skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It means that if Amazon’s cut, fees, etc. are higher than a competitor, the seller can’t price accordingly.

This prevents the market (consumers) from being able to make a decision that favors lower margins for the middleman.
Premium. I pay for it quite happily. It doesn't cost much and there are no ads. It's very worth it for me.
youtube premium is not a spotify replacement. Youtube is in no way built to be a music playback app.
Maybe it's time to switch to 1.0?

https://0ver.org/
Can you go into any detail on historical events which a reasonable person might feel justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
I have the same issue / I guessed it was hacked and taken by some other, luckily I got it isolated from all my logins and i made a new account !
Can’t help but wonder who has it, also cannot comment on how unhelpful google are in resetting the access!
+1 for Calibre
If those users are legit, sure. But lets be honest...writing bots in Reddit is stupid easy. I have done it myself. Most things that appear on the front page are most likely not legit. Darknet Diaries, a podcast on hacking, had an episode proving how Apple Podcast top 10s are rigged through bots. Episode 27, specifically. And the thing is...if we can easily do it by pushing mediocre podcasts to the top of a list, why can't we do so with Reddit posts? The API even has calls to upvote/downvote posts and leave comments. This is a thing that Reddit as a company actively supports.

I highly recommend watching two videos..."The Dead Internet Theory", by All Time, and "Reddit is Being Manipulated by Professional Shills Every Day" by Point. They go into how Reddit works algorithmically, and how there is a strong incentive for corporations, governments, and political movements to write bots to manipulate karma. If hackernews lets me, I will link both of them and the darknet diaries episode. Im new here, so Im not sure how links work on ycombinator.

Darknet diaries 27: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/27/

Dead Internet Theory: https://youtu.be/DEn758DVF9I

Reddit is run by shills: https://youtu.be/4uIrnEIuL8o
I believe it was done as a result of incidents during wildfires. People lost power, couldn't open their garage door, and died in their home. It does make sense for accessibility reasons.
>> As for “Jews were murdered by Germans during the war”, sure. That’s an extremely well documented fact.

It’s sad that you’re blind to the fact that that statement is just as ‘racist’ and untrue as the original.

Jews were not murdered by Germans.

Rather, Some Jews were murderer by Some members of a political party that was primarily — but not exclusively — German.

The overwhelming majority of Germans never murdered anyone.
As always working on search.marginalia.nu.

Search itself is a fractal of interesting problems. Haven't had much time to write about it lately, but I've pretty much doubled the size of the index and re-written a lot of the query logic to make it much better, faster, and more accurate. Will do a write-up eventually, since it may be relatively explainable without getting too into the weeds that the audience dwindles entirely.

I keep having breakthroughs that make it in one way or another better, but as soon as I do I find something new that could be improved.

Kinda bonkers it's been possible to build this alone and run the entire thing on what amounts to a souped up PC :P
It's not absolute. It's just the default. There are specific scenarios where it doesn't apply.
No, actually your first sentence's logic doesn't hold up as it isn't a fair comparison at all. You can already order custom oligos and synthesized genes for relatively cheap. The chip idea would just reduce the cost more.
Even more so it is appropriate to point out that this victory is strictly limited to the specific terms of this particular bet (and strictly speaking not even that, since the terms were changed after the bet was placed), and do not provide statistically sound evidence of progress on compositionality.

PS: in the end, Alexander claims that his experiment "provide(s) some evidence that simple scaling and normal progress are enough for compositionality gains". So he does in fact go significantly beyond just claiming victory on this particular bet.
Dutch town takes Twitter to court over unfounded satanic paedophile claims
That wasn't the example I gave to simplify things but sure if you want that then:

If you got cash then you'd have made $400k the first year, $400k the second and $400k the third.

If you got RSUs then you'd have made $550k the first year, $860k the second and $1000k the third.
> "his Kung Fu is strong."

Was this a reference to Mitnick's phone calls to Tsutomo?
One thing I learned at Defcon 30 was how to break encryption at rest by just storing the encrypted data and wait for a quantum computer to be developed but storing it for 15 years wouldn’t be long enough (average guess of scientists were 50 years in the future).

It makes the NSAs Utah data center to have other applications like parallel reconstruction.
*and memory safety*

This cannot be understated. Caddy is not written in C! And it can even run your NGINX configs. :) https://github.com/caddyserver/nginx-adapter
You might also be interested in cardboard boat regattas.
How does reality work?

How could it be changed in a substantial, positive, intentional way, ideally in a surprisingly short time frame?
Professionally, I'm working on the frontend of a radio frequency propagation simulator for 3D "digital twins" of cities/regions. This uses ImGui under the hood, but is wrapped by Python. It's a bit of a pain, but I came up with a class that allows the UI to be composed in a manner more akin to React Components.

For fun, I just implemented a finite-state machine for a videogame I'm working on in Rust. It's used to swap out sprite animations depending on the state of its parent entity. I'm glad to be solving problems I'd never come across in my normal line of work.
iOS can do DNS adblocking natively. https://adguard.com/en/blog/encrypted-dns-ios-14.html Doesn't work for youtube because they're serving the ads first party.
Seconding!

I am also in love with the friendliness and tone of the article. I’m a complete dummy when it comes to stuff like this and still understood most of it. Feynman would be proud.
Stripe does this, and Coinbase's move to annual equity grants also has a similar effect. There are a lot of tradeoffs in all directions, but the fundamental one is that the reduction in risk naturally carries an equivalent reduction in ability to participate on the upside (eg table at the bottom here: https://www.aeqium.com/post/a-survey-of-equity-refresh-progr...).

You can also argue that it's not good for employees, because downside is capped (stock goes to $0, you keep your salary) but upside is unlimited (Shopify becomes the next Microsoft, you're still driving a Kia).
Great write-up! One question I had was around the use of keepalives. There's no mention in the article of whether keepalives were used between the client and reverse proxy, and no mention of whether it was used between the reverse proxy and backend.

I know Nginx doesn't use keepalives to backends by default (and I see it wasn't setup in the optimised Nginx proxy config), but it looks like Caddy does have keepalives enabled by default.

Perhaps that could explain the delta in failure rates, at least for one case?
My video rental store sold it to me because I was the only person who ever rented it
LLVM Passes for Security: A Brief Introduction (Part 1/4)
This C64 simulator is proof that there is a legitimate need for the Caps Lock key.
Flipping back between ~2:

- A tool for resolving external executables and sourceables in Shell scripts to absolute paths (and erroring when they aren't found). This is mainly to make it possible to package Shell with Nix in a way that they don't depend on all of their dependencies being in the environment.

The top level of this is ~easy enough, but identifying executables in the arguments to other commands is significantly harder. So, much of the focus is on triaging executables to flag those most likely to exec, coming up with human/automated processes for triaging the source of those executables to confirm, finding a good way to express complex nonstandard CLI syntax for parsing (in a way that's humane enough to be maintainable and ~contributable), etc.

- A toolchain for single-sourcing documentation in order to generate idiomatic markup for multiple output languages with different whitespace semantics. Because it's really hard to get good idiomatic format conversions out of largely presentational source such as markdown, this includes a flexible language with DIY semantics.

The entire toolchain does something a bit like what you'd try to accomplish with j2cli, some yaml, some jinja templates (and probably some python plugins, if you're trying to do anything complex) with more precise whitespace control. Still very rough/early, but glad I finally bit the bullet and started on it.
"If it takes them 15 years to realise they shouldn't have let someone over the border it is around 14 to 14.995 years too late."

Well, hypothetically some old data could be combined with some new data, to not let a potentially terrorist in NOW (or let them in, but supervised).

So more data to have is definitely useful for the agencies (if they can analyse it and do not drown in data).

And a total surveillance state would be even more effective, but for some reasons people does not want it. Maybe because power abuse is a real thing.
California Governor signs law requiring online age checks
This looks like an interesting way to manage scripts globally. I could even see it able to manage n-sub-commands deep (vs usual "command sub-command" - maybe it already does?) by just trying to resolve each argument as a dir until you find a script to execute.

If you're interested in ways to better-manage small scripts and wrappers more locally, please take a look at my project, Run:

https://github.com/TekWizely/run
That's a really cool project, best of luck!
Records are meant to be broken.
> Is there anything like BASIC today that any child, secretary, or grandmother can pick up and learn with as little hassle as possible?

I tried to develop something like that: https://easylang.online/ide
So you've been asked to unlock your phone, and refused, but were eventually released and allowed to enter? Which country?
One look at that image, and the reaction of a lot of people would be "they wouldn't sell it if it weren't safe".

Should the nanny state prevent the sale of such things? Well, ignoring that the nanny state disallows the sale of things like cannabis in many locations, I argue that people who are smarter than average can make things that the person of average intelligence is likely to unsafely use. We can post all of the dismissive comments we like, but a lot of people are $SOMETHING_OTHER_THAN_ELECTRICIAN_OR_PHYSICIST. If you look at that item and your reaction is "unsafe", well, good for you and thank your preferred deity for the privilege you've been given. Now see if you can spare a thought for those to whom it is not obvious. You've got your blindspots, too, but it doesn't necessarily make you stupid.
It depends on what stage your company is, but the vast majority of start ups fail… so for most people at startups, cash is going to be much more reliable. I worked at two startups prior to my current job that both went out of business. I had a few opportunities to take more equity or cash, and I’m glad I took cash every time. I would have gotten zero if I took the equity.
"someone else does the same thing" doesn't mean it is ok.
This is foolish.

When public companies give stock to their employees, they dilute the stock as much as if they issued stock and sold it. So the cost of that compensation is the same as if it were in cash.

If everyone knows that say, Netflix's stock price is guaranteed to go up 20% a year for the next 5 years, then the market price of that stock would suddenly jump up to the point where it no longer makes excess returns. So the market price of the stock reflects the company's (risk-adjusted) growth potential already. This also applies to non-public companies with any amount of maturity - the marginal investor has a good sense of what the company is worth and does not want to lose out by issuing stock below that.

Put these two together and giving employees stock is economically not very different to giving them money and they choosing to invest it in mutual funds. The main difference is that you make your employees' lives slightly harder - with taxation and with the fact that they need to sell stock to get cash for what they want to buy or invest in.

The reason that stock options are preferred, especially for private companies, are none of them very good. Firstly employees have an inflated perception of what their company will be worth in the future. They assume that it's going to be AirBnB, not WeWork, not Palantir, and not the failed start-up that you've never heard of. Secondly employees also don't correctly discount uncertainty. Would you rather have the cash to buy your dream home/pay off your mortgage, or take a 10% chance of
10 times that amount of money? To most of us the second option is worth considerably less. Thirdly companies sometimes feel better about giving out pieces of paper that they have an unlimited supply of than giving out their own cash, even though it's a wash financially. And lastly there used to be some tax advantages to firms paying with stock options - those were loopholes which have largely been closed.

Making your employees into investors (by giving them stock options) only made economic sense when venture capital money was scarce and expensive. This has not been the case for a long time.
> 45-percent error margin that makes the results less than statistically significant

Did you even read the link?
The US has the luxury of not being invaded by a country 3x as big. Ukraine doesn't really have the luxury of picking and choosing who is allowed to defend.
Go read @a2_4am's reverse engineering of old Apple ][ copy protection code. The code itself is amazingly tricky and the work to decipher it even more so.
Yes, I've experienced most of these with nginx and it can be a minefield. The best experience I've had configuring a webserver was lighttpd.
No worries, thought it might help others with finding it.
YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, GitHub, Pixar, NeXT, Siri, Android
From Dev Go Live: What should be considered?
What needs to be considered from the development environment to the production environment?
The UK is big on league tables. Hospitals, schools, universities, police, ambulance and fire services and so on.

The paper below explores some of the statistical questions that ranking organisations on outcome measures of some kind raises.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/cmm/migrated/d...

I'm working my way through Dr Thaddeus's paper now to see if it fits with or dis-confirms the framework of Goldstein and Spiegelhalter.
There is one relatively easy way, but it is also one that is non-obvious.

If you click the careers button it takes you to the careers page of the parent company, since they don't want to bother creating a separate careers service for the sub-brand to fully maintain the ruse.
I don’t understand why people pretend a few radical/obscure internet comments is proof of a belief system.

No one is traumatized by this and no one is giving up their profession.
Yup! Write "Not at this Address" and put it in the outbox if you have one, or back in your mailbox with flag up.
Here are some more alternatives with comparisons between them https://uxtools.co/tools/design

Penpot should be added to this list.
-5.4% today

-8% 5-day

-19.25% 1-month

-76% YTD

-79% 12-month
Is this actually true? I am looking up several different products and the off-Amazon prices are all lower. I do not shop on Amazon because of cost.

> In a statement, an Amazon spokesperson said California had the situation "exactly backwards." Third-parties still have control over prices, Amazon claimed, and inclusion in the "Buy Box" space supposedly shows that a deal is truly competitive. It further contended that the suit would raise prices. You can read the full statement below.

I know we should take official Amazon statements with a huge grain of salt, but after the Prop K fiasco, I am worried about people not actually bothering to research actual Amazon business practices before pushing something like this.
> BTC miners can be put near the oil pad to consume the electricity there.

It is happening so rarely that it can be dismissed and treated as smoke screen.

1) It is less than 0.01% of all energy consumed by BTC

2) Would still require energy waste on equipment
I used to talk about hacking the Gibson all the time. Gotta bring that back for the anniversary.
Oh god, I remember this. My mom sent it to her sister who was outraged — frothing at the mouth, practically — that someone could do something so cruel. It was hard to convince her that it was a fake, and then of course she said that such things should be banned.

I also know that she enjoys veal, so as usual, human hypocrisy WRT animal exploitation knows no bounds.
I'm sure you can set up a raspi to deploy this with minimal running costs.
Nah. Druck isn't one of those types. Bill Ackman is.

Druck is just known to change his opinion when the facts change or he comes to a new conclusion. There's some anecdote about him completely flipping on a position when going in and out on an elevator ride that I can't quite remember.

By the way, sideways means that the stock market is going nowhere long or short. IMO, currencies and commodities are a far better place to speculate.
I like it so much, reading your comment make exited to reading your blogpost. In moments like this I wish there was sth in hacker news that would allow tracking progress of e.g. your project. In twitter you can just follow people, reddit has remindme thing.
Not at all the same thing, but Gartner Research tore OS X apart in the late 90s, and said Apple was dead and walking.
> Power inlets aren't particularly expensive (relative to the cost of the generator, or burning down the house, or death).

Most portable generators that people would buy to power their house during an outage are in the $500-$800 range (e.g. https://www.harborfreight.com/generators-engines/generators/...).

In another post I noted the costs, but proper installation of a generator inlet at my house, done DIY but to code with a permit and inspection, would cost me $480 just in parts. For the vast majority of people, this is not a DIY job as it involves opening the main panel, so for most they will need an electrician.

So, I'd argue that a proper power inlet is actually quite expensive, roughly equal to the cost of a low-end generator (the type most people are going to be buying for an occasional outage situation). Though I certainly agree with the last part ("relative to the cost of...burning down the house or death").
Find old syllabi and assignments online or ask the prof / a subreddit for some. Shittier schools to tend to have easier and more boring assignments and projects (eg "build a calculator", "list facts about X").
Exactly. RCS is just an implementation detail. It could be that or anything else.
Except that the U.S. is a privacy hostile country so if you live here you risk a search whenever you leave.
Surely it encourages competition: Since the cost cannot just be passed onto consumers, the company making the decision over where to list has an incentive to actually consider other options?

Also, the only reason we want competition is because it should get lower prices for consumers. Competition isn't a good in and of itself, it's just a means to an end. So if more competition means higher prices for the same goods, then who needs it?

I don't quite get your second point: if the consumer is paying the same price, why do they care whether 100% goes to the supplier, or 99% or 0.01? If an item costs me 10USD, I don't care who get's that money, I just care that I don't get to keep it right
Those were the good days, between me and my buddies we had a Pavkard Bell, a Micron, a Gateway 2000, and a home built or two. We played C&C, red alert, doom, quake, descent and some old fashioned board game Axis and Allies when we got tired on the computers.
That was a dismissive and disrespectful comment. I told you what my attitude is, so don't just ignore that and then proceed to tell me what my attitude is. No, using Wikipedia as we all do is not a "much more mercenary attitude", it's just commons, as all globally shared infrastructure should be. Your morality is just inconsistent.
I'd say one reason is that nobody wants to type '_' :)

Maybe using '.' would work (ie. blog.publish) but the sub-command pattern (ie space separating) seems well established and slightly easier than typing '.'
Thanks. Replied there!
> There are laws and regulations about marketing a college degree

That's easy to evade by having staff researchers who profit from the success of college publish the marketing material instead.

The popular choice is the one where they show that smart people who have few life challenge are able to graduate college and also do well in the workplace while those who suffer from disabilities and other life challenges fail to graduate and also struggle in the workplace. Often entitled something to the effect of "Is a college degree worth it?"

The research is 100% valid. Smart people with few life challenges statistically do much better in virtually everything they try over people with crippling disabilities and other life challenges (drug addiction, poverty, etc.). That includes college and the workplace along with a whole lot of other things people like to do in life. There is good reason the Fortune 500 doesn't have down syndrome sufferers as CEOs, as unfortunate as that may be.

But it doesn't tell us much and only confuses the issue with selection bias. This is where it gets picked up by the layman who then thinks: "Look! College graduates have an easier life. If I go to college, my life will be easier too!" without realizing that not going to college won't actually cause contraction of down syndrome or push them into a new drug addiction and that colleges fail, if not deny entry to, anyone who struggles.
YouTube in 2006:

“Hey everybody, upload your videos, so everyone can watch them for free!”

YouTube in 2022:

“Hey everybody, if you want to watch everyone’s videos, you gotta watch 10 ads first or pay us money!”
I have a table saw in my garage. It was my dad's that he gave to me when he moved. He bought it in the 70s. It's a fantastic saw - it cuts through pretty much anything. I grew up learning how to use a table saw with this exact piece of equipment. I never had a mishap, nor did my dad - that saw has never tasted human. I was taught to be careful with it, and respect the fact that humans are easier for it to dismember than a board.

It sits in a corner collecting dust and reminding me of the fun times my pops and I built stuff together because I bought a saw-stop. Sure i could probably spend the next 2-3 decades safely using the old saw and never hurting myself - but why? I like my hands and fingers attached to my body - being careful will probably keep them in that state, but when I have stronger guarantees from the new gear, I'll use that instead - and recommend the same to others.
> The proprietary lock-in... I don't agree with in that if that is an issue

I was thinking here primarily about network effects.
Thanks for making this, it's awesome!
The difference is that for FLOSS it is sufficient for anyone to care enough (time and money) but for proprietary software it is NECESSARY for the copyright holder to care and to be alligned or at least not in direct conflict with the users.
Antisemitism is significantly higher in Russia than Ukraine according to polling.