skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What data are these decisions based on?

Could be as simple as “We tried this for x months. It still isn’t profitable, and we don’t see it becoming profitable soon”

For me, with zero inside knowledge, it looks like Google’s upper management gives managers lots of freedom to launch products, but expects them to bring in money soon.

That doesn’t seem the case for all kinds of products, though. I don’t see Chrome directly making money for them, for example. There, it seems they realize it indirectly, by defending their advertising income, is profitable.

It seems upper management doesn’t have a long term strategy for making money with messaging apps, but still has hope some of their managers will find it.
So this would probably require a trailer with solar panels? The motor has 4kW peak but surely uses much less while merely going constant speed.
The title is a bit misleading. (Maybe even deliberately so, given this is FT.)

This story is about the recent surprise bestsellers by Kohei Saito in Japan. While Saito does argue for "degrowth communism", marxism is not the only way to frame degrowth ideas, and there are many in the movement who are not marxists.
> The bulk of blood transfusions will always rely on people regularly rolling up their sleeve to donate.

Who is this line for? It's comically certain about this
US cities are committed to prioritizing transit improvements for the same poor and marginalized communities where they are also committed to slowing gentrification by preventing development.

If it’s a place where development would be welcome then it’s an inequitable use of transit dollars. Meanwhile a transit project does not get off the ground without assurances that it will not change the places being connected.
It’s just the legal !important speed limit for 50cc class(“Type I bicycles with prime mover”).
None of those things are this thing. You don't need overwrought hypotheticals because all of these things are satire or parody. They are extremely obvious parody.

The people doing Bitcoin scams are impersonating Musk, fine, ban those if you want. But it's patently absurd to call changing your handle to Elon Musk "impersonation".
Number 3; after that it was a relatively smooth ride. From industry experience came products I made that the industry want to buy and from that came co-founding companies.
It's the American system. In the UK professors did everything in their power to avoid students having to buy textbooks, based on my experience at 3 different universities...
Whether you agree with the sudo comment or not, your reply here is needlessly antagonistic. You’re basically just setting up for a flame war.

Please don’t make generalisations about peoples character.
The emissions impact of WFH is far from clear actually. In many cases lots of people staying home running their domestic heating and cooking etc systems consumes more energy than them using the big efficient industrial ones at the office, enough to outweigh transport emissions. (Especially since the industrial ones are still running in many cases, because people still come in a few days a week.)
> ...and they are one regulation away from losing it...

More than likely, but the government is never going to legislate that companies use a technically excellent messaging product. Governments have the strongest incentives to cripple messaging:

1) Government pressure degrades private & secure messaging, because privacy can be used for criminal activity and tax evasion.

2) The US government has the worlds most sophisticated spy network and is constantly looking for ways to get involved in people's communications.

3) The US government has generally identified "misinformation" to be anything the current administration doesn't like. Presently only the right wing is aware of this fact, but I know the left wing can understand the point because they had figured this out under Trump.

Apple's relative market share and strategy is at best a secondary factor, the US government will regulate first and foremost get involved in messaging to cripple the security of the protocols being used.
>The couple describe El Salvador’s problems as the fault of evil Western bankers who’ve conspired to exploit the country.

That makes no sense. El Salvador has adopted the US dollar voluntarily and they can always introduce a demurrage currency.

Alternatively they can double down on RAI which is a non pegged stablecoin that tries to minimize volatility. Yes it is approximately 10% down($3.14 to $2.85) vs the USD but that is still outperforming the euro and roughly comparable to Swiss francs which means it outperformed not only the vast majority of cryptocurrencies during the crash, it also outperforms most fiat currencies.
Well actually... the best way to protect free speech is to make sure nobody says anything objectionable...

/sigh
While true, most people in Europe that buy phones for pre-paid card don't care.

I have seen people disable updates, because they change how the apps look like, and devices are anyway mostly space constrained.
Many languages also support a comma after the last item, meaning you can still have one line diffs and have a sane reading structure:

[
item1,
item2,
item3,
item4,
]
Wonder if this is the 'rationale' with which they start demanding national IDs to ensure people with same names avoid getting flagged for impersonation. Also begs the question of since when was legal name ever a requirement for social media.
And Canada saw uptick in move to canada searches after Trump. A lot of the most vocal are still in the States. The twitterati are addicted to drama and outrage - in a brilliant move Musk provides them both. They can't get their act clean - if they could twitter wouldn't be cesspool to begin with.
I voted against high speed rail because it it wouldn't be serving anywhere near my area - I get it, the majority of the population lives on the coast between the Bay Area and San Diego, but why increase the tax burden on the people who live in the other 90% of the state who will likely never ride it? - and because I knew it would go over-budget and over-schedule.

Unsurprisingly, I got outvoted. And unsurprisingly, however many years and billions of dollars later, there are still no high speed trains running.
They're awesome, never heard of those. Going to add at the end of my next stats-oriented slide deck to sow fear and loathing in mere mortals.
I'd say in most of the EU you can ride <125ccm motorbike with regular car license, so this changes nothing at least in EU.

Heck, I don't even know what is supposed to be "50ccm" ebike, ebikes are limited by laws in regard to their power wattage (250W) and speed (25kmh), not volume.

Specifically EU directive says for pedal assisted ebike is this:
"cycles with pedal assistance which are equipped with an auxiliary electric motor having a maximum continuous rated power of 0.25 kW, of which the output is progressively reduced and finally cut off as the vehicle reaches a speed of 25 km/h [15.5 mph], or sooner, if the cyclist stops pedalling"

Everything else ain't ebike and requires some sort of license. Though of course the reality is police won't be checking every single ebike on road and they have no way to meaure the power.
You just described the best case scenario. It is also possible that whatever city you visit you could have a Covid lockdown of indeterminate length due to the insane zero Covid policy.
Their experimental results are unconvincing. Authors themselves admit, "we are aware that using a D flip-flop as a basic memory element is not optimal". But "we chose a D flip-flop as a memory element since it enables embedding of the memory in a standard synthesis performed with Synopsys and Innovus".

I think Logic-in-Memory should be memory first and logic second. Otherwise, we would have already used SRAM instead of DRAM. Using a D flip-flop means it really isn't DRAM-like memory. And the only use of using a standard synthesis with Synopsys is for writing a paper. It's not like DRAM vendors synthesize with Synopsys.
Except most population gets pre-paid cards with cheap Android devices.
Docker Desktop should be possible to port to FreeBSD, it runs virtualized on the 3 other platforms.
The mRNA is misinformation that tells the cell to produce the spike protein of coronavirus on its cell membrane. Those membranes are how cells interact with their environment. Later immune cells interact with those same spike proteins to identify the right antibodies to fight off the foreign, spike proteins. All without ever actually exposing the patient to coronavirus.

Good luck.
Wow, all these Hateful elon comments might be warranted, but are not what I though HN was about. Maybe this isnt the right forum to have actual discussions anymore.
This link points to yahoo.com which gives me a weird nostalgic twinge: “Remember when people used to care about what happens to this Yahoo! company and now it’s basically a random domain?”

Twitter seems to be on the same path to oblivion. Microsoft offered $44 billion for Yahoo in 2008, which in a strange coincidence is the same amount that Musk actually paid for his Yahoo/Waterloo.
> Clearly Singapore can do it quicker because there is one level of government.

Singapore can do it quicker because there's far less corruption there.

Also no unions (which is kind of the same thing as the other point above).
Yeah, and now with the 2. Stammstrecke money sink, it's unlikely there will be funds for more than the U5 Pasing extensions.
Have you tried it in the Linux emulation on FreeBSD? My experience is limited to just my laptop, but significant software builds for Linux (like Chrome) run fine for me. I imagine this could be the case for other things not requiring systemd.
Of those 4M/day, 2.7M are the interest on the leveraged buyout debt that Musk had Twitter take, they weren't there before!

In comparison, assuming an everage yearly cost per fired employee of 200K, by firing 3000 of them they are saving 1.6M a day.

Musk added 2.7M/day of purely financial cost, and then tried to reduce the damage by firing half the company and it's not even nearly enough!

And this is before the lost income from advertising...

I won't pretend to know business better than the richest man in the world, but from down here this sure looks like the train wreck of the century. We'll see I guess.
And on the Balkans region most likely will be Viber.
Here in India, Apple has a cult like following among teens. Anyone not having an iPhone is considered uncool. And many of them use the archaic iPhone 5 or 6 rather than a latest Android. The obsession is unreal.
Given you were so keen to call out the ineffectiveness of anecdotes, it's rather ironic for you to be giving out estimates with no real data behind them as somehow superior.

Not to mention, where was the anecdote in your article? There's no anecdote there in a 1.3B estimate, for all I know it's just some random reporter's guess (backed up by who knows what), whereas an anecdote is at least a hard fact, just one with small sample size. If I don't know how the estimate is made then I probably actually prefer the anecdote.
I hope they bring back the mini if the plus flops.
He can also keep flying his jets and ban all such accounts for $0.

Not sure you'll stay a single digit millionaire for very long flying first class nilly willy tho, a million dollars ain't what it used to be, amirite old sport?
> Why is there a “messenger war”? Like what’s the end game? Why do you want people using your free messages product? Data? But e2e encryption and privacy are primary features… I don’t get it

Messenger apps have powerful network effects. Imagine all your friends are on iPhone and use iMessage, if you're the only android user in that circle you're getting a degraded experience so there's a strong incentive to move to iphone which means more sales for apple.
My unpopular opinion is simple: public transit works well for standard humans witch means meat-based self-reproducible robots, any dictatorship want, because they do not almost have "individual" needs, they are just tools to be moved around in batch, public transport for them is like containers for shipping industry.

Humans, Citizens instead tend to have effectively overlapping needs, but they essentially never overlap 100% so or public transports waste money in big under-used infra of make them moving nearly empty 24/7/365 to satisfy Citizens needs and desires.

In dense cities cars are a nightmare so public transport is the only remaining solution behind nuking the city itself. But that's not a cheap AND effective solution in essentially all cases, as a result or we admit that the real "future society" target is the one pictured by the WEF years ago https://youtu.be/Hx3DhoLFO4s with the meat-based robots stuffed in modern chicken coops named "smart cities" where the dumb is the human (well depicted by the facial mimic of the main actor of the aforementioned video) and the Humans/Citizens (or oppressors, cleptocrats, depending on your POV) remain outside or no country in the world can stop wasting billion on crappy public transit project if not deciding to de-urbanize creating a new distributed society where we do have aggregation centers (like schools, unis, etc) and some districts for some kind of manufacturing activities we can't do otherwise, create a hybrid far more remote and ALSO far more social IRL society or...
Neither Europe or Asia use iMessage, they use Whatsapp. Don't know which part of the world youve been to, but more than 70% of the possible iPhone population doesn't use iMessage.

The rest of the world doesn't have the SMS problem that the US has.
>Though induction stovetops can be faster yet, and just as clean.

You have the mother of all hotspots on the pan (less relevant for boiling) where the induction ring itself is and getting simmer right is harder. Induction as implemented right now is on/off with full blast for the duration and just increased downtime. It is not the same as low constant output.
To be fair, being considered a threat to national security and held as a pariah for having communist ideas is hardly a recent development in the US.
Thank you, Daniel.
What???

The last email makes it clear that they wanted to keep lock-in in apple's ecosystem
Nobody cares about some 50cc category in EU, the definition according EU directive is about power wattage (250W) and speed (25kmh):

"cycles with pedal assistance which are equipped with an auxiliary electric motor having a maximum continuous rated power of 0.25 kW, of which the output is progressively reduced and finally cut off as the vehicle reaches a speed of 25 km/h [15.5 mph], or sooner, if the cyclist stops pedalling"

Article doesn't mention electric engine power. Obviously if they would ditch pedals they have no chance.

And I'd say most of the EU countries require regular car license up to <125cc, but yeah, some have lower requirements for <50cc mopeds.
Wait till you learn about parody. Saturday Night Live is going to be a real mind blower for you.
Good points.

I think this is a great example of where an individual can really innovate on their own, but they do need to have a good mix of experience with developing on a particular platform as well as a good sense for UX.

Working in a larger company, you tend to have each of those tasks (implementing vs designing) split out into multiple roles, making it very difficult to know what's possible to innovate, plus experience levels often differ, so newer designers may not know the limitations on a platform, so may over-design, and developers may not have experience to implement certain things, so they may limit the end result as well.
>> the ancient trade and military route located on the shortest distance (ca. 70 kilometers)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%E2%80%93Volga_portage
What sort of hokey black hat nonsense is this?
Which is why humanity is preserving Cheetos for future corvid civilizations to discover 10,000 years from now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33500525

We may wipe ourselves out through war and climate destruction, but the crows will survive and evolve, and CAWrchaeologists will discover our final gift to corvidkind and - hopefully - remember us fondly.
> state sponsored privacy agency

They could start with the GDPR.
Somehow they were better on the Genesis. NHL '94 for example
Elon Musk Declares War on YouTube
Tesla might, they seem to have reached critical mass... but I don't know how far SpaceX will get given he made driving down $/kg to orbit a personal mission in order for his entire Mars stuff to be even remotely feasible as an endeavour (to speak nothing of how likely it is to succeed)

Without someone to say "Falcon 9 isn't good enough" when its already crushing the launch industry and all the competition is racing to catch up to its capabilities, which could take as much as a decade for slower moving companies like ULA (partial reuse goal is years away) or ArianeSpace, and regardless of the timeline often requiring significant efforts to develop reusability technologies that fit existing designs, whole new rocket design programs to add reusability, or fleeing to niches where such reuse is not viable (rapid schedule (in terms of calendar days between purchase and launch day) in the hope of holding onto some market share...

SpaceX without Elon would quite possibly turn into Blue Origin, who's glacial schedule is moving so slowly, the largest customer they have signed is for their engines, and due to widespread rumours those engines wont happen on time, the customer made a very big deal about showing off that they do indeed finally have some engines they can use to build their first test rocket.

Regardless of his many faults, personal and professional, he as CEO of a privately held company who gets to make the big decisions about what does and does not get built, has been responsible for pushing forward the space rocket business in a way that hasn't been seen in nearly half a century... The Apollo era saw companies push designs and innovate and resulted in actual test hardware programs with such experiments as Aerojet's 260, a 6.6m diameter solid rocket motor with 16 MN of thrust, equivalent to the entire Saturn 1 first stage. The funding cuts post Apollo shrunk the industry into just relying on the R&D from the Military Industrial Complex side of the aerospace companies and so we got decades of slow incremental progress mainly off the back of maintaining the fleets of ICBMs.
Thanks for the reply, that is all reasonable and I agree. It may seem silly but there is an almost arrogant gloat coming from the antiV side currently and I have been feeling like I may have been sucked in...I am a gullible but fortunately also a deliberate individual, deliberate to the point that I seek out information from as many sources I can and TBT just reading these replies brings a balance to an otherwise one sided echo chamber I have found myself in due to political tribalism.

TYVM
> You should be honest about this. This wasn't really a "race" thing. You *wanted*
> to do this to your son.

It is a race thing, and you are 100% that I wanted to my child to continue the traditions that have kept us distinct for millennia. Of course.

> You did this without his consent. And you did something
> that is completely irreversible.

That is a parent's job - to make these decisions and take the actions. Did you not have your child vaccinated for Polio, Hepatitis, Rotavirus, Diphtheria, Influenzae, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Papillomavirus, Tetanus, Meningococcal, Measles, Polysaccharide and Dengue? Is there no risk in and of those vaccines? Did you, as a parent, decide that the risk is worth the benefit?

> Don't compare this to fishing, riding a bike, or even using a knife. All of those
> are necessary skills, or at the very least, useful skills for children to know.

Fair point. I'll compare it to the Western traditions of feeding excessive sugar. Would you say that the addiction and intake of excessive sugar is a necessary skill? Would you say that it carries less risk of harm than circumcision?

> You did something that *was actually risky to do*, for literally no other
> reason other than this awful justification about "race".

Yes. Of course.

> And for what its worth, I'm Iranian. So I get how _expected_ it is from culture.

I understand that many Iranians today are undergoing a shedding of the influence forced upon by foreign interests - mostly in regards to the Islamic and Arab influences. Even the Iranian language is today infected with Arabic words - you'll hardly hear any sentence in Iranian today that is not using Arabic words. And I'm not referring to just the past 40 years, rather, that was a turning point but the process is actually much older. So, as I understand it, today many Iranians are shedding _all_ traditions - not only the Arab traditions but also the distinct Iranian traditions. Correct me if I'm wrong.

So I really do understand your sentiment that traditions have no value. I get it. But I counter that traditions in fact do have value for those who hold them dear. Does a photograph of a parent have value? A photo of your parent has no value to me, but a photo of my parent has value to me - and I suspect vice versa. I am the distinct person I am because of the values that I hold, those values include things that we will most likely agree upon (Do not murder) but I accept that you don't value things that we don't agree upon. That's fine. But recognize that _you_ feel so passionately about circumcision not because of the risk. Other common practices have greater risk with less benefit. Rather, the media that sold you on this viewpoint specifically, had ulterior motives. I have no problem with your opinion. I do have a problem with the fervent obsession that people have with this one specific low-risk activity that Jews do, while ignoring far riskier and more prevalent activities. The media shaped your opinion with motive. Recognize that.
But your decomposing family will release CO2!
Meh. No one wants to live on the poles, not even for bragging rights, other than a few scientists. Mars however? There's a shitload of people who'd volunteer to go there simply for their entry in the history books.
Yeah, turns out of one thinks, "maybe the relentless pursuit of growth above anything else is bad" is pretty scary to some folks?
And now that sterling example of a human being, Ethan Klein of h3 productions:

https://twitter.com/mattwallace888/status/158950888646969753...
I really enjoy seeing how you demo the features of Bike. The design is really thought out and you do a great job of communicating how it works in simple terms. (I'm an indie Mac/iOS dev myself, so I'm going to take pointers on how you present your innovations!)
Induction is much better than gas about 90% of the time. Because the heat can be set much lower than a flame’s temperature, and because heat transfer happens through the whole bottom surface of the pan, it’s much better to keep a low-ish temperature for any length of time, which opens a lot of possibilities. For high heat, the larger contact area makes it much quicker to heat up evenly the whole pan. It pairs very nicely with a cast iron pan as well.

And that’s just from a practical, cooking point of view, without mentioning all the health benefits.

It was not our choice when we got an induction cooktop the first time, but now it would be.
It’s Monday in China.
Chile, the land of mines, leads the way in solar energy
> commitment

'commitment' and a 'lack of' are a different things. I don't see 'should not have any territorial disputes'

> It has not applied for NATO membership.

*yawn* and what about the other half of the island?
Read the other emails linked below. Craig Federighi explicitly says that if iMessage is on Android fewer families will choose iPhone.

Cost was a reason, but wanting to maintain platform lock-in was another you seem to dismiss.
Also remember good old Pearson and his spurious correlations.

If you have x/z and y/z and you plot 'em out do not be surprised if there is a corrrelation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_correlation_of_ratios

For examples see chocolate and nobel prizes ;o)
Just use doas(1) instead. Small. Simple. Secure.