skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gambling angle is straight up dumb, why are they framing it that way? Aggregating information (however true) provides a net benefit in any endeavor, and there has to be a financial incentive to do information arbitrage, that's the whole point, because people would not even worry about it.

The whole thing is that, the media now cannot say that elective x has a 65 approval rate (based on a survey of 6 coworkers) when on Predictit is at 10%.
Something similar happens in Turkish occupied Cyprus.

The Turkish airport in Turkish Cyprus is not recognized by Greek Cypiriot government, so if you do fly from Turkey to Cyprus, it is not considered a valid port of entry.

Thus you will get a stamp on a piece of paper, which you need to leave the country back to Turkey.

When traveling between the Turkish and Greek side of the island, the checkpoint guards will inspect your passport. As Greek Cyprus is part of the EU, EU laws require all EU Memberstates to allow free travel for any EU citizen. Likewise, due to agreements between the US, Cyprus and the EU, US citizens are too allowed free-travel. Citizens from other countries run the risk of being denied entry.
Whether they inflated their numbers or not, the burden would be on Musk to prove that and it would be completely impossible to do that with a 3rd party tool. You are a monetizable user on Twitter if you just log in and read tweets. Something that no 3rd party tool could possibly track.
Ethereum POW consensus is being manipulated with false timestamps
Yeah, I mean there are a lot of things the US does that appears "normalized" to the point that you maybe just see an angry tweet about it every now and then, but that's it. Those things are still hard for me to accept.

e.g.congress from both parties have what feels to me like extreme conflicts of interest when dominating the stock market (handily beating out every hedge fund returns across many congress members). It's like sports players being able to bet on the outcome of their own game, when they are almost capable of guaranteeing a certain outcome.
Ask HN: Any Good Marketing Book that you read?
Do you have any recommendation of Marketing Books?

I would like to read some books that have good practical advice. But in the same time more timeless advice than a blog post.
The article makes a lot of claims but uses almost no evidence. Half of it is complaining about adjusted numbers.. but does the author know that all public companies have to report GAAP as well, not only the adjusted numbers? Then there’s the claim of costs skyrocketing and drivers considering other options, but the used and new car market is absolutely crazy right now as well as gas prices. It feels like there could be substance but it is only surface level in this article.
Cleaning robots are good enough at their job to be a net positive to your quality of life.
Kenji Lopez-Alt has a great YouTube cooking channel.
And the Twitter board was also very much publicly saying, "don't buy us."
Ah, OK

That sound data sanitizing rather than the AI safety/danger that Bostrom and company worry about. For them, it's "OMG, must limit it's capabilities" rather than "Must keep it from doxing or offending people". The parent I was replying to was kind of ambiguous what sort of crippling they meant (We also should be careful using DALL-E as an accurate measure of what's possible, because OpenAI has intentionally crippled their offering in a number of ways to avoid scaring or offending people, under the rubric of "AI safety".)
Wait, they buy a second license to save money? How does that work and, more importantly, how can I convince lots of folks to buy my product twice to save money?!
I guess is better to have a device that will share your data with domestic entities that actually spy on you and harm your privacy. If someone
"has to" own my data, I prefer that someone to be in another jurisdiction.
Collision detection is a major reason. If you only sample positions at the frame rate, you're going to have bullets go through walls without hitting anything.

Also, physics is costly to run, so usually it's not run on every frame.
One thing that immediately stood out to me is the mention of Developer Tools. Most laypersons don't even know it exists. I'm wondering if it's possible for Google to make the presentation of things like meta tags and descriptions more user-friendly? Like, a small banner or icon when your mouse is at the top of a page or even an icon in the address bar, when you click it, it shows you things like the meta and description
This isn't for IoT home devices. This is a network for specific business segments, municipalities and researchers.

The coins are just to convince people to buy the equipment and spread it out. Filling in the grid is more profitable than adding multiple nodes to the same segment. This causes a sort of mlm scheme where those who are 'in the know' are convincing family and friends to install these devices for a share of the profit.
The private at 420 thing was absolutely worth $40 million. It helped elevate Tesla to the meme stock stratosphere even more than they already were. His Twitter antics turned a 200 billion dollar company into a trillion dollar one.
That’s the bit I don’t get: how is so little of the money raised going into its own product?

$6.5k/month is embarrassing.

Personally I looked into using their tech for a semi-remote cabin where I didn’t want to pay for extortionist telecom rates just to turn something on/off remotely, and couldn’t find a good way to do it with Helium.

I would have thought there would be an off-the-shelf thing, but nope.
Clearly reverse psychology, confirming that this was indeed their play all along!
I wasn't aware of Silvio Gesell, although I can't quite pin down where or how the idea of wealth as money hoarding came to my attention. Thanks for pointing me to him. Are there any works I should consult for and introduction to his ideas?
It's really comically how many people here, including yourself, are just assuming they know more than then author. Kenji has done numerous studies debunking this and has dug into every single part of the burger making process and so much more to come up with these steps.

Flipping your burger less doesn't help. Yes, the salt level is correct. Yes, putting the grinder in the freezer is a good idea. Stop assuming you know more than experts without conducting studies your self, you arrogant people.
I wonder how’s many of these jobs are second jobs. Because a growing number of second jobs being necessary to make ends meet would be a hidden problem if your modelling is based on total job numbers and until the job total started to exceed the total population by a significant margin you wouldn’t notice it… and the obvious question is if this would be too late to change tactics given that second jobs indicate that the economy is still strained by inflation, with the cumulative pressures driving people to need extra income.
Local alternative currency systems[0] have existed for a long time in many cities. They're small and fringe, but they exist. Amsterdam, for example, has NOPPES[1]. But these systems are not threatened by electronic payment systems.

[0] LETSysteem, or Local Exchange Trading System

[1] https://noppes.nl
I have owned an EV for the past 5 years (50k mi mostly commute to work) and here's what I've paid for maintenance:

Wiper fluid, replace 12v battery (due to COVID and not driving).

That's it.

I did go to the tire shop but they pulled a screw from the tire, patched it up and told me there's plenty of tread. They also inspected the brake pads and they were years away from replacement (due to regen braking).

None of the following I had to do for my first 5 years owning an ICE car:

* fuel, oil, air filter replacement
* replace oil, brake pads.
* (if you're unlucky) transmission/engine repair

Never having to visit a gas station (unless I'm low on tire pressure) is zen.
European here: Is Club Fed slang for prison?
Looks neat. I'm curious why its trending so high on hn though?

Out of the first 20ish comments a single one expresses a desire to get one
Great. Anything to avoid doing what REALLY needs to be done: abolishing software and "business-method" patents, not to mention addressing the USPTO's disgraceful dereliction of its duty to reject obvious ones.
There will be members of staff who’s job depends on the value of the stock and countless more with total comp tied to it.
The more I read of Microsoft licensing, the more it feels like a scam.
I don’t think there’s any place in the world with a perfect human rights record. That doesn’t mean human rights don’t exist, or that they apply to other things.
They currently have shipped more semi trucks than Tesla.
Yup, that was my thinking, even if the Chinese company owns the data, they wont be sharing that with the PD or NSA , etc... if they are, then really doesn't matter who owns your data.
An interesting tidbit of history:

When I was on the design team for the Lucas Presidio Campus, we were collapsing all the various divisions to the new campus, aside from Skywalker...

I was the LV/Datacenter/network designer for the project.

One of the early design requirements was to 1) have fiber to the desktop and 2) have every machine on an interconnect matrix which brought the edge desktop connections as close to the core as possible such that every workstation would become a part of the ender cluster when idle/at night/on-demand etc...

This didnt happen but it was a goal back in ~2004

--

I recall them telling us when Jobs came to visit and they had the "Death Star" <-- render cluster they were working on... Lucas apparently saw no future and sold it to Jobs for ~$10mm?? and thats where Pixar got it start.

That was an amazing fun project to work on.

---

Oh - and during the design sessions, Cisco borked the design review for their (joke of a response) to the RFP, the then CIO for LucasArts in this design meeting with ILM, Lucas, Cisco others -- he says to the entire team in dead seriousness

"When can I have power-over-fiber to the desktop" with a look like "Ha! GotchA!

And everyone just blinked..
Or you can just use the hardware the employer is paying for, plus paying you to use...
"He signed away any and all rights to due diligence in the agreement."
Why do more fraudsters not use contracts
If people can sign away due diligence, sign up for a Diamond, get a Lemon, and have no recourse, surely scammers would be doing this instead of structuring their scam in a way that has the potential of sending them to jail
I rather only eat things which actually grow,

and don't need to be produced,

instead of blindly accepting being told that something's good for me,

just because there's a lot of money behind it.
Did a “factory model” ruin education?
Leading with "How about you check that ego?" and ending with "You sound like a sociopath" could hardly be a more obvious personal attack!

> any response that disagrees or is critical can be framed as a personal attack

No—if you respond respectfully and in the intended spirit of curious conversation, that would not be a personal attack, even if you disagree.

You didn't do that. You responded extremely aggressively and personally. Posting like that to HN will definitely get an account banned, so please don't do it again (regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Amazon is going to take this and make it SaaS. Then the ecosystem moves to Amazon instead of DreamWorks.
When someone uses Photoshop to create artwork, nobody believes that the Photoshop algorithm has any claim to be the author of that artwork. I don't see how the code behind e.g. an AI image generator is fundamentally different than the Photoshop algorithm from a "who created the produced work" perspective. Similar to Photoshop, the AI art generator is still just running code at the behest of some human.

The more interesting question I think is whether any of the creators of the training data used by the AI have any claim over the generated artwork.
I don't think Apple ever portrays itself as a champion of freedom.

And even if they did, that ethos does not give them carte blanch to pick and choose which laws they will adhere to.
The difference is that I can now claim that your invention is not novel, since I can create a similar result using the same tools.
How? :)
This provides a lot of insight into how that man got to the top. He clearly has no qualms about lying and bullshitting his way into and out of anything and no amount of proof to the contrary will ever get him to admit he was wrong.

I guess this is similar to the "reality distortion field" people claim Jobs had. Except the examples given there were more of him not believing people who said something couldn't be done.
I'm still convinced he's just gonna use it to suggest that a judge should meet him in the middle; make him buy the company, but use the allegations of large numbers of bots to reduce the price.
How so, logically speaking, setting xenophobia and/or racism aside?
Here in Grenoble we just went through the third heat wave of the summer, i.e. it doesn't cool down at night.

This time around, temperatures in the inner city were around 39C (~102F) during daytime and at night my apartment, despite all windows being open, didn't cool down below 30C (~86F).

Talking about the weather has never felt more meaningful
I expect they'll be fine. Most of the EVs that required battery replacement were early Nissan Leafs with bad thermal management systems. My EV (5yo) has 96% capacity. Can't wait to test it again at 10y.
Reading about the history of the transistor, it's truly amazing that AT&T basically just gave the technology away to the world for a single $25k licensing fee. Nominally, they were hoping to benefit from other company's innovations, but mostly they were worried about protecting their government sanctioned monopoly and didn't want to be seen as abusing it. That last bit isn't mentioned in most online summaries, but was an actual decision made at the highest levels of the company. So as long as you weren't in a communist nation, you could license the tech, including a nine-day long seminar on the details, and another a year later detailing the manufacturing process. [1]

In Europe, there was an independently developed point-transfer transistor called the Transitron created by a couple German physicists, and developed as an amplifier by a Westinghouse subsidiary in France. But the Bell Labs bipolar junction transistor was more advanced and based on a better understanding of the underlying effect. (Shockley was a paranoid asshole, but he was also a very capable scientist.)

Imagine if the US had a monopoly on transistor technology for a decade or so? No flood of cheaper Japanese electronics, no competitors for the microchip, etc. It's truly an astounding gift, or massive blunder depending on your point of view.

1. https://www.computerhistory.org/siliconengine/bell-labs-lice...
unless you're arguing for checked exceptions I don't see the evidence for inconsistency. Plus when it comes to knowing when something "is False" python's far more strict than c++'s boolean conversion rules.
> I still can't get over the banana-pants insanity of the first count... arguing that Twitter lied about its numbers for years specifically so that someone would buy it at an inflated price?

This describes the entire business model of WeWork (minus the self-dealing), why should Twitter be different?
That's the whole point of crypto tokenomics. You use the token to incentivize capital expenditure on the speculation that demand will come. The entire point of a token is to align incentives around this. It has worked for Bitcoin and Ethereum. It has worked for many other protocols (Sushi, Aave, Chainlink, Filecoin, Arweave, etc). It has also failed for some protocols.
Yes, apologies and thanks for asking for clarification. It's slang for Federal Prison, but for white collar crimes (less austere accommodations).
This was 2004. The concepts were still being figured out WRT to making a huge campus for one of the most creative companies...

EDIT: I thought you were replying to my comment about the Lucas Presidio Campus
That’s… odd? I would’ve assumed that LE was designed with both theory and practical testing - how could classic be better at everything?
It's a funny joke if you're making a pun on its vacuum function being "sucking", but if you're just using it as a joke that applied to Microsoft then you're not using the pun and just making an almost-joke of "their product is bad".
Works for me on the second tap.
Would their be any benefit to Musk going through this ordeal meanwhile fully intending to buy Twitter all along?
> EDIT: Some people apparently don’t realize that to corporations, humans are just another asset, like buildings or software.

Figuratively, maybe. Legally, no. This conversation is about specific legal terms, so figurative usages do not apply.
You could use that argument to instead support that any idea created by the AI is not patentable, since it is derived mechanically from prior art.
BLE was designed as a super low bitrate intermittent protocol, and named with that application in mind. It was designed to spend 99% of its time "asleep".

Not too surprising it's similar power to Classic when doing similar things.

But also, a good study to actually measure it!
Yeah while we're at it maybe we should review whether corporations should be allowed to hold one after 3 false DMCA complaints ;)
What's so interesting about it? It's total nonsense dressed up in legalese.
> To me the original Woodstock vibe was the peace and free love part of the 60s counterculture. peace and love is not a feeling you get from korn in those times

You're not wrong about the difference in vibes. And there were plenty of other music festivals in the 90s that did feature lineups more akin to the original Woodstock... But those festivals were pretty small in comparison, because the main thrust of popular music had changed so drastically in the decades since the original.

And attendance will ultimately limit the amount of money everyone can make--organizers, bands, vendors, drug dealers, etc. The money provides a strong motivation to cater to current popular tastes, because the festival has a bigger potential audience.

And given how well-attended the festival turned out to be, I think it's safe to say that they were right... If only a couple of thousand people had turned up, that would be a different story.
I guess the same reason I haven't bought anything from Amazon in the past 4 month. Fatigue and what I have serves a purpose.

I can't be the only one who cut back on spending.
> Node's threading model is process based message passing. So when you say node based multithreading what you're actually saying is spinning up a worker process to pass a message to.

Yep, which is a perfect solution to the problem of scalability.

> Then you have the nightmare of trying to get people to think in event loops, because node (fundamentally) turns any backend task into a browser execution model pretending to be a backend function.

We're a team of professional Javascript developers on the frontend; we know the event loop and task queue semantics very well :)

> I'm not saying it's the wrong thing for your use case, but I can totally relate to why management/programmers from other paradigms have so much damn trouble wrapping tgeir head around JS.

Fair enough, but like... am I crazy to think that the proper managerial response to "I don't understand this" should be "maybe I should ask the experts I employ" instead of "so no one gets to use it ever"?
Mary Schmich
Those unemployment numbers are cooked books. Look at the laborforce participation rate.
Twitter is a public company (and has been for 9 years), and has maintained the 5% mDAU disclaimer in its required annual reports for years. I don't know off-hand how long it's been doing so, but probably at least 4 or 5 years.

The allegation is saying not only that Twitter has been lying about that number--for years, on documents that land it in legal hot water if it's been lying--but that it was doing so specifically so that Musk would buy Twitter at an inflated price. The insane part is really that specific intent, not the lying about the numbers.
Americans have extra rules to follow, so they simply can't do work like this and they are done by other companies who are either not subject to such rules, or exist in countries that won't enforce those rules.
There's absolutely no reason to do this, and yet it's awesome and I'm glad Husqvarna is doing it.

Now I want to look at a new robomower!
Is it usable because it's... usable, or is it usable because it's barebones? It can be hard to tell the difference when it's pretty far from feature parity with the competition.

FWIW, I don't think cornering the non-professional developer market will lead to market dominance. GameMaker is even simpler, and even if it were open source, hobby developers will not be competing technically against thousands of full time, professional engineers working on an engine.
A hamburger sandwich is vertically compressible - you press it to fit using your hands.
It seems like it's handicapped by the language filter. Some of the responses were good, but a lot of them were nonsenical/irrelevant. Clicking the thumbs-down on those presents a popup that tells you the message was redirected to prevent offensive output.

That seems like a reasonable feature, except it kept on happening even though I was actively trying to keep the conversations tame. Either they're being overzealous with the filter, or this bot is really eager to be offensive all the time.

I noticed this too with Dall-E. A lot of the output is bland, uninteresting, or irrelevant to the prompt. I think it's due to a similar reason.
I wish it did, but it doesn't. Bitcoin is way too volatile and unreliable for serious use, and is mostly used as a questionable investment tool these days. And it's not compatible with the payment systems the rest of the world uses.
If there's a notable difference in skill levels, they wouldn't get the jobs in the first place, would they? After all, everyone wants to work in tech where even the lowest paid employees are usually beating median income by a decent margin. Companies have no incentive to keep low performers around when they can be replaced nearly instantly.
I'm confused, how is this different than a markdown file or google doc? Is the advantage that it has pre-specified headings with suggestions for the content?

I feel like I'm missing something.
I have understood the same. This is Delaware, meaning they aren't going to give special treatment if they want to keep companies there. Deal is a deal. And Musk will pay, now how much might vary, but it will not be 1 billion cheap.
Can Curiosity really claim the title of “loneliest robot in the universe”?
It's ridiculous how much of a premium people pay towards Apple.
> What information? The contract is already in the public, but okay you want to waste court time.

The contract stated that Twitter had to provide Musk with internal data as required to close the deal. His teams tokens were apparently rate-limited at some point and it took a while for Twitter to give him access to all data, a.k.a. 'the firehose'.

Just for completeness sake, Twitter seemed to still try (the token thing was probably a technical error) and whether giving him access to the firehose was actually necessary could even be contested, as he arguably wanted to use the data to not close the deal.
They found usecases when classic is better.

BLE is very good for operating a sensor or a beacon for years on a coin cell. That’s why it’s so popular.

Also because of the easier api/interface to exchange data compared to the classic bluetooth.
What are you looking for?

Managing Linux at scale is extremely easy as you can leverage basically all the tooling that sysadmins use(d) for management of infrastructure fleets.

You can even get a pretty GUI if it’s saltstack enterprise.
Cuba does the same thing for American tourists who might run afoul of America's export/trade ban.