skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alas, the state of the tech advertising industry…

Honestly, it’s all so exhausting I’m just so damn tired. You can’t even buy an OS anymore that isn’t loaded to the brim with bloat and spyware—provided BY THE MANUFACTURER nonetheless.

Honestly, once Windows ten is end Of life I’m done with tech industry.

I’ll go to the library and read some books; I’ll use a pen/pencil; I’ll wander, blissfully into the sunset.
Unity is claiming they came up with this:

https://www.gamedev.net/tutorials/programming/general-and-ga...
Add to the list that the people who are best on paper and are good at interviewing will probably be looking for a new job in a year and/or when things get tough.
Ask HN: Have any of you considered buying into or starting a franchise business?
Hello Everyone - I have long considered buying into a franchise of some kind as a way to diversify my assets, find another source of income, and/or securing a tax shelter. Some of the pushback I have heard is that its akin to "buying yourself a job" and "if you believe in that kind of business, you should just use your capital to start from scratch."

I have tried to start several small businesses and quickly found myself overwhelmed with the day to day, eventually losing interest altogether. I am naturally risk averse so when it comes down to making a decision to deploy my capital, I freeze and "find something else to focus on", leaving the thing I built to wither on the vine.

I have built websites since I was 16 as part-time thing, and made really good side money. I didn't really have a way to grow that into something more as I lack that foresight. I had a laser cutter and CNC machine where I made designed with CAD and made stuff for friends, family and eventually started making items for other people. It was decent side money, but there is a definite limit on my throughput without more investment and basically going all in. Also, I have written scripts in python for folks on Fiverr and other freelance sites... again, I didn't really see a path for my programming skills going forward as I am a mediocre programmer at best.

It should be mentioned that I am a full time professional firefighter. Most of my friends work in the trades as side gigs, but I hesitate with that because my job takes a toll on my body already. I have 8 years until I am eligible to retire (I will be 53) and would like to start something that will pay for medical insurance and give me something to do into my 60's and hopefully 70's.

I am interested in hearing anything at this point from this community regarding becoming a franchisee. Pitfalls, horror stories, successes, failures and big wins... all of it. My current job is 90% EMS and 10% firefighting and I think I am pretty good at handling stress. My current job has trained me to be very algorithmic in my thinking, following guidelines and deviating when necessary where lives often hang in the balance. However, without a solid footing in taking business based risks, I am lost when it comes to actionable insight in that arena. The idea of following a "plan" as a franchisee is very appealing for a simpleton like myself due to that perceived or real limitation.
Why get into the news game? To better profile users and be able to show them targeted advertising would be my guess.
Thinking about how to achieve some of these features in Firefox

1. An extension like Tree Style Tabs, but in a dedicated tab, which is pinned to the first tab, so easily accessible with `Alt+1`.

2. A keyboard shortcut for detaching the tab (via something like Tridactyl) and then resizing it using a tiling window manager.

2 is easy to achieve, if 1 does not yet exist in some form I might build it someday.
It actually used to be more common, back when that kind of stuff was discussed from time to time (eg: back in the day when there was this huuuge general mania/phobia about "bestie di satana").
> interesting to observe the other factors (wage and services) deflate as the theory predicts

The theory doesn't predict deflation. Any trade imbalance must be balanced out with an equivalent flow of money in the opposite direction. This means the quantity of money, and by extension the price level, will change according to the balance of trade. Therefore the theory predicts inflation in countries that have a trade surplus, and deflation in those that have trade deficit.
> for this reason the number of sectors per track are greater the further the track is from the centre of the platter. Yet the head will pass over the entire track in the same amount of time...

an additional consequence is that for the same amount of data it takes lesser number of tracks thus making for faster/shorter seeks inside that data.
sed is pretty ancient too. I've used it a lot with Docker to alter parameters during builds.
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its not silent, when you report messages there is a prompt that tells the reporter what is happening

take a look
https://twitter.com/WABetaInfo/status/1435221936888483847
We could equally well say that it is defined completely differently for each group using it. For those of us not listening specifically to one of those groups, it is undefined, because we have no way to choose among indefinitely many.

Even within, it is typically much more slippery than they prefer to admit.
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I have no issue with people turning against, hating, berating, bullying, etc. me. These are simply matters of feeling and opinion. I do have a problem when other people feel entitled to escalate such conflicts by reacting to these unwelcome points of view with real, actual violence, including government censorship. Even, and perhaps especially, when these people are purporting to act in my defense.
This doesn't at all imply that the same isn't happening upon automatic detection of "reportable" messages.
Ok, 2019 is out

How about 2013:

https://www.gamedev.net/tutorials/programming/general-and-ga...

I use a heavily updated version of this for my own projects
It's poorly implemented JIT. People simplified Just In Time to mena "no inventory" and then when a disruption hit, it echoed up and down supply chains. JIT doesn't mean no inventory, it means managing inventory and your supply chain to ensure adequate iventory based on needs both current and forseen.

One car example, you should ensure you have 4 times as many tires available as you do cars, because an imbalance there becomes either a constraint (too few tires) or a waste (too many tires). But it's not JUST making those numbers match, you have to forecast, how many cars and I going to build, are my supplies for the cars ok, look at normal fluctuations, and then also look at potential supply chain FAILURES and plan for them. Maybe it's easy to get brake pads but the lead time on tires is 4 months. Well then, I don't need to stock as many brake pads in case of a disruption, but I should definitely have enough tires to carry me through a potential disruption (maybe not 4 months worth, maybe I stock 2 and slow down car production, or something).

All these companies kept their shelves bare, and when some companies slowed orders, they didn't stop to think that the manufacturers they bought from would look for other customers to take up capacity. They acted like TSMC would sit there by the phone waiting for some customer to come back. No, they're in the business of selling chips, not in the business of servicing DumbCorp. No one planned for what might happen if they stopped ordering parts, they just expected the capacity to be there.

I'm bringing 6 new sites online this year, and a 7th early in the new year. I just bought a bunch of network equipment for not just our existing sites, but the 7 to come. I looked at supply chain issues, and said to my CFO, this inventory is going to sit here for 6 months, but we get a larger quantity discount, and we'll get the new sites online faster and not worry about getting this equipment if we buy now. We COULD have saved that money now, but the advantages of having it when we need it is greater than having that money in the bank for 6 more months.

JIT means planning ahead, not just micromanaging inventory. Too many MBAs don't get that.
for comparison -- below is current, public policy in California 2021

https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/ps4p2vck/californiawildfireand...
> Either way, how the hell do you get a patent for some abstract diagrams that represent a design pattern.

You don't.

Patents are unfortunately very obtuse to read and hard to parse, and it's especially easy for a lay person to give up very quickly and as a result misinterpret the patent. This is especially true when you're pointed to the patent by a rando on the internet telling you what (they think) is patented, even if it's not accurate.

Another contributing factor is that, even when you read the claims, a lot of the actual description may be functionally irrelevant to the actual thing being claimed. Suppose, for a moment, that you were patenting a new kind of bike pedal. Then your actual claim would look like an overly verbose and vague description of a bike that includes your new kind of pedal. And since most of the paragraph is describing a bike, it's easy to assume that what is being patented is the bike and not the pedal of that bike.
Well, I split the subjective experience of consciousness (which I do experience, although I deny that experience means that consciousness truly exists) from that of free well.

I think we're subjectively conscious (the inner movie) but that doesn't equate to any sort "mind" or "free will". Somewhere between determinism and compatibilism, if that helps.

I think it's very dangerous to say "I experience consciousness, therefore it's scientifically valid".
I don't think the role of quarterback on a football team is comparable to the role of CEO of a tech company.
I too have found applying for jobs via web sites to be a complete waste of time. Every job I’ve gotten in the past 20 years was either through a personal contact or a recruiter who reached out and contacted me based on my LinkedIn.
Nice - I've been writing XQuery for years and I had no clue
I feel like this is going to blow up into a thread with a ton of comments about peoples own personal opinions on hiring - while the actual content of this tweet thread barely flesh much out about the topic.
However, there is still less manual work being down if videos are flagged via an algorithm versus checked one-by-one by a person. Though, results may vary.
> and more people who are motivated by the impact of their work (of whom there are plenty, and they're just as good as the financially motivated ones).

Nobody does the work for the sake of doing the work.

People work for a combination of financial reward and social status, and they'd use that as a metric to measure how much are they winning compared with the other 8 billion people on the planet

There is only a very very tiny percentage of people who are happy with just citations and the tepid approval of other academics

So if you roll back financial reward all the way down , then you have to pump social status all the way up.

It's going to be even worse. The cult of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk and Donald Trump would be the normal and would trickle all the way down.
Yet another point for approval voting ( / score voting). You'd have to confuse people into not just picking the decoy but also dropping the original.
"AI" running on every client can automatically flag messages and send them to moderators.

> Most can agree that violent imagery and CSAM should be monitored and reported; Facebook and Pornhub regularly generate media scandals for not moderating enough. But WhatsApp moderators told ProPublica that the app’s artificial intelligence program sends moderators an inordinate number of harmless posts, like children in bathtubs. Once the flagged content reaches them, ProPublica reports that moderators can see the last five messages in a thread.
It looks like the AI stuff applies to the groups content which is not E2E.
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> because the cost of a bad hire is so much higher than the cost on missing out on someone good

Is this true? Organizations I've been a part of the best hires were game changing for the company, and the worst hires just got fired after 6 months.
WSJ just posted a story about this yesterday: https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-need-more-workers-why...

I think a company could do well by teaching HR about game theory: take into account what your competitors are doing for hiring and the best candidates they're skipping over when coming up with your own strategy.
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Besides banking, what are your other "must-have" integrations?

Any sense as to why QuickBooks is so entrenched with accounting firms? I've seen Xero mentioned more often lately, and curious how they broke through the QB barrier to entry.
But not to deny your experiences.

A sample size of one is mostly meaningless in science.
Yeah, but if you are happy to program in Perl, that's basically every major Linux distro covered. Anything using DEB or RPM packaging, any machine with Git installed (which includes Windows), plus the ones I already mentioned, already have access to Perl. This is a formidable installed base with no effort needed to install a runtime.
(Further Matrix Online spoilers) The main storyline of the bulk of the time that The Matrix Online was, uh, online was the resurrection of Neo (or "the retrieval of Neo from the Source" if you prefer that nomenclature). Morpheus sacrificed himself as a part of that effort.

From the stand point of "Morpheus sacrificed himself for Neo", that's a good story, even if very few players were around for the game event where that happened "on screen". I think its a pretty decent excuse for "Morpheus isn't involved in Matrix 4" even if I do hope that they find a way somehow to tell that story in a better way than "well if you look for the right YouTuber you might get an okay retelling of what playing The Matrix Online was like" and/or compilations of the live events cutscenes. (Related aside: Owning what was once the developer Monolith, Warnermedia should own all of the assets of The Matrix Online, except maybe remaining clauses in publishing contracts with Sega/Sony/what is today Daybreak. I wonder if some sort of F2P revival might have been an interesting marketing plan for Matrix 4.)

I don't have any direct theories on Trinity's return. There's rumors about where Matrix Online's storyline was supposed to go before the game was shutdown, of course, but rumors of a storyline and events that didn't even happen are certainly non-canon. I am of course very curious to see how they address it.
What Rob wants is a personal computing environment that isn't restricted to a singular personal computer. I use plan 9 and the concept of your ENTIRE computing environment being portable across any number of machines, at the OS level, is priceless.
I wouldn't mind rolling a D20, it's transparent and honest.
Yes, so I assumed it is running on the client, but for all I know they could be encrypting the message and sending an image hash to Facebook.
China has built and continues to build numerous city-scale projects. Don't be fooled by western media ghost city reporting. Sure, they exist but to argue that their presence indicates a failure of city-scale projects is not correlated.
> Also imagine that there are no truck drivers to drive the bananas from the plantations to your local stores, and no ships to bring fertilizer to the banana plantations.

In the UK, the situation is even worse: because there is an acute shortage of truckers to truck pigs from farms to slaughterhouses and a lack of butchers, 100k pigs are set to be killed and burned - they simply grow each day, and butchers have limits on how big/heavy the pigs may be: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9958663/Farms-set-k...

Turns out, no one but immigrants wanting to send or set aside money for their home country wants to do the job for the wage the companies are paying. And companies can't pay better wages because customers are conditioned on cheap meat. And politicians haven't done anything to curb that because tolerating rising food prices is one of the fastest ways of not getting reelected.

Brexit really hit at the worst possible time, and now innocent pigs have to suffer for society's failures. What a damn tragic waste.
What you're saying seems to make sense if they were referring to output in terms of total area of substrates produced, but instead sounds like TFA is talking about manufacturing floor space
And would you want your laptop taking as much power writing a word document as it takes to run a AAA game?
Is there any particular reason to believe its not running on the client?
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Defending against patent trolls is an aspect.

But the flip side is that this gives corporations a great tool to handicap competition.

If a competitor emerges, they can threaten legal action. And with a huge patent portfolio the big players can usually find a way to attack pretty much anyone.

Many companies will easily get scared and cave, and so either lose competitive advantage by dropping the technology, or feel forced into agreeing to an aqui-hire by the corporation . Which further cements the corporations dominating position.

This happens often enough, but rarely goes public.
The sadness of my life is that I'm probably bound to be repeating this until I let out my final breath:

If you're not running the service yourself and taking care of end-to-end encryption, somebody can (and probably will) read your messages. Actual privacy of messaging does not exists today. Don't even bother looking for that.

EDIT: just to clarify, it might just be that somebody can access your data for a legitimate purpose (say an operator of the service) and then leak/sell the data.

This is the simplest thing that can happen and that DID happen. The united arab emirates paid a Twitter employee from UAE to leak data about anti-UAE-government from Twitter. People died because of this.
This is correct, mixed up the companies. Thanks for clarifying before I could.
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That is impressive actually.
>God forbid. Think of all the experiences you and your family will miss out on!

This is a snide remark, but it is absolutely a factor. I grew up in Michigan, and the number of people who never venture beyond their almost-entirely-white small town to see what other communities and cultures are like is a huge contributing factor to the amount of prejudice and judgmental nature that makes me never want to move back.

Seeing people different from you and different places is broadening and gives you a much better perspective to be able to understand the world. This is important in life as well as in your career.
If you’re receptive to hypnosis you might give it a shot.
I’m currently on my second COVID infection. My wife and I ended up in the ER last night - we had both done a monoclonal antibody infusion earlier in the day and then two hours later my wife started having a fever (for the first time) along with body shakes. It was just out of an abundance of caution as she’s pregnant and we wanted to make sure it wasn’t a reaction.

Anyways, my wife told the first nurse that this was my second infection and she was amazed. She also told the nurse that gave us the infusion the same thing, with the same reaction. Apparently this caused quite the hubbub in the hallway and our last nurse of the night came in and told us that I was the first reinfection she’d heard of. This was a COVID ward nurse.

So, I don’t know. On one hand - this is my second time and I had 7 days with a fever of 102f. I’m 33 and healthy. On the other hand, apparently it’s damned rare. I would maybe advise people that had been infected to get the vaccine or not depending on their jobs/other risk factors.
Never done this myself and I find the very notion off putting and dangerous. Sounds like diet nepotism to me.
The developer of the O.MG cable has a good Twitter thread describing the issues.

https://twitter.com/_mg_/status/1388321639524229120?s=21
I am not so clever and cryptography is hard. Why should I use age instead of regular gpg?
We always look for “rough diamonds”. It is a creative process, lots of tea leaves reading, but will yield excellent results if you have the ability to read these tea leaves. I am not sure we ever hired “the best on paper” candidate. But we have had great success with people who had no knowledge of out stack, down to the programming language.
If enough state about a person is public and verifiable, then hiring can become algorithmic. As a bonus, if this is publicly disclosed, then the applicant can walk the path to close the gap to be hired at places they wish to work.

The catch is capturing and verifying the relevant info. It may not be tractable, to put it mildly. But it’s a useful thought exercise to think about what it would take for such an approach to be sane.
I haven't played it since (and I know it's generally considered Not Very Good) but I remember greatly enjoying the Enter The Matrix video game, largely because the concept of tying the plot of the game into Reloaded directly was such a cool idea. it wasn't just your typical video-game-of-the-movie, instead it follows the story of two minor characters from the films that runs parallel to the second film. it's kind of a bummer that basically nobody else used this idea for anything else.
They gave up on having their own currency a long time ago. Basically El Salvadorans decided that they aren't competent enough to manage a currency of their own, and adopted someone else's currency instead.
Wow. So, what, I have to vote Trump now? That won't be happening but always interesting to hear different perspectives.