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Tell HN: Temu is aggressively suing any website that mentions it
In the past month, Temu (owned by Chinese conglomerate Pinduoduo) has been on a suing rampage, indiscriminately getting judges all over the US to issue Temporary restraining orders and Preliminary injunctions. I have a couple of review websites and Temu has taken down 2 of them for reviewing them. I’m also hearing from folks who run alternative playstore sites that Temu is going after everyone. Currently, Apkpure.com and Apkfab.com - top websites that provide alternative AppStores are currently down as a result of Temu. It’s absolutely ridiculous and outrageous if this continues and become a thing. These guys will successfully shut down dissent on the Internet using our own laws against us. Using a throwaway for obvious reasons.
Except with packet switching networks I can immediately point to the problem they are solving and can also make a guess how things will change when we create 000s of bigger and better ones. And the timeline is definitely not what you are making up here - the 70s had immense development of networks and protocols, every telco was building new networks across the country, it was most certainly not hobby stuff, there just weren't that many computers until the 80s.

What problem are we solving with decentralized consensus? How will things improve if we have a giant one? Say every mobile phone was a part of the consensus mechanism, churning Turing-complete smart contracts. Billions of nodes. What do we get out of that?
You don't think increasing pedestrian fatalities could be linked to people choosing to walk less? I've certainly noticed in my area that drivers have been much more aggressive since the pandemic started and I walk less because of it.
Planes have used inertial navigation for a long time. Adding GPS to that mix is relatively recent. GPS was never really intended to be used for navigation even though it can be and often is. There was no need for it to be particularly reliable when it was designed since the Soviets could easily kill it if they wanted to. It had a different purpose.
In my suburb, everyone seems to be barrelling around on those new fangled ebike things. Probably a certain amount of substitution there.
How do you know it's not dog poop?
I believe this is true, but I expect that many people will refuse to accept it. Giving up on someone is super cruel, after all. But it certainly looks like some fellow citizens are beyond recovery. And then it's only prudent to make a plan on how we want to manage living in a society together with these people.

Pure capitalism says that if they are too sick to work, they'll get no money and starve. But most people are luckily not willing to be that cold-hearted. But then a society-wise compromise is needed.
Right, that doesn't quite make sense. The previous layoff was all across the board and likely trimming lower rated engineers across the whole company. Wiping a specific team, with potentially top tier talent, makes no sense.

Are we sure this is actually general engineers? The headline only says "working on". It could be people doing very specific work, like prompt validation, QA, etc.
In Hawaii, each island has a dry side and a wet side. You can site grid-scale solar on the dry side.
This thread isn't about people getting COVID, it's about people dying from it.
Type of data is very important to assessing impact. But that doesn't grant anyone authority to breach customer data. The company can assess impact.
Absolutely interested, thank you!
Remove it from people that are older so that people that are younger don't have access.
Anecdotally among friends working in NYC, people don't walk as frequently as they used to because they're not commuting into the office 5 days per week (which generally involves 10-20m of walking). Some are working totally remote out of their apartments, others hybrid 3 days per week.

But on the flip side, some are spending that saved commuting time on exercising more, and are healthier for the change.
Who is Chesterton? Someone that worked here last century?

Seriously, it's a matter of degree and requires judgment. Mature businesses can accumulate many, many fences. Sometimes you need to charge through them - move fast and break things. Sometimes you need to pay more attention.
They are making over a billion a week in profits (and still growing). Layoffs can be justified but it's a bit of a head scratcher to be doing them when the company seems to be doing generally well
Wait, what? This is literally not the point of research. The point of research is to form some theory and gather data that is relevant, and then analyze statistically. Plus propose follow up theories and studies.

This is how almost every research publication in every field - from medicine, through psychology, to computer science looks like.
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Car lobby is doing its best to make sure that doesn't happen
There is not one single cause for the onset of psychosis but many factors at play. Cannabis use can be a cause. Early interception of people at risk and treatment, does bring down the number of young people having a first psychosis.
I can't smoke marijuana. I've tried multiple times, and it just makes my anxiety spike and I start to panic out of the blue. Even if it starts off decent, some random act will set it off, like laughing too much.
I had not visited Semafor before. I like the simplicity of it. The word choice is clear and simple. Anyone have thoughts on reading Semafor once a week? Even though I am on here, I try to avoid too much daily news.
Hard agree, my 8 year old habitually un-docks the Switch does his controller set up and then puts it back in the dock. He discovered the time saving and convenience by himself and doesn’t even realize he is working around Nintendo’s lackluster design.

Addendum — he and I both truly enjoy playing on the Switch and Nintendo’s games, so no ‘hate’ intended; but it is worrying for future hardware from the company that their designs are badly implemented enough that a child has to invent a way around the inconvenience.
In my root-level post, I referred to shame and contempt. The parent is the kind of response I'm talking about - what other arugment does it have?
This underrates contributing size a little because there's a lot more who occasionally contribute in the layers above or below - like if you're working on cellular modem performance you also care about TCP behavior, or someone working on video streaming is going to want to tune networking themselves.
I suppose if you’re not American you may not know there was a defund the police movement in 2020 along with decriminalization of “urban camping” around the same time. As a result there are less police on the streets, more crime, and many more mentally ill and addicted homeless. See my home town of Austin, Texas for example. Just yesterday a teenager was hacked by a machete maniac at our town lake. Sane people are now more hesitant to walk many of our popular streets. As a side note, traffic on pedestrian fatalities are up because the mentally disturbed and intoxicated junkies wander into traffic fairly often.
Judging from Teitelman's post-retirement activities, a cynic might say that he found dogs to be much better than computers at DWIM.
Thank you for using "disclosure", not "disclaimer".
This should be looked at in light of the problems Israel faces.
Israel is in serious danger of losing US support.[1][2] Outside of the US, there is very little support for what Israel is doing.[3] In the US, support is bought and paid for with political contributions. “If there was no lobby pushing Congress in a particular direction in a really forceful way, the position of the US Congress on the war in Gaza would be fundamentally different.”[4] The social media effort is only a small part of this.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us-public-support-israel-drops...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/31/us/politics/us-israel-ham...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/12/united-nations...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/10/congress-mem...
People always forget that batteries also absorb power. Having a lot of renewables means there are energy spikes far exceeding what can be used in that moment. Without batteries, that energy is lost. Having batteries means that energy can be buffered and used later (e.g. in the evening). So they improve the capacity factor of existing installed renewables. Add domestic batteries, EV batteries, etc. to the mix and you also get the potential for demand shaping where you charge those when renewable energy production is spiking and prices are low. And of course even though that is currently not utilized on a large scale, all those EVs could technically provide energy back to the grid as well.

Another point is that batteries like this are not actually intended for long term storage. They are instead about stabilizing the grid and dealing with short term spikes and dips in supply and demand of energy. Unlike a coal or gas plant, a battery can respond in milliseconds and be very cost effective for that. Spinning up coal and gas plants is expensive and slow. And they cost money when they are not running.

And while that single coal plant was able to provide so-called baseload; it would only have been able to do so if it was up and running 24/7/365. And that wouldn't be true. They are very reliable but occasionally coal plants have to be down for maintenance, repairs, etc. and this can take quite some time (weeks/months). Same with nuclear plants. So, relying on that to not happen was never a good plan.

Long term storage is always assumed to be needed to compensate for a lack of this baseload. However, baseload is actually a fuzzy notion until you express it in gwh and gw. Hawaii seems to be in the process of proving this might be a lot less than some people seem to assume. At least I'm not aware of them having any long term storage. They'll probably add more battery and resilience to their grid over time in the form of more wind and solar generation and additional batteries. But if these people modeled this correctly and did their homework, this might actually be fine as is. We'll find over time I guess.
> I feel like I'm in an awkward in between situation at the office. Enough teams have people that come in everyday that I end up doing a lot of communication work.

This means that you haven't structured your communications in a remote-friendly manner. This is a solved problem, but it requires you to do the work of restructuring your communication practices.

> when we do all get into the office all at the same time I tend to chat way too much. I think that the problem will stop being as big of a problem if people came into the office more

In other words: "I'll stop doing this annoying thing if you'll just do everything my way."

> want to talk to people generally because I'm a little puppy dog and I felt so alone.

This is the actual crux of the problem. The solution is to go work for a company that can satisfy your emotional needs, rather than imposing them upon your current co-workers.
So you're 'extrapolating' an unrelated incident in a different company to target DEI initiatives at Boeing? If you remember the MCAS saga, you'll note that rot occurred at the exceedingly white executive level while the company was trying to pin the blame on foreign pilots. This is even supported by voice clips and email transcripts. Some of those were outright arrogant. It clearly shows a pattern consistent with profiteering work culture and nothing related to any race.

In fact, this is one pattern I've seen with such racist dog whistles - blame the marginalized groups and target DEI measures without any good justification to save the image of the privileged. It propagates the sinister implication that an employee is definitely bad if they are a DEI hire.

We're talking about a dangerous situation again with the potential to cause loss of life. It warrants serious contemplation as it might affect us some day. The fact that some people will hijack the discussion to advance their racist agenda is beyond disgusting.
Agreed. I stared with https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
It’s marked up so they can offer a “special” discount on the sales call, and the customer can report back to their superiors that they “negotiated” a better deal and saved their company $X.
Checkout out feat, good work
Because dogs tend to at least shit in the grass. A drug addict, will just pop a squat anywhere.
I'm sure there are a number of citizen lobbying groups nearby if you're in a larger city and want to do something about it.
Public transport. Easy. Providing avenues for better buses improves not only the health of the people that use it, it provides an incentive to improve the infrastructure to provide that transport which also improves the lives of people who use cars
I'm curious as to _how_ the data was collected for this report. Did they use camera feed data? Walk-button push counts? HR rideshare incentive data? Sending out surveys?

The article talked about trips -- but I didn't see any differentiation between commutes to work and walking in the park, for example.
I imagine that killedbygoogle will soon be adding Fitbit and Assistant to the graveyard.
> The average THC content of cannabis seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration was 15% in 2021, up from 4% in 1995. Many products advertise THC concentrations of up to 90%.

This is really the key here as it means that previous studies that showed health benefits are completely irrelevant now.

This isn't like the image of smoking pot in the basement from the 70's anymore. I'm watching the descent of my BIL's mental health from smoking American marijuana and it's really sad.
I was a stoner and lost years of my life because while I wasn’t a total loser (I was making bank as a swe) I didn’t make much forward momentum.

I quit cold turkey a few years ago and now my vice is maybe I’ll drink a couple of beers or wine a couple times a year on special occasions.

I am much better creatively compared to just thinking I’m creative because weed knocked my IQ down by 20-40 points and anything seems “interesting” and groundbreaking there lol.
How do we write this? I googled some tutorial and it seems it is still JS under the hood
> In many work places, there are high fixed costs (in time and effort) associated with PR reviews. The ideal solution for this, according to the author, is to not require PR reviews for only tidyings.

Well that sounds like a loaded footgun.
I think your idea is a good one, and especially

> empathy

I still don't see the video as a problem. Most of the comments here (not yours) are jumping on the ridicule bandwagon, so I don't know if I have a blind spot, in which case I need to be careful with how I communicate, or if a lot of it is that bandwagon.
On that note WTF even is "podcasting"

I mean I know what it is. affected apple marketing fluff for "an audio file that is not music.", basically, "we created a category for talk shows on the ipod. and gave it a stupid appleesque name". but i find it weird that people don't just call them talk shows.
germany does wonders with bikes and public transport

they also tax gas heavily, which we don't do (and probably should)
It's a much larger layoff. My friend's three VPs (heh) were all laid off in Fitbit. Entire orgs were wiped there.
If we look at American history, we see a pattern of various ethnic groups immigrating, getting low paid jobs, being discriminated against, then slowly becoming "white" as they assimilate. The Irish and Italians immediately come to mind. I have a suspicion that this pattern will continue with Latino people.
The ideal customer of any company is someone who just gives you money, of course, but if that actually happened those customers would eliminate themselves eventually by running out of money.

(This is part of what economics means by "markets are rational" - the irrational people go broke.)

Netflix and gyms are pretty similar here.
This seems timely with trends in pedestrian deaths rising: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/podcasts/the-daily/pedest...

As a driver and pedestrian, I swear I see people staring at their phones while driving.

Probably need phone cupholders — phone locks up unless it’s mounted in its slot and enters CarPlay mode. Have to do it for passengers too, since can’t differentiate
You almost make it sound as if there are no solutions :)

Education is an idea, let people know what the risks are and what symptons are to go see a doctor. This could be a mandatory magazine at shops.

People at risk could get better treatment, just someone to talk to about their strugles in life can be very helpful.
Uber and Lyft paid SFO about $50M last year
Loans and bonds are typically at fixed rates and have months or years-long terms. As you reissue bonds and take out new loans, your overall interest rate on debt approaches the much higher market rate. It doesn't happen immediately.

Expecting interest rates to drop later this year is big for the stock market, which runs on expectations, but doesn't matter to people borrowing money and issuing debt before then, since you cannot attract lenders at rates below the US treasury yield.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/10/24033994/google-reorganiz...

Fitbit and AR too.
Technically yes, but when there's no open roles it doesn't matter
I didn't think anyone would actually try to defend bitcoin's astronomical and completely unnecessary transaction fees. Cryptocurrencies can be a solution to everything you mentioned, just not bitcoin. Litecoin, Dogecoin and Bitcoin Cash are all bitcoin clones with more throughput and their transaction fees are a few cents to fractions of a cent while their transaction counts are on average in the same ballpark as bitcoin with a lot more headroom.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-eth-do...

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionfees-doge-lt...
If they kept the coal plant operational for when solar is not viable (shocker, I know, we can’t always see the Sun), then it wouldn’t have happened. Any point after September 2022 that they suffer a lack-of-solar-based blackout directly coincides with lacking the reliability of a coal power plant.
This is a rhetorical tactic to make the person say what they were implying directly.
This was a wonderful read.

Before working at a large company with a lot of bureaucratic nonsense, I probably would have found a lot of this surprising. That said, it's nice to know the CIA isn't anymore put together than the rest of us.
I love car culture. I get to have a large house with a huge yard and still live 10 mins from an urban center. I don’t want my neighbor to be on the other side of the wall. I like my wood/metal working shop, being able to raise goats and chickens and shoot guns in my backyard. I’ve lived in the heart of Manhattan for about 5 years and even though it was a great experience I would not want to go back to it. Long live car culture. That being said I run 3-5 miles on trails 5 days a week and get more than enough exercise just doing stuff around my yard so car culture isn’t effecting my ability to stay fit.
Yes, it uses Turbo and Stimulus and sends the calendar as HTML. All their JS modules are viewable in view source because they use bare imports. Neat.
Support Bus Rapid Transit. That is, dedicated bus lanes. See Mexico City:

https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/04/29/mexico-city-bus-rapid-t...
So is NYU
It’s simply not possible to live decently without cars in most of the US. Ask me, I lived in Texas for 8 years without one. It’s not easy. My Sunday ritual was to spend 2+ hours each way to get a meal in Waffle House and catch some movies in AMC (plural because if I’m spending this amount of time I’m catching more than one movie lol).

The few years I spent in somewhat small town College Station, I tried using a bike. For the most part I was biking on the sidewalk because the (often drunk) kids raised trucks would never even notice a civic in front of them leave alone a bike.

There was one particular intersection which led to a highway ramp, and it had a pedestrian walk signal. I have spent up to 15 minutes for at least one driver to notice I’m waiting here to cross on the walk, hundreds of cars will pass by me taking a right on this signal without ever seeing I’m waiting to cross. So why do you think anyone who’s not homeless would keep doing that?
Hear me out.

Put the United States in a dryer on high.
Live in Seattle, work downtown, walk a mile to my apartment after work. Not that far off from the description... Two words, PIONEER SQUARE
Yes but even in ChatGPT the training is not done ?
You got cause and effect reversed. Can’t have global competition without global reach. No instagram, no influencers.
I Was a Statistics Professor. I Used Sports Betting to Retire at 43
> I don't think its fair to treat unverified rumour as fact.

Virtually all information about the current conflict in the near east between Israel and Palestine might be considered "unverified rumor", whether the entity relaying the information is a state or a person with a camera. For better or worse, this is a standard of information we need to deal with.

Perhaps the idea of a "fact" is something that needs revisiting as a concept....
It’s amazing how much the industry leaders just copy each other. Google didn’t throw the towel in until Amazon did first.
I am not disagreeing that cannabis may be a cause.

This kind of article doesn’t offer any evidence toward the idea outside correlations - and this kind of correlation is very tenuous.

A good example to demonstrate the idea is the outsized use of tobacco products amongst those with ADHD diagnoses. Do we immediately conclude that ADHD rates are influenced by the availability of cigarettes? Or can we instead ask how nicotine may influence neural circuits that are abnormal in ADHD?
You mean "pilpul"?
Should clear up now that the Austin police budget is at an all-time-high, yes?
Cars are just too nice, especially when there is bad weather and once you have one, you may as well use it. You would need to have people ok with being outside in the winter for example and walking on ice.
Eh, I don't think anyone participated because they just really wanted Netflix to have a better recommendation system. Teams put serious effort into it for the million dollar prize, which wasn't a lie. And hackers and tinkerers enjoyed the novelty of the challenge and the cool dataset to work with, also not a lie.

I don't think they ever said they would use it necessarily either? I feel like it was obvious that it wasn't going to capture all of their actual requirements - your algorithm could be slow or expensive or difficult to adapt to new requirements or difficult to adapt to new data etc etc.
I live in an affluent town. High average income, mostly expensive suburban housing. We've fully funded a variety of public transit, but that hasn't induced people to actually use it. Buses drive around the town all day every day, with useful routes connecting the places studies say public transit should connect... much of the time without a single passenger inside them. My own single-family home is a 2 minute walk from a bus stop, but I've never taken that bus. My car will get me wherever I'm going faster, after all. Did I mention that the buses have been completely free to ride since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic? They still run mostly empty.
Yes, it is in fact better for soceity.

A soceity made up of all physicists and no office managers wouldn't work. We need multiple office managers per physicist for our economic model to work.