skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder with NEPA if we could do “existing negative impact” studies, i.e. if this is not built, how will the environment be affected? And if the answer is “on net the status quo is worse environmentally” then permitting can proceed without further in depth reviews required for each sub-component. Like high speed electric trains should be extremely easy to pass: they remove car and plane traffic, so even if they hurt some local environments in the process of being built, the net result is better than the status quo so those micro problems are considered outweighed by the macro, unless someone can prove otherwise.

Expanding on this, private groups should be allowed to fund neutral third parties who act similarly to land surveyors: they can provide impact studies for projects the government has not planned. If the status quo is worse for the environment and more expensive to maintain, these “impact study libraries” could provide off-the-shelf projects that wouldn’t need extra regulatory approval. Advocacy groups, like say Extinction Rebellion, could reasonably fund “status quo” analyses for carbon-intensive infrastructure vs reasonable alternatives (mass transit, HSR, road diets, etc).
Digikam is my primary photo storage tool for more than a decade, and it's managing half terabytes of RAW and JPEG photos without a hitch. It might not have the most attractive UI, but it's beyond capable and scales without batting an eye.
Hooooo
I understand that Google is a business but it is very cool that we can have a gmail address with no fee
> Facebook was actually fun until monetization and creepiness destroyed the vibe

The same can be said of social media generally. Some manage to disguise it better than others, but they are all selling you, the user, your data and your attention, to sell ads. To do that, they work hard to show you a world that they think you want to see.
I switched to Chrome because Firefox was (and still is) slower than Chrome. Simple as. I am not disputing the effects of ads of course.
It took me 5 tries over the span of 3 years to land a lucrative job at a FAANG. The effort I put in was very well spent and is minimal compared to other types of exams (law, medicine...).

That being said, this is survivor bias and I understand it would be very frustrating to work on the preparation and not get a position in return. But to those who don't like the process, they have many other companies to choose from.
yes, this is absolutely true. Hans Rosling did one his most well know presentations on the the impact of female education to the eradication of poverty via two mechanism - female entry into the market economy + reduction in the number of births. That said though, all developed economies are now so far down this road that we are below the replacement rate and will die out in a few generations without a course correction
Complex idea require multiple simple deliveries in a structured way.
NZ banned foreign investors and average home prices are up about 50% in the couple of years since that happened.

Foreign buyers just don't make up enough of the market, and neither do people with 5+ residences.
With x-modules we aim to solve the issues that monorepo introduces keeping the benefits.

Benefits: easy cross-component changes, repeatable builds
Issues: huge repositories, lack of code ownership boundaries, complicated versioning for individual products/components

Of course people nowadays rarely use submodules to build a monorepo, but I believe they would like to if submodules would be transparent.

Git X-modules are at early stage and only syncs a ref with a directory now. We'll add an option to pin a particular commit and most interesting - an option to receive module changes as PRs queue that could be individually accepted (and applied alongside with the necessary call site refactorings).

Git X-modules is available for GitHub users now, and we plan to add GitLab and Bitbucket support - both cloud and on-premises. So, we reuse platform's user management to only let repository admins/devs set up the modules - currently via web UI, and via .xmodules files in the future versions.
Summary: there were hints from smaller studies or studies on particular groups (e.g. veterans) that flu vaccinations can reduce the probability of elderly people to develop Alzheimer's dementia. Here, almost 1 million pairs of recently flu vaccinated and not vaccinated people were matched and studied. A large protective effect was found. Other adulthood vaccinations show similar effects, hinting at a more general mechanism. There is a section about hypothesized mechanisms in the paper [0] which also points towards more general effects and not simply "avoidance of infection".

Search [0] for "Hypothesized mechanism" or even "BCG" for a concrete example of a vaccine that most likely does not act via prevention of infection (it is a tuberculosis vaccine and most people never get tuberculosis. It still shows a protective effect).

[0] https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-... (Open Access)
So the rest of the world goes into recession, so that drags down the US with it. And/or low prices lead to low investment, both in to new oil and alternative energy thus dooming the industry long term while giving the rest of the world a head start in future technologies. And/or the rest of the world gets pissed off, imposes their own sanctions, look to more reliable allies, look to different reserve currencies etc etc etc.
And the irony is -- they suddenly think you're "hot" because you're getting competing offers (or competing invites to do 7 or 8 rounds of culture fit interviews and/or LC grinding, in any case). Which is another way for them to say: "Actually we really don't know how to evaluate these candidates, so instead we rely on random externalities, like the number of other interviews they're having this particular week."
> there are already billions of humans capable of writing fake news

You have to pay them, and most of them are not very good at writing. Even with a big budget, you get a limited number of good articles per day.

If you can make writing fake news 100x cheaper, and then just throw everything at social networks and let people sort out the most viral stuff, that can change the game.

Also, computers can be faster. If something new happens today and hundred articles are written about it, a computer can quickly process them and generate hundred more articles on the same topic, than a group of humans would. (Many humans can do the writing in parallel, but each of them needs to read individually the things they want to react to.)
It won't, they want to push you to make an app no matter what.
> Chrome actually managed to compete on the merits

Kills batteries dead twice as fast as the other leading brand!
I suspect you'll still have academics doing it, but with less overall cultural relevance. There are still historians of early film, TV, etc. doing great work. Often it's by consulting new types of sources or using newly available technical tools.
I don't know how to convey to you that people just accept worse UX until a better alternative is shown to them. Boiled frogs.
"Because of language models, the amount of fake news online will increase by an order of magnitude (at least) before this decade ends. And there is no interpretation of that development as anything else but a net negative."

That's not at all clear. You're assuming people will continue to give credence to random stuff they read. But once fake AI-generated content is common, people will surely become less trusting. The end result could easily be that fewer people than before believe fake news is real. Presumably, fewer people will believe real news too, but the result could still be net positive.
> C# is also not native code, it runs on some sort of VM

This is not true. .NET code is JIT-compiled into native code.
Where are you getting that from though? I've seen the same thing happen with Dropbox more personally but I'm not going to make that claim based on my bias.
The bar to cross to be liable to being sued for anticompetitive behaviour is far lower than being a monopoly. The EU has charged Apple with anticompetitive behaviours multiple times regarding IAP and Apple Pay.
Firmly believe that these algorithms will be the downfall of society. They are driven by pay per click/ view advertising and have done more to echo chamber people than anything in history. You are only shown news and videos that support what you already believe. If you don't believe it at first you will soon as you are just going to get fed messages enforcing what you clicked on.

Remember when the NBA player believed in a flat earth because of a youtube rabbit hole? This is what's caused the massive political split in the US and perhaps eventually the collapse of democracy.

With that said there are few sites more frustrating than the Google News homepage. I clicked on a marvel movie review months ago and now half my news is comics related. Drives me insane.
> It's the Juicero of the 2020s

Ethereum alone (let alone cryptocurrency in general) predates and postdates Juicero's existence by a wide margin.
Ah yes lk== Sri Lanka. Obviously.
I think it is the full story.
Company performance is the driver, but it doesn’t set the price. It not right to say it’s irrelevant, it is, but the most important thing is what the market is willing to pay.

The dividend price drops occurs only because the market believe this and reduces the price of their orders. It’s driven by the market responding to the loss of cash, the fact the cash was spent cannot impact share price unless there is buying and selling. The company doesn’t set the share price except for IPO.

It is compounded by Dividend Reinvestment Programs, where the dividends end up buying more stock.

Additionally, I think your equation is wrong.
Company Value = assets - liabilities.

Market cap = n shares * price.

Market cap != company value.

Big tech stock is very similar to cryptocurrency. It’s all about the greater fool who will buy it from you.
I think OP is saying that 99.9999% of the other companies aren't FAANG even though they pretend to be. Their use case is displaying JPG images, not creating a new JPG algorithm. You don't need multi-dimensional array manipulation leetcode hard problems to do that. Yet their interview process is geared around that, and the recruiters/management don't know enough to know to make a useful decision. And then everybody complains "Oh, we can't find competent talent. Give us more visa openings!". But the free market eventually is taking care of those companies. You're seeing major layoffs in the crypto industry because they overhired on leetcoders and apparently not enough people who could help them turn a profit.
Your argument holds true in theory but does not always work in practice.

The issue many people have with fake news is that it's a tool that can sway public opinion without any basis on facts. I'm not sure, by your response, if you find that to be problematic or not.

I think we've recently found that people haven't decided which voices to trust and can be led to believe things placed in front of them. Paired with the ability to spread that information - there is significant impact on society.

That's the reason some people have issues with fake news, from my experience.

Also, getting a computer to do something will always scale several orders of magnitude more than having billions of people do it.
You don’t have to use the sdk install and probably don’t want to if You’re developing Qt OSS software. Target the distribution or build it Yourself. https://wiki.qt.io/Get_the_Source
>Words in English often have multiple meanings.

How is that relevant here, given that I said I preferred one definition over another?

Did I say I was confused? Did I even imply that others might be confused?

Did you somehow think I was unaware that some words have multiple meanings, or did you just ignore that which didn't fit how you chose to read my comment?
'ExxonMobil gas station $175 credit card hold'

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/tt033j/exx...
Any particular highlights from this?
"However, apart from Android, where Google leverages the Power of Default, Chrome actually managed to compete on the merits."

"Only on Android does Google leverage its market power in another field to strengthen Chrome."

Oh, only on Android, this tiny ecosystem of 2.5 billion(!) active users. No big deal. And they only leverage Android? It must have been my imagination how they've spammed Youtube, Gmail, Google Search, Google Maps for years to install Chrome. Or to even take it so far as to sabotage other web browsers on their services. Chrome also comes as part of some desktop software, there's a million ways in which they bundle it.

The very idea in itself that browsers compete on merit is false. They are same enough for no normie user to care. They use whatever got installed as default, what they see their friends use, they barely have an idea what a browser even is.
Your "marketshare" definition is bogus. I could claim that Firefox has 100% marketshare of PlayStation consoles.

There's no such market as devices of a single manufacturer.
> The roots of the crisis lie in tax cuts enacted by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in late 2019, which came months before the COVID-19 pandemic that battered the country's lucrative tourism industry and led to a drop in foreign workers remittances.

The tax cuts caused annual public revenue losses of about 800 billion rupees, the prime minister's office said in its statement.

The new tax regime and COVID-19's impact, together with the pandemic relief measures, widened the budget deficit significantly to 12.2% of GDP in 2021 from 9.6% of GDP two years earlier.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/crisis-hit-sri-l...
It's not though. Loading the page twice creates two different outcomes. Idempotent endpoints can't.

!Idempotent != Reversal of changes
Chirp: A bioacoustics research project
I kind of agree - a lot of "fake" news believers seems to be actively seeking for contrarian views purely for the sake of it, with indoctrination as an incentive offered for labor of reading, rather than harm unto themselves. In that sense, the factual accuracy - the "fake" notion, don't seem to be the point, and the volume of text that NN generators enable can be less of an issue.
They are indeed hate groups, it's a hate symbol, thanks for playing!
URL Checker is the shim browser you're looking for:

https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker

It also integrates ClearURLs functionality (https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls) to let you remove tracking from links before sending it to the browser or app. This feature is optional.
> it is because our current class of politicians aim to be career politicians

I don't think that's quite fair. Look at the statistics of who actually turns up to vote. The median voting age for mayoral elections is 57 [1]. Seniors are 15x more likely to vote than those aged 18-35. If I had to guess, this would only get worse if you get into even more obscure elections like city council. Incidentally, Boomers are much less likely to bike everywhere, so you can't really blame the politicians for catering their policy to them.

[1] http://whovotesformayor.org/
It's certainly relevant to anybody who thinks Florida is some kind of weird backwater that's clearly inferior to Europe, when the exact opposite is objectively true. (I can't speak to "quality of life" measures, which people are free to argue about until the sun burns out, but objectively Florida is the richer geography and objectively the typical European would be far richer if they moved to Florida.)
Discovery had pronouns beyond he/she?
A 4chan shitposting bot isn't going to collapse society.
I am team close-your-damn-tabs-when-finished, but I know tons of people who need this urgently
Can anyone explain what they mean by "Bayesian detachment"? I'm assuming they're describing Bayesian trees with large gaps of priors compelling the need for something to fill those gaps, but it's a phrasing I've never heard before.
I think that’s a worthwhile discussion, and readers would have definitely appreciated a discussion of, “Does reputational damage precipitate organizational dissolution in the context of college associations?”

It would have been enlightening and gotten to the heart of the nominal issue with respect to both the theme houses and the fraternity houses, I think.

That was not what the article was, however, and I think we can acknowledge Stanford’s failures and the failure of authorship in the article-publication in the same breath.
The performance angle of SPAs has been proven wrong many times.

If SPAs had better perf than MPAs, I can assure you Amazon (the store) would be an SPA. But SPAs are notoriously slow, specially if built with React. Amazon tested React and it was too slow for them so they kept using Java for SSR + jQuery. I think they removed jQuery recently, but keep using the same approach of SSR + sprinkled JS.

As for dev complexity, I'd be very surprised if that was the case. Are taking into account writing the backend code or only the frontend? What about client-side data caching? What about spinners? What about mismatched version of the app for users that don't close their tabs all day long? Etc. Etc.

Yes I know all problems with SPAs have solutions. But that's the point the article is making: you have to solve it.
The FDA’s “Future Framework” for Covid Vaccines Is a Reckless Plan
They did not “lose” based on bundling the browser. They lost because they forced third party OEMs to pay for Windows licenses even for computers that weren’t shipped for windows. They no more lost for bundling a browser than they lost for bundling Solitaire.
Great news !
It’s good to know that flu vaccination has two benefits
In the future OP can consider never using a google product for anything.
Drug and device marketing and sales really ought to be illegal. Kickbacks to physicians and administrators should be limited in the same way they would be for bribes to government officials, both on the medical and industry sides.
> I dunno, we seem to issue fines a lot nowadays and the behavior doesn't change.

We issue fines, yes. We do not issue fines to an amount that would incentivize behavior change. Most fines from agencies like this, when I see them, tend to be in the <$10 range, when scaled to how "impactful" the fine would be against an average person's income. My father would call a fine that's less than $10 a "toll".

In this particular case, the fined entity is too small for me to know exactly, as I can't find their financials. But the amount doesn't smell large.

In some instances, I've seen agencies level $0 fines against corporations. Literally, all the agency demanded was "stop doing the bad thing, m'kay?"
It's possible there are far more negative externalities than you're accounting for. What's 600% ROI if it turns out it contributed significantly to inequality, both for income and race? How negatively has that effected the nation, or even just the economy, over decades?

It's important to note that the argument is not as simple as "highways or no highways", but more nuanced, as perhaps 10% harder to accomplish yields a 50% reduction in problems. Finding that sane middle ground is hard, but we should be careful not to reduce the problem to such simplicity that the many of the important parts of the solution are no longer even assessed.
…in mice.
Maintaining backwards compatibility for reading old records in code is not hard. You can always rewrite all rows to the newer format if you want to remove the conpat code, or if the structure changes in an incompatible way. It's pretty comparable to what you have to do to evolve the code/schema safely together.

Having schema is much better for ad-hoc queries though, doubly so if your schemaless types aren't JSON (e.g. protobufs).
I am personally much more annoyed at Apple preventing JIT compilation on iOS than the lack of browser competition. I do not really want to give chromium more market share, and it can already compete on macOS.
Ask HN: How much more would you need to make to be worth being a 1099?
Ignoring for a moment the extra costs of being 1099 (which are easily calculated), how much is the additional hassle of being a 1099 rather than a W2 worth to you? $1000 in take-home? $2000? $5000? More?
What I don't get is when they ghost you, but with positive feedback! I was talking to a guy not long ago, everything was a fit, I'd done exactly what they wanted in my previous job, had team management experience, and so on. The HM/founder says I sound great and we should talk again.

So he goes on holiday.

Then his HR lady goes on holiday.

They get back, apologize for the delay, and want to proceed.

Nothing happens. No response...

He's probably right about homework too. I can't tell if they are actually testing for you already having a solution on the shelf that you can slightly modify for them. Regardless, if someone did a homework assignment for me, I would make sure they got feedback. If it wasn't good enough I would think really hard about what I said about the conditions (don't spend too much time, it's ok if it isn't perfect) before dumping them. At best it is just a kind of fizzbuzz: if they can stand up a k8s thing in a few hours, they are likely not making this up or even copy pasting it.

End of the day software has some odd ideas about what evidence is. Just about every other profession is just a CV, some chat, a light grilling, then a response. If the person is making it up they'll get found out and dumped out soon enough. Software somehow manages to do both: several interviewers have told me they dumped out a guy after a brief stint, then tried the whole Leetcode/homework/tech chat thing.
They lost the antitrust lawsuit bad... and then got it reduced to a minor settlement a few months later once the Bush presidency came in. The DOJ now knows that even the most spectacular fireworks display won't make a damn difference, and haven't bothered trying since.
As an expat Russian, I had hard time watching DS9 since the invasion into Ukraine started.
If anyone is looking for some tutorial/guides for a homelab. This is a great wiki. https://wiki.technotim.live/en/kubernetes
> It's not the "EU's cookie banners", it is the advertisers' cookie banners

It's the EU's cookie banners. Despite the EU's best intentions, the end result is worse. It was a naive move and we're all suffering for it. One of the biggest pieces of evidence that you can't just naively mandate something without also thinking through edge cases and "malicious compliance."
Do they guarantee anywhere they’re not collecting this data to build profiles or do other analysis?
That's an incredible effect size.

Mechanisms hypothesized to be at play:

"These mechanisms—and those underlying the effects of adulthood vaccinations on all-cause dementia risk in general—can be grouped into at least three broad, non-exclusive categories: 1) influenza-specific mechanisms, including mitigation of damage secondary to influenza infection and/or epitopic similarity between influenza proteins and AD pathology; 2) non–influenza-specific training of the innate immune system; and 3) non–influenza-specific changes in adaptive immunity via lymphocyte-mediated cross-reactivity."
It’s hard to fathom believing there’s nothing new or relevant happening with the 2022 invasion, or why if there was a lead-in to the conflict that would be on its own a reason to conclude that there’s nothing to be done now.
Google Parti open source implementation
I find when most people refer to SPAs they actually mean PWAs
They can. I assume DBAs (Doing business as) folks are the ones that use their SSN. Just real small-time shops.