skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your not the only one. MBA majors have it just as hard if not harder.

For the majority of professional jobs out there, there's a vast oversupply of labor, and thus the unemployment rate for professionals is much higher than the overall unemployment rate would suggest.

Software engineering is one of the few areas where there some semblance of balance between supply and demand. But, this too will eventually go away. There's nothing that's stopping the supply of Software engineers from growing. Indeed, the Stack overflow surveys suggest there's a huge wave of junior SEs joining the industry. I predict in 15 years, SEs will be in such high oversupply that they will no longer have an advantage in the market place.
...the problem here seems more that nobody missed her for three days. So loneliness is the key issue here and an Apple watch will not fix that.

That said, having an Apple watch is certainly much cooler than wearing those emergency call devices they currently sell for old people.
Ever seen this box? https://sketch.nono.ma/img/u/sketch-190718-malaga-panaderos-...

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Click. It's made out of cardboard. Click. It's sealed with blue tape. Click. There are 3 items in your cart. Click. Your order has been placed.

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Amazon is making us lazy. Set a default delivery address and credit card on file, and you can place an order with one click.

With more than 600,000 employees, Amazon has crafted an online experience so convenient as to become the standard method to buy virtually anything for many people all over the world.

You might receive your package faster than they initially said, and returning what you bought has never been easier.

Without shipping costs, the thrill of going to the store to buy the things you love rapidly fades away, replaced by a virtual, addictive shopping experience while wearing your best pajamas.

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Ding. The bell rings.
You've got an Amazon package.
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If tech is seen as a business differentiator, wouldn't the opposite be true? It's so important that they want estimates so they can deliver more value. If it's a cost center, whatever... we don't care that much.

I think my point is, the cost center vs business differentiator is not a good indicator of the root cause of this problem.
Is it possible for me to run my own DoH at home? I can setup a DNS server, however I can't find any details on how I can get a full DNS copy which avoids the specifics of which website I'm looking up.
Submarine cables absolutely are not a monopoly, natural or otherwise. It’s the ocean, it’s pretty fucking big, and lots of companies and countries pay more cable every day.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/they-are-concentrati...

Sure, I'm the dishonest one.
> owns buildings personally he leases to WeWork

This part bugs me. This is standard procedure for small businesses, having a real-estate business leasing property to your main business. If you want to succeed, you own the building. Otherwise, you are on borrowed time.

Edit: alright, great points, thanks!
I don't think Jupyter notebooks should be used for automated jobs. They're great for exploratory stuff but once things are getting fleshed out and cleaned up, one should move to proper python files that can be unit tested and versioned without having to go to crazy lengths...
In Firefox you can define those domains to be ignored, like "do not query example.com from DoH".
I'm not sure how enlightening this is. Such a person would be allowed places that cameras aren't. They would be allowed to listen when microphones can't be used. It's a combination of intractability and that 1:1 human effort has natural limits on it; it's not like buying a big computer that's as invasive as a thousand humans.

But even then, it wouldn't be ridiculous to suggest that if they're selling background check services then they have to abide by some restrictions.
> I was pointing to a time when both institutions were producing valuable tools from their research and development that significantly bettered the world around them.

And how does this claim translate into "education and research are only present at these institutions as window dressing"?

I currently work at a famous MIT and Harvard-affiliated research institute that aims to eventually cure cancer and other genetically-caused diseases. Or at least find better treatments for them. Is this not important research? Is trying to treat and/or cure terrible diseases merely "window dressing" to you?

Before working on this, I worked at an MIT research lab that developed an X-ray space telescope. Software that I wrote was essential for the publication of about 1,000 peer-reviewed astronomy papers.

Is 1,000 peer-reviewed astronomy papers "window dressing"?
Is it feasible to use private information retrieval algorithms so that query privacy is preserved?
lower standards only applies if you think about money. In every other respect, life is more pleasant in the mediterranean than in nordic countries. Source: I'm from the mediterranean and I think life in California is shit, even if I make way more money than before.
"wildly inappropriate"

Okay dude.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/they-are-concentrati...
Maybe because the rollout of DoH by default doesn't include the EU. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/24/mozilla_backtracks_...

It looks like they are exploring how to handle things in the EU and looking for partners there.
But not owned by the CEO in conflict with every other shareholder
I always find the linking of climate and weather to depression strange. I grew up in a place with quite dark winters. While I know seasonal affective disorder is a thing, for me, winter is cosy, and not at all depressing.
if you can swing it move to Spain. Problem solved :)
I don't think a lot of younger folks appreciate the pain we had to go through back in the day to just play a video file on a Windows 95 PC. There were a handful of media players out there and each would only play 1-2 formats... poorly. Want to play AVIs? Windows Media Player. Want to play QuickTime files? Gotta go get QuickTime. Want to play Real format? Download RealPlayer.

So if you downloaded a random video from the web and want to play it, you need to figure out what player you need to get in order to play it. Back then, a lot of stuff from the web was garbage, corrupted data, named incorrectly, .mpg files that were actually AVI format, etc. So once you found the right player, you had to worry about whether it would play properly with your PC's video card. There were flaky video cards and not all manufacturers had drivers that worked. Then, if the downloaded file was corrupted in any way, chances are the official player would throw its hands up and refuse to play it. Then, once you actually found the right player and verified that it could play the file back, you were still stuck with that player's horrible UI and feature set.

There were brave souls who would download these "codec packs" from super-shady web sites, to act as plug-ins to Windows Media Player, since Microsoft couldn't manage to ship working video playback out of the box for anything but AVI. God knows what else those codec pack installers put on your system.

And reliably playing video directly in your browser? LOL, that would be for another 10 years or so with YouTube.

VLC was a huge breath of fresh air! Maybe it's not so vital now, since proper video playback is "table stakes" on any platform. You can play any video now with one line of Python, right? But we did sorely need it decades ago.
These kind of claims should yield further investigations into the rest of the patents of the companies that have too many patents. Especially if their only source of income is patents. If found that they hold invalid patents to things that have prior "art" or implementations, those specific patents should be revoked.
Charles is pretty good, though it’s paid. It’s definitely nice to have an opensource tool, though.
Same here I got my gmail in 2002 and used first.last@gmail.com. There was someone who signed up as firstlast@gmail.com which as you may know gmail doesn’t require a “.”. There is another guy who uses last.first@gmail.com and consistently forgets to use that permutation.
Cloudflare and their servers are also based in a country where secret court orders can force CF to collect and stream out request logs, lie on their privacy policy, and force "third-party audits" to say everything is OK with basically zero checks and balances.

I don't give a triangular fuck if local ISP X is selling DNS statistics to marketing corp Y. If they're getting something useful from the 101 domains every web page load seems to contact nowadays, power to them. But I'm not okay with some shadowy alphabet-soup-esque mire of "public servants" building a profile about me from a conflagration of data sources, and using it against me when they feel like it.
Counterfeit capitalism is a nice term. I think neoliberalism will be labeled as such by historians in the future. The collapse of Bretton Woods and the subsequent neoliberal laissez faire economics set off a chain reaction which led to the 2008 sub prime crisis and the current climate crisis. The world will eventually move away from that. Friedman was wrong. Society is not built on greed.
Being ugly and functional is fine with me. Pretty and exploitable seems a bit silly as a reason for use. Pidgin does so much more than xmpp
The thing is, there are almost no cases where a problem must be solved in some strict mathematical sense. Huge part of project management is the problem reformulation to fit the existing solution to the initial requirement: what do you mean it is not a clique? it's still a group of friends, 80% of which know all others, with empirically tested chance less than 5% that any person knows less than half of others.
The inventor has about 134 patents [1] and many of which seem (to me) very generic. I am not very familiar with patent jargon so I can't definitively say if those patents have enough substance to them. Maybe someone with experience could expand on this?

[1] https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Leigh+M.+Rothschild&sor...
Except the situation where the patient lost both the sense of smell and taste it is impossible imho. Even then I suspect the bodily reaction would indicate something is wrong with that "avocado".

Either we are dealing with a psychiatric patient with some strange food addiction or an idiot using wasabi to who knows, burn calories, clean the nose or rotten tooth/whatever.

The wasabi-avocado mistake sounds bogus to me.
I really don't want to spoil it... But... Ready... Ok....

BET, will have commercials with almost exclusively African Americans. The food commercials are stereotypical.

Country music channel, will have country looking people and Truck commercials.

Comedy Central, that appeals to everyone including You. You will see your stereotype played out in commercial. Things everyone gets, food, insurance, etc...

Text doesn't describe how stereotypical these commercials are. The subtle family structure, the restaurants/activities, the type of girl they use for a model.
I never found much value in owning a smart watch. I think I'm going to reevaluate my belief.
As I've grown older (mid 30s now), I've noticed over time that I have begun to strongly prefer lightweight, minimal, focused, efficient things in all sorts of areas of life, including software.

For a while I was in the "lol can't believe this business still uses a DOS program!" camp... but that knee-jerk reaction has faded and I'm completely on the other end now. I'm not anti new technologies, but I am skeptical that they are ultimately always better than what preceded them.

There is so much we have that is "new" that feels far worse than what we had before. Smart TVs, bloated/slow software, etc.

The design side of my brain still feels like even just a few lines of CSS could probably spruce up the site for this software (just in terms of colors/font), but even then, is it really necessary? He likes it the way it is, why not just keep it that way.
I was actually more positive than reality, for a better "quip" - I still had a discussion where the other person pushed the "I have nothing to hide" angle as recently as last month !
And that persons' grandparents died in Auschwitz...
(Thankfully, this seems to be much more rare in the "tech" circles ?)
Right, that's why this group is totally fine with our treatment of detainees in these camps.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/never-again-means-close...
AI equal with human experts in medical diagnosis
This patent went active today. The patent seems very basic. This looks like a patent troll, doesn't it? The described idea wasn't really novel when they applied for the patent
Defending those of poor character and moral fiber (not my judgement, facts reported) from a jab about their clothes is low priority. The other issues presented are far more pressing.
The number of appointment confirmations, etc, I get for someone who has my name but lives on the other side of an ocean, is ridiculous. It's part of why I switched to my own domain instead of name@gmail.

I even get door PIN codes for various gyms, etc. Ugh.
How about "slumping or dumping"?
> But to walk around with suspicion to the point of carrying around a microphone is just lunacy

you are straw manning heavily here. OP suggested recording high stakes interactions with the potential to turn sour at a later date, not what you've said here about walking around wired.

what are your arguments against saving evidence for high stakes interactions that could turn into socially and career ruining consequences later? you know this is done in non-sexual contexts e.g. police interviews already, right?
They are patent-trolling a non-profit. facepalm
Hmm, no idea. I'm using Chrome on a Mac, and it works fine, and my analytics suggest at least 400 other Chrome+Mac users have been getting through, so it's not a general problem...

Any chance you can export a HAR from your browser dev tools and send it to help@httptoolkit.tech? There's something very odd happening there, could be a Netlify bug.
Suicide and alcohol related deaths were pretty common on my Ketchikani mom’s side of the family. I imagine it would be worse in Fairbanks, let alone Nome.

I had some friends who did summers in Alaskan canneries, they said all there was to do was drink.
On their patreon goal of $1600/month : "We can start working on an easy-to-use mobile app that let people deploy their own VPN server without touching a terminal window."

Damn, that would be so cool.
Serial patent troll: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/garmin-sued-in-e...
GNOME should consider a call for prior art, similar to Cloudflare's Project Jengo. It would be a concrete way to crowdsource help to fight back against what looks like a patent troll.
This is a great perspective, thanks.

> what sea change are you expecting that will bring in a large number of beginners?

I think a number of kill apps will arise that exploit Tree Notation. Let me mention 2 teams I spend a lot of time with.

One is working on a paper for a new system for EMR where healthcare providers/clinicians/researchers use the same syntax for the whole life cycle of medical data. So nurses in Bolivia might write intake notes on pen and paper in an EMR Tree Language; doctors in India may dictate notes into an EMR Tree Language; patients may copy/paste their entire medical records from one provider to the next during an acute care visit; and researchers at the end of the pipeline might get their data in a clean strongly typed Tree Language before loading into a deep learning training model. https://github.com/treenotation/pau

The second is a new language for data science that will make inroads amongst the Python/R data science crowd as well as pull Excel users over. It's a language and runtime that runs in your browser on your computer or your smart phone, and does everything locally. Nothing to install, no funny syntax to learn, the world's clean data will be at your fingertips, easy to share EDA results. https://github.com/treenotation/ohayo

The WHO estimates there are about 40M professionals in the healthcare industry. I've seen estimates that there are 750M Excel users. None of the TIOBE languages exceeds 20M. So I think either of those 2 alone could be bigger in 2027 in terms of user base than any language on the TIOBE top 10.

But I expect dozens of giant killer apps that will be built by startups/teams that I have no involvement with. People are exploring it in the legal space, crypto space, web form space, educational programming space, gaming space, and on and on. The ideas are there for the taking. It's going to be like the 1990's web boom all over again.

> And why will they learn (or be taught) a tree language?

Simplicity is timeless. Binary Notation is the dominant notation of our day. It's 330 years old. All of the TIOBE top 10 are under 50 years old. Binary Notation can't get simpler without sacrificing a lot of functionality. Likewise, AFAIK Tree Notation can't get simpler without sacrificing a lot of functionality. It's more akin to some universal pattern in nature than it is to a man made invention. Now, I'm not saying it's perfect and odds are high that I have screwed something up royally (you can see the earlier versions starting around 2011 called Noted and then Space to see previous critical flaws I had), and that's what I'm hoping to be the outcome of this Long Bet: someone will point out some critical flaw that I haven't seen, or some people will try, fail, and then see the potential and jump on board the train.
I've been enjoying it. My team is great, we're building cool stuff. Being a PM is different, but I like it a lot. Thanks for asking :)
Pretty sure I had a photographer friend with a CFCard with built-in wifi before 2008 when this patent was filed.
The whole beginning of the article is based on the assumption that Uber's story is played out. I don't think we can call that one yet, IMHO the market hasn't discovered what is Uber WORTH just yet.
If we want to enforce human limits on digital tech then digital anything has to be policed.

Are recordings from all the cameras in the EU policed for the right to be forgotten? No. Probably because there's no aggregator similar to Google for them.
I can insult the president, house, senate, justices, and all the others in government. And not only that, I can 'peacably assemble', and 'petition for a redress of grievances'. Those are all rights in the 1A alongside free speech.

Compare that to: Poland, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia.4 are European and 2 not. Yet it is a criminal charge if you do. And in Saudi Arabia, it's a terrorist charge.
the abstract/summary portion of a patent is worthless. It's just a executive summary.

You have to look at the steps.

A patent is a recipe for 'creating' the invention. You do A, and B, and C, and then D, and then furthermore E... etc etc. You have to look at those steps and understand what they mean to see what the actual patent is about.

So if the patent says 'You need to do A, B, C, and D' and Gnome does "A, B, and D", but not C... then Gnome doesn't violate the patent.

Changing the behavior of the application or showing how the application doesn't follow all the steps outlined in the patent is probably the most effective way to 'defeat' a patent.

But regardless it's a frivolous lawsuit that will likely cost Gnome a lot of money and time for no good reason.
This is true. I am going trekking in a remote area and bought a Garmin InReach Mini. I know it pairs with my phone so it would be cool if there was some Apple Watch Siri shortcut that could make a satellite SOS message via the Garmin when a fall is detected.
> last time we in Europe experimented with unadulterated free speech, and got Hitler and WW2 as a result

Aside from being really smug about Europe's supposed superiority today, this comment is just factually misleading. For one thing, it wasn't "unadulterated free speech" that got Hitler into a position of dictatorial power, it was backroom politics, legal manipulation, and finally laws and a German constitution that were extremely pliant towards misuse and reinterpretation for the sake of dictatorship, with all kinds of clauses in favor of martial law, censorship and so forth that the Nazis used to powerful effect once Hitler was appointed chancellor. Had they been dealing with something more absolutist about freedoms like the U.S constitution, his road to dictatorship would have been much more difficult, chancellor or no. You actually have the whole thing about the value of rigidly preserved freedoms exactly backwards in your claim about Hitler and free speech.

In other words: Hitler's rabidly racist speeches never once won him a single electoral victory in Germany (and this even at a time when anti-semitism and racism were much more popular). The much greater damage was done by a weak constitution ridden with clauses against individual freedom, which couldn't effectively stop Hitler from becoming a dictator once he got the chancellors office.
I signed up for Cloudflare Warp last night.

Any idea why iOS apps seem to not want to update using Warp? I’ve noticed the same when using other VPNs (including on Android).

I disabled Warp this morning after the Apple App Store wouldn’t update apps.
What don't you like about that? It becomes the de facto storage for everything you can see. I don't really understand why you'd delete a photo that you want to keep?
Weird. Link works for me. Maybe a ad blocker or something
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1. They care because they're paying for it.

2. This is a straw man argument. I did not say what you are accusing me of saying. Anyone can read the post you are responding to and see that I'm correct.

I didn't say they would force a nurse to do anything. In fact, I explicitly said that they wouldn't instruct doctors to do this, and I'll say now that the same goes for nurses and all medical staff. Directing employees away from treatments doesn't have to be so heavy-handed as forcing medical staff to do anything: I explained how they could go about this more subtly in my post. I'm open to you criticizing my posts, but I do insist that you critique what I've actually said.

To expand a bit, this could be as simple as writing the informational materials on each of the services they provide, placing negative side effects more prominently for treatments they want to discourage. It's very hard to accuse anyone of wrongdoing if they put side effects for one treatment in red on the front of the pamphlet, and hide them for another treatment in 6pt font at the back of the pamphlet, but these sorts of strategies have real-world affects on people's lives.

3. I may be misunderstanding the article (and it's currently down for me, so I can't check my memory), but my impression is that this clinic is paid for by Amazon directly, so that employees won't have to go through their health insurance for basic treatments. Ostensibly this reduces the cost of health insurance. But it's highly unlikely that Oasis bills Amazon one opaque number and Amazon just writes them a check: Amazon (reasonably) would want to know what they're paying for. And once you know what you're paying for, that gives you a lot of information about your employees. For example, filling prescriptions is one service provided: if there is a line item for Rilpivirine the employee probably has HIV, if there's a line item for Disulfiram they probably are an alcoholic. They don't need full access to medical records--merely having access to medical billing gives them a lot of information which is inappropriate for an employer to have access to.

You're casting these possibilities as if they're conspiracy theories, but these are all things which health insurance companies already do, particularly the first one. The incentives are slightly different for Amazon, but it's not outlandish that when they start taking on some of the responsibilities of a health insurance company, they would also pick up some of the abuse behaviors of a health insurance company.