skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be like that, but, life is too short to allow embarrassment to paralyze you. If you go through it often enough, you develop a sort of numbness to it. I'm sure I can still embarrass myself, but I try not to dwell in that micro blackhole. PTSD has taught me that if you are constantly focused on those patterns, you will see them in everything. So you might wind up feeling like you are embarrassing yourself constantly even though external reality has no validation mechanic to prove this. Are people saying you are embarrassing? And should you care, if they do think this? That judgement is their own burden.

You can keep wondering, but to me that's the same as thinking everything is traumatic because the reality of the present is 'connected' to the memory of the past. All those links, you can keep stepping back into them until you feel like, "I am reliving this again", but, that happens frequently enough and I dunno.

Labeling things stupid just means you have less tools to work with when a stupid thing might actually be the more smart thing to work with. Doesn't mean you won't make mistakes. As far as intelligence is concerned, I'm not sure any human is intelligent enough to be it while knowing what it is.
From article, and what I’ve read previously, Higgs provides weight to particles and does not have anything to do with electroweak and strong force.

I could be wrong as I’m a layman in these things.
By pensions you mean boomers. I'm prone, content to blame most of our current problems on the boomers.
Regarding Git over Scuttlebutt, there's this apparently:

https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoy...

though I just stumbled upon it, no idea how it works and what are the features vs. limitations.
> the entire FB and Google business models cannot suddenly change to move away from user data collection

Google's business is a bit more diversified than Facebook's, though, especially considering their expansion into providing cloud services. And they have long-term ventures that could really pay out in the future, like Waymo.
Proterozoic Milankovitch cycles and the history of the solar system
> simply won't load content from outside of the current domain

This would be a very bad idea!

First because it will break a lot of legit use-cases: CDNs, distributed architectures, SSO, payment gateways, ...

Second because it won't actually prevent the tracking: it would be easy to make a subdomain and point it to Google Analytics or any ad network to "re-enable".
Apple attacks the core primitives of Adtech very strategically with this update. This is very smart actually, much better than the first iteration.

They're going after the meat right away, like cookie synchronization ("Tracker collusion") and the first-party tracker hack that Criteo pioneered, effectively disabling almost all the tracking possibilities on iOS. As a user, this is awesome.

And if you want to track, you need to provide both value (i.e. an authenticated service) as well as get explicit consent from the user.

Unfortunately, this will also serve to concentrate the power in the hands of Google and Facebook, who have and/or will create such authenticated embeds.

Note that all this hardtalk specifically excludes the mobile ad IDs. Apple would face much more headwind from GOOG and FB if they went about killing these. This is going to be very interesting, as Apple will need to carefully tread up to a point, after which there could be harsher repercussions.

They also know that an iPhone without access to Google Maps, Search, Mail, Authenticator, Youtube and a whole lot of other essential services won't be worth much to end users anymore.

Source: I'm working in Adtech, but we chose a different approach of giving users an actual benefit and being careful, compliant and frugal with data. All these recent updates about Apple and GDPR mainly hit the really bad players of the industry that just hoard sensitive data through shady channels and arbitrage it to hell — and I consider that a good thing.
VDG does not exist
One of the insights is that 1.4 billion years ago the length of Earth days was 18.68 ± 0.25 hours.
5 Image Management Best Practices
It's not like any of those things. Its all the same technology just a slightly different API to access it.
Not that I didn’t believe BurntSushi but I wanted my own validation. Not suprised you got the same result. I think with whitelisting there is probably no need to mmap for these tools.

The nested comments and strings will probably slow you down a lot. I know it did for me. I’m looking forward to the new GC settings in Go so I can tweak it for faster performance.

Did you ever work out why loc was performing so badly on multi core systems? Sounds like you did but curious what the bottleneck was. I don’t understand rust well enough to be able to guess sorry.
> Apple doesn't do it for the good of mankind

Apple is generally showing a superior attitude towards user privacy, even in situations that don't seem directly tied to their own ad channels, as you say. Maintaining a privacy-focused image is good for business in general, hence their reluctance to cooperate with law enforcement to violate individual user privacy.
Washed out, thin fonts, horrible contrast. What's not to like?
I highly suggest this practical guide: http://nathanbarry.com/authority/

It worked for me in 2013

More info on how it ended: http://nathanbarry.com/authority-case-studies/
My pet peeve is low contrast, makes it really hard to quickly distinguish between parts of the page.

Simply by changing the light grey background for something much darker makes the individual charts and boxes pop out, making it so much easier to compartmentalize the information.

edit: https://imgur.com/a/2cUQAXr
As a long time user of Android, I am for the first time contemplating buying an iPhone. I probably would if not for the lack of headphone jack. If I ever replace my old, rarely used home laptop, I'd probably get a macbook (unless of course I was building a gaming machine).

I do wonder however how much influence this will have on the average user. Those of us who work in the industry are far more aware of tracking and personal privacy. I'm not sure how much the typical consumer will actually care.
The Cloud/BigData business, which is the strategic thrust of Amazon/AWS, Microsoft/Azure and Google/GCP, is simply 2nd degree surveillance. BigData is code word for "ever more detailed logs of every human on the planet".
I just made public my Master Thesis project that I completed at the University of Oxford.

It is called CPProb and it is a C++ general purpose probabilistic programming library that uses a version of Variational Inference to learn proposals for Importance Sampling.

It aims to be usable directly in preexisting C++ codebases.
For the fulfillment of the Master Thesis, I also wrote a tutorial on Particle filters via SMC-like methods, and I described the design choices that one finds when implementing one of these systems.

The C++ library with the corresponding Pytorch-based neural network and the tutorial can be found in

https://github.com/Lezcano/CPProb

and are available under a MIT license.
"The site's intention is nice in theory but not really feasible in practice. "

They've gotten really far, though. Jan's Mes can compile tcc which can compile an older version of GCC. They just need enough of a C compiler to compile MesC.

https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes

"To get an OS running on a computer, you need binaries anyways, so having some more binaries for programming languages isn't really that bad. "

That's what I keep telling folks obsessed with this. If they insist on non-binary solutions, David A. Wheeler and I talked about using scripting languages that come with the system. I was looking at Perl with him mentioning bash. I added bash, Tcl, and awk compilers to the bootstrapping collection just in case. That's on top of the usual like Forth, LISP, or META II. People put some small, C compilers in there like you were talking about.

https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
Firefox Focus can block web fonts on iOS. It can also act as a content blocker.
For me that's where side projects come in. I'm working on Maths teaching software [1], which allows me to combine my teaching experience (figuring out what feedback to give as students work through problems and when) with my (limited) technical experience (which admittedly has been 80% gluing libraries together!).

The day job still pays the bills but finding something that interests me personally while also offering potential future rewards is what keeps me going.

[1] https://blutick.co.uk/demo - alpha stage right now
I'm more interested in Zen2 on 7nm which seems to be coming out earlier than Intels 10nm CPUs.

Possible IPC enhancements from architecture optimizations of Zen2 + better clocks = first time since over a decade that AMD beats Intel in single threaded workloads? Due to their better SMT implementation (?) they seem to beat Intel in multithreaded scenarios already with same core count and around the same clock (at least in Cinebench).
I wonder if samsung will follow suit. I imagine building privacy conditions into android is likely harder than it is for Apple into iOS..
Yes but you don't need any of that in this case, Firefox's config files are easily editable to toggle am option like using DoH.
I've test driven a bolt and done the diligence on it.

It needs 4 (FOUR) days to charge on a standard outlet. If you happen to own a house, you can have the higher amp outlet installed for like 2k.

Otherwise, good luck finding a fast charging station for GM cars. They don't exist.
TDP today is a marketing measure. Intel's real datasheets clearly state TDP of 17.5 Watts.
90% would be fine. The problem is that it's 100%.
Most people reporting to me make >$200k total comp, some by quite a lot. I see no evidence that they're happier than my high school classmates. The highest earner quite certainly wasn't the happiest. Somewhere, there's an eighteen-year-old doing affiliate marketing (maybe ICOs now?) who outearns all of us, with less than zero institutional prestige.

It's a big world. Money is excellent, but it's (a) less effective in buying happiness than you think, and (b) found in more places than you think. Seriously, talk to a therapist--these thoughts are hurting both your mental health and your earning potential.
Hfghh
Be it as it may, I believe some actions can benefit both users and companies. Maybe taking privacy seriously is going to benefit Apple's business, but it is going to benefit millions of users, too. So I guess it's a clever move by Apple.
This deal's really turned into a Rorschach test!

Treating large companies as Manichean monolithic entities is unhealthy. Microsoft like every large company has bright spots and dim spots, good leaders and bad leaders, good ideas and bad ones. They're complex and so your relationship with them should be, too.

As an argument, this comment is terribly myopic and naive. As a mirror it's fascinating.
ya.. microsoft, the committed mortal enemy of Open Source Software, is now holding the most important hub for Open Source Software.
Would you mind showing me the "wrong definition of a prime" in this manila envelope?
As of right now, you can't post this story on Facebook. Coincidence?
I don't have high expectations for a company that says they take privacy seriously while constantly invading it and playing dumb.
If you're bored you're doing it right. Read 'Programming sucks! Or at least, it ought to'[0]

[0] https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Programming-Sucks!-Or-At-Le...
It's not up to them anymore. VCs want their returns soon, not in twenty years.
Is there a dark mode?
they are certainly not charging less for targeted ads, the opposite is true.
I think it's a change to iframe loading.
So are precious metals near-infinitely divisible.

Not sure what point you are trying to bring across.
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I thought I similar utilization in tokei on my machine. I copied the concurrency pattern straight from ripgrep. I'll have to take a look tomorrow. I assumed I was still bottlenecked on reads.
So, What does IOTA's Q project mean for us Laymen
You both seem to be enjoying the back and forth, so 'scuse me butting in :)

> IIRC) much more dynamic memory management than Apple's

The Amiga scatter loader that both dynamically loaded and minimised fragmentation. If you were doing it "properly" and staying in OS, ie not hitting the hardware, there was one fixed address: ExecBase ($4) via which you'd find GfxBase, IntuitionBase and so on.

> Having used both machines, as well as an interlaced 1024x768 SVGA, I assure you, I do not want to use interlaced mode.

No one would. You bought either the superb 2080 Paperwhite long persistence monitor or a flicker fixer and multi sync.

So many missed opportunities by Commodore. :(
Every application comes with an entire operating system's worth of code nowadays.

Download a desktop chat client or a little menu bar utility — each app includes its own copy of Electron at 150MB.

Make a "Hello world" web client app using React with the recommended "create-react-app" toolchain — your project will first download nearly 200MB of code via npm (and each project you start will have its own copy of this stuff).

Make a web server with a framework like Rails, Vert.x or whatever — be prepared to spend hours downloading dependencies and setting up your local environment just so.

I don't have any good ideas for how to break this cycle. By 2028, I expect every to-do app will include its own 4GB copy of Ubuntu because it's convenient.
Wasn't there a report recently that FB's user base has dropped by several percentage points in the wake of their privacy scandal? If so, that would imply that many average users are taking it seriously -- that would be millions of people who stopped using FB.
Sorry about the broken server config. It's fixed now.
This might matter if the author is so careless, should I worry about other hidden vulnerabilities in this utility site overall.
It is astounding that with all that tracking data ad quality has not actually improved in 20 years. They are still garbage ads that are still rarely relevant.
This thing has been out for less than 24 hours. I’m sure they’ll need some time to refine and optimize it. Anyone remember how the very first Mapbox version compared in performance with respect to Google Maps?
Microsoft could do this too - push out a security update to Win10 that blocks tracking and cut Google and Facebook off at the knees overnight. Windows Privacy Defender, they could call it.

I believe the only reason they haven’t done this already is lingering fears of antitrust again.

Apple and MS only have to do ads because that’s the state of the industry. But they could ditch that model entirely and retain all their core revenue streams if the attention economy was no longer a thing.
As a freelancer, occasionally I am hired specifically to solve an interesting or novel technical problem a particular organization is not staffed for.

For "normal" contracts, I'm usually leveraging open sourced libraries when possible, and implementing things in the most uncontroversial way possible. My main goal is to leave the customer with a product which does the job, performs well, and can be easily understood by the next developer to pick it up. In these type of projects, my main outlet for creativity is in custom tooling and workflow automation, not anything user-facing.

Other than that, I solve lots of interesting technical problems in my free time.
The economic value of ad personalization is measured in hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

A part of that value goes to Facebook, Google, and other social media and advertising firms. A part goes to publishers, who provide free shit such as news to billions of people. A part goes to advertisers who get to sell more stuff. A part goes to consumers who get to see the aforementioned free news, plus occasionally see slightly less shitty ads.

When Apple blocks user data, it destroys a lot of economic value, which costs jobs; a lot of them are in the US since the biggest advertisers, publishers, and ad firms are US based.

Maybe it's worth it because privacy. But it certainly hurts millions of people who depend, directly or indirectly, on the effectiveness of ads.
You are postulating here a priori that causality governs the movement of the universe. That is a philosophical position on how to interpret physical observation, but whereas archetypal temporal cause-and-effect phenomena is frequently observed, there are yet many physical phenomena that you and I regard as fact don't have obviously observed temporal causes. For example, we observe the Big Bang as well as the accelerating expansion of the universe, but don't have good explanations for their temporal cause. And everything in the universe is temporally caused by the Big Bang...

So what I'm trying to say here is that your claim here that causality governs the actual laws of nature is suspect, both because your comment has not been elaborate enough to specify what you mean by causality, and because one of the most popular notions of causality, i.e. temporal causality, seems, to a first approximation, not be a good model of the observable physics: it postulates a temporal cause for the big bang, but no time prior to the big bang is observable.
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Builds should just be done with shell scripts.

I recently crossed swords with .gitlab-ci.yml. An obfuscation layer that fights back.

Ditto jenkinsfile and whatever you wanna call GoCD's config.xml.

This silliness reminds me most of all those ETL workflow obfuscation frameworks, like BizTalk and TalenD.

PS- If anyone has the bad judgement to use YAML, it'd be nice if the linter reported something more specific than "syntax error line 1 char 1" for deeply buried typos. I thought XML sucked until I met JSON. I thought JSON sucked until I met YAML. What's next? The resurrection of ASN.1?

PS2- It's not programming if you can't set a break point. The edit, eval, fail, profanity loop for troubleshooting .gitlab-ci.yml is pretty intense.
I wish Microsoft would still have a viable option for phones. I don't like iPhones or Apples walled garden, but I don't wan't to be dependent on Google either. I wonder if they would have a better chance today, when cross platform app development is easier and most people only use a handful of them.
"figuring out business requirements"

Have you tried looking here for inspiration? The challenges here may be less technical, but that doesn't necessarily make them less interesting...
Interesting. Actually being blocked on reads sounds about right. I’ll try running the benchmarks again one of these days. Probably after I get access to the Go GC controls that are apparently on the way.
"Data collection" is implemeted not only in Windows 10, but also is backported up to Windows 7. So basically it is now in every supported and regularly updated Windows installation.

Also I remember that detailed articles about "data collection" appeared only after it was shipped and caused some negative reaction. While publishing an article is a good idea, it is unlikely that everyone will read it. A better idea would be to display a popup for Windows users saying something like "Hi there! We are going to look what programs you are running and what else do you do at your computer to improve your experience. Hope you are fine with that.".

Technically it might be not a spyware, but if the user doesn't realize that their actions are being tracked, it still would look like a spyware to them. Or should we better call it a "trojan" software? A definition from Wikipedia says "In computing, a Trojan horse, or Trojan, is any malicious computer program which misleads users of its true intent." and Windows telemetry program matches that definition.

For example, in an article about "basic" telemetry [1] they mention that full command line of an application can be recorded, potentially including any private data and passwords.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/ru-ru/windows/privacy/basic-level...
Acquisition by giants
I don’t understand with which detail of my statements you don’t agree.
the structure of oss more often than not leads to improved user sophistcation.
arguably it doesn't actually make many ads more effective anyway

Source?
Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL in macOS 10.14
If the number of dimensions is high, building a model by hand could be extremely difficult, and using ML makes sense.
> But that doesn't mean we took the best path. There is always an alternative future if x hadn't happened at all. If x hadn't happened, we might be in a better place, rather than accepting it and doing the best we can.

Of course. I didn't mean to say that Apple is designing the best possible future or making the best possible decisions. I'd rather have a future where these technologies are supported as first class citizens by everyone, and I can just cross compile this stuff with virtually no porting or optimization effort, however unfortunately this is not the world we live in right now.

As I said, mine is an observation rather than taking one side.
I'm one of the happy persons about this move, because my competition use OpenGL on Mac and I just use software rendering. It was easy to see this deprecation coming...
Soccer on Your Tabletop
Ridiculous. Please define "anyone" and "major project" and then let's make a bet.
I tolerate emoji (though don't use them myself) but I always get upset at the acceptance rate of new emoji compared to the historical acceptance rate of actual characters that are used in actual written languages by the unicode stewards.
The standard bolt has more range than the standard model 3.
Excellent! I've started using Vert.x with Kotlin instead of PHP for making restful API's and it's wonderful. Event driven, strongly typed and performant. Looking forward to trying this out.
Great but whats the gc story? Does substrate vm include a generational gc?
I’ve facetiously pronounced it as ‘cicada’ in the past :)

I’ve only ever heard it pronounced ‘see eye see dee’ which is pretty quick to say while still being intelligible.
About 5 to 8 years after I expected it but a welcome decision
Github's founders became billionaires by making powerful developer tools available to everyone at low or zero cost, thus making millions of developers more productive and wealthy.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs became billionaires by making personal computers and software available to billions of ordinary people, making them more productive and wealthy.

Larry and Sergey became billionaires by making information and smartphones available to billions of people, and in doing so helping some of the world's poorest people lift themselves out of poverty.

What do you prefer: a world in which a handful of people are vastly more wealthy than the rest but where everyone's material wellbeing is improving, or a world in which everyone is equal but we all have little wealth and little technological progress?
The distinction wasn't made clear because we're talking about some 60 different agreements with various companies, with each company acting differently.

As stated in the article: Facebook acknowledged that some partners did store users’ data — including friends’ data — on their own servers. .. which meets your definition of concerning.

It will likely be some time before we learn the extent of all of these agreements and how the data was used.
For days after I make a purchase I keep seeing ads for the very thing I have already purchased.
I hadn't heard of Vertx until my most recent job where we use it for our platform. We currently deploy in openjdk docker containers.

This seems neat, but I'm wondering about dependencies. Does Graal rebuild all your dependent jars to be native? What if you have unsupported things like reflection in a dependency? I'm looking through their website and can't seem to find any answers.

We've already run into dependencies for Vertx that puke on Java 9 (depreciated/removed API) and are currently still on Java 8. This seems nice, but I have a feeling that, for production, you'd end up writing a lot around GraalVM.