skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: imagine if we got 50 extra years of extremely low quality life at great financial cost, and the courts decided that withholding the longevity treatment from anyone was a crime.

The result would be lots of misery and a wealth transfer from regular people to the medical and pharma industry.
> ... would all but guarantee a catalogue full of $CURRENT_DAY political messaging, which would be poison for subscriber retention.

Seems to me that's what they already have; which upon reflection, is indeed probably why they're currently having problems with subscriber retention.
>or intentionally putting their own stylistic spin on it, not just skipping over stuff that’s hard.

Rick Beato interviews (acoustic guitarist) Tommy Emmanuel -
https://youtu.be/PLIZZ9lIlwg
It’s definitely an appeasement.

Pre-Pandemic, fully remote folks were at a distinct disadvantage since they would be cut off completely from the politics, relationship building etc. that would happen via people being in the office. This strategy is clearly aimed at discouraging people from being fully remote by making them aware of the “benefits” of working in an office.

I feel sorta lucky because my team is distributed between two cities on the West Coast, so even if people are in the office you still have to video conference … making it somewhat pointless.

I was talking to a friend at Apple who had been forced to work from their office. They are really unhappy; primarily they were so used to the peace and quiet of wfh that they’re having a hard time getting anything done in a loud (relatively) office.
The Elm language community has exactly such a Slack bot. I do find it a little patronizing, and in my observation it makes newcomers feel worse rather than better, but the community overall is really very nice and helpful, so I just put up with it.
Get yourself a metal detector kit and head to the UK.
I think Netflix can pull out of this current situation if they build a live-streaming, social media platform and start directly competing with Youtube and Twitch.
It certainly seems progressive to me. Charging private vehicles to access the roads reduces demand, which allows other modes such as buses, trams and bikes to move more people more quickly.

I don't see what's progressive about letting private cars clog the roads up and slowing down London's vast and comprehensive bus network.
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If server is compromised, passwords are compromised too regardless if they are hashed or not.

I can selectively deauth a user to make them login again in short order and take his password.

It depends on the level of compromise, of course.
Most of them are at their home, for example Somalia battalion who is fighting for Mariupol.
Political spam is incredibly shady in the US, but I don't get the volume you're describing. Maybe at one point I did, though, maybe 10 years back. I do get a good amount from both major parties.

It beggars belief, but sometimes one party will be sending mails carefully tailored to make you think they are from the other party - stealing not just the overall design and color schemes, but even trying to use turns of phrases common to the other party. The mails will link back to a similarly carefully crafted website which never says which party the candidate is from. If you sniff around, you can find their other site which is designed to appeal to their usual voters, which clearly identifies which party they are from. I've seen a half dozen state level politicians pull this in the last 15 years or so. Crazy stuff.

Additionally, I get political spam (and a few other politics adjacent topics) meant for my father (addressed to him by name). This is because AOL sells subscriber lists to spammers, and I still have an AOL address from my teenage years and I'm a techno-packrat who never willingly throws anything away. How do I know they sold their subscriber lists? Because my father had the master account, and my siblings and I all had sub-accounts from the main one. Obviously, in the AOL records which got sold his name was on all the email addresses as the account owner. But of course, AOL has been a shady company for decades so this is no surprise.

I get a lot of spam from various meetup groups too. One which I can't shake, which I find very amusing, is "Women in Tech" meetups. My IRL name is male, but not that common anymore, and people are tempted to read it as feminine. Try as I might, I cannot convince them that I should not be showing up to "Women in Tech" meetups and unsubscribing doesn't seem to do anything. I have taken to just forwarding those emails to my wife, who actually is a woman in tech, but strangely doesn't get these emails.

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Why would you say twitter is a high profile place?

I'm lost on this. I never seen ads on Twitter and only read it to see if someone really posted whatever news side is posting a tweet.i have never seen anything being driven by twitter
If people really start doing that en-masse, then the next thing the streaming services will implement is that cancellation means you lose access immediately.
Sort of. A lot of it depends on precision and altitude. I think a high-altitude bomber, carpet-bombing, with a fighter escort, would be pretty safe from Russia's perspective.

Stingers can hit up to 3.8km. Starstreak is 5km. Etc. For comparison, a B2 flies at 15km.

Ukraine does have some defences there -- an S300 will shoot down targets that high, and fighters will go that high -- but it's a much harder problem. That's why Ukraine is asking fighter jets, S300/Patriot-style systems, and a no-fly zone.

If Russia starts carpet bombing before Ukraine get those, it's game over for Ukraine. That doesn't mean Russia won the war -- the military will keep fighting -- just that Ukrainan population will have lost:

- The country will be rubble.

- Massive civilian causalities

- Economy on par with Iraq during ISIS or Afghanistan today

- Need for post-WWII style reconstruction

... and so on.
Well, there are lots of "do x" libs that I don't think a C programmer could easily copy, but hey, we're all Turing complete here... As for language features, historically Lisp was not always first for some particular feature, but because of earlier design decisions that still haven't been made by newer languages, it can usually implement innovative features from other languages or PL research papers as libraries without having to update the language spec or an implementation itself. So we have immutable collections, laziness, takes on pattern matching, various concurrency models, more sophisticated type systems...

One very recent library that might be of interest is "just" a new regex library (https://applied-langua.ge/posts/omrn-compiler.html) but it leverages one unique design choice Lisp made in that you have access to the language's compiler at runtime, it's not a fenced-off separate program only used to create a runtime executable. The compiler can (and in SBCL's case does) optimize and produce assembly code, SIMD instructions can be used too, so this regex lib is very fast while not being that much code.
Using Firebase for the backend.
Ask HN: What happened to archive.md/is/ph/vn?
I noticed a lot of HNers using archive.md (or its other mirrors like archive.vn or archive.is) to get around soft paywalls on certain submitted news articles. However, none of these archive sites work anymore (or work sporadically), returning SSL errors or DNS errors. Does anyone know what happened?
I would guess that was the narrative: that a streaming service with a new tone would appeal outside their existing demographic.

Not that I buy it, but that had to be the idea: not to reach CNN viewers, but new viewers.
"Mother nature does not like working from home"

Really? So mother nature doesn't care about the carbon output from commuting? The reasons for going back to the office are becoming more esoteric by the day. From 'serendipitous encounters' to 'save your downtown Pret's".
I think there are some well-known horror stories of "hybrid" companies that some companies are trying to avoid.

(Disclaimer: I have to telecommute, I've been doing it since 2014. Because of where I live, I can only go in about 2-3 times a month.)

For example: I worked for Intel in 2005-2007. It was hybrid by necessity: They had offices all over the world, and were so large that it was impractical for everyone to be on one campus; and even if everyone was on one campus, travel among buildings was somewhat time consuming. Thus, many meetings were conducted via teleconference, and no one cared if you were in the office. (I would always take early morning calls at home and leave after the call.)

While I was there, it became obvious that people were abusing the liberal telecommuting policy. My boss went on vacation for one week, and then "telecommuted" the second week. I quickly realized he had an agreement with his higher up to get a 2nd week of vacation as long as he checked email and kept up appearances.

A few months later Intel cut out most telecommuting. The rumors that came back to me was that a lot of people were just goofing off; and even running 2nd businesses, like liquor stores, while on company time.

There's also the story of Yahoo. This is well documented, so I'll leave it up to someone else to dig up links, but the general belief is that many Yahoo telecommuters were just keeping up appearances and not really working. The company cracked down because it was going broke paying people to do nothing.

So, I don't think it's a "ruse." I think it's a case of a company doing what it thinks is in its best interests. If it's in your best interests to be 100% remote, or 90% remote, ect, have a frank discussion with your boss, and if they can't accommodate you, find a new job.
It's all down to the individual company I guess. Some will have maniac managers who quickly want to reassert their authority and control but you gotta ask if you really want to work there. If an employer tells you something is "mandatory" then you can still decide for yourself. You don't have to do what they demand. you can either leave the building or ignore it and see what happens next. Employers don't own you.
Ask HN: People who work in an office, what equipment are you provided with?
Now that my job is returning to office, I'm feeling a bit disappointed as my home-office setup for the past two years was much better than what my company provides in their office.

For those of you that have to work in an office, what equipment does your company provide? What monitor, keyboard, mouse, headset, etc do you have? Do you have any choice in what they provide, or is it predefined?
WEKA moves file data at 2TB/sec on Oracle’s cloud
We don't even know that. All we know is that a large number of people in Mariupol were evacuated to Russia instead of through the frontlines to Ukraine. I can think of a lot of quite reasonable explanations for that.
30,000 repos for 75,000 employees. How many of those employees are engineers?
That isn't true. The first block rehashes quotes from Feb 4th, Jeff Zucker's resignation, and Chris Licht taking over. Thats all very old news.

And the previous article buried subscriber counts in paragraph 14, and never mentions CNN's ratings or viewership, or CNN+'s viewership per show.

Instead, both this article and the previous one is an attempt to obfuscate the reality of awful viewership as just a victim of executive realignment:

It's being shuttered due to a strategic misalignment between Discovery executives and CNN executives.

and

The service was shut down because CNN and its new parent disagreed over whether the investment made sense long-term.

But not, "CNN shut down the service when it became obvious virtually nobody was willing to pay a non-promotional price for the product."
If you’re referring to Terry Wahls, years ago, she did mention starting trials for her diet for MS patients. Not sure where it went, but she mentioned positive early results.

I’ve tried a variation of her diet and can report feeling significantly better, but long term compliance is difficult because of everything that gets cut out.

Diet & exercise is most definitely a part of many medical treatments, eg reducing saturated fat intake for heart conditions, but because compliance is incredibly difficult for the masses, it’s never the main focus, it’s just highly recommended.

My doc friends lament that patients want a pill when they clearly also need lifestyle changes. (eg obesity)
My youngest daughter learned to ride a bike recently. It's another peak experience moment for me! The glint of pride and accomplishment in her eyes. The wide grin on her face. The joy in my heart. And... the sadness that this is the last time I will ever experience this feeling in my life, because she is my youngest, and I don't plan on having more kids.
An article on dad jokes that manages to include a reference to a “racist”.

This stuff makes me roll my eyes and I wonder why? 5 years ago I don’t think I would have batted an eye.
We have something similar, the 2 days are not mandatory though, it would just be appreciated if people could make it to the office (this is just our team, other teams handle it differently).
The two days were chosen as a team and we tried to accommodate everyones needs like childcare duties or and so on.
We use the office days for collaborative tasks such as architecture reviews, peer debugging, idea brainstorming, drinking beer. And the days at home for actual implementation work, i.e. producing code. It has only been a couple of weeks and so far I believe it works quite well, we also said we will review if this is how we want to continue working in a couple of months.
So it could be the same for you, but if you as an employee cannot shape it in any way and only have to follow rules, I would be a bit suspicious.
Adobe's data tracking/ad business is pretty significant:

https://business.adobe.com/solutions/data-insights-audiences...

Check your ublock on any given website, and there's a good chance one of the trackers being blocked is from Adobe.
I'm not sure what "society" catering to it means exactly. To the degree that individuals can do their jobs remotely and they can reliably find companies willing to pay them to do so--which seems to be widely though hardly universally the case for "knowledge worker" roles today--they have the choice to move somewhere cheaper. Of course many, especially younger, folks like living in a larger city and that's a tradeoff they need to make.

It's hard to predict how things will play out. My guess is that there will be more remote and 3/4 days a week in office than there was before. But probably not the sort of radical transformation some people were predicting/hoping for. (To be fair, most surveys I saw, all along, suggested that 3 days or so in office was going to be the most common mode.)
That's the propaganda all right. Swallow that and you'll swallow anything.
Podcasts have completely replaced NPR for me. I’d highly recommend it.
Absolutely, Netflix would be 1000 times better if they just let me sort, filter and find content based on concrete metadata. Instead, I'm forced to rely on their recommendation algorithms that purport to know what I want to watch, but for some reason keep recommending low quality content in languages I'm just not interested in. I'd be happy if I could just filter Netflix to only show me content with original audio in languages I speak. The few shows I'm interested in watching with subtitles or dubbed audio are things I can search for on a case by base basis. And don't get me started on Netflix's non-intuitive categories which seem more intent on forcing me to view ideologically motivated content than on helping me to find content in a category I'm interested in. I don't want to search for "Christian Films with Family Values" nor do I want to watch "Films With Black Female Leads". Nothing wrong with those types of films, but I'm searching by "Action", "Romance", "Comedy", "Sci-Fi" etc.
My initial position (model) is that markets exists and can operate within a meta-process called a state (a defined territory dominated by a single military force). State has a physical dimension/extension, while government as an organization of abstract ideals does not (apart from humans as agents). I take this to be an important point in thinking about energy:availability-security-costs (I stress against that this is a model of reality).

As you know, technological progress in the physical dimension of the problem, ie. industry in general, specifically energy industry (coupled with mining industry as they go hand in hand), is much more constrained, slower and a difficult problem compared to the "soft" (if you will) technologies such as internet, cell-phones, and such. At the same time industrialization and industrial processes are the wealth generators, and those ensure that a state will/can exists in a competing natural world.

So, all this to say that markets to be "regulated/directed" by politicians are the solution is in fact the very disease/problem. It is a physical impossibility by the nature of state (as defined in this model). Therefore, it cannot work, and will not work as we have seen so far (which to some degree validates this rather simple model). Any attempt at trying to make it work would be very inefficient (which is why communism/totalitarianism is so resource inefficient and polluting -- and finally leads to dissolution of the state itself).

Nor do I claim to have some enlightened answers to offer under this model. The truth of the matter is that people, we individually, are agents of action ultimately. We have to have a freedom from government intervention to pursue profit (here goes market economy advocacy), while the state itself will consume a lot of energy to enable this activity. Sure there is more to be addresses, but I hope I made my opinion clear that I do not see politics interfering with markets being the answer in the long term for the 3-energy-trifacta availability-security-costs].
Can someone explain what this arbiting is about? What the hell am I agreeing to if I don't mail this form?

Also if I do mail this form why do they want to know where I live? I do want to opt out of shitty terms if that be the case but I don't wish to tell them and any potential stalkers where I live
I blame Netflix for popularizing the stack of horizontal scrolling carousel of thumbnails. It is a terrible way to browse, and so many companies mindlessly copy it.
Interesting, robbed from who?
What does informed mean here? People who watch no news often score better in current events than those that do.

https://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-make...
So this is what Will wanted to do when he left Plaid. Having the financial means to "buy" a bank certainly helped. Nice!

Getting a new bank charter since the financial crisis of 2008-2009 has been virtually impossible. The number of banks in the US in the past decade or so has come down from ~6K to ~4K. New licenses for banks (State or Federal ) since 2008 have been negligible. So, let's buy a "small" bank. So far so good

Next part is core banking software as well as Money movement software. This is where is gets interesting.

Smaller banks use Fiserv/FIS/Jack Henry (and a long tail of other core banking providers) and larger ones have a mix of systems with legacy cores e.g. DXC, Misys and bunch of others. While it's tempting to build an entire banking stack from ground up it may not pass regulatory and compliance muster for a while. Plus even some the legacy cores have now built a rich RESTful API. Would be interesting to know how much of the core was built in house over the past 3 years

Next part is Money Movement. This is where ACH, Push to Card, Fedwire and RTP come in

ACH isn't that bad. Most banks use ACH "aggregators" which in turn connect to one of the two ACH Operators. Once a bank has a business relationship with the Fed it's not tough to connect to these aggregators and simply sftp files to/from them

Push to Card is available through VISA Direct and MC Send. Given their financial resources and fintech background it wouldn't be difficult to get a connection going there

RTP would be an interesting one but a relatively easy one since the Clearing House is already used to working with multiple banks and have "plug-ins"

So, now it all boils down to the business procedures and KYC/KYB on Fintechs that want to use Column's services. This can be done very efficiently online

The T&Cs are heavily skewed in favor of column. Some of them may be unenforceable. But those can be negotiated
I enjoy Alison Romans content on YouTube, was always disappointed that the Times’ canned her. Her recipes and techniques are great, and IDGAF attitude was refreshing. She seemed like she could at some point carry on with what Bourdain was doing, but with her own flair (and tbh she’s a real cook).
It seemed like she was transitioning to CNN+ so I may have subscribed for that reason alone.
But I guess it will be back to YouTube (for now)!
IME, part of what Uber filters for (via "cultural fit") is engineers who won't make a fuss about such things. There is too much money at stake! [to let an engineer have that much power]
That's not an x86 weirdness, it's just a choice by Microsoft. It's Windows-on-x86 weirdness.
Yeah, part of the reason I came up with this is that my family keeps asking me about gift ideas for my wife and kids.

I know what they like. I can answer that question.

What I have struggled to answer is what's out there that matches what they like.
Former head of HR at Google thinks so:

“The purpose of the ‘boil the frog method’ [is] to do it subtly and thereby avoid difficult questions and conflict”

https://fortune.com/2022/04/04/former-google-hr-chief-laszlo...
It's almost like selling a 3TB SSD with only 500GB capacity but it dramatically throttles down once you go past 400GB so that it is impossible to fill it up to 3TB in any reasonable time frame.

To hide the scam, they want to prevent your computer from running any software that would need the whole 3TB.
What I miss is humor. I work in a multinational and the cultural difference is striking. My European colleagues will make harmless jokes and laugh in most meetings. It makes a really pleasant environment. In comparison, my us colleagues don't laugh or joke at all, too risky as someone could be offended.

Simple expressive language is also taboo. One Italian coworker used a analogy of the product as a beautiful woman in a meeting to get a point across.

Basically all my us colleagues were shocked, because they only use dry corporate speak.

I think it is a big part of imposter syndrome and exhausting to speak and listen to.
> - EDM knife

Do you mean an EDC knife? Because EDM means electronic dance music to me …
My company is hybrid, but coming to the office is entirely optional. Enough people naturally started coming back once in a while.

The way they convinced us that it won’t change on a C-Level’s whim is by drastically reducing the office size so it’s not even possible for anyone to come back full time. But you can work at a co-working space if need be.

The company saved a lot of money by not having an office and I’ve never seen such a productive team in my entire career.
It's crazy how far & fast AI art has come.

I still love the deep dream style tho :) Feels the most like the AI is coming up with it's own art by itself for other AIs which I find just the right amount of unsettling

Can't wait to try out the colab links later today! Thanks so much for the great article :)
CM4 means Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4? That is a wonderful (albeit expensive for a Pi) idea!
Do you happen to work in HR? I'm a little skeptical a compensation department or personnel would specifically factor in things like cost-to-commute and lunches in their offers pre-2020, just because the collective job market at the time already forced the compensation floor a bit higher to account for those costs.