skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long is this model sustainable? How long before they have a reputation of a firm to be avoided? This isn’t the first we’ve heard and I’d wager we all know it by now.

So how long before the non-technical general population shuns the brand? I can’t believe that this strategy wins for them in the long run.
Not only is stock price not a cause of bankruptcy (as others have said)... but you're comparing meme stock, overcharged markets frenzy with everyone's wallet plump from the stimulus, with the beginning of a recession.

(Side note, recaptcha is getting genuinely awful. 3 different challenges, 1 of which had 3 steps, and 20 seconds to get past it?! Have they given up detecting bots and decided to just make them wait?!)
Maybe someone can help me understand this.

If I were to refuse to pay my rent. My landlord would post an eviction notice and if I refused to comply, I would likely be arrested or forcibly removed.

Why can’t the landlord “evict” twitter? Does the process look significantly different for commercial real estate? Does twitter provide value to the landlord in some form other than rent? Maybe they’re afraid of bad PR?
For large-ish scale distributed updates like that, maybe some kind of P2P type of approach would work well?

IBM used to use a variant of Bittorrent to internally distribute OS images between machines. That was more than a decade ago though, when I was last working with that stuff.
Quit your jobs, peeps, or unionize. Gotta put your money where your mouth is.
Oliver Heaviside and Lord Kelvin both considered it as an evil concept and strongly believed that Maxwell was misled by using it to derive Maxwell's Equations. Heaviside then come up with the famous modern version of Maxwell's Equations with four equations but now ironically all of them can be represented with one concise single equation using quaternion based on geometric algebra [1]. It's probably worth to mention that Einstein was using quaternion concept when discovering his infamous special relativity [2].

It's interesting to note that complex number was once had the same fate as quaternion and it was also considered as an evil concept at the time by many well-known mathematicians not unlike the concept of zero/sifar/cipher when it's first invented and then popularized by the Arab mathematicians. Modern engineering achievements for example the wonderful world of mobile and digital communication are all based on complex number concept namely in-phase and quadrature or I/Q for short. This venerable concept of I/Q however is limited once you wan to include and consider polarization of the EM wave and this is when quaternion become very handy and useful [3]. I'd not be surprised that the next generation of wireless mobile i.e. 6G will be based on this new 3D quaternion based I/Q or I/Q/P (not yet a concept maybe soon), similar to the impact of I/Q as the basis of successful 2G to the 5G with their OFDM.

[1] A derivation of the quaternion Maxwell’s equations using geometric algebra:

http://peeterjoot.com/2018/03/05/a-derivation-of-the-quatern...

[2] Quaternions in University-Level Physics Considering Special Relativity:

https://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0308/0308017.pdf

[3] Modeling dual polarization wireless fading channels using quaternions:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1708024
Creating a National Strategy for AI is not in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution. Therefore, the US Government does not have the power to do it.

See also the 9th and 10th Amendments.
> Microsoft has done many questionable things but the AARD code was never enabled on a shipping version of DOS so it doesn't seem quite fair to blame them for that.

Here’s how a Microsoft executive described it at the time: “What the guy is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS"

https://www.wired.com/1999/05/caldera-ms-cheated-in-dos-war/

It’s certainly true that DOS’s time was limited but people were still buying it for years after he said that in 1992. Far more importantly, however, you have to think about the situation with OEMs. Microsoft was absolutely cutthroat on licensing with PC manufacturers to prevent alternative operating systems – entire product lines had to be Microsoft-only, they demanded DOS & later Windows licenses be purchased even if the buyer didn’t want them, volume discounts depended on exclusivity or bundling other apps, etc. The hardware companies put up with that because they didn’t have much choice: there were too many business apps and games which their customers wanted to refuse Microsoft’s terms. DR-DOS offered a way out of that: everything ran, often better due to its superior memory management, and the last thing Microsoft wanted was someone doing something like selling systems with, say, OS/2 or GeoWorks Ensemble (a quite decent desktop app suite at the time) and relying on DR-DOS as the operating system choice for customers who wanted DOS compatibility to avoid Microsoft’s exclusivity requirements for that particular model. I don’t know that this would have fared better than, say, System 76 is doing now but they were keenly aware of just how much leverage they’d lose if an alternative got enough marketshare to let OEMs do more than acquiesce to Microsoft’s standard terms.
Math Patterns That Go on Forever but Never Repeat
Elon's argument makes no sense on multiple levels:

1. Every job has different requirements, and you can't arbitrarily apply the same standards to every one. It's no different from saying that "Cooks have to de-grease the grill, so desk workers have to de-grease their desks at the end of the day as well." You'd think that someone so ruthlessly focused on productivity and efficiency would acknowledge this.

2. He speaks as if the current hierarchical capitalist structure with all its particular corporate idiosyncrasies is a fundamental aspect of reality rather than a very specific and arbitrary social construct. We should be fighting to move away from it rather than submit to it further.

3. He does not apply these standards to himself, flying around in his corporate jet and rarely "in the office" himself. So apparently he does believe some roles are not bound by the same rules and requirements, which is inconsistent.

Realistically he likely understands all this, but just can't say the truth directly because it's not so palatable.
It flies within 0.5-1 wingspan. The subscale has been flying within half a wingspan.
> The decrease was way beyond anything affecting the stock market or tech stocks generally

Counterpoint: Gamestop.

Counterpoint: Bitcoin.

Counterpoint: AMC.

Counterpoint: literally any of its other fellow meme stonks
Most of us aren't in the position to make that bet.

The most I can afford to do usually is "leave this role because even though the press and investors are still on board, I don't think it's a good bet anymore." I've done it a few times, I've even been right about whether they'd make a good ROI on those new funds... and so I made modestly more in the new role than I would've by vesting more pointless options or whatever... but I couldn't really short those startups or subdivisions to make a fortune by them failing. While their founders/CEOs made a (small) fortune by failing, but in a big enough way.
they taste differently from each other. some are sweeter and some are less sweet, due to having less sugar. Some are sharper or more bitter than others.
Anecdotally, yes. We have some students who are very vocal about how they perceived having a more structured early use of social media once they get to nearing the end of high-school. Having said that, I'll caution that this is hardly any sort of statistical evidence, as its that students who suffered because of it (because of not being ostracized, not part of the cool kids who have phone, etc.) didn't feel bothered to come forward in my work.

The one VERY CLEAR correlation that I see, though, is that families who are EXTREMELY intentional about this fare far better. More than the minutiae of what age they did or didn't give phones, which apps to allow or not, etc., the families that I have seen have lots of success are families who have dedicated time for these conversations and have made them a habit in their family. The ones who I have seen struggle have been of the "set it and forget it" mentality, even the ones who try to just "install an app" that will just do the parenting for them.
Front end js is like the nest we've been building for it - not knowing why.
Short answer is 3 days a week in the office.

Long answer is effectively things will go back to how they were pre-pandemic. Except you now have to average 3 days a week in the office instead of the 5 that it was before. Some people can get exceptions, but it's basically going back to 2019 rules where the default is office.

The funny part for me is that if they had of announced these new rules in 2019, they would have been heralded as forward thinking employee first visionaries... but because it is a step back from the temporary COVID rules, it's all pitchforks and walkouts.
The point is whether Russia could extort countries (eg: prevent from sending military aid to Ukraine) or not. While a little over half of all gas in Germany came from Russia, Germany was among countries with the highest proportion of gas in total fuel consumption.

In comparison, countries like Finland indeed got virtually all their gas from Russia, but that was only a few percent of total fuel consumption and couldn't be used to extort them.
What would humans do in a world of super-AI?
> Have you actually done meaningful software development? For a specific example - designing a complex system is definitely hard to do remotely.

Have you actually done meaningful software development? I'm sorry for the tone, it's just that you're presenting a completely unqualified argument based on your own personal experience and then claiming OP hasn't done software development.

I do hobby projects that delve into some complex low level techniques (because my day job is kind of boring tech and this scratches that itch for me). I've stumbled across a global community, meaning none of us have ever met face to face, and have had the best collaboration I've ever had with any other developers. It's especially better than the collaboration I get with my coworkers, who are all just doing their job with varying levels of enthusiasm (which is as it should be, it's just a job after all).

The idea that you need a whiteboard and to see somebody's face to effectively collaborate is an antiquated ideology in the present day. We have: Zoom, Discord, Github, Figma, Slack, Teams, etc etc. These all allow effective collaboration with other people without ever needing to see their face.

> Every single time, the feedback was that whiteboard sessions were awesome and helped move the project forward significantly.

Great. And you can just as easily screen share over Zoom and draw on a tablet. There is no magical ability that a whiteboard and in person meetings have over meeting virtually.

And all this to say, in person sessions can be great and collaborative too! But your conjecture:

> For a specific example - designing a complex system is definitely hard to do remotely. Put 3-4 key people in that project in front of a whiteboard and you will get a much better outcome.

Is not a tautology.

Put 3-4 key people in that project in front of a whiteboard, and you may get a better outcome. The world we live in does not operate in absolutes, and the more I learn the more I realize that being dogmatic about any approaches or opinions is usually dumb. There's always an exception to the rule, and, in fact, there's usually several exceptions to "the rule".
Show HN: OceanBase – An open-source distributed SQL database written in C++
Software doesn't require a few billion in capital as a complement.
It would probably cost a lot more to evict Twitter and find a new commercial tenant than it does to compel them to pay rent.

The reason this wouldn’t apply to you is that residential real estate vacancies are usually easy to fill, especially nowadays.
I don't see why you need a language "formalized to the point of math" to instruct a computer to follow simple instructions (Write a crud API for this and this, it should have these endpoints etc.)

Of course there will be ambiguity, but you could say anything higher level than assembly is also ambiguous, but that's not usually a problem.

I think it's reasonable to expect that more people will be able to program if this becomes reality. Just as going from assembly to c allowed more people to program.
Keep in mind that the article is about what a "trade group" wants. Trade groups are about what a narrow spectrum of society wants. They have their interest which is rarely the same as what's best for our society as a whole. I ,for one, will ignore the information in this article. It's not useful to me.
We don't until the kids get to high-school. But you'd be hardpressed to notice this: right before they step on campus, or right after dismissal, they all come out. But during the day, they are, in fact, hardly seen.
I agree. “I’m imagining a scenario” is an interesting thing to post.
Jonny Greenwood has always been a huge music theory nerd.
Nobody felt entitled to 5 day work weeks before the labor movement, either.

So, when are you going back to 7 days in the office, friendo?
I suspect the analogy between this kind of media consumption and smoking will prove to be far more analogous than we'd like to admit.
This will be interesting... anyone shorting over this, for the short-term?
“‘How did you go bankrupt?’
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
If one was a professional researcher and relied on the various search switches [1] for nearly every search conducted, one would have found unequivocally that google's search ability has seriously declined some number of years ago. Google's present search is an insult to what it once was. It's presently perhaps a good fit for grasping, or easy to find data.

Also, additionally even with a focused search back pre 2010-12, I being thorough, often found myself 700 to 800 entries in search result, selectively opening about 10 or more sites to investigate further for a broad all encompassing search. Present time I'm lucky to get three results that are not ads, and no second or third page of 10 results per page. Google is clearly playing the numbers game.

[1] https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/
> How do you achieve infinite growth on a planet with a finite population and resources?

Wrong question. That's systems thinking.

We're dealing with capitalism. You only need to run faster than the slowest competitor to not be eaten by the bear.
These are regular market forces. More people fighting for a few slots. If people weren’t so desperate to be professors this wouldn’t happen. Pretty sure actors and models go through something parallel.
It feels to me like where this is going to fall down is first contact with any business term that isn’t neatly covered by one of the form agreements. Not to say that this can’t be great for ordinary course arrangements that neatly fit within one of the defined buckets, but I’d be pretty wary (as either a business or a legal advisor) of any impulse to fit even a minimally bespoke deal into one of these templates.

Contracts exist in a weird state of counterpoise where they’re both supremely important (even the oft-maligned “boilerplate”) and totally inessential to the achievement of practical business objective. I’ve had clients sign contracts for nine-figure deals where no one has ever read the agreement after closing. But as soon as there’s a mismatch between the commercial expectations on either side, then every word matters.

And it’s just hard for me to understand how this is going to capture all the nuances of arrangements among sophisticated commercial parties. For instance, I saw on the site, several variations of alternative anti-assignment provisions. OK, so either the contact can or cannot be assigned. Simple enough. Does it also prohibit an assignment of the contract if the company is sold via a sale of all assets? (Should an ordinary course commercial contract really purport to dictate the form of a corporate-level transaction?) What about a pledge to secure debt? What about in an assignment for the benefit of creditors? What about an internal reorganization or transfer to an affiliate? What about a merger? What if the company issues new stock representing 19.99% ownership? 49%? 51%? And so on and so on ad nauseam.

Maybe these are all in fact selectable boxes and there’s language that addresses each of these fact patterns. But even aside from agreed language that, let’s assume, is good enough to implement the business understanding in each of these scenarios, these are weighty commercial decisions that require careful consideration.
With regard to waves you'll have a much harder time in slow modes as compared to WIG. Soviet (large) ekranoplanes could take off with 1.5 and continue flight in 5 meter waves. Gale force winds is another story.
> You can make every promise in the world, because nobody can verify them. You don't even have to know what you're doing, because again, nobody can verify what you say. It is 100% snake-oil.

I wonder how the author feels about audits? At the end of the day, even if mullvad is logging, I trust them with my data far more than xfinity/comcast.

[1] https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/1/20/no-pii-or-privacy-leak...
> why don't the drive vendors do this? Intel makes a compiler for their CPUs. Why isn't there a WDFS that has built-in LVM?

Given the quality of firmware in RAID controllers and disk drives and... er, everything, actually, I would really rather that they do as little as possible, unless they're going to make the firmware open source so we can fix the bugs.
A distributed population means it runs through more (a greater quantity of) populated areas.

This means more stations, more switches, and more road crossings. It also means when you need to do maintenance to the track you are more likely to be in a populated area which brings noise constraints, so possibly no working through the night. It means more road closures or interruptions, which may require traffic control.

Ironically it's going to be more expensive today than it was in the past when things like noise in the middle of the night was allowed and roads didn't have any car traffic to manage.
Saying there's no defined value is just plain willful ignorance.
Hahah I love that you're so excited about the trip that you're commenting about it in random threads. You've convinced me to visit, at least!
Its easy. There are finite limits but if you aren’t near the limits your growth is indeed unconstrained especially if the pool of resources is incredibly deep.
I really like what you did, great work! Please post it whenever you feel it's ready. I'd love to see the code too.
Same thing as when a "sailboat" suddenly veers into the path of a heavy cargo ship. The rules of the sea are that steam gives way to sail, but physics puts obvious limits on that.
Sounds too boring. Could we complicate things heaps by putting it into a vacuum tube at least?
Are you suggesting there could be a black market for... flying?
Seems unlikely to me.
Far higher chance you’ll die on the way to school in a car accident.

School shootings are to the left what terrorist attacks are to the right —- fear-mongering over an ultimately rare and insignificant problem to drive desired policy change.
I have, though my personal blog isn’t exactly a high SEO site. I mainly use it as an easy way to give the recipe on request.
Why should anyone quit their job? The company is the one who changed the terms of employment. Mass walkouts are a form of collective action, and are a good step towards unionization. Amazon can fire all the participants if they want (but something tells me they are not going to).
My personal goal has always been a TOE that allows aspects like particle generations and their various properties to be derived ab-initio from axioms with only simple constants such as integers or pi.

So particle generations ought to be an output, or an essential aspect of the geometry of the thing. In any event, the theory must model the generations, not just layer fields on top of fields like layers of pancake, or... epicycles on top of epicycles.

> most physicists have the opposite impression: that QM is much closer to the truth

This is the crux of the problem: QFT is newer than GR, and people often assume that newer is better. It had one huge numeric prediction success, and that has cemented the theory as more successful than all others in the minds of researchers. Never mind that they've sprinted up a valley to stare at a dead end, a proverbial insurmountable cliff up ahead.

> the electron is not localized in space-time

QM theorists would like to have things both ways at the same time, and then they make the surprised Pikachu face when things turn into nonsense. You can't have point particles smeared in space or even space-time. Pick one.

Or... use a model that allows a point in 3D space but treats it as a higher-dimensional object (surface/volume) in a higher dimensional space, such as the parallel worlds of MWI.

There are other options also. But throwing up one's hands is not the right path to a TOE, in my opinion...
Your kids sound high maintenance; I would consider returning them if they're still within the warranty period.
Isn't this also the same reason 'prosumer' storage hardware / use of off the shelf stuff mostly doesn't exist? If the storage manufacturers dared provide a low level interface option to the real hardware without the easy to for Windows traditional abstractions then they'd both get their lunch eaten (by everyone that moves their current excuse for market segmentation into the OS / Database daemons) and take a loss at still providing for the majority market share of dumb as bricks Windows that lacks a mature VFS API other than NTFS (it's defacto VFS API that MS should just declare all new filesystems implement due to the crushing weight of legacy).
Interesting. Though bleh, I would LOVE it if Go would stop releasing things like this with global default values - it leads to tons of libraries not building a way to pass in specific loggers. Better to cut that off at the head.
Point is not the hardware specs. The point is that the iPad Pro makes an excellent portable musical workstation on the go as well (GarageBand comes with it, and Logic Pro has been ported over). So if you had to choose one this becomes a relevant comparison point.
what are you, European?
Sure we did. And some of us walked away from companies who wouldn't budge. COVID just introduced the possibility to more folks, expanding our ranks.
I imagine it's the usual "someone else's life sucks so yours must suck as well" argument that is used against workers.
> That means sacrificing something small (like a gas shortage)

okay.. tell that to the ones that simply cannot afford it

> for something valuable (no major war in Europe).

/me looks at Ukraine: there seems to be a war... /me looks at globe.. in... Europe.

is the war lasting longer because the EU and US sends arms to Ukraine?
You’re looking at it in a backwards way.

I want to work from home. And while I understand warehouse workers cannot wfh, I think they should get paid regular wage for their commute time.

Don’t go back in time.
> The reason this wouldn’t apply to you

That remains to be established. People often have no idea what renter protections are like. If he's in California, he might find that he can't be evicted without the landlord going through a multi-year process.
are you shouting "The Innovator's Dilemma"?
- Narrower content selection

- Higher prices

- Fewer features (rip DVDs)

- Even higher prices once you consider also subscribing to competitors

- Pay us for what used to be free!