skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can also look into reducing the amount of monocropping we do. If the grain isn’t profitable, the land it’s grown on will drop in value, making it easier to purchase and use for re-wilding efforts.
You could've ended with the first half of the sentence. The other stuff you mentioned is not needed.
I'm also having a reasonably good experience with Amazon Pharmacy (aka PillPack). The website actually works, which is more than can be said for any other mail-order pharmacy. Same stupid pricing and insurance hijinx as any other pharmacy but Amazon seems to do a reasonably good job interfacing with that horribly broken industry.
At least in Europe it’s more company profits rather than wage raises that cause inflation. In Germany tax revenues went up 10% for wage taxes while going up 30% for company profits last year.

In Germany apartment prices went down in few cities with an overheated market. If prices stagnate long enough inflation effectively makes prices go down like in Germany from 2000 to 2010
You can look up for freelance platforms like fiverr, upwork. It is not boring everyday have different task/work, It is feels like puzzle solving everyday.
I phrased it that way so as not to speak beyond my knowledge.

I'm sure workers are relatively trodden on everywhere, in various magnitudes.
> In fact the trend is very similar between when Trump started his Presidency, and when Biden his

Oil production under Trump grew much faster than under Biden.

Apart from recovering from a one month crater immediately after Biden took office (Feb 2021), oil production has barely increased at all under Biden.

Whereas it increased by over 10% per year during Trump's first two years.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...
Yay! I hope they let us send in videos of car violations too.

I don't know if it's just sensitivity or if something changed but I see 2-4 serious traffic violations every time I drive in SF. Mostly cars running red lights and just not giving a fuck. I don't remember it being this bad 10yrs ago last time I lived in SF.

Since I've got a dash-camera in the car I pick save but AFAIK there's no one to send them too. I heard the theory they don't fine the car, they fine the driver, but that's false. They have traffic cameras that fine the car at several intersections and as a further example, the toll lanes on the bridges also fine the car, not the driver.
Alpha as I understand is risk adjusted return. Can you or anyone explain how acquiring a tech company can deliver better alpha?
How realistic is an "advanced fingerprinting attack", though?

I think the more realistic threat model here is presented by ad networks and major websites doing typical types of browser fingerprinting, like canvas, fonts, etc. as well as possibly some of the techniques mentioned in the article here, like webGL, JIT JS, etc.

In that case of a limited number of trusted sites that we focus on ensuring compatibility with, spoofing is easier, because we can pay a lot of attention to ensuring that our "middleman" fixes the errors introduced by spoofed client-to-server communications.

Some technologies like WebGL will simply never work on a spoofed site, of course. But for the very limited number of sites when users lose important functionality, they can just turn off Lockdown mode.

If a Lockdown'd phone habitually patronizes malicious websites, the protection will never be enough anyway. So we shouldn't worry about protecting against being fingerprinted by a very malicious website - Lockdown users must simply avoid these, with or without a fingerprinting vulnerability!
In theory, under HIPAA, your protected health information (PHI) can't just be given to everybody at Amazon. One Medical can only share it for specific, generally pretty legitimate reasons.

HIPAA is pretty strict, and Amazon will be under a lot of scrutiny, so I, personally, would not be worried about them, e.g., using my PHI to try to market stuff to me, or selling it off to the highest bidders.

Here are some PDF fact sheets on the uses and disclosures allowed under HIPAA:

https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/exchange_health_care...

https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/exchange_treatment.p...

The bad news is they probably don't need to do this, because they have more valuable data than this on you already. :\
Ask HN: Is there any way to fix the new Google Analytics UI?
It looks like Google has rolled out a very anti-user update to Analytics.

We have a report on traffic by URL broken out by query string that we use weekly. Right now that report is unusable, and if I try and query I can only query by page title, not URL and definitely not query string.

Is there a way to revert this update, or tell Google "I know what a URL is, please stop this."
> I don’t feel like they meant to deceive me or squeeze money out of me.

From the article:
> They were so excited about the project and got carried away, but he was going to remove the hours they’d spent redesigning the blog.

The management directed the designers to do that work, to see if they could get away with charging for it. There is no doubt, that you were deceived to squeeze money out of you.
This is what reliably happens if you give one person project to a team. Seen this multiple times internally.
Finally a feature I’m interested in and they drop support for the 6s.
Exactly. Tech-oriented shareholders are longing for growth, so PE firms often acquire tech companies with a large customer base but no stellar growth story. Besides cutting costs, they also charge customers more.

A classic PE game is to declare a widespread, but no longer innovative software product "end of life" just to charge more for "extended support" contracts. Customers often have said product deeply entrenched in their daily workflows and would inccur high customizing costs if they switch to a competitor. In the end, they are better off paying the support premium.

From a funding perspective, PE firms also have an advantage compared to stock exchanges: because their assets are no longer traded daily, the volatility of these assets decreases. The asset value is maybe determined once a year for balance sheet purposes. This means that pension funds and other regulated investors can invest more in the PE sector than in stocks, because technically they are buying "low volatility assets".
"All the wearables with one integration"

I wasn't able to find a list of supported devices. Mind pointing me to it?
Really not as simple as you make it seem. Many top economists supported the fiscal and monetary policy the trump and Biden administration undertook, it’s not like Krugman was some quack that no one agreed with. I thought this was a thoughtful piece explaining their thought process then and what they got wrong, but can’t disagree that it’s fun to dunk on Paul for that fax machine stuff.
I respect the tone of this blog post. I pause to think how I would word this experience if it happened to me. Since it hasn't, I don't really know how I would react. However; having this cool composure to think through why things ended up as they did and how it could be improved in the future is something I hope to aspire to.

"We just didn't fit" is a fantastic conclusion.

The ego is one helluva thing, and a hurt ego with negative self talk can lead one down silly paths. OP is cool as a cucumber.
I've worked on the other side of this and it's the end result of any large agency that starts chasing the bigger clients. More and more time, effort, and money is spent on the ideation/thinking/design side to the point everything else just grinds to a halt. For executives on both sides it's great. For anyone who hasn't to _do_ something, it's at best pointless, and at worst poisonous to every other activity.

As the author said, hiring a freelancer with specific goals is a much better route.
>given the opportunity app developers will only make user-hostile apps

Can you give examples of this? Android has plenty of non-user-hostile apps...
You know how, during a big programming project, you have to keep the devs from going "this codebase has a lot of technical debt, let's rebuild the whole thing using Rust and Kubernetes and Deno and move the hosting to Azure and switch databases and use microservices and..."?

Designers are exactly the same way. Just as technical fiddling is fun and interesting, making new designs from scratch is just as fun and interesting. And, just as fixing bugs is tedious and boring, tweaking designs is tedious and boring.

I've been on both sides for a lot of years, and I have to keep a sharp eye on myself to keep from spinning my wheels on distractions.

Even the Pope had to keep Michelangelo focused on the Sistine Chapel and not wander off to work on his tomb.
This is what a startup in Vancouver (highly visible, ~100 employees) got a reputation for. The CEO would go after glassdoor reviewers, and people who answer negatively on surveys that he told everybody was anonymous. The glassdoor reviews would mention the fact that this CEO was harassing them. Lots of shady stuff like misleading investors (like having 5 minute intro calls and announcing they have a partnership) and lying to their employees (whos RSU ultimately mounted to nothing).

They were acquired a few years ago but the founders had sold most of their shares and ultimately the investors just broke even (possibly loss, and pissed). It seems like the smaller the market (comparing Vancouver & Auckland) the more nasty and toxic the local industry is.

It's sad because after Hootsuite they were acting like they were next so took on VC money and proceeded to destroy/lie their own creation of 10+ years.
More documentation was available at your fingertips because it wasn't assumed that you had an internet connection and search engine always at your disposal. Also heading into a datacenter to physically plug in a crash cart without a laptop was fairly normal.

I've been remote for years and tend to live in rural areas with spotty connections. I also travel frequently. I can usually stack up a week or two's worth of offline work just in case connections are terrible. Some of it's documentation and writing. But a lot of it is technical stuff or mock ups. Maybe I can't take a task all the way to completion without ci/cd or additional documentation, but I can keep making progress at least.

* I download documentation sites for offline use with wget
* I set up virtual environments, containers, and dependencies prior to going offline.
* Abstract away any libraries that I might need to add or look up the semantics of. Handwaving over the details.
* If there's a dependency that I might have to patch, or upstream code I might have to read, I typically vendor things with submodules locally
* run local instances of infrastructure for testing integrations or tools that expect you to be online all the time such as; config management tools, helm charts, docker repos, secrets management.
* have testing plans that don't require online validation
* for code, unit tests
* for IaC stuff, templating it out and diffing or manually eye-balling
* keep the logic of ci/cd pipelines in code or scripts instead of platform specific configuration files (within reason)

It doesn't have to be a technical solution. Explicitly planning out your work days to the minutia and accounting for all the tools you'll need will get you pretty far.

Now planning around times in-between access to power is an entirely different game.

edit: formatting
The blog says "Should You Turn it On? Yes. Seriously. Turn it on when you have a supported OS and don’t look back." If that becomes the general advice, I imagine it will end up getting more broad use - even if most of the people who turn it on don't really need the extra security.
Isn't One Medical's entire business model / pitch to consumers predicated on the fungibility of providers, though? i.e. you can almost always see a OM provider on pretty short notice, it's just not guaranteed to be the same provider you saw last time
After consideration, I think I'll go with this option.

We can actually go even lower effort: add a discount code for this, and just say "get in touch if the US price is unreasonable for your country" or similar.

Thanks for reminding me to KISS :)
I love blogposts like these that share the specifics thank you very much for posting. I probably would have wasted even more money.
Note that this article is about the UK. It discusses your point in part 3 and goes on to discuss an alternative solution at the end. There are complex laws as almost all of the land is privately owned by either private citizens or the crown.
As a longtime freelancer and agency founder: misaligned incentives are not the same thing as dishonesty. Honestly pursuing your own incentives, and being open about what those incentives are, is really the only honest way to do business.

Broadly speaking, it's not economically feasible for an agency to take contracts that pay $7k (or even $25k, for that matter - I've written about this here https://bonner.jp/posts/the-co-op-consultancy/). So if they can do you a favor, in their minds, by fixing your whole website instead of just three pages - and if you're willing to pay for it - then everybody wins. Right?

That's the difference between a business relationship and being a friend: you may keep your mouth shut when a friend is being imposing, taking too much for granted, because you value the relationship. You would never remain silent in a business context when somebody is spending your money. It's business. They understand.

On my jobs, I'm explicit about what I'm going to do and what I'm not going to do. If my client needs to scale, I'm going to talk them through options for caching and horizontal & vertical scaling. But if my client seems to be dragging their feet on customer development and making poor business decisions about which features to prioritize, well, that's not my role in this relationship.

That said, I would never lead a client into a project backwards the way this agency did. Because I do value the relationship! In that I want you to come back, and pay me more money later. Not because we're friends. That's business honesty.

This situation is definitely your fault - but only because you and your agency had different assumptions about the rules or norms of your relationship. Your agency poorly communicated their intentions, and you allowed that to happen out of a misplaced sense of friendly obligation.

But hey, the new site does look great.
> The German people are better off subsidizing other Europeans to buy their cars, like Ford did with their workers.

To me this sounds a bit like the broken window fallacy [0]. That it’s good if sometimes a window gets broken, because it generates economic activity. But this ignores the fact that economic value was destroyed in the process.

Those subsidies could be used in other ways as well, perhaps by helping startups grow.

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[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
It's not immoral at all, but I agree it is very dangerous. My job at the companies benefited immensely from what I learned when working on my personal projects, and naturally the other way around. But of course I never brought my code at the company (although I had in a couple occasions done the opposite in emergency situations with the company knowing, a few days I never billed them for but contributed to a good raise afterwards - dear old times when handshakes were often enough). Bringing your code at the company today is very very dangerous, and i mean just bringing it in, not working on it during company time on company's hardware. Don't do that.
Wow, TIL the Missouri river flows through Montana (from the map on the American Prairie site).

It's not clear from a cursory glance at the site whether American Prairie is giving the land to the public, or whether they retain ownership and are simply allowing public access. I would think giving it to some federal parks/wildlife agency would come with stronger protections than an NGO could provide. I'm also curious if anyone can just give their private land to the public for use as a wildlife preserve?

EDIT: I also found this map of protected lands, but I'm having a hard time discerning between the different colors and I'm not colorblind. http://www.protectedlands.net/map/
"i want to do whatever I want" as a customer. most of the people who hold this opinion are a. only talking about things which have a very high network effect. no one says they want legislation to force adobe to make photoshop open source, or even work well with gimp or anything. this is only for communication software. b. mega corpos with billions of users take a more prominent position, and as uncle ben said, with great power comes great responsibility. we just want the responsibility. imo it should be like this: you are allowed to excercise your right (write software as you want to) all you want unless it interferes with someone else's right (to use whatever software they want to use). while facebook doesn't force me to use WhatsApp, the network effect associated with it does.
Passing the blessing of life that my parents gave to me onto my children.

It's not a lack of leaders that's the issue today, it's a lack of gratitude
The agency shouldn't have taken the work to begin with -- the part where the lead admitted that he killed project governance entirely was a bit of a painful moment. Agencies are optimized to work at a specific scale, and it's risky for them to scale up or down for a specific project; in this case, their client fell through the cracks because they were using him as fillable hours and didn't ride herd on their designers. Considering they were working outside of the SoW, those were disputable invoices, but that's cold comfort when you don't have the free cash flow to take this to legal.
Good God, that logo would be $50 on Fiverr, those illustrations would be $10 each, and that landing page would be 2 hours with bootstrap.

This is how you turn $500 worth of work into $45,000 worth of billing.
Well, there goes another item on my checklist. Yikes!

Though I guess if it’s 20+ years out, it doesn’t count as a expected expense until it’s less?
I seem to have touched a nerve there. Sorry about that.

I'm not going to defend the US education system, it's been BS ever since I was forced to attend as a child and it hasn't gotten better from what I hear.

This person wasn't dumb because she wanted to make things better. The actual strategies employed were dumb, just ego-aggrandizement, and ineffective.

In re: Marx and Marxists I don't actually know much about it, but I also don't think much of economics in general.

I pointed out her political affiliation not to pick on Marxists per se but to illustrate that this person had strident beliefs about social/economic/political organization despite not understanding that one must turn off the circuit breaker before re-wiring the house.

Have a good day friend.
Both Jordan and Carlsen won championships. Many of Jordan's games were very tight, down to the last second. I can find another player who won more handsomely, that does not negate Jordan's achievements. That's the analogy.
"But it’s an admission that the complexity of a modern phone operating system (or tablet, or desktop OS) have just gotten too much to handle, so the best path forward is to offer the option to not do those things."

Looking at non-consumer security mobile phones (like the one from Boeing) or those that are modified to be secure (like the Blackberry used by Obama) they all seem to employ this less-is-more approach to security.

In other words, what's the minimum tolerable feature set we can offer without further compromising security? It follows from the question 'why use a phone at all? If there is a functionality the client can't do without, then how do we provide just that without any security downside?'

It's a sensible approach which means Apple has just entered this market. Not in a big way yet - phones are made in China, modem chip firmware security has a long way to go. But lockdown is just beginning too and it shows Apple understands this is serious.

But all this is just defense. Next step is the entire industry. Finfisher is done - next up: NSO, Candiru and Darkmatter, their investors, suppliers and scumbag employees before they dissolve/rebrand and scurry back out of the light.
True, the relation between wages and inflation is complicated.

A lot of companies in Germany (same in the Netherlands) are exporters. The products they produce are not consumed by local consumers, hence higher wages do not increase local inflation.

Similarly, for some companies wages are a limited part of their expenses. Some factories have like 10 workers to produce millions of items of output.
Upwork? I have okay experiences with people there - not perfect but in range with your stated confidence levels.
Amazon to buy One Medical for $3.9B as it expands healthcare footprint
it might seem offtopic, but what is the practical market for a $2000 anti-interdiction phone outside of state-sponsored actors?
> Tip: Do not take the developers they give you/have on the project. Interview all of them and reject the bad ones.

This is really good advise and probably will save many people months of headaches. You wouldn't just hire someone random HR throws your way, why do that with an agency you've never worked with before?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/04/haven-the-amazon-berkshire-j...
Is this the case?

If you have ZK verifiable credentials it would be rather hard to create all these identities and get them verified.
Does anybody know if truth is an absolute defense against defamation lawsuits in New Zealand? From what I can determine, it is a defense but not an absolute one. It seems a public interest defense is also possible in New Zealand, but only since 2018 when that precedent was set.
SF area has declined too; long response times, high dr churn. This whole discussion has validated what I’d been noticing!
Am I understanding it right that those plots are only generated in HTML form? I.e. I can't use it to generate an EPS file to be included in a LaTeX document?
Then go check out "Water Knife" for some near-future fiction
I haven't ever had an IRC server require a phone number but sure, choose Discord if that's what you like.
"Everyone has to breathe to live."

No reasonable person FACTUALLY disputes what you're saying about work; it's so something-like-tautological and obvious that you should all think about why people seem to parrot it over and over.

It's not because human beings are likely to keel over and stop working in the face of nature. It's because it's a longstanding political wedge used by the powerful to get working classes to go against each other.
Thank you for the fantastic response, I always enjoy seeing how folks approach these problems. Your points about inconsistency between how vendors vs OS distributions handle things is well taken and mirrors some things I've seen.

Please do feel free to reach out via email or LinkedIn (deets in my profile), always a pleasure talking shop with folks in the industry.

Cheers!
Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme
only a sith deals in absolutes.
This is why I hate all these websites that keep A/B testing.

Just when I get used to a layout, they pull out a new design, completely disorienting me.
Isn't this apples-to-oranges? Seastar is just the web server, right, not the whole app? Would a better comparison be Seastar to, say, Puma?
E. E. Cummings and Krazy Kat
It's as if for-profit health isn't really useful for quality of treatment.
any plans for Thinkpad style 7 rows keyboard?
I think you should spend less time on conspiracy sites.

The world including Apple's product map doesn't revolve around Hunter Biden.