skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This system reduces search engine quality for users and drives up advertiser expenses. Google can get away with it because these manipulations are imperceptible to the user and advertiser

I sure have been noticing. At this point finding anything on the web feels like a lost cause.

Besides duckduckgo (bing) which is not even that great either. What other option do we have?
If you went back 20/25 years, it's probably fair to say that remote work wouldn't have worked in general. Had COVID happened in 1995, I expect that there would have been a lot more shrugging and getting on with business/school/etc. because there really wouldn't have been other realistic options.
I'd argue you're creating a bit of a false dichotomy there. I completely agree that the public is bad at measuring risk. But do you disagree that the media/politicians were actively working to exaggerate the impact of the disease? And really this even applied to organizations like the CDC. Read this [1] page and tell me how long you think it'd take the average person to realize they're talking about child hospitalizations with COVID and not child hospitalizations from COVID?

The "summary" of the article is that "COVID-19 can cause severe illness in children and adolescents" followed by numbers talking about a shocking increase in rates. The fact it's talking about people hospitalized with COVID is hidden in a wall of text written in language that most people wouldn't be able to decipher. That more people tested positive for a more contagious variant, in any setting, is the most unremarkable news imaginable - spun into a terrifying headline, by the CDC no less.

I see no way to imagine that article was written in good faith. And it's been the absolute norm for the past 3 years now.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7036e2.htm
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That's what everyone thinks, until the user sticks an emoji in the name field
That sounds to me like the utility is charging them wrong.

When I buy water it has sewer charges by default, which means if I concentrated that to seawater level they'd be getting 100x or 200x payments to process it, and even higher for brine.

It's possible to meter the sewer separately, but there are extra charges for water with too much biochemical oxygen demand or suspended solids. Throw an extreme salinity charge on there so they can pay for full treatment and then some.

Is there a reason to have datacenters directly fund facility upgrades?
We definitely need a complete overhaul of the US health system, but we don't just "have a larger population". The largest countries in Europe by population (after Russia) are Turkey and Germany with with 85M and 84M, respectively. The US has 331M. That is almost ~4x!

When we say it works in other countries, most of the time we are referring to Europe. And most countries in Europe are tiny in comparison. The US is the 3rd largest country by population.

This is not to say that the US problems are unsolvable, but they will definitely require unique solutions.
And what better way than soft-layoffs.
I thought I removed it but it came back. How do you remove it.. asking for a friend
There's something very powerful behind incentives level thinking, it really does push you into second and third order effects and meta level interactions to think "if this then what next". I've been wanting to step up my level of engaging and contemplating incentives in the generic.
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This is attested in the Neolithic records, I suppose?
Patak’s will do in a pinch if there’s nothing else but I don’t like the smaller size of their jars and the lack of variety. I agree the Shan versions of those you cite are not particularly distinguished. They offer some unusual ones like lasora but for things like amla which are usually not pickled in Muslim community you are better off with another brand.
Why is disabling tivoization a hard no for you?
Isn't that the GI Bill?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill
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The first time I heard that Unicode would support emoji, I knew it would be a recipe for disaster. And I definitely was not disappointed.
What are the non-merit based criteria you propose?
Oh, I'm sorry, my bad.
That's not what professional means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession

Even skilled laborers, like plumbers and electricians, are not in a profession. They're members of a trade.
i think you should look up the phrase, because thats exactly what it refers to. That we need two full time incomes to afford a house is a new thing, and is the "trap" we have built for ourselves.
Semantic search doesn't work by replacing words with synonyms. It just uses embeddings where queries using synonyms map to near points in a vector space.

I doubt the actual queries would be manipulated and this author provides no proof other than "trust me bro."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_bias
If you can make a key file You can put it on a removable sd card and make a keydrive. This introduces a nice air gap to the key, only needing to be broken when unlocking the drive.

There are better ways, often the the key can be stored on a hardware token(yubi key etc... ). which presumably offers additional security guarantees around copying the key. but a keydrive is a very easy way to start.

Off tangent(I doubt you will be using openbsd), but the openbsd encryption layer offers some nice features around using keydrives, http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidFDE
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Charging “standards” have changed many times in the past 5-10 years. There are indications that NACS might finally be the stable, long-term choice, but that is not 100% obvious or guaranteed even now. That makes it challenging for anybody to do commercial development planning which needs to account for at least 20 years of functioning after buildout.
Try Yandex and Kagi. First for breadth, second for depth
You ask good questions. Historically, no, software craftspeople and technologists do not pay it forward. In my experience, my parents' generation of engineers were more of the "someday, I'll be that boot" variety. I see a little less of that in mine, but still plenty of it; that's how startups mostly operate today. But I have a little more hope for the next generation to mount more resistance to it.

There will always be toads, but there might be some people in there, too.
> democratically balancing consumer rights

Right. By stepping farther from the open market and killing some personal freedom. (Also, word "democratically" is absolutely meaningless in this context, but that's the usual mode it is used in in western politics.)
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I'm not so sure -- the in-concert RTO hardline from FAANG has a very "collusion" vibe to it. Those CEOs probably got together specifically to undermine the labor market's natural incentives. It'd be great if the DoL looked into that like they did when these CEOs colluded to keep salaries and comp down across Silicon Valley.

And don't forget that these companies all have policies of not hiring high-level ICs from the outside. So if you're at that level, your options to jump ship can be quite limited unless your current employer is truly toxic. Again, a practice designed to keep comp at the top IC bands down.
In my experience it isn't that people lack motivation (the others are spot on), but that they have no idea what a lot is. I had one friend brag to me that after 2 years of contributing to his 401k he had $13k - which sounds like a lot of money, but realistically he should have had more like 300k to be on track for a good retirement.

There is for most people little reason to keep much money in a savings account. They don't earn much interest.
I’m really considering repurchasing (I definitely owned it previously, no idea what happened), can you describe specifically what the main bugs are for you? I’d be happy if I could use it solely for occasionally writing long notes, not as a replacement for all text inputs.

Really not looking to burn another $5, I’d greatly appreciate any thoughts/concerns at all.
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1) Ironically, just before COVID a decent number of companies decided to transition to "hot-desking" policies where employees aren't in the office 5 days a week, and rather than having an office or cube, you have to sign up for a random desk each day you come in.

The cognitive dissonance when these companies impose "return-to-office" policies is huge. They already made a decision that it's not worth renting enough real estate to have employees in the office 5 days a week, so most of their arguments for the value of in-person work are transparently hypocritical.

2) in some cities (I live in Boston) the commute has gotten much worse than pre-COVID, at least on Tuesday through Thursday. Return-to-office policies aren't asking employees to return to their prior mode of working - they're asking them to spend an additional hour or more commuting than what they originally signed up for.
Twitter pulled that stunt on me: within minutes after creating an account, having done precisely nothing with it yet, they locked me out with some vague complaint about security and suspicious behavior, demanding a phone number. I refused to comply, and several weeks of daily complaints to customer support eventually got the account unlocked, with no explanation; they are clearly just harvesting numbers for the sake of it.
Yeah we didn't even have that one button integration until 2019 and it didn't work well and the mics were all broken. They started leaving usb jabra mics in the conference rooms to supplement the very expensive cisco setups. That's mainly fixed now.

Interesting on the hallway conversation thing. I have no idea how I'd handle that.
Same here. If you find some literature about it that you're willing to share, would love to read and swap notes.
Looks good, however i find the pricing a bit on the high side, especially compared to others like uptime robot and hettrix tools.
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The sentence you quoted didn't say an ultimatum is abuse, it said to reject an ultimatum if from "an employer or abusive romantic partner" with "power" over you.

As you say, an ultimatum isn't necessarily abusive. We all have things we want in life - and some of them are deal-breakers for a relationship. But if you read the sentence as written, I think it's solid advice - don't agree to something when someone is leveraging "power" over you if you can avoid it. That is abusive.

People who've been in abusive relationships can read the difference between a "this is make-or-break for the life I want, you need to make a choice" and "I'm abusing this situation to make you agree to something you don't want to do / is bad for you."
I'm not sure I understand, why not just manage your own memory instead of asking the OS to magically understand your memory use-case and properly manage/limit?

If the memory isn't owned by the OS, that's probably the wrong actor to manage it.

They say that, instead, they used an undocumented API they obviously didn't understand. Why? If you are concerned about using up too much memory, then do something about it
> Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query

Wait. Is this example from the court testimony, or something the author made up?
Actually that never changed. The README has always had an example of differentiating through native Python control flow:

https://github.com/google/jax/commit/948a8db0adf233f333f3e5f...

The constraints on control flow expressions come from jax.jit (because Python control flow can't be staged out) and jax.vmap (because we can't take multiple branches of Python control flow, which we might need to do for different batch elements). But autodiff of Python-native control flow works fine!
The alternative can be characterized as trying to keep the lid on the pot to ensure no other crabs escape and charging escaped crabs a fee for their offspring to be able to live outside the pot.
Free in Germany. It used to cost 500 euros per semester. but you still get your bachelors and masters here for cheaper than a quarter at some schools. Our bachelors are 3 years masters are 2.
Incremented serial numbers can leak things like eg. volume of sales in your shop.
The problem with listening to economists is that if your only tool is interest rates everything looks like a loan.

No sovereign nation should be borrowing from anywhere other than itself.

Instead firms should be selling equity denominated in the local currency for foreign currency - where they need foreign imported capital equipment. If nobody wants to invest on those terms then you have to build the equipment yourself.

For a nation to develop successfully it needs patient money, not hot money.
> we want people to spend as much as possible,

That feels like a perversion of the credit industry. We can clarify that we want people to have as much excess income as possible, spending a fair percentage of it. If they're spending more than a sustainable amount, they are incurring excess and efficiencies and/or deficit spending which will have a suppressive effect on spending over the long term.
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That figure also included unaccounted negative externalities, like the future earnings of those who die in car crashes.

The value of a human life in the US is estimated at around $10 million, so if you have 30,000 people dying in car crashes nationwide per year you’re looking at prorated losses in the hundreds of billions.
Voices are uncopyrightable, but impersonation isn't legal (see Midler v. Ford, for a notable case), so I don't think the situation is totally clear.
> - worse for the person being asked, who was interrupted

Generally, only in terms of personal output. I find that the organization benefits overall. Of course, this is problematic when performance/compensation is tied strictly to personal output, but that is a separate discussion

> - worse for the people who weren't privy to that conversation but perhaps could have learned or contributed except that they were OOO that moment.

Which is why working at the office is important.

> - worse for the organization because knowledge shared this way is ephemeral & siloed by definition

Somewhat true, but this is completely unavoidable. I know of zero cases where all institutional knowledge is recorded and not siloed in humans. Of course there are degrees.

> - ineffective in large organizations, where teams often span offices

This is why teams exist, why hierarchical organizations exist throughout history, and proper separation of work is crucial.
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I'm terrible at remembering faces and names, especially while networking, so I built this game to help memorize them!

To make it more fun, lists and high scores are public. You can create your own lists for an upcoming event you want to be ready for, etc.

A group from college had a game like this and it actually got all 100+ members to know each others' names!
It is so extraordinarily valuable that folks like Megan Gray have been attending these trials. This story would be so much more compelling if we could also see that slide — but as a closed trial only those with the time and ability to actually go to the courthouse can see it.

On the same day this slide was presented, she also tweeted: https://nitter.net/megangrA/status/1704244948378194289

> I am so livid at what just happened re public access in the Google Search antitrust case right now that I don’t trust myself to tweet about it yet. Back later.
If you can get your kid interested in shader language, that's probably a skill that would be valuable for the rest of their tech life.

And it has a 1:1 effort to reward, as you get to see your efforts on the screen.
Mass removal, but someone aware that it happened can still go in and fetch the EXEs back out of quarantine.

Which would be a good feature request for Defender, make it automatically do that in the event of a legitimate EXE whose detection status changes after it has been quarantined.
> Being in person allows you to get away with creating a culture where documentation doesn't really exist

Viewed a different way, it allows a team to spend less time documenting and more time on other things. Increased documentation could be seen as one of the costs of working remotely.
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The article by CNBC which makes the claim that 56% can't afford a $1000 emergency expense, with the interpretation I mentioned:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/19/56percent-of-americans-cant-...

The source of their statistics, which has a separate section which clearly asks about how much savings people have (granted, in terms relative to their living expenses instead of absolute numbers), rather than pulling 56% out of the statistic about how they would pay for an expense:
https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/emergency-savings-r...

This finds that ~22% of Americans don't have emergency savings. Which is still a lot, but certainly not as crazy and eye catching as 56%.

Note that the second link is the 2023 version, CNBC references the 2021 stats, but those don't seem to be accessible anymore (which is a strange arrangement).
Why should I use this instead of 100s others paid and open-source alternatives?
If anyone's curious, src is here: https://github.com/eschluntz/name-game
Flash, the authoring tool wasn't very good for coding. It was great for visuals and animation, apparently, but I'm a programmer. Flash, the runtime was great.. except for the perennial security issues.

But Flash, the platform on which to deploy my games and experiments made with FlashDevelop and AS3, is still unmatched by anything today.

Flutter's pretty close, for mobile targets. The web performance and library support is still not quite there for games, but its getting there.