skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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well, you're not a MBA or a decision maker so your input here is mute. People are the means of production for a technology company and people cost money. This isn't complicated. And make no mistake, great measures are taken to minimize costs.

Whether you label something a profit center or cost center is irrelevant to the authors point. The significance of the conclusion remains true regardless of the label used.
Someone tried this, it was called "USSR" (a.k.a. Soviet Union)! They started by nationalizing all businesses, and had all sort of interesting laws, like jail time for people without "real" jobs (to prevent people living off passive income). Or jail time for people who were trying to get rich by selling stuff for too high of a price.

Look it up, pretty interesting story. They did have to build a strong border protection force to prevent people from trying to escape the country, but the country still lasted 69 years.
A few more "getting started" examples would be nice.
People with 8 and 9 figure bail don't go to the bondsman on the corner. They usually have their own armed guards from companies like Guidepost Solutions enforce their home detention and it is usually secured by bank accounts or real estate owned by their family or other rich people they know.
I’ve always found this idiotic. This isn’t Renaissance Florence, using M to mean thousand is just financier gatekeeping snobbery.
I do think the default a long time ago used to be very low. I know I went in at account creation and set it to something way higher than it's default at the time.

Looking now though, it says 100100 for me. But i also know i changed my master password at some point, so maybe i got reset to the current default.
I wonder if this whole thing counts as “effective altruism”? Maybe he is effective at scaring other crypto “adventurers” (i.e. people who like to play with other people’s money as if they were in the wild west) and the number and size of scams diminishes in the future? That’d be a good badge to have on his boy-scout t-shirt (or whatever boy-scouts use).
Back then mainframes had specialized hardware to deal with them.

Note: the other day I read ICL mainframes had specialized instructions to deal with pre-decimal pounds.
> Were the journalists foolish enough to install the app

Foolish doesn't describe it, if they knew they were taking a calculated risk.

Suppose they knew there was a risk the app could be used to track them, and maybe even a risk that tracking data could be used to assassinate them. But if TikTok tracked them with the app, that could also become part of their story against TikTok and thus advance their journalistic career. Fortune favors the bold.
You may also like "24-core CPU and I can’t type an email" from 2018:

• part 1: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/24-core-cpu-and... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17780127 (313 comments)

• part 2: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/24-core-cpu-and... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17824575 (99 comments)
Definitely a big question, and I don't know much about sociology so don't have any data. I will say though that using race as a signal for diversity has a few advantages. First it's a relatively objective metric that can't really be faked. Income also falls into that category, but my experience is that I grew up in a pretty diverse area, my schools growing up had about equal numbers of white, black, latino, and asian people, all from widely different economic groups. And the social groups were much, much more along racial lines than economic ones. Even leaving my home that was my experience in university and after. I'm not going to try to get into diagnosing why that is, it's just something I've consistently noticed, and it leads me to believe that racial groups do have their own unique cultural perspective that transcends income.

In the end it's tough for me to see any good diversity metrics beyond income and race, and it seems to me they are both valid and not necessarily related. If you value diversity you should probably aim to have both economic and racial diversity.

I've also noticed that many of the people claiming that race is a bad diversity metric have minimal experience interacting with different racial groups which leads me to believe it is largely from a place of ignorance or even bad faith.
I was hoping you would address the points about composability rather than turning it into a beauty contest between the two languages.
I don’t understand why the blame is put on GDPR (which is NOT the reason for cookie banners btw, it’s the ePrivacy directive). Websites choose to have cookie banner because they have abusive cookies, tracking, etc. Some websites such as GitHub famously made the choice to remove tracking cookies, and now do not need a cookie banner. Forcing websites to clearly display their crappy practices is a good thing. Forcing websites to ask for user consent before tracking them is good.
Averaged over all nuclear power, it (even combined with Chernobyl) is a surprisingly small extra cost. I'm not sure world governments will be able to coordinate a mutual insurance policy between each other over this, which is an important factor at this scale, but IMO the economic cost for nuclear is that it's now kinda meh vs. using LiIon to balance PV.
Just because it gets distorted, not that it changes the message.

The solar panels installed on the White House during the Carter years were a solar hot water heater, not a photovoltaic system.

Here is part of his speech from the dedication ceremony in 1979: "In the year 2000 this solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy…. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people."

Details are not readily available without clearance, but the roof of the White House is a limited commodity and there was probably an antimissile system installed there after the solar panels. They might have needed the space.

Here in 2022 we can see which road was chosen. We didn't get to 20% renewables by 2000, but we are up to 12%, so making progress, if somewhat more slowly.
If we're listing fun games i'd like to add Berzerk :)
It's a shame his company is gate keeping NMN now that he's created demand for it
You don't need to ban it. Just forbid US companies from doing business with TikTok, and their users will plummet when they can't pay for CDNs in America.
Scraping the SoC to expose JTAG pads on the package
It matters if the people putting forward that cash were compensated by the scheme; Ie, if his paying bond (and potentially skipping town) is performed in a way to reduce compensation to the fraud/bankruptcy claimants.
Not around the time where it mattered. I loved Lisp, but when our lab moved to an x86 architecture it was Allegro big bucks or nothing.

I was referring to the above pestering of the user base, not that there aren't alternatives.
One of the problems I recall with such mailing-list-based discussion groups was that participants had an expectation that the discussions would stay in the group, and that members wouldn't dump such semi-private conversations (which might have included various controversial takes, etc.) onto the larger web - but in many cases, that did happen, with resulting blowback for individuals whose comments were taken out of context.

The expectation of any kind of clearly attributable group discussion on the web remaining private appears to be long-gone. Even with closed, in-house corporate or institutional discussion groups, it's likely everything is logged and recorded for review by management at their whim. It's all depressingly Orwellian these days.
I recommend getting a Framework. It's probably not as good as an M1, but it'll last you more than two years, and if it doesn't, you can just change the CPU for a better one without having to throw all the other, perfectly good hardware away.
Jeeze, it's not some crazy conspiracy that being the first to rat out your accomplices tends to leave you way better off, it's literally intentional, to encourage turncoats.
He's written a book, documents his lifting on Youtube, and has been tweeting his own very opinionated positions on nutrition and food intake for many years. Maybe there's a jump on my part, but "huge jump in logic"?
I'd recommend starting with a loom and knitting a hat or something similar. It's easier to be consistent and pick it up and put it down.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hat+knitting+loom
I've been thinking about that. The IT industry doesn't lend itself to boundaries very well so I think I'd like a career where work stays at work.
I mean, that's what I'm wondering about his parents. They must have known, or at least had a feeling. And not looking into that and giving your child some advice not to go down this path, or to be careful, and at the very least, not to get involved yourself, that would have been the responsible thing. Maybe it's the blindness we can all fall prey to when it comes to objectively thinking about our blood.
I'm so close to the product after building it that it's not obvious to me which things are not obvious to other people seeing it for the first time, so thank you, this is very valuable feedback!

> is it akin to blogging where individuals regularly put out articles

Sort of. I think of being modeled after a text-based subreddit.

> Scientific publishing that enforces a web of citations

It's doesn't enforce citations, but it does have a credibility mechanism. That's what the "stars" on each item are supposed to be doing. When a writer stars another person's article, a link gets created to them in the constellation. The constellation is intended to visualize the web of ideas that connects people. It could probably be improved upon to be more functional and not just an art piece!

> Can I have friends/subscribers of sorts?

Yes. Other people on Satellite can subscribe to you, and people can also subscribe to get new posts sent to them via email without having to make an account. In this sense it's similar to Substack.

> Do my posts appear on any sort of front page anywhere?

Yes. All posts appear on the front page immediately under the "new" feed. Top-starred posts appear on the front page under the "top" feed. The subscribed feed just filters the posts from people who you're subscribed to.

> I'm still very befuddled at how the tool wants me to use it.

Basically the idea is you post articles and comment on other peoples articles. Everyone has a their own blog page at /@<username>

> Mastodon seems like the closest competitor, what does Satellite bring to the party?

The biggest difference is that every post on Satellite is digitally signed. Satellite supports signing with a local wallet, but it's not required. Another thing Satellite offers is data permanence. Every 28 days, all the data is archived in a kind of "snapshot" and added to IPFS as a kind of insurance for users that the value of their contributions won't be totally lost, even if Satellite shuts down (which is one problem with Mastodon, that all your data depends on being hosted by one instance). Another thing thing that archiving does is that makes the network "forkable" which I think is going to be an important part of how social media works in the future.

> If the tool is not for me, that's also fine! It might be for someone else.

In any case, I really appreciate you taking the time to engage :)
Feels a bit gimmicky to me, but maybe I’m missing some need in the market.

I wonder about auto-generated captchas perhaps? or are these going to be easy to reverse?

On a side note: I’d love to switch from Cloudflare to bunny, but it’s missing a WAF. We were promised it from bunny for a long while, but didn’t see it yet. Personally I would imagine it being a more core feature for a CDN than AI bunnies on the edge, but I guess I’m old and boring.
Does this mean a physics degree qualifies?
I'm writing this on an old i3 and it feels perfectly fine. It would probably take days to compile a large project like Chrome or LibreOffice, but, as long as I run the make under a nice, I can continue using the computer and the only sign something big is happening will be the CPU fan kicking in.
IMO it is often "good enough" to just buy (almost) anything (beside the cheapest) when the stakes are not high. And that will pretty much do most of the time.

For important decisions, choosing the main scale(s) (and their weight) is a good strategy. For example, for everything food, scale = "healthier" for me, So this somewhat simplifies decisions.

However, I do try to rapidly harness the "wisdom of the crowd", when possible. For Amazon, I've been using an extension [1] lately that filters results by number of reviews and rating. It is not science, but It's a fast way out.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trusty-search-assi...
recycling would be a problem.
I've just added a first book for free on validating email. Hope that will help :) Thanks for all the feedback so far.

Also here is a link to youtube video of the app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXuzWrOhBPk
Great write up, thank you! I know there's a much better chance you're right on the nose than not. I have ADHD as well (diagnosed and medicated), so I empathized with your comment. I also have my 9-5 day job so these hobbies are usually done after and on the same desk I work from; I just undock my work laptop and dock my personal laptop.

The thing that would stop me from reconnecting to the internet is I'd build a custom-built desktop PC that doesn't have a Wi-Fi card (although it seems these days more motherboards have Wi-Fi built in than not). The only way I would be able to connect it to the internet is buying and installing a Wi-Fi card or finding an Ethernet cable to run to my router. It would be a much higher resistance and more time to catch myself and reevaluate.

I definitely have lightened up as far as criticizing myself for not being as productive as others despite having the capabilities. I'm confident I've made really great art in various forms but doing it consistently and making it a long-term habit is where I struggle.

Thanks for your comment!
Defrauding willfully ignorant people is still fraud and still a crime. You shouldn't be excused for doing bad things by doing them to people who aren't the brightest or best.
I touched on this topic when this all bubbled over a week or so ago [0]. I got down-voted for somehow implying a comparison between H Epstein's pedophilia etc to SBF's financial crimes (which, looking back, was a rather hilarious and bizarre conclusion some drew).

YMMV. I wish you luck!

IMHO, I think that he doesn't have enough incriminating information about political figures to be "hit-able". He must have some information about the Democrats' shady financials, likely going way up, but let's face it, we all know that already. This contrasts H Epstein, who likely knew which political figures were pedophiles, sexual predators, and all that horrific business, which is far worse and likely led to the "anomalous events" that occurred during H Epstien's arrest.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33963097
He doesn't have any "dirt" on major politicians. No point in keeping him quiet
Images probably have location data in the EXIF as well that can be used for this. If notifications cause background data fetch from their servers that could also probably leak IP address.
When there are too many choices, you have to accept you may not pick the optimal product, and only research enough to bring the options within your tolerance for sub-optimality.
You can hire a consultant to explain Git to you. Depending on where that consultant is in the world and their career, their hourly rate could vary a great deal. The hard part will be figuring if they actually know Git well enough to teach you about it.

What you need to know to use Git is variable and depends on what you want to do and how many people you want to collaborate with.

To me the situation you are setting up doesn't hang together well. Git isn't magic and if you are studying DL/ML/etc. Algorithms to understand them well enough to use them and write code or design an application with them, Git isn't hard to learn. Sure, Git can have deep details and capabilities but you don't need that to use them.

I would suggest you purchase a GitHub account or similar service and just start using Git. Get a paid account so that you have more control of the repo. Read the user agreement to make sure you agree with it. Setting up your own Git server usually isn't worth it.
I'm happy to have added a nuance! I know the term from my Rationalwiki binge, although it's even found on the regular Wikipedia. I don't know how much Rationalwiki is up your alley, they have several articles on propaganda and logic & rethoric, I personally found them enlightening (and entertaining!).
Interesting! Never thought of adding important contact info to my emergency stash, but in retrospect it is a great idea.

Linked your project.
Sounds like a pretty damned nice $250m basement
It’s not the same thing. I’d love something like <meta> tags where the websites declare their cookies, with a standardized set of metadata. We could have a browser native permission system like we have for microphone, camera, geolocation, and the possibility to allow or disallow cookies in a unified way. Blocking the undeclared/disallowed cookies would then be done at the browser level, so there would be no need to trust that the websites actually respect the settings
I wonder why URLs would be unencrypted given that all the other things are encrypted. I guess browser integration relies on it?
I made the leap into a weird industry (biotech) as a designer/engineer, and though I don't "fully regret it" I still see friends/peers build up a lot of wealth that's simply not possible in this space.

Yes, life's been more meaningful; we've treated patients and sent them home and that's a great feeling, but always with the question, "at what personal cost?"
Yeah, yikes.
emphasis collateral.

A loan was taken out for 250M with 4M collateral.
The Constitution plainly gives Congress the power and right to regulate international trade.
You would point that out to a serious, billion dollar company that is interviewing your for a software engineer position? Really? Maybe you don’t realize how bad that sounds. That is actually pretty silly; it would be like you claiming to have secret knowledge or some kind of legal training superiority to a companies that employs or otherwise retains the services of an army of top tier attorneys.
No oversupply of college/comp-sci degrees, yet
It’d be awesome if you could normalize the prices somewhat. The bottom $4 is vastly more powerful than the free one at the top. Find a common denominator of memory/cpu and calculate the prices.

Obviously, this is meaningless for “free”

You have signal transmitter in there twice.

But for example, if you calculate “cost for 2gb ram” (since memory is the difference between most of these):

Scaleway: $0.80?

Server factory: $1.00?

Vultr: $10.00

AWS: $12.28

Hetzner: $4.00

You could do the math for two cores as well, but usually ram is the deciding factor on what you can run before you start swapping, which drastically impacts performance.
NixOS and Guix come close to this with a central spot for declaring the entire system state, including program configuration and env vars. Now there is still the $HOME/.config mess, which home-manager[0] tries to tackle.

[0] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
I don't think the concept is morality is relevant in those extreme cases. It looks like we are more or less saying the same thing.
A useful word for describing the optimization of something that adds shareholder value is appreciated by those who consider it.
My department at Stanford has a diversity administrator, a fund raising admin, a sustainability admin, and some more I am probably not aware of. Only senior admins get six figures.
The research seems to show that those who seem to have self-control are actually just good at creating an environment with fewer temptations. Air gapping works for me, although it's now 2PM and was 'sposed to have switched to my offline comp hours ago. I've been using a comp with hard drive slots so I just switch hard drives, reboot and go.

Making it hard for yourself to be bad, is good, generally. For catastrophic temptations, like alcoholism, I have heard that some keep a full sealed bottle around so that temptation is unvarying, however; and find that keeps them from starting again.
oh URI means https://www.uri.edu/ not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier
Also: thanks to "forgot my password" features, if someone gets your email password, they can now find and access all your (non-2FA-enabled) accounts.
This sort of thing?

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac002d/...

... Oceans equilibriate with the atmosphere after a few months (they absorbs more co2 in response to pH/carbonate shift), so one has to keep injecting alkalinity to keep a local ecological effect. The CDR effect is persistent, though.
A decade with Ubuntu and I get why it’s free. I have disastrous performance issues with it, for reasons that people usually respond, “oh well that’s not Ubuntu’s fault…” but that isn’t a great excuse as users do not care (unless you aren’t intending to attract general users).

Most of the issue is that I have to fight with nvidia video drivers every month or two. Something happens and they stop operating and it grinds my entire system to a crawl when everything is software rendered. YouTube basically kills my computer.

When I go with Mac or Windows, the main feature is that they have designers to make more than a Potemkin UI, and they care about the end to end UX. No, “oh go complain to some other vendor.”

Ubuntu is very very impressive for free. I certainly acknowledge how great that is, and how important that is to the ecosystem.

Anyways, sorry about the rant. I’m calming down.
I feel like if you're bothered simply by the existence of the registry, Windows isn't really for you. I get it, a little bit -- the OOM killer on Linux just boggles my mind, but once you view in context, you can appreciate how we ended with it, at a technical level.

But if you think the registry could be replaced with .ini files like the good ol' days, that's a pretty extreme hot take. If you're open to changing your perspective on what the registry is for, how it is designed, and why it's necessary, read any of the Windows Internals books.
I don’t get your point. Why would you think she didn’t know?
Don’t TVFs accomplish the level of composability you’re describing? They give exactly a “view that can be treated like another table”.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sq...
A very unreasonable reason for me not switching to Safari is because the bookmarks dropdowns (when activating the bookmark bar) have two very annoying features. Firstly they only open when clicked, so if you click one and move your mouse to another, the other doesn't open, just the original stays there and you have to click off it to close it. Secondly there's some kind of delay to that click such that if you accidentally click the wrong folder of bookmarks, click off it to the correct folder and click again to open the correct folder, if you click too fast it'll do nothing - no opening the new folder, nothing. And it'll continue to do nothing if you continue to click 'inside' the timeout window. So you have this artifical delay built into bookmark navigation that just put me off.

That and also ultra-wide tabs which change in size as you close them with a middle click, which is really annoying and you sometimes close the wrong tab. Close them with the cross and they stay the same size and neatly collapse, you can even then middle click to close the remainder and they stay the same size. Silly difference in behaviour IMO.

It's the little things that put me off. Shame, as Passkey support is great.