skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is not "hyper-urbanised". There is still a good 30% rural population a lot of which live close to very dense forests with questionable sanitation.

I don't understand how those viruses being rare in humans and outbreaks fading is actually making it harder to find them. If anything it is easier because then they don't have to figure out if humans gave it to them or they gave it to humans.
Yeah, this is frustrating. My content isn't just my tastes, it's my taste + sex because <20-40 yo male>. So, I don't really feel good even opening the explore tab anywhere that isn't private, because there's a good chance there will be questionable content.
Youtube has a whole section with all the people you follow. https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions all the videos are in reverse chronological order.

Twitter has a button with stars where you can select to show only the tweets of people you follow in reverse chronological order. Called Latest Tweets.
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Could a market be free without tariffs? Does free not imply competitive?

US policy can't force South Korea or Taiwan to have a free market. No matter what we do, any domestic company has to be able to compete with Samsung and TSC. Because of that, there is no purely "free" global market.

Either you change the rules at the border (tariffs), you match your competitors' strategy (subsidize), or you lose.
Thanks buddy, I am glad you liked it.
>That's not extortion, that's the opposite - bribery.

I think that depends on your perspective. From the company's perspective, they're bribing the ratings agency by donating money.

From the agency's perspective, they're using their rating as a way of coercing a company into making donations. That could be considered extortion, though not in the legal sense.
> basically memorized computer science algorithms

The path I see in profession after profession is:

1. copy something

2. make variations on the copied stuff

3. make your own

> And so their employees are bookish, not innovative people.

Why would bookish people not be innovative?
Intel had profits of $20B last year. They could easily build a new modern fab every year if they wanted to. But it makes more sense for them to spend tax payers money instead.
grep inner loops are coded straight in Assembly. So Rust would be a poor fit.
With no context, I'm not sure what you mean by this; but, without saying anything about the validity of the position, it's probably worth noting (as you surely know) that Reagan said this to satirize "big-government" perspectives on taxation. It was not his policy statement.
I admit I'm not too familiar with the (illegal) crypto thing. I wouldn't be surprised if it was run by the same cuevas. In any case, the situation I describe is historic; the cuevas have existed for decades and nobody does anything about them.

As for the size: again, major operations -- the kinds that actually "move the needle" -- are done in the legal market. I seriously doubt crypto has any impact in Argentina.
Yeah, really disappointed in this thread’s comments about Chinese scientists and the country as a whole. This type of comment is all too common on here.
The main actors pushing for the peso devaluation are the ones that finance deficit by printing money.
You have a great idea. It would be tough corralling the boards and execs of these companies to accept Gov money that limits their compensation. Still, with competition, one company would be incentivized to take the money.
Congress offloads imposing tariffs to the executive branch, so they'd need to take it back to do that. Otherwise, it's just a countdown for the industry to donate enough to the opposing political party's PACs to get them in office and repeal the looming tariffs.

ie. the current bill only passed because both political parties are fine with giving companies government money.
> California doesn’t have a central bank, so it’s not like it can print money out of thin air like the Federal Reserve.

The whole point of an independent central bank is that the fiscal authority (Congress) cannot print money out of thin air to monetize spending, either; monetary policy is based on macroeconomic conditions, not fiscal demands.

OTOH, the federal government inherently has a much lower cost of borrowing than the states, and California, like many (almost all, I think, though the details vary) has a State Constitutional requirement for a balanced operating budget and effectively relies on federal deficit spending for countercyclical spending.

> If they’re giving out stimulus, they must be getting it from tax payers, right?

Yes, the inflation relief tax rebate is paid out of current tax revenue (in fact, it is a plan to fulfill a constitutional mandate to return surplus tax revenue beyond a certain spending limit if not spent on education and infrastructure) and is not characterized as “stimulus”, contrary to the upthread misrepresentation. It's redistribution which probably has a very slight stimulative (and thus inflationary) effect because it goes to people with a higher propensity to spend in the domestic economy, per marginal dollar, than those it comes from, in order to relieve more of the impacts of inflation at the lower end of the income distribution.
How does an interest increase influence unionization?
You're showing a case though where you diverge from the current conventions so much that it's incredibly hard to understand what you're saying, so I'm not sure you're going against OP's point.

By the way, as a European person (speaking multiple European languages, even) living in the US for a decade, you quickly give up on taking language "rules" too seriously or else you go insane.

What English (partly US English, partly "English in general") does to foreign words is... interesting. Also interesting is that unlike any other language I speak, reading a word in English is often not sufficient to know how it's pronounced. Yes, French's orthography for example seems enormously complex ("Bordeaux"?) compared to e.g. German or Italian, but it's still consistent.

If I had to guess, I'd think that's too a large part because of things like the Great Vowel Shift, and loan words from multiple languages. (Not a linguist though, so eh, just stupid guesses.)
Off topic: does it bother anyone else when author By Line and Date Published is displayed at the very end of the blog/article as opposed to the start/top?

I’m not even a journalist / communication person but I do immediately look at those fields to get a quick sense of relevance (is this an old article possibly out-of-date) and authority of author on said topic.
Would that improve the products the GP worked on?
When in the Instagram app, click on the word Instagram. A select menu appears, and you can choose "Following" - you have to do this every time you open the app, and who knows when it will get the axe, but it's made this terrible platform a little more usable for me.
It'll be money wasted.

They should be paying out a large sum ONLY on completion, defined as when the first 10 million semiconductors are delivered to commercial customers.
Oil is down 20% from June, so it's likely we'll have somewhat tapered inflation next CPI. Current best estimate for FOMC meeting 6 weeks from now is a 50 bps raise, and then two more 25 bps raise to end the year at 3.25%. Sounds reasonable to me.
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> Re: the second point about demand — the Pokemon Pikachu has its own Wikipedia page, because people expect Wikipedia specifically to have an article about Pikachu. Other Pokemon do not — because there's already Bulbapedia around to satisfy the demand for an encyclopedia with articles about Pokemon, and the pages from it are easily found in any search engine. If a different set of editors are willing to take on the maintenance burden for those articles in their own domain — and are doing a decent job of it — then why should Wikipedia's editors duplicate that effort?

You've got the chronology here backwards IIRC - Bulbapedia exists because Wikipedia got rid of "non-notable" Pokemon.
This may be true about what Google employees have become ...

But the changes at Facebook and Google have a clear cost-benefit equation. When a company is in an expanding market, improving it's offering to capture more of the market is very worthwhile. When a company is in a static market where they aren't likely to lose too much market share, the company has incentive to squeeze as much profits out of their market share. Usually that's by raising prices but in this instance it's by stuffing in as much ads and behavior-control shenanigans as possible.

You can say this is because of monopoly but similar dynamics happen with "oligopolies" - cellphone providers or pre-foreign competition US automakers.
The functions don't matter much when you're talking about the few dominating currencies, but shitcoins are doubly suspicious when their contracts include a centralized_mint().
It's not that it's impossible to manage fiat money sensibly. It's that the incentives are perverse such that politicians have every incentive to keep the gravy train going and little to no incentive to be disciplined about spending. The end result is a system that necessarily has a greater likelihood to evolve into an inability to manage fiat money sensibly.

So it's not about impossibilities, so much as it is about incentives and probabilities.

Note, there are definitely cases where deficit spending is warranted (e.g. recessions) and even a good investment during boom times. But when deficit-spending during good times goes towards not infrastructure but ephemeral program spending, which much of the world is currently doing, then it's easy to see why it is so difficult to manage fiat money responsibly.
Snapchat knew the same thing. A Kardashian even told them. Not working out so well now.

Instagram is a slightly different story, because they've probably got official guarantees that government is going to finally ban TikTok in their endless campaign of aggression towards China. So Insta replaces their pissed-off old users with young TikTok users, and the government can tell angry TikTok that there's a red-blooded Jesus equivalent to the evil Chinese internet drug.
If SARS-1 was more infectious and less virulent you wouldn't see cases concentrated amongst traders, would you? If anything, since many of them already have some kind of immunity from previous infection, you would not expect them to even notice being sick before the virus already infected thousands.
I get why people lie sometimes. I get why people mislead, or fudge facts, or gaslight.

But it's genuinely hard to figure out why you'd post something like this when spending literally 3 seconds on a Google search shows that you just completely made it up and didn't do any kind of search at all. Why tell a lie that is so easily and completely disproven?
I agree, in the sense that it's less about leetcode skills and more about company politics. I can tell you for a fact that the programming geniuses don't make product decisions, much less so strategy decisions. These products would look VERY different if that was the case.

Instead, the important strategic decisions are left for various opportunistic short termers, like product managers, directors etc. They are incentivized on shorter time scales and are motivated by prestige, visibility and career advancement. What looks good in a slide deck will be rewarded, basically. These people are much more in touch with internal company politics first and the industry at large second. They are shockingly oblivious to their own user base – (YouTube rewind is the best irrefutable proof for this).

Big redesigns and product changes are rewarded for way too early, imo. Common tenure for a PM is 1-1.5 years, enough for a promotion, and short enough to weasel out before they have to deal with the backlash.
Well why shouldn't they be? Most major auto makers are phasing out development of new ICE drivetrains, and phasing out ICE manufacturing altogether. Meanwhile Tesla is certainly not without criticism.
Love that, I have also written a pretty much identical comment in the past lol
Two of the most profitable and innovative companies in the world.

HN first comment :

> Theory on facebook failure/Google failure to innovate
Maps was also an acquisition.
No, the small children who are at risk for falling into a pool do not jump fences.

Regardless, if your pool had a history of safety issues, you should be expecting attention from regulators and insurers. Query your favorite search engine for "pool closed following death"
I've noticed people often have bizarre notions about "politics".

Politics is simply the way people in groups come up with decisions. How you and your friends decide where to go for dinner? Politics, whether it's voting or someone's birthday preference, or because your one friend Ayn really has to be the one to decide or else she throws a fit.

The status quo? Well, yeah, it's not political, in roughly the same way that a paper mill is not political. But like you say yourself, it becomes political when someone wants to change something. If someone wants to build a paper mill in the middle of your neighborhood, you'd best get your political hat on and start doing the political boogie because you don't want to live near the smell and chemicals. If someone wants to change the status quo, say because they think the current treatment of Xs by Ys is unacceptable, then you can bet that both supporting and opposing the status quo will become political.
Small caveat there… they didn’t build AR/VR … they bought it then poured tons of money onto the smaller and more innovative company to get growth before trying to put a bullet though it’s customer base by forcing Facebook accounts in order to get greater synergies with the rest of Facebook only to backflip because the gaming market hates it so much it was hurting sales.
> I think this experiment shows that humans overestimate their innate creativity.

Yes. GPT-3 teaches us that a sizable fraction of "serious" writing is just remixing previously written content. No underlying insight required. This is embarrassing to humans.

Note where this won't work: directions on how to do something real. If you used GPT-3 to generate auto repair manuals, you'd get plausible manuals, but they'd be wrong.
Not just a budget surplus (revenue above planned spending), but revenue that exceeds a State Constitutional cap on what the State government is allowed to spend (unless it is directed to very specific spending categories which are unlimited), and thus has triggered an obligation to return funds via some rebate mechanism.
You don't see math professors doing startups because they have tenure and are financially risk-averse. They also simply like being professors.

There may be another factor - universities are dominated by anti-capitalist sentiment. Doing a business startup means exiting that belief system.
Unless by that you mean that people who have already reached their retirement age and retired and are collecting benefits would have those benefits withdrawn if they are not yet 70 I don't see how that would increase the labor supply. It would just slow down number of people already in the labor supply leaving it for retirement.

If you do mean that people already retired but not yet 70 have their benefits cut off until they reach 70 there are a couple problems with that.

1. It would be political suicide.

2. It would be very hard to deal with the logistics. First, a large number of the people who it forces to un-retire will no longer be living where the jobs are. Your plan will tank the market for housing in retirement communities making it impossible for many to sell their houses to move back to where the jobs are.

Second, a large number of them won't be capable of doing the jobs they did before, due to age or due to their skills being out of date. Many will need retraining, or will have to take jobs in fields they have no experience with.

Dealing with all that would be a lot of work, with many reluctant to put in that effort when the workers that you do manage to get are just going to be temporary.
>This is not the most cost effective way to do it.

What would you recommend?
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My audible app is full of recommendations for books I ALREADY HAVE I MY LIBRARY.

Netflix seems to be actually getting better, for a while, watching a single video could entirely change my recommended list.
I'm in a city center, and my small office network is currently 4G through a Samsung phone because it's faster than anything I can get on the landline.

This is a city where some buildings have up to about 200Mbit/s on either cable or FTTP, but these are not available at all properties. The best landline speed I can get is "up to" 17Mbit/s downlink, which is slower than the phone, the landline uplink is ridiculously slow, and to top off the landline is more than twice the price of unlimited 4G.

I'd like the speed and latency of FTTP, and failing that a good speed of VDSL over FTTP, but since I can't get either and I'm on the top floor of a 4 story building, I've wondered if Starlink would be an improvement over 4G.
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Why would you have been called out for saying “correctness and expressivity”? That’s accurate, though also probably legacy now that Rust can satisfy most or all of those use cases.
I wonder if at some point the police will generate individual language models based on the collected written material from a person under investigation and then ‘interrogate’ the model for insights into the subject.
Russian too right? Or was 4 years of Russiagate just a funny coincidence
And ripping people off isn't seen as clever in the rest of the world? Come on.
I'm not sure it's a browser issue, maybe a load issue? Could there be throttling on the backend API you're using to fetch the artwork?
Sort of. There is not a direct correlation between leetcode, engineering skill, and productivity.

I also know some boneheads who made it into google somehow. I think hiring is more of a crapshoot these days than it was in the early 2000s when the tech industry was not cool, was fairly homogenous and full of nerds.
I like this article a lot. I am just concerned that it doesn’t deal with the number one issue with apologies: the feeling that I’ve done nothing to apologize for. Substitute yourself for “I’ve” if you’ve offended me instead of the other way around.

It’s wrong to tell lies designed to manipulate people. An apology should never be a lie. So, someone being asked or expected to apologize must not turn it into an empty ritual. Doing so lights a fuse that will blow up the whole relationship.

I have apologized for being a source of pain or irritation, for instance, without claiming that my behavior was actually wrong. Sometimes that’s all I can do.
Apple was famous for taking forever to design “their copy” of popular thing.

Then Facebook and the rest became staples of iDevices, Apple focused on stupid slim design rather than pushing the product envelope, and risk their yearly mobile cash cow.

Their EarPods were not exactly the first BT earbuds, HomePod was well after Alexa. Subscription video and games?

For the most part they are doing the same with hardware; changing up housing but emphasizing their own chips.

MS aped Apple laptop quality with Surface, bombed mightily with Windows Phone, is doing fine with Azure; again all products that came as a response to others.

We’re beyond the bootstrap phase of technology. Something truly innovative to the user is still in some lab.

My money is on bio-tech mutant; custom drugs and high res simulation to embed an experience so real you think it happened. I dunno something that’s focused on more than b2b apps/ads deals and phone update cycles.

I mean there is no point to any of this. There’s no higher calling for people. One generation being addicted to computers as we know them is not necessarily a forever trend for the species. It’s just math. shrug
Or strictly speaking, it was forked by original authors after hostile takeover.

Nice case of how open sourcing was useful.
I am surprised too. If your number one problem is short deadlines, using Go is simply more obvious for CLI.
"Remember I'm pullin' for ya"

And, keep your stick on the ice.
I posted this elsewhere, creativity with regards to creating and intuiting what will be a good product is completely different than creating a beautiful algorithm. Math professors arent known for their sense of style. And I agree, size hampers it, but here we have Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple all creating new products that people like. And who you hire as engineers permeates through the culture.
I agree. Is there an emissions only ETF that I can buy into? (Not sure if this is mentioned in the article, it's paywalled for me)
Another way of looking at this is that under regulation of competing industries in other countries requires intervention (be it via tariff or subsidy).

I think people here have argued the strengths/weaknesses of each approach. The best solution is likely some nuanced mix of the two, but nuanced policy is hard to create and I rather we eat the costs of any of the two approaches that are more likely to be adopted today rather than continue to take no action.
I wouldn't mind trying to build the new IG or Facebook, but issue is how to fund it without angel investors or others who push towards eyeball/click/attention-frenzy we have today.
A date published anywhere at all is fortunate.
> If the wrong materials get delivered to you site they absolutely can and will come take what you didn't pay for and bring you the correct materials.

Will they tear down the building built with those materials 3 years ago to do it?
Rather than embarrassing I think it is liberating to cast aside our absurd sentimentality about our minds and see them as the tools of environmental adaptation that they are
How accessible is that to your grandmother? Can you walk her through the process? (Are you willing to, given that now you'll be called if anything goes wrong?)
I've worked for Apple and Product Management absolutely runs the product.

Engineers of course have entry points into this process but ultimately they aren't responsible for the overall process of what, how and when things get build.

You act like you know better than all of these companies so maybe you can try building a multi-billion business with just engineers. Good luck with that.
Incentives don’t need to be perfect to work out.

US has had a much more stable economy post fiat money than before fiat money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...
It’s a tongue in cheek twist on the typical “I work too hard” meme.

Basically OP is deriding the author when the author is subverting the exact same trope that disgusts OP.
For OSM powered apps:

- Organic Maps

- OsmAnd

- mapy.cz

Note: Google has clearly better car routing and shop listings.

But for cycling or hiking OSM is typically superior.
Purple worms also make magnificent pets. Genning up a fleet of pet purple worms and teleporting them away can make life a lot easier on the Astral Plane.

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> What works is a free market.

If such a thing existed then you would be right.
> Lol the whole point of the US design was to allow the free market internally

Dear reader, this was not true in any shape.
Never heard of a break in in the city my family is from. No one ever locks their doors. It's one of the nice things about a society where most people get the help they need, no need for people to do these crimes to survive.
> Rarely do we see congressional leaders agreeing on this scale.

There has been widespread bipartisan support for the military-industrial complex for as long as Eisenhower (correctly) warned about the military-industrial complex.

Partisan disagreements just tend to make the headlines more often.