skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've come back to this idea of "differences" from many angles...

From images: information _is _ the differences between pixels

From opinions: my opinion alone is worthless, but a difference of opinions? now we've got something

From relationships, graphs, networks: edges are _differences_ between nodes. the edges are everything. nodes alone... are meaningless

From music: this one is a little easier to take at face value, you can't have a sound without a change (difference) over time. the speaker cone can only wobble...

Not sure about the absoluteness or correctness of this intuition, please criticize
Supply and demand.

Wages are not proportional to skills or output. Wages are only proportional to power.

So a low agency explanation is that supply exceeds demand and companies are either tacitly colluding (by flooding the workforce with layoffs to increase negotiating position) or actively colluding (like google and apple did).

A high agency explanation is that collective bargaining via unionization is in decline and people either need to unionize or guild to improve their power, but aren't because that involves putting oneself at risk for the benefit of others.
I saw this documentary, it was called 'Sliders'.
> Are they not up in arms internally because of how awful the web is without ad blocker?

You realize these people pay check depend on that, right?
Is Mozilla that rich that it can ignore a 10% bump in income?
> Buying the market at all is a gambling strategy. You cannot be in the market without timing it.

If you buy a little every pay cheque automatically, without looking whether things are up or down, how much are you really "timing" versus simply investing? (Especially if you buy a globally diversified fund like VT.)
> located on their user account or hardware

Clouds have user accounts too. I have seen dead links to documents in a former employees space on sharepoint, confluence, and google docs.
That’s specific to non-immigrant visas - students, diplomats, business travelers, etc. where the visa is time-limited and linked to a particular purpose such as being an employee of an American business or teaching at a college. The best known example on HN is the H1-B visa but there are quite a few others:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-inf...

As a green card holder, he was covered on the other type (immigrant) which does not assume that you’re intending to leave the country. I don’t know anything about his personal life but as the spouse of an American citizen he should easily have qualified:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...

The key thing which separates a green card from a regular visa of either type, and why people tried so hard to get them, is that it offers legal rights such as the ability to sponsor family members for their own permanente residency and, most relevant, legal protections closer to a citizen’s.
I’m happy with Zen.
Are we 100% in agreement that Queen Victoria's donation in 1848 was inadequate to prevent 1 million people from starving to death, and that Britain had direct responsibility for the gross inequality in land ownership that constituted Ireland in the 1840s, whereas the Ottoman Sultans, or Calcutta (or the Choctaw Nation) had zero responsibility?

I mean we could look at British spending (govt and crown) in the period 1845-52. Or note that Queen Victoria was one of the wealthiest women in the world, and Parliament granted her an annuity of £385,000 per year.
lol. I refreshed and suddenly cows everywhere.
I agree - I've traveled a few times to the US to speak at conferences and every time the border agent tried to entrap me - i.e., tried to get me to confess that I'm being paid for my presentation, which obviously isn't covered by ESTA.
I've never been paid, classic academic. But they still try every time! How much can a regular person earn in speaking fees that this would warrant interviews?

EU/Australia/New Zealand/Japan has been the opposite experience - they never asked.
Doesn’t IRS take care of this? https://youtu.be/bFGwjPaxGM0
Introducing Manus: The General AI Agent [video]
> The number of people using their phones in the hot tub, or in the sauna, astounds me on a regular basis. I can't imagine doing that.

and the number of people who desperately look for a way to replace their batteries or upgrade to a new model just because their phone battery degraded is quite saddening.
What about dark pools?
Where was this proven in Colombia?
> Maybe this is your sweet spot?

I doubt it. I played around a bit with the hand-lenses and was able to get a much more clear picture by increasing the lens strength more than the doctor was willing to.

If the doctor was making any sort of tradeoff, they were not informing me of it. They kept asserting that I was "corrected to 20/20" when I protested that the letters on the chart were still quite fuzzy. If they'd have informed me of a "close range vs. long range" lens tradeoff, I would have happily informed them of my willingness to have multiple pairs of glasses.
That’s not enough. Many sites serve ads from the same domains that they serve content from. Google, meta, etc. You need to have extensions that can parse the DOM and remove content from it.
Well the whole Apple slowing older device debate has been beaten to death and Apple claims it was a safety net for older devices of which their batteries would be unable to provide enough stable power. Therefore they had to slow the device down to allow to battery to keep up with the device and increase the longevity of the device even if it meant the device was being power managed under particular workloads.

Whilst we can have our opinions of the legitimacy of this, I am inclined to agree with it. There have been many people on the other side of the coin who have claimed their device instability was fixed after these updates.
You don't "bring revenue in". You are paid for providing a service to your employer. Your employer brings revenue in by providing quite different goods and services to its customers.

By your logic, "cost centres" (like IT, HR, and office management) within a business are bad because they don't bring in any revenue. Except of course in reality they are the same: they provide a service to the business that the business makes use of in providing goods and services to its customers.

I am being pedantic but for good reason: there is no a priori reason why your pay should go up just because your employer has become more profitable, except that it is in the interests of employers to make use of resources efficiently. If they are profitable then hiring more people so they can make more money is good. But it isn't a matter of "deserving" to be paid more or something. Pay isn't based on what you deserve for many reasons, including that you can't attribute the business's profits to its workers and ignore, for example, the investment in capital resources (including IP) required to enable the workers to work effectively. Mainly though because of supply and demand.

If an improvement in productivity makes you more efficient then there should be higher demand for you and you should be paid more. And indeed that is exactly what happens: people in industries that have productivity improvements are paid more afterwards than before.
Thanks for the link to the original.

Well the crappy copy does come with some extra text. (No judgement from me on whether the extra text improves the comic here; just that someone might think it does, and there's no arguing about taste.)

It's also interesting to see that XKCD itself explicitly supports eg hotlinking, and the license makes putting it into your own crappy creations rather easy. (Though I think the example linked to fails the 'attribution' requirement.)
> It takes novel solutions to

Right

> but that really isn't the bar being mentioned here.

Yes, the bar was "novel solutions WITHOUT priori knowledge"

So you've changed the definition. Please re-read what I disagree with and it's not just the novel part i.e. if I read it all from the Internet and copied it to be successful then that fails this definition.
It already went away, you need a special Firefox version to do that (that's the somehow part)
It's not "one character change", but rather fixing an amateur mistake of passing by value instead of by reference.. but they have to frame it as a "win" which ironically is why enterprise engineering is so bad to begin with.
She entered the country and knowingly violated the terms of entry. She did so knowing the country was being taken over by the most vocal anti-immigration administration in generations.

I feel bad for her, but not _that_ bad. Again, when I'm traveling in a foreign country, I make it a point know the laws and not break them. Her entire trip was predicated on violating US law so...
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Victorian_Holocausts

Ireland was the prototype for the British empire starving millions to death because they were poor.
It would also be interesting to have a one-comment-a-day policy for each user, which might extend the novelty of this
I kind of like the idea of a regional social media app which literally doesn’t work in other parts of the world. It makes the space a little more special than something trying to reach everyone IMO
And wastes cycles; and your time giving answers to a stateless memory impaired machine. If they were to train next models on all of our conversations I could understand this milking for engagement. Are they somehow?
I had this idea before and thought it’s too silly but as a social experiment this could become a hit. Implement rate limiting asap though. :)
Back when I tried both more extensively a few years ago, Google was a lot better giving me results relevant in Europe and Asia. Bing and duck duck go used to be very US only focused. Which made me go back to Google.

I don't know if or how much that's changed.
So if you give a bunch of people a boring task, pay them the same regardless of if they treat it seriously or not - the end result is they do a bad job!

Hardly a shocker. I think this say more about the experimental design then it does about AI & humans.
Yes, that's the only conclusion I've been able to come to. The recent ToS changes make that even more clear.
Does anyone have any recommendations for GNU Radio "guides"? I would like one which is a bit hand-holdy but steps through the theory along with a the practical example of building it in GRC, preferably with known good captures of the intended signal so that I don't need to spend time wondering if I've botched my capture somehow.
It's not simple at all, that's a huge reduction to the underlying premise. The complexity is the reason that AI is a threat. That complexity revolves around a tremendous amount of data and how that data interacts. The very nature of the field makes it non-experimental but ripe for advanced automation based on machine learning. The science of engineering from a practical standpoint, where most demand for employees comes from, is very much algorithmic.
I like Go. A whole lot. I program in it every day and it's a joy. Except for the error handling. It sucks so much. I cannot believe that they chose to keep the worst feature of C. I read articles like this one and I believe that Stockholm Syndrome must really exist, after all.
I would take ANY error handling system over "check every single &^%!! function call result" - result types, exceptions, whatever.
You seriously don't think that Calcutta donating more (£14,000) in 1846 and two years earlier than Queen Victoria (1848) isn't a damning fact? (and the Calcutta donation is a verified fact. So no need to dispute the anecdote about the Sultan's donation.)
It is driven by supply and demand!

All the brokers and individuals logged into trading platforms enter the prices at which they wish to execute a buy or sell.

The system matches buyers to sellers, and that creates a pressure which moves the price this way and that way.

Firstly, consider the situation when there is a disparity between the prices: most asking prices are too high relative to bids, the volume of trading will be low. In this situation, sellers who want to get rid of the stock are motivated to drop their prices. Or, alternatively, if the market believes the stock has good near term prospects, the buyers have to raise their bids. Raised bids cause upward pressure on the price, lowered asks downward pressure. (No brainer!)

(You can see a big spread in bid/ask prices after hours when an exchange is closed. After hours trading is possible. If you want to buy and have that execute, you have to specify at least the asking price. Otherwise your bid will just be added to the others that are sitting there, waiting. After-hours trading volumes are significantly lower, which is associated with the wide bid/ask spread.)

When people execute market orders, that also moves the price. Selling something at market order means you urgently want to sell at whatever price is current. That means that your asking price will be lowered in order to meet a bidder.

Short-selling activity can drive a price down. And of course, short selling is motivated by the belief that a stock is about to tank or tanking. Under short selling, someone borrows a stock and sells it right away, hoping to buy it back at a lower price. They sell it ASAP because they believe they are buying a tanking stock, so they faster they sell it, the more money they will fetch, and the bigger will be their take when they buy it back. Short selling, I think, typically uses market orders, and so thereby exerts downward pressure. When bad news about a company invites short sellers, that can accelerate the drop in the stock price.

Anyway the end of the day, the price is the result of psychology, plus a few fundamentals of the stock like company earnings and whatnot. People have beliefs about which way something will go, and that effects their buying and selling behavior. The prices come from all the individual trades.

Ask yourself, what caused the Beanie Baby craze? What was the cost basis for someone paying $200 for a stuffed toy? Simply the belief that someone will later pay them $300, together with a casual dismissal of the risk that they will not even get back their $200 --- why, because they are in the middle of a craze that is obviously going to go on longer than the time scale of their intended action!
Yeah this reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
Though it might be a good second layer of defense.
tmux-resurrect/tmux-continuum + atuin for shell history saves pretty much any terminal state I've ever needed, I think, outside of .zshrc and the like.
Was Malthusianism in vogue in the British government back then?
> Understanding a problem requires a holistic view of the larger system.

In my experience, people don’t care about systems, they care about outcomes. The world is driven by people who care about outcomes and held together by people who understand systems.
It's not slightly better it's way better than Ansible/Puppet/Bash/immutable deployments, because everything follow the same paterm and is standard.

You get observability pretty much for free, solution from 15 years ago were crap, remember Nagios and the like?

Old solutions would put trash all over the disk in /etc/. How many time did we have to ssh to fix / repair stuff?

All the health check / load balancer is also much better handled on Kubernetes.
> If you go by that then a lot of people (no offense) aren't intelligent. This includes many vastly successful or rich people.

I think most people agree with this statement.
Again, discretion is a thing.
This costs them money, but perhaps keeps VCs happy to see heavy (but vacuous) engagement.
Immigration in the US is designed around rewarding the daring liar.

Overstaying a visa isn't even illegal and extremely difficult to enforce, and working informally is trivial and pretty much impossible to enforce in a country where citizens don't have to carry ID (sometimes even to vote). Anyone 100+ miles into the country on a tourist visa is basically home free, probably even for life and triply so if they speak English and look European.

So what the US does is put the meanest scariest motherfuckers around in CBP/HSI at the border and then say whatever they need to turn the crank, which does little to someone who knows what's happening but great at scaring a naive German woman who doesn't realize border officers are basically playing a confidence game.
Yes, but the notion that a donation 10x larger was declined for optics is so fundamentally different from those claims I can’t even believe that there is any confusion here about how ridiculous including that is.
I don't think I would use it if I were paying the real costs, and not a ~90% VC funded mark down.
I don't like it, but it is the law.
Bulldogs: dogs with short snouts?
Bulls: temperamental male herbivores?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Bull_Dog_revolver

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bullpup

"Etymology

From bull +‎ pup. The firearms sense originated from firearm designers in the United States during the 1930s. The unconventional configuration of bullpup rifles was compared by analogy to bulldog puppies, which were considered "squat, ugly, but still aggressive and powerful"."
> I agree that the conditions are far from ideal, but if that's how US generally deals with people waiting for their court dates, it's what it is.

It's what it is under Trump. 3 months ago Someone in this situation wouldn't have been detained for this long and in the news for such a minor offense.

> This does not mean US should not work to improve those conditions for everyone

This wasn't happening before for cases like this. All the worst CBP agents are empowered now and have no checks on their authority. That's the problem.
I've been on the fence about Kagi as a search engine, but if Orion comes to Linux and Android[0], I'd definitely seal the deal on the subscription.

[0]hint hint, since not ALL of us are beholden to the Apple tax.
> You’re correct. The American empire has been terrible for Latin America. We should dismantle the empire and close the borders to immigration.

Do you realize that if the USA had been run the way you advocate that you'd never have lived there in the first place?
I'll ask the obvious questions:

* Is this a fork? (Explicit is better than implicit.)

* Exactly why would I prefer it to Requests, in general?
I see exclaves as a significant but intermediate step. Apple is making XNU less of a liability, but they're still playing defense instead of fully embracing a microkernel architecture.

If I had to bet, exclaves will be a bridge to something bigger, either a more modular OS (like Fuchsia) or a CHERI-inspired security model where memory safety is enforced at the hardware level.

Apple is leading the pack in consumer OS security, but exclaves are a patchwork improvement rather than a total rethinking of system design. That said, this is probably the biggest security shift in mainstream OS design in the last decade, and it will take years before we see its full impact.
LoL. That could be a future Wittgenstein joke.
Yes but every car on Mars will be a Tesla. That's like a whole planet potential of growth.
> It's very rare to find an Irish person who is racist towards the British

Oh come off it. No it's not. Unless you're in deep denial about what constitutes racism.

> Your whole comment is vastly exaggerated.

Maybe we have different lived experiences? We can both be Irish and have very different lives and experiences, small country though it is.

For me, nothing I said is exaggerated. Irish people do hate to state things directly though, and I'm used to be told to be quiet whenever I speak out about our issues.

> There's Americans reading. Don't be giving them the wrong ideas, they've enough to be dealing with.

Ok can't argue with that one.
I'm not well versed into adblocking, but shouldn't the extension also get access to the content of the request as well, to be able to either improve it's blocking accuracy (e.g. detect if the whitelisted content matches blocked content patterns) or decide to hide a resource after it was fetched ?
> They're (verified) anecdotes showing the British Crown was embarrassed

Again, to be clear, this anecdote is not verified. It is extremely poorly sourced, not much more than an urban legend. The only attribution for the story dating to the 19th century is a claim that someone heard it from the sultan's physician's son, and that claim is put forward more than 40 years after the events.

The existence of donations, verified or otherwise, does not independently show that the British government attempted to prevent aid from reaching Ireland because they were embarrassed about how little they had contributed. That is the claim that OP puts forward with their story, that is the claim that I'm responding to. I'm not questioning that others did send donations or that some of those donations exceeded those put forward by the British government.

All of that is true, but it being true does not justify perpetuating unsubstantiated stories that happen to support the same conclusion. As you have amply demonstrated, there's enough good evidence in favor of the conclusion that we don't need to rely on bad evidence.
> Giving someone from an European country better treatment than someone from South America? Sounds like racism/white privilege to me.

No one is proposing anything like this. Why invent a strawman?

> "misinterpreted or misunderstood" seems like a stretch.

Not if you consider work to mean getting cash in exchange.
Others have already given good answers. But it’s not just offshoring. It’s also people working remotely in the United States. You’re competing with people living in the MiddleOfNowhere Wyoming with a much lower cost of living who are willing to work for much less than someone living in San Francisco.

Also, the public markets have gotten wise to VCs Ponzi scheme of capturing all of the value of a company before it goes public, the company still not being profitable when it IPOs and then the public seeing the value of its investments stagnate or decline.

Without a viable exit strategy, investors are a lot more skittish about throwing money at startups.

Yes, I know most exits are via acquisitions. But in the current regulatory environment globally, major acquisitions are also being blocked.
You couldn't feasibly overthrow the elite, because they would control the machines that automated the production. South Africa actually illustrates the problem. Post-Apartheid, South Africa is basically two countries in one country: a largely white, industrialized country participating in the globalized and financialized economy, and a largely black developing-nation economy. The black south africans cannot expel the whites, because the latter would take with them almost all industrial and agricultural technology.
I sure can, but why do you ask? I just did 25 minutes of research to give a clear reasoning why they want them, and then finding the dates of when Zelenskyy said they "need" or "should get" nuclear weapons. But i'm unwilling to share this research effort without knowing the purpose behind your asking.

To put it better, what year would be an acceptable answer? Is the year that they loudly claimed "we should have never given up our nuclear weapons" not acceptable? the year "we need Nukes or NATO"?

I also remember sabre rattling in 2014 and either 2016 or 2017. NATO already has missiles pointed at Russia, and Ukraine joining NATO would allow missiles to be launched from even closer to Russia.

I don't understand why people don't get the nuance. The US did dirty. I don't know how to solve that, but the answer isn't "war with russia" or "proxy war with russia" the answer is closer to "get the fighting to stop, and tell russia to chill out and report issues to the world, not sit and stew for 8 years over their ethnic brothers, sisters, and children being 'rained down upon' with death and destruction."