skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reminds me of every layoff ever. It's a remarkable feature of layoffs that the people organizing them never have to lay themselves off. Think of the awkward conversations they would have had to have with their family...

"Honey, I did a cost/benefit analysis and found that my role was parasitic value extraction. To maximise the goals of the organisation I have decided to make myself redundant. Further I have decided to give myself 0 days of notice and 0 compensation so that the organisation can use that money to further it's important goals. I'm afraid Christmas is cancelled this year. However, think of the shareholder value I have created."

The mistake OP makes is to assume that the objective of the business is to be a an efficient and productive enterprise.

But that ignores the fact that the business is composed of individuals drawn of the population of human beings who have more prosaic biological needs. From the perspective of management, the enterprise is simply a thing that exists for the purpose of letting them be in charge of it.

This explains several other "paradoxes" such as why wages are low, or why the social security safety net isn't great. Happy, healthy, productive workers, who can speak their minds freely when it comes to problems, even problems created by their superiors, might lead to more efficiency and higher profits. But they also rob management of their social position and the daily experience of being surrounded by people who hold them in very high regard, and treat them with respect and deference. We don't need to do a randomized controlled trial to figure out which of these two alternate universes we're currently residing in.

That is why any political treaty or consensus between management and workers, such as the new-deal or post-war consensus, will eventually be attacked and destroyed by the managers and owners even if it tanks the entire economy with it. The last 40 (and especially the last 10-15) years of US/european history and the destruction of the post-war consensus appears to have borne this theory out.
Highest marginal in the UK is technically 47%, but for certain bands and life situations it can be as high as 80% (loss of certain benefits phased in at certain income thresholds)
Even granting that those things do apply, there's another major hurdle for any platform that would try to do this with crypto:

You can't autobill.

Every time you want a payment, you need a signature from the sending wallet. The closest you can get is a smart contract where someone pre-loads a certain amount of money and it trickles out as the months/works roll out, but it will eventually deplete. Then what? Subscription over? Start the nagging emails?

It's not "set and forget" like a credit card where you settle the debt after the creator receives their payment.
You should see the Microsoft forums then.

User: Hey guys I get error 2389042 when using Windows Update.

Pradeep Chadurniyaad: I'm here to help you sir. Have you tried to format Windows?
How exactly is a bad faith actor going to spearfish [people who have temporarily installed the Apple private logging profile]? And why? What exactly do people like Howard, the article author, and me have in our private debugging logs that's interesting, useful, and worth spearfishing specifically people like us?

Keep in mind, crucially, that the aerospace employees were publicly known via LinkedIn to be aerospace employees. How is it publicly known who has temporarily installed the Apple private logging profile? Who besides the article author would even announce that publicly? Also, the value of hacking an aerospace company is known.

You can come up with any conspiracy theory you like, but the level of plausibility in this case is nonexistent.
The presence of "civility" - the appearance of it - does not improve the quality of those conversations people would refer to as "polarizing". An abhorrent message conveyed in a polite tone remains abhorrent, and people affected by it are very unlikely to perceive it differently, no matter how many "I feel", "in my opinion", or "I hear you" someone might slap on top of it.

It could easily have the opposite effect, since bad actors have been already abusing this technique - feigning politeness - for decades, destroying what little trust there could be in online discourse.

Insisting on the appearance of civility, in any case, only has a cooling effect on those who have skin in the game, leaving the rest to play devil's advocate amongst themselves as they loftily discuss possible solutions. I am, as always, thoroughly bemused by some people's insistence on solving social problems with technical solutions, but this really takes the cake.
I think that was the OPs point. Manipulating (brainwashing) people is a Trillion dollar business.

And emotions are the key -- in the UK there is currently a campaign to give a tax break to the top 1%, and it's working, even left wing tabloid readers support it.
> China doesn't invest and open source anything

I actually wrote a blog on that (2019)

https://blog.est.im/201906/stdout-003
Just imagine the project landscape you'd need to be in to consider starting this worthwhile, given all uncertainty of success and so on. Or a very large middle finger to YAGNI, but I doubt it's that.
Maybe but Apple's journaling app wasn't a bit of my concern at all. Journal it! is more like a life organizer/planner app.
The way we measure angles also revolves around 360 = 60x6, I think because of old base 60 systems.
I think there's often an issue of how you measure success. Co-ops seem to have much lower tendency to try and take over the world than corporations inevitably seem to display at scale - quite content to return comfortable salaries year-after-year to their employee-owners, rather than reap profits at all costs.

As a concrete example, Mondragon has been operating very successfully for ~70 years, but barely anyone from outside the region registers its existence.
I remember seeing the original take posted here at some point. I'm glad that the author eventually realized that if a (successful?) piece of software it is like it is, it's because it took some trade-offs at architectural decisions.
It is not black and white, both morally and in terms of the way I work.

Let's say that certain choices, strongly supported by my boss, who is ultimately responsible for my career in the short term (and the short term career consequences of my actions then inform my career even further down the line), are seen by me as not particularly brilliant, maybe even "dumb." If I say nothing and nothing happens, the product we are developing may not work as well as it could, perhaps the company's revenue will drop by a 50th of a percent. But should I risk my career to tell my boss that their ideas are not brilliant?

Years ago, when I was younger and more idealistic, I would have expressed my opinion on the choices made, even forcefully so. After I got fired at one of my previous jobs, I tend to side with the boss, strategically.

And before anyone, legitimately, thinks I am a coward or a "bloodsucker," let me make it clear that I was not the one who put my boss in the position they are in, the company is not mine, and the company can fire me tomorrow for any reason, even for no reason. Then, maybe at some point it will be too much to handle and I will decide to leave, but as I wrote, it is not black and white.
I ran as204994.net. There are some details about how i did it still there. I leased the v4 and v6 space due to cost.
I suppose we should be cautious, the human mind is capable of overfitting too
Skimmed the first report and it seems like employee-owned companies perform better up until around 75 employees, after which there's no benefit? That would explain why they aren't outcompeting the larger companies - their advantage disappears when they grow.
Sometimes this can also be a good thing. I think for me it's the opposite, when I read the news and they are telling about rape, torture, killing or all this horrific stuff, it's really hard not to have bad images in my head. When I see some of the bad things online on newssites or twitter/reddit it's also really hard to get those images out of my head again. That's one of the reasons I want to stop reading the news. I probably going to switch to reading a newspaper that's been published once a week, should keep me up to date and doesn't give me anxiety for the rest of the day.
Eventually AI in business use cases will push out options for edge scenarios and force humans to adapt to the models trained on humans but dumber by a country mile.
I would love to finally see some progress here. Worked on something similar 20+ years ago and got so burned out by the process and huge amount of capital needed.

https://www.inknowvation.com/sbir/companies/solgene-therapeu...

“ Solgene Therapeutics' patented drug-delivery technology enables the encapsulation, in a porous ceramic material, of living cells that secrete therapeutic compounds. After implantation, the material shields the encapsulated cells from the host's immune system while allowing passage of nutrients and therapeutic cell-secreted compounds. Implanted cells continue to function, thus mimicking natural processes. Solgene believes it can create competitive advantages in under-served biotech markets. It seeks revenues through alliances to commercialize hard-to-deliver, cell-secreted, large-molecule therapies. Solgene proved its concept by overcoming diabetes in diabetic mice. Target applications include delivery of livestock therapies, growth factors for bone healing, and a cell-secreted HIV therapy.”
The fact that there's a lot of real jobs making iPhones just means there's a lot of BS jobs that will hang onto them.

Of course it's true, you need a LOT of specialists to make iPhones.

I would also wager that a lot of real jobs are lost because there's a tradeoff between gunning for such a job and just settling for a moocher job. Some of those real jobs would consist of automating away the assembly line jobs. It's just that we don't have that society yet, so the manager who doesn't know how to do the automation hires miners and assembly workers, who are obliged to do something in order to make a living.
Your perspective depends on your income, obviously. If you are a truly middle class income (say $70K which is median household income in US), the benefits you get are HUGE relative to the taxes you pay. Not to include the insecurity of being one health event away from bankruptcy...
I like to think I tend to write code that others like because I am usually not the smartest person in the room. I strive to make my code simpler because I can’t understand less simple code. If I find an approach to solving a problem that feels too complicated to me, I usually keep looking until I find something simpler.
Ok. But where does intentional misinformation end and intentional "mis-reporting" begin?

I've watched all the various boardcasters and have read many of the "pillars of (print) journalism" and have two conclusions:

1) Too much of what's presented as journalism doesn't actually qualify. Start here:

https://kottke.org/20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1

2) Just because something happenen doesn't make it news. Being actual and factual doesn't make it news.

Yet when you watch, listen and read with a non-passive mind, too high of a percentage of "the news" *again* doesn't actually qualify. Sorry, I don't have a cheat sheet. I have my own smell test. For me, far too much filler. Far too much intellectual junkfood. Normalizing dumbed down doesn't mean it's ok.

The point is there are different ways to distract and downplay. That if X (e.g., Fox) is doing something nefarious and Y (CNN) and Z (MSNBC) are not, well that doesn't mean Y and Z are acceptable.
As @snops explained, MicroPython supports executing code from flash in the form of frozen code. The consequence of this is that it needs to be compiled in to the firmware binary which slows down the typical rapid development cycle of MicroPython.

So a convenient workflow is to deploy at runtime (ie not in flash) until you stabilise your code base or approach production; at which point you can freeze your code into your firmware.

For an even more convenient model, there is the proposal to support 'mapfs' so that some flash will be allocated to store code. You can then compile your Python to bytecode (with `mpy_cross`) and upload it to - and run from - this area at runtime.

Although this feature has been demonstrated as a proof-of-concept, there are some subtleties to sort out before it hits mainline. If you're interested in the feature, please read or comment on the PR:

https://github.com/micropython/micropython/pull/8381
> My sense of visualisation is often not so strong, in the sense that I don't get to imagine vivid situations during the day, unless I'm recalling something I've seen. What I've noticed is that when I'm sleepy, it becomes exponentially easier to visualise things I've never seen.

I can somewhat relate. If I close my eyes, I have only a blank, black space and canon conjure up any mental imagery. But I dream and daydream in varying degrees of vividness. So it is kind of like, if I am actively trying to do it, there is no mental workspace available to drawn the image, but under those conditions of lower consciousness/attention, suddenly some imagery appears. So this is also interesting, because I can tell the difference. Some people disbelieve that I have this partial form of aphantasia, and of course I cannot conceive of how to convince them, but I know at least for myself that it is possible to have vivid mental pictures, because of these different times when the canvas is blank and when it is filled.

I wish I could recall vivid mental images on demand!

So regarding your first point. There are two (at least) ideas about how mental representations exist, depictive and propositional. Depictive is like thinking about a cat and having the actual image of the cat depicted in your mind to some degree of vividness. Propositional is like having a representation of features in your neural networks, and seeing or thinking about a cat activates the diverse set of catness neurons in your brain and you get a sense of a cat but maybe don't see an actual cat anywhere in your mind's eye (because maybe like me you don't have a conscious mind's eye).

It seems reasonably likely that these are complementary rather than competing models of brain construction, and some people tend more or all the way one way and others the other way. See, e.g., https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1504933112
Don't know what we're talking about here tho :

- Lifting for fitness/looks - 100% agree - best bang for buck for self-improvement, and as you say it's about sustained incremental progress that translates well to other things.

- Rec PED use - health risks, illegal substances (not that big of a deal in terms of use, but since you can't get it legally you're basically injecting yourself with shit that's been mixed in some dudes bathroom), further downsides once you get off. This one highly depends on what you want.

- Bodybuilding as a competitive thing - here you'll get nowhere without genetics

In context of Arnolds success I'm talking about the last definition, where his success in competitive BB lead to other opportunities.
Still never got answers how Jack and Pomplamoose got away with the “Beat It” cover video that propelled him upward.

Still seems shady.

Still will never go near anything endorses or touched by Amanda Palmer.
Totally agree on not timing the market and staying invested. Nonetheless this analysis raises more questions than answers for me.

First, as you often see in these studies, they use the S&P500 which has returned a 9 or 10% annualized rate for decades now. How realistic is it to see someone's entire wealth invested in just this benchmark? Diversification will almost always mean returns lower than than the S&P. Ultimately this erodes at the findings of the study.

Second, there's no mention of yield which is basically the guaranteed portion of the return. This portion alone accounts for a quarter of your annual return making it another compelling reason to be invested early.
Exactly the problem! When talking about market timing you can't just be correct in the direction but also be close to exact on the time!
For those unfamiliar with history - phrases such as "profound famine" can be translated to "tens of millions of people died, slowly, and in horrific circumstances". Though I wouldn't be surprised if the total death toll, 1816-1820, exceeded 1e8.

For reference, the total world population at the time was only ~1e9.

Note also Wikipedia's long list of links to similar events.
Akshually the Guardian is published in the tabloid format now iirc. But that's not really the meaning of tabloid being talked about I suppose
> Enshittification happens because to a certain extent, the market demands that firms maximise returns. Companies that don't do this get weeded out.

Do they really get weeded out? Do you have any examples of companies that went bankrupt because they insisted to stay consumer friendly rather than maximize returns?
I'm mostly recording music where I've got things set up in advance vs needing to quickly capture something on the fly but I've liked the Zoom H1n, Sony PCM-D100, and Sony PCM-A10
What's up with this privacy policy filled with selling to ad networks ?

https://permissionslipcr.com/privacy.php#Data%20Processing,%...

Edit: soneone mentionned yourdigitalrights, had a look at their policy : https://yourdigitalrights.org/privacy

Honestly yours make your service look like a honeypot ...
I’m using rust and it’s not always clear how to solve this problem at compile time in this language either. If your array sizes are const then it’s doable but that’s only a subset of the usage because often arrays must have some known variable size.

Since you seem to know how to do it, can you please tell me how to check the bounds of the arrays at compile time if the actual underlying value is not known until runtime? I guess I could make a type-level algebraic field and add, subtract, multiply, divide my generics but this seems like a huge pain in the butt.

If anyone knows how to perform comptime algebraic bounds checking in stable rust lmk
Classed-components: an alternative workflow for Tailwind and React/SolidJS
I’m not convinced this is inevitable, but it certainly feels it within the current system. Co-ops exist and can be very successful.

Hierarchies can be time-limited, or democratically limited, it just depends on the legal and organisational framework.
I've always loved Debian, but I haven't used it much since version 5 except indirectly through various derivatives. Is the Debian/Linux distro model the best model for the future, or is will Nix or other rolling models be better in the long run?
Understanding potential failure modes for companies is a much more important part of credit investing (this is what I do for a living these days, though I've done equity investing as well).

Unfortunately a very large part of the credit universe is very difficult to access if you're a non-professional investor though.
I‘m actually using the Libre + Omnipod Dash with a closed loop and it works pretty well (almost „flat“ blood sugar with a few spikes here and there) beside that’s, for me as tech nerd, cool to inject insuline with my phone :-).

Those are the pieces I‘m using on my iPhone:

https://nightscout.github.io/ -> to store historical data

https://github.com/Artificial-Pancreas/iAPS -> to connect the libre and pump and control the pump and make the close loop
Absolutely this.

People keep thinking about markets as some all-knowing relentless optimization machines. But they are just a bunch of distributed computing acting on extremely limited data trying to act over a completely chaotic environment.

Markets are neither all-knowing nor relentless. They are always extremely conservative and risk-adverse. That holds for times of crisis too, they just become a little bit less risk-adverse.
Microsoft and the Satanic Temple
Americans don’t pay the same tax as most Europeans. It’s far lower.
That's the only real way to work IMHO. Life is much too short to adhere to some restrictive design frameworks & plans. Software should be art, not rote mechanics.
It's the same as rods and cones in the eye. You don't just see by magic, there are few specific and finite sensors, which you process into a combined perception.

When you see a chair or a lake, no matter how different those things are, the sensory mechanism is the same and quite limited in a way.

It's also like language, or arabic numerals. You can express any number or any idea, to infinity, but they are all composed out of a tiny alphabet of only 10 digits or 26 letters.

And it's not some desire to reduce or deconstruct anything, because anyone just hates calling a strawberry a strawberry for some reason. It's simply what actually IS. Our perception of the taste of strawberry, and everything else, IS composed of only a few "base tastes". You don't have a whole sensor cell just for strawberries, and an infinite number of others for the infinite number of other things. You have a few senor types which are general purpose, and can compose a perception for strawberry, or anything else, even if strawberries were invented today and none of your evolutionary history never encountered a strawberry before.
As a young person it may be trivial but health related bankruptcy in the US tells another story overall
So I am in this middle ground, where like you I cannot for the life of me actively picture anything in my mind's eye. I close my eyes and it is black, blank, and lifeless. My wife, for example, can close her eyes and recall my face perfectly. I have read about some artists being able to essentially trace what they are picturing in their mind's eye, though it seems that some incredibly talented and famous artists also have had aphantasia!

Anyway, the middle ground for me is that despite not being able to conjure vivid (or any) mental imagery, I have vivid dreams and daydreams. So it seems that if I am tired or my mind is wandering, some mental canvas unlocks, but not while I am alter and paying attention.
> Derek is doing the best he can.

He's doing what is best to keep his job. Not what leads to his best work.
Here lies the problem. I now need to instruct users that different build flags are required for different platforms. Whereas that problem doesn’t exist with the cgo bindings.

Plus I also have the additional risk that I’m using someone’s hobby project that, and I say this with the greatest of respect for yourself, might get abandoned tomorrow for all I know.

Cgo might have its issues but for sqlite3 it offers far better assurances than anything else available for Go at this point in time.

Given that sqlite3 is a supporting library rather than the differentiator of my project, I want to spend as little time as I have to supporting it. At this point in time, only the cgo library seems to offer that convenience (though if anyone else wants to maintain a fork of my project using a different sqlite library then I’m more than happy with that).

Good luck with your project though. Hopefully the Go community can rally around one of these native solutions so it gains enough traction to become the new de facto standard.
European Health and Dental Tourism is Korea and BKK these days, nobody in their right mind would go US unless it’s a very specialized condition.