skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Google cache was so useful when it was an easy click alternative to the main link. Especially with all the dynamic changes or dead links that happened. The loss of useful features imo helped reduce my reliance on Google search.
Gusto is still pre-revenue?
You’re right that the problems increased. Although, I needed a phone line tied up for as long as I was online. I used to DDOS myself.
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> if the consent dialogs were an actual standard. if sites could describe a list of what they needed consent for and the browser supplied the actual dialog

There is a standard for this called P3P, which was implemented by Netscape, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge before eventually dropping support for it. But there was nothing requiring website owners to use it. Various data protection regulations across the world require them to obtain consent for collecting data, but they are not required to recognise consent or non-consent expressed via P3P settings.

These standards will only get used if the website owners are forced to use them, either by regulators or by monopolistic/oligopolistic market forces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
I just did a few calcs for here in South Africa, and the prices you mentioned are about 2.1x as much than what it costs to get an UberX/Go trip here. Or the same price as what I'd pay for a "luxury" Uber Black ride.

This is just taxis doing what taxis always eventually do. This whole gimmick of "we can't afford to live at these rates" is just whining because they don't like their earnings at the end of the day. I'm all for a fair price that takes into account all the costs involved and a fair margin ontop so it's a livable and respectful wage. But what Taxis eventually do is not it, they want a certain lifestyle and salary that they've been used to before ride-shares came about, and they'll eventually get violent (like they did here in SA) till they get it. Fun story, I was in an Uber here once and got chased-down by an angry taxi driver when they saw me being picked up by an Uber driver from a "protected" tourist spot.
I scanned the first article.

It's difficult to parse, because it says that experience and occupational choice does pay a significant role in the gap. But then editorializes and claims that less experience and occupational choice are due to discriminatory issues in the broader culture.

Culture war issues like this are unfalsifiable in either direction and largely reflect the political persuasion of the person making the argument than anything quantifiable.

Here's another example from the American Progress article:

> Women of color disproportionately work in jobs within the service, care, and domestic work sectors—jobs with historically low pay.

This is an empirically verifiable claim.

> This is due to occupational segregation, which is the funneling of women and men into different jobs based on gender and racial norms and expectations

This is an unfalsifiable political claim. Some unknown force, by some unknown mechanism, forces people to make certain choices.
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Where's the demand for it? What's the use case that would make me want one over a traditional LCD or OLED-based device?

What benefit do I get from turning off the backlight? Battery life? Why do I need that when batteries are so cheap/abundant?

It's far easier to just toss in a big battery. For example, the Odin 2 is a handheld gaming device where you can get about 8 hours of battery life playing extremely demanding emulated games like PS2 and GameCube, or play longer than you can stay awake with older games like Super Nintendo or Game Boy Advance.

Or look at your typical PC or Mac laptop, these devices are going the entire workday with the backlight on with no problem.

And of course you'd get even more run time with an external portable battery.

These devices are clever but just make less and less sense over time as our more prevalent technology improves.

Plus, we have more panel choices in the traditional space than ever. Mini-LED devices are fantastic in bright sunlight because the backlight is just so powerful. OLED is incredible for contrast and great color quality and accuracy.

What is transreflexive offering over those solutions?
I guess the author, a historian, writes about ancient Indian mathematical contributions (a science of which he has no expertise presumably). These historical references I have learnt in various mathematical texts (the story of Fibonacci and al khwarizmi) - the journey across multiple centuries, of these innovations made by Aryabhata or Brahmagupta.

As an Indian, and as a math aficionado (and degree holder) - I wonder, that was about 1500 years ago. In that era, a discovery (as you can read it) took 500 years to move from Arabia to Europe, thanks to Fibonacci's writing. Contrast it to today's instant dissemination of information and breakthroughs. Yes those were the glory days of Indian civilization. We have a Ramanujan every 100 years in India. Breakthrough ideas (earthshaking ones like the concept of 0) emerging out of India are few and far between. Around 1000 years ago, the fountain of (world-changing) creativity and ideas seems to have dried up, as far as India is concerned. Maybe it was the invaders , easy to blame everything on outsiders, though - what is India today was 600 or 400 odd kingdoms, frequently warring each other - so turmoil was always there. And if you were a reclusive monk in a forest with a bunch of students, no Brit or Mughal dude was stopping you from innovating. So, the big question is - can we explain why genius ideas stopped (without blaming British, or Mughals etc) - because thanks to Indian's instincts, the first step is to blame the Brits/Mughals , so problem solved, proved, ostrich is happy in the sand.

I can only indulge in thought exercises , like : Aryabhata and Brahmagupta didn't have computers, didn't even have pencil and paper. They just sat there and thought. For months, or years. Or maybe they were walking. And gazed at the stars and observed and observed. And most likely, and importantly debated orally : endlessly with their teachers (in a monastery type place class sizes were small), peers- I believe this was a time in India's cultural history when debating, and disagreeing were positive things. In modern India, intellectualism has taken a back seat. To disagree is to be unpatriotic even. (Nalanda University comes to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda_mahavihara - not its modernized recreation which is likely going to be hardly attempting to break the mold). WhatsApp - the destroyer of brain cells by atrophy , has a grip on every mind.

We read about the great Greek debates. We see videos of Tibetan buddhist monks practice debating in a monastery. Surely this kind of debating, face-to-face is missing in today's world (without getting angry) - this is the equivalent of the modern cafe in Paris or Vienna, with Godel and co. debating . This debating society , was Nalanda back a thousand years until invaders burnt every manuscript down and slaughtered every monk almost - except the manuscripts the Chinese monks took back to the Emperor in China - they are the only written records of life that remain, that and some arabic ones.

Yet I hope new lotuses will bloom from India - we can never predict where the next genius or breakthrough idea will emerge from - why not Africa?
Semi-skilled means knowing a framework to some degree, but struggling with the language the framework is written in. Nothing to do with C++ or embedded -- I clearly contrasted Laravel et al. with PHP, and Goravel with Go.

Anyone who prefers Laravel or any other framework can use it. I wrote that neither PHP nor Go need a framework because they have everything necessary to implement web applications.

If you don't want to get laid off because everyone and their mother, and now LLMs, can copy-paste Laravel sample code for $15/hr (see Upwork, for example) improve your skills. If you want to have more opportunities in the programming job market expand beyond frameworks and learn the underlying languages and libraries.
That's my blog post -- thanks for the link.

The Lobsters discussion was very interesting. Some people in there were extremely knowledgeable, but also very confrontational. Coming straight in going "that's all wrong!" is not a productive way to start a discussion IMHO.

I didn't get any very firm conclusions from it. There are some very knowledgeable people out there on the WWW claiming, with convincing arguments, that Windows/286 couldn't run in 286 mode and only gave you 640kB ("conventional memory" in DOS terminology)+ 64kB HMA.

Others, including from Microsoft, say no, Windows/286 did run in protect mode and could access 16MB of (segmented) RAM.

I do not know for sure who is right.
MBAs doing their thing. Nothing to see here.
You can experience the same thing by supergluing a magnet to your pinky.
For anyone that was interested my Nxtpaper 11 finally arrived.

I am annoyed because I realised the Nxtpaper 11 is available on amazon.de the product listing was just buried because it hadn't bubbled up the search and its name isn't great for search.

Have only used it a few hours so some initial thoughts:

- this is my first ever real tablet but its heavier than I thought, its a bit awkward to read one handed especially without anything to grip, I might get one of those hand bands to get a lightweight grip

- the tablet is noticeably slow, you can see some slight frame choppiness when scrolling in Substack for example, but obviously way better than an eink reader

- the Nxtvision settings for reading mode and eye comfort mode are quite nice. Images and figures in documents look pleasingly "flat"

- the resolution is noticeably low, I do notice the DPI is not that crisp when reading PDFs

- I like the matte screen texture it is quite pleasing

- reading code on it via Github was quite fun/pleasant

All things considered for 250 Euros its probably worth a try if you're not too fussy. I can live with the shortcomings, this is a sufficiently niche space that it'll take a while for the perfect product to drop out.

I'd love to get my hands on a Hannsnote 2 to compare
This is a dumb response and a false dilemma. They're both problems.
> You first need to click the three dots, then find the "More about this page" in the middle, and there it is.

Sounds straightforward enough to me.
Sure, in the same way SIMD instructions get a linear speedup in theory.

If you Google the words "CRC32 is slow", you can see hundreds of people complaining about this.
Quote from the post:

> As someone who still sometimes develops web things, I need to be able to see the web as users see it, not as some elite cadre of tech enthusiasts gets to enjoy it.

He's empathizing with users that can't or don't know how to use adblock, not the web devs or web sites that fill their pages with intrusive ads.
We had one case when a developer realized his algorithm had a severe reliability problem when he realized he had no idea how to handle one specific error returned by one of the called functions.

I remember us discussing that if it was written in PHP, we'd completely miss the problem (we were in the process of switching from PHP go Go), because with exceptions, it wouldn't be as obvious.
> According to CDC data, more than 150,000 people die from excessive alcohol consumption per year [1], which is about how many people died of heroin overdoses in the past 20 years [2]

Easy, everyone drinks, almost nobody shoots up. There you go, explained.
You are not Broadcom’s desired customer customer.

When Symantec was acquired, they cut out all but the highest 1000 customers.
We developed a custom collaborative editor for our journalists
I bought our wedding rings back in 2011, and I was very annoyed to find that the synthetic diamonds were better quality but always came with some sort of laser engraving to mark them as "fake," essentially as a way to protect the natural diamond market.
Max Headroom TV series, 2 seasons 14 episodes total is a really great cypherpunk series. If you watch it today, its cypherpunk and 80's nostalgic retro scifi.
I doubt it's too late. There may be a cost to escape, but it may not be insurmountable.

At the height of the cloud hype, we were all more than happy to pay to lift-and-shift our way to higher operating costs. Surely, then, a lift-and-shift toward lower operating costs is comparably feasible.

If anything the barriers are social. At the height of the cloud hype, we all believed we were riding unicorns to the end of a rainbow with a pot of gold waiting for us. When you believe that, of course you want to spare no expense on ensuring you have the fastest unicorn so you can get that pot of gold before anyone else can.
Which are those sites? Did you report them? (Hamburger->Report Broken Site)
The documentary is in Finnish and the subtitles are in Italian ..
Do you know if there are English subtitles available somewhere?
An iPhone 8 still has a lot of processing power for headless home server tasks. I use a much weaker ARM dev board as an ssh gateway and Wireguard VPN into my home network and it works just fine. The only thing I'd worry about is leaving the battery on the phone and having it puff up after being trickle charged for months on end.

But if you remove the battery and mod the phone to power it directly from an external power supply you're all set!
Excluding the bulk of all purchasing departments if we look at balance sheets of each company running an obvious con in the last 4 decades.
I guess some respond with “yes”.
We have a saying around here something like: “is not stupid who is asking, is stupid the one that gives”.
I always forget the precise flags for readelf/objdump etc., and in practice I do something like `readelf -a | less` and scroll until I find the info I was looking for. Scrolling around in `less` is pretty cumbersome for large outputs, and I wouldn't mind a TUI for it.

(I also forget the difference between a segment and a section, but I know what I'm looking for when I see it, heh)
It's extremely rare for an acquisition to benefit anyone but the acquirer. The acquisition is either to eliminate competitors, absorb proprietary tech and axe the product, or siphon off money for the larger org's coffers.

Most people don't buy a cow to benefit the cow. They either milk it or turn it into chops.
Broadcom is taking advantage of the fact that most CIOs are forced to be pretty spineless. If you are big and willing to badmouth then in public, they will come to the table. There was at least one US state that did so iirc.

Otherwise, pay the tax with minimum commit, and don’t allow creation of new VMs. they essentially created a business model that writes the justification for AWS or GCP.

When companies flip to rent extraction business models, you need to change how you treat the business relationship. VMWare is like an incandescent light bulb… if the cost of re-platforming and availability of resources makes it cost effective to move, you move.
I would also note that mass market display technologies are just getting so good. If you want a display that performs well in direct sunlight conditions with good battery efficiency mini-LED has you covered.

These niche displays are offering less and less benefit compared to more mass-produced display technologies as time goes on.

All of the upsides of transreflexive displays that are downsides for other displays can be overcome with a $10 battery pack, or by doing things like making the processing and LED backlighting/OLED displays more power efficient.

How is transflexive LCD going to compete with emerging technologies like tandem OLED in terms of overall picture quality, brightness, and certainly having reasonable enough power efficiency? If you can surf the web for 10 hours without plugging in your iPad Pro what aspect of a transflexive LCD device is going to convince you to give up the best looking display on the market?
I live in Boston, MA. Taco Bell is horrendously low quality, I can only imagine it's right at the border of being "barely legal to sell" it as food. If you eat it and don't get explosive diarrhea you should consider yourself lucky. People still eat it because (1) it used be (before COVID) actually extremely cheap (really, in Boston's expensive standards it was almost as cheap as cooking food at your home, but worse quality) now it's about the same as any other fast-food chain maybe slightly cheaper (2) some people like the comfort food aspect of it.
The Momofuku soy sauce is $1.31/oz while the Kikkoman’s soy sauce is $0.37/oz. Truly ridiculous pricing.
I'm with you but it's a common enough sentiment that there's probably something to it, and I recall friends having issues over the years. For these people at best it's painful gas and at worst is [worse], so there is a large group of people who can't digest a particular common Taco Bell ingredient well.

I've seen speculation about undiagnosed lactose intolerance but frankly Taco Bell doesn't use that much cheese on their cheesiest items compared to say, a pizza, which is another very common food in the US and has way more cheese.
This is also why certain homes get hit in high-end burglary crews. There are multiple crews hitting those who purchase precious metals with physical delivery (like gold American Eagle coins). It is not all positive. Considering how few victims even bother to report such crimes, it is terrifying.

From what I understand from my cousin, a career criminal, there are entire theft rings working off of databases such as these. He knew mostly of car-related theft rings, but I hear about safe-cracking burglaries quite often, usually stealing Rolex watches or precious metals.
The employer requires this data to do payroll correctly. Apart from that, it sound only be used for expressly authorized purposes. But maybe that's a european GDPR-influenced way of seeing this issue.
No thank you. I value my privacy and my negotiating ability more than I value a 'service' I didn't even ask for.
I needed to read the article a few times - the quotes from David are a bit vague.

His presented focus is on great experiences for the customer, which demands high operational excellence from his team. His team found a reasonable way to save time, but his reaction was that's the wrong focus. Focusing on saving time will eventually hurt the customer experience (like advertising models lead to enshittification), even if this particular one doesn't.

So they need to re-orient this - either go back to the hard way, or justify the easy way in terms of the customer. To quote, "they wanted to sandbag it, they needed to figure out how they would make up for the lost energy elsewhere."
That is essentially what has already effectively happened.

Passengers are paying the drivers directly ( and the drivers then passing on the apps share on to them - the 30% in commission and booking fee ) because when the passengers pay outside the rideshare app, the app portion becomes payable to the app.

Passengers pay outside the app because mobile money is ubiquitous in Kenya (mobile phone to mobile phone micropayments called MPESA): it is used even more frequently than cash
sure. Not making excuses for any business decisions by newspaper management, just pointing out that that their criticism of the tech industry isn't out of character with a company that also is hostile their own workers' union.
It wasnt unregulated though. We have this thing called the FDA. Problem solved right?
I've been wondering about this for YEARS now: WTF happened to Milk Bar in NYC? Based on the taste and quality, it seems like the most egregious case of "selling out" I've ever seen. It seems like an overnight change to me

David Chang and Christina Tosi worked together, and I remember seeing a bunch of their marketing on Netflix

https://rseventures.com/milk-bars-christina-tosi-went-momofu...

In 2015 the location in East Village was still GREAT. Interesting deserts, seemingly made by hand, with high quality ingredients

Then I go back a few years later, and it's this CHAIN and the food is inedible. I take one bite, can't eat it, and throw it away

It just tastes like sugary processed food now, like Twinkies or Chips Ahoy or something

I also saw Milk Bar products in Whole Foods, bought it, took one bite, and threw it away, and never bought it again

It's just weird to me that a chef would let the quality sink so low, so fast. Usually the "founders" care about quality, and are mission-focused

I always thought that process took decades, and changes in ownership. (Actually I am re-reading Pollan's account of the "big organic" Cascadian Farms brand now -- another very interesting case of counterculture going mainstream / industrial, but the change was more gradual I think)
William Dalrymple is one of the finest historians and authors who has previously brought to life the story of East India Company and how it led to British India.
In this book, he focuses on, among other things, how Buddhism spread all over.

It's a fascinating topic. He also has a very successful podcast [1][2] -- with his co-host Anita Anand -- The Empire Podcast, which chronicles the rise and fall of empires. Highly educational, not to mention entertaining.

Recommended!!

[1] Empire Podcast - Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/empire/id1639561921
[2] On Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0sBh58hSTReUQiK4axYUVx?si=45f5...
I remember this as a kid, but kid memories forget about how janky the motion was. I'm assuming that was the best attempt at it too.
* The peak of ham radio was the 70's and 80's.

* It appealed to tech-oriented people.

* Those were many of the same people who went on to make websites in the mid 90's.

* Teaching yourself new things becomes harder the older you get. Migrating old content costs time that can be spent on other things.

* Why change what works?
Sikuli was at least a decade ahead of its time.

It was slow; I just threw bigger computers at it.

My use case was complicated. I was testing HSM-like workflows across multiple hosts using native UIs. It worked really well.
That would be absolutely alright if we all had the same cards at the beginning of the game.

The result is there some people take large part of the pie while not contributing to the baking in any meaningful way. Doesn't seem fair to me
Targeted offers to make you order, think promos they offer through the app instead of blasting it on TV commercials it's much cheaper, loyalty rewards and also order for pick up to save time.

I don't have taco bell app, experience is from international McDonald's app
The information available via the public record is not as detailed (typically annual salary)and not definitively tied to any person. The Work Number is tied to your SSN and is much more detailed than the public record (each paycheck and a breakdown of different compensation).
Microsoft Office 2024 to disable ActiveX controls by default
They did have ink and papyrus.
I really appreciate all this information you have given. It’s extremely useful for me and details I understand and can use.

https://www.cdw.com/product/quantum-superloader-3-with-model...

Perhaps I should just get equipment from CDW and do my own research.

What I wish I had was a vendor who knows this stuff well and had pre-tested Linux/FreeBSD configurations.
Employers are not responsible for forcing people to do the work required to be qualified for a position the employers are trying to fill.

Among the people who are qualified for the position, they are prohibited by law from considering race or gender or other protected characteristics when making a hiring decision.
If they want my info, they can ask me. I would rather them not have this info before an offer is made.
The first mistake here it equating robo taxi drivers to "average drivers." Is that even per mile? Shouldn't the coparison be other cab drivers? There is some statistical skulduggery afoot.

Waymo has an advantage here carefully planning tests in optimal conditions and locations to bias the results from the outset.