siliconmountain's comments

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

It’s not accurate though (see other comments). The one I’m amazed by is the assertion that “ The supermarket pays for everything on its store shelves (except, rarely, for certain new products on a consignment basis in which case it only sales for units actually sold)” which is leaving a lot of money off the table

Supermarkets might pay for the product, but Kellogg’s, Budweiser, etc pay them for shelf space, eye level, end of aisle placement, etc. there is a dozen ways they make money off the sellers. Supermarkets don’t just pay for product as a textbook marketplace

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

I want Facebook to stop tracking me, not enable more of it. Which does this enable?

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors

I read your message a few times, but your concatenation of concepts and words for no apparent reason makes this entirely not understandable. If you're going to make things up, at least explain yourself.

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: SpaceX Starship Users' Guide [pdf]

More marketing material than tech spec. A user manual is hundreds of pages, not five pages and a nice cover.

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Bay Area restaurants consider closing due to outdoor dining ban

It’s been 9 months... they still have to pay rent and equipment costs and staff

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe

I’m more talking about less than or equal to 12 months. It takes months of investment of my company to train a new hire. At 12 months they’re likely just becoming an effective employee and the investment is starting to see returns.

Leaving early means the investment wasn’t worth it (compared to hiring someone who doesn’t job hop)

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe

How did you get the invites? Was this a job fair?

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe

An unwise hobby. I know recruiters and hiring managers that see low tenure jobhopping as a red flag

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Major Flaws of Human Thinking

Anchoring bias is a better name for this flaw. Either way, the handful of examples provided here are.. random? This post has poor depth and breadth, akin to a listicle

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Exotic Programming Ideas

I'm searching for an intro to miniKanren that's also an intro to logic programming. Ive never used datalog, clojure, or others. The main miniKanren website assumes preexisting Scheme / logic programming knowledge

Any suggestion of where to start?

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean

Isn't the academic journal peer review process generally an anonymous feedback mechanism? Why does this need to be different?

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: The Origin of the blink HTML Tag – www

In submitting this great story, I discovered HN wont let you submit stories with <html> tags (the title has <blink>). I wonder why it's not treated the same as this text field

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: How I read books: a guide on how to learn

I always open these links hoping to find some new source or concept on note-taking, thinking, meta learning etc. But Im dissapointed by the continuous flow of shallow hustle porn material

Looking at the more substantial link that you provided now, thanks for sharing!

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse

I noticed this too. Even though it was facing the wrong way, I think engineering classes will still find it valuable to dissect the first and second order effects on these cables over time

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse

I'm amazed they had a drone up there to catch that. Were they flying drones multiple times a day just to catch this footage?

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google

1000 citations is A LOT. I think the person you're responding to is that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Popular people get quoted regardless if their paper is actually impactful and that it's, unfortunately, often a popularity contest. People are lazy and only read/cite popular papers

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021

I don't understand NAV premiums when it comes to ETH. What does this mean?

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream

What kind of auth & logging does TimescaleDB offer? Is every request authenticated & authorized?

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science [pdf]

>Most officials pushing for restrictions are compromising their public goodwill (and [re]electability) to try to save lives.

The governor of CA violated his own rules to attend a party while demanding others dont

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/11/biden-covid-advisor-says-us-...

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science [pdf]

The first couple weeks, I was all "let's stay inside" and "those people are wreckless!" and "ok, those partygoers were egregious, fine them!"

After a few weeks I realized it was mostly to reduce hospital load.

It's been 9+ months now, and it wont end anytime next year. If a government leader thinks they can put pandora back in the box at this point, by taking more liberties away, they're a fool