skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think this is about charging for new features - it’s almost about the opposite.

I read this as “A customer that asks for advance notice of feature changes is likely to be a big enterprise customer that values stability and predictability, and the fact that they’re asking suggests your product is important enough to their process to matter, so you should take this opportunity to charge them a ton of money for an ‘enterprise support plan’ which includes advance notice of new releases, etc.”

As the GP said, it’s a signal that they’re a certain type of customer.
Arista was pushing leaf-spine in 2008....
I'm not a lawyer either, but I'm fairly sure that "we didn't cause the harm" is a good defense to a claim that they caused harm.
Linus has been pretty strict in not unnecessarily breaking userspace even if something is not strictly ‘part of the ABI’. It’s a judgement call though.
That’s incorrect, online dating is the number one way couples meet
Probably not strange since they probably have very low PageRank, visits, etc.

On the other hand, the top Google results go to The Guardian, Wikipedia, Time, the BBC, etc., discussing the topic -- hugely popular sites.

Google's meant to find popular relevant pages for your search terms. Remember, that's what PageRank was all about. So seems to be working as expected.
Maybe is has to do with women entering the labor force?

Here I plotted the labor force participation rate of women and men plus the sum of both. While the rate for men declines, the one for women increases.

Update: here is a new graph without the assumption that there are equally many men and women (participation rates for each are now multiplied by the population size of each and normalized to total population). The interesting part is that the total labor participation rate is moving very little, just between ~59-67%.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=EFG8

// OLD:
The sum of both moves between 120 and 135% (assumption here is that there are roughly as many men as there are women which should be approximately correct): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=EFEs
I've thought about ways to improve dating networks, and I think the best solution is to throw them out and just get young people to go out in groups and do activities together. Romance would be a secondary output (as would friendships, professional networking, and plain old perspective broadening).

Rationale is that a lot of women, and to a lesser degree men, do not feel comfortable going out 1x1 with a stranger (and potential predator/rapist/catfish). Not to mention the pressure of finding common interests and cultivating a date experience. The group dynamic offers safety, and the hobby-focused nature of the activity offers entertainment without pressure.
> It's a terrible thing to say, but many young women today, if judged by the same standards as men, would be considered losers. They have nothing going on in their own lives, yet have sky-high expectations of what men are supposed to provide them. And for the most part, modern dating culture lets them get away with it.

"Today" is an interesting word choice. This seems like a lingering problem originating in the past, when women were entirely expected to depend on a man to provide, and were NOT expected to have stuff going on in their own life beyond being fertile and useful around the house and of good family background...?

What's the line? "Feminism is for men too"?

Men who just want hookups can keep such women's calendar filled for a while but aren't going to be really doing that providing in the long run.

But in general, the obsession with not being a loser is dangerous for everyone: not everyone will be in the top 10%, and not everyone will attract someone in the top 10%, by simple math, and yet people of both gender's are convinced that it's the other group that has the unreasonable standards...
You need to consider the blast radius and how long features may be in preview. Ideally, you would scope the preview to just a subset of users. When you go to a complete customer base you start to get into the situation where the customer has failed to communicate with their users, and have more people raising issues. This isn't bad necessarily, but you have to be prepared to handle it.

If you keep something in preview for a long time then there can be a divergence from the main product. Make sure that data or work from users is migrated across when you finally release.

It makes sense to think about the opportunity for support to participate in the preview. Let them listen in to customer calls and learn about the problems. Providing a dedicated support person for previews is tempting, but long-term it's better to avoid this specialization and enable the whole support team to participate. This shares knowledge and avoids certain people being granted special privileges while others toil on average support tickets.

Microsoft publish some of their methodology at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/manage/.... The key point is that they have set out the boundaries for their program so that customers know what to expect and it can be repeated for every customer.

You will have to learn how to do your previews, but you should lay down some rules. Set it up so kudos from participants can be used for marketing after. You are the one to decide when the preview ends, but setting some minimum time in preview gives customers more confidence and time for you to process feedback. Make it clear if features are locked when you enter the preview and what feedback you are after.

Once the preview is over, thank the participants. Call them out if you have a public forum. Participation can become a mini case study for your marketing efforts.
FB is somewhat of an odd man out... I certainly think reversing acquisitions would be a positive, but...

With Bell, standard oil and past monopolies... the goal was to decentralise while keeping oil and telecom viable. We wanted what they made, and didn't want disruptions.

Do we want what FB makes? Is it scarce? I feel like we would have a sufficient supply of likes, shares, messages and posts regardless. There doesn't need to be a $trn company for those to be supplied.

Generally, I think the issues at stake have evolved. Many of the problems with today's monopolies are power related, rather than efficiency related. I think FB is enormously inefficient, but this is kind of besides the point.
Then you disagree with the folks advancing these policies! :) Their perspective is that Amazon, Kroger, Wal-Mart, and a whole host of other businesses (including things as seemingly boring as cheerleading supply companies) are engaging in anticompetitive practices that cause a variety of harms.

Depending on which case you look at, they allege different harms. In some cases they allege harm to suppliers or to employees, but in others they make the case for anti-consumer harm.

Hopefully folks won't continue to downvote me. Whether you agree with these folks or not (and I'm not trying to make their case for them here), that is what their position is. It is wise to understand them, even if we don't agree with them.
I think it's somewhat of a Tragedy of the Commons situation.

Everybody would benefit from power being built in remote places, but nobody wants to be the one to pay to build it there. I'm not seeing why crypto mining is any different though; it's a for-profit endeavor like anything else.
For a lot of cat equipment this is true.

Go to a caterpillar dealer, and you can ask for a new key by model number. They don't need serial numbers.
Amazon fighting laws that could force it to verify 3rd party sellers' identities
They absolutely sell other brands, my local TJs has a huge stack of White Claw in the beer aisle.
The difference is that on DDR you have infinite write endurance and you can do the whole thing in parallel.

If flash was the same way, and it could rewrite an entire erase block with no consequences, then you could ignore erase blocks. But it's nowhere near that level, so the performance impact is very large.
That's a fair stance to take. I certainly think their lockdowns should be limited if not banned completely...
Because you have both Costco AND Walmart Stores selling their own brand within the same state which allows heavy Store competition within the State along with dozen of others Stores?

The iOS state has 65% of users and 75% of App spending and it has one Store.

You can perfectly have your own retail brand when there are plenty of competition within the market. If you argue there is still another state with diverse choices, you are either hit with a Duopoly argument, or a monopolistic power argument where iOS have too much power within market economy.

People have been using these over simplify analogy with Xbox and Retail and there are not even the same.

Either way, there should be no denying there is something wrong with the way things are currently being handled.
Could you please elaborate on how that usb stick was made? :-)

Time to time I need to do some Windows config/deployment – shortcuts, printers, make the damned NumLock ON, set those PDFs to open NOT in that ducked Edge;) and so on ..

But this is not my top skill and after googling for some time I’d kill for a spot on advice.
I was a whole lot more spiteful when I was playing video games 24/7 and felt like there was nowhere else to go. I would've been far happier seeing an end to everything then, when everything seemed impossible, versus now that I have some experience, some skin in the game.
"To compile a kernel, you need a running kernel."

Why? I guess it depends on how you define "kernel." But to be able to do a batch process like compilation, you can get away with a little.
To Google's credit, it's literally the first search results for "how do I remove myself from Google". It is a bit ironic that people looking to remove something for being too easy to find via search are being stymied by a simple search.

Still, good to provide some visibility about it. I certainly never knew this was a thing.
>> These types of articles make it seem like some huge mystery as to why society is the way it is today. It's no mystery. Houses cost to much and employers don't pay enough.

This is so true. I'd take it further -- for many (not for most of us developers/engineers) but for many others, the choice to move out is a very risky one because you're constantly on a thin line between paying student loans, mortgage/rent, and other costs of employment and wages may not grow while costs continue to grow. I've seen people just give up and enjoy what they have -- a parent's home at the cost of employment. Remember that it costs money to earn money if you need to move to a metro area and that cost can exceed the actual income, especially if it is a job without wage growth.

I think semi-permanent WFH changes the equation quite a bit -- one can now live with parents, earn, and save up money to hopefully cross the chasm into the world of sustainable ownership.
Apple has made life of small developers hard. Mac software and app industry has died. Even after notarising apps they show malicious popup to users.

Same practices has adapted by apple like search ad etc etc. They make competing services and steal ideas of developers and those app dies. For eg screen time for Moments app.

They have unfair advantage and small developers could not complete. Only handful of indie developers making money from appstore and rest apps have died.

They killed the industry.
Indeed.

I have a very multicultural background, but the dominant cultural view, at least when it comes to money, is Chinese.

For us, living at home is not failure. Moving out without planning to start a family if you live in the same city as your parents is considered wasting money.
Let's not forget that the Social Security is not getting funded so it's probably going to dry out sooner.
All from the same company though.
In case anybody else is curious, YouTube has a bit of footage of Avdo Međedović who is mentioned in the text: https://youtu.be/UhBq_DOEgbM

Rather an acquired taste if you don't speak the language, but the idea of somebody semi-freestyling 13000 verse epics is still impressive.

Another fascinating aspect of this is that Međedović was, as far as I know, a life long illiterate! As great as literacy is, it seems to have had detrimental effects on our memorization skills.
They are fairly narrow categories though, and don't handle things like mugshot sites, even if it's something you were arrested...but not convicted for. Still useful to know for sure.
the freenode community changed its name and moved servers
This position strikes me as unjustifiably elitist, reminiscent perhaps of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind.

> lots of university departments that were superfluous, producing nothing that was actually benefitting society

Who's to decide precisely what does and doesn't benefit society? More so, how can you decide in advance which line of inquiry will prove fruitful and which won't? Shouldn't you cast a broad net, especially when it comes to academia?

> government subsidies targeting those who could not complete STEM degrees

This, I'm sure, varies greatly between countries. But why do you think there's such a clear hierarchy of academic topics? It's quite dismissive of entire fields to assume that the people who are involved with them are simply STEM drop-outs.

As a side note I would also have to say that lumping together science, engineering and mathematics doesn't make much sense to me - this observation is not targeted at the parent, it's just a general peeve I have.

> Have we reached a state of elite-overproduction?

What would the alternative be? Back to the aristocracy, or to something like the Gilded Age or Belle Epoque?
I'm trying to get my son and his girlfriend to live at home for a few years post graduation. He wants to move out into a place in seattle. She's a bit more about saving money. The math is that they'd have all loans paid off and a 200k down payment about 4 years out of college if they live with us, and they'd have loans paid off if in 4 years and < 15k savings if they moved to a smaller condo.

Important side note: they're both major home bodies so they wouldn't take advantage of living in a cool neighborhood.

To me it makes such massive sense to just bum it in their seperate upstairs 800sqft apartment and cheap food/rent/etc to bootstrap their lives instead of moving out. But it's a fight.

Luckily so far she's moved him from being very much in the NEET camp to actually looking for a job. But covid completely nerfed my ability to push him to have a job last summer (his pre-junior summer).
> If anything it creates an incentive for making energy production more efficient.

How is this different from any other consumer of electricity? Every consumer wants to buy the cheapest electricity, and every producer wants to produce the most of it per energy input.
A Compilers View of OpenMP
In addition to what you listed, I would have liked to see something about Apple not getting special rules when it comes to their own apps. For example Spotify does not have to pay 30% since Apple has a competing music service.
I wonder why the DOD/FTC/whatever can't/won't impose specific restrictions on companies in order to correct anti-trust issues? That seems a lot less drastic and risky than a break-up.

For example, if Apple is forcing developers to use their payments SDK to collect 30%, why can't a government agency just force them to stop?

Maybe there was a long official investigation by antitrust regulators, and that kicked off a long bureaucratic process that ends in a mandate restricting Apple from doing a very specific thing, maybe with an appeal/review process, expiration date, etc.

No need to get a bill passed that changes the law for everyone. A smaller company could still do that same thing, but it doesn't matter because due to their size, they're not immune to competitive forces. If anything, they'll have a harder time pulling it off because developers can get a better deal with Apple thanks to the new restriction.

Idk how the law works and whether the relevant regulators are able to do something like this. So maybe this comment is stupid, but it makes sense in my layman head at least.
There are some prior work that can digitize (vectorize) floorplans: https://github.com/art-programmer/FloorplanTransformation.

This can detect rooms as polygons, doors/windows as line segments and bounding boxes around objects (e.g. cabinets, sinks etc. indicated on floorplans).
They would likely just need to show "reasonable and prudent" attention to what they are selling. Electrical appliances UL listed, that sort of thing. Selling mainstream brands and not nameless Chinese products is another layer of defense. IANAL.
N.Y. State Low-Cost Broadband Law Blocked by U.S. Judge
Yeah, that's still the case.
Excel’s lambda is still only avaiable in beta versions, I think? At least, I haven’t seen it yet, and I have been looking.
I'd ask if that error might be better understood as downranking of two things that seem very reasonable to downrank in a search engine (something designed to return accessible and useful information):
- bigots motivated by animosity towards minorities
- open contempt for the truth

Hard to feel there's a compelling interest in supporting bigotry when knowledge is best advanced by open inquiry and the net result of bigotry is a suppression of voices which will lead to less knowledge.

As to conspiracies and lies? Very little truth value there, unclear why Google would want to uprank that kind of content.

Were there real debates about truth with actors in good faith on both sides, I might be more open to your framing of the problem as left wing vs right wing.
What about an American using a German service? I thought that GDPR applied then?

However I’m not sure you get EU law to apply to a phone, buy unlocked from a German teleco?
Thanks! That is an interesting aspect. I had not considered that it could be a two-way relationship, rather than the store just buying what they want to sell and putting it on the shelf.

I guess it seems a little obvious in retrospect that there must be a bit of that going on, I've long noticed that some suppliers have a lot of responsibility in the store beyond delivering product. Like the beer guy pretty much runs the entire beer aisle. And it's one of the big names supplying all the beer, not just their own.

I've seen similar action in some stores by the soft drink vendors and even the bread vendor. Non-store employees on the floor putting stock directly on the shelf.
So you're going to end up paying more in real terms (since deflation), for a house that's going to be worth less, you're making less and you have to pay interest. Sounds like an amazing deal, would vote for bitcoin tomorrow !
The 'and goats' part leads me to conceptualizing the instruction more like:

Bit Scrambler / Chutes - shuffle bits around in a way that divides a stream.

This might also be useful in pre-filters for compression (entropy reduction) if you knew the content of the message. E.G. for ASCII text the upper 2-3 bits of each letter could be ranked to the side for better compression and a reduction of message size.

As others have pointed out, modern CPUs ended up with 'half' that instruction, so I wonder if there were any other reasons for the full instruction.
Nice one! This one falls into 'everyone is trying to hack this, and the major players won't have something until 2028, why has no one built it yet?'
Congrats!
I'm going to get downvoted to oblivion for this, and I say: bring it on, destroy my karma. I will not squelch my opinion when I care greatly about this. So:

I legitimately hate this. I use an iPhone because I don't have the attention span (I'm ADHD) to manage things being fiddly with a ton of different choices. Because it's set up in such a way that it's much easier to live my daily life due to how Apple forces things to be done in general. (and don't get me wrong, I KNOW the App Store has problems that NEED to be solved) All this is going to do is make my phone into the nightmare that Android is for me. I've tried to use Android multiple times, and it ALWAYS ends up with me extremely frustrated.

Get the heck away from my iPhone legislators. And people who literally constantly go on about "you don't have to side load an app" or "I should be able to do anything with my phone" PLEASE stop for 5 minutes to consider how a bullheaded move like this is going to massively disrupt not only my own life, but a lot of people's lives and make them more confusing and harder to manage. For example: People who don't know much about using a phone/tablet are going to have a harder time when Facebook becomes more hostile when they have their own store. Or if utility apps such as for parking put themselves in something like Facebook's store, suddenly you have NO CHOICE but to use that store and their app if you want to park somewhere with a meter. Such as when you're visiting another state for a vacation. Subscriptions are going to become a potential nightmare, and those scam apps that you can currently easily unsubscribe from their thing might become WAY HARDER to do because they're in some other store that doesn't tightly control that with an easy UI.

I hate this. So much. Maybe I'll just go back to everything being on paper and use a flip phone for calls/texts if this garbage goes through and the doom scenario becomes real. It would have been a good run of having something usable.
It's even freaking funny that "SEO" appears as a Related search at the bottom of that search url. It has nothing to do other than a lot of people (we) come from a SEO article
Slackers vs. Strivers
You are right that there are situations where that is true.

For most activities in the United States, in 2021, this mode of analysis is flat out wrong.

Realizing this distinction is a path to liberation.
> Another example: Let's assume ownership of a house is defined by a blockchain. Through a mistake, ownership of your house has been transferred to someone else, or lost to an address with no existing private key. Alternatively, you were in the process of buying a house when the same happened.

I've thought about this a lot, and I think the solution is to use something similar to "social recovery wallets" [0], but with a dao (group of people) as the recovery mechanism. Basically, assume that the blockchain has the correct owner, and require very strong proof to overturn. This has the advantage of making 99.9% of transfers very cheap, rather than 100% of transfers expensive as is now.

RealT is a company that sells "tokenized" real estate, and they do something like this. They assume the ownership on the blockchain is correct, but you can contact them, and they can overturn ownership if you prove that it was stolen or transferred erroneously. I'd personally take this one step further and have a group of people in the community that oversee the process (basically a court, but a lot more efficient and transparent).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27477940
Assume you are an owner of Apple stock and your networth depends on it.

What should Apple do to minimize your risk?
I like your solution better.

Another App Store protects commerce. But a lot of the arguments are about protecting consumers. Your solution empowers consumers to truly do what they want. Instead of doing what an arbitrary App Store allows.
Even worse with fiat
This is essentially equivalent to feeding the input through bitwise-NOT first. Unfortunately, there are far more integers that are neither sparse nor dense than integers that are sparse or dense.
Mugshot sites might be covered by https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/9172218, but it depends.

[disclosure: I'm a googler, but no clue about this service]