skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were a bunch of ad marketplaces that were pretty transparent - (buysellads.com? not sure, and many others) because they were pretty basic, you were buying ads directly on websites. Google is not transparent on the publisher or the advertiser side. Advertisers "bid" on "keywords" with the amount that google suggests (pulled out of their ass? who knows). On the publisher side, if you add "auto ads" on any website, a bunch of ads appear all over the place, most of the time breaking your page layout. You are given an RPM for your ads that , as far as i know, could also be pulled out of their ass. They control the inflow and the outflow, and adjust according to their cashflow needs. Advertisers like them because they provide a lot of bloated dashboards with fancy graphs as proof of their work.
This doesn't seem realistic.

If they could afford to move to SF they could also afford to fly to SF to visit. The author would already see them more than once a year.

Selling the east coast house and coming up with an extra $400k (wild guestimate) to move to SF is not spare change most people have lying around.

just sayin'
You missed _their_ point. If seeing you is so important why arent they on the hook for at least 1/2 of the visits (more so if they're rich and retired, ie it costs them relatively nothing).

Yes the author should do what he wants to do that maximizes his life utility (ie, go see them instead of doing lesser things). But also there's something about a relationship where the other person refuses to come to you, can't make the effort to travel, buy the plane tickets, or whatever their excuse is.

Though I most always travel to see my mother, one way she helps mitigates is she frequently buys my plane tickets. She won't fly, but if I'll make the time, she'll bear the cost-- so there's definitely can be negotiation... but if someone will only see you on their convenience, and your expense, I'd rethink the value of that relationship
What makes you say those claims are falling flat? Nigerians are heavily using Bitcoin and the LN for financial privileges. Check some of Alex Gladstein's (CSO at Human Rights Foundation) articles.
> I really can't get over imagining what a weird dude George is.

Unless he's a real estate agent.
I don't hold with any of this "codified right" nonsense.

Forgive me, but the tone of this comes across like talking to someone from the sovereign citizen movement. Maybe you don't think workers have the right to a safe workplace, but the majority of US society does and has passed laws to ensure it. People don't believe in workers rights because there are laws; there are laws because people believe in workers rights.

It's worth discussing if you think the law is wrong, but outright dismissing it as if it doesn't exist is a strange take. I hope for your sake you aren't a supervisor.

So if I understand your position, it's that workers should not be guaranteed a safe workplace. You point out deaths, but overlook the other non-lethal incidents. So assume their bad practices lead to a criticality event that subjected other employees to radiation exposure. Employees that had no input into the decision or actions that lead to the risk. Is that ok in your opinion as long as the number of workplace injuries is below a threshold? Is your stance that the employer can just hand wave away any responsibility by essentially telling the employee "Welp, at least you're not working in a steel mill." By contrast, worker safety regulations define workers safety in this case on a radiation dose basis, irrespective of what goes on in a steel mill. I would say that's a much more objective measure of managing worker risk.

The main point I'm making is that your comparison to the aggregate average workplace injury rate is the wrong perspective. The way organizations like OSHA look at employers is by comparing similar industries. So the safety record of a chemical processing plant isn't compared to something like a pharmacy because the nature of the risks are different. The article clearly states that LANL has a much worse safety record to comparable facilities. I agree that safety regulations can go too far, but you're selecting the wrong benchmark and using it to justify erosion away employee rights with a fairly subjective and arbitrary definition of what is determined reasonable risk.
"Did you and George have a good time?"
"Sort of. He stared at me blankly for a while, and then he told me my parents were going to die soon."
"..."
"Do you want to move to the East Coast?"
"Sure."
Sure they could have, but in the thread, the author mentions a partner with parents also on the east coast, and while that person is not the focus of the thread, it's "just math" that it is easier to move one set of people than two, particularly if that one set doesn't have as deeply set roots as the other two parties do. That's all market notwithstanding.
Exactly. My parents aggressively saved for retirement and are quite comfortable where they live even factoring potential future inflation, but there's nowhere within a couple hours of Seattle/SanFran they could afford to live.
ah thanks, but sadly that's not the one
So 12-15 mins + 10 laying down. Twice. ~ 40 mins or so per day you’re taking to sit/lay and do nothing (I assume you aren’t on the phone or reading/listening).

I wonder how much of this is simply the meditation effect / you’re just taking true mental breaks.
Reminds me of Graeber's bullshit jobs theory. We have people generating fake clicks so that the ad departments at big companies can feel important.
Could you elaborate please? PC players play on jailbroken (in a sense) machine. Why this "rampant cheating that will ultimately ruin games across consoles" did not happened already with jailbroken PS4?
Nice attempt at guilting me, Satan, but my mom is way, way worse than you.

If I were you, I’d be deeply concerned about only having 15 years left to yourself. Enjoy hell while it’s still warm and toasty down there.
You might want to watch the documentary of the same name by Sandia National Labs:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLouetuxaIMDrht4F8xiS4...

About 2.5 hours (after sanitizing still-classified material).

What has to be done to make it work "exactly when we want it to go boom" and also "never when we don't want it to go boom" is fascinating.

Some of the other videos from Sandia and Lawrence Livermore are fascinating. One was about "well, how do you generate truly random numbers without leaking those numbers" (the random numbers used as crypto-keys in permissive action links), the answer turned out to be of the order of "use the radioactive decay from inside the warhead itself".
Yeah, I’m not much of a lover of visiting myself; I’m a half hour from my sister’s family and my mother (who live together) and that’s just about perfect. It’s close enough that I can help if they need me, but not so close that it’s easy for them to ask me to watch kids for them all the time … ok, I’m a selfish bastard, I admit it.
That world exists in the imaginary term: the land of wonderful things we could have in the long term, if everyone would just not do the thing they absolutely will do in the short term.

All solutions that need everyone to "just" unfortunately have one thing in common: they fail.

It doesn't matter what could happen if everyone "just"—they won't. It doesn't matter that "but if they did"—they won't. It doesn't matter that "Ok, but if"—they won't.

"But if" is not a possibility, and operating like it is will only keep us from whatever progress toward that wonderful thing we could actually make, incomplete as it might be.
Nobody claims that real currencies are immune to loss of utility as a store of value.
Kremlin unclear on which parts of Ukraine it has ‘annexed’
Why are we seeing a dupe of a LinkedIn-style "motivational" post on the same day? The dupe was literally a few hours ago here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33038272
Turkey is not just some “third world economy”. It’s manufacturing exports have been doing great with cheap domestic currency and the tourism sector has remained strong, especially with the influx of involuntary tourists from Russia.

Turkey is also a NATO member and occupies strategic territory. It will not die on the vine and wither away in silence.
Old-Timers from the Floss (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) Front [video]
What part of Turkey's ballooning inflation indicates that he is right? So far, everything has pointed to him being wrong.
This is a failure to understand responsibility here.

The professor is not responsible for holding your hand and explain every little term—especially terms like “office hours”, which are bog standard at literally every university. This isn’t some arcane obscure term—it’s college classes 101.

College is a useful learning experience for this type of responsibility. You say its not “self-explanatory”? Good! This is a great opportunity for the 18-year-old to learn what to do when something is not obvious. Ask! Don’t just assume it’s irrelevant.

College is a crash course in (small parts of) the real world. If you can’t figure out office hours, you’re gonna have a hard time when it comes to taxes, loans, and other real world things. And the consequences in the real world are much more severe and Real than a bad grade on a problem set.
I do not consider flu shots as a vaccine.

This feels like a cover-up. Instead of supporting criticising, we downplay what a vaccine really is. Fact: A lot of people are disappointed in the effectiveness of a covid vaccine. Disclaimer: Not arguing the use-fullness, only the effectiveness.

Covid shots would have been a better term.
If your point is that it is too onerous to use the modern internet without being spied on, yes I agree.
Yeah, I get the feeling George may not exist outside of the author's imagination.

Sure, there could be back story that fed that interaction, but I'm betting that didn't happen and it is a way of framing an unpopular decision in a flattering light.
We need more nurses, doctors, and software developers. I admire nurses, doctors. They help all of us a lot during Covid-19. I could not post this port without helping from doctor when i suffered covid-19's complication.
Userscripts should go into testing soon. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/known-issue...
Easiest life hack ever - pay attention to the passage of time during events which you wish to remember as taking "forever", and don't pay attention to the passage of time during events which you wish to remember as passing more quickly. This is the root of "time flies when you're having fun" and "a watched pot never boils".
Nothing that the launch of EthereumKim won't solve
You have a legal responsibility to share the information you know with the SEC. Do what's right and don't be afraid of these tech bros, they're probably busy pissing their pants right now anyways.
This is the dichotomy. The company’s purchasing the ads want to spend based on conversions - the ad companies want to charge based on impression or clicks (if forced).
I understand this sentiment, but I've also been at the other end of it. The reality is that most people have a limited amount of travel time, fairly limited amount of money and a longer list of trips they'd like to make. I've got some great friends who've moved to places far away - but unless they're very, very close friends it's really hard to justify spending thousands, taking time off work and then spending hours travelling to see them for a few days. If I was in the area I'd definitely look them up - but I simply can't base my entire family's limited holiday time around seeing them. Add children into the mix and that becomes even harder.
As always, though, correlation != causation. It could well be the case that half of children (autistic or not) have some extra innate capacity for socialization, and that typical parenting choices don't provide those children as much social input as their brain wants at a certain stage of development, and hence they make up imaginary friends to interact with in order to satisfy their enhanced social needs. In other words, the imaginary friends could be an effect rather than a cause.
While not quibbling with the math, I think there are two things that mitigate this meaningfully.

1) quality of the time spent (I have more meaningful conversations in a couple of hours now, than months as a child + much of that time was spent administratively / logistically)

2) voice / video / text communication is not meaningless (I’ve lived >1,500 miles from my parents for the past ~12 years, but on average probably talk to them one a week? Those conversations matter, and shouldn’t be discarded for in-person time)
It looks like the fine was much more than she got paid.
"uBlock Origin Lite" is bad branding as there is a convention of using "Lite" to suggest reduced hardware requirements.

They should have named it something like "uBlock Origin Tame".
25% of job seekers would actively turn down a job offer if it didn’t allow the option to work from home
For me moving farther away from my family has been key to spend more time with them.

They live about 150km away from me. Because it’s a relative long distance they will always sleep over when they come (and me when I go to them), and we get to spend the weekend together in one house.

My brother, who lives in the same city, meets them more often but for just an evening or afternoon. He always complains I get to spend more time with them even though he lives 10m away.

BTW, I realize that 150km would be “close” for US and other big countries. In the Netherlands that’s the difference between east and west. :-)
Who the fuck is Fabrice Bellard?
I think that's part of the problem I see with the discussion regarding EVs in that everything is framed with the concept of a car and that some how all cities across the world will have the same kind of infrastructure standards (aka US styled stroads, Euclidean zoning, and so forth). If anything, EVs like you stated are likely to be slimmer, slower, and more useful to get around on than just replacing the SUV's ICE components with batteries and electric motors.
I moved from Germany to the US after college 30 years ago. My one regret is not having seen my parents and family as much. Now I only have a few visits left, sobering thought. Going there in a couple weeks though.
You could replace what you said with stocks, investing, and finance in general actually.
That happened to me too. When I moved to the US a lot of people said they would visit, especially once I was in California. But so far only two of my sisters and my mom have visited in 20 years. This made me in turn very reluctant to visit people when I fly to Europe. I guess it is what is but it is very disappointing.
The point is more that if you want to drive like that, you can. My partner and I will typically stop for five to ten minutes to fill up, take a quick toilet break, and then get back on the road. We'll eat in the car, because we're trying to get somewhere. And that time adds up. In this video [1], Engineering Explained spends 8 hours charging, a bit over 20% of his total trip time. That's staggering; it's effectively a whole day, and could mean the difference between staying in a hotel overnight, and sleeping in your own bed.

BEVs are fine for many people, but I don't think Toyota is wrong in their assessment. Requirements typically aren't set at the mean, they're set at the extreme. I know people who had to make emergency trips during COVID that wouldn't have been possible in a BEV. Hell, I went on a work trip with some colleagues the other day and we had to use my car, because my coworker's BEV wouldn't have made the distance back.

The reality is that a BEV isn't a one-to-one replacement for an ICEV, and ICEVs are still superior for the "non-average" use case. I'll think about getting a BEV if they're ever able to compete at Le Mans.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UskzfQJt2Bc
> Picking medical devices ... is also quite the cherry picking

It wasn't my example. It was mike_hock's, and I was responding in the context they had set.

> Most Linuxes aren't like that.

Your ally picked the medical-device and space-life-support examples. If you think they're invalid because such systems don't use Linux, why did you forego bringing it up with them and then change course when replying to me? As I said: not helpful.

The point is not specific to Linux, and more Linux systems than you seem to be aware of do adopt the "crash before doing more damage" approach because they have some redundancy. If you're truly interested, I had another whole thread in this discussion explaining one class of such cases in what I feel was a reasonably informative and respectful way while another bad-faith interlocutor threw out little more than one-liners.
As a person living in Turkey, yes it's really, REALLY horrible
TBF it's very unlikely anything running this will be able to connect to PSN at all, given this isn't for the current firmware as it is.
Considering that the same system is producing both students and teachers it seems very likely that the quality of both could be declining in a feedback loop. Less prepared instructors produce lower quality students who are themselves poor instructors.
We are a Turkish based startup. Only good thing is that we can be competitive in terms of pricing our product https://www.resmo.com/

Reality is that, everything become so expensive that I lost sense of prices for any goods, whether its food, electronics or utility.
It is news to me that the numbers could be this cooked.

I, perhaps naively, thought that trade numbers would betray any meaningful difference in GDP versus the reported figure. I am in the top 1% of news consumption. This is real news if the numbers are truly this different.

My main question on the graph relates to China. How much could pollution influence the makeup of this data?
'87 BBS kid here, started out at 300baud on my C64 and worked my way up as things progressed.

No leap in speed was more visually impressive and delightful than going from 300 to 1200 at 40 columns. Going from 1200 to 2400 at 80 columns felt weirdly slower.
Even the smallpox vaccine had only 95% effectiveness. It turns out that 95% effectiveness, herd immunity and the fact that smallpox is a DNA virus with low mutation rate (RNA viruses like covid19 have much higher mutation rate and as such a lot more variants reducing effectiveness of any given vaccine over time) was enough to eradicate Smallpox.

But that doesn't mean that the vaccine was 100% effective, as an other poster pointed out, some vaccinated children still got infected with small but the vaccine reduced the risk drastically https://daraj.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5a2b8126-e638-4...
15 years ago people were using PCs to surf the internet.

Now a huge portion of net traffic is mobile devices. Those are far more locked down. It is not as easy to install and use a new browser on IOS or Android devices.

People around here seem to forget that for a large number of internet users a phone or tablet is their primary interface.
Should have gone with "intensive purposes," it would be plausible enough to continue the confusion.
I can't find the button. I guess it's a hidden feature
It's about the economic and political system where things are not in abundance so to spread them among the population we give a financial value to each of those things and those who own the biggest wallet can get it. How do you get money in your wallet ? By already having money in your wallet: the more you have, the easier it is to have even more, because those who don't have enough must sell their time and energy, the only resource they have in abundance, to buy food and pay rent.

Digital scarcity doesn't exist. If you can copy one time, it costs nothing to copy a million times more. But that breaks the entire system, so it has to be artificially blocked.

> what is the alternative to a short copyright term to motivate

Scarcity, and money, doesn't motivate anyone. People need money not because they want to get rich but because money is mandatory to buy food and pay rent. There are more than 73 million users on github (https://octoverse.github.com/). How many of them do you think went in for the money ? How many actually received any ?

Copyright is not a motivator to create, quite the contrary: it's a motivator to milk as much juice as possible from a specific content, and to prevent the creation of content too close to it in fear it might jeopardize the revenue stream. Copyright has historically prevented the dissemination of knowledge, and the absence of copyright has actually lead to a better, wider circulation of information (and arguably a better educated population): https://archive.ph/ybifz

> non taxpayer funded

Here is the issue: what is wrong with taxes ? If a private person makes money, especially off of the work of others, why is it good to not share it with the population ? What is inherently good in a system that allows those who already own to be safe, but those who don't have to rely on individualistic schemes to hope survive ? Historically, high taxes have led to a higher quality of life for most, specifically because it is better redistributed. There is no problem with taxes.
I think the general meta-argument "if this thing didn't work why would someone do it?" just doesn't really work. It's at best a way to identify curious decisions.
"I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I’m with isn’t 'it' anymore and what’s 'it' seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to youuuu!"
I'm confused why this is a topic of discussion - the repo hasn't been updated in 3 years.
Developing Common Lisp Using GNU Screen, Rlwrap, and Vim
For a second I read "GameStop". Headed directly to r/wsb.

The fact that they weren't losing their collective mind made me realise that I read it wrong.
3 years after release?
Layout shifts on ad sites are more usually related to the fact that ads come in various sizes and to make sure one is always displayed (and the company makes a tenth of a hundredth of a local denomination of currency) so you can’t prefix the ad space to take out of the page.

Then UX and your ad team will duke it out for if it should be a fixed size or should the company make more money and the user always loses :(
Think apartment-hunting is frustrating? Try doing it with an electric car
He literally believes that inflation is caused by high interest rates, because he thinks that the Quran says so. [0] This is a common belief among a certain crazy subset of islamic economics, but to be clear, is not mainstream belief among Muslims.

[0]: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/islamonomics-how-erdogan...
Great to hear your story. I wish you all the best in the future. I started a start-up during pandemic and when i was quite old to be a founder. But everyone should try to do it and mitigate risk by keeping full-time job if possible.
> More than 90 per cent of Mozilla's funding comes from web search providers that pay for the right to be the default search engine in Firefox in their regions. According to the organization's latest financial figures, $430m of its 2018 total revenue of $451m came from those internet giants – primarily Google

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search...
Agreed, though somehow fextralife manages to be even worse
When you're at the exploratory stage having fun is often a key component of making progress.
Seems like the solution is built-in to their strategy. If you get accused of being racist because a racist on twitter uses the same handle, just make a new handle and start over.
I don’t see what the issue is here. The professor informs the class of office hours where the door is open. I used these times when I needed to ask a quick question or clarify something. In addition to email.

The idea that these young adults should be treated so sensitively is pretty weird to me. Yes, it can be uncomfortable. Transitioning from childhood to adulthood is full of uncomfortable times.