skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Revenue was $31.999 billion, up 11% year-over-year. Excluding foreign exchange impact, revenue grew 12%.

> Advertising revenue was $31.498 billion, up 12% year-over-year. Excluding foreign exchange impact, advertising revenue grew 13%.

98.4% of their revenue is ads!

Full earnings: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/26/meta-to-report-second-quarte...

> Earnings: $2.98 per share vs. $2.91 expected by Refinitiv.

> Revenue: $32 billion vs. $31.12 billion expected by Refinitiv.

> Daily Active Users (DAUs): 2.06 billion vs 2.04 billion expected, according to StreetAccount.

> Monthly Active Users (MAUs): 3.03 billion vs 3 billion expected, according to StreetAccount.

> Average Revenue per User (ARPU): $10.63 vs $10.22 expected, according to StreetAccount.
Oooh, yeah, sounds exactly like that, which according to Google has existed in the UK since 1956. AFAIK we don't have anything like that in the US.
I always liked the way she sang "I'll Tell Me Ma." Most versions I've heard are upbeat. Hers sounded like she was an onlooker, not a participant - the kid no one would play with.
It's depressing because short fiction has the ability to evoke strong emotions in such few words. I remember finding Flowers for Algernon much more impactful as a short story, than I did as a novel. Perhaps it was because I read the short story first.
Transmen certainly face poor treatment at the hands of the right as well, but in my (admittedly second-hand) experience it is qualitatively different than that leveled at cisgender women.
Interestingly enough, something I learned early in my career during sales training is that if you are able to convert your biggest haters, they can become one of your most ardent supporters.

Problem is I have a short fuse for disrespect, I just don't have the time to tolerate it.
Not entirely, no. The US pays a lot more for healthcare, for identical treatment. About 80% of total revenue for medical technology comes from the US market. A lot of other countries either negotiate lower rates utilizing their state monopoly on the market or are just lower income and cannot afford the prices paid by the US. In both cases, the marginal cost is low enough that companies are willing to compromise or cost discriminate, but the end result is essentially the US footing the bill. If this were ever to change, if the US ever started negotiations like European countries do, I worry it would negatively impact medical progress.

Still, the impact of obesity are quite significant. An obese person will have 6 times the healthcare costs of someone who is merely overweight. I am not sure the difference between an overweight and healthy weight person, but I imagine it is at least something. Currently 69% of Americans are overweight and 36% are obese.

This is insane to me because even "healthy weight" guidelines are pretty generous IMO. My doctor has told me I'm "healthy weight" at times when I definitely needed to lose a few pounds. (After losing the weight I felt better, had more energy, mental clarity, etc.)
Calling Hitler a bastard here is online callout/shaming culture. It's a swipe against Hitler's character. It's not curious discussion to discuss Hitler that way.
Neither in my experience - hence you should take my position with salt and do your own research
Of what I remember:

- When you don't log in, Settings shows a red perpetual (1) notification and dialogue for iCloud

- Putting on headphones defaults to Apple Music, and Apple Music defaults to a subscription ad modal

- AppleTV defaults to your dock. I never asked for it, nor is it something useful like QuickTime. Apple just decided I wanted it, like Bluetooth headphones or U2 music.

- The "Try the improved Safari!" notification perpetually showed up on my old Mac

- Apple News is littered with third party ads to the point of unusability compared to other RSS readers
I'm using xmonad inside of KDE Plasma.

It's not flawless. I had to patch plasma-desktop to get it to work at all, and there are still some bugs around widgets and toolbars I haven't found a solution for. But I'm still pretty happy with it. I have window animations with picom, and even window decorations that blend in pretty well, such that a casual observer probably wouldn't even notice that I replaced the window manager.

I'm pretty pumped that both Plasma and GNOME are now working on better tiling support by default. Maybe in a year I'll be back to using kwin or GNOME Shell.
Think probably the most important quality was you could use a cassette or CD in a portable player, boom box, or car stereo.
Yes and no.

The attestation API will allow websites to verify certain things about the user agent which they then may use to either deny access or alter the access for the requested resource. This is similar to existing methods of checking the "User-Agent" header string but is much more robust to tampering because it can rely on a full-chain of trust from the owning website.

So will existing tools work with this?

Websites that do not require attestation should work fine. This will probably be the vast majority of websites.

Websites that require attestation may or may not work depending on the results of the attestation. Since programs like curl do not currently provide a mechanism to perform attestation, they will indicate a failure. If the website is configured to disallow failed attestation attempts, then tools like curl will no longer be able to access the same resources that user agents that pass attestation can.

My opinion is that it is likely that attestation will be used for any website where there is a large media presence (copyright/drm), large data presence (resource utilization/streams), high security, or any large company that is willing to completely segment its web resources into attested and non-attested versions. Tools like curl will no longer work with these sites until either a suitable attestation system is added to them, or the company changes its attestation policy.
Stack Overflow changed how they measure traffic
Lots of people have talked about the drop in traffic for Stack Overflow. Well... here is them saying that they changed how the measure traffic. Make of it what you will.
how does it differ from Mad Pascal? pro/cons, any good improvements?
I wonder how much a standing desk counts as isometric exercise, or is it more a balancing exercise.
I don't disagree with you, but you have to remind yourself of a potential bias: you only hear of the secrets they didn't successfully keep. The ones they kept successfully you obviously wouldn't have heard about, by definition. Who's to say this hearing isn't an example of them losing control over a secret?
> A crowd of people booing Sinead O Connor 30 years ago is very similar to people attacking Charlie Hebdo in 2015

Erm. I don't think it's that similar.
Home taping is killing record industry profits!
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B-side on Dead Kennedys „ In God We Trust, Inc”
Hurricanes don’t matter. Houses built in hurricane zones these days are built to strict code, every new construction is concrete blocks and impact windows, hurricane resistant roofs and doors. Some flooding occurs, but water dries up eventually and things go back to normal. They don’t have those little thin wall wood houses like they do up north.
> Most people are too busy earning a living to make any money.

A lot of people spend their lives making money without actually living though.
For what it’s worth, the manatee bay bouy [0] recorded the temperature at the sea surface level. Marine life will be just fine, as most (all?) marine life lives actually within the ocean rather than on the surface.

[0] https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=mnbf1
Definitely fair.
Wouldn't less power loss not just mean lower power consumption, but the ability to run it at higher speeds while keeping the same cooling technology we current have?
> We simply got our work done. Imagine that.

Well what happened? Why did you leave? It sounds great!
I'm 200% convinced there are plenty of people out there who could easily be nerdsniped into building an open source dishwasher! Hackers get up to all kinds of stuff that doesn't seem traditionally fun!
> ... avoid relying on a non-deterministic compiler optimization doesn't decrease readability. It is extremely naive to assume that a heuristic-guided ...

This is a post about crawling the compiler IR to find things the compiler missed so that the programmer can change their code to work around the compiler. Even if the crawl-the-IR is a heuristic, moving that into the compiler would mean exactly the cases that were reported are now fixed automatically.

Non-deterministic compilers are broken. Arguably by definition, but also by heuristic as a non-deterministic compiler is enough of a nightmare to debug and fix that it can be expected to grow more errors over time.

Heuristic compilers are very much a thing. Also sadly fragile optimisations are a thing, where minor changes to the application take it over some threshold and the change in output is larger than anticipated.

However, the plan of attack of "change the program until the compiler did what you hoped for" is itself a heuristic that future changes to program and compiler may upset. An alternative is to patch the compiler to do the right thing, and add a regression test to the compiler so that it will continue to do the right thing. That has better engineering properties in the large.
But gravity is not proven either, and a bunch of physics is just theories still.

We don't censor those.

Why should we censor lab leak theories? It was a valid theory even then and still is. I mean... to go to extreme, why should we censor reptilian 5g zuckerberg-is-a-robot theories at all, why censorship?

People were spraying their houses with vinegar before too, and we didn't censor that, even if it wasn't proven either.

On the other hand, we had real world data that vaccinated people "don't get sick", and we didn't censor that either:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210402002315/https://www.msnbc...

> And we have -- we can kind of almost see the end. We`re vaccinating so very fast, our data from the CDC today suggests, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don`t get sick, and that it`s not just in the clinical trials but it`s also in real world data.
...and I of course wish you every bit of success. The root cause of many problems is Android and iOS specs changing every 6 months in a not backwards compatible way. It makes maintaining any framework an even bigger headache. I hope you have the determination to keep your level of support high enough to overcome this
Eventually.

It does take ~10 years in practice for people to notice the lies and for the FBI to finally arrest you. At least in Enron or Worldcom cases, these things can go on for a very long time.

USA is eventually correct, but we take our sweet ass time getting there.
Rates of Change
Why are you moving the goal post? The country was functional although it didn’t last forever, and was eventually disbanded.
Never said it does either though.
No I have not made such a calculation. I have not worried about how much I eat because I have remained roughly the same weight for years.

Granted, I am 21 years old and people always tell me that young people have a fast metabolism. I will see if that's true when I'm older.
Freemium, by definition, means that free users get inferior service compared to premium users. This is not the case with purely ad funded services such as Google search.

Granted, the difference between the tiers may be small engouh in some cases for this to be an acceptable compromise, but the principle is still the same.
There's quite a gulf between what's promised and what's been tested. Despite the backfilling about just a test and total success there's were a LOT of big failures in that first launch test.
I was given a cat that was hostile and hid most of the time.

His previous staff had financial difficulties so he had not been to the vet for years. I booked a routine visit to the vet which happened a couple of weeks later and they said he had rotten teeth. After removal of a few teeth he was happy and friendly.

My checklist for a new cat starts 1) Check closely and carefully for fleas. Flea eggs lie dormant in your carpets then they leap and bite you when the sense movement. Deal with any sign of fleas immediately.

2) Vet without delay if there may be something wrong
Unicode is not a SNAFU. Though the UC has made mistakes here and there, the complexity of Unicode is only a mirror of the complexity of human scripts.

Please stop taking dumps on Unicode. It does nothing for actually getting it implemented and implemented well.
I can't explain what the previous poster was thinking, but Unicode is frustrating to work with. The problem is, that frustration just replicates the reality of the human writing systems Unicode captures. Nobody invented weird nonsense to make your life harder in Unicode, millions of humans developed a variety of weird nonsense to make their lives easier, over thousands of years and Unicode captures most of it.

Case for example, why the heck would there be exactly two versions of A, one of which usually only appears at the start of words, and not always? Other people's squiggles don't do that, but notably several European writing systems (Latin and Cyrillic) do. People who use those systems think ABCDE and abcde are somehow "similar" even though they don't seem very similar at all. Then they're surprised other people don't do that.
Let me know when you have something going. I'd be interested.
Interesting to think about. However, for that to be feasible I believe the draconian "copyright forever" laws would have to have never happened. I'm against paying rent to corporations to access the work of dead people on principle. Or past say, fifty years even if they lived.
Whether there is a "practical" difference, there is usually a big legal difference in outcomes based on what the perpetrator's intent.
I’m reminded of the paper, just over 10 years ago, that reporting measuring neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light.

When published, the authors made it clear: this is probably wrong, but we can’t see where we made a mistake … so what if we’re right and just upended relativity theory?

That was turned out to be a measuring error [1]. This one may be the same, though the lead authors publishing two versions of the paper - one with only 3 names, ostensibly because the Nobel Prize can only be awarded to a maximum of 3 people - suggests less modesty and vulnerability on their behalf.

I hope they’re right though!

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.10099
> "how dare she co-opt the public stage for controversial/'political' speech?!"

i don't know if the religious or the apolitical/centrists are worse.
It seems to also be a word particular to telephone usage.

To me it seems that while greetings obviously have existed far, far longer than a telephone, very rarely did you need a greeting which in a completely neutral way announces your existence.
Exactly, there's nothing really wrong with Unicode -- it's complicated, yes, but only because human scripts are.
Glad they laid off all those employees to get ready for the lean economic times.
For more context Linux Torvalds moved back to GNOME in 2013, a year after that article was posted.

From https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTMxNj:

> He says that GNOME 3.x has been improving and that when pairing the desktop with the right extensions, it's a rather pleasant desktop. He specifically points out Frippery and GNOME Tweak Tool as making a huge difference to his experience.
Escrow's only real value is when a third party steps in to judge who's in the right when things go wrong. When Escrow works well, it's highly automatable and already significantly automated by modern escrow companies. When one or both parties try to cheat, then you need human intervention, and again; Crypto/Blockchain/"Web3" is completely unsuitable.
> Hot take: Yes. Because classical liberalism, the free market, and bottom-up government has done more for the advancement of humankind than sharia law, tyrants, oligarchies, theocracies, or dictatorships have ever done.

That's not 'the west' and has never been. The US was born protectionist and pretty much stayed protectionist til today.

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

Of course today we wrap our protectionism with 'national security'. If a free market exists, then let me know because I've never come across one. All markets are protected and certainly not free. And if there is a bottom-up government, I've never heard of one in history. Can you show me an example of a bottom-up government? I'd love a good laugh.

> Let's stop pretending like all values have the same ethical valence.

And lets stop making up values to suit ones agenda.

Edit: Also, you might want to brush up on your history. 'sharia law, tyrants, oligarchies, theocracies, or dictatorships have ever done' have given us civilization and nearly all human progress since the dawn of time. Everything from agriculture, to writing, to the laws of physics were produced outside of 'classical liberalism'.
I don't totally understand the concept of having an everything app. Isn't the OS the "everything app"?

Do people like the wechat experience because you have one login and don't have to go through an onboarding process in every mini-app?
there were some viral videos of texan hoarders doing their stuff on the inventory of big lot stores. Hopefully panic buying does not result in major food waste with large amounts of rancid grains being the end result.
It was in dev environment which I doubt in his world required any sort of management approval.
I don’t find that surprising at all. Apple and China are both regimes and it’s not surprising at all they go hand in hand.
The thing you have to remember is that race, as a social construct, only exists as a form of oppressive categorization. It's never, historically, been used as merely "identification" or whatever else categorization might be used for in some benign way. It's always a weapon.

So yeah, culturally it exists. Biologically it does not exist, however.

And I have zero clue why CRT is on your mind here, or why you think it's "reductionist", and in fact would apply to various "white" people through history. Do you think CRT wouldn't apply to the Irish in the 1820s?
gmail, google storage, contacts, content farms, Google slurps everything it can find. /dev/random would be something for storage. For other stuff you would fake data. No, not all the tips listed have been take from their playbook.
That's very well stated, and I think it's best encapsulated in how popular the semi-joking phrase, "Well now I'm on a list" came about.
It used to be possible to make a living shoeing horses, which also requires a lot of non-transferable skills.

There are still people who shoe horses, of course, but not as many by probably a couple of orders of magnitude.

I don't want to seem callous toward actors in particular, but why are they more important than farriers? Hand weavers? People whose job was to pick up buckets of raw sewage from the backs of houses?
My favourite song too, heartbreaking knowing the abuse she suffered at the hands of her own mother.
Looking at it from the other direction, these numbers make it seem that they were in fact overstaffed.
I have seen a few young kids in school uniforms on the tube in London. Most, but not all, seem to have a chaperone. Two or three young kids traveling together is not unusual. We only noticed it because it is becoming unusual to see kids walking to school even here in rural America. They all get dropped off until they are old enough to drive (14/15 here). It probably does not help that community schools are getting replaced with massive schools on the outskirts (where large parcels of land are still available) of town.
They're overthinking this issue far too much. People actually like that windows disappear into the background, it emulates the idea of stacks of paper (very intuitive) and it allows you to both focus on the stuff that's currently important and with relative ease bring out windows from the background into view again, through the use of alt-tab or the super key. (or by clicking the little part of the background window still visible, as done by all beginner users of a window system, a very intuitive move)

Call me a luddite but we don't need more innovation, just implementation.

- Windows should be able to tile in corners for a 4 window equal size layout by default in gnome, you currently need a plugin for it.

- A way to set up standard locations for windows, best managed in some kind of "work-profile"/"entertainment-profile" way, in a tileable-esque system. This is not something most people will use, but is very helpful for people who want to get back into the workflow of a relatively complex window layout. Say you use three screens, and have a editor, devtools, browser-production, browser-docs, and chat window or music player open. Getting these windows back into a standard location can be done with various secondary tools already, but it's never been implemented by an OS standard. Some applications with floating dockable windows already implement it for their floating windows, like Inkscape.

And that's it. Bear in mind I really think that this is taking the window managment the last 10% of the way, it's fine as is. Not just fine, good and borderline great.

>For a web browser that might be maximized, for a weather app maybe only 700×500 pixels

Those examples of "mosaic" tiling reeks of theoretical idealism. Almost no applications work in an area as small as what, 17% of total screen estate. Taking a weather app as an example is close to disingenous, that's the definition of an outlier regarding small windows. A common "small" window is something like a file manager or a OS settings page, and those arguably take up __at least__ 35% of screen real estate to work well, and are more commonly given a whole 50%. (half-side view)

Their demonstration goes on to demonstrate them opening 3 different weather apps and having them move around in the mosaic, like the demonstration shows a groundbreaking new way to manage what, weather apps? Completely disregarding the fact that a weather app is opened, read, and then closed. You dont' monitor the situation of the weather in your anyones workflow.

Now there are users who use very complex window layouts of very small windows, like some people working in sound production, but they don't want their windows to magically just shuffle around the center of the screen, they want the "open this window in this standard location/size every time im in work-profile mode".
I’m not looking up some random online comment’s credentials to try to prove their own point. Your comment doesn’t stand on its own and if you’re not willing to clarify your credentials further then your argument is moot.
If someone does contribute tests, nit pick the format and style of the test, vs what the test exercises. Formatting and style and variable naming are the truest ways to ensure project success.

Also, if someone contributes tests, never run them yourself.

Bonus points for making changes in other peoples' code without even running it locally before committing and pushing up.
Which is something everybody should do before they remove that feature.
I asked a similar question:

Can someone send attlestation requests from the range of residential ips with such frequency that the attlestation sequence is forced to captcha users, thus defeating it? You don't need the token response back from an attlestation, so you could spoof your ip and not worry about getting a response.
DeSantis suggests he could pick RFK Jr. to lead the FDA or CDC