skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> polls all say people want ... Bush and Cheney held for war crimes

I'm calling BS on that one. You might be able to find a poll that says that, but no, polls don't all say that. You need to look at a wider selection of polls.
A lot of the newish gTLDs are relatively expensive, but .club is typically below $20/yr.
110%. Glad to see someone out there also finds this super ironic
They are obligated to spend their money (investments count as spending) or work less. Waiting for billionaires to retire and then recognize that they don't need the money by doing philanthropy is like getting spit in the face for laziness by the person who told you don't have to work.
2.375" Outside dimension. Plumbers use inside dimension, this would probably be a 2" pipe for them. This is an outdoor fencing application and this place refers to it's outside dimension because there are other vendors that make attachments that work on the outside of the pipe. Galv. steel pipe.
Is this what happens when product engineering runs the company? In all of my previous jobs, the production customer-facing systems have been separated from the internal day-to-day IT systems. Beyond potentially sharing a physical building/dc, IT and engineering could in no way interfere with each other.
He invested in paypal with it right when he started it and it was worth like nothing. After that IPO, he then doubled down and invested the paypal returns into facebook with it. It's talked about in this article.

https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tec...
This. Facebook makes available a lot of configurable parameters around bidding and budgeting[1].

If you've set a campaign-level budget, Facebook's system paces delivery to spread that budget from the start date to the end date. It automatically adjusts pacing to fluctuations in delivery, this 6 hour outage is just a drastic version of that, where there was zero delivery across the board vs. more localized fluctuations in consumer behavior that usually impact pacing for individual advertisers.

So it has to accelerate delivery for the remainder of the campaign to compensate, and since it's doing that for all ads with this type of budgeting configuration it's resulting in an auction grab for available impressions and temporarily bumping up CPMs as a result.

Which isn't necessarily a positive for advertisers, but sounds like their system doing what it normally does, and just having some unanticipated second order impacts when faced with an extreme event (compensating for global lack of delivery for 25% of an entire day).

If your budgeting/bidding/optimization configuration doesn't require a specific spend within a specific timeframe, you're not going to see this sort of acceleration. But you will see higher CPMs due to the increased auction activity from others having their pacing accelerated. And they weren't collecting FB pixel data for 6 hours either, so conversion activity will also be underreported and show higher CPAs. But CPA-based optimization configurations are still in place and doing what they normally do, and frequency caps if you use them are still limiting how many times your ad will show to the same person. So even those seeing accelerated delivery and not wanting to could adjust their ads' settings to avoid it.

> The "accelerated delivery" that Facebook quoted in its response only applied to the remainder of the day that the outage took place -- not future days as the article suggests.

It does actually impact future days, just to a far lesser extent than day-of. Pacing jacked up the day of to attempt to compensate for expected pacing that day, but for those that didn't achieve it they'll continued seeing accelerated delivery beyond that to hit the spend target by end of campaign. Plus second order effects as their optimization see-saws around until things settle back down.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1619591734742116
Yeah, you're totally right. Updated the post.
Terraform has its fair share of lag as well. One particular case that irks me is that the "meta" field on Vault tokens is unsupported. Vault of course being another first-class Hashicorp product makes this particularly odd.

That being said the Vault provider is open source and it's quite easy to add it and roll your own.
The root npmcli/fs package appears to be down
It isn't just "newer languages". Many older languages have picked up over the years.
This is perhaps where I get hate from both sides, but I think such cases are best done in unsafe code blocks.

A tool that makes something much harder without any meaningful gain should be avoided. Rust provides the tools to not have to fight the system and they should be used in these situations.
The author seems to think that Facebook has some obligation to let them use their platform.
That's interesting but it looks like Nim has no support for Qt yet (where Python has PyQt and PySide).
I just can't imagine doing this. Facebook is the only way to keep in touch with many people around me.
> Important to the maintainers, absolutely -- but not directly important to users of course: it's firmly the goal that you don't need to know any OCaml to use ReScript (and I think it's mostly true by now).

That's true, and according to the maintainers, with the recent improvements it should be easy to maintain. And using tools written in other languages is not a first for JavaScript users (ESBuild comes to mind).
Oops wrong link for nimporter. Actual link: https://github.com/Pebaz/Nimporter
Apple's 30% cut is only from purchases and not from ads so it pushes all the apps you get on that platform towards ads. So even they themselves doesn't get a lot of money from ads, their policy greatly encourages ad based monetization.
Look, I'm no expert on these things. The only thing I'm going on is that, when I looked into the issue, the general consensus of the people who did seem to have expertise in the field was, "look, this is a bad idea, here's why." I asked my audiologist about it, and what I've shared here is about as deep as she explained it.

I didn't ask to dig any deeper. I don't need to understand every grotty little detail of the reasoning behind my doctor's advice. I trust her to know what she's talking about when the subject is her core area of expertise.

What I do know is that it seems plausible to me. The perception of loudness is a product of a fairly complex system that involves both neural filters and sensing organs that work a very specific way, and a lot of that happens on the opposite side of the spot where the actual damage occurs in noise-induced hearing loss. I would guess that the problem is that any failure in the ANC to get the phase just right results in a waveform that's been modified such that it reduces the noise's detectability by the cochlea much more than it reduces the actual energy being carried?

That said, I would suggest you're trying to put the burden of proof on the wrong proposition. Given that AirPods are not being sold as hearing protection, and have not been tested by the EPA, one would think that we the default hypothesis should be that they are not adequate hearing protection. Especially since we're talking about people's health here. So perhaps you can come up with a study demonstrating that consumer-grade ANC such as AirPods (we have to assume that the device in the paper you linked above may not function comparably to popular consumer devices, so the study's findings may not be relevant here) can be safely used as protection from occupational noise?
> to attend a thousand funerals

That is a perspicacious remark! You change, and your lover changes, and that is all good and natural. So you both adapt to one-another, or you have to move on.

I for one do not expect the road to be free of potholes and bumps. If it were always smooth and flat, the journey would become dull.
I'd like to see that. I'd be more interested to see the ethical case for working for any startup that is based on user's being the product, or takes VC money so that it can destroy existing businesses through predatory pricing. Fact is, the sub-industry this forum relates to is a breeding ground for ethically-challenged business plans.
I installed the same ones in all our bathrooms. I fell in love with it after a business trip to India. It took until the TP shortage for my partner to agree and now they love it as well.
I don't have any "Figma" jokes, but I do have a "Ligma" in the chamber :) Also comes in "Sackoma" and a "Suggandeze" variants.
>Most normal people just want freedom to work, freedom to trade and pursue their own interests and helping those in their circles, not being enslaved to everyone else.

Then they should welcome negative interest rates because that is exactly what they do.
In places no one wants to live. Settlement patterns change! It’s an urbanizing world, and there will always be some places in ascendance while others are in decline. It is perfectly natural for gluts and shortages to occur at the same time.
DiveHealth (YC S21) Is Hiring – Chief Marketing Officer
Why would anyone sign up to this, leaving personal information on a website for.. no reason at all? A massive coordinated logout doesn't need such data about yourself. There's also much better that can be done, but this sort of thing never makes a dent anyhow. Feels more like free sources of people to send mails and pamphlets to about the actual subjects the organization, Kairos, focuses on.
Back in 2000, there was Zope, and Python was slowly being eyed as a saner alternative to Perl.

That is where it got its first wave of users.
Indeed.

Consider this: Nestle has a terrible reputation. Absolutely, truly awful. Has that meaningfully impacted Nestle's sales? Probably not.
I do not mind what the limits are as long as it is fair for everyone and not discriminating against those employed by an employer not offering 401k.
Vaping is less bad for you than inhaling the big cloud of carcinogens that is cigarette smoke. But even if you discount the direct effects of addiction, which is horrible, there are plenty of other indications nicotine itself is bad for you.
FB's emphasis on family connections makes it much more... potent, and almost cult-like in some ways.

Families stay in touch and plan events on FB. Your mom, aunt, and uncle-in-law are rather likely to be on FB, but not Twitter. If they are on Twitter, Twitter doesn't hector you to "connect" with them with nearly the same fervor as FB.

That has somewhat profound implications. If one ditches FB, one loses access to your family to some small or large extent.

On the mild end of things you miss out on baby pictures and invitations to picnics. On the more distressing side of things, unfriending a family member or leaving FB altogether may be seen as a rejection of parts or all of the family.

Perhaps this doesn't apply to your family, but we can agree it applies to many.

The "family" aspect of FB also makes it much more of a fertile breeding ground for misinformation relative to Twitter. The boomers using FB are (on average) much less tech-savvy and don't know how to verify claims. But, as your neighbor/uncle/mom/dad/whatever, they are much harder to ignore than some Twitter rando.
Walled gardens are bad for consumers. Apple is the definitive walled garden on planet earth. They are litigious, anti-competitive, and use unethical supply chains at great human cost, but their marketing/propaganda is superb.

Apple is the primary reason we have unreplaceable batteries, for example. That by itself is massively anti-consumer, but it's one among hundreds of inherently user hostile behaviors that Apple inflicts on the world.

Other players in the market are constrained by Apple's design choices, because those choices often single-handedly drive economies of scale for device components.

Apple is not pro consumer. Apple is ruthlessly oriented toward absolute control of perceptions and behaviors of customers within their walled garden so they can extract the maximum amount of money from their customers.

Apple hides the externalities within their own domain and imposes market expectations on the rest of the world. Their exploitation of software patent and ip laws stifle innovation and competition, and they set the standards of corporate behavior for all the major players.

Unless by "traditionally" you mean exactly the period of Apple's history when they were plucky underdogs... Apple hasn't been pro-consumer for a couple or three decades.
You're absolutely right – modern supply chains are incredibly complex with lot of upstream dependences that are hard to control. It's not going to be an overnight shift, but I hope it changes the outsourcing-for-lowest cost mentality.

There are other tech innovations on the horizon that I hope will further improve the issue. For example, Canada now has technology that's upending Al manufacturing reducing GHG emissions. There's a demo smelter with this new tech running in Canada. Pretty secretive, and not yet producing at scale, but it's game-changing. I have some knowledge of this speaking to experts in the Al industry. Here's a snippet from an article[0] that talks about it:

Elysis has developed a process that substitutes carbon with inert materials—it won’t say what they are—to make the anode that conducts the electricity causing the chemical reaction. “We use noncarbon materials that do not react, and as a consequence you get the separation of aluminum on the one side and oxygen on the other,” says Christ, who’s spent 36 years working to create carbonless aluminum. “It’s absolutely magic how we do that, but the explanation is very simple, actually.

After successfully developing an emissions-free prototype smelter that produced a small amount of green aluminum used in some Apple laptops in 2019, Elysis built a pilot plant in Saguenay, Quebec, about five hours northeast of Montreal. Rio Tinto and Alcoa don’t allow photos to be taken of the closely guarded factory. Even knowing the measurements of the layout could tip off competitors, says Vincent, who’s now chief executive officer of the joint venture. “You’re the only person on the planet who will see this, other than our board,” Christ said to a Bloomberg writer.

Not a problem that can be solved overnight – we've eroded manufacturing expertise and capacity for various reasons over the years, but I hope culturally and politically, we push ourselves to create new, greener tech and move towards local manufacturing.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-21/with-a-pu...
"I find it really interesting how I had never heard of <THING> before frequenting HN, but how incredibly passionate so many people here are about <THING>" is one of the thing I love about this place. There are always people ready to share their knowledge and passion about something I didn't know before.
Facebook seems to aspire to be a utility that everyone relies on, public utilities don't boot you out because you criticize them.
How do I find user manuals about old products?
Correction: Wasabi charges 3 months storage for all files. If you upload a file and immediately delete it, you pay for that storage for 3 months.
Thanks, but I think we may be talking cross purpose here. 99% of the research code ends up being thrown away (well, archived). Not because it's bad code necessarily, but because the idea that was being prototyped is a dead end. This means it's paramount that the language you use has to be as low friction and interactive as possible.

Imagine you are trying to establish whether there's a relationship between timeseries X and timeseries Y. You just want a tool that allows you to quickly calculate some summary statistics of these timeseries, clean them, convince yourself that they behave according to your expectations and then run some form of regression.

Nowhere in this process do you care about lifetimes. It's literally irrelevant. In fact, as long as all your work fits into memory, you don't even care about memory management. Your objective is to answer the primary question, everything else is a costly distraction.

The 1% of ideas that ends up being worthwhile is what gets productionized and needs to be robust. But obviously rewriting everything from language A to radically different language B adds it's own headaches.
Most states don't tax inventory.

https://taxfoundation.org/state-business-inventory-tax-2021/
I still don't follow. The NIMBY retiree would have to sell their property to presumably someone with a lot more capital than them to be able to build an apartment building.

If you are referring to tenants possibly being lower socioeconomic status than the previous owner.. that isn't redistribution. If anything its the opposite, since now the property owner is probably a corporation
i find this pattern utterly funny

it's always the same

prototype in an easy language

tighten the bolts closer to the metal after some time
I have done PD of a /60 from Comcast for three years and my prefix never changed. I can't imagine why it would or should.
I'm disappointed this is front page HN as it seems a purely political piece of little value. The author supplies an anecdotal example and claims we should make more stuff here. Where are the details? What should we make and why?
Early 30s, nothing at all and I plan to live the next 4 years off <strike>basic</strike> student assistance.

The whole notion of retirement has never made sense to me. I remember when I was 15-ish people said I would understand once I grew up, but nope, it still doesn’t make any sense.

I have spent maybe 48 months working so far. I can bill about 20k a month when I do work. But it’s such a waste of lifetime to do it, I never work more than absolutely necessary.
Java switch evolution – All-In-One
They are banning dissenting information that looks bad for them.

Similar to how CCP bans political dissent, Dems ban any stories on Hunter Biden for example.

The Dems also ban things that look bad on China, like the lab leak, I suppose because they share some of the same goals.

Also the election is perfectly reasonable to question. It's fine to question why the bell weathers and many other record indicators were broken during the 2020 election. It's fine to want to audit and make sure something is secure, especially after we spent $20 million and 5 years investigating the 2016 election for "Russian interference".
That web of the '90 did not have a search engine that promoted that web either.

Well, there was altavista (and, ahh, the memories Astalavista.box.sk) and some other ad-loaded websites.
In its last few years Kongregate was largely JS games.

That didn't help the large move to mobile gaming by its primary audience (which I'm guessing was teens).

Towards the end Kongregate became a platform for idle games that pushed users hard towards pay to win. Sucks, but they grew huge off the glory days of ad revenue and I presume they had to do something to keep surviving.
Workers are in abundance who would go through said 16 interviews to become CEO, however, they are prefiltered by pedigree so only the rich are interviewed
That only explains why they own the company, not why they deserve a higher salary or why the workers deserve getting paid as little as possible. It also doesn't explain why we should have an inflexible labor market where people compete for scarce full time jobs and we then have to figure out ways to pad the jobs so that everyone can pretend to work full time.
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Whether or not you take fewer days off, the actual point of unlimited PTO is that its not an accruable quantified benefit, so that when your employment is terminated (voluntarily or otherwise), you have no claim to compensation for it, whereas quantified accrued vacation must be cashed out (and is therefore carried as a liability on the firms books until used.)

But this is also why you will typically use less with unlimited: if you use too little of accrued PTO, the firm will either:

(1) have a policy with an accrual limit, which will encourage you to to use it or lose it, or

(2) have a must-use policy to limit the liability on their books, ehich will force you to use it, or

(3) take steps (possibly including incentives) to get people to reduce large balances, to limit liability on the books.

And, typically, they’ll have policies encouraging managers to approve requests (and give soft encouragement to take vacation) to people whose balances are approaching the point where the other measures would kick in.

With unlimited PTO, you not using it is a pure benefit for the employer with no cost, so they have no (narrow, short-term balance-sheet optimizing) reason to do anything but encourage it. Plus, in limited PTO situations, the fact of the limits themselves is a factor which encourages managers to be flexible with exercising the “business need” discretion they are generally given over approval in both systems—sure, maybe its a moment you really think Bob would be important, but by taking it now, the balance will be exhausted and you’ve got less chance of him even requesting leave for a while, so you can adjust. With unlimited leave, “business need” is the only constraint, so managers have a lot less reason (even before balance sheet concerns) to be flexible on it.

To the extent there is a broader benefit to the firm of employees taking vacation, management that sees it over the clear immediate costs of people getting paid for not working is rarely a reliable thing across all the relevant layers of management in an organization of any scale. Even if the environment is one where unlimited PTO works well today, there is very little guarantee that will be the case tomorrow.
Also, tabletop is 20€ and as far as I know you can implement this with the free account on Figma.
$185k/year would be 95th percentile in income for the US.
Points for linking to the Mexican version.
It seems strange to describe it as a "non problem" when he's successfully evaded something like a billion dollars in taxes. Romney did the same. Certainly many others have as well.

Thiel bought his shares at $0.001/share in the same round where the company was valued at $0.20/share. At very least, he should've been capped at 10,000 shares in the IRA but instead he contributed 1.7 million ($2k/year IRA contribution limit at the time).

It's like describing a software bug as a non problem since it only lead to two intrusions.. that you know of.. that cost your company a ton of money.
If vaping was pure nicotine its health effects would be limited (i.e. much less dangerous than tobacco smoke). Unfortunately most vape devices deliver a witches brew of nasty chemicals (besides nicotine) added for flavor and increased addiction potential just like cigarettes did. Many of said chemicals have less well-studied health effects than those in tobacco.
The increasing deluge of articles on the theme "Instagram is hurting the mental health of teen girls" has the potential to evolve into the kind of widespread moral panic among parents that destroyed MySpace back in 2006-2008.
The die was cast a few years ago when the decision was made not to pursue relicensing. The dates when the units will be shut down have already been written on the calendar in ink.

Actual decommissioning timelines are more uncertain, largely because PG&E could choose to sell the site to a company that specializes in decommissioning and remediating nuclear power plant sites in a profitable manner.
> I have a PhD related to distributed systems and I investigated the actor model a lot.

> Akka.NET does not seem to innovate anything

Maybe you should ask for a refund
Maybe. [1] Not a huge spike like before but people are reporting it.

[1] - https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/
Facebook should be nationalised.
You forgot to mention, at each of these steps the ones with the most experience tend to climb the rank up the "top" and become "them".
Reuters isn't bad. (I mean, it might be bad for UK news, but it's not bad for international and US news.)
> "create a NN and stack more layers until you have your MVP"

I mean, that's a pretty good principled approach to a lot of ML problems.