skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> argument against buying at this price point?

Do you know anyone who uses Facebook any more? How many Instagram users you know look at the ads?
C++ compilation is anything but fast.
And what are Germans supposed to do? Freeze to death? If wind farm would provide enough energy, this would not be necessary!
I use a selfhosted baserow.io for relational data and markdown files in git via github.

Obsidian.md is not opensource, thus, I cannot remix, ??? and profit on my existing systems.
Endlessly bending the structures of law just makes them snap that much harder when they break under the pressure. It's not a good thing.
Boston second most expensive city for rent in the US
>What actions have you noticed that contradicts his statements?

More than once I've seen people cite Musk blocking certain Twitter users as "proof" that he is not pro-free speech.

The mental leaps needed to go from individual autonomy on who to interact with, and imposing such norms across an entire user base, boggle the mind.
So Zuck is bought into metaverse, but can they transition?

My guess is this is going to be a really rough winter / several quarters for Facebook until they reconsider.
Good point.

So both tactics are even better? Fast offer making to candidates you judge are less likely to leave once hired?
Seriously? Do these companies really need to market their cozy do-nothing earn-lot middle management positions?
Anyone who's been to Germany will immediately know that building anything in Germany may require dismantling a wind farm - they're everywhere.
I have made compatible parts with my at home FDM printer.
Meta: I can't reach this website!

Chrome is giving me an instant NXDOMAIN error.

Dig shows that

$ dig psdn.io @1.1.1.1
...
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19283
...
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;psdn.io. IN A

so then I prefix "www." like is in the URL...

$ dig www.psdn.io @1.1.1.1
...
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 64024
...
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.psdn.io. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.psdn.io. 300 IN CNAME poseidon-www.pages.dev.

Okay, fine:

$ dig poseidon-www.pages.dev @1.1.1.1
...
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 55471
...
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;poseidon-www.pages.dev. IN A

...wat??

(Where there's no ANSWER section, none was returned, just an AUTHORITY section)

This is reproducible for me with 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8 and 9.9.9.9.
Obama paid for the Model S. They are only profitable because of California taxes on gas vehicles.
> I didn't mean to imply that the SAT or grades are not predictive of future performance, only that lower socio-economic statuses will correlate to lower SAT grades in the first place, ie your (a) proposal in the second source.

Why then talk about “controlling for SES”? The correlation SES/educational ability very much exists, but why would one want control for SES? The goal is, allegedly, to test scholastic aptitude, so that we can identify students that are likely to succeed at school. If SES correlates with this ability, by controlling for this, all you’ll do is control out the effect.

> High incomes make people test well which lead to jobs with high incomes.

No, there is little evidence that high incomes makes people test well. Here, and in the entire thread, you are committing what is called a “sociologist’s fallacy”. This is from Meehl, P. E. “Nuisance variables and the ex post facto design.”:

> While every sophomore learns that a statistical correlation does not inform us as to the nature of the causality at work (although, except for sampling errors, it does presumably show some kind of causal relation latent to the covariation observed), there has arisen a widespread misconception that we can somehow, in advance, sort nuisance-variables into a class which occurs only at the input side. This is, of course, almost never the case. The usual tendency, found widely among sociologists and quite frequently among psychologists (particularly among those of strong environmentalist persuasion) is to assume sub silentio that there is a set of demographic-type variables, such as social class, domicile, education, and the like, that always operate as nuisance variables to obscure true relationships, and that function primarily as exclusively on the input side from the standpoint of causal analysis. This automatic assumption is often quite unjustified. Example: We study the relationship between some biological or social input variable, such as ethnic or religious background, upon a psychological output variable, such as IQ or achievement. We find that Protestants differ from Catholics or that Whites differ from Blacks. But we find further that the ethnic or religious groups differ in socio-economic class. We conclude, as an immediate inference and almost as a matter of course, that we have to ‘control’ for the socio-economic class variable, in order to find out what is the ‘true’ relationship between the ethnic or religious variable and the psychological output variable. But of course no such immediate inference is defensible, since on certain alternative hypotheses, such as a heavily genetic view of the determiners of social class, the result of such a ‘control’ is to bring about a spurious reduction of unknown magnitude in what is actually a valid difference

This was published over 50 years ago, but nevertheless, this mistake is done over and over in sociological research and discussions.

> Articles that defend the accuracy of the system tend to implicitly defend its legitimacy, which I think is a much more important question (…)

I actually have no idea what you mean by “legitimacy” here.
I believe the lack of enforcement action is because FTC is understaffed for the amount of stuff under their purview, combined with the fact that not enough defrauded consumers know they need to file complaints.

https://www.ftc.gov/media/71268
Doesn't seem to work, what should it do?

I also click on "Log in to comment" and it gets stuck waiting ...
>(Also it's an unfalsifiable claim.)

Nothing wrong with those, if they're also true. Sometimes you have to go by experience, not evidence.
> Find out how much the vuln is worth in the black market, then ask Apple double that.

Well, because he is not a corporation, he will get jumped on by lawyers and will go to jail for blackmailing Apple.
Argument: The price is low because it's not expected to go back up (soon).

Why do you believe it'll go back up from this price point instead of dropping another 50%+?
To some extent but the unprecedented reach and real time factor of social media, along with the precise targeting and personal data archives from Stasi’s wet dreams makes this really a new era rather than simply more of the same, in my opinion.
Workday needs to die in a fiery death.
Musk wants to run a conservative Tesla. Only, the meaning of "conservative" has drifted a long way from how you're using it here.
Just verified it's not in any of my LinkedIn settings, also no other company has ever reached out via that employer email, only Meta, so it seems like Meta is the only one who knows about it (or is the only one who uses it, which seems unlikely).
There's no such thing as an unchangeable government. Even if there was, the US is certainly not one: we have lots of constitutional amendments (including ones that prevent exactly what you just said).
Every once in a while I go through an “I want a website” phase and try something new, but always end up back with Wordpress.

Ultimately I wanted to write content and play around with CSS making it look nice, and Wordpress handles that. Many of the other options felt like I was forever tweaking things or upgrading a dependency or something - very much mike the old days of Linux where making the modem work was an achievement.

If I couldn’t use Wordpress I’d probably go with Jekyll or Ghost.
One solve for this is to require schools to anonymously publish their GPA percentiles along with some demographic info.

Bayesian analysis could then be applied to pull the signal out of the GPA data. GPAs can then be renormalized such that students are not incentivized to go to a HS that gives everyone As.
But the lazy response is the totally right one. Oh, you have a super simple technology that is 10x better and 10x cheaper than what already exists? And you've been chugging along trying to bring it to market for 5 years and nobody wants to invest? Yeah, everyone else must be stupid or something ...
I also entered a Mindstorms competition at my school and it had a similar impact on me. To this day I look back on that competition as one of my best childhood memories and I think it was a large part of why I went on to eventually study computer science.

I suspect there are many of us out there... A very sad day indeed.
Do you understand CSS radial-gradients?
> I wonder how easily a Marvel or Starwars movie could be re-rendered like this.

Fortunately we don't have to worry about 4:3 anymore.
I'd like to point out that blue states like NY are making it harder and harder for rural families to support themselves by hunting (legally) through firearm restriction laws that make sense downstate, but no sense upstate.
As with the whole "simulation" shtick, it appears a device for rejecting any idea of an ultimate truth for which we might be held accountable.
>they will absolutely shutdown some of the other value-add services

They need to be competitive, and to do so, they must be at least feature pairing with AWS/Azure. I can't think of a single service they can simply shutdown.
Actually they need to build more.

I am an AWS long time user. I have toyed around with GCP, and I found it a very disconnected platform. They don't seem to have a unified story around it.

AWS is not perfect, but it is just waaaay ahead. You can tell, they are a heavy customer centric company.
I'm looking at their Spike Prime stuff now, and nothing I'm finding seems that... interesting? I got my start in programming with the Mindstorms NXT set (this thing: http://www.robotreviews.com/reviews/lego-mindstorms-nxt-8527...), where you got all the parts and instructions needed to build a walking, programmable lego robot. The Spike Prime set looks like... some motors, some sensors, the controller brick, and some parts, but nothing to inspire, no instructions for a cool bipedal robot build, or robot arm, or anything to get the imagination flowing.

Even the bright colors look like something that's designed to educate small kids? The old sets had a "cool" vibe to them. Maybe that made them too gendered, but as a young boy, it certainly helped avoid the shame of "still" playing with lego.

Am I missing something, or does this Spike Prime thing look like less of a replacement and more of a completely different product with a different focus which also just happens to contain programmable lego motors?
I remember reading City of Quartz many years ago and it changed how I thought about Los Angeles and southern CA. RIP.
Famously the original presidential election rules don't really work in the face of partisanship and President-VP tickets and they quickly were replaced.
> There’s simply not very much to do on the Quest Pro so far, and the HoloLens trajectory suggests that real apps will be slow to arrive.

Can't you play Quest 2 games on it?
It's an interesting article and if you bounced off it because you had a visceral reaction to the premise, like I did at first, I'd recommend taking another whack at it. Jill Lepore, if you're not familiar with her work, is a historian with a reputation as a more rigorous version of people like Howard Zinn.

I don't think it's a good article though. In particular, I don't think it coheres. It's about how the modern Constitution has become "un-amendable", but it spends a big chunk of the middle of the piece demonstrating the Constitution was never really all that amendable: successful amendments are extraordinarily rare, especially when they're about big-ticket issues. Our biggest structural changes occurred after an enormous civil war.

There's a sort of obvious framing to the piece that the Constitution should be more fluid and easy to amend. I think 2022 is a very weird time to prioritize that. I'm not a doomer about US politics, but they're not in a very good state right now. Lepore talks about national abortion, immigration, and firearms policy and how they'd be impacted by a more readily-amended Constitution, but I think she should take a wider view and look at things like how speech and free association would be impacted.

I'm a liberal, in a cohort of people this article portrays as atypically open to changing the Constitution, and I think the rigidity of the Constitution is probably it's greatest strength.
Wrote in 1997? This is happening today, I see this everyday on twitters, linkedins, etc.

Very good article!
It's at least backwards compatible with existing Quest 2 apps, and I've already started seeing "Quest Pro Update" on a few Quest Store apps, so hopefully you'll start seeing some software that targets it better soon.
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This thread is likely gonna be a minefield and get canned, but the article takes a swing at the 2nd Amendment, for example, pretending to be impartial but calling it a "reinterpretation".

I was surprised to see it go dead almost instantly. It's a fair comment (well, the minefield part is unnecessary). I wanted to reply with:

Listening to the decision is fun (Heller 2008).

Justice Antonin Scalia reads Heller(2008)[1] for the majority:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/oyez.case-media.ogg/case_data/2007/... (Justice Breyer also reads the dissent)

[1] https://www.oyez.org/cases/2007/07-290
> TikTok continue to eat its lunch

Is it though because the data doesn't suggest that.

It suggests that TikTok is dominating amongst younger audiences and that short form video content is a specific segment.
What I'm saying is that I don't actually think Tesla or Elon has suggested you use Autopilot (or Full-Self Driving Beta) in any way other than the approved way.

Plus, when enabling either feature (which are opt-in) a very clear warning is displayed which you must agree to.

So I just don't know who is like, "well, I bought the thing and read the warning and agreed to it but just assumed it was fully autonomous because it's called Autopilot and therefore it is reasonable for me not to pay attention".
I think part of my point should be taken further that we don’t even have the correct order of magnitude for cats and the numbers for windmills are so small it’s probably negligible although care should be taken to see if there is some disproportionate externalities observable now such as when Australia changed its own ecosystems with changes to farming practices. What isn’t under so much debate though that does unequivocally matter is the amount of land necessary to convert to renewables which is a function of energy density in urban areas where land use is much more expensive and total energy used per area is quite high. While systems do get more efficient over time the efficiency isn’t exponential and portable energy is a big issue that is mostly orthogonal to renewable sources in funding mechanisms yet also part of the incredibly complex energy supply chain of the world economy.
> You didn't provide a cite, FWIW. But taking the numbers as given:

Ah, hell. It was meant to be 'https://energynumbers.info/germanys-offshore-wind-capacity-f...', which was Google's infobox for when I searched 'germany wind power capacity factor'.

> Find the data for any one gas plant. How often was it producing (emphasis in the original) no power? I'll bet anything that most plants are offline quite a bit more than 10%, precisely because demand itself is variable and gas is the easiest plant to bring up and down. Yet you call one a "reliability" metric and the other not, why?

I call wind's lack of production a reliability metric because I don't get to choose when the lack of production happens. My home's generator might only run for <1% of the year, but as long as it runs when I need it it's perfectly reliable.

> I'm not aware of even one instance of a "calm day blackout". Not one. Have a cite for that?

What's a 'calm day blackout'? Is it when there's no power produced by an individual wind farm, or is it when rolling blackouts happen because the wind farm didn't produce enough power, in conjunction with the rest of the power system?

The former is pretty common as shown in the link, and you could arguably say that Texas's winter blackouts from a few years back were an example of the latter. (lots and lots of both demand and generation issues in that scenario, but wind didn't come out covered in roses either, and while wind wasn't expected to produce much power in the winter there to begin with 'we don't expect this source to produce much power in the winter' is not a fantastic argument in favor of it being reliable)
Spike Prime is the replacement, and it’s been a nice upgrade for us
How do Kickstarter and early access games sold on Steam function in that magic universe where "if you accept a preorder, you must offer a firm delivery date"?

As far as I can tell, there aren't droves of Kickstarter campaigns that keep getting sued or prosecuted on regular just for perpetually delaying their delivery dates (often for years).
I was being charitable here. The less charitable alternative is that the person I was responding to was familiar with the literature, but nevertheless engaged in willful deception.
macOS Ventura 13.0 for unsupported Macs
Disney did this with "Lady and the Tramp". Cinemascope and an academy ratio versions were animated individually in order to make the best use of the frame shape.
There is a general principle that applies to markets and government policy: things are never as bad as they seem. Likewise they are never as good as they seem. Fear and greed. It's why markets and governments and even people tend to overreact.

Rewind a few years and people were calling for antitrust actions against Facebook for their market dominance. Some still are. This never concerned me and I needed no better evidence than Instagram. Instagram popped up out of nowhere and was an existential threat to Facebook with 13 employees when Facebook bought them for $1 billion.

If in the space of a few years something can appear and threaten your very existence then you aren't as dominant as people were making out. If it happened once, it will happen again. And it has: a lot of particularly younger people (a key demographic) use Snap. And you can't ignore Tiktok, which is rapidly eating Facebook's attention economy.

The big problem for Facebook (sorry, "Meta") is they have no plan for the future. Oh, sorry, there's the Metaverse. That ain't it. There is absolutely no evidence that VR will ever be anything more than a niche. There's the argument that this will eventually lead to AR but once AR becomes viable (if it ever does) then Meta will be in the same competitive boat as many others because a VR headstart is no headstart at all.

So how long can Meta milk the advertising teat before drastic change is company strategy is called for? I'd say that's coming sooner rather than later.
There seems to be a lot of "serious" joking about not wanting to have Charles on Canadian money. IMO overdue.
I miss handheld shower heads! Europe was so great.

Cutlery too. The United States doesn't have kitchen knives, we have to tear meat and bread with our hands, it's terrible.
> In most circumstances it "probably is better than a human driver", not all circumstances, and not proven (hence probably).

That's the core issue here, really. Is autopilot more or less safe than a human driver? If it is, then it's hard to see how there's any criminal liability here. (And "fraud" judgements over "the car doesn't really drive itself" would be limited to a refunded purchase price on vehicles that sell used higher than their sticker price).

And... is it less safe? Tesla publishes their own data saying not only is it safe, it's MUCH safer. Every time the subject comes up, people show up to whatabout and explain how that's not a good data set. But does anyone have a better one? Does the DoJ?

I was making this point last year when there were half as many Teslas on the roads: there are millions of these cars now, and every one has autopilot[1]. Any notable safety data would be glowing like hot plutonium if it existed. It probably doesn't exist. Teslas seem to be safe; they're almost certainly safer than the median vehicle.

[1] The headline obscures it, but the text makes clear the investigation is about the Autopilot product, not anything branded FSD.
>the conservatives (coal) and the social democrats (gas) had sabotaged the switch to renewable energies during the last decade – which was otherwise well on it's way.

Why did they do that?
I a fan of virtual reality, just not in the hands of Corporations and the Chinese Communist Party, whose interests seemed very aligned in regards to controlling and policing people. Both have thought police in HR departments and bureau of Party Functionaries.

Mark Zuckerberg has a $10 billion plan to make it impossible for remote workers to hide from their bosses [1]

China believes mass surveillance will help it engineer the perfect society [2]

There's no sex in the Metaverse champagne room

[1] https://fortune.com/2022/10/18/mark-zuckerberg-meta-avatars-...

(https://archive.ph/i5yJO)

[2] https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/china-surveilla...
I'm excited about Ranked Choice Voting [1]. If it was adopted in more races I think we would start to see much more variety on issues rather than being limited to just two viewpoints (i.e. increased third party participation).

1. https://ballotpedia.org/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)
front end, i'll look through the list. thanks for that.

i've been looking at lists for a couple of days. lots of stuff out there and now i have analysis paralysis. was hoping someone would strongly suggest one and i'd be done with thinking about it :)
Quake III Arena, UT on speedup, and Wipeout were the only games I hit flow state in reliably.
I think whether we should build new nuclear plants is a question that can be discussed between reasonable people. On the other hand, shutting down nuclear plants while there are still fossil fuel plants in operation seems ill-advised to me.
> refusing to compromise

Unfortunately the left has won in this regard. The left moves so hard and fast to the left that even the right can no longer "refuse to compromise." If they don't, they are bigots at worst and uncultured, out of touch imbeciles at best.
There is truth in the saying that people don't leave companies but managers.
This is primarily a way for PayPal to take money from people, but it is also a way to bully people that PayPal is mistreating into silence: not worth getting dinged $2,500 every time you post a tweet critical of PayPal for stealing from you
It should work well on all platforms considering it's still being patched https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches
There has been a lot of discussion and bipartisan political will to force Bytedance to sell TikTok to a US company.

Zuck needs to push his lobbying minions to make that the full-court press on Capitol Hill.
It's a multi-decade R&D project that happens to occasionally ship products.

Not sure why anybody is expecting it to be profitable at this stage in its lifecycle.
100% of business PCs have Intel NICs because it's required for vPro. In the consumer market Intel NICs are generally considered (marginally) higher quality than Realtek. Intel Wi-Fi is also very common.
People Can't Stop Feeding Their Selfies into a Super Mean AI