skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the socialist India where workers unions opposed any kind of computerization/automation. This especially hurt Indian banks as they continued to use costly manual calculations which employed army of clerks.

However one of the despotic Indian PM forcibly took over all private banks and "nationalized" it and later the same party used these banks as a jobs program to employ thousands of party workers and others to win votes.

A lot of these youngsters were bored of this manual work and insisted on computerization and the workers unions could not maintain the opposition. (In Indian government owned businesses people never lose their jobs. Which means even if a machine replaces your work, you will still get paid just to show up at work. While it makes sense to oppose digitization when you are unemployed, it makes sense to support it once you are employed. A bit of catch 22. This is not true for private companies as they can not keep people on payroll they don't need.)
Ads aren't what cause me to avoid distractions.

However there are many sites which would be on my no-visit list due to ads, honestly, google probably being one of them. I rarely see google results without ads, and when I do I am shocked by how hard they are to avoid. Even that small dark patern of having an icon, and replacing it with "ad" is so fucking evil.

Long story short, ads are a plague. I hope everyone installs adblockers and the entire ad industry collapses in favor of something hopefully a lot better.

I heard in a city in south america ALL advertisements outside were banned. You were permitted a name + logo for your business, but that's it. Turns out advertising got much more interesting and opt-in rather than forced upon you.
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"... it might not be too difficult to integrate the tech into existing infrastructure."

Just need to dig up all fiber and replace it with new fiber. Does it get any more difficult than that?
I wish more people were willing to provide quick wide-interval estimates.

For instance, we have been working with a general contractor on a house remodel, and he refuses to give ballpark estimates (time or money) for anything, I think out of fear that we’ll later hold his guesses against him; if I want an estimate he’ll only reply with something fairly narrow after several days or a week, after putting in unnecessarily rigorous effort.

Since we don’t know the field and he doesn’t perfectly understand our priorities and preferences, this slow feedback loop is very frustrating: it prevents us from iterating and exploring the the space of possibilities, wastes his time precisely estimating stuff that we could make decisions about using a rough estimate, and wastes our time trying to get estimates from other sources which have less knowledge of the context.
LOL, you can only laugh when you see this kind of story while the average joe struggles with life at just the slightest mistake.

When I was a student (but under a contract nonetheless) I was once threatened with termination because I took off my shoes while at my desk on a Friday at around 6pm (everyone left at 4pm, but I wanted to finish something that bugged me the whole week). Another guy next to me noticed it (trust me, there was no foul smell ;)) and it filed a report on misbehavior. What ensued was one of the most bizarre episodes I ever experienced with regards to "corporate life" (although I was in academy but w/e).

I got several emails from people that were somehow involved in that chain of command condemning the action; plus I had to go through two serious conversations regarding the incident, one with my direct supervisor and another one with the director of the whole faculty (!), where he took his time to explain to me how no one would like to employ somebody who displays such unprofessional behavior, etcetera ... Turns out that, for some people, it is a big deal if you take off your shoes, while sitting at your desk, on your office, on a Friday night. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fast forward to today and (quoting the great Mark Levine):

"The CEO of the company gave a potential investor a fake email address for a big customer, and then the COO digitally altered his voice to impersonate that customer on a call with the investor [...]"

but

"[...] the board decided not to investigate because ... they were satisfied that this was just a one-time thing, a little oopsie, everything else that the company does is completely aboveboard, and anyway no harm no foul"

Whew! We all play the same game, right? Just not under the same rules.
I think it's important to remember that some (most?) of what Levine writes is tongue-in-cheek. There Levine discusses the practical consequences and board's incentives but in no way is he saying the board has fulfilled their legal obligations. Not even facetiously.
Best paragraph in the article:

So, what caused all this extra work that slowed down
page loads? The majority of the work came from
JavaScript that the Brave browser injected into every
page to help its adblocker. Specifically, it was the
cosmetic filter — a component responsible for adjusting
page layouts to correct for breakages caused by
adblocking. Brave’s developers didn’t need to work on
the script to improve its performance; they needed to
delete it.
We may not be far from the point where ab blocking loses the arms race to obfuscated wasm rendering co-served ads to canvas.

I'd return to more niche enthusiast sites, where the top handful of uses chip in a few dollars a year to keep the VPS on.
Not to be facetious but Wow - I'm not sure how we let that "feature" slide past the "privacy" folk.
Exactly. I was a private tutor thru 2020 and this was my experience - it was much less “I’m falling behind” clients and more me just teaching the content since the online group instruction just wasn’t working.
It will be hard to splice a fiber with 4 cores or put a connector to it.
Tetris:

traceroute -I -q 1 -m 60 trh.milek7.pl

Append wasd command to subdomain. eg. tracerouting wwddds.trh.milek7.pl rotates 2x, moves right 3x and drops piece. After dropping traceroute without commands to get another piece.
I use ad-blockers and PiHole. I sometimes cannot access sites due to PiHole and I don't care. I had to cancel a digital subscription because of PiHole I could not stream videos. I would get a message that "Ad blocking was detected on my network", I could whitelist it but nope.

I hate ad tracking and if I cannot access a service then too bad.
It is really worth it to switch to DuckDuckGo. You can throw a g! at the end of your search if you don't like the results DDG gave and it will redirect you to Google. That was the feature that gave me the confidence to switch over, it's painless to get different results, even on a mobile keyboard.
I wonder whether this will be like income tax, theoretically proportional, but practically affecting the rich less than the poor, and companies even less?
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That's source code from the project. Tailwind is just inline styles via CSS shorthand classes. I cannot understand why anyone would want this unless they are coming from bootstrap.

Tailwind is unreadable when glancing through source code, especially when styles get large. It's just a web fad.
Personally I was homeschooled and sports was one of the main points of common ground I had with kids from "regular school"
No, it uses Yocto/OpenEmbedded.
Planet Fitness requires you to visit one of their branches to cancel or write a letter to the branch where you enrolled. I cancelled my membership last week.
Science doesn't even have axiomatic foundations. The consequence of two competing scientific theories is not logical explosion...
> We're approaching two very different situations in the U.S. Health outcomes with regards to COVID are following political leanings

Which group do you think is doing worse? Whatever that opinion is, it's not supported by the data:

Highest covid deaths per 100,000 are in Mississippi at 317 but New Jersey is #2 at 308. Alabama is high at 286 but NY is right there at 284. Arkansas is terrible at 252, but Massachussets is worse at 269. Texas at 221 is better than Connecticut at 238 and much better than Rhode Island at 266, but worse than Illinois at 215, which itself is worse than Ohio at 187.

Given the disparities in poverty and obesity and how both of these lead to much higher mortality rates, the red states are doing much better than the blue states on a wealth/obesity adjusted basis, and are the same on an absolute basis.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...

I suspect the mistake you are making is the same kind of observational bias that is common in these culture wars -- e.g. bad things happening to your side are a terrible tragedy whereas bad things happening to the other side is proof of their misguided policies. But the facts don't show any meaningful difference in total deaths, even though deaths in any given week swing wildly as the disease burns through some states before others. E.g. NY was hit hardest in the beginning, and then it spread to other states when NY was already recovering, then those states recovered and it spread to others, etc. It would be extremely foolish to look at only a snapshot in time rather than cumulative deaths since 2019.
Same experience with Verizon. I'm kicking myself for switching.
This is cute:

DB " HI HACKER! PLEASE DON'T CRACK THIS PROGRAM! IT WAS MADE BY"
DB " THE DEMO GROUP TSP. WE NEED THE MONEY TO BE ABLE TO KEEP ON"
DB " CODING GAMES FOR THE PC! THIS PROGRAM ISN'T HARD TO CRACK, SO"
DB " MAKE A DEMO INSTEAD TO PROVE YOUR SKILLS... IF YOU CRACK IT"
DB " WE WILL HATE YOU 4EVER! HAVE A NICE DAY! :-) "

I remember back in the day I always loved seeing these little messages in hexdumps of programs I was trying to understand.
As with all "Agile Frameworks", they are marketed as "If it worked it's because you did it right, and if it didn't work it's because you didn't do it right".

Is something actually valuable if it is A.) Inflexible and B.) Rarely goes well?
I agree that precious little occurred in terms of technological advancement. However, I think it’s a more tendentious claim with respect to cultural achievement. For example, all the great epic poems of the Western tradition predate the Enlightenment (although there have been notable failed/incomplete epics since then). In terms of Humanism, it’s unclear to me that we’re doing better than our far less technologically sophisticated ancestors.

That aside, my broader concern is with our civilizational stability. We are still too close to and to involved in the events of the past two years to achieve any kind of objectivity, but I am increasingly concerned that, at least in the American context, things are not going to work out. Between worsening climate change, an incipient and solidifying neo-Fascist mass movement, the disinformational chaos of social media, the mass death of a pandemic, and an increasingly sclerotic US hegemony, our civilization is experiencing profound pressures of the sort which historically presaged extended periods of violence and chaos.

I hope that I am completely wrong, but it’s difficult to read the stories (and for that matter the crueler comments) of r/HermanCainAward and not come away with the conclusion that social media has broken our society to the tune of 2000 unvaccinated dead per day and counting.
> Seems similar to just adding more cores (or lanes like in current QDR optics).

The current trend is actually reducing those. 1 lambda 100gbps sfp56-dd would be a goldmine for the first chipmaker to ace it.
They have gradually turned up the awfulness, just like they are gradually turning up the awfulness of all the Internet sites as well.

I don't care if ads would be banned on the internet. Companies (sites) that get their revenue only from visitors would not be cost effective and disappear. Huge improvement if you ask me. And companies where you order books or buy other things would remain because they would get money from the visitors.

I remember the Internet from the 90s and 00s and it was a great place.
There are over 200 open pull requests in GitHub for the Signal Android app, ones dating back to 2015. Instead, stupid shit (stickers, crypto, etc) is being introduced, and actual discussions around fundamental changes to make Signal better and more private are being ignored.

Lots of people are trying to contribute, but Signal is more and more becoming a black box, I say this as a t-shirt wearing (Open Whisper Systems) advocate, Signal is falling out of favor with many "OG" advocates.
That isn't how it will work

- First charge needs a AFA and it will setup a mandate
- Subsequent charges will use that mandate and work without 2FA
- Cardholders need to be notified in advance of a debit and be given an option to cancel

What's breaking now for most services is handling the third part
The Oculus Go is mostly irrelevant now anyway. They'd never do this for the Quest.
Unbearable!
So could switching to another JSON parser. The response of the parser writer should be "I detected a bug in your code for you. You're welcome."
Scheduled Airlines Respond to the Reopening of the Transatlantic Market
Prolly the wrong forum for such posts...

This forum is filled with some reasonably talented people.
> The most disgusting part is the people most in favor of closing schools were rich, left-leaning white collar workers

Correction: the people most in favor of closing schools were the teachers' unions. And they are a tremendous political force in the US.

Right now (Monday 27-Sept-2021) the teacher's union in NYC is arguing that retaining unvaccinated teachers is somehow good for children's safety, and brought the case in front of a Federal Court.

https://abc7ny.com/covid-vaccine-mandate-nyc-teachers-ny-hea...
As others have mentioned, they actually do have a cancel button, for Californians. The fact that they have the feature, but disable it when they aren't legally required to provide it, is for me an unforgivable offence.
I have no mangling issue—thanks to uBlock annoyances filter: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/02d16a221c276fe...
I had a recent experience to watch a show on Amazon Prime for which my subscription "didn't apply" I guess, and it had ads. I can't imagine watching TV like this anymore. 3 minutes of ads every 5-10 minutes of the show, and it was the same 3 ads every time. At least TV mixed up the ads back in the day. I ended up muting my computer every time and just tabbing away for a bit. I don't know how I ever dealt with it back in the day...
“The Open Society, by one of its Enemies”
Most of the subreddit/show pairs came from here: http://tv-subreddits.wikidot.com/ . Sourcing this data is the tricky part: I can't find any other sources. Idea I just had: maybe searching /r/television posts for "/r/..." links would be a good lead?

> Are you still using regex?

Yup, just in a much better way. I won't bother explaining how it was before, but now: I have a collection of regexes that try to match a "season" and "episode" at the same time. If that fails, I fall back to matching for them separately. If "episode" is not found, I ignore the thread as a possibly related to a specific episode.

If I have further issues with the parsing, I'll consider a whole new approach like you've recommended. But I don't have any experience with that stuff so my first thought is that it'd be overkill.
You are not an employer, I guess? ;-)
Yes, because most services haven't met the full scope of the RBI circular yet - sending pre-debit notification, self serve mandate revocation, etc
Do you hear this, Canada !!!
We need Ethereum to always prevent this. Or the big mining pool will just do this for every block and allow ONLY THEIR blocks to be processed. Then they get 100% of mining of the ETH mining fees.

This reinforces by most miners being willing to join, to get a share in monopoly rents over miners-never-earning. The big mining pool(s) could let in enough to stay big enough. But not too many to spread the monopolistic gains by too broad a base.
Sadly it seems to be unmaintained, or at least under maintained. I was going to open am issue for missing Firefox mobile support but issues seem to be going un answered
Good idea!

Great in fact for Google. They get their money and end user gets peace of mind!
A gallon of gas converts to 20 pounds of CO2, and there are 2000 pounds in a US ton. My first web search hit, just to make sure my memory was not faulty, was this explanation:

https://climatekids.nasa.gov/review/carbon/gasoline.html

Using imperial units is always unfortunate, but when dealing with the typical unit of gasoline in the US, it's inevitable.

Not sure where you are getting your numbers, perhaps you're using a UK gallon or something?
It didn't slide past. I recall a lot of discussions but those discussing and outraging are not the ones implementing and pushing forward with sheer momentum of technological dominance and money. It's the same for every privacy issue.
This item stands out as one of the most important aspects that is either unknown or ignored in companies. The amount of information a person has access to drastically alters their ability to make informed decisions.

"Exposure to the business and to business metrics. Engineers are encouraged to interact with the rest of the business and build relationships with non-engineers. In contrast, traditional companies often make it impossible for developers to interact with the rest of the business."
These high energy prices mostly hit wasteful industries like greenhouse tomato growers. That is because they gave always relied on cheap, subsidized natural gas. Consumers pay approximately 75% energy tax already so even a 100% rise before taxes results in only a 25% percent rise after.

I live in a 100 year old, poorly insulated house with my family of 4, and we manage to use half of the average for a family house here. And we are not really trying, only thing we do is limit what parts of the house we heat (not the bedrooms) and set the temperature smartly.

I cycle 30km to my work on an electric bike to exercise and limit car usage.

So yes, I really don't think the price rise will have too much impact on consumers directly. I think most people in the Netherlands can halve their energy consumption here with very limited impact on QoL just by heating less and using their car less. And if the price really gets problematic our gov could just lower the taxation
Both 1 & 2 are valid strategies for underdog consultancies. Consultancies that are very good at #2 may also have better ability to keep people, who are exceptionally good at some specific tech or domain, because they usually have higher rates and peers that are good at the same thing.

As for product-minded engineers, there is often more freedom at a smaller a consultancy than in (many) product companies. You can switch projects every 3-18 months, select a new technology you want to learn, have big ownership on the helping the customer building the product, etc. To some people this is ofc a downside and a lot depends on the kind of client/project you're working in. Much of this also is lost, when the consultancy starts taking on bigger projects with bigger clients that already have much of these things set in stone.
Most of the subreddit/show data came from a giant, stale list of "most popular tv subreddits". The rest came after asking /r/television what I was missing. And I get a regular trickle of ~3 suggestions/week in my Twitter DMs.

Thinking of ways to automate this part.
Consistent with the general decline in quality from the big 3. Check Scotty Kilmer out on youtube. He's not always right, but he is on this.
"Londoners, rich and poor, all used to eat the same food. Now we have astonishing diversity, but nothing left in common."

To which i say: Greggs.

Checkmate.
Modern web ads are a result of the technological arms race with ad-blockers.

If there were no ad-blockers, ads would be less devious about being intrusive. But then they'd be easier to block. So we would. And then they'd have to become more devious to circumvent blocking.

We'd be right back here.
4L!? Are you towing an aeroplane?

My most recent car was 1.1L and was fine for anything I used it for...

I do agree that basing insurance on engine capacity is odd though. Why not power to weight ratio or something?
Reading this, I'm struck by a thought: Are we the bad guys?

According to the article, what the big tech companies have in common is engineer-led products. It's not the besuited MBA's making product decisions, it's us, the engineers.

And the big tech companies are also united in having evil products. With the possible exception of Shopify and Datadog, every company on that list of "big tech" is doing things that actively harm society.

Cue the "are we the baddies?" meme [0]. If engineers are left to build products by ourselves, do we build things because we can and not because we should?

[0] from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK-kWRAVmRU
This seems like a case of trying to cram the ruinous practices back into pandora's box, which has been leaking for a very long time. Transport companies have had a long time to optimise their extraction of value from cheap, easily exploitable employees from overseas.

The easily exploitable workers aren't available anymore, so the companies who exploited them will have to change their exploitation habits if they want to fill their positions from the remaining labour pool.

Of course a landed citizen isn't going to sign up to be treated unfairly if they don't have to, they're not as desperate and therefore not as exploitable. I imagine they're reading the terms of employment on these positions with disgust, and so they should.
Something weird is happening on Facebook
“Sovereign citizen” changed the locks on woman's house and claimed it as his own
Pretty sure the article refers to Google, Facebook and the companies trying to be like them. Apple and Amazon works quite differently as you say.
I am afraid that the arms race will continue, and that the ad companies will prevail. A lot of ad blocking is based on the assumption that ad networks work via HTTPS.
I picked the username because it was only a matter of time until somebody would accuse me of being a nazi - as is the norm these days for anybody who doesn't adhere to the mainstream leftist ideology.

If you would do a better job keeping ideology off HN, people like me wouldn't feel the need to comment. I can not take your pleas for the guidelines seriously if you only censor "ideological battles" or politics you don't like.

So you didn't understand the point I was trying to make, but decided to censor me anyway. Great job upholding the curiosity theme of HN.

For what its worth, I am not after questioning the Holocaust. I am interested in why people think people should have to believe certain things, what they truly believe about freedom and free speech, those kind of things.

What exactly triggers you about discussing the Holocaust? Would discussing the moon landing trigger you in a similar way, like would you say people should have to believe in the moon landings?

Discussion of ethics in computing have been all the rage lately, but apparently we can not discuss it on HN.
I wonder about the detail at which W3C specifies the behavior of copying a link. Is it outside of the web spec, and thus could be non-portable?
If items had the externalities priced in, the cost of having a child would go up, but only in that outgoings would increase. I suppose you could bill them based on their CO2 and methane output.
I've been considering using the same sort of reverse-psychology approach on myself. I use YouTube to distract myself all the time and I'm a premium subscriber, so I don't have the friction of viewing ads. If I stop paying and start seeing ads again, would that be enough of a deterrent to keep me away? I'm not sure I even want to try.

Change can be so distasteful.
Don’t forget coasting. On a modern fuel-injected car there is no fuel injected into the cylinder while coasting.
This is why I sail the high seas to get my media, and feel 0 remorse about it. The way media is handled these days is unjustifiable.