skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Google Maps probably tracks your usage of Google Maps. But when you click through to a location's website, it doesn't open that in a local webview and track how you use their website.

Whether Chrome tracks how you use it...
> My experience in engineering is that you almost always get things wrong the first time.

Probably the oldest gem I can remember, harvested from from a more senior mentor type, was the quip “It takes 3 times to get it right. And that’s an average. Get failing.”

Now, I’m that older guy. I still think this holds.
Sometimes the pharmacist will "override" and give you a cheaper option that is the same thing. Is that something you would appreciate?
How many folks are on the sweetheart deals Disney Plus had before they launch? I know I prepaid for at least two years, I think. Will be interested to see who sticks around.
Remarkable story, and a remarkable career. Glad she’s getting more recognition.
Which is why it's so unbelievably stupid that the power to make unphishable systems is being arbitrarily tied to hardware keys and secure enclaves when it could just be an app on your system, deployed for free instantly across a whole fleet of machines that manages keys behind the password protected full disk encrypted systems they already have. "Oh but then someone who compromises the user loc... sssh the phishing protection alone is worth it."

I know I'm talking about software authenticators, but the whole "movement" if you wanna call it that seems to be openly hostile to them to the point of implementing DRM via attestation because there's money to be made in selling new disposable plastic thing.
> Are all driving miles equivalent?

Which metric is proposed?

Is this an argument supported by data? What about a sound experimental design?

Perhaps we could look to medicine (instead of automotive engineering) for guidance regarding which reductions in stratified accident incidence rate are significant and warrant continued investment in sensor fusion and assistive AI?
There's only one written review and it says:

> I ordered white tee shirt rags and that was probably the only thing that wasn't in the bag. It had sweatshirts shirts with collars just mostly trash I could have picked up at a yard sale for a couple bucks .
I'm using an Amex offer that gives 100% cashback on Disney+ subscriptions. Sounds like another fun way to game these numbers.
Not sure how you're disagreeing with me. Your article is another example of Facebook not caring about censoring except to make more profits.
One of my best decisions was to start out ASCII-only. It helped me manage that mess longer. :)
I agree. FSD in this moment is Alpha version and will be for years to come. Musk should get the software back from the streets and refund everyone who bought into this FSD scam.
Sure we should, but that’s the case for all transport modes. Remember that you can just pave the smaller amount of space needed for cycling down a street and not a full-width road. A cycle track uses less pavement than a roadway thanks to being narrower, and probably lasts longer too due to less damage from heavy vehicles.
I can see this. Disney has some absolutely amazing content for many different groups of people while Netflix has become boring and stagnant. Nowadays I assume what I'm wanting to find isn't on Netflix and go straight to Prime to rent anyway. The only other competitor in terms of quality of content with their own content is probably Apple TV, with Ted Lasso and For All Mankind.
What's a "locate"?
> Semweb people got burned out by the stress of making new standards which means that standards haven't been updated.

True. But and also, web standards seem to have mostly been abandoned/died beyond just semantic web. I am not sure how to explain it, but there was a golden age of making inter-operable higher-level data and protocol standards, and... it's over. There much less standards-making going on. It's not just SPARQL that could use a new version, but has no standards-making activity going on.

I can't totally explain it, and would love to read someone who thinks they can.
Theology fits comfortably with our intuitive perception of time, but that doesn’t make it the definitive answer.
>> I grind my teeth everytime I hear middle/upper class people complaining at boycotts and 'cancel '. What do you want from them?

> I want them to present their views, and attempt to convince others of the merits of those views.

> I don’t want them to use bullying, intimidation, authoritarianism, or violence to force others to adopt (or pretend to adopt) their viewpoint.

Are you really equating "not choosing to buy stuff" and "not choosing to watch/attend stuff" with violence? Listen, I get it - you think you're entitled to a revenue stream, that whatever nonsense you build deserves money. Here's the deal though, the free market is also about the spender getting to choose what they spend money and time on. If you don't like it, too bad - no one owes you agreement nor money just because.
In fairness, they are speaking to a camera. Couldn't say if anyone is watching though.
Is it because the force is affecting only a pair of particles instead of all like charge?
I wouldn't care about 40ms of latency for my phone.

If by "last decade" you're comparing against geostationary, then yes. The satellites are roughly a hundred times closer.
If they are unserviceable I throw them in the trash. If they are serviceable, but for some reason no longer useful to me (don't fit, whatever), I donate them to the local men's shelter.
Reminds me of stories I have heard about users of computer systems with “strong” access controls figuring out ways to make it to unfiltered internet; examples include: student/prisoner computer labs, public libraries, flight entertainment systems, public kiosks, operating system logins, etc.
Hardly non-fungible but yes, it means you've been on the internet for long.
There were at least two 3 year promotional plans prior to launch that dropped down the effective price to under 5 dollars/month and under 3 dollars/month. Those are expiring in November, right on time for the rate hike.
Regulated monopolies have a long history of getting control of the regulation, and then becoming abusive monopolies.

All solutions have problems here. :-(
cool! i didnt see that earlier haha, thank you.
Yes, let's hope capitalism will autocorrect itself.
> Doesn't this show incompetence on the executive part?

Sure, but since when has an executive ever faced consequences for incompetence?
As a Google employee, the profusion of chat apps is caused by:

* a genuine interest in trying new things and trying to see if they'd stick, without the baggage of established UX & customers - Allo/Duo are like this. I don't think people give the company enough credit for this.

* leadership downplaying the cost to the Google brand of shutting things down all the time. When brought up internally, execs shrug saying that we must be willing to try and see if things stick. This makes sense, but why are people particularly mad at Google for doing this? It must be for a good reason, not merely a meme.

* org silos. The org behind Google Docs / Chat has a different reason for a chat app (chat as a checkbox for enterprise office suite sales) than the one behind Google Maps (you can chat with restaurants or whatnot)

* a lack of a good "design dictator", meaning our chat apps, as with other apps, falter for lack of great UX and don't gain traction. The biggest example I can think of is how Google Chat has a loading spinner for the emoji picker - this simple thing should be lightning quick, but it took a year for someone to even prioritize it.

* faulty marketing / branding. Taking the simple, beloved "GChat", which was the dominant chat app between AIM and FB Messenger, and wringing it though "Hangouts" and "Allo/Duo" and "Chat" - that's no fun for users.

I think the lesson here is that people want a simple, hyper-fast app that gets out of their way and slowly adds nice things on top. I'd say the apps that are most fun and fast to use are Messenger and iMessage. (I have plenty of problems with both - unremovable stories on Messenger, lack of archiving chats and general slowness on iMessage).

All these are my opinions.
Management is just reacting to a changed financial environment. But they can't admit that, so that they make it look as if it is about someones incompetence.

I think its the war of Russia against Ukraine. All of a sudden there is less money to go around, interest rates go up and it got harder to raise money. I think they are just putting up a straight face, as they respond to the changing circumstances.

And they probably changed their plans as well, now it is less about 'new features' and more about 'maintenance of existing systems'. But that didn't get into the article, so it's all the fault of the people who will have to look for a new job...
> but I'd love to hear if others agree with this claim.

I'm one of those that agree with that claim, I've said something similar a couple of times during the last few years on this forum (I remember that once I even used the term "golden handcuffs" in order to describe the whole situation).

As to why and how this came to happen in relation to the free market? The short answer is that both Google and FB are de-facto monopolies. In a way that can also be extended to Apple and MS. Of course that these companies will make tons and tons of a money during a period when software is eating the world (I know it sounds marketing-ish, but it's the reality). As such, they can use that money to "park" the best developers available among their ranks, so that no real competitor can emerge.
Actually, this model uses attention layers which are kind of like a query/key=>value look-up and allow the model to merge the knowledge from neighboring time-steps into the current logit prediction.

The result is that this model performs worse for highly repetitive words, just like humans do.
When I took my kid to Disneyland for the first time, I got the question on the way “dad, can we go to Netflixland as well?”

This question from a kid made me realize how much of an entertainment empire and revenue generator Disney is versus Netflix.

With Netflix, buying the monthly streaming service is the most you’ll spend. With Disney, it’s likely the least: the toys (with Disney royalties), the movie tickets for the family and finally - for some - a Disneyland trip where we dropped more over a few days than my lifetime Netflix spending will be.

The amount of investment that went into making Disney what it is today is incredible, and Netflix has a lot of catching up to do.

Will there ever be a ‘Netflixland’? Does Netflix even want to compete with Disney, head-on-head?
The very first thing I do, every time, is click "open in browser", just because, if nothing else, the framing of the site always feels "off" to me when using one of those in-app browsers.
I wasn't really arguing the "hate speech == violence" position, which is pretty silly. That doesn't mean hate speech shouldn't be an add-on offense to other crimes though. Or the idea that all targets of "hate speech" are equal. (Because it's only true "hate speech" if the targets are protected).

This is kinda like the question, "can white people experience racism?" One school of thought says no, because (in the USA) non-white people cannot wield the psychological threat of systematic persecution against white people. You could offend a white person, or be prejudiced against them, but not really "commit racism". Partly this is just a semantic argument about what "racism" means - it is not merely a superficial difference in race between parties, but rather an encapsulation of the historical and systemic forces at play. Racism is a more powerful tool for white people than it is for others.
It honestly feels like the technology advantage Netflix enjoyed has all but disappeared.

Content is now king and all of the other production companies have been making content for decades, Netflix is in serious trouble if it doesn’t lift its game.
Even when they were the ones that Planned, and started the process only to "swoop" in to save the day like an arsonist firefighter
Nice that you can step out of the frame and see your motivations.
I write this because I think that your self knowledge is virtuous and like a moth to a flame I am drawn to the good. By identifying with the good or ingesting it like knowledge candy - I can come closer to this platonic concept that my nervous system so craves.

I can no more step outside of my own seeking than a wave can stand up from the ocean and make its way in land.

Pointless. All of it.
It’s certainly the best ladder I’m aware of that we’ve discovered- you climb it, by and large, by providing value to other people. A little value to a lot of people, usually. And because you are producing new value, you don’t provoke a conflict by reallocating the value away from the previous people.

Most older ladders were providing a lot of value to a few existing rulers, and concentrated the utility-allocating aspects of society in the hands of a few. And much of the value being provided was through violent seizure.
Video games and Netflix are among the least environmentally impactful forms of entertainment. They use far less land and resources than, say, golf or most sports.
I’ve just re-setup at wtfutil for my new job, and am also curious about this question. DevDash just seems the same but with less widgets afaict?
I think it's a mix of both - I'd kill for anyone at my current job to spend more than a bare minimum of time on their acceptance criterion so I don't just feel like I'm writing code and hoping it does vaguely what the person wants. What the GP is describing feels a bit too far in the other direction, but I'd almost rather it trend towards having an over-prescriptive ticket I can push back on then playing telephone with another department because they gave me 3 sentences of writeup for a month/quarter long project.
Worth noting that they're surpassing Netflix by including ESPN+ and Hulu subs, so many customers are getting double or triple counted. It isn't just Disney+. Also, Disney has made a lot of partnerships to promote and sell subscriptions, such as through Verizon, which is usually how they end up growing their numbers so quickly. They usually include guaranteed minimums and I'm not sure how that's affecting this number. If I were an analyst, I'd love to know what percentage of subscriptions are coming through those deals, as they don't tend to create sticky customers.

Still an impressive achievement given how relatively new the service is, though. It's a testament to what a well oiled machine Disney is and their ability to pivot into new services.
It does look like /e/ mimics iOS by default, though, which is where I think the original poster's criticism is aimed. The screenshot in this article showing bliss is very iOS-y.
I like the term "ausplaining" as you've defined it, but I don't think I would ever start using it. If feels like it would end up being used dismissively.

I also find "allistic" feels like a dismissive or slightly derogatory alternative to neurotypical. (To be clear, I do not thing the author was using it that way at all, it is just the reaction the word engenders in me.)
Yes, this is troubling. I'm generally not against medication, but giving it to children without exactly knowing how it affects their personality long-term is a very gray area.
> It's a digital asset, it's taxed by 30% each time it gets sold.

Yes. So what? That's already possible without crypto. The game developer decides which player owns what items, and they can charge for item transfers if they want to.

> Players happily pay the price.

This has nothing to do with what I said, and I didn't dispute it. Digital assets are valuable (and have been for decades), and players certainly are happy to pay for them.

> It's the perfect counterexample to your claim that players rage against taxing digital assets on each transaction.

Counterexample != data. Most players don't want crypto in their games. A few players who tolerate it don't mean anything.

But really, I've conflated two points I was making, which is my bad.

Point 1: Crypto adds nothing to digital assets in gaming. They are inherently centralized and can't be decentralized.

Point 2: Games like Axie Infinity, where the gameplay is terrible and serves only as a thin veneer over a speculative market, are not something gamers want. They only serve the creators.

> When you can't see something so blatantly obvious

If it's obvious, why can't you make an argument beyond, "People buy digital assets"?

What value does crypto add?

What are some games that people would not play if they weren't crypto-enabled?

As a player, what benefit does crypto provide me? How does it make the game better or more fun?
I find that Disney doesn't have better content, but it has new content. I've had Netflix for years and watched most of the stuff I liked. I got Disney and they had Castle. That's kept me going for months and I've not used Netflix since.
Maybe not in the "early 2000s", but you'd have to be a child of the 90s, not the "2000s", to have missed it, because all of that was around by the second half of the decade (with perhaps the exception of the far-right recruitment, which didn't fully hit its stride until the early 2010s).

It's been out there since the beginning; the problem is not the access to it, it's relationship with the internet. Back in the day, you were told to never give your real name online, now you're expected to type it into forms three times a week, while you have a public profile of all of your picture that anyone can look up while an algorithm serves it to the whole world. And yes, some of it is because kids are getting access to this world as toddlers when we weren't able to get there until early teens or the end of grade school at least. Kids need to be taught digital safety more than we need to continue the losing fight about securing access. Kids are smarter and more motivated than you are, they'll find a way around it.
But on the other hand they don't add new features or push product forward in any way.

Maybe this is okay for a late stage company that is in the value extraction mode. In that case the private equity playbook is to lay off the app developers, and they can throw more money at ops to increase efficiency of the shrinking pie.

On the other hand if you're in a highly competitive growth industry then you need to innovate, and if you optimize for SRE talent, you won't have sufficiently senior engineering talent to find the right balance between innovation and stability.
You are thinking of 5G mmwave which trades off better range for better speed and latency. For maximizing coverage you are looking at something that looks like 4G.
People seem to be willing to trade some level of security for some level of luxury. This is why people take out the largest mortgage they possibly can given their income, and spend money they don't have on cars (which they will take a long time to pay off).

These revealed preferences are hard to deny, and it would be quite presumptuous to impose a different trade-off on a plurality/majority of the populace.
In some cases, yes.

In others, as implied by the post I was replying to, people think that if you're not constantly Striving, you're not good enough.
>Maybe it’s not the employees fault, but the management who hired them…

I think the managers are just putting up a straight face, as they need to respond to the changing circumstances.

I think it has more to do with the economy and the war of Russia against Ukraine. All of a sudden there is less money to go around, interest rates are rising and it got harder to raise money.

And they probably changed their plans, now it is less about 'new features' and more about 'maintenance of existing systems'. But that didn't get into the article, so it's all the fault of the people who will have to look for a new job.

Searching for a new job isn't a pleasant experience, if you ask me.

(I am not working at google or facebook, but I will probably get to feel the implications as well...)
They wrote the paper on destroying the market in paper design. Turtles all the way down, baby.
> The internet is responsible for about as much pollution as the airline industry.

Sure, in absolute terms, but that is a naive way to look at things. Rather, ask yourself, has the rise of computing also led to efficiency gains across many industries which offset this?

Should we be more concerned that training the large ML models produce as much pollution as 10 cars over their entire lifetime. Will the near-term costs create even greater savings in the long-run?
If you compare this with Mozilla's DeepSpeech repository, you will find that correctly calling TensorFlow Lite and handling the results in only 284 lines of code is impressive, too.

Also, the C++ code is mostly a custom beam search decoder based on the research for my paper, so it's not like TensorFlow is doing all the heavy lifting here, because precisely that TEVR token decoder causes the relative 16% performance improvement of this speech recognition AI over others.
The governance process is that content producers (ie you and me and our circles) need to stop donating free content to centralized automated censorship platforms run by billionaires, because they fail-deadly for our society once they become the planet default.
Ok, we've Android-based it in the title above.
So under that definition there was a ton of Terrorism in the summer of 2020 right?
Don't forget the money laundering
Sounds like Google, specifically. I don't think Amazon or Meta or Netflix is like this. Don't know about Apple.
Google data center has electrical explosion, causing injuries
even funnier: If there are non zero odds for something to arise out of nothing the amount of nothing has disturbing consequences. It must happen infinity often, it always did and will continue forever.
So I went and check the instructions how to manually install /e/ on a device here [0]

I was welcomed with 5 types of warnings why not to do it. And I decided not to do it.

But here what the instructions should have been:

1. Adb - make sure you have a adb connection. More information here.

2. Run this script from you computer.

3. At the beginning of the script check a checkbox acknowledging that the data will be lost, and there is a small chance your device gets bricked.

https://support.e.foundation/devices/beyondx/install
That makes it sound like the only right thing to do is to signal to these companies that fragmentation is good, which I would disagree with.
That's a different article altogether.
Soon: Sqlite-OS
There were bombs: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/29/politics/washington-pipe-bomb...
Related:

Felt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31982959 - July 2022 (166 comments)
As opposed to other office jobs that are so interesting? “Let me show you the insurance papers I shuffled for 40 years.”
I predicted this would happen as soon as Netflix raised prices earlier this year. They have over 220 million global subscribers, almost the population of the entire United States, but think they aren't making enough money and are investing the money they do have into hair-brained projects like mobile games. If Netflix just focused on stabilizing and returning steady profit, instead of infinite growth and inflating their stock price, they would be in a much better position than they are currently.
The reason he exists is because the competition is bad. If the competition is good, he has no reason to exist. The goal is to supply 600 rural households with broadband at a reasonable price, not to own 600 households.
Yes, for example a teenager with religious parents might not want them to know that they're buying contraceptives, or a buyer of illegal drugs might not want the government to know it. As long as there are anonymous payment methods such as cash, money laundering remains a possibility. Besides, getting ETH from Tornado Cash is not comparable to money laundering because whoever will be paid with those funds will have a strong suspicion that they were stolen or came from some other type of illicit activity.