skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yahoo Finance is so good that when I'm trying to find information about a company, I'll type the company's name into Google, do a bit of reading, then... go over to Yahoo Finance and manually type it in again to look at their stock performance.

It says something that someone as lazy as myself will actually hop out of Google's flow and perform a manual step to go Yahoo Finance.
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This is why I proxy GA visits directly through my server. Full accuracy but less privacy issues as my clients don't require JavaScript and I can anon the IP myself. I'm surprised more people aren't doing this.
Yes. I’ve found a lot of friends through previous work relationships.

Honestly, the idea of being at a company and not walking away with at least a few long-term friends is very foreign to me.

A purely transactional workplace would be a miserable place to work. It’s much better to work somewhere where people can respect and appreciate each other beyond what’s necessary to close out their next Jira ticket.
> White collar criminals have more to lose, so the punishment standard is different.

I feel like you’re so close to identifying the root cause of why the two groups are treated differently. The answer is hiding in the first five words.
http://archive.is/yzjM6
And many Germans absolutely loathe the French reactors. Especially because France loved to place many of them directly at the border to Germany. There were several news pieces over the past century where the condition of some of those reactors was questioned.
Is the World’s Memory Span Increasing or Decreasing? (2017)
You do realise Africa is massive and that a family of white, American-Italians wouldn't have much chance causing influence (even with violence) in certain African countries? Not to forget the difference in languages across those countries.

So my question is: why do you think the Gambino family moved there and what evidence do you have for your claims?
On the other hand, “The average minds of my generation are thinking about Instagram.”
Why carbon farming advocates need to confront questions about equity and access
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Are businesses in the business of increasing efficiencies (more revenue, more profit, lower costs) or are they in the business of doing what is in the best interest of consumers or both?

I don't think your example really holds weight. I goto Costco because they offer products I want at a price I like. If during shopping they were trying to give suggestions to better deals I'm not sure as a consumer I get to complain about it do I?
Elements of Digital Transformation
If you hear somebody use it, it basically means they aren't a programmer.
On MacOS

./very-long-task.sh && say 'success' || say 'fail'

I use it when I need to context switch and leave something running. `espeak` is an alternative for `say` on Linuxes.
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The pandemic is a bit different from what was before because we're not really given a choice. That being said, I agree, and I think it's not just hobbies. If you think about music, Spotify exposes people to much wider array of choices than what was there before. It used to be that people had a common cultural thread through the radio and television. Now, you can find your own niche community online, and listen to very niche music customized to your very specific preferences on Spotify. Even porn is getting increasingly niche. I find that often, even friends who like similar music genres to mine don't really appreciate tunes I share with them, because everyone has diverged so much. Politics are getting super divisive too, with no tolerance for different viewpoints.

I'm not sure what's the antidote to that. I do think that in many ways, technology is driving people apart, and I'm afraid we're headed the way of Japan (hikikomori). I think some people will choose to remain socially active and others will withdraw. At some level, interacting with other human beings is challenging, it takes effort, you have to want to do it.
Fitbit does something related - the url for your tracking dashboard is just fitbit.com, but when you go to fitbit.com, it's just the frontpage of the website; until you log in, and then navigate to your dashboard again.

This makes it very clear that 1: fitbit wants me to use the app, and 2: fitbit wants to sell me stuff more than they want to help me.
The UVC lamp setup seems dangerous as fuck - exposed live AC voltage AND mercury???

If you're in need of erasing EEPROMs, just do yourself a favor and buy 10mW UVC 265nm LED. A single LED should suffice to erase a single EEPROM chip within 10-15 minutes.
First let me say: I like Rust. I'm a fan. But... it did make some early decisions that are going to be hard to shake off, most notably around build times. This [1] is well worth a read.

[1]: https://pingcap.com/blog/rust-compilation-model-calamity
Albuquerque Is Winning the Streaming Wars
Show HN: First100users.com
100 ideas for your startup's first 100 users.
Amazon is clearly a monopoly, but consumer prices are "low", so they get to keep at it. A lot of the early anti-trust cases in history were pretty petty, and anything has precedent for not being a monopoly. But when you can literally under cut competition until they go out of business, then raise prices afterward, you're a monopoly. Example Diapers dot com, the undercutting did lower prices for consumers.
least significant bit
Having worked construction in the US, "up to code" does at minimum mean a safe structure. While different municipalities may have extended code to allow for unnecessary regulations- much of the actual core safety stuff is much more strict than what you may see in many developing countries.
> Being able to pick Schlage and Kwikset already puts you in the probably 0.1%.

What percentage of the general population knows how to dump an I2C EEPROM, do some reverse engineering to find the counter, and update the counter value? It seems easy to us because we're on HN, and many of us are EEs or other embedded systems people, but it's pretty specialized knowledge in the population at large.

This is absolutely DRM. Not effective DRM when squared off against an embedded systems engineer, but DRM nonetheless. Yes, they could have used a hardened encrypted EEPROM specifically built for these kinds of applications (for example, the ATSHA204A from Atmel/Microchip), but that would have cost more and in applications like this COGS for the disposable element is king. They probably assumed that a simple unencrypted I2C EEPROM would be good enough, and quite honestly they're probably right: unless somebody goes and starts selling a little dongle to reset these cartridges to consumers, it's only going to be a handful of technically-inclined power users resetting them.
Follow up post with technical details at https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/achieving-insights-and...
Maybe just me. I tried the command:

ps aux | convert label:@- process.png

And got an image that was useless. Nothing readable.
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Least Significant Bit, there.

Tiny question, tiniest bit answer :-D

To add some context, these RomTag structures reside in ROM, so they can't be edited.

The table of residents is, however, in RAM. It should be possible to add RomTags to it, or copy the ROM ones to RAM and modify them there. Conveniently, I did not need to do so.
“A picture is worth a thousand words” is an adage many would agree with.

People intuitively can ‘show’ you what’s wrong but most non-developers will have a hard time phrasing it.

“I press the button and nothing happens” is representative of written bug reports I’ve seen. What button? What’s supposed to happen? What page are you on? How can I reproduce this?

Almost all issues I’ve seen with a video I can reproduce. But I agree that they should be succinct.
> Both Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies had dropped from the Nielsen top 30 by the 1970–71 season, yet both shows continued to win their respective time slots and had loyal followings, warranting renewal for another season.

Lotta editorializing here for a wikipedia article. Continually declining popularity seems like it could easily also be said to warrant cancellation.
> Are non tech companies really that foolish to think they can salvage a brand that was relevant 10 years ago and revive it?

Apparently so. Or at least that's my distinct impression from working at a Yahoo subsidiary at the time of acquisition by Verizon. It appeared that Tim Armstrong had legitimately convinced the top Verizon execs that a combination of AOL + Yahoo would somehow create an advertising titan capable of competing with Google and Facebook.

It's quite surprising that they went through with this, given that it's a pretty ludicrous notion: a single major brand/company comeback is challenging enough in tech, but the merger of two of them at once? There's no historical precedent for that succeeding, as far as I can think. Especially with a new name as objectively terrible as "Oath".

Internally, morale was never good. It didn't help that Tim would send out weekly all-company emails that were, at best, a nonsensical word salad of business strategy jargon straight from HBO's Silicon Valley.

Literally all of the Verizon execs who were involved with this calamity are long gone now, and Verizon's previous CEO retired in 2018. My impression is the new CEO basically just wants to focus on 5G and get rid of this mess of bad acquisitions.
A macroaccounting of the August 2020 financial crisis
>I'm about ready to unsubscribe from the LA Times for this BS.

At this point, I just naturally assume that newspaper websites are unusable. They certainly give ad-blockers a workout. Once you get through all the cruft candy I especially like the paywalls with the several second delays.
It's not culture. It's poverty + weak states.

If you don't live in an advanced organized country and you are poor you have to rely on your local group. How else are you going to survive?

If you educate those people, put them in an advanced country and make them well off, you will see individualism appear.
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I'd rephrase this:

"only seems worse because amazon is so big, and so monopolistic"

as:

"only seems worse because amazon is so big, and so dominant"

I don't think monopolistic is a fair adjective because it has an implied legal connotation. Is Amazon a monopoly or just the largest e-commerce retailer today?
Whenever someone suggests that something be nationalized, I ask myself "Why not create a public version of it?". If the answer is "it cannot compete with the private ones", maybe that's why running it privately is necessary.
>Verizon will get $4.25 billion in cash from the sale along with its 10% stake in the company. Verizon and Apollo said they expect the transaction to close in the second half of 2021.

Version paid $4.4 billion for AOL and $4.5 billion for Yahoo and now sell it for $4.25 billion w/10% stake. Am I missing something? why company (Version) just waste money like this?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/verizon-sells-yahoo-and-aol-...
I have always detested AMP. But there was no other way around - if you wanted to appear in google results on top you had to use it.
If you’re on Windows, Set-Clipboard in PowerShell does this too and is super handy.
Least significant bit. At least that’s my interpretation from context.
It's not just about safari not adding support for new APIs, but intentionally breaking old APIs. A lot of websites that used to work on safari no longer work, due to their war on tracking and advertising.

Say you are in myCity.gov and you have a website that loads dashboards. These dashboards are iframes that come from anotherDomain.gov, thirdDomain.gov. Well, in Safari they're not going to load because iframes no longer send cookies back to their parent origin unless the iframes are a subdomain of the parent domain. They just broke a thirty year old web standard. That's a massive breaking change introduced by Safari, that makes many corporate intranets and cloud-based delivery sites not load properly in safari. And has nothing to do with not supporting a new vibration API. This is basic old school web semantics that Safari has been breaking right and left because they can't conceive of the internet as anything other than a content-marketing platform.

The web is now used for pretty much everything, and large swathes of it don't load properly on Safari. They don't care, because people mostly use Chrome on the desktop and Safari on their phones, and people have come to expect apps for the content delivery on phones. But this drives the bifurcation further, and solidifies the chrome-only nature of many websites because they are not going to remap their domains to something Safari will approve of in order to get iframes to load properly.
In 2 years, I can't wait to hear from The Verge about how Apple courageously 'pioneered' the foldable phone concept.

That being said, I am totally for it. I'm planning on buying the Z Fold 3 (whenever it comes out) as long as it maintains feature parity with this years Galaxy devices. I'll probably suffer some 1st adopter's growing pains, but that's expected.

I foresee inking and OCR technology picking up if 8 inch form-factors become the norm in the near future.
> I'm taking for granted here that you didn't wake up yesterday with intent to write those sentences without having ever done the research yourself at least once. You're the one making these claims. If you've done the research, why not just post it here so other folks can verify what you're saying?

I have provided specific instructions for verifying precisely what I'm saying. I'm not going to spend hours reproducing this simply because I'm being cross-examined in a comment. It is immaterial to me if you believe my reports of the truth or not.
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It's a lack of competition that leads to market consolidation.

This is a compounding problem as companies that grow big enough can just buy then out or predatory price them out - like, say, Amazon and diapers.com.

In the end the only way to take down mono/oligopolies out is to take them out from a direction they're not expecting and that can take 100 years.