skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iiuc it's by activity. The user isn't green because they've posted the link several times, just never stuck around to comment.

This is a one-way relationship, users like these detract from the conversation, they have one thing to say only and every time it only benefits them. Downvote me for being a jerk, I don't care, I'm not wrong. They probably don't mean any harm, and maybe aren't free to speak in a job context on unrelated things, but surely they have to understand how it would make some of us feel a bit used.
Big oil needs a lot of compute for various engineering tasks like prospecting and simulations. Depending on how much they do in house those are pretty hard problems and that also means data on a large scale.
The stock is down 70% to be clear. 20% is just what happened today.

Now there's three hits. Employees generally kept their stock. So their savings went down. The pay is down as you said. Lastly inflation.

In addition job mobility is down. There's still plenty of tech jobs but it's definitely down and not as easy to just switch.

It's one hell of a return to earth although perhaps overdue.
I genuinely don’t know how to even approach this.

Here’s something that sprang to mind.

A slaver to his slave: Your attempts at achieving freedom are undermining a business model that is letting a lot of people enjoy cheap clothing, and that would be selfishly making the world worse.

What’s your thoughts on that one? Genuinely curious.

The way I see it, I’m not “making the world worse”. Waving away the can of worms opened by the notion of “making the world better/worse”, I genuinely cannot understand how refusing to consume something makes me selfish.

I’m not selfish for removing lettuce from my burger and I’m not selfish for removing ads. The problem is not with me. The problem is with the business model.

People not liking something drives innovation. Instead of doubling down on something that is not working and telling people “stop being a bad person and consume the ad” perhaps the business should find an alternative way of monetising.
"Because one side wants to treat the underlying causes, which it sees as poverty, inequality, lack of good education, and lack of opportunities"

That side has been running San Francisco for a long long time. It spends $22k per public school student per year, but doesn't manage to teach even half of them to read or write at grade level (which isn't even a high bar).

Either that side doesn't want to solve the problems, or some combination of individual incentives, incompetence and lack of second-order thinking prevents it from achieving its objectives.

Of course, if some of these problems were to disappear, this would reduce the ability for politicians to funnel money to cronies via their non-profit organizations.
> The nation building after WW2 for Germany & Japan worked out rather well.

The US took exquisite care after WWII, to the point of sharply limiting things like denazification, to preserve civic and administrative infrastructure of the relatively advanced states it occupied to avoid having to nation-build in Germany and Japan.
Okay that makes a bit more sense, I was sure something wasn't registering right with me reading it.
What about capital gains? I hold mine for a year because I was under the impression that liquidating immediately would cause you to pay short term capital gains rather than long term.
It limits the downside too. There's a lot of upside already to making 300k+/year and investing it wisely.

Guaranteed millionaire status with close to 0 risk. Look how spoiled many of us have become in tech, though, that we have people like you saying this. It's not gonna last forever
Traditional games cannot iterate because they exist as an agreement by the players, they don't have anybody who "owns" the game to improve it. Notice that in tabletop and modern boardgaming, where they do have a coherent owner, we do see revisions and iterations. If I play Dungeons and Dragons today, or Cosmic Encounter, or Magic the Gathering, it's not the same game as 25 years ago. Not as radically as video games have changed, but still they have evolved because the owners of those games have iterated on them.

To my mind, the non-transient part is that these old games have clear successors that hew very close to their original form that still draw new players. If you want to play Quake, you will find a massive number of games that play very very close to Quake and have active playerbases.
What kind of systems do you think run the oil drills/manages refineries? Or simulate potential drilling sites? You think Exxon doesn't have data-centers? Or that everything is still analog buttons with a digital device driver on the end like the 80s?

I work for a large defense contractor, you know what I'm working on right now? I'm coding up REST services, and a couple of months ago I was helping to spin up a Kubernetes cluster.

Traditional industry may not have the same scaling needs as say, Facebook or Google, but you don't have to be an Aircraft Carrier to be in the Navy.
I'm having trouble understanding how concerts are a "great use case for VR"... at a concert you sit/stand and look at the stage and listen to the music. Seems like that could be replicated with just a regular display and sound system, but that kind of remote viewing of concerts has never become mainstream. What about VR would change this?
advertising at its essence is dissemination of information to the people who seek it. it’s a win/win done right and essential to an information society
That is an interesting thought and I'll have to think about that more deeply. I think one thing that we need to remember is that with a fixed mortgage, you are paying tomorrow's mortgage at today's prices. As inflation rises and salaries rise to keep pace, your mortgage stays the same. It incentives home buying which is why there are so many government programs in this area. Obviously you don't want to just in at the top of the bubble, but getting in asap is a great strategy for most everyone.
So are you OK with a sin tax if it is on something with a negative externality? Do you think advertising does not have any negative externalities?
>Even when nuclear power was enthusiastically embraced as the future it suffered from cost overruns, hidden and underestimated lifecycle costs, security problems such the possibility of a worse Chernobyl event as a result of an ongoing war, nuclear proliferation enablement, etc.

And here we are on an oil-based energy economy suffering from cost overruns, hidden and underestimated lifecycle costs, security problems such the possibility of a worse Chernobyl event as a result of an ongoing war, nuclear proliferation enablement, etc.

I would gladly change the source of the energy as the effects seem to be the same besides atmospheric emissions.
This reminds me of the behemoth that is superstart[0]. Everything from banking to recipes in it's ugly glory

[0]https://www.superstart.se/
Are you living in a different timeline than me?

Ever since the ipod came out people were salivating for the possibility of an iphone. Upon it's release the hype for it was incredible and had been building for years.

Virtually everyone I know has a pair of non-airpod blue tooth headphones.

Everyone had a walkman, then a discman, pre-ipod. Yea adoption of early mp3 players wasn't particularly high because they were not that great, but the same is true for the mini-disc (which I believe had even lower adoption). I still knew quite a few people that had pre-ipod mp3 players.

Even among my gamer friends very, very few people have an Oculus. Everyone of the few people I knew who got an occulus (including myself) has had the exact same experience: First month, "wow this is a game changer!" second month, it's collecting dust. I know of literally no one who has used a VR headset weekly for a period longer than 3 months.
If you aren't the one supplying the ad space or the exchange (ie. Google or FB), then I don't believe you can actually measure incrementality on your end.
Another way to avoid the ads yelling at you while you are trying to pump gas is to tap on the "Weather" or "Traffic" tabs on many gas pump interfaces.

I don't know how common it is elsewhere, but the stations I use that have at-the-pump advertising all have those features (and doing so on those pumps silences the audio at the pump).

[edited to mention the audio being silenced when the weather or traffic tab is selected]
Cancel culture has killed polling. Who in their right minds are going to reveal a policanceled. To some random person on the phone that can get them cancelled.
This is a very broad statement. Google's search ads revenue are growing just fine... Youtube is down though.

WPP is seeing increased ad spend as well.

Conclusion? Probably that apple has fucked facebook to such an extent that it's threatening their entire business. This isn't much to do with advertising in general.
> YAGNI

For most people, YAGNI means using convenient Bash-isms, because their scripts won't ever be run on environments that don't have Bash.

Edit: Admittedly, someone in this thread pointed out the flaw in my argument, there are plenty of cases where you can't assume you have Bash. I still hold that proofing something for all possible environments is itself a YAGNI.
destroying masterpieces with tomato juice, or potatoes is definitely not the way to go..
I've done a few gifs of "this happens" for bug reports and the like. One thing that this solves is the "ugh i screwed up the sequence, time to try recoring for the 10th time" problem, so that's interesting. I wonder how well it works with programs that set their input line discipline to "raw" or read from the pty directly - ncurses-like interfaces and things like sudo, etc.
I don't see the play/pause buttons (Chrome on Android): gif are autoplaying. Perhaps it comes from your browser?
You don’t see how electrification increases living standards [1]?

[1] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jep.34.1.122
It's such a convoluted situation in Canada.

The same politicians forcing insane "carbon taxes" are also putting in place immigration policies that bring in an absolutely massive number of people each year.

This, of course, drives up the demand for electricity, housing (including heating, as you mention), infrastructure, transportation (of goods and people), food, and so forth, all of which contribute to "carbon emissions".

The "green belts" that have been imposed by government around major cities just end up pushing urban sprawl farther out, beyond those belts. This, in turn, increases the time and energy spent commuting and travelling, which is usually done by car, since public transit in Canada is very limited and impractical, and the distances are quite far.

Thanks to significant and overbearing government bureaucracy and regulations, building high-rise residential buildings in the densest cities takes ages. The actual construction phase is very rapid compared to sorting out the bureaucratic details.

If these politicians really wanted to limit or cut "carbon emissions", the first thing they'd be doing is halting pretty much all immigration into Canada, to at least let the situation stabilize.
I had LG and later Samsung. I'm pretty sure both would show the URL and ask if you wanted to visit it too.
Refer: https://github.com/dedis/kyber/blob/master/share/vss/rabin/v... and https://github.com/dedis/kyber/blob/master/share/vss/pederse...
I very much agree.

While of course Remarkable positioned itself as a notebook. But in practise it is not. You really want to use these 300-500$ devices for something other than just expensive notebooks. Some people want to write on whitepaper pdfs, others want their comic books and then there's notetaking. And you can draw, yes, if you really, REALLY want it.

But it just doesn't feel like real drawing, even Remarkable is... okay at best. And not okay, given the price and the limited feature set.

So I went with a 10.3 inch Boox Note instead of Remarkable a couple of years ago. Never regreted it! I read my whitepapers, write on these, easily navigate multicolumn docs. My daughter loves reading her comic books, writing on them, etc. I also do some notetaking.

But that's just a perspective who dives into sci-oriented writing a lot. For other people Remarkable's slightly better writing is totally worth it - and that's ok.
There is no current implementation of Agile though, Agile was an umbrella term for a variety of different practices. I don't think you can blame it if it's been poorly implemented.

Granted, that is most of what I see: poorly implemented agile everywhere, usually half embracing SCRUM. I think that has more to do with the typical command and control nature of upper management though.
Facebook’s toxic reputation is catching up with it and the user base is shrinking, specially in the Western world where most of the valuable (to advertisers) customers are. Also TikTok is eating their lunch with younger generations. A company slowly sliding towards MySpace-like irrelevance, with an authoritarian CEO who has a majority of voting rights, is not an attractive investment.

VR is a hail-Mary pass, and pretty much the only thing that can save the company.
Tax on advertising is a very interesting idea. Everyone understands that is a necessary evil and most parties would rather not do it given the chance. But how do you classify what advertising is? Buying adspace on a website or billboard might be obvious? What about other forms like content creation, influencer marketing etc. If you create some websites or videos related to your services, is that considered advertising?
StarLabs also sells laptops with ME disabled.
Yeah all those 1200 SqFt ranch houses in the valley might drop to something like 1 million dollars.
*Self reported MAU. With no-way of outside verification as brave doesn't have it's own user agent string
So, there is this tool: <https://pypi.org/project/ocrmypdf>
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched or copy pasted.

This mentions cross-platform usage and seems simple. Is there some way to use this with Obsidian through a plugin? If so, please create a GitHub project and send us a link! :D

Just for reference, I found it with a list of a ton of other tools:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/301318/how-to-ocr-a...

I have messed around with Tesseract a bit, and at some point, I was able to turn a PDF into a text file. I was thinking of doing that and having them as markdown files which are tiny compared to the original. Then keep the Original elsewhere. I've been playing with another PDF system I'm not willing to give up on. :D

Point is, I think I can bring more dimension to my Obsidian or Markdown library by having 'txt' copies of pdfs. The search and tagging alone would be so handy.
What does CI have to do with a mailing list for software support?

Rich markup: you can use HTML in mail. I think it's silly, but you can do that.

Simple patch management: that's what version control systems are for; if your vcs doesn't support email, you can't do that. If it does, you can.

Edits to messages: you mean altering the past? That's a terrible idea.

Issue tracking: that's what bug trackers are for. You add a link to the bug number, or, more likely, you send a mail message to the bug tracker's email interface and get a bug number back. Send more email with the bug number in the subject and it gets added as a comment to the bug.
If I had an answer for this I’d be pitching my startup somewhere. I honestly don’t know what the alternative will be. But I am sure there is on. Forcing people to consume ads just isn’t sustainable I think.
People learn to ignore ads over time (if not deploying technical countermeasures such as ad-blockers), so even maintaining stability is IMO impossible as the effectiveness of the advertising (and thus the revenue from advertisers who pay for it) will diminish.
> There is no chance of meaningfully reducing CO2 emissions, because outside of Nuclear (and hydro/geothermal but only if you have the geography for it) there is no alternative to replacing fossil fuels. At some point the public will realize the lie of solar/wind as a replacement. We lost 50 years of greatly reduced emissions had nuclear power continued to be rolled out at the same rate as it did in the 60s/70s.

25% of electricity in the US was produced with renewables this year, more than both coal and nuclear [1]. There is roughly 1TW of renewables in interconnection queues [2], and 400GW of energy storage. The cost of renewables is expected to decline to less than half a cent per kwh due to the Inflation Reduction Act [4]. Tesla's Megafactory (to manufacture 40 GWh of Megapacks per year) is getting ready to begin production [5].

It can be difficult to understand the curve of the hockey stick when you're at the growth inflection point. In no uncertain terms, we are at the inflection point.

> There is no chance of removing existing CO2 from Air to make any sort of difference.

What was the cost delta between sequencing the human genome in 2003 versus today? (About ~$1B) Yeah, it is going to be very energy intensive to extract CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester it. It's a good thing enough sunlight falls on the Earth every 2 minutes to meet humanity's energy needs for the year, because we need enough clean energy to electrify everything, to account for growth into the future until the human population peaks, as well as to pay back all of the carbon emitted during industrialization.

I'll plug YC's Charge Robotics here (automating solar panel installs with robotics), as it seems like the polite thing to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30780455 ("Launch HN: Charge Robotics (YC S21) - Robots that build solar farms")

[1] https://electrek.co/2022/08/25/us-renewables-first-half-2022... ("Renewables provided over 25% of total US electrical generation in first half of 2022")

[2] https://www.pv-tech.org/nearly-1tw-of-renewables-in-us-inter... ("Nearly 1TW of renewables in US interconnection queues as wait times continue to grow")

[3] https://www.energy-storage.news/estimated-427gw-of-energy-st... ("Estimated 427GW of energy storage in US interconnection queues alongside nearly 1TW of renewables")

[4] https://cleantechnica.com/2022/10/15/credit-suisse-predicts-... ("Credit Suisse says the Inflation Reduction Act will have such a tremendous impact on renewable energy that the US may see the levelized cost of electricity from renewable sources fall to less than 1 cent per kWh hour by 2025 after factoring in all tax and production credits.")

[5] https://electrek.co/2022/10/26/tesla-unveils-megafactory-bat... ("Tesla unveils its Megafactory as battery production ramps up")
An Overview of s6
Let's say you load https://example.com/video and that page loads https://example.com/ads.js in the background.

What DNS adblockers like PiHole see is only a request for the domain (example.com), they can't see whether it is http or https nor can they see /ads.js or the rest of the path, port, query parameters, etc. They may not even see the second attempt at loading the domain (the /ads.js request) because the browser and the OS have probably cached the request.

uBlock Origin and other adblockers can see the whole request and modify it[1]. They can see whether it is http or https (that's how https everywhere knows what to redirect and where) and they can see whether you are loading /video or /ads.js and if they see /ads.js they can tell the browser to not load that.

[1] Google is going to remove the "modify" part of functionality in manifest v3 citing privacy and security concerns (while ironically keeping the "see" part) in an attempt to kill or limit the functionality of adblockers. Since YouTube uses an ever changing list of domains for serving videos and ads this change will effectively unblock ads in YouTube because adblockers can only keep a static list of what to block and when instead of doing it dynamically, and said static list can only be updated (as far as I know) by pushing a new version of the extension to the store, severely limiting the frequency of updates, making it impossible to keep up with the frequent changes in YouTube.
You could bind up energy into matter though? Fuse iron into bismuth or something
A common containerization philosophy is to use a bare-minimum base image and add only what you need. Something like an Alpine container doesn't come with Bash.
If that were true, we'd see other companies that rely on advertising to drop similar, or at least drop as well. Google, ClearChannel, IPG, and even Amazon. But those aren't collapsing.

What you say is probably one reason, though. But the actual crash is more likely because Meta didn't innovate and move away from-, or diversify their advertising-model over time. So rather than a steady change through continued innovation, A&M etc, they are now forced to bet on a giant pivot. For one, this makes investors nervous.

Meta has performed several M&As though, some of which proven extremely profitable and successful. But while e.g. Instagrams' userbase is different from FB, their income is based on almost the exact same model of targeted advertising. FB failed to move into ecommerce, video, streaming, etc. and diversify their income significant. Something that Amazon or Google do much better.
FB advertising works extremely well, little less so after Apple's changes, but still it's a beast.

If you look into FB financials, revenue per user has more room to grow, outside US if nothing else, but I think US as well.

So "advertising model broken" isn't really true. It is irritable and despicable/deplorable in some ways for sure. But it works.
I've got to disagree. I've been involved in many projects and companies where we needed to reach out to potential partners and customers around the world. Advertising was essential. I'm sure there are better ways to do it but as long was we need to get someone else's attention, it will be there.
> Advertising is ultimately a doomed business model as it works against your users' interests, yet requires those users to willingly use the product and engage with the ads.

Sort of, but not quite. We had already kind of reached peak advertising, this isn't recent. More specifically the following trends:

- Advertising has been and is expected to continue to grow at a measly 5% per year on average[0] (compare that to say like 10% on Software)

- Digital advertising's cannibalization (e.g. the pie shifts) of traditional media is slowing down and hitting diminishing returns

- We're hitting peak media use at 12 hours 9 minutes per day[1]. There's just physically not enough hours in the day to consume more media.

- There are more players trying to capture that consumption. Facebook's properties's use are diminishing compared to competitors (e.g. basically TikTok).

TL;DR - Pie only grows 5% per year, digital is getting close to eating a majority of the pie, and people that aren't Facebook are eating that pie and Facebook can't compete.

[0] https://www.imarcgroup.com/global-advertising-market

[1] https://review42.com/resources/how-much-time-do-people-spend...
> Do you close your eyes walking around town any time you go by

Actually yeah, sort of. I avoid looking at the advertising in my town as much as humanly possible.

> Are you morally obligated to get rid of those too?

Absolutely. I'm trying to organize support in my neighborhood in order to get them removed by law or something. Nobody should be subjected to this crap. There's even precedent for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...

> If you truly believe this, how do you function in society?

I function pretty well, thank you. I'm gonna function even better when I'm free from this visual pollution.

> Why is digital attention morally a big problem but attention in real life not?

Who said it wasn't? You're the one assuming that.

> most of society over time has gravitated to this mode of selling goods and services

I couldn't care less what society "has gravitated" towards. I will not accept this and I will do everything in my power to change it.