skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to say: so what ?

Getting paid 50 times your employees isn't enough ? You need to get paid 400 times their salary ? Why stop there ? 800 times ?

The invisible hand doesn't exist and without regulations these things will get worse and worse
100%! I always ascribe it to some PM somewhere, but when I click on the "search maps" I would _love_ to be taken to the "real Google Maps".

The search maps is just a terrible experience, half implemented, doesn't do what I want, even down to little things.

My hack is to pick directions, which will get me to Google Maps, then cancel directions, this loses all state, but you're still in the location you want and can usually then just click the business you were looking for.
On one hand, yes. I made twitter work for me by blocking politics and every other topic I hate, and then actively remembering to block people that discuss upsetting topics rather than indulging my initial impulse which is to wade in, and it works. Now and then I just have to delete a post I'm about to make when I realize I got baited again.

On the other hand, these systems are literally built and engineered by experts to addict and upset you (to drive "engagement"). So, to me, this article is equivalent to saying that gambling at a rigged casino is not so bad if you have a set budget of play money and are being careful not to get sucked in. The bottom line is that everyone who isn't you is getting screwed, and either you are successfully principled and vigilant enough to resist in which case your enjoyment is at the expense of everyone else getting screwed, or you let your guard down for a moment and have your mood ruined. In addition, also like a casino, these services are built to be addictive, and they hoover up your personal data to sell.

So, knowing all that, I disagree with the premise.
I think Polanyi had a point. The creation of the market and the economy as abstract entities to which other parts of life should be subservient - a surprisingly modern idea - is the root of the evil in modern liberalism - itself a concept mostly disconnected from its root.

What I always find surprising is that, as soon as it’s made abstract enough, even humanist and rational people are apparently ready to defend the worst atrocities.

Just set your priorities in the right orders. If you find yourself defending a system which see sick people die in the street in one of the richest country in the world and history, you are probably in the wrong.
It is an alleged massive fraud going on a public relations tour pre-trial, which not every defendant gets. I guess we'll see if NYT allows him to sail through it sympathetically.
> Consumer goods are absolutely best handled by markets.

But what about the previous paragraph where you said

> markets are... mostly blind to externalities (pollution!)

What about the externalities from consumer goods? (And everything else we value via markets, which is nearly everything else)
> Twitter was losing a billion dollars per year when Jack left as CEO.

He left in 2021 when they lost $220M (not a loss of a billion dollars) because of an $800M settlement which means they -technically- made a profit of $580M (very much not a loss of a billion dollars.)

If you're thinking of 2020, that does seem to have been a $1.1bn net loss but that's somewhat balanced by 2019 which was a $1.4bn net income (according to [1])

[1] https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/social-media-n...
And yet most of the world, and even most of the US, does this, including generation, for some $200/MWH less than PG&E. I’m not saying it’s cheap. I’m saying that the amount of money on the table is very large.

(Distribution cost really ought to scale roughly linearly in the length of the system. I don’t know if it does in practice. As a data point, Palo Alto manages to run their entire system for considerably less money than PG&E, and Palo Alto is not an inexpensive place to do anything.)
Related:

Mosh: The Mobile Shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150287 - Aug 2021 (153 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12429203 - Sept 2016 (49 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11572146 - April 2016 (147 comments)

Mosh – a robust, responsive replacement for SSH - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8928506 - Jan 2015 (45 comments)

Mosh: A replacement for SSH - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252093 - Sept 2014 (122 comments)

Mosh (mobile shell) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6321474 - Sept 2013 (6 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5016745 - Jan 2013 (89 comments)

Mosh: the mobile shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4588239 - Sept 2012 (1 comment)

Mosh: SSH for 2012 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3819382 - April 2012 (193 comments)
When it came to shopping I used to blindly trust Amazon. Wouldn’t even check prices anywhere else.

Now, it’s always the choice of last resort. I really don’t like it when I have to shop on Amazon.

It feels like a combination of AliExpress and eBay. Delivery times are getting worse by the day too.
That’s exactly how I was introduced to HN and my life was changed forever for good. Happy Thanksgiving, HN!

I enjoy reading these annual appreciation notes.
The adapter actually looks easier to use than the tab on some Ethernet cables.
He has admitted to the crimes. There's no doubt that he committed a massive fraud. They gambled with customer funds and lost billions of dollars.

Alex Jones isn't dangerous. He's just a weird guy who likes to rant about stuff. Sam Bankman Fried is a thief.
I don't disagree that there has to be a limit. If the house of Windsor could own most of the world in the twentieth century and lose it, there's clearly a limit.

What I disagree with is the benefit of an explicit limit that's formally set once and can't be updated. And if it could be updated the limit would be constantly ahead of where the richest person is now and meaningless. Markets are an ecosystem, ecosystems are self-correcting. In large part, markets are the self-correcting behavior of humans valuing tangible things writ large. The market sets the limit, the idea of an autocratic limit set from outside such a system because we don't like the signal it's sending just strikes me as hubristic.
When someone like Elon Musk does something it is for a reason.

He's hiding something.
Hee, yeah, Rajaton samples a lot from Kalevala, its "sister work" Kanteletar [1], and from Finnish folk poetry in general.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanteletar
Oooh. So that's why people invented C.
I created a website called Meet Me In The Middle for a Google Maps Hackathon. Let me know what you think :)
https://archive.ph/6pbO2
Introduction to Genomics for Engineers
It’s all fun and games until a US Federal judge forces you to buy Twitter
Very competent people are pretty rare in large organizations, once you factor in their environment.

Do you put your one best performing manager at the top or at your most impactful project? (I'm not sure about the answer, but I'm not sure it a real option exists either.)
For non-Americans who might take this article at face value: As an American this has never been a tradition in my family or any I've known, and it's not a Thanksgiving staple on any radio station I've listened to. (America's huge and diverse, so YMMV of course.)
Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct?

http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html
I hardly think this add-on clip is an appropriate fix for applications requiring shielded connectors.
Being poor is that everything on daily basis is draining time resource. And that everything is likely to be needed. For example, watching stupid TV shows for entertainment, because after work it's already painful, don't have energy to study anything. Some of developers don't code on weekend and free time .. because they need to be chilled!
Ours is a BCBS-MA plan, but where the company is self-insured financially (BCSC makes their profit on the administration side, but not on the risk side [or maybe not as much on the risk side; I'm not sure]).
I’m not playing devil’s advocate, as I think the pay is indefensible. But I think the reason for the gap is that C-level executive salaries are public info. So, C-level employees have a lot of negotiating leverage. In addition to this, they generally have the ability to give themselves a raise (given that most boards are just yes-men).
Reading Karl Marx made me realize how much of an arrogant idiot he was, and now I think differently about people who take him seriously
I don't believe Alex Jones ever incited violence. SBF destroyed the net worth of a lot of people.
please, someone tell me this is satire!
An important point: depending on the country it can be better to ship it; I mean, if there are key disclosure laws, traveling with data simply isnt an option to me. Even if its just family photos, I wouldnt want them to be copied and stored forever like they do in Australia/USA
>But now that I’m aware Amazon is playing games, I start my shopping on Google and trusted reviews sites, and then head over to Amazon only once I’ve identified what I want.

So the author has stockholm syndrome. What I do is go to the company website and see where I can order besides amazon. Though some sellers only do sell on amazon.

This is basically an echo of the Ticketmaster post a week or two ago. I hate them and they abuse me as a customer but I still keep giving them money.
The documentation is amazingly clear and thorough.

Two questions:

Is there a way to train custom models?

Is there a way to convert models trained with spacy or PyTorch to WinkNLP?
Well they can get unemployment now too.
Citrus Greening
> He may have not run Twitter into the ground, but neither has Musk

Musk has added a $1bn/year debt servicing obligation - the company will have to make $1bn/year profit just to reach net $0. I don't think there's any scenario available where this isn't "running it into the ground".
You have to use an RJ-45 for stranded cable, not solid.
That does sound messed up -- it's one thing to be ignored on an issue like that but to be fired yourself is kind of crazy. I guess it's good to have friends in high places....
I didn't know that there is a .blackfriday TLD. :) And again something I learned here on HN.

https://icannwiki.org/.blackfriday
This is a false sense of understanding that many Linux users develop. You basically built a puzzle by putting together the pieces that fit together. And you have the illusion that you learned something about the picture drawn on the pieces.

You don’t really understand anything more except how to configure a system with a poorly designed configuration system. Installing a difficult-to-use Linux distribution teaches you nothing about operating systems, compilers, linkers & loaders, shared libraries, or anything else about the foundations of modern computing.
IMO the only thing that separates this from racketeering is that it's technically legal.
In some cases there are operations not supported on mps. For those set:

os.environ["PYTORCH_ENABLE_MPS_FALLBACK"] = "1"

and it will run on cpu if some operation isn't supported
This is the internet as I know it since a few years. Going without it is unbearable after just one or two pages. The cookie notices alone are unbelievable. It's wild to think that some people live with the unfiltered Internet.
what i tried to say in my post is that you can use social media to your own advantage as so many other people do - me included - and you can surround yourself with the right people and ignore the negative people who might make you feel bad and annoy you and this can have an impact on your self-confidence on social media. That's all.
Obviously you use it to print 3D printer parts.
The definition of DSL is vague, but at least in some sense, some operating systems do implement such a DSL.

For Windows between 2000 and 7, that would be VBScript. The language itself is primitive, but through various COM APIs (WMI, ADSI, ADO, MSXML, WScript.Shell, etc.) one can do borderline anything with the OS, or even with the whole Windows networks.

Modern Windows, while still supporting VBScript and most of these COM things, has also added PowerShell as another option.
For the mixer example, it seems the way to do it is to go to the brand's "store".

Perhaps there is a way to get there directly but the only way I know is to search for the brand name, scroll down until one of the brand's products appears (even if the offered example isn't what you want), click on that, and then on the product page you'll see "visit the <brand> store", if there is one. I assume it's something the company has to pay for as well.

Actually I just tried searching for "kitchenaid store" and mirable dictu the first page of results was all kitchenaid products.

I would give up on Amazon but some smaller brands (e.g. Anker) sell only through Amazon.
For AWS, 3rd quarter revenues alone were $20B, so $80B annual. I don't know where that other source of yours finds $17B, unless they are talking profit.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/27/aws-earnings-q3-2022.html

For the ads business, from The Information, but it's paywalled.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-s-pain-is-ama...

the info is in the second paragraph. The conlusions are entirely mine.

The WaPo article does mention $31B for last year.
that impact can be very negative.
FBPurity does a pretty good job on blocking FB ads. Not perfect, still cat and mouse, but that’s the only site it works on, so the devs spend more effort on only that.
It doesn't really fully replace mosh since it doesn't do any of the perceptual lag reduction, but I do use SSH over Wireguard and it is fairly stable. It can indeed survive roaming.
I was convinced of that until I was forced to stop using a wired connection (moved to a room that didn't have ethernet). I'm on wifi now and notice literally no difference compared to when I was on ethernet. As long as you've got a decent router/AP, modern wifi is really not bad. I get a consistent 400-500 Mb/s up and down with no hiccups. On my wifi 6 devices I get closer to a Gb/s.
Expecting a car to last decades and for the owner to keep the car for decades, is not realistic. Especially in this day and age.

Such customers are exceptions and I really doubt manufacturers take them into account.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!! Thank you
It kinda works, but mosh reconnects on failure regardless of how long time has passed. Since WG is a layer below, the TCP connection eventually gets reset. It is a huge difference. Also mosh works around lag by local echo, no such thing in WG.
Here's the original incident[1], as reported in the November 29th, 1965 edition of the Berkshire Eagle.

No mention is made in the article of the 27 8x10 color glossy pictures, with circles and arrows, and a paragraph on the back of each one, as entered into evidence by Stockbridge Police Chief Willian J. Obanhein.

I believe Arlo's telling of this story has earned him a place of notoriety and firmly took him out of the shadows of his father, noted ballad singer Woody Guthrie. We listened to this quite a few times in my youth, from a neighbor's record.

[1] https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39766863/alices-restaurant/
> No, it's a failing of government policy.

And who (or perhaps what socio-economic class) might be responsible for our inability to change these perpetually bad government policies that always seem to preserve this state of rampant inequality?
Embedded Rust and Embassy: GPIO Button Controlled Blinking
If you're going to defend calling an entire African country lazy, maybe this is for you

https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/links/essays/vcu.h...

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Lazy-Black-stereotyp...
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'm grateful for all the cool projects I get to see through HN :)
Tesla makes real products you can buy and take apart. It’s hard to hide fakery the way you can with financial companies.
I'd be interested in how this compares to, say, sports stars or celebrity actors.

That is, the growth of markets in the past 35 years means that people at the top in "winner take all" markets are able to take a lot more from the bigger pie they command.

I'm not saying this is fair or good for society, but I think comparing to things like sports stars would shine a better light on the dynamics that allow all of those at the top to rake in disproportionately more money.
Of course anything can happen in the long run, but right now it sells products that millions of people love and is a public company that employs 1000s of people — that's already a pretty high bar to me!
The rumor/theory I have heard about Netflix is that increasing discoverability too much would allow people to see two negative traits of Netflix: How often things come and go from the platform (which other apps like Criterion Collection embrace), and just how limited their library actually is at a given time.

Scroll through recommendations. It looks like they have hundreds of great movies for you to watch! And yes, technically they do. But look how many times they try suggesting the same movies in different categories, inflating the view in a way to make the library seem bigger. One movie might show up "Because you liked comedy..." then "Because you watched <comedy movie>" then "Light-hearted movies".

TLDR money and masking their poor library quality.
We need less DSL, IMO, more constrained code generation from data models.

There is so much bloat due to everyone making a DSL to learn distributed systems with, or every little bit of UNIX coming with its own text config format.

I’d like to get away from generating yaml for Docker and k8s and import balancing forks of microservice logic v8 style; read kernel telemetry from eBPF in the app to determine how many forks the code can add or needs to subtract, and terraform because it’s still just a Linux box under there.

But the cottage industry that profits from these ideas is threatened by these ideas and sticks with showing off a new arbitrary string parser that ALSO sends the strings to an API for you!

The software industry has turned into a jobs program and has little to do with novel engineering.
Getting people kicked off speaking events is a common 'deplatforming' tactic.
There are no DMs on this site.
How exactly does any other distro solve that? Please don't tell me you genuinely find PPAs to be a better alternative...
His PR team bought the New York Times. It's ludicrous to think that they're giving him this positive treatment without bribes. Well, not bribe-bribes, of course, but rather the kind of bribes that very rich and well-connected people can afford.
no, no man. hell no, man.
Is this link about Betteridge’s law of headlines correct?
Memory addresses?
It doesn't even have to be that complicated. How many bugs and contributors can a project have?

Add a bug_id_lockfile where you claim a namespace that starts with a letter, and if you sync up and someone has already claimed that namespace, you have to change and rename your bugs. The time of the checkin determines who gets it. There might be a couple bugs you have to rename, if you don't sync up right away.

So my bugs would start with A, yours with B, and so on. Once you get to 26 contributors you do two letters, etc.
> Spacetime is the Ether, in my opinion. This was tested, but never proved/disproved

Am I missing something ? because you just linked an article that clearly disproves your first assertion.

... and followed it by what looks like a poorly written research article by a self described "independent physicist" (https://nitter.net/tavi_balaci) with only three published articles and all kinds of red flags.
PE's usually try rebranding and introducing new product lines to try to spiff up a distressed property. So far that part of the process is not going that well.

Also, there's not a lot of assets that can be sold off to raise funds. Often LBO targets are seen as worth more in parts than whole, but that's not really the case here.
> Ultimately the more centralized the power the less efficient the system is. Markets are great because they push decision making down to the fringes, closer to where the ground truth is. With highly centralized systems there is a bottleneck both in getting information to the decision makers, but also in overwhelming those decision makers with too much detail and losing fidelity.

Wouldn't this point to CEOs not being super effective?
I wish tmux -CC worked as well as mosh did. I really prefer tmux as native GUI widgets.
Interesting how almost no one commented on the actual article here. I think this ownership probably has to more do with the fact that mainstream banks don't want to get near crypto exchanges than some kind of corrupt conspiracy. The current regulatory system relies on outsourcing AML/KYC to banks but I guess no one ever thought about what happens if someone is rich enough to just buy a bank. Plenty of 5 employee credit unions around just waiting to be acquired!
A true engineer orders the part and then immediately starts trying to build it.
No disagreement with your post in particular.

Just pointing out that the C-suite is also a kind of centralized power.

Unsure why these kinds of stories always devolve into some kind of ism-vs-ism in the comment section because it almost always missed the point.

CEO pay is held up as a symptom of something. My interpretation of that symptom is that it represents a shift in capital over a period of decades. The interesting discussions are around what changed? how did that happen? is it ok? if not, what should be done?

Me? I happen to think it's not ok but like most, don't have a coherent set of suggestions about a path forward.

[edited for grammar]
I imagine connections are pretty important.
Shopping on Amazon has been painful. Just takes so long when a few years ago it seemed as if I can trust what is sold on Amazon and search is a lot more relevant that I don't have to scroll a few pages to find what I want.

Yet I still buy almost everything on Amazon, and I still go through the pains of navigating around the sponsored products. The checkout, shipping, and returns experience is why I still use Amazon - not sure how long that lasts
The path to success now is still the Walmart model but you have to take longer to get there subtlety. The other Walmarts are out there monitoring for threats and will litigate!

So you have to appear novel to early adopters, and grow into being a landfills cash cow in a politically correct way.
It's absolutely ridiculous in Denmark, how much "fat-free" is still provided in the shops and even the doctors still talk about it. This nonsense was rebuked long ago, yet they doesn't seem to know!
Reminds me that I want to make a keto dessert sometime. Whipped cream with high-cacao chocolate sprinkled on top. Maybe with almonds!
He doesn't have to claim anything because he's presumed innocent. To nail him for wire fraud you need to prove:

>(1) that the defendant voluntarily and intentionally devised or participated in a scheme to defraud another out of money;

>(2) that the defendant did so with the intent to defraud

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...

Thus far he hasn't admitted to either and so hasn't yet admitted to a crime.
For anyone who's never played this game before... it's brutal.
Can anyone recommend any solid writing about this?
How did you come about this information though?
Yep my wired is 10Gb and it is better than wireless.
You make a good point, that there are a couple of decent, innovative retail energy providers.

My own opinion of the sector has been tarnished by repeated bankruptcies and constant haranguing to get a sodding smart meter installed.
Yeah, I thought "what kind of newfangled abomination is this" earlier this year, grumbling it was all that was available at Home Depot at that moment. Pleasantly surprised upon using one though, what a great time saver.