skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single worker with a wage is more privileged than me - I had zero, no job, no house, and debt. Them not being able to take risks is just bullshit, they're simply afraid or don't even want to - and that is alright, people like me will happily employ them - unless employing or being in the state becomes too risky.
As I remember the series, they presented pro and con arguments about believing him near the beginning, and never expressed certainty that it was true, but felt it was likely enough true that it was worth reporting.

Then when more facts came out, it was retracted.

This is akin to Fauci saying he didn't think we should be wearing masks, and changing his mind as more data came in.

We should be praising the Times for having the courage and integrity for calling out their own errors, which many publications wouldn't do, rather than punishing them for not figuring it out in the first place. No one is perfect. They never will be. What we want is people who are willing to call themselves out on their own errors. Wanting people to never make them is impossible, and just encourages them to pretend they are perfect by never doubting themselves and never revealing the truth when it is eventually available.

[Edited for a missing period.]
In 2015 84% of Santa Clara homeless where from the county when they lost their home. Only 6% where out of state when they became homeless. Source: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Documents/SantaClaraCoun...

I live in SoCal so I thought you would even see more homeless migrants because of the weather. However, from speaking with homeless I would say in my experience most have lived in the area for a long time, with only one beach bum guy I spoke with who actually was "fresh off the bus". Until I saw the statistics though I was also under this misconception.
I think this can be generalised as "more power to users." You might want to filter Pinterest. OP wants to avoid mainstream news, social media, nor shopping/product sites. This requires users to be involved.

Filters, refinement, user preferences. etc etc. Search is a powerful tool, and the power has been growing exponentially since 1995. But, almost all of that power is channeled into instant results, intuitiveness, "sane defaults" and such. All the capabilities are in the background and the assumed user is lowest denominator on all fronts. The low effort, low technical capabilities, low understanding, etc. This is most people (me included) most of the time, but not all of the time. Maybe I want to filter seo spam (like pinterest) more aggressively. Etc.

This isn't a slam on google really. One thing can't do everything and the thing google search does is what most people need most of the time. It's definitely the thing that makes the most money. But... none of a search engines power has been channeled into making search a power tool. It's a tool that everyone uses many times per day, but there is no learning curve. No getting better. You can't really invest effort and get rewarded for that effort.

Pity really, all this power is there. It's right under the surface. Let us be more than the lazy, dumb user sometimes.

Google have reversed the User Interface paradigm. Instead of users learning the software and telling it what to do, the software learns the user. I don't necessarily mean NNs or personalisation. I mean that the paraign is software-centric. "If the user does X, how should the software respond?" instead of "If the user user wants Y, how does she make the software do it?" That's great for intuitiveness, but it also creates a frame where the software gets better over time but the user never does.
Inside the Life of Ghislaine Maxwell's Husband, Tech CEO Scott Borgerson
Google 2010 : Here is the most relevant webpage on this topic.

Google 2020 : Here is the most SEO-gamed review site from 2015
Current rocket tech, not stone age.
Hey Gruber:

Fuck off.

You may be randomly right sometimes, but your shitty attitude (https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo...) and air of total self importance is offputting.
This change goes after attribution. App creators won’t be able to measure the performance of their marketing to see how many installs it is driving.

This affects all startups in the consumer fintech space. Robinhood,Chime, Acorns etc have relied on digital marketing to acquire customers for a fraction of the price of traditional marketing. Average cost to acquire a financial with traditional marketing is over $1000. The cost to acquire an app install based customer is $30 to $50.
The California state budget is here, in pretty good detail:
http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2020-21EN/#/BudgetDetail

Reports here go back over 10 years, so there's plenty of data to analyze.
> that's a real sign of just how far American greed has gone.

I find that a hard statement to square with the founding principles of American culture. The USA was a country that declared independence and fought a war over taxation. The colonies as a whole were a magnet for opportunistic pioneers -- in fact, for much of history, "opportunistic pioneer" (for better or worse) was and is what people think of when they think of American.

So while you're correct that it is a certain kind of greed and self-interest, where I can't understand what you're trying to say is "how far X has gone." What does how far mean? The greed has been at this level since nation's conception. And ostensibly, it was the whole /point/ of the nation.
The biggest attraction to California is the fantastic climate. At some point (higher tax levels) though, even the climate cannot hold you.
I'm suprised why people are still suprised by this.

Has no-one learned by now that you cannot trust _ANYTHING_ that the media produces?
One of medicine's most elementary failings is providing a reasonable framework for death in these diagnoses. I have to suspect the inability to die on one's terms stems from the economic incentives of powerful interests who profit from housing these patients for years, sometimes decades.

My grandfather died like this of Alzheimers. My dad vowed to not follow his path should it come to that.
Marketing hype backfired. People are angry not just because the game was released buggy and unoptimized (although maybe standards are higher on consoles in this aspect). People are angry because they were promised a groundbreaking game, a landmark game, and got an unremarkable mix of Deus Ex and GTA. Except for raytracing, there's nothing exceptional about this game. No new mechanics even.

I watched the disaster from sidelines, but what makes me angry is that the hype was so strong it made gamers fight each other, blame each other, and make excuses for the company. Gamers are not to blame for the game except for the fact they preordered. The deceptive behavior was rewarded and costs were recouped from preorders alone. Yes, CDPR is taking a reputation hit, but fans will believe what they want to believe.
does alzheimer's really count as mental illness though? I would think it was more of a disability.
> Kara Swisher thinks its part of piling onto apple anti-trust by the US Government, which kinda? makes sense.

The issue is it's irrelevant to antitrust when they're not actually monopolizing anything in this context. Making a privacy setting default to private but still allowing the user to change it leaves the user in control. Apple isn't forcing the customer to do anything.

Facebook objects to this because nobody wants to be tracked, so nobody is going to turn it back on. But doing something by default that nearly every user wants while giving the 0.0% of users who don't want that the option to do it the other way is not monopolizing anything.

Compare this to the app store where they're actually restricting what the user can do by prohibiting competing stores.
> Good on NYT for coming clean

They got caught - they didn't come clean.

And now they're trying to milk the fact that they were caught to make themselves sound humble.
I used to go to library to find CS books samples and read them for about 1-2 weeks before I actually get to code. After a classmate share Google with us it was just unbelievable the quality of results and how easy was for us to start finding sample code and literature. Yes, the best tool probably in modern human history
It does matter. The NY has actually grown its subscriber base during the Trump years and remains a major cultural force. Witness the immediate take down of Pornhub after a single article in the NYT, after conservative activists had spent years railing the exact same issue. For better of for worst, mostly for worst, the NYT remains a powerful force, long after it lost any semblance of journalistic integrity.
I strongly agree. Competition is good for everyone.

There are 50 states, many of them nice places to work, live, and have a family. We moved to Utah from California this year and have loved it.
Old railroad beds are 2% grade, so it's very doable as long as the tunnels are usable.
Background reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
Why does a wealthy citizen of another country have to physically spend 60 days in California? You're suggesting that the wording of the law is not trivial to circumvent, especially for people with large amounts of wealth.
You are overthinking it here. It is not a carefully thought out phrase, but something Stallman came up with in a speech for a particular audience once, and it stuck.
E.g. Bloomberg’s The Big Hack

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
Right, I think I was getting hung up on the "beer" word because "free speech" is a comparatively much more common phrase. But it sounds like almost any word that doesn't imply "libre" could be used to illustrate the point. I suppose beer is as good a choice as any.
I should have expected an answer like this ;) yes I’m aware not all glass goes into the recycling, broken or non-recyclable glass and drinking glasses etc in Restmüll, Pfandflasche to the machine in the supermarket and the others in the recycling bin.
Which period was this? Because when I see what people with bank accounts in PK do now when Zakat is levied...
That's not the impression i've gotten listening to podcasts on the issue. The impression i've gotten is the general trend has been shifting democrat but will not necessarily shift all the way.
Agreed that society should be more critical of mistakes that put people's lives at risk. But, this decision scores fairly low by that measure. If I had to guess, 0.00001 residents would have died due to this error. There are many more attention-worthy mistakes to be critical of if this is the main concern.

I think the real reason this story is getting attention is because people are assuming selfish intent. I think this assumption is probably wrong.
> Would I want a man page to be interactive? Or only work in a browser.

That's what Stallman wanted for GNU. The results speak for themselves.
Games are very complex interactions of various systems. There are many many ways that things can go wrong. Then you throw in the fact that you're on a significant time crunch and you're building a system that is impossible to test every interaction. They are complex
They have way better reach to the general public through Facebook - why NYT and WSJ?
That's kind of true, but also not quite true either. If you earn income from capital you are only taxed when you sell that capital. Theoretically this means that if you want to spend money on living expenses or luxuries you have to sell capital to fund your lifestyle. However the super rich can borrow money at extremely low rates with their assets as collateral, bypassing taxes and allowing their capital to keep earning for them. Also, capital gains are taxed, but at a much lower rate than ordinary income. Capital losses can also be used to offset gains, even carrying forward over many years. Imagine being able to be taxed on your average income over a period of years. I would have paid practically nothing for several years after college because I made practically nothing during college. There are all kinds of little advantages that accrue for capital but not for workers. I don't think this is necessarily bad, but it may be out of balance.

Honestly, my major problem with wealth inequality is not that rich people get to have money; it's that wealth concentration leads to power concentration. That's not healthy for democracy. This is probably extremely controversial, but I say go ahead and collect a wealth tax and then burn everything you collect. It's not about the budget, it's about limiting the power of billionaires and the corporations they control. There are probably better ways to accomplish that goal, but a wealth tax is at least a start in the right direction.
Teams now supports 49 people onscreen.
Country's passport has a value in itself. The one from the US enables you to leverage international travel treaties and visa arrangements. Just answering your question, not making a point on whether taxation is the correct way for US to "cover" for those benefits.
Getting tired of these melodramatic think pieces.
How secure is Signal for desktop?
I'm using Signal to talk to a source sharing some sensitive information. Is the desktop app secure enough or should I just stick to the mobile app? Thanks!
> Seems like people prefer to downvote rather than try to give a compelling answer to the question "is the literature on long term side effects of mRNA vaccines extensive".

I think it might be because people are confusing asking questions with being against something. I am neither against vaccines nor mRNA vaccines particularly. I just genuinely want to learn the details. I think it is important to know upsides and downsides of each vaccine out there since there are several alternatives.
I've recently discovered Everywhere at the End of Time by the Caretaker (James Kirby). It's a series of six music albums exploring and depicting memory loss, Alzheimer's disease and dementia. I wish I had the writing skills necessary to convey the emotional turmoil I went through by listening to the six stages in one sleepless night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJWksPWDKOc I also appreciated the attention to the details from the track titles to the choice of album covers. The last image – a broken canvas seen from behind – is especially haunting. It's the kind of experience that makes you re-evaluate many life choices.
Hmm, interesting. I'm confused if that's how I should read this. You might be right. I assume you're referring to this paragraph?

> Evidence suggests that as early as October 2019, these attackers have been testing their ability to insert code by adding empty classes. Therefore, insertion of malicious code into the SolarWinds.Orion.Core.BusinessLayer.dll likely occurred at an early stage, before the final stages of the software build, which would include digitally signing the compiled code.

They talk about adding classes at an early stage... I assumed that meant modifying the source code in some fashion. Sounds like you took it to mean they inserted binary (MSIL?) code during the build? Or are you referring to a different paragraph that indicates this wasn't part of source control?
Yeah, I don't get the hate here. You don't complain about companies doing the right thing if you want them to do it more and better.

Also, every day Facebook does 10,000 times the damage that this has done. Perspective, people.
The climate is great. The parks and wilderness areas are great.

But you know what? This a beautiful country and it would be shame to limit yourself to one place.
Rukmini Callimachi, the "journalist" at the center of this podcast series, is essentially Scott Templeton from The Wire.

https://thewire.fandom.com/wiki/Scott_Templeton
Jeff Bezos's salary is apparently around 80k. It's basically irrelevant as it is not really a reflection of his contribution at all, but merely a formality or symbolic.

My only point is when you're talking about his growth in wealth, you're always de facto talking about his stock holdings and their growth and the idea of objective compensation goes out the window. In fact, even if you're talking about straight compensation, it still is part of the discussion because clearly in this case, he is willing to take a paltry salary because he is benefiting from massive stock value growth.

As for this point:

>If we assume that Amazon is fairly valued and that Jeff Bezos's holdings of Amazon are in line with his contributions

He is not being 'compensated' via stock nor is the total amount of stock he holds fluctuating based some sort of objective analysis of his contribution. He could contribute nothing and retire and still hold the same amount. So I don't know how you can assume that.
Replying to an article that lists a variety of studies with "we just don't know" doesn't really do your audience here justice tbh
As soon as a delay was announced after final master, I knew the game was being delayed because it failed validation with either MS or Sony (or both).

I suspect a title like 2077 failing validation could get some wiggle room, likely what happened was Sony went back to CDPR with a laundry list of failures and gave them X amount of time to tackle them.

It's possible the game went on sale despite not fully passing. But the moment it became clear that it was harming the image of a console they're still selling... that was that. After all, that's the point of validation. Usually the requirements are things that would reflect badly on the console like locking up and crashing vs "not being a fun game" or something.
> in the region

Nah, that happens everywhere (at least where governments change every few years).
There's an entire list of existing languages that compile to the jvm. A small sample:

COBOL
Common Lisp
Haskell
JavaScript

Most of the languages are not similar to Java.
Change the law.

Can anyone remind me what the rich when ending this racket is on the ballot?
> Edit: also note that this article is on the WSJ opinion page, and didn’t come from the news desk.

Thank you. We really need news websites to some how more clearly delineate opinion pieces from news desk pieces. In the old days, you knew which was which based on what page of the paper it was on. A standard that has all online opinion pieces published with a colored background or something would really help.
Being friendly, polite, and positive are easy. If you're kind and not demanding, people won't mind you and will probably find you fairly likeable.

But that's not enough for people to actually want to spend time with you; you have to bring more to the table, e.g. insightful cultural commentary, to make people laugh, or some sort of common ground.
Navigating conversations to find common ground is much easier said than done. Doubly so for telling engaging and relatable stories to convey a sense of shared experience.

So I don't mean a preference for professional competence, but a preference for "social competence", acknowledging of course that it's also highly dependent on the culture.

To get more personal, I've been called "boring", "transparent", "predictable", "two dimensional". I think I'm probably more engaging than a script programmed to regurgitate platitudes, but some of my critics have suggested not by much!
> Wait! Before you go on about your day, ask yourself: How likely is it that the story you just read would have been produced by a different news outlet if The Intercept hadn’t done it?

Gotta say this article goes above and beyond to document what happens in these pointless permawars used to justify (U.S) military spending.
The problem of someone using something someone else created will not go away in the post scarcity society.

The issue is not money. The issues are fame, recognition, moral rights (https://www.jasrac.or.jp/ejhp/copyright/person.html) etc...

There's a reason even "free licenses" have a "No Derivatives" option

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/

Removing money (post scarcity) will not change that many authors don't want their creations re-used without their consent.
And I'm glad you're privileged enough to be here posting today, boasting of the wealth your workers generate for you :-)
The "near" operator was particularly useful.
I think that’s the recommended procedure. I wouldn’t call that paranoid at all.
And we should leave the allocation of who is allowed to own how much stuff to who exactly? Politicians? Your average person on the street? Who are those economic geniuses who will distribute everything with objective correctness? That is the alternative that it sounds like you are promoting.
I don't know why you're calling out the media specifically. Are the anonymous commentariat, politicians, and random youtubers somehow more reliablie?
Yes, my aunt who died in late 2019 had some form of dementia. She was only in her mid 70s.

Sure, we’ll make slow progress and eventually get a treatment. However, this is likely a very difficult disease to treat.

I’m simply pointing out that we have another option to make faster progress.
Typically those sorts of tests can be done on Earth if you have access to a cyclotron. My guess is that the SD card would be the weak link.
Good insight. I think it's a blessing and a curse. currently i think me and my team have trouble identifying all those states and thus mis-understand or under-understand the complexity of some features. I want to use state charts to force us to look at all the states.

Of course I expect everyone will soon get annoyed at all these states we are tracking.
A version of Google for power users would be so nice.

I'm sure the changes in search over the last decades helped the majority of users, but sometimes a "Google for developers" would have been nice.
> Placebo-controlled trials

For surgeries ? We actually cut someone open, then don't fix him, risking all the complications associated with anesthesia, infections and so on ? For drugs it's pretty easy to just give a fake pill containing nothing at all, you don't actually decrease then chance of survival.

And how does that work when the technique significantly changes, as in "in that case, do we cut above or below the knee". Again in the case of pills/injections, it's pretty easy to give everyone the impression they got all the same treatment, while in the of surgery you are pretty limited in that fashion.
Yes, pre 1986 tax reform, personal credit card interest was deductible for any purchase. Crazy times...

https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/small-business-taxes/is...
Yes I can second this. I'm a big fan of other similar-ish games like Deus Ex, Fallout, and Borderlands, and I can say Cyberpunk has done a great job of delivering some of the best components of each of those. There are a few bugs, the worst of which caused me to lose 10 min of progress, having to load back a save. But there were plenty of bugs in Fallout New Vegas and that is easily one of my favorite RPGs.
> The outrage stems from the fact that they doubled down on it after the problem was pointed out

This might be the reason you're outraged, but most outraged people here don't even know the administration doubled down on their position. They're outraged due to assumed selfish intent. I think this assumption is wrong.
Two simple tips for shell commands in tech docs
Maybe that’s just how people talk in ‘77 Night City.
I don’t think this is true at all. I would guess 95% of what is in nytimes is true.

Are they always right and never have a political slant , of course not.

It is interesting to see that when nytimes do print something that is obviously false for political purposes it is usually leaving right not left. The most obvious example being the build up to the Iraq war.
or you could just add "-pinterest" to your search query and save yourself $5.
Not “The system”, but the people in charge forgot them.
100% agree. We are in this cultural state that it is better to dig in your heels on something wrong than to say, hey, I made a mistake. This is my new take based on new data.”
Is being kind good for your health, or is having good health make you more kind?