skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet explorer used to ask the user before saving cookies.

And the server had to declare what cookies would be used for in machine readable form (P3P) which the browser used to decide if it want to allow the cookie (google blatantly lied)

And more recently DNT.

A graveyard of failed attempts at improving privacy
Depends on your age and dependents, but in the US the cost of health insurance can easily be in the same price range as housing. Employees are often not aware of the actual cost since most or all of the premiums are often paid by the employer.
I wrote this silly little bit on a previous fork() thread and touched it up a little. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504470
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/06/people-l...
Are you suggesting that European countries regularly offer severances to all employees that exceed what is legally required? Can you provide a source?
> really is a tradegy donbass and crimea situation had to be resolved this way

“It’s unfortunate those pesky Ukrainians had the audacity to exist, which forced us to invade their sovereign country, shell their cities to rubble, and mass murder their civilians. Just like we were forced to mass murder Chechens, Georgians, and Syrians. And might have to mass murder Poles, Finns, Lithuanians, Romanians, or Kazakhs in the future.”
The flaw with your analogy is that poker continues to be hugely popular worldwide. Check WSOP.com any time this month
As a semi-regular user of speed, I can almost guarantee you that a gram of street amphetamine is nowhere near 100% concentrated. You would be lucky to find it at 20% (cut with half caffeine half random white powder). I've done acetone washes of amphetamine paste, and it's almost unbelievable how little amph there is in it.

A few times I was able to get my hands on really pure dextroamphetamine (>90% validated by a lab test), and even with a tolerance, there is no way you're consuming more than 100mg over the course of a day. 10-15mg was my sweetspot to get enough focus without getting locked into tasks and feeling wired. Although speed like that is pretty hard to find and quite pricey (~60-70€/g).

I've also realized that most of the unpleasant physical side effects of speed (palpitations, jittering, elevated cardiac rythm, anxiety, etc) are actually due to the massive amount of caffeine in it and not the amphetamine themselves (tho I'm sure there is a synergy between them). Even while feeling pretty high on pure amphetamine, my bpm only rose by about 4-5 bpms (compared to 15+ on street speed). For anyone in the same case, L-theanine works wonders to calm down the caffeine side effects, highly recommend you keep some around just in case.
How much should people be allowed to spend on a share of a company? How do you limit it?
The local/in-market rights are sold independent of out of market rights. The local rights are held by channels typically part of Cable TV, that is why there is blackouts the streaming app usually won't have rights to show you the game in that region, the cable channels do, those channels(RSNs) pay more because they focus more on 1-2 regions and also this is primary reason those packages sell so they cannot afford not to loose the deal, the streaming apps have a lot of regions to cover nationally and other usage drivers so will not be able to pay same price.

The kind of blackouts you describe is still common in U.K. to encourage you to go and support the local team rather than the big regional team because that is on TV. Think Wigan Athletic or Bolton Wanderers instead of Manchester United

English football has 11-21 tiers and strong grassroots. Those blackouts are not designed for big teams to sell tickets they will anyway sell out, but to help the smaller teams which are rarely featured on TV, not in the top premier league but play instead in Championship, league 1,2, or non conference leagues etc.
I think it's an easy pick, to be honest.
> If anything it has the effect of feeling that nothing is “too hard” for me and that I am not “too dumb to learn or do X”.

This is a good way to put it. Prior to starting medication (vyvanse specifically, although I tried concerta) initiating a task or trying to learn something was, most of the time, "too hard" so I spun my wheels doing random stuff and occasionally doing just enough work to keep myself employed. Now, nothing is "too hard" because it's possible for me to get over the activation barrier and start doing the thing.
You could have made a mean response to 'snap back' but you really turned it into an opportunity that made me want to check out your site. Thanks for that, I hope it works out for you.
On the other hand, that advice would have killed off Tesla and SpaceX at least 15 years ago.
I don't think FAANG style interviews are a good way to do it, but it is more important to be picky about hiring at a small company. If you're in a company where everybody knows everybody, then any new hire will affect the entire team. A good hire will pull the whole team up. A bad hire will negatively affect everyone.
That and, "The new facilities can be 100 feet tall or more, are packed with state-of-the-art automation and require lots of electricity... The new facilities can cost twice as much to build as typical warehouses, which currently run about $200 per square foot. So Amazon is courting a new class of investor to help finance the expansion"

Their development model has shifted and the warehouses are becoming more advanced and specialized.
The keyboard has such a satisfying "clunk" sound. It puts my Cherry Blues to shame.
> which offers 1/3 of your monthly salary for each year of employment. To receive 14 weeks of salary, you'd need to work at a company for 3.5 years,

1/3rd of a month is 1.44 weeks. To get 14 weeks, that would be 10 years.

You're right in that Europe generally provides less severance, but they do tend to sign fixed term, renewing employment contracts with rather lengthy notice periods for either side to terminate it. E.g. in Switzerland, statutory minimum after 1 year of employment is end-of-calendar-month + 2 months of notice, but typical agreements extend this.

Also, there's the whole concept where regulators are involved with layoffs and negotiate for payments and assistance in many jurisdictions.
They've outsourced the vast majority of their air pollution to India and China, but still somehow produce 8% of global pollution.

One way to fix this is to change international trade agreements to place producers under the environmental (and human rights) jurisdictions of the places where their goods are ultimately sold. It would force a race to the top instead of the current race to the bottom.
The person I was replying to was taking the norm in another country and suggesting it is as-good-as-if-not-better than what Coinbase offered.
Perhaps a higher risk of unemployment due to impulsive decisions - be it getting fired or quitting? I wonder if bipolar patients also get penalised for their condition.
That alone could be the entire tweet!
The answer has been Ruby for at least 20 years now.
AFAIK neither of those things would stop the scheme I just described.
I’m reminded of a Steve Jobs quote I found buried deep in some notes I was cleaning out.

> Steve Jobs : "When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.""
my healthcare was actually better when i was unemployed than it is with my current company
likewise, https://forums.spacebattles.com/ which is a vaguely sister site to SV
It's thought that the structures required for consciousness haven't developed until around 20 weeks. I'm not sure how based in evidence that position is.
I was looking at it from a different angle.

I think making laws to stop a mob from forming would be very hard, complex, and have lots of hairy side effects. My idea instead is to look at it from an employer's side: one should not be able to fire somebody on the spot for fuzzy PR reasons. So the mob can still form, but the ultimate consequence, a termination, in most cases would be impossible.

As to stopping mobs from forming or doing their damage, I strongly believe social networks can do quite a lot too.
Huh, really? That's exactly what I did—I still have an empty, vestigial volume called Ventura in the same APFS container as Macintosh HD—and I was not presented with a choice.
>Which is perfectly rational. Why drive a car you don't want out of fear that gas prices may someday go up?

You don't have to buy a fuel efficient car today for an eventuality that may never happen, but you definitely don't have a leg to stand on when fuel gets more expensive and it suddenly costs you 10x more per month in fuel -- that's on (hypothetical) you.
It's not a straw man, I believe a better idiom would be 'the tail wagging the dog', i.e. you're using an extreme edge case to argue against the big picture proposal. A real tax would include the small picture details: payment plans, equity swaps, valuation tribunals, etc to cover the oddball cases. But none of that would matter, you would sell it and net the $500M.
> And how do you arrive at that figure? You cannot possibly have arrived at it by any principled means, because...

Trough to peak of the initial outbreak was 4 weeks, and the 2nd wave peaked after another 12 weeks. How quickly do you think the virus can spread? :p

Voila, the stats [0]. You need to ground-check your assumptions.

> You also have fewer people dying from other causes because the hospitals are overloaded with covid patients. That seems like a win to me.

We're two years in to this, we could have beefed up the hospital staff. I suppose strategies that are human-rights friendly are off the cards in Australia because they aren't exciting enough.

Frankly, the idea that this response was needed because COVID patients would overwhelm the hospital system is a bit of a reach. Ordinary flu season overwhelmed the hospital system. An ordinary day overwhelmed the hospital system. We do not go to extreme lengths to stop the hospital system getting overwhelmed. We certainly don't lock people in their houses, ban free association, ban people from working, or start forcing people to undergo what is effectively a medical procedure. Furthermore we had a lot of time to beef up the hospital system to cope as this pandemic has been a thing for more than a year by now. The argument is underdeveloped.

> lowering the rate of spread has societal benefits in and of itself

What are they and how are you measuring them? Because intuition hasn't been a good guide so far.

> BTW, there are more logical holes in your argument:

Point them out, I reckon I can patch them up with evidence.

> If you isolate all of your unvaccinated population, then of course all of the transmission is going to happen among the vaccinated. The vaccines aren't perfect. That doesn't mean they confer no public-policy benefits. They clearly do.

Well, they confer enormous benefits to people who get vaccinated. But Australia has been in human-rights-abuse mode for a while now and it makes me very uncomfortable. I'd rather people had been honest up front that the vaccine wasn't going to have any impact on the spread of COVID. A lot of people were saying they would and they've turned out to have ... charitably I might say an immeasurable ... impact on the spread.

[0] https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_NSW.html
Lawmakers push new compromise for screening American investments in China
Speaking of the rr folk, they also had the fascinating point that you can reliably generate a "stack trace" by figuring out which `call` instructions were executed with what values (also other jump instructions I suppose), instead of walking the stack. Thereby skipping the whole "parsing the stack is insanely difficult and unreliable" issue.
None, none at all.
Are mixed use buildings a problem? I thought the normal problem in America was that zoning tends to prohibit mixing uselage types.

Here [0] is a random street i picked in Paris with mixed use buildings - looks pretty nice tbh-lots of accommodation & amenities, easily walkable, some shops and restaurants.

[0] 61 rue de Passy
https://maps.app.goo.gl/14Kxyd9SwARyT79s8
It's tricky though, you often can't tell if you are in the survivor set or not until after all those attempts at perseverance. Its easy to assume that after N failures the company is not in the survivor set, but you can never actually know. So without perseverance, no one would be a survivor.
Fire! Fire!! Fire!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2uzEM0ugY
As I've said before, these announcements could benefit from better "action items" or "TLDR" for the average person with other problems to think about. What libraries are affected, what do I need to upgrade exactly, on Ubuntu, etc etc. And I'm guessing this is intended to reach those people (among others) given the effort they put into the graphics, etc.

In this case. "Am I affected?" "Likely, yes. It's on all the CPUs". Okay, but how does this work exactly? Is the Hertzbleed going to take over my computer and steal my private keys from my hard drive? Do I need to be running a server? Do I need to be in the middle of a cryptographic operation with the key in question? Etc.

"What is the impact" Ah, this sounds like the useful part. "...modern x86 cpus... side channel attacks...power consumption...constant-time execution". Nope, this isn't it either.

I think this is simply a matter of being so deeply embedded in something, one forgets how much is assumed. If they showed it to an outsider first they'd get the necessary feedback.
Basic algorithms? FAANG algorithm questions are usually far from basic.
I absolutely agree. I think there are many factors that make people look aside. We “believe” what’s convenient to us. What immediately comes to mind - and I’m a meat-eater - is eating meat and harming animals. For animals, we tell ourselves what we need so that we can continue eating meat.
MLS = Major League Soccer was not a given for me. E.g. Multiple Listing Service. Update title?
Just curious, if 10% of people holding 70% of wealth is unreasonable, how do you reconcile 1% of Spotify artists getting 90% of all "streams"?

Basically, you're saying that the current distribution is crazy/unsustainable (and maybe it is) but the distribution is actually not totally out of whack with the 80/20 rule (or Pareto principle).

Just wondering where your confidence comes from that a functioning society doesn't actually depend somewhat on that distribution? i.e. that the general populace's sense of "fair" isn't actually correctly calibrated at this distribution?
Twitter insiders expect Elon Musk to use 'firehose' to renegotiate Twitter deal
Just like what happened with housing around planned HQ2 sites.
Consumers don't have a choice if there is information asymmetry and they are unaware of better offerings. And as I have illustrated, there is no single "Amazon competitor" as they are all online retailers in different spaces. Even Walmart's e-commerce initiatives are relatively new. A cursory search of competitors yields this list (https://www.shopify.com/blog/amazon-competitors) which has eBay (auction house, not in same class), Walmart (relatively new entrant to online space), Flipkart (India), Target (brick-and-mortar, smaller footprint than Walmart), Alibaba (China and APAC), Otto (Europe), JD (China), Netflix (only a competitor in streaming), and Rakuten (Japan and APAC).

As far as anti-competitive behavior, I will defer to luminaries more informed than I

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/amazon-wins-ruling-resu...
Weird. Maybe the youtuber I watched didn't realize their mistake while filming :P
Failing at fractions saved the Quarter Pounder
It's interesting that AGAIN uses selections as checkpoints of a sort. I think that was probably the wrong idea as selections need to be made and remade to get them right, and so they aren't clear checkpoints, but interesting nevertheless. Though ignoring selections that you didn't act on might be sufficient to filter out those mistakes.

The selection/target distinction is also another interesting path not taken. I encountered it in Oberon as well. I remember it feeling quite powerful, and yet I also was easily confused, like it was just a little too much to keep track of.
Thanks, in my case, now is not the time, but in two months I hope

Meanwhile, best wishes
You’re acting as if the post you responded to denied fetuses feel pain. They did not. It just doesn’t matter.
IIRC Apple doesn't do user testing because they know better.

I have 20/20 vision and I had to turn on contrast and button shapes, the new design is so bland and unreadable.

Macs have large screens and that's why... they changed all dialogs to be tall narrow boxes with center-aligned text?

Properly labeled color-differentiated icons are now indistinguishable grays crowding the title bar removing all affordances (from being recognizable to being able where you can drag the window).

Keyboard access is being removed or broken across all first-party apps.

Desktop metaphors like multiple columns, tabs etc. are removed in favor of tall narrow strips of gray text that surely look great on a screen that fits your palm. But that's not the screen Mac OS operates on.

The new designs break Apple's own HIGs and other recommendations like WCAG.

So please tell me what it is you like about new designs and, more importantly, what the hell is their purpose?
What makes you think it’s murder? Are you also against IVF?
You are not letting them down if you are already thinking this way. Kudos to you young fella
Live sports is the only reason tons of people pay $80+ a month for cable. The majority of my close friends have a cable subscription solely to watch basketball and monday night football. If those people could switch to streaming services to see their team cable would be even more fucked than they already are, so broadcast rights with blackouts are worth billions. The leagues don't think they'd be able to make that up with increased streaming revenue.
Fork is not a reflection of unix philosophy! It is a beautiful hack tho.
Apple's backup plan to stop antitrust legislation
> for six weeks or fewer; 40 percent have a job.

I said years ago (during occupy wallstreet), that I think this class of person isn't homeless, they're friendless. Someone shouldnt be homeless for less than a month, with a job, so long as they have a few friends with a couch.

EDIT: Yeah yeah, edge cases, families etc. The problem scales with the quality of friend groups you have. And in the most extreme I'd expect collaborative groups to step in -- eg: for a family of 4 I'd expect my church to collectively solve this.
In this same vein, https://homerecording.com/ is also great.
They struggle more with being overweight. Most humans in most of human history struggled with having enough food and water to survive. They would trade their struggle for ours in a heartbeat.

Americans are the people who complain when the wifi goes down or someone says the wrong word.
Then I guess a wealth tax is not needed, billionaires are already giving away all of their money or starting new companies through direct investments, so they're no longer billionaires.
You think the strategy was to take Kyiv(the cradle and former capital of Kievlyan Russia)and then exchange it for war-torn Donbas? That would be like Israelis exchanging Jerusalem for Gaza
A history to keep in mind as AI progresses.
Jada Pinkett Smith doesn’t have alopecia, she has a facelift scar.

https://youtu.be/DdPmmlvhpHk
I typically agree, but not when it comes to this. Very few percentage of Americans are executed, but we all agree that the way in which they are ought to be humane, for some definition of humane. Most people today seem to agree that 'painless' is a desirable property.

So if it's true fetuses feel pain past some time in pregnancy, then I think it's imperative than anesthesia is used, and that medicine create such a thing, lest we betray our own convictions.
Curious why there isn’t an interface in which all required handles and resources could be passed to a child process explicitly. E.g.:

execvpehm(
...,
int *handles, size_t,
void **pages, size_t,
/* etc */
);

Would remove so many headaches with concurrency and accidental inheritance.
An extremely relevant recent update: https://stratechery.com/2022/beyond-aggregation-amazon-as-a-...
Linux Mint. https://linuxmint.com/download.php
> Babies feeling pain is something that should be self-evident, shouldn't it?

We need to be careful here. Just because a system responds to painful stimulus does not necessarily mean that it "feels pain".

Consider this:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/google-places-engine...

Or this:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-people-demanded-privacy-to-con...

Or this:

https://junkerhq.net/MGS2/MarkIII.html

People tend to instinctively anthropomorphize, and this instinct is particularly strong when it comes to our offspring. Just because it seems conscious doesn't necessarily mean that it is.
There needs to be an asymmetrical rewards from taking a huge risk starting a startup. Otherwise people wouldn't do it and just work at big_company.
Then perhaps we should reconsider the act?

But really, states have broad authority to do whatever. They can legalize murder if they really wanted.
I'd argue being kidnapped and chained to the wall is software engineering. Our handcuffs are just gold
> If that was the case, it should work both ways

Why would it? The notion that "it should work both ways" assumes that "both ways" are equally viable.
I use ggplot2 regularly and have read Wilkinson but honestly I have a bit of trouble seeing how ggplot2 is an implementation of Wilkinson's book.

(It's been a few years, maybe I should take another look at the book.)
RSS in Markdown Syntax
Thank you for your kind words, I really appreciate them, also would there be any advice you'd also offer to keep going along and not letting the fear failure affect my work and mindset?
Thanks for pointing that out. I was just thinking if you want to exfiltrate secrets then you need some sort of network to pass them on remotely. An air gap stops the secrets being leaked. Are you saying you can exfil by merely having access to the power?
`cpupower frequency-set --governor performance`
This is not a hypothetical in Britain. Many categories of workers cannot be fired on a whim, nor can they quit on a whim. Many people prefer that trade-off.

For example, in 2012, at Timeout, Aksel Van der Wal was promoted to CEO. He had previously been the CTO, and now we needed a new CTO. We made an offer to a person who had a great reputation as an engineering manager at another company. But he was on a contract he could not get out of, nor would his employer let go of him. So we had to wait 9 months, while he finished that contract, before he could join us.
> most should not even be called engineers, they’re coders or developers and on the same level as a lab technician to me

I'm a programmer and I 100% agree with this statement. I never tell anyone that I'm a software engineer even though that is my job title, I am a programmer. It annoys me to no end that we keep diluting language like this and devaluing the meaning of these terms. An engineer is held to a much higher standard than any web developer ever will be.
You misread it. It went back to baseline after discontinuing the treatment which means that the increased depression was during the time while taking the medication.
pthread_atfork functions aren't called if the application calls the clone syscall directly. The right solution is MADV_WIPEONFORK on Linux, or MINHERIT_ZERO on OpenBSD:

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2017-Novembe...
Amazon's AWS is known for long hard sink or swim overtime, and they're the first letter in FAANG