skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. The internet is an example of what happens when you suck margin out of high margin businesses like content creators. India is an example for pharmaceuticals.

If the state takes a commodity and sells it on a cost plus or cost basis, it’s going to kill investment in the spaces and collapse the margin.

At this point, we’re killing people and bankrupting states and employees with out of control costs. Making an example out of insulin would fix that and constrain some of the players in the market.
Another episode: the copier switches digits randomly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23588202
Locking people up and force feeding them[1] is not unheard of.

Yes, I understand the differences between one causing the other and in the other instance not, but it doesn't change the end results(being force fed).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_force_feeding
The author has an interesting specialty:

"Tyler Rainford is PhD candidate at the University of Bristol, funded by the South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWW DTP). His research explores the role of intoxicants in early modern England..."
Paid off the moment I bought it.
The vast majority of security issues with XP (and some with 7) are architectural. E.g.: you can't fix some security vulnerability relating to GDI on XP without essentially replacing it with Vista/7's DWM. Conversely, 7 has a few security weaknesses compared to 8/8.1 due to missing kernel security features that are, essentially, a binary diff between 7 & 8 rather than a small patch.

"Updates" for XP POS Edition and the like are mostly support filler and don't bring it up to the same security level as a modern OS. I.e.: There's still a bunch of logical vulnerabilities present.
Accounting and banking does not allow epsilons. You always need to be able to account for every last cent on every account and every transaction. And the precision you need is fixed, so there is no purpose in using floating points.

I guess there are some contexts where floats are fine for monetary amounts, for example if you make economic forecasts or simulations. As long as the amounts are not real-world transactions, floats are probably fine.
AI? What was the training data? Would seem a bit thin on the ground.
I'm sure this will do wonders to all the broken features github keeps adding since being acquired.

At one point I stopped thinking about github because it Just Worked. These days its a dice roll if even simple things like loading a repo page or perusing the notifications actually does what its supposed to.
There are a ton of desktop email clients that have that design: Apple Mail, Windows 10/11 Mail application, Outlook, Mailspring, whatever.

Of client that have the UI/UX of Thunderbird... well only Thunderbird remained. I get that if you use the email sporadically with only one account, you are better with a client like you described, but at that point you can as well use a webmail.

Otherwise if you work with emails, and you manage tens or hundreds of email each day, Thunderbird interface is great, is compact, is essential, is functional. Not pretty, but works well, it's stable, it's reliable.

Thunderbird is a work tool, and a work tool to me doesn't have to be pretty, it has to work.
That's second fiddle to the real reason for why we're in the current state of affairs - fleecing the public is much better for the vendors, and it's much better for a politician trying to get re-elected to go along with it.

"Domestic manufacturing" is just a talking point to fig-leaf the real goal.
The law doesn't do dick to stop criminals, it's to punish them after they break it. Hence laws regulating drugs, guns, etc which all can trivially be broken.
I clicked your link and it came up on the very top of the page without having to scroll or anything.

https://i.imgur.com/yfmXHSa.png

I almost never use Bing, and am pretty sure I’ve never even opened Bing on my phone at all before. Settings show that “Safe search” was at “Moderate”, presumably the default.

https://i.imgur.com/1QB5PUI.png

On an unrelated note, Bing uses purple as the default color for all links? That’s confusing to me. Purple to me on the web used to mean previously visited. The only board on 4chan I visit these days is /g/ and only very rarely as well. Scrolling the Bing results, all results have purple color.
I had that same exp about 5 years ago. I have heard tailoring your resume for each one helps.

The funny one was one that came back 2 years after I had another job and rejected me. I had to go dig up my notes and see what I had applied for!

My internal network was the same as yours with lots of 'nothing here'.

Most of my luck has been like you, with 3rd party recruiters. Unless I reach out to them directly. Then they suddenly have nothing. One of them just for fun I called them every week but 'we currently do not have anything' which I knew was rubbish and I would pull items off their own site and show them. But if they have something that tweaked their buzzword bingo they blow up your phone. Getting a recruiter who likes to hustle is the key.

Only thing I regret for the 'time off' was not starting to look sooner. I figured it was a 1-2 month tops thing. Turned into 8 months of looking. What is really annoying is if you do not have a job they do not want you. But have a job and suddenly 2-3 calls a day.

Hiring is broken in a very weird way. But nothing really clear how to fix it. Adding more fizz-buzz testing is not going to fix it.
Please accept my sympathy. I do understand and soon enough I'll be in the same predicament. Every iOS 15 patch feels like a gift. I seriously don't know what I'm going do when iOS 15 becomes end of life; there aren't any modern phones that have my critical—and arguably reasonable—hardware requirements.
I don't know what to tell you, but your experience is very different from mine and most androids users (who knew what they were doing).

Disable all the software crap and there was no real difference. You think it was more internal to the OS, and maybe part of it was, but even with just ending all the crap that fixed things.

We agree there were no significant differences in hardware though, and that was my point.
Kraken Agreed to Shutter Crypto-Staking Operations to Settle SEC Charges
Germany. Prices went through the roof last year, and are currently capped by the government at 0.40 € per kWh. But only for 80% of your average consumption per year. So 8 hours work a day cost me roughly 0.50 € in electricity. Same goes for gas prices, they also went quite high.

But then again, I'm grateful that we are in the position to get support from the government.
Once batteries get really old, I think they can start having trouble maintaining voltage and/or current, and Apple will start limiting performance to reduce fire risk. At least that's my understanding. Hopefully someone who knows more will also chime in.
2,500 workers total so 250 will loose jobs.

Best of luck to the folks who get cut finding something better!
If there ever was a relationship between a large corporation and a Federal agency that epitomizes how corruption is institutionalized in the USA, it's the romance between Comcast and the FCC. (Or at least the only one that involves a company that's a household name: I suspect a lot of defense contractors mastered this ages ago.)
oof that's rough. good to know what it took for you though, thanks!
Wow, that is impressive. I need to get off the Intel chip.
> The main effect is that you lose the trust of the top performers.

Why? top-performers are most positioned to be aware of incompetence around them and may in fact welcome a housing cleaning. With that said, it's not always easy to identify who's who-- it's possible top-performs are affected or incompetence isn't, which can erode trust.
Use a large provider's DNS. I can't suggest supporting CloudFlare because of their dubious selective enforcement of ToS regarding sites that actively organize and encourage harm to people, but there are much lighter weight alternatives.

AWS Route53 is basically free and doesn't require you to use any other AWS services, the same is probably true for any other cloud provider. Smaller providers like DigitalOcean / Linode / whatever should also be fine - I use DO for personal stuff, but would happily use it for larger capacity projects. Many cloud provider DNS APIs are supported in terraform, so you don't have to worry about what the UI is like.

Your DNS registrar also probably offers this service.

I will say this: if your provider is unable to protect their own DNS service, you should find a better provider. While CloudFlare and other similar services have incredibly resilient DNS, most folks don't need that. Anyone who is in the business of hosting online services should be capable of running a resilient DNS service. If not, you have to ask yourself how resilient anything else they offer you is.

While there are lots of ways to screw it up, DNS is incredibly simple compared to basically any other service, reliability-wise. BIND on any reasonable hardware can handle katrillions of queries.
Isaac Asimov – Someday (short story)
I'll throw in my critique, write a <title> or at least read up on the SEO importance of doing so
Marriage matters because with two people you can share one car, including the costs. If you need a car 10% of the time you still pay for it, so you may as well use it. However if you are married share the partners car. Odds are good that even a 10% use of a car overlaps with your partners use if you don't have some other alternative, and so most buy a second car, but a bike could cover enough transport that your remaining use doesn't overlap.

I said "marriage like" relationship. Marriage as other legal and cultural connotations that may not apply, but your relationship is still such that you can share one car.
Most of the history of labor unions involved meeting in secret in venues outside of work's control. Very few labor unions were ever formed in the halls of an office building.

Also, human connnection isn't irrational, but expecting all or most of your human connections to come from your job may be.
Yeah, all the development that IS going on is happening in the very light jet market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_light_jet

But that's a $2m aircraft vs a half-million one.
Ehhh. Pumps are common, but they're not universal (I don't use one).
Bing's weird with some websites. For instance it will refuse to show the bun homepage (bun.sh) with anything short of a direct copy of the title: "Bun — fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime", even then it gives you a link with a `?ref=hackernoon.com` query parameter for some reason?

It is happy to show its github repo and a bunch of blogspam about it though.

It is even happy to link you to bun.sh/install, which immediately downloads a shell script to your computer upon clicking. Bizarre.
While I agree it's important for developers to know, I think that Ca.gov example would have been more compelling if we'd had side by sides between various systems - as it was it was incredibly slow, but that's an aberration, and it was a universal problem. Otherwise we have to once again resort to benchmarks. I've been happy with the experience on my last Android phone for 3 years now, another benchmark isn't swaying me, my phone is more than fast enough.
I can't charge at home. I don't have a garage or driveway and the municipality forbids extension cords spanning across the pavement.

If home charging is a necessity to use an already twice as expensive electric car, I can't be an EV customer realistically.
Aside from Amazon, Lenovo also still makes a 7" Android tablet.[1]

The 2013 Nexus 7 had a 16:10 ratio 7.02" screen in a 7.83" x 4.72" x 0.41" form factor.

Its bezels were large (62.3% screen-to-body ratio) even for its time. So the next size up isn't 10-11", it's usually 8-9" in a form factor closer to the 2013 Nexus 7's, just with more screen-to-body ratio.

- Samsung's A7 Lite has a 5:3 ratio 8.7" screen in a 8.37" x 4.91" x 0.31" (+0.54" x +0.19" x -0.1") form factor.[2]

- Lenovo's Tab M8 has a 16:10 ratio 8.0" screen in a 7.80" x 4.83" x 0.32" (-0.03" x +0.09" x -0.09") form factor.[3]

- Amazon's 2020 Fire HD 8 has a 16:10 ratio 8.0" screen in an 8.43" x 5.04" x 0.3" (+0.60" x +0.32" x -0.11") form factor.[4]

> Did the rise of big phones kill the market for the paperback-book form factor of tablet? Does nobody want a modern Nexus 7 anymore, like they used to?

There are arguably more flagship and mid-range phones with 6.5" or larger screens than there are smaller phones in that spec range. The Galaxy Note 10+ has a 16:9 ratio 6.8" screen in a 6.39" x 3.04" x 0.31" (-1.5" x -1.7" x -0.1") form factor.[5]

1: Tab M7; 7.0", 1024x600, Android Go 11 https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/tablets/android-tablets/lenov...

2: https://www.gsmarena.com/lenovo_tab_m8_(fhd)-9826.php

3: https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/tablets/buy/?modelCode=SM-...

4: https://www.gsmarena.com/amazon_fire_hd_8-7610.php

5: https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note10+-9732.php
Jordan? That does not match his post-nba behaviour or info we now know about his playing days.
They look cool and all, but how much does this cut down on efficiency?
lol, you can't tell iPhone zealots that their antiquated mocks are out of date. They're still using the same old stuff because they can't handle the fact that iPhone hasn't added a new feature that wasn't present on Android first in 5+ years.
“ It has, however, increased salaries.”

These guys can’t lose. They either win or win big time even while running their company into the ground. Time for some government bailouts so they can go on a luxury retreat like AIG execs did in 2008.
I still use an iPhone X (with new battery from last year). The Pixel 2 was released around the same time and is e-waste.

Almost all apps run well with the exception of Google's, which have consistently gotten worse. The camera still starts up quickly, and the fact that most apps are still performant compared to an iPhone 13 is impressive.

Google Docs is unusable - even small documents can't be opened, and the app hangs when opened more than half the time. Google Maps keeps adding misc features which adds significantly to startup time and responsiveness.
Ask HN: Suspended from Twitter while not using it?
I haven't used Twitter in months, but received an email from Twitter stating my account "has been suspended for violating the Twitter Rules. Specifically, for:
Violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam."

I logged in and see a similar message, but don't see any evidence of my account being hacked. My last comment was years ago.

What's going on? Did I get banned for the wrong like? Is it something algorithmic? Did this happen to other anyone else here?
My phone is aging One Plus 5T and so far I never felt even slight reason to change it. It is just plainly fast enough.

Only thing that would make extra performance matter are video games and I don't play those on phone.
They are most definitely changing the UI to be white space fancy and in-line with new users. It is a reset of features. That’s what they are doing with K9 too.

Not the direction I was hoping they would go in.

They should forget the rewrite. And forget the UI change. They should separate the UI stuff into a different module. And let others innovate on it. They should only focus on maintenance changes with Firefox.

And then add new features. Like external linked attachment technology. Snoozing emails. Sorting emails based on content. Unsubscribe highlighting. Scraping incoming emails for patterns. Machine learning for Outgoing emails.

And finally, they really need to get into the email server game. Innovation can’t only be happening in the client.
> Also, just because you have a huge bankroll doesn't make money worth less.

Actually that's exactly what it means. Like pretty much everything else, money follows the law of diminishing marginal utility.
When the batteries get older, iOS throttles performance to ensure the device doesn't shut down unexpectedly. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208387
Maybe he did report them and maybe their license wasn't revoked. He's only repeating a joke that the electrician and the certification committee told him. I wouldn't blame the victim, here.
Fear of complacency costs Alphabet $150B
And then what will happen?
Long acting insulin is exactly what this entire debate has always been about. Generic standard insulin has been cheap at walmart forever. They even sell cheap rapid acting ReliOn.

People want long acting insulin cheap. (short-, intermediate-, rapid-, and long-acting, ultra-long-acting (42h) insulin are the main categories.) Long acting insulin was the product that had a price jump at the end of 2017.

I am pretty sympathetic to the non long acting stuff not being good enough. Expecting people to monitor hour after hour, and only calling it an inconvenience really downplays how tedious it is to stay alive.
iOS does have a feature that throttles the CPU on deeply worn-down batteries to save battery life, however, after it got some publicity a few years ago they made it user-toggleable from the settings menu (Battery > Battery Health & Charging)

My XS is currently at 74% of initial capacity (it tells you this too, which is really nice), and I don't even have the option to enable throttling yet, so it must not kick in until things get really dire
How many people need to make regular trips beyond EV range though?
Yep, went with the cheaper one.
DDG is not much different from Bing nowadays.
Normally the anti-EV crowd does tend to just drop in little nuggets to prove that we don't have a perfect world for EVs yet, without furthering the discussion of how we get to that point. Because they don't want to get there to begin with, burning gasoline is their preferred permanent solution.

I do see a fair amount of quiet upgrading going on, at least in my area (in the US, not in UK, so I cannot speak to that). Having an EV charger is becoming a box you want to have checked on your rental property description, whether apartment or house. That doesn't mean we have a great solution in mind for curbside parking, mind you, but in most of the US that's a much less critical issue than apartment complexes which do have private parking lots.
I think we all know how important encryption is but what about the tyranny of unaccountable foreign actors? Is liberty allowing communication that isn't beholden to anyone? It's a complicated question.
I don’t really want multi-core phone apps for the most part. Smartphones aren’t like full computers, they are small devices with little batteries. I want my phone to run single core programs with smooth scrolling and no jitter.

Multi core performance on a phone is like towing capacity on a sports car.
Fully agree, they’re very quickly up to the races of intel and Amd for their laptop M series chips. Typically every two gens we see a larger bump, so the next M series (after the one just released) will probably be even worse for intel especially
In the same light my S20, which by all benchmarks should be inexcusably slow compared to Apple, still feels like a brand new phone to me as well. I think we've lately hit a level of performance excess that means that phones don't age like they once did.
I went down a fun rabbit hole recently. It started with the innocent question "How much iron is in the sun?" fun because the answer ranges from fractional percentages to the sun is a stellar remnant and most of it is iron.

Here is one of the more out there theories I found.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0410/0410569.pdf

The fractional percent crowd bases their theory on the observed spectrum of the sun. the large iron core side bases their theory on the observed distribution of iron in the inner solar system.

It is interesting because too much iron and there would be no fusion, but think of the iron cores in the planets, the sun coalesced from the same dust, there has to be a large amount in there.
Ask HN: Gmail Spam Out of Control
I have an older gmail account that's getting upwards of 80 gross spam email via bnc3.mailjet.com but with spoofed sender/receivers per day - literally multiple per minute sometimes. While they go to spam, I'd like to blackhole this entire domain, but gmail filters apparently don't support filtering by mail relays. Does anyone know of a solution?
Does Apple really have some secret sauce, or are they just consistently first in line for TSMC's latest process? Not saying that's better or worse, but it's a very different problem.
I'm an Apple user, but I'm not sure what this indicates. How are benchmarks on a phone useful?

What matters is user's perceived speed.
Let me put it this way.

The guy I linked has a very niche skill. And he talked about bringing in a Bulgarian with a similar but different very niche skill.

Neither one of those is more productive than the other.

But neither one can be replaced with the other.

That's an irreplaceability advantage, without a productivity advantage.

And you might find that a good bricklayer is actually more productive, but he can be replaced pretty easily with a different bricklayer.

Those niche guys would be in extreme demand even if they slowed down 3x, because there is no way to replace them.

Here's a hypothetical: You're in charge of purchasing supplies for making a machine. Then 9 other people build it. The whole team is pretty productive, but you think it's fair to say you do 10% of the work.

Then it turns out some critical part can only be bought by you. You've become irreplaceable, but it's hard to argue that your productivity has changed.

Then you decide to demand an assistant since you're irreplaceable. You start pushing more and more of your purchasing work onto your assistant, until you're only handling a couple products and you come in one day a week and leave at lunch. You're still irreplaceable, but your productivity has fallen off a cliff.
Oh yeah for sure. I think I meant to say on-prem sharepoint web apps. Which were terrible. Just like SharePoint. SharePoint and every single one of its components really embodied everything wrong with Microsoft's culture. It was distilled awfulness, lack of attention to detail, terrible customer experience, awful UX and just insane architecture decisions that still impact 365 to this day. The SharePoint list limit that Teams hit when you added too many people to a team (since worked around or fixed) a couple years ago is a prime example.
I believe it's still true. Apple's swift/obj c++ don't use garbage collection. Android default java/kitlin does, so android is inherently more memory intensive.
My home network has a few differences that might be interesting:

I run openwrt on some mikrotik switches. I started with a mikrotik rb750 switch, then switched to rb2011 switches (5x 10/100/1000 + 5x 10/100 ports), and now two rb3011uias-rm 10-port gbit switches.

the openwrt rb3011 build comes from https://github.com/adron-s/openwrt-rb3011

I also run openwrt on a turris omnia and a linksys wrt1900acs.

I use raspberry pis for a few things, notably standalone ntp time via a few cheap usb gps dongles. One pi does time exclusively and runs openwrt with a gps hat with pps + a pi ups hat. I like the flirc pi cases - they are cheap, beefy and have great thermals.
No, "learn to code" is now "learn to read".

Long ago, people could get work as a scribe or scrivener -- knowing how to read and write was, on its own, enough to get you a job. As literacy became more prevalent, it wasn't enough to "just read". You had to "read and ____". Similar to business; I would not recommend someone get "just a business degree" so they can apply to any company in the world. I'd recommend they get a "business degree and ____" to target a specific industry or role.

The same is slowly happening with programming. As the spectrum of what "programming" means continues to widen, and as code-literacy becomes more and more common, it's going to be harder to get a job as "just a programmer". So learn to code, And.