skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, there is correlation -- whatever we do spend on is extremely expensive, so we get less, whereas other nations that spend more efficiently get more, and therefore there is a correlation between efficiency of spending and quantity obtained, but that's not an argument that if we spent a lot more, we would get better value. A case needs to be made beyond this correlation.

A good example is bus service. One can't plausibly argue that US cities have no experience with bus service. Or that it's a difficult engineering problem (unless maybe, you are talking about trolleylines in the Swiss Alps) - but let's see how efficient they are. San Francisco spends 1.3 Billion on SFMTA, with 5700 employees and average weekday ridership (pre-pandemic) of 800K. That's 1 employee per 140 weekday riders.

Let's compare to the canton of Zurich, which has 1.5 million people, and 670 square miles (of Swiss mountains). VBZ (Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich) is responsible for all of the transit in this canton - bus, trolley, light rail. It provides rides to 900K daily riders (post-pandemic) that travel 1.7 million kilometers per day, but this is achieved with only 2300 employees, or 1 employee per 390 daily riders, and a budget of $560 million dollars (converted to USD).

Now maybe it's "like a nuclear power plant" and if San Francisco were to spend a lot more on bus service, they'd eventually figure out how to deliver it efficiently.

But my guess is that if San Francisco were to spend a lot more on bus service, they would deliver it even less efficiently than they are now.

So you still have a problem of inefficient delivery in the U.S. Then we can talk about why it cost the city over $300 million to create a single BRT line along Van Ness. Perhaps painting a lane red is like building a nuclear power plant, but I suspect that's not the issue here. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-s-Van-Ness-transi...

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https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/vbz/en/index/vbz/facts_figures/...
Because it works? Bitcoin is truckin' along. You don't have to use it if you don't want to.
A lot of times artists only have so many original, interesting ideas, and they usually use them early in their career and become known for them. Their new songs just aren't as good.
This is a tempest in a teapot.

We (still) don't have any court ruling here.

Of course more or less all US based cloud services are illegal in the EU currently. At least in theory. That's no news. (CLOUD Act & Co. was pointed out already by others).

But until we don't have some crystal clear rulings form the highest courts that get actually enforced this makes no difference.

The main point why this illegality does not mater in practice: Our own governments are using AWS and MS products, and all such stuff. They're completely in vendor lock-in there, and they could not change that for (at least) the next one or two decade, even if they would start right now trying to replace this stuff. But of course nobody even thinks about changing anything in this regard…

They put hopes in the next, also clearly illegal, version of the "safe harbor" regulations that's about to surface "soonish". When implemented it will take again 5 to 10 years to go through all legal instances to finally find out that a "safe harbor" agreement, no matter how you call it this time, is still fundamentally incompatible with EU law. But they will win this way another 5 to 10 years!

Than this game will start anew, and they will first ignore the law and the court ruling (like they do currently with the last one), than the EU government will try to implement the next version of "safe harbor", or something like that, to "avoid further legal uncertainty", and than it will take another 5 to 10 years to sue that into oblivion. And so forth. (We're currently already in round three of this shit show!)

The linked post would be much more interesting if this case would actually go to court.

But of course Shopify is not interested in this. They're just waiting for the next "safe harbor"; like everybody else.

Of course they won't stop doing business in the EU. Exactly like MS, AWS, Apple, Meta, and this like, won't. Because there is just nobody to actually enforce the law as more or less all EU governments are also violating it.
Because generally their workload goes up concommitantly, because there is no backfill.
Are you sure Russian military didn't travel all the way down the Baltic Strait, past the competing norwegian pipeline, and blow up their own pipelines?

/s
Why do almost every algae & seaweed products have CA prop 65 warning?
It's disingenuous to pretend all of the USSR criticism in this thread is in good faith. Yes, multiple countries can be bad, but clearly one of them is getting way more airtime than the others.
You’re right, my apologies. I shouldn’t write comments after a scotch on a long day :)
in a national emergency situation can't the government just take it and pay fair market value despite who owns it?
Hilarious and Ouch.
B+M is human versus computer powered. To operate, you need to manage people versus software.

Sounds stupid, but your question seems to bypass that primary concern.
We will all be dead before America becomes a city planning utopia. Not because it can't, there's just so much work involved to reconfigure everything. I believe if you fixed your zoning though, it would eventually gravitate towards that on its own as people flee suburbia for the more livable cities. That doesn't mean don't vote for it though, even small improvements to one location can improve livability.

Maybe think of EVs as a stop-gap because if you want clean air for millions in the next 30 years that is our best option. Even the famous Shinkansen took longer than that to build, and they had the benefit of a miracle economy, cities already configured for density and mixed zoning, and a government that could actually achieve things on a horizon longer than 3 years.
High probability insiders at FTX are currently trying to run off with funds
The railroad union settled without strike for no sick days. It is weak.
There’s a lot of 50-100 person offices used by 5-10 people a day right now because the friendly nudges and incentives to bring people back to the office are falling flat.
He seems to be writing for CEOs. Reading further he seems to figure that CEOs will be able to reassert control of employees by forcing them back to the office since employees are not going to be able to easily jump ship for another job.

As CEO now is your opportunity to rethink remote work. You may decide you want to continue as is, or you may want to make changes. You have an opportunity to act.

Not that returning to the office will necessarily result in better results, but many CEOs will tend to believe that things will go better with everyone back in the office.
Some animals have more microplastics than others due to their environment and other living conditions. Factory farm animals literally have plastic in their feed.
The one fully remote company I knew of personally was a small consultancy. Everyone just contracts out to larger ones, so no nead for their own office, but I guess they were onsite with their clients
It appears that the dolphin site was created in response to oulipo, due to the lack of an e being unfair to the creatures. Like something from the mind of Douglas Adams. : - )
"Account Waitlist" button leads to a google form which lacks required permissions...
Google gives like 7 months for parental leave. Healthcare costs are lower than what average employee spends on coffee. 5-ish weeks of vacation, in addition to holidays and sick days, is probably about average.

European fast food workers, garbage collectors and store clerks are mostly living more comfortably than their American counterparts. American engineers, doctors and other professionals are mostly living more comfortably than their European counterparts.
This is old news. It's a common practice that is still being done.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/15/legal-pl...

There's even tiktok videos of people doing it.
This reminds me of orisinal games!
> Why would they pay (insert large city) rents to save money? How does it help?

This is still a bit of an open question. Productivity can be a weird metric because it doesn't capture if you're making the right thing, just that you're making something. WFH productivity was also measured at a pretty weird time, so there wasn't a good control. What you'll see is a lot CEOs pick policies by which model they prefer, and in a poor labor market, they'll have the leverage to do it.
Siri was a lot better when it was being run by a tiny startup as opposed to once Apple started taking control of development isn’t much of a defense of Apple.

In fact, the Siri Apple released was significantly gimped compared to the Siri that was available on the App Store before Apple bought it.
This is like the 2020s version of phreaking
Lilly loses billions in mkt. cap after ‘verified’ impostor promises free insulin
Nothing like a decimation to improve performance
Freedom. Freedom to work when I want, if I want, on whatever I want, or not at all.

Not dealing with people, offices or maintaining any kind of professional image.

Not sure what to call it, but a sort of liberation knowing I don’t rely on a company or external force to make my way through this life. A sort of stability and certainty I guess.
"Now is a time for CEOs and their teams to give themselves permission to toss out old assumptions about their company, mode of operating, growth targets, team, culture and mission. There will be few opportunities to make big changes like in the current environment."

Good luck. If you think CEO's give a damn about success you really don't know what the job of executives is for.
Mainstream media is saying it’s pretty much a bankrun. So massive amount of outflows (from everyones wallets on the exchange) is also what tanked the token?
For your encore, how is "when Korean and Chinese overtake us" relevant context?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procmail

procmail is the classic tool for this and can usually be wedged in somewhere.
Onchain data shows that $380M of funds from FTX are being withdrawn
Companies will require RTO because it makes employees more productive. I've worked at one small and one large company during the pandemic involuntary WFH. In both cases productivity was noticeably worse, most especially for new employees onboarding remotely. I think WFH a couple days a week makes me more productive due to focus, but I'm unproductive and miserable now when none of my teammates ever come in. We're laughably disconnected and not functioning like a team. Zoom and Slack are just no substitute.
I sometimes wonder if my own PTSD is actually PTSD or if it doesn't count because I'm not a veteran or woman and it happened online.

It wasn't abuse; it was just an extremely stressful social and emotional situation that led to the loss of someone who was probably one of my closest friends, although I no longer remember who.
They’re making Madoff look good. He semi-voluntarily* turned himself in when the jig was up, and the govt eventually recovered about 2/3rd of the money

FTX seems like it’s still trying to steal funds

*Madoff confessed to his family, said he would turn himself in, and asked for 24 hours to get affairs in order. Family refused, called FBI immediately
> Investigating abnormalities with wallet movements related to consolidation of ftx balances across exchanges - unclear facts as other movements not clear. Will share more info as soon as we have it.

From FTX's general counsel[1], retweeted by FTX_Official. So that indicates it's not being sold off legitimately under some sort of liquidation proceedings. It could be insiders or it could be hackers.

[1] https://twitter.com/_Ryne_Miller/status/1591281729125613570

Rumors on Twitter[2] are there was also an update just pushed to the FTX app. Concerns are the update may contain malware. It makes sense to uninstall the FTX app if you have it.

[2] https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1591295039946493952
Is that you, Clive?

This doesn’t seem very plausible to me. You are proposing that there could have been an alternate universe where, for example, instead of sending iron ire to China for steel production, Australia could have become the steel producer. This has many assumptions - firstly, that China would buy Australian steel as opposed to finding another ore producer and doing what they do now anyway. You also assume that this would be a good business in Australia. Quite possibly, the economics don’t play out due to energy/labour costs.
On that topic... US federal regulations[0] limit shower heads to a flow rate of 2.5 gallons per minute (GPM). And California[1] limits them to 1.8 GPM! This seems somewhat analogous to the mobile data discussion.

"You are paying for a water service, what does it matter how the water is consumed?" Though of course there are big differences. An obvious one is that water companies aren't profiting off these restrictions like mobile operators at least partially are. And since water is either heavily regulated by or entirely ran by governments, the cost to the consumer doesn't necessarily represent the true cost.

(The California restriction even seems reasonably well enforced. When buying a 2.5 GPM shower head on Amazon[2] you'll get an error if you try to ship it to a California address. Most eBay sellers enforce this as well, though not quite all of them.)

[0] https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2020-27280/p-56

[1] https://www.build.com/ca-compliant/c133273#:~:text=Residenti...

[2] https://smile.amazon.com/showerhead-2.5GPM-that-wont-ship-to...
my remote only company is way more productive than my previous in-person company, so there’s the counter anecdote to your anecdote
The answer to your question is actually much more nuanced than one would expect it to be. I have wrestled with it myself and have come to the following conclusions;

Computer Language is not only used to express your thoughts but also shapes your very thoughts itself. How? By constraining you with specific Syntactic Constructs and limited Computation Models (aka Paradigms eg. Imperative/Functional/Object-Oriented/etc.). Thus you first need to learn one language very well w.r.t. understanding all the different Computation Models expressible using the syntactic constructs of that language. Read the book Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi(https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html) for insights. In your own case since you are already familiar with Python (in my case it is C++), learn how to express the various "Paradigms" using Python itself thus becoming a "True Master" of that language.

Simultaneously, you look at the whole Computing domain, identify the most essential subdomains and learn a few languages which naturally fit into them. This gives you the tools needed to work anywhere on anything and understand what is actually happening thus truly making you an "expert" problem solver. With that in mind i suggest first learning C (and then follow with C++) since it underlies everything i.e. universal glue language, de-facto binary ABI standard etc. Next we see that concurrency is fundamental to all systems today (multicore/multiprocessor/distributed multisystem) and thus we need to learn a language which is explicitly designed for this. Erlang is that language (followed by Elixir).

Approached in the above manner, one need not get lost in the "babel of languages" which is unproductive but one is able to balance actual learning with practical considerations.
Passive surveillance will be ubiquitous. Every device will be listening and watching you at all times.
How does the US benefit?

Russia had already shut down the pipeline and proven to be unreliable partner, and facing heavy sanctions.

It's not like the US needed the pipeline destroyed in order to be in the position to supply LNG to Europe.
It's wild. The place is brazenly being robbed in public eyes. Is it under the Bahamas laws? What can anyone do?
2 years after my layoff
> but many CEOs will tend to believe that things will go better with everyone back in the office

Many of us SWEs believe the same!
And when the firing is coordinated by an outside party with little-to-no relevant expertise. It's hilarious that they immediately tried to hire back people they fired.
Used to use this quite a lot because my cell plan provider didn't firewall DNS queries when roaming (they needed it to redirect you to the captive portal, I guess).

But now it's fully blocked, so I haven't been using it too much.
The ping ICMP tunnel is older, but this is probably the best known and most widely attempted exfil tunnel technique; here's Kaminsky presenting it in 2004:

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-04/bh-us-04-ka...
I feed it to my fish and shrimp.
> Reports on crypto Twitter are that this is a hack

Is that based on some evidence, or is it speculation?
>> during the pandemic involuntary WFH

There you go. A lot of companies that were forced to WFH -don't actually want it- and so haven't invested in changing their culture to actually be effective at it. Some companies that -have- embraced it...also haven't changed their culture to actually be effective at it. But some want it, and have, and, oddly, I think they're in the majority, since studies keep showing an increase in productivity and employee happiness https://www.apollotechnical.com/working-from-home-productivi... .
Well Shib is #14 in market cap but yea smh lol
What was the pragmatic purpose of saying "A person pulled me aside and told me he was an alien" if not to cast doubt on me talking to a Google employee? You didn't hurt my feelings but you were clearly trying to express doubt that I talked to a person that worked at Google. Where does that doubt come from?
Madoff recovery is 88.35%. See: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-....

Many of Madoff's victims exaggerated their loses. If they invested $1MM at a claimed return of 15% for 6 years, they would claim they lost $2MM, not the $1MM principal.

(I just hope our Government doesn't try to bail out crypto speculators!)
I worked at a LVAD company (think artificial heart) that was doing a trial, they had to buy dozens (hundreds?) of their competitors LVADs, at $120k a piece
Ok, you've confirmed to me you don't know what you're talking about.

Living standards may be correlated with energy consumption, in a narrow sense, in some cases, but we don't consume energy, we consume things we can produce with energy. If we do that more efficiently, then our living standard increases even as our energy use decreases.

You seem to be saying a 60W incandescent bulb indicates a higher standard of living than a 10W LED bulb -- even though the latter produces more light. You seem to think a house with less insulation indicates a higher standard of living than one with more insulation, since the former requires more energy use. And on and on.
He's going to regret his candor in that podcast when the court cases start
I really like the roasted seaweed snacks. They taste a bit like fish. I've even recently bought some seaweed chips to put into my rameyon. We enjoy Korean food. Kimbap is one of my favourite snacks especially with danmuji.
Bitcoin & monero are working great, what’s your issue with them?
I reworded things to separate the first hand information (FTX_Official indicating they don't know what's going on) from speculation (app hacker rumors).
Your math is wrong and 6 positions and 3 orientations is not enough to communicate an entire player's skeleton. It's important to send skeletons that way each player only has to solve for bone positions and orientations for just themselves instead of for thousands of players. You will also want to send weights for blenishapes for face tracking. Another thing you left out was the audio data for voice chat.
> Reports on crypto Twitter are that this is a hack

It's really unfortunate to get "hacked" with such bad timing. You steal customer money and file for bankruptcy but now the bad hackers, probably from the Bahamas as well, take whatever is left and cash out. Oh no! /s

But it's alright, SBF said he's sorry.
Even if it is causing harm, the type of likely issues such as brain damage, tumors, deafness etc people are known to some how pull along with for long periods, before walking into hospitals, if at all they do. Which makes working out the effects much harder.
Some Python objects are open for modification, and some are closed. Closed objects don't support this sort of monkey-patching.

Integers, strings, and other class objects defined in C are closed for modification.

>>> x = 5
>>> x.__add__ = lambda x, y: x*y
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'int' object attribute '__add__' is read-only

In that sense they are "special" (or class objects defined in Python are special).

But that doesn't make a language with closed classes non-OO.
How do you zoom?
Yeah, Twitter is basically a running case study in what not to do when it comes to acquiring a company successfully, and can't be held up as anything other than "what happens when you do everything wrong". Certainly, it's not a useful example for others, even as a warning, because you can't easily tell what bad actions led to what bad consequences; there are so many of both.
I don't think building an abstraction over the data layer is just to make it easier to change your database. The abstraction can define the data access patterns upfront and minimize bespoke data access code. I've spent a lot of hours trying to untangle ORMs and other data access code from business logic. I've found that extending an abstraction to support a new access pattern (that you really need) is much easier.
It seems that money was invented as a unit to measure the worth of incommensurable things, a universal conversion factor.
Then what is Finder?
The potential downside for Russia to blow up the Nordstream pipelines is: it would require some investment to repair the pipeline in the event Russian-German relations would improve, Germany's security outlook on purchasing Russian gas would flip 180 degrees and there would be peace in Ukraine. In other words, pipeline or not, Russia won't be selling gas to Germany anytime soon, so there's really not a lot of downside to blowing up a useless pipeline. And it's easy to deny too, as you and others point out: why would Russia blow up their own pipeline?

Here's why: the upside for Russia is getting European NATO countries to point fingers at each other, accusing Poland or USA or Great Britain of (nearly) violating Denmark's territorial integrity. Creating distrust inside NATO is a pretty useful strategic result!

The line of 'why would Russia blow up their own pipeline' is terribly simple-minded.
It actually kind of excites me to see what kind of human creativity will blossom in the wake of AI. What art will humans eventually create that is so unique that it's obviously not AI? That's the exciting part, but it could be a difficult/long journey.
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