skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the references. I had forgotten the sale from Woolworths to a Private Equity group.

I'm sorry this is bit off topic but I do think the description, within https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-05/dick-smith-enters-vol... , of what took place in the brief period between when the Private Equity group bought Dick Smith and when they floated it is well worth reading.

FWIW my experience of seeing this stuff happens is it only works where you have a company that non-institutional investors think they know and understand. In the case of Dick Smith it was a well liked and very visible brand within Australia. If the same financial engineering had been done to some obscure industrial group the Private Equity group would have had to rely on selling the shares to institutions and they would have been much more aware of what they were buying.

Here's the segment from the ABC piece ...

Private equity group Anchorage Capital bought Dick Smith from Woolworths in 2012 for an initial payment of just $20m.

Anchorage then "dressed the company up to look good for just one thing - to persuade people to buy shares," according to analysts from Forager Funds Management.

Anchorage "wrote down the value of the inventory, took provisions for future onerous lease payments, wrote down the value of the plant and equipment and liquidated a lot of the inventory as quickly as they possibly could to throw off cash," according to Forager's Steve Johnson.

The cash was then used by Anchorage to effectively make Dick Smith 'buy itself'.

The writedowns inflated profits, a key factor in enticing investors into the company.

For example: a stock item that may have been bought for $100 may have been in the books at $60 after the writedowns, which meant an extra $40 profit on every sale.

The writedown of plant and equipment lowered depreciation charges, also boosting the bottom line.

"But when they liquidated all that inventory to pay for the purchase price, they didn't replace it," according to Forager's Steve Johnson.

"And the new owners of the business, since it's been listed on the stock market, have had to put in a lot more money to fund the increase in inventory."
The problem here is the open market insurance is all garbage compared to basically any employer plan. Especially for those of us in tech.
That’s it?

Not only this has absolutely nothing to do with the announcement, but this is really just petty to get triggered over.

Oh dear.
What do you do if you don't like your doctor? Or your doctor just gets it wrong? Are you just screwed?

For example, a therapist is a very personal thing and I'd imagine you might have to try many to get it right. Psychiatry is as much an art as a science, so it's not like they're fungible.

Or what if, say, your internist dismisses your heart problems as anxiety, but you'd like to see a specialist because you know the difference and it's not just anxiety. That's it? Not allowed?
Agreed on the Win95 timeframe for the start of the take off phase the iPhone kicked off - just that PCs peaked, stagnated and got boring much less than 28yrs later (eg around 2010ish?).

I was disagreeing with the claim that PCs took longer than smartphones did to reach that plateau. They did take longer to reach the initial (Win95/iPhone) take off point though. Smartphones spent less time in the primordial phase - probably more a case of better internet availability though.
What scares some people is not that rationing care may already exist but that there may not be any fast-track line you can buy your way into.
no no, you should just separate your papers and plastics and keep buying the pocket super computer every year.
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Is there a particular mastodon server or set of servers that the engineering community is favoring? I know it technically doesn’t matter in a federated network, but curious anyway.
The 4A doesn't get security updates anymore though, right? The language on the website says "guaranteed until at least August 2023" so I guess it's up to Google's good will.
They don't even filter regular scams.

I was even served malware on APNews.com (via Google Ads) awhile back...

But why would they work harder to filter them? That costs a lot of money.
To clarify, we ought to flag every comment that points out how the article buries the lede and spends 1000+ words on nothing?
Ask HN: Menstrual bleeding after Covid vaccine?
Can anyone comment on these two papers?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37738335/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9294036/

They're both published by NIH. I never heard anything about this.

Is this known by most everyone, and I just haven't been paying enough attention?

How significant is this? Is it within the bounds of "normal", or is it well outside it?
You are right that dating at work can lead to a lot of drama and should be avoided.

That being said, that was not the problem at FTX/Alemeda. The problem with FTX was it was a fraud. San Bankman-Fried speculated with customer money while lying about what he was doing. FTX explicitly stated it did not speculate with customer money on its web site.
Machines are very good at detecting other machines.
If you want to hear back from any organization, you’ve got to write it on lawyer letterhead.
> only recommends customers buy things that it believes are in the customers best interests.

You mean like this outright scam with an "Amazon's choice" label on? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34588734
That's a distinction without a difference, imho. Either IP that the owner has decided to stop selling should be free to reproduce, or it shouldn't, regardless of their justification and the medium.
That would be true if it were an option. Google hasn't implemented such a feature und 3rd party apps differ features and are probably general worse, especially considering how android blocks background activity in low battery situations
Unsurprisingly, this says nothing about the topic of making Gmail less of a spam source to other networks.
I am currently conducting research on esprots as a whole with the main target being StarCraft since around 2019. I was able to publish a nice dataset of pro replays, and resulting JSON files after using one of the Golang parsers written by Icza.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02510-7

Feel free to look into the tools on my GitHub (https://github.com/Kaszanas). Since this is mostly the topic of my PhD I guess I will be updating the dataset in the near future. You may want to try and test your parser against it.

further research for you would probably include running Logistic Regression on aggregated data from each of the replays to try and have a model that can discern between winners and losers and see which parameters are key in your data.

Example: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363613604_Determina...

And even further embedding the games as timeseries data via various methods.
Look at a historical graph of internet users, bandwidth, etc. "Same scale long before" just isn't possible.

I'm not saying there isn't Cloudfront, Akamai, Fastly, Azure Edge/Verizon, etc. Hell UUNet, whatever you want. I'm saying the idea of someone providing hundreds of terabits of connectivity, connecting to over 12,000 networks, and supporting what is likely at least a billion users before Prince was born is completely absurd and impossible. There were only 118 million telephones worldwide in 1958 (the year Prince was born)[0].

I'm not referring to "DevOps crap". I'm referring to a wide product suite of functionality and geographic spread and scale that at best even 20 years ago would have taken an army of sysadmins and developers to build and maintain with a staggering fleet of Linux boxes running LAMP or whatever you prefer.

I was a very early Fastly customer (~2013 or so). I continue to look at them from time to time and what Oracle has done to them is atrocious (yet typical). They clearly have some usage and market share within that target market.

Speaking of market share, Cloudflare gets the most attention because they (by far) have the largest market share in terms of CDN/DDoS/etc and anything they do has the most significant impact on internet users at large. Depending on your source Cloudflare has roughly 50% of "CDN" marketshare, Fastly has something in the single digit percent range. Even Amazon CloudFront is around half that of Cloudflare.

Between Oracle and having less than 1/10th the market share that's why no one talks about Fastly. Compared to Cloudflare they're essentially irrelevant unless you're one of Oracle's enterprise customers that will deal with their sales people and tactics.

[0] - https://www.encyclopedia.com/science-and-technology/computer....
How SBF is described as acting in this case as absolutely not rational if he was actually trying to maximize his expected number of dollars, there's going to be an optimal set of trades you can make with the finite number of dollars you start out with, and it's not going to be slamming your head against a single bet that's getting less and less attractive as you get deeper into the conditional probabilities. Make a single "good" bet (like SBF claimed to have done here) if you want, but use the rest of the money for less correlated bets that at least aren't strictly conditional on the first bet going well to have any utility at all.
It’s a field that considers the thermal radiation of the sun to be a constant. Additionally, variations in the Earth’s magnetosphere and the Sun’s heliosphere can cause big variations in how much thermal radiation is received by Earth. Things your “multidisciplinary field” is completely silent on/blind to, choosing only to focus on a gas that occupies 0.04% of our atmosphere. IOW 100% hogwash.
I just wish they’d let end-users set their own search engines natively vs the current walled garden.
This is amazing! Thank you for building it.

Please fix the bug with a pair of Aces. I fell like I'm getting robbed each time it happens.

Also, here's the correct payout odds and basic strategy for "full pay" jacks or better that most people are familiar with:
https://wizardofodds.com/games/video-poker/strategy/jacks-or...

An option to reload/restart without having to hit browser refesh would be nice.

An option for basic strategy hints might also be cool but certainly not original/authentic.
It's the biggest one in lineup so that's big. Don't blame for existence of biggest lineup.
It helps to keep in mind that a person’s written or spoken English is correct if other English speakers -- some, not all -- correctly interpret the words as having the communicator’s intended meaning.

I invite you to show any evidence that anyone else has ever used "sopping to" in this sense. That's exactly my point.

In addition the "verbing with a noun" is a red-herring. Sopping has meanings related to being small or wet/absorbent. So, you could verb that noun all you wanted and succeed only in confusing your audience. That's the best thing to keep in mind: are you communicating or obfuscating.
As another reply says, there's no such thing as perfect sandboxing unfortunately, especially not with the string of CPU side channels that have been uncovered, and continue to be revealed.
an interesting paper, congrats on posting it
I am not surprised. When I worked at Qualcomm my main gripe was how closed and secretive they were about everything. The tech underneath was pretty cool, although nothing spectacular in my opinion. I don't think I ever saw anything that deserved all that secrecy, at least in the GPU.

When I switched to NVidia I was surprised to find a much more open ecosystem with good public documentation. NVidia did have some tasty secret sauce stuff that they didn't expose outright, but they did what they could to empower developers to make the best use of the underlying hardware. They strike the right balance between openness and maintaining a competitive advantage, in my view.

Just my opinion based on working in both companies for a number of years. Thankfully I no longer have a dog in that fight.
Forever it is. And never perfect it is.

The issue is if your first locking message gone how do you know it is not the reply message that is lost. For simple one just go ahead and deal with conflict later like GitHub and Dropbox etc. for database good luck. For bank.
This is getting silly on the same level like the EU demanding Netflix to pay a certain percentage to local movie funds or enforcing certain rules to platforms owned by Meta to protect "user interests" about which no user really cares about. Amazon is not a self-evident service run submissive on behalf of the citizens. It's a private company. Nobody forces to do business with amazon nor is one forced to buy anything from it. There is something called freedom of contract. Amazon could demand a 90% fee, if that's a fair price to do business / to pay is up to the business / the customer. Looks like a ton of businesses are ok with not selling at a discount elsewhere - they signed. As money, markets are amoral. Consumers choose what they choose. There is no such thing as a monopoly in a free market system. At anytime anyone can compete with Amazon or Google, the 'gatekeeper' argument does not hold at all, this is competition - there is no such thing as fairness in markets and that's good. Nobody forces you to use android where googles product can't be removed and nobody forces you to use amazon for being just amazon, the number 1 in e-commerce. If your the operator of a business and whining about 'fairness' you surely should go find a normal job. Free will and free markets is all what matters, adults are mature, nobody needs a gov organization like the FTC wanting to split up businesses. People want to use amazon, period. At the same time amazon has 0 obligations to them or anyone else. Be real and sane to yourself.
Now imagine a legal entity represented and managed by several officials.

One of them heads into town, hires a bouncer to break a guys leg using the legal entities money, letterhead, and declares that this is work on behalf of the legal entity.

What should happen to the legal entity wrt acts commisioned in its name?
I’m the author of the website. This was a fun experiment from Team Simplify (YC W21). Surprised hacker news found it because we hadn’t really launched this yet haha
> Gmail’s AI-powered defenses stop more than 99.9% of spam

How to lie with statistics :). It's not hard to block all spam if you chuck anything you're not sure about in with the false positives. It's not that Gmail is so much better, it's that they have to care less because everyone has to deal with their dominance on the market

Edit: reading further

> By February 2024, Gmail will start to require that bulk senders:

> 1. Authenticate their email

That is already the case, as evidenced by that the blog post links to an existing help article of theirs to an existing error code that I have indeed encountered as a sender. They mention having rolled this out last year, which fits the timeline on my side.

> 2. Enable easy unsubscription

That has long been required by law. Did they not factor this in yet?!

> 3. [Stay below] a clear spam rate threshold that senders must stay under to ensure Gmail recipients aren’t bombarded with unwanted messages. This is an industry first

Here we go, this is the meat. So if someone wants to annoy you, they can sign up for your newsletter and hit the spam button and everyone will stop receiving all email from your site (such as signup confirmations, password resets... you're basically out of business).

Users do not understand the spam button is meant for spam, not for anything they don't want to receive anymore, which is why it's so useful to have an unsubscribe button in the UI that actually works, but Gmail doesn't show that (see my other comment in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37773525).

"Industry first" indeed... few others have the market power to demand these sorts of things and require senders to spend (wo)manpower on manually resolving delivery issues for individual receivers. If a random ISP would start doing this, the people at that ISP would just get mad that email often does not arrive. With Google, who is going to blame Google? Clearly the site you're signing up on is broken.
Also, those unsubscribe links don't necessarily work, even in non-phishing emails.

Besides the usual bad faith (e.g., ignoring unsubscribes, or creating new categories of communications into which users are opted-in), I saw a new one just an hour ago:

The unsubscribe link, in genuine marketing email for a brand, is for some email address other than the one to which the email was sent. (In this case, I was unsubscribing some unlikely-looking earthlink address, of all things, in an uneditable form field.)
The concept of an IPv4 NAT router exists today because people in the '90s wanted to connect multiple devices without permission from their ISP. SLAAC lets you extend a network without permission using ND Proxy, whereas DHCPv6 IA_NA can only be extended using NAT.

So I think SLAAC is good because ND Proxy is less evil than NAT.
Exactly. That's why I come back to a simple set of requirements for "physical media equivalent" software:

- Transferrable interminable software license (blockchain is a decent way to implement this but by no means the only one).

- Free dedicated server binaries for both game-servers and master-servers.

- Configurable server (or masterserver) connection within the client.

Old FPS 90s games actually hit pretty close to this. Binaries were easy to copy, dedicated server binaries were free and you could connect by IP, and realistically if you uninstalled first you could give somebody else the CD key and CD and it would probably work.

The only missing piece is that if the master/auth server went down the party was over.

Yes the security issues would make it unsafe to play with strangers, but the game would exist in an archival form that is no longer a thing for newer games.
And thats with a AMD duopoly where, frankly, AMD is happy to be anticompetitive here and there.

A near future with more ARM/RISC-V is very different.
well, the brightest minds as self-described by the people doing it.

And the people doing it self select for showing the ability to work in a disingenuous self-advocating marketing field, so you might expect them to talk themselves up.

i don't think the actual brightest mind could stand working in the field for more than about 5 seconds
> I've been meaning to dive into SCaNN and DiskANN as well, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

quick TLDR on both vs HNSW?
Yahoo was massive at one point and $35B didn't seem like a lot compared to its peak valuation as well as its competitors. I can see why Jerry Yang didn't want to settle when he had seen his company at a much higher valuation in the past.

I really don't know how Yahoo managed to fumble things so badly but they were always one of the better companies as far as technology goes - this announcement today is a testament to that. Just that their business and product side was lacking
They denounce the official and sue to recover the money he spent without authorization?

What happens if someone with no affiliation of any kind with the company hires a bouncer to break a guy's leg using company letterhead and a sworn declaration that the work is commissioned on behalf of the company?
Science is very reproducibile by design, half the goal of peer review is to ensure that.

The problem is the incentive structure is not aligned with that and so reproduction is never done.

I would instead argue that consensus is the best bar we have to judge science. If the majority of author papers align that means either there is a conspiracy or some fraction of things was reproducibile.
Thank you, instant downvote, trail marker of bots.
not to be glib but you should consider working for them
I'm pretty sure that Gmail has support for the `List-Unsubscribe` mechanism [1] which provides email clients with a standardized way for a recipient to unsubscribe from the list with a button-click.

I can't quickly find any documentation about this from Google directly, confirming whether they support it, but there are a lot of 3P websites discussing it. It's kind of frustrating that Google's announcement [2] explicitly mentions one-click unsubscribes, without actually explaining (or linking to) what specific technologies they're talking about:

> Enable easy unsubscription: You shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to stop receiving unwanted messages from a particular email sender. It should take one click. So we’re requiring that large senders give Gmail recipients the ability to unsubscribe from commercial email in one click, and that they process unsubscription requests within two days. We’ve built these requirements on open standards so that once senders implement them, everyone who uses email benefits. emphasis mine)

That paragraph certainly evokes the idea of `List-Unsubscribe` to me, but it'd be nice to know for sure; and to know what if anything specifically sends need to do to be compatible with Gmail.

(Note that I don't think this removes the need for the email body to include an unsubscribe link, since a recipient can't be presumed to be using a client that supports it.)

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2369.txt [2] https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-security-authentica...
An abortion?
Romans had the technical means to integrate all the Barbarians crossing their borders, but they didn't. A lot of American Politicians who are waving Mexican Flags today would be welcoming in their new Barbarian constituency as Roman politicians.
After all Barbarians were Rome's strength, they just wanted to work jobs regular Romans didn't want to do. They are just moving for a better quality of life. Economic Migration into Rome.
> few cents per image

You are vastly, vastly, vastly over-estimating how much CAPTCHA solvers get paid.
Divan: Fast and Simple Benchmarking for Rust
They are not published by NIH. It is significant, it is not normal, but it's also not a public health emergency (compared to the benefits of vaccines).
Yes [1]

[1] https://www.aircontact.com/boeing-737-landed-in-antarctica.5...
It's not "totally without coverage":

2021-09: https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/news/rcogfsrh-responds-to-reports...

2022-02: https://www.vox.com/22935125/covid-vaccine-trials-menstrual-...

and there's a few more, but it hasn't been talked about much.

I heard the first anecdata reports right after the vaccines came available, not just women who were vaccinated, but their un-vaccinated coworkers, began to have unusually heavy, more frequent, and more painful periods.

The sum of the research I've read on it has been "yes this seems to be happening we should study it more," not that ive been trying to keep up.
The regulatory capture would be not by health insurers, but by healthcare providers, who are the final recipients of the healthcare spending anyways.
Legally being placed under the same corporate entity was a while ago. As is normal for big acquisitions, actually merging the businesses is a much slower process (allegedly part of the reasons BA's first days of operating at Heathrow Terminal 5 were a mess is that it was the first time BEA and BOAC were actually working together).

My point is just, from what I've heard the switch to Line Yahoo reflects a real integration of the businesses, not just a change of brand.
Do security updates really matter that much? May be they do depending on your usage patterns. I think anyone will be fine without most of those security updates. Also most of the slowdowns are caused by automatically updating apps which keep gaining weight with every update.