skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But, the collective labor pushback has stopped since the great offshoring took over in the last 30 years thanks to globalization, and various labor unions lost their power

Not just that. A large portion of the loss of influence of unions was the riseup of the pacifist dogma. Just look how all the benefits were won: by (sometimes extremely) brutal violence, by the blood of the workers who died by the hands and guns of corporate goons [1].

A very good example is the social structure and workers rights of the two neighboring countries France and Germany. French workers are routinely willing and able to commit to violence both in the office (in the form of "bossnapping") and on the streets and the public supports that, and when German protests escalate into a couple of banks getting redecorated with paint, concerned citizens turn up to clean the fucking bank [2]!

As a result of that difference in attitude, German workers have it way worse than French workers - politicians in France know that the cost of going against the people is high. A society that doesn't fight for its rights eventually gets taken over by those that do. Democracy is not god-given, it is earned by blood and needs continuous maintenance, otherwise it erodes.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/the-10-biggest-strikes-in-u-s-h...

[2] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/g20-in-hamburg-bu...
1. Don't log in. Ever.

2. Search. YT search is ... reasonable. Not great, but it typically turns up what you want.

3. Incognito mode *ONLY*.

4. Invidious, if at all possible.

5. Watch, or more often, listen, through a third-party client. I generally "experience" YouTube via mpv. I'll cue up a list of URLs I'm interested in. This is the most effective and convenient way of curating a playlist I'm aware of. VLC can also play YT video directly. (Both support many, many, many other sites and formats, typically through yt-dlp or youtube-dl).

6. When using the YT client itself, disable comments and suggestions through a CSS manager, or uBlock Origin's "block element" feature.

Benefits:

- No ads

- No idiotic recommendations

- No tracking and pigeonholing

- No comments (excepting Invidious, though that offers the option of YT or Reddit comments should you prefer)
Emacs does that with a plugin for Ocaml, for example. You have the ones for C, C++, Rust and so on.
Youtube has been filling search results with random unrelated videos for years, and it seems to getting progressively worse. Now there are multiple different subsections of unrelated videos intermixed with actual search results and some of the results are hidden behind a tiny "show more" link.

Thanks, "growth hackers", for maximizing "engagement".
Do you ever get any outages or was that just a fun project to set up?

I'm always thinking I should buy an UPS but realistically I'd need it once every 5 years at best, and even then I'm usually lucky.
He'd probably say The Apprentice theme tune "For the Love of Money."
Lots of new ideas about plants encouraging bacteria around their roots, I guess this started before gut fauna in animals.

So many things to think about.
There's a shortage of people willing to work in terrible conditions.

I'd usually add "for a pittance," but I see FAANG (is it now "MAANG"?) companies offering pretty insane salaries, but they are notorious for difficult working conditions.
I've used it in the past for document storage updates when documents can be rather large. It is always a toss up, design wise, to patch a single object or to save a log of actions (applied either on the server or the client). The former uses less space and has faster "time to final object state" on the client whereas the latter allows for time travelling and can make debugging much easier.
No, but rather than being united to face an external threat it’s disunited to deal with imagined or self-constructed internal threats. It’s moved from a manufacturing to a post-manufacturing society, concentrating on finance, information and consumption. Basically recapitulating the uk in the Victorian and Edwardian periods (complete with morality concerns). Backwards-looking, growing more conservative countries are not the most appealing to the young or the economically mobile.

See Paul Kennedy “decline and fall of the great powers”.
Imgur is one of the last social media platforms which provides up- and downvotes. They've new owners and first the total counters for both disappeared on comments. Then on posts itself. Now there is only one counter with a calculated difference between up- and downvotes. You need to open a menu on every single post and comment to see the totals and figuring out if a post/comment is controversial.

Before: +1000 / -600 (What the heck?)
After: +400 (Looks good, isn't it?)

Votes are not an elaborate critique but they can provide the posters and viewers a hint. Regarding elaborate critique, it usually hurts and is hard to accept. But I can learn from it! And again, votes are a hint. Regarding Stackoverflow, they did a good thing in limiting upvotes a little (prevents overuse without justification) and downvotes (hurts you're own reputation). This makes me think twice ;)
I'm not trying to be mean, but if you think emojis would be appropriate here, I don't think you understand the site you're on.
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If you want sensors, flexible solar cells and/or LEDs all over your bag, you would have to add many grains of sand-sized things, and still need a flexible substrate to connect them.

(And no, we aren’t there by a wide margin, but I think something like that is part of the vision)
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If you found charminar area different, please try sultan bazar area :-). It is quite an experience...
25 years ago: carefully hand-write half-page essays on pre-printed application forms, attach $50 checks for application fees, beg your mother to drive your procrastinating self to the downtown post office by 5pm on December 31.

Start receiving long-awaited envelopes around Spring Break, and speculate on whether said envelopes were thin because they contained simple rejection letters, or because the desired financial aid details would follow the next week.
> so the spec has implementation specific behavior […]

No, that’s specified in the JSON Pointer spec, which this spec depends on: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6901

> […] that's not fully specified by just the spec?

Specs depend on previous specs nearly all the time. Thank goodness for hyperlinks.
Alternate hypothesis. Why do they need to campaign like that, they control the presidency.
> Touching the circuit breaker handles on the service panel is a "competent adults, paying close attention, only at need" activity.

This is not accurate.

Circuit breakers are just lightswitches with the ability to switch themselves OFF.

The larger breakers (you mention "handles" instead of "switches") are the same, although rated for higher current than typical household lightswitches.

The breaker panel is just a grounded metal box. It is not dangerous to touch, except in fault cases where the whole building has dangerous power.

And just like you should not unscrew a lightswitch cover unless you know what you're doing, you should not unscrew a breaker panel cover.

Same rules -- but if you break them, the difference becomes important: Inside the breaker panel, it's possible to come into contact with higher current sources than inside a lightswitch box.
This was not a decision made for usability or technical reasons. Sponsors...and YouTube suites were made that their videos could be brigaded with downvotes because it showed that people were critical of them.
YouTube is primarily funded by sponsors since only a small percentage of people have YouTube red and that cost doesn't always cover even their use of the service so much like the adpocolypse if it causes sponsor loss it doesn't get to stay on the platform.
How can you tell if a rich/powerful person is lying?

Rule of thumb: Their mouth is moving.
I still love you for making this happen.
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It's not that bad yet.
No, but consumers enabled them by buying their products. And consumers do have a say, either by voting to increase regulation, or by not buying products.

Public companies are legally required to maximize profit. This will only be changed politically, or by changing what provides the company profit. Both lead back to the consumer.
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I don't think it's "thanks to technology". It's thanks to a business mindset that makes everything about money, and a consumer mindset that is trained to get everything for free. The internet before it was commercialised ran on the same technology but had a complete different attitude, and didn't have these problems.
That's the analytics API. We already know they show dislikes to the channel owner. Isn't this the same thing?

And your other comment says "The dislike count is also still present in the [0] video API response." but the page says right there "Note: The statistics.dislikeCount property was made private as of December 13, 2021."
Actually thinkpads from that era can host 4 disks: there used to be special deives that would fit into the expresscard slot.
Correct. The multiplayer aspect of EVE is unmatched, even to this day. X4 (really the series) is a good alternative if you want a SP experience. The AI wasn't that good though.
Way to deny people's lived experience.

I can corroborate the GP's experience of having to book several months in advance for non-emergency care—the fastest medical booking I've had in the past several years is surgery for my cat, which was about three weeks.
Also gives them an easy reason to get rid of anyone.
If I would have to choose only 1 fish to eat purely for health benefits, it would be sardines. They don't live long enough and are low enough in food chain to not accumulate much metals and other crap.
It's still quite a bit faster than zstd -1, at least according to their GitHub page. The trade-off is it's a worse compression ratio (2.8 vs. 2.1), but in some cases that's a good trade-off.
One of the characteristics of mass-market advertising / propaganda, is that it's Big Lie / Big Message dependent. That means that at any one time a relatively small list of channels is responsible for the majority of chum. Thank power laws / Zipf functions.

Of course, there's enough channel-churn that these do turn over relatively quickly, but that tends to be on the scale of weeks to months, not hours to days.

Once you've knocked off the major chum sites, legitimate channels start rising through the noise floor. The small-scale chum sites tend not to turn up in high rotation.

Channel-block should be an inherent function. Web search also desperately needs this at the domain level.

(I just ran into this looking up a hiking trail. First-listed site, which dominated my search results, splashes up a registration wall on following any links. Peakbagger, buried in the search results, does far better. I also had to block Pinterest, of course....)
It starts off as symbiotic (you give capital for future profit), but becomes parasitic (you just keep leeching profit without giving anything more in return).

At least, that is what I plan to do. Stop working and live as a full-time parasite as soon as I can afford it. Maybe others here are more altruistic.
zstd has similar compression speeds, but lz4 crushed everything else for decompression.
Why should founders care about the mental or physical health of their workers when they've got a billion dollar exit to look forward to?

Full steam ahead, proles!
Obviously, the guy is just ripping StackOverflow.

His "latest" video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqJq0OF8eA

Is a poorly generated copy/paste of:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1644...

Probably a tiny Python script. Google is prompt to ban other accounts, hope some Googlers around here can can do something...
Vim with Emmet and the right tweaks is very good if your job is churning out HTML. I've had a few projects that would have been endless slogs with nearly any other setup get completed at lightspeed.

This setup's strength is its own downfall though. If you don't have the arcane keystrokes and useful patterns burned into your muscle memory you would be better off with almost anything else.

Hopefully if this project gets off the ground they will remember that many of us write HTML as a small component of our jobs rather than it's sole focus.
I never thought I'd agree with such a thing but....

Yes, random smiting!
A blinkenlight LED is about 0.7V at 20mA, totaling about 0.14mW per LED, or 7142 LEDs per watt.
I just finished a big project and those indeed were big spoilers. But also:

7. Difficulty in getting clearer specs when it's discovered the original specs are not detailed enough.

8. Decision makers at top (or middle?) having too much grass root visibility and micromanaging the project.
I know little enough about the topic that I took your statement at face value. I appreciate the commenter pointing out that you only spoke about the react world. Your sarcasm did not come across as such.
I believe that powertoys enables this.
I went through some of the PPP records and found some seemingly fraudulent things, like a youth baseball club receiving an absurd amount of money.

Was it poor record keeping or was it fraud? Companies sprang up just in time to receive loans, including a bunch in California named things like "88 Cloud Computing". All of the names in this case had 88 in them, which is often code for neo-nazi crap (88->HH->Heil Hitler).

It helped those who needed it, sure, but the deliberate sabotage of record keeping and oversight seems intentional.
It is doable, but certainly not something i would recommend. I quit doing it a decade or so ago.

There are a bunch of hoops you need to run through to keep your server whitelisted, though having a static IP in a non-residential IP block helps a lot. Sadly, most people attempting to self host email will (static IP or not) have a residential IP, meaning you're almost certain to get blacklisted fairly quick. I'd much rather leave that to someone who knows what they're doing.

I'm aware that people self host email for (supposed) privacy, but they somehow always seem to forget that most email threads have at least two parties, and despite all kinds of privacy measures, you cannot guarantee that your recipient is not using Google/Microsoft/Whatever, or they forward it to a person that is using one of those. In that light, your (clear text) emails are not really confidential.

Instead, if you must use email for confidential information, use encryption, or better yet, use one of the multitudes of newer "more better" platforms for sending your information. Most new platforms have encryption baked in, though in most cases you're trusting the service provider to handle your keys correctly.
uBlock breaks that menu though, so it's a hassle to turn it off, block it and then turn it back on. Especially since you have to refresh and youtube randomizes the recommendations again and sometimes hides all traces of that channel.
This is wild. I had no idea the game was like this. Now I’m feeling inspired to finish that browser strategy game I started a few years ago.
I hate to admit it but the older videos proper work on me.

YouTube suggested Casey Neistat's first vlog for whatever reason[0]. A week or so later I've consumed the entire channel. Very decent recommend on YouTube's part if they're optimising for session duration that one.

[0]: I was in a bit of a "I might be a YouTuber as it turns out" moment at one point and I think I caught his How to vlog like Casey Neistat video or maybe Do What You Can't
Not without logging in.

"But how would that work if you're not" you ask?

Simple: YT is already tracking cookies or session. The block should apply to the session itself.

That said, I'm so done with Google.
I'm now a heavy user of the "Don't recommend this channel" and "Not interested" features and they've helped keep my YouTube feed in check. Still not completely free of garbage but much better than before.
By that reasoning the chemical explosive inside a car's airbag is also a consumer product. Same for toxic carcinogenic rhodium found in catalytic converters. I could go on.

Just because something in a consumer product does not mean that thing, by itself, is a consumer product. Or at least us using the term "consumer product" is stretched near the breaking point if you look at things that way.
Not at all. Opposition to immigration is rooted in practical matters, not “hate.” For example, loss of political control—both liberals and conservatives like immigrants who vote the way they do, and dislike immigrants who vote the opposite way: https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/e-pluribus-unum-findings..., specifically: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/pub...

I’m a very obviously brown guy and happen to be an immigrant. Up until 2016 or so, most of my encounters with racism had been from homeless people. But in the last few years that’s quickly been overshadowed by white liberals getting angry that I don’t want to be part of their “rainbow coalition.” (And that has been over further overshadowed by well meaning white liberals acting really weird.) Despite living in a Trump precinct I have yet to encounter any racism from a Trump voter.
There's no "blame" for day traders...its just showing retail traders who started trading around 2020 on average have lost their gains by now.
Yep. That's why I always hope for layers of standards. Lower level standards to enable higher level standards eventually all the way up to your gramps.
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My hypothesis is that investing 500 million in the yield reserve is cheap if it gives you control of $19 billion during the next bull market on which you reap 100% of the returns. It's a bet for sure but not totally insane.
Some jackass dean or administration flunky complained about (sleep deprived) students asleep on the couches in Georgia Tech's Klaus CS building. I guess it didn't look good for donors or something.

So they put up a bunch of signs above each couch and bench that said "No sleeping."

I've still got a collection of pictures of people sleeping directly under the signs. Fight the power. :-)
> Recommendation algorithms are not tuned to serve niche users

I'm not sure that's correct either. I have some niche interests and I'm pretty happy with the recommendations. Things I actually watch definitely influence my future recommendations (actually got interested in some cool new topics because of that).
I've moved from a slow azure HDD server to a much faster linode SSD server. The sqlite-backed cache lookup should be much faster now :)
Re G20: The people making the mess were young activists, the article even mentions their group affiliation by name. They are not the working class, they are a nuisance to the working class. I'd be in favor of classifying them as terrorists.
> the outward symbol and seal of a lifelong commitment and promise

Good god no. That may be fine for you as a personal religious view, but as a pluralistic society I hope we never go there again.
If I was op I would be sleeping very well at night.
And if your grandmother had wheels she would be a bicycle.

It can't be factually wrong, it was explicitly made up (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story), I was just illustrating how market forces can lead to seemingly irrational decisions.
You are more likely to buy a vacuum cleaner just after you bought one than any other random point in time. Reason is that a percentage return their first buy for whatever reason. If you are going to target someone with ads for whatever product, the ROI is actually just after you bought something …
The latter third of the article is devoted to push-back. Nonetheless,
as all writers understand, bias can be subtle [1]

Let's start with the title.

"Welcome to the era of the hyper-surveilled office"

Does that not lend at least tacit assent by ambivalence, if not
outright assent? Welcome?

The next 750 words are given over to normalising the "lot's of valid
reasons" to surveil workers, and lending value to an emerging
surveillance industry.

Thereafter 450 words describe the counterpoints, but frame this mainly
as "dislike" and "feelings". Towards the end, the language does shift
to a more humanistic tone, describing "snooping" and the "dangers" of
over-zealous monitoring.

Overall though, I found the article lacks mature analysis, presents an
"as is" hot take, and spins in favour of employer intrusion on the
basis of 19th century industrial justifications.

Given the enormous impact of declining labour relations in an
economically precarious era, and the currency of digital rights and
surveillance in general, I am surprised The Economist did not attempt
a more in-depth treatment of "boss-ware". It would be improved by
actual productivity studies, the psychological literature on workplace
surveillance, some modern ethical understanding of why this is
unacceptable, and what the likely negative impact is going to be on,
frankly dumb, companies that see this as legitimate.

Because ultimately, this stuff is bad for business, for everybody's
business except a few spyware companies.

[1] Unlike my own polemical theatrics which I enjoy wearing up-front
where you can be fully entertained.
The interviews are ok but I don't like it when the filmmaker shows up gesticulating wildly. I guess that's how people are doing it these days but I'd rather have my off-camera commentary.
I feel like every recommendation engine has tanked in 2022 along with a matching upswing in ads.

Audible is aggressively recommending an audiobook I already bought and listened to, it's even in their "your year so far" list because I listened to it in January. Their 2-for-1, annual, special offer emails are coming 2-3 a week now.

My Facebook timeline is full of crappy "Suggested for you" entries. I doom scrolled last night and counted; I was "suggested" the Dilbert group 10 times. And ads ... so many ads. Ads and suggestions take up 66% of my feed; I get an ad, a suggestion and something from friends or family in equal proportions.

I watched ONE reality TV show on Netflix, The Final Table, and now the Banner show is "Crazy Delicious" and the Top Picks list is entirely reality TV shows on baking, cooking, chocolate sculpting. Where did the sci-fi go? Oh right, my continue watching bar ...

Twitter was CONSTANTLY suggesting/promoting NFT/coin/web3 scams, I've blocked every single one of them. Luckily that dried up very recently ... for some reason. Now my feed is full of promoted ISP ads ... for some reason. As with Facebook, my feed is swamped with ads now.