skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm ending this conversation becausee:
1. you're not actually saying anything and
2. you're endlessly bringing up Jan 6 presumably because you think I'm a conservative and want to expose my double standard.

You're literally Just Asking Questions here, and I absolutely hate that term.
Seems like it ignores people traveling with others (like children and disabled folks) who need assistance.
It's called "lysenkoism".

> In time, the term has come to be identified as any deliberate distortion of scientific facts or theories for purposes that are deemed politically or socially desirable.
Probably not widely, but I've read Labyrinth of the Spirits by Zafón and it was utterly fantastic. (I know it's book 4 and do intend to read the others. I was at my local library and picked this up randomly. So glad I did!)
You're assuming that the only way for a company to not post profits is for all its margins to be flat-to-negative.

If the company has high operating margins and high growth then it makes sense to take those profits and reinvest in capital and R&D to make the company bigger. That is the definition of an efficient economic machine builds itself, and the way to a very good stock for the investor.

That is different from the pathological stock with flat operating margins which is growing on debt, spending $1 to make less than $1 at the margins and will only consume itself as it grows.

And learning to tell the difference between those two requires learning to read 10-K's, you can't just look at the net earnings bottom line.
If physical security (against fire, in this case) in their DCs is clearly not good, then how safe is data?
Google acquired the early android team and they were vital in making it succesful: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-acquisition-...

Chrome: hmm - was Chrome developed after Brin & Page left? I never realized this but OK you got me on that one if that indeed is the case.

Go: I liked it initially and I love the performance, but i don't necessarily love the language syntax and design.

The rest: mostly tools which make scaling Google's infrastructure easier. I don't count these as outstanding accomplishments but I suppose you may have had me here too (albeit the scope I was referring to mostly referred to regular ppl not infra teams but meh I suppose I'll give you this one as well).
What a baller article. Omgosh. Puts together so much of how our economy has ossified into place, how platforms and control have become the dominant force, much against the public good, against diverse & flourishing possibility.

> In short, with few direct employees, Apple earns enormous profits, invests very little relative to its overall economic footprint, faces limited effective competition, owns vast amounts of legally protected intangible assets, and thus epitomizes many of the features of our current economy.

The focus on IP as control is huge. But it gets worse still. Now tech - backed by absurd DMCA anti-circumvention - allows these worldwide fiefdoms to deny outside agency via legally enforced technocratic dominion.

I ran across Robin Berjon's 2023 book recommendation thread (via Half Built Garden, a great book on daiperpunk eco-conwcious economic mutualism that touches upon some of these threads but isn't my point here), and the first book How Data Happened quickly went on my to-read list with a wonderful quote about how tech has tipped the game to hold all the cards, how it has become supreme leverage of control over everyone else:

> As private companies have come to form the infrastructure for technology ecosystems, they rely on each other-and thereby coerce each other. Apple has, for exam- ple, shocking power to influence other companies that wish to have their app available on the iPhone. In Super Pumped, Mike Isaac describes a visit by the then-CEO of Uber to Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, who explains in no uncertain terms what data policies are going to be allowed in the app if Uber wants to remain in the App Store.15 Similarly, Facebook and other data-enabled companies wish to remain in Apple's app store, which therefore functions like infrastructure. Effec- tively, these companies can deplatform each other, as when Google punishes a company by changing the search algorithm in ways that hurt that company's search ranking, leading to a huge financial loss. These corporations have the opportunity to affect each other, both by positioning themselves, as when Apple celebrates privacy as a fundamental human right to poke at Google and Facebook and by actually deplatforming each other. ... In our analysis of power these represent an important set of arrows among corporate powers.

https://bsky.app/profile/robin.berjon.com/post/3jukn3wzpin26

It's just so against what the humanistic endeavor sings of, what tech should be doing, which is opening possibility. The law has been onboard extending legal anti-liberal-world corporate-domination at nearly every turn. Threads on IP here & everywhere are rancorous in extreme & deservedly so. How this mismatch between people & government-corproate rulership has gotten so completely out of whack, has seen so few rebalances, for so long, is unimaginable & terrible. This article does a great great job writing this up & I'm so thankful to see it.
The 12 skills are

- Flap open/close (oven door)

- Slide open/close (drawer)

- Slide in/out (slideable shelf)

- Cap open/close (screw caps)

- Pick/place (for relatively easy situations on flat surfaces, not bin picking)

- Wipe

"Wipe" doesn't have a reverse operation, and #12 is not illustrated.

The main thing here is that the robot has much force sensing, and interpreting that data is hard. So they had people do this with a teleoperator with force feedback, and fed that into a machine learning system. What this is really about is how to use force feedback data effectively. People have struggled with this for key-in-lock and part assembly for decades.

Seems like good work on a longstanding hard problem, but not a breakthrough.
Many of us learned Scheme or Lisp and are familiar with Scheme even if we never use it.
Hint: Starship cans are comically inadequate to support a martian colony. They might be just adequate to maintain a lunar outpost -- if they turn out to work at all. We don't even know if humans can survive, long-term, in 0.3g; zero g, anyway, is right out. Life in centrifuges on Mars would be even less fun than in cans.

If some follow-on vehicle were ever developed adequate to support a martian colony, and lunar gravity were to turn out to suffice, getting any actual value return from such a vehicle is hard to imagine. You might try to use it to support automated mining of platinum-group metals from asteroids, but it is far from clear how that could be made to work out. That it seems possible in principle is usually not considered a sound basis for investment.

Musk certainly understands all of the above. He will cash out long before it is demonstrated to all be a pipe dream.
hardware interrupts.
I have to add that every school I've been to, or known anyone from has had a sort-of freshman integration process for partying where the kids are driven to the houses and supplied with alcohol and encouraged to party and have sex. _Especially_ the women, it's actually incomparable. They are instantly picked over by the upperclassmen and delivered and encouraged to party every weekend of every semester. Sure they live in a dorm but everyone has a car and is very willing to give rides to others in exchange for not having to walk into a party alone.

I've never heard of a University where the freshman were magically diligent and contained, though I've never been to a private school (if that's the type of school you're talking about). I don't mean to imply anything, but is it possible that your child may have not explained all the intricacies of their experience, perhaps to save you the trouble of worrying and them the trouble of you worrying? I certainly did not tell my parents anywhere near what actually happened, and i still have never. As far as my mom knew, i was a model child in university and in the dorm.
This is a mistake that I've made several times. (I predicted Bitcoin would go to zero!) If you disagree with a particular policy you can't let that color your predictions. Most people simply can't do this. You can refuse to invest in things that you find harmful but if the entire economy is rigged most people can't refuse to participate in it.
Yeah a few times, usually contract jobs
I think your sentence is accurate if you replace the word "factual" with "accepted". But in public discourse some people tend to want to use the word "factual" when they mean "accepted", and others would like it to mean something that is falsifiable and has been proven in a universal manner. Thus this argument is reduced to semantics.
Well done interview! I like the idea Professor Kawakami Hiroshi shared to make inconvenient design ideas as design principles.

His inconvenient design cards reminded me of the IDEO Method Cards (https://www.ideo.com/post/method-cards , IDEO is a design company).

I will now look at some of the
DESIGN TALKS plus series :)
If you wonder about things like that, you might want to read Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.
All of what you have said is correct.

None of what you have said is going to happen at a bank, insurance company or media shop who need to comply with all the corporate legislation post-Enron.
This is why product managers and or industrial designers exist - someone who either has domain experience or empathizes with a user.

I was a PM for a wearable product used on industrial sites. The engineering team suggested a lanyard as an option for the wearable. Anyone who's spent some time on industrial sites knows that lanyard-worn-anything is outright not allowed or highly frowned upon by HSE departments.
Wow, I must congratulate you because this reads equally well both as a serious argument and as a parody of that argument.

So let me reply to your comment as if it were serious: yes, if the programmer by supernatural means knows that the "v" is always presented somewhere in the array, then this function works exactly as intended: it would always return true, and the compiler optimises it to do so as quickly as possible! But... perhaps there is some other way to pass such programmer's knowledge ("the arguments are guaranteed to be such that this loop is guaranteed to finish early") to the compiler in a more explicit way? Some sort of explicitly written assertion? A pre-condition? A contract, if you like?

See, it's very difficuly to maintain such unspoken contracts and invariants during the codebases' life because they're unspoken and unwritten. Comments barely count since compilers generally ignore them.
Fact check:
Kale only has 20mg of oxalates per 100g which means 2 lbs has about 180mg of oxalates.
https://e-cnr.org/ViewImage.php?Type=TH&aid=487614&id=T9&afn...

180mg of oxalates isn't that much.

Most people consume 200 to 300 mg of oxalates per day:
https://www.webmd.com/diet/foods-high-in-oxalates

and with regards to water. I believe, it's when you sip on water all day that the danger of brain swelling occurs because your body looses the ability to gauge how much water is in it's system and doesn't quite know how much to excrete.

too much of anything isn't good. it's time to start embracing less.
it's okay to drink a bit too much water at once because your body can excrete it without problems.
The example is a blue vs orange button? What value does this post hold that hasn't been said with greater rigour elsewhere? If your org is testing stupid shit your AB tests will be stupid. The only time your tests should have that level of granularity is if is incidental because you are Indeed and testing, feature flagging, releases, etc. are all rolled into a single fully integrated tool like Proctor so everything gets tested by default all the time with a deviation alerts.
That strategy does limit your documentation to text though. Sometimes a literal big picture and a few well-considered supporting diagrams can be worth more than a hundred screens of Markdown.
I’m taking your statements to the logical conclusion. It’s what happens when people don’t think through the consequences of giving the government power.

All it really takes to decide whether a government policy is a good idea or not is to think of how the political party you don’t agree with could use that power.

It never ceases to amaze me how willingly people are willing to give power to the government.
Reminds me of my favorite high-voltage warning label:

> DANGER: NOT ONLY WILL THIS KILL YOU, IT WILL HURT THE WHOLE TIME YOU'RE DYING
Haha thanks for the feedback good to see you’re liking it. Many more to come. Lmk if you have any ideas for projects to stream
It can also be upsetting to have your accounts hacked and your contact list used to find targets to socially engineer for money by impersonating you. It’s a jungle out there.
That is only truly moral if everyone involved is on equal footing with respect to the opportunity to own "their own property".

The entire existence of programs like this depends on the opposite notion.

Puritanical authoritarianism has an outsized effect on people who are less financially independent.
DeciCoder: 1B-parameter open-source Large Language Model for code generation
New Type of Astronomical Object Discovered: Magnetic Helium Stars
Texas Workforce Commission years behind on recovering back wages for workers
I had a new laptop that I swear would hardlock while watching YouTube, but only when the device was recently powered on (it was on for weeks / months at a time normally). Eventually someone suggested a solder contact may be less stable when cold, after a few weeks of testing I confirmed this was true (or enough to reproduce the issue) before RMAing the laptop, which has been working perfectly ever since!
This is really cool! I especially like your Tour, very fun way to get introduced. Here is a couple points of feedback:

- For the tour, I notice that pressing Esc exits it. Would be nice if there is a close button somewhere as well, or at least some way to let the user know that they can press Esc. Currently if someone is using the mouse, they only can exit using the left (Previous) button of the first slide or the right (Start Exploring) button of the last slide.

- Clicking into some nodes and then Reset View seems to spin the view many more times than necessary. Not sure if that's a bug or by design but I would prefer if it uses the least amount of camera movement necessary.

Overall this was really cool to see. I have been wanting to do something similar but based on price action correlation instead of fundamentals. Actually I have just launched a related feature this week called Similar Charts.

If you are interested you can see that here: https://base.report/ticker/ACLS/similar-charts. Please note that the free version only shows you tickers that start with the letter A. The paid version shows you 50 matches.
This is paywalled.
He died in the show because the actor actually died!
In principle, I agree -- no one is entitled to one communication style or another, and we should all respect each others' preferences.

But the problem is that the flow between those personas is not bidirectional.

Again, generalizing a lot here, but let's call them Cold and Warm personas.

If a Cold receives a Warm message, generally speaking the worst they might feel is that the other person is being inauthentic. In my experience, what usually happens is that they just filter out all the niceties as extraneous and get on with their day. As time goes on, they won't necessarily change their communications or relationship with that person -- after all, they're still getting what they need from them.

On the other hand, if a Warm receives a Cold message -- if they notice a pattern of receiving Cold messages -- they might take that as standoffishness or outright hostility. Even if it's not that negative, the Warm simply won't build as much trust as they otherwise might. They aren't getting what they need.

So in this scenario, if everyone communicates as they naturally would, Colds don't notice anything wrong, while Warms feel like they're actively missing out on something important to them.

I would also note that, again in my experience, most people who describe themselves as Cold communicators ("I don't want fluff, just communicate directly with me") actually really appreciate people who communicate with lots of social niceties. They respond to them more quickly, they're willing to explain misconceptions, and so on. They just don't think it's because of communication style.
Some people are afraid that will make the rent go up

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31572-1

of course there is a reason we can't have nice things in blue states.
Paper:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade3293
A long-term partner probably knows you better than anyone. No one likes getting called out on their stuff, if you want to grow as a person or as a couple you’re going to move past that initial discomfort, reflect on it and then decide if it’s valid enough feedback to try to integrate it.
In Finland if someone controls over 90% of the shares they have right to forcefully buy rest of the shares (and also obligation if someone wants to sell at at that point). So if they wanted to go fully own the company they need to high enough offer that they will at least hit 90%. I'm not sure if you could from public company to private without all shareholders agreeing to it as that would benefit large shareholder at minority holders cost.

No clue if there are similar laws in Germany or other countries.
It sounds like you know, so I'm curious...

Why is it so valuable to create those temperatures for researchers?
you meant plants, not plans.

am I right?
You don't buy a 96-core CPU to run singlethread workloads.
The [Natural Language Technique] top creators are hacking prompts with
> It never occurs to engineers to put themselves in the shoes of the user.

Or sometimes, they do, but they get overruled by Marketing.

Marketing: "Our focus group didn't like the holes on the side or back. Said it looked like ceiling tile. They liked when we mocked it up with holes half as big, though."

Engineering: "…That will cook the hard drive, and maybe the CD-ROM drive, too. Those holes are half the dia—"

Marketing: "After the warranty?"

Engineering: "Maybe. Maybe most of them. We'd have to test."

Marketing: "Great! We'll ship with the smaller holes, then."
I use "communication snippets" or "fillers"

for example

> Person A: “Hey, do you have any idea why this number is low? It’s a mystery … nobody I’ve talked to yet seems to know.”

is really long

I just say

> curious; why is that number low?

other prefixes I use are:

1. adding to the discussion

2. for discussion

3. low pri, no need to respond

4. neutral

5. nonactionable

6. sharing opinion

https://www.notion.so/aizatto/communication-snippets-fillers...
Appreciate it! We're hoping we can help solve one while achieving the other.
apples he found.
It was the reasoning I objected to rather than the specific advice, and I may have misread/misunderstood but I thought it was tied just to exclamation marks anyway, not emoticons.
Does anyone know if dehumidifiers sold in Europe (UK) in the last 10 years are also dangerous? It’s concerning when you see such a large number of products in a category being recalled.
Thanks! I think anyone would have to be nuts to write a loop like this in C++ or tolerate C as a language. C++'s `ranges::find` does what it says, and communicates between the author and the reader as well as the author and the compiler.
this there are some pretty insane videos out there a out this, an extremely light weight unit capable of taking down tanks..
It also ran on slavery, pillaging, and war. YMMV
Yes but they really ought to do this study with people before we all go out and exercise :).
The rice grown in Australia[0] uses a higher water level in colder months to protect against the weather with thermal mass, rather than to physically support the stalks: https://www.agriculturaltoursriverina.com.au/how-is-rice-gro....

Bali has reliably warmer weather than the Riverina in the winter months, so at a guess insulation would be less relevant for Balinese farmers.

[0] Australian rice growing is good for comparison because it necessarily has to be more water efficient and is more heavily industrialised than Indonesia
As someone who enjoys exploring and learning about new fields, I often lack a curriculum of learning materials.
To solve that problem, I'm parsing wikipedia to create a knowledge graph composed of "concepts" linked to each other. Every "concept" has some prerequisite of other "concepts", say, in order to learn differential equation I need to first learn about calculus, etc.
Therefore, if I were to learn about self-driving cars, I can mark the starting point (concepts I already know of) and the target (most important 50 concepts for self-driving car), and the graph would give me the best path to achieve my target. Therefore, I can be self-guided in my learning with the help of a knowledge graph similar to technology tree in games.
Let me know what you think!
"That's not a character flaw or anything! You have every right to feel that way. I do think it is just categorically wrong, though."
Do you have any idea how asinine that statement is? Let me translate it into English: "I respect your opinion, but actually I don't. You should communicate the way I prefer, not the way you prefer, because my feelings matter and yours don't".

Don't tell me that's not what you said, because it absolutely is.
Is it really that shocking that you don't always get much more respect than you give?
Let's go deeper... Who remembers their favorite programs (source or binary), and (for bonus points) has a link?

Disks can be found at:

https://philreichert.org/book/fred-fish/listing-01.html
http://aminet.net/misc/fish
As a T-Mobile customer, and not paid at all to endorse their services, I can assert that their adverts do not lie.
Yeah my kids will watch 6+ hours of YouTube or at least just leave it running even if not actively watching.
It came about as a marketing gimmick due to the scientific reality of widespread contamination of food, water and air with persistent chemicals that accumulate in human bodies, e.g. PCBs in breast milk and so on. It's also a reality that many 'natural' substance accumulate and persist in the body and are only slowly excreted particularly if they have a nonpolar oily affinity (this is why THC testing, i.e. marijuana urine tests, work).

The reason it's batty is that nobody who markets these products ever does a scientific study to see if their 'cleanse' program has any measureable effect on the rate your body excretes various pollutants and contaminants, relative to the normal background turnover. Generally, removing the source of the contamination is more important than anything else, e.g. lead poisoning from contaminated water supplies and so on.
Sounds like a good case for cap n trade, if there's any trust left to be had in that system.
Physical and mental work is good for the mind and the spirit. Without the two, a person starts to decay. I think a ton of people who never did a days physical work in their life would benefit greatly if they were put to work, so they could know at least what it is. It's like the gym. Our gut reaction is to avoid it, but it makes you feel great physically and mentally, clears away some fog.
Everyone gets free life.

That cost has to be subsidized by someone. None of us truly gets to choose who will pay, just like none of us chose to be born in the first place.
Hm, the proposal is rather sensible but... didn't C99 introduce static-dimensions in array-typed function parameters? I'm pretty sure

void copybyref(size_t n, int a[static n], const int b[static n]) {
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
a[i] = b[i];
}
}

is valid C and has exactly the same semantics as the example from the proposal — except that in this case, "no diagnostic is required" to ensure that there are indeed (at least) n elements in both a and b arrays.