skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Complaining does nothing. Shopping behavior does. 99% of goods, even 'staples' have cheaper alternatives that people don't buy.

If they were truly inelastic, there would be no limit to prices

If they were
> In order to have a fighting chance Google needs to spin off their AI efforts and issue stock independent of $GOOG.

deepmind was kinda independent for many years burning billions of dollars. Now they put them on payroll as other employees.
Fast food is about to get more expensive in California
We need to hit every company with a demand not to do business in the UK because of this, just like we did with SOPA. IF they government isn't going to be accountable then we have nothing left by to hold the companies accountable ourselves. I'll admit, this problem is so pervasive that literally every business we use in our society could potentially be a culprit :(
Google Brain clearly had the culture over the last decade and a half that resulted in basically 100% of the AI breakthroughs we are seeing today, and all the top minds in the field had no problem working there. What changed in the span of a couple years? Only that the tech became production-ready and the rest of the world took notice, and these researchers and engineers decided that they no longer needed Google's money since there was so much available from everywhere else. This is what directly led to the founding of OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Adept and probably hundreds of other small to mid sized AI startups. There isn't really anything in terms of cultural or organization changes that Google could have done to prevent this.
Where can I read about the rationale for ceph as a project? I'm not familiar with it.
>The company is not offering to buy back anyone’s stock and won’t even provide financials to find a buyer myself

A lot of countries have minority shareholder rights. This seems like something where those rights would kick in (even if you just have options).
The focus on workers is a result of the fundamental problem of depopulation being economic. One family growing old without replacing themselves with a gaggle of grandchildren is one thing, but an entire country becoming predominantly retired is an economic disaster for those retirees. It's about maintaining economic growth so that old people can live off their investments, which requires the post-productive folk to be outnumbered by still-productive folk.
There probably is a sweet spot for power to speed, but I think it's possibly a bit larger than you suggest. There's overhead from the other components as well. For example, the Mellanox NIC seems to utilize about 20W itself, and while the reduced numbers of drives might allow for a single port NIC which seems to use about half the power, if we're going to increase the number of cables (3 per 12 disks instead of 2 per 5), we're not just increasing the power usage of the nodes themselves put also possible increasing the power usage or changing the type of switch required to combine the nodes.

If looked at as a whole, it appears to be more about whether you're combining resources at a low level (on the PCI bus on nodes) or a high level (in the switching infrastructure), and we should be careful not to push power (or complexity, as is often a similar goal) to a separate part of the system that is out of our immediate thoughts but still very much part of the system. Then again, sometimes parts of the system are much better at handling the complexity for certain cases, so in those cases that can be a definite win.
So theoretically the police chief is racistly deploying non-racist but known incompetent officers in the hopes their incompetence is going to adversely affect those specific regions or cases. That's leaving an awful lot to chance. I can think of more efficient and surefire ways to ensure those areas/cases are racially targeted, you could take Baltimore city as an example. But we're surely getting beyond any reasonable speculation of the information provided in the article?
If your time is worth even $1/hour, the "free" Kahn Academy option will be far more expensive than this program.

I respect what Sal Kahn built, especially in the early days, but it's just not anywhere near as time-efficient.
Was there no black bar? Or did I miss it?
Google engineer beat his wife to death, Santa Clara police say
Bad sign.

“Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” -Buffett
Did you read the article? It was not justice department (aka Crown Prosecutor) prosecuting those people.

In UK private prosecution for crimes is possible. Probably a major reason for this kind of bullshit goes on.
Russia hacks, but so do China, North Korea, Iran and Ukraine. They all have bagged large targets. It could be any of them but could be someone else as well.
Certain kinds of comparisons can be unhelpful. Others can be illuminating, often instilling a sense of gratitude and humility.
Ethanol is better than what it replaced, MTBE, hence California’s mandate. The problem was when the ag lobby started advocating for ethanol blends in excess of what is necessary to capture more subsidies.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180407183020/https://www.arb.c...

https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/MTBE_FactSheet.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_tert-butyl_ether
From Wikipedia: "A 2015 review in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews assessed the energy payback time and EROI of a variety of PV module technologies. In this study, which uses an insolation of 1700 kWh/m2/yr and a system lifetime of 30 years, mean harmonized EROIs between 8.7 and 34.2 were found." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment

Seems like the lower numbers come from older, obsolete PV technologies. Lots of improvement since even 2015.
Plex is about to launch a store for movies and TV shows
Correct - most things on the 'baba are either

1. Parts

2. Various cheap items without brands

3. Obvious "overruns" of a branded factory smuggled out the back door

4. Additional runs of a factory that is no longer making whatever it was for the original manufacturer

5. Supplies

You find some printer stuff in 1 and 5, and I saw a few that might be 3 or 4.

Nobody in China is bringing up ancient equipment lines (and it would likely be way more expensive).

At most, you might be able to find someone somewhere (if you have the right connections) that can get you a default firmware for some known printer that is OEM'd to everyone. I know these have been found for things like smart bulbs and other firmware'd devices.
You can use the same tactics.
There is a large amount of nationalism within China.

To the point where they will destroy products, livestock, equipment, etc; that would be thought to be for China's "enemies" ie: Japan.

It'll just take a moment for the message to get out, and then they'll be rallied to a new hatred, if they need be.
> Rosetta does not emulate code; it is a binary translator. It translates x86 code to ARM code up front, then runs that. The only reason this works is because normal userspace programs have an ABI that dictates how they interoperate with each other across process and address space and function boundaries. When CrossOver runs an x86 game for example, it translates the x86 to ARM.

I don't think this is true. I think code run under WINE is always JITted because it's too much unlike a Mac binary.
this is crazy

cant help but consider that fujitsu is an SI that competes with infosys and this really undermines fujitsu in the minds of british tac payers...
Unilateral recognition on Tech is totally different beast from Pharma.

This is because different nature of issues.

In Pharma, main issue testing, which is basically very human-intensive task, at the moment machines are not involved. And mostly talking on drugs, we trying hard to achieve "invisible" drugs, which have extremely narrow appearance (as in space as in time), so ideally, drug make it's action extremely short time, after which no effects appear.

So, ideal drug, does not have any side effects at all.

In Tech, difference, it almost whole side effects.

1. Building starts with choose good place - using lot of sources to gather info, and sources see this and react.

2. Continued with negotiations, with interested parties (persons and entities), and on so large and sophisticated project, need to make some parties allies.

3. Building itself, involve lot of parties. Some parties making profits, other demand compensations.

4. All buildings have limited productive lifetime, after which appear decommission and in ideal case, annihilation of building and return land to some "first use" state, now most people consider wild nature state.

Imagine world, where you must negotiate with ALL people on your street usage of anti-flu drugs, including all possible side effects and all following effects, like attending of gym, etc :)
Yes, I do not think one can draw conclusions. However, much as one might wish to apply Hanlon's razor, Occam's razor also applies, and from a lot of people's perspective it cuts towards racism.
ctrl+f "ecc": no matches.

meh. still a consumer laptop.
>If you go back to Steve Jobs' original iPhone speech, the crux of it was: revolutionary user interfaces (mouse, click wheel, multi-touch) enabled revolutionary products (Mac, iPod, iPhone).

This was specifically called out in the Vision Pro announcement. They are completely ditching controllers for VR/AR, and going full hand/finger tracked gesture control. It's why I think Vision will be the first device that people actually end up using in mass. The display fidelity is one thing, but interaction control is the number one reason why VR has failed. People (average normal people) really have no idea how to use game controllers if they didn't grow up as gamers. The platform will never take off until fully intuitive controller free interaction is acheived, and Apple knows this. Ambient computing is the next step, and keyboard/mouse will be a small footnote from the early history of HCI years from now.
I think the more important variable is how many subpostmasters there are. If there are millions then 700 is impressive.
Yeah, it's too bad that we make our decisions based on emotion, a problem affecting the "eco" side as well as the "right wing reactionary" side.

The "eco" side pushes solar and wind for everything and thinks nuclear plants inevitably explode. The "right wing" side pushes coal exclusively because it's sad that the few thousand coal miners left could lose their jobs.

Nobody's weighing these things with fair metrics.
That would require the Canadian government to admit they have a racism problem, which they steadfastly refuse to do.
I think this hints at another truth though: If you switch your metric to up-weight happiness and down-weight material rewards, it moves down the rankings IMO.

Believe it or not, I know some people who essentially never get frustrated by their work, while making a decent wage. In some of these cases, they also don't have the "is what I'm doing useless or even actively harmful" ennui that is prevalent in the software industry.

I try to remind myself that some of my pay is compensation is for frequent frustration.
Are you sure you are not mistaken with used ones?
I like the idea and support your project. As an enhancement/a suggestion you could let the assistant reply back with the voice of the user's choice like in the ChatGPT app.
Wasn’t FF getting long in the tooth by 2008, slow and dated? I didn’t have any extensions besides uBlock and Firebug and it didn’t feel as fast as it used to be. Wasn’t that the whole point of project Electrolysis?
https://archive.ph/GOgIf
This is kind of the idea behind the innocence project. I'm not sure if they have a certain focus but they work on cases of people falsely accused.
Just like we have requirements for fire extinguishers and fire ladders / suppression systems, there should be requirements on providing protection from the elements in situations like these as well.

Outside heaters, emergency blankets and ponchos, chemical warming packs, etc.

This is a workplace. We already take precautions against fire and chemicals and whatnot, this isn't asking for much more.
There seems to have been no direct involvement of NYT in this beyond lax IT policy and a lack of desire to expose the reporter's actions. If hundreds of artist were affected should they not have reported on it? They chose to not do so and even kept the reporter's writing on the website. For a longer list of less than glorious accomplishments, have a look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_con...
Exactly this. It is an exercise of privilege.
Safeware by Nancy Leveson.
And can't the numbers be, I dunno, audited?!!?!!? WTF. Like, did all these numbers just get spit out to a jury and then these people were prosecuted? How in the hell?????
> Someone doesn’t have to have anything against other browsers to prefer using their favorite browser without futzing around with browser-site combinations.

Yes, this is irritating. If I encounter a site/app with browser requirements, I’m going to find an alternative to that site/app, not use a different browser.
I can't tell if this is satire or not since every healthy person has probably trillions of e coli in their gut.
Here are some Safari-specific issues I have met when developing a website in the past two years:

* font being displayed way bigger than in the other browsers - had to add normalization rules specific of Safari
* Parsing dates in the format "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS" not working, had to convert to ISO-8601 using a regex (the dates in original format were received from a third-party website).
* Interactions in maps not working using leaflet library (version 1.7 at the time). Fixed by switching to maplibre, which turned out to be a great move for other reasons.
* HTML in SVGs (via ForeignObject) are always displayed on top of the SVG content, making it impossible to annotate HTML with SVG markup (arrows, circling stuff).

Plus some issues with `backdrop-filter:blur`, although this CSS is also problematic elsewhere.

All in all, it felt like having to deal with Internet Explorer 10+ years ago: the other browsers work well out of the box, and tricks and workarounds need to be identified for the bad browser.
Silos are not a problem. Leadership quality is a problem that silos can greatly exacerbate.

Silos exacerbate two problems. The first problem is that there is an area between two silo's which can be poorly owned or lack stewards. The second problem is that the first manager above two different silos is the de facto resolver of disputes and resource application for and around those silos. This area often has no advocate, because to advocate for resource application to that area is to volunteer yourself. This area becomes a blind spot to leadership through systematic neglect. In many cases this leadership can be a checked out ex-google CTO who has never run an org under resource constraints who isn't hungry because they are already well off. Checked out Rest and Vest early employees who, through the peter principle, end up in CTO positions can also be extremely dangerous to organizations.

If you have poor leadership, you end up with two silos that don't want extra responsibility, because more responsibility without more resources is a losing prospect. Under bad leadership, anything that is not feature production is not rewarded. The end result is that each silo becomes aligned against other silos, rather than aligned to a business goal.

Defining an API seems like the primary goal is to completely remove the area between two silos, thus alleviating the problem of opaque ownership. I agree. Explicit ownership for all artifacts helps an organization run much more effectively.

The real problem is a culture where every individual employee does not feel responsible for business outcomes with proportionate recognition by leadership of taken responsibility for those outcomes.

Here is Admiral Rickover's take on culture:

> Professionalism occurs when individuals act in the best interest of those being served according to objective values and ethical norms, even when an action is perceived to not be in the best interest of the individual or their organization. That is, there are times when professionals must sacrifice their own interest (or that of their organization) to meet the objective values and ethical norms of the profession. Professionals, in this sense, are serving something greater than the bureaucratic organization that employs them.

> If Admiral Rickover had a mantra to shape a professional culture, it would have been, "I am personally responsible."

When leadership does not practice personal responsibility or engages in blame, that ripples through the entire organization. Silos that don't function well are symptoms of leadership failing to take responsibility and cultural failure, not necessarily structural failure.
Is there a chart of the rationality over time?
Enshittification marches forward relentlessly
Private Eye have been covering it continuously since Computer Weekly broke the original story.
Other groups would adapt to their local community, blend in, so there would be no need to move out and found countries.
The collapse of the Soviet Union was complex, but uneconomical undertakings did play a significant role... including the "Space Race".

Which cements my point... commercialism is the only way these sorts of activities can exist.
Seems weird to word it as “a very small percentage” instead of “a very small number” unless the number was a little bigger than they want to admit.
>Hold up, mip mapping is not a way to save RAM in fact it consumes more RAM because not only do you need to have the full-size texture in RAM you also need to keep smaller copies in RAM.

While that's how it's mostly used today, mipmapping refers to storing scaled-down versions of the same texture along with the original texture. You don't have to load all of them to RAM (or VRAM). You can simply store the mipmaps on a hard drive, and only load the required mip levels to the GPU, thus saving VRAM. This way, you are using mipmaps as texture LODs. Think about satellite images of Google Maps.

>What it does save on is memory bandwidth, because you don't need to sample from the full-size texture

Not exactly. It does save memory bandwidth, because you're sampling less texels and reducing cache misses, not because you're sampling from a smaller texture. You're simply not downscaling the texture on the fly, instead using precalculated downscaled pixel values.
Regarding the two basic problems: I imagine the people involved are aware of the enormity of the challenge, and don't seem to be concerned about Big Psychiatry (nor does new hard-science based diagnosis and treatment threaten profits of that industry). But really I don't know. It was just an off-hand comment from Robert Sapolsky's Human Behavioral Biology lecture series on YouTube, they might not be attempting this at all.

> whereas labels like "ASD" wrongly put all the emphasis on the former to the exclusion of the latter

Early intervention autism treatment has limited success. If you've got dyspraxia, inattention/hyperattention, fidget, avoid eye contact, have meltdowns, speech/processing delay, etc. you're fighting something at the neurological level that can at best be attenuated over time by plasticity, or simply just managed, like epilepsy.
Eh, there's a pretty big difference between "I'm too lazy to solve this" and "the only reason this requires so much effort is because the business would lose a ton of revenue if people could simply stop paying for things that they don't want to have". There really is no reason why cancelling a subscription at some predefined point in the future should require any kind of business-hours-only-must-talk-to-a-physical-person approach, and if your CSR handling your cancellation is not empowered to actually process your request (which is pretty common with e.g. cable and phone companies as well as gyms), then its abuse, pure and simple. I know what my hourly equivalent is, so if the cost to my employer (or myself, if I'm an independent contractor) while I sort this out when I should be working is more than the monthly bill itself, then it becomes not worth my time to sit on the phone and deal with it.

I had a regular order with Chewy, until the dog food brand I was having drop shipped stopping selling that particular type of dog food to Chewy (but I could get it somewhere else). And I had to sit on hold for 30 fucking minutes, just so Chewy would stop charging me (considerably more) for, and shipping to me, dog food that I did not want, had never wanted, and was actually shopping elsewhere to avoid. And I didn't find out that they didn't carry that brand anymore until they shipped "what we believe is the closest match" to me. I honestly thought it was a mis-pick initially, so when I went to resolve it, I followed that customer service UI pattern, to no avail. They've changed it since then, but the fact still remains, that was not at all a scenario I should've needed to call in for. I certainly shouldn't have needed to sit on hold for it. When I finally spoke to the CSR, she was apologetic that I even had to talk to her about it.
> Also, the discoverability of this workflow is complete dogshit.

Yes, the correct solution is certainly to pass laws that force companies to enable easy and quick unsubscribe process.

Just commenting on that between the two bad choices of hours and hours on hold, or 10 minutes in the post office, I'll take the latter.
Part of the reason they are going public is Goodknight is getting up there in years and something about a succession plan.
I'm surprised literally no one suggested just cancelling the vast majority of your subscription services and cutting ties with unethical companies. The suggestion that poor people need yet more help from the government because they're too dumb, busy, or gullible to know when they're about to get screwed is condescending. The suggestion that the core audience of WSJ and HN needs this is pitiful.

Want to watch a movie? Borrow the DVD from your local library. Want to watch it repeatedly? Buy it off Amazon. Want to read a book? Library. Amazon. AbeBooks. Want to get fit? Go for a hike. Do pushups. Buy a barbell and free weights.

Here's my personal finance plan: Check your bank account daily. Cancel services you don't need. Don't do 30-day trials. Don't sign up for overdraft "protection" at $40 a pop. Use cash if you can't handle plastic, and don't use credit cards. Just don't borrow money, period, if you're not using it to buy a house. Don't let anyone take money out of your checking account but you. If a company screws you, never do business with them again. Pay up front for a year of service and mark when it renews. Write checks before you give out your card numbers.

I know, Stone Age, right? But I like to keep my life simple.
https://archive.ph/Pmz3v
The problem is our current economic system will not survive shrinking population. We know already that ever growing population is not sustainable, either. But the stable population size is still workable within the current system.