skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term “virtue signal” is the backbone of the argument here and I have to confess I don’t understand.

They attempted to sell beer to a market with a historically low interest in beer. I don’t understand why marketing would be virtue signalling. Expanding to new markets is a thing businesses do. And we’re in an era capable of very targeted advertising, the only people who would have organically seen the ad are people who already followed that influencer so I’m still at a loss as to what the original customer base would be losing. Their experience was exactly the same, it’s nothing like the situation outlined in the article. But once it’s become a culture war issue sides must be taken. Maybe they should have anticipated right wing reactionaries capitalising on it.

> And who’s sick of virtue signalling? Beer drinking straight dudes.

Speak for yourself, man. It is not something that comes up in my life.
It seems kinda reasonable to me? If someone proposed that we should turn off compiler warnings because only 13% of them are confirmed to be bugs, I'd give basically the same kind of response the NYPD gave here. The proposed metrics don't meaningfully evaluate what the system is trying to do, and we don't really have the time to drop other priorities and produce a comprehensive report about it, so let's keep using the tools that the people doing the work feel are useful unless we have a more compelling reason not to.
I have one of these which is basically what you describe. Marketing materials focus on the Google calendar integration but you can also feed it images via a URL which it polls regularly.

https://www.invisible-computers.com/
> My complaint is that, to my eyes, you are criticizing them as if we moderns have some power over their actions.

We moderns have power over our own actions, and those actions are informed by the past.

In this thread we're talking about risk/reward analyses and for some reason, you and other people here seem oddly insistent that we not discuss the ethical implications of the actions on question.

And all-too-often, that's what happens today: companies look at the risk/reward in financial terms and ignore any ethical concerns. I would characterize the corporate approach to ethics as "complete disregard". The business ethics classes I took in college were, frankly, reprehensible; most of the material was geared toward rebranding various corporate misdeeds as miscalculated risk/reward tradeoffs, similar to what is being done in this thread. This is a huge problem, and it's pervasive in this thread, in HN as a whole, and in corporate culture.

Your complaint is rather hypocritical: given we have no power over their actions, why defend them? Your complaint applies as much to your own position as it does to mine. What problem are you addressing?
The solution is easy, I just saw it implemented in a nearby town (8k people): make the road curb a little, never fully straight, add bollards everywhere on the side of the road, and narrow the road at every crossing (with metal/concrete bollards). Bollards are great: they protect pedestrian and are intimidating it seems. According to the mayor (I ate with him, friend of my mother) the architect who gave him the idea was a nudge expert, and they tested it first with thin, plastic bollards around the town (it worked, but wasn't protective enough). The city is halfway between two economic 'centers' (28k and 50k population) and see a lot of traffic as those cities grow. No pedestrian death in the last two years AFAIK, when pre-covid you had half a dozen injuries every year and a mortal accident every other year.

So the bollards do seems to work. Install bollards!
Oh yeah but I'll never be interested in portable gaming. I tried it during the years. Arcade handhelds in the 80s, I had a PSP, I played games on my first gen iPhone. But always I ended up dropping it soon after. Similar to many other experiences, I'll never do serious work on a phone. It's really a secondary device for me. I'm not a mobile-first kind of person.

Working on a mobile feels like I'm reading the newspaper through the core of a toilet roll while trying to write a summary with a pen in my mouth. Whereas my 24" workstation is so productive and comfortable <3
One could use build tags to provide alternative implementations over a concrete type, I suppose.

But like with everything in life, there is no right solution. Just different tradeoffs. If interfaces best align with the trades you are willing to make, go for it.
From their VP of marketing...

> Bud Light had been kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor, and it was really important that we had another approach

Two things: frats buy a lot of beer, so sneering at frats is essentially sneering at the customer.

Also, there's a good chance the average person who buys a lot of beer skews a certain political way. Or at least, if that wasn't the case this fiasco wouldn't have put such a dent in their market share
I think it’s too early to regulate AI. As a new industry, we have to let it develop before we start hammering down restrictions.
So what about US companies like Apple, Tesla and Microsoft that operate in China and wants to make their AI offerings available there while being bound by Chinese requirements to run cloud services in the country? Wouldn’t they be caught by this and thus at a disadvantage vs local offerings?
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It's a bad idea, so it might well be the best.
Yeah, exactly, it’s up to the author to determine what’s important to preserve. Note this is always true, because the author is the one who commits, and can do anything before committing. If keeping the “before lunch” commit is useful for the history, rebasing does not prevent that in any way. Personally, I doubt that particular comment really is just as likely to be useful as something describing what the change is, but I’m with you that it’s author’s choice. It seems like squashing “WIP” and “before lunch” and describing the change content & reasoning has quite a bit higher likelihood of usefulness down the road than a comment on when you planned to eat lunch, and that has been true for me in practice for many years.

There is no “real history” in git, and it’s kind of a fictitious idea, even in Fossil or other VCSes that don’t offer rebase. Think about it: commit order of “WIP” ideas in a branch is already arbitrary, and commits only capture what you committed, not what you typed, nor when you ran the build, nor what bugs you fixed before committing, nor what you had for lunch, nor anything you didn’t choose to commit. Taking away rebase only adds extra pressure to plan your commits and be careful before committing, which means that people will do more editing that is not captured by the commit “history” before committing! Having rebase allows you to commit willy-nilly messes as you go and know that nobody has to see it. It seems like rebase might very well be safer in general because it encourages use of the safety net rather than discouraging frequent messes… and we’re all making frequent messes regardless of VCS, all we’re talking about is whether we force the rest of the team to have to be subjected to our messes.

Git provides change dependencies, and does not offer “history” in the sense you’re implying. People overload the word “history”, and git’s sense of history is to show the chain of state dependencies known as commits, and those have editable metadata on them. In other words, git’s “history” is a side-effect, a view of the dependencies. Git’s “history” does usually have loose association with an order of events, but nothing is or ever was guaranteed. It is by design that you can edit them (meaning build a new set of dependencies with rewritten metadata… the old one is still there until garbage collection), therefore there is no “real history”, that’s not a real thing.
Did they know that a higher salary was a possibility?

Would you be able to give raises comparable in earnings to what they would make from higher "recommended" tips?

As a reminder, the original article concerned people selling "coffee or a muffin", and not "table service at restaurants". Where do your employees fall on the spectrum?
These news reports quote responses from other interested groups like the New York Police Department itself, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and ShotSpotter, Inc.:

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/news/nypd-shotspotter-re...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/nyregion/nypd-shotspotter...

Note that the NYPD's leader, the New York City police commissioner, is appointed by and answerable to the mayor. Mayor Eric Adams supports the ShotSpotter gunshot alert system, which may explain the NYPD's position.

Also note that this audit is published by the New York City Comptroller's office. Both the mayor and comptroller are directly elected by the people, meaning both Adams and Comptroller Brad Lander are politicians as opposed to nonpartisan bureaucrats/civil servants. That may have something to do with Lander's framing of his office's report.
Five of the nine authors are apparently employed by The Wellness Company, which is in the business of holistic mail-order supplements. Of the other four, one is an independent physician, one is at a cancer clinic, one apparently retired. The remaining author, (the corresponding author), is cited as being at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, but I cannot find him listed in their faculty. The paper was apparently submitted last year though, so perhaps he has since left.

I should also note that the corresponding author provides a gmail address for correspondence, not his university email address.
I found a reddit post about it and I think you may be correct, though it seems like their hallucinations aren't 'full fledged' (they report seeing shadows, not people or what have you):
https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/baf5fv/can_peop...

I also found this study asking a similar question about many different types of mental illnesses, though some of it is about making people that have aphantasia better able to visualize to treat things like PTSD:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9614338/
I spent a couple of years consulting to earthforce.io (they make forest management software)- before I started I thought I understood forestry, boy how wrong I was, how little I knew!

For those interested in learning the basics, this is a pretty good playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOmkebY7k2UP4N_BicWV...
Walk the Way
Sony's competitive disadvantage was it found the Northwest Passage before others.
To a degree it feels like they are already. The increasing number of engineers looking for work means that companies don't have to offer as much to get good candidates, and it seems like salaries in many advertised jobs are going down because of it.

I definitely see AI causing a hit too, since unfortunately, a lot of people's needs when it comes to tech are fairly limited. Yeah, it can't compete with a good programmer in terms of quality or efficient system design, but many people and companies don't need that. They just need something that does what they need it to, quality be damned. So a lot of companies feel like they'll either offer less (since some guy playing around with prompts is good enough to do what they want) or not hire programmers at all.
How difficult is it to clone MIFARE Ultralight EV1 chips? You mention the UID is signed, can you simply copy this signature? Do you just need to buy one of the magical chips of the same design, that allow uid/serials to be written?

What is the actual mechanism behind the DESFire and other secure NFC chips that prevents cloning?
That's not particularly high for a large scale web application where every file is a ES module, especially so if it includes dependencies.
Which 'deal' specifically, could you provide a link so we can read more?
McDonald in Italy is quite different than US one, tried both. First time I went to an italian McD was 27yo in Bologna and it was terrible, now quality improved a lot, much better than McD I went in US.
I'm coming to realize that the problem with technology hype men - peddlers of unnecessary complexity of all kinds from cloud and kubernetes everything, to microservices and other architectural fetishes, agile/scrum rituals, and now LLMs, generative AIs etc... They all forget one big thing. For all the 'entropy lowering' powers of whatever they are selling, they always hide the entropy exhaust.

Thermodynamics ought to have taught us that we can only move entropy around. And all these silver bullets have giant gaping entropy exhausts that we get to find out about once they've been paid for.
True. Make your org a non-profit, then use tax-deductible contributions to hire "activists."
Huh? We tolerate it pretty much everywhere else. You can buy a 2,000 sq ft home, even though you could live in a 500 sq ft condo. You can buy a computer more powerful than needed for work. You can buy Apple instead of Dell, even though the extra money would be spent better on helping the homeless or preventing malaria in the developing world.

It's really not that black and white. There's a line between the government deciding the optimal allocation of all resources and you retaining some degree of personal freedom. Techies in the SF Bay Area are very quick to draw that line in a way that affects other people's lifestyles, but doesn't affect their own. Guess what - pickup drivers in Texas have critical opinions about your consumer choices too.
In "UNIX - A History and a Memoir", Brian Kernighan is telling the story of doing that in 1972 (chapter 4.5, about "Grep")

grep '^[behilos]*$' /usr/dict/web2
Just because it’s normal doesn’t make it right. Shouldn’t the frequency of layoffs seen in recent history be an indicator that it’s time for a change in how tech businesses do business?
No radio receives exactly a single frequency. They all receive a range.
The guy is known in Italy for being very clickbait-y. What he says is usually okay but a bit exaggerated, but in the case of pizza he is wrong.

This is a discussion between him and another guy -> https://angeloforgione.com/2022/04/04/alberto-grandi-sulla-p... Pizza became widespread in Italy after WW2 (thanks to emigration from Naples to the rest of Italy and tourism within Italy), and the global diffusion of pizza outside US and Italy definitely comes from the US rather than from Italy; but it got to America at the beginning of the 20th century almost a century after pizza restaurants were born in Naples.
Planning on fixing this bug? :-)
Sounds like a classic case of Algorithm Aversion to me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40760962
Wikipedia: 97% of all articles lead to Philosophy
Oof. Are we not to enjoy life until all are fed?
I decided not to use images in technical documents (2021)
The thing is that, yes, development in wildland areas has produced scraggly areas that are not good ecologies but are serious fire dangers.

But logging isn't the answer in the sense that logging companies have no interest in just taking small trees - they have no economic value.

I live in one of these areas, btw (Nevada City). There are lots of stick-like trees, lots of scotch broom, lots of flameable underbrush. Removing that by logging is extremely expensive unless you do something like clear cutting, which uses a titanic lawn-mower thing. Cutting a single tall but thin tree requires a professional.

Really, there's no solution for a situation of houses spread through the urban-wildland borders. The logging companies claim the fuel build up is the from logging restrictions but they will always claim that - actually, logging is no longer profitable in California because most large trees are gone, home owners won't let people clear cut and even clear cutting isn't economical given foreign competition and society's decreased use of paper.
Most kinds of PACs aren't banned from coordination: https://www.fec.gov/press/resources-journalists/political-ac...

Rampant coordination: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/08/super-pac-fec-limit...

Weak enforcement: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/fec-...

(Though I did make a mistake, I misremembered the small fines for soliciting large foreign donations as small fines for coordination; in fact, the FEC has never fined any PAC anything for coordination.)
Computing PLL Coefficients
You’re certainly swooping in to defend them as if you work for them so I’d just as soon assume you do.

If the QR codes just sent me to a page saying “lol just search the web for the menu, you shouldn’t need to be spoon fed” then I’d leave the diner, yes.
Dear Mr Braybrook, I spent a lot of time on your games as a kid, and you can code up whatever the hell you want to, but I would like to respectfully suggest that you have a look at stuff like TileEd before going further down this particular rabbit hole. Use the results of someone else spending about twenty years writing a powerful, multi-use map editor.
So how much more powerful is this chip than the ones NASA used in the the Apollo program?
If you consult https://chpl.healthit.gov/#/listing/10938 you will see that it is a certification of a subset of the full criteria (toggle 'see all certification criteria'). OpenEMR foundation says they had to raise $125k to do the partial certification, that sounds right. That is a good thing but some items like eprescribing are not certified, which is an absolute deal breaker to most providers. I would guess it's because you have to license a drug database. At ClearHealth we built and maintained our own drug db as open source also, it was a large endeavour. We had to lobby federally for there to be a carve out in the HITech legislation to even allow for an open source drug database to exist rather than the original requirement of two dominant existing providers codified in law. You can stitch together some other third party offerings to meet those needs but hardly anyone wants to do that.
Lol. Tried coffee in Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Netherlands, USA, Mexico...
Only decent coffee was made by italian machines.
Starbucks coffee is pure shit compared to an average italian one, literally very hot garbage water.
Strange article to be so offended by.

Do you work or develop things that don't "feed the world?"
The main problem the method pointers solves for me is answering the question "can this object do X". The mere existence of a method you can type assert isn't enough.

Returning a NotImplemented error isn't a great solution either as you might have to do quite a bit of work to get ready to call the method only to find it isn't implemented.

Some bit of reflection magic which allowed objects to remove methods from their method sets at runtime would be perfect. You'd just use interface upgrades and you'd be sure that it would work.

Also an available flag for each method would work too and might be neater than the function pointers.
My understanding is that cop car driving down the block and making a visual inspection after a likely gunfire event is a reasonable standard. I would expect that 90% of the time (in fact, 87% here) they won't find anything. It is easy to take a gun indoors after firing it, or even hide it under a jacket. That doesn't mean that a cop car driving by in the next 5 minutes after any gun shot event won't have a positive impact.

Perhaps this is racially biased policing. Gun shot firing events may track racial neighborhoods demographics. In that case, we should consider whether "racial bias" is a useful dialectical tool here.
Thanks. Will give a try
Is this the same system used by Boston MBTA? I was surprised to see single-use tap cards when I visited there for the first time yesterday. I wondered why the ticket isn't reloadable.
Maybe not so hard, as the parent post illustrates. A little judicious checking of sources goes a long way.
> The term “virtue signal” is the backbone of the argument here and I have to confess I don’t understand.

I don't think corporations have any standing to lecture regular people on what's moral. Corporations have literally zero moral standing

For context, I'm voting for biden this year (assuming he doesn't kick the bucket first), but if these shitty soulless "brands" want to lecture me on what's right and wrong I'll just buy a competitor. Their whole marketing department can get fired for all I care (assuming they weren't already)
This format is great! Thanks for the tip
Maybe a cheery tale from Peter Watts?
No, that is referring to other organisms. It neglects to mention how this particular one survives.
Maybe not.-
Anytime a post references the “feds” in such an ambiguous way, it seems like a flag for potential misunderstanding.
You're asking why dropping things out of a window in midtown Manhattan might be illegal?

It's a boring question anyway; this is HN.
You and GP sound like you haven't read the article and are using heuristics to comment on what you can infer from the title. Maybe you should have used a better algorithm there bud
I made a web app to play microtonal music with touchscreens: https://slidesynth.com/
You can get a kindle to display a self-refreshing webpage in the browser. Only issue is keeping it awake somehow.
Videos of the transgender influencer went extremely viral. Ex-Bud Light customers knew exactly what repelled them.
Thanks for clarifying -- but the referent of the implicit "they" in that snippet (via "their droppings") was an (abstract) commenter -- not their country or nationality!

Which is also something you'd also prefer we not do (that is: referring to individuals with implied scorn) -- and since you're asking nicely and it's your shop here, I will make assiduous efforts to catch myself before doing so, moving forward.

So perhaps what I should have said was something like this:

There's never a need to introduce (gratuitous) references to a commenter's nationality or other presumed essential traits... No matter how much we may object to the message or import of what they have written.

Which I would hope is a general policy we can all get behind on.
Wait, is it global by default (Lua, Bash) or truly dynamic? The latter would be kind of mind-bending to program with as the sole or default style. Was that ever a thing? Maybe I'm just too young to have experienced that.
> it’s an issue of gross incompetence in marketing

Is it? You think companies like Budweiser were surprised when people started posting videos using their beers as target practice? You think Gillette or Nike or Kuerig suffered from the viral destruction of bought and paid-for products? Heck no, it was calculated precisely to initiate this kind of performative outrage, all those suckers were baited into it and were caught hook, line, and sinker. In almost every case of right-wing culture war playacting, the sales of the companies being targeted went up. Nike made a billion dollars because of how angry people got that they featured a football player who kneeled for the anthem.

Same can be said for the “liberal tears” style of “tactical” coffee or whatever. They seek to provoke outrage specifically for the PR. Because let’s be honest, virtue signaling is happening at every level on every side of a given issue. It’s why most of the people driving giant pickup trucks or a Prius bought those vehicles.

Here’s a hint: companies don’t have values. They make money. That’s all. The sooner gullible people stop looking for companies to reflect their own weird biases back at them, the sooner they’ll stop using rage bait and virtue signaling to sell more of their crap. I certainly don’t want my beverage to have strong political positions about anything. I kind of think the people who do are the problem here.
Just because they thought it was impossible doesn't mean they actually well reasoned their way using the known physics of the day. All you have are quotes from people who say it's impossible or that they think the problem is too intractable that it won't be done, not actual papers on why they think it's impossible.

The Wright Brothers succeeded, but they also rely on the works of people before them, and observing nature. They were not even the first to achieve powered flight nor the first to study rigorously how the physics of flight works.