skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could they select this 17-page subset of companies without some investigation?

> List of October 2021 Recipients of the FTC’s Notice of Penalty Offenses Concerning Deceptive or Unfair Conduct around Endorsements and Testimonials

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/attachments/penalty-offense...
I think the analogy is pretty spot on. The whole point is that your query expresses your intent to Google. Assuming their algorithm can figure out what your intent is (it certainly can in this case) then they are intentionally acting counter to your expressed intent.
Gaming Mechanical Keyboard
Everyone's first language should be Perl.
This is quality content. Thank you
How's it work if you own the house (purchased by a transfer from ??? to your lawyer) and then sell it (funds sent to your lawyer and then to ???) ?

Probably couldn't get a US mortgage without that tax ID or bank account.

If you rent it out, I guess the contract should be with the LLC and then you run into the tax ID/LLC issues, but people will probably sign a lease with whomever and pay whomever they're told (whether it's the LLC or not).
There are tons of easy jobs but they are boring. You can work for government or other bureaucratic companies but work will be boring and it will frustrate you because you won't be able to move fast or do the right thing.

Most of the jobs are boring, even if they have hard challenges, they will get boring if you don't care about the problem or if you don't have some independence to choose what to work on.

Now if you want an easy job, that is not boring, I would look for companies/projects that I believe in. This might be companies in climate change or some other cause. It may still be frustrating because you may want to do certain things that your boss may not agree with. IMO, frustration is better than being bored.

This is what I am doing:

1. I made a list of all companies and non-profits that are working on things I care about.

2. I found their leaders/employees on Twitter and LinkedIn.

3. I am writing down their tech stacks from their job postings, employee posts, etc. Also wrote down their salary ranges, revenues, etc.

4. I have found a few companies whose tech lines up with my expertise or they are thinking of using something that I am good at. I use this to review and update my skills and resume.

5. I review employees' posts and try to determine which companies/non-profits have happier employees. Also look for any signs of long work hours or burnt out employees.

6. When I am ready I will approach these companies. Since many non-profits pay so little and move so slow, I might need to freelance with multiple non-profits to make enough money and not get bored.

It is a tedious process but I have a pretty good idea where to make my move.
I like to say "You're already using informal formal methods" when attempting to get this point across.

The typical argument against Formal Methods is based on cost, to which the reply could be "Well what's the cost of broken code?"

I'm glad the tools and languages to do FM are getting more common and familiar.
Yes, but I put limits on LS workloads because I expect them to have a capacity plan, stick to it, and not abusively starve out batch workloads.
...and mostly in the DACs I'd wager.
I disagree. I realized why jwz and others decided to block HN referrer http header. And why so many good people left over the years. I’m now actively seeking a community where people know what it is they are talking about, and aren’t just repeating shit they heard elsewhere.

I’ve been on HN for 10 years now and the quality has fallen so far wayside I don’t even bother taking any opinions here seriously. There’s very little concrete, honest to god knowledge about tech and programming here anymore. It’s self-congratulatory circlejerking. Yes, there are exceptions. But that’s just a tragic thing for good commentary to be an exceptional state.

Others have already summarized typical HN responses and what is upvoted and downvoted.

Even this thread is like a swan song. Not to be too negative, but you’re not changing the course of this, merely acknowledging how out of hand things have gotten.

And speaking of… the downvoting, the flagging - I’m not surprised this thread got flagged. All that was missing is dang coming in here and warning the poster that they’ve gone against the HN guidelines.

It’s all so tiresome seeing good threads where half the comments are flagged. But whatever.
Ask HN: How am I getting retargeted ads despite VPN and Firefox private mode?
I never use firefox for anything but when I'm 1) in private mode and 2) on a VPN. I purposefully only use it for this so there can be no overlap with my main browser.

Today I started getting ads on my main browser for something I was searching for in my firefox + VPN combo. I was googling for something quite specific and medical. Think cosmetic foot surgery or something.

How is this possible? I can't even think of a technical means. Perhaps window size or some other metadata? Perhaps leaving my main browser open but not browsing caused an ajax request to go out over the VPN IP that linked the two?

I thought I was pretty safe with a VPN for this sort of stuff, but now I'm questioning what the point is and if there is any hope of browsing the internet with any semblance of privacy.
I've worked in places that do pay unused PTO and places that don't - all in the same state. My experience is paying it out is less common.
I always read accounts like this letter is addressing, and by all personal reckoning, your (very common) observation is exaggerated, and assuming you are expressing it honestly (and not just as political-team-booing), I think you shouldn't be worried about cancel culture practically affecting your children. The vast majority of the time, somebody being described as a victim of cancel culture was really either A. Strongly criticized or even harassed, which has been a permanent fault of people on all sides of political topics forever, and in fact seems even more severe coming from people of the opposite ideology to cancel culture, or B. Was fired for genuinely hateful/immoral behavior. I.e. the cases where cancel culture actually misfires, usually due to a misunderstanding that catches on (the primary danger of cancel culture), are apparently few, relatively speaking (though of course one's political loyalties tend to color the perception of what counts as unjust consequences).

I think the much more concerning, practical danger to our childrens' intellectual health and spirit is the more general phenomenon of extreme political hatred (see point A. above).
If you search for Hello Fresh, you'll get a Hello Fresh ad offering 14 free meals. If you search for Blue Apron, you'll get a Hello Fresh ad for 16 free meals. Firms are willing to spend more to win incremental business from a competitor, and consumers benefit.

Now you could argue that the search engine should show organic results to help the consumer get the best deal, and I would agree with you.
> I don’t see why sixels couldn’t work.

Sixels will work: they are fast enough to allow youtube video playback !!!

https://github.com/saitoha/FFmpeg-SIXEL/blob/sixel/README.md

The problem is NOT THE FORMAT, the problem is the lack of tooling: links and w3m are among the rare text browsers that can display images in the console.

It's just a matter of the browser sending the image to the terminal in some format it can understand, but if that hasn't be thought about as a possibility (say, for text reflow issues) it's going to be far more complicated than just adding a new format, as you will have to work both on say the text reflow issues (ex: how do you select the size of the placeholder, when expressed in characters?), on top of the picture display issues.

Said differently, it would be easier to have console IDE that supported graphics if any format whatsoever (sixel, kitty...) was supported by a console IDE; we could then argue about the ideal format.

Arguing about the ideal format BEFORE letting the ecosystem grow using whatever solution there is only results in a negative loop.

It's like if a startup was arguing about the ideal technological stack even before trying to find a product market fit!!

Personally, I do not care much about sixels, kitty or iterm format - all I want is to see some kind of support for a format that's popular enough for tools using it to emerge.

Yes, it would be better if that supported format was the option that had the greatest chance of succeeding, but right now, that is a very remote concern: first we need tools, then if in the worst case they are for a "bad" format, we can write transcoders to whatever format people prefer!

Right now, there is rarely any "input" to transcode (how many console tools support say iTerm format?), so we have a much bigger bootstrapping problem.

> an off the shelf ASCII plotting library probably involves less custom tooling

With a terminal like msys2 or xterm, no custom tooling is required: just use the regular gnuplot after doing the export for the desired resolution, font, and font size.

gnuplot is far more standard than plotting library that often require special Unicode fonts on top of requiring you to use their specific format.
As opposed to putting a little box on your head and going to a wall?
Fast, the World’s Largest Radio Telescope, Zooms in on a Furious Cosmic Source
If this is your bar for dishonesty - which is basically lying by omission, mischaracterization or stretching the truth and not telling bold-faced lies - then this list doesn't even begin to compare to the former executive's near-constant deluge of outright falsehoods, told in explicitly bad faith.
And you don't see a problem with the passive voice either ("Fires have been started")?
Very insightful paper, thanks for sharing.

Firstly, I'm surprised that having no garbage collection did not make to the list of the seven deadly sins.

Secondly, someone here also mentioned about the very useful Turbo Pascal IDE and having an excellent IDE can really help in the visual learning approach that's required by all learners [1]. If any programming languages has the intuitive capability for real-time visual interactions as described by Brett Victor it will be great [2].

Thirdly, the paper failed to mention that beginner friendly programming language has a very high chance to be adopted by the industry and becoming extremely popular. This is self evident by the recent exponential popularity of Python. When the paper was written back in 1996, Python was just another scripting programming language with "Jack of all trades, master at none" language. At the time it's playing second fiddle to popular programming languages including Perl, PHP and TCL! The same can be said to D language now but as they've always said, time will certainly tell.

Personally I think D language did not tick most of the seven dealy sins boxes and have made the most of the seven significant steps towards more teachable language mentioned in the paper. It has the most Pythonic feel to it compared to other compiled languages. It also the has default garbage collection that will make it an excellent introduction for programming. Of course you can exercise bit manipulation like a madman with D (also cautioned in the paper) but that's only when you really want to after you've considerably comfortable with the language [3]. The only crucial thing that's currently missing is an IDE that is intuitive and beginner friendly.

[1] The Biggest Myth In Education:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA

[2] Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGDrIy1G1gU

[3] Bit packing like a madman (DConf 2016):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28522040
As someone that has been involved in political events, sometimes this could be an agreement to avoid more damage to the company. The truth usually doesn’t come out unless there is a leak.
Good! I’m tired of getting my ass kicked in COD
Aren't the widely deployed Easy Anti-Cheat and Battleye also using creepy kernel modules?
Add Isaiah 8:19-22 to the mix. It pretty clearly condemns consulting spiritists and mediums. (Depending on your definition of the English word "sorcery", that may count.)
I've been around long enough to hit ctrl-o to make that happen
As a nerd, and a huge Pink Floyd fan, I'm embarrassed to say I never really paid attention to those noises.
There's a lot of people in the US clamoring for the government to reign in or eliminate our billionaires. Chinese probably view it as a feature that the government is not intimidated by them, unlike u.s. Agencies who have to kindly ask Elon not to make them look pathetic and toothless on Twitter every once in a while.
Telstra claims $500k in credits from AWS, Azure and GCP
Ah yeah... typo I guess
Biggest problem for FTC is going to be attribution. Fake reviewers are a huge racket, who has figured out a number of ways to look like genuine reviewer while taking an incentive from the businesses for it actually is, a fake review.

Businesses do engage with genuine reviewers which makes it even harder to identify real from fake.
While Bezos certainly has a different mindset as an engineer/industrialist, space is obviously a pretty big deal to him.

Reading more about his background (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/what-je... is a really great read IMO) and contrasting that with how he acts around Shatner in the video really shows how uninspired his portrayal today seems by comparison.
How does one contact the NSA TAO and offer to sell a zero-day?
I think my suggestion handles this situation though. If the cheaters are playing well enough that you can identify them as cheaters, then they would be getting flagged by my hypothetical server-side anticheat as "good" and so need to run the client-side software too.

Also I don't think "twitch streams" are a great sample of "normal level gameplay", most people there would be ranked comparatively highly in MMR I would have thought? That or I'm leaving tons of money on the table by not streaming my wood-tier CS:GO :D
SW wasn't the only one affected, just the largest by far.
The way China works, Jack Ma doesn’t have full autonomy over his company or his money. Just thought about highlighting that.
I mean the answer is easy here. Weather affects all airlines equally. The possibility of a sick out only affects those airlines whose pilots were able to organize.

The claim it's the weather is the one that needs extraordinary evidence because the claim is that weather that day only affected Southwest, whereas the claim Southwest pilots were the only ones to organize makes more sense.

The Florida explanation doesn't make sense because my parents also had issues going from CA to Oregon.

Occam's razor
Funeral home vibes in this man's house. But nice system.

World's Second Best Speakers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEh01PX-q9I

DIY option.
This link https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks shows swc is still a work in progress.
The path to fixing the law is doing it anyway, letting the takedowns come, and then harnessing the collective frustration of people who want to see the things they grew up with be preserved.
"Fiery but mostly peaceful"

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/513902-cnn-ridiculed-for-...
'dissent' is an antonym of assent. I think you mean 'ascent', like you do on stairs.
Because copyright. The decompiled code is a derivative work of the binary, and thus subject to its original copyright.

You can make fair use arguments in some cases, but "I decompiled it for interoperability" isn't one of those. That just lets you decompile it privately (for analysis/research), not publish the resulting code.
US agencies are definitely not toothless, full autonomy to act as they wish since the first Patriot act. Most annoyingly, no one managed to remove those powers.
They should probably build the right tech to detect fake reviews and dismantle fake reviewing rings.

But this is not an opportunity of growth for Amazon. It is not a business critical area either and certainly is not perceived as meaningful threat or weakness.

More aggressive investments in this area aren’t justified because it truly doesn’t have a clear effect on the bottom line.

Reputationally, I doubt they care. Amazon has hundreds of thousands of vendors who sell up to 12 millions SKUs to hundreds of millions of customers.

It just makes sense to invest in tools and programs for the hundreds of millions of legit interactions (including reviews) that happen on their platform, than focusing too heavily on those who are not playing by the rules.
Glad about the explicit exploration of "extra" versus "more".

Extra to me is often about your development. Learn now to do it next time either better/faster/smoother etc etc. I'll agree with that idea.

The issue of extra is often then who pays for it. That can really make you enemies. People like free. Also, being over eager about improvements can put you on people's radar as a threat depending on how dysfunctional either they or the organization are.

As a contractor the extra means you can get the same output faster or with less effort because you improved your process. Or you can charge more.

Now differentiate this from "more". If you do more you over deliver. Instead of two deliverabkes, you do three. I'm ok with that if you get paid for it. It might even get you promoted if someone notices. Be careful that when it doesn't help it might actually hurt you later. Expectations from not-so-good bosses can be subject to inflation when they see you provide more than they pay for.

There are pros and cons to both. Its not an either/or situation either. You can use both to advantage.
Or... you want the idea of a walkout by pilots over a vaccine mandate to be true, and like most conspiratorial thinkers, to be "in" on this truth, to have seen through the lies that the sheeple cannot.

I highly doubt any real number of airline pilots are walking out over a vaccine mandate - because they've probably been vaccinated for months now.
well you don't read the residual, you plot it. the ASCII plots have limited rendering resolution compared to a proper plotting system, like where you can zoom in and stuff.
Nice Mitnick callback.
Good old "net send." Out of all the things, that was the one I got chewed out about too.

Wasn't a regular MS user, but we were in a computer training lab at a company for "computer day" field trip. Was bored during instructions, so naturally I logged in, found "net send", and sent a few crank messages to classmates using * as destination. Everyone, including the instructor, got a good laugh.

Approached later in day by corporate IT. Apparently the lab had poor routing rules, no firewalls, and sat on the main Corp network. My messages were received on 25,000 terminals.

Thankfully, they recognized this as (a) harmless, and (b) their own lax failure. No adverse outcome.
I'm imagining a better world for both gamers and corporations. One where DRM and anti-cheat aren't included, you pay for the game you can run locally, and you pay a subscription for cloud gaming access which has exclusive access to a set of game/world servers.

Want to mod, LAN, or play casually? Play locally.

Want to play without cheaters? Choose your friends wisely or play on cloud gaming.

Lack of DRM drives interest in the game, which drives interest in cloud gaming subscriptions due to wanting cheat-free gameplay.
> I saw one explanation (no idea if it's true) that individuals were taking sick days

Good news! If you actually read the article, you get information like:

“Nothing like that is true,” Jordan said. “We didn’t see sick leave beyond normal. In fact, we saw our crews picking up open time to the extent that they could.”

RTFA: it’s better than random Twitter speculation. I mean, yeah, it’s about Southwest and not American, but it’s hard to see why pilot behavior would be different.
> I routinely get flights delayed on Southwest like no other airline, even the budget ones. Now I understand why.

Sure, but Southwest has always been the kind of airline that rewards people who play the game.

Let’s say you are flying from Chicago to Boston. Southwest has a flight every hour, sometimes even more frequently. You can pretty easily find out where your plane is coming from, and where the planes on the next few flights are coming from. You can pretty easily find out if those planes are taking off on time. If they do, they’re going to land in Chicago on time and turn around to Boston on time. If not, just walk over to the desk and ask to be moved to the one that is going to get you to Boston soonest. If there is a seat available, it’s yours. You’ll have your new boarding pass in 2 minutes or less and they wont charge you a dime.
Because the only people in this lobby will be cheaters lol. Most people don't care about running garbage-tier CoD kernel code on their machines... so I wind up having to because they do, because it's the default.

Although I concede that basically what I'm asking for here is for the default to be _my_ usecase...
Leaning in on old data and recommending people eat copious amounts of saturated fats is just as poor a diet choice as highly processed foods. [0]

[0] https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
A good friend of mine quit selling on Amazon because, as he put it "I didn't sign-up to compete with the Mafia".

Among the long list of issues he rattles off during a conversation are things like fake reviews on their products (the Mafia) as well as them paying teams to plant fake reviews on competitors products to have them tank in ranking.

The other one that was interesting was when an unknown Mafioso paid a team to click on competitors ads on Amazon. The net effect was that they consumed the daily budget by 6 AM and they went through the day without a single sale. In other words, the ROI went to zero on advertising.

Amazon denied it at first. He pressed on and provided details. After six months Amazon admitted they had determined this to be true. They refunded him some advertising money. They never restored the ranking he lost to the criminal.

Even worse, they absolutely refused to share any data with him (and presumably others). In other words, there was no way to seek legal remedies other than, potentially, filing a lawsuit against Amazon. Financial asymmetry aside, the biggest problem is that they keep very tight controls over the data. Which means you will have an almost impossible time proving anything unless you have the financial horsepower to hire an impressive team of attorneys to wage battle against an entire floor of Amazon attorneys. In other words, the little guy gets screwed, has to take it and shut up. Move on.
> u.s. Agencies who have to kindly ask Elon not to make them look pathetic and toothless on Twitter every once in a while

source?
Every other major airliner was affected. SouthWest is huge though.
Me too. Imaginos is a brilliant album
What a great place to practice colonization.

FYI, before the creation of modern Israel, the Negev desert was almost entirely populated by Arab Bedouins. Nearly 100,000
fled during the ethnic cleansing of 1948.

My parents were forced to leave Haifa in 1948 under
threat of death and they were among the 750,000
forced out of the country and their land stolen.

Of the Bedouins still living in the Negev, half live in government-designated towns and cities, much like Native reservations in the United States, and the other half live in unrecognized villages.