skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of us work/worked for organizations doing hardware, marketing, sales to every corner of the planet and dealing with supply chain with 1/8 of that workforce though (more than 2 decades ago - productivity should be better now).
Spinning this as anything more than gross overhiring that is going to correct either in dribs and drabs or spectacularly sounds like complete bullshit to those that had been around a few bust cycles and worked in other industries.
Nobody is looking for _the_ alternative currency. The idea is to decentralize, which is, imho, a fair deal.

> The whole dedollarization narrative is like some weird propaganda pushed by china

China or not, it's not "weird". Each country pursues its own interests (obviously, including the US). And that is... normal?
Captcha has always been very US-centric for obvious reasons. I can see somebody less "open-minded" easily fail some of these tasks.
Because it's possible the crate you want to use, uses it.
I'm pretty sure you could find doom & gloom talk about Google on HN 5 years ago.
Wouldn't most people be better off if they must buy a condo/house instead?

In this context, I don't care about "most people" - I care about me. And to use myself as an example - I rent an apartment because A. I like the freedom of not being tied down to a mortgage and a physical property, and B. I like not having to worry about maintenance. If the water heater goes out or the roof leaks, I am not on the hook to deal with it.

Going back to point (a) above - it's a lot easier for me to just pick up and move when I'm living in an apartment. Buying a house would have a much stronger effect of tying me to the place I'm currently living. So unless I'm 100% sold that "this is absolutely where I need and want to be for the foreseeable future" then that's a negative for buying a house.

And I think "most people" would prefer to have the freedom to make their own choices on matters like this.
Activists can apply social and political pressure without being in a union. The distinguishing aspect of union activism is the union's ability to collectively bargain, backed by its ability to collectively strike, with grave consequences to the employer.

As you say, even "if basic bioscience research stopped [in its entirety], it would be years before the effects trickled out publicly." If the consequences of a strike are not grave to the employer (even if you could get everyone on board), then the power backing the union is greatly diminished.

Edit: as I wrote in another post, academic union strikes can be quite effective at universities, where many academics teach in addition to performing research. A instructor strike can have extremely grave consequences to the university. But the NIH is purely a research institute, so this does not apply.
The power of the internet and YouTube is a lot more manufactured than you may think. See the recent ACBDEFU origin drama (artist posts about trying to come up with a song, Marketing Manager from her record label just so happens to comment the idea on her video, song sees strong commercial success just a week later).

It's totally possible an artist makes a break on the internet. Sarah Crean blew up from 200 monthly listeners to almost 200,000 overnight because a music TikToker posted about how great her songs are as an independent artist. (TBH it is, go check it out)

Being independent is totally a way you can go, but if you'd want to make money in the industry to really live off of you have 2 options:

- Work a job (or 2) for hours a day to keep yourself fed/housed while also doing the job of 5-10 people to try to get your music noticed enough to make money directly from fans.
- Sign up with a label, immediately get your daily life taken care of and focus on your music full time.

Sadly, for a lot of artists, the promise of being able to quit your job and focus on your passion full time is an offer too lucrative to turn down. It's an exploitative industry, but when it works it works. And when it fails, it's the artist that's left on the side of the highway. Labels are like casinos, the house never loses.
Well if for every X product area you need:

- N people to just juggle live incidents/emergencies. Actually triage, live, why the Desantis campaign launch on Twitter isn't working. Give the server more RAM, spin up more instances, pray it works.

- M+N people to do the work to prevent the incidents/emergencies (maintenance). Actually ensure the next big giant event on the streaming service doesn't cause failures. Create automatic scaling up of new capacity as needed. But avoid overprovisioning and costing the company a bazillion $$. Get to the bottom of what triggered the incident. Build practices, runbooks, etc the next time this happens.

- M+N+L people to actually create new stuff. Create a new feature on the live streaming service to comment or somesuch. (and all the work M+N people do to handle incidents with this new feature)

So X * (M+N+L) people if every product area is trying to create new stuff.

But the reality is most teams have T people where M < T < (M+N+L). Which is very company dependent.

Spotify has dozens of consumer facing product areas. Probably many more for creators, record labels, admins, etc etc
While some of the SO practices can feel dumb, I wonder what is the tradeoff we are making here? Could it be that for whatever reason (e.g. personality) we might benefit from accepting these "dumb" choices because it also brings with it unrelated benefits? For example, might it be that if they were forced to accept "frivolous" statements such as "thank you" (from the example you gave), might it cause moderators to not moderate, and thereby allow in spam & other nasty bits?

It is worth bearing in mind that if we, "good people", complain about moderation, we only see the parts of it that touch our "good posting". There might be plenty of good that moderators are also doing, which only the bad guys see.
I loved me the 'near' keyword - thanks!
What diplomatic solutions? Russia thinks Ukraine is a fake nation that shouldn't exist. Putin re-iterated that claim a week ago by showing one map from 1700 without Ukraine.

The only diplomatic solution is for Russia to pull back its forces.
I don't really care about privacy from a company that already have my credit card information, and real name and address in most cases. I care about privacy from "the others", and the paid services is collateral damage. It does appear from another comment that Kagi actually thought about it and allows a token in the search URI, that's pretty neat.
This is the key. People and companies aren't fleeing Twitter because of what Musk believes, they're fleeing because of what he does.
Also, trying to hold back the tide on AI is dumb and doomed to fail. People need to find some way to exist along with these tools. The editors at Stack Exchange are not the kind of powerful cabal that is going to roll back the last three years of computer advances.
Spotify are indeed increasingly cutting out the middlemen by filling out their playlists with "fake" artists: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/remember-spotify-fake...
In theory this sounds like it might work, but in practice any international reserve/settlement currency will see more inflows than outflows. This will cause that currency to appreciate, which by itself is a deal-breaker for many countries.

A good case study is pre-Euro Germany. It had all the ingredients of a secondary reserve currency and was in fact used as such. However the appreciation that resulted from those inflows was not wanted at all since it didn't fit with the export-oriented economic model and made exports noncompetitive. As a result German capital markets were never opened to foreigners to the same degree British or American markets are.

While being the world's reserve currency is undoubtedly an "exorbitant privilege" in some respects, it also has many drawbacks. I don't think India or China would be willing to issue Bonds to foreign entities at the volume that the US is doing.
This. The wealthy will always have loudest voice in a zero regulation speech environment.
Anecdoctical, but Rogan seems way less relevant now he's locked in the Spotify walled garden. It could well be that it's just him running out of steam; the whole galaxy he's effectively part of, has significantly fallen in popularity since the Capitol riot.
Does it? There was a study like 10 years ago saying more than 50% of adults believe in angels. I don't think they could comprehend this (if true).
Another thing I've noticed: Google only indexes what people search. Meaning, sometimes if you search for something obscure and you don't get good results, come back a week later and you'll get much better results because your query is now a part of their indexed search terms.
That is great solution, one that I was not aware of.
I certainly start with google far less -- I now, very often, stray little from my bookmarks bar. The first of which is "New Chat" (ChatGPT)

I needed some somewhat obscure API information recently, and ChatGPT had it -- a testament to how much ChatGPT really is just a compression of "everything ever digitised"
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Given that 2/3rds of the employees are now gone, doesn’t this mean that the business is still viable?
I've seen this on a site that I built for a freelance client a couple years ago. At first they only indexed the homepage and some sporadic articles. Eventually one specific article was linked on an .edu website, and now that article is reliably indexed as well.

If I manually request that they index a page, it always succeeds and shows up on Google within a few days, but the page gets pruned from the index within a month or two.

The weird thing is that within the past couple years I've also seen unwanted indexing, e.g. low-spec staging servers getting wrecked by Google crawler traffic. I don't think the "no automatic indexing" treatment is standard for every site, so there must be something that triggers it, but I've spent a long time unsuccessfully trying to pin down the cause.
In another thread about this, someone mentioned Lemmy, a federated alternative to Reddit:

https://lemmy.one/communities/listing_type/All/page/1

Looks like an interesting approach.
I actually thought they supported it officially. Seems like it's made by their engineers in their spare time though:

"Spotify for Linux is a labor of love from our engineers that wanted to listen to Spotify on their Linux development machines. They work on it in their spare time and it is currently not a platform that we actively support." [1]

[1] https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/
There are thousands of small UI problems and bugs. To me, the biggest joke/travesty is their "algorithm" which literally builds a top20 radio station echo chamber around you the moment you dare casually play a song. Then you're imprisoned rapidly by your own choices. The autoplay decision-making is atrocious. You are guaranteed to hear a song you just played manually within 10 songs. It's so painfully dumb. You could write a better system using a random number generator.
I don't know if you are characterizing this correctly. I've spent a good amount of time in uniform focused on Russian tactics & Russian Order of Battle, and how to counter it, so I'll chime in some.

> It's clear Russia isn't going to stop. Putin would find it extremely embarrassing and politically harmful to just stop without getting anything out of it.

If the US has Eastern Ukraine, we can place missiles inside the Russian's early warning threshhold aimed at Moscow (Think Cuban Missile Crisis but worse). There are no true geographical barriers from driving tank divisions from Ukraine into Russia proper.

US policymakers have repeatedly stated their aim is to remove Putin, and they have plans to break up the country.

For the Russians, this is an existential crisis.

> All those sanctions, all that money, all those lives lost would be all for nothing.

The current Administration and their allies in Congress will fight to the last Ukrainian.

They are attempting to weaken Russian through a proxy war (Think Afghanistan or Vietnam). They are not defending Ukraine.

If the US administrations truly wanted peace they would have signed up for permanent no-NATO agreements as Dr. Mearsheimer has pointed out.

But having Ukraine become Switzerland would not benefit the US' current warlike ambitions, nor would it assist the plundering of the incredibly valuable resources of Ukraine. Zelensky's platform for peace, when he was elected, was destroyed by the Banderistas in Western Ukraine who have been prepping for war, or executingi

> If giving weapons to Ukraine is a good thing at all then the most moral option to me is giving Ukraine the means to achieve a swift, decisive win. Keeping things even has no legitimate purpose to it, it only gets more people killed on both sides.

Because this is an existential crisis to the Russians, they will continue ramping up their warmachine to support this war.

The Russian army is really designed for this type of combat, and they won't have a better chance. Now, they might have misjudged the level of Ukrainian resistance, and the Western support, but now they are just rubbling cities and targeting everything. The worst of WW1 & WW2 is back.

Each time we give the Ukrainians weapons we stall the inevitable, and we ensure that more Ukrainians will die.
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98% of the time I prefer YouTube (With AdBlock on of course). YouTube in most cases has the actual music videos, and a lot more adventurous (video) content because they can host remixes, which are so much more entertaining than just a bunch of album covers. Spotify also does nothing to promote and pay independent artists, they actually charge most independent musicians (even the ones not making profit) to be displayed on their platform rather than paying royalties, which is a pretty much giant ponzi scheme. YouTube does not pay greatly either in most cases, but it will occasionally promote artists better, and it allows content to be shared on other sites far beyond Spotify's controlling and restrictive attitude towards music content (they don't even really own nor make) hosted on their platform.

Spotify's UI is wonky and lacks visual appeal at most times for me. Having to frequently go back to the app to control or change what is playing is quite annoying, it really only needs to be a small scale floating window, as music player tech really hasn't changed dramatically since winamp. Spotify is not a revolutionary company at all, even Soundcloud (still not great to independent musicians either) has had a more visually appealing layout that values artists and the music content more than Spotify, and they've been that way for decades now.
By all accounts it's very hard for grad students and postdocs at LANL (much less locals) to find affordable short-term housing near LANL due to (1) the very small amount of housing available and (2) enough people leaving the lab but continuing to live there while taking up remote work in tech. This is despite LANL paying relatively well (as you noted) to try to keep talent from moving into other industries (tech, finance).

Not to say that government investment can't make people move, but it creates problems too, not least for locals.

Source: mainly anecdotal, from talking to people at LANL at various career stages on a recent visit.
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No, Massachusetts does not have a right to repair law. If you read the details the law divides "repair" between repair by businesses and repair by consumers. Along with the divide there are fiscal differences that disadvantage consumers. The result is that we now have a "Showcase Law" that pretends to serve the public, but it does not.
Checking this out, thanks mate.
So freedom of the press doesn’t apply to the corporation New York Times, Inc.?
There have been a range from quite basic things like social media posting, that were a real pain to organise, but actually took no time at all - to external APIs around text summarisation or modification, right the way through to modifying images etc. - the external APIs had a range of different benefits, but always were priced annoyingly enough that it was faster to just build what was needed.
Why just signal processing? Surely this is good for storing e.g. rotations of characters in games, longitude, in fact almost anywhere where you want an angle where a full rotation is the same as no rotation at all, and more precision as you approach 0° is not useful.
So fix the first one. Provide a process for removing answers that are demonstrably false. Convincing-sounding drivel that gets upvotes isn't a new problem on SO, it's just amplified by the new tech.
SERP: Search engine results page. I asked ChatGPT.

"SERP stands for Search Engine Results Page. It refers to the page displayed by a search engine in response to a user's query. When a user enters a search term or keyword, the search engine generates a list of relevant web pages and presents them in the form of a SERP. The SERP typically includes a combination of organic search results, which are the regular listings based on relevance to the query, and paid advertisements, which are sponsored listings that advertisers pay for to appear prominently on the page. SERPs often contain additional elements such as featured snippets, knowledge graphs, image or video results, local map results, and other specialized features, depending on the specific search engine and query."
I agree with your last point. I suspect MD is a popular option because it has job stability and good pay (which is likely related to the scarcity of MDs in the US).

In my field (another type of research) a lot of people "want" to be professors, but when I talk to them there's no interest in teaching or doing administrative work, they just want job stability. If research jobs were stable they would happily spend the rest of their lives doing research.
Indeed. Pre-C++-11, I would actually have said that I know C++ very well. The language had a pretty stable surface area for a long time.

C++11 was such a major change to the language that not only was there a lot new to learn, but a lot of new best practices needed to be developed, and a lot of the common sense on those wasn't practical because of the need to interface with existing code and libraries. I feel like reasonable API design and coding style still hasn't stabilized post-C++11.
The more interesting thing is that, because the dollar has no serious reserve status competitor, the maintainers of the currency can be less restrictive in its management, and people can whine about it, but since there is no alternative, they're stuck with it, except for niche use cases that don't matter on a global scale. That's where all the discussion is stemming from: the dollar isn't as good, but it's still the best. It's normal to lament things that used to be better.
If you don't want to worry about maintenance, then maybe you could pay for a company to do inspections and maintenance whenever required. However, unlike rent, this would be completely optional and could be stopped at any time without losing your home.
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"Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:"
Thanks!

Out of curiosity, have you ever tried developing DSLs in Racket? One of its explicit reasons for existence is to enable fast development of custom DSLs.
Maybe it's the zigbee integration? Several people mentioned it being unreliable here. I'm over here with my 5 year old z-wave set up wondering what the fuss is, because it's been super reliable for me.

The only thing I can to do was a little clicking around when the z-wave implementation switched over to js but the upgrade path ended up being straight forward.
While it has a been a great piece of wrong to introduce affine type systems into mainstream, it hardly justifies outside domains where any kind of automatic memory allocation isn't either a blocker, or religious issue that won't be sorted out even by proving the contrary.

I see the ongoing attempts to add linear types for low level coding, alongside automatic resource management more future proof.
I don't follow reddit too closely. But I remember there was another big fiasco a while ago and a bunch of clones/spinoff sites were started. Have any of those survived? (and not been completely overrun with fringe political content that's banned everywhere else)
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> no amount of violence is acceptable

I would argue this is false and that if you live in a western country, someone else is performing violence for you and your ideals, so that you can live a relatively peaceful way of life
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The million dollar question is why not give Ukraine the means to switfly end the war?

One might say it's in order to prevent excessive escalation and slowly bleed out Russia, but, aside from the fact that "slowly bleeding out" Russia means sacrificing tens of thousands of Ukrainians and further destroying Ukraine along the way, does anyone really think that Russia won't escalate things anyway once they realize they are slowly losing?

Since I don't believe it's to prevent escalation, I must conclude it's because more death and destruction bring more business. The longer the conflict goes on the more weapons and ammo are sold, the more Ukrainian cities are destroyed the more money is to be made out of reconstruction.

At the very least the incentive is there, and if you ask me any system where death and destruction are incentivized is by definition antihuman.
A large portion of reddit contributors use 3rd party apps. Will reddit even be worth using if those people leave? That’s a huge risk, and I’m not confident Reddit has fully evaluated the second order effects of this API change.
CPU TDP does not have much to do with power consumption of the complete product. Anyway, those numbers seem to be comparable to high performance ARM boards. Compared to boards in Raspberry Pi's ~$50 range, that idle power consumption is still about 5x higher than those 7W on Intel N100.

N100 is also a bit pricier than N5105.
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At least so far according to Cloudflare bots consist of around 1/4 of all internet traffic. But that could be pretty far off depending on how they get those estimates.