skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand your comment - are you saying that there should be no difference in behavior between a $30 expense and a $120 expense? Maybe for you there's no distinction, but population effects on behavior always occur in the margins, and there's a considerable difference between $30 and $120 for a lot of people.

Otherwise why not make it $200 or $300 for a battery replacement? Why is $120 just perfect?
This is a great "leaked" pdf and honestly, shows the evolution (or degradtion) in media. Typical phrases, e.g. sign of the times, if it makes money of course it exists, etc etc but really it's great insight.

I personally don't/wouldn't do this, but I can't ignore the money making machine youtube has become / the producers of said videos.
Never worked at a FAGMAN company but from what I've heard this is all true, no disagreement. I personally avoid such companies for the reasons you've described.

That being said, given the not so great, let us say, cutthroat culture that naturally will present itself in such places, the two big wins are salary, and arguably, CV padding. If I had "worked at Google" on my CV that would likely count for a lot, and I'm sure that can be framed as a dollar value on some level. This is something to consider even if intending to stay for only a couple years.
America! :)

I didn't mean for it to be sad. I just don't get why the "self" is so important. Isn't it natural for a person to at least attempt to be about others?
Nobody understands it outside of a tiny hobbyist segment, because there is no "definitive" Linux. No two "Linux" look the same.

The year of the Linux desktop will be when there's an OS like Android or macOS that is running Linux but the only way you would tell is by running uname.
Just look at all the new magazines at a bookstore. There are at least 10 Taylor Swift magazines. Trump has at least two magazines about him. There's plenty of growth in the gun and prepper department. Food magazines are available in quantity.

Magazines are still around, but they're addressed to niches.
Curious to know because I've never looked into this stuff: doesn't the _public_ key have to be available anyway so you can send the coins to the address in the first place and have that recorded on the ledger?
So basically:

Come up with contrived BS that caters to younger audiences, micromanage anyone who is holding you up, and attempt to game a blackbox algorithm on a site you don't pay for (YouTube)

The whole modern social media / influencer sphere seems like a huge bubble that will pop eventually. Google has already started wiping inactive accounts[0] presumably because storage isn't truly infinite or cheap. I imagine YT will also take the same path eventually.

0: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en
Hah! The US has a long and shameful history of meddling in Latin America: coups, outright invasions (Panama, Grenada, Nicaragua, Honduras, etc.) and overthrows or assassinations of democratically-elected leaders considered leftist.

Arbenz in Guatemala, Allende in Chile, etc.

Haiti: Historian Hans Schmidt notes that, “US Navy ships visited Haitian ports to ‘protect American lives and property’ in 1857, 1859, 1868, 1869, 1876, 1888, 1889, 1892, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912, and 1913. Finally, tired of all those round trips, the U.S. occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934."

Among others, in the 1980s, a Guatemalan military that received U.S. support carried out scorched earth campaigns that massacred upwards of 200,000 mostly indigenous people [1].

And that's before you count all the other American-trained and armed military juntas that systematically murdered, tortured, and raped millions of dissidents "leftists" with Uncle Sam's blessing.

Wikipedia has an entire page on it: go take a look. [2]

[1] https://repmcgovern.medium.com/decades-of-us-intervention-ha....
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Google manipulates search to favor liberals and tip elections (2023)
it's not poor, it's clever. that marketing is what made agile the dominant paradigm nowadays. remember agile was adopted in entreprise despite IBM pushing RUP
That's overly simplistic, in this case. You're not going to sell more buggies by making the quality of your buggy worse, true. But you're _also_ not going to sell more buggies, period, if everybody is preferring cars.

Likewise - publishers know that cuts aren't going to make their magazines more compelling - but it's 1) cut somewhere or 2) go out of business faster. You might manage to survive by maintaining quality and even adding things if the audience is large enough and you can pull from competing publications. (Although, in some cases, the cuts are things readers don't see -- e.g., allowing advertisers to place contributed content, or ensuring you don't publish anything that upsets the remaining advertisers...)
Dongle sockets were pretty fragile too. I think the most robust were the cards where there was a regular sized jack at the end of the card, but those had to stick out from the end of the laptop, and if you had two stacked slots as was once common, you wouldn't be able to use two of those.
The past few releases were more problematic for me yeah. It's super anecdotal since I never used Linux before the v5.xx kernels but in comparison to those yes it's a bit less stable.
That’d be interesting. I can think of ten difficult big engineering problems that haven’t been solved yet, but there’s always hope.

I mean, there’s no ship yet. There’s a rocket and a plan, but the ship hasn’t been constructed.

The ship has to be refueled in earth orbit so there needs to be a gas station which hasn’t been constructed.

And it needs fuel. Which isn’t up there yet.

Also, there’s no mars habitat.

There’s no fuel plant for anyone who wants to go home.

There’s no plan, equipment or technology to account for the increased radiation.

There no plan for the soil of mars being toxic.
There’s no greenhouse or other way to grow or raise food.

There’s no plant for oxygen and water generation.

There are no mars rovers for getting around while exploring and doing construction.

There is no heavy equipment for construction on mars.

I suppose if the plan is to just get them there and declare victory, maybe? If you want them to live… it might take a bit longer.
And those are just the big engineering problems. There are probably a hundred little problems in each of the above.
You're trying to move goalposts (unsuccessfully) if you pretend that "today" is meaningful in geopolitics. If a country was a colony => invaded after independence + has a currency tied to and manipulated by the former power's currency + has internal powerbases built off the colonial satrap structure and corporate equivalents in oil etc ... it's the height of naivete to think it will "shake it off" a mere 20-30 years later, because some version of democracy was installed.

These are as a category unstable political situations and it is vanishingly few who manage to develop their way out of it. More common is descent into further chaos, with major powers standing by to ensure that it does not disrupt resource extraction.
Every search engine and also LLMs engage in the same problematic behavior.

Maybe just use Wikipedia search only then!
Do these have as short a vertical field of view as it looks like they do?
> I think what may be going unsaid is there are some predatory practices that puff up the idea of a PhD to get people to attend a department that is otherwise struggling.

No, it was already said:

>>> We're wondering if you were perhaps mislead somewhat

>> I wasn't.