skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the excellent summary here. You should have written the tl;dr for the Windows team even though I know that officially saying this would likely piss off just as many people.

One follow-on question - any insights into how what you wrote above explains why Microsoft dropped support for AMD Zen in Win11 (Zen+ and higher are only supported)? Looking at Wikichip, it doesn't seem like there's a feature missing, so perhaps there's an unfixable bug in Zen?
Uh oh, I'm going to be wasting a lot of time with this...
Follow-up thought: they just got acquired, so maybe there's some consolidation happening in terms of support or business processes that I'm not privy to. This was definitely more of a "straw that broke the camel's back" kind of response than abject outrage after the initial WTF response to the "clean your list before we re-enable you" message.

I started migrating while the service was down and they had given no indication that it would be turned back on any time soon. By the time my emails were reinstated, I was around 80-90% migrated. At that point, it's worth kicking the tires on the new service to see how deliverability compares.
The big risk here is that the fed is going to keep treading water until we fall off the upcoming cliff into another depression.

Where if they would just be honest with people today, sure we will have a recession but that is preferred to depression or economic collapse which is where all of this is heading
I can't believe this - who could have predicted?!?!?

Anti-competition time in the EU
There aren't any distributions if you don't personally own any assets or have any bank accounts -- the "church" pays for it all on your behalf. You also don't fit any legal definition of an employee either.
As with most human traits, there are likely evolutionary benefits for certain responses in prior times. E.g. someone is depressed, shows symptoms that activate the community to help find issues that need addressing.
Still not particularly readable or memorable. You still need to remember that blue is color number 4 and that "sgr0" is "exit_attribute_mode", what you might call "reset".
What exactly is "wealth hoarding" and why is it a problem? I keep hearing this term and realize I just tune it out because it sounds like a political slogan. I am open to understanding though just in case this is a blindspot for me.
> hires 50000 developers

> only two of them actually do any work
No most mainstream news outlets in the U.S. and the U.K. consider Assange to be a “Hacker” and a “Criminal”
Because business continuity is an important aspect of running a business. Who's to say what is hording and what is simply risk management?
> Gen X and older don't have the moral high ground when it comes to selfishness.

I wasn't talking about an entire generation, just what you wrote. I know plenty of younger folks who don't feel like they need to wish death upon boomers (and now Gen X) because they perceive that those earlier generations have somehow deliberately screwed them.

And if you aren't watching carefully, please note that millenials are quickly moving into the same every day choices that people before them made. This isn't a generational thing, there is no conspiracy.
There is no anti work movement. Ignore the shirker.

What I predict is that aggregate demand isn't going up exponentially anymore because of the aging population. Why is that a problem? Because productivity is growing exponentially as well. The economists of the early 20th century expected that we will simply work less as the robots do more.

The problem with the protestant work ethic is that there is no need for more and more work. If you work a fixed 40 hour work week and your output is growing exponentially your consumption has to grow exponentially as well. This isn't happening so either people spend an increasing amount of money on limited housing or they do increasingly less productive work in the service sector. Lots of people compete for "limited" full time jobs that keep an entire human busy.

E.g. 10 people consume as much as 8 people can produce. The obvious solution would be a 32 hour work week but instead 8 people work 40 hours and 2 people work 0 hours. The first 8 will become increasingly competitive to avoid becoming the bottom 2. Of course this is overly simplified. Some people actually consume everything they produce and therefore shouldn't be bound by work hour restrictions.

The hustle culture is just the boring result of a prisoners dilemma.
Mind explaining the lol here? I would love to know the counterargument to the mortgage comment.
It’s worth pointing out that:

(1) there is always a huge swath of people that will “never” take a new vaccine. It has only gotten bigger since social media allowed the unwashed masses to bypass the old gatekeepers.

(2) the top health officials in the USA have all been threatened (death threats against their person and their families). This very likely clouds the lessons they could learn from the past / years.

(3) “Hard truths” are complicated and require an audience willing to understand nuance. We have a fractured media environment that frequently doesn’t carry the entire quote and media consumers that frequently don’t click beyond the clickbait headline. We have people en masse trusting their health decisions to superstition who join in chants to fire/arrest/kill health officials.

While the mask guidance of Feb 2020 could have been better communicated (it seems clear to me the calculus involved more than what was publicly stated), it also seems naïve to me that simply telling the truth would have solved any of these issues.
SOCOM Spy Plane Has a New (Possibly) Russian-Inspired Name: Foxhound
iPad4 I think. Old, but otherwise perfectly fine.
> That 4% difference is absolutely massive.

4% of the entire workforce is massive.

4% of unemployed workers who were previously receiving unemployment benefits is irrelevant.

If you zoom out, you'll see that the biggest drops in unemployment benefits weren't in the 2021Q2, they were in 2020Q4.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/284857/total-unemploymen...
Really clever strategy IMHO

Really clever short term strategy. Once word gets out only sellers who don't care will list their products, and your product listings will be page after page of cheap, knock-off crap only an idiot would buy.

looks at Amazon listings

Yep.
Why is the president of the US involved in something like this? How is the port not economically motivated to do this by itself?
There are essentially no pedestrians there (and no explicit pedestrian crossing). It's basically the boundary between a mostly rural exurb and a small city's sprawl. What it does have is one of those stupid zipper merges immediately after a traffic light which encourages aggressive drivers to jump the merge queue on a regular basis even if it means effectively running someone off the road.
It strikes me that there is a link between mainstream popularity of crypto and the massive liquidity and artificially low interest rates. The smart players are using the transparency to do high frequency arbitrage. This is one of the rare instances where I think regulation is helpful.
Middlemachines
"Many of today’s bureaucratic functions, both in government and corporations, are already performed not by human administrators directly but by machines controlled by humans. Soon enough, serious attempts will emerge to entirely remove human intermediation and subjectivity from the administrative equation. Here, the potential convergence of blockchains and Artificial Intelligence is provocative as middlemen are replaced by increasingly autonomous middlemachines." - first coined by Mario Laul in 2019. [source: https://mariolaul.medium.com/blockchains-are-bureaucracies-p...]
Logic makes a compelling case for itself, and some leaps of faith are larger than others.
From the picture it looked more like a walking gun platform.

Saying that, if I was a downed airman in hostile territory or in the middle of an inhospitable desert I wouldn't mind having one of these little guys along with me.
I don't know about the US, in Europe FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) is getting competition from affiliates from Hermes (the logistics arm of Otto Group, one Amazon's biggest competition in Germany) and others. Multi marketplace capability and cost being among the main reasons.
That is misinformation. According to the UFCW union, 456 of their 1.3M members have died of COVID-19. While those deaths are tragic, it's only 0.04% and had no significant impact on the workforce. To put it in context, the COVID-19 death rate for grocery workers is actually lower than the US population as a whole. And many of the workers who died were infected outside the workplace.

https://www.supermarketnews.com/issues-trends/grocery-worker...

I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but vaccinated customers also transmit the virus. There is only a limited and temporary reduction in transmission risk.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y
Tiny Letter from Kafka
Typically 80-90% of our traffic is search engine bots crawling the site, which is not very amenable to caching. So even if we cached all user traffic the overall load wouldn't move much.

That said, it might make sense to cache to protect against load spikes on specific pages, but unfortunately those don't happen a whole lot.
I can't say I wholly agree, although I support the motive. Using the word "understanding" where I think "belief" is a more accurate term is wordplay to maintain a specific worldview. "results" and "better" seemingly avoid precision.
Much ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Is Still People Behind a Screen
What else are they going to lose? Money is kind of a big deal and unless a failed business owner gets a finger taken it is the biggest thing to lose

That's a major risk
That's a good question and I would have to defer to an economist or someone better trained in these issues to say one way or another for sure (or maybe even "yes, but..."). My armchair opinion is the supply chain issues definitely have an impact just like how the 42% increase in fuel prices have a downstream effect on the fuel prices which affects the supply chain, etc etc...

Some follow-up questions that immediately come to my mind are: (1) How does the average U.S. consumer think about supply chain questions? (2) How much more are the prices felt by the average U.S. consumer if I'm feeling them at my income level? (3) Will this translate to a shift in a more fiscally conservative mindset by voters in the upcoming round of elections?

I've not seen any hard numbers but I would assume that the average HN reader (like my spouse and I) are more educated and earn more money than the average U.S. consumer. Please correct me if that is wrong, though! Going with that assumption however, my gut tells me that while we are relatively insulated from these CPI/inflation increases, the average consumer isn't and the financial impact to the average consumer is more of an existential threat. However - and this is not a knock on anyone at all because I really enjoy discussing supply chain questions too - I'm getting concerned that the majority of people in the country less fortunate than me do not have the luxury/privilege to have the same discussions. Since, at this point, these types of questions and discussions could probably be fairly be classified as academic at our level, it's very much real and not academic to those less fortunate.

But please forgive that moralizing tangent! Just typing out these questions, concerns and thoughts as they come to me while I'm sitting here having my second cup of coffee and getting through my first round of meetings for the day. Hopefully nothing I said offended you or anyone else here and might even stimulate further conversation and fresh viewpoints or perspectives on these issues. :)
I don't know how many of these conversations you've tried to have, because the confirmation bias is very real.

We're not discussing skepticism of nematode behavior, but of the politicization of a pandemic, which makes it opinion. You can't reason with someone out of an opinion who didn't reason themselves into it to begin with.

Rational bad actors abuse this notion that they have the right to play, to be heard, to have a discourse; when in reality they're repeating the same disinformation ad nausea to profit for themselves.
Any health related science is fraught because it is usually unethical to run the actual causal experiments. E.g. put people in closed rooms with various types of masks, release covid virus in the air, measure death rate, etc.
U.S. beats China as the number one destination for Bitcoin miners
I noticed that too. I found it very distasteful and grossly misleading. It says:

When iPhone was developed, PCs were the world’s primary computing tools, and they were riddled with viruses.

Okay, but Macs managed to buck that trend because of your superior engineering, right Apple? Right? Hello? I mean... that's what you've been telling us for decades, Apple.

Oh, you meant PCs not Macs in the above quote? That's a bit disingenuous isn't it? It's (ahem) Apples to Oranges isn't it? Are you selling oranges or apples?

Note: I'm a fan of Apple's products but am getting tired of their sleight-of-word bullsh*t. This outright deceiving behaviour is disgusting.
Historic racism -> Intergenerational poverty -> chaos -> Quantum mechanics -> Hawking radiation -> Black hole

Now we are all dead. Thanks, racism.
Ok, so if it turns out well we can maybe start trusting the social sciences that properly reformed in a few decades or so when they have rooted out most problems. But as of now I am still sceptical of those fields.
Erdős’s proof of Bertrand’s postulate (2015) [pdf]
Forcing automatic updates on the users seems like an example of not being successful to me. Not allowing the users to disable that automatic update with a simple on/off type of options also seems like a failure.
I think you believe a "cult" only means a situation where people are held against their will by crazy religious nuts trying to assert their sovereignty. Those are the only examples the media wants you to know about.

Hearing about a group of people who have successfully implemented small scale communism with a religion involved and they thrived for over 100 years isn't something you want to shout from the rooftops as it would encourage more of this behavior.
Because investment in stocks competes with investment in government bonds. At just 1% increase in bond interest, trillions of investment dollar will flow from stocks to bonds.
Many people, especially retired, would prefer a safe 2% return over 7% return with occasional 50% crash (as in 2000 and 2008).
I'm going to use the adjective "flammable" now to describe people who can be easily riled up into political rage. It's great because it emphasizes that not only is there a match, there's tinder.
> Imho, another point for the European GDPR - it says its US only

As an American, I find it really embarrassing that the Europeans are doing such a better job at protecting individual privacy in this space.
If I’m in the same house or at least the same city, I can keep some pretty impressive tech working

Having a working prototype with a technician on hand means you’re only about 10% of the way to having a mass-producible product though
>What does this have to do with inflation?

Part of the inflation rate is housing, in many regions there are still blocks on evictions, foreclosures, etc.

This reduces inventory and increases prices. Evictions and Forclosures are critical to the market, if a person can just stay put and not pay rent it is a double whammy for inflation as they will use their rent money on other things increasing demand where supply is restricted (aka inflation) and their housing unit is removed from the supply also increasing inflation
So from the manner in this was written .... they're evil?
I'll grant this could be true, but like many I have clear memory of them saying this, and denying it now seems like a bad case of rewriting history in order to save a marginal bit of face. It's like how Bill Gates was never supposed to have said anything about 640K being enough for anyone. So what if he said it? He may be rich and famous, but does that mean he doesn't occasionally say something that seems rather silly in hindsight?

I'd respect them more if they just said "yeah, we said it would be the last one, but you know what... We reckon we can do better. This one goes to ELEVEN!"

There, that's your marketing done as well, Microsoft. So they changed their minds. Wow, it's almost like they're human beings or something! It wouldn't be nearly as noteworthy as denying it is already proving to be...
I'm not Swedish. I stayed in the country for the nice working environment.
IPv4 for sale – WIDE and APNIC selling 43.0.0.0/8
This is exactly the same thing Walmart used to do.

They would buy supply of a product from a startup supplier, who had done all the work of sourcing and designing the production of their product, and then demand ever-declining prices of said supply until the startup supplier had no choice but to abandon ship due to lack of profitability. At which point Walmart would simply re-create the supply chain themselves.

The solution is to never deal with a corporation like Amazon or Walmart, Bezos didn't get to be a pretend-astronaut wannabe by paying his bills.
4th gen iPads got dropped because they only have a 32-bit CPU.
UK Judge rules that Ring smart doorbell caused “harassment” to a neighbour
> drawing sweeping conclusions from a single specific experiment

It seems that you are bringing up the main issue with modern scientific production. Research studies that do not have sweeping/popular/weird conclusions do not get press and the ones that do get coverage. That creates a perverse incentive for researchers to either do research in "popular" topics and to have new insights/conclusions even when these are not really supported by the results.

It is not an accident that you are reading about this specific study in vice rather than the 100s of other incrementalist studies about depression that got published over the past year.
Why do you mean by ‘throw exceptions from C’? C has no exceptions.
Page 26, paragraph 3 seems to make exactly the claim GP made. But you're correct, I haven't read all of the 28 pages of Apple's argument here. From what I have read, they don't seem to be discussing potential benefits that come from sideloading, only costs.

> Even users who decide they don’t want to sideload, and prefer to download apps
only from the App Store, would end up being harmed. They could be forced to
sideload an app they need for work, for school, or for social inclusion if it is not made
available on the App Store. Furthermore, cybercriminals and hackers may trick users
into unknowingly sideloading an app by mimicking the appearance of the App Store,
or by touting free or expanded access to services or exclusive features.
Can confirm. I've gotten insurance payouts and then not repaired the car because it was cosmetic. Perfectly legal.
I am maybe the anomaly in this crowd (I also don't develop apps for iPhones) but I appreciate the security benefits that Apple puts on people. Sure it comes at a cost of "freedom" of applications that I could put on my phone, but it gives me a bit of piece of mind that my aging parents and my nieces and nephews are able to use the phone without downloading very risky applications (I mean there are still risks abound, but it decreases it significantly). There are already enough security flaws that continue to be patched up on an on-going basis that it seems unnecessary to open this level of risk for their client base. One less thing I need to worry about.

Understand I am fairly alone in this perspective.
This is arrant nonsense.

If you adopt a perspective of totalising scepticism then, of course, you will shrink into a solipsistic disbelief of everything. But the fact there is no Archimedean foundation of knowledge doesn't mean we ought to treat all truth claims equal. There are logical and mathematical truths that are a condition of the world being intelligible to us, and that structure the internal working of nature insofar as we can understand it. We can have justified beliefs about many things, but we cannot have a justified belief in God, which requires dogmatic faith.

Also, there are glaring internal contradictions in the major world religions. If God is good and omnipotent, then why is there pain and suffering? How can God be one and three things at the same time, as the doctrine of the Trinity tells us?
DIY campaign mail over a transactional service? CHECK

Uncleaned, imported list? CHECK

No domain warm-up? CHECK

Ignore hometown hero MailChimp that would have predicted bounces and disarmed your foot gun? CHECK

Passing blame to customer support? SAD
Though, it sound like the bottom line us good: completion helps consumers, as the efficiency goes up (no unefficient small middle man) and eventually the price goes down?
Thanks, it's about time this reputation on french sloppiness ends.. What would people have said if "move fast and break things" moto was coming from a french company.
The Economics of Belief Transmission
This viewpoint is popular here, I think we all see that, but I find it to almost always come from the point of view of a technically competent power user who can 1) make use of the expanded capability and 2) have the knowledge and instincts to protect themselves in the face of reduced or no guardrails. That is not the profile of the average iPhone user.

For the layperson (90+% of iPhone users) I find the argument unconvincing. They don't understand how to protect themselves. And what software is it that they would substantially benefit from if only it were not for a manufacturer-controlled app store monopoly?

Don't we all have memories of looking at a relatives computer and finding half a dozen browser toolbars and some mysterious impossible-to-uninstall programs running on startup?
But hasn't Bill not been in charge for like forever?
How's that working out with the current job market?
> Particularly when it laughs off the entire concept of individuals feeling their own dopamine levels

I agree the article wasn't great, but that line was clearly saying that the subjective experience of "feeling a dopamine rush" isn't at all evidence of a dopamine rush, since we have no idea what the individual neurotransmitters feel like in our brain (unless we've been somehow trained to recognize them, perhaps, through very controlled experiments with dopamine inhibitors).

Saying "oh I know dopamine must be important because I can feel it" is, indeed, absurd.

We can feel a rush. We can feel desire. We can feel satiation. And perhaps we have been told that these things relate to dopamine. So now we say we can feel dopamine. This doesn't add more evidence that it is dopamine.
China rushes to produce more power due to outages
New hires across roles and seniority levels jump ship after a month, since offers just keep pouring in. Very hard to hire DevOps folks. Roadmaps are heavier than ever and fewer folks to haul them.
I would bet more on a standard a 49" 5120x1440 monitor and they didn't even realize the need of that basic productive feature.
the answer is all of them. This website can be replaced by `ls /**/*bin`. any program which does anything nontrivial that you call with sudo is going to let you do something with root privileges you couldn't otherwise do.
With how little my grandma uses her computer for and how confusing OS changes are, I almost wonder if I'd be better off installing ReactOS.
How the COVID pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists
30s crisis hurling at me when a high school senior is way better than me lmao. Amazing read!
Oww, come one. Plastic-cement composite materials are strong enough. However impractical they are.
Maybe you are right. I'm not as confident as you that the U.S. government has learned from history, though; it spends a lot of time explaining that it has made historically-attested consequences of its actions impossible. But I'm not a fan in general, and that may color my perceptions.