skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Very often a headline is all someone needs or wants. That has value. Without anyone clicking through to the web site, Google is getting the value from the headline, and contributing nothing to the web site in return.

So the solution Google is proposing works out for everyone. Canadian news sites can ensure people go to their site for headlines and Google can no longer show information for those sites. The Canadian news sites should see increased revenue in terms of subscriptions and advertisements.
“Adieu, veau, vache, cochon, couvée ”: An inventory of goods from 1434
In this context: Generative ML models allow e.g. a single motivated writer with almost no budget to make a Visual Novel which they then could publish on Steam (before the policy change) for the world to see.

Write the script yourself, generate and curate 2D art assets, optionally generate and curate your OST / BGM, optionally generate and curate voice lines, put everything into Ren'Py. Done.

It's still very much not easy if you do not want to make shovelware, but it's possible now for a sole developer (or very small team) with no great artistic and musical talent.
Maybe trying via their functional issues will jog a response from them:

https://github.com/Shopify/bugbounty-resources/blob/master/h...

(i understand you said non-security; it's more about using the correct title of the email to support@ so it can be accurately triaged on their end?)
Not every OS is an UNIX clone.
Ask HN: Unclear Rejection from Company
I recently applied for a SWE position at a company and completed the first round of interviews. The company had a technical issue the day of my second interview that prevented me from joining the session.

I reached out and told the company about this problem, only to discover that the recruiters I had been talking to had been laid off very recently, but the recruiting coordinator acknowledged the mistake and asked for another time that I would be available for the second round.

I updated my availability, then received a new email from another recruiter saying that I had been rejected and thanks for applying, so I forwarded the last email from the recruiting coordinator and asked what was going on. Later that day they wrote be back and apologized for the mix up and asked if I would still be available on the new dates for the second round.

I’m not sure how I feel about this, part of me wants to acknowledge that people make mistakes and especially after going through a company wide layoff but part of me just wants to stop the process here. I’m not sure if I actually did poorly on the first round and due to a miscommunication they are giving me a second round to save face or if this is truly a mistake. Should I keep interviewing with this company?
‘It burns wild and free up there’: Canada fires force US crews to shift strategy
Aviation is not safe because of luck or because aerospace engineers build infallible machines. Aviation is safe because of a culture of safety that puts the right procedures in place to mitigate problems that will eventually happen.
Google to remove news links in Canada in response to online news law
Not to be facetious, what's the difference?

At the high end of the white collar market you're paid to deliver impact and your pay is determined by the quantity of the impact and how differentiated it is (no big bonuses for the guy who presses the "print a million dollars" button).
> the US had formal, legal discrimination against black people

this is misinformation; State laws had complete jurisdiction over certain matters, by design. "The US" is calling Washington State the same as Alabama. So, no.
How long have you been rockin' ValeVPN? I spotted it somewhere too, and it seemed pretty promising with its dedicated server concept. So, is it living up to the hype? I'm curious to know if it's good enough. Share your thoughts
That would be a great outcome for Google wouldn’t it? Just cover national news using paid reporters and capture all of the ad revenue.
> To me the inflection point was the 2016 US election (which also coincided with Brexit.)

And with the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict.
Curious that a competitor has not sprung up to address this problem head-on...
> The Toronto Star and Global TV don't need freepub from Google.

So have those publications opted out of search and Google News? If not, it's pretty clear that they're getting more benefit from those links than they're losing to people "reading the headline and getting all they needed from it".

I assume these news organizations don't even bother writing the article, right? Because your story obviously applies equally well to their own site. Users will open the frontpage of the site, read the expertly crafted headline, and leave.
Chicken wire isn't very strong: the hail would probably just rip it apart.
Yeah this really doesn't give anything more than the headline.
This is an interesting point, however: "As of spring 2021, women made up 59.5 percent of all U.S. college students", does that argue that we should have affirmative action for men's admissions to college?
I don't understand what you're complaining about. The finding that red meat is probably carcinogenic isn't advice and doesn't pretend to be. The evidence isn't that strong and the WHO goes out of its way to acknowledge that. They have done everything they can to put their findings in context so people can understand them. Would you have preferred they not publish at all?

You ask a number of questions which the WHO has already answered. I don't think you tried very hard to find information. You can read the original monograph:

https://monographs.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/m...

Or if you want a more approachable layman's explanation:

https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/can...

In some cases the answer will be "we don't know". You had best get used to that.
ah yes, so a typical example of generative AI output
There was a whole thing called a tontine that basically worked like inverse life insurance.

The insurers just look at the tables and give you what it will cost. It looks like an 89 year old has between 4-5 years life expectancy so expect to pay in premiums about 20% of the payout. Usually the payout is “burial insurance” at these ages.
> Many people who would otherwise be appalled at laws like this seem to want to rationalize this because its specifically targeting Google and Meta.

It's not just a matter of the targeted companies being Google and Meta, even though these two especially deserve it.

It's the simple realization that good journalism requires good money, and that the current balance between news organizations and internet brokers isn't up to the task. It is also true of other type of content creators, by the way: there is a structural imbalance between content creators and content brokers. This is even more true with Google's zero-click efforts.

While Canada's bill may not be well-tuned, it is a welcome first attempt.
Journalists are already heavily involved in capital raising through applying for grants and scholarships. Our time is already thin, so this article is effectively asking us to switch careers or become part-time investors.
Beg, nothing. They'll mandate Google link to them and pay the tax.
Are you able to unlock different geo-restricted services with it?
I'd pay a little if we could get rid of the pop ups and cookie banners, advertisements and click bait content. But after 30 years we're still missing the infrastructure for micro payments.

For news sites and netflix we now have subscriptions shielded by paywals, which really is incompatible with hyperlinked sites or search engines. Even if you subscribed to 1000 services, the experience would probably be horrible. The internet was designed to be free, but evidently that's not a good business model if you want to make a living.
I go on vacation to get away from chores.
All of programmatic was vickrey up until a few years ago when everyone switched to traditional first price auctions. I miss those days - it was easy to bid outrageous prices ($100 cpms) but still pay a reasonable amount. Now you need deep/machine learning to evaluate each bid value, and then another algo to predict how much you can shave off that bid and still win the auction.
Newer aircraft have external cameras that can be pulled up on screens in the cockpit.
Re: Amarok

Have you tried Clementine or Strawberry Player(s)?
if there's money to be made, then there'll be people who'll try and make it. doesn't matter how aware of the philosophy or ethics you are. humanist intelligence rarely comes into the equation when money is on the table
Reminds me of Lenny

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_(bot)
Oh, so they got a class rating for the sun and we can readily see all the paperwork about the equipment on this particular vehicle? I'm sure you'll be along soon to link to that documentation.

You won't because it doesn't fucking exist because there was zero certification of the vehicle. There's no way for potential customers to verify any safety claims of the sub.
8 hour limit + 0.04 = They can drink a lot the day before, but they have to aim pretty well…
Exactly, 70% in favor of a carbon tax.

That's drastically more than the percentage of US Senators or Congresspeople who would support that.

If anything, this shows that Americans want harsher action on climate change than we are getting.
> It's a bad thing to prevent sites from linking to one another. It's a bad thing to interfere with the ability to access information on the Internet for reasons of nationalist politics.

Would this prevent embedding links into your posts? I thought it's about platforms displaying enough information discouraging the person to visit the news site. I get that they want people to stay on their platforms 24/7 but I also get the other side wanting a slice of the advertising cake.
> The output of a manager is the output of their team.

People say that but it makes no sense. That means the same manager would have a different "output" going from one team to another. Are you going to cut his/her salary if he leaves a big, successful team to help fix a flailing team because it has less output?

I get it: doing it this way is easy. My ideal is marginal attributable revenue or profit. How much better are you than the next person? We can haggle over the marginal part but I'm not conceding on attribution. Otherwise you're mooching off other people's work. Why are we paying you the big bucks? Show me what you did.
> Burn it all down imo and let something else take its place.

Probably hyperbole, but catastrophic failure of our economy/institutions/society isn't something I would choose to experience.

This nihilistic attitude is dangerous, IMHO. In the extreme, it is a self-fulfilling approach with severe consequences.

Seems like we should be able to do better than that as a society.
I was on a commercial plane where the pilots could not tell if the gear was completely down and locked and got someone on the ground to look as we flew by slowly at low altitude. It appeared to be down, but they still landed very gingerly. Thankfully it was fine.
Is Apple News affected by this?
Programmatic advertising used to be vickrey but switched to first price, and now everyone has to use bid shading to predict how much they can reduce their bid in order to still win the auction.

https://snigel.com/blog/what-is-bid-shading#:~:text=Bid%20sh....
Managers need to sign off on how many hours it saves. Its their neck at the end of the day.

It helps that we are often saving ~400 hours/yr spending ~80 hours or less.

We can also see it in overtime hours being eliminated, and the (real) engineers are making more complex designs but the size of the team hasn't changed.(30% more complex in 2.5 years, same team size) They also havent replaced engineers that left the team.

Basically: We save enough hours that it is obvious. There are added benefits like not having humans do manual checks, so less prone to errors. (Although I argue that our bugs are equally as dangerous)
People complain about snipers because they only know if they lose the auction at the last minute.

This means you have to wait until the auction finishes, before you can bid at another auction. Constantly failing auctions because of some hidden bidder means you are wasting your time. It is only worth bidding in the last 30 minutes.
Could you share the percentage of traffic coming from Google News, roughly?
Most journalists can barely sustain their own livelihoods, nevermind scrounge enough capital together to write a check for a founder.
IMO, yes. They make mistakes, too, like you said.
>Despite this, I'm having trouble applying for jobs. I usually don't meet any of the requirements, as I don't have actual work experience that the job description expects. And when I do apply, I get rejected before an interview.

That's just how it is. Keep applying. I doubt anyone is getting a job these days without making dozens of applications, or having serious connections. It's brutal and discouraging, but you just have to stick with it.

For some more actionable advice, focus on your framing. Interviewers don't care at all about what interests you, or what things you're most excited about getting to work on. They care about what you can do for their company right now, especially for a mid-level role. Think less in terms of "I'd love to join your company because I'm excited for the opportunity to learn more about XYZ" and more "I'd love to join your company because I have a good working knowledge of XYZ, and believe it would be a huge contribution to your development efforts in that area."
Then there surely is a source for that somewhere. Otherwise it's just as fair to assume it's not a mutually beneficial relationship.
The issue is that the lottery is never enough. Effectively, the lottery percentage is removed from discussions and the fight moves on to the non-lottery percentage where the same arguments of diversity come back to the non-lottery percentage. This is not hypothetical, this is how the US immigration system is currently. There is a diversity lottery, which is a mostly foregone conclusion right now. And yet, there is race/country based quota in the skill based categories and proponents want quotas despite it being a skill being category. Once you create a lottery, you can't say, "Go do your thing in the lottery, this lane is for merit". So the lottery is a waste. Several attempts to phase out caps/quotas from skill based categories through legislature have failed so far. In the most recent case, the congressional black caucus opposed it as it would disadvantage the currently advantaged immigrants from African countries.
Except those even able to immigrate out of such recently "impoverished" nations are a small self-selected subset of that population, that are likely considerably better off than those who stay behind and and certainly likely to be those with a strong determination to succeed.
Perhaps you could argue the same of slave-descended native born Americans who then apply for college, but the former group are making the same decision, and at any rate, applying for college is rather easier than deciding to move your entire family half-way across the world.
FWIW I'm generally skeptical of whether AA is actually a good thing for various reasons but I assume it's felt "something" has to be done to address underrepresentation of particular races in college admissions. Recent Asian immigrants if anything seem to be slightly overrepresented so for AA policies to have their desired effect, yes, they will by design discriminate against such a group.
related: the official post from Google https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36523516
Man, rustc compiling of binaries that run on this computer, docker, github CI, this kid's going places (no idea how old he is, but he's squarely younger than me, a millennial, ergo, kid).
I think you are probably helping your career by not exploring the tools at this time. In almost all tech, early adopters are rarely time savers, they are often the ones to explode (or if they are lucky just waste a ton of their time). Bless them. But the output I've seen from ChatGPT is so bad that I'm amazed the people who think it helps them are for real.

I complained to a friend recently that we're drowning in spam-tier programming tutorials, giving the example of basic web-app database design. There are hundreds of tutorials that all cover roughly the same bare minimum basics, and only the basics, with some of them less safe than others.

My friend put some of the queries through ChatGPT and what came back was... spam-tier crap that said to do one thing (separate user table and auth table) and in its example code did the other (put `password_hash` into the users table).

This is an objective downgrade from the ocean of spam tier crap. Previously there were 999 tutorials that only covered the bare basics with not enough deep dive or "why its this way and not that way" material. Now there's that status quo, but also transparently wrong.

This is not, I think, an isolated incident, but an illustrative one. So feel free to wait another year. If it's actually truly useful by then, I'm sure you'll notice and pick it up without trouble.
Microsoft brings new AI-powered shopping tools to Bing and Edge
LeanDojo: Theorem Proving in Lean Using LLMs
Is there really anything new in this post from the news that came out last week?
After looking into it, turns out gzip is a python module while zlib is a native (C) module. And I can find no hook to support `-m` with native modules.
You know, AI-will-be-super-positive people deride AI-doomerism as being the religious one. But the only religious appeals seem to come from the positivity camp. Another one is Copilot creator's:

"Doomerism can be dispelled.

Believe that this universe is the one, maybe the only one in the multiverse, where things work out.

Otherwise humans, life, earth would be long gone by now."

https://twitter.com/alexgraveley/status/1553863686732775425
Maybe I'll be forced to eat crow, but investing in a domain of expertise that can be faked by a batch of looped Python scripts seems like the stupidest idea ever.

edit: Journalism is one of those trades where people care about their craft. They're passionate and emotionally invested in it, and it's been threatened in recent decades, so anyone affected is primed to make misguided decisions in an attempt to preserve that which they care about.

No beak for me, this is going to bankrupt desperate journalists in a massive exit scam.
Which state are these big US tech companies based in again? I may have missed it.
Imagine if we could take advantage of the time-space potential/differences between gravitational areas to "skip" large parts of space. We would have to have a very precise gravity map, but could also get huge gravity potential boost!
Address Concerns About Research Misconduct: Recommendations from a Working Group
There are two reasons stated in the article, and I have some commentary on each.

First is that if a service removes a show from its offerings, then it doesn't have to pay residuals to the various unions/guilds that own the show rights, and income goes up. While that makes mathematical sense (subscription revenue is constant, assuming people don't react quickly to the change in streaming inventory), I wonder whether it's also an attempt by studio-controlled streaming services to exert more influence over the currently on-strike WGA. If WGA members' residuals drop substantially, they might stop supporting the strike.

Second is that there's an accounting trick where you get a tax write-down when something you own is damaged, and taking your own asset off your own service is an "impairment" that counts as such damage. Perhaps companies like Disney are self-inflicting these multi-billion-dollar impairments right now to offset and even mask the additional profits that they're seeing from their recent price hikes.
There's Racket Mode[1] for Emacs, which is very nice.

[1]: https://www.racket-mode.com/
The important aspect is in not having other people's skin in the game.
I've gotten pretty good at finding ways to get them to immediately disconnect. For example, ask where they're physically located. Or ask for their name, job title, and supervisor. I'm not as good as keeping them on the line though. Sometimes I just put them on silent hold awhile.

That reminds me: if you ever receive a call from a legit collection agency, be prepared in advance. You have the right to ask them specific questions that they need to answer, according to regulation, if they have a legitimate debt to collect. Your second opportunity to ask the questions will be more difficult, so take advantage of them reaching out. Have a list by your phone or on your Favorites.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/how-can-i-verify-wh...
Yeah Typescript doesn't guarantee perfect backwards compatibility. You normally have the compiler as part of your dependencies and pin it. I guess they just didn't know.

I don't know what you mean with your last sentence. That's the same paper...
Mistakes and miscommunication happens (especially when team members on/off board and handover isn't always what it 'should' be)

That said ... such types of missteps CAN be a bad sign - or not

Keep in mind the issues they've had, and factor that into any final decision you end up making :)
Tab-delimited "csv" formats are quite common (e.g. the CONLL format family for many natural language processing tasks) and also supported by common tools such as MS Excel for decades already.
Yeah, the definition of news content being "news content means content — in any format, including an audio or audiovisual format — that reports on, investigates or explains current issues or events of public interest and includes such content that an Indigenous news outlet makes available by means of Indigenous storytelling. (contenu de nouvelles)" seems overly broad but I doubt they intend for headlines to be included.

I think the bill will lead to further litigation, specifically if a headline counts as reporting or explaining. I doubt a headline can investigate.

It does also seem to put a limit on a platform's ability to negotiate which is worrying. After 3 rounds of negotiations an arbiter can come in and decide what is a fair price and companies are not allowed to treat different news organizations differently. This seems to have room to abuse for me.
Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit

Solving for step 2: Place google ads, because those pages are favored.
Although I disagree with this kind of law:

Was it just linking? Or was it providing a useful summary that essentially renders no need to click the provided link? + the link

Otherwise I can see why Google and Meta got the law, while Reddit, Apple news and others don't.
Hopefully not since the shares tend to go to $0.

Though I’d note The Economist has staff and former staff as minority shareholders.
I think this is not true. I found a way (in the async book or tokio documentation, somewhere near the end of the docs or end of a quick-start guide or such) to just call it and not have to make the calling function async, using runtime.block_on() .

If you request here or via the email at my web site (in profile), I can provide a more detailed example from a test I have.

(note to self: see fn test_basic_sql_connectivity_with_async_and_tokio() .)
It probably did originally, until one time it showed down by mistake. Some manager somewhere said that's unacceptable, so it was changed to not happen.
The world is a big place.
I’ve been a buyer for 8 years are so on ttd and another dsp but haven’t heard of the probably of paying out thing - can you share more info on that?
I've been using Codeium with Vim for a few months and it works great :)