skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never forget:

- Meritocracy is a myth;

- There is no value without labor;

- The only risk CEOs are assuming is the nightmare scenario of becoming a worker;

- The company is not your friend. There is no loyalty; and

- The people paying the price for any bad decisions of a company (eg The metaverse) are rarely the people responsible.
Please give Firefox a try. Your options don't include it so you are missing out imo
> In many parts of Europe buying from the traditional local style of producer is the cheaper way to buy animal products.

Burden of proof here
Advanced Excel skills enable you to handle core responsibilities in an organization. Advanced Excel skills will automate the tasks and searching capabilities. As a result, it helps to save time and boost productivity.
SETI and Signal Leakage: Where Do Our Transmissions Go?
Even the original Bitcoin can be considered a security due to its limited supply structure, resembling company shares or units in a closed-end fund (CEF).

A CME economist has pointed out that Bitcoin possesses equity-like characteristics that are often overlooked by investors.[1]

Additionally, the premining (or early mining) of 1M bitcoins by Satoshi and the involvement of others in its development and promotion, along with elements of MLM and pyramid schemes, further support this classification.

Furthermore, the Nakamoto consensus algorithm, based on Proof of Work (PoW) lotteries, can be seen as an unlicensed gambling operation.

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1. Bitcoin is a type of equity no one has ever seen before, economist says (Dec. 23, 2017)

Bitcoin has equity-like characteristics that are overlooked by investors: CME economist

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitcoin-is-a-type-of-equit...
I never understand these comments. Are you suggesting Google is a charity?

If they don't need some employees, should they be forced to keep them?
The EU Data Act: A Misguided Policy
Google Mars (2005)
This does not include ChatGPT traffic tho :)
They could be had for like ~$100 back then so I parted it out to rescue other synths in need. Kept the CEMs since 3328's were looked down on and just about the only CEM that was still cheap back then, made a few VCF/VCA modules/pedals that went off to other people, sold a few years later when they finally got difficult to find, pretty sure I still have one or two left. Think I might still have the bender/mod wheels, no one wanted/needed them.
That's what I was thinking. Game size is not the problem, the problem is that you have a shit internet connection and/or a small hard disk.
I simply don’t see what good this CEO has done.

He’s destroyed googles reputation with developers.

Destroyed customer trust in Google products.

Done nothing to fix googles reputation for terrible customer service.

Led Google to third place in cloud computing.

AND been thrashed by Microsoft / ChatGPT, putting Googles core business at risk.

Why is this guy CEO?
Same story at Meta where people in the C-suite got very high bonus and equity refresher based on outstanding individual performance. You'd expect them to be somehow accountable. The common answer there was that they did well at their job, and aren't responsible for decisions leading to the layoffs. And nobody is responsible. Basically, it was right to hire so many employees (good economic prospects) and then it was right to fire them (bad economic prospect).

This view is acceptable if you consider people are disposable and the human cost to be zero. Which of course is the case from the corporation point of view since this human cost isn't tracked by any metrics meaningful for the company.

These layoffs feel wrong. I know people who were devoting their life to their job, were working in very profitable companies, were exceeding expectation for their level, were working on project that were sold to them as critical by management.... and they were fired overnight without notice (and some of them continue to lick ass on Linkedin on how great was their company).

I know it's not a popular idea in American business-centered culture, but there should be restrictions as to why you can layoff employees.
Unrecord dev posts noclip video to prove the realistic bodycam FPS isn't 'fake'
All the overvalued growth stocks are going down because the supply of easy money dried up. The massive rise in BYND share price was always ridiculous. Their products are easy to replicate and companies like Nestlé have way more resources to bring them to market successfully and sustainably, which they're doing now.
This explanation you’ve cooked up is basically just a fan fiction. Any CEO who tried to “hold their board hostage” would be saying goodbye to their job, and likely their career, in short order. Pichai’s salary is $2 million. The rest of his compensation is incentives. Almost all of his compensation comes from incentive packages designed to align his interests with the interests of shareholders.
>Any rational democractic society would be wise to teach these skills to people from an early age

Not doable, because you require at least an IQ of 110 to see through the lies. Half of the population has a below average IQ, the number is significantly larger if one way to consider an IQ 110 to be the threshold and this means they are always gullible and susceptible to the propaganda of the government.
Even most bottom-of-the-barrel sencha taste awful in boiling hot water, and this is vice versa; bottom-of-the-barrel black tea in not-boiling hot water tastes just as awful.
If we are trying to determibe the cost of power from new nuclear plants, looking at the marginal cost of upgrading/refurbishing existing plants makes no sense, as that is much cheaper.
>They didn't sell any data to Cambridge Analytica

It is somewhat strange to sell how HN has shifted again. Somewhere along 2022, most of the extreme left, also the Anti Facebook, Anti Ads, group are gone or disappeared.

You can now actually say They didn't sell any data to Cambridge Analytica.
Thanks! I was also about to write, please add a filter for location, as I couldn't find it in the UI. I want to look for a specific city, not really for the whole country, which I thought was the only option for location filtering.
Joke Academic Papers
Interesting that the US Chamber of Commerce is one of the few bodies speaking out against this insanity. The EU Data Act will force European companies to share trade secrets and business-critical data with everyone, including their American and Chinese competitors who will be less exposed to the law.

Siemens Gamesa, the second biggest windturbine manufacturer in the world, fears for their ability to innovate and seek patents because this law will force them to share data with competitors:

https://www.version2.dk/artikel/vindmoelle-gigant-frygter-ny...
this whole thread is like a reddit thread, which is sad. so many hot takes with no sources, and almost no actual discussion.
The upper management at Google are so lucky that the company is filled with timid people who are averse to change and didn't unionize.

Now they can safely siphon the profits for another several years until they inevitably drive the company into the ground when the ad revenue dries up, and they move to similar positions at other places with healthy revenue streams.

And the rank-and-file Googlers will defend this because they think they caught God by the ankles with their 150k/year salary, that they feel they don't deserve because of their impostor syndrome.
Try Firefox. It's been my browser of choice for over a decade and I've never had cause to regret my choice.
You cannot disable message from unknown contacts, their messages goes to a "archived" folder, but they're still there.
If you think creating and using prompts are computer science then yeah, it has gotten weird :) Fortunately, I think that's a minority view.
Person with Schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder here. (I also have tinnitus but whatevs).

Doing this has been what I feel is my greatest accomplishment. You know, thoughts are a sense. You sense thoughts like you sense sounds. You do not think thought, that is just an illusion of the ego. You are not the thinker!

Once I understood this my life became so much easier. Nothing is reality to me anymore, everything is a loosely coordinated social hallucination. So when I see birds flying the corner of my room it makes sense, and I enjoy them. When I see a cat walk across the coffee shop I get to enjoy something no one else can. When I hear peoples thoughts and they are telling me they can read mine I open myself up to them and share my darkest secrets.

We should all realize that our senses are a shared hallucination. It might help solve a lot of problems in the world.
I don't see why you can't. Throw religion in while you're at it. Even interest groups around other classes: disability, socioeconomic, etc.

You can absolutely say a newspaper (or individual columnist or editor) is pro-LGBT, pro-Israel, pro-Palestine, pro-Mormon, pro-Amish, pro-Atheist, etc. That shouldn't be controversial. Wikipedia can and does do this in a relatively neutral way.

If your classification is meant to disparage a group, then I'd see the trouble. Don't do that.

I want an up to date, well rounded view of how everyone sees the world. A system capable of getting me to see geopolitical events in other perspectives is useful, even if I ultimately choose to uphold my existing beliefs.

FWIW, I subscribe to all sorts of diverse political view subreddits and Twitter handles. Unfortunately, it's still hardly comprehensive is a lot of work to analyze and distill.
>CEO made bad decisions that many other companies avoided.

i don't think sundar is a good ceo, but this absolutely false. most big tech companies also had layovers.
Did he make them money?
Maybe? It’s like blooming coffee, it makes a difference, but how much does that matter to the specific drinker? The same goes for water temp.

I found that I could tell the difference but for tea I regularly drink I couldn’t be bothered to break out a thermometer. But if it’s the good stuff I totally would be doing more of the ritual.
Teal Organisation
Yep, coal goes up.
It is sad. Mainly our approach to other animals is based on disregarding their right to self actualization. Merely saying this makes one seem like a kook or zealot. But it's just pointing out that taking a human-centric approach to other intelligent organisms is easy to do because we are the apex predator. I don't blame or judge anyone but it disturbs me all the same. A thought experiment I really like is how I would feel about doing something if I wasn't part of a group of apex predators. It's simplistic, but personally I find it provides clarity.
Have you ever dived? Max visibility is like 30-50m unless you’re in a filtered environment
Apologies if the word mediocre offended you. I was just trying to get a point across as succinctly as I could.

Personally I don’t attach much emotion to the word. I’m mediocre at most things, of course. I tend to think of ability as normally distributed. A spread of three standard distributions covers more than 99% of the probability mass. These I think of as the mediocre. But in any significantly large group there will be outliers at +2, +3, +4 or even +5 standard deviations. This is just how normally distributed abilities (like e.g. IQ) work.
21% of working-age population on various forms of welfare, 33% working in the public sector and a whooping 33% working in the private sector. Taxation rates among the highest in the world.

There's plenty to criticize about the Norwegian economy.

The taxation of the oil wealth is definitely a great success story, but how that money is used from year to year is very much a mixed bag. We have per-capita public expenditures approximately twice those of Sweden. Average household debt at 114% of income, third place globally. We don't build housing, same as California.

Oil money contributions to the national budget were approximately $6500 per capita in 2022, and on top of this we have a total taxation percentage on the order of 40% of income on average, if you do the honest calculation and look at all payments to the governments.

In addition we have an energy production infrastructure that's nominally almost 100% publicly owned, but now sell electricity to citizens at EU prices (~300% markup) with the surplus going into public budgets - this is additional taxation we're not talking about.

It could be worse and there are many things going right, but selling Norway as an unquestionable economic success story doesn't completely reflect reality.
"Reader" view on Safari (Desktop) made all the bad go away.

I set Safari to enable it by default on many, many sites now.
I'm pretty sure it's Turing-complete in at least five different ways now, so go ahead proudly and don't let anyone talk you down!
Yes, because most people actually want to be reached by people who are yet not in the contacts.

The only way to do so is to have a username or phone number of recipient. Usernames are searchable if they are "Public Usernames". Phone number could be hidden from anyone.

I don't see how someone can contact somebody on the messenger yet without an ability to.. actually send a message. Sure, there could be an option to block everyone not in the contact list and use some other medium to relay the contact request[0] but most of the time this is useless for messenger.

But of course I have my POV skewed, because I prefer to use services defensively from the start so I had almost no unsolicited messages on Telegram, WhatsApp and Instagram.

[0] Hey, if you interested in $TOPIC contact me on Telegram, @username! But first send a couple of avian carriers with your phone number and username so I could add you to contacts first!
That's the business page, the home user page shows €19,95 for me.
I moved the same system from MSSQL server to Oracle, then to MySQL.

The Oracle version had a lot of logic written as SP. I migrated them to MySQL SP.

So the conclusion is: SP don't make it impossible to migrate from one database to another, and second: yes database migrations do happen.

Also: all database migrations I have known involve Oracle in one way to another. Oracle salespeople are way too nosy.
0 is freezing, 100 is boiling.

12 is a handy number but decimal calculation isn't difficult either, especially when all your units use the same.

What is a cup? How do you do calculations with a third of a cup etc?

I know a cup is roughly 200 mil. From exposure in life I know 200ml is about a cup of tea and 300ml is about a mug of coffee /can of come, 500 is a big can of beer. How many cups are in a can of beer?
If an AI can outperform, then somebody will set up a company and let an AI lead it (even if just behind the scenes). Incumbent companies will need to adapt.

I just started reading “Life 3.0” and it starts out with an extreme version of this scenario.
Nuclear waste contains a lot more than plutonium (and also a lot more plutonium than was injected into Albert Stevens).

The sad fact is that nobody has correctly estimated how big a problem nuclear waste is. We keep having to pay more for it than any previous estimate predicted.
It to do with safety concerns and economic stability. Not because people are idiots.
0% inflation isn’t true at all
The evidence I've seen seems to indicate that meat and dairy are the healthy alternative. They also have centuries of safety data, unlike many (most?) vegan alternatives, which rely heavily on such things as canola oil and have to be engineered.

I doubt you'll agree, and I'm sure you'll be able to pull out some studies suggesting otherwise, but perhaps we can agree we shouldn't be making policy decisions that shift the diets of millions of people when we're dealing with a field (nutrition) that is really in its infancy.
Well backed by data? What does that mean.
The only thing he has done is not destroy the Google cash firehose.

The advertising cash firehose is perhaps the only thing that matters at Google.

But, having been severely caned by ChatGPT and left flat footed on AI i think it’s reasonable to say even that firehose is now at risk.
Isn’t the aspiration to be unbiased worthy already?

The goal or call it “aspiration” to serve unbiased news is admirable to me, even while my rational mind knows the aspiration is an unattainable ideal. I will give them a try. Then I can judge their sincerity and performance relative to their aspiration.

Edit: added “judge”
What kind of chemical compounds? Drugs? Fine. You can only hurt yourself with those. Same goes for medical devices. Explosives? Now that's a different matter.
TCP/IP over HF is already a thing! (And also ridiculously impractical :) )
https://www.isode.com/whitepapers/stanag-5066.html
He's compensate to maximize shareholder returns, not to keep people in a job. The people are employed for the same reason and when their RoI is below the threshold then you need to right the ship. This is what a CEO is partly there to do.
Except aflatoxin.
Very much so:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird-brains-have-...
He did pretty well with Android I think.
But it’s not called artificial humanity, it’s called artificial intelligence. So what you’re saying is like saying planes don’t fly
I meant it was useless in the sense that we can't accurately determine the number of users from looking at on-chain data. As you've also explained in earlier comments, there is the issue of "multiple addresses - one user" and there is the issue of "single address - multiple users". If we ignore the latter issue, we can put an upper bound at ~1 billion users for Bitcoin due to the unique address count but that's just an upper bound, the actual number is lower but we can't know how much lower.
Both can be true.

But I happen to think your right that the employer/worker balance has tipped way too far in favor of the employer in the last half-Century.
Ok credit where it’s due:

Android and YouTube are doing great.
> That's exactly what it is - which is why the comment above is so profoundly dishonest.

Please, could you explain why US, EU and Canada governments have set narrow legal upper limits for Tritium presence on drinking water if is soo totally harmless?

And why is recommended "extended strong medical/therapeutic intervention" [1] in some cases of accidental exposure to Tritium if is not dangerous?

If you define the qualities of a chemical by the stuff sold on Amazon prepare yourself for a nasty surprise when meeting the real deal. Leaking Tritium in some obscure dose is a problem just because 1. the dose is unknown and 2. we are mostly made of water.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22349318/
What Social Media Does to Kids’ Brains
> Remind me again how big-co CEOs assume "all the risk"?

I have never once heard anyone make this claim.
Actually, he’s talking about vi, not vim. You’re a whole ‘nother rung up the ladder with vim.
With AI Watermarking, Creators Strike Back
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Does it bother you at all this this statement is just factually incorrect? The stock is down about 50% give or take over the past year and a half.
Prevention is always more impactful than treatment/reaction. It's still important to improve the reaction because prevention is rarely 100% effective.
Best solution is to pre-map the ocean to the degree possible (mountains don't tend to move, at least on the timescales we care about...); this wouldn't need to be done stealthily (so you could use active sensors), and using surface ships is one option, also drone surface ships and drone underwater vehicles now. I assume there are relatively highly classified high-detail government maps of certain parts of the ocean of particular interest.

We also have highly classified models of the exact shape and mass distribution of the Earth, as this is essential to accurate long-range ballistics (i.e. for ICBMs to hit their targets) -- it affects the gravity experienced over the course, and the precision/accuracy needed is higher than just uniform-density sphere or oblate spheroid. Also of magnetic and other anomalies since that can be used as a baseline when searching for submarines or ships using magnetic sensors, although I think this is less important now.
I actually want a more refined version, with better ( or different ) syntax of old PHP.

And I really like you touch on low barrier to entry. Right now, in my likely controversial opinion, modern Web Dev is a huge pile of excess complexity.
LatencyFleX: An Alternative to Nvidia Reflex
Good points until you showed obvious bias with the "fake food" comment.
Waitrose sell some very nice tomatoes, albeit at very premium prices.

Sainsbury’s often stock UK-grown Thanet Earth tomatoes (look for “jubilee vine tomatoes” etc) which are some of the best I have found at normal prices, especially out of season.

Tesco tomatoes are almost universally bad.
One of the main features of military submarines is being undetectable by others, to various degrees. This include visual, audio and movement detection. Drones would probably make all of those three factors worse and make the submarine more detectable, than without a drone travel in front.
I got stuck with Vivaldi for the past few years, I really did not feel like dealing with browser configuration/installing addons and it gave me everything I wanted out of the box. No complaints, have been trying out other options on the new computer but I am not sure I can part with the Vivaldi sidebar after all these years. I really want to like Nyxt and I probably would if it worked more reliably, really like the interface, might be time to try it again and see if it has improved.
Don’t know why you’d eat the fake versions if you could have the real ones.
It is seldom more-convenient to represent your property as a thing that has rights. But if we did decide to speak as if it had rights, it would have its owners rights.

It would have the right not to be searched by the government, without due process of law, for instance. (This is your right not to be searched.) It would have the right not to have some components or clothes therein seized by the government, without just compensation. (This is your right not to have your property seized.) It would have the right to free speech, which might be relevant if you programmed an on board chip to play some interesting audio. (Mine does Schubert, a factory setting.)

A corporation has the right to put out whatever message it likes, because its owners have that right. This is often threatened. Courts just find it convenient to try cases as if the corporate entity were a person acting instead of referring to “the rights of the various owners [list here], who are acting through the corporate entity” every single time. That’s it. That’s the entire doctrine. That’s literally all it is or means.
Jealous that you get a choice. Netherlands here which is actually better for vegan options as a whole than the UK in my experience but never found a corner shop
With anything but cow dairy.
Hence Marx prediction of capitalism eventually suffering from simultaneously crises of overproduction and underemployment. A prediction based only on two assumptions: that capitalism will continue to increase productivity and reduce costs, and that eventually the only cost that can still be cut will be labour.

His third prediction is one we can hope is wrong: that society will stubbornly refuse to adapt until the issue is forced by uprisings.
Agree! See: Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
- Adulting is hard

I mean a tad overly cynical but vaguely true. Is this really such an epiphany for people? I never understood where does the idea that your employer is your friend even come from? Wait until you find out the etymology of the word salary!

These structures exist to make money. If they stop making money they die and all the jobs go with them and nobody gets paid anymore. If they stop growing they die.

Companies need money like you need oxygen. And if they don't die, if they figure it out and grow big, it is like the goose that layed the golden egg. All it has to do, all it can do, is waddle around and keep on laying golden eggs and shitting everywhere.