skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah don't ask me about my power bill, It's definitely in the vanity realm. I have cheap power where I live so it's not anywhere near $200. Still too high though. One day I'll get solar to offset it.
Not every service with user-generated content need to try to cater to maximum freedom of expression, so it first of all doesn't apply to any service with user-generated content.

Secondly, my point is that if you do have a service that is trying to optimize for freedom of expression, mixing in needing to earn money on top of that, is bound to leave you almost penny-less, as advertisers don't like an environment like that and people needing to be anonymous aren't as happy to donate.
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While I agree that you shouldn't, and that the end goal (privatized health care) is at the same time more costly and less efficient, that doesn't mean people can't or don't.

The Baumol effect you link to only shows that wage demands from health care workers go up in proportion to the wages of other workers. This means (roughly speaking), that reducing the health care budget will reduce the effectiveness of your health care system, because you're able to afford fewer people (I think this is the point you're making, please correct me if I'm wrong).

But that's entirely the point of starving the beast! By cutting funding to some federal department, that department becomes less effective, which makes people think that the government is incapable of running said department, and makes them open to the idea of privatizing the department. Et voila, you've opened up a whole new market that can be exploited for profits! The holy grail is opening up a market with inelastic demand such as health care, where people, no matter what you charge, will be forced to buy your product. This program has been incredibly successful in the US, which can be seen by comparing their health care system to that of other wealthy nations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_mass_graves

> According to paramedics and rescue teams involved in the recovery of the bodies, some bodies were found with hands tied, indicating possible execution. Other victims were found with bullet marks on their heads, raising suspicions of summary executions. There are also reports of torture marks on the bodies.[34][35]

>According to Palestinian government-run news agency Wafa, some bodies were found suspicious of organ theft with their stomachs open and stitched up, contrary to the usual wound closure techniques in the Gaza Strip. The mutilated body of a little girl wearing a surgical gown was also found, prompting suspicions that she had been buried alive.[34]

This does not sound like "collateral damage".
I was a full time JavaScript developer for 15 years. I still write personal software, but the corporate world killed my spirit for doing this for employment. I blame the exceptionally high insecurity of my prior developer peers, the extraordinary lengths businesses will go to in order to avoid correcting for that, and the diminishing expectations that follow. I will not go back to that. My own bias though is irrelevant to my comments here though as the identified trends and business terms apply the same irrespective of any such bias. Its all about the numbers.

As for advertising that is what's considered transactional revenue, or revenue generated upon the traffic from some other unrelated engagement. Nobody goes looking for advertisements intentionally. They just happen to appear on a site a user visits and eyeballs on that site thus generate revenue in consideration of some contracted term.

Transactional revenue is interesting because it generally has very low associated expenses which all associated revenue is far more closer aligned to profit. It is also insidious in that it tends to get in the way of what users actually want and will over time tank an associated product/brand unless the product/brand is so compelling that it drives substantial repeat traffic. That is the fundamental distinction between media and e-commerce. In media they can throw as many advertisements at you as they want because repeat traffic is deterministic and you are the product. With e-commerce, on the other hand, there exists actual products users must purchase. That purchase process is called conversion and over time advertisements erode the frequency of conversion. As conversion tanks over time users have less reason to access the associated website and so then advertising revenue also tanks.

With regards to sales and revenue developers still have no role in that relationship even in respective to advertisements and transactional revenue. Sales are literally money paid by an outside party directly to your business. Transactional revenue is indirect so it does not qualify as a sale. Even if it did quality the sales people are the ones negotiating the corresponding contracts and revenue terms, which is still not the developer.

I once wrote an advertising pop under for Travelocity from the homepage. The change in presence increased ad click-through impressions upon that placement from 0.3% to approx 14% at approximately 1.1 million page impressions per day. That is a massive revenue boost, but the customers hated it. Part of the massive traffic increase was change of visibility and part of it was content intentionally shifting low quality traffic off site. Stuff like that really killed the business.
That's why they've waited to do this until the job market is at a downturn and it's getting harder to find positions. Especially for people at the upper end of the seniority bracket at FAANGs who are used to a very high compensation package.

I walked away from my Google job 3 years ago knowing I could comfortably go wherever (and work remote, too), and took months off in-between, too. I wouldn't take that risk now.
I wonder what tipped them off? The battery wasn't lasting as long? One accidentally went off early and they were investigating? A leak?
It's funny to think that there are members of Hezbollah here on HN.
Ghost of Tsushima leaves 281GB of crash logs without having crashed once
"solar panels"

That is news to me. Who reported so?
> Why should they care?

So expand this out a it for me - at what point do you care about doing your job well? Or do you just want to do the bare minimum to keep your job?
So what's your solution then?

Incidentally it does work. It's just horrible. Nagasaki / Hiroshima are a fine example of forced capitulation. Now I'm not suggesting nuking anyone but the best way this ends, with the lowest future body count is someone wins decisively at this point.
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But if they hide amongst civilians and Israel is too weak, what do you suggest Israel should do instead?
That's what I'd wonder about. I appreciate the comments about Narcan and the legalization of Pot but I'm still wondering.

I suppose to give weight to the idea that this the effect of greater availability of Narcan you could look at the number of users. Has it gone up or down?

Pot legalization would be trickier. Maybe rates of usage? Though you'd expect that to get up everywhere. Presumably you'd see a drop in opiate usage and a rise in pot usage.

I'm not sure how you'd quantify a shrink in the number of users because some percent realize the risk is too great - though shrinking number of users would be a clue.

If it's people prone to overdosing and dying having done so - I guess would look at the relationship between use rate and death rate. Is it the same? I'm not sure how you could differentiate (or if it matters) between people getting better and using the drugs and the deaths of people who did not use it successfully.
We were discussing the 2015 WRX after all, it is port injected. The guy who wants to delete the rev hang from his VA WRX is advocating to blowing unburnt gas right out of the tailpipe, like a psycho.
(a) Disrupt Hezbollah’s communications network and take out operatives.

(b) The pagers were specifically distributed to Hezbollah operatives, not civilians. It targeted, by definition, the owners of those pagers, supporting the military objective.

(c) It was limited, by definition. This contained tiny amount of explosives, focused very much on targeting the owner of the device, not “civilians or civilian objects without distinction” (from military objectives).

No violation here.
There's one problem and that's how our eyes work. They need photons to enter them to be able to see. The photons are being "reemitted" by the body we look at. The body absorbs the light shining on it and just reemitting the photons that aren't absorbed by the body's surface. So, actually, what we perceive as color are photons that haven't been absorbed by the body.

Black screen means it absorbs everything. Because it's a translucent body consisting of a few layers, the light simply gets trapped within the layers and is not reemitted into our eyes. We perceive that as black.

If you want to make it whatever color, you need a not translucent screen, so the photons are partly absorbed and partly reemitted. Then we have some photons in our eyes and sensations that can be interpreted by our brain as information/color/whatever.

The screens of e-ink utilize that. But they're slow.

So to answer your question, no it's not possible to make ordinary screens to have a color, except there's a solid body in front of the layers to absorb and reemitt the photons.

To build a screen like that, one would need a backlight. No matter where it comes from. Or, inverted LCD on a white plane that alters the refraction when there's a current flowing. That would consume more energy because all the pixels need to be constantly powered (and after powering off, they would automatically alter their refraction..)

So, no..

What about constantly low powered screens like Samsung's the frame?
Yes they do. Consider weed. It was well established before being legalized. Legalization brought higher taxes and interference. The black market continues as an alternative to the free one.
It sounds more like "tay" (as pronounced in English).

https://forvo.com/word/t/#fr

And it would hardly make sense to make a name for US market based on how it sounds in French.
Were those people targeted or only the hezbollah military wing? So far it seems like there isn't much specific info out there on this point.
I really didn’t get this tweet. I go to the mall anytime I need to. Support local businesses every day. What’s the connection with going to the office?! Can anybody explain?
Is Amazon even desirable to work for? (I'm not even including their recent RTO policy)
This takes place in Canada. There are no for-profit hospital complexes like the USA. All of our major hospitals are non-profit, reimbursed by the single-payer healthcare system and philanthropists getting stuff named after them. The profit-motive isn't as significant of a factor here.

That being said, I'm fine with a reduction of resources if additional resources don't increase the quality of my care. In Canada, doctors don't really like to prescribe antibiotics for minor infections.

Americans find this bizarre, but for a minor infection antibiotics are going to screw up your stomach bacteria and long-term health to maybe treat a disease that your body can easily handle on its own.

There's no magic value that comes from allocating resources to a problem. Oftentimes spending money has zero or negative impact beyond virtue-signalling that you care about the problem.
This is really cool; for a second I thought I could use it to stop manually maintaining both the minified and full-text versions of my “shell prefix” that makes it possible to run rust source code directly as if it were a shell script [0] where I’ve accidentally diverged between the two in the past, but then I revisited it and saw that the real value was in the comments and explanations more than just placing output in variables and breaking up command pipelines across shell lines.

But the opposite might work, does anyone have a good minifier they could recommend (preferably one that does more than just whitespace mangling, eg also renames variables, chains executions, etc) that doesn’t introduce bash-isms into the resulting script?

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/self-compiling-rust-code/
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I remember when Digg crashed and burned because they got caught censoring speech. Everyone moved over to Reddit because it was all about free speech.

I would laugh hard in someone's face if someone told me reddit didn't censor to a huge degree. Mind you, I doubt this will ever be the case as there's very few humans on reddit anymore.

About 4 months ago I was testing to see how many humans were actually on the site. I'd get >1,000 upvotes everyday, many comments but nobody was real. I don't know if reddit themselves do this to make the website look less dead than it is, or just other people's bots. Doesnt matter.

I was in a subreddit that was autism related, the person didnt share their gender or anything to identify. I responded to them having an obgyn as if they were female. They got extremely mad at me for misgendering them. I got an official warning from reddit admins for hate targeting trans people.

Couple weeks later, I as a trans person was talking about a trans issue and got a 7 day ban. Within hours I got unbanned on appeal. I absolutely did not break any rules or target anyone.

After reviewing, the Reddit admin team found that the content wasn’t in violation of Reddit’s rules. As a result, the content has been restored and your ban or warning has been lifted.

I haven't been back. Reddit is a complete joke. The gall as well for them to ask if I wanted to invest in their IPO at basically the same time as this because I was a big account.

Facebook? They probably manage censorship best, less false positives, but their actual censorship is still censorship. So erm... not going to waste my time.

HN? Worse than reddit. dont waste your time going to my profile to downvote all my posts.

X? Only platform I know that doesnt have much censorship. But it's not without. I couldn't tell you how many automotive mechanics who say tra-anny and end up instantly suspended. Those mechanics probably didnt care about us trans people, now they hate us. They see us as censoring their speech. Not working as intended.

It's an impossible task to censor without unintended consequences. Elon firing 90% of the staff and having the website work better was because censorship takes a ton of effort. Some words have multiple meanings. Sometimes the person meant to add a NOT or something but failed, their messaging being the opposite of their intention.

I would say X is doing the best job overall. No other platform do you have Nick Fuentes revealing to all that he's a nazi rat. A feature you cant have when censorship is in place.

Gab/Parler that's where nazi rats go.
It's a thin wrapper around notebooks. Does it really need more features? Not saying that it couldn't, but it is feature complete for what its job is.
Both are asking you to kill people and supplying you with equipment to do so.
How does this compare to modal (modal.com)? Faster cold-start? Easier config? Asking because I've used modal quite a bit for everything from fine-tuning LLMs to running etl pipelines and it works well for me, and I haven't found any real competitors for them to even think of switching.
Is this a real news site?

Byline says from associated press but abcnews isn’t carrying this story?

So if this is fake news then _why_? Clicks, or something else like discrediting solar power?
Agreed. This could be a personal skill issue, but I've started a new job where Django is the main codebase and getting decent OTel has been a struggle.

In fact, everything with Python has been a struggle
management can't tell who is valuable. I am senior IC but even with cloning people's repos it isn't particularly easy to tell how good someone is.you have people who speak very confidently but don't make good code, in those subtle details that make the difference between 90% chance of serious bugs per project and 25%. Nor the difference between able to fulfill a one sentence requirement with specific technical language vs needing ,"add this to that function and this to that function then make a configuration item to control it." And maybe all the shy smart coders aren't usable with some management styles and some great managers can coax excellent work out of all sort of people.
> Anyone can use a pager or a walkie talkie.

Israel is not targeting "pagers and walkie talkies".

They are targeting pagers and walkie talkies specifically ordered, paid for, and supplied to individuals by Hezbollah.
This is incorrect. Installing an entire new powertrain constitutes a "defeat device". The EPA most definitely does not look the other way for non-road vehicles.
Strange to see an article about Postgres multitenancy that doesn't even mention schemas:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-schemas.html

I assume the article's solution involves some different set of tradeoffs versus native schemas, but that would have been good to include in the writeup...
It's not just online recipes, but cookbooks written for the Better Home & Gardens crowd. The ones who write "curry powder" (and mean the yellow McCormick stuff which is so bland as to have almost no flavour) or call for one clove of garlic in their recipe.

I joke with folks that my assumption with "one clove of garlic" is that they really mean "one head of garlic" if you want any flavour. (And if the recipe title has "garlic" in it and you are using one clove, you’re lying.)
I fail to see the difference. Actually, programming was one of the first field where LLMs shown proficiency. The helper nature of LLMs is true in all the fields so far, in the future this may change. I believe that for instance in the case or journalism the issue was already there: three euros per post written without clue by humans.

Anyway in the long run AI will kill tons of jobs. Regardless of blog posts like that. The true key is governments assistance.
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To me it means some degree of being able to continue with necessary production despite global disruptions due to political disagreement, war, disaster, etc.

For example, a major push to bring more semiconductor production to the US was motivated by supply shortages during the COVID pandemic.

A globally interconnected and inter-tangled trade economy has a lot of benefits, but it can also be disrupted. So some degree of resilience against this kind of disruption may be beneficial.
See my top level post for more on this. It's not that there is no benefit to higher frequency memory on AM5, but that there is a penalty introduced above 6000 MT/s which isn't easily outweighed by further raising the memory speed.
Some of us don't download and run binaries. For some of us, the advantage of ARM is exactly that it isn't x86.
Give us examples of generative AI in challenging applications (biology, medicine, physical sciences), and you'll get a lot of optimism. The text LLM stuff is the brute force application of the same class of statistical modeling. It's commercial, and boring.
Just ease of use mostly, Tailscale works even behind CGNAT and automatically manages things for you.
Once again, its no ones job to enforce this much less inspect parking lots. You could go all “well they could mine satellite data” and sure they could but they could do that for a lot of issues that they don’t currently. Like how you can see that many homes are hoarder houses/illegal dumps just from a cursory panning of satellite imagery and the city doesn’t do anything.
go.com is owned by Disney, apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go.com
I like the ideas behind Powershell, but the DX has always felt ugly and clunky compared to standard shell. Unix/Posix are full of great tools, but they are all extremely painful for newbies and take years to master. There's got to be a middle ground where we can have the power and approachability of SQL with the beautiful elegance of standard Unix pipes.

Dune seems to take a step in that direction which is great.
That's like saying everyone is prone to be an alcoholic or a marathon runner. It's possible for anyone to end up with either of those conditions but I know a lot people who've run a 10K and then literally walked away from it.
That's the amount of taxes that companies/people legally owe but don't pay (and are collectable).

It's not really related to the amount of taxes that are legally avoided by big businesses through techniques like this "double Irish Dutch sandwich."
Meanwhile we're offshoring all of our software engineering jobs at a breakneck pace with no regard for the consequences on our future.

The whole same story is going to play out again and in 20 years we'll be panicking because nobody in the US will know how to write software anymore.
I suspect it goes further.

"You are a liar and we cannot further risk our reputations on your dishonesty."
Are you a citizen of Lebanon?
If we are not doing Intel/ARM architectures, a lot can be said for learning PDP11 assembly. Among other things, is maps very cleanly into concepts central to higher level programming languages, like indirection.
Relax, you're on the internet not in a courtroom. u/sandspar made a claim, and it's well within reason to point out that their claim has no basis in the data they referenced.
A friend of mine is doing his PHD while being an intern at Meta. He does not share your excitement... at all. To summarize his complaints: a framework written a long while ago with design flaws that were cast in stone, that requires exorbitant effort to accomplish simple things (under the pretense of global integration that usually isn't needed, but even if was needed, would still not work).
> Some may believe these downsides are 100% objective.

I just explained to you, in clear terms, some objective outcomes. These aren't make believe - you actually have to spend time and money to get to an office. I'm sorry, there's no way around that. Teleportation has not yet been invented.

> You are correct here and I don't think this is a bad thing.

You could make the argument this isn't a bad thing, but one thing is undebatable: the arguments aren't on equal footing. An argument for RTO HAS TO, necessarily, articulate a pro-control argument. A WFH argument does not, and that's the difference.

That's why one argument is easy for people to swallow and the other isn't. RTO is inherently anti-freedom, and people don't like that. Even some people who like working in an office don't like that.

> office so distasteful and care about the climate so much

This is a strawman, and I'm starting to feel like a broken record. Once again, I'm not referring to these more wishy-washy arguments.

It would be in your favor if pro-WFH arguments were just based on feelings. Unfortunately, they're not - they're based on real costs. Time is a real cost. Driving is a real cost.

These aren't small costs. By choosing to go RTO I wouldn't be surprised if each employee takes, at least, the equivalent of a 10% salary deduction. Now this is difficult to argue in favor for, which is why you don't. Unfortunately choosing to orient your position that way makes it lose credibility, which is what Amazon has faced when they refuse to bring any data to the conversation.
And yes, politicians here is correct since

> Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist _political party_ and paramilitary group

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah