skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any hard facts and clear causations why this is a bad thing? I've been hearing about it for years, but have yet to see evidence why it would be.

And no, I'm not interested in correlations.
This is not at all correct, simply because their prey cannot perceive orange at all. Tigers do not look orange to their prey. This is the same reason hunting vests are orange: The prey animals in question cannot pick orange out of a green scene.
To provide another perspective, it's worth noting that the example given contrary to "gouging" doesn't account for the practice occurring in multiple industries given that it only looks at food as a share of an individual's disposable income ("the average share of Americans’ disposable personal income (DPI) spent on food").
We experimented with cutting streetlight power at night where I live.

After six months of higher crime rates, we switched them back on.

So I suspect its a variable thing, based on location and existence of other lighting.
> It’s why I think TypeScript is the language of infrastructure-as-code.

What? Since when?

Edit: Did a google search for "infrastructure as code typescript" and this persons blog is one of the first results, where they talk about the new cloud development kits which are made to support different languages out of the box....

https://i.imgur.com/jozV24f.png
That was an objectively terrible blog post. But, because I was curious, I actually went digging into the docs for it and it seems that "WCSM" only supports fetching from S3 Compatible origins, which those pre-signed Takeout URLs are not: https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/wcsm-for-data-migration

Hypothetically one could trick the Cloudflare workers into exposing those Takeout URLs under fake GetObject request-response handshake, but ... what a lot of work just for Wasabi
Everything in the US is a monopoly now, everything.

Market correction requires a free and open market which doesn't exist.
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It is the he/him culture who has corroded the giant from the inside.
Interesting that the top rated comment on a post is related to how not reading the post (or any posts in the category) is optimal from a time management perspective.

Ironic that writing this comment as well as reading it is considered a worthwhile time expenditure.
From the article:

> The embeddings were then indexed with Pinecone.
Those are actually invasive in that they require something inserted into the skin. It’s extremely small and is supposed to be painless, but it’s still invasive.
Yes, it's funny how a huge amount of listed companies in the US have lawsuits against them because their stocks have gone down. Lawyers looking for clients who lost some money and then they sue. The lawyer earns money no matter what, and if they win then they get a big payout.
The fetus is confined to the whom in any case, so it makes no difference to the fetus if the whom is in prison or not.
Relevant: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220111/p2a/00m/0li/02...

It's easy to mock people who prefer virtual relationships to real ones, but mockery is often rooted in fear rather than comprehension of an issue. The dynamics here are fundamentally the same as those of religious/intellectual ascetics and drug users, where a person prefers to adhere to a consistent experience (notwithstanding possible costs) to an inconsistent or negative one.

This is often rational rather than maladaptive. Preferential attachment can run in negative as well as positive courses, such that while popular people tend to acquire more friends and so on, people who are socially perceived as lacking (the poor, socially awkward, crime victims etc.) are often further injured because they are perceived as vulnerable and safe to mistreat. A person whose experience of the social world is consistently negative may adjust themselves in response, but their cumulative experience is still going to shape their inner life.
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I didn't pick the grocery industry, OP did, I was just working with what they were discussing.

Anyway, the question isn't whether grocery stores have a consolidation problem (they do), it's whether Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods made that problem better, worse, or unchanged.

Looking at the market, it's hard to argue that Amazon buying Whole Foods made the consolidation worse, because Amazon wasn't a grocery store player until they bought it. And, in fact, it's likely that Amazon's purchase could slow the consolidation because they are better able to keep Whole Foods independent of the existing conglomerates than Whole Foods could while operating alone. If an acquisition was inevitable, better Amazon than Kroger.
What did you use to make these docs ? They look great!
How can it be a monopoly when you have several other grocery stores where you can go to? Did amazon buy all the stores in your area and is forcing you to do delivery from them or you’re choosing to use Whole Foods?
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He stole one good idea 20 years ago and now he’s trying to recreate that success by throwing billions at it.

The problem is he is talentless.
I had started seeing strange ads on Facebook (stranger than my usual assortment of ads) for Replika like it was something new and even the ads seemed somewhat pointedly sexual, like that was part of the whole deal, but I never pursued it.

Many people yearn for connection, and even artificial connections have been alluded to for a long, long time. Think Kate Bush's "Deeper Understanding," or that Pictures for Sad Children bit where someone has a "porn" DVD called A Japanese Woman Fries an Egg and Asks You About Your Day. It is unlikely at best that we are alone in our feelings and our internal experiences, yet most of us still wish to communicate about them.

As with anything, there's the Have Nots, and to go with that are the Haves, who are very blithe about the situation; if prodded, they'll recite something like bootstraps and apparently sage advice beginning with the magic phrase "all you have to do is." The Have Nots have come to understand that they'll never get anything like sympathy (mockery only, please) from the Haves, and just one little bit more of comfort is pried away from them, like yanking a ratty towel away from an orphaned baby monkey. No towel for you. Toughen up.

One less thing to keep the Have Nots occupied. Here's hoping ongoing legalization of marijuana and video games can keep them satiated to some degree, because a significant surplus of angry, lonely, dissatisfied young men tends to be pretty bad for the society they're in sooner or later. Nice civilization you got there, be a shame if someone were to happen to it.
For coroutines to be really useful, they have to be stackful. The guy that originally did the proposal for C++ is also an author of multiple coro libraries and did research on this. You can emulate stackful coros with stackless via trampoline, but heck, you can emulate stackless coros with closures and trampoline too! The requirement of this extra trampoline makes their use extra convoluted and negates the very slight advantages that such functionality may really bring.
Making stackful "right" was hard, so a useless compromise was made, which is basically like adding a syntactic sugar to the language.
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Miss "Universe" is a bit presumptious, isn't it? How do we know the women of Zarquon 7 in the Crab Nebula aren't much more attractive?
Amazing, an AI that is incapable of picking up on jokes or sarcasm!
> This was a situation where it was off, but still "sane,"

No. The margin for error in jets is very small. Jets are much less forgiving than Cessna 172s. The difference between a tail strike and a failed takeoff is very small, easily under the threshold of human perception until it's too late. Also, the whole point of using this software in the first place is so that every takeoff is done right on the hairy edge of minimal performance. It is a catastrophe waiting to happen. This was a wakeup call.

> If the union was unhappy with the remediation steps taken, they'd say so.

It is quite possible that no one in the union appreciates the broader implications. Pilots are generally not software engineers.
How on earth are they just the “middle man” where they are the ones prioritizing certain content through the feed and their algorithms? Do you feel they should bear no responsibility for anything?
> The doctor wore a white coat that was frequently splattered with blood. His fingernails were filthy, stained by the chemicals he used to concoct his magic elixirs. He wore thick glasses and spoke in a thick German accent. His office was messy, chaotic, crowded with patients who sometimes waited hours to see him.

> In a back room, he mixed up his medicines, sometimes passing the potions over magnets or boiling them in beakers with fluorescent stones. His concoctions contained vitamins, steroids, animal placenta, bone marrow — and a powerful dollop of amphetamines..

https://www.historynet.com/jack-kennedy-dr-feelgood/
Nitter is a third-party Twitter client. Think a version of the web experience that consumes the public fundamentally public view of Twitter. No API tokens involved.

https://www.inverse.com/input/tech/nitter-is-a-new-front-end...

So... Trying to say that Nitter has a CSAM problem means not that the Nitter instance is hosting CSAM, but that Twitter itself is hosting CSAM.

Now if you have a higher signal to noise ratio at finding CSAM through the Nitter client, that's just because you knew where the content was on twitter and accessed it there. RTFA'ing the article reveals that someone reported the Nitter instance, not realizing they should have been reporting Twitter instead, and the apparently unsupervised automated pipeline that leads from some technically illeterate concerned citizen in the U.K. through an internet non-profit IWF, to the German Federal Authorities, to a German VPS (Netcup), led to the sudpension of the client instance with a demand to remove the content in question, which again, is hosted by Twitter.

So... Yes. These CSAM reporting pipelines are basically site takedown shotguns that are apparently so minimally supervised, it is easier to just give up trying to host than to get someone to actually look into the matter.

This is actually one of my biggest concerns with how we handle CSAM. I acknowledge it is horrible, and I acknowledge it is a problem. However, in it's current form, it is a strongly weaponizable form of censorship, with little recourse to be found, and so many people in the bloody loop, but no one whose job it is to be publicly accountable for said loop and it's actions that someone wrongfully on the receiving end of one of these things can push back through.
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would I? I wouldn't. Why not?

I think something is going to happen that I am not allowed to talk on social media about, otherwise I would do just that.

edit: see, just the very mention of it gets me downvoted.
I guess I don't see why you think it's necessary to not criticize them.
nah, it's google shutting down a random thing like always
Who are "they"? Which rights are "they" trying to deny?
The biggest red flag is that both VCs and founders are required to be highly irrational at their core.

Founders are gamblers, betting they will be the one to win against the odds. Most companies fail, and the expected returns are approximately zero, with all the average returns coming from few winners. Founders that take VC money are multiplying their risk by giving away preferential shares (founder gets approximately zero if business is just mildly successful), founder radically increasing the pressure upon themselves, and if you need VC money you are usually by definition in a highly competitive market where growth-rate wins the market.

VCs are irrational because the vast majority of VC funds fail to beat the market. Fund managers do OK from their 2% fees, but a majority of VCs will not make excessive money (while some minority do make a lot). https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me... references slide 14[2] that shows 2% of VC funds (the top 20) rake in 95% of market returns: VC fund returns are nearly as skewed power law as founder returns are!

Power laws of returns truely suck for the majority. Think iPhone games.

[2] https://www.slideshare.net/gilbenartzy/money-talks-things-yo...
You’re kind of making my point, I don’t care what staffers say — all these parties are opposed to one another already in court and politically.

My beef is that none of this was litigated in a jury trial and that claims are dismissed via legal methods imposed by judges. For instance, before the election stuff is dismissed as “no injury” after the election it’s “no way to rectify”.

Just debate the issue publicly; present the evidence from both sides (not hearsay, which is all this article is).

I’m frustrated because a “democracy” only functions when the vast majority of the citizens feel empowered. Currently approximately half of the population feels disempowered. That’s a recipe for disaster and I’d like someone to adjudicate the issues before what happens next.
Ah, yes. I had to do XML-RPC from Rust recently. The login handshake for Second Life is XML-RPC. No other part of the system is.
I don't live in the US and my procrastination muscle hasn't developed enough yet to pretend to care about this instead of wrapping up my work.

But, Bickle Knob n. Elkins, a.k.a. ♫The House of the Cheapest Egg in America♫ is such a beautiful area. Just check it on DDG images on Google. It reminds me of the mountains in southern Poland where I grew up.

I highly recommend using the map as an excuse to spend some time on virtual tourism, akin to hitting "random" on Wikipedia.

I guess I am procrastinating after all.
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If the child would die without the parent you would. Maybe not for petty crimes, but if the parent is a murderer they need to be in prison. If they are in prison, the fetus needs to be in prison to escape death.
I think that's more about shoring up local political support so they're not a target of people complaining about affordable housing and how big tech co's lead to higher rental costs rather than a business opportunity (but you never know!)
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Kettle, pot.

In recent decades, UX has been coopted and corrupted to the point it's no longer about the user experience, it's about how best to manipulate users into doing things that will improve our growth metrics.

I agree in principle with the article, and have seen first-hand what agile[tm] can look like.

However, the tone comes off as condescending (the snarky agile manifestion translations don't help) and the conclusions come off as incredibly naive:

"Determine what to build, determine how best to build it, invest in foundations and do operations the right way"?

Gosh darn, that sounds so simple, why didn't I think of that earlier?!
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These issues affect everything a grocery store sells. Crops are water dependent, food is heavy and bulky to transport, and it's all wrapped in plastic.

Previously the food industry competed on price. Supply was disrupted which any econ student would tell you increases prices. But the second order consequence was that these companies no longer competed on price, for a short time. They could justify price increases because everybody including their competitors were doing it. Since the grocery stores set the price, they determined that luxuries like 'bottled water' could go up higher since their price-sensitive customers rely more on necessities. Once supply stabilizes, these companies might start competing on price again. But in a free market, as long as their competitors keep their high margin items expensive, they can do so too.
I still don't understand the connection. I assume the term "company store" is being used to invoke the exploitative nature of living in a company town and being paid in scrip.

How does "a major local employer wants the local economy to thrive" lead to more exploitation than usual? If anything, I'd expect a thriving local economy to mean that there's more competition for workers, increasing their bargaining power and reducing the probability/severity of worker exploitation.
It absolutely can be differentiated. One major one is that Youtube is optimizing for engagement and increased viewing time to keep people on the website longer to see more ads and increase their profits. That intent is entirely different from HN's "promotion algorithm".

The law can and does differentiate across lines like these even if they're both technically "promotion algorithms".
As someone who participated in their competitions for years, this feels really sad.

The decision to shut down everything at once also looks hasty. Why not at least leave the website running for the times things will get better? Many competitions skipped some difficult years but returned.

Thanks for all these years, Google, still hoping that this decision could be revised.
Postgres is widely used and Point in time Recovery cannot work without understanding WAL.
> It's almost entirely a storage infrastructure and networking problem as it has huge implications on whether or not you'll be able to easily cache build layers.

On a single machine, would NixOS/Bazel handle this better than Dockerfile/Docker/BuildKit?
>They have an AI R&D department, which colorizes and upscales classic porn.

I have no desire to watch porn but wonder what this actually looks like when done and compared to the originals. Are there any split video comparisons of their process?
If you make a meme with these, you will probably be bullied. The imperfections of the ms paint lines are part of the charm to the original images.
> collect money like this just because they decided they want to

No one is forced to buy eggs. They don't get to dictate prices, they can only get what people are willing to pay.

If you really don't like the price of eggs but really want them buy a couple of chickens and get them for cheap.
You don’t need to continue using an email address to continue receiving spam on it. I have email addresses I haven’t used over a decade that still receive spam. Nothing puzzling about it, the address databases used by spammers keep old addresses, in particular if those don’t bounce.
Yes, it's very clearly a bug. It didn't happen for the first month, then wouldn't stop. Turning on and off location services on his phone fixes it for a bit.
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Humans don't work like formal logic processors and are capable of navigating the ambiguity between "ban spammers" and "editorialize" without much difficulty.

> All section 230 does is make clear that if you don't have people signing off on each and every bit of content on your platform, but respond with a good effort to reports of illegal content, then you will not be held responsible for someone using your platform as a way to do illegal things.

Web hosts that just serve content when a client requests it should definitely have this protection. Great idea. YouTube promoting outrage bait because it makes them more money? God no, no protection beyond what any other business doing that would have, not on the Internet. The line's somewhere between those.
There is one caveat, though. I see a trend in the current of layoffs where the majority seem to be mid and junior positions, and at the same time FAANGS still hire seniors and other specific positions. But if you decide to go full RTO you will have a hard time getting experienced people work for you. Literally nobody from people I know would work full-time in the office (I know mostly seniors, for juniors this might be quite different for obvious reasons).
It's because there is no amount of intellectualization in the world that can defeat the genetics that you have from birth - and those genetics will always dictate your revealed preferences. You can virtue signal whatever you want, but unless you want to live a life in dissonance with yourself, you'll always fall back on what is programmed in your genetic code.

And this will continue at least until mass gene editing is commercially available :)
Thought experiment: it was at one point, but then humans were brought back in because the economy needed humans to be doing something to earn their spending money.
Super excited about your progress!!!
> there are no street lights in the entire city.

Doesn't this cause issues?

Sounds like it would turn 20 minute walk into a dangerous excercise. Do people walking on foot carry torches?

This sounds really crazy from road safety perspective

I don't mean crime, i mean getting lost and collisions.
I'm sorry that happened to you but you could go to the ER if you could afford it? I fractured my elbow on a bike and went to the ER who scheduled me an ortho the next day. Ended up with surgery two days after the accident and paying my high deductible health plan for the year.

This was my first major health problem. It solidified to me how much of a clusterf the healthcare system was and how fortunate I was to be able to take off work for a week afterwards and be able to pay my high deductible.
As a protein they are a unique combination of nutritious, consistent, versatile, easy to cook, and a long refrigerated shelf life.

The fact that you replaced them in your diet doesn't make them easy to replace in all diets.
what? the 4x series cards are the most energy efficient graphics cards ever made. ignore the 4900, they just scaled the top end to have high power and high performance. look at the low tier. they all have significant power requirement reductions compared to the 3x cards. watts per fps is down
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> Even Tumblr is getting on the bandwagon

First I heard of this. I was reluctant to use Tumblr after the NSFW permabanning fiasco that happened not so long ago. Some people claiming their 'erotica' was art and shouldn't be censored. But then what if Tumblr decides it can arbitrarily ban other forms of art? See the slippery slope situation here?
Optimist: "It's a space potato"

Pessimist: "It's a space grenade"
Because they don't have the money.

Apple's net income has been at least $20bn every quarter for the past two years[1]. Both Intel and AMD make a small fraction of that[2][3].

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/net-inc...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/INTC/intel/net-inc...

[3] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMD/amd/net-income
Binary sits in the opposite extreme, minimum times tables, but day-to-day numbers become unwieldily long too fast. Ten digit sequences are necessary to represent amounts equivalent to a decimal 1000. I think the balance is around halfway between 10 and 2, for bases that result both in reasonably short sequences to handle and easy to learn arithmetic tables.
While I'm not thrilled in general about a big company acquiring one more thing, I'm honestly glad that it's in this industry. The medical world (in the U.S. anyways) needs some serious competition from folks and this, paired with Amazon's foray into prescription services, gives a signal that they're willing to do something here. Probably won't be a panacea, but much better that Amazon's buying them than some major healthcare company.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/23/amazon-launches-rxpass-a-5...
I am pro-life from conception, and believe the "fucking fetus" to be a human being with dignity and worth.

The physical location of the mother doesn't make any difference to the child's rights. The baby is stuck inside the mother's womb either way. However, if the police are preventing the mother and her child from receiving needed medical care, that is a violation of the child's rights! The lawyers are right to complain in such a case.