skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a perfect market economy, those two lists are equal.

Thats because the company who produces the product you are most interested in can afford to spend the most on ads. Products you aren't very interested in, either because they cost too much, or aren't up to your standards, you are unlikely to buy, and therefore those manufacturers won't be able to afford to get to the top ad spot.

In reality, this doesn't work because the market is far from perfect, and the amount of margin a company has on a product to spend on advertising widely varies.
Remember, HN is not with 100% US members. I'm not an US citizen and the US government does not give a flying fuck about my opinion toward their military spending. On the other hand, not all of the US citizens are eco friendly and are much pro US military than me, so it makes sense for them to vote for it.
iFit unfortunately is not humming along. Amid plummeting home fitness equipment sales (particularly bikes), they postponed their planned IPO, laid off tons of people including engineers in December, and at their current burn rate, they either need to find new capital, slash costs to the bone, or be acquired. The situation there is not as dire as Peloton, but I wouldn't be surprised if they got acquired by end of year.

The main strategic error that both companies made, was to assume a certain level of permanence when home-training equipment sales exploded during the beginning of the COVID era. People are now (rightly or wrongly) returning to gyms and buying less home stuff.

I'd love to see the same company acquire both Peloton and iFit, and hopefully preserve iFit's library of high-production-quality workouts and charismatic trainers and perhaps combine it with Peloton's charged competitive live workouts.
>"we don't know the long-term effects of the vaccines"

>We don't know the long-term effects of COVID, either

>They're [the long-term effects] likely to be bigger

How were you able to determine that last quote?
hopefully it affects funding for future such research
It's a valid point, but I have at least three objections:

1) Everybody starts out as single, so young men start out with a sharply reduced salary due to higher supply, which makes it harder for them to become financially secure and find a partner (which would then decrease their costs).

2) There are many extra costs associated with a two-income household, and many more negative effects from a two-income-as-the-default economy. Elizabeth Warren write The Two-Income Trap on this very subject.

3) It's quite possible that it did halve prices, or came surprisingly close! Have you seen those productivity vs wages graphs? Productivity increased by about 245%, wages increased by 110% (since 1950). That means wages are now at 60% of what they were, relative to productivity. That's not quite half, and the switch to a two-income expectation can't be the only factor, but it's close. Then again, there is still a significant workforce participation gap between men and women, even in the USA (69% vs. 57%), so even in ideal circumstances I wouldn't expect a perfect halving.
a) You can't do that.
b) Your analogy does explain how creepy that desire is quite nicely.
This is the thing that drives me the most nuts about many policy makers: they ignored natural immunity. They ignored that cloth masks (and likely surgical) would do nothing against an aerosol born disease. They ignored the impact of lockdown of society to everyone. The US masking 2 year old kids when the rest of the world masked starting at 6 year old or older.

EDIT: just to add: from what we can see, vaccines help cut down on adverse outcomes due to a covid infection, which is why I'm still pro-vaccine. But many other policies out there are just nonsense.
You wouldn't think they'd ship buggy hard drives, would you?
How would a treaty solve it when the US has decided to aggressively disrespect the existing agreements?

Basically the US can’t be trusted to keep its word, so why make it easy for US companies to operate in Europe?
> “Vegetables are extraordinarily rich in nutrients and beneficial phytochemicals,” he reported. “They are still there, and vegetables and fruits are our best sources for these.”

Regardless, it's somewhat avoidable by buying produce from local sources or from organic farms.
Indeed, a French website which keeps private information about its users must not - ethically, morally - use US services which are accessible to US intelligence agencies.

That is irrespective of any legislation or court rulings, it's just common sense.
No, what I said doesn't preclude corporations abusing privacy.

They regularly try to do this, as with working from home monitoring, or insurance companies profiling individuals.

Governments can also be governments in name only, see corporatocracism.
This is off by default due to security concerns but can be turned on with a flag. It's mainly in the community feedback phase so if there is anything you want to tell Node (be it "I want this!" or "This is a bad idea" - please do)
Opensea might be verifying the rights owner has attached their image to an NFT, but that still doesn't mean they have transferred any rights to the holder of the token. Correct me if I'm wrong I've not looked up Opensea's T&C's (have several other's).

Also whenever people talk about ownership in regards to copyright, it's a flag that they probably don't know what they are talking about.
That would be a reasonable statement if these vaccines imunized and stopped the spread.
Live in Salt Lake City now. Blowing red lights is like a sport here it seems.
> What is old is new again I suppose: we used to do this with PHP and jQuery once upon a time too — though LiveView and similar are far nicer of course.

I used to do the same with PHP + Prototype.js back in 2006-2007 before jQuery existed, including pretty weird hacks for non-AJAX supported browsers (using JS to append <script></script> from server-side to the DOM).

Surely what is old is new again...
Nice! Thanks for the tip
You can boil down pretty much everything to "an accumulated edifice of metaphors designed by human brains, for human brains".

In the game Hearts, if you take most of the spades you lose. However, if you manage to take all the spades you win, and they call it "shooting the moon".

In a similar fashion, when you reject everything as an unreal system of metaphors, Platonism "shoots the moon" by having us reexamine what we thought we meant by "real" in the first place.
Except there are too many cases of healthy young people having myocarditis related reactions soon after the vaccine, and that's not documented for covid. Is why discussion about vaccine related myocarditis centers on lipid nano particles having a strong uptake effect by heart and other tissues. Yes, yes nothing is "settled" because everything is so new. Just can't ignore that my family knows more people who died or went to hospital related to second dose/booster than covid itself.
Your tone implies disagreement but that's exactly what I want as part of the treaty.
It wasn't always the case. Time and time again the US government in particular chose the economy over people's lives. Or even people's live over having to do something.

Counties like S. Korea, had bold actions like contact tracing and lockdowns. Many many countries covered pay for folks to stay home. The US initially had a lock down then just quit acting really.

Sure, preventing ANYONE from getting COVID was unrealistically, but preventing most people from getting it was always possible.
The article even states at the end that it doesn't touch on the fact that advertising has shifted how content is displayed and even created, which I find hilarious. Adblockers have mitigated a lot of the "attention cost" associated with ads but not the fact that clickbait, "list" articles that require a page reload for every item, etc are now the norm.
> How were you able to determine that last quote?

We know, for example, that the incidence of myocarditis from COVID infection is substantially higher than the incidence induced by vaccination.
Thanks for sharing this insight, it's good to have even an inkling of how the sausage is made.
^^^ All of this is true.

Cannonball Run participants are behaving like sociopaths. It's a gross activity.
Maybe I'm dumb, but I don't fully understand what this means: "controlling for vaccination as a time-varying covariate."

Reading your citation it sounds like they did not have a control group of people infected but unvaccinated?
I think in English exclusively

But can you still think in your native language if you try to?

I was born in the USA, a child of immigrants. So I didn't speak English until perhaps 3 or 4 years old.

But I can still think in my native language if I really try.
Unfortunately it doesn't work if you're behind a NAT due to shitty ISP, like me. I use AutoSSH instead to expose my local machine's ssh port on a high port in the gateway machine: `autossh -M 0 -o "ServerAliveInterval 30" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -v -N -R 22222:localhost:22 user@my-vps-domain`

ServerAliveInterval 30 is important because my ISP often drop idle connections, often not even 1 minute idle. Can probably tweak it to listen to a localhost only port instead of exposing them to internet.
Silver Car Crash by Warhol sold for a 105 million dollars and it is just a screen print of a car crash.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/preview-silver-car-crash-...

Honestly, I can't imagine Warhol would not be involved in NFTs if he was alive.

I think NFTs are beyond stupid but so is 75% of the art in a modern gallery.

In 1987 in a far more Christian society, you can see how Piss Christ is going to make noise.
> Beauty != their value and uniqueness as people.

I totally understand that and I'm not conflating both. I truly mean that many of the people in these photos look good to me. Not "beauty inside", but actual physical beauty.

Obviously not all of them, but enough that a remark about people being uglier back then seems out of place to me.
> GDPR is a big block towards technological improvement.

It's exactly the opposite.

It forces technology to be developed in a way that protects human rights (specifically the right to privacy).

Innovation is not automatically good if you're innovating in the wrong direction. Think of it as a vector, not a scalar.
If you Save a page via your browser, it[1] creates the .html file, plus a sub-folder of the same name with all the assets in. The html gets re-written to reflect the new file paths.

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[1] In Chrome, IE, an Edge definitely. Not sure about Firefox or Safari.
> Is AI art (eg. VQGAN+CLIP stuff) public domain?

Iirc cdpa 1988 in the UK holds it to be copyright of the authors of the program. But I'd be surprised if the law was a comfortable fit for practice 30 years on, or that it had been tested much in court.
This is basically standard practice now for some time in medicine, at least in the United States. Every time I or my partner have ever been to the doctor for any kind of concern, they always focus exclusively on life threatening conditions. The moment that cancer or such is ruled out (even when I've insisted I didn't think that was a likely possibility), care basically stops, any further inquiry is like pulling teeth. We joke that this is like the "Not Hotdog" app from the Silicon Valley series, "Not Cancer".
Send your ad traffic to a specific landing page - monitor anonymised hits to that page.

Send you ad traffic to a unique form per campaign so you know what campaign is generating leads.

This isn't rocket science.
That was my point - the researchers “teach”. Went to two major unis and know all about this. Paid my way as a ta.
> 1. Omnicron is so infectious no public health measures can prevent it.

Source?
The fall of Eric Lander and the end of science’s ‘big ego’ era
Title is nothing subjective. In fact, titles and levels can be matched between two companies easily.

Anyway, this is not what Apple is doing. They are downgrading everyone by default, which is akin to providing false information about a former employee.
U.S., Japan reach deal to cut tariffs on Japanese steel, fight excess output
Sounds like when you leave Apple you are free to give yourself a title promotion since they wipe all that info.

I would also pass on any company that needs references to my job title because their dystopian background check through the infamous Equifax says I'm an associate, even with a software engineering background, haha that part was beyond silly.
> it seemed more like a niche product rather than a gym replacement

I don't know, I have a peloton. I've never been in a gym in my life.
High tech electronics can be quite sensitive to small contaminants in manufacturing equipment. A plant making HDDs accidentally lubricated some of the machinery with silicone which turned out to be very bad. This silicone got into the disks and as the head passed over the disk it got hot enough to decompose the silicone oil into silica. So effectively, the hard drive disk got covered in sand and caused the hard drives to fail much faster.

The worst part is that silicone oil will diffuse over surfaces so the whole plant got contaminated and needed to be scrapped.

I've also heard that some electronics plant had an issue where some metal tiles in the lobby of the plant were growing tiny whiskers of zinc, which got tracked in by workers and started shorting out the electronics.
Immune system response between children and 60-year olds is dramatically different.

Hence the importance of early treatment to assist the immune system, especially in older people.
Yes, and you can still die with a seatbelt on. But a vaccine makes it less likely that you get it (can't spread it if you didn't get it), less likely to spread it (fewer days sick, smaller viral load, ability to self isolate because still functioning, not requiring outside assistance to not die).
It's long but really good, I highly recommend Folding Ideas's video about NFT's (and bitcoin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g . He says it much better than I could the often vacuous greed and bad faith arguments of it
100%.

(Also, the GDPR is not responsible for cookie banners)
3. Unknown long-term risks of Covid mitigated by vaccine + unknown long-term risks of vaccine.

Getting the disease is not binary. One look at hospitalization and death stats should confirm this as obvious
You're right, but I think it was essential in this case:
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His comment that “the DOE started it” refers to the Eastern Gas Shales Project, a research effort in the Appalachia Basin from 1979 that proved shale rock was rich in natural gas. The DOE-supported project tested the use of nitrogen foam to fracture shale formations, and its analysis led to a deeper understanding of natural shale fractures.

George Mitchell’s team studied those results while developing the Barnett Shale near Fort Worth, the first modern fracking play. The company relied on research from the Sandia National Laboratory to use micro-seismic technology to map the shale fractures in wells, and Mitchell also benefited from federal tax credits for unconventional drilling, which helped underwrite the cost of developing hydraulic fracturing.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorensteffy/2013/10/31/how-much...
> I am not sure why people suddenly get outraged about cloud

Because now we are in the part of the business cycle where companies merge into a few huge sellers.

I couldn't name most of the webhost providers from 20 years ago, but Amazon is literally a household name.

So now it's not "A few Geocities knock-offs are using PHP for free and making a few bucks off a few people" it's "One of the biggest companies ever is making (seemingly) tons of profit off of almost everyone in the software industry."

Also the fact that in the last 20 years FOSS really succeeded in its mission - Proprietary software on the desktop is a joke now. The frontline has been pushed back to network apps where the backend is proprietary and the frontend is throw-away code that's useless without API keys.

So "stuff on the web" has gone from a low-profit novelty to 90+% of all software revenue.

I won't cite anything because we're talking about feelings. This is probably what the average 30-ish programmer feels about the situation, and if I got the facts wrong, I doubt anyone else is looking at these facts before deciding how to feel about AWS' marketshare.
Lockdowns would be my guess.
Gyms are going ‘green,’ but are they eco-friendly?
Co-op boss Jo Whitfield takes break to help teenage sons with exams
That's an odd way of saying Chinese state actor.
This is so funny. Under GDPR everything is illegal, the only legal website is no website.

Good for Europe, they are just going to law themselves out of the internet. Up to the point were your ISP doing hops to send your TCP packet will be illegal unless you approve them sharing that info with all the shops.
I don't want to live in a country where the government enforced wide-reaching shutdowns of businesses and quarantined people forcibly in their homes like China and Taiwan do. I think it's a violation of my civil liberties.
There are; to my understanding the state of Oklahoma uses a system similar to this on their toll roads.
You're really bending over backwards here to justify really bad behavior. Apple is actually bringing on liability by lying about what people's titles really were. They aren't saying "nothing", they're actually defaming their previous employees by lying about their level.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
-Albert Einstein
Honestly, I'm disappointed.

The Telegraph is known for being a conservative-leaning media outlet with a mixed track record for fact checking [1]. All of the links in this article just point back to the Telegraph, with no primary source links available from this article.

The OP created an account 2 hours before they posted this article.

I posted a long-form article from well-researched pro-science outlet (MIT Technology Review, which should be a slam dunk for a cohort like HN) yesterday to crickets [2]. I'm not bitter that my post didn't get upvoted, to be clear.

I'm bitter that we're upvoting spurious content instead of balanced, fact-checked research.

Have we lost our desire for factual research and content?

[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-telegraph/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30277185
Decent article. Terrific visual design. Love the animations.

Yes and:

> What is our mental model? ... by using increasingly complex technologies with ever simpler interfaces.

Yup. The difference between mental models and abstractions.

My personal working definitions:

- Useful mental models reveal how something truly works.

- Abstractions attempt to hide complexity.

I've struggled for decades to articulate my own personal philosophy of design. I'm sorry if this doesn't make any sense. It's so clear in my head.

Better mental models are at the root of all my design break throughs.

One example:

Late 90s I worked on print production manufacturing software (ScenicSoft's Preps, TrapWise, Color Central, etc). Every other image positioning (aka imposition) app looked like CADD meets Illustrator tailored for putting ink on paper. So they digitized the creation of artifacts. It took noob me years to finally understood the problem domain for bookwork; how everything is determined by the folding and binding, done at the very end of the mfg process. Information flows BACKWARD thru the system.

Eureka.

I was finally able to model the process. Think origami for bookwork.

So then it was trivial to create a simple form-based app to create impositions as needed.

Every other app solution tried to manage the complexity, hide the excruciating details. Abstraction.

My solution revealed how the system works. Simplifying the problem so any one could do bookwork. Mental model.
Why do you have ad hominem rather than sources?

Why is your first thought creating hoaxes for pay rather than collecting honest testimony?

Why is your go-to source “PRC census data” rather than any evidence of actual freedoms to live without minders, travel, speak, practice religion?
> Political shifts inside Microsoft could leave it dead and unsupported like Silverlight tomorrow...

I honestly don't see this happening. Beyond the open source arguments, blazor server-side mode is uniquely compelling specifically for organizations like Microsoft where there are thousands (tens of thousands?) of internal business systems that need some way to interact with, but don't necessarily need to serve 4k video traffic to the entire planet.
There was a study out of Israel[1] and another out of the UK[2] that both showed some effectiveness against long COVID for those who are vaccinated. (Reddit links provided because those often have useful summaries of the studies.)

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/sd32t3/association...
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/sdugl1/selfreporte...
> textContent = response

Good question (that none of the replies seem to address).
That is exactly what I would do if rendering 'tainted' text.

Can someone please tell us how it could be defeated ?
Collection of Noteworthy Memos
No, I meant it's literally in everyone's interest to keep everyone fed.
Point 1 isn't true. You've been able to send personal data (PII being the specific US legal term) to the US no problem - as long as you had "standard contractual clauses" (SCCs) as part of your contract with them that the company meets GDPR requirements. This is the same agreement to send data to any country outside the EU where there isn't a pre-existing agreement. I believe this ruling is saying that it's not possible for a US company to comply with the SCCs because US law doesn't allow them to do so.
Scrapped or scraped? Did they really need to abandon the plant or the equipment, or just clean it?
> Doing a rubbish job as quickly as you can is not your job. Not ever.

Unfortunately someone else IS willing to do a rubbish job as quickly as they can, look absolutely golden to their managers and clients for a while, then slingshot their career on to the next big pay raise, leaving the next poor chump to take the fall for their malfeasance.
Just to let you know I completely agree with you.

The corporations I've worked for rewarded schmoozing with the manager much more than competence.

Maybe those other people disagreeing with you worked for different corporations?

I have no idea but I've worked for several corporations and they were all a mess in this way.

My current position as a software engineer with almost a decade of experience is a subordinate to a project manager who has one year of experience in tech and the project is millions of dollars and years behind schedule.

This being a tax payer funded project to create a system for a few hundred people...

The person in charge is friends with the manager and the manager is friends with the COO and on up the chain.

Previous position was for DXC technologies who fired my entire team except me and another and then hired offshore workers. They were also sued by their customers for providing poor quality software.

The business practices I've seen boggle my mind.
Which is the crux of it all - there's no way to optimize the search of the key space to generate only keys that already have a set prefix. Rejection sampling can target anything, no matter if someone (or some dictionary) applies a meaning to the specified sequence. As another thought experiment, imagine using a true random source to generate a BTC priv key whose base58-represented P2PK address happened to spell out "1money". Would it be less entropic than if it were on purpose searched for and found using e.g. VanityGen? Or less entropic than some random characters like "1trwm"? Certainly not. By a total coincidence the word "trwm" is Welsh for "heavy".
I suppose adsense is next? I think that would be total disaster to the already crippled european web

And what about Chrome?
>> Since 2020, it's illegal to send PII (personally identifiable) data to the US because of the removal of the Privacy Shield Framework [

This sounds like some great politicized naming. Removal of the "Privacy Shield" seems to be increasing privacy in this case.