skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> who contributed to the opioid crisis

Pretty sure they single-handedly created the opioid crisis. It seems strange that physicians did not or could not head it off at the pass, but they were incentivized and lied to by Purdue and Sacklers to write as many prescriptions as possible.

Though I think you are correct that this change is not about fairness, a $4.5B settlement is not fair because it is not punitive for the Sackler family members that have blood on their hands. When you kill half a million people for profit and cause incalculable suffering in survivors, all the ill-gotten gains should be forfeit. There's at least $10B left to recover, and even that won't make it fair. I think fair may be unattainable in this case, even if a judge orders capable Sacklers to be forced on oxycontin until addicted and then forced into withdrawal, over and over again, for the rest of their lives.
Yes, my comment was about the Aviate Navigate Communicate rule, not about cloudflare's response
I was involved in part with the Windows 8 control panel refresh. What a nightmare it was working with that team.

There was just no care for actually improving user experience, everything was shoehorned into the modern ui mainly as a push for ARM windows devices which were so slow they just never took off. MS wanted to force an enclosed ecosystem like apple iOS, but just didn’t have the hardware to make it happen.

I remember one story asking why it was so difficult to manage switching to Bluetooth speakers for the surface which was still somewhat secret at MS at the time only to be told that they did follow up with my question and only 0.005% of users ever used Bluetooth speakers with windows and it wasn’t a priority. (Obviously the number is t right, but it was something utterly tiny)
Any company that is sufficiently large can (and should) be scrutinized, but at Amazon scale, arguments can easily be cherry picked to make whatever outcome you decided to be the truth look like the truth.

I could for example bring forth the times some merchant attempted to talk me out of filing a complaint, because, apparently those have very real implications very quickly, with fines and restrictions being imposed by Amazon, which makes a lot of sense to me, considering Amazon is basically letting those vendors play with their "credit score" of trust.

But alas, pretending that I know this to be more than anecdotal evidence, I will not.
Whoaaaa, this tqdm thing is, like, um, toats kewl!!! It's waaay better than the <blink> tag old people used to use, like, before I was even born lol. IM so so happy idont have to think too hard to get flashing light thingys to show up on my screen.
Bypass of allowedLdapHost check in Log4j 2.15.0 – Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228)
Convenience Vs security. All in all, looks like a good thing
At least in USA, there is not really a shortage of natural gas or gasoline. Yet the prices have ramped up.
I dunno. I think OP may be right about changes in meme
culture, but I don’t think OP is being anything but nostalgic in any of the examples given. memes are more sophisticated insofar as they’re more self aware and self referential but they’re not necessarily meaner or more degenerate. YTMND anyone?
As I understand it, in Git Flow, the result of the merge into main should be identical to the tree that was in develop, meaning there's no difference, it's just a matter of maintaining the appropriate history.

Under normal conditions this should be trivially true. Develop forked off from main, no commits on main, therefore the merge back into main has no changes on the first-parent side and is equal to the second parent. The two ways to screw this up are:

1. You did a hotfix release and didn't merge the hotfix back into develop properly, or

2. You made changes on a release branch and forgot to merge that back into develop.

In both cases, the fact that the results of merging develop into main produced a different tree than what was in develop (or rather, in the current release branch) should be a signal that you screwed up somewhere.

Having said all that, I'm willing to bet that 98% of places that do Git Flow don't actually have any checks to ensure that the tree on main is identical to the tree on the release branch. And this is because the model is actually rather complex, most people don't understand Git properly, and the accessible documentation about Git Flow doesn't even bother to mention the possibility that the merge into main could produce a different tree.
Anecdotally I will say that my union has doubled the wages of its members in the last 10 years. There are also twice yearly cost of living raises.

As another commenter has pointed out, median doesn’t tell the story accurately when it’s being pushed largely by incredibly disproportionate growth in top 10% of earners.

I love my Union, and I’ll grant you that Unions aren’t universally good due to people being shitty but I wholly believe in Unions and hope more people organize. It is the only meaningful way for labor to get what they deserve.
https://archive.md/TK3Ch
It can be fine, but the moment you need to roll back a change, you'll wish for feature branches. If you reach for cherry-pick, you've failed.

Anyway, branches and merge-requests take almost zero extra time and effort above pushing to master, with the added benefit that you can test and deploy a branch from your CI/CD separately.
Stick to the defaults as much as possible.

Prefer stability and longevity over newness.
All of them? Not in those words, because "impossible" is a term a corporate PR machine will not want to throw around, but you will see the phrase "a very hard problem" quite often. And for a good reason.

Please read: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191111/23032743367/masni...

Add the facts that norms vary across cultures, and that laws vary across jurisdictions. But this only relates to user-generated content. Amazon is allowing bait-and-switch across the board, with physical products and their categories. That's not a problem with content moderation, Amazon has a problem with accountability.
Soc compliance is not ensured by spying on employees activities. That excuse alone is a complete bullshit. If this were happening to me, I'd tell them exactly that and refuse to work under surveillance. This is completely unacceptable even if it is getting somewhat common.
Ask HN: What’s a productivity tip you can share?
I’m kind of obsessed with productivity/automation and just making frequent tasks easier and easier to manage. I’m a python ML dev, and I’m always looking for new ways to speed up my day to day tasks, from tmux and vim, to new python packages, to new IDEs and scripts.
What productivity tips have you learned that could help someone out?
I've been managing most of my YouTube consumption via RSS. Well, that is until they remove their channel RSS feeds at some point in the future...

I would still be sad if they blocked my account. I'm actively trying to get better at making videos and there are some very nice memories on there (which I have saved locally, of course, but still).
You're sad that people won't overcrowd themselves to death? As developing nations transition grow to developed, population growth tends to fall toward an equilibrion that is also found in nature. It's a trend seen time and time again. Yet you don't see developed countries on the brink of extinction, so I think this fear mongering is unnecessary.
I could never use Pandas without SO and the documentation and I use it for almost 10 years.

I have no idea what is the intention of the developers most of the time.
> That’s tougher in most of Europe, where labor laws making hiring and firing strikingly expensive.

That is true. Personally and anecdotally I find that to be a good thing. I feel much more comfortable with 35h work week, 35 days of paid vacation making €60k without living in the fear of getting fired the next day.

Even if I could get more money in the US, I highly doubt that my standard of living would increase enough to justify the uncertainty that would come with this move. And I think that difference is even more extreme with jobs that don’t require years of education beforehand.
It's not a parasite, it's an archive. You know, vast collection of documents saved for posterity? Previously done through microfiche in libraries?

Besides which, when you have media constantly rewriting itself, or geofencing, a mirror can get it in front of more eyes.

I assure you. News orgs aren't hurting that much. And a good deal of their pain is self inflicted.
But but but the MMT fanatics here were telling me that first - no inflation will come, second - its temporary and last - its happening but its good for the workers.
I don’t particularly buy this idea since Mastodon has already existed for several years - and in that time, all the major social media players have only increased their market share.

As far as free speech platforms go you have things like Gab, Voat, etc which prioritize free speech in name. While that may be commendable as a value, the core audience they attract in the beginning is inevitably too extreme for the platform to go mainstream.

By the time Reddit replaced Digg, Digg was already losing users routinely. I don’t think any of the current social media players are in that position just yet.
Bull.. ahem.. shit. If you want a fair comparison, compare the incomes of union workers vs non-union workers within the same country or COL area doing similar jobs. If unions would bring wages down, corporations would be all over that and will sign you up on the first day. Use your head, damn it.
Bad example, as trucker turnover historically is over 100% each year.
https://www.fleetowner.com/operations/drivers/article/211453...
Self Updating GitHub Read(meme)
People can build games, buy games for Android and ChromeOS, both Linux based, without Microsoft on the loop, and it hasn't made GNU/Linux magically get those games.

The problem that GNU/Linux doesn't get games isn't Microsoft.
I don’t know whether the tools exist, but that doesn’t require defragging. It just requires moving stuff from the top occupied blocks into free space lower down.

That’s less work and somewhat easier to program. There still will be edge cases where doing that increases the size of directory structures, so it’s not fully trivial.
Thank you for a good explanation and book recommendation.
Universities to form EduDAO, financed by BitDAO treasury
Universities including Berkeley, MIT, Harvard, Oxford to form EduDAO to promote Web 3.0 innovations, financed by BitDAO treasury

The funds from EduDAO will be used for research, education and entrepreneurship in Web 3.0 technologies among the world's top universities.
Do large language models understand us?
"The Void Trilogy" by Peter F. Hamilton has a "constructed" subuniverse where you can alter matter with thoughts and it has different temporal flow.
In a heavily inflationary environment this practice could turn out to be entirely maladaptive. What percentage of inflation year on year will you change your mind at? Do you even have a line?
Lots of them available for Android/Linux and ChromeOS/Linux.
You’re totally right that fullscreen breaks cmd ~. It also breaks cmd tab in unexpected ways.

You’re also right about lack of visual feedback, which is disappointing given the various stuff that I think is still currently branded Mission Control, where obviously the fundamentals are already there.

Cmd ~ isn’t statically ordered though, it’s either application specific or based on recent use in a weird (easy to confuse) heuristic. It follows a similar (maybe identical?) pattern to recent use for cmd tab, and even app switching on iOS.
> This pandemic proved that we can produce a "safe and effective" vaccine in 12 months. That is apparently a record. It shouldn't be - this signals that 75% of the wait time for new cures and vaccines is red tape.

It can be kinda hard to test vaccines quickly and ethically typically as subjecting people to a disease on purpose isn't really allowed and you have to wait for them to catch it naturally and compare. Fortunately (or unfortunately) during a pandemic it's pretty easy to test vaccines as one can quickly compare one's that got the vaccine and one's that didn't effectiveness.
When I first switched to Mac I absolutely hated the way the OS handle the alt tab function.

Now I'm a big fan and find it disorienting to go back to Windows but I've been here for 10 years. CMD + ~ all the way.
I’m not sure why this is getting so much negative attention. I’ve been both in and around high level management in the Danish public sector for decades and I’ve never matched or sparred with another manager who would these sort of things.

No one, and I do mean no one, is irreplaceable. Maybe you’ll have to throw away an entire IT system because you’ve lost the know how to keep the business case for the system a net positive, but that means a lot less to an organisation (especially enterprise) that we tend to fool ourselves into believing myself included.
I think "meme" is a bit more than a picture with a joke. Of course anything can be called a "meme" but it is meaningless to do so if we discard the original conceptual meaning of "meme" altogether.

First of all a meme is something that can spread by duplication, and possibly mutate in the process. It must be like a gene in that respect.

Secondly it doesn't need to be a "joke". It must be something that TELLS us something about the world we live in, and about people around us. It has to have a message. Maybe the message is expressed in terms of a joke and yes jokes tell us something about the world. A meme might be an expression that aptly describes a recurring situation. We may not laugh at it, but inside our heads we say "yes that truly describes that situation".

A meme is like a poem, like a haiku. It catches the essence of some situation that many people encounter. It succinctly tells us a lot. Therefore it spreads because it is easy to pass on, and it has value because it tells us a lot.

There have been jokes circulating on the internet for a long time. But jokes are not "memes". Jokes are something that make us laugh, memes are something that tell us the essence of some recurring phenomenon.
>"If someone is unhappy enough to start job hunting rather than talking to me then it's a clear sign that they'll leave soon regardless of any pay rise."

Long time ago when I was employed I liked my job but felt that I am being paid less than what I could get. So I went searching and after a while got a really nice offer. With that offer I came to the company owner and ask him to give me a reason why should not I take the offer. He did give me a reason - matched the offer and put bonus on top. The end result - I stayed. Well until I went on my own and never looked back.
You assume the other person is rational and reasonable.

If the mouse ain't movin somebody's shirkin
it costs electricity, bandwidth, computing power, and space to create a Bitcoin
Like the other user said, we've entered an age where the "security update" is the malware.
> If an online service like eBay, Facebook or Uber required this level of verification, people would (rightly) tell them to piss off and use a competing service instead.

Well, we'll see once the government forces through the "anti-troll" bill that does require a similar level of verification, next year.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/29/australia_troll_bill/
> func (o Option[T,U]) Map(f func(a T) U) Option[U] { ... }

I love GO and it's simplicity and yes I do want generics, but is it just me or is this reading much much harder now ? It reminds me of those ugly voidfuncptr signatures of C and C++ :(

Maybe my eyes should just get used to it but I do feel a little my simple Go now reads not as easy. YMMV
I've also read this book and would recommend it highly, along with How to Win Friends. I read the latter as a kid, and I don't think it has a lower bound on the age it's helpful at.
More visible ones are the method declaration syntax taken from Oberon-2, and the unsafe package.

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~wgg/CSE131B/oberon2.htm

Also I don't know what you mean relatively to type embedding, Oberon doesn't do it like Go, it only has extensible records.
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Judge rejects Purdue Pharma's $4.5B opioid settlement
In the olden days, the seller was prominently listed in every Amazon listing, and you could click on a seller and browse their entire inventory along with reviews. AFAIK you can't do that anymore. They make it intentionally opaque who is actually selling or shipping.
It is y/y (comparing Nov 2021 to Nov 2020). m/m 7% inflation is generally something more catastrophic.
FSF Adopts New Governance Framework for Board Members
It appears to be Germany: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/09/fall-on-walk-f...

There are a couple of things worth noting here. Firstly, the accident was covered as the walk was deemed to constitute commuting. This suggests that events that happen outside of an employer's premise and in an environment they cannot control being covered is not particularly new or uncommon. Further, it was the employer’s insurance that refused to pay out - the employer did not directly suffer any loss (though presumably the insurance company could set requirements for the employer as a condition of the insurance contract).
That's a weird generalization. Yes there are terrible, insecure e-commerce sites in India, the same as there are in the USA and everywhere else on the planet. India is also the top 7-8 e-commerce market in the world. Large local apps in the space have valuations in the tens of billions of dollars, and all major global players like Amazon and Walmart are involved in the country as well. These $100B in annual sales aren't processed by script kiddies, it's a very large and mature industry.
that's really cool, thanks!
There are memes that aren't funny and aren't meant to be funny. Mostly political ones.

Sometimes memes were funny, then got (over)used in a particular context and now they aren't used as jokes, they just symbolize that thing. For example pepe frog.
I don't know, if you hang out in certain parts of the internet, it feels like a revolution is coming, but it reality Bernie still can't win the primaries, so I don't think the numbers are actually there. But I also won't be surprised if the next generation of voters is more socialist-leaning.
I've Benefitted from Reading Technology History
The assumption that purpose of (non-crypto) currency (fiat or not, that's beside the point) is to store value (rather than facilitate exchange) is wrong.

It's basically wishful thinking. You cannot really "store" economic value without maintaining the productive capacity needed to counter its depreciation (due to laws of thermodynamics). As an extreme example, you cannot buy bread for 10 years today, keep it and then just eat it. Instead, you need "access" to a bakery and a wheat plantation.

So the value is really stored in the functioning society, which maintains the production capacity. (And thus society is what you have to care about, to libertarians' dismay.) Money (currency) is just a convenient abstraction, an accounting trick, to keep track of one's share of the society's productive capacity.

As an aside, if the production capacity of society decreases (e.g. due to war, or natural disaster, or underinvestment during COVID), you get an inflation because suddenly sum of all accounts (money) is greater than the total production capacity, and so your share in economy, expressed in your savings, also shrinks (in absolute terms).
I wasn't initially a fan either but I find that it's forced me to organize my tabs / windows by what I'm working on and I actually prefer it now.

Maybe you need some more time, maybe you need to surrender to the ~ or maybe it's not your jam and that's ok too.
Except for their role as referee. Forcing banks to implement their real time payments system FedNow seems like a good thing, but I’m just learning about it.
Thanks for trying to be helpful. Of course, I over-simplified our 4 years of development and the specialized field we are in. There isn't really a database involved here. I am sure there are many more correct ways for us to do certain things, that said, I respectfully disagree and macOS is the issue here.

When you can be compatible with everything else, please try to be. MacOS isn't in this case. I would rather stand on the shoulder of giants who spare my staff from having to learn about "NFKC" and "NFKD". It's nicer to spend that time with our families. That's my humble opinion and personal values of course.
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys is relevant
Look at it from this point of view; if your employer is so unhappy with you that, even when you’ve shown your skill, he’s unwilling to pay you a competitive amount then it’s clear you don’t really have a future at your current job.

A new company is willing to risk it on you, while paying more than your current job where you have experience. No surprise they leave in a year anyway.
Global consumption expressed in...? That currency which inflated
Network Binding Theory
You can certainly make the case that the proposed reforms were designed, but to claim that for the economy as a whole would require that all such proposals were adopted with no changes, and that no changes to the economy that weren't in those proposals happened.

The neoliberal faction certainly has had an outsized influence (funny how proposals that the 0.1% want done end up getting a lot of positive attention more often than not), but even so, the economy as a whole is the result of a lot of political compromise and dealmaking, not to mention undirected evolution.
>Does anybody need 5G? Doesn't seem to matter. One thing we know is you and I will be paying for it, regardless.

Just bought a new phone. I wanted the cheaper non-5G version, since I believe the phone will be broken years or decades before Germany has useful 5G coverage. But the 4G version was sold out.
This year, the price of the type of place I want to buy rose so fast, that the downpayment increased by more than what I could save this year. I'm top 30% income bracket and save more then a third of my net.
Working on a project with a significant number of sagas, I have to heartily agree with you.

There are some very clever things you can do with them, but this really need to know all the ins and outs of it first, and by the time you've learned them you implemented a giant nightmare.
John Oliver's show on the Sackler family is incredible. Highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCaIhfETsM
Silicon anode for garnet-based all-solid-state batteries:Interface, nanomechanic
Ahh yes, "commoditize your complements".
Hey, I know this is a bit off-topic, but I can't wrap my mind around one thing. I'm getting a ton of Google ads on that website. Where do they come from? Is Github adding them? Did the devs add them to their docs?
Interesting Applied Mathematics
Such visual style change has happened in quite a few applications, perhaps inspired by the same kind of 'wisdom'. Thunderbird is a prominent example.
That subreddit is horrible. Take some selective posts of dead people and highlight them in a macabre game of "I told you so".

Its not going to change minds about vaccination or pull people out of their conspiracy mindsets, it will just reinforce the tribalism that allows misinformation to spread. I wish they would shut it down.
If you'd bother to read the article (or heck the first two lines of the article) you'll see that this rule does not mean you'll have to re-enter your credit card info on every order.
So, the economically rational thing for everyone to do is to engage in this gigantic game of musical chairs, if they care about the number at the bottom of their paystub? That's silly, and a great way to throw away a lot of specialized domain knowledge.
I have a manager with a similar attitude to you and I have to say — thanks for being that way. I don’t even care to go get other offers. I get double-digit raises annually and have an amazing team. As long as this manager is around, I feel happy about my work. You sound just as great! :)