skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Literally, nobody gives a fuck.

you are taking a single experience and applying it universally - maybe most people don't care, but there are some people who do.
And? Just reconnect the call then. Oh, and talk to your IT guys so they fix their shit
Your link explains that the issuing banks charge interest, not the credit card companies - which are merely the payment processors. I don't know all of the companies listed, it's possible that some are two in one and have their own bank as well. Some payment processors are partly owned by major banks too. But take the largest CC company, Visa: They don't extend credit at all, they don't even issue their own cards iirc. All their profit comes from fees, because the fees are too damn high™.

They've successfully convinced the public of the opposite though. It's a very common misconception that only "suckers" who buy on credit pay for it and that everyone else is getting a free service as long as they pay off their cards in time. In reality everyone pays because the merchants have to pay those fees and they pass the cost on to the consumer.
great take to isolate individuals into "pass or fail" tests.. maybe this is exactly the problem at this time of extreme change?
Of course it depends on where you live and I'm saying most people don't need 90 minutes to two hours to travel five miles to work as you claim.
Turns out Diet Coke is actually a different drink. When they made it way back when with the previous genesis artificial sugars it tasted terrible. So they actually re-created the recipe for the fake sugar.

Coke Zero is the same as Coke but with newer generation Artifical sweeteners. That’s why many who like Coke end up not liking Diet but like Zero much better.
A little bit off topic, I know, but I love how the FCC is using a plain text file here. No nonsense!
> They report these numbers because they are used to calculate the company’s ESG score. More diversity = higher score, where diversity is defined as fewer white people.

Where do you see that? That's not part of the criteria for my Vanguard ESG fund.
They're not going to go away for the same reason that the social media companies are so hesitant to openly report on the number of bots on their platform. For the same reason that Tesla still calls their assisted driving "AutoPilot": They make too much money on the suckers.
> They are the way they are because of the various incentives, organizational politics

Congrats, you just provided a description of "power structures". Now you know.

> Rather than declaring them part of a fascist plot

Especially as a lawyer, you should know better than to put words in someone else's mouth - it leads to people distrusting what you say. I'll certainly be more closely checking what you're replying to from now on...
I'm sorry that knowledge offends you.
"I can't do that, Dave."
In reality: I am not that mercenary. Nor is the man in the song.

They both know the rules... and they both are enjoying the profits.

If a company wants to make a major commitment to me, I commit back. But note: commitments come in the form of money and actions. Not talk.

If the company wants to have a fling... I consult by the hour too. :)
Oils 0.17.0 – YSH Is Becoming Real
On planet Earth.
I don't think -160C would change much since it would still need cryogenic cooling. Liquid nitrogen is the most common and cheapest cryogenic. YBCO is liquid nitrogen cooled and has the advantage that can make in large quantities and has high field strengths.

But if it was slightly warmer, over -153C, then it could use non-cryogenic refrigerants.
Not even into the fall, but it's probably for the best.
Thanks for the feedback. The number of unique words you use and the rate at which you speak contribute to the fluency score. I'm a little reluctant to give the full equation, because it prevents us from trying to game it.

That's useful feedback on pointers for improvement - I'll see what can be done.
ESG is a way for large firms to manipulate the stock prices of smaller firms and buy them out. That is all there is to it. Nobody should be fooled by this. None of these companies care about ESG or any of the propgandized ethics of ESG. Every one of these pro-ESG companies would lay off a large swath of their workforce if it meant higher profits. Pretty painful for the "S" social part of ESG.
Still early career people are only a tiny fraction of the company’s residents to whom all the WFH culture hugely benefits and the company as a whole. Nothing is perfect, but WFH comes closer than anything I’ve in my lifetime before.
> if you can show ads only to the people to whom they are relevant,

Except that's not what is happening. The information brokers learned that there's no money to be made in selling to someone who already knows they want to buy that product. With the ad you're getting 90% conversion but without you're only down to 70% conversion.

The real value is in convincing someone who had no interest in a product to spend money they wouldn't have otherwise. And targeting makes this happening by giving the advertisers tools to custom make campaigns that create new engagements. The role of the advertiser is not to connect potential purchasers with the products they want, but to trick unwary consumers into buying irrelevant junk.

And on top of that, it doesn't help small businesses because they only spend money on small campaigns. A tiny micro-targeted set of ads always loses the auction to an algorithmic carpet bombing of manipulative clickbait. That is, they'll "win" a few impressions at first until their budget caps out and then the spam ads will fill in the rest. Which means someone in that cohort will in any period see more of the bad ads than the good ones.

There is no incentive for anyone in adtech to fix this because the "solution" right now is charging more money for better ads. Consumers disliking ads and being inundated with malvertising is the system working as intended.
Or... not pay it at all... who would know except you, X and your priest?
Personally I have two major issues with macOS: CPU usage and bugs.

There are a ton of background services that periodically spin up for no obvious reason, consuming a ton of CPU for a few minutes at a time, then go back to idle. I don't know what they're doing or why. Luckily since they're background services, they're bound to the efficiency cores on Apple Silicon, so they don't hurt battery life or thermals too much most of the time.

And as far as bugs go, the worst part is that bug reports through the Feedback app go largely ignored and bugs seem to keep accumulating. Even for bugs with clear and well-documented repro cases, Apple doesn't seem to pay any attention.

I'm a game developer, so the majority of my bug reports come from issues I've experienced with the graphics drivers or with Xcode. Here's a few examples:

- On macOS devices with > 60Hz displays, there is some awful stuttering with Metal apps in full screen mode. For some reason, CAMetalLayer nextDrawable sometimes just takes a very long time whenever it uses direct-to-display mode for presentation. That mode is implicitly enabled for full screen Metal apps, in order to bypass the display compositor and theoretically reduce latency. This bug also applies to MacBooks with the built in "ProMotion" (120Hz) displays. I'd be perfectly happy if there was just some flag to say "don't use direct-to-display", but if there is one, it's not documented anywhere. I haven't found a workaround yet. I originally reported this in August 2022. Apple replied once in October 2022 to say "we can't reproduce this, please provide a demo app". I provided the app that reliably reproduces the problem within an hour of their reply, but they've been silent since.

- Metal and OpenGL (the latter is emulated via Metal on Apple Silicon Macs) both exhibit a bug with triangle merging that causes partial derivatives to go very wrong along primitive edges. There's a usable workaround for this on the Metal side (just enable a [[sample_mask]] even if you're not doing multisampling). There's no such workaround for the OpenGL side, unfortunately. I was able to work with Asahi Lina to fix this for Mesa on Asahi Linux, and the fix itself was actually really trivial and didn't require a sample mask hack (it took a lot of debugging to figure out, though -- but that's how reverse engineering goes). To solve it, Apple would simply need to set a particular bit to disable triangle merging whenever the fragment shader uses derivatives. I reported this issue in December 2022, and Apple hasn't replied.

- This one is not as egregious as some of the bugs I've reported, and the Xcode team has responded reliably in the past. This is the first Xcode bug report I've had where they didn't acknowledge the report within ~14 days or so. In the current Xcode beta, using the graphics debugger will suspend the app but hitting "resume" leaves the app stuck suspended. The normal application debugger path does not do this, just the graphics debugger. I reported this in mid-June 2023, but haven't heard anything yet.
Maybe his sales aren't so big?

He's constantly giving away his books. One theory is that he makes much more from "consulting" and political work around Silicon Valley. So the books are just loss leaders.
> They cannot add two numbers together reliably.

Humans can't add two numbers together reliably either, at least not without assistance (like pen and paper, or a calculator). We invented calculators exactly because humans are not innately good at such calculations, so I'm not sure what you think this proves.

> If you're looking for the actual AGI breakthrough, look out for some qualitatively new and interesting way to connect these brains together.

All of these are being and have been connected to LLMs now, to great effect. See RT-2, for example.

Finally, I think you vastly overestimate human capabilities. LLMs are already superhuman in many tasks. Adding a "few more intelligences" where they currently fall down does not at all seem far off.

This has been my experience so far: people underestimate the capabilities and rate of progress in machine intelligence, and they often significantly overestimate human capabilities to derive their estimates. Overestimating human specialness has a long history.
A lot of Internet users don't want to pay for content and don't want ads. I guess they're hoping some deity will magically pay all the content producers.
Everytime this comes up I'm utterly shocked how such blatant violation of the fourth amendment hasn't been struck down by the supreme court. Especially for conservatives it should be a clear case of governmental overreach. For the liberal side what about defunding the police stuff? Its clear niether political party actually cares about following the constitution, which is just a let down.

Maybe we need a "NRA" for money, property, and encryption.
Yes, but it does not drop nearly as far and there is the suggestion of equipment malfunction while at the same time that gear seems to work just fine around -110 C.
One of the things I've learned in my 2.5 decades in this industry is that products/platforms which have a long history of defying gravity will generally continue to do so. Generally, the longer something has been out and about, the longer you can expect it to continue to be out and about.

There are exceptions to this, but they generally occur slowly (e.g. Perl, PHP) and the trendline is obvious for years, and it only asymptotically approaches obsolescence.

OpenBSD and FreeBSD, afaik&afaict, are not on such a trendline at all. Which isn't to say they are immune from ever entering such a trend! But they'd be starting from a relatively steady state, despite what (probably false) intuitions about the supremacy of other options might seem to dictate.

I would predict we'll be having this conversation again and again, long into the future, as we've been already having this conversation for about twenty years.

And the answer will still be: BSD is just fine.
Thanks! Yes, pnpm workspaces and turborepo are both far superior to NX IMO. They hit that sweet spot of providing the nice aspects of a monorepo without all the nightmarish configurations and complexities.

Next.js has saddened me since the move to SSR. I think remix is light-years ahead to be honest.

I will give ts-rest a look-see.
The rationale for civil asset forfeiture should be applied to random bank branches, and the practice will meet its natural conclusion extremely quickly.

but that is the clearest depiction of this caste system. people that can obviously fight do not have their cash and effects seized.
Personalized ads are the biggest motivation for data collection.
How about this: let’s go to a single flat rate for everyone and everything (say 20%) and eliminate all deductions except for a standard deduction (say whatever is the poverty line, eg $25000 or so). This would be for corporations and individuals.

Now your taxes can be filed on a postcard. And the IRS can preprint it and send it to you, with an online code or something to click “ok” on a web site and be done.

The government uses the tax code like a Swiss Army knife, trying to reward friends, punish enemies, encourage and discourage behaviors, etc. As a result we collectively spend millions of person hours and untold $$$ paying accountants to find and exploit loopholes and try and avoid undue attention.

Let’s just stop.
As a layman, how do you know this is huge?
Don't read it then...

Also, if you're a fan of cruising, why do you continue to do it knowing the completely compromised position of those below decks who are being cruelly taken advantage of and underpaid to deliver you your cruise? It seems like you're pinning your own issues with yourself and the activity onto DFW while continuing to enjoy it
> Like we should all still be using terminal BBS and VIM because they are "better."

Well, to be fair...tabs ARE objectively better than spaces for tabulating a coherent hierarchy.

...and terminal BBS and vim are better.
We tried funding the internet with banner ads and that didn't take. So early 2000s we sold our privacy to fund it. The "web consumer" mentality was built on the latter funding, which is now going away.

Small business is being hurt the most (because they benefitted the most from being able to buy targeted ads with a small budget).

I want my privacy private, and I'm not willing to share it. It is definitely interesting to see what AdTech can figure out next, especially for small business.
Actually, enough people were fooled to conflate FTX and Celsius with Blockchain and Smart Contracts, exactly because they were all lumped into one thing by the word “crypto”. I wouldn’t be surprised if many people are now against end-to-end cryptography also because the word “crypto” was co-opted:

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/18/crypto-cr...

So why would I want to use it? It just confuses the issue. And by the way FTX and Celsius and their ilk are exactly the sort of black box funds-custodying middlemen that Bitcoin and crypto was designed as an alternative to! They are closer to Stripe than blockchain. So when you try to equate smart contracts on a blockchain with FTX, who is the one being disingenuous?
I would guess most are likely a net negative, but it can depend on your perspective. Anyway, I would say in most cases you probably make the world a little worse.

At the very least you're helping funnel money from the average joe and divert it to the uber wealthy, and a handful of lottery ticket winners. Often, you're actively searching for ways to hurt the vast majority of the population.
I have no idea what Web Components are or why I should care. Is that the problem?
This would take away all the jobs producing such low-quality low-fi artifact-laden background music... if any existed.
It’s not really that the browser would be an OS, precisely, it’s that the browser would become the primary application API, replacing WIN32 for the most part. This could very well have happened, and to some extent, it did play out - except it doesn’t make sense for things like games, server software, local admin tools and so on… and then also, for some reason people like native mobile apps.
I don't make any arguments about productivity in general either way because I don't have any data to base them on.

That said, there's no question that I personally am much more productive at home vs in the office. Offices seem designed to interfere with productivity.

But, all that said, why does it matter either way? I am a human being. I do not exist to ensure that my employer is operating with the greatest productivity possible.
Unless you can't see the horses. Then think horse spirits.
My first real programming job was implementing a Kalman filter for GPS car applications in the 90s. GPS still had crippled accuracy for civilians back then (about 100m), which made it useless for turn-by-turn navigation in your car. But assuming that you have an accurate location at the start of the journey, and that the car stays on roads (and that the road maps are accurate), then we could filter it down to a decent reading.
Correct. But they do get to vote the shares.
Awesome project! I had fun talking to it. Thanks for sharing. Can you give some hints as to what technologies you used?
Sounds great, except a flat tax rate is extremely regressive so you either tank the amount of tax revenue the government collects, or you punish low income earners far more than wealthy individuals.
Not today satan! Even after playing this multiple times on both the web and mobile this site can suck me back in so easily.
My friend, what exactly do you think is so energy intensive with LK99 synthesis? I've briefly taken a look and the process proposed is really not that onerous in terms of energy consumed. It is a matter of perfecting the process that is the hurdle, we already spend tons of energy happily in similar industrial processes.
Correct, the imperfections of the crystal allowing the flux pinning permits even a “hanging levitation”. Here is a timestamped video showing that:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA&t=90

If we develop methods of creating these superconductors with perfect crystal composition then there will only be the repulsion, allowing for levitation in a bowl shaped superconductor, but this “hanging levitation” would be impossible.

Perhaps we will develop manufacturing techniques to induce specific imperfections into the material to ensure predictable flux pinning; it seems like a useful, and wildly interesting side effect.
The police do prevent "mob rule" today. They use violence to keep a minority of wealthy people atop a social hierarchy. When the "mob" below acts up, they violently quash them.

Like, think of any mass social protest movement. Who is the primary "boots-on-the-ground" opposition? It is always the police. It will always be the police. That's what they're there for.
Many ToS have many illegal parts.

Repeat after me: You cannot:

... contract away...
/ ... agree away...
/ ... accept ToS away...

... your legal protections
&
... any law

Illegal ToS are literally scary stories to scare people, but if any part of that ToS goes against laws/ your rights, then that part is null and void.

Courts often have cases where a ToS section or section of a contract is not legally enforceable, and the court simply sets that aside as if it never existed.
How about an ORM that isn't as bad as Hibernate :(
This whole thread really just makes me realize how severe our filter bubbles, echo chambers and distrust of "the other side" has become.

Nobody wants poor people to die and nobody has a religious adherence to "rugged individualism". If you go actually talk to people who disagree with you, instead of reading ridiculous descriptions of their motivations from people inside your bubble who hate them, you might gain an appreciation of their concerns.

I'm amazed at how 4 years of the Trump administration didn't result in Liberals becoming much more open-minded to Libertarian concerns about concentrated power in the federal government. How did we come through that experience without more people saying "OK, I get it now, maybe I don't want so much power and control over my life held by the white house".
The source code is, as it's MIT, but the weights are not, as they're CC-BY-NC: https://github.com/facebookresearch/audiocraft#license
This would be a godsend! I'm not sure of its applicability to non-resident aliens yet, but having to mail the documents has been a really slow process. They don't open them even after two months of receiving them, and then take another few weeks to process.

Going digital would at least alleviate the fears of having submitted the returns on time, since otherwise IRS doesn't acknowledge them receiving on/before time.
Very cool!

I could see this tool to be very useful in my Japanese studies.
I only have two problems with it:

- AI feedback can sometimes be pretty overwhelming. Maybe you could implement a level selector (beginner, intermediate and expert?) so that the AI would switch to using shorter/simpler or longer/harder sentences accordingly?

- The speech to text works fine most of the time, but sometimes it gets a few words wrong. Could there be a way to correct the last sentence input?
Agreed. I think NX is a big powerhouse of a tool that should only be used in mature engineering orgs with complex codebases and deployments. A seed-stage company is not the right fit.
I think they know. If you polled the country a tiny fraction would say that they think it's a good thing.
I'm glad you've heard of it!

There are lots more authors now. I'm not sure why you're so hung up on this one. (He was literally forced out of town. So don't hold him against us.)

I was also pretty sure that story would be a good one to explain why it does have a chance. Ever heard of Elinor Ostrom? (I'll assume you didn't hear of her, but you might have heard of Garrett Hardin who came up with Tragedy of the Commons, which I learned was one of the most widely cited "wrong arguments" in the history of publishing papers...)

I'm not a scholar in the field, but it was my understanding that retaining the capability for "driving someone especially bad out of town" was literally the thing that made it possible for "tragedy of the commons" to have been found an invalid construct as foregone conclusion or an inevitable outcome of working with communal shared resources.

They did studies of the tight-knit communities in Africa where they had managed to avoid the tragedy of the commons for many generations, and I'm sure I'm drastically over-simplifying the conclusion, someone here can explain it better than I can...

But so, we've got that going for us, as well. We can kick people out without "losing their shit for them" on the way.
Interesting. How's that measured, quantified?
No can do, but https://developers.google.com/style/word-list seems to have all of them and more, except that it's missing "hooray." One funny red-exclamation-mark example from this public list is "smartphone."

Some are recommended against just cause of spelling or something, but anything that says to use a more "precise" term seems to mean it's considered offensive, kinda like in The Giver.
Yes... except that Pandora's library does not include the music.
> 'Orthodox' is an interesting qualifier here

It's a necessary qualifier, because we're not talking about some niche five-person ideology or group that hasn't actually been tested by time. We need to talk about one that I've heard of, and can plausibly evaluate!

> But saying that is more a comment on the fraught history of humanity, rather than an agreement on the more reductive or banal point you want to be making here.

No, it's a comment that most structures of thought and reasoning are not actually a guardrail that will protect you against poor behaviour, and that in itself, without specifics, it's a poor criticism to level against a type of thinking, or an idea.

You can criticize the specifics of the problems of Dawkins, but it's a cheap, parting shot to just say 'Well, Dawkins is compatible with horrible things', without elaborating further. Almost everything is compatible with horrible things! It's a low-information criticism!