jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wonder, is it I'm so unlucky or what?

All these articles about surveillance capitalism promises me very precise targeted ads (quote from this article: "Google uses its extensive knowledge of you to show you advertising that fits you like a tailor-made suit.").

But I didn't get that at all. All I get is generic advertisements, often for services or goods which are not available in my region (!).

Examples:

(1) I've made my first Instagram post when I've been traveling in Myanmar. I had account for several months already, and I was subscribed for my friends & family and several thematic accounts, but my first post was some travel photo from Myanmar. After that year and a half (!!!) I was feed only by Myanmar ads in Instagram. I was in Myanmar for a 3 weeks, but still! Yes, it is not Google, it is FB.

(2) I'm seeing only two types of ads on Youtube: generic ads of food delivery services in my country (I never use them) and a lot of ads for UK bank and cell services. And also UK Amazon and UK Youtube Premium ads (with prices in pounds). Yes, I have IPv6 tunnel to UK, it is right. But I don't think that IP-based ads is "Google knows anything about me".

Banners are not better: generic AliExpress and some strange mixed offers which looks like same AliExpressdrop-shipping at best and scam at worst.

Google (and FB) could know, that I like DIY, electronics and motorcycles. I can not hide that. But I don't see ANY relevant ads on ANY global platform.

Where are there "tailored ads"? Did you see them?

Country-local advertisement network shows me goods which I searched for on local marketplace (after I bought one, of course), it is somewhat relevant (but, again, mostly useless), but global Ads giants who "knows everything about me" shows only generic or complete irrelevant crap.

I'm using GMail a lot, my primary search engine is Google, I have huge youtube subscription list (so, my interests must be obvious), but no, not a single piece of relevant ad from Google or FB.
Could you elaborate more about Matrix's metadata distribution? What exactly is being distributed and when? I'd like to see that if you have it as I wasn't aware of this.

PS: I'm not trying to contradict you here, on the contrary. I'd like to deep dive into it as it is indeed a big issue. If Matrix really takes off (which I hope it does) I would want to avoid dataminers just federating to it and grabbing data that way.

Of course some metadata would need to be able to be shared for the federated network to function. I understand that too.
Isn't that also potentially a signal he's hired for a specific reason - not necessarily to benefit all shareholders but perhaps extract as much as they can for certain parties like executives?

It still boggles my mind that Sears, with their Sears catalogue and name recognition - and tons of store locations until fairly recently - could never pivot online, where they already had distribution centres..
and the US is rich because all that wealth was transferred to them during the European wars which it arguably joined so it would be able to receive payment for the eventual debt.

For reference: Britain was already using US credit in 1916 only half-way through the first Great War. All of the liquid wealth got blown in the space of two years due to the unexpected scale of the conflict.
155 per JAS vs 100 per F35. But Brazil didn't pay th3 development costs for the JAS. Didn't the US pay that?
So once both senior and non-senior engineers opt out of on-call, who do you expect to take care of issues that happen out of hours? (In case of companies who deal with 24h traffic and transactions)
>Just to be clear, this is a double standard based on your priors.

>Vote No propaganda is bad because unions are good.

>Vote Yes propaganda is good because unions are good.

Double standard? Not really. Definitely not the peak of critical reasoning, though. But I'm not judging anti-union vs pro-union propaganda by anything but their motives.

>If you are not convinced that unions age good in the first place, then it all falls apart.

Ah, but I do. Not inherently, and not always. But net positive in my opinion. Sure, if I change my beliefs to contradict, it will not make sense. Just as if I believed unions were bad and net negative, union propaganda would be considered scummy but amazon propaganda wouldn't.

I always try to judge critically, and in my personal opinion, pro vs anti has a clear benefit for the worker on one side. This doesn't mean I think the other shouldn't exist. I don't think that means a double standard, since in my eyes they aren't the same. If they were literally the same, say Amazon wanted the Yankees to win and the workers wanted the Red Sox to win, and I insisted on one side over the other, then it would be a double standard (like 1984, they do it = bad, we do the same thing = good).
Sure. I'm not saying Poly1305 is problem for DJB, just for anyone else trying to implement it, which is a concern DJB has with his other crypto, but not here.
The fact that men overall are coddled does not mean that every man is coddled.

The societal expectation is that men do hard/dangerous work, while women do housework and childcare. Technology has automated away most of the former jobs, such that only a tiny minority of men are working in a coal mine or oil rig. Technology has yet to do much to automate childcare. The result has been a windfall for men--they have five more hours of leisure time per week than women.[1] Judging by these statistics of the non-employed, I imagine such trends will only be magnified with increased automation, and under policies like guaranteed minimum income.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/10/another-gend...
I was trying to follow what happened. It appears that prior to the start of the AMA, various subreddits, such as r/teslamotors, collected questions within their subreddit that they wished Musk to answer, then posted them in the AMA and upvoted them.

Moderators of /r/AMA see that as "vote brigading" and hid or deleted the questions so that Musk could not answer them.

Did I get that right in terms of what happened?
It honestly hadn't occurred to me that printing to stdout could fail, or that I'd need to check its return value to ensure it was successful. Can you think of an situation where that might happen? And if so, why doesn't println throw an exception?

On the other hand, a side effect like writing to a file or inserting to a database can easily fail, but those of course throw exceptions.
Yes but a good browser with Chrome's features will be a great alternative. Right now Chrome has become a big memory hog and is slowly going to competition with old IE.
That one probably has tracks inside that move each piece through its path as the table rotates.
It seems to be counting types of cancer (by their location in the body) rather than incidence. This makes it potentially meaningless. Those 9 cancers caused by lifestyle, might also be the 9 most common or most deadly ones.
Big picture thinking is not a skill. If you study any field of knowledge or industry you automatically get a big picture idea of what's going on. If you read a book you automatically get a big picture idea of the book. Anybody can do it, it's not talent, and it's not even learned, it's a basic human trait.

The only thing you can say about the author is that he's knowledgeable about the industry. His speculations on what happened in 2014 is a reflection of his knowledge, not skill.

Coding is a skill. If you just read a book on C++ without writing a line of code you gain a big picture understanding of C++, yet you lack the necessary skill to actually code. Like big picture thinking, anybody can learn a skill, but It takes far more time and discipline to actually gain a true skill then it does to see the big picture.

I'll say one thing though, understanding the big picture is often all you need to bullshit other people into thinking you have a certain skill.
Just another example of the bay attitude '---- you, I got mine'
Google I/O is always a favorite, although I was disappointed by the change from 3 days to 2 days for 2014, and the conference is always very packed. That said, the enthusiasm and energy level is very high and you'll meet a lot of fantastic people.
The term “jeweler’s loupe” is what I’d use myself for this demo...

Apple’s use of the term “retina” only serves to remind me of Wired magazine’s original attempt at a website way back when. (They called their Life magazine-like section “retina.”) It’s a common, almost everyday word that nevertheless sounds pretentious or sci-fi—ish.
I feel this is the largest threat to freedom in the US in a long time, possibly ever. If the US has the ability to decrypt traffic from all of the major players I think, based on their history, they'll likely try to collect everything. All emails, purchases, internet searches, and so on would be cataloged. For example, if I applied for a government job in the future I could have my allegiance called into question for writing this comment. They would easily know who all but the most vigilant are based on information provided during purchases, correlated with IP addresses and cookie information.

The real criminals of course would use any number of other systems (say those based in other countries) which would not be collected in the dragnet. It would only be the average citizen who suffers.
Your point is completely valid, however, the challenge is expectations/intentions. It's one thing if both parties are seeking the same thing; it's another if they aren't. I would venture a guess that many times there are misalignments. In some cases, these may be conscious (somebody is looking for casual dating on a marriage-oriented site) while in others, they're unconscious (individuals believe they're looking for a serious relationship when in reality they aren't ready for one).

Using the author of this post as an example, I wonder how well aligned her expectations and intentions were with those of her 45 first dates. Note that in one part of her post, the author refers to "meet[ing] someone" while in another part she refers to leading an "active dating life." Although you can obviously expect to meet multiple people before you meet someone with whom you want to start a monogamous relationship, these might be two different pursuits.

The questions around expectations/intentions are even more intriguing in light of the fact that the author says almost all of her dates looked like their photos and that she didn't have "any especially bad CMB/Hinge dates."
I'm guessing these are the same people who pronounce "terrorist" almost the same as "tourist"
This. I mean, if the prison lite that is school (love that term) is better than a child's home life, doesn't that speak to deeper issues? Maybe GP should try not to excuse the stories from the Hellmouth[0] that is school by saying that home life is worse for some children.

I for one, don't see how my being stuffed into a locker was conducive to any sort of "learning experience", and I've always had problems staying awake in lectures since as far back as I can remember. Give me books any day of the week.

A one size fits all approach is shitty for everyone, both those "privileged" to suffer at school, and those for whom it is an escape from a broken home.

[0] - https://slashdot.org/story/99/04/27/0310247/more-stories-fro...
> I just hope that all remote positions balance out globally.

I've been working remotely since 2015 and the market has been gradually moving in this direction(at least in eastern Europe where I come from) - COVID-19 only speeded things up.
I suspect it wont replicate. Not because there was any flaw in the original. But because today's students have heard of that study and will be more suspicious.
>Do not use features from C++11 or later.

Is this a technical requirement to have compiler feature parity on all platforms?
That's exactly the point - it's not good for people when the market rate goes too close to or below cost of living. 60% of cities having the same pay are irrelevant when there's the rest of the world, which is generally poorer.
This reminds me a phrase from the Israeli writer Amos Oz:

"For centuries, both jews and palestinians suffered from European oppression. When they achieve liberation and comes the time for them to live in peace, they can't escape behaving to each other like the Europeans did to them. The mind of the oppressed is quite often a mirror of the opressor's mind".

I believe that every hate and prejudice is learned from the experience of oppression. And it is learned both by the oppressor and oppressed. It takes a long walk under democracy to unlearn it.
I agree, but if a developer is developing on a tier 2 or tier 3 platform, they can’t necessarily rely on rustup either.
Anyone who has tried car/van camping in public should be familiar with this feeling. While sleeping in my van I've had plenty of nightmares where the nearest neighborhood forms an angry mob to have my vehicle towed away.
Sorry I meant South Asia.
If you are well versed in math I suggest looking into D-Waves Leap program. There is a big demand for people in this field and the pay is very good. The thing is the programming is very "Mathy" so it might be right up your alley!

https://www.dwavesys.com/take-leap
Try to read about the features inside their custom chips. Personally I am amazed.
I doubt there is very much usage of builtin widgets in CC, from what I've seen the UI in photoshop and indesign doesn't look like native widgets. Now, that's not to say that they don't use OS-specific API's, they probably make heavy use of DirectX and maybe Metal, but I don't think the widget toolkits would be a big blocker for most of adobe's products.
The part of the demo that was actually impressive was the part where they took sledgehammers to the body panels and didn't leave dents. I think it'll be fine.
I prefer leading with commas, and one column per line.
Well, the steel ball didn't go through which is pretty amazing still.
From what you've said it seems like the difference is more an issue of framing. You're focused on the effects for the end user, which are the same no matter what in my opinion and I agree on that. At the same time, if you're publishing exploits that are cutting edge and primarily only apply to the competition then, because you (in this hypothetical) are a company, the overall effects of the research are self serving. Why not publish more vulnerabilities that apply to your own systems otherwise? Surely you (again, the hypothetical you) are in a better position than other entities to engage in introspective research that benefits the end user. Obviously there's a possibility that the explanation is "Because the competition has more flaws than our/my own product" but without evidence such is the case then there isn't a lot of reason for outside critics to give the benefit of the doubt. Also, I'm not a security researcher so I realize some of my points might not be accurate to the state of the industry. I'm moreso trying to highlight the lines of thinking that lead to criticism of P0 and why I don't think they're easy to refute without a certain degree of burden on Google's/Totallyrelatedbutnot-google's part.
That's funny, because I'd rather have Jimmy stare at me instead of being tracked by Google in even one more place.
I'd rather they charge more and actually get rid of the commercials. After the spoilings from Netflix and Crunchyroll, the Hulu ads really annoy me.

Especially that far-too-loud little piggy Geico commercial.
Think its necessary even for a tour that lasts 1 minute? My app is really dead simple, I'm pretty sure a monkey could figure it out :] I just hate the idea of throwing new users into the wild without any kind of introduction.
In what way is the gmail client better? I'm using the Mail app on iPhone 4 and I love it. Joined inboxes, threaded conversations. The only thing missing for me is the ability to add rules locally.
In a lot of cases, the problem with using someone else's trademark isn't that you're profiting off of it (though that's not great either) - it's the resulting brand dilution/confusion that results.

If I didn't know better, I would assume that Hacker News India was affiliated with the original, which is a problem. HN would then be affected by any actions of HNI going forward, and no trademark holder wants to be put in that situation.

I would strongly suggest finding a new name.
The link is broken. It's missing an "f" at the end. It should be
"www.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/p/p109-weimer.pdf".
Clickalicious: http://vyemusic.com/
Yes, indeed. But IMO this is the way to see this problem. A "typical" range answer (eg .1% to .5%) is not very useful in this case. Alas! I would give Jobs half of my company to have him in my board of advisors.
Your cited "buried truth" is more alarming than the headline.
Learn your terms before you lay blame. Clickbait is used to drive ad revenue.
What you can do about YouTube is to use it like any ordinary person who uploads videos of their dog doing something cute, or whatever.

They are not being threatened with having their channels blocked unless they sign some agreement.

Release and market your music in any way you want, and use
YouTube to host some vids, so you can embed them into your web pages without having to use your own bandwidth.

Here is a little quote:

> "[...] no matter how I explained my hands-on fan-supported anti-corporate niche thing, I was an alien to them. I don’t think they understood me at all. "

See, if you want to be in a fan-supported anti-corporate niche thing, then don't feed your music to some Content ID "Borg" machine, intended to harass people who share.

Of course those people didn't understand. They were probably thinking, "why do you want our help in content-ID-ing your material and clamping down on duplication, forcing copies to be removed or monetized by you, if you are anti-corporate and fan-supported? We are, like, corporate and revenue-supported."
I'm glad you managed to stay afloat through gig work but this example really seems to point out that it's prevalence is due to failing social systems (job market/safety nets) driving people into insecure forms of work.
I didn't really want to give money to a scummy website like Raid Forums but I figured this would be a popular torrent. If you search BTDigg for "Facebook" and order by date then it is on the first page.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0435a5d392107f3e5b0b047d204c8cec98e31e72&dn=facebook_leak&tr=udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80&tr=udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

At least I think that's probably it. Not 100% sure.

Edit: Yeah seems legit. It has me in it. It has my phone number, name, facebook ID, address (though note that it is just the address you tell Facebook - mine is just "London, UK" which isn't even up to date), and then a date. Not sure what the date is; possibly retrieval time? Most are between 2016 and 2018.
Uber and Lyft do this today except for the robot/autonomous part. Hasn't significantly dented car ownership that I can see. From my experience, the biggest benefit is that it makes it easier to be a tourist without renting a car.
Username/password are sent as (base64 encoded) plaintext on the auth header.

You should only use this over HTTPS.
Interesting discussion on the ICLR openreview, resulting in a reject:

https://openreview.net/forum?id=PdauS7wZBfC
There's a magic point on YouTube at 10 minutes that lets creators insert ads in the middle of their videos, so they all stretch out the content for that purpose. It's very obnoxious.
IANAL: Merger Doctrine is closest thing I'm aware of.
I never knew this exists up until now. I'd love to watch this if ever there was an English caption available. Russians did an excellent job in this theater adaptation.
They don't exist because of some anti-conformity, they exist because there are people in the world that like to host malware, spam and child pornography. That is why they exist and the only reason they exist.
Financial services companies have three different issues:
* Banks don't do multi-record SQL (see Brewer's article on the topic)
* They don't do many transactions
* Nobody got fired for buying oracle or DB2

An oracle replacement won't be built for financial services companies.
They finally stopped emailing me after I figured out they were looking for someone else with my name. They dropped a hint that they were excited about my compiler work at Microsoft; but I've never done compiler work or been employed by Microsoft.
Very timely question, considering 'jart's work has been at the top of HN in the last couple days[+]. Take a look at https://justine.lol/ape.html especially the portable Javascript interpreter. If you go that route you'd want to adapt it to Ruby. That'd be some nontrivial work, most likely, but it'd definitely be pretty neat.

[+] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273960
What good would it do for anyone if Apple were to follow the way Google did? People in China wouldn't have freer access to the non-China internet, or less heavy-handed government intervention, if they had to VPN from Lenovo laptop instead of a Mac. I think this is unhelpful for the ideals that Westerners like to have, specifically because it's a moral crusade.
Basically, in game dev, small differences in performance lead to a very noticeable effect on frame rate. In this case, cache misses are a big deal and their impact really adds up. ECS is a way structure your data to minimize cache misses and to theoretically make your multithreading easier too - in both cases by putting the data in one place (ie, removing state elsewhere), and making it easier to control when and how data gets modified
Reminds me of events like Pearl Harbor or even DDay where multiple signals existed to warn of the attacks and by some obnoxious sequence of ignorance they all went ignored.
I mean, they have their own websites and the postal service.

But the real answer is, too large of a population of the USA believes the free market is more efficient than government.

I don’t know if that is right or wrong, but it definitely leads to an outsized reliance of the government on private companies.
It's not even the equivalent of a drop in the ocean. I generally avoid indiatimes.com as it is not a reputable source of information. I am truly surprised to see it pop up on HN
Oops, I said cdn instead of cms.
Here is another key argument from the paper:

> As we shall see, the plurality in Alvarez [1] was myopic in focusing largely on established categories of cases, such as libel, in which false statements of fact can sometimes be regulated or sanctioned. In the modern era in particular, other false statements, falling well short of libel, can cause serious problems for individuals and society, even if they do not fit within established categories.

The quote below gives some context about "established categories of cases" [2]:

> As a general rule, content-based restrictions on speech have been permitted only when confined to a few "historic and traditional categories of expression," such as speech likely to incite imminent lawless action, speech integral to criminal conduct, "fighting words," child pornography, fraud, and speech presenting some grave and imminent threat that the government has the power to prevent. [2]

[1] https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-a...

[2] https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-a...
Regardless of who the protestors are, the moment it becomes more than a peaceful protest teargas is a pretty safe tool compared to everything else in the arsenal. "LTL" projectiles are really nasty and easily mis-used, tasers fairly consistently produce deaths on a segment of the population with heart defects, and baton fighting is basically open melee combat.
This looked like a success story:

https://franz.com/agraph/amdocs/