skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's right to expect companies like this to do what is best for their workers or society at large. Nothing wrong with chasing profit, but don't expect them to be what capitalism never allowed them to become.

I just have some optimism left in me I guess. I really hope worker-owned companies or companies incorporated to chase after the public's interest take off in technology. In a purely capitalist context, it kind of makes a lot of sense. Consumers generate demand and they will do business with companies that have their interest in mind and provide the most value. But for that value to be generated, it usually means less profit for the corporation. But my hypothesis is that profit and growth are not always following the same linear path. A company can generate enough revenue to not just pay it's people but grow at a steady pace and even generate enormous amounts of profits to it's owners in the long run. while at the same time, it's priority would be generating the best value to it's users,customers and the public at large instead of short-term profits.

Take uber for example, until recently they were not even a profitable company, this is after 10+ years. I genuinely believe Uber provided a ton of value to the public at large, including myself. I spend a fortune at Uber. But that was not the goal of the company. To restate, if Uber focused on generating value to it's users and drivers/couriers, it can become a net positive in society and we would depend on it more. In the long run, it would be a monopoly like utility providers.

With Waymo, their priority is clearly profit, not the public interest. This means less employment and less quality of service. I'm sure it will generate a lot of profit in short term, but as much as I am a fan of Uber as a company, this is short-sighted. They will lose the public's trust with such moves and policy makers will have to regulate them a lot more. They will become a service the rich and privileged can afford but only in times of inconvenience. But they could have become more profitable than Walmart and Amazon combined. Think about it, they can dominate delivery, period! Amazon and Walmart are inconvenient and costly middle-men.

In short, businesses should provide not just a barely viable service or products, but they should provide a product their customers want, even at loss sometimes (loss-leaders and all), so long as it is the best strategy for long term profitability. Structuring a company so that it will always prioritize long term viability make sense, and I hope to see that sort of thinking prevail.
Wait, you had to call service to "get out"? What if there is an emergency and you need to get out?
> The 51% of voters that voted for him…

Nitpick: 49.8%
I’m not doing it intentionally, and I do see your point! Thanks for calling it out, gives me some food for thought.
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Exactly. Even in Ukraine, Yanukovych was democratically elected [1] and US was potentially involved in overthrowing him [2]

[1] https://www.oscepa.org/en/news-a-media/press-releases/press-...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
It is valid. Euthanasia is suicide.

If the bullet travels fast enough into the skull before the brain can register pain then there is no difference in experience from assisted suicide to eating a bullet. The only difference is the risk of a botched suicide but outside of that the two things are one and the same.

I use extreme language here not to offend people but to illustrate that they are logically the same thing. If you think euthanasia is humane then so is putting a bullet in your own head. If you think putting a bullet in your own head is extreme, then so is euthanasia. Think logically.

Also I love this idea of age being a marker for maturity and the ability to make your own decisions. If my daughter turns 18 at 12:00pm sharp then at 11:59am she is not mature enough to kill herself. But then one second later when she turns 18 she is now mature enough to kill herself in the same way trump and Elon musk are mature because they are past 18. Makes sense.

I can assure you when I look at this world. Nobody is mature. The right and most mature action isn’t always apparent and people make mistakes all the time. For something like suicide I am happy that there are people who give a shit to intervene.
>It was to force Zelensky to negotiate neutrality.

Umm, no. Bullshit. That's my response. It's the 3rd time in a decade Putin pulled this off. Let's not pretend this is anything about NATO obligations. He wants to take back land he feels was always his (aka the most common reason for war)
As the article points out, of course, just a "boot something" placeholder until you wipe it and install the OS of choice.

However. Suppose someone took this seriously and plugged in, say, a USB floppy drive (they exist[ed], I have one) in order to run themselves some genuinely old Wordstar or or Lotus 123 or Turbo Pascal from ancient disks they still have. Does the rabbit hole go that deep, i.e. the appropriate QEMU device mappings are in place? What about running a DOS based TCP/IP thing... would it see the ethernet port, or if absent, a USB ethernet dongle?
If you doubt the statement, you can go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attempt to verify it. Or you could accept that someone who has been through this, might have done some research.
Where are you taking “as a spy” from?
And that's already the commonly accepted solution for pollution from other energy sources!
Tattoos are much older than you…
If this is the reference for the definition of a Ponzi scheme then the pension system in general is a Ponzi scheme by design and immigration is not "turning" it into one like OP said.

But I don't really agree this is the appropriate equivalent at least for the "spirit" of a Ponzi scheme. A pyramid scheme exists only when a pyramid is disguised as something else. When it's designed and presented as an actual pyramid it's not a scheme. In the design of the pension system there's no intention of fraud involved (only lack of education maybe), and the system is constantly and very transparently adjusted to widen the pyramid base and narrow the top (increase retirement age, contributor base, or individual contribution).
It bothers me that this doesn't actually sound that far from what a lot of folks seem to genuinely think? People are desperate for a panacea. But only if it works on the elites, it seems. Heaven forbid we come up with something that merely helps people lose weight.

Worse, a lot of people mistake euphoria moments for being right.
In addition, the "help" from Elon Musk is mostly him agreeing to SELL the service and to have a free trial at the beginning of the war.

The majority of the Starlink terminals are now paid by the countries on public funds (USAID, and the EU countries).

It's not exactly cheap (4'500 USD/month at the beginning of the war, now 1'500 USD/month, for a total of 0.5B/year in revenue for SpaceX).
Set tax bands radiating from the centre of a city. The centre gets a higher rate than the edges?

We get a lot of dead towns because of speculation on land.
Fewer than half of voters selected Trump.
This doesn’t seem like it’s surprising considering the case or an issue at all without further information.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/woman-with-chemical-se...

In that case a woman with chemical sensitivities was killed by the state.

Again, the premise is good. But as always it gets expanded and cases like this become normalized. And soon there is talk about more cases. Rinse and repeat. It's how good ideas become destroyed and hugely contentious.

Basically no one has a problem with MAiD for the final stages of a terminal illness. But people just can't stop themselves.
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Curious about the model of the monitor arm seen in the background?
> I'd say right now it's "advantage Tesla"

Tesla self-driving doesn't exist and will only work on Tesla vehicles if they ever develop the capability.

Waymo self-driving works now and has been demonstrated on multiple vehicles. Waymo could utilize the manufacturing capacity of the entire auto-industry.
Then you'll enjoy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28178949/.
Ohhh that might have been what I was thinking of! Good memory!
RIP Kevin, thanks for the fish!
They can under my proposal. But if they die without having donated all their wealth their kids can’t inherit it either.
40 years ago would be after 1985.
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I never heard of ip[46].me but the site is very informative.

RIP Kevin Loch
I think it's reasonable to have different lines for different decisions. Driving at 16 is fine, voting at 18 feels young (subjectively, but more young people should vote), drinking at 21 feels responsibile, can consent to suicide at the age of the 95th percentile where brains have stopped growing/maturing feels reasonable? I think I heard your brain is growing until the age of 25, and IIRC The odds of being diagnosed with schizophrenia goes up until the age of 26, so maybe 26 is the age which you're considered adult enough to consent to suicide?
>Because as the population grows, we need an equivalent amount of new housing.

In the UK (but also most elsewhere), population no longer grows. If censuses say differently, it's because immigrants are being imported from overseas, not from any organic growth. To believe that this is righteous is a strange thing, one has to accept that British people should suffer so that immigrants can gain.
I think it's great that Apple continues to bring powerful hardware to market but their software quality has fallen behind, laggy performance issues and fewer and fewer devs building for macOS due to Apple's oppressive package signing policies. If I had to choose between slightly less powerful hardware (who cares?) and having replaceable and upgradable parts I'm gonna choose that every time. Upgrading between macbooks is more expensive than upgrading between Framework models.

Also what do you mean by 'macOS is open' in what regard is it open?
What went wrong is assuming there were good faith talks in the first two instances with Macron and Starmer.

It isn't by chance that even after the talks with Macron, Trump tried to lie in front of him only to be corrected by Macron in the oval office.

Even after being correct, and continues to spin the same lie during the Zelensky talks and after.

The only thing that went wrong was assuming that Trump ever had Ukraine interest in sight, and not Russia interests.

What we witnessed isn't anything new or shocking to anyone who has been following this event.

This had been a recurring behavior from this administration, where there's a theatrical display to show that there might be some understanding, with leaders putting their credibility in the to say there's some alignment, only to have Trump the next day stating the opposite or something completely unaligned with previous statements.

Let's hope this was the the final straw, and just accept that Russia managed to capture the US. Now it's about protecting this from happening elsewhere - Twitter, and other platforms, including alternative media should start to be banned in Europe ASAP.
I ALSO have resorted to building my own labeling even though there are great generic labeling tools out there. I think this is a missing piece of the landscape but I don't know enough about the space yet to say what the solution should be.
> NATO, with America leading, gave the world the longest stretch of relative peace it has ever seen.

What an outrageous claim to make over the entirety of recorded human history.
> "Launching a full-scale invasion on the capital with the intention of negotiating neutrality" is a crazy plan he would never come up with.

That you really can't know, and

>That's like beating someone up to get them to like you.

Is a very flawed analogy.
Good.

I hope provinces extend this to all critical exports, including potash, nickle, uranium and oil.

The US deserves to suffer for this trade war. You guys elected this dictator from Temu, you should bleed as much as he's going to make Canada bleed.
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Put another way, they hate costs, and all of us are costs :)
Things to know about Trump's plan for a 'crypto strategic reserve'
Looks like this does not have the hierarchy/tree organization of sidebery, just the verticality.
Had he not been lieutenant-colonel at that age maybe he could have had a quiet happy life instead of ruining and ending the one of thousands of his contemporaries and having his own life end so badly.
A smart friend suggested it triggers most rational leaders to be extra-cautious and may have a net-zero or even favourable impact on global politcs. We will see...
"Safe driver" while the Waymo won't be drunk, tired, distracted, reckless or rude. It may fail in many other ways, from software bugs, ML errors, to hardware failure.
I’m inclined to believe that their reporting software might be buggy and does not reports bugs accurately to the right team.

With all the bugs, idk how little this task force would have to be, though.
Probably too mant details, but how?

The stone itself would be older, so why isn’t it carbon dated to be older?

It used to be covered by another layer of stone, why isn’t 4000 years ago when this layer was removed?

So many questions..
> So now Trump can say: Look, if you have 57% approval rating, why do you shun elections?

So a lie to "prove" another lie? Is he's going to show us exactly how he's "shunning elections"?
I personally hold that intellectual property isn't property, and is increasingly becoming a net negative to humanity as a whole. I see AI as an accelerant in the erosion of IP's relevance and enforceability. With AI being able to crank out derivative works at scale, it blurs the lines between infringement and transformation. The flood of such content makes enforcement increasingly impractical.

While I'm not unsympathetic to the plight of creatives, and their need to eat, I feel like the pendulum has swung so far to the interests of the copyright holders and away from the needs of the public that the bargain is no longer one I support.
Looks like he had useful info up for people.... I never heard of it before today either: https://ip4only.me/home.cgi
Were you there when we had to work with our data in Teradata and SAS and hundreds of multi hundred MB Excel spreadsheets containing analytical data? 30+ minute queries were the norm. Snowflake was a breath of fresh air.
Canada to Cut Off Electricity to US States: 'Need to Feel the Pain'
I was also hoping they'd bring the Folio back. I've got an old Air that does need replacing and have thought about buying an M2 Pro just to find a used Folio with.
I see this: https://imgur.com/a/SGnbXjG
To know your IP
They call it like that, but it depends on the programmer as always. The problem is, that it is really flexible, more so than python or javascript, so it gives you all the tools to shoot yourself in the foot and take away the leg with it.

An example, you can rewrite the calling program in a module.(https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Bleach orhttps://metacpan.org/release/DCONWAY/Lingua-Romana-Perligata...)

While cool for jokes or serious DSL's, it may lead to difficult to understand code. (Nothing wrong with Damian Conway btw, I just remembered he used source filters in interesting ways).
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> The glass that formed as a result of such a unique process attained a perfect state of preservation of the brain and its microstructures.

I'm no neuroscientist, so I wonder what research opportunities this could open up for studies of the brain.
Microsoft also sells ads is my point
Meaningful Code
Well in that case, Java :)

I've been having a lot of fun with Java lately, the maturity of the language/implementation and libraries allows me to focus on the actual problem I'm solving in ways no other language can currently match.

https://github.com/codr7/tyred-java
https://github.com/codr7/eli-java
adding to this... Avatar is often thought of as unique, but it's a blatant copy paste of Timothy Zahn's "Manta's Gift"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216441.Manta_s_Gift
Self-driving cars are modern public transit. "Train brain" is old thinking that public transit should take billions of dollars and decades to make fixed-route trains that only get travelers part of the way to where they actually want to go.
A bit clickbait calling it "infinity contrast" even if it's higher contrast than an LCD, is it still a finite contrast. Probably not higher contrast than modern OLED TVs, but a clever hack with stuff at hand. Just not up to the hype of infinite.
>If you can't get local population to grow, you have to bring in your labor from somewhere else.

Self-fulfilling prophecy... local populations can't grow when they're starved of housing, energy, and most importantly of all, jobs.
>Why is establishing genre a goal in the first place?

What is culture, if not a common agreement on what is beautiful and ugly? Establishing a genre in music is not a goal, but we see it happen over and over again. It is how humans operate since forever, we mimic one another in fashion, in music and many other things.

> Genre is defined by critical consensus, and it can arise around one or a handful of bands.

It arises around a handful of bands, but if it doesn't grow past 5 bands let's say, we are talking about 50 songs in total every year. Who listens nowadays to only 50 songs per year?

> And if the genre doesn’t have a significant recorded catalog, you can’t train a generative AI to produce it anyway.

Yes you can. Synthetic data generation is a big thing already and tens of millions of dollars are poured into it every year.
That can probably be a style in itself (if we kept exploring in these directions)
"get it out" where "it" is the Waymo vehicle - that is, the passenger could have (if safe) left the vehicle at any point but they encountered a situation where the software was unable to proceed and needed a human to control the vehicle
With the recent oval office meeting yeah... I am skeptical too now it sucks.
Perhaps but it's also a common sentiment and also something that sways illogical voters. Both times mentioned by GP the referendums turned out against nuclear not because factual statistics about safety but because anti-nuclear activists were able to use those very public accidents to scare people.