. It's like the original Search terms are completely ignored and replaced with fuzzy results and promoted products
From one of your own links:

"Based on news reports, you’d think that the whole city was up in flames and gutted out. But it’s actually just in one small part of downtown that’s about 5 blocks long. "
On a typical supply and demand curve you can expect that raising the price reduces demand. No one in this thread has actually established that all units are being purchased by the USA. So what you will see are projects in the US that would have gone to solar if it was 30% cheaper but instead go to natural gas or some other source, and those units that would have been purchased get purchased by people in other countries.

But also if demand significantly exceeds supply, that is cause for manufacturers to make more investment in increased production. You’d see major solar projects booking out orders six months in advance for example, and with more demand they would book out one year in advance let’s say. So the thing is that demand is a gradient and it’s not a binary thing of “everything is being purchased”. Raising the price of something will usually price someone out of that purchase.
>remain at the current level of 27, which we believe will be enough for the next millennium.

I would have loved to read more justification about _why_ Meta thinks we no longer need the leap second beyond calling it a community push. They did a great job of complaining about how hard it is to solve from a technical perspective, and then explained how they solved it. Is the only problem really that Meta doesn't know how to test a negative leap second?
You would not need to fold it at all. Instead, launch dozens of Webb-scale scopes for a fraction of the price, able to point in that many directions at once.
Build enough housing for everyone. Build more than necessary so that there's slack and flexibility to move. There's no similar monopoly dynamic with cars or phones or thousands of other goods. We just make a lot of them.

Oversupply will take care of the downstream issues. They will cease to be good investments and become commodities. Rents will have to come down in a competitive market.

Oversupply will have to be on a regional level. A vacant house in a small town doesn't compensate for an occupied house in a city 100km away.

Zoning laws prevent this in the US/Canada in many places. Existing homeowners don't want to change. More houses means more crowding, higher traffic, construction noise, obstructed skylines, more pressure on schools, police etc. We can't accept that argument when weighed against homelessness or poverty anymore. Fuck their skylines, shelter is a basic necessity and it often has to be close to work, shopping, school etc. Living in the middle of nowhere is not an option.
The US could spend 2 times less on military and still be the biggest one in the world. And it as allies everywhere.
You can report fraud to the ORI (Office of Research Integrity) and they won't do a thing about it. They won't open an independent audit of any federally-funded academic researcher until after the fraud has been publicly exposed in the media, as this one has been. Even then:

> "The agency’s reply, which Schrag shared with Science, noted that complaints deemed credible will go to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Research Integrity (ORI) for review. That agency could then instruct grantee universities to investigate prior to a final ORI review, a process that can take years and remains confidential absent an official misconduct finding. To Science, NIH said it takes research misconduct seriously, but otherwise declined to comment."

https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...

There is simply no willingness on the part of federal funding agencies to investigate their own grantees after they receive credible evidence of fraud.
I don't view them as unalloyed goods, for sure - it's just that most of the hostility came pre-anyone having great arguments against them and struck me as fundamentally tribal - went into an ice cream shop with my girlfriend in Ocala, Florida, got glared down as the only people wearing masks. This wasn't well considered social pressure, it was most assuredly "we don't cotton to them types around here."

I do think the arguments against wearing masks when interacting with children/making children mask have been quite strong, post ace-2.
IIRC something like 40% of homes in America have mortgages fully paid off.
I'm sorry, but there are certain stories that are just not covered by "respectable" media outlets at all, and never will be. How much have you read about Nancy Pelosi's husband, for example? Or AOC's fake handcuffs?

GP is right about it SO FAR, as I admitted. However, most of the media these days, respectable and otherwise, are just "regurgitating press releases" which makes it difficult to separate Alex Jones-type conspiracies from the Hunter Biden laptop "conspiracies" which turn out to be true.

Absence of stories doesn't mean there isn't a story there. Unfortunately.
Well, some of my friends prefer Apple's walled garden because they think the applications there are better than open source ones, and consider policies requiring Apple to allow third-party app store as dangerous to users...
It feels like you underestimate how much content exists on twitter.
I drive (and parallel park) in Lisbon regularly and having this on my car would be a godsend.
Yeah, let’s put a bunch of bus drivers in charge of everything because they “understand their own interests”. I’m sure that’ll work out for us.
You're certainly right that there has been major housing inflation in almost all major urban areas with good transit in the US. Still, there are several cities that are still relatively affordable with good transit and walkable neighborhoods.

Chicago. Philadelphia. Portland. Pittsburgh.
Dividens on a person?

Seems ripe for abuse.
Some mail carriers do refuse to deliver at certain address for reasons that other carriers wouldn't refuse to deliver for.
How many of those names are not squatted, and have non-trivial content?
Maybe altering your biology for the rest of your life is not a good way to make political statements of the day.
Targeted taxes. Higher income taxes on rent deriving from residential property, higher capital gains taxes on residential property and higher inheritance taxes on secondary homes. This would of course require political will. What it would do is make residential property a much less attractive financial investment.

The other recent phenomenon/issue is loose monetary policy. When interest rates are too low, asset values increase. We have just had a period of very low rates for an extended period of time. As interest rates rise, prices should level out or drop off.