skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to see a messed-up peaceful border situation, there is a Mohawk community straddling the U.S./Canadian border with the actual line going through NY State, Ontario, Quebec, Cornwall Island, and the St. Lawrence River. The convoluted rules inhabitants have to follow to see relatives, go to school, get medical care and conduct daily business are extreme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwesasne
I’m not?

How should I stop using Comcast for my Internet?

What other internet browser could I use in the 1990s besides IE on an ActiveX page?

What other phone can I use besides a Google or Apple phone?

How do I avoid giving Nestle or Unilever money? By avoiding a massive list of thousands of brands?

These are just a few examples of the negatives of capitalist consolidation.
The issue wasn't salary, it was disqualifying survivor's benefits and retirement funds for someone who disappeared while on work premises, perhaps due to something beyond their control.
The US-Canada border situation is more sad than funny in the post-9/11 world. I wish the borders were open between US and Canada as they are in Europe. But crossing the border, even though it is barely marked, is a serious crime and heavily enforced.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jogger-who-a...
Turkey is threatening war if Greece extends its borders to the 12 nm allowed by the UNCLOS. A farmer moving a stone that changed the border here would be a serious incident.
As someone intimately familiar with that software, I doubt this. Every line of the Gmail delivery stack is home-grown, but if you were to identify an acquisition that most influenced the project it would be Neotonic, not Deja.
Wikipedia says that they removed the woman rape and the kid murder scenes on the American version, 30 years ago. I don't know if people would appreciate such a movie today.
oldie but such a classic
> Life is expensive, and between cars, house, the actual wedding, kids, etc. The money I spent on my wives engagement ring seems like child's play.

I wonder if your literal children would feel like that if you'd taken the same money for a ring that will (presuming you proceed with marriage) pretty much never get worn, and invested it in an index fund until their 21st birthday.

"child's play" indeed is what I would call this level of financial misplanning.
> Not just Git, marketing people also hate headless CMSes because they're hard to use and make it more complicated to try new things out. You have to use different tools to build forms, pages, and track users. Even as a developer I think it's a nightmare.

I strongly disagree. IMO a headless CMS is perfect because it provides a good seperation of concerns. Marketing people want to adjust taglines and tweak text, add tags and do that sort of stuff, they don't want to spend their time building interfaces. Developers want to build interfaces but don't really care to spend their time figuring out the perfect tagline or adjusting verbiage on a landing page.

With a headless CMS I can focus on creating the page, hook it up to my CMS, and then message the marketing person that the page is ready for them to add data to it.
This brings back memories. I had a SparcStation 5 at home for a few years, in the late 90's. It was one of my favorite machines! Also owned an IPC and an Ultra 10 for a while.
>I am not required to fund the billionaire.

Except, of course, when whatever elaborate mousetrap they used to gain their billions becomes a monopoly and also critical infrastructure.
Another way of putting this is that schools are organs of ideological reproduction.
The golden era simpsons is some of the best comedy ever written. Sometime after season 10 or 11, quality dropped. I'd argue that golden era simpsons is definitely in a different league than southpark/family guy. However, after the golden era they are pretty comparable with, frankly, the simpsons being on the lower end of humor.
Hah my first computer that I built myself as a teenager was an AMD Duron, right around 2001. Which to be fair, I guess I am a hacker as far as my mother is concerned, so they were right!
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Saying No – Sustainable Productivity (always yes to mostly no)
Is this not different than religion? There's certainly comfort in placing your life in someone else's hands. It takes that pressure away and you can just throw your hands in the air exclaiming you can't do a thing about it. I understand the allure... but what really bothers me is that those same people try to to the force their cultish/religious behaviors onto everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apDFVsBDCYE
My only lament with this is that the link prominently has ‘humor’ in it, so I can't subject unsuspecting friends to the text. Guess I'm off to one of the ‘archive’ sites, with more cryptic urls.

Edit: here it is https://archive.is/e0diF

Or https://web.archive.org/web/20040612092245/http://www.adequa...
LinkedIn provides plenty of value to me but I don’t contribute content to linkedin or pay much attention to their feed.

LinkedIn hosts my professional Rolodex of people I’ve worked with or want to stay in touch with professionally.

LinkedIn also provides me with visibility to recruits so I get inbound job leads with zero effort on my part. My current job comes from a 1st party recruiter messaging me.
Yes, typically as investment, that feed the supply side.
I blog the top ideas from each book I read (link in bio) and form book clubs at work. We have an Engineering team book club, Product Design book club, and a company-wide book club.
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021
I had this when I played Minecraft a lot. My wife and I (who both played for hours on end almost daily, running servers together) both started the see the world as blocks. It changed our perception quite a bit. It didn't bother us, we thought it was cool. It didn't interfere with anything. We maintained our understanding of reality vs game. Until a creeper blew up our house IRL. That was unusual.
There are multiple mosquito species in each area and these control efforts only target a couple of species that are human disease vectors. Even if these specific species went extinct it would not significantly impact other creatures that prey on mosquitos.

Previous eradication efforts used pesticides and impacts all mosquito species and lots of other creatures, as well. Using genetic targeting like this is much lower impact. The main question is whether it will be effective.
The latest development version (unreleased) of Pulse Audio has great support for HFP with WBS/mSBC.

I've been using it for weeks (months?) with great results.
My family farm got a new neighbor, who noticed that he technically owns a sliver of land with the first 100 feet of our gravel driveway, nevermind that we've been using it for the past 50 years since our property was purchased. I don't think anyone had noticed before, as this goes way back before GIS systems and satellite photos of property boundaries. For decades there's been a fence in the logical place between the driveway and the neighboring property.

The legal system would probably side with us, but it's a pain.
I'd be interested in showing the figures for Grand Theft Auto V. It seems that they will keep it confidential for the time being. Also, I can't believe that some games have the lowest buyout price even though it is quite popular. Why does Metro's buyout price be at $0?
Yes there is, another example: Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe is a Walloon politician, Geert Bourgeois is a Flemish one.
> "Number of acquisitions" seems like a weird metric, without accounting for their significance (in purchase price, impact on the business, or any other real-world metric).

This comment sounds like the nirvana fallacy striking again.

There is no perfect metric for measuring something like overall market dominance.

Thanks to a series of supreme court rulings, the traditional approach has been to look at consumer harms. But that metric alone fails to account for the way modern large conglomerates make money: not by gouging the consumer, but by dominating entire industries.

So how else can you look at it?

Acquisition are just another lens. Is it an imperfect lens? Yes, of course. I challenge you to find an analysis that isn't.

But is it still meaningful? Yes, I absolutely think so! It is undeniably the case that these tech giants have used acquisitions as a way to protect their market position. So it absolutely makes sense to analyze their behaviour from that perspective.

Furthermore, this is a news article not a whitepaper. Yes, there is an enormous amount of nuance in this kind of argument, and if you were prosecuting these guys for antitrust violations in a court of law, you'd probably do a deeper dive.

> facebook buying Instagram was probably more significant than all the other acquisitions combined.

How do you know that? There's simply no way to know how some of these companies would've fared because these anti-competitive practices have ensured that promising startups are smothered before they become a threat.
It doesn’t need to be essential for people to keep using it. They just have to want it and not realize the true cost of “free”.
For anecdata sake: Recently been interviewing in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, 6yoe fullstack dev. Highest I saw was 120k, lowest 85k.

The worst part is how little stock companies are willing to give out. I had one company offer 6k over 4 years, which really puzzled me. Had another company try to sell me on how amazing their 30k/4 years package was (on a lower salary).
Knowledge Graph about the Crypto Universe
In a lot of areas in the US (but not all) a period of notice is necessary. This precludes events where a neighbor steals property from another surreptitiously. In some cases if the land is "abandoned" you need to make the person who owns it aware of it, in others it is presumed if someone does not visit their land for 7 years they have no interest in it.

(This is getting complicated and challenged due to the fact suburbs are popping up nearly everywhere and totally useless land may now be worth money.)

In the case above simply demolish whatever the guy built. He tries to sue in civil court and fails because he had no right to build there.
There is actually quite a bit of difference between the statements "America is a racist country" and "institutional racism exists" or even "there exists a belief of white supremacy."

And even between "America isn't a racist country" and "the people who talk about implicit biases are the real racists," which is closer to what he actually said (allegedly).

(And if we want to have this discussion, I bet we could do it in a way that wasn't "painful and divisive," because I have no desire to be those things, so I'm not going to predict/threaten it.)
Youtube blog post on this topic: https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/new-era-video-infrastruc...
> only

Well, it would also be hurting all the unprofitable spammers and the spammers who aren’t willing to gamble with $100 to begin with. Like everything, there are just trade offs rather than good vs bad extremes.
In an age of "post-truth", out of control "political correctness" and all the other daemons, it's hard to read this and even realise it is supposed to be satire.
I'm not sure from this blog post what this company has to do with NFTs, or how these NFTs are intended to generate revenue for this organization, or why the tokens being sold can't be fungible, or what they're for.

(Aside: The HTTPs Everywhere extension takes a bit of an issue with pg's 199x-vintage website. :)
Ok…but I’d assume those are pretty hefty law books then?

“Follow river such and so, then on that one field of farmer Jones turn left until the tree, turn right and walk in a straight line to that pointy rock, then walk back to the river etc. etc.”?
At my first tech job many of us had quite a bit of idle time. Some impactful and interesting projects were initiated during those moments of inertia.

"Creativity is the residue of time wasted" - probably not Albert Einstein but it's attributed to him
That’s a pretty low bar especially compared to reverse engineering a hardware communication protocol
France and Belgium are within the Schengen Area and the sign out front says 81 years since the last Blitzkrieg.

This is really small potatoes.
Many women won't directly tell their partner "I want you to spend a couple months' salary on a beautiful diamond" because it's tasteless to request and it removes all the meaning behind the man doing so, but they'd also be disappointed if the man didn't do so unprompted. People and their emotions are complex like that.

I don't think there's any glaring issue with either party above, but it's like you expect all women in your life to be like many people on HN — hyper-rational, utilitarian devs who would never want a mined diamond because a cheaper artificial one with better clarity exists. It's not wrong, but it's not right - there is no right answer here. Traditional ideas of romance are a powerful force.
Is this a book or a set of books or a study? Could you please tell me who is the author?
With streaming surging, even advertisers are cutting the cord
I don't think anyone understands that this is purely a "fun" thing to raise money. Yes, it's exactly like a donation drive.
Initially I thought about adding an “expected finishing time” next to it might be a good idea, but now I think that would just be another source of stress. A better idea might be having a difficulty indicator such as labeling questions as (one/two/three star).
Has Mr. Graham done an honest calculation of how many lives will be lost to the environmental impacts of NFTs if they become mainstream?
Area Grandma Enjoys Flourishing Correspondence with Mailer-Daemon
A few meters from my mother in law's house stood a small stone marker next to the forest path (hers was the last one in the village, and was enclosed by the forest itself). One side of the stone read "Brauschweig", the other "Hannover". It was easy to miss, being buried in the undergrowth.

A few years ago someone got the idea that it was of Important Historical Interest and so moved it further down the path. It's not clear whether this moved the "actual"* border since they didn't place it in the same orientation. Somehow the misorientation annoys me more than moving it.

* "actual" gets quotation marks as the denoted territories no longer exist, though the cities by those names do.
Sign to How Specific Fast-Growing Cancer Tumor Cells Disappear in Plain Sight
I'm entirely against this sentiment, because logic isn't cold, it's a way to maximize your comfort and happiness. However, useless, expensive gifts are more effective than purposeful gifts from a mating perspective - wasting money is a sign of wealth, and that's cold logic.

The ring is basically a sacrifice, which goes with the "blood diamond" thing pretty neatly.
The constitution only requires a simple majority of the senate to pass a bill, and there is a tiebreaking vote. The 60 vote threshold is only because of a self-imposed extra-constitutional rule, one which can be abolished with a simple majority vote via the "nuclear option" [0]

Effective lawmaking is not some impossible feat under our current system, it was commonplace until very recently. All that has changed is that we've grown complacent and now continue to vote for those who refuse to do their jobs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option
The shortages seem to be caused by hiccups in the cupply-chains bottlenecks that have a hard time to adjust to the slowdown and recovery of the economy. It is not caused by a unusually high demand, but compared to its depressed self six month ago, it is comparatively high.

Interest rates are still very low. There is still a strong case to argue that the demand is lagging.
Does anybody know what the author means when he asserts that "nearly all writers he knows don't like writing"?

Seems contradictory to everything I've heard about the iteration loop between practice, play, and discovery that characterizes mastery in any craft, be it programming, writing, music, sports, and so on.
The problem is the name: it's too close to the protected mark. You need to enforce your trademark or else you weaken the protections afforded by it.

I doubt it would come to a lawsuit though unless the developer resisted. More than likely Bose will send a C&D and the developer will comply. It's a fairly reasonable request in this case.
Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs
Wow, the details in this article are brazen. I'm not even sure how he asked for stock options from them. Both Sumo and Netskope participated?
TL;DR: Author has discovered another author who has written about a topic that's been known since queuing theory and statistical modeling were explicitly applied to businesses some time last century which merely revealed what many people already understood intuitively (but probably couldn't quantify or articulate).

100% utilization is moronic, you need slack in your system or you will introduce the risk of a severe backlog of work that may never finish (or will finish because clients cancel the requests and go elsewhere).

See also The Goal.
In the UK (technically Great Britain in this context) at least, there is an open dataset available from the national mapping authority (Ordnance Survey), which is called boundary lines. It contains all of the different boundary lines and borders of local authorities, parliamentary constituencies, regions, nations etc.

This is all geo referenced against the OSGB coordinate system.

I could see interesting challenges in doing this for international borders where both countries use different coordinate systems and projections for their mapping, and the potential for slithers of no-mans-land. I guess at a certain point, you need to refer back to what's on the ground, as over decades the land erodes from the sea, and rock formations collapse and shift as the earth moves etc. The definition of location gets far easier when you have satellites offering precision navigation and timing!
That's hard to claim since being without a mask is normal. Anecdotally, I don't see videos of unmasked people berating masked individuals about they're disgusting evil people.
History repeats! 20 years ago, some business exit plans basically boiled down to "...and then we'll get bought by Microsoft!" Not too bad, at least for the founders.

Especially if your goal is to land a nice FAANG job anyway. It's gotten to the point where interviewing is so competitive, exhausting, opaque, and ultimately random, that it might actually be easier to do a bootstrapped start-up for a year and get bought by Facebook than it is to grind leetcode and interview-prep for a year and roll the dice on the interview circuit. I wish I were joking.

EDIT: Wow, no disrespect to founders, I did not intend to trivialize the work you do. Instead of "easier" I should have said something like "more controllable" or "less random".
>None of Apple's "stack" is available to other companies because they have no incentive to sell components. The reverse happens, they buy up independent companies (like the touch id folks) and prevent anyone else from using a given piece of tech.

As Apple's sales success allows them to invest even more in R&D, their tech stack become an even bigger moat. Competitors are going to find it increasingly difficult to create products that can compete with Apple's tech stack on a technological basis.
Seems fairly clearly just jumping on the bandwagon. Clearly people right now spend lots of money on NFTs for whatever reasons, so sell one and get money the buyer probably wouldn't have donated otherwise.
It is important to try it. As stated in the article, this only targets one invasive species that is 4% of the mosquito population in that region. That's a fairly focused application that probably hasn't had time or the volume to disrupt the ecosystem from its original introduction. Seems like a perfect test case.
Aedes aegypti is an invasive species in that area. It is not a normal part of the ecology. Even now it is only about 4% of the mosquito population. Removing it would not impact other creatures that prey on mosquitos in general.
Carbon offsets used by major airlines based on flawed system, warn experts
I remember the time when LAMP stack was new. Every new stack will be discussed controversial at first. Some say avoid it as hell, some say it's very good, some say who cares.

I think as time progresses this term will be less and less controversial until people use it like they would refer to the LAMP stack without further thinking.
It makes some sense. The more acquisitions, the higher the chance of doing well (that wording doesn't apply to price) in the metrics you mention. Especially if the perspective is extrapolating the past to the future.

The thesis of the articles seems to be: Big tech will stay dominant because they will keep buying lots of companies and they will likely continue to win with some. To stop this, blah blah law changes or something (I only skimmed the article).
Universal APIs, MailChimp E-Commerce, and Form Builder
Five months later: Woman found alive after disappearing in Diamond Fork Canyon
> every time I walk through a doorway

Was just about to post this. I didn't start doing this on purpose, but at some point I noticed I was.
No, they're really different. Just because the sunk cost fallacy has something to do with spending money doesn't mean it applies whenever money is spent in an unwise way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
(Caveat: IANAL) As far as I know the issue of copyright and AI generated content hasn’t been tested in the courts yet. There are two issues:

1) The author inadvertently uses output from GPT-3 that happens to be close enough to copyrighted material to be a problem.

This is why we recommend to authors do two things: a) enter as much of their own original work to prompt Sudowrite and b) edit and incorporate the AI output organically into their work. The chance that GPT-3 outputs verbatim copyright work in that case is small. As we grow, we also plan to incorporate plagiarism checks in the background.

2) Someone could challenge the author’s copyright on a piece of work that was primarily written by GPT-3.

This has not been tested in the courts, and I suspect it will come to head in the next few years. For me, the question of who owns copyright is dependent on how much work the author has done to the AI output (there are some parallels to the Monkey Selfie case [2]). For example, Stephen Marche (the author of the new yorker post from OP) also wrote a short story [1] using Sudowrite, in which he claims that 17.1% of the final words were from the AI. But of course, he has done non-trivial amounts of work to edit and incorporate those words and made it his own. So in this case, he def deserves ownership. All of our Sudowrite authors use the AI similarly in their process.

However, what if an author uses vanilla GPT-3 with no humans int the loop to generate hundreds of biographies of famous people based on wikipedia entries? I don’t have a good answer to this. It shouldmay come down to how much the author has done to guide GPT-3 and/or pre-post-process it.

Here’s further reading:

http://rutgerslawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Rober...

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/77599763.pdf

[1] https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-thing-on-the-phone/

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/12/550417823...