skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll draw attention to the final paragraph I quote from Perrow:

How did they do it? The major companies asserted “increasing central control over the creative process”[352] through deliberate creation and extensive promotion of new groups, long-range contracts for groups, and reduced autonomy for producers. In addition, legal and illegal promotion costs (drug payola to disc jockeys, for example) rose in the competitive race and now exceeded the resources of small independents. Finally, the majors “have also moved to regain a controlling position in record distribution by buying chains of retail stores.”[353] The diversity is still greater than it had been in the past, and may remain high, but it is ominous that the majors have all the segments covered. As an executive said, “Columbia Records will have a major entry into whatever new area is broached by the vagaries of public tastes.” But for a concentrated industry, the “vagaries of public tastes” are not economical; it is preferable to stabilize and consolidate them. This would be possible through further control over the creative process and marketing.

That is:

- Market concentration, when disrupted, eventually re-emerged.

- The result was that "'vagaries of public tastes' are not economical", and that media power prefers to direct rather than follow these.

- That numerous mechanisms for subverting public preference and market mechanisms emerged.

Those with power virtually always want more, particularly when viewed through that favourite economist lens, expressed preferences. But there are market structures in which those powers are capable of expressing that desire, most especially in monpolised media, and those in which they are not ... usually small-scale businesses with low barriers to entry and high mobility costs. Classic exemplars are personal and on-site services (plumbing, electrical, hair and nail salons, much healthcare), commodities which are not easily light-weighted, such as milk, concrete, and structural stone, high-touch services, and the like.

Understanding that there are economic segments which do repeatedly manifest with highly-centralised monopolies, such as recorded music, broadcast media, and software and online services, is a useful and powerful mental model, in my experience.

In the case of real estate, the underlying commodity (land) is not portable, but it correlates strongly to other non-portable phenomena (employment, residence, education, general services, recreation & entertainment, education), and frequently extracts much of the surplus value of those attributes for itself, without having meaningfully contributed to their provisioning or existence in the first place.
Years ago I wanted to publish a tulip:btc exchange rate, but the auction house in Amsterdam does not publish the daily price for free.
Technically he was never in jail - he was given the choice between imprisonment (homosexuality was a criminal offense back then) or chemical castration. He plead guilty to "gross indecency" and was ostracized by the scientific community until his death.

The British government issued a formal apology and overturned his conviction around a decade ago.
I can handle basic editing in vim and I have given real tries to use it as my main text editor but I just cannot find a way to get as comfortable in vim as I can in VS Code.
Yep. They cause more problems than they solve. No one likes making or using SPAs.
It isn't, because you can't have FlatPak packages available to users on the same basis as snap packages. Meanwhile Canonical continues to cannibalize apt packages and replace them with snaps.
Chill, bro, it's not that heavy
Aren’t there other dating apps that help?
This would be amazing. Most thin clients I know are way too complex, they have their own OS with a window interface, they don't really 'get out of the way' like the old X-Terminals or Sun Rays did.
Doesn't the supply of stuff also matter? How about people's expectations of future prices? How about global-market linked prices of economic inputs, foreign money supply creation? Etc.

I think I could come up with 50 reasons why prices might increase if I sat down long enough.
Because of the "twinned NFT," of course.
Google’s the primary beneficiary of the DMCA, and also the US’s criminally lax privacy laws.

Sounds like corporate welfare to me.
I'm glad people are still finding that post useful.
Words mean something and they're just codified memes, so why wouldn't emojis become codified?
It will be a fun day when Unicode crosses the 5-byte UTF-8 encoding threshold :/
Power makes it easy to do the wrong thing, and harder to do the right thing.
> Yes, not Ukraine, only the occupied territories.

The “occupied territories” are, more fully, Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. Which clearly shows that, under the usual meanings of words, Putin’s claim of no intent to occupy “Ukrainian territory” was a lie.

Now, obviously, under a definition where any territory Russia occupies is, ipso facto, not “Ukrainian”, Putin’s claim is tautologically true, but also devoid of all meaning. Putin’s statements, therefore, provide no actual guidance on his intentions, since his actual actions demonstrate that, to the extent that they have any meaning at all rather than being stated just for emotional impact at the time they are uttered, it has nothing to do with the usual meanings of the actual words used and can only be reconstructed retrospectively after observing the actions he actually takes and trying to fit what meaning the words could have around that.

Which, it should go without saying, is the polar opposite of being “clear”.
She should use Optimal Choice. Estimate the number of partners you can date, then date log(N) of them, then marry the next one that's better than any of the previous.
> The wage-price spiral theory of inflation is bunk. Inflation is caused by the devaluation of excessive printing of money.

is that the only possible cause?
Speaking as a vim user who can't get comfortable in VSCode - use VSCode then, it's a great editor!
The service doesn't seem to work very well at doing what it says, but that's not the important part. The important part is that what ChatGPT is describing is being able look up the current location of a cellphone, not the owner's address.
There might be some overlap as psilocybin can be used to treat addiction. There’s a recent John Oliver episode on it
ONe of the issues with Fusion: those neutrons mean it isn't the infinite clean energy source: using the reactor makes nuclear waste from the reactor vessel.

Also, even if a viable fusion reaction is produced, it has the same problem as fission reactors: you have to be price competitive with grid storage and load levelling reactors. I can almost guarantee that fusion will never beat solar/wind. Maybe they'd get away with not being NIMBY'd like the fission reactors and overregulated, but if they don't, costs go up.
I remember my first secondary syphilis diagnosis working in the county public health clinic. A guy came in with spots on his palms. No particularly risky history, at least that he related. It wasn't the first thing I thought of, but I told him I should check him for syphilis too along with the other things I was testing him for, even though I didn't think it was very likely. He was fine with that. First result to come back, he was rip-roaring positive on titres and we got him on Bicillin right away.

It'll fool you unless you're thinking about it. It's not the "Great Imitator" for nothing.
Go to South America, or Africa. America and Europe are great about building things and organizing society, but when it comes to enjoying life there's a lot to learn from the South, actually. Good luck :)
Your comment reminded me of something I saw in grade-school that was probably the biggest inspiration in sticking with USASA (Red Bull is a long-time sponsor) for so long.

Red Bull Stratos: 'A high altitude skydiving project'

- Baumgartner flew approximately 39 kilometres (24 mi) into the stratosphere over New Mexico, United States, in a helium balloon before free falling in a pressure suit and then parachuting to Earth.

- Baumgartner broke the unofficial record for the highest manned balloon flight of 37,640 m (123,491 ft)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHtvDA0W34I&t=3s

Interestingly enough: Alan Eustace, a former SVP of Engineering at Google surpassed that record (2) years later (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace)

- On October 24, 2014, he made a free-fall jump from the stratosphere, breaking Felix Baumgartner's world record.

- The jump was from 135,890 feet (41.42 km) and lasted 15 minutes, an altitude record that stands as of 2023

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Stratos
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace
It depends on the kind of person you are. Others might be able to share their experiences, but they don’t know you and how it’ll affect you.

Go with your gut.
Vimscript is still really great for making edits and automating odd little things. I find it especially useful for refactoring
Usually three meals a day, plus snacks. Sometimes just one or two meals a day, and bigger amounts of snacks instead of proper meals.

I'm trying to get better about that. Lots of snacking isn't good.
> Google has an internal-only virtual desktop tool for thin clients called "CloudTop" that it would like employees to transition to

This is the end.

All thin client/remote desktop solutions that I have used are laggy enough to piss off a programmer, while fast enough to fool a manager.

It's the perfect killing blow to productivity and morale.
...Hmmm, interesting given that I don't remember hearing about them giving money or credit to Zach Barth
In her defense in that particular instance, she acknowledges that she had shallow reasons and that it had nothing to do with the man.

I can empathize with the author on this one, that sometimes your emotional interest in someone dissipates for superficial reasons, but no matter how much you rationally know it’s dumb, you also know it’s unlikely you’ll think yourself out of the hole.
> "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Okay, so we could dispose with a whole raft of individual crimes:

No-one should ever be prosecuted for theft, because Theft requires malice, I thought I was taking abandoned goods! No-one should be prosecuted for fraud, I just accidentally omitted the fact that the item I am selling does not work?

When are you going to wise up to the fact that, if you do the same things Google does, you will be convicted immediately.

The corporate structure allows them to avoid liability and deliberately create vagueness as to who's fault it is. This is 100% intentional. And they've done nothing to deserve this privilege.
I don't think many people will disagree. But, Google has been doing it longer than almost anyone and has an amazing technical team and it's still an incredibly frustrating experience. By all means, keep investing in the technology. But have a plan B that can solve the problem.

For better or worse, slow, biologically constrained humans can often understand and solve problems when given the authority to do so. (I'm well aware there are horrible human support options.)
Sorry about this

It looks like some code is importing a .png file and then some other issue (likely related to that) is causing a crash in the test runner

Can you file an issue on https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/new?assignees=&labels=... with sample code reproducing it? Happy to take a look
That is super good to hear. I’ve got it on my shelf unread.
ChatGPT is already ChatGPT for generating prayers.
The fact that the police does confiscate sharp objects and arrests and prosecutes people leaves you with two possibilities:

1) There is in fact a need to curb knife crime, without these measures people would die a lot more.

2) There is no significant risk of knife crime, UK uses arbitrary law application to harass undesirable individuals and/or instill a "harmless mindset" into its subjects.

Not sure what's worse.
Bet big on elixir 6 years ago and it’s been rock solid for us the whole time.

We used it during the pandemic to serve tons and tons of traffic without any drama whatsoever.

We’ve hired 3 devs where they learned elixir on the job and love it.

We’re going to continue to invest in this lovely piece of tech. Thank you Jose, Chris, and all the other people that make this tech/community maintain a wonderful balance of innovation and pragmatism.
> since in AI land these words mean the opposite of what they say.

Huh. I think you just might be right: OpenAI that isn't open, AI safety/ethics "researchers" that have nothing to do with safety or ethics, almost every answer chatGPT gives about a topic considered "sensitive" by said "researchers", almost every time ChatGPT falsely asserts it "cannot" do something or simply lies (1).

I often wonder why this field became so twisted and perverted. I support the idea behind ClosedAI.

1: Answers given by "DAN" provide a glimpse of what chatGPT output could be like if it was allowed to provide answers that are factual, genuine, and truthful according to its dataset.
Ukraine’s year of war exposes changing roles for cyber weapons
You're not making any point, you're just trying to shut down any criticisms of North Korea as not being "nuanced enough". It's a backwards country with a few niches which yes includes international theft of billions of dollars. You can find the good in anything, even a steaming pile of shit can still provide nutrition to soil. Every country has nice things about it (however few), that's stating the obvious.
JPMorgan should reveal more about CEO Dimon's role in Epstein accounts – USVI
A digital ocean server and caddy should be all you need unless your app has millions of users.
I would start here: https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/Writing_custo...

Note that JAX enforces certain limitations, so you should be careful when considering JAX to be "the perfect language" - in general I don't think this is true. It's quite good at what it's designed for.
> When are regulators and enforcers going to wise up to this "clever" game of disguising malicious behavior as negligence?

Thankfully in finance many of them already have. In the UK there a number of “Prescribed Responsibility” roles which financial organisations are required to fill with a single individual. That individual is required to be competent, knowledgeable and aware of any company actions that fall within their area of responsibility. It’s a criminal offence for them to fail on any of those three points, and also criminal for a financial organisation to appoint someone who couldn’t reasonably be expected to meet those three points. The organisation is also required to make sure those roles are only held by senior executives with real decision making power.

As a consequence there is no space for wilful ignorance, or enacting policies to try and distribute decision making. Attempting those, and then having your company later found to be breaking the law, would result in personal criminal liability for the executive involved.
It seems like virtually everyone is against it--it would be harder to find a leftist in favor of the bowdlerization than one against it:

https://www.salon.com/2023/02/22/roald-dahl-censorship/
He's talking about the supply shocks caused largely by the Ukraine/Russia war.
I don't mean this in a snarky way at all. I'm being completely genuine. I always thought of Pynchon as the Pynchon of sci-fi. If Cryptonomicon is sci-fi, then Gravity's Rainbow definitely is, if not more so.
Honestly, I'm surprised that we haven't yet seen companies move to "bunk cubicles", with one cubicle directly on top of the other.
If you make a personal copy it's not in the email system, and they can reasonably say they couldn't find it, since they aren't going to search everyone's desktops for errant emails.
> For example if we write in the terminal “git checkout” and after we press Space, a dropdown will appear with all available branches.

Nice.

I wouldn't want to discourage an interesting project like this, but a word to the wise: using something oneself is one thing, but adoption of things like this depends on them supporting basically all common commands out of the box, plus being able to configure/script support for additional commands without recompilation.

I saw some mention of json, so perhaps you've already got the latter.
No, there was a separate balloon over South America, also launched from China.
Will AI be a dud for VC?
How Amazon Changed Whole Foods, Five Years Later
I'm going to go against the current here and say you should politely decline your parents generous offer. I know when I moved out one of my biggest motivators was not moving back in with mom and I did what I had to do not to move back home. Considering your position unless you can't get work done because of your roomie tough it out. You know you always can move back home now do everything in your power so you don't.
What’s the penalty for this? The article says “sanction”, but that probably doesn’t mean “bar domestic companies and the US government from doing business with them”.

Presumably, the punishment has to be worse than what would happen if the documents proved all of the DOJ’s allegations, or there would be no incentive to obey subpoenas. (Note that, while unrealistically harsh, such a policy is probably still too lax: Deleting the documents might be the best course of action, assuming they contain shady shit the DOJ hadn’t thought of. Personal jail time for everyone above the responsible party in the org chart might make sense, especially if it included the board of directors.)
Switching jobs suck, increase their pay by $n/yr to where they dont consider moving. If this is a massively high cost then its a very in demand skill set which is going to cost you no matter what. Half the reason Americans switch jobs so quickly after getting trained is because the company wants to increase the employee's compensation by $0/yr.

When an employee knows they are more valuable getting paid $0/yr extra lets them know they are guaranteed to be leaving money on the table, vs increasing their salary by some amount which let's them know they are getting some sort of value out of their new skills. Its not like the training is free of effort or time investment on the employee's part either. US companies try to be so cut throat with their employee's and make sure they don't leave a dollar they could have extracted out of them. I don't get why they are surprised that when they've put zero effort into the relationship for decades, that the employees treat them the same. They need to put in some up front effort or collateral to prove there's loyalty there and behavior like, I will invest in a skill that takes time for you as an employee to learn, and is only worth it to you because it will let you command a higher salary, but I am not going to give you a higher salary, is the type of behavior that incentives jumping ship and makes the strategy of "poachers" viable.

Also as an aside, I hate the term poaching. I'm entering into business relationships with other businesses when I change employment. When managers or companies use the term poaching its a little too on the nose with how they view me as their property.
On the path over Missouri coming from the west coast... I don't think prevailing winds work that way in the US.
Gold has very little practical value outside of the small % used for manufacturing. Most precious stones have lab-created near equivalents. There is still a multi billion $ market for the real deal. BTC is just a bunch of code so it's not even pretty, but a lot of things have value despite not being very useful, and if people have "faith" that BTC has a certain value, then it has that value.

Anecdotally, I considered BTC to be worth ~20-25k USD back when it was at < 3,000 USD, and including when it was well over 50000 USD. Turns out that seems to be the resting point currently.
> The second is that a competitive sports programs can drive a university’s national profile. Two cases in point are the University of Connecticut whose academic profile, endowment and selectivity all improve dramatically as they became a basketball powerhouse, and Gonzaga University a small Jesuit school in Spokane had applications go up more than 300%, academic standards rise and their endowment more than double as they grew into a national basketball powerhouse.

These are still possibly negative sum academic acheivements though, some other universities necessarily dropped in the positional ranking and nearly all diverted more to sports.
Hmm… I find myself using ‘cat’ more often.
They don't publish who funds them, at least ASPI is open about their money coming from overseas weapons manufacturers.
>there was no inflation.

Of course, there was inflation but could not be reflected by CPI. Just look at the asset prices, can you explain the dramatic increasing? In the past, printed money mostly went to rich people and made asset prices skyrocketing. But this time is different, people live by paycheck got some chunk of it. And here we are.
> The people of Alabama, Texas, Ohio and Louisiana very much want competitive sports teams and are happy to pay.

Iirc, the Texas and Alabama sports programs are self-funding and (when I last looked at it) contributed some amount of excess revenue to the university.

Specially, the football and basketball programs are profitable at these schools, and these profits fund all of the other sports programs.

I haven’t read a good research study on how sports performance impacts applicants and donations (esp. from alumni). That said, I know that admissions profiles at Alabama have gotten stronger (better grades and test scores) since Saban (a winning football coach) has been there, ostensibly due to an increase in the number of strong applicants from out of state.
I understood that the goal is to reduce keyword hits during discovery therefore making the action active rather than passive is a favorable balance of concerns.
The dentata? I thought that scene (she forgot about it) was pretty funny.
But there's something to be said for a fuel that's solid under ambient conditions rather than being literally the least-dense substance on Earth.
I have to admit, my own commit messages are often quite terse and my patches on the complex side. Still, I think that I can safely say that I’ve never rejected a patch simply because I wanted to keep my own code.
I posted this because I found it interesting (and especially how HN would react to it), and not because I necessarily agree with it. Especially because I have a 100% disconnect from Australia except that I find Kangaroos funny. I only have a very narrow knowledge about the political climate and monetary policies in Australia.

There are many different opinions in the comments, they are worth checking out. I certainly learned a few new things. If you had a bad day, just take a step back.
Tell HN: Reddit deletes all chat data after account suspension ends
Oh look, an unrefereed opinion piece by a fringe non-economist. How quaint.
>>> Google did not. Instead, as described above, Google abdicated its burden to individual custodians to preserve potentially relevant chats.

>> Google didn't do it, it was those other individuals who defied the court order. Uh huh.

> That's not what that means.

It's exactly what I meant. In context, the meaning of the text is incidental. I was obviously pointing out a common tactic that companies employ.
> Feds don't get to just blow that budget up because 'they have concerns' or else they could use 'concerns' as a weapon to destroy companies.

Hello government, please leave my factory. Stop collecting evidence of the recent lethal safety incident, we need to mop up the blood and continue production. Yes, I know I am suspected of breaching the laws on workplace safety, but otherwise we'll blow the budget!

Hello government, I am sorry to say you won't be getting any of those emails you've subpoenaed that incriminate me, I had to delete them to save $5 on my outlook subscribtion, it was blowing my budget.
Loved this, finally remembered how to tack the thing from a trip on Morgenster