skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not my entire social sphere, nor is my argument that my social sphere alone has influence, it's just an example (admittedly a small one that isn't representative of the general population, see other comments) of a larger trend. Please also read my other comments where I discuss Google wanting ME-free CPUs for their servers as part of an effort to remove all proprietary blobs that was started in 2017. There is enormous institutional demand that singlehandedly justifies this offering, even if you entirely disregard the very real consumer demand.

The vast majority of people cannot cover a $500 emergency expense and fall for extremely basic phishing attempts - what the "average" person wants is an objectively bad metric to strive for or to base reasonable expectations upon. The "average" person is a fool that struggles to cover the lowest levels of their hierarchy of needs, to say nothing of abstract concepts like digital privacy.

Would you accept what the average person has for your financial situation? Your education? Your level of personal responsibility? I sure as hell wouldn't. Why should we factor the ignorant opinions of the tech-illiterate regarding digital privacy as a baseline for what ought to be?

I know this comes across as harsh, but that's reality. Consumers these days by and large don't even understand what data is being collected about them, let alone how the data collected from them can be used against them: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/technology/online-privacy...

Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/A6kJ2
> Private equity companies pool money from wealthy investors to buy their way into various industries, often slashing spending and seeking to flip businesses in three to seven years.

The focus of the article is on physicians vs. NPs and PAs, but the real driver of the enshittification is, yet again, private equity firms extracting short-term profits, to hell with long-term outcomes.
It is actually a great choice for unopinionated server-side web development.

Frontend development is simply awesome in ClojureScript. Give me Reagent + Shadow CLJS over plain React (or React Native) any day.
Nine out of ten of the top three producthunt launches in the last few weeks have AI in the title in some way.
Big clients use a mix of long-term commitments and short-term spending, they advertise in several channels, they evaluate continuously (every minute or even more often), and they mix long-term purchases with short-term.

If someone spends $10m/month in total and $2m/month on Twitter, that company might buy $1m/month in long-term discounted advertising and the rest at short-term prices (these are numbers I dreamed up).

If Twitter's content or targeting becomes a little worse, Twitter loses the marginal advertising auctions, which can lead to zero short-term spending, because the long-term volume covers all that the client's code decides to spend there. (In other news, Facebook ad volumes increased recently.)
HFTs is about using c++, putting your box as close to the market computer as possible and building out a private optical fiber from chicago to new york to lower your latency vs competition... algo trading can be anything from putting your personal strategy into code to using machine learning to discover trade signals etc
Every teen hacker I knew had their own "my_strncpy" function that did something like strncpy(dst, src, len); dst[len-1] = 0;
Noise abatement is done for urban freeways all the time, without changing the trucks, cars, road surface, et cetera.

One of the reasons the Kennedy Expressway in downtown Chicago is zoned for skyscrapers on both sides is to block the traffic noise from getting into the rest of the area.
I'm not the GP, but I agree with this stance. But the specific policy proposed really matters if this is your goal. Politicians often want to write very narrow regulations which are intended to tweak some small behavior by some specific business they find distasteful (or politically desirable to modify). So they play whack-a-mole with problems like this by writing policies that look like: "in Zone 5, businesses operating as data centers must operate cooling equipment that does not increase ambient noise levels above X decibels within Y meters of their property. "

This kind of policy does not accomplish the cost-shifting you talk about. Rather, a cost-shifting policy looks like: "in Maricopa county, a business may make as much noise as it likes, but must pay fees to the owner of any plot of land which has its ambient noise levels raised in the amount of $X per Y decibels per minute per square meter experiencing increased noise. "

I'm not aware of much regulation in the latter vein, at least not where I live. But it has the advantage of cost shifting, from ANY business, to those affected by the negative externality. That reinternalizes the cost without hampering freedom of businesses to operate in whatever way most efficiently accomplishes their goals, and helps C-suite execs see the true cost of their operations, which incentivizes them to innovate that cost away. It's also not specific to the cause of the noise, so church bells pay the same as the data center which pays the same as the glass factory which pays the same as the concert venue.

My $0.02 anyway.

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For the others that weren't familiar, OPFS === Origin Private FS. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...
> Dijkstra's idealized mathematically disciplined systematic approach

This is what impresses me the most about Dijkstra's accomplishments. It's not that he was extremely smart, although he was. Or that he discovered many fundamentally important algorithms, although he did. It's that he chose to develop and share how he did what he did. It's that you can read through one of his papers and it makes you feel like you could have applied his methods and made the same discovery. Of course that's not necessarily true, but that it's even sometimes true is remarkable.

And speaking of his papers, the EWD archive the submission is from is an absolute treasure-trove. While I'd recommend one of his books for someone interested in learning the methods he and his colleagues used, the more technical EWDs are very interesting. I personally enjoy the more polemical ones too, but I understand why many people are put off by them. Whenever someone gets around to writing the comprehensive multi-volume history of the development of Comput(er|ing) Science they will be an invaluable resource. Here's just one that I find notable[1].

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd06xx/EWD600.PDF
Which is only slightly less hard than full self-driving vehicles. The traffic/rail conditions may be simpler by comparison, but the added complexity of the vehicles in question more than makes up for it.
Man, that subreddit reads like the most massive case of sour grapes imaginable.

It's just people (presumably a lot of physicians / med students?) griping about how NPs and PAs are acting too good for their titles. All the actual stories are, like, one-off anecdotes about how some NP made some medical mistake. As if MDs don't make a massive amount of mistakes, I guess?

Edit: lol, reading more, and I have seen multiple posters and commenters directly reference how much less "intelligent" NPs and PAs are. This whooooole sub is just a massive superiority complex

Edit2: There's a moderator bot that automatically responds with a list of rebuttals, which includes this beauty:

> You're just sexist. Ad hominem noted.
The uk National Health Service is free at the point of use, and is a completely government run, non-profit service. That model doesn’t seem to be working either:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/uk/uk-nhs-crisis-falling-apar...
Yet the grown up ones still act like angry spoiled incel teenaged boys who don't know the price of a bar of soap, like Elon Musk as an archetypical example. Which is my point exactly.

Anyone who hasn't grown out of being a foaming-at-the-mouth libertarian after they've reached puberty and moved out of their mother's basement is suffering from arrested development and a nihilistic lack of empathy for their fellow human beings.
Do you really think that's anything like the scenario being proposed?

Here's what I think would be a closer analogy to what's actually being proposed: the water company installs a smart meter allowing them to read usage data more frequently. They randomly sample 2% of customers' data and prepare a histogram showing the top daily usage hours and total usage over a monthly period.
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One word: sanctions. And breaking those is expensive in more than one way.
They didn’t say it’s hard to disagree, they said it’s a hard disagree, as in they don’t agree with them at all.
What does this have to do with the article on the Indian government increasing control of the internet?
Almost every hospital organization is actually a non-profit.

However non-profit does not mean non-revenue.

Hospitals have real costs, and it is entirely possible the emergency department was a money sink. No one can be turned away, so it is used as the healthcare of last resort for those without other access, who, almost by definition, cannot pay.
How about if the headline ends with a question mark, or begins with a click bait phrase like "It could be" or "We may have just witnessed", or says something about what someone is "unable to confirm", and is in any way shape or form related to aliens, we just assume it's a soap opera and let the folks that specialize in that, like cnn or whatever, handle it?

If cnn says something like "Pentagon has officially confirmed aliens are here." or "Pentagon has officially confirmed China has new stealth tech." then we can take a look.
And concrete numbers; 68% means nothing without numbers, or comparing with their total expenses and therefore impact on profits.
That's not an 'easter egg' that's someone licking your ear, one of most subtley annoying things I've ever seen on a web site. Like an alarm clock in the locked closet you cannot open to turn off the alarm.
Yes. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-extension-shortc...
*I view Twitter Blue in a very similar way to paying for ads in Google

As is your choice and right as a consumer of content.

Ads do have a role, however. The right product can solve a lot of problems, and you may not discover that product were it not for the ad.

Don't get me wrong, Google is beset with ads and they often get in the way of finding what it is you are seeking. But not always.

I don't personally see any issue with people wanting to boost visibility, especially on a platform with almost half a billion users. That's a lot of noise to get through and even if your content is good, you're still competing with no guarantee of a pay off.
"Their projects" were core libraries or experiments IIRC.
House prices and rents have also skyrocketed across the Northeast. This is especially crazy (to me) in rural areas and small towns, where I'm starting to see one bedrooms skyrocket above 2k/mo. Whole houses with even a single bathroom rarely drop below 3k/mo. When the average wage in your town is 40-60k, that's clearly unsustainable. These prices aren't that different from what I used to see in the outer boroughs of NYC in 2019!

I'm pessimistic for the same reason as you -- Big Money got a heavy hand. But in the longer term... I don't know, if half the country can't afford rent, at some point you'll see a legitimate revolution. Considering how dangerous those are for the average citizen I would rather the government fixed the situation before it spirals out of control.
Thanks! We cover all types of SaaS companies' billing. We often say that if you can track it, we can bill it! We cover subscriptions, hybrid, pay-as-you-go, and per-seat pricing models.
We believe that the future of billing is hybrid - a mix of all the above. We've seen many missed revenue opportunities from companies that weren't able to price overage on top of a per-seat or pure subscription pricing (often because it was too hard to build, either internally or with existing vendors)
Managing the files and folders and paths in KiCad should be considered a war-crime. Symbols here, footprints there, 3d models somewhere else entirely by default, would you like to centralize your parts or have them portable per project? Can't have the best of both worlds, sorry!

(Edit to add: Oh yeah, any time you click to change a file, any environment variables you had in the path get replaced with the absolute path, so things which had been perfectly resilient against path breakage get brittle again automatically!)

Actually making footprints, though, is super easy. If I have a datasheet, I don't even bother searching for a footprint from someone else (which was probably badly translated from some awful interlingua format), I just make my own.

Bonus if I can find a 3d model of the part. (I work with more connectors than chips, so these are frequently available.) Makes it super easy to doublecheck my footprint, and then I can see housing clearance and stuff in 3D as I lay out the board. Kicad is really, really good at this now.
For PE the building decay isn't a problem. They will have extracted a profit over time and there will be new buildings to move to.

It's a harvesting/consuming model more like a carnivore than a producing model like a plant.
I think the best explanation for what happened was globalization and its accompanying political movement in the West (neoliberalism). Productivity kept growing in the West at the cost of shifting labor-intensive jobs to China and other emerging economies. This in turn depreciated the value of labor back at home. With the majority of economic value being produced by large corporations and a small elite of individuals responsible for managing them, this elite was able to strong-arm the government into lowering taxes, eliminating tariffs and installing all kinds of preferential treatment to whoever could extract value of this global supply chain.

I was also disappointed that the discussion about politics and globalization was very superficial.
> a defensive war that is somehow being fought entirely on another country’s territory

A bit like Iraq and Afghanistan (and Vietnam, Korea, ...)
I'm sure the high paid software engineers at boeing said something similar when jobs were being outsourced "we need more US engineers". Look at the software problems they had and tell me they were wrong.

Just like software engineers are best qualified to evaluate software quality, doctors know medicine better than anyone else. Just because they are incentivized to protect their job doesn't mean they are wrong.
For starters, you could acknowledge that a train explosion is already well outside normal lab conditions for vinyl chloride. Don't pretend you know what compounds were formed in this accident. Modeling this incident as a low exposure (see: your dismissal of the carcinogenic nature of vinyl chloride) to the pure substance is absurd.

Put your life where your mouth is and go live there.
> Outright impossible to do with the demands of employment these days

Trylly modern thinking is, if the Market disagrees with Gravity, then Gravity is wrong.
GDP going down because things we want in the form of software getting cheaper is a good thing. The assumption that 'GDP going up is good' is not true in good deflation.
I love Clojure the language but I’ve never seen a more fragmented ecosystem.

There seems to be a pattern in the language of “a problem emerges > a community solution gains traction > Cognitect develops their own solution but its weird and undocumented”, like deps.edn over leiningen, spec over malli, pedestal over ring, etc.

Many prominent clojurists recommend deps.edn over leiningen and socket repl over nrepl, but I’ve seen very little guidance on how either actually work or how to use them.

Spec seems kind of weird and not well thought out either.

And Clojure CLI tools also seem like a total shitshow compared to go or rust’s tooling.

As a result working with Clojure feels puzzling and unpleasant, and I feel hesitant to use any community library or project in the language.
I use app.ultralibrarian.com and snapeda.com. There is also https://github.com/DasBasti/lcsc2kicad that automates downloading and converting footprints from LCSC for Kicad to use. It is handy as well.
Who annexed Crimea in 2014?
https://i.imgur.com/AD4i0Wp.png
Their morality is guided by the Overton window[1] of what most customers and employees find acceptable.

Being based out of mostly western countries, corporations like Google and Microsoft found the belief system of quitting Russian business initiatives as most acceptable to the public, and hence executed that plan. A western worldview where it may have been more acceptable for Russia to initiate a war would have resulted in a different outcome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
I didn't know I needed this! Thank you Mozilla for creating a Streisand Effect.

Just installed it on Google Chrome.
Heh - no, just a tool to let companies support chat interoperability between different apps. Lots of companies are running multiple chat apps simultaneously, either due to acquisitions or because there's a department that stubbornly refuses to migrate to a new one.
Until you take out a home equity loan.
Yes, but perishables are more difficult to stock, so they still get neglected in lower income neighborhoods. But ya, unhoused neighbors aren’t shoplifting kale.
advisory itself: https://ru.usembassy.gov/travel-advisory-russia-do-not-trave...
Great comment. A couple questions I have, because you seem like you like your work:

1. Can you start your own project?

2. If so, how do you get funding and build a team for it?

3. If you start a project and move to another company, can you take your funding and project and team with you?

4. If you leave your job, are you able to take a position at a company that competes with your old company?

5. Do you decide your work schedule? How many days a week do you work?

6. Do you own what you create on company time? Does your company own what you create on your time?

The answers to these questions were my biggest concern in making the choice. The most important one is the last one, where I found clauses in my industry employment contracts purporting to own all of my thoughts. Such terms were set in stone; either sign or the offer would be rescinded. I’m wondering if similar contracts are found in your country.
You left out the housing shortage. In a market with no other options you can make people leave in filth if the only other option is living in their car. The more property you buy up and let decay, the higher rents you can charge.
It was timed perfectly. 20 years later, nobody can question the documentary makers. A hitjob is hitjob.
Oh, it's not a rant. And I've been working on these ideas for a number of years. Each sentence is basically a restatement of the same idea (except I suppose the ones that posit a cause behind this). Thanks for engaging! I'll try to read your response more fully tomorrow maybe it is late here :) !! :P ;) xx ;p
I think most of it is legacy. Trains have been around for a long time, and changing something on tens of thousands of locomotives and millions of train cars would be very expensive and complicated. Most systems now have a reserve tank on each car that holds a certain pressure, and the braking signal is sent by reducing the pressure from the main unit. But it's still not nearly as safe as automotive air breaks that fail closed, since eventually all the air will leak out of the tanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_air_brake
> Land value is actually enormously important in the economy -- it's 1/3 of the value of all real assets and probably represents a similar amount of bank loans (real estate itself is 2/3 or real assets and about 2/3 of bank loans).

That's just consequences of the artificial scarcity of real estate. Real estate should be a much smaller fraction of the economy, and land value too. Once real estate stops being an investment, mortgage debt will be just like car loans, an important segment of the credit markets, but by no means the gargantuan size that it is today.

And once land value drops from 1/3 to 1/10 of the real estate assets, then the difference between Georgism, Marxism and Neoclassicism will become academic (as it should be).
Bullshit. If the flight were full, as per usual, then yes, I would agree. Under normal circumstances, I could evaluate this offer and decide that yes, it was worthwhile.

But, here, they clearly exploited an information asymmetry to make me a zero value offer, knowing there was some probability I'd accept. Caveat emptor only applies when you have some way to evaluate or vet the offer in advance. With the hidden information that was kept from me, I was robbed of such opportunity.
This feels like a lot of effort to miss the point being made.
Based on what I've seen most tech companies are already pulling out of China or scaling back their presence so I don't think it will be a big deal.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. I'm saying in general it's the worst way. Not scoped to this. And it's nothing to do with taxes being bad or good.
https://archive.is/hHqal
I am talking about actual effects, not effects due to overreaction.

If you count effects due to overreaction, you can also count Germany's Atomausstieg, which almost certainly materially contributed to Putin's decision to invade Ukraine...
We need to outlaw for profit anything with healthcare. The incentives are misaligned with society’s needs.
I have seen this technique (send all the indexed search terms) a few times in the wild. Racket (a scheme derivative specifically made for teaching) has a search page where everything public is indexed [1] (see plt-index.js) and it works really well.

[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/search/index.html
Publishers are in a tough spot these days. Especially small ones.

On the one hand, there is no marketplace for unobtrusive ads without JavaScript. So if publishers use what is available (AdSense etc), half of their users will block the ads and the other half will hate them.

On the other hand, paywalls are also hated and when publishers use those, half of their users will stop being users and the other half will circumvent the paywall.

What would be cool is a marketplace for simple static text (and static image) ads. Similar to affiliate links, but with an automatism to find out which ads perform best on a given page.

I recently tried to promote paid services by other indie entrepreneurs with simple text links. No JS, not tracking, just a simple text link "If you like, check out this product by a fellow indie entrepreneur" and the results were pretty promising. It's just a lot of friction to do it manually. With an automated marketplace, this might make the web a better place.
That's correct but I believe their bias makes them a untrustworthy worthy source
Security is instructed not to physically restrain anyone, that is a power for the police alone. Because they can get sued.