skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. The fundamental idea of a company causes this behavior. They, the company, actually doesn't have a choice.

You have to turn a profit and the only way to achieve that is exploitation. You have to take labor and pay less than it's worth and pocket the difference. There's no way around it.

You might say "well you can be less exploitative" - but not really. Because you ALSO have to thrive in your market. Even if you are an angel sent from God to save corporate America, your competition isn't. They lie, they cheat, they steal. If you don't you're a sucker, and it's only a matter of time until your company goes under.

Because consumers will choose the cheaper option almost every time. And they don't actually know much about the company, they only know advertising. And they don't know much about the product either, because products are complex. Even domain-specific products, like, say, medical equipment - the buyers don't know shit. They know what the product should do, but do they know the materials are reliable? Do they know the power system is reliable? Do they know the software is written in a memory-safe manor? No, they don't.

So you lie (advertise). And you steal (pay your employees a low wage). And you cheat (use capital to undercut competitors, sometimes selling at a loss in new markets). And if you say no, then you will be replaced by someone who does. Nobody has any choice in this system.
"Mom, I want the Dark Army from Mr. Robot."

"We have the Dark Army at home."

The Dark Army at home:
So Firefox had spyware all this time in their iOS and Android apps? Not a surprise here despite them being 80% dependent on Google's money, they could not help introduce spyware in their browser and preach 'privacy-first'.

They were never a 'privacy-first browser' after taking Google's money and refusing to remove their dependence from them.
In 1966, we had one in the Stuyvesant HS computer room, along with an IBM 1130 system that ran Fortran 4. I got good at the Programma, it was quite useful. But I don’t recall 240 steps; I recall less than 100. Indeed, the much more advanced HP 9100 circa 1968, with CRT, rpn, and 10-digit accuracy, had only 196.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41355021
I have a few IKEA metallic tables, for which I do not see any reason why they would not outlast me.

Even the IKEA swivel chair on which I sit all day in front of a computer is about ten years old and it is still good enough. It was however one of their more expensive models.

When my mother was alive, she has also used an IKEA armchair for about a decade and she was very satisfied with it.
You've set some healthy boundaries when it comes to work-life balance, which is great!
> The author cherry picks the SV area which is not indicative of the country as a whole.

The whole country is SV now, plus or minus a few percentage points.

Even in nowheresville-Michigan, any house near any job costs about 4 to 5 times what it did 15 years ago. We even have cities that have lost total population and the prices still skyrocketed. Even if you scope it to just say, a specific small town -- a house that cost $80k in 2012, that exact same house now costs $360k in 2024, and wages did not rise 400% to compensate.

Tech folks sit in SV with a $200k/yr income and think, "ah, see, Michigan is so affordable". But the people here are holding Masters Degrees and student debt and make $45k/yr, $360k is every bit as out of reach to them, as a $1.5 million house is to you in SV.

Sure, not every place is SV from a literal perspective. But from a relative percent basis, nearly every city in every state in the US is now experiencing their own SV-like housing price explosion (regardless of whether their total population has grown or shrank, regardless of whether they have made it difficult to develop, or have been very open to new development, as most of Michigan has always been).
Just 30%? Astonishing. I'd have imagine it was well over 90%.

I suppose that it doesn't have the kind of natural-monopoly thing that Amazon and Google have. There's room for more than one player.

Still, is there any domain in which 70% of proof-of-concepts keep going? There are so many reasons that even valid projects fail. We're still trying to decide if there's any "there" there in generative AI.

Clearly that's something. But it's also clear that there's an awful lot of "ChatGPT for [X]" projects that are destined to just suck, many of which are redundant with each other.
It's much harder to fine companies that break the law if they make up a substantial part of your economy. On the other hand, big US companies don't have as much lobby power in the EU, so the EU is "free" to fine them.
> Telegram often gets mentioned for being the only platform where states do not have easy access to user information or the ability to censor certain messages/content.

By who?

Simplex especially or even Signal are far better.
I wish it had settings to easily replace deepgram with a self hosted whisper or equivalent tech.
Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
The problem with Mozzilla is that they don’t just fund development, they have control of it and they receive almost all funding from a direct competitor with a horrible privacy record.

I trust FSF, Debian, Linux Foundation, etc. not to violate my privacy. Clearly the same cannot be said for Mozilla.
Even if that’s true (I’m not convinced it’s unambiguous), my points still stand: Are undiscerning readers the kind of subscribers you really want? Perhaps so if you are, as per my last paragraph, the kind of person concerned with profit over quality. If you are, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that you don’t see removing stuff as obvious and your mind only thinks of adding more junk.
Though I've never heard of there being a stigma for treating low T, I agree that there shouldn't be. But that's not the point. Dwayne Johnson isn't taking anabolics to treat low T levels. You've built a straw-man by conflating the uses. Steroid abuse can cause long term damage.
Lots of ways to deal with that in theory. You could have the windmill store the energy in a spring and release it in a more powerful burst when it reaches a certain level. Another way would just be gearing it waaay down so the windmill can spin with very little force and the strandbeest just moves very very slowly.
Times are changing fast. UX on Apple products is now heading in a direction that Steve Jobs totally had no ideas/opinions about.
As Above, So Below.

I've always been interested in occultism, philosophy and history; this movie combined all three, and was just so good, in my opinion. I initially watched it twice by myself, and then watched it with a friend, and again with another friend.
Nope, it's the healthcare service providers. What do you mean by "shady" how do I recognize them? The blood test lab where local legit doctor sends blood is shady?

> careful when buying stuff online

I know what I'm doing online. You sound like communication from most of retail banks.
That is not really true. Most regulators take what the us regulator is doing and copy paste with minor changes, or they have their own deranged nimbys pushing their own version of stupid (looking at you Germany). When you look at asia the problems are much less on the cost side but they are still doing the same stupid crap buying the same expensive western designs, they just implement co struction dramatically better. China specifically has other problems stemming from government co trol so its a tough market to pin blame to one specific group of things.
Anime Is Having a Modern Video Game Boom, Now Comes the Hard Part
Once they’re using the product they can see their actual usage and cost metering. So they can either extrapolate that to larger scale or test it at scale for a short time to see hourly/daily cost and then extrapolate for the month or year.

In other words it’s not much of a burden and they get much more reliable information.
There are only two ways for a city to relieve a housing shortage: either build more housing or make the city less desirable to live in. SF has decided that the first is impossible, so they're going with the second.
This doesn't end up being totally true right? Americans have MASSIVELY more labor protections than Vietnamese people but we're more productive. I don't like the assumption we can't ever improve anything for anyone because it reduces competitiveness. It's unproductive and also appears to be ahistorical when we look at other changes to labor practices over time
Or, IIRC, if the destination country has privacy protections that are at least as strict as those in the EU, which the US legal regime for foreign intelligence definitely doesn’t provide (a non-US-citizen wouldn’t even have standing to sue wrt their personal data).
Sure, but this is one of the things people are talking about when they worry a regulation might make companies less competitive. Online 24/7 is table stakes for any company that aspires to have a global presence - nobody in Europe or the US would buy Atlassian products if they were only guaranteed to be available during business hours in Sydney. If Australia successfully shifted the culture on this, Australian software would struggle heavily to find success on the global markets.
The first question is why. Can you not use CL repls instead of elisp repls?
The difference is who gets harmed.

For solar and wind the general public generally can’t be affected by any accidents so the deaths are general work place hazards coming from working aloft with heavy equipment.

For nuclear power the public is on the hook for cleanup fees from hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars and the large scale accidents we have seen caused hundreds of thousands to get evacuated.

It is not even comparable. If I chose to not work in the solar and wind industry my chance of harm is as near zero as it gets. Meanwhile about all consequences from nuclear power afflicts the general public. Both in terms of costs, injuries and life changing evacuations.
'clamoring' No, they're most certainly not.

And I'm more than willing to believe the legal difficulties of the foundation would be a nightmare, but would an EU sponsored fork of some kind be such a terrible idea? A move of headquarters to a suitable city and so on.

Remove the tracking, maybe even a few mandates to offer it up in certain settings that receive EU funding already.

An interesting idea even if sadly unlikely.
It’s really disappointing that they even had this, and is a perfect example of Mozilla selling out users to Google, as if it weren’t obvious before.

Really no reason to use Firefox over Chromium or Safari as far as I can see.

I’ve had good luck with Orion on mobile.
IBM to shut China R&D team, affecting less than 1k staff
"why don't you use a fancy electronic tuner for this, and just have a table to look up the frequencies for each string, and tune it that way?"

"..."

There just aren't tuners fancy enough IMO. Make one with a high resolution spectrogram, I think the piano tuner person would actually appreciate that. So much subtle detail in a spectrogram.

edit: there's a discussion below the essay on some just such very fancy tuners.
Sadly they disable the Compose feature when using your own Claude key
Safari can have the search bar moved to the bottom. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/change-the-layout-iph...
Wait, can an employer fire you even if you didn't make a fault? What country are you in?
> one thing that I was completely unsure about was how to add tests for this fix.

Similar to blaming the file for maintainers, the diff of those commits can direct you to their tests. The full patches that those commits belong to can also be useful for finding undocumented habits that have lead to approval.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/30998048
I'm not going to address your comment at the object level; I'm just going to point out that you've missed the point of my comment entirely. My comment is descriptive (the internet is going to become nationally siloed) not normative (a moral judgement on the conditions that are leading to this state of affairs).
Yes, but the opposite is not true.
Thanks. What makes you say it would be interesting? I like to understand what different people find useful in it.
Tolstoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
I know EU has stronger data privacy laws. I just wonder if they're really all that upset about American companies breaking them. They get to use the new tech and fine the companies that bring that tech to them. It's a win-win.
Americans do not care about freight rail and they do absolutely despise it. You can go ask Americans (hint: I live here).

There are cultural issues here as well as economic ones. You're not viewed as doing something important or something innovative, and I'm sure that can discourage you from doing it right. And if you do it right - who cares? The expectation is to do it wrong.
Cognizant alleges Infosys swiped its trade secrets
China's Property Rescue Plan Isn't Working
The actual title of the article:

Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency

Please stop editorializing news titles to fit your agenda.
Only if you can show that no normal language needs it.
That’s the point, nobody should expect them to.
Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686,400 in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization
(2024) Question: Is it "true" that company's may use a link-shortener-service and within a link they send you, hiding their ruling that you have automatically accepted their tracking-"cookie-policy" (for example in agreeing their TOS before)?

Sry, non native english speaker... regards
Where? Genuinely curiuos, I've been over my vehicle and haven't seen one. It's a Ford Mach E, so knowing how to isolate the HV system if I must would be nice.

The owner's manual version includes removing the frunk, which is a lot of work.
Either you didn't understand the design, or this is not genuine criticism.

Every server that user connects to of course knows IP address of the user, be it Tor relay, VPN provider, Nym node, or SimpleX relay - the user chooses which server to trust.

Neither of the approaches guarantees transport anonymity.

Recently added private message routing protects IP addresses of the users from the destination servers: https://simplex.chat/blog/20240604-simplex-chat-v5.8-private... , which was #1 point of criticism that IP addresses are not protected by default.
San Francisco’s GDP is at worst flat through 2022 [1]. (San Jose is about the same, indicating regional versus policy trends [2].)

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPALL06075

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1jLFC
If it is then Europe doesn't seem too upset about it. How could they be when it pays them so well?
API rounds are generally pretty innocuous except for some minor fire danger, same with tracers in general. Possible to get burned if someone insists on holding it when it’s going off, I guess.

Raufoss/Mk211 50BMG should be more dangerous, but that is pretty modern stuff.

Exploding sniper rounds yeah could be a danger, but I haven’t found much concrete info on them. Being on the eastern front (or in Finland) though, plenty of really nasty stuff mixed in around them probably.

Edit: found something! And damn that does look downright nasty/awesome.
[https://forum.cartridgecollectors.org/t/7-62-x-54r-explosive...]
The thing that made a global internet possible is that it was understood that sending bits over a wire is different from shipping physical goods. The customs regime for physical goods is prohibitively expensive for bits.

I'm not interested in arguing if eliminating free transit of data is a good idea or not; I'm just pointing out the inevitable consequence of the current trends.
Skiddies are renowned for their rational thoughts and actions.
It varies. IKEA sells amazing things and utter rubbish at the same time. I don't know if they use different processes to create new items, because sometimes the item is just fantastic and cheap, and sometimes it's just crap, like nobody even tried to test it before they put it into mass production.
https://xkcd.com/951/

Also, if you micro-optimize and that becomes your whole focus and ability to focus, your business is unable to innovate aka traverse the economic landscape and find new rich gradients and sources of "economic food", making you a dinosaur in a pit, doomed to eternally cannibalize on what other creatures descend into the pit and highly dependent on the pit not closing up for good.
Cannot be proven, physically. Mathematical truths prove themselves with their application to physical motion, e.g. Fourier Transformation, such extension of logical principles unto physical body sensations in contact with an external world is great evidence for myself that mathematical reasoning self-reliance in its ordering is great.
It's an interesting point of flex here: Your compiler doesn't have to be feature complete, it just has to be able to build a more feature complete binary.
I'm just pointing out how implausible the claim is that the vast majority of Americans are far worse off than Spaniards. Of course there's more to life than money and GDP/capita is an imperfect measure, but the median American leads a very comfortable life.
Now being a US Navy submariner is like living in a dystopian hellscape.

Just a highly regulated one.

:)

(your real wages per hour of work are far lower than being on a surface ship given the amount of work that has to be done)
Those things are all pretty easily Googleable for anyone interested. Honestly, I would expect most people in the US to be able to answer most of those questions with reasonable accuracy without Googling.

The candies are to offset the downsides currently preventing people from moving there. Given its Appalachia, those downsides are probably a) bad, poorly maintained infrastructure, b) lack of jobs, c) lack of proximity to anything, and d) the surrounding poverty.

A lot of Appalachia struggles because the towns were built around a profitable industry, which then died. The town still has all that infra, but now has none of the tax base to pay for it.

They’re probably fine with someone who wants to build a McMansion they never leave, as long as they pay their tax bill and buy groceries in town to support local jobs. They honestly mostly need money. Appalachia is well known for their sense of community already, but also for their poverty.
Tor was invented within the US military and was sponsored by the state department.
There's no point in splitting hairs, I'm not talking about somebody walking on the red light or spitting on the pavement once during the protest. We witnessed plenty "mostly peaceful" protests that resulted in billions of damage and people dying, and literally everybody who paid any attention at all for the last 10 years knows what I am talking about. Pretending like it's impossible to see whether there's a massive violent riot or a "first sign" is extremely disingenuous - everybody can see it, because in real violent riots it's massive and widespread. It's just some people prefer to pretend it's impossible to see for ideological reasons to provide plausible deniability because people happening to be violent are ideologically aligned with them. It's very possible to hold a peaceful protest - don't set a courthouse (or even better, any house or anything at all) on fire, don't smash store windows, don't break windshields of the cars, don't burn the cars, don't loot stores, don't beat up people, don't hit them with bike locks, skateboards, or any other implements, don't bear-spray them, obviously don't beat up the police, and so on, and so forth. It's the advice that everybody should know by the time they join elementary school. It's not some kind of quantum theory level complexity. Everybody knows it.
> catch some US criminal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_black_sites
A small fraction of the time, private equity is brought in to make an ailing, breakeven business profitable.

Much more often, it's to bite off limbs until it dies, feasting on cashflow and assets.

And then the third portion of the time, the business is generating reliable, modest long-term returns, a "blue-chip" company. Private equity doubles down on future growth that is not projected, gets the company into debt to the owners, makes it worthless, compensate themselves in stock with bank leverage, issues themselves further priority stock, files bankruptcy to get rid of the pensions, and on, and on, and on with various tricks to sack whatever assets the have on their books and whatever cashflow was generating a reliable 5% return before private equity got involved.
It's my impression that big US companies can do pretty much whatever they want in a number of European countries. Just look at Ireland for example.
If you include Coppicing for charcoal and building wood, along with modern knowledge, it should be possible to go straight to wind power and rush solar.
> which is insane

It's completely sane from the EU's point of view. Why would they submit their citizens to forceful government eavesdrop?

I do agree it's insane. But the insanity is not on the GDPR.
Why is there basically zero info on the GitHub readme?
IKEA uses acacia for some of their outdoor furniture. From the comfort of my Poäng-chair from the late 80ies I disagree strongly with the sentiment that IKEA furniture scratches easily.
Marc Andreesen (author of the discussed manifesto and also creator of Mosaic) seems to be someone capable of great intelligence but blinded by the bubble in which he now lives. He, like many other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, don’t bother convincing those who are skeptical of the powerful that the technology they produce will benefit society. This is just preaching to the choir, it seems.

I want to like this, but I believe this manifesto does more harm than good by being so blind to the arguments of those who oppose it
Hating on P&V has become a meme. I thought the translations were competent and enjoyable. There is far, far worse out there. I read one "modernized" version of the Gambler that was so butchered it was like reading a YA novel.
Ask HN: Does anyone use this for marketing on Reddit?
I recently discovered a website called replyhub.co that automates marketing on Reddit. Since I have potential customers on Reddit, I am considering trying it out. Has anyone else used this platform before? What are your thoughts on it?
Speaking of mobile Firefox, they're pursuing this abomination of a UI update for Android too: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/updates-to-androi...
I don't necessarily disagree. But I am extremely wary of people who have a "government bad" mentality. It's very easy for such people to slip into outright science denial. And then suddenly the Earth is flat, covid was planned, climate change isn't real, and 5G controls your mind.

Yes, things can have a political motive. But you ALSO have political motives, you just don't know it. For example the climate change denial has a very real political motive - to protect the oil and gas industry. Oil and gas have been denying climate since the 60s, and our government backed them because of political will.

Masking, during the pandemic, saved lives. This is not up for debate. Whether it's a good idea now is another question all together.
Only three years? I have many clients who want 7-10 years of historical data at the tap of a button... which they rarely if ever use :)
I'm not sure why I would hate rail cargo transportation. It's pretty invisible for the most part and beats having a lot more trucks on the roads.
Purely guessing: abstracting a browser name is yet another abstraction layer. A later that is not needed by chromium. Maintainers of chromium primarily care about maintainability of chromium, not other forks.
This is basically the same conclusion I’ve come to, after 18ish months of almost daily use.
Yes it is, why would anyone use it otherwise?
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