skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to other replies here, Facebook is also the only one of these that is deliberately trying to hurt your mental health. They have internal studies showing these results and they actually optimize for them, since angry and depressed users are known to increase their engagement with the platform.
FYI you have some rogue script or something on the page that brings my pretty hefty windows 10 pc to a halt. It spikes my CPU to 100% and the page is in like 1FPS. I think it's your countdown thing for pricing. Something is def up with it, you may want to disable that temp.
And would such craft be allowed to launch from your average airport?
Yeah, the ads are actually relevant sometimes and they don't demand 30 seconds of my life, so massive improvements all around. I don't see much suggested content unless I scroll too long, at which point I probably do need some more content.
If you'll excuse the sidetrack, I just want to hit on the "fire in a crowded theater" comment you made. It's frequently cited by people supportive of censorship, but it's quite an ironic choice once one learns the history of said quote. It was a comment quoted from Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (the same individual who also set legal precedent for state-driven eugenics with another oft referenced quote) in the case Schenck v. United States.

And what was that case about? What was this "screaming fire in a crowded theater"? It was the analog that the government chose to use for being the same as them arresting people, under the Espionage Act, for the vile crime of handing out pamphlets encouraging people to resist the military draft. Shenck himself faced up to 30 years in prison. There could scarcely ever be a better argument against ever allowing the government the right to censor.
Who said the censorship pressure came from the executive branch and not the other branches as well?
> Whether or not it's true,

Australia could not even design a proper national broadband network.
So if we engage with facebook more, and invest more time, we can have slightly better content?
In some places in the US, if you commit a felony 3 times, you go to jail for life. Usually it has to be a violent felony, but every state is different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law
That reminds me, Central Park is a fun series by some of the same creators. Sweet stories, and I enjoy the music most of all.
The fact is that, regardless of whether it's factually true, the first scenario is clearly (and awfully) credible enough for people to go "I've had enough of this shit".

People don't like to revolt - it's messy, risky, dangerous, and chances it will end badly for any one person are way over 50%. If they do it, it's because they experience an incredible amount of nonsensical authoritarianism throughout their daily life, to the point that they feel they have nothing to lose from trying to change things.
The right place to put these kinds of posts is the “Who’s hiring?” discussion, here the one for September 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32677265

You can find developers in the September 2022 “Who wants to be hired?”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32677261
You mean for the company itself? Not revealing that publicly just yet.

But as for the open source platform, for products like Linux or FreeBSD or Discourse, what's the MRR?
Probably not intentional.
Have you looked at Kutt?
Is this not already possible with things like LineageOS?
I've only been through Silicon Valley a handful of times, and the signage was one of the most striking things for me too. It's just an immediately visible indicator that the place is an outlier. I think, "wow, the density of software industry architects and executives and investors is so high here that it makes more sense to put up a billboard for them than one for consumers."

The only other place where I've seen something similar is in Washington, DC, where you'll get advertisements on the Metro for things like fighter jet engines, apparently aimed at congressional staffers and Defense Department executives.
> Yup, almost everyone at MS is using Teams internally

Really? So they have to know how awful it is. That makes its continued awfulness even more perplexing.
The GCE API can be idempotent if you'd like. Fill out the requestId field with the same UUID in multiple instances.insert calls (or other mutation calls) and you will receive the same operation Id back in response.

Disclaimer: I work on GCE.
I know it’s a nuance but Apple doesn’t license its OS to other manufacturers. So while Google dictates “if you use the Android OS you must bundle Chrome”, Apple isn’t dictating terms like that to another manufacturer.
Agree... The diversity runs about skin deep and that's it. Most people in their 20s and 30s are still children of rich/UMC parents. Very few people I have met in SV are from lower class families.

Socioeconomically - it's a wildly monolithic culture. Extremely capitalistic as well to where many people cannot fathom anything that doesn't fall outside the purview of capitalism because they've been taken so strongly by it and it's all they've ever known. You run into plenty of leftists/communists/socialists and what not too but they have no power or positions of authority... Usually just ICs or random people around Berkeley.
Teams is so awful. It constantly logs me out, while I’m in the middle of a meeting, talking.

From the perspective of other users, I just quit the call all of a sudden. How can that be acceptable UX?
Hi Darren here PM for Runner.

Yes if you compare just the price of a compute minute, then it is fair to state that the per-minute price is more than other services or do-it-yourself Runner on public clouds. And, of course, with GitLab, you can easily attach a self-managed Runner to a group or project, as there are no limitations or additional pricing that would prevent you from doing so.

However, we believe that the value of the GitLab SaaS solution will save you additional overhead costs over the long term compared to a do-it-yourself build environment. And we will continue to add more value to GitLab SaaS in the coming months, which your developers will immediately be able to use.
Fortunately Telegram is still up. People are using MTProxy to use Telegram even on blocked internet and it's made it possible for people to organize protests and spread information quickly.
Connecting BI tools to streaming data in Kafka and ksqlDB
So glad to hear that!!
Google's reaction.

> We are disappointed that the Court did not annul the decision in full. Android has created more choice for everyone, not less, and supports thousands of successful businesses in Europe and around the world.

s/Android/Windows/ and s/Europe/USA/ and it could be Microsoft at the end of the antitrust case in the 90s.
That's a tautology, the spending for every government will primarily go on "programmes and projects".
I did a spreadsheet some time ago with the appropriate proportions, taking the data from the NASA website, just for fun, thinking about how big the solar system would be if the sun would be like a 60cm diameter (big) beach balloon.

My results:

Mercury: 26m away, pinhead alike.

Venus: 49m away, pea alike.

Earth: 67m away, pea alike (again).

Mars: 103m away, small lentil alike.

Jupiter: 350m away, tennis ball alike.

Saturn: 645m away, golf ball alike.

Uranus: 1,3km~ away, 2€ coin alike.

Neptune: 2km~ away, 1€ coin alike.

PS. Forgot the most impressive info by far... in that "beach ballon=star" scale, our closest star neighbor is almost 7,000kms away!
Didn't think they'd handle punycode like that.
>What’s wrong with normal URLs?

Length (in many contexts). Agree or disagree, but that answers your question for the "why" from what I have seen in my experience. Marketing wants to link to something sexy like "te.st/dog" vs "news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32939407". Many sites may have longer url structures (esp nested structures) for various reasons that are not easy to remember or sexy to have on an ad, so when it's short it's easy to remember, and simple to type out for the user.
I good number of them will also rape and murder Ukrainians.

I won't say you shouldn't be feeling for the Russians, but maybe at least feel as much for the Ukrainian victims?
> They also don’t have evidence that anything was illegal, since preventing misinformation & speculation isn’t illegal and might not be protected by the First Amendment.

IANAL (and I'm sure you aren't either), but if you actually read the wikipedia article you linked to, that specific area of constitutional law is vague and far from settled:

> The basis for this ruling was the Court's fear that "a rule compelling the critic of official conduct to guarantee the truth of all his factual assertions" would lead to "self-censorship".[15] This determination altered the theory of the 'false statements' free speech exception. Even if a false statement generally would be harmful for public discourse, the Court quoted John Stuart Mill in arguing a false statement in this context would bring "the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error".[16]

> Issues "of public concern"

The leading case on what an issue "of public concern" is Dun & Bradstreet v. Greenmoss Builders (1985). In Dun & Bradstreet, the Supreme Court considered whether a credit reporting service which distributed fliers to their only five subscribers qualified as an action of "public concern". As it was "hardly and unlikely to be deterred by incidental state regulation", the Court concluded it did not qualify.[5] This decision did not provide strong guidance on the issue.[20]

This vague area of law in regards to false statements of fact can lead to a variety of arguments over what is relevant or has public importance.[20][21]

(emphasis is mine^)

Anyway, I'm not arguing it was or was not illegal, since that is a matter for the courts to decide. You could be right, but I'm skeptical
> I meant it in that sense, that those pushing it knew full well that it wasn’t true but had ulterior motives.

Who is an example of that in this context?
I could not agree more. These companies who use algorithms to choose what user content to display should be held to the same standard as a publisher where a human chooses what letters to the editor to print in the newspaper.

Fools think of social media as similar to a telephone and thus just a neutral platform, because you can communicate with each other. For hypothetical social media without an algorithmic feed (like Facebook at its inception, or phpbb forums, or IRC or Slack or email etc) this would be true.

But modern social media does not just neutrally show what has been posted without favor to any. It is a machine that is carefully built by a large team to choose the posts that will most optimize the company's goals (mainly profit).

Thus it's much more like a print newspaper's letter to the editors section, because out of a large number of submitted user posts, the company (using their algorithms to save themselves labor costs) they choose just a few to promote highly. Fundamentally, algorithmic recommendation is speech and endorsement by the algorithm operator, and if they have a problem with that, they can always put a human in the loop.

It is crazy (and represents huge wealth transfer from society to these companies-- and moreover from the poorer to the richer) that they get away with having less responsiblity for doing something just because they automated it.

By the same logic, it's bad for me to shoot people with a gun but becomes fine as long as it's not me doing it, but some Rube Goldberg contraption that automatically fires at people near my house.

By the same logic, it may be illegal to knowingly sell cigarettes to minors, but you can just make a vending machine with no access control and then it's fine.

Absolutely insane that they get away with less responsibility despite making the same editorial decisions, with the same benefits accruing to themselves, as a traditional publisher that picks and chooses what to display.

And our whole society has absorbed this stupid paradigm. You hear people conflating the right to free speech with the right to have your speech amplified above other speech, which obviously makes no sense since it's a zero sum game. But you have people pretending the algorithms are invisible natural things.

By the way, I am pessimistic. We are in too deep. An entire generation of school children is being raised on this stuff, and has been for almost a decade, creating a deep generational cycle of dependence. And ad tech has taken over the S&P500, making the wealthy elite dependent on the profits. It's just far too valuable a means of social control for it to just be given up without some countervailing force to incentivize it.
> What I don't understand is why they need to (or should be allowed to) retain that data in perpetuity.

Probably because there is no law saying you need to delete the data in X days.
>Strict non-competes being allowed is probably the only factor that really matters there.

And, honestly, while this can be a big deal in other states--especially if you want to start a competing business--there seems to sometimes be a belief that people don't change jobs in other states. I've worked pretty much my whole career in Massachusetts and non-competes have never been an issue. The one time I had to sign one after an acquisition, it was reasonably scoped.

Mass has very recently, over long-time resistance from some local large employers, put somewhat weak garden leave requirements in place, however. While not ideal, it does mean an employer has skin in the game if they really don't want someone to go to a competitor.
The Tom Scott video referenced below claims William was supposed to be the future king of Scotland, I did no further fact checking though.
He is a fabricated profile

If you want to hear about true visionary individuals, i suggest you Carlos Ghosn [1], instead of an american social media celebrity praised by people who own some $TSLA and are working for media outlets

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeoeJyJmN4&t=455s
I'm not clear on what you want? There are two mobile operating systems, do you want some company to make another one? What is stopping them?
Manticore Search [1] is a good alternative to Elasticsearch if you prefer SQL

[1]: https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-alternative-to-el...
They're using Telegram now with MTProxy.
I am not sure if you travel cross continent a lot. I live in India and for me to travel to the US for work takes 24 hours of continuous travel over multiple flights. If I can cut it down to 12 hrs, that would be a game changer for me.
Laser scans reveal ancient cities hidden in the Amazon river basin
This law results in people landing in jail for being habitual criminals. Being poor does not excuse criminal behavior.
I don't see what special about double brackets? It's just calling the operator again on the result, completely intuitive.
Less time spent in software development on optimization. That might sound horrible at first, but also means that less resources need to be used for programming something
Not heating a house leads to mould. It’s cheaper to keep the house adequately warm than get rid of mould.
Kubernetes Cost Monitoring: 3 Metrics You Need to Track ASAP
Sure, I'm claiming that many problems that would be easily IO bound on other languages, are in fact CPU bound in python.
I actually specifically decided not to start any app companies because of the risk inherent with being on the App Store. Apple wield their power to heavy handidly. I’ve been affected by it at my last couple of jobs where apple just stonewalls or otherwise makes a complete mess of trying to get something in the App Store. It’s too much platform risk. They’re starting to push innovators away.
I have a love/hate relationship with it. I follow many statistics & data science professionals and it's a great way to discover new books, resources, and content. But you have to wade through a lot of crap, even with a heavily curated feed. It feels like it is getting worse to the point where it isn't worth it anymore.
Reread the first sentence very carefully.
The second sentence defines (i.e. gives a "meaning" to) the term.
Never is a big word. Every time the EU levies fines like this it's effectively the market getting smaller.

Also, there's degrees of exit. Google can exit the market and have zero presence in the EU whilst still sub-licensing tech to affiliates who pay for the privilege and resell their stuff, whilst dealing with all the local regulatory overheads. Plenty of firms use that sort of model.
Building a YouTube Alerts System with Python, Kafka and Telegram
What prevents lightning network operators from making transactions records and details available --- for fun and/or profit?

Better yet, what prevents a lightning network operator from going rogue and draining your account to fund his retirement and then moving to Tonga?

Imagine the outcry if government suddenly announced that all your fiat bank transactions will be routed through small, unregulated 3rd party operators who can do as they see fit with them?
Am I understanding this correctly that this would be a push and rebranding of HDR10+?
What, exactly, is “not true” about the great barrington declaration? What is “not true” about the fact that lockdowns were not in any pandemic playbook prior to 2020? What is “not true” about the fact the median age of Covid death is like 5 years higher than the average human lifespan? What is “not true” about the fact you still cannot reliably differentiate between “died of” and “died with” Covid?

In your case, I suspect “not true” simply means “I don’t agree”. You should really question why you believe the “facts” you do and examine why somebody else might think different. Who knows, maybe they have very valid points?
Do you mean passive income?
Show HN: I’ve built a “data Twitter” real-time dashboard
There were some interesting comments on the related post "What's new in Jakarta EE 10?" recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32838321
And Google has decided to make a living out of breaking the law regularly.
Is there a special thing to prevent being blocked from most platforms? For instance, if I post your shortlink on HackerNews, can I be marked as "dupe"
I see they are also annoyed at cookie banners:

> SEC. 210. UNIFIED OPT-OUT MECHANISMS.
For the rights established under sections 204(b) and (c), and section 206(c)(3)(D) not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall establish one or more acceptable privacy protective, centralized mechanisms, including global privacy signals such as browser or device privacy settings, for individuals to exercise all such rights through a single interface for a covered entity to utilize to allow an individual to make such opt out designations with respect to covered data related to such individual.
The host operating system does not give me more or less confidence in the security of a guest user’s web browsing data.
[Steamshipper here]

We debated this a lot internally -- specifically whether we should pick a less charged initial dataset to experiment with.

In the end, one of the reasons we decided to run with it was because we felt the controversy times listenership actually made it more needing of computer-assisted search.

There aren't a lot of potentially hazardous situations that could benefit from a deep analysis of Fresh Air, but there are quite a few situations related to Rogan's show that probably could have been engaged with more effectively if there was better access to the underlying data.

The hope is that easier search into "original/source data" will ultimately act as a net-positive societally. E.g.: best way to show the Rogan show was behaving irresponsibly during the pandemic is to make it really easy to get the receipts. But more generally -- so too on either side of any debate.

Totally agree on the "AI and nuance" problem. I think this is going to be perpetual (and good, and necessary) question that needs a lot of attention.
No thanks. I don't want the federal government micromanaging social media product features. That should be left open to innovation and competition.

If feeds default to ordering by recency then some accounts are going to post constantly just to always appear at the top. This will hide more valuable content.

From a public policy standpoint, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has proposed extending Common Carrier legislation to cover social media. It's an interesting idea but I'm not sure whether it would be a net improvement.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/05/984440891/justice-clarence-th...
Pittsburgh politics are not midwest conservative, unless you include the heavy suburban regions which are not where the tech companies are.
In-home wireless device tracks disease progression in Parkinson’s patients
You can also use multiple transcription engines and then use mismatches among the text streams to narrow down the % of content that needs to be reviewed. This is quite similar to multi-voting OCR for document images.

The principle is that the engines have different failure modes (hopefully) and therefore the 2-3% error rate of each engine is in different areas of the audio. The key underlying assumption is that the events are mutually exclusive.

With 3 engines, you can use something like 2-of-3 stream matches to override the stream that mismatches.
iPhone 14 and 14 Pro review: A picture is worth a thousand dollars
> then you’ve probably realized that there is no good way to talk to them.

How about not talking to them? Have you considered that they don’t want to engage in a communication-level relationship with every single app they use? How about respecting their time and emotional energy and not bombarding them with communications?
1.8 mil is “well-payed”…?
Me neither. Not planning on spending a year listening to just 1 podcast. :)

Re: quality - Entity extraction is super reliable given proper transcriptions. Summaries are having a hard time though. Some of them give random names to the guests. I saw Elon Musk getting called "Francis" before.

Re: Steamship - We're building a developer SDK for language packages. We're a great solution if you need stateful (you can search using language AI features) or you want an easy interface to tag documents.

We've done text classification before in our ticket tagger. Here's a blog that explains how we did it: https://medium.com/steamship/bootstrapping-classification-wi...
Zuckerberg and a lot of tech/SM CEOs have a strong "rules for thee, not for me" vibe when it comes to personal privacy. One day they'll claim "privacy is outdated" or "a matter of context" in relation to their business, and the next they'll spend fortunes to protect and insist on personal privacy for their family and themselves. One can only imagine that billions they make do a lot to paper over the ethical void at the heart of many of the businesses under their control.
Does the money in these cases go to government? Not sure how it is in the EU.

This is one of the aspects of government-based fines I dislike. The money should go to the people, the victims, not government. They go after a company that may have damaged consumers and then proceed to grab the fine instead of giving it to the people who were the actual victims of the transgression.
Anecdotally every non-tech person I know gives literally zero Fs about their data/privacy. They're FAR more annoyed by the cookie / tracking pop-ups than what they represent, and would generally opt to just be tracked everywhere than be annoyed with the question. I'd also say that the majority of my tech friends feel about the same, and do not care, and have the "I have nothing to hide / who cares if they see my boring life" attitude.
I certainly wasn't in that room, but...

Because it's a big city on island of Java?
I have 11809 files in my repo. Opening a git tool (GittyUp) on this repo takes minutes but seconds on Fossil (on a Pi4 with USB3 NVMe).

I use Windows + Linux machines + Pi and share between them so don't use the Pi4 exclusively but have noticed a difference in its ability to handle and open the repo.