skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When I go to the grocery store, for example, the items are side by side on the same shelf. GIF peanut butter is next to the store brand at the same eye level.

That depends heavily on the type of product being sold. For small/low volume items, they'll be side by side as you mentioned, but for big/high volume items, they're definitely going to be placed on different levels. Overall, this behavior isn't because stores are fair or anything, but that they're subject to space constraints. Where space constraint isn't an issue (ie. for big/high volume items), brick and mortar retailers also engage in discrimination to make certain products more visible.

I'm skeptical that placing products "below the fold" is any worse than what brick and mortar retailers engage in. Isn't "the fold" just a row that's slightly higher than the organic results? I'm not sure how having to scroll a few more inches is any way comparable to having to go to the backroom.
I'm interested to know who you know spends 20% of their time on tooling issues... I use node, npm and webpack pretty regularly (albeit parcel has mostly replaced webpack for me) and other than setting up some npm scripts and a tsconfig to output the right js for my node version at the start of a project, I barely interact with them.
Like bombs?
Only 37% of homeowners stay for more than 10 years in the same house.
When I learn Haskell, I'll be lot closer to God.
market is definitely not free at this point because of how much subsidy fossil producers receive from corrupt politicians.

doubly funny your worries about externalities, when bitcoin actually meaningfully drives renewable production that is going to be essential in reducing those externalities.

> not okay with 0.5% of the earth's energy being consumed to produce sha sums for the sole purpose of mining speculative assets

packed as much manipulation and misinformation as you could into that one, didn't you?

i'm more than ok with significant chunk of energy's energy going into ensuring security of a global decentralized settlement layer and currency with predictable issuance policy that can't be fucked up by politicians that suddenly realize they need to print a couple trillions to cover up how much they stole.
> an ad campaign making fun of people spending a thousand dollars for nothing extra

In the US, consumers don't usually see the full price tag. Carriers just put phones on payment plans (the iPhone 13 Pro Max 128GB is currently $36/month for 30 months on Verizon, for example), so it's a lot easier for consumers to buy expensive phones without ever having to think "wow, this thing is >$1k", especially since they'll probably trade it in after a year or two for a newer model.

I don't see such an ad campaign being very successful here unless carriers stopped financing devices (which they have no incentive to).
So your solution to other people cheating is .... contributing to the cheating problem yourself? Wow.

You know it's possible to choose to -not- play a game, right? There are so many games available that don't have ridiculous cheating problems.
Check out Doriot.com / they're the first to submit an application to the SEC to become approved and have a product already in market
Certain types of searches, Google is great still. No problem with them for programming issues, finding libraries, etc... But try and find an actual review of a product? Fat chance.
You aren't wrong. We often had to screwdriver the filters loose.

We moved to a bigger property, have 5 cars. It's easier now to change 2 or 3 at a time.
Hmm - according to the danish news, he was questioned from 2.30 in the morning.
Also he’s a Dane (37 years old and danish+norwegian parents).

NB.: What’s a weird coincidence is that a danish comedy about a man shooting with bow and arrow against Norwegian police should have premiered these days have been postponed.

Link in danish: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/film/nordisk-film-udskyder-...
Online, people constantly project hypocrisy onto those they've grouped into "crowds" by observing two different opinions and, because they seem to be on the same half of the political divide, surely they are mostly coming from the same people. Even if you could identify individuals who have both opinions, frequently a reasonable argument can be made regarding the differing contexts (in this example, one merely has to formulate an argument that some prison terms are too harsh, while these terms are not). Going further, even if you could find individuals with opinions where a reasonable argument can't be made, they are still only individuals. There are frequently so many barriers on the road to tying hypocrisy to some opinion you feel is bad, it's not worth the petty political hatred it engenders.
really? That's very odd (not that their reporting system sucks, it definitely does), but that you need to report it.

Interesting that we have such different experiences, I wonder why that is. (remember that on FB, a 1 in a million event occurs approximately 3k times per day).
Does it? It doesn't matter if we know the reviews aren't as good, people still don't seem willing to pay for good reviews. Many companies have tried, but I haven't heard of any success stories yet.
iOS and now Safari only display the domain, so not great either.
Vanderbei’s linked articles have some discussion of sources of error. The main one seems to be waves making the reflection appear longer.
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>> protecting elections

> Why is a private company involved in this? Shouldn't this be the responsibility of a government agency? If I make a company as large as FB can I start getting involved in controlling elections?

Yes... in an authoritarian country that doesn't have free or fair elections.

In a democracy that kind of responsibility is distributed. Sure, the government has a role, but so does everyone else. That includes both you, me, Facebook, etc. It doesn't work to unload the responsibility on the government and wash your hands of it.
>If your life comes to an end, you’re not around to see anything else, why do you care?

If you go that route, why even care about yourself? You're gonna die, anyway. And what about your partner and children? Why care about them, since they're not you?

And yet, we do care. Or many do. We might e.g. appreciate/love humanity, kind of like we do our spouses and children, even if we're not them. Or like we wouldn't want something bad to happen to our children/grandchildren even if we dead by then...

Sure, death plays a role in caring, but your logic is backwards: it's the dead people who don't care (and surely, when I'm dead, I wont care either).

Alive people on the other hand care for many things, including caring about what will happen after they die.
The only little clue is that one photo of the EV where the sidewalls are visible on the tires. You have to squint to see it :)
What’s the effect of the focal length?
"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning" sounds a lot like injecting disinfectant. I admit the original, rambling, confused and barely coherent reduced-vocabulary speech can be interpreted in a multitude of ways, some of which aren't insane, but this is Donnie we are talking about.
> People keep saying we can feed 10 billion people. We can. But at what cost to the diversity of biological systems?

Also those 10 billion people in the future will be consuming far more per capita as developing nations continue to industrialise.

This is a good thing as everyone deserves a decent life. But if we are all going to have a decent life without destroying the planet then we need to be mindful of how many of us we can sustainably support.
"Large carbon footprint"? Really? How do they know how the electricity is generated that is used by the OpenAI datacenter? Maybe it's all solar and wind.

Why can't they just talk about the reduction of energy or compute resources instead?
This thing broke my development and testing environment.

I am in the middle of developing a plugin (https://www.crawlspider.com) that catches SEO changes, certificate changes and errors (crawlspider)

Suddenly the plugin was catching SSL errors for all the domains I was monitoring. Upon checking the domains in the browser everything look fine. There was a green secure icon on all of them.

It was only after several tests and chat with my admin, it became clear that this is a root certificate issue and somehow connected to letsencrypt based certificates.
You can, but I wouldn't. The dotnet CLI contains its own version manager, so you need to have more precise control over the versions of the runtime & sdk you have installed. You can have multiple versions installed simultaneously, dotnet then chooses the runtime based on the project. IME linux package managers mess this up bad.

Fortunately MS provides a better alternative: the dotnet install scripts. [0] Make sure you add the install directory to $PATH.

[0] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-in...
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How do you represent the probability of an impossible thing, then?
Yup. It's common ignore theft under a number around $950. Technically it's a misdemeanor but they just don't seem to go after the criminal unless some video goes viral.

One friend witnessed a guy bring a handtruck into the pharmacy and cart out an entire display.
Andrew Healey just took a pass at this and did a great write-up about it here:

https://healeycodes.com/doom-rendered-via-checkboxes

It looks decent but dithering would be nice so I created an issue for it here: https://github.com/bryanbraun/checkboxland/issues/20
First 6 months of this year Gitlab took in $108M in revenue, and had $177M in expenses. Would you pay $10B to own a company that loses $10M/month, with the hopes they will continue to increase revenue in the future and become profitable?
I used to work at Uber's Amsterdam office at a time where the remote nature of the office (from SF HQ) was a struggle for some teams because of strong dependencies on teams located at SF HQ.

Sid came to the office and talked to us about some strategies Gitlab used for remote work, timezone differences etc.

Not only the talk was very helpful, Sid was an incredibly clear communicator, calm and humble. He really seemed to be a great leader and someone it must be nice working with.
While I understand that you don't like the way that's phrased, those are definitely two of the main groups currently involved in cryptocurrency. The only other group I can think of that has seen significant uptake of cryptocurrencies (and the only group actually using it as a currency) are people engaged in criminal activities (whether that's evading capital controls, money laundering, drug dealing, or ransomware).
>> Stabilize populations to 1960s or whatever,

What exactly does this mean? People were pretty upset with China's one child policy (all the unintended side-effects ignored); this sounds even more nefarious?
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Thank you, haven't heard of those yet, will dig in.
I don't think it's a serious player at enterprises either. MSFT is giving away GitHub Enterprise to sell Azure and Visual Studio licenses coupled with other perks. GitLab can't compete on that level and they lose to GitHub/MSFT on a fairly regular basis.
The headline is misleading @dang. The study did not show the sunscreen becomes toxic to humans:

> the zinc-oxide-induced photodegradation products caused significant increases in defects to the zebrafish we used to test toxicity. That suggests zinc oxide particles are leading to degradants whose introduction to aquatic ecosystems is environmentally hazardous."
I'm not so sure about that as you. Not all companies are like Google and "steal" the credit of work done by employees, even if done on work time but unrelated to the core business. Plenty of companies let employees work on open source and still remain the owners of the software produced.
That is cherry picked from 2 full paragraphs of context, I posted it in another comment above, check my history.
> My friend was driving and looked a the flat front tire and said "I'm glad I have a spare". I look at the flat back tire and said "Unless you have two, we're still going to need assistance.

I did this one time. Ran over a pothole and bottomed out. As I'm replacing my front tire I look to my rear tire and see that it's also flat. That wasn't even the cherry on top. At that point I had my front wheel off and tried putting on the spare anyways.

I had a Kia Stinger GT and the GT version has Brembo brakes which have a much larger caliper than the regular version. Well QA at Kia never thought to check if their spare tire actually fits with the larger caliper. Spoiler alert: it doesn't.
> I try to buy stuff in shops now.

Plus, it's better for your local economy -- your friends and neighbors.
I tend to agree, but at the same time I find anecdotes like this comment elsewhere in this thread[1] compelling. It may be we're just wrong and there really is a better way to do it, I've certainly been wrong about plenty of other things. Dunno.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28864722
I just stopped bothering when it got harder to access the filter/drain and I moved to the city where I park on the street. I'm much less interested in farting around under the car, getting messy, and spending a half hour or more to drain the oil, replace the filter, and refill.

At some point I just decided it was worth the extra cost to be in and out quickly. And honestly, when you add up the cost of replacement filter and oil, the premium isn't terrible when you add in time saved. I like knowing how to do it, but it's been several years since I bothered.
Mix-and-match Covid boosters are as good–if not better than–all the same shots
This sounds incredibly unlikely, but very much a thing market manipulators would like investors to believe.
North Carolina plans to cut carbon emissions by 70% by 2030
This doesn't help when it's so common to spoof caller-id. The telco industry has blown any trust we can put in this information.

[I just learned that the FCC is considering not allowing calls made outside the US to be spoofed as numbers originating inside the US. I thought that was the whole point behind STIR/SHAKEN, silly me].
I'm not saying that you can't write an F# script, but that the path to getting one written is not obvious to those coming from scripting languages that are much simpler than the VAST .NET & JVM ecosystems. There is always some bizarre .NET arcana that gets in the way.
Came here to say the same thing. I would have expected at least a small amount of chemical analysis. Something more than “toxic to zebra fish”. Also some information about how toxicity was measured like how much sunscreen the fish were exposed to, what effects it had on them.
It's easy enough to make your own cosmetics these days. You might look into it.
Sure, I don't disagree that automating tedium (I'd say self discovery isn't tedium, but not quibble) is the purpose of the machine.

However, what I take issue is with "intelligently identify multiple ways to identify "the thing"" sure, in you're example if someone wants to get to the top search result for "the history of mesopotamia" it might be doing alright...but, who is the one who decided what that search result is, if I type in "history of mesopotamia" and I get shunted directly to the wikipedia entry, maybe that's all ever get, I won't see the thing I really might have wanted which was a specific book about stone tablets of mesopotamia.

The point is, offloading our intelligence to "the machine" only makes as smart or as agenda driven as the machine and its maker, this overall must have some limiting effect. even if doing more with less capacity is good, if the capacity itself is limited to the machine, then it's like saying, I can eat more pie, but the pie is also shrinking.
Alden Global Capital, the secretive hedge fund gutting newsrooms
In California they have in 2 ways.
They have increased signing bonuses, starting salaries and some places have expanded their pool of applicants by "reducing" minimum requirements:

https://www.pe.com/2021/07/23/more-southern-california-emplo...
This looks promising: https://github.com/pradel/create-react-app-esbuild
How long have you been in the industry? I ask because the last bust was not that long ago, like 2016ish.
>I don't think that's true.

From what you've written here though, it seems that you do agree with me...
> If you stay on the job for more than two months, your sponsors get double what they invested (minus our fees).

I feel like the linked Twitter criticisms just gloss over the fact. This is definitely a strange idea but it's a shame people dismissed it out of hand based on crude characterizations.

I think referrals, at least at large companies, have messed up incentives. If you and your direct team don't have to suffer the consequences of a bad hire, then of course you should refer random Blind/Reddit/LinkedIn strangers for a chance at getting several thousand dollars. The "large company" issue may be harder to fix, but if you have the potential to lose money, then you will be more discriminating.
Users not knowing what a url bar even is will be actively dangerous when they've somehow managed to land on a fishing site though.

I don't think that can be engineered away in any reasonable way soon, so saying they shouldn't need to know seems irresponsible to me
I wonder, how would airless tires be able to handle offroading? On the one hand they seem like the perfect candidate as running over a rock or stick won't cause the tire to puncture. But on the other hand you loose the ability to air down the tire for more traction.
Yet I'm still seeing schools strap masks on elementary students and all other sorts of abusive trends that will harm their development. The worst thing is that people warned about the dangers of isolating these kids from school, their friends, and berating them with sensationalist media causing their anxiety levels to go off the charts.

This is 100% a case of the pandemic response being worse than the disease. Risks from COVID for kids is minimal. What really bothers me is that people who warned of this were berated for not following "the science", censored and labeled as someone who didn't care about COVID deaths. Imo schools should have never closed.

Unfortunately, I think there will be a lot of fallout from the poor response in years to come.
That makes sense if these price rises reflect real shortages of goods and not just more money in the economy.

Essentially, we are seeing cost-push inflation and it's not clear when it will go away given the supply chain problems.
This is why professional reviews matter so much now. I generally go to Wirecutter for big purchases, and then skim through user reviews just to verify.
An argument assumes if it doesn't back up the assertion with reasoning. For an argument to state, it needs more; as written, it wasn't really an argument to begin with. It was just a theoretical supposition.
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"P&G’s $200 million digital cut were reinvested into areas with “media reach” including television, audio and ecommerce"
So they awitched to other platforms with mostly no back channel and no user tracking. So the whole tracking seems to be pointless
> expanding the contactless limit ... wallet sniping

I am quite interested in the security details of NFC.

Where is the best information you found? Unfortunately my searches found too little.

BTW: apparently someone managed to use a fault in the protocol to steal well more than the limit. And by the way, if any product proposer mentions a "limit", in order not to be brainless they must also mention a "rate" (e.g. 10€ per hour), and I have never seen anyone do it.
Anti-consumer behaviour. Multiple hardware design faults in macbooks. Actively working against repair, against software freedom, against the user (see recent CSAM fiasco). Non-removable storage. Preference of thin&light vs upgradeability/cooling.

I wouldn't mind that as I'm not their customer, but all the crap they introduce gets mindlessly copied by all their competition.
>Couldn't figure it out or didn't figure it out?

I've reported bugs to the VAC email and they were patched a few weeks later, so maybe they do try? I really can't think of a reason WHY they neglect VAC willingly..

>As we speak, there are probably public cheats in existence that won't be banned for at least another two years.

Yep, I used to help maintain a free one on github, the traffic was in the tens of thousands. Been UD for 2+ years (and it's a fork of another, which was UD for 2+). All because we use Java and VAC never started scanning the JVM.
What I like about companies like Apple is when they release something, they explicitly say: "This product will be available in stores starting Oct 15". On Oct 15, you go to apple.com and buy the product online. Done. I can't even count how many years I've heard about airless tires being developed.
I imagine they're critical for noise reduction.
Wasn't the crude oil price negative a year ago?
What happened?
Yeah, I only know about it from using other carbureted things (lawnmower, generator, motorcycle, etc.) If I'd only ever started up a modern car, I probably wouldn't know about it either.
It’s not something we achieve in 20 years. It would be a century long goal via reduced fertility rates that do not include barbaric tools like forced abortions, etc.
There are more details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing

The same group wants to include a couple others, from different platforms, but the Unicode Script Ad Hoc Group is concerned the new batch may not be as meaningful as the first one.
Machine learning is not nonparametric statistics
What we've learned about digital gaming's climate impact – a summary
Painful to read “When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”
Agree, if anything it should be the reverse, less LOC produced means more efficient developer. But that's also a shit metric, as then people start cramming in as much complexity in every line as possible.

Best would be if we could actually measure "complexity" in a objective manner.
1) The subset of JavaScript that you need to know at first is extremely easy to get a grip on.

2) You already have everything you need to start playing with it (a web browser and a text editor).
Absolutely nothing would happen. I actually did report a few of the accounts just to see what happened and to this day no ban
Can you send me some of these random hashes? Since they're worthless?

Bitcoin secures over a trillion USD. 1 in 6 Americans own Bitcoin and user growth is faster than the rise of the internet and Facebook combined. Companies/Wallstreet are in, VCs are in, the first country has used it as a legal currency.

And yet you're still on this 12 year old narrative that it's worth zero?
I've actually been hearing and interesting theory that the younger generation is becoming even more computer illiterate than the generation before them.

The younger generation was raised on iPads and iPhones where everything is easy to use and "just works". They've never had to do anything beyond tap the icon for the App they want.

Edit: Was going to talk about that same article about File directories.
Could be, but usually bots that post spam include some form of link, not just keywords. The link is the entire point of posting spam.

There also seems to be a few distinct bots doing this, with distinct user agents (but bots with the same UA spam-search on the same topic out of epharma, casino, warez).

I also have another, identical search box in another part of the site and it has never seen any sort of spam bots.
> a nobel prize winning medicine

For treating parasites.

Give a heart transplant to a kid with a cold and you'll get yelled at, too, despite it being a wonderful procedure to have in our medical quiver.
Got sources? Curious to read about it. Is this a future effect or already happening?