skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ridicule can absolutely produce resentment, no doubt about it. It can cause workplaces to become toxic, cause people to shut down (or worse: cause people to _learn_ to shut down), cause people to cope in unhealthy ways like projection, bullying, etc.

However, consider that _satire_ is, fundamentally, ridicule. And it's very public (or at least intended to be). Often satire is one of the only ways that unaccountable power can be brought to account, or institutions which have overstayed their utility can be mobilized against.

It really depends on who's the butt of the joke. On HackerNews, we're mostly anonymous as to our individual identities, but at the same time, any one of us could unwittingly end up playing the part of a public archetype, representing anything from a naive and harmless misconception all the way to a rotten, spiteful ideology that nihilistically boasts of its intent to destroy everything. Some of those ideas need to be challenged. And the people that amplify those ideas need to be challenged too. Bad faith and ill intent warrant ridicule, if not outright invective and contempt (not very often to this degree, but as a history enjoyer, I'll die on this hill). But sometimes even a genuine, bona fide contribution _ought_ to be ridiculed, if it stems from a misunderstanding which amplifies a terrible idea - especially if it's a terrible idea with actual supporters. In this case, the bad idea was _technocratic solutions to complex social problems._ The context is important too: it's HackerNews, which has some of the most brilliant minds, willing to share deep, detailed insights into complex, systemic problems, glomming onto some of the most simplistic, reductive tropes about human needs and behavior. It's a kind of paradoxical, radically individualistic groupthink, which, taken to its logical end (or even just considered half-seriously with a modicum of self-awareness), would smother the social and economic conditions for a healthy society. A small set of shallow, rote answers to complex human problems, coming from defenders of “second-order thinking.” It needs to be challenged in a way that an overclocked galaxy brain can't intellectually weasel its way out of.
I was working 4 days a week.

I started out at 5. Left the company and stayed in touch with the CEO. The CEO asked me if I was interested in returning and I agreed with the stipulation I could work 4 days a week, so I could work 1 day a week on my side project.
Ok, I get it, I love technical elegance too :-)
But if you'd like people to actually read what you write (and I get just writing for yourself too, I do a lot of that) then they shouldn't be the ones to pay the 'technical debt' IMO
Sadly nobody (nobody = vast majority of users now) knows about RSS anymore..
Text - absolutely, no hyperlinks or images in the actual content - ok. I get it.
However, it's like 10 minutes more work with the basic tools you outline to script outputting this stuff (without changing the base texts) into a browser in html with html links etc established through delivery code (which - html - after all, is the browsers lingua franca). IMO if you're bothering to put out content for users on the internet via http then it seems reasonable to do it in a way that they expect..
just my two penneth worth :-)
I would be very interested to see how this analysis controls for human factors: plenty of generals in the US civil war were, with the evidence of historical analysis, incompetent (think: Buell) or borderline sympathetic to the enemy (McClellan)

Might “I’d’ve attacked had I heard them!” be a convenient after the fact rationalization?
Although the US apparently does not have an extradition treaty with China, a DDG search for:

china extradited from us

Produces many independent cases of China successfully extraditing suspects from the US and vice versa.
The killer application for these e-ink dispalys is calendar/todo list display. I'd love to have my org-mode agenda and todo-list/notes on such a low-powered, low-refresh-rate e-ink screen.

I know this question has been probably been asked many times, but I'll ask again: why are these devices not mass-produced in great numbers? Clearly there is great market demand for it, so then why would the market supply not respond to this demand? Is it because the technology has some oddities that manifest in tricky manufacturing processes? Or is it some patent encumbrance issue?
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I recently began working for AWS and I love my job. I get a lot of satisfaction in soloing customer issues even when they’re not really AWS related.
There are a few reasons. I'll talk about two. One is technical in that Inmos had a signal processing business and was strongly staffed in that area. This offered the potential to eventually make a SoC solution that had CPU and MPEG in hardware. The other is that there were some smart people in marketing at Inmos who at some point decided that they would pick a small set of target applications that they expected to be growth areas, and where we had some existing experience, then devote serious dedicated resources to each of those areas. Two of the areas were STB and GPS. The serious resources devoted included engineers who would be pretty much full time available to the OEMs, and were dedicated to their target application. I think it was Richard Onyett who had the STB brief. He spent years working on those design in projects.

Also fwiw, Inmos people always considered the CPUs to be general purpose.
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The problem with explaining the whole 1099-K thing is as soon as you say, "the new form is just additional reporting, you report it as you would before and we can't tell you what the taxes will look like because it depends on what the payments are for (rent, goods, services), business structure, etc," you find out that they never reported their cash payments, don't know what a schedule C is, and don't have any interest in learning.

If they don't understand the idea that they are running a business, pay tax on their net profit not their gross profit, that "deducting" business expenses is not an optional thing like itemized deductions, what self-employment tax is (and that it is just the employer and employee portions of a tax that already exists for everyone else), etc. then its hopeless trying to explain these forms to them.

In fact, it seems that many of them don't even know if their business is profitable or not, since they have no records of expenses and COGS necessary to calculate that. That's the part that always puzzles me.

For what its worth, the idea of users not wanting to pay taxes isn't that new--some websites even advertise that they don't collect sales tax and I will admit to having sought out businesses small enough not to charge it in every state.
I use to play lots of Call of Duty BR1, I think, on Xlink Kai, it worked pretty well.
I'm not fully confident that I'll never cancel a credit card that pays annual subscription. Generally it's fine because alert email would come on my inbox, but it's email infrastructure so I need extra attention.
We have reached a point of mutual understanding and considerable agreement, but I feel we have circled around to the original problem.

In your last paragraph, you consider the case of calculator vs. slide rule, but one can, I think, make a more apposite case with calculator vs. learning arithmetic (and even if you don't agree that it is more apposite, the point can still be made!) By your logic, we should not be assigning any arithmetic problems that can be solved with a calculator.

But why stop there? Even current calculators can do much more than basic arithmetic, and their capabilities pale in comparison to those of general-purpose computers. I do not believe you can teach mathematics in a way that begins at a point beyond what has been automated, and before long that may be true for computing as well. This has not led to the demise of mathematics education, and neither will it for computing, for the same reason in both cases: anyone who needs to use these tools to get through the introductory classes will wash out later - which brings us right back to spcebar's original comment about only hurting themselves in the long run.
I think they gave the uploader easy UI to do so, not automatic.
My point is that these "no I need a headphone jack" issues all take a complex decision tree to get to.

They are all things like "oh I have to ride in my friends car who has a 3.5mm input jack but doesn't have bluetooth input and also only has the cable without an adapter".

There's another comment about how the latency on bluetooth is bad, and this is a problem because they are a music producer who presumably produces on their mobile phone. Again, it's such a small subset and the fact it is solved perfectly with a $10 adapter makes me think the complaints are way overblown.
Yeah, their bull**** "certification" program that only allows carrier-sold phones and not unlocked ones are frustrating, especially that in Europe as long as your phone is compatible with VoLTE (and VoWiFi and VoNR) it'll simply work.
Whatsapp and Signal are e2e encrypted. Telegram isn't.
Possibly related to the EC2-Classic shutdown on Monday?
People like Vivaldi writing homophonic music.
Unfortunately they won the FirstNet contract.
This is a great story. I think there is something to listening to one’s voice vs reading letters
I may hunt down a pair of these, thanks!
Just for an example, acute organ damage doesn’t necessarily present symptoms immediately. I knew a kid who had a viral heart infection in his teens that severely damaged it. He recovered in the sense that he could mostly live normally, but his doctor told him he’d be lucky to live past 50.
An important factor for people to quit their jobs is to choose a higher income so as not to affect their quality of life in the face of rising prices. At the same time, corporate culture is also an important factor. If they are unhappy in the place where they work, many people will choose to quit. https://www.couponbirds.com/research-center/data/an-unpreced...

In many cases, companies need to consider not only paying their employees, but also providing them with a good working atmosphere and proper care.
This is an important distinction, but personally I think I prefer 4x10 over 5x8.

Productivity will probably be better too.
A neurodivergent person acting eccentrically or inappropriately does not in itself make them notable or a public figure. There are many people in the world like Chris Chan, the only reason Chris Chan is famous is because they're the one who got singled out by the internet.

Even if you do class Chris Chan as "notable", is that supposed to make it OK to strip-mine a mentally ill person for content?
That's not the nature of misinformation. Misinformation isn't binary. "I'm not sure if man made climate change is true" is still an example of the output of misinformation. Chaos's purpose is to attack the very idea of consensus itself. It's to corrupt the idea of what an authority is and confuse people about who authorities are. There is a large difference between a 90% consensus and a 50% consensus. With a 50% consensus it's hard to make decisions. With a 90% consensus, the decisions are obvious.
I use Linux, and my whole family drives classic cars and kit cars. My father ran a garage at one point.

My point is that what's on /r/unixporn is predominantly gimmicky nonsense, precious little useful ideas. I'm not blinkered to seeing what's style and what's substance.
“Today will be my last day.” is the proper response to such an action.
We don't have a phone market, we have an Instagram camera market.
US taxes may be complex, but they aren't punitive. Frankly, it seems like it should be trivial to make the tax code simpler, but then we would need to move a lot of subsidies into other, harder to navigate, programs.

Meanwhile, I assume you mean "the stuff they want to sell on eBay is at a lower price than their cost basis". If there's some other way to avoid taxes on sales, I'm all ears!
Singapore is a giant company, that is how the country is run. Fiscal policy plays a major role in the life of everyone in the country, and that is why the country has made such improvements. Foreign investments are very important to Singapore, and do carry weight on decision making.

There is a trade off in every situation, and I believe that for most Singaporeans they are more focused on getting a HDB and $300K car and living in safe, prosperous environment, thus they allow for this type of interference. Right or wrong, it does work to provide the needs to the people.
This also presumes that your records always are processed in order, right?

We struggled with this at a prior job because records within the most recent ~10 minutes could be delayed for any reason. We'd be collecting data from thousands of IoT devices and any of them could have momentarily lost a network connection for a few minutes, been rebooted, etc. So it'd be totally normal for end users to see records from 30 seconds ago, but then a few minutes later, see older records appear in between those records and older records because there were minor delays in some of them getting sent and processed.

We were leaning toward just putting a bound on the range that the end user could see (for example, only show records that are at least ten minutes old) to reduce the variability, but that gave the appearance that our system took ten minutes to process all data. It was a tricky one to solve from a user expectation perspective.
I actually repurposed an old Kindle to do just that, via kindle-dash[0]

Every 15 minutes it makes a cURL to an endpoint that gets my agenda, some news headlines, the weather, etc., and uses Puppeteer (I think) to return an image for the kindle to display.

[0] https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash
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Cords are probably always going to be more stable than cordless for the simple reason that atmospheric conditions change whereas cables are shielded from such change.
You could shorten your comment to "This was a predictable outcome of conscripting the tech sector", and it would be more accurate / precise.

Child pornography is only one of many areas where false positives in legally mandated sescanners end up ruining people.

Credit card payments come to mind, though I think those are mostly self-regulation.
> Guns fired at the funeral of Queen Victoria in London in 1901 were heard in Scotland, but not in wide areas of northern England.

It’s possible for a bird to fly in a straight line from London to Scotland without flying over northern England.

That line of flight would go over the Irish Sea instead of north England. Sound traveling over water faces fewer obstructions.

London -> Liverpool is 178 miles. Liverpool -> Kirkcudbright 107 (over water!)

Total 285 miles, 107 of which are over water, and none over northern England.
If Marriott and Best Foods work together to increase both profits, that's not an anti-trust violation just because they work together. The article you cite enumerates a number of categories of violations, but you haven't identified which one you think "working together" inherently violates. My guess is you are talking about Monopolization, but since neither Facebook nor Apple is a monopoly, and since Facebook and Apple do not compete against each other, I'm not sure how that fits.
No, I'm not missing the point. You can try to add nuance now, and you can claim you always meant that nuance, but that's what you said.
So you are prepared to carry a male-to-male cable around for this one particular case but not prepared to carry a much smaller USB-C to headphone adapter which literally solves every single problem you have listed in this entire thread?

I just don't understand the reasoning.

> So there's no positive aspect of removing the jack. It is objectively worse to not have it

The benefits of removing the jack form the phone are clear: less connectors mean simpler and cheaper manufacture (so cheaper devices) and larger batteries/smaller phones.
Read a book...
Why do EVs of the current age look so douchie? I wouldn't be caught dead in one.

Tesla model S, X, and Y.

All Lucid models.

Mercedes and Ferraris.

Why can't they look neutral?

I want low-key, efficient, safe, and functional. And ideally more than 35 American miles of range.
I assume you've deliberately chosen not to use a rope structure for storing text? They're kinda the default for text editors.
Why was it possible to mod things like the Xbox, but seems impossible for the iPhone?

What is the key thing that makes it impossible for later tech?
It's the tone of the press release.

The title style "Evidence shows water does X" tends to make people think "there is concrete evidence that physical water does X", rather than "an abstracted model of spheres intended to mimic some aspect of water predicts that water might do X." When people read the article and find out the methods within don't support the conclusions they feel are presented in the title, they understandably become somewhat hostile.

As other comments note, the actual people doing this work are typically ~very~ aware the limitations of their models and that all results are best interesting fictions, but this typically does not make it into public-facing science communications.

Why the press release would be designed to encourage readers to inuit stronger conclusions that actually supported by the work is left as an exercise to the reader. How might this impact public trust in scientific institutions?
This. There are many conversations I am happy to have, many not.

Hello without a context is ignored.

Hello with a context empowers me to make a decision about how my day will go.
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A 6 wheel dump truck is a type of construction vehicle. It has a large bed that can hold materials such as dirt, gravel, or sand. This type of truck is sometimes called 6 wheeler.
No, you just need a reasonably high resolution photo of one.
This looks easy critical attack method I've never come up with. Very realistic CGI shown on tablet could be used for that, instead of real CSAM.
Except Vivaldi did nothing of the sort.
RPA is such an awful term for what is really primarily scripted or screen-recorded software bots that automate UI tasks, but I guess RPA is sexier. The term still seems to confuse people it seems.
Look like bog-standard saloon cars. What's your issue?
> As a general rule, if Tesla isn't doing it already I suspect it's either not economically feasible, difficult to manufacture, or otherwise has drawbacks they've judged signifigant.

That's not a very good rule. There a lots of things Tesla doesn't do.

- Tesla doesn't do battery swaps, but NIO does. NIO's done it 10 million times: https://www.nio.com/blog/nio-users-china-have-completed-10-m...

- Tesla doesn't do 350 kW chargers, but Ionity (among others) does. Current EV truck drivers appreciate it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UAttTG03WA

- Tesla's charging network is slowly rolling out charging to all EV brands in Europe, but Tesla still doesn't charge all brands in North America. Electrify America (among others) does.

- Tesla doesn't offer EV scooters, but Gogoro (among others) does: https://www.gogoro.com/gogoro-network/

- Tesla doesn't offer EV vans, but other manufacturers do.

- Tesla doesn't offer EV city cars, but other manufacturers do.

- Tesla doesn't do a heads-up display, but other manufacturers do.

And so on.
I’m confused, are you still playing the devil’s advocate, or do you actually hold this believe?

In the case of the former, then I’ve already answered why it is totally fair for car infrastructure to pay for social externalities of other modes meant to relief car traffic.

In the case of the latter, I don’t know what to tell you except that you are wrong. I didn’t mean defunding as in let existing things churn, I meant removing car lanes and forcing detours so that train infrastructure can be cheaper. The overall effect is better transport for everybody except cars (which already have it plenty good).

Also are you sure that removing car lanes actually devalues land and capital. I’m not so sure that is true. And even if it was, good. Housing in the Bay area is plenty expensive as it is, if cheaper train infrastructure means cheaper housing, then I’d say we’ve succeeded on two fronts.
It still is small. Also Finland's education results have been slipping, likely because of said immigration: "Finland has been displaced from the very top. In the 2012 study, Finland ranked sixth in reading, twelfth in mathematics and fifth in science, while back in the 2003 study Finland was first in both science and reading and second in mathematics."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Finland
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Hybrid bonding big part of this https://semiengineering.com/hybrid-bonding-moves-into-the-fa...
Yes, it’s 4x8.
I think American Religious History IS for the most part, a Nonsensical Nightmare. The highlight was probably the Quakers, and the low points are the various cults which I'd say Mormonism is likely the more benevolent version of.

Therefore, I'd say Bioshock Infinite eschewing the particulars of that history and making it into what it ultimately did do concerning slavery and work in many places achieved something unique. Of course, it also did some things that believers did not do, unless they made a floating city powered by steampunk fans that I don't know anything about.
Hmm, which part fails? Works great for me.
You can schedule it to happen every 2 months for a year. And so every 2 months I get an email with links to 7 or so 50GB .tgz files. They download very quickly with no throttling and fully saturate my 1Gbs connection.
I mean the Ferraris just look like... Ferraris. Tesla Model S looks like a pretty normal car to me, but I agree the Y is goofy looking.

I dunno. If it's electric, I guess it's supposed to look futuristic. No accounting for taste.
> You could develop a pretty amazing off-road vehicle with independent electric motors in each wheel, but it would be a relatively bumpy ride.

Military EV prototypes are considering wheels-in-hubs, because they have complex suspension and because of under-armour, but yeah it means the motor is basically un-suspended.
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The reporting threshold went from $20k last year to $600 this year so pretty much every selling platform is dealing with this change.

But I think more context is needed. Sales tax rules vary so widely depending on the location and item being sold. I assume as a platform you legally have to report 1099-K? Here’s how eBay explains their 1099 to sellers: https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/ebay...
Different cultural styles sometimes conflict.

I liked Deborah Tannen's "You Just Don't Understand".

She describes this pro-interruption style as "competitive", whereas pro-taking-turns is "collaborative".

Of course, if you have some people whose ruleset is "compete/joust", and some whose ruleset is "collaborate/defer", there'll be tension.

Overall, Tannen reckoned that those who get the short end of the stick would benefit from different cultural styles being acknowledged, and why it might lead to conflict.
I always respected Dutch teachers as they did the core work and didn't do extra work like after school sports or clubs. Is that correct? I feel US teachers are expected to do too much non-teaching work.
I had a friend who had a Saturn NetLink back in the day, and I believe that was my first experience ever seeing online play, via Daytona USA. Was like some sort of black magick.
Well, I do now feel like I owe my employer a huge favor XD.
Our long, vulnerable childhoods may be the key to our success
I don't have all the expertise to put my intuition into exact wording, but this smells like an awful idea on so many levels.