skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll play devil's advocate here:

While I understand you completely, I think a lot of these issues would be reduced if regulators played an active role on controlling what is being advertised/how it's being advertised and where... because at the moment it seems to be delegated to the platforms to police their own ad network.

With that said, you also need to realize that with the advent of digital advertising many small businesses found ways to reach old and new customers at a small cost (now increasingly expensive, and therefore more prohibitive).

Because you have to remember that prior to this, advertising was a luxury, and many of our childhood brands were so successful because companies like Proctor & Gamble, Unilever, Coca Cola, Mars, Mattel, Hasbro, etc had the control of the share of voice with their brands, and they controlled big chunks of share of shelves, with access budgets of millions.

Imagine returning to a days where only an handful of brands were controlling the majority of media inventories and distribution/sales channels... I don't think that's a good thing.

I don't have a solution for this to be honest, yet I think that reaching audiences shouldn't be limited to behemoths that have access to hundreds of millions in advertising budgets.
> I wasn't convinced I actually had the skillsets they needed for what they were offering, their tech interview was a take-home assignment and at most an hour of reviewing it. I didn't feel like I had earned it.

"Feels like" is often be influenced by complexity. It was easy, but you expected it to be hard, so it must be wrong. It could be interpreted as a red flag, or it really could have been that simple. Keep an eye out for things that feel like they should be harder. Once you feel like you grasp the disconnect, ask questions to find out if it is an actual red flag, or, if bias was clouding.

No way to know for certain without making a decision, but the thought work to finding an answer will assist with the long-term confidence of the decision.
I'm not trying to be to mean when I say this but this is advice to be scared. Risk is something we all manage in our daily lives, We know the risk of inflation, yeah so we also know that just building a savings barely keeps you afloat from you throwing away %1-4 of your savings every year due to inflation. where I live (Canada) my basic savings accounts only have %1.85 interest.

Yeah there's risk in investing too, we all know that as well, but what level of risk is it that you should really afraid of? should I be afraid of investing in 3M, coca cola or how about a brand-new psychedelics/cannabis stock? Yeah probably for the latter, but you can even manage risk associated to that.

One risk we all don't like to think about is that our employers will let us go and we'll be out on the streets.

My point is, you can know your risks, understand and manage them. Watch your assets column so that something you think is an asset doesn't turn into a liability(something that doesn't generate profit), you want to be able to rely on a lot of factors for wealth generation because a wide array or complex risk can actually be better than single points of failure like trusting you will have / be able to find a job, that that crypto you put your life savings in won't be rug pulled, that the stock market won't crash.

Last piece of advice is to know what you can live on, if I lost my job today, what would be left in my assets column and how long a run way would I have if I could rely on my saving and the rest of my assets.
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For people who struggle with their finances it's not just the gym membership. It's the gym membership, media subscriptions, daily latte, oversized car(s), holidays abroad, eating out daily, mortgage payments on a McMansion, new phone every year, overflowing wardrobe and on and on. Most people live pay check to pay check.
State of WordPress Security in 2021
boop :)
I like this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Discipline
Missing ancient Greek inscriptions solved by Artificial Intelligence
Is there an actual correlation between ASD and developer output?
This guy[0] got caught because he made a song about it, but not before he got $1.2M in fraudulent claims. If a single person can net $1.2M, the $31B number starts to seem plausible.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBFYeo2Ltk
PM’s are their own worst enemy. Only a couple I’ve worked with aren’t a waste of space. Sometimes that’s due to the problem space not needing a PM but often PMs earn their poor reputation.
Importantly, no one serious should use the djia as a proxy for a larger sample like the economy. The stock market already isn’t the entire economy and the djia is selected to not be representative of the stock market.
Cool! I downloaded it and give it a try. Thanks for sharing :)
I wish GMail stil used GWT. The current UI is a dumpster fire of sluggishness, even with a brand-new CPU and plenty of RAM.

It made me switch to Thunderbird. I had to sift through tons of mails to unsubscribe, without the Promotions/Social/Updates tabs.

The ones that kept sending me mail go to spam now.
Nice!

> Every file that could possibly exist?
> That's right! Every file you've ever created, or anyone else has created or will create! Copyright infringement? It's just a few digits of π! They were always there!

How about prior-art for Patents? Every invention is already written in Pi!
GPM had podcast integration. Being a cloud service, it synced state to all my devices.

Until last month, kids could not use YTM. With the family plan, this was basically a DOS for years (or setup new kids accounts and lie about their age).

IMO, GPM's recommendations were much better.

We kept the family plan because of YTP and my wife and I still had access to music.
I hope to teach my kids programming so I started with the older on learning algebra. I have been using the tablet app called dragonbox algebra (which is amazing!). The issue I am facing now is that my kid knows visually/mechanically what to do in the app but they don’t understand why they have to do some things. We have been moving to the whiteboard so they have to translate swipes and taps to regular algebra notation. They literary think in terms of the app. What has helped a lot is to do a problem on the app then do the same problem on the board. Their eyes light up when they see the connection.

I think I will have the same translation dilema if I start with scratch. At some point we will need to get writing textual based code but I am not confident that I can get my kids exited about programming without graphical tools like scratch/dragonbox.

In classroom setting most teachers could not teach the textual form of programming but something like scratch allows kids to explore and build the vocabulary to be able to translate to a textual representation.
There is another article concerning xvideos from netzpolitik.org. It's mostly about the same stuff that forced pornhub to remove videos by non-verified accounts (if my memory servers me well), including rape videos, hidden cam, underage videos etc.

https://netzpolitik.org/2022/how-xvideos-does-very-little-ag...
“Scalping”: stockpiling popular products and reselling them at a higher price
I just stopped looking for work. I got tired of being insulted, right off the bat.

Too bad. I could have been an awesome hire, for a number of these companies; especially the smaller ones. I'm not "behind the times," at all, and would have been happy with far less compensation than most.

It was funny, these little shops were doing the same kinds of interviews as major-league FAANGs, even though their workflows and requirements (and pay) were drastically different. I guess it's a case of "Monkey see; monkey do."
YT Premium I can confirm it has changed my outlook. Makes it super enjoyable now and has for years.
That sucks.

I was thinking of ways to prevent that, but without adding a bunch of ifs it kind of kills the minimalistic approach of the original code.
May I also direct your attention to self-documenting Makefiles:

https://www.thapaliya.com/en/writings/well-documented-makefi...
Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/best

I believe it’s the same thing that you made. I changed my bookmark to that URL. I think it makes me spend less time on here.
Also $7,200 per decade or 3.5-4 months of mortgage/rent payments. Stack it with other similar cuts, each adds 3-6 months of living expenses. It isn't about the 1 it is about the whole. That said, I can definitely see the QoL argument, the original question tends to accept that QoL trade offs are made for financial gain.
WP is sometimes referred to as insecure. According to this article it seems that WP Core is secure, but plugins and themes are problematic: "Vulnerabilities from plugins and themes remain as one of the biggest threats to websites built on WordPress. In fact, just 0.58% of security vulnerabilities originate from WordPress core in 2021."
Why does the skin color have anything to do with whether something is racial cleansing or not? Skin color is not a race. When the Tutsi were massacred by Hutus wasn't this a racial cleansing because they both have roughly same amount of melanine in their skin?

Are you seriously trying to justify what is happening right now in the Ukraine by existance of small nationalistic groups not condemned by the Ukrainian government? Anything that this fringe nazi group did, Russian soldiers are doing on a country wide scale as we speak.

And yes. Approval of parts of invaded population matters. That's one of the reasons world didn't react strongly to annexation of Crimea. And large groups of Afghanis were in favor of US bombing Taliban.

And also yes. Allies matter. Even the moral allies.

And sure, you can imagine a world in which EU and UK support Putin in the invasion of Ukraine for entirely selfish reasons with Ukraine being as innocent as it really is. It wouldn't be good then.

But if Ukraine built death camps for their Russian population. Allying with Putin to put a stop to that would be good.

However we do not live in any of those worlds. In ours Ukraine just wants to be a country and a nation they were always striving to be, despite being repeatedly crushed by the Russian heel and murdered by millions. And the west is supporting that ambition despite the great cost to its economy that is the result of cutting outselves off from Russia exports. We are doing it for both moral and selfish reasons. Because people and their actions are nuanced like that

It's never as simple as "it's ok when we do it".

I'm very sorry that you are struggling with this world to the point of turning you into a tube for clear aggressors.
In 2011 I released an app which was an education in MVP for me. I knew there was an free open source Java library that parsed Microsoft Access Library, so one day I had the idea to write an Android app for it. As there was no competition at all to parse Microsoft Access databases on the Android device(1) at that time, I figured I could release it without much features, so four days after having the idea I release the app - you can load one database and then one table from the disk and page forward (not backwards) through it. I had an immediate user base despite so few features as there was no alternative at the time.

The education was in what the users wanted. I had ideas about what users might want next, like column sorting, and was thinking of what big O sorting method to use for doing that. My other ideas for features people might want were more technically complex than that.

No one asked about column sorting in the first few months. First they asked if you could page backwards through the table. Then they wanted search. Then they wanted case insensitive search. Then they wanted wildcard search. Then someone said they always loaded the same database, and had to go through the filesystem to find it each new session, and could I have a recent files tab.

I had no idea what features users thought were important. Some were probably important to more than one person, as I got multiple comments and e-mails asking for search. Pretty much everything I implemented was something asked by multiple users. The only exception to that is if one user asked for a feature, but it was simple and obviously a good idea. Some features multiple users asked for, but I put on the backlog because I knew it would take a lot of time to implement correctly.

It was an unusual scenario in that I had a sizable user base who loved that they could look at their Microsoft Access databases on their phones, even though it initially was written in four days. The main lesson was all these ideas I had about the challenges of which big-O algorithm to use were for features users never asked for, and a lot of what they wanted was pretty simple. I knew users would probably want to read Microsoft Access databases on their phones, but I had no idea at all which features of doing that were most important to them until they told me.
the work is all open source on the CouchDB main git repo.
The DJIA selects a certain type of stock. Think more PG than TSLA.
So does that mean you're paying for YouTube Premium (which explicitly stops showing ads when you give them those 10 bucks a month) or did you just move the goalposts here?
Front-end development is not "easy" or "trivial". This misguided perception is exactly what leads to hacked-together websites full of div-tag soup, zero accessibility, and forcing their users to run huge amounts of pointless JavaScript which ruins their devices' battery life. Please everyone, stop doing that and learn to build professional "front ends" to your webcrap.
Nice to see this here, I've been following Ploum's gemlog as they've developed this. Here's a mirror of their gemlog post where they announce this 1.0 release. It's a little less technical than this README.

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-03-14...
Thank you for reading. In this page everything is evaluated using the minimal toolkit, lambadas & defs. And as usual with numbers as lists evaaluations are slow and limited to small numbers. You could have a look to this page http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=oops6 to see how (very) big numbers can computed at the lambda-calculus level, and to http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=coding for a general introduction to this project.
> to justify the writing as if they discovered some terrorist cell or sth

I read it as whilst trying to uncover the people behind those businesses, we found those spend effort to not be uncovered.

Like a reverse "I don't need privacy because I have nothing to hide" fallacy.

Only that the reverse isn't that much a fallacy: if you spend this amount of money, effort, technology, and legal structures to hide yourselves, in an industry that is in trouble because of people who do want to hide their privacy but cannot (revenge porn etc. all mentioned in the article), there is something amiss.
It's mostly because Hollywood is creatively bankrupt and eking out diminishing returns from strip-mining the Star Wars or Marvel universes.

The odd thing is, quality video production has become much more affordable with the end of film and rise of mirrorless video cameras and NLE consoles running on commodity PCs. SFX has gone up in price but is not required for every movie, so you would expect an explosion of creativity, not the industry hunkering down around a limited number of franchises and sequels.
> It would be extremely hard (if not impossible) to extract and transfer those resources under constant attacks by Ukrainian resistance

I've always heard a lot of talk about that (even before the war), especially by Western leaders trying to puff up the effectiveness of their support, but is that resistance actually materializing in Russian-controlled areas?
> The output is certainly more costly, but does it bring in more income for the company?

Depends. A Mercedes is a lot more expensive than a Honda, but Honda's a bigger company.

Both are quite successful, though. It depends on the metrics and targets.
No, I mean wild lands. No shortage of that in Canada. If the U.S. lacks in protected public lands so much, you're kind of fucked in this regard and others. Many cities here aren't just surrounded by farmland, but forested valleys and lakes. That's "the environment".
Do you have any evidence of prestige not dropping with increase in size or lower selectability? Can you name a large Ivy League?

This seems to hint at the idea that larger institutions are not as prestigious:

"A serious loss of prestige for French universities : in spite of their 12% of foreign students (rank 2 in Europe after UK) , the French universities no longer attract the best students from the whole world; the recent ranking made by the University of Shanghai of the 500 best universities of the world is awful for the French national pride (the best one ranks 65th) : the good teaching and research centers are too small, and the big universities are not good enough ;"

http://www.understandfrance.org/France/Education.html
The difference is that when something like this is uncovered in the US or Canada, we get news stories and politicians publicly condemning the practice. When forced labor happens in China, their state media calls it Western propaganda.
Slowly happening but as far as I can see, it is the case. Very early after the 24th, the opinion was extremely pro Ukraine, but it's been slowly trending down, with a pro-Russia voice taking over.

Not just "because US has done worse", but anything from "it's our fault because of NATO" to "Ukraine is supposed to be Russian anyway, he's taking back what's his".

It's not the majority opinion (yet), but it's worrisome.
Google doesn't sell targeting based on DNS queries.

> I am no more comfortable with cloudflare having my data than I am with google or verizion, I have never used any of their DNS services

It's not either/or. If you use Cloudflare or Google DNS and it isn't encrypted then Verizon has it too. With DoH they don't.
> GPM had podcast integration. Being a cloud service, it synced state to all my devices.

Wasn't that just moved to Google Podcasts? (Although, something like PocketCasts IMO is a better service.)
I think that we should break down your thesis into two parts:

1. Those acts preceded by a reason, i.e., the acts are informed by a rationale. The acts are rational to those actors, no matter how irrational they seem to us.

2. Those acts justified in the breach by a rationale. Those are irrational acts.

History has both, of course, but it's the second one that we should fear, because it's unknowable and unpredictable. The first one we can try to predict by understanding an actor's milieu.
Tell HN: Recruiters asking for current salary may respectfully fuck off
My new kink is responding to recruiters who ask for my current salary by asking them for the total comp for the role they're recruiting for.

It's purely for entertainment, of course - I won't even meet with them after that. A company that asks your current salary is asking to find out how little they can pay you. They are seeking to create and exploit a superior bargaining position that results from unequal knowledge - they know how much you make and how much they pay, but you only know one of those things. And that's how they treat you before you start working there.

I doubt that companies who do this can be persuaded to stop.

But if I were a VC, it might give me pause to learn that a company in my portfolio does this. Knowing that the make or break comes down to people - or at least suspecting that might matter - might make me worry about a company that rejects valuing the one single resource that decides the whole ballgame.

Anywho, my nonsense aside, the object of the game is to see how many messages a recruiter will respond with before giving an actual compensation number. An unsolicited phone call counts as two messages. My current record is 7.
> Porn is a machine that turns drug addicts into money. It's objectively bad as far as I'm concerned.

Here's an idea - regulate the porn industry so that anyone failing a drug test is cannot work in it, make the tests mandatory.
The lidar sensor is short range, around 5 meters from the article.

This is more in line with parking sensors or something, not the long range lidar that has been used for some self driving car research that can spot traffic and obstacles at a distance.
Over the entire duration of the program, perhaps? If it is $31B over 40 odd years, then it is very believable.
Ok well it may be the case now, but I remember when I was in government work - Danish government not U.S. - in approximately 2005 I was earning about 77% of what I would have in the private sector before taxes (so in Denmark not that appreciable a difference) but with

1. significantly more vacation.

2. I often worked 5-6 hour days (because I was done) and just went home with no one complaining.

3. much better pension.

So I sort of think it was actually about the same in value, except of course money is more liquid and thus more valuable than perks, but perhaps the great difference in value people see is partially illusory.

on edit: not sure what the difference would be nowadays as I consult and earn about 5-6 times per hour what I was earning back then.
Possessives were the weird ones for me. I learned French at an early age, and you were just expected to learn the possessive pronouns. I did the same for English and while `it's` and `its` are similar, I've always considered the latter as its own thing, not something extrapolated from using the apostrophe as a possessive in English.
Tup – a file-based build system for Linux, OS X, and Windows
There are other options in the eReader space. Pocketbook is another one, there's some Chinese Android devices like Boox and Boyue that are more flexible since they run Android.

Kobo compares favorably to Kindle. Really they just lack something like "Send to Kindle" but they make up for it with other things. Some models support Dropbox syncing, they support getting books from the library via. Overdrive right on the device and they have a lot more customization with regards to what you can do with fonts, spacing etc. out of the box. And you can even get pen input for note taking on the bigger ones if you want.

I'd just pick the model that most appeals to you with exception of the base model. I think the extra $30 to get a 300PPI screen is worth it.
You’re describing an analyst position. Product Management is a misnomer, IMO.
one of the few annoyances is spaces in paths. Just avoid them anyway, right?
Wrong. You get ads if you pay for YouTube tv.
the difficulty starts happening when something goes wrong. FDB has a lot of moving parts (for good reasons, this is not to speak ill of FDB), and that conceptual complexity is a lot more what CouchDB has today with its very basic Dynamo sharding model. Resolving issues with CouchDB is also not trivial, make no mistake, but there is generally a lot less going on.
No, it's not. There's so many sexual things out there that are off the table if you restrict "sex" to heteronormative monogamy. So many people could live richer, more sexual fulfilling lives if only they felt it was OK.

Society benefits from family structure and family planning. And we have a deep desire to reproduce based on living in a world where there wasn't enough of us and too many died too easily. Unfortuntely there are now too many people and nobody likes it when someone dies arbitrarily, so we don't need to reproduce nearly as much.

Now that we have the technology, there is no reason why a rich family life and a rich sex life can't coexist.

edit, one other thing --

> A small but increasingly loud minority.

I suspect this is actually a majority but, sadly, religion and taboos have beaten this out of folks. The reason it is "increasing" is because more people are speaking up. Sexual unfulfilment is, I believe, one of the largest driving factors behind a lot of cheating and divorce