skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The trouble is they're only seen when you're, say, at the last screen of checking out. How do they avoid that in Germany?

If they're adding a surcharge for something you would reasonably expect to be included in the offering which they advertised at a lower price, it would be false advertising.

You'd at least run afoul of the act against unfair competition:

German version / English version

§5 Misleading commercial practices: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/uwg_2004/__5.html / https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_uwg/englisch_uwg...

§5a Misleading by omission: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/uwg_2004/__5a.html / https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_uwg/englisch_uwg...

Some quotes:

> A commercial practice is regarded as misleading if it contains false statements or other information suited to deception regarding the following circumstances: [..] 2. the reason for the purchase, such as the existence of a specific price advantage, the price or the manner in which the price is calculated [..]

> The following are also regarded as an omission of information: 1. the hiding of material information, 2. the provision of material information in an unclear, unintelligible or ambiguous manner, 3. the provision of material information in an untimely manner.
Not that I disagree with the sentiment. But one could look at this an an opportunity to try and improve Teams. Sucks a bit short term for the people who have to use it, but if they can capture feedback (from a captive user group paid for their time) and improve it, everybody wins. I think is would be worse if they just kept polishing a turd in an ivory tower (so to speak) and let their employees use something else
The great distraction. A colony of humans that does not feel an external stressor, real or imaginary, will not seek to expand/evolve and instead spend its lifetime with dopamine. I welcome the new Cold War as an opportunity
It's been quite a few years, but when I started in telco, we had a vendor product that I think sort of worked like this. They were using a "micro-services" architecture within their nodes before it became popular. They also used a crash-only approach to writing software. So lots of asserts for unhandled / unexpected cases.

As I remember it, they wrote their crash handler to include the ring buffer of recent messages sent to the services. So whenever they'd get into an unexpected state, they'd just crash the process, and collect the ring buffer of recent messages along with the other normal things in a mini core. Made it so easy to track down those unexpected / corner cases in that platform.
All of that might be true, but sometimes, especially if you're a soldier, the right thing to do is die trying.
> We've seen the greatest wave of corporate consolidation in history:

This here is the problem there used to be the physical barrier of distance, and associated time, these things used to delay the consolidation we are seeing.
Suspicious? If it makes you suspect anything, it should be the suspicion that the rail workers were right about it being dangerous to overwork rail workers.

Imagine a truck driver complains about being worked too hard, then a week later he falls asleep at the wheel and crashes his truck. Is there a connection??? Gee, I wonder.
India’s government wants total control of the internet
Well said. I am getting these eerie feelings todays tech giants are turning into modern-day IBM — in that they are more just turning into generic businesses.
For what it's worth, I thought ABC was an obvious omission from the above

https://abcnews.go.com/

It is actually the first on the list at the top left as of my comment, linking to:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/train-derailment-prompts...

The headline is rather tame, though: "Train derailment prompts water utility to take precautions"
Turkey’s earthquakes show the deadly extent of construction scams
Good points, I could definitely be wrong in my estimate of the proportion of installations coming from the package manager. It may be that enough utility will be found in a fork. Nothing but to wait and see ;)
Stock is up 2.5% today.

It's my understanding, in Twilio's 15-years of existence ... they've only had 1 profitable quarter (out of 60 quarters).
this is also the years when real wages for workers dropped, disparity between the classes widened, and the concept of a company job pretty much disappeared. Maybe there is also some correlation there between these things and lack of productivity gains.

Perhaps the computer just allowed people to stay at the levels they were at when they were being rewarded for their productivity.

Frankly that would seem to fit with how the modern corporation tends to structure potential gains, use them to stay where you're at while cutting other things.
It's nearly impossible to discuss without the political flamewars - but Krugman's quote about the internet and the fax machine was in the context of some of his contemporaries predicting that we would consistently double our GDP growth due to the productivity gains from the internet. Cowen's Great Stagnation was a formalized book version making the same point with ~15 years more confirmation of the fact.

This 1997 essay written a year before the infamous fax machine article makes the full case and holds up very well: https://hbr.org/1997/07/how-fast-can-the-us-economy-grow
I'm now solidly in team 'buy' after spending a decade on team 'rent', but one has to recognize that there are certain markets in high priced cities where it makes a lot more sense to rent and invest in the stock market than it does to buy.

Housing usually keeps up with inflation. We seem to have forgotten that in the last decade or so, but eventually gravity will pull the housing market back down to earth. It's not an investment, it's a place to live.
I remember reading some comment by Peter Drucker, sometime in the early 90s, that at the time he estimated that the entire edifice of computing, viewed as an investment by the global government, academic, military and business enterprise as a whole, could only demonstrate superficial, locally improved productivity but had never in fact paid off the investment overall and did not appear (at that time) to be tending toward it.

There's probably a tangent with the hot anthropological debate over whether agriculture has ever paid off for humanity as well.
I had to use Teams for a couple of months with a client. It's not great but it's not terrible. I do miss days of Zoom but I opened it recently and found apps listed during the call of sudden - felt like bloatware.
Yeah I live in a place where the walkscore is like 30, and am able to get more places I need to go via walking than when I lived in downtown Seattle.

They're even adding a bike and walk link to the carmall on the outskirts of town, connecting it with the rest of the city on a traffic separated trail.

Meanwhile, in Seattle it was 2 miles to get to the grocery store and took all day while dealing with city car traffic.

The problem isn't "car centric" design, the problem is that nobody is designing anything at all.
In a case like this effective regulation is much more practical, and many libertarians would agree. The purists maintain that the legal liability that should follow an accident like this should be sufficient incentive to cause railroad companies to self regulate to avoid it. That seems either not to be the case or railroad companies like this one are not subject to enough liability to deter them from taking excessive risks.
Right, but people don't need to be making money out of that. I think you could set the tax rates so that people basically break even (make a small profit) from renting a house out, and they actually lose money if they hold on to a house they're not renting out (with some carefully worded time-limited exceptions for houses under renovation). That would drive down house prices sharpish!

You could also allow the state to step in as owners of rental housing where private landlords aren't making enough rental houses available. And if the state actually built houses for rental you likely wouldn't need as harsh taxation because the rental prices would drop purely through the increased supply.
Now, I could be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure an operating system and conferencing software are two different things.
now that the private equity guys have figured out how to cost effectively manage the properties

Anyone renting from one of this big corporations knows that this game can only go on for so long with this "cost effective" management. Pretty much every apartment I've rented from a big soulless corporation has had insect and rodent problems, dripping ceilings, poor ventilation, mold problems, and a whole lot more. When you build cheaply, maintain lazily, and extract as much profit as possible, you're effectively destroying the rental unit in the long term for short term gains. At some point these buildings will literally collapse due to poor maintenance. I can only hope that the government fights lobbyist attempts to "step in and correct the situation" with massive corporate bailouts.
I've known several people not take a job because of Teams....
If the residents want to fight back, they could really stick it to those investors by allowing a lot of new homes to be built, along with lots of upzoning to higher densities.

They could also streamline approval and permitting.

This would drive down the rents and property values of the homes those investors own making it easier for average people to buy.
There's a difference between the letter of the law and the word of the law. Having experienced both places I can say there is a difference in how things are run and regulated and if they call it legal tender or whatever it doesn't matter. As a customer it does matter because I end up paying the junk fees so please don't patronize me for saying it.
Yeah I wonder for how many seconds it was there, since you can't even count it in hours, but "UFO" is still there as the biggest news in world as you can see in my screenshot and also by visiting the page.

For instance if I would not be BANNED from posting links on HN I'd post also this which I find more interesting news affecting everyone than some dumb made up baloons which are on par with Iraqi WMD

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/more-natality-data-from-o...

But aparently I'm ALWAYS posting too fast only when it comes to posts, but have no such problems with comments, it's sad how low can go HN in shadowbanning users without transparently communicating why is one banned from something.
Sure it is. They get these stats wrong all the time; it's why they have to pay $600 for a couple volunteers to take a later flight because they've overbooked and got the estimation wrong.

Stats don't lend themselves to perfect predictions.
In my dream future, libgit2 is the official implementation of Git, taking most of the pain out of trying to create a Github-like service (among other things).
Alternatively, tell such an employer you require a company issued phone with Teams on it.
Stop spreading bullshit. GDPR is incredibly easy to comply with if you don't do retarded shit.
To start with, I never thought I would be so pro-industry. It is very surprising to me, I always saw my pathway as staying in academia. However, that has changed.

I work in industry and can echo this. Industry is HAPPENING for research. I am TRUSTED to do research in my company and drive research directions. My time as a research scientist is RESPECTED and I am not asked to do things that would WASTE my time. When I am interacting with my colleagues everyone is INTERESTED in the topic and not their EGOS. It is incredibly rewarding to show up at work and everyone is interested and engaged. Projects are funded either through customers or internally but we all feel like a team.

In addition to this industry work, I have a grant through a university that hasn't started yet (!) and I have spent approximately 4 weeks of full-time work doing paperwork related to the grant. This doesn't include any of the effort to write the grant. This full-time work includes: sitting in meetings with the university budget people not understanding their own spreadsheets, writing prestigious letters for prestigious people to sign welcoming me to their own prestigious institutions, defining the specific dates I will take a month long travel to visit a colleague 3 years from now, a back and forth email exchange that took all day to identify the correct date format to be used in a web form (it was unclear the date format was the issue until the end), vainly explaining to university administration that project A and project B are not the same project nor funded the same way despite that I work on both. Also I live in a country that decided to blow up their funding agency because a new party took over the government and that postponed my grant by 1.5 years.

Like the author, I loved being a PhD student. I loved doing a postdoc. I love being a scientist. I love the idea of sitting around and thinking about things and building models to test out ideas and creating new knowledge. But working in academia is a no-go because of the amount of nonsense you put up with. This is compounded when you are actively interacting with university administrators who have permanent jobs (funded by the overhead from your grants) while you do not. And likely they have higher salaries then you and your phd students and postdocs. Meanwhile there is little to any support in most places for workers (thankfully, I have a union in the country I work in).

I strongly recommend anyone pursuing a phd or postdoc to do whatever they want, but don't buy into the egoist bullshit of academia. Industry is where its at. Sure it has it's problems, not every industry job is like mine. But it is better. And it's not about the pay (even though that is nice). It's about how much I love to show up to work every day compared to the bullshit of academia.

Note: I don't know why i was capitalizing words, I suppose I just feel strongly about things.
Xcode command line tools require a one-time license agreement. FreeBSD ports will open an ncurses based configuration dialog if there are new options. Plenty of Java tools will prompt for JAVA_HOME if they can’t figure out where it is and the JVM forces providing arguments for enabling some license restricted features.

Telemetry from a private system should always be opt-in. I find it concerning that developers think they have some default right to data on systems they don’t own without explicitly getting permission. It may be technically possible, it may be statistically necessary, but it’s morally bankrupt and erodes the peer relationship that should exist in open source software.
Sabotage of the specifically mass surveillance part of the development.
poor souls
We need "human connection" and the feeling of being useful.

Text based online async connections seem insufficient and potentially counter productive but maybe video chat or VR help.
And here's me thinking that turd polishing was not location dependent.
If you look at the pretexts for coder or sam, you can actually force a response format from ChatGPT. You can get it to "respond to the following with a code block, followed by a explanation, using markdown format" This should work for both the CLI and the webapp. You can prime ChatGPT to respond a lot of different ways and with personalities.

Codex, or the CodeMode in my CLI, doesn't always work as well, often it continues to write more, unrelated code from the query.

Also, the CLI is not moderated the same way the webapps are. It will answer questions it would not otherwise. The jailbreaks go even further in unlocking prompts it will answer and reponse content it will generate.
Same.

Python's type hints and Ruby's Sorbet (or their weird RBS thing), I can understand.

But TypeScript? Besides a few things that are not obvious at first (like callable interfaces), I don't think you really need to think about most stuff.
Imagine a world in which the government caps the number of new cars that can be manufactured in a given year to 1,000. The price of cars would skyrocket across the board. People would respond to this new reality in predictable ways. They would buy cars and sit on them for the resale value. Car rentals would become the norm and car ownership would be exclusively for the well off. Bandit signs would pop up in every city offering cash for used cars. Investors, foreign and domestic, would start sinking large percentages of their funds into this new “safe” asset. ETFs and REITs would be created to give regular people access to this amazing new investment opportunity.

In this hypothetical world, it would be foolish to blame individual actors for the price of cars being so high, when the root of the problem is obviously the artificial cap on the number of new units that can be manufactured.

It’s the same with real estate. It’s foolish to blame AirBnB, landlords, investment groups, foreign investors, and Boomers for the price of real estate. These individual actors are merely responding to the reality that local governments make it nearly impossible to build new housing.
My point that this "scar tissue" only formed because he had no desire to prolong the relationship with the contractor. Imagine a good friend was doing the work instead of a random contractor. Do you think he'd greet his friend every morning by going over every single thing that was done imperfectly the day prior?
I am at 4 years. Lay off for COVID. Just starting to get the hang of some things and present problems to higher belts. The interesting thing to me, once I can funnel someone into a dilemma game I know well, there isn't as much difference as I thought there would be between upper belts. I would say tougher black belts have seen it all before and give a really hard fight at each decision point in the attack tree, and can often just escape if technique is a little lose, but it isn't insanely different. I know how to fix things and make it harder every time I find a little gap like that now and they are little gaps. I still just get beat up most of the time, heh, but when things work they really work as I implement more of the game I like. I think that is an interesting place in skill development. Not an expert, but not a novice.
Yes! If it’s not opt in.

Software should not make outgoing connections or accept incoming connections unless requested by the user.
I used to be able to check out my `ntpd` config file and see where my system was getting it's time. Now on Bookworm I cannot find it. I suppose that's some Systemd service but I have not easily determined which one.

My point was going to be that I don't ever recall seeing a mention of this WRT privacy and Debian (or any other distro) collecting statistics on usage. The Debian installs that used `ntpd` used to default to a pool of Debian NTP servers. It seems to me that would provide a way of determining how many installs were active, at least the ones using the default server. In my case I changed them to use my pfSense firewall which got time from somewhere else.

This 'privacy leak' is probably on the order of the information revealed by APT queries.

I'd have to do a little more digging to determine where Bookworm is getting time by default.
From a policy perspective, what do you think the right amount of accidents like this one is?

Assuming you had a mandate to regulate this industry, what would you consider an appropriate metric for hazardous material incidents that you would try to regulate the industry towards?
That's true, but lying and fear mongering is not a good means to an end.

People on reddit were advising Ohioans to take their family and choice valuables and immediately leave the state. To head west to avoid "chemical fallout". Totally detached insanity.

Like I said, the disaster was was bad. It shouldn't ever happen. But eastern Ohio is absolutely not an exclusion zone now. By now the site is already mostly clear.
Is the latter still a thing? I feel like I haven't seen those recently, but I haven't dug deeply.
That's an overarching claim.

I write some paid local-only software, and I have no trouble not tracking users or usage. For example, here's the entire privacy policy for one of them:

> App does not collect any data.

> App works completely on-device. Messages do not leave your iPhone and are not shared with other apps.

> The essence of this privacy policy will not change.

--

For another software, the privacy policy includes details such as:

> App never uses the Internet, except to check for updates.

> Automatic update checks can be turned off in the application's preferences. Requests to check for and to download updates happen only through the domain domain.example. The updates server does not store or forward potentially identifying information, such as request IP addresses or user agent strings.

> License keys, obtained upon purchasing App, do not contain personal information, such as names or email addresses of license holders. License keys are validated locally; App does not use the Internet to validate license keys.
Author of the article here, let me know if anyone has any questions or feedback. There's also a Reddit thread in r/ChatGPT (not sure if I'm allowed to post links yet - new account).
Terrible post. The language is waffly and barely says anything, and the graph doesn't even work (orange hidden behind blue). Hope your product is more effective than your writing.
Like many things, doing something for the first time with no proven blueprint is a lot harder than re-creating a process that you know works. And there's plenty of leaked/released information out there that a sufficiently interested party would very easily be able to obtain most of the steps/schematics necessary.

It's a little outdated at this point, but McPhee's 'The Curve of Binding Energy' is a fascinating read on this topic
No it's really not. It like saying you want to maximize the amount of money you have. You don't suddenly stop eating. Because the utility of eating supersedes the cost (in this case literal money) of buying food.

If the BPA derivative exposure in this sealant is low enough compared to usual daily exposure the benefit of having an effective sealant is too great to overlook. Let's say (for example)usual daily exposure is 1, the sealant adds 0.0000000000000001. Considering how devastating teeth problems can be this cost is a no brainer to pay.
For what it's worth, Teams is also available as a .deb/.rpm, which is I'd say unique for something with Microsoft in its name.
...does GitHub not use Office 365 for documents? Seems silly to pay for a $12 or whatever per user GSuite license just for Drive and Docs when the rest of the company uses Office and its approximately free (or very cheap) since they work for MS.

(Note: I know they have cheaper tiers of GSuite, I'm guessing with whatever security stuff MS infosec wants they'd have to go to a higher tier.)
A question on logic. Why is that second if needed? I often see the "if and only if"(iff) structure in logic. however I am never able to figure out how it is different than a single if. what exactly is the difference between the following three statements.

a theory should be considered scientific if, and only if, it is falsifiable.

a theory should be considered scientific if it is falsifiable

a theory should be considered scientific only if it is falsifiable
>> Wouldn't that solve most of the problem?

Yes, but the US Regulators have been "captured" by some of these monopolistic industries, to the point that the monopolies can do these things w/o worrying about laws against them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture#
But they don't have access to the Fed so what they are doing is operate a pseudo bank with no deposit insurance.
Oh I didn't see that. I think that might work! At quick glance it looks like it's showing different results than the normal feed I subscribe to: "news.ycombinator.com/rss". Can you confirm the "/frontpage" is the same feed as "news.ycombinator.com/rss"?