skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's a very glass-half-empty way of looking at it. I'm saying that high earners have to help subsidize lower earners the more luxuries they accrue in their life. It's not the earning after all that makes the difference between rich and poor; that's why the wealthiest people in America pay no income tax. They're not earning anything, officially. But boy do they spend.
So maybe, I don't know, if you're really concerned about people getting that one luxury in life then there could be an exemption, like if you make under $50k a year you get refunded the VAT on $2k of luxury purchases. Ok? But it has to be small enough to prevent the ultra-wealthy from using it as a loophole.
They've always been like this. Back in 2005 I had a website that was popular enough to earn about $80 a month in Google ads. When I tried to cash out with $300 to pay for some college books Google cancelled my ads account claiming click fraud and kept the money. They completely ignored any attempts to contact them.

In some ways I'm lucky it happened when it did, as it kept me from relying on Google services since then. Google is horrible when it comes to customer service- always has been, always will be- and it's why I'll never understand people who advocate for GCP or other Google services.
> There's some math that goes into picking a good constant, but honestly that's optional.

It isn’t optional. For example, if your constant is even, every iteration adds another zero to the end of your state, and after (in this case) 127 iterations, you’ll start returning zeroes forever.

Also, if your multiplier is smallish, the lower order ones of the current value can be used to (somewhat) predict the higher order ones of the next value.
We'll see. I "resolved" the issues and requested a site review a few days ago. I have very low expectations.
While the ambitious European cloud project "Gaia X" is unlikely to produce tangible results for some time, the Schwarz Group has created an offering under the STACKIT brand that promises scalable cloud solutions from the DACH region with maximum data sovereignty. The STACKIT cloud is still in the BETA phase, but the cloud service should be available soon.
Yeah, I'll spruce it up and shoot you guys an email when it's in a good place. Thanks!
Regexes are a bit of a double-edged sword. I rarely use them in code - I often find it more productive (and maintainable) to simply type out the verbose code for doing the string transformations. This depends on how good you are at writing/interpreting regexes and on what text manipulation tools your programming language/stdlib gives you. I imagine a compiled regex can often outperform naively-written code, though.

On the other hand, regexes saved my skin a couple of times when I needed to search/extract/modify/format a large number of text files (or one extremely big one). I suck at command line, so I usually open the file/folder in vscode and use their search/replace function. It's super useful for these "one shot" text operations.
Everyone loves to flaunt this theory, as well as the sperm quality one. I think both are wrong, or at least, minor effect sizes relative to the bigger picture. The sperm quality drop is due to obesity plain and simple. It's a well studied, strong effect size.

The rise of obesity itself has many obvious causes. Sedentary work, high calorie, high sugar/sweetener diets. If it were microplastics you would expect to see this as a universal effect, but it's really not. While obesity is rising on average, it's highly concentrated. Many communities, especially affluent ones, have very low obesity rates still. Very few people in my social / work circle are obese. And like, although I've cut out soda and most of the obvious bad things, its still apparent to me that my diet is likely overloaded with sugar and sweeteners much more than past generations. Poor people have high stress, insufficient money to buy quality food, and insufficient time / hardware to invest in food preparations on a regular basis.

And we have case examples too. Remote Amazonian (brazil) populations get introduced to nestle food? Wait several years and bam, fat.

Why are pets getting fatter? Because they're eating garbage too. Why are wild animals getting fatter? Because they're eating garbage too. You then see follow up questions like "Why are sperm quality readings dropping in dogs?" It's because they're fucking fatter. "Why are sperm quality readings dropping in people that aren't obese?" Because the whole population is shifting right and is fatter within their BMI bin.

Antibiotics are a real studied cause as well of causing fattening.

Frankly it would be extremely surprising to me if we didn't see the outcomes in obesity that we are seeing given the dietary crises the world is facing. Microplastics need not appear in this picture.
Unfortunately most missle silos in the US are located in the rural midwest.
It was not an exaggeration. I was morbidly obese at the time, and the doctor almost completely ignored that condition for the roughly five years that I saw him. He did once recommend that I always eat a salad at the start of dinner. That was it.

When he saw that I was losing weight and that my A1C was heading downward, he asked what I was doing. I told him about the carb restriction. He looked down, smiled, shook his head, and said nothing. That was the end of it.
Cases like this make me wish Google could be sued for $100,000,000 because it's clear that are they not following their own rules when it comes to banning accounts. This has REAL business impact, not to mention the implication of libel that the holder of the account did something to deserve to be banned. Yeah, I know: the business entered into an agreement with Google to abide by their rules and terms of service but when Google doesn't follow those rules I think they open themselves up to massive liability.
With the obvious exception of essential jobs that cannot be done remotely, such as hands-on medical care.
Do you use any zero code?
As a developer I am bit ashamed of this question, but I gotta ask:

What consumer apps actually use Neural Engines?

I think something like Photoshop, maybe. But wouldn't it just train a model and use it as regular code?

I'm interested in AI, but it's a joke to me about startups and jargon more often than not.

I feels weird to add this to all chips when I can't see that much usage.
How the Channel Tunnel changed Europe (2019)
This was true for several home computers since the late 70's. Atari 8-bit computers had all peripherals connecting via a serial bus, each one with its own little processor, ROM, RAM and IO (the only exception, IIRC, was the cassete drive). Commodores also had a similar design for their disk drives. A couple months back a 1541 drive was demoed running standalone with custom software and generating a valid NTSC signal.
The question is why we stuff our holes too often now. It is not just availability of food. Even comparing to the 1970's or 1980's when food was already widely available and cheap obesity prevalence is still increasing.
The shift from manual labour to sedentary jobs doesn't explain it. Office workers in the 1980's on average were less obese than the general population now and even people with physical jobs (construction workers) are more often obese.
Maybe we need a "Businesses/Lives Ruined by Google" site like the "Killed by Google" site.
Is there any cloud/PaaS/SaaS company without a "we can terminate your account at any time for any reason"-clause?

Otherwise you still have the same problem wherever you go.
Sometimes other people will find things fun that you do not find fun. This is ok.
Feel free to star this repo and comment: https://github.com/ivan-gammel/orm16
The late Studs Terkel showed us all - 50 years ago - how work was a search for both "daily meaning and daily bread". The speed and efficiency credo of the modern age has restricted independence and creativity almost out of existence for millions - but far from this being a serf mentality - this was foisted upon people by others.
Cheers!

The other thing that I noticed that Andi seems to do well is exclude blog spam.

Overall it seems like you folks won search. Good work!
I mean, to some extent, those ads were popular/notorious precisely _because_ they were such an unusual tactic.

Also, that was open advertising, not a covert disinformation campaign; it's a bit different.
> kings that went mad from consuming gold

I don’t think I have heard of that. Gold is pretty inert.
I was the pig once. Never again.
>The White House is briefing TikTok stars about the war in Ukraine

>“We recognize this is a critically important avenue in the way the American public is finding out about the latest,” said the White House director of digital strategy, Rob Flaherty, “so we wanted to make sure you had the latest information from an authoritative source.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/11/tik-tok...
Previous emails. That's funny. They don't send warnings and they don't allow appeals. It's 100% to done.
It is way better until Orban leaves the EU and NATO and leaves my sense of security and my EU passport away.

I'm travelling around the world usually and spend only 5 months in Hungary in a year, but I'm getting closer to officially moving to another EU country.
Switchboard: A dev-first platform for building experiences that drive growth
> very easy to sway opinion of American public

Compared to what? Chinese public?
I think all of this assumes the candidate is for a highly technical position, which is not all Meta jobs.

Even then, why do we assume they were promoted, or solved "all problems", or have some altruistic reason to make less?

The only thing we know is that they were hired by Meta sometime in the past.
My guess would be either a power consumption issue - with both ANEs enabled you could get voltage droops below the acceptable limit. Or it requires software support that they haven't implemented yet. Software always takes waaaay longer than hardware people expect.
Call your congressional rep [1]. That's what it takes; to get policymakers to write and pass the law. I imagine there's bipartisan support at the moment for reining in Big Tech [2].

Google is never going to improve the situation out of the goodness of their corporate heart (if such a thing were even to exist).

[1] https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/

[2] https://nypost.com/2022/03/29/biden-doj-backs-senate-antitru...
According to consistent research, remote workers work more hours than their office-bound counterparts. Working at home is clearly more productive than working in an office, according to studies.
I think of an abstraction as a map from a model space into the problem domain. (A map that is not necessarily injective, and sure enough not surjective.)

I am sure category theory can say much about this.
It will be able to approach even faster than that, just have multiple card readers at both ends.
Nice! Also see

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/finish-your-derivat...
I guess this could be a teaching tool if you focus on just selecting keywords from the dropdown, but in general most SQL engines' EXPLAIN features are leagues more useful than this.
Sounds similar to the climate here in Buenos Aires, maybe slightly warmer. To my knowledge people generally don't keep AC's running when they're not around, in the summer. I've never heard of a building being ruined by environmental humidity.
Looks more like parameterization.
I've lived in SF (Soma, the Mission) and NYC in both Manhattan and Brooklyn. I'll never move back to a city and share a wall with somebody, if I can help it. There's one reason and one reason only: noise pollution.

American cities are completely unserious about enforcement of vehicle exhausts, quiet hours, construction permits, and so forth. When I finally moved away, my stress levels plunged. I miss the amenities and the restaurants, but my life is a thousand times better not waking in rage as yet another 110 dB motorcycle zooms under my window, or the unit demolition next door starts at 5:30am again.

It could be done if we cared at all. Look at Tokyo, they make their construction sites surround the plot with a barrier many stories high and then put a digital noise meter on top, with the limit painted next to it. Or Paris, where they've started digital enforcement of loud exhausts; one of their city officials estimated a single bike with a loud exhaust could wake up as many as 10,000 people.
It’s easier to feed the anti-Google circle jerk this way.
The various allowances are certainly helpful but £1,000 doesn’t really factor in when you’re dealing with rental income. Almost every landlord will cross that threshold and should expect to fill a return in.

Hearing about how taxes work in other countries makes me grateful for the system we have here.

Most people never have to file a return. The people that do have a more complicated arrangement and probably need to summarise expenses, etc.
Solving problems iteratively in the same way progressive jpegs render: Start with essential parts, quickly assemble them to a usable draft and iterate on the entire thing by improving quality where it needs to be improved.

This is applies to programming as well as to writing, drawing, making music etc.

Applying this to writing emails can definitely improve your business communication 10-fold:

* write down the important parts you want to convey, even in incomplete sentences

* improve the ideas into sentences

* rearrange the paragraphs/parts/sentences into proper order (written language rarely comes out in the correct order).

* cut unnecessary talk

* iterate on the above 3-8 times, depending on the importance of the email.
GP stated that the Beatles were inevitable, that somebody would have come along with catchy songs and "star power."

That part of the GP's post makes little sense to me. There were plenty of post-WWII (and pre-WWII) popular music stars who fit that description.

Yes, an endless parade of popular music stars was inevitable, but something like the Beatles wasn't. Pop would have evolved with or without them, of course, but their impact was insane.
Multi-tenancy is something that shouldn't be underestimated. A lot of people think it's just a checklist item until (a) they need it or (b) they try to implement it in an existing system. Kudos for making it a day-one feature.
Well that's not entirely true. Instagram (a Meta property) is more the competitor to TikTok. And this isn't crying to the government. This is trying to push the dangers of TikTok on right wing cultural outlets. The thing is, this is true, the incentives of TikTok are not pro-social. Then again, neither are those of Instagram (or Facebook for that matter).
I wonder if the devs behind these kind of automations ever stop and think about the ethical sides of it.
What about Google scanning Company ownership records, without authorization, adding your own residence in Google Maps as the company headquarters, and then prompting you to take over the record on their own system if you are the company owner?
Unhelpful response (is indempotent)
They might put that they worked on, say, Google Play, which would certainly raise concerns. I'd need to figure out what they worked on before making any sort of offer. If they didn't say what products they worked on, the resume would go right in the bin (of course).
> Meta spokesperson Andy Stone defended the campaign by saying, “We believe all platforms, including TikTok, should face a level of scrutiny consistent with their growing success.”

Gross — the way they try to spin it.
Android has a ~70% share of the mobile device market, that seems reason enough.

(Although more focus on the mobile web rather than apps might be a good thing)
> We need legislation forcing companies to manually review algorithmic decisions that impact people's lives, and have a proper appeals process.

I don't think this is enforceable nor I think it's even possible to have such legislature.

At the end of the day Google has every right to decide what they put and what they don't put on their store, with whom they do business and with whom they don't.

> With how much our modern lives are dependent on services like Google's, they effectively become utilities and should be regulated as such.

Calling an online application store an utility seems quite a stretch.

De-googling and de-duopoling is the answer to these situations. At the end of the day you can't force Google or Apple to have your products on their shop.
Sigh... another search where "Perl" matches the word "properly" :/
when I visited NYC I got the feel for the battle for every square inch of room on every sidewalk, street, and building. Being able to like sit at a table to eat at a small place you picked up your food has got to be a huge cost in space just for that to exist.

Then I started thinking about all the massive skyscrapers that are just offices that people show up to for just 8 hours a day and then reallocate the space crisis to their residence elsewhere. It seems like a comical design choice almost.
It is not unlikely that if Trump had won a second term, then TikTok would have been banned in the US.

Facebook made a gamble though and as a downside they probably have less goodwill with the current administration compared to what they could have had.
This also suggests a need for app development companies to ban developers from using personal accounts to associate with a project. I realize this just sends more money in the direction of Google but if every app developer was set up with a G-Suite (or whatever it's called this week) account for developer access then there could be no question of actions a developer does on their own accounts coming back to bite the company. Likewise, there needs to be a mechanism for the company to mark a developer's account as "fired for cause" so that if they did anything toxic on the company-assigned account the company could pre-signal to Google that they are proactively taking care of things and following the rules.
Being able to name differences does not a difference make. You can't self-host Freenode either unless you're fine with a social network of one. Discord has what made IRC actually good, the people. Nerds passionate about random topics getting together to discuss them.

If you're the kind of person who has ever read bash.org nostalgically you're missing out because Discord has that energy right now today.
Where are you seeing that previous emails were sent?

The screenshotted notice indicates it may be due to actions by the individual developer on their own account, for which the company would not necessarily have been notified.
Silicon FinFETs hosting hole spin qubits at temperatures over 4 Kelvin
Average american calorie consumption was up 24% between 1961 and 2013.

Can you increase your caloric intake by 24% without putting on weight?

edit: src https://www.businessinsider.com/daily-calories-americans-eat...
You are right, just don't do business with this evil company. Simple as that.
If you work at Google in this area (and I bet some of you will), then please, escalate this and please, fix your systems - as this is clearly something which destroys peoples lifes.
That was the case for me: I built a static site generator in 500 lines of Python.

Adding comments took me a long time and lots of effort in comparison – I described that on the blog too: https://dcz_self.gitlab.io/posts/potion/

It's been up for almost a month and I already engaged one person. That's less than discussions on Mastodon, but it serves as an obvious meeting point for readers, so I guess it's not entirely a wasted effort.
Knowing in which problems pace you are and which solution strategy works in that space. Basically: "cynefin".
What percentage of cloud service costs as paid for by customers is electricity cost?

BTW what you're showing here is small consumer electricity rates. Large consumers of electricity in Germany have significant fee exemptions. It's one of the reasons why small consumers have it more expensive: in Germany, lots of the costs are offloaded away from the industrial users.
Urban, suburban, and rural really under describe alot of the different living densities available from American cities. My old suburban areas are getting more dense with shopping centers turning into pedestrian blocks with a outdoor shopping mall. The area I'm currently living in outside the city core, Is a really nice mix of tall and short buildings, and new large apartment developments fixing and improving walk ability. Compared to the city center, it's much quieter, cleaner, greener. How do we describe the suburban+ or urban-? At the end of the day, pedestrian accessibility is really underscoring new desirable developments, and this is what's open and accessible for the youth to move into.
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models
One interesting question I have is regards to global availability.

With our current Thanos deployment, we can tie a single geo regional deployment together with a tiered query engine.

Basically like this:

"Global Query Layer" -> "Zone Cluster Query Layer" -> "Prom Sidecar / Thanos Store"

We can duplicate the "Global Query Layer" in multiple geo regions with their own replicated Grafana instances. If a single region/zone has trouble we can still access metrics in other regions/zones. This avoids Thanos having any SPoFs for large multi-user(Dev/SRE) orgs.
Yes. In a competitive environment with no law/enforcement, anyone who doesn't cheat loses to someone who does. This is the state of nature, law of the jungle.
Blogging without comments is weird to me. I have a small handful of blogs, one of which just turned 21 years old, and the reason I blog is the comments. I want to hear what others have to say. I want to know when I am wrong. I am not an unquestionable pillar of truth, I am a dude that finds things interesting and wants to talk about it. I want to learn more, and the collective peanut gallery inevitably knows more than I do.

My whole reason for doing it is a two way interaction. I think not enough people can just talk these days though, they get angry and mean about the silliest stuff. That leads to thinner skinned people just not willing to actually listen to anyone else, which is a shame. The most hate I ever got was a post about Go binary sizes of all things - literal personal attacks. Like I just wanted to have a conversation about compilers and people were insulting my mental abilities.

So basically on the one hand can understand why people would not have comments, but on the other hand I have no idea why you would blog at all without them aside from ego.
Respectfully disagree.
The compendium of skills integrated is the "Single thing"
You could say that an abstraction is a decision about which details of the complex world are important, or even expressible. Problems are sometimes intractable just because the wrong decision's been made.
I believe the GDPR already has that. The problem is that the GDPR is not enforced enough and not enough resources/willingness are allocated to enforce it.

The problem in account termination cases would also be that:

1) they can claim they've reviewed the ban, that it's legitimate and they're refusing to disclose the reasons behind it to avoid helping people circumvent the ban, while in reality they didn't do any investigation at all. Proper enforcement should be able to pierce through this veil (by forcing them to disclose the reasons and data behind the bank to the regulator, a neutral third-party), but it's missing and nothing suggests it's going to get any better.

2) given that businesses are still allowed to essentially "fire" customers at will, and changing that is impossible due to wide-ranging repercussions, nothing prevents them from "firing" you anyway. Proper antitrust enforcement is needed here (so that you're not allowed to "fire" customers this way) but that's missing as well.
I like the complete disallowance of nuance in your statement. Everything influential is staged.
Tools like atlas are often used on CPUs. GPUs and TPUs have their own fast linear algebra implementations.