skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Square - profitable in 2019,2020, 2021 (annual basis).
Good ol Funk and Wagnalls, we had the same set, bought through the same process...they also had a classical music record collection distributed the same way...volume 1 was Beethoven's 6th, which is one of my favorites to this day...
Nah, GP is right.

The station-to-station part does indeed use subway travel times, but the website says "Hover over a station to see how much of the city is accessible within 40 minutes by subway and walking."

And the "walking" part clearly shows a perfect circle around each destination station, so it is 100% doing an as-the-pigeon-flies estimation for the walking.
This is probably one of your worst takes I've seen. They colluded with someone who's currently sitting in jail, Do Kwon. The whole Luna/UST collapse was a train wreck and it isn't like these two just got caught up in the collapse, poor them. This wasn't a hedge fund, this was a bunch of crypto scammers dumping on retail (in this case, it was even tradfi) and they have absolutely no remorse for what they did. They should be held just as accountable as DK, not having NYT puff pieces being written about how they've somehow magically avoided jail time by being uncooperative in investigations.
There's already a two-way data flow in the standards, so the charger could just ask the car to unlock if someone requests that at the charger. It does make sense for it to be a request to the car and the car can know the driver's preference on desired charge level (should be at least 80% charged, for instance) and/or alert the driver somehow that the request has been made.
> I think it doesn't really matter in what form the government appears. It's still the government and so its rules apply.

If it's a "limited company", that means it's liability is limited to shareholder capital. It's going to have to have an awful lot of capital if it's going to be able to compensate the entire population for mishandling their data.

Also, if it's a limited company, then the shareholders can sell their shares; the company can change hands, often to owners in a different jurisdiction.

A limited company is not an arm of the government, and I can't hold a limited company accountable in the same way I can the government; especially if my personal data has left the jurisdiction.
Typical doesn't mean "all" though. I guess it would be more fair to say typical companies being mediocre.
The “pigeon flies” part is about the circles that form around each station to reflect walking time after you leave the train.
I second this. I don't see the point of deleting our own stuff, it's like burning books from a library of unique books.
You may consider using asdf or some other Python version manager to get a newer (or older) Python

https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
> If google wants to store medical data, then they have to spin off their ad business.

I don't think I'd find that sufficient.
> 40K Americans were able to beat the greatest empire at the time.

40K Americans and lots of assistance from the French, including their navy.

The American war for independence was a proxy war between empires in which the colonies were pawns, and if not for one of those empires the American insurgency would have been crushed, regardless of whatever the myth of American exceptionalism has probably taught you.
Notably, depending on the device, it may not actually pick the highest option it could handle. It may automatically adjust the voltage over time (state of charge, usually, dictates this) to compensate.
> those are all things you can already do!

Yes, think about being able to do it remotely AND still have presence ie imagine being able to still hangout with your college buddies or extended family for game night who live hundreds or thousands of miles away
You're talking about the 3%(?) that actually make the community, discussion, and value (the reason people show up in the first place, randomly or via seach).
Yet another memory allocator for executable code
Rob Henderson Lectures on Status
>but really what's the worst outcome?

American history includes a period in the not-too-distant past where we put all people of a specific ethnicity in internment camps. So I'm gonna go with using genetic data towards those purposes probably. Maybe I could come up with even worse.
> What's odd is my parents never read it as they were illiterate.

Not odd. If they're anything like my family, they would have bought it hoping it would help you escape the same fate.

> Younger but very similar. Read A to S. I started T and went to college.

The animal kingdom has long suffered from overfamiliarity with aardvarks and the existential denial of zebras ;)
Am I the only person in the world that just uses a browser to access Reddit? No ads, no nags, no idiotic crippled "app" interface on a postage-stamp screen...
AI is not going to make things cheaper (hidden fees and costs will persist)
Because they don't have final approval of the article. Someone contacted them and told them they wanted to interview them about an article they were writing about the troubles their company is having.

Zhu and Davis see it as an opportunity to "correct the record" and to explain exactly what went wrong and while it may have been technically illegal, they weren't the bad guys. So, they agree. They talk with the journalist, possibly invite him over.

The journalist then collects all that information and all the other information they have, and then write the article they were going to write all along.

There's some degree of social engineering to being a good journalist. You have to try and convince people to talk to you even when it would be against their best interests.

And I imagine it's some degree of hubris on the parts of Zhu and Davis. They probably believe that if they just have the right words put out there, they'd be absolved. What they didn't realize is that they don't control the medium. What they said doesn't matter. Unless they revealed something truly astonishing, the journalist is going to cut out anything that doesn't support their main thesis or anything they feel is just bullshit. Or even frame it in a less complimentary context.
Read the disclaimer, the full second sentence of my comment.
"Big Tech" is referring to specific companies that are demonstrably abusive as part of their business model. It's not just some imaginary threat.
> The potential liability for any company is big enough that limited liability is necessary.

No, that's what insurance is for.
It's more like saying macbook pro and chromebook are different products, and they are.
If you meditate long enough you realise there is no problem and no need for a solution.

I suspect he meditated for a couple months and told everyone he was ‘enlightened.’ Or used meditation as a distraction from his problems and thus got no benefit.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/08/ny-times-blasted-for-elizabeth...
> What is funny is there seems to feeling of urgency to get data from Reddit even though it's basically the users who are making subreddits private.

The reason to archive your content is because (1) you want to delete your account or (2) losing access to a free API will make it difficult to do later.

Subreddits going dark is just a day long protest, no one needs to archive content due to that.
I randomly send cards to friends and loved ones for fun and to stay in touch. Latest stamps that went out were James Webb Telescope. You can too!

https://store.usps.com/store/product/buy-stamps/james-webb-s...
I'm going to miss the computer hardware sell/trade subreddits, they're one of the most active I've found and saves 20-40% over eBay or similar. All require a minimum account age and karma to reduce the risk of scammers.
> I should clarify that the invading Iraq part of the above statement was meant as a bit of jest; obviously that was precisely what Putin has done.

But Libya was not in jest.
I like the term “making biscuits” better than “kneading” or “kneading biscuits”. Butter biscuits (and scones) usually require handwork to integrate the butter into the dry ingredients. In my experience, this handwork pretty closely resembles what the cats are doing. There’s a lot of squeezing going on to break up the cold butter and mix it in.
> Why spend your time writing comment after comment about how bad SO is, if you "don't care enough"?

I'm having a discussion on a discussion website, does that confuse you in some way? I don't go out of my way to talk about Stack Overflow, but this thread is about Stack Overflow so I'm talking about my experience with Stack Overflow. Not sure how any of that is ironic.
This would be a good thread to understand what every posters affiliation it.
AI and Music-Making Part 1: The State of Play
Part 2: https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ai-and-music-making-part-two...
I used to think that

But I’ve seen single words changed in budget appropriation bills that completely altered a tax reality in any observer’s favor, that no politician read

Fun game, hard for me to draw a clear distinction on what’s a loophole or not. If the government says my “fair share” is 0% fine by me.
Given that I explicitly stated that it was 100% unproven conjecture and anecdotes, replying with scare-quotes and demands for citation is not a good example of decorum. It's argumentative and hostile, and with little intention of good faith.

Anyways, hope you have a good day.
It's usually short notice from what I know but yes... but also you gotta have the person with the keys around to let people in. They still find tons of stuff. They also freak out about dumb stuff like a sheet of paper taped to the window.
Genuinely curious, would any money be extracted from the personal accounts of any executive employee that made these decisions, current or past, from any of these thousands of lawsuits?

Unless the decision-making folks have their personal wealth destroyed, they really haven’t anything to lose. I would expect the worst-case scenario is that their stock portfolios will need to be adjusted, by tax-loss harvesting their losses in 3m stocks as an opportunity to divest and rebalance their portfolios.
I really miss the old commentary videos on youtube :/

For weirdsexy life got in the way and suddenly stopped doing the commentaries and was replaced by some german dude (sorry don't know his name).
Somehow watching the release videos wasn't as fun anymore as it was before. I don't want to talk down on the work the new guy does, but only want to highlight how exceptional high quality (especially for their time) the old release videos were.

Also... I can't stand the german accent
What was the time period for this. Don't remember this at law. I got 14 year old handme down world books from my cousin and the giant Random House Encyclopedia in the 1970s. Growing up there was nothing but time and the ability to read.
I started my career in C/C++ and embedded. Every time I go back to work on embedded stuff for fun, it's like going back in time and losing all of the nice things that come with languages like TypeScript or JS. Suddenly things like associative arrays, maps, sets, lists, vectors - all require much more mental overhead to deal with and ultimately get in the way of what I actually want to be doing.
Similarly, I spend much more time reading HN comments than the articles themselves.

I made this little ChatGPT prompt for analyzing the comments[1][2].

But, I'm still here reading comments. I guess there are just some things AI can't replace... yet?

[1] video workflow of how I use the prompt on mobile https://twitter.com/wfhbrian/status/1663305398084837376?s=20

[2] share link for the prompt https://chat.openai.com/share/df861f21-5cf2-43e0-b519-a06781...
I think the primary goal here is to make Reddit less useful on your way out, pulling copies of your data for yourself but removing them from the platform is just one good way to do that.
But tidal energy will make the Moon lose altitude. Better to experiment outside the solar system.
I'm honestly not sure, I'd be interested to hear what they say. After a few months that would be enough money to afford an apartment, but you often need a security deposit and first and last month up front. And would anyone even rent to you if you have no job and you're waiting to hear about an asylum application?

Shelter is really important, especially if you're taking care of your family. $256/day is a lot of money but I'm not sure it would be worth it if you have no place to live.
The old version is, essentially, complete. There's nothing wrong or missing with it as far as I can tell.
Parent poster is referring to the walking segments; the walking bubble around each station is a circle.

Click on Rockaway park. A pigeon could reach those islands, but a walking person could not.

This is still a great visualization.
Don't go too low either.

There are CO2 sensors on AliExpress for less than $10, they are scams. What they do is that they take the cheapest sensor available that reacts to something in the air, and extrapolate a reading. It may give you an indication that the air is "stuffy", but the numbers are completely made up.
It is the normal lifecycle that platforms die. Look at MySpace.
If you say so.

Oh yeah, Internet jokes and whatever. Calling a 22 year-old a “Boomer” is different from unironically yelling about how kids-these-days are too soft (see the start of this thread).
At one of our startups, we had a dinosaur theme for internal codenames, and one day we floated around the idea of stockpiling a bunch of dinosaur postage stamps, so that we could make that our thing for company mail, using them long after those stamps were no longer available from USPS.

But we soon decided that beating inflation with USPS Forever stamps probably wasn't the best ROI of investor funds.

(Codename Raptor (Velociraptor) was an awesome internal app, for eviscerating counterfeiters with swarms of fast-moving iPhones.)
I deleted my account when they killed Tweetbot. It was a reminder of how much contempt they felt for their users and it prompted me to do something I'd been idly considering for a while anyway.
> but really what's the worst outcome? Everybody finds out just how much ED medication I take?

Your employer finds out that you are alcoholic?
It's also important whether it's active or passive.

Really important for game servers to have active DDoS protection, like what OVH offers. Not one that kicks in after the attack is detected, otherwise your players get booted, which is the goal of the attacker.
The mandelorian is pretty fun in fairness.
I don't know. There have been a lot of recent complaints about changed behavior, but not sure which model versions people are talking about.
> is that the humans really are the bad guys

Ehhh... maybe that was the satirical intent in the 80s, but it's pretty clearly not true anymore. The Imperium as a whole kinda sucks, but Roboute Guilliman is simply a protagonist, there's no subtlety that the fanbase is missing.
Or that the Reddit founders used fake users to make the young site look busy:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34990229
> Limited Liability is a GREAT thing.

Limited Liability is a double-edged sword. It does reduce the risk of starting a company. But it reduces some mechanisms to protect society from misbehaving companies.
That's an interesting triple entendre sentence build around "smelt", which is a past tense (archaic maybe?) of smell, often written smelled, and a smelt is a little silver fish, so quite stinky, and smelt is liquid metal.

That's a rare sentence that pretty much works all three ways.
A few years ago, Friskies did a comedercial (it's a word I just made up) series narrated by Zefrank of "True Facts" and the "Sad Dog Diary" fame called "Dear Kitten". They are quite amusing... at least I find them amusing.

The relevant one is Dear Kitten: The Art Of Massage - https://youtu.be/ksZ5SyyfHJ0

> Dear kitten I need to give you a little history lesson. Hundreds of thousands of years ago we cats were given a choice. Either we could learn the art of swimming and become a seafaring creature or we could choose the gift of the art of massage. I think it's obvious which one we chose. Massage. To this day we must exercise our duty to massage everything. We alone can exercise this alternating gentle touch with a little aftertaste of claws digging in the flesh.
If we could communicate emotions effectively through speech alone, we wouldn't have invented art.
OpenAI faces defamation suit after ChatGPT fabricated another lawsuit
They don't rely as much on unpaid outsiders to run their communities. As in, you're more likely to get banned altogether from Twitter or Facebook by some automated system, while Reddit relies on volunteer moderators so most of the time, bans will be on a per sub basis by those volunteers.

On top of that, afaik, Facebook and Twitter didn't try to spread lies about 3rd party devs using the drama as leverage to blackmail them. I don't recall much about when Facebook did it, but with Twitter, I think Musk was pretty straight with saying that those 3rd party apps cost money to support and he'd rather do it in house.

Finally, Reddit relies on volunteer moderators, but does not (and has for years promised but failed to) offer the associated tools moderators need. So all those are third party things which also end up in doubt with these changes. With the way Reddit have attempted to deny that they want to kill 3rd party apps despite it being obvious, and the lies about devs, I think it'd leave an even more sour taste to everyone if they tried to carve out an exemption for specifically moderation tools, since it'd make it even more apparent what their goal is.
Can you link to some evidence I may have overlooked?
I didn’t think about US grid isolation as a factor. I always imagined it as similar to Europe (lots of cities over the whole continent with lots of customers).

But in terms of cost, we need to compare to carbon neutral alternatives. Nuclear might be expensive, but that’s only compared to the status quo of coal and gas. I know renewables are getting better but storage is still an unsolved problem (financially speaking)
It explained the code better than I would have, I think. “Inherently challenging” seems… accurate. I bet that if we’d used a data-parallel approach, e.g. with Rayon, it would have handled that better.

As a code assistant, it’s extremely useful if and only if you can check its work. And know how to prompt it.
> The future of work is going to make sweat shops look like lollapalooza

Unions.
I did delete all my tweets and my Twitter account. But the majority of people don't take action or aren't aware of what's going on, in the general case. So they passively suffer a worsening user experience forever or until there's a big enough crowd for them to follow to a new option.

Reddit/Twitter only caring about short term metrics and survival don't care about the further out timeline.
> Waaaaay back in the day, I did like how Slashdot had different categories for voting, e.g. "Insightful", "Funny", "Off topic", etc.

Even that got abused, as comments people didn't like would be modded off-topic or troll.
You're okay with companies not being responsible, but you want the press to help you out here? I feel the opposite. Companies should be responsible for poisoning us, and the press has zero to do with it.
The long post-war era of peace is due to a number of factors, but the one we don't talk about enough is that the U.S. spent untold trillions of dollars becoming a global police force. This may be the biggest factor. I believe it is certainly the prerequisite for any others to have had an effect.

The problem is that the U.S. has a tiger by the tail: if they want to continue in this role, they'll need to step up spending to cold war levels to have a chance of taking on China. This has a tremendous cost, culturally and economically.

If they don't, we'll see (as we are seeing) increased global disorder and rearmament by, for example, European and Asian powers. This will likely lead to more wars in the future.

One thing I am certain of: humans didn't just spontaneously become peaceful after WWII. Some energy is being expended to maintain what passes for global peace, and that energy will have to continue being expended for any conceivable time scale.
naive gradient descent hits local maxima
I've noticed that Askreddit seems to be conspicuously absent from this list.

I also wonder about the moderators of the ones that aren't going dark, many larger subs are moderated by a select group of the same people more or less.
That’s one advantage of the janky mobile site and the official app — I spend way less time on Reddit!
I'm not saying nationalized companies are great. I'm saying that if a company engages in such deceptive practices with materials that they know are toxic, and they fail to disclose that to the relevant parties (the government, and the people), they have no business being in business, as they are effectively externalizing the risk their products put on the rest of us.

Destroying the company is not the best idea, but there has to be a line society has to draw and be vigilant about defending it. Otherwise, you're going to just encourage more of this behavior...because the flip side is a really ugly precedent to set.

You want companies to use toxic chemicals in their products, lie about it, and when found out, just pay some fine and walk away like nothing happened?

No, there has to be a line where we say "you made a ton of money by lying to us and putting toxic chemicals in our air, our water, and our bodies. you're going to now pay that back with substantial interest, and be barred from ever being in a position of any level of corporate power whatsoever for the rest of your life". The taxpayer CAN NOT be the one to be on the hook for corporate misdeeds time and time again.

In countries like China, executives get disappeared for such hubris.
I always wonder why original founders just sell the company and do something else. Why don't they try to control it more and make sure it stays aligned with needs of society more?
Either they can't because of shareholder/equity owners pressure, or they won't, because they really don't care and just said it for PR
"Newton turned in her dissertation and then peaced out. Newton, if you’re out there: respect"

A true pioneer
Do you remember how much the B volume cost?
A Wellness Chatbot Is Offline After Its ‘Harmful’ Focus on Weight Loss
I agree. The fear mongering & sending yourself to /dev/null is out of hand. To me a particularly virulent new pattern that is super anti-social. I think most of ya'll are enduringly good humans & we're better as a world with your thoughts shared.
end of 2022 it really starts to fall apart, I think most of the posts are there until March, but comments are missing.
> The worst outcome is that individuals may have sensitive information in their medical history that could be poorly received by their social circles if it becomes public.

That's far from the worst outcome. You could lose your job, be sent to prison, be denied insurance.
Asking you to be more precise where it matters isn't pedantry.

The behavior is "perfectly rational" only in the economics sense of that term. On a human scale, we often call it things like "sociopathic".

I will also note that companies don't have perspectives either. Which also isn't pedantry, because in analyses where we seek change to a system, we have to understand exactly who is involved and what their motivations are. So in this case it's worth being very specific that the people involved who think this is "rational" are very modest in number. The VCs, probably the rest of the board. To some extent the CEO, but as a founder it's possible he's conflicted enough that he might depart from his short-term economic incentives to protect the think he's spent a major part of his life working on. Maybe some of the execs if they came in to prep in for an IPO.

So now we're not talking about the whole company, which is 2,000 employees, thousands of volunteers, and millions of content creators. We're talking about maybe a dozen greedy people. That's a much more tractable number.