skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a huge difference between "they're putting chemicals in our water to make us more docile" and "technologies and products which revolutionized food production and made it affordable for an increasingly larger population have now been shown to be harmful, but corporate interest acting on local monetary optimization coupled with government corruption (also acting on local monetary optimization) are preventing policies to be made for the sake of global human health". The latter is boring but useful. The former sells more books.
I'm fully aware of such history. I'm asking if you think Amazon is doing this right now? Any sources?
You signed an employment-at-will agreement. You have no rights.
This has always been Amazon's strategy. Amazon is not a server company, an ecommerce company, a grocer, or any of the other seemingly random things they do.

The common thread running though all of their lines of business is to create businesses with complex problems, solve those problems incredibly well, then sell those solutions to other companies. Amazon uses themselves as their first-and-best customer [1]. AWS, Prime and all of their best solutions work in this way. The whole company is organized to support this strategy.

The fact that Amazon is expanding their warehouse capabilities beyond their needs and building deeper into the stack by getting into real estate development is a natural continuation of this strategy.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2016/the-amazon-tax/
There's a pretty long jump from banning billionaires to capping monthly salaries at 500 dollars.

Nobody makes billions by "earning more than you", they make it my owning companies, or funds, so this has nothing to do with salaries.

But the fact is that the existence of billionaires hurts everyone, especially in poor countries, but also definitely in the US. Now I'm not talking about the ethics of some people wallowing in wealth why others are starving, the biggest problem is that when you reach a certain level of wealth you can start influencing, or even controlling, public policy. This obviously has the effect that public funds are diverted away from the public into their pockets. In the third world this process is quite direct, in the rich world it's more about enacting policies that benefit these oligarchs, at the expense of everyone else.

This is a huge problem.
I think the Mail has picked up on Shellenberger's excellent reporting and twisted it for political and eyeball view reasons. He is most certainly not 'a reactionary twitter poster'. I just voted for him as CA governor as he has some excellent solutions, notably 'Cal Psych'. Shellenberger was obliterated by the Newsom money machine sadly. Read his book and twitter, he is a superstar.
The point isn't to order languages from easy to hard, it's to build up to Python with a bit more understanding about what's happening under the hood.
You can see this all the time right now. People always talk about dogs as though they are philosophical zombies that merely learned to imitate the emotional displays we see from them. I see people talking about animals frequently caveat their intuition by saying things like "I'm sure he's just learned that if he does that he'll get food" or the like.

But the notion that fellow mammals which evolved to live in social groups don't experience any of the same emotions we do despite using the same brain structures in the same contexts is absolutely insane to me. They clearly experience even fairly complex emotions like jealousy of their peers. I can give my child a snack that my dog likes and it's no big deal. But if I were to give the cat that same treat and not my dog, she will flip her shit. Another dog would be similarly. In fact, my dog will jealously guard a treat she doesn't even like from the cat or another dog. Like she won't even eat it in a neutral context. But in the jealousy eliciting context, she will take it and bring it somewhere and guard it.

Like it's insane to me that people think the entire range of our emotions and thoughts evolved solely in humans. There are other social mammals and have been for a long time.
It's simpler than a conspiracy, although a conspiracy may exist. Ukrainians are white, Christian, hold Western values and millions of people of Ukrainian descent live in the US and Canada. Opposing Russia is an easy sell.
I don't know where you're going with your comment. I didn't say anything about whatever you're implying. You might be responding to a different person?

ADHD kids can take medicine, but the rest of the world can also lighten up. That's my point. The rules and benchmarks are stupid and impose unnecessary stress on ADHD individuals. Over half of the time you can ignore it and be fine.
> therefore cryptographic code would have to give hints to the processor to enable such countermeasures. Such a facility does not seem to exist yet, and this is why this vulnerability is considered to be unfixable

That is what I am describing. I am proposing that we need to implement these facilities in firmware/microcode.
> being bled dry by VC style profit chicanery

Don't you mean PE, not VC?
>little human beings react to things which are known to be painful. Babies feeling pain is something that should be self-evident, shouldn't it

Perhaps this is just semantics, but I think "feeling pain" implies a higher level of cognition than simply reacting to things which are known to be painful. Like the classic toddler move of painting with their feces. They're obviously physically capable of smell but it just doesn't seem to register the same way.
Sure, Internet Explorer Had Its Faults. But Fans Are Mourning Its Death Anyway
Uh... "Make The Website Load Again?"
I am one of the engineers who worked on the Cloud Report; happy to answer any questions.
Please. If you actually read the paper you'll come to learn that "practical" here means "we've conclusively shown under strict laboratory conditions that this works".
i think the ordering matters a lot: warehouse added to residential space: NO. apartment added to an industrial space: okay. people will put up with a lot of noise (e.g. those who live under a flight path near the airport), just so long as they knew what they were signing up for.
Of course it runs at a loss. It’s a public service funded by taxes.

The military also “runs at a loss”—should we expect it to be profitable?
On the other hand, unemployment is consistently higher in Europe than in the US (and wages are lower), so pick your poison.
What do you mean, iOS-like? The new System Preferences has a very clear precedent in macOS: https://www.versionmuseum.com/images/operating-systems/class...
> Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is a synthetic form of the female hormone estrogen. It was prescribed to pregnant women between 1940 and 1971 to prevent miscarriage, premature labor, and related complications of pregnancy

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/h...
As a kid I had a hand me down 286 from my uncle with QBasic, and my only guide the terse help menu. I made so many cool things with that PC through trial and error. Unfortunately my curiosity was not limited to software and I disassembled it destroying it in the process. It's long gone.

I have a feeling my Minecraft infused 7 year old would be immediately bored of it anyway but I wish I still had it to give to him.
https://archive.ph/0qAx7
Ok, it is not a weird little cult, but literally everyone in the world who wants my rock because it is so beautiful. I don't see how that tangibly affects any part of the parable - which is forcing me to sell something I own because someone else with more money than I have wants it.
Well, assuming $100k total cost of employment to the company. My guess is that the per-employee total cost of employment to Coinbase is at least twice that.
Don't know what E46 was like previously, but I was a heavy lurker on a different car forum. Yes, activity was declining in the mid-2010s but once VerticalScope bought it out and changed everything, the site has essentially died completely.
It does seem relatively more difficult to fingerprint Safari on iOS which at least takes a sizeable % of web browsing out of the equation.
I loved this documentary so much! I click on every post about it. Awesome to know that:

> You can download the DVD images (with tons of extras) or watch just the episodes on Youtube following the links on the author’s website.

because it left me wanting more more more. Maybe some day Jason will post the original unedited interviews.

Also really cool to see

> The thing about BBSs is that they never actually died. Now I’m looking forward to watching the Back to the BBS documentary series about modern BBSs as well.
The domain for the Dillo web browser has expired and is currently parked
There were a lot many years from the time of Amazon's inception till they became a monopoly. It seems like your "what could be" experiment has already been done. There was plenty of opportunity, but nobody managed to build a better competitor to them.

It is a separate argument, but 'more competition' isn't a magical fix to everything. This sort of gating mechanism relies on the end user/consumer having good knowledge, sound judgement, etc. Also what is best for the consumer isn't best for the society. A wild example - For me, as the consumer I'm happy to get an iPhone for $200, but that might mean that Apple pays their employees below US minimum wage.
The exploit comes from a hacked server, a bad ad, social engineering, etc.

As for the attack, imagine a browser that encrypts local storage with a system key. If I understand correctly, by storing different patterns of bits, Hertzbleed might be able to extract the system key from the timings to save data.

This might sound very theoretical, but modern OS'es (and password managers) have lots of keys like that. There's a good chance one or more of them are reachable from Javascript. And that's just what popped in my mind in two minutes, I'm sure red teams will have better ideas.

The scary part is that this is another attack in the same ugly class as Meltdown and Spectre, where the antidote is nearly as damaging as the poison.
They have a GitHub https://github.com/team-watchdog

They also have a list of ways to donate to other organizations: https://longform.watchdog.team/data-projects/how-to-donate-t...
No it's not always tied to quality, it's just tied to what they want. If consumers don't prioritize quality, that's their rightful choice in the market, it's no one else's place to tell them what they should prioritize.

Greater reach and resources is part & parcel of being the top consumer choice. If they blanket the airwaves, if there is some asymmetry, still who cares? You're going to have to show how consumers do not have a choice or how it doesn't help consumers.

Because regardless of how intense Amazon's marketing and reach get, their competitors are still one click away. Finding out about competitors is one search query away, one media article away, or one advertisement away. Frankly, if a consumer is unable to expend the minimal effort to find & choose an Amazon competitor to buy a product, they're basically not trying at all. And not trying is their choice.
> One reason, is that the lack of necessities in times of crisis is often due to hoarding.

Is “hoarding” just a synonym for “owning”?

> Second, they may have goods that can mean the difference between life and death. And they choose to use that situation for turning a huge profit. There isn't really anything commendable in that.

Sounds like, “Do what zosima says with your stuff, otherwise you’re BAD!”
Ask HN: Which Linux distro „just works“?
If you only have 4 servers, make a GitHub Action (or, hell, since we're assuming one node with SQLite, a cron job on one of your 4 servers) that curls your servers every 5 minutes and sends you a text when they're down. You don't need a Lamborghini to get groceries.
Said no sysadmin ever.
That particular ratio, if true, is not the issue. Someone being one order of magnitude richer than someone else does not necessarily damage society, the problem is how much the richest 0.1% control.
Researchers, or lawyers?
Yeah, and miscarriage itself is just the lay terminology for a spontaneous abortion.
Some days I think humans are pretty gosh darned sophisticated. Then I remember that it’s still controversial as to whether we should slice off healthy parts from children who cannot possibly consent.
That must be incredibly tragic for him.
I'd tighten that up a bit and include "vimtutor" as a tutorial.
I've been looking into the SGDK for the Genesis / MegaDrive and from what I've seen performance seems to be pretty competitive.

There's been a resurgence of homebrew commercial releases for the console, and I believe the vast majority of them use SGDK. They seem to perform quite well.

https://github.com/Stephane-D/sgdk

I'm not sure if this is a matter of GCC itself being smart enough in general to generate performant 68000 code. There may be a lot of custom work within SGDK itself to ensure that the generated code is performance competitive.
That's still a very employer-centric view. If the company reasonably expects a downturn at some point, it should be preparing with right-sized sustainable hiring. It's not "metering investment" but rather "building a sustainable business". Rushing to hire as many people as possible, then firing during a downturn, creates the impression that employees are cannon fodder.
I don't know what bookmark you are talking about but I would expect that it just pre-fills the URL and title but would still expect it to require user interaction on HN afterwards.
There’s Medicaid for these situations
How are you differentiating? https://www.sideprojectors.com :)
I don't think engineering salaries are "the real problem" but, they certainly are "a" problem for many companies whose business models don't print cash the same way FAANG companies do but try to compete on comp, and that's what the tweet was getting at.
The problem with rich people is not that they live too comfortably, but that a person like Bezos can buy an important media property and control the political narrative that millions of people are exposed to.
> To claim that an impoverished serf working land "had 4 days off a week"

Well.. noone said that. If you mind reading the comment again.

But its true that peasents had a lot more time to work on their own stuff than on what master told them to do.

Either way most peasents worked for higher tier peasent because landlord often has hubdreds of hectars of land.
Amazon is buying land piecemeal, lot by lot—probably roughly at market value, then. I don't think it's really comparable to someone buying Sears because they think Sears's land holdings are undervalued.

At worst, they're exposing themselves to the whims of the commercial real estate market as a whole. Not like Sears, where the value of their holdings depended on a pretty niche market—the value of malls.
STxP70/Sthorm/P2012 – ST's Microcontroller
The new preference panes themselves are very iOS-like, and that's unprecedented.
It is going to work. I can feel it in my gut. I just need to keep myself and a few of generations of my offspring working on it for 150 years or so. Easy peasy.
I used to have an Epever MPPT. Really nice unit. However, as I recall, the manual emphasized that you should only use solar panels for the input. This is because when the battery is full the MPPT will stop charging by shorting the input. This is fine when the input is solar. But if you are doing LiFePO4 -> MPPT -> lead, it's going to short out your LiFePO4 battery when the lead battery is full, which would be very very bad.
If you were a lawyer and said "I am not willing to track my time" you limit your options significantly more than a programmer
Which is why it's a perfect reason to post it on a place like SideProjectors - https://www.sideprojectors.com - for someone else to take it and productize it!
Duck typing allows for freedom of expression/thinking.

You can declare a new property on an object simply by assigning, and consistency is not required either.

It also potentially leaves a mess over time.
tried it and the UX is butter smooth, love it!
also I am a big fan of the tech stack choices.
Uses coordinate-based neural networks to model the scene volumetrically. However, in the case of this paper does not use an MLP to represent the scene. Instead, proposes to directly learn a voxel grid representation.

For an excellent review check out Advances in Neural Rendering:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05849
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Bingo! Their tagline should be, if you're here, you already know you're screwed.
> Imagine lucky events as random arrows flying around. They are like Eros’ arrows; you want to get hit.

> The best way to get hit by a random arrow is to increase the surface area of the target — in this case, your luck surface area.

The best practical advice I'd seen in this area is to 'be out there'. Because on a typical day the odds of a good thing happening to you from it outweighs the odds of bad things. Staying at home, or in some other comfort zone doesn't increase this surface area. You can call this schmoozing or whatever, but I think it goes further into arbitrary encounters and not being particularly directed but merely recognizing opportunities whenever/wherever they should happen to come up.
It is very cool that this is archived. I was the application skin admin over at deviantArt and Deskmod way back in the day (wild times, pre-Web 2.0 so everybody was just making it up as they go) but sadly none of these names ring a bell. I think Deskmod just piddled out and dA got bought and the original crew all left. I lived in the middle of nowhere so being exposed to that level of programming as well as passion for art was extremely inspiring. I even made a punk music spinoff called I Hate Music that introduced me to lifelong friends all over the world.
AFAIK, it will present you a choice, _if_ you've already created a separate APFS volume such that there's more than one option of installation target. I saw someone do exactly that (create an APFS volume for Ventura, start the installer, and then choose said volume as the target) in the first YouTube video I saw about the beta's release.
Presumably physical collectible assets (maybe also virtual ones too for the NFT crowd) will be assessed differently from more liquid assets for the basis of evaluating a wealth tax, especially in the event of surging valuations from the collectibles market. If real life taxes, like say property tax in California, can be reined in by measures like Proposition 13, then there's no reason why a real-life wealth tax won't be subject to all sorts of internal controls and effects from lobbying. Thus protecting the "run of the mill average Joe" from having to suddenly sell his mythical rock.
Slack is mostly used as a placeholder in the name. It's trivial to change the code to send the webhook anywhere: https://github.com/teamniteo/sms2slack/blob/master/src/esp32...
> higher-than-I-would-expect number of those kids have developmental problems

My experience is that when you start talking to parents, you'll find that there are very few kids who don't have some kind of "problem".

My friend group has a bunch of parents who had kids in their 20ies, and I don't know of a single kid that doesn't have some kind of "issue".

Also, from talking to a friend who is a therapist for children, she says that with a lot of children in therapy she thinks that it would be better if the parents went to therapy rather than the kids.
Muscle loss isn't the big problem in long term microgravity, bone loss is.
So taking the avoidance vs deference analogy. If I borrow money for car, house, boat, plane tickets, but never have to pay it back where does that leave my obligations?
We should find sympathy for the doctors here. Administering general anesthesia to a newborn was a terrifying and deadly prospect at the time, so it was much easier to find a way to pretend it was unnecessary - certainly many of these surgeries had to happen one way or another for the baby to survive.
> I think this is the difference in general this article glosses over. It's not about doing a little good vs doing a lot of good, it's about not wanting to do more than a certain amount of good, even if you could.

What is the word “wanting” naming? Can you tell me how to observe this phenomena with one of my senses?

If not, then in what way is that sentence meaningful?
So you, as a Finnish, are fine with Sweden controlling, occupying and plundering Finland for centuries, but complain about Russia doing the same, only for a shorter time. What's the difference?
No more than it would make others envy you, no less than it would make them pity you.
> German law, BGB §1631d (last updated 2012) allows circumcision by qualified non-medical religious practitioners. Non-medical implies that they do not have access to proper painkillers. edit: within first 6 month of birth.

Now imagine getting circumcized at 6 or 8, with scissors, without anesthesia by someone that isn't a doctor... this is the fate of many young boys in Africa.

It's as bad as FGM.
That is very bad advice.
If I did shut evrything down once I hit some hard opposition, I'd never finish anything.
The better advice is, try, fail, try again util you succeed.
Success is overcoming obstacles.
Fermentation and the texture of laurel leaves sadly prevents that, but it does create the exciting opportunity to simply buy/make different sauces for different flavors and moods!
This is really a trap I'd like to point out. We often, or usually, look at natural systems without seeing the full picture. This hubris of thinking we understand it when we don't understand many aspects of it is dangerous.

Teeth are not crude, that's just a reductionist understanding of them, or lacking understanding of the many integrated systems they are dynamically part of.

i.e. they have to do the right thing, at the right time, with many other aspects of the body. They grow, resize, even regrow, adapt to spaces and situations, handle living in organic environment with a garden of living bacteria etc, dynamically store and make available minerals and maybe other building blocks for the rest of the body, have a lifecycle, have many organic components, and likely more features I am not aware of!
There’s not a fucking chance that’s legal
New Quebec language bill could cause ‘permanent damage’ to tech sector
Buying time is the same as saving thousands of lives. I would hardly say that means it doesn't work.

Then there's the nuclear arsenal of NATO. Would Hitler attack Poland if it had nukes capable of putting an end to the Fuhrer himself, his Volk, and his Reich? From what I learned he wasn't suicidal until much later. Is Putin right now? Possibly, but I think he'd get assassinated long before his order to perform "special military operation" against a NATO country could reach his troops.
Please stop with this. Ukraine is an independent nation that can do what it wants. They may have wanted to provoke this war as Russia threatened it. That is their prerogative. It's possible they simply wanted to become part of Europe, and leave Putin, Luchenko, and the rest of the Eastern Kleptocratic Dictatorships behind. Can anyone blame them?

Sometimes it's because exactly what is obviously the reason.
>We have an advanced technological society of vast scale and complexity. Without very substantial continual investment and reinvestment in infrastructure, standards, management, governance, defense, R&D, and science, it literally would not continue to work.

Well, some people also think it doesn't work, and it shouldn't continue to operate badly, with all the externalities cost and inefficiencies... And that we don't need "exponentially more" but to do with less, and distribute it better.