skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. It is entirely possible.

For it to be the case I would expect to see a split in the population on many metrics, especially around education, dividing the with / without TV / YouTube groups.

Presumably the adverse effects would overcome the dominant factor which I assume is socioeconomic.

As for the making your eyes go square - I doubt youtube has any more effect that the old tube tv! Its also believed that reading books gives you bad eyesight ...
I have a question that I couldn't find on the help docs: I got several domains on the early bird Pro price. Do you plan to discontinue the Early Bird pricing this year with the pricing increase?
I don't understand the problem.

You can either use Twitter's official clients (and get served the ads from which they profit) or you can use a third party tool that uses the ad-less API but for which the developers must pay for each API call in your place.

I'm sure that research bodies and other particular institutions could strike up a deal with Twitter to get access to special keys at a much reduced price or even for free, but this concept of Twitter making avaiable themselves a way to bypass the only way they make money has always seemed crazy to me. Glad they monetized the API.
Did you read the article?
It’s the anticipation of higher interest rates by the stock markets that send stocks down. And the Fed may do so because they want to raise them “just so much to counter inflation without drifting into a recession”. For Tech that may mean that the focus will shift towards profitability which may increase pressure on the workforce.
What do you mean by “higher income equality”? E.g., people earning the same irrespective of their capability, effort, working hours and “value creation contribution in the economy”? Isn’t income equality (government interventions in some aspects aside) a mere reflection of people’s contribution to a economy and their ability to negotiate? So, are you assuming/applying everyone more or less has the same contribution or do you want everyone to be paid the same irrespective?
Yeah! I recall discovering recently my father had a coin miner malware on his laptop, which had been acting slow for a while (a year).

Upon discovery, my mother gave him some hard side-eye. But I explained the whole malvertising thing, and that seemed to placate her.

Don't get me wrong; he probably was looking at naughty pictures. But I actually think he's more likely to have gotten that from a legit site.
No flag, no country!
The Twitter sign in stuff will be huge but most of JP Twitter that I'm on doesn't seem to care much. Music probably cares more, but I follow a lot of personalities, voice actors, and artists and they're not that concerned.

Edit: Seems the SSO stuff is unaffected.
search pubmed for MDMA and PTSD

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Once Again Defending Like Buttons
According to surveys most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, including most making over $100k/year [1][2]

So...yeah saving is a nice idea when rents don't increase in 40% in the past couple of year. Low income households also have a much harder time buying their own housing.

People won't work if it won't pay their rent or food, thats the only reason wages have gone up. It's just impossible to pay minimum wage anymore because itll get your employees evicted

[1] https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/more-americans-live-paychec...

[2] https://fortune.com/2023/01/30/more-high-earning-americans-s...
Yeah, I love Ars, but Dan is definitely their weakest writer. The article is about scammers buying ad space on google to rank their malware above the legitimate google search results. Installing an ad blocker is a great solution.
Both, because some times a little change implies compiling the world due to configuration changes.

Also it is quite irritating sometimes seeing the same crate being compiled multiple times as it gets referenced from other crates.

Ideally Rust could use a dumb compilation mode (or interpreter) for change-compile-debug cycles, and proper compilation for release, e.g. Haskell and OCaml offer such capabilities on their toolchains.
I’ve had the same experience.

I ordered some small parts for my lab. The delivery person somehow sneaks past the guard/receptionist and dumps it in a random waiting room somewhere in a massive hospital/university complex. It took a coworker and I hours to find one package; another never turned up at all!

We try to get deliveries from elsewhere now because, as fun as scanvenger hunts are, I do have other stuff to do too…
I went to school from in Scotland about 1970 to 1983 - without much difficulty I can think of quite a few situations that I would hope would result in sacking and criminal charges these days.

Being a bright kid and usually "teachers pet" I didn't get too much abuse directly but I can remember one poor guy who clearly had learning difficulties getting his face smashed repeatedly slammed into the blackboard by a teacher - we were about 6 at the time. :-(
Tried few recommendations and can definitely use an alternative for Spotify radio.

Seems like you are dodging the question of data access and I am not sure why. Even running an intelligent scraper to download 120M song previews sounds too complex and might take days to months as you have to rotate IPs and not bombard the server all the time. If you manage to do that, kudos. That itself is a great achievement. If not, can you let us know how did you get the data access? You might help other devs who want to try something similar
I think social predators are very real today.
That is very much what "cancel culture" is. Its people acting as bandits to those who have violated the "SACRED" whatever and they shout from the mountain tops to bring down whoever has transgressed. They even intentionally ping your employer to bring you down, attacking the very reason so many of us must lead boring lives.
At least for me (Linux, Wayland) it is literally unusable, due to this bug[1] and related issues in the comments. I finally stopped putting up with it and switched to Chrome this year, after being a loyal user since the browser was called Firebird.

In retrospect I should have jumped after Mozilla ruined Firefox on Android.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1789602
Agreed. While much criticism gets directed to the leadership for irresponsible hiring and operations, the market dynamics of today which are motivating businesses to cut costs, were at an earlier time motivating businesses to rapidly grow and expand. Company executives who do not satisfy the market are quickly exited.
Go to the ER. Every hospital will have PEP starter kits, and easy access to an ID specialist.

The biggest barrier to accessing PEP in Ontario in practice is cost. Most working age adults are not covered by public drug insurance.
Yup, the most interesting people I know also happen to be well off or rich and have time for eccentric hobbies.
Isn't it awful that the Fed is trying to force the economy down?
I know, and not only are they fewer, but they are also mostly not real, alive groundhogs once you get that far.
One solution is ad transparency and have company verifies details in all advertisiments. Facebook already does this for political ads AFAIK.
To be honest, I don't know. My understanding of 'user' time is that is represents the sum of all CPU time spent in "user mode" (as opposed to "kernel mode"). In theory, given that understanding and perfect scaling, the user time of a multi-threaded task should roughly match the user time of a single-threaded task. Of course, "perfect" scaling is unlikely to be real, but still, you'd expect better scaling here.

If I had to guess as to what's happening, it's that there's some thread pool, and at some point, near the end of compilation, only one or two of those threads is busy doing anything while the other threads are sitting and idling. Now whether and how that "idling" gets interpreted as "CPU being actively used in user mode" isn't quite clear to me. (It may not, in which case, my guess is bunk.)

Perhaps someone more familiar with what 'user' time actually means and how it interplays with multi-threaded programs will be able to chime in.

(I do not think faults have anything to do with it. The number of faults reported here is quite small, and if I re-run the build, the number can change quite a bit---including going to zero---and the overall time remains unaffected.)
I'm also a massive fan of Cloudflare in general, love their Workers and related products, just that one aspect of account suspension without warning could be improved a little bit :)
> It’s a common fantasy that removing the 40 hours per week of work would cause individuals to suddenly become more outgoing, adventurous, and interesting, but if people aren’t already doing those interesting and outgoing things on the weekends then I don’t think they’d suddenly start doing more of them with the job removed.

Many people spend their weekends doing chores and relaxing--i.e. maintaining. You don't think having even, say, a four day weekend and ample time to go beyond that would result in more people spending more time doing interesting things?

Really?
You may be surprised to know that Jeff doesn’t run Amazon anymore.
Used to use Amazon as my go-to source for bulk gum. Silly, I know, but they stock the big 14-packs that you can only find at massive bulk stores like Costco, and even then, it's hard to find them reliably.

After receiving a number of fakes and problematic items off Amazon a couple of years ago, I instated a new rule: you can order off Amazon as long as the a fake product won't seriously hurt you.

Turns out, whether it's a set of bolts for my bicycle, a battery replacement for a phone, or a piece of gum I plan on chewing in my mouth, I'm really scared of the awful thing that could happen if I got an unsafe fake item. I would rather not chew gum tainted with microplastics, explode a battery in my pocket without warning, or shear a bolt from my bike in the middle of the wilderness miles away from help.

On the other hand, Amazon is a great place to order bulk body soap. Haven't figured out a way for that to kill me yet.
You seem to be saying essentially the same thing.

The fed has been pretty clear that it sees wage growth as a serious inflation problem (because it's sticky) and they're intentionally raising rates to force cuts to wages and employment.

Personally - I'm a little mixed, since I believe rates were far too low and have created a very strange economy where you have companies that never actually make money become household names (ex: WeWork, Carvana, Uber, Zillow, Pinterest, etc...) because they gobble up debt banking on some mythical future profits once they capture the market.

But on the other hand, I feel like the current stance of the fed - "raise the rates to stop hot employment and wage growth" - is a cop out. Inflation control is the second of their two mandates, employment is the first.

They could have been raising rates during good years before this to curtail some of the bubbles we're seeing, but instead they only chose to do it to protect businesses from wage growth. Which... feels a bit scummy, and much like they're protecting the wealthy at the expense of increasing wage equality.

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Now, on the other hand - the market's reaction is not at all surprising, I agree that given what the fed is saying, this will likely push the balance back towards a larger rate hike, and the market is predicting that as well, and dropping to account.
Reads like a Dark Forest[1] for human society. Stay low, don't make a noise, because the predators might come.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis
Then the OP definitely does not want anything like that, since they said that they hate the idea of building a business around a free API. I think you're mistaken here.

The problem with building a business around a free API from a for-profit company is the rugpull. As a sibling comment mentions, even a paid API can get rugpulled. But I think that what the OP was trying to contrast a free API from a for-profit company with was actually an API from a non-profit company. A non-profit can run forever if it's just breaking even, and is sharing IP, so other people can jump up and replace it if they fail, and you might even be able to install it on your own servers.

edit: I'm not a big Mastodon booster (or even liker), but if you build your business around it, it would be nuts because the customer base is of course tiny at this point, but you run very little management risk from the Mastodon project itself. Whereas your relationship with twitter can be changed on a day to day basis, unilaterally.
You've been given more information multiple times on this thread.

There's another side to the story that's very different than your belligerent assertions.

Are you interested in learning, or just cursing and throwing unsupported accusations?

And no, he didn't "fess up to it" as you've said elsewhere. He admitted to an error in judgement, without going into details.

I don't know specifically what he meant by that, but it's possible that he meant his error in judgement was trying to help the wrong person, in the wrong context.
Retirees tend to be pretty boring because they can’t actually risk too much right now. Their income is limited, their health is limited. Very likely they are on medication they need regularly and so can’t afford wild trips.
You can't lose money if you are not making any money. Elon Musk is BRILLIANT.
Hmm.

Probably true.

The more I think on it, the more I see a society as a society. There is no such thing as a social predator. Everyone is part of a society. If women choose to boycott a company's products because they are upset at that company's lax attitude towards women's safety or whatever, that doesn't make half of society social predators. Women are a part of society, they're entitled to opinions, as well as the agency to engage in freedom of lawful action.

The company doesn't seem a predator to me either, as all they are doing is taking lawful action to protect their revenue.

There really are no social predators here, unless I've misunderstood the term.
Recursive prompting works pretty well for niche websites. There is a millionaire computer scientist who sells AI written articles for 50 cents a peace. Can generate those with a few API calls.
I love that browser menus and address bar are at the bottom instead at of top.
Have you ever tried to search for something on Aliexpress? It is the worst experience I have ever had. "Free Shipping" button (sometimes) shows things with free shipping, or the actual price of the item showing as $0.99 when that is for the optional plastic lid or whatever. Only about half the time I try to use Aliexpress it gives me the results I want.

Furthermore, it is stupidly obvious when something is just being dropshipped vs coming from Amazon's warehouse, just look for the Prime logo on the items. At least with Amazon I get things relatively quickly even compared to other US based options such as Ebay or even going through the retailer directly
Not interest rates, but tanking stocks and investments absolutely will change that. If my retirement investments lose 50% of their value, I'll have to go back to work.
I don't know anything more just yet, just that my account was unbanned.
I think pessimistic and cynical reactions are the literal lifeblood of news aggregator comments sections. It's been like this for as long as I can remember across as many aggregators as I've ever used.

Part of the problem is that news aggregates reward people who comment early, and the earliest comments are the kneejerk reactions where you braindump thoughts you've had brewing but don't have anywhere to put. (Probably without actually clicking through.)
> unless those stocks expected to be able to get some benefit from a weak jobs report like slowing the increase in interest rates, or a cheaper labor market

I'm pretty sure it's the former. Higher rates wallop stocks in multiple ways. They slow the economy in general, they directly raise the cost of borrowing for debt-addicted corporations, and they create an attractive alternative for investors.

If you had a lot of money in 2020, you could buy 10-year treasuries yielding less than a percent, or you could take your chances in the stock market that was down 25% off it's highs. Today, it's completely flipped. You can make 3.5% in the bond market with no risk, or you can roll the dice on a stock market that's up pretty substantially.
One reason is:

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

Military intelligence gathering is so common that countries basically agree to not start a shooting war for overflying each others country gathering military intelligence.

If every military intelligence balloon, satellite, aircraft, drone, etc, was considered an act of war and destroyed, the world as we know it would have ended a long, long, long time ago, and none of us would be here having this conversation.
This story sounds all too familiar to me. I have been denied coverage and subsequently saddled with debt. I know others who have experienced similar. I wonder how widespread this is.

Reading about insurance company's internal process is deeply upsetting. It is like a kangaroo court, where the denial of benefits is predetermined. Documentation to support this conclusion is fabricated. Documentation that does not support the conclusion is buried.
> (If it's not clear from the above, personally I am in favor of low unemployment and higher income equality.)

So is everyone but it is easier to wish for something good publicly than have a logical way to get that.

The investors are not the ones that will cause loss of jobs it is the Fed that will soon.
Well I know that I have been a non drinker until the age of 27 and I still often don't feel the need to drink alcohol even in a social event especially if I have to drive (better to say I don't drink tonight than starting and count your consumption). I could and still definitely observe it on long family dinners. But it depends a lot on the people tolerance and the kind of drinks. There are worlds of difference between a 4% of alcohol beer and a 6.5% one if you have a pint.

My mother has always been laughing stupidly with a single glass of wine, my father could drink 3 before you notice. Same when I am not drinking and my partner have a beer. She won't speak louder or do act differently after 1 or 2 light beers. But in her case the line is really thin between the virtually unnoticeable state, the moment you realize she should stop drinking and the moment she is completely wasted or start feeling bad, especially if the drinks are stronger. On other people it is more gradual.
And sadly that belief is entirely rational and supported by the facts, the British legal system being designed with the overriding concern of protecting the aristocracy and Establishment.
> Well, they don't need to spend money to schedule my Lambda, but they did already spend a bunch of money building out the datacenter so they can pick up my 100th of a nickel when they do schedule it.

A projected revenue drop is not the same as a loss though. You already bought that computer.

Less so if it's your own company who was using their stuff.

Worst case scenario: they have stuff idling and more headroom to accommodate demand.

Heck, why waste more money building yet another data center if the ones already in place have already plenty of cycles rand bandwidth to spare?

It's all an accounting trick. You don't waste more power. You don't have to but more hardware. Turning off your lambda saves nothing.
Yes, I also felt similarly. I guess OP has this overwhelmingly positive opinion and is so easily impressed because his bar of acceptance is so low.
I really hate financial headlines. The S&P is still up 3.08% this week. This headline makes today's 0.65% drop sound catastrophic.
Not that this is true in this case, but a large number of HN support thread creators are very cagey about the nature of their business. I suspect a lot of the time they know they broke the ToS and are hoping that HN will get the pitchforks out to help them get their way regardless.

Again, that doesn't seem to apply here, but I've stopped assuming that the existence of an HN support thread by itself shows malfeasance or incompetence on the part of the company.
Thank you for calling it by it’s proper name and not “Anime Homing Missiles”
I think that's nearly the same thing, and in part related to what Robin is talking about in the article- people think they already have the answers, and talking about a weird idea is socially unacceptable, and automatically rejected as nonsense. This dynamic serves to lower the social status of the person proposing the weird idea, motivating them to keep quiet next time.

I am not familiar with all of Robin Hanson's work, but I have seen two other such cases that really stand out in my memory:

-He advocated for intentional covid-19 exposure as "variolation" before a vaccine was developed, suggesting this would save lives

-His book "The Elephant in the Brain" explains why virtually all of the supposed motives of people in public culture are dishonest, and the real motives are hidden, even from ourselves - and are mostly all about maneuvering for social status

A quote from Tyler Cowen on his wikipedia page:

Robin has strange ideas ... My other friend and colleague Bryan Caplan put it best: "When the typical economist tells me about his latest research, my standard reaction is 'Eh, maybe.' Then I forget about it. When Robin Hanson tells me about his latest research, my standard reaction is 'No way! Impossible!' Then I think about it for years."
Your toolbar is a nightmare for people that may have some eyesight problems or are not expert FPS shooters in the latest triple A game and miss some mouse dexterity.

What I'm trying to say is that a large surface is good for muscle memory. And I have a lot of pixels to play with, 4k screens are cheap. Of-course programs have to scale between small and (very) big screens, but making everything very small by default is not the way to go.
Another game with good gunplay, fast action, and a CS-like feel is Insurgency: Sandstorm
Ask HN: Scammer Using Git as CDN – What to Do?
I got an e-mail today buy someone using github as a CDN to phish passwords, pretending to be AMEX. He sent it to my "Batteries Plus" e-mail account.

Is there someone I can reach out to to shut this account down?

https://github.com/amxpdashbaord/summary/blob/main/header.js

It's a (poorly) obfuscated form whose POST goes here:

https://kbase.pratesis.com/php/init.php

or here:

https://dentalsline.com/wp-includes/ID3/id3.php

Thanks!
My hypothesis is the offered wages are below the market clearing rates. People have a willingness to work for every price offered for their labor. If they aren’t filling positions then the wage is too low.

Granted, if they raise rates to 10%+ they’ll drive the entire economy into the ditch. Then these jobs will disappear and prices will deflate-along with lots of horrific side effects.

Edit-The US minimum wage is 7.25/hr or 15,080 per year at full time. The US poverty level for a single person without children is 15,225. They have to specify it in a spreadsheet. Because of all the qualifications on that information.

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/tables/time-ser...
You should never build a company based around phone calls, because one day your phone might get cut off.

You should never build a company around electricity, because one day your electricity might get cut off.
Firefox nightly has become nearly impossible to use, everyone is blocking, falsly assuming your version is too low, trying to get you to use chrome or assuming you're a bot and forcing you into CAPTCHa hell.