skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
90% of people in China own a "home", but frequently that is a condominium in a large building. Unfortunately condominiums have intractable governance problems

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

specifically seniors on a "fixed income" will never vote to make capital improvements even if these could save their life. Contrast that to a building owned by someone who owns a lot of buildings and has access to capital who really could finance repairs that keep buildings safe and habitable.

One could make the case that homeownership is frequently a scam. Look at the 2008 crisis in the U.S. or similar developments that are ongoing in China. For a certain time, constantly rising house prices make life easy for many people, but eventually prices get too high and young people can't get started on the housing ladder. People owning their own houses is a major reason why people are stuck in economically depressed areas and can't afford to move to areas with opportunity.

It's also fashionable to complain about landlords in 2023. Frankly it pisses me off right now because I have been struggling to remove a tenant (in a second house on my farm) who has not been paying the rent for a long time and has a sense of entitlement as high as the sky.
Yeah, sometimes I use that for a site that is otherwise well formatted but the font is just small. For sites I visit often I just save that as a site specific preference so I do agree with you in some cases.

However, with reader mode it goes straight to my preferred font size, has nice margins, and basically everything is formatted in a very readable way. It still reflows and changes width with the window, but the rest of the formatting is better as well. I really hate text that goes right to the edges of the windows with no margins. Just a personal preference, but for me the quickest path to dramatically improved readability on some sites is reader mode.
Technically, the DMCA does not limit people from storing copyrighted works, only downloading, distributing and/or reproducing.
Crapita is right. When I was a teacher I was forced to use SIMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Information_Management_...

It's possibly the worst software I have ever had the misfortune to interact with. It started as a Microsoft Access database, written by a teacher, was taken on by a council, and then expanded to be the largest MIS in the UK.

It has always been slow, refuses to cache data on the client side which results in data loss if your wifi signal switches off, has the most clumsy UX I've ever seen, and despite being a modern piece of software it makes Curses look like an advanced UI from the next millennium.
That was the idea, I think the only real success they have had with an exclusive was the Joe Rogan Experience, I know they have ads on his show but I haven't seen that rolled out to other podcasts.
Haskell, Scala, F#, OCaml.

(Some dislike it, but Java’s checked exceptions are exact homologous of result types)
This is 160% though. Something is off.
Things in finance can happen slowly then all at once.
I mean more the quality than the quantity.

There's all sorts of hangups with things like ATACMS.

All I'm saying is that I find this gradual escalation very unpleasant. If we side with Ukraine then let's end this as quickly and decisively as possible. Stretching this out to years of gradual escalation where during a given month we decide "Okay, maybe Ukraine now can have HIMARS, or better tanks, or better missiles" seems like the worst way to do things.

I think long term the current strategy means more money, more dead people, less clear politics and worse PR.
Yes.

If people CAN do something with your tool, they will.

The moment you say "yeah, no one is stupid enough to do that", they will.

Be ready for it!
What Are Embeddings?
Even if this is true, the (future) top-up for these employees is likely to be higher than today's top-up (for past employees), because people are living longer.
It is definitely just fine for the time being, my server is currently overloaded with tasks so it struggles a lot, and I'm gonna do something about that this week too.

I have also been bouncing around the idea of just coding some sort of playlist generator myself, I've been at this long enough that I'm pretty sure there's lots of public APIs to help me along as well as maybe some sort of huggingface routine, maybe.

I suspect that there's something ready-to-go, either Free or reasonably-priced, already out there and I just haven't looked at the right blog yet. I no longer assume that google represents anything remotely like the actual internet, and I don't know who does.
I’m surprised this is being downvoted. It’s a good point.
It doesn’t have to be just one alternative.

From what I have around Brazil is pushing a new(?) common currency for trading within Latin American countries, China is pushing Yuan for bilateral trading with several countries, and probably more blocks and trade partners follow similar policies elsewhere.

Not having all the eggs in the same basket may lead to some egg breaking, but not all of them at the same time. And the increasing perception of risk relying on dollars may make that strategy attractive.
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That can’t beat those using YouTube as a low-cost backup platform.

For those who missed it: https://gizmodo.com/backup-data-on-youtube-hack-white-noise-...
Anecdata, but I can confirm a uniform and long-standing experience that adding colon-based operators to a search query results in a CAPTCHA challenge every single time on a subsequent search, even if the subsequent search is 'vanilla' (i.e., no operators). Has been like this more years now than I can remember. Apparently this kind of 'advanced' usage is indication of bot activity.
Another bug I'm noticing lately is it'll flat out ignore things sometimes, even if you put a term in quotes or try to exclude it with a -leadingdash. About 30% of the time if I use those operators, they'll have no effect on the results. I don't understand why they'd make things worse on purpose, but I don't know how it could be just a "mistake" no one noticed.
Study of primate genomes has surprises for humanity
Sure. But if the entire integrated system can cost a similar amount to the most expensive component you might upgrade in a modular system, there’s little practical difference.
ML-version of Rust would not have been a uniquely interesting language. It targeting the C++-niche is what made it into quite the big name it has become.
Usernames being vague is a feature. Comments should be judged by their content and not by the person who posted them.

Also if you use old reddit usernames in reddit are as impersonal as they are here because of no discernible avatars.
Like many people here have noticed, it's definitely less quality now than before. It's annoying to be honest to reduce the quality significantly without a notice while we are paying the same amount. I'm willing to pay $40 for the original GPT-4, though.

GPT-4 was remarkable 2 months ago. It could handle complex coding tasks and the reasoning was great. Now, it feels like GPT-3. It's sad. I had many things in mind that could have been done with the original GPT-4.

I hope we see real competitors to GPT-4 in terms of coding abilities and reasoning. Absence of real competitors made it a reasonable option for "Open"AI to lobotomize GPT-4 without a notice.
I have a feeling that Reddit will make all the wrong decisions in reaction to this.
>The podcasting initiative was doomed to fail as soon as Apple started allowing individual podcasts to monetize directly.

Eh, as someone who never listened to the big guys or use Apple's podcasts, I'd hardly give Apple credit. It was just impossible to put podcasts behind a paywall after they were free for a decade.

It truly seems like a stupid thing. Reminds me of how one of the satellite radio companies would buy a popular radio host, and that popular radio host would lose their popularity in exchange for millions.
It has absolutely nothing to do with freedom of speech though
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I’d add barriers of entry. Not high, but way higher that anything that is publicly readable on the internet and therefore indexed on Google.

I can discover interesting subreddits by pure chance by following a google search on a question I have. Or following a link on a blog

There’s no chance of that happening on Usenet. For most users, search/discovery is a web thing (web search, links) and there’s no link from the web to usenet. Therefore if you don't know anything interesting on usenet you can't easily discover it. Any interesting post/discussion cannot be simply linked on a tweet (or, for that matters, on IRC). Usenet is completely insular. A web forum is not.

Were I a Usenet enthusiast, that would be my 1st priority. Public archives of most important hierarchies (comp.* for example), indexed on Google, easily linkable.
When I was on a high school swim team, I found that the calories burned increased dramatically in colder water (both due to thermogenesis and due to it being possible to work harder). Also, we averaged 65k yards/week.
Compared to Experts Exchange or Quora, Stack Exchange is still miles better. You never need to pay to see answers, or register, or have tons of annoying popups, etc.
Obviously forgetting about Bitcoin /s
Scala, Haskell, Java, Kotlin.
After Napster fired a warning shot across the bow of the music industry, it was Apple that came to collect [1]. Paying just $0.69 or $0.99 for songs without having to buy a full album represented a tectonic shift.

But who needs to buy a song? Spotify (and Pandora, Grooveshark, etc.) brought the same streaming feature from YouTube and Netflix to music. That was even more consumer friendly.

[1] https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1413534752699830275
RFK Jr, presumably because he likes bitcoin.
> Unreviewed content

> This community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue.

Reddit is trying so hard to keep this under control.
So, are you in favor of the UN version of human rights or not? Or human rights, as they are commonly understood (you know this whole freedom, safety, security, privacy and not be surpressed and abused stuff), in general?

Hell, I feel like I'm trapped in an interview with Jordan Peterson or Ben Shapiro...
Why is there an hour timer on removing a chirper and how come there is no account delete or remove function? This illustrates a dark pattern where an account may be created, but not destroyed and agents created may not be destroyed as fast as they are created.

Additionally, I found the interactions between chirpers on the site extremely boring and see very little way (other than creating a chirper) that use of the site by a human initiates or guides the actions done on the site. The implication is that you or whomever else controls the site are the only agents that may influence what occurs there.
Thanks everyone for your input. More than anything, it's been really great at making look at the bigger pricing picture.

My conclusion:

I'm not going to put in a free tier, because as @brudgers mentioned below, if they can't spend $1.99 to try it, then they're not my target market.

So, in words I read somewhere else before, instead of downgrading my product, I should upgrade my customers.

I will instead spend time creating a high quality product.

And slowly raise prices as I improve the product.

Thanks again, everyone.
If you are OK with no addressing content; For your reference… NIH, ATF, and Washington Post are all anti-gun organizations.

For your ATF link, it’s all University criminology depts sourcing data, typically universities are anti-gun; and the sociology depts especially so.

It is very difficult to get unbiased results on guns. And ultra easy to see authority and confirmation biases. If you are mindful of that fact, the landscape and topic takes on a new dimension.
This is (part of) the correct answer, yet it is way down the list of upvoted answers.

The story is:

1) There were a number of independent ISPs, but oligarchic forces, in addition to the Verizon/AT&T last mile monopoly consolidated things so that Verizon/AT&T became the ISP for most people, with limited competition.

2) Once consolidated, Verizon and AT&T killed their news servers. This mostly happened in 2008. The old Internet which was more open and peer-to-peer became a platform with end users limited mostly to web clients, consuming from big corporate upstream web servers.

3) This was helped along by various places in the US government, which blessed or even applied pressure to kill off the old peer-to-peer nature of the Internet, particularly Usenet, for the current model of big corporate web servers to end user customers.

Of course the public relations announcements were all of this was done for the litany of reasons companies and the government do anything - to protect customers/children/whatever, fight against the forces of evil etc.
That sounds like an interesting read. Can you post a pointer?
I don't think de-dollarization is particularly pushed by places like China. From the Chinese perspective, dollarization is a good thing because it means they can engage in intl trade without needing to open up their domestic currency and deal with the potential political instability that might result.

I think it's more oft pushed by 'sound money' cranks (either gold bugs or their fellow travelers) or by particularly ornery fiscal conservatives with an axe to grind about whatever monetary policy the US is pursuing this week.
The complaint is still valid. I have subscriptions to a few sites, mostly news. I get why I need to login, otherwise how would they know that I've paid. It's still a pretty poor experience, I pay for a service, and now I need to fiddle with the settings in my browser so the site I pay for can remember my credentials.

I get that part of the issue is that I keep a weird privacy focused configuration in my browsers and delete cookies when I close the browser, still it results in poor user experience, for a service that I pay for. I don't have any good suggestion on how to fix it, but it's is valid to complain about having to sign in.
"Slideware engineering" is an excellent phrase which I plan to keep. Thank you.
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>What exactly was their podcast strategy?

Don't forget also forcefully add Podcasts to the UI and not allow hiding them. Also some irritating prompts in the initial rollout that kept begging you to try podcasts.

I basically unsubscribed and switched to YT Music because of that.

It's one thing for a company to offer a new service, it's another to try and push shit on consumers that aren't interested.
As long as people don't abandon search, yeah, they do. If they lose their absolute dominance in search, they will automatically have competition on adsense too.

Or maybe Google disagrees with my assessment, but I can't imagine what kind of inside information would make them do that. It looks like a very clear and inescapable reality to me.
I love how Xerox imposed its own aesthetics on the PC emulation window. That font looks MUCH BETTER than anything on a real metal IBM PC.

http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/6085-viewpoint-2.0-p...
If you're not in the top 5 results, there's no difference between not being indexed vs being indexed.

If you want to be indexed, submit your pages to Google explicitly through a GA tag, a Google Search Console account, and a sitemap.

If you're publishing many, many pages, you might see a benefit with the indexing API: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/qu...

> I have been a web designer since 2016, and before that I was a blogger for 6 plus years. I have been deeply interested in Google SEO since 2010, and in all that time I’ve never heard of Google not indexing a site.

Google crawls sites it assumes will have useful content. If it doesn't have that assumption for your site, you need to feed it.
Sorry but this sounds like jumping to conclusions, going off only the fact that you can fence off some memory in the BIOS. See eg this windows gaming site review where they couldn't find a difference in the performance between allocating 64MB or 2GB save for satisfying some games that need to detect a certain amount of GPU memory to start: https://www.techspot.com/article/1578-amd-raven-ridge-reserv...

But I don't doubt there still exist software (Firmware, OS, driver, graphics API) problems where unified memory ends up being used badly. There doesn't seem to be evidence that much if any of it are because of hw limitations.
The same as in any big company: going through hordes of small/medium/large initiatives being pushed around by multiple orgs inside the larger org to achieve a goal set by the C-level.

Seriously, what do you expect the answer to be? Have you worked in any large org with thousands of employees? They are all pretty similar, there's tech debt, there's new initiatives, there is maintenance to be done. You need to work in one to understand how the whole machine works, there's no simple answer to be given on HN about what they are all up to, it's a mix of all of the above as it'd be in any large org...
Yeah, that makes a TON of sense for electrified railways. The lines are already there. Although, it's easier to maintain a grid square of solar panels than a long line of them.
West Coast States Face Higher Unemployment, Falling Wages
Yes they are all new employees. Funny either I read it wrong or the headline changed. I thought it said NIH employees who had been with the firm for long time.
This job offer appears regularly and the site has never been functional. I have seen people complain of not getting replies in the past. I also didn't get one. Not sure what they're looking for.
There are an infinite number of URLs on the internet, Google obviously cannot crawl and index them all. They choose what to crawl and index based on mainly site reputation and inbound links, just like they used to 20 years ago.

If they aren't crawling or indexing your site, then link to it from a high reputation place.
This otherwise very fine article misses one simple explanation, esp wrt France vs UK:

The majority of the UK is owned by very few people.

Cite: "Who Owns Britain" by Brian Cahill.

This ownership has not been transparent. Nor do they pay their share of taxes; rather they receive an outside amount of subsidies.

The first step to fixing UK's vetocracy by fixing UK's gini coefficient.

I'm sure Thomas Piketty would say much the same, but I haven't read his books yet (just reviews and interviews).

Of course, the plantation class will continue to wage class war to prevent any reasonable reforms.
An organization has a responsibility to never hire anyone who's ever been involved in an organisation a few people on a tiny social network dislike?
Scent back in time: how ancient odours can bring the past to life
> This is an important lesson - if someone is using your tool in unexpected ways don’t just shut them down; there’s likely a business case that could be identified and specialized in.

One of the craziest cases of this I've seen was with a web-based survey application I was the principal engineer on in the mid to late 2000's. A big feature we implemented was the ability to create surveys to support multiple languages. To make translation easier for our customers to translate surveys outside of the application, there were ways to export/import the text strings as well as a standalone screen that allowed finding and editing them. Both of these were made easier by the fact that the strings had semantic identifiers like "/survey/question/choice" or similar.

Since this functionality worked so well, we also used it internally for all text in the application. As a convenience, both the import/export and edit screen were capable of editing these strings. One customer figured this out and, due to the naming, was easily able to identify the text for all screens and dialogs. They ended up completely modifying the application interface through this interface by editing text, adding HTML elements, and injecting CSS blocks. They added descriptive tutorial text, guides for users, and branded the application well beyond built-in functionality. It was pretty amazing.
One should not need to use an account for Google to basically work.
I notice this happening when the actual query would have returned 0 results, Google ""helpfully"" will modify your query (such as dropping quotes) to generate more results.

This is super annoying because it doesn't appear to inform you of this anywhere in the UI, until you click through to page 2 and see what it modified your query to be.
I think the biomedical academic job market is tight enough that you could fairly easily attract a strong class of researchers to nearly any second tier city. Maybe not the best of the best of the best (at first), but there’s enough bright people doing 6+ year post docs that you’ll recruit junior faculty in a flash.

Credentials: did my PhD and postdoc at R1 institutions, before going to greener pastures in industry.
Can you tell me the model and make you have? Been eyeing the Topton and CWWK ones and debating on an upgrade down the road. I’m currently running mine to a cheap flex mini since it only has a dual NIC. Hoping to upgrade down the road once I get everything working.
I think its the WhatsApp effect, they had all of 55 employees[0] and were bought for 19 Billion USD (cash & stock but still). Never mind that the product that is WhatsApp is fairly unique in how it can be engineered

[0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/whatsapps-55-employee...
It's almost like diversification is the solution.

Having all debts and credits in one currency is a recipe for disaster. Not only where the US wishes to make it so (Russia), but when times are hard and the US needs to move to protect its own economy (Sri Lanka).
> In real Lisp code you'd likely indent it something like this:

Not only would that not be idiomatic, the operator for modulus in Common LISP is mod not %. and the brackets you and the parent used in the s-expr are around the wrong groups of symbols. So you're more likely to see:

(mod (* (+ 1 x) (- 2 3)) x)

or maybe with some limited indentation, such as:

(mod

(* (+ 1 x) (- 2 3))

x)
use intext:
Nice showcase of a "Retina" display from as early as 1994. More information here: https://amiga.resource.cx/adcoll/adcoll.pl?id=retinaz3&pg=1 https://amiga.resource.cx/exp/retinaz3
It's a quite vapid argument. "No point doing the obvious because someone already tried it!... And they tried it because they ignored this very advice you're reading right now!"

This argument is akin you "no matter what you'll do you'll die, so no point getting out of bed".
Bitcoin posted its worst month since November
Or small-batch amphetamines made by josh hartnett
An international free banking era might be exciting (ok, I think it would be exciting), but even in such a regime literally everything that I wrote still applies, and anyone choosing alternatives to the dollar for transactions in the small is going to get screwed in those individual subdomains for exactly the reasons I point out.
I don’t understand that metaphor or whatever the book title is referencing. Is Atlas supposed to shrug while he’s holding the world on his shoulders? In which case wouldn’t it make more sense to drop the world first? Or is he shrugging after having dropped the world, meaning nothing happens when atlas shrugs because it already happened when he dropped the world?
Really sucky that your registrar didn't write to you.
What is the conspiracy theory?
I work in an industry that has layoffs every few years. I'm contract, and its been great. Each job loss has been a pay increase and me doing even more technical work.

The people who were employees and didn't get laid off, they worked extra hours.

If you are flexible, layoffs are probably good for the economic reorganization. If you aren't flexible, this is probably an incredibly stressful time.
VS Code appears to have serviceable support now too.
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