skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you have access to coca leaves, your recipe is likely to taste like generic cola.

Coca-Cola has special privileges to import raw coca leaves. They extract the cocaine (which is then sold for pharmaceutical use). The mostly-cocaine free extract is then used to flavor their cola. AFAIK Coca-Cola is the only entity in the US allowed to do this, so it is unsurprising that other cola brands taste significantly different.
Neither of your statements make me feel better about the problem that greatly affects my life.

Sure, I need to be marked as a deliquent debtor (somehow) for my property to be taken away from me.

And sure, every year, I can pay the department of revenue an appraisal fee to undo the arbitrary decision to increase my tax responsibility.

How about though, we force municipalities and departments of revenues to actually examine the assessment, reassessments, and economic impact? The idea that my home, the land it sits on, an the unconscious value associated with it is worth 40 percent more to other homebuyers is absolutely laughable

Very shortly ,my town will have population 0 with the only commercial land being the giant paper factory owned by a chinese paper congolomerate with a stranglehold over shipping products.
Actually each of those x86 CPUs probably has at least two AVX FMA units, and can issue 16xFP32 FMAs per cycle – it’s at least “64 AVX cores”! :)
Is there not internet bandwidth involved? Bandwidth for one person means less bandwidth for another, doesn’t it?
To the OP's point. If you have a reasonable emergency savings account you will not have to be looking for a job over the holidays. Also there is no one looking to hire over the Holidays anyway so might as well take a beat, regroup, and focus on enjoying your time off. I know getting laid off sucks and is a kick in the gut, I have personally been laid off a few days before Christmas one year early in my career. Having the emergency fund made it not a frantic scramble and I was able to get another job starting in January.

Also one of the reasons companies fire them before the end of the year is if company pays bonuses and you are an employee at the end of the year you get said bonus even if you aren't employed at the company when they pay them out. I think a few states have laws saying you can't get around that by firing them a few days before the end of the year but I am not sure which ones.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini's Value for Businesses
IQ measurement definitely has major flaws.. But IQ is better correlated with job performance than job interviews are.

As they say, perfect is the enemy of good. IQ tests are good. We do ourselves no favors by attempting to downplay what standardized testing tells us.
I think it's great they lay it out. I never understood the whole "we're a family" thing that so many companies, especially startups, pretend to do. Netflix is open that they want the best players they possibly can so they can achieve the highest level of greatness they can. They want people who want to put in the effort to achieve this. This may not be for everyone and that's OK. But at least they are upfront about it. Champions have different mindsets and have goals that require so much effort.
I wonder, what's the carbon impact to junk mail (advertisements), billboards, digital ads and ads in video. These all take billions of dollars to produce, print, edit, mail, send all over the world. I want to know what percentage advertising plays in emissions.
I tried in Bard just for comparison's sake and it got to 1 while still saying a different number. It's a bit strange, here:

Julia has two sisters!

Here's the reasoning:

1. *Julia's brothers have sisters*: Each of Julia's three brothers has two sisters. This means in total, her brothers have 3 brothers * 2 sisters/brother = 6 sisters.

2. *Those sisters are not additional*: However, it's important to remember that these sisters belong to Julia's brothers, not directly to Julia herself. Julia and her sisters are siblings, not counted among the sisters her brothers have.

3. *Therefore*: Julia has 2 sisters (herself and one other).

So, while Julia's brothers have a total of 6 sisters, only Julia and one other sister are Julia's own sisters.
Yeah seriously, it's pretty much standard at this point.
The author suggests her work applies to "obesity", but she is not obese. The obesity rate in the UK is 27%; the poverty rate is 17%, and I doubt the overlap is that strong (the link below supports me). Many of her examples in fact deal with people who can't afford things that aren't food, like a kitchen, or free time.

On the one hand, it's certainly true that the support for the poor is insufficient, but the price of food, being perhaps the lowest it has been in thousands of years in real terms, is probably the wrong lever to pull. Consequently, "food poverty" is a misclassification, since, while spending £7 per week on food, she probably spent more on transportation, housing and possibly clothing (which can be essential to actually getting work), and it would make more of a difference to tackle that. (She recounts severe problems getting a home!)

If she had been able to spend half as much on food, would that meaningfully improve her life? An extra £3.5 per week isn't yanking anyone out of poverty.

In fact, there is more evidence that obesity causes poverty than that poverty contributes to obesity! See:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5781054/

There are some suggestions that deficiencies in certain minerals, particularly zinc, which is most concentrated in relatively expensive foods like beef and oysters, are correlated with obesity and disordered eating. A bottle of zinc gluconate makes potatoes look like matsutake (at least at wholesale prices), but the safe and effective use of the supplements (avoiding overuse) is not well established or normally recommended.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12011-020-02060-8

The point I guess I want to make is that we should have compassion for the author, but that compassion should ignite the best faculties of our minds — the desire to really understand the problem, because that is where solutions come from.
So the possibility that the space remains ad-free doesn't exist?

Everything is a choice, we don't HAVE to accept these shitty ads everywhere.
Then they shouldn't advertise it as "unlimited" if it actually isn't. This is an absurd statement on its face.
No, the minimum wage bottom (very few people any more at the federal level, ~2.5%. In 2010 it was >10%) has seen the fastest growth vs the middle and top of the ladder.
> I see companies hire a team of experts who plan and architect for six months to a year before they are ready to deploy a new VMWare cluster.

Then those people are woefully incompetent and will be regardless of the software they're using.
Yeah, would be nice if Spotify offered API to auth artists. Otherwise anyone can create https://noise.site/taylorswift and you have to deal with giving/transferring access to the correct person

Update: ok, bad example as TS already exists but you know what I mean, impersonating artists who have not claimed their profile yet
Billboards are kind of funny to me because I wonder if they really work.

I would assume that people living in the city are so used to them that they don't even notice them.
Because some recalls require a hassle of leaving your vehicle somewhere for some time.
Considering Google was caught faking stuff during the recent Gemini introduction, I'll take this with a big grain of salt, doubly so considering they don't have a way for people to try it out.
> I've never met

Quite.
This is all being superseded by IIJA anyway. A lot of fiber is going to go in the ground.
> The IRA is a good example of how to deal with terrorism. You don't compromise

I'm Irish. That's not an accurate description. There very much was a compromise, on all sides. One that both sides in the current conflict could learn from.
This argument is too deeply rotted with bias to have value. This is going to slow the adoption of broadband and you’re happy because the guy you dislike might be harmed as a consequence.

You should reflect on this behavior, because you’re embodying everything you criticize this supposed “other side” of being.
I think they're afraid of Temu.

You won't find that in the reporting, but it's begun materially impacting Etsy, and other large marketplaces like Amazon and Wayfair.

If you do a couple Google searches during the US evening hours for the kinds of products people often buy on Etsy, you may notice Temu shopping ads in all the top slots, outranking and outspending every US marketplace including Amazon and Etsy which would typically hold those first-page above-the-fold spots in the past.

Late this summer, the places Etsy sellers congregate to chat started getting widespread reports of sales dropping off a cliff, to levels not seen in years, for new and veteran sellers alike. The plummet in Etsy traffic coincided with Temu beginning to replace Etsy in Google Shopping ads at the top of Google searches.
Hm I also cancelled about a month ago, after more than 10 years. I noticed there was good quality content on YouTube I was watching more.

I think the tipping point was that I got sucked into quite a few low quality crime documentaries, which were not doing anything for me, and probably hurting.

The Madoff one was actually good, but there were 10 others that in retrospect I regret watching.

Even Tiger King was like that. It's more colorful, but ultimately a waste of time ... If you look into it, basically all the characters there are very bad people (i.e. they abuse both animals and people).

IMO it's kinda poisonous to watch too much of that stuff. To take it lightly and brush off other people's misfortunes as entertainment.
From the articles in relevant media, I gather they have got themselves a very good attorney. There's a possibility Newag might be in hot water, because sabotaging trains like this smells of criminal offense. Which is why they huff, puff, and try to employ scare tactics.
You seem to be speaking about Big Tech as though they were the ones who are buying physical advertisements, rather than selling them. I think Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. mostly place digital ads for businesses, which would not be affected by a ban on physical ads in cities. The parties affected by a ban on physical ads like billboards in large cities would mostly be the large companies who buy them. Small businesses (a bakery, a bookstore, a barbershop) aren't buying outdoor advertising at the rate that large companies are, and so if anything they'd be on a more level playing field.
> there isn’t a first position in the string

This isn’t necessarily true if you think of positions as where a vertical-bar cursor would be, that is, between characters. In

"|"

where the double quotes delimit an empty string, the vertical bar (intended to represent the cursor here) has a position between those delimiters.
hasn't this already been in fedora for almost a year?
The only way you can act is with your money. If you disagree, cancel your Netflix account and torrent their content.
Interest rates probably need to go down a decent amount before that happens. It doesn't sound like the first cuts are likely to happen for at least another six months or so, if that. And even then it won't be a major rate cut.
I’ve always found the outrage on HN over this somewhat inconsistent. Lots and lots of people here are critical of the arms industry and were largely supportive of Google employees pressuring the company into dropping US defense contracts, but when it’s Elon who doesn’t want his satellite internet service to be weaponized he’s suddenly the bad guy? Personally I think Elon (and the general HN consensus against the defense industry) is naively pacifistic, but the double standard is noteworthy.

For what it’s worth, SpaceX is also launching a completely separate Starlink constellation, known as Starshield, for the US Space Force. So if the government wants to allow our allies to use a weaponized Starlink, they can share their own.
> can’t you already do this today with GCP and AWS and more generally a wealth of Docker images and Kub/Knative?

not really.. as soon as you need cloud resources that are not in your k8s cluster, you end up with the cloud in your development loop.

> what about the package ecosystem?

wing has interoperability with the npm ecosystem, so basically any node package can be used quite easily from winglang code.

on the infra side, there’s interoperability with the CDK for terraform ecosystem.
There's currently no standard because there's no one objective best way of handling prompt syntax.

There's some libraries which use the OpenAI API syntax as a higher-level abstraction, but for the lower-level precompiled binaries used in in this post that's too much.
IDK, I find the web interface pretty easy to use - you can whitelist stuff you need to use over and over again, and disable the whole thing if you encounter something one off with a single click.
You think you are harmed but if you recognized the alternative you wouldn’t be saying that. Countries with higher protections for employees have WAY lower salaries for everyone.
Show HN: Avoid Event conflicts by syncing your Google Calendars [open-source]
Hello everyone,

I recently found myself having conflicting events between my personal and professional google calendars, which required rescheduling and was a pain in the arse on top of being a liability for future events.

After not being happy with the solutions I found, I decided to build it myself and make it open-source. It keeps on personal data of yours in the database, only the event id required to connect back the dots.

It's pretty simple:
1. Connect your google accounts
2. Pick the calendars to sync together
3. You will see "Blocker" events appearing

It's in its first version, feedback is appreciated and I'm ready to add extra functionalities depending on what the users want.

Cheers!
We were on a small island off the coast of Mexico a few weeks ago and they have a program where buildings can make their external wall/walls available for local artists to pitch and paint on. It made the island have a really nice feel and brightened the streets considerably. Much nicer than a soap or movie ad.
Yes I thought this too. Perhaps because it mirrored my experience of similar situations. I glad to see a comment like yours because it could mean we’re starting to recognise this condition in adult women a little more than we have been over the last few decades. That gives me hope! Not least because i have seen the horrible impact it can have if left untreated.
It's the main building block of any broader solution. You need to have large, pro-worker organizations in play in order to fight for large scale change, whether that's in a figurative sense in the courts and legislature, or in a literal sense, in the streets of Krakow or Barcelona.
Yes, or use a ZK rollup between the publisher and the client to collect transactions off-chain and then settle when it reaches an appropriate amount.

Or even better, have a ZK rollup between each client and a single intermediary, who manages ZK rollups with all publishers. Then you, as a client, don't have to worry about large amounts being trapped in escrow, and publisher payouts happen more regularly.

We could call it "Mastercard"
Okay, so I'll ask questions to understand your point :

- is starlink the only company that lost its subsidy?

- do you think starlink goals of serving 650 000 people 100/20 by 2025 are reachable? (it means 23 000 starlink satellites available, so basically 1000 launches with current tech, minus those who already reached space).

- do you think the US is so corrupt, public servants implement that kind of stuff without any leak? I remember when plans to remove net neutrality were in construction circa 2018, those were 'leaked' and fsf, Mozilla, and big tech had enough time to lobby against the new plans before it was even out.
I understand that the agencies directors are under the power of the current administration, but I doubt 100% of people working at the FCC are the same (it's irrealist).
I miss my Pebble :( I still have it, but I blame Apple and normiesl consumers for the death of the Pebble.

Consumers bought into Apple's shiny power hungry oled Apple Watch and yet they still complain about battery life to this day. Do you really need slick animations on your watch? Consumers will still buy what is shiny and cool looking over what actually works.

And don't even get me started on WearOS, Google's sorry excuse is such a disappointment, I swear I'd have to actually try if I wanted make as many bad UX & performance sucking decisions as they did.
Can you summarize your point?
>Some people are indeed much better.

At what? I consider myself a quick thinker and generally high IQ. But my sister has a way of connecting with children that I will never be able to replicate.

So who is "much better"? And at what?
I do like these. I need them as kindling to start a fire.
Here's a dissenting opinion from FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington:

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A3.pdf

> What good is an agreement to build out service by 2025 if the FCC can, on a whim, hold you to it in 2022 instead? In 2022, many RDOF (the award in question) recipients had deployed no service at any speed to any location at
all, and they had no obligation to do so. By contrast, Starlink had half a million subscribers in June 2022
(and about two million in September 2023).

And this scathing conclusion:

> I was disappointed by this wrongheaded decision when it was first announced, but the majority today lays bare just how thoroughly and lawlessly arbitrary it was. If this is what passes for due process and the rule of law at the FCC, then this agency ought not to be trusted with the adjudicatory powers Congress has granted it and the deference that the courts have given it. -- FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington
The economy is soul-sucking. Which, I suppose it's mostly been that way, we're just more open now.

My friends who have worked with NGOs and nonprofits have all complained that they actually have the worst work-life balance; imagine your middle manager doing normal stereotypical office gaslighting about working longer, harder, not getting commensurate pay etc., but instead it's also tinged with morality and "do it because our mission is so important"
If someone else is leaking a credible ID/DNA combo, it doesn't matter whether or not I did 23andMe.
This option was almost certainly a holdover from the bad old 32-bit x86 days, when disabling frame pointers gave you a seventh valuable general-purpose register. It's no longer beneficial on x86_64 -- even with rbp locked down, you still have fourteen registers there.
I'm not necessarily happy with the outcome here but the FCC never compared their current generation vehicle launch record to anyone else's. They're saying SpaceX planned to launch 12,000-42,000 satellites within a certain timeline using new vehicles to keep up with demand but are currently at ~5,500 with Starship's start not going as smoothly as SpaceX planned for. Starship (or a Starship class vehicle) will get there eventually, almost certainly IMO, but the point here is it is uncertain if it'll get there in time to meet the obligations (part of which is timing) Starlink has made.
Show HN: Flowpipe – cloud scripting using HCL
Flowpipe [1] is a new open source [2] cloud scripting engine from Turbot [3]. Some of you may already use Steampipe [4], our open-source [5] tool to live query cloud APIs.

We believe DevOps teams need an easier way to orchestrate their cloud, build workflows and respond to events. But - because it's DevOps - that must be in code. In Flowpipe, pipelines are written in HCL and use simple primitives for HTTP requests, executing containers, running Lambda-compatible functions, querying databases like Steampipe and more. We have also published a large ecosystem of open source Flowpipe Mods [6].

Our introduction blog post gives a clear overview and demo [7], hopefully :-)

Please let us know what you think!

1 - https://flowpipe.io
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4 - https://steampipe.io
5 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe
6 - https://hub.flowpipe.io
7 - https://flowpipe.io/blog/introducing-flowpipe
Blood sacrifice to drive up stock prices, that hopefully stay high into the new year, that can pay the taxes on last years gains.
Mutual Admiration Societies
The market is on the upswing. My own company opened up a ton of roles as well (High paying, FAANG adjacent). A few thousand engineers at Netflix or Etsy is irelevent compared to the the broader US Economy.
Not just your attention.

Advertising is designed to make the person you are envy the person you could be if you bought their product. That is, it attempts to steal your satisfaction, and then offers to sell it back to you.

Quoting from memory, and I don't remember who I'm quoting, so I can't give credit where due. I didn't originate the thought, or even the wording. But it has stuck with me, because it explains what so much of advertising does.
I know. There's a gap between common language and technical definitions. Most people use "inflation" to baseline current prices against recent memory (ie cumulative change over multiple years).

I opt against the quixotic battle for language, people typically skim such pedantry.

Also... one could argue the YoY definition is "wrong" if consumers are thinking and planning based on a longer time period. Why report YoY instead of a rolling 2 years? 5? Or perhaps different windows for specific items within the basket?
In my parents not-so-rural any longer home (although it was when I was a kid), despite being located less than a mile from a 100K+ population community, they still cannot get more than 1.5 Mbps and DSL is the only wired option available to them. They have an AT&T hotspot card that they use, but it gets throttled (dramatically) after 30GB of data usage, and itself has to be positioned in very specific areas of their house in order to get 1 or 2 bars to eke out a 10Mbps connection speed.

It's nice that your parents have a co-op that is actively rolling out such infrastructure. That's not the rule though, and the U.S. has massive swaths of low density population areas with substandard internet speeds.
That argument is a red herring. The RDOF program is concentrated in specific geographic areas. Starlink onboarding subscribers in other areas doesn't really have a bearing on this program if they can't prove they can extend that to the areas in scope and hit the service levels they bid at. It might even hurt their argument if performance degrades as they focus on areas outside the RDOF locations.

More traditional offerings have a much easier time demonstrating they can do that, even if they haven't started physically building yet. It's very easy for them to say x amount of fiber capacity at this location will meet the program specs, and this is how fast we can install it.
They might just be timing the release for a big enough bump in the stock.
My city had a lot of Etsy marketplace events and I'll pretty much only buy online from people who I've seen in person at one of those events. Even then, some tables are a little... suspect. I also follow a bunch I like on Instagram and see regular updates of what they're doing which gives a lot more trust. Kinda sad it takes all that these days. Side note about the market places: After the last one I went to, one of the creators posted about how they sold around $900 but the table cost $500. Looking back at how some tables were being passed over by everyone, or selling low-value items, it's brutal. I really wonder how many broke even. It must be a sea of crushed dreams out there.
It's not at all strange to me that Dropbox deployed this dark pattern. What really stood out to me is that, this post was made by the CTO of Amazon.

> did I agree to this somewhere?

The CTO of Amazon uses Dropbox?!