skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, but this woman didn’t own crypto, she owned an app that says she owned crypto in an exchange/brokerage

That has nothing to do with crypto and everything to do with this fake exchange scam, and even with a real exchange it has to do with consumer education on using non custodial apps

It’s downright weird that you have this other mental category for things that say crypto where your mental processing power throttled to the conclusion is “its crypto so let me blame the victim instead and ignore who chose to create a victim while they sent her death threats on whatsapp”
Again, the question was about competition in the ecosystem, not some kind of class warfare thing. He was describing the reality of it, not making a justification. He then went on to describe how other places aren’t allocating the resources that China and the Us are.

The way you framed it, which implies that you didn’t actually watch the video, is that Schmidt was making a comment justifying the rich dominating the poor. It was no such thing.
> Yes. Reading is a prime example

This article does not appear to be supporting a point counter to what I said. It is also focused on the opinions on non-experts. In fact, the majority of the article is discussing how schools aren't "following the data."

I would be surprised if the dominant method was "memorize" for reading, as this would mean a curriculum that has little free reading.

I'm not too interested in what non-experts have to say unless there is quite compelling evidence. The average person quire frequently overestimates their confidence in how something should be done.

> It's not. It's just a skill that might become unused, like playing piano

I grew up playing piano and memorizing holy texts. Even participating in scripture competitions as well as music competitions. With the highest confidence I can assure you that no professional in either of these subjects believes that one should memorize without limit. In music they will use the words "without soul" while in scriptures they may say that you know the words but not the meanings.

I'll directly quote from the bible to demonstrate both at once:

> Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
Mathew 13:13[0]

I suggest reading the chapter in full, as it makes the point more explicitly.

I think both groups understand something important to language (which yes, I will argue that music is _a_ language): that the "words" (sounds) used are only tools to convey what is the deeper meaning inside. In music you seek to draw that out of the listener. In scriptures it is the same. The clearest cases of these may be proverbs, parables, koans, or fables. The words hold only what is at the surface. It is ironic you specifically mention Hasidic Jews, as they are deeply entrenched in the Kabbalah, which is famous for being entrenched mysticism. That there are hidden meanings in the scriptures. This isn't even uncommon in religion in general! I don't think it is hard to see this in music or any art. If you are in any doubt, please go visit your local art gallery and listen to one of the local artists. Even if you believe they are full of hogwash, it still illustrates that they are trying to convey something deeper. If you wish to get this lesson and learn a bit about Jewish mysticism at the same time I'd recommend A Serious Man[1] (a Coen brothers movie)

I must stress that language (of any form) has three key aspects: what is intended to be conveyed, the words and way the words are used (diction), and the way the person receiving interprets this. The goal is to align the first with the last, but there is clearly a lossy encoding and lossy decoding.

> I maintain that you can't learn how to think without grinding through facts

I'm not sure why you thought we were in disagreement. Perhaps you know the words but not the meaning. I hope your head does not feel too heavy from all the things you carry in your mind[2]

[0] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2013%3A...

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019452/

[2] https://ashidakim.com/zenkoans/76thestonemind.html
The broligarchs are trying to have their way
Using a pointer in go can mean two things and I don't like it:
- Value can be nil
- Value is mutable

It's neither possible to have a const but nilable value as well as it's not possible to have a non-nilable mutable value
How much of it is just not having 0% loans anymore?
These are amazing. Some people just perceive light and the world around us differently and more perfectly than the rest of us.

Reminds me of one of my favorite artists I’ve ever seen at a museum, Vija Celmins. Her ocean drawings are remarkable: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/vija-celmins-2731/explor...
have you considered that at some point it might make your kid feel inadequate? i think when talking about success stories it is important to sketch the complete picture of someone’s life including what didn’t go so well … too often we only hear about overnight successes 50 years in the making.
Yeah. Pretty sure most of the numbers mentioned are irrelevant in this case.
It's hard to believe Apple did not look at the BOM from day one as a future internalised profit moment. After all it's what they did with Wolfson chips in the iPod: used them until they understood how to replace them and then dropped them.

Qualcomm is hardly cheap, but per-phone it's also hardly expensive. At one remove, this is a fight between two dogs with no up or downside for me as a consumer because in all likelihood Apple will keep prices high: It's seeking to reduce cost, not price.

If somebody has evidence the cost of Qualcomm IPR has influenced Apple pricing and we can expect a price drop, I'd love to understand it.

Moving upstream, is Apple going to take over the Qualcomm research function and start owning the IPR behind encoding and RF technology?

Wouldn't buying qualcomm have achieved the same outcome? Buying their IPR wholesale instead of retail? Thats what Google did with Motorola: bought the entire box, kept the three pokemon cards it liked (the retained IPR, a small amount), and sold the rest to Lenovo.
i like the entirely not subtle irony of citing hanlon's razor in the same message you suggest a more elaborate and intentionally malicious alternative explanation
If you instead emphasize the 'its audience' part, you may realize an audience may be only one person.

Personal wiki sounds like a fine definition to me.
It's the "impressed by the spectacle" one. I tried jokes with LLMs many times, and they're always this. Riffing on a couple of themes loosely related to what was asked. Always unfunny and uncreative.
Check Leopold Aschenbrenner's work out - he introduced this to the public through AI Safety

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40576466
Ah I see. A stack of towels is very different from “a towel”.

I cant bring myself to get rid of tp especially for if guests come by, but imagine towels do a better job of drying than paper.
There’s no point in arguing with people on HN. The same people downvoting you are the same people who refuse to use AI because it’s “not perfect”. They would rather work from home and be made redundant and unemployable than be productive and valuable.
Connectivity seems like a tough nut to crack. There are many protocols out there which need to be supported, secret sauces gained by many years of experience, working around bugs of many specific devices etc. It's not about having one awesome design, it's about testing with many different devices across many different environments etc. This project seems expensive, risky, with unclear benefits.
> Then when they try to hold you ask them if

In the US if you ask the cops anything you risk getting tased or having a knee on your neck.
for typescript there is pg-boss, works great for us
I might be naive, but what if you buy a burner phone/notebook on the flea market, wait a couple months, then use a public WiFi with some precautions (no cameras around, leave your phone home) to post the content? Maybe I'm severely underestimating current capabilities, but I have a hard time imagining how I could possibly be found out.
https://archive.ph/Gbrjo
This is an example of blatant, obvious scam, but there are also many many others that are technically fine, but effectively end up with the "customer" feeling scammed anyway.

Example: There are many apps that will only let you use the functionality if you agree to a 7 day free trial, which automatically starts billing you some exorbitant weekly fee as soon as that trial ends. Google will typically not refund this when a scammed user complains, since they technically agreed to the terms.

But IMO this is absolute bullshit. $50/week for a stupid flashlight app is not reasonable anywhere. It shows that the only intent of the app is to trick people. No real user would consider paying that much for what the app offers.

But Google benefits from this, so they do absolutely nothing about it, and the play store is full of such crap. The Google/Apple tax on every purchase you make on their platforms is pure profit, none of it is used to make the store better for the customers or genuine sellers.

I will avoid spending a single ₹ on these platforms as a result, and will try to avoid ever writing code for their platforms. Either my app succeeds on the open web, or it doesn't succeed at all. I'm willing to give up on the entire mobile market due to this, I'll not be part of a system that exists majorly to trick people into parting with their money and data.
I feel seen.

Jokes aside, carpentry is an amazing complementary hobby for software related work. There's something about drawing on a piece of paper and using your hands to make it a reality that scratches a lot of itches.

Sadly, entrepreneurship doesn't leave much free time for carpentry.
The obit seemed mostly lifted from this.
Japan also has this issue.
Relatedly, the author Robert Anton Wilson tried to manually implement a Markov-chain-bot in the 1960s by cutting up passages from various books, selecting them from a hat, and looking for overlapping words and phrase fragments. The best results were included in the Illuminatus! trilogy, some attributed to a character named Markoff Chaney.
So, a portable crash cart?
Neovims most popular plugin manager lazy.nvim supports this (and I'm sure most other too).
> There are other ways to commute

Really? Pray tell what other methods I would have to commute? The closest bus, train or subway service is about the same distance as driving to work with a car. Parking at work is also free, but I have to pay for parking at the bus stop, or the train stop, or the subway stop. Oh and there's no way to walk there because I would have to walk along the shoulder of a 4-lane highway where the speed limit is 65mph.

So, how do I commute without a car?
That’s a pretty big PDF - can you point me to the part where he talks about what I’m talking about?
I blame Sundae Pichai. I don’t know how. But it has to be him.
I was in an American school when 9/11 happened and the school was trying to punish students for calling their parents who worked in the towers to see if they were still alive.

Fucking dictatorship we are in. Let people use technology, especially in an emergency.
The aliens sent Elon's car he launched in space hurling back at us.
First, they did not seem to make a thermodynamic loss argument. They made that argument for vertical farming versus regular farming to argue that the inputs to regular farming are cheaper because they are not harvesting solar energy with extra steps. That is a perfectly cogent argument because the inputs are the same in both cases. You can not make the same argument for solar energy versus drilling costs without making the reader fill in a ridiculous number of gaps in the argument.

Even assuming they did obliquely try to make a thermodynamic loss argument, it is irrelevant. Thermodynamic efficiency is not really related to electricity costs except indirectly otherwise we would all be using ultra-expensive 30% efficiency solar panels instead of cheap as dirt 10-20% efficiency solar panels. It is a contributor, but the core question is price efficiency of the non-"drilled hydrocarbon" energy commodity.

The thesis is that non-subsidized solar energy-derived electricity will be cheap enough relative to hydrocarbon synthesis efficiency that it will be cheaper to synthesize than drilling it out of the ground (at current prices). There are many ways to reject that thesis, of which you present at least a few, but the comment I was responding to did not bring them up.

Given their other responses, they keep acting as if the thesis is: "We will make synthetic hydrocarbons that are 10x more expensive than harvested hydrocarbons, but we expect people to buy them anyways for reasons" which is obviously a strawman. The point of the discussion is entirely in whether it will be 10x more expensive, where one side claims it will be cost-competitive and the other side disagrees. To that end, here are some options including ones you brought up that at least provide potential counter-arguments for the actual point under contention:

1. Solar energy is actually non-viable, but subsidies make it, incorrectly, seem viable.

2. Solar energy will not continue to become cheaper exponentially and reach a low enough price.

3. Solar energy will become very cheap, but synthesis will be too cost-inefficient anyways.

4. Synthesis is cost-efficient on a per-unit basis, but requires capital intensive processes that only pay back if continuously active which solar can not provide.

5. Synthesis is only efficient at the margins right now. There is actually a lot of cheaply accessible hydrocarbons that can accept price reductions and still remain viable. All you will actually displace is a tiny edge of barely profitable hydrocarbons until there are even more significant cost reductions.

6. Solar energy cost reductions will also reduce hydrocarbon harvesting costs in a relative proportion that keeps harvesting viable.

7. They just suck at execution.

8. Something else.
Review: Voyager holds a golden record for aliens. 'Vinyl Frontier' tells why (2019)
Eric ran Google while the Android team often worked 7 days a week in office (famously: “bacon Sundays”) and still managed to blow every advantage they had over iOS by making repeatedly terrible strategic decisions.

But yeah, he’d have won AI by keeping butts in seats…
> The trick at Microsoft is to start working on your project in your spare time. Then incorporate it into your project at MSFT.

(Ex-msftie here)

Microsoft is great for being amongst the tiny number of software companies that not only allow their FTEs to have their own software projects without attempting to claim any kind of ownership (compare with Apple where I’m told having even a public GitHub account without manager-approval is grounds for termination…) - but MS even actively encourages it too (though I cynically note that was when the Windows Phone App Store’s app-shortage was thought-of as a serious problem)

BUUUUT - they do require you to strictly avoid cross-over with their own products: you can’t just re-use your own code in a company project, or even reimplement it from-memory. Yes, there are ways of doing this properly (involving weeks of meetings with LCA arranging a permanent irrevocable - and possibly exclusive - rights transfer), wasting time better spent on other things) - so your project had better be something special and you’d need to give-up hope of getting rich from it (spare a very modest bonus the year you do the LCA paperwork if your skiplevel sees any value in it).
Why can't they just issue their own device to minimize app store fees. it seems to me the amount money going to app store real estate is more than enough to justify some sort of method of allowing their users to play the game without app store intervening. The total amount spent so far is astounding if viewed in figures. Minus half or quarter of the total time since appearing in app-store for it to be served to the large audience. The other half would have to be too much time spent content. Rest of that half of paid out fees could have more than enough to fund a plan B.

Another reason why having the current ecosystem, where app stores pretty much dictate the destiny for a growing company. creating another device assuming it magically becomes a success, there is most definitely not a long lasting venture either. Bypassing the app store to achieve what exactly? okay this device plays roblox 'and what else can it do?".Discouraging to see companies like this be dictating how they grow and succeed. Only to grow in this manner and be topped out as there is no next phase after this growth, the atmosphere they're in is polluted and cloudy. The next phase in BIG tech is most likely not going to resemble this depiction, for more reasons than i can list here. The big players in tech are losing their ground day by day. Epic Games is relisted back on to the app store, not long ago they were fighting apple over the very same hurdle that Roblox is facing today. Epic Games did however get their way with Google and went on to send a clear message to the rest of the big tech players out there.

I think a big change is near and if not than its needed.
Go got this right: you want an incompatible version, you have to use a different import path. Then you can only pick one version (which is deterministically the lowest possible version) for a certain import path, not a hundred different versions.

Also forces people to actually take backwards compatibility seriously.
It doesn’t even have to be someone you’re living with unfortunately.
Using Stage Manager or multiple desktops is a more efficient way of grouping windows and switching between them. Trying to reorder windows constantly with alt-tab is tedious.
I'm a full-time developer of Roblox games.

It's wild that Apple or Google make as much from my games as I do. Obviously it still works out well enough since I'm not abandoning the platform, but strange anyway.
Be aware that the brazilian tech-literate tend to have far-right opinions, and as such like to think that there is a dictatorship because they're not able to voice opinions defending violence or discrimination openly.
> I’ve heard people claim that comedy cannot be generated by an algorithm. If it wasn’t obvious, I disagree with this. I think comedy can be analyzed and measured. I think, given a large enough grant, we could probably generate comedy on demand. I think it’s doable - not that we should do it.

I use to think it came naturally, then someone had a book case full of books about humor. (wtf?) Apparently they have it down to a science.

I learn the difference between someone funny and a professional comedian is that the later finds additional punch lines for a joke. It then described a step by step process going from a silly remark to a birthday joke comparing various modular developments into a kind of dependency hell complete with race conditions until the state object is carefully defined and the plot has the punchlines all sorted from the barely funny to the truly hilarious. It was more engineering than CS.

The funniest seeBorg message was 10 minutes after a heated discussion that resulted in tanktop, a moderator, getting banned from a project. The bot wrote: Tanktop is Hitler! At that point it took 2 days for the humans to figure out what the next word was suppose to be.
Why not go see the local DA and tell them about it instead ?
Apple being apple, they can simply support some newer modern standards and declare the rest unsupported. Mobile networks will be forced to update because no mobile network would survive an iPhone not being able to connect.
No, the people arguing with the parent are the ones who have actual life experience of living in places where there's no reasonable access to public transit (read: most of the USA) and who aren't naive to think that everywhere is a perfect little urban world where you have usable choices in your method of transport.

I live inside a major metro area. My closest public transit is a 10 minute drive by car, or a several hour walk by foot, and that's a 3x a day bus. If I wanted to actually access useful public transit, I would need to hike 3+ miles over about 1500' of elevation change, on roads with no sidewalks. And I'm in one of the most public transit friendly metro areas in the US.
I swear to god I regularly have to change passwords I just set a few days ago, and/or saved to an external password manager. Yes, some incidents are probably me messing up somehow, but it seems to happen way too frequently even assuming I'm an idiot.

Most recent was setting a password for Rakuten Bank, saving it to my browser password manager, saving it to an offline password manager, and then two days later attempting to login and being told my password has too many characters. What.
I've had this half-idea for recreating something like Garry's Mod in Godot for a while now. It seems like something someone would have created by now but it doesn't exist yet for whatever reason.

Like, a framework for building first-person FPS-ish game modes and handling all the asset management, sync, etc, like GMod being built around Source does and just letting developers build the game modes without worrying about the annoying tricky stuff.
F83 is an astonishing system. If you want to see the remnants of just a boatload of work, dig deep into the F83 system.

F83 is a top drawer Forth system. It implements the Forth 83 standard, and it’s in the public domain.

It runs on CP/M and MS-DOS.

It has the editor, a single step debugger, virtual memory, multi tasking, an assembler, full source code, and it is self hosting (on top of its host OS) via its meta-compiler. But you could readily port it to a system with no real OS, needing little more than console I/O and some kind of block device.

It’s a hybrid block file based system. Historically you would just hand entire block volumes that would then be managed by Forth directly. Here, you create pre-allocated files that are then used in a customary Forth block style. It did not use text files for source code. It also has shadow screens for documentation. Shadow screens are where you divide the block volume in two, and the first half is source code, and the second is documentation. So if you have a 200 block volume, then screen 4 is code and screen 104 is documentation.

If you want to see the source code of a word, just type VIEW <word> and it will show you the screen that defines the word. The compiler embeds the source screen in each definition. A simple command will bring up the shadow screen to show the documentation.

It also has a word decompiler, and a threaded dictionary for better search performance. It has hundreds of words.

The real trick is imagining the work that went into this system. The bootstrapping process that converted this from a likely hand keyed, assembly based FIG Forth to what became F83. Starting with a pure, block screen based system to one that works with a file system, shifting code around on disk with little more than offsets and a copy routine that’s little more than a block move.

On a slow, 2 floppy 8080, where resetting the system was the routine way to get back to a known state. Using a powerful, yet very dangerous language, rife with traps. It’s like doing self surgery with a mirror.

The holes they must have blasted in the floor trying to avoid shooting themselves in the foot. Repeatedly. I’ve spent hundreds of hours studying this system, it’s really an amazing effort.