skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably because that's where the junior programmer and the commenter in question are from?
> Genuine publishers, meanwhile, seem wary of commenting on the issue. This may be out of fear of antagonising Amazon, on whose distribution model they almost universally rely for book sales, or because such information is commercially sensitive.

bingo. this fakes problem not limited to only books. ran into same issues with protein powders..electric toothbrush heads..razors. once received a box of diapers that looked legitimate but fine print on side had misspellings.

this article give amazon too much credit. me reported fake toothbrush heads. amazon refused to publish my 1 star review and send me email saying they investigated and product is real when clearly it knock off being sold as real.
> This is a common attitude amongst the public, but it is completely at odds with how public health officials operate, because it's incredibly harmful and counterproductive.

That's an ABSURD statement. Your statement is completely at odds with how public health operates in most countries. I've worked in it both in the US and in Germany, and worked with two more countries' health systems. In Germany at a leadership level, that is actually very close to the layer that decides what gets covered by public health insurance. Most public health insurance only covers older treatments because the new treatments are too risky for them with too little data on successful treatments. Things such as shockwave treatment that performance athletes frequently use or mothers use for their thumb after breastfeeding are completely out of pocket, because not enough longterm studies show statistical significance on the treatment.

I understand that public health officials in the RECENT years(ten years is considered recent in public health or healthcare in general by the way) are trying to completely change the way public health works, because they want more direct control, but it is absolutely not YET how it works.
I'd rather have a 40% less chance of getting gonorrhea than a 0% less chance.
Not sure I’m familiar with any projects using Subversion. I think the most odd-ball version control I’ve seen in prod is SQLite using Fossil (which does seem to have benefits over git) and OpenBSD sticking with CVS.
Amazon Smile charity program was created so Amazon would pay Google less money
If you ever have to lay people off, you can no longer hold a leadership position? If you hire someone, it's permanent with the exception of their wrongdoing?
Tweetbot was the only way I interacted with Twitter for years. I refuse to use the website and I refuse to download Twitter's app. When it was finally revealed that this move was intentional I deleted my Twitter account. I was mocked in high school for having a Twitter account (2008) and not a Facebook account. I remember "tweeting" from my flip/dumb-phone. I still don't have Facebook.

I don't regret being on Twitter but I am learning to live without it these days. There's something freeing about a cold turkey detox from that increasingly hostile social network.

Anyway, I'm just rambling at this point. RIP Tweetbot. Thank you for making Twitter usable. Eagerly awaiting Ivory.
I understand the cat and mouse nature of trying to control the unruly, and recognize the truth in what you are saying, but I got this one today, how is

From: ConGraTuLaTioNs!! <info_rGoJOQymodm@appeme.website>
Subj: *robert; $2,613,527 WiNNer ANNouNcement!*

not already detectable by the spam filter? I get them pretty much every day
I compare finding a new job with dating. It is scary to do the first view interviews/dates but each one gets easier. Do one every week or 2 weeks and in a few months you are a pro. Don't care about anybody noticing that you are very busy / up to something. The current employer doesn't care for you anyway. The act of searching/taking your faith in your own hands will feel liberating, I promise. Jobs are different, even when they have a similar description. Who you work for and the company culture makes all the difference. If you end up in a wrong place, don't worry and switch again, that time with some interviewing mileage under the belt.
Meh, old reactor tech with new "engineered" safety features. I would have liked to see stuff more like FAST or slow wave reactors with inherent physics based safety features.
I have an old friend who is blind. The official Twitter client is a LOT less accessible than the one she was using. This change impacts her ability to use Twitter considerably.

And before you start with the "well, she's probably better off" -- she lives in a small rural town. Twitter and Facebook and the like are one of her few connections to a larger world.
Heh- I get quite a lot with content like:

"Hi - Grandma here - so nice to see to see you last week and glad your studies are going well. I hope you liked the sweater I sent over.

Lots of love."

Still not sure if they're real and granny assumes @gmail.com must be the right email for her grandson's name or it's some sneaky phish.

I get a lot of personal info too like paystubs and legal docs for other people with my first name. I usually reply with "you have the wrong person - you might want to check" and receive a surprising amount of replies like "how dare you read private email - delete immediately or we will take legal action... " Oh well.
Number of key strokes is only one design consideration and not even a very important one
We have the opposite problem. We send lots of newsletters (no spam, mostly government) and have an excellent IP reputation (Senderscore, Microsoft), except for Gmail, where our IP reputation has declined in recent months, for no apparent reason.

I hope they are just tweaking things!
> Looking back at it I knew my time was up a long time ago but I didn't have the courage to jump.

This is the crux of the problem. A job is a job, just move on.
Engineer-Manager-Engineer: The career path nobody talks about
Googling "Neisseria gonorrhoeae vaccine" turned up... honestly, a lot of papers that're above my educational level. That said, this[1] WHO article from halfway down the results says that "observational studies indicating that vaccines developed for serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis might offer some protection against gonorrhoea, providing promise that gonococcal vaccines are biologically feasible", which I'd suspect is referring to the development that the OP is talking about. Please, feel free to follow up on that article if you have higher scientific literacy than I do. :D

[1]: https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologic...
It is as good as Tweetbot. Using Ivory makes most of the "UX issues" of Mastodon go away ... almost.
WACC = (E/D x Ke) + ((D/E x Kd) x (1 – T))

E = equity value

D = debt value

Ke = cost of equity

Kd = cost of debt

T = tax rate

Ke = Rf + B * ERP

Rf = risk free rate

B = beta of company

ERP = equity risk premium

Kd = Rf + credit spread

In theory, if a project's ROIC is less than WACC, it does not generate economic value.
This the same knowledge that told us we should stone a man to death if he lies with another man?
isn't this exactly why it is more expensive?
less supply because of the formula, the formula is more expensive to make --> so higher prices
The way I read the proposal is that they used a real-world example from a commonly used codebase (React) to demonstrate how this feature would improve it. I think that's a good approach as features are intended to address real-world concerns, and concrete real-world examples help with that.

I don't think it's fair to say it's "cherry picking" to focus on the example they focus on themselves. They have a few other examples too, but I would say "I don't see how [NEW] is better than [OLD]" for many of those as well (and for some, I think the [NEW] is significantly worse).
The list of unforced errors is insane. Remember when pg was banned from Twitter for mentioning that he had a link to Mastodon on his website? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-suspends-account-paul...
Note this kind of thing happens all the time. VRChat instituted EAC to prevent client modifications late last year. Hundreds of developers and tens of thousands of users all had their mods stop working overnight. Projects that dozens of devs had poured countless hours into became instantly and utterly worthless. It’s insane that this is what the internet has become.
And yet, every one of these organizations consists of individuals making sets of individual decisions on an ongoing basis, who indeed face incentives as well* but also persist in making the dubious ethical decisions that the company enacts, and we can in fact judge them for this, because companies are made of people who don’t actually abdicate moral responsibility for their actions by logging into a corporate email system.

*And here’s where I digress to say, again, that, indeed if you are the single mother of a child with a heart condition wholly reliant on the expensive company health care not lapsing for even a minute lest your child not just die but literally explode, taking your whole family and half the neighborhood with them, I’m not judging you. If, on the other hand, you’re a single dude between 20 and 35 with a college degree, significant assets, no debt, and a sellable skillset, yes, you’re the one I’m judging.
Do we have to account for blink rate?
Over 10 years how much have your wages increased?
as surely as water will wet us

as surely as fire will burn

the gods of the copybook headings

w/terror & slaughter return
I had a job at Apple for two years, which paid very well and had very good stock grants, but I absolutely hated. I hated most (not all) of my managers, I didn't really enjoy the work, and my team in particular would routinely have meetings until 9pm, multiple times a week. I would sign off from my computer, and lie down on my bed nearly catatonic because I was so unhappy, to a point where my wife was getting a bit worried.

Eventually I got in yet another argument with my manager's manager, and decided enough was enough, and put in my notice, and two weeks later I was gone. The first day after I woke up and realized that I didn't have to work for Apple anymore, this wave of relief swept over me. I was so happy that I didn't even care that I had to give up several hundred thousand dollars of stock.

You only have one life, and you get maybe 100 years to live it. Don't waste it in a job that makes you miserable.
Aren't these factory built? Seems like they could start building and then work out buyers if they're as promising as people make out.
> Nobody can make you feel anything

The size of the advertising industry suggests otherwise.
The U.S. Senate exists to protect the interests of landowners against the overwhelming interests of population centers. That is the bulwark against "tyranny of the majority."

If sentiment is so overwhelming that they can't even win the Senate, then I'm sorry, they lose.

The alternative is tyranny of the minority, which is what we are perilously close to having with egregious gerrymandering and the non-talking filibuster.
That's what I meant by 'It's not clear where the language ends and the encyclopedic knowledge starts,' since the model (and perhaps our brains) make little distinction.

But the model seems to be storing an absolutely vast amount of information, beyond the the capability of any individual person to accumulate and recall. This is clearly not a prerequisite for language, even if the information is represented linguistically. Put another way, at age 20 I had read maybe 10-20% of what I've read since, but I was capable of reading comprehension and conversation even though my levels of knowledge and insight were much lower. By 'comprehension' I mean in the sense of being able to read a piece of text and answer questions about it or rewrite it, without necessarily having any priors about the topic; the kind of task we expect to be able to assign to a high school graduate.

I'm wondering what the size of an 'ignorant' language model is, as a precursor to more curated/directed training. While the state of the art is very impressive, it's a bit like taking a feast for a thousand people and rendering it into a giant cube of spam. This strategy seems guaranteed to produce a succession of increasingly capable idiots savant but limits other avenues of exploration.
I've discovered this with many things. I left my previous job before a year was up in large part because I wasn't happy with it, and later discovered that other people jumped ship for similar reasons. At the time, all the corporate positivity-speak made it feel as if I was being a rogue, but others were actually dissatisfied as well.

As far as being paid to "do nothing", I think the core issue with that is it's never actually doing nothing. When you're doing nothing at work, your job is actually to _appear_ busy and to seem relevant. Not only is it difficult, but it's unpleasant, dissatisfying, and demoralizing. There are times when I've been effectively paid to do nothing, and it sucked because I could almost never work on anything that was interesting or mattered.

On the other hand, if I were paid to truly just "do whatever", that might be a different story. I can always identify interesting and even important problems to work on. In the "do nothing" paradigm, usually I'm told not to do such things but instead work only on anything that comes across my desk, and those things may not arrive regularly. That's what sucks.

Just a thought.
> What is this vaccine called, and for what other purpose has it been approved?

The GlaxoSmithKline version is called Bexsero, but Pfizer has the patent on Trumenba, which is functionally the same thing. Both are used against bacterial meningitis serogroup B. Note that this is different from the standard meningitis vaccine required in most public schools and universities. Isomeone says they've been vaccinated against meningitis, they almost certainly are referring to the vaccine for serogroups A, C, Y, and W-135, which is different and not effective against gonorrhea.

There are tons of studies demonstrating the effectiveness of both against gonorrhea - it's almost a running joke that every 3-6 months a new one gets published, prompting a slew of articles expressing surprise and amazement, as if this hasn't happened so many times over the last decade that we've lost track. Pretty much all of them point to the range of 40% real-world effectiveness, which is actually quite good from a public health standpoint.

Knowing about it isn't really the main hurdle, though. Even if you know it exists, it's incredibly difficult logistically to get it, because your insurance company won't pay for it unless you've been provably in the vicinity of a MenB outbreak (which is rare in the US), and pharmacies will order it but generally not administer it, so even if you are fine paying for it yourself and manage to get your doctor to prescribe it to you, you'll end up in a weird logistical catch-22 where you can obtain it from a pharmacy but have to self-administer it (do not do this, unless you are trained) or find a not-so-kosher way to get it administered.
This is the beauty of pipeline operator. It adds very little extra machinery - it’s just an infix operator that makes working with free functions easier.
There are also alternatives to unions, like lobbying groups to counterbalance corporate interests that try to get laws passed that drive salaries down. Or communities that share information so people in the industry make more informed decisions.
It's interesting, because I took a pay cut to join this startup.
I had grown tired of not being challenged and not learning as much anymore, and I definitely got tired of the corporate politics and endless bureaucracy. Don't get me wrong - I did cool stuff, and I did have impact, but nearly as much as I thought I could.

At the startup, I was really impressed by the caliber of folks I met, and over the past 2 months I've been here, I've only grown more happy with my decision.
It's so thrilling to see what a team of A players can get done when you set clear goals...
I think it's worth the pay cut (to me at least), and I am very hopeful for a further exit to make me more than happy financially as well...
The parent is probably talking about $200K+ salaries.
> hippy dippy liberals from PDX are the anti-christ

One could argue that the east side should throw the west side a bone by treating them as humans first in any negotiation -- rather than still trying to play "punching the hippy" politics which worked to a great extent in the 1970s.

The problem of politics of the right today is, that even if you do "throw them a bone", they're not going to stop with the vile rhetoric, so why even bother trying to negotiate with them?
I'm interested in medicine for basically the reason you mentioned, understanding some of my chronic problems.

What are good sources for learning more about how my body works and how to fine tune it?
How sure are we really about that?

There is an large amount of history backwards in time, and not a large amount of reliable documentation regarding the amount of partners people had.
Stupid question: the article says that each module can produce 50 megawatts. What is the time of that number? Like how many people can have their energy needs met by one module?
Certainly looking forward to the pipe operator - if it ever lands! It doesn't seem like it's moved to the next stage recently in the commit history, and it's been discussed for ages now.
That's fine if you have a few 10s of billions to risk building products that might never be bought.

There are 2 key issues here: you have to convince people these will work for a decade plus without issue despite being new AND you have to convince a large number of people (companies, municipalities etc) (>100 to make the factory viable and get the economies of scale) who actually have the cash to buy them.

This is a key moat for a lot of tech: anyone could design a decent airliner. Can you convince enough airlines to order them to make it viable to mass manufacturer them, despite having no name or track record? Hence Boeing and Airbus remain the only games in town (and Airbus only got there with a lot of state assistance).
To be fair, inflation numbers are going back down in the US, while countries that aren't raising their interest rates (or at least not as aggressively as the US is) still have much higher inflation, double digits in some cases. So it does seem to be working, as shitty as it is.

I don't think all these companies really need to lay people off though, they're just using 'everyone else is doing it' as an excuse to get away with it and juice up their stock price.
laughs in syphilis

STIs were rampant in the past. It's not Ole Tyme Morals that keep them at bay - it's antibiotics.
I wonder if "%" placeholder is the right approach. It makes the code longer in most cases.

Without pipes:

a = d(c(b))

With pipes in the proposed form:

a = b|>c(%)|>d(%)

My first approach to design it would be:

a = b~>c~>d

So the rule is that on the right side of the pipe operator (~>) there is always a function. We don't need parenthesis to indicate that.

If the function takes more than one argument, it can be defined by another value on the left of it.

Without pipes:

a = d(c(b,7))

With pipes in the proposed form:

a = b|>c(%,7)|>d(%)

With the ~> approach:

a = b,7~>c~>d
If Android users are roughly 50% in the US, then the likelihood of knowing zero people that use Android is quite small. We can think of this as roughly each of your friends tossing a coin and all of them landing heads. If they do, that's a pretty biased bubble (because it isn't a pure random process, but you also don't have a representative and random sample)
Perhaps there is an large internal pressure from the employees themselves?

If many employees have a large amount of salary dependent on the stock price, then those employees will really care about GOOG falling in price on the market.
I mean Adobe.
Europe starting to steer around Germany, moving at faster pace than Berlin
Take this matter in your own hands.
Once again, because I am not a lawyer I cannot give you specific legal advice for your situation.

I strongly, strongly believe you are overconfident in your interpretation, particular when I read the provisions regarding possession which may be a seperate crime from say what was written on the 4473 at the FFL.

But I'm not the one you have to convince. I pray you are never in a position you must do the convincing.

I do not believe I am an authoritative enough of a professional to convince you, even were it that I had time to type a more complete explanation. Again I recommend you consult a lawyer, and preferably one that has worked in this area. My opinion as a rando on HN has no legal bearing on the justice system.
It's still more likely to be reabsorbed by other part of the body than the other's retinas. Wonder if anyone will dare to do the math.
I don't know.
Why did Funcoland only offer me $15 for a game I bought the month for $50 before as a kid?
But at least they didn't give me a song and dance about how they were doing me a favor and the burden of sheltering the item they were buying from me like on Pawn Stars.
Well, they developed an elaborate system of morals that stigmatizes promiscuity. Whether it was "successful" is debatable, given that the diseases all still exist, but no denying it works at the individual level, if practiced unfailingly.
I'm asking about Adobe. Genuinely curious.
DC already has very bad traffic and poor access to public transportation. Can it afford to have higher density? I know they want more income from more housing and more offices, but that also comes with costs.

I don't have an answer to that one way or the other. But I often see this discussions phrased solely in terms of how many rooms exist, and that's only part of what's required to support a person living or working there.
This was probably easier and the decision was probably made on a whim - no time plan and execute a transition like you're suggesting. I think this theory is supported by the fact that API access was cut with no notice, the ToS was only changed after-the-fact, and some smaller apps - like Twitterific for MacOS - were initially missed.
No it wouldn't. That would be resigning.

When you break a window you don't give awway the house.
Incompetent executives will do everything they can not to innovate
I think this is more of sliding the levers to keep the earnings good. There was a massive amount of money dumped into the economy over the last couple of years. Companies produced record earnings, and their stock prices correspondingly increased. Now to keep "growing" they need to decrease spending to keep earnings at the same or higher levels.

It is also an opportunity to cut some cruft. A lot of good people get swept up too but most large tech companies have had huge layoffs in the past. They can then cite the necessity to do it as "everyone is having to tighten up"

Google could still be profitable without cutting staff, but their profit would drop and be perceived as not "growing"
If there are multiple red-green cycles per 38mph interval, the 80-goers would be right! ;) (eg. you launch from the first light, the next light ahead goes green, red, green before you get through)
“Starting Feb 1st using a third part client will require Twitter Blue.”

That’s all it would have taken. Probably would have made a huge increase in subscribers too.

This is 100% a control move. He wants full control over how everyone experiences Twitter (not sure why). So this was pulled.

Of course you can NEVER go back from this move.
A great opportunity Mastodon wouldn't otherwise get.
Thanks Elon.