skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The weaponization may in fact cause more harm and shift back a lot of good progress that has been done over the years. You are the perfect person to speak up about this issue because you're supposed to be a beneficiary and you're not going to be attacked to harshly for speaking your mind.
If you want to exchange things of value, they must be immutable in and of themselves.

It is an important fact to realize the actual asset (immutable or not) is not directly tied to the tokens, especially if one is skeptical of this worthless technology.
I wasn't speaking about that kind of entrepreneurism but about making legal software and legal web services that solve problems and are useful. So many Russian hackers got arrested when they travelled somewhere outside Russia and now they are serving 10 or 20 year sentences in US jails.
Apple's issues : lack of new product lines ; seem to be still behind wrt AI
To nitpick, the YouTuber's name is Linus Sebastian and Linus Tech Tips is his channel...
I'm not sure if he's as good as Tarkovsky or as important, but Alex Garland reminds me a lot of him. Annihilation had a very soviet sci-fi feel to it, and there's a scene in Ex Machina that funnily enough mirrors the discussion at the top of the thread about interpreting art.
P.T Barnum was right:

"There's a new sucker born every minute."
True but thats 10 minutes per day. Facebook needs everybody to spend hours on them each day.
vim had an undo tree for 10 years (or longer?) [0] and there are plugins (eg [1]) that make it very easy to go back in history and also to explore different branches of your undo/edit history. Dura will not track changes that are not saved to disk IIUC

[0]: https://vimhelp.org/undo.txt.html#undo-tree
[1]: https://github.com/mbbill/undotree
Thanks, you're right, I've edited my comment.
Can you talk more about this? As a consumer I generally see these two as almost mutually exclusive. What I mean is - while I know there is rent seeking on the part of Big AG, as a consumer I'm under the impression there are plenty of sectors where small-scale producers can be profitable. Meat comes to mind, as I buy directly from ranchers I know personally. Small-scale creameries have definitely been squeezed by rules written by Big AG, but then again some of those have had legitimacy IE: healthy and safety.
Are you a teenager? I can understand phone status mattering a lot to them, but if someone tried to make fun of me for using an iPhone SE2 I'd just laugh at them for trying to assign status to such an embarrassingly minor thing.
The post is just a bullet list with some elaboration on each point.
> united on JUST this topic, they would see massive change - better structured education, housing, health, etc.

I think part of the issue is no one agrees on what causes it. Status-quo left says not enough taxes and social spending. SQ right says immigration, geo-arbing, and taxes too high.

Imo we actually need to be talking about interest rate interventionism, but good luck getting people to care about cash flow valuation denominators.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...

No need to downplay it by calling it “horse dewormer” now that we know where the correlations come from. “human dewormer” might be more accurate!
I was thinking as I was leaving the movie theater over the weekend and saw a poster for some movie billed as an Amazon Studios production that Google and Facebook are the only ones in the FAANG who aren't producing TV/movies. It will be very interesting to see how that progresses over the next decade. I want to believe that the data-driven approach that Netflix and Amazon have taken with their productions won't be the future of entertainment but who knows?
Nazi comparisons were entirely common during Trump's presidency and no one cared:

https://nypost.com/2021/05/28/suddenly-democrats-are-offende...
> The biggest perverse incentive for Google is that making better search results can mean less clicks to ads

This is also something that Google can control if competitors come along.

i.e. If a reasonable competitor comes along that is willing to sacrifice ad revenue for better search result quality than Google, google can just adjust their search quality upwards to knock them out (and then adjust it back once the competitive threat is gone).

Perverse incentives from Google are all over the place - Searching for the delivery business "Just Eat" in the UK for instance returns an ad for their competitor Deliveroo above the legitimate organic search result for me - and I can also see that JustEat are trying to pay for their own brand name just to compete - and IMO this sort of behaviour is anti-competitive, borderline extortion considering Google is the de-facto way of searching for a business, and shocking from a search-quality perspective (where the wrong result is intentionally shown at the top because they paid more money).
Yeah I am a big believer in https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

If you do a from-scratch rewrite, you could stay in igorance and might make those mistakes. But if you do a refactor, especially one broken up into many steps like this Linux one, it in fact demonstrates a better understanding the existing code and any nuance than merely leaving it in place!

Not touching scary-looking code is just bad, and not a wise form of humility.
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If people feel that it is important to them they will make sure you know it. Otherwise if unsure maybe ask?

I don't feel the need to put the pronouns as I don't care about it and find it toxic that it is being peer pressured uppon me.

I also support anyone who wants to put their pronouns in the signature or whatever. If it is something important to them then I'll respect their choice, even if they go with something silly like Xor/Xir.
Neither are Linux or FreeBSD; but they're still there.
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I wholeheartedly concur that section 230 needs to go or be significantly revised. After seeing my elderly father get phishing ads served up by Google during COVID from completely reasonable searches, I'd like to see it be possible to start going after damages from this kind of activity.
Not to mention Latin. The French equivalent is "dur[e]". The membrane surrounding the brain is "dura mater" to an anatomist, which is Latin for "hard mother".
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Google is not important because it has all the information - it's important because it has hardly any.

A major complaint is that there used to be good free reviews of commercial products that could be easily found.

That is not "all the information". Information about the current round of commerically advertised products is something like 5-10% of all commerce (or less).

And we are entering a world where "all the information" is what we do all day, what we say, how we react to different stimuli.

That is the real review sites - why do people take this train and not that, why
is that park safe and this one full of muggings.

We need to solve the Google problem not because we want blogging like it's 2009
but because epidemiology is about to open humanity's eyes. And it's going to hurt if we don't make it free and open.
My bad, as a non English speaker, I just inverted rent and mortgage payment.
> I think building search vertical that are hand-curated would be very interesting to see.

That was my inspiration behind a side project I made a few years ago — a decentralized, hand curated "search engine" [0]. Never got beyond the side project stage. But I see promise in this in the future. Eventually we'll figure out that moderated crowd-sourced curation is better than the best machine learning. The filtering capabilities have to be pretty sophisticated to make it work, though.

[0] https://github.com/emwalker/digraph
Ubuntu Doubles Down on Gaming
> So, I like others to use keywords like "reddit" or "forum" to get to real humans who I trust and intentions are not to sell via affiliate links.

And therein lies the problem. Reddit makes very little money. Forums probably make negative money nowadays. Google has decided to demonetize the organic internet and subsidizes SEO crap and AMP or whatever dumb thing their signals consider valuable. We get what we incentivize, and right now the incentives in almost all of tech are pretty atrocious.
I never considered soft resets for my work flow (rewrite history with rebase -i). Funny how I use it for other things, but not this. Thanks!
Blu-ray quality is almost always higher quality than streaming due to the compression used (even for 4K).
Ask HN: Cheapest AWS egress with volume commitments?
AWS egress can go as low as $0.05 with >150TB volume. It takes $10k/month spend to get to this threshold. This is advertised on their website at https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing.

Before contacting sales for a higher discount, I want to know what volume discounts you or your company are getting. Is $0.02 or $0.01 possible? Is there a monthly commitment/threshold? If not AWS, is this is possible with Azure/GCP?
Luckily it hasn't been stressful for me. I'm willing to leave a company quickly if I feel that I don't fit within their culture or the workload is too much. Definitely a good point to consider though. I'm pretty conscious of my mental well being while trying to manage my work.

> Career wise, you if it gets know you'll likely never be trusted again.

I think one of the reasons I'm able to manage my mental health so well is that I try to maintain a long term perspective and I'm not worried about how I'm perceived in the present time. I'm never a jerk at work, I complete my work on time, do timely code reviews, and help out others. Friendly and professional but at a distance. I never go above and beyond my current work scope though. I'm ok with that. If someone finds out and doesn't trust me, that's cool. You're just a coworker to me. No hard feelings, I didn't consider you a friend and I don't consider you an enemy. We'll forget about each other in 2-3 years.
Ivermectin is not horse dewormer, characterizing it as such is just lazy propaganda. It's primarily human dewormer. The whole idea of it being a house dewormer came about because the medicine intended for human use sold out around the initial hype, and desperate people bought the doses intended for animals instead.
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> Fossil has had this feature for a long time

(A long-time fossil contributor here.)

Fossil has no such feature. Fossil sync synchronizes the remote and local saved state (checked-in/saved state only). It does not do anything with un-checked-in state.

That said, you can use fossil's stash to periodically take a (non-sync'd) snapshot using something like 'fossil stash snapshot -m "snapshot @ $(date)"' (i have that aliased and use it often). That does not enter the SCM history and is lost if you destroy the checkout dir.
You seem really obsessed about this, much more so than most people who might be in favor of supplying pronouns. I think that most people do it as a common courtesy. I generally don't, but it doesn't bother me if people do, and it doesn't hurt me in the slightest if someone asks me to supply my pronouns. My pronouns are "he/him". Not difficult at all.
> “TSMC has always maintained contingency plans for each stage of water restrictions... So far there’s no impact on production,” it said in a statement.
Order of decline:

Netflix, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple.

Netflix because their moat isn't strong enough.

Facebook because of monetized-ads model and backlash against social media in general.

Google also because of monetized-ads model and declining quality of search results.

Amazon and Apple are relatively safe IMO.

Amazon is the most at risk from unionization and regulation, potentially breaking up their business verticals. But motivation to do this seems to have subsided after last years congressional hearings.

Apple is really only at risk if people start questioning shelling out thousands for the "shiny new thing".
> Blu-ray quality is better than streaming in some cases.

The wording here sounded a bit off to me here; I read it as "usually Blu-ray quality is worse or the same as streaming quality but sometimes it's better" while I think what you probably meant (and would make a lot more sense) was "usually streaming is just as good as Blu-ray but sometimes the streaming quality is bad and a Blu-ray is better".

Is the latter what you meant?

Though there is also the possibility that there's a 4K version of a movie available to stream but not released on Blu-ray. Maybe that's what you referred to?
I agree. My Toyota has been in the shop on a regular basis for checkups, and so far has only ever needed regular stuff like tires and brakes. It's going on 60,000km with very little put into it, it runs great, and my mechanic is perfectly happy with its condition.

The infotainment unit is a giant stain on an otherwise awesome vehicle.

The cameras are so blurry. The bluetooth integration is awkward and unreliable. Using it for navigation is very painful. The screen is very low resolution. The list goes on and on - it's a terrible unit. It's only 3.5 years old but feels like it could be 10 years old. Hell, maybe the initial design and spec is 10 years old. It's kind of weird to have such a piece of garbage as the centerpiece of such a nice vehicle.
Can you share how these are aliased? I love git and only recently became more of a daily user of it in the command line.
You might be interested in the analog computers that were used to compute tide tables back in the day. It's quite fascinating how they even managed to do basic Fourier transforms without electricity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3OX8nT0w
Maybe they went heavy on the green for subsequent releases, but according to "The Matrix Revisited", the green tone was an integral part of the filmmaking process (for those interested, it's around the 20min10sec mark).
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If it were done well it would be one thing but it’s typically just thinly veiled (DNC) propaganda. Not much to be said on always climbing record fentanyl overdoses, class issues, etc though. If they were actually talking about anything of value to the vast majority of working people instead of rhetoric that’s specifically designed to keep them divided and afraid of each other I wouldn’t complain.
You mentioned conspiracy theories, so yes in the wider view there does seem to be a rampant issue with sheep.
Not liking or agreeing with information is not the same as misinformation. Do you have a source to backup your claim?
We sold two cars and bought one new one. Remote work and a move to a rural area meant we had more cars than we needed, and that we needed to replace our city cars with something more rugged/utilitarian.
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Someone in the comments said you have to solve TEN of these to get in?!

And if you're visually impaired, "they want you to listen to 3 songs and then decide which one is the saddest. Then do that 9 more times"

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/rv17yn/thi...

https://prnt.sc/25u6wgx
Teaching Goldfish to Navigate on Land
There's a site I've come to really appreciate, justwatch.com which is a great way to see who (if anybody) has a particular movie or TV show available. What's nice is that they include the library-based streaming services like Hoopla and Kanopy. I have a 2/month DVD Netflix subscription still the queue for which I use as my master to-watch list, but I'll check the top few movies on the list from time to time to make sure I can't watch them with one of the streaming services I already have.
The Witcher series has been pretty successful. I wish they did more like that. You can only do so many big box shows though.
Brew over (Chemex, V60, classical Melitta) in the morning, Cappuccino afterwards.
Maybe I've been especially fortunate, or I'm just not understanding the question right, but I've felt respected pretty much from the beginning of my career (aside from grad school, which was not great, in many respects). Or at least I've felt "treated with respect" -- not sure if that's exactly the same thing. But I've always been given a fair amount of independence at work, and I've generally been able to solve whatever I'm assigned to solve, or clearly articulate the challenges, allowing those with different/more expertise to help out. And I've never been made to feel ashamed or inadequate because of either the work I've completed or the work I've needed to seek out additional help to complete.
Yes, you'd really need to have the right jobs to make this work. The remote jobs I am personally familiar with are very meeting heavy (12 to 15 hours of meetings a week, many at random times, etc.) It would be difficult.

Anyway, it sounds like you are living the dream if you can keep your sanity! Invest all that extra money and retire in a couple of years.
I always drool over a very well designed (and utilized) workspace, especially with a lot of toys of grown men/women.
>I'm surprised to hear that.

It's just an artifact of hacks trying to take a culture's temperature without going outside. Tech adjacent is only notable for being full of people who will talk about it in professional areas online.

If someones circles weren't internet-heavy before Eternal iPhone September, their politics don't get associated with their circles. They're just nameless or might as well be nameless wrongthinkers on $social_media_platform and/or not posting their views to social media in the first place.
IIUIC, the restorers are not changing the original but merely restoring the degradation that the works of art suffer. The paintings are 600 years old, you'd figure that the colors would be a lot more vibrant when it was painted than in the "pre-restoration" state.

Digital art does not have this problem.
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The only reason I still have Netflix is because it's essentially free on my satellite TV package - I think I pay £2 extra a month because it's mostly covered by their "on demand" package, which I wanted anyway.
Downvotes could apply just to future recommendations for search results you see, and not apply to advertisements.
Apple becomes the first company with a $3T market cap
As of this post, scores are 748 FB, 28 AMZN, 29 AAPL, 262 NFLX, 128 GOOG

"Decline" is also not defined. I am interpreting it as "lose a significant amount of users", not as a question to predict their stock price.

I voted Amazon, and given the scores, I feel compelled to explain why.

- AWS is a massive beast within Amazon, and it seems increasingly likely that it'll be spun up into its own company

- Beyond its other attempts at diversifying, Amazon-the-marketplace is garnering worse and worse reputation. Unless they severely change their ways, other players will catch up. Amazon's huge sell to customers used to be its product reliability and customer support. Both of these have suffered tremendously.

- Covid accelerated a lot of the online trends which makes me think Amazon is past its peak.

I could elaborate but it's getting late. FB the website will likely decline in the coming years, but MZ has shown an astounding capacity of staying ahead of trends and buying winners (Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus). Netflix I do find likely to decline but not as much as Amazon, and most of all Netflix still has lots of potential for growth. Google seems Too Big To Fail, at best my gut says they will stagnate. And apple I just don't know enough about but they seem very safe.
Nice article! I can see how that can make writing more fun.

At risk of being one of the nitpickers; I do quite enjoy reading caveats, also sidebars if either entertaining or informative. Very much agree that it should only be done if it benefits the story. I would say you strike a nice balance in your article haha.