skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the late 90s/early 2000s the IT program at RIT used FirstClass, and there was a pivotal moment I still think about to this day: I was seated at two computers, both signed into FirstClass on different accounts. I sent an email from one account to another. Before I had even finished lifting my finger off of the mouse button after clicking “Send” button on the first computer, the email showed up on the second computer. And that was the moment I realized just how crazy fast computers and networks are.

Unrelated, but while I’m here… I also remember FirstClass because for an IT database course we had to submit our final project into a write-only drop box. Except I found it wasn’t write-only. I emailed the professor informing them of this, but because logs showed that I had entered and opened one student’s submission, I got a zero on the project and my final grade dropped from an A to a B…
Further, it’s often applied backwards. Some financial engineering self proclaimed wizard will claim “x+y+z=a and the stock is trading at b, and a>>b, therefore the conglomerate discount is too large so we can earn risk free profit (aka arbitrage) by breaking this company up and publicly listing x,y, and z as independent units”. See: Xerox, for example.

Typically in mergers, you see accretion due to the removal of duplicate functions on the cost side (you don’t need two HR departments for example), but sometimes you get negative credit if you’re a too big / too opaque / too confusing.
Fair and balanced.
My last several purchases with amazon have been a breeze, and i will continue (especially as local shops are taking full advantage to up their prices for seemingly no good reason except 'there'sa crisis')
I regularly kill cookies.
Perhaps it's a .com thing as I'll take the healthcare route and search through .nl, .it, .de, .co.uk for the same item.
And then pay from where i have my account.
I didn't say give them a raise. I said fund them.
Relevant Orwell quote "And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play. When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don't want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit 'tasty'. There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you"
The connector stays the same, only the latch clip is replaced. Add a drop of elastic superglue if in doubt.
Employee pay is also a signal, but a much more expensive one, because total payroll at a large company is usually orders of magnitude larger than the CEO’s compensation.
The whole website is satire, it says so in the logo :).
I see! Funny enough the app of the company I work for does this. The tech is simply running a stateful server behind the web server.
No innovation got them where they were
I think you can buy any of the latest Pixels and install some FOSS OSes on them. Was it GrapheneOS or something?
First time I hear about such a connection. Maybe better to list a couple of arguments first before asking others to defend? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
Is there a specific crimper you recommend?
can i ask you two questions?

- do you use Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Tiktok, etc...

- if you do, why do you use them? to consume or to produce?
Go-Fed: ActivityPub in Go
Just curious, what's the use-case for this?
Isn’t google getting rid of all the old legacy unlimited plans?
Yet oddly, it isn't seen as a much stronger signal...
Underrated reasons to be thankful
Thanks to everyone for the kind support and sharing of your wisdom.
He's being interviewed by Sorkin so even if FTX hadn't crashed, it would have been as interesting* and enlightening as SBF's interview with Levine. It will be even better now, and I will enjoy reading the transcript.

* TBH my only interest in the whole things is Schadenfreude, like checking out a car crash in the street. The sector is so tiny that even if FTX brings the whole thing down it'll be a largely invisible ripple on a macro scale.
FWIW this seems to be a NY focused publication and my understanding is that the tradition started on WNEW. I grew up listening to it, but I have no idea how far it’s spread outside of the NYC metro area.
I'm grateful for being able to be (genuinely) grateful.

Seriously. Every time I see people who could not help themselves being so thankless/unmindful/ungrateful, I'm grateful for being able to be in a grateful state of mind and Act accordingly.
The dollars were used to purchase a claim on crypto payable by the exchange FTX. But it is not at all clear at this point that if someone sent money to them ("them" being some kind of quantum superposition of FTX and Alameda Research) and used it to purchase Bitcoin on the exchange, that FTX ever did anything other than update a number in their internal customer-facing ledgers. They had only $639,000 in Bitcoin on their balance sheet in their bankruptcy filing. And obviously the crypto is not all sitting at FTX ready to meet customer withdrawals or they would never have paused them in the first place.
It's an interview not a talk (see my other comment)
I believe your description was accurate before ca. 2015, but at some point they reportedly started making commingling the default even for "Sold by Amazon" items. Commingling isn't the only issue, either; there's still the problem of products for which Amazon was never an authorized retailer and so their listing/SKU may have been created to sell counterfeits in the first place. In any case, there have been multiple lawsuits specifically alleging that counterfeit items were "Sold by Amazon" [1] [2] [3].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201125141347/https://www.forbe...

[2] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4495986/1/apple-inc-v-m...

[3] https://www.geekwire.com/2016/daimler-ag-sues-amazon-knockof...
In 1978 GE was the largest by revenue. They made 54B in revenues ~13B in a quarter.

In 2022 Apple is the largest. They made 124B in a quarter.

Revenues are up 1000%

The larger the capital you manage, the the higher the compensation.

Btw, I am not justifying, just trying to understand what could lead to this.
You have to threaten to shoot people to get them to practice any other -ism.

So, yes, capitalism in the sense of the freedom to trade one's labor does appear to be naturally and universally emergent in advanced human societies, in the absence of violent interference.
There seems to be no reason to try to reach 0 dietary saturated fats. If whipped cream is making up enough of your diet to have any measurable negative health consequences, eat less whipped cream (but my god, you'd have to be eating a lot for it to matter), otherwise, live a little.

If you feel the need to make some kind of "fake" food to be healthy, just eat something else. If you feel like the occasional lump of whipped cream on a dessert is going to ruin your life or really have any negative consequence at all, reevaluate your base assumptions.
Of course not all these models are is a description of the mammalian brains tooling to make prediction. There is not a single reason to believe it’s the real nature of “reality,” whatever that is supposed to mean.
Defining a DSL for writing operating systems would essentially be the same as writing an operating system (a huge amount of work!). The range of what an OS does is wide enough that your DSL will probably be pretty general purpose anyway, though.

DSLs for interfacing with OSes exist in the form of command shells, syscalls, and ABIs.
Draft policy proposal would authorize SF Police to use deadly force with robots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33726496 - Nov 2022 (207 comments)
LMGTFY: https://www.google.com/amp/s/247wallst.com/technology-3/2022...

Not an authoritative source. No rationale given.
Yes I understand NPV and DCF but not OPs point. The eCommerce arm makes a lot of money so I don’t understand how you could come to the conclusion that its present value is zero.
Software engineers are the exception, not the norm. High-income people in the US are more likely to have high-income parents than in most Western countries. It's difficult to enter the upper class in one lifetime, because your peers who earn as much as you do already have intergenerational wealth.
Corporate consolidation may be easier now, but monopolies are nothing new. Theodore Roosevelt was famous for being a "trust buster". Some part of the story has to be regulatory.
The spreads are egregious, though. You can buy from PG&E for several hundred dollars per MWH. You can likely sell to them for a couple dollars per MWH. No, you do not get NEM for your neighborhood nuclear plant.

Or you can overprovision, discard unused output (or try to do something useful — even just heating up a big heat reservoir is useful for district heating if you feel like building out a system to deliver the heat), and still potentially win on overall price.

Large grids are economical when reasonably run. They are not economical when poorly run.
Yeh, that’s what I’d like too (or using one of the other edge compute services)
I’ve had great success using “tmux -CC” / iTerm’s native integration with EternalTerminal.
Mathematical theorem used to crack US Government encryption algorithm
What happens if the fake looks like a real person.
We're building a product research engine with Reddit's favorite products in one place: https://looria.com/reddit/overview
FTX is not a bank. Thus, by definition, what happened cannot be called a "bank run".

While I now understand what was meant by "political actors", I do not understand what were these other assets, besides other peoples' money.

Until someone is convicted, "fraud" should be in quotes.
What about ones perception of being able to improve their life? What of opportunity? hope? These are human beings after-all, they perceive such concepts as integral to their reality.

In the post-war period prior to the 70s, it was (more) common and reasonable for a high school educated factory worker (in the US) to have optimism in their ability to work in that role and improve their state of affairs. Afford to buy a home, pay off the mortgage, buy a car, provide for a couple of kids, send one of them to college, drive to a national park for an annual vacation.

Nowadays, one can be both lucky in terms of their upbringing and be highly educated (post secondary or even advanced degrees), and yet very easily find themselves in a position where the above "life staples" (house, car, family without poverty) are meaningfully out of reach. And in many cases, not even conceivably within reach.

It's not merely that housing in major cities is objectively less affordable, it's that the stage upon which life is lived has changed in it's nature. It's a perpetual sunset rather than sunrise, optimism is either for suckers or for those who mischaracterize a certain degree of background luck as merit.

I'm in the lucky category. But I think when we boil down the collective subjective experience of hundreds of millions (billions?) to broad metrics and indicators, our models lose the fidelity they need for the subjects to feel they are being taken seriously. I understand why we have these models and tools for better navigating the civilizational state-space, but they're obviously imperfect, and they're of little comfort when serious concerns go unacknowledged (let alone unaddressed) for decades.

Now it's possible that CEO pay is orthogonal to all of this. Perhaps as a measure it's one of the metrics that loses too much descriptive power in it's generalization... but it certainly does reek of something.
Buy something if you have the money. It's called free market. So it's not by accident like this, it's not a bug, it's a feature.
I have a hard time believing that Kanye West, a public entertainer with decades of media experience, is a reasonable bellwether for how SBF is likely to perform under similar circumstances.
Modifications are the least of our worries when there are actual nut jobs sitting behind the wheel of completely stock cars.
There are systems that we could implement that don't have this problem. They could still be generous. In fact they could be more generous. This is classic problem of perverse incentives created by inefficient, though well meaning system.
A lot of starvation is due to the kulaks burning the crops so the communists wouldn't seize their land. Also times are even more prosperous now and people are still starving.
Single dispatch has nothing to do with multiple inheritance.

“Many versions of Lisp added OOP through the addition of an object system called Flavors, which went beyond Smalltalk and included multiple inheritance and method combination.”

http://www.paulgraham.com/chameleon.html

“The power of flavors (and the name flavors) comes from the ability to mix several flavors and get a new flavor.”

https://franz.com/support/documentation/current/doc/flavors....
Or the acquisition was meant to take over / replace an existing product and those working on the existing product had no idea, and what happens is continued misalignment, pushbacks, conflicts and years go by with nothing being done.
Voltaire and the one-liner (2017)
It seems consistent with their policies regarding anonymity and safety.
Yeah, there really wasn’t much global competition either. So we have much larger companies competing all over the world against other huge companies.
For applications where there may be many arbitrary "bridges" (aka integrations, plugins) to integrate with external software, a great way to scale support for bridges is to make them completely separate projects in external repositories.

Each bridge can be an arbitrary external executable that "speaks" a very simple protocol and schema (implemented in, say, JSON or YAML), communicating through environment variables, command-line options, and stdin/stout. A developer using any programming language can quickly create a new bridge without ever contacting your project. Not only does this allow a community to build and maintain plugins separate from your project, but companies can build private bridges for their own proprietary software.

An example is asdf's plugins (https://asdf-vm.com/plugins/create.html). There are many "officially supported" plugins, but making and using your own external plugin (in any language) takes about 10 minutes.
Listening to Alice's Restaurant on Thanksgiving is a tradition I grew up with in Northern California.
They often hide interviewees faces; this is just a different method. As long as they disclosed this fact, I don't see what the problem is.
The equipment is a small part of the fab process; the materials and process steps are critical and every fab is a little different. For example, Intel has been using cobalt wires while others use copper; this may or may not have contributed to Intel's problems.
Seattle here, it’s a yearly tradition :)
Hard to know what fmajid means - although mentioning revenue is a serious black flag. Google’s search is a cost-centre and their advertising is a profit-centre. You could say Amazon is similar because in 2021 AWS made all the income and e-commerce made zero income[1].

I would be interested to see an analysis of income per business sector*, including their advertising sector, for Amazon. fmajid would need that information to be able to make the conclusions they drew.

From article: “After selling $31 billion in ads last year, Amazon became the third-largest online ad company in the United States”

Hard to know what this means, since we can’t know how much it “cost” Amazon for those ads (especially the cost of consumer dissatisfaction as the article mentions, and what is opportunity-cost?)

* and ideally assets per sector as well, plus a metric for internal capital reinvestment (VC style).

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/how-amazon-makes-money-4587523 Amazon unfortunately seems to only report on their segments: North America, International, and AWS.
I understand approximating present value by discounting cash flows but not how you would come to the conclusion that the eCommerce business is valued at zero because the sum of AWS and ads make the total of the market cap.
If I were H-1B I would stay, but only until I got a new job to sponsor me.

And I would be looking as hard as I could.
Finance is a service job (like lawyers, gardeners, doctors, haircutters, etc). The fact that money is attached gives them disproportional adulation and influence. Their useful function is making sure there is liquidity and availability of capital for companies and households to function, just like gardeners keep the weeds, down and help make the flowers flourish.

The celebrity obsession with CEOs mostly gets in the way of them doing their jobs, but the job at least is part of making something happen. Hired gun CEOs can do a lot for a company, but the pay is probably out of whack there too.
Yes, I am old enough to remember the years 1994/1995, when Intel has introduced the split between the "Pentium Pro" CPUs intended for "professionals" who should pay dearly for the right of having computers that function without errors, and the "Pentium" CPUs (2nd generation Pentium @ 90/100 MHz), intended for the naive laymen, whose computers are not important, so it does not matter if their computers make mistakes from time to time.

This market segmentation introduced by Intel has broken the tradition created by IBM, who had taken care from the beginning to provide the IBM PC with error-detecting memory.
Somebody’s been on a gold-buying bender. It’s not clear who – or why
> A photon leaves a star, then strikes your eye a billion years later, and those events could be entangled, as far as the photon is concerned, they happened at the same instant in time.

If a photon does not experience time then I find it challenging to imagine that it could have a perspective at all.
The swedish book Mot Bättre Vetande i Matematik by Andrejs Dunkels explains all the maths you need to know to begin studying at the university (meaning all you can learn in primary school + high school and then some) in less than 100 pages A5, no previous knowledge required, with some explanatory cartoons.

Cant recommend it enough, made me able to skip class in high school for about a year while still passing the tests with ease. (bad life hack ig)
If only one of them earns a salary, and it is agreed upon by both, why is it unfair? That’s a perfectly valid choice - not everyone is a careerist and if one salary is enough for the family it is a really healthy choice. This “life is about work mentality” is honestly, harmful.
1. The New Scientist is a respectable science magazine from the UK, there's no reason not to believe the story.

2. I think you have misunderstood what they did. People often request that their identities are hidden when they are interviewed by news organizations. This is usually done by filming them in silhouette, and sometimes altering their voices. This is no different, except that the AI "mask" gives the viewer a different face to look at. It's not controversial or a breach of any policies.
House Design Harnesses the Sun
Best way to collect emails from a website?
Have a website and would like to start an email form to collect email. How? What's the best way?
Amazon is certainly getting more scummy. Last time I made an order, it sneakily turned one item into a subscription (in a tiny font it said "the next arrival scheduled on...") and stopped showing cost of the faster delivery option it selected without asking me, i.e. it selected the 2nd option which is 3 days earlier, and that option had no price tag on it, only when I chose the slower option, it showed that the faster ootion is 10 bucks (on a 30 bucks item).

We are seeing how capitalism is advancing to its next phase: false advertising. Shorty after will follow another phase: extortion (uncancellable subscriptions, automatically signed legal agreements, etc.)
You should try a-Shell if you want a native vim
> I definitely always got the sense that pg had a negative assessment of him

Perhaps in the past? But he seems favourably inclined these days.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1592852796185128961
My read is that people who like to "buy American" are often concerned with where the product is manufactured, as opposed to where the company is headquartered, or where the product was designed. On that score AMD is quite a bit less American made than Intel simply due to being fabricated it Taiwan and assembled in Malaysia (as far as I can find).
I'm not interested at all, going by his Twitter, it will all be complete nonsense. Hopefully he's intercepted by the FBI and finally brought to justice.
Buying oil w/o dollars could explain this article: https://www.marketplace.org/2022/11/22/somebodys-been-on-a-g...
Orbits (2010)
I'm thankful for this community! Sometimes I don't feel smart enough to be here... but I am thankful to lurk for now!
I put my email address on the site and say "email me".

Been doing that for 15 years and has worked wonders.
Tried doing it in college second year with my friends, failed miserably , liked the logs flowing though
Why not draw your own picture as you read an article? Then you'll understand it better. That's how I read contracts. After that you can usually toss the drawing because the picture will be in your head and from then on you can just refer to the text if you need to.
In my experience, very intelligent people can fall into a trap where they're so used to being able to solve problems based on their initial assessment that their ability to actually dig in and solve more difficult problems analytically suffers. The classic example of this is the smart kid who breezes through school and then smacks into a wall when the curriculum gets difficult enough to actually require them to study and work hard.

Combine this with a lot of money and you end up with someone with both the inclination and ability to take risky major actions quickly, as well as the resources necessary to walk away from bad bets intact. Over time I think this would reward and encourage the growth of impulsive tendencies in a person. But what happens if that person takes a wild swing that fails in a way they can't get away from or buy their way out of? (Not to mention the compounding effect of any drugs they might be on.)
Given it's Andrew Ross Sorkin, he probably won't.
I think it's a northeast thing. But not everyone in the northeast knows it, either. You're more likely to know it if you have to drive for at least an hour for Thanksgiving dinner and you like to browse radio stations.
Just looking at Wikipedia: Neo-fascism usually includes ultranationalism, racial supremacy, populism, authoritarianism, nativism, xenophobia, and anti-immigration sentiment...

Probably not.
DeepSpeeech is very old software. Vosk works just fine https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api. People even run tiny Whisper on Pi, though they have to wait ages.
You’ve taken the discussion into a discussion about religion and not just about “natural philosophy”, which is fine, but not what anyone is talking about with “believe in science”.

If we want to talk about religion and taking no one’s word for it you’ve already started us in this direction by pointing out his rejection of church orthodoxy, which is basically the extreme end of Protestant practice.

If you believe that God wrote the Bible and that the church is made up of corrupt men and that only your personal understanding of the word of God is the path towards the True, well, you’re completely at odds with the epistemology of the Catholic Church with regards to religion and very much primed to take the same approach of a personal relationship with God and his word to a personal relationship with natural philosophy.
If the maintainer themselves added the backdoor, can't they be considered a malicious actor?
If native is better, there's always the option of a program running on the C64 itself. I know Blackbird is good, and SID-Wizard is also quite popular. The ergonomics aren't as bad as you'd expect...or, not as bad as I would expect anyway.