skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Maybe not 1:1 with wage increases, but the second-order effects can’t be ignored.

It depends on the scale of the 2nd order effects, and which 2nd order effects we look at.

Here these 2nd order effects are far lower than the effects of massive segments of the population living in poverty working full time jobs. The proportion of the pie going to labor vs capital has never been lower. Push that ratio back to rates more resembling the postwar multi-decade boom, and we'll see similar effects.

IOW, the inflation resulting from forcing non-poverty wages will still keep the market intact, good employers will still offer more and employees will move, but employees will also have funds to buy stuff and generate demand, which has been lacking.
It’s a train of people up Si with a slammed parking lot… I think that’s the point. It is difficult, but it is also highly pedestrian as far as trails go in WA. We are lucky to have such high standards here where even the most accessible and trafficked trails are incredible
Yesterday I noticed that on July 2nd someone left a review for a movie that said in part "They did have to put in Climate change nonsense. Wonder if that is a requirement with funding so AL gore can get billions of more tax dollars. 1168 people found this helpful."

It is incredible to me that climate change is still considered to be nonsense by so many people.
Regardless of whether price is based on battery life, it has been shown that price is based on who the customer is and the circumstances. Uber is modeling based on willingness to pay. For example, others have shown that on average, a ride back home will cost more than a ride from home to somewhere else. Uber's algorithm has learned that if you are away from home without your car, you may have few other options, and you may be willing to accept an inflated price.

While this does great things for Uber's short term revenue, it will absolutely destroy it long-term. If the drive to the restaurant is only $10, but the ride back is $40, people will remember this and just drive themselves the next time.
> I don't understand the first point because I can access my calendar, email, contact, etc all during a call on my phone without problem (Android 10).

Not all phones could. Verizon in particular had a lot of phones in the previous decade which couldn't access voice and data services at the same time.
My favorite is the 8k static memory board. It has 64 RAM chips which means each one comes in at a whopping 128 bytes or 1k bits.
No, I do not engage with bad-faith arguments. It's a waste of time trying to refute every little detail, as these folks will just move goalposts and find something else to complain about.

I recommend just started with the wikipedia page.
Mine included a link. I already removed it so can't look at it now, but it definitely included one of those minified links that immediately scream "phishing".
They _can_ rummage through your photos. They are encrypted in transit and on the server but with a key that they have access to.

If it's not explicitly listed in the end-to-end encryption section then assume Apple can access it.
OK, but then the prefetch link as it stands is useless, no?
Any word with powerful meaning in one context will inevitably be repurposed in other contexts by people who want to borrow some of that power for their own uses.

Here is an example: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=democratize
From the Slippery Slope page, their first example of a false slippery slope: "We can't permit the sale of marijuana by doctor's prescription, because that will lead people to believe it's an acceptable drug; this will open the floodgates to the complete legalization of the drug for use by every pothead in the country."

Umm... that happened.
A lot of items don't have a wikipedia page, but all wikipedia, wikitravel, wiki* pages have a wikidata item (see "Wikidata item" link of the left side of the pages).

Some wikipedia infoxes are based on wikidata. I can't find an example, but here some links:

* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata_infobox_...

* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_Infobox

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_person/Wikida...

There are lexeme too, and it is not based on wiktionary.
Search the prefix "L:" (without quote).

Example:

* https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=L%3Acat&search=L...

* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L7

Also, there are a lot of tools on toolforge.org. One is reasonator which produce sentences from a wikidata item: https://reasonator.toolforge.org/?q=Q1339
From the rest of his blog, it seems C++.

He also doesn't favor scripting languages.
"Thought-Terminating Cliché" is also an autological term: it can describe itself.
I am not familiar with that area, but when hiking, I try to map out natural springs.

You won't need them going in, but it's coming back. I once went through a gallon of water on a hot day, and that spring I found earlier saved me.

(I haven't been on a long hike since that day though.)
> Why not fix the code that suggests rape videos?

None of those titles say rape or child in them, and the article already covered that they have a blacklist of search terms. Ever played a videogame with a censored wordlist for profanity? People will still find a way to call you a racial slur, even if it involves some really creative uses of text to get around the filter.

> Wouldn't it be better to just... not have that feature? Why isn't it an option to just turn it off?

Related searches in a search engine is a pretty core feature, and it's not like it prevents people from just coming up with related searches with their own mind and typing them in manually. And your statement sort of applies to every facet of Pornhub. Uploading user submitted videos can be actively harmful. Comments can be actively harmful.

Edit to respond to this bit:

> Changing the code is within their power, yet they don't.

I'm pretty certain it's not just taking search term and running it through a thesaurus or something like that. It likely correlates searches from users that make similar search terms. The code isn't really generating any suggestions, just aggregating correlated search terms. I don't have hard proof of this of course, but it's a very common implementation for related searches.
Does it?

Weight loss methods include a lot of pseudo science and I think it's important to keep in mind that whatever low fat or low carb or paleo diet you try is ultimately only going to succeed if you lower your calorie intake or raise your calorie expenditure.

Obviously there are some exceptions to that rule if you aren't accounting for changes in calorie absorption or bmr, but everything I've seen or read seems to show that those variations are miniscule.
macs come with facetime preinstalled (the newer ones at least) and you can send facetime links to people and they can join using the web client if they dont have a mac.
The issue is not them knowing it. The issue is that it is illegal, period.

If you do it knowingly, there may be additional provisions that you're breaking, or additional penalties, and you increase the length of time that you are out of compliance. This doesn't mean that you're totally in the clear if you "didn't know", which would be hard to demonstrate anyway, considering their own wiki had this information listed.
The larger thrust of my essay is that simple feature checklist marketing and product specification fails to consider a larger ecosystem and workflow of usage. The fact that much of the intelligence of the system was "women's work" (e.g., provided by secretarial and switchboard staff), made it all the more invisible.

Regarding the limitations of the post-1980s "smart phone" ecosystem (both desk and mobile devices), the limitations and UI/UX failures:

1. Apply to a number of different devices. Not merely flagship smartphones, but several other variations on featureful telephony equipment, including a number of generations of office phone systems (typically Rolm desksets), VOIP systems, and consumer landline / wireless handsets, etc., with which I've had direct experience. These tend to exhibit a range of UI/UX failures, to a greater or lesser extent.

2. The opening quote was from an aquaintance, who's more than slightly technologically literate.

3. The statement isn't absolute, but conditional. Frequently implies "not always".

Comments so far seem to miss both the focus on overall workflow, and the nuance on feature completeness and/or suitability.

Perhaps I'm a less effective communicator than I'd hoped.

Perhaps the technological blinders are more formidable than I'd feared.
Or was paid by these people to justify the purge.
no, that's a fallacy of nature
> It's now rude to just call someone on the phone without asking permission first.

I've literally never heard of this. So much of my day-to-day work and personal communication would pretty much never happen if I had to ask for permission every time before I called someone. Is it a millennial thing?

Phones (telephones, that is) and phone numbers are exactly for spontaneous voice communication. If someone doesn't want to be called out of the blue, they can choose to not give their number out to people. Or for texting say, hey, here's my number but I'm so busy that texting is usually better for me. And with today's smartphones that tell you who is calling (or at least, whether or not it's someone you know), it's _way_ easier to decide whether or not to answer a call than it was two or three decades ago where the phone just rang and that was all you got.
Have you read Cathy O'Neil's book Weapons of Math Destruction? If so, what did you think of it?
This prompted me to relook and it wasn’t as bad as I remember gcc8.4.0. A couple minor changes and I am building now. Cool
I mentioned that being able to trigger the wash/dryer remotely was about the only thing I found useful.

Yes all of that's already been done immediately after finding this out.

I'm new to HN, so I apologize in advance if this isn't the right place to post this.
These allegations, if true, are terrible, and Roblox should address them.

That said, maybe if these young developers learn first hand why digital sharecropping is bad at an early age they can avoid being chewed up and spit out by the "AAA" game development machine and instead focus on creating and promoting games on a platform they have control over.
Very good point. This is a great selling point for Go. It takes so much deployment pain away.
The interchange goes to the card issuer, not to the scheme. Visa and MasterCard fees are the smallest part of the overall fee charged by the payment processor. (That said it might be higher in the US, I don't know).
A converstation earlier this week pointed out the EU system: eIDAS [0]. it looks pretty interesting how its decentralized.

I could see something like this running from each state's DMV (or the postal service if you didn't want to use your local state DMV) to help ensure you are you.

It would be interesting to hear what people that use it say, because i'm sadly stuck in a very US world :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS
if the cost of identity theft, i mean bank fraud, was put on the banks this would be less of an issue.

all companies do not need better security. banks need better processes so my ssn and address cant be used to mess up my life.

the banks have the money to fix this.
Quoting from an NPR article...

"This is a very unusual, unique situation," said Kristie Mitchell, a spokesperson for the sheriff's office. "There were no signs of trauma, no obvious cause of death. There was no suicide note."

From https://www.npr.org/2021/08/20/1029582815/california-family-...
The frequency with which I need my email and a notebook while I'm on the phone makes integrated devices foolish.

If that's actually a common problem for this person then they should start carrying a bluetooth headset. Personally I always have my bluetooth earbuds in my pocket so I'll pop one of them in if a phone conversation lasts more than a minute. The complaint is incredibly silly because no one is stopping you from carrying your phone and a headset and a notepad and all the other things or even a second phone. You can totally go back to doing the way it used to be done. This is like whining that your evening walks are ruined because the light on your phone isn't as good as the flashlight you used to carry. If you don't like it then use the damn flashlight instead.
Right, as in the naturally occurring stupidity perversely sometimes produces good results, thus reinforcing the stupid behaviors, which ultimately become weaponized...
It will be suicide.

It will not be toxic algae. It won't be gasses.

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you shouldn't say it.

Suicides happen all the time. Post Covid over the next decade you'll see a rise so get used to it.

There's a chance it's heat exhaustion but it seems very unlikely.
> It doesn't make you absorb food better, otherwise we would have already evolved to use that absorption process.

While I don't know about the first half of this sentence (though I have my suspicions!) it's pretty obvious the second half is false. You're saying that we all have to process food identically because evolution has selected the optimal result in humans. But evolution does not product perfectly consistent results. In fact it relies on producing inconsistent results! Because sometimes small flaws turn out to actually be a benefit and get selected, that's how evolation works. So the fact that humans are a result of evolution does not prevent different people from having different abilities to absorb nutrients.

> But the reason you're[1] fat is because you eat too much.

You went to the trouble of mentioning CICO and then totally forgot about CO! Obviously you could extend this sentence to "... and/or you don't do enough exercise" but, similar to the previous point, there are likely to naturally be variation in calorie outputs. In fact "running hot" might seem like a weakness but could be a perfectly valid evolutionary strategy, presuming it gave some other benefit (like sharper mind or stronger body, better for obtaining more food). It's quite possible for both strategies to be baked into one set of genes, perhaps selected by activity in childhood.

---

It's self evident that CICO is true. It's just completely worthless for providing any insight. Very much a thought-terminating cliché as originally described.
Our government is run by a gerontocracy born decades prior to PCs and the internet. They have no idea what the root problem is or how to fix it. How many of them even know the absolute basics? What a for loop is? Or Postgres? Or http vs https? Anything they actually do will be written by lobbyists on behalf of tech giants and other multinational corporations and big donors.

Between that and the increasingly fundamentalist, censorious, puritan, social justice takeover of tech companies, I also feel like I'm being forced to become a luddite despite my life long love for technology.
If you expected the Fedora project, which is basically controlled by Red Hat, to not be controlled by Red Hat's corporate interests, that was your mistake. We have this crazy idea that money can flow into open-source without tainting it, but that's not true. Truly libre, distributed projects exist. You just can't expect to have your cake (corporate sponsorship and funding of core devs) and eat it too.
Data: Majority Say Biden Isn’t in Charge, nor Mentally Capable
Well no shit sherlock.
I meant that as a separate item since they are probably understaffed in all departments. The 15 min is just made up by me assuming they are working 10 hours.
I hate to tell you, but you may be one of those people we wish just texted every time we have to stop what we are doing and pick up a call.

99% of the time it could be handled better via a text or email, which allows both parties to answer when they can.

It is infuriating when I have to spend 30 minutes of my day trying to phone people back and getting voice mail so that they can tell me something that was best put in a simple text.
Now spontaneous calls have been replaced with slack messages, often with the expectation (and I'm guilty of this too) that the recipient will drop everything and reply. At least with a phone call, if they didn't answer you know they are bust.

Personally, I'd prefer a call to at least 50% of slack messages - any time a back and forth is required that could be addressed in a 30 second call but instead takes a slack chat spanning 10 min where you can't really do anything else because of the distraction.

I've tried to encourage people to phone me, including leaving my phone number is my slack status and asking people to consider phoning, but it wasnt really successful
FaceTime audio is the standard to beat. It’s just absolutely incredible.
wow, I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to sound as racist as this does... but it's pretty insulting. Why didn't you take the extra minute to write a reply that doesn't appear to insult a bunch of people? Or were you trying to be mean? Do you think being mean helps your suggestion?

Either way, you didn't actually read the article did you? The author explained why VPNs don't really work as a backup.
I agree. Apple already, AFAIK, requires iCloud uploading to be turned on in order for them to do scanning on the device. The delta of scanning on devices (already with iCloud enabled) and iCloud scanning doesn't seem to be worth the headache.
Why? 99% of HackerNews is a dumpster fire.
Blatant and Critical Closes the Sale
From the docs: “as an additional safeguard, the visual derivatives themselves are matched to the known CSAM database by a second, inde- pendent perceptual hash. This independent hash is chosen to reject the unlikely possi- bility that the match threshold was exceeded due to non-CSAM images that were ad- versarially perturbed to cause false NeuralHash matches against the on-device en- crypted CSAM database.”
> Men who do not care about the sexual freedom of their partners tend to got the way of Dodo.

I can't speak for others, but my partner and I have a monogamous relationship because we like each other. We don't need government coercion.

(edited to make it sound less ominous)
So the article was paid and that in itself is no problem ?
I was about to raise, "they're over-focusing on low pay jobs" because this happened on my team. It's incredibly hard to hire for my team because we require polyglot programmers at a minimum. I do know that it wasn't "me" or anything that I had control over on the team (mostly technical things).
>Sure but you are ignoring that such a scenario would need a different system to be deployed.

Right! I clearly stated multiple times that this would be a second system working in tandem, of course it would need to be deployed on its own. I am entirely unsure how you think I am ignoring that when it's the premise of my argument and of the concern of others.
They weren't suggesting that, the "blame" of the Iranian government is a separate thing.
"On February 24, 2017, Mozilla acquired 100% of the outstanding stock of Read It Later, Inc., known as Pocket, (RIL) for a total purchase price of $25 million in cash, and $5 million in deferred payments." - https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-fdn-201...
"Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." (Goodhart 1975)

Or:

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." (Strathern 1997)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Graham invents the notion of "authoritarian" tests, like school exams, and non-authoritarian tests, like football matches. But this is a poor distinction. Originally, sports were a genuine test of physical prowess. Eventually, the institution took over by enforcing rules. This is the same situation in education, except mental prowess is considered.
That looks super clean. Very cool.
step 1) wait for surge pricing

step 2) plug phone into charger

step 3) wait until surge pricing ends

Seems easy enough to explain.
totally against this CSAM thing but totally not going to public protest when someone could EASILY twist this to "they wanted the right to keep child porn on their phones without apple knowing about it"
I get the impression that you are trolling, but...

I don't think the Iranian government is "blameless" in general. (If countries were individual people, all of them would be in jail, with most of them about to hang for war crimes.)

But in the very specific context of embargoing software devs (versus weapons), I do think all of the blame for that is on countries on the imposing end of embargo. Big difference between "systemWMD" and actual WMDs. ;)

The horribly broken crypto we all had to deal with in the 2000s was partially due to US trying to treat it like a "munition" and thus weakening everyone - even themselves - by the mere existence of the hobbled "export-grade" ciphers.
There's no good reason.
As I've said before, it's time to wipe the slate on SSN's. They are de facto public anyway. A date should be announced when the entire database will be published. After that date all liability for fraud perpetrated using an SSN as a shared "secret" will be assigned to the party who accepted the SSN as "authentication". That would solve the problem.

As an aside: When it comes to an authentication source to take the place of silly shared public "secrets" I think it would be great if the United States Postal Service "pivoted" into issuing digital certificates to individuals. They already have infrastructure and procedures in place for identity verification and physical delivery. I suppose that's too much like a federally-issued ID to ever fly, though our "REAL ID" drivers licenses are, in effect, a federal ID anyway. I'd rather have a digital certificate out of the deal too.
Maybe "they" removed it...
muh long coviddd!

why don't these trumpers get their booster shots!

Don't they believe in facts and science?

Fauci said!
Using our unique traits of complex language and education to help other animals. Done. Did I included any sort of "supremacy"? No, just different capabilities.

I get your point, but no, I refuse to "feel" superior to any other life form. We´re just different. I´ll like to rephrase my statement, I want to respect other life forms as I respect my fellow human animals. I believe changing such little things like the headlines of articles could permeate in a new kind of consciousness involving every living form as part of the world, not "us and them".
From a follow-up comment to the original essay:

I strongly suspect that much of the reason for the lack of awareness and consideration of these methods, tools, and concepts is that this was "secretarial work", that is, women's work. It was conceived of specifically to free the minds of executives and administrators from having to deal with these problems. Further, as secretarial and administrative positions were eliminated from organisation, the knowledge, context, and even the culture in which they were embodied, was lost.
Good point. My impression is that it comes down to things like hierarchy, tact, charisma, political acumen. And if someone is deliberately derailing, there might not be an indirect strategy that's effective. You may simply have to bring it up again explicitly.

And personally I think that if it's clear someone is interfering then it may be necessary and advisable to call them out on it depending on the urgency. But it's not a minor issue. Something like that can absolutely kill a project or your career.

My belief is that they only way to really be free of that is to have the ability to fire people who do too much politicking or whatever. Such as being the boss.
That's exactly a range thing: LIDAR could tell you that there is an obstacle in front of you, it couldn't mistake a 3D object for a 2D picture on the road.