skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just pragmatic. They are a useful global competitor and economic tool, so it's important to keep them in line without necessarily damaging your own useful asset. A public dressing down and slap on the wrist to remind them of their station.
Unfortunately, you did as others have to repeatedly pointed out
Every time I try to use Firefox instead, I give up and switch back to Chrome because:

1. Scrolling works really badly.
2. Save as PDF usually doesn’t work well.

I have noticed that quite a few posts mention the bad scrolling. Firefox devs just copy how Chrome works and you will make more people switch.
Ask HN: Am I Being Replaced?
My employer has started a greenfield project with mostly outsourced talent which overlaps the product my team supports. Ours is a years old product with a lot of legacy, in country talent, yet supporting a lot of subtle business requirements too.

The new effort looks like it could have easily been a value add to our product. Still new management seems to have imagined the greenfield product as a centerpiece, with everything else complementing it. Rumor has it there is a long way to go before it's ready for the full load and all clients. But company meetings include high praise any progress it makes.

Scope of this new darling has also grown much closer to our wheelhouse, from about 20% overlap to 40%. Mid to long-term roadmaps have been sparse to nonexistent.

Meanwhile our team has gradually reduced in size as talent has left and hasn't been fully backfilled. Despite a great year for SAAS profits my team's comp remains less competitive, and new management seems to prefer overseas engineering talent.

Am I just paranoid or does it sound like some kind of corporate maneuvering?
Issa Asad, the CEO of this company, murdered his groundskeeper over $65 in 2014. He killed Michael Kramer by running over him with his Mercedes. [1]

For this he paid a $225 fine and was sentenced to 1 year probation. [2]

Here is evidence of what was certainly an astroturfing campaign to cover this up: https://www.reddit.com/r/HITsWorthTurkingFor/comments/2ot7h3...

[1] https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-davie-man-charged-folo-...

[2] https://miami.cbslocal.com/2014/07/22/girlfriend-of-groundsk...
The common water fountain/bottle refill stations I've seen in buildings often are from the same company and they all use this kind of sensor. If I use my reusable bottle that is pretty clear it has no idea it's there and I have to use my finger too. And this device is literally designed for the purpose of refilling bottles with water. If I use the same brand of reusable bottle but one that has colour on it then I have no problem.
From what I seen: crypto provide swap between telecom minute and fiat.
Can someone help unpack this?

So from first read it sounds like google is using bid stream data from their ad server, to inform suggested bids that would clear/win for customers buying this inventory through dv360/admob/adwords/whatever they brand buy side as now? Which sounds like a win/win for google, higher pub revenue, higher margin through buyers.

But other DSPs also have a large amount of bid data, even without clearing price on a loss notification (do any exchanges disclose?) they have so much scale that they can accurately price? If you're consistently losing auctions you know the clearing price is higher. But then I guess another problem is:

What about with first-price auctions?

This could theoretically help with bid shading if google does in fact leverage 'private' clearing data on what the true value of the impression is?

I guess that goes to the kind of unclear ethics of owning all sides of the transaction. Help your ad buyer win at a lower price by not bidding as high, but publisher loses out on revenue. Or the above up the price on all sides. I guess for Google it's whatever has the highest margin %
As a response to the failure of bureaucratic central planning in the USSR (which was done using pen and paper), some soviet researchers and mathematicians tried to find ways to eliminate the human component and develop algorithms to do it instead. Due to a confluence of Soviet bureaucrats afraid of losing their jobs and insufficient computing technology of the time, this never went that much beyond the drawing board, beyond some small-scale trials.

One of them was brilliant enough to be a communist economist and win the Nobel prize in economics somehow.

I don't know if that would have worked to begin with, and certainly those writers often were authoritarian in some ways, but it might interest you how they thought and reasoned about the problem and solution you described.
> Then fix fingerprinting.

Yeah, working on it.

> "But fingerprinting!" is yet another pretext for just trying to make advertising in general non-viable for aesthetic or ideological reasons.

It isn’t though.
1 When exceeding the free monthly quota, NextDNS will continue to answer DNS queries like a classic non-blocking DNS service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions
Chukudus are used on dirt roads. There are some photos in Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukudu
NNDM is an example. Hasn't seen any growth despite having a marketable product over their entire 8 year timeframe. Worth ~2B right now despite only making ~3.4M in revenue per year and losing ~50M per year. All thanks, to becoming apart of ARKK.
We are about to get pounded by propaganda
everyone’s generally peaceful at heart but for ad revenue, propaganda is profitable
oh you assume I still wanted the job
This view from a publisher convinced me in 2017 that Google should not own both the dominant business in DoubleClick's market and in AdExchange's market:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-serf-on-googles-farm

> But here’s where the rubber really meets the road. The publishers use DoubleClick. The big advertisers use DoubleClick. The big global advertising holding companies use Doubleclick. Everybody at every point in the industry is wired into DoubleClick. Here’s how they all play together. The adserving (Doubleclick) is like the road. (Adexchange) is the biggest car on the road. But only AdExchange gets full visibility into what’s available. (There’s lot of details here and argument about just what Google does and doesn’t know. But trust me on this. They keep the key information to themselves. This isn’t a suspicion. It’s the model.) So Google owns the road and gets first look at what’s on the road. Not only does Google own the road and makes the rules for the road, it has special privileges on the road. One of the ways it has special privileges is that it has all the data it gets from search, Google Analytics and Gmail. It also gets to make the first bid on every bit of inventory. Of course that’s critical. First dibs with more information than anyone else has access to. (Some exceptions to this. But that’s the big picture.) It’s good to be the king. It’s good to be a Google.

> There’s more I’ll get to in a moment but the interplay between DoubleClick and Adexchange is so vastly important to the entirety of the web, digital publishing and the entire ad industry that it is almost impossible to overstate. Again. They own the road. They make the rules for the road. They get special privileges on the road with every new iteration of rules.

There are a lot of people bothered by this, so this data discovery could prove very expensive for Google.
> What is it called when you don't invest in index funds you pick stocks and then buy and hold them for the long term?

It's not so much about time-frames but rather familiarity with the details of a company or sector, but the term you're looking for is probably value investing.
> company meetings include high praise any progress it makes

That's usually a dead giveaway. They're celebrating how good they will look to their bosses when the new system cuts payroll by $<your job(s)>.
Yeah same here! I'm just thinking aloud, but let's consider time and money as our scarce resources.

We can perhaps put backpressure on time-sink activities, such as endless scrolling Netflix, and open up those time resources for creative hobbies. This essentially boils down to replacing a consumer habit/mindset with one of creativity and self-expression.

Similarly, living in a small apartment and not paying for a storage unit can put backpressure on material acquisitions.
> only the DTCC prevented a global financial crisis

True heroes. God love em.
I must add that OP asserts the Chinese authorities iniquitously and deliberately allowed Jack Ma to acquire power through the success of his enterprise which was struck down swiftly as we are witnessing today. Thus, OP's insight is that the CCP employed an insidous tactic of bait-and-switch, exemplified by the unfolding situation, in order to further their authoritarian interests. Jack Ma's inability to excogitate his own demise is why OP thinks that his mental state is abnormal.
>For instance, taking the top 50 stock pickers from the finance section of newspapers will demonstrably lead to a decent, better than random guessing, portfolio.

Source? If by "random" you mean "randomly pick a company off the stock exchange using a uniform distribution and then buy/sell based on the result of a coin flip", you might be right. However, if your "random" means "randomly picking stocks on a market-cap weighted basis and then holding" (ie. passive investing), I'm going to doubt your claim.

>You are assuming that the stock market is as-good-as-random, and that you can't crowdsource aggregate market sentiment and private information

The problem here is that all that information is public and the amount of alpha is scarce. What I mean by the latter is that if the crowd through its wisdom decides that GME should be $10 higher, and everyone starts buying up shares, it will reach its target price in no time. If the information is kept secret, you might be able to reap all the gains, but since it's public everyone else is trampling over each other trying to get a piece of the action, diluting or even eliminating the benefit for everyone.

>Finally, if you do assume that clueless pickers are the same as a coinflip, then their noise should cancel out, leading to a very uncertain prediction of 50% (so you turned their non-knowledge into valuable information about the variance/confidence/mindshare penetration/information availability), and then the real experts votes will balance the vote in favor of the most likely prediction (you distilled their expertise).

The canceling-out effect only works if they're clueless and are just flipping coins, but doesn't work if they're clueless and are all trying to buy into the same bubble.

>Taken my counter-example to your spoiler to the extreme: Imagine if all Redditor stock traders gave their honest best guess on if a stock would be down or up next month

You do realize that the stock market is exactly that, right? A crowd-sourced prediction engine. Every participant makes their best guess at what the price should be. If they think the price is undervalued they buy shares, pushing the value up. If they think the price is overvalued they do the reverse. Through this mechanism the market collectively obtains the price of a company.
I’ve used fly for a while for my SaaS. Very little down time and very robust.
Here is one source (in Chinese though): https://tw.appledaily.com/international/20210217/2TSNJAXQZRG...
It is an opinion. And it is interesting precisely, because it is not common and it forces you to reconcile your currently held beliefs and opinions with the authors. Frankly, I read much worse.
> So a site that has your information because you shared it with them will be able to see your cohort changing

this itself is already unwanted

> otherwise you'll look like a new user each time.

but you won’t, because the existence of a non-fingerprinting-based solution isn’t going to stop fingerprinting.
I'm sorry to hear about your situation. My advice would be to stop being so explicit or official. You're probably too used to being an engineer or techie of some sort and we can get trapped in very black and white, explicit ways of thinking and speaking, forgetting that a lot of people work on implication and in a much fuzzier way. "speak with your oncologist" probably means speak to them in the right way and they can probably help. As I understand it the code is "I'm in too much pain" and they'll give you a bit too much pain medication. That's how doctors used to get around the law, the patient's care is their highest priority and that includes trying to treat unnecessary suffering as best they can. Only egregious misuse of this power would be prosecuted.

That being said, you should respect your doctor's wishes too, right? They'll have to live with what they've done after you're gone.

All that being said, get some counselling, seek mental help of any and every kind. I'm not trying to talk you out of things - your decisions are for you - I'm telling you to do what you should be doing anyway. Even if you get your wish to end things you should still be getting help for your mind, not just your body.

All the best.
That retargeting goes away with many of the changes that are being pushed
Funny people think entrepreneurs in China will no longer create companies because of this when in fact startups all hate Alibaba.

Can't wait for a similar fine on Tencent.
>Alas, there's no such thing as unbiased.

So basically, neutrality nihilism? ie. "every source is biased so it doesn't matter whether I'm getting my climate change facts from the IPCC or InfoWars".
You need to tell IT to use WSUS. I've managed to convince IT to stick one my test stations into a 'never update' bucket. Months and months of uptime! :)
I’m an indie solo dev selling label printer software. The niche force is strong with me... my business is basically selling the software equivalent of colonoscopies.

I can only speak for my own experience, but Capterra offered me and my customers something like $20 gift cards for the first 100 reviewers and I sent 500 emails with this offer and maybe had 1 reviewer bite and then later said he never received a gift card.

But my app has 15 reviews and I asked maybe half of those users to write a review after they first emailed me with a testimonial/praise.

https://www.capterra.com/p/182776/Label-LIVE/
Sure:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21151350
I found "Switch" to be helpful when facilitating organizational change -- https://heathbrothers.com/books/switch/
Not the person you replied to, but off-grid doesn't mean no power. I have an off-grid cabin with enough solar capacity to run my laptop, as well as quite a few other things. I'm looking forward to getting Starlink there myself. It's a fantastic, quiet place to work with no opportunity for interruptions.
Did you happen to not have an internet connection at the time? I noticed years ago Dropbox would spike CPU usage on my Mac when WiFi was off or couldn’t reach the outside world, like when on airplane WiFi but without paying for internet access.

I had hoped they fixed that...
It seems like everything they have is basically information that you can find by looking at someone’s clubhouse profile. I thought they had something serious like a phone number.
This is one of my favourite stories about ancient trade, told by a charismatic curator of the British Museum: https://youtu.be/bQIBf7eeXG8

Not only was there long-distance trade in ancient times, there were import and export taxes you had to pay. Naturally, this led to smugglers as well, which is what the video is about.
Joel Spolsky nails it in a blog post.

> Watching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf.

> “It’s ok! I have great advisors standing on the shore telling me what to do!” they say, and then fall off the board, again and again. The standard cry of the MBA who believes that management is a generic function. Is Ballmer going to be another John Sculley, who nearly drove Apple into extinction because the board of directors thought that selling Pepsi was good preparation for running a computer company? The cult of the MBA likes to believe that you can run organizations that do things that you don’t understand.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
Android, the FB for the olds.
If my banks are all willing to use my Google voice number, then any other site should be willing to as well. And yet, most websites that want a phone number won't take it. My GV account is in use for WF, Discover, PayPal, Steam, and it was previously in use at BofA when I had an account with them.
> This is why when companies see solutions like GitPrime, GitHub Insights, and other similar solutions, they get very excited because they feel they found that magical translator that can help them better manage tech employees.

If you promote people based on metrics from GitHub Insights you will end up with an awful organization. Employees are not stupid, they can manipulate any metric you use to measure their performance.

For example, if you promote the engineers that get the most commits, then people will conspire to delay code reviews so that only their friends get their commits merged in a timely manner. Or they will break their deliverables into an absurd amount of commits so that they get credited with the most commits.

> I honestly think this is a luxury for a lot of companies

No, it's not. The real luxury is hiring entire teams of capable people and then ask someone that has no clue about what's going on to tell them what to do. Not only it's a waste of time for every engineer, it's a waste of time for the engineers families and the education system that made their formation possible.

Learning about differential and integral calculus, differential equations, mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, discrete mathematics, theory of computation, compilers, databases, programming languages, data structures and algorithms, cryptography, information security, operating systems, networking, how to make a computer from scratch from logic gates, etc... only so that in the end you have to talk to a completely clueless guy that has no qualifications whatsoever but has "managerial soft skills" (psychopathic traits).
Apples and oranges.

DBus actually uses unix sockets (though I believe it can make use of other transports as well). If you're going to use a raw unix socket, you have to design your own RPC mechanism over it. For some things, that may not be a big deal, and may be preferable to pulling in a dependency like DBus. But for other things, not having to do that work might be a win.

DBus also allows for fine-grained permissions that you can't get with unix sockets without designing and building that mechanism yourself.
Woah, this works really well! Hope this doesn't get hugged to death. Great product!
If the release was intentional then there was almost certainly a great deal of contingency planning in place, distribution of a prediscovered cure, etc. The release itself is easy enough to conceal, the planning to take maximum advantage of it, not so much.
Yeah... about that. Seems less useful.
I'm tempted to set up a wifi with logging of all ips / names then connect a fresh android with no external apps up. See what appears.

But help me understand, obiwan, why is an empty file useful in this instance?
Spotify has deleted 42 episodes of the Joe Rogan podcast
Ask HN: What's the length limit for the “text” field on HN's submission page?
I am the developer of HACK client for iOS and MacOS for HN and need this info for it.

I am aware that the HN titles have a length limit of 80 characters. Was able to figure it out using the submission page as well as multiple discussions on it. And the HTML of the page has this function too:

function tlen(el) { var n = el.value.length - 80; el.nextSibling.innerText = n > 0 ? n + ' too long' : ''; }

I am curious about the same length limit for the "Text" post. I don't see a tlen function in that field's HTML. What's the limit of that field - both for posts as well as comments/replies?
This is becoming less true as technology has made total market indexes easy and cheap. Instead of buying the S&P 500, I can buy VTI, so TSLA was in my portfolio before and after, to no real effect.
We need laws against this carelessness
Also Voltaire in Candide:

> ".. in this country it is found good, from time to time, to kill one Admiral to encourage the others.”

https://wordhistories.net/2016/10/22/pour-encourager-les-aut...
Thanks for the suggestion. Adding these flags halves the startup time:

$ time ./pwsh -NoProfile -NoLogo <<<'' >/dev/null

real 0m0.456s
user 0m0.388s
sys 0m0.040s

Much better, but I still wouldn't use this even as an interactive shell, as I open a few hundred terminal windows each day.

There's no defender (or anything similar) on that other machine. It also has an SSD. With an older HDD powershell started in about 10-15 seconds there (while cold startup time for bash was something like a second, and instantly afterwards).
SAMR already fined Tencent, Baidu, etc along with Alibaba for monpolistic investment practices. i.e basically unapproved M&A.

I think it's most likely other anti-monopoly fines will follow for the other megacap techs in China.
The other thing is nobody likes working on problems that don't challenge them. They want to work on problems that are +1 level above their current skill. The problem is that the 'first solution' they developer/engineer is very likely to be shitty (and they probably won't even know how or why its shitty) purely because they're not experienced.

Ideally you want 'seasoned vets' for whom this level of engineering/development is old-hat and have them churn out a solid product that handles all the edge cases that you only know about when you have a long-term experience with the technology/domain.
Can someone explain for my sake what bernanke means in this context? He is a person but I'm not familiar with it's relation to this.
Thanks. Not huge wheels, though large for a scooter.

Red clay roads, damp but not sodden, tends to be smoother than many other options.
MBAs make companies less competitive. When American companies were led by engineers, American companies were #1. Now, thanks to MBAs and decades of emphasizing short-term vision, every major American company is being eaten alive by the international competitors they helped create.
Are there any news sources corroborating this alleged corruption? The only links i see for "Jiang Zemin Corruption" are epoch times, which I guess is weird in itself falun gong owns it; sounds like Zemin was instrumental in their persecution...

My point is Xi's crackdown to consolidate power has been widely reported and 'corruption' has been used to silence critics and anyone opposing Xi's power play.

I definitely do know not much on this topic but I also can't find any legit sources.
Looks like it's a scrape of public profile information from Clubhouse.

Also it reads more like an advertisement for the author's services.

I'd like to see a more credible source.
Pack your parachute. The ground is hard and it might be good to have something later to slow your descent. Even better is having choices about where to land. Creating the future is often better and easier than trying to predict it.

Take appropriate action now.
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