skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but how do you reconcile a survey which measures people's feelings with their most recent quarterly earnings report which measures people's actions? [1] "Sure, I hate FB but I still want to know what my friends are up to"?

> Facebook daily active users (DAUs) – DAUs were 1.93 billion on average for September 2021, an increase of 6% year-over-year.

> Facebook monthly active users (MAUs) – MAUs were 2.91 billion as of September 30, 2021, an increase of 6% year-over-year.

> Family daily active people (DAP) – DAP was 2.81 billion on average for September 2021, an increase of 11% year-over-year.

> Family monthly active people (MAP) – MAP was 3.58 billion as of September 30, 2021, an increase of 12% year-over-year.

[1] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
Please don't take HN threads straight into predictable flamewar hell. That's not the quality of discussion we're trying for here.

Perhaps you don't feel you owe an opposing party better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Wealthfront (and this goes for the rest of Wall Street) are analog businesses.

They thrive on mass producing a fixed set of products. Those products are ETFs, Mutual Funds... or in Wealthfront's case... a rebalancing strategy based on a 1960's white paper called Modern Portfolio Theory.

Each of these players spends a ton trying to mass market these products. You have financial advisors pitching mutual funds, asset managers shilling the virtue of their shiny new ESG ETFs... and robo-advisors all promising a set-it-and-forget-it panacea. Wealthfront got commoditized. Betterment at first... but then the discount brokers came in (Vanguard, Fidelity, etc) and just had a much more effective channel (advisors!) to the end investor. If you are just selling a singular product and that product is successful, you are going to get copied and beaten by competitors with better marketing channels.

Wall Street will some day transform from an analog industry of mass production to a digital one of mass personalization. The building blocks for said transformation are slowly becoming ubiquitous (fractional shares support, commission free trading, etc). Super excited to watch this happen.
Were you used to seeing myocarditis and pericarditis in the news regularly before 2019...?
I teach antitrust and competition to undergrads and grad students.

None of what you have described in this paragraph is an antitrust violation, not by a mile:

"While look at Apple. They have more than 50% share of mobile devices in US and their devices are actual platforms. They own it from bare silicon to device to OS to apps to services to accessories. Their own products get first class support while others can't integrate as well. Their web browser has no real competition on mobile, so mobile web for more than 50% of users is at their mercy."

To the extent that the following sentence relates to the fees they set on their app store, it might allege an antitrust violation:

"They get unfair advantage for their music streaming services etc."

But the optimal regulation of platforms is very much an unsettled area of thinking.

The reason regulators have not focused on the behavior of Apple which you complain about is really simple: none of it is an antitrust violation.
Does no one else view "it just works" as an incredibly annoying phrase?
> Note, because of technical reasons (content security policies) some sites (e.g. Twitter, Airbnb) will add to Electric Tables, but in a new tab instead of using a pop-up and it won’t grab much additional data..

so so so frustrating. extensions getting whacked into irrelevance by CSP is such a vulgar sick security misfeature. what a repulsive era of oversecuritization we've FUD'ed ourselves into. the only voices at the table are those hungry to lock down & deny power to users; technical authoritarianism without check.

the only workaround i can see is abandoning extensions & making devtools the new way we extend user-agency. the browsers, the standards folks are killing regular user-agency. they are forcing us to climb down to a lower security ring.

wonderful world changing extensions like Hypothesis are also broken on sites like twitter and airbnb. making the web read only, removing all user agency, is so not ok. projects like Electric Table show hints of the better web that many long hoped was to come, that has slowly been emerging. but this potential is being cut off, in the most critical areas. somethings got to give. we cant floruish, cant survive a corporate controlled web.
> How is a Web version of a form more subject to discrimination than a paper one is?

I'm sure it would be possible to "accidentally" introduce bugs where the fonts don't render on older platforms (owned by poorer people), for example, and there could be some geo-IP "caching" system that ends up slowing down requests for people in certain parts of the state.

In any case, the web version doesn't have to be more subject to discrimination, just as subject to discrimination as the (selectively available) paper form already is. Also, if the party in power found that their voters were more likely to register using the online form than the paper form, you can bet they would make the paper form harder to acquire (and vice versa).
It's particularly egregious because they ignore the rules that they themselves created.
I am not sure I have the necessary context to discuss Uncle Bob's political correctness. Too bad if this has any impact on the community's opinion on his work.

I find it sort of surprising how his books known to be must reads for any software engineer fell victims to so much criticism all of a sudden.

I am now rereading Clean Code, for example, and it's not clear what exactly is triggering the negativity. Even though sometimes I have to skip some examples as irrelevant, the general advice is still applicable.

When it comes to Clean Architecture, it's a bit more difficult give that it's no longer about "make your function do one thing and do it well" :)
Most people aren't upgrading their phone for audio functionality (I believe cameras are the biggest driver of upgrades). The fact that you need an adapter to continue using your favorite headphones isn't going to raise many eyebrows among the general public, especially when they are mostly moving to wireless headphones anyway.
Even if you beat the network effect and become the next Facebook/Twitter/Whatever, charging $1 per post will inevitably lead to silencing poor, or even comparatively poor people — which is most of the world.

With a pay-to-post model like this you would effectively place a filter on who can join in, and just get another niche social media website, and many people will still want to check Facebook/Twitter/Whatever because all their friends and relatives are still there and can't see why moving to a service where they would have to pay would benefit them.

> By the way, we're looking for embassadors, […]

Well that's ambarrassing.
A few commenters have mentioned the service program -- I think it's worth mentioning that if you're experiencing sound issues (buzzing, crackling) Apple will repair/replace AirPods Pro even if they're out of warranty (up to three years after the sale, which currently includes all AirPods Pro). I just sent mine in this week.

https://support.apple.com/airpods-pro-service-program-sound-...
There used to be one really good alt-rock station near me and I didn't realize how consistent it was in my life until they sold the broadcast license in 2017 and went off the air.

It seems like FM may be doomed to follow AM into the wasteland of horrifying echo chamber talk show and weird christian worship channels.
I ended up switching to FOAM (the vscode extension) for personal notes because it's markdown and has much better support for inline planuml and showing node connections as a graph, but I haven't actually bothered changing my work notes away from ZIM because once stuff is in it, it kinda just works. If you don't care about visualizing links between different pages, it does a great job at making hierarchical notes searchable. My biggest gripe was that inserting plantuml code was really clunky because it doesn't update live (you have to submit your changes before seeing the result) but it's still very functional.
How to stop robocalls in an hour – and it has nothing to do with Articul8
And also, you could pair them with your handheld device in 1980.
> Pfizer themselves have written they estimate 67 billion dollars in revenue each year from Paxlovid

Source? I'm seeing estimates closer to 20-35B when I google "Paxlovid revenue"
So let me get this straight, what you are asking is why not add one more huge problem to an already near-collapse system because there are already huge similar issues that caused it to be in that state?
This was one of the first games I actually finished! lol.

I do remember some parts being challenging to time right, but it’s a game… if it was easy it would get boring
Great find...so they gave up at "However, because we can’t pass any option arguments, the executing user will default to root, which presumably we don’t have the password for."

It seems possible the current exploit authors read this and picked up from there..."what else could we do given that we can't pass options?"
You can use a wireless charger for this exact scenario
I've been researching robo-advisors quite a bit recently. They are really interesting and innovative.

I'll preface by saying that I have been talking to a lot of financial planners (at top-tier institutions). They basically set you up with a good set of ETFs, hedge funds, etc. and rebalance occasionally. Sometimes they do tax-loss harvesting. They also provide a few other nice little services. But at the end of the day, their fees are over 1% unless you have an ultra high net-worth.

In comparison, Wealthfront can automate huge strategies for a fraction of the cost (0.25%). For example:

- Direct Indexing (invest in an index by buying the stocks directly instead of a fund)

- Automatic investing, rebalancing, and tax-loss harvesting (including TLHing individual stocks within an index when paired with direct indexing)

- Coordinating trades between retirement and taxable accounts for optimal tax savings

- Smart beta (a custom weighted indexing algorithm)

Yes, a financial planner can do all of this (although most don't). But when they do, they just use automated software to do it. It would be impossible to implement these strategies manually. So why even go with a financial planner when Wealthfront does the same thing, but better/cheaper?
I've experienced most of these issues. Also, it appears this blogpost is from the future?
Do you remember which chapters (or other resources) talk about heap & mvcc specifically?
You may hit some issues with CORS if you're trying to do this on a webpage that you're serving, though the ISP's interference may change this (I'm really not sure, though I wouldn't count on it).

It might work better if you make a TamperMonkey script or some other client-side application that doesn't rely on a browser. In the latter case, it might even be a better idea to have small cloud-base instances set up in various regions around the globe and have them try to access sites directly where they are or use specific ISP proxies (if available) to determine access. Though that could also be a challenge.
If you had put money in VTSAX on 1/26/2017 and reinvested dividends, you would be up 101.91% with an annualized return of 15%
I think it's important to write your own parser, at some point. Though, for the purpose of learning you need someone to guide you.

If you're learning this stuff you need a simple challenge to work through the end.

With regards to lex and yacc, I absolut detest these tools. They are horrible but they do work. And if you just want a functioning parser they'll do. My main criticism of these tools are the horrible errors you might end up with and the lack of sensible extension points.

If it is your first foray into parsers, I do think a simple grammar and handwritten lexer/parser is a good first step. Iterate some on that, then use tools to help with the verbose stuff.

Though to be honest, I enjoy writing parsers by hand. So, I'm a bit biased.
Yes so it seems if anything COVID deaths are being misclassified as Alzheimer’s, diabetes, etc
When I get into the car for a short trip and don't want to bother connecting my phone I listen to the radio and I often think that it is time to do a real reorganization on how we do radio in the USA.
Sure we have HDRadio but where I live there aren't any. I think it is time to pick a date and switch all radio to digital - and preferably something free and open unlike HDRadio. They would probably end up selling off some of the frequencies but I would rather see it opened up so we could have something like SiriusXM but free over the air or hell even make it subscription over the air.
The article seems to be down for me. But I’ve gathered it was spelled out in the license? They even returned money? Removing a person’s revenue stream because someone wrote a blog post is by default, an overreaction. If they’re going to change it all anyway, why rush it?
My point is that even if it was literally the same stock, unless you know that you bought at the relative bottom all you’re doing is needlessly incurring loses.

For example you’re better off just buying the dip, then selling, and paying taxes (even with harvesting) and repurchasing assuming the stock recovers and you don’t mind fronting the capital
You could generate an import map for Deno from the directory contents, and then your NodeJS-style imports would work there too. No file copying in that way.
4. Strategically placed magnet that either pops the relay controlling the lock or operates it directly.

(You can tell I've been watching too many LockPickingLawyer videos.)
> The FB case in US seems a bit stupid as what exactly do they have a monopoly on.

I have no idea what this measures, but Googling "Facebook markert share" shows lots of results over 50%: https://gs.statcounter.com/social-media-stats

> An upcomer like Tiktok can upstage them and create its own space out of nowhere in a couple of years.

Is it a requirement of a monopoly that no competitor could possibly come and grab part of the market? Like as soon as one manages to do that, there's no longer a monopoly, despite the relative market shares?

Also, I'm not sure I'd see them as direct competitors per se - in some spaces yes, but not in every space. TikTok is great for people who want to post videos, but not everyone is into posting videos. (Not sure why YouTube is listed on that page either, for the same reason.)
We don’t owe you the right to live with a deadly disease. You cannot mandate others to perform actions just so you can live, if you wouldn’t live naturally.
A blocked hostname is one that can’t be activated without manual approval by our Trust & Safety team. Some scenarios that could lead to a hostname being blocked include when the hostname is a Cloudflare-owned property, a well known brand, or a hostname in need of additional review for a variety of reasons. During this incident, a very small number of blocked hostnames were erroneously moved to the active state while migrating clickfunnels.com’s customers.

Curious about the "variety of reasons" for those hostnames.
I do, and I also know they are largely engineered in China since not so long ago
You are being pedantic, in this context I obviously meant vaxxed smokers, vaxxed obese people, et al.
The Fed signals rate increase ‘soon.’
Are there any other over the ear headphones that provide great sound quality, noise cancellation, pair with computers and smartphones, and have a solid mic?

I’ve looked at the Sony XM1000’s and from what I understand there is some issue with Windows where if you enable the mic, it goes into some different Bluetooth mode that degrades the audio quality coming out of the headphones. Many wireless headphones are advertised to only work with smartphones.

I just want something that does it all, connects to all my devices, and works.
Other people's lives, you mean.
Another nice thing about Bose is that they're "somewhat" repairable.

They're not really designed to be, but because they sell in such huge quantities, there's kind of an "ecosystem" of replacement parts and YouTube repair videos etc. Replacement of the internal battery on the QC35 doesn't seem too terribly onerous. The earpads are shared with the QC25 too, which is nice.

I'm not nearly as eco-conscious as I should be, but it's nice to keep things out of the landfill.
it's actually safe to say that aws or Facebook has more competency on-board than all small nation states together, and probably more than the sum of the top nation states.

btw internet is also down right now in other places such as small nation States in Africa. i guess there is no meaningful geopolitics into play so it doesn't make the news.
If you have an IEM with a sturdy cable wrapped around your ear, snagging it on a door handle yanks the connector out of the Lightning to 3.5mm adapter instead.
Homeowners shouldn't have door locks to have a decent homeowner experience!

it's just the state of the world, there is nothing you can do about it
That is the way it was done back in the day, usually when admin wanted guests to not come through Google Search or to come through a correct word-of-mouth bouncer page. Client side JS implementations allow content to be viewed by blocking JS.
The Dark Proteome – many of our proteins remain hidden
Cables (as well as sleeves) are certainly the disposable part of IEMs like these. Earbuds themselves proved incredibly reliable to me (compared to AirPods Pro at least, which I had to exchange once and which still had problems after that).

Also, SE215 cost much, much less than US$800. More like $100.
Sure, but there are people who believe they can avoid catching covid-19, and they might be capable of that. Especially if you're living like a hermit or in an otherwise isolated and/or sparse community, you may be well positioned to just ignore this whole mess.

Somewhat orthogonally, I never caught chickenpox, at least nothing symptomatic...

Edit: I think it's also worth noting the history of mRNA vaccines is fraught with toxicity issues [0], and even to this day the stuff I read is pretty damn handwavy surrounding the "modified" pseudouridine toxicity fix which took 7 years to find. One just can't make the argument that the real virus and this synthetic soup of poorly understood nanoparticles are analogous.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w
Paywall Bypass: https://archive.md/gi57Y
Something can be endemic and deadly and still something we accept the consequences of without government imposed restrictions.

For example: HIV is something that is now endemic and (still) deadly. And yet we don't go around forcibly shutting down gay bathhouses, bars, and Grindr and implementing condom and prep mandates, even though they would be effective at reducing its spread. And for good reason: it'd be a massive (and homophobic) violation of civil liberties.

But because mask and vaccine resistance is red tribe coded, a lot of people who would usually be level-headed about epidemiology and cost-benefit analyses end up in a stance driven more by moralizing than sound science.
Nixpkgs Overlays Are Monoids
https://news.gallup.com/poll/388781/political-party-preferen...

Dems are going to get slaughtered in '22.
> It ends when the the threat subsides.

> The people you elect to represent you (for those of us with a democracy-like government)

The answers are not as simple as you have suggested. Problem is that there are unelected officials and scientists that are deciding these things, many of which have perverse relationships and incentives that may bias their decisions. I guess these things aren't obvious if you have blind trust in the politicians and media in power.
FWIW "the political left" in the United States is not so much a team and more a loose coalition of folks who have some range of views that don't agree with the more uniform political right. It's not that useful to call this out as a group as if surely 80% of folks in the political left care what Leana Wen has to say unless it happens to be particularly insightful. Most folks don't actually know this woman's name, nor do they particularly care.

It might be healthier for you to see things less as "there are two sides" and reconsider how you analyze individual topics. When you say "this is the view of side L and this is the view of side R" you are in danger of missing nuance and views that cut across. If you identify with say, side R, you will bias yourself toward those specific viewpoints.
It might kill a cat to find out.
Isn't any piece of software "some <lang> code written by somebody unknown and this code executes whatever it wants on your server"?
I'd love a link to your content!
On modern browser, the page title is almost completely obscured. It’s not a thing users generally see, and the few views where users have access to the page titles that are not some sort of developer tool, the title is more often than not cut short.

I don’t see why google has to use the page title as a headline for a link result.
“ It has killed more than 865,000 Americans, the vast majority unvaccinated.”

Could someone please put a number on “vast majority”? I keep hearing this adage but a majority is 51% and there’s a big range between 51 and 100% that a word like “vast” doesn’t precisely capture..
Herd immunity is for the herd.

The US is where it is because we have individuals willing to fight for individual rights. If casualty of individuals is the cost to keep individuality in this country then I say let it be.

The vaccinated are protected and therefore you are safe (assuming you are vaccinated). So why do you need to proselytize your doctrine on those around you? You're allowed your own opinions, chant your religious beliefs, but don't turn it into law.

You might believe a mandate might be the logical solution, and maybe by some computer models it will save the greatest number of people, but its still a breach of individual rights.

I personally believe what makes the US great isn't the number of people but the quality of people. And I'd rather give up the quantity than the quality. Sure we may end up having a higher proportion of herd people if we dont mandate and many of the individuals end up dying, but we won't have a government that can control those individuals as easily, and that's what matters most.
Ok. I don’t care what the purported “studies” say. China, Taiwan, Australia had hard lockdowns. Taiwan and Australia have accurate statistics — they had virtually no COVID deaths and no excess deaths.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=home+telephone
I heard in Hong Kong it was cheaper to have a chauffeur drive the car around the city than to buy a parking space.

So instead of parking the car, it would just be driven around the block again and again.
In the "Activity Controls"[0] section of one's google account, there's an option for "auto-delete".

Now that I'm looking for it, I don't see Calendar listed as one of the products controlled here, but it might be grouped under GMail or something.

[0] https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols
There is no way that modern poor have worse health care than medieval kings, because those kings HAD NO HEALTH CARE, and in fact, what doctors they did have did harm to their luckless patients. For example, they would bleed a person to try to drain out what was making them sick. For another, they did not wash their hands or their instruments.
The next most recent claim is that you should get out of Afghanistan. I'm not convinced that that was a lie based on the others being lies.
And many people, given the choice between money or freedom, choose freedom, even if it can make them poor. Heck, Snowden chose to relinquish wealth to defend everyone’s liberty.