skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suspect that if you have a small team that knows each other well enough, that is a bit of an extension of a one-person project and it can still remain.

Well yeah that's exactly this. Tough I've got to admit that it doesn't work that well as we'd like regarding external pull requests since contributors do not all read our commit guidelines.
I may be the only one, but I do think most companies don't use my data for evil purposes. For example, if a search engine can track me on the web, they can deduce which web page answered my query. Then they put that page near the top of the list the next time anyone runs the same query.

Furthermore: if a retailer can use my location data to predict demand, they can optimize their logistics and save fuel.
Given the undercurrent of class warfare in today's politics and economics, it makes some sense that this is news. By the way, you do yourself no favors:

This really isn't that outrageous

are generally treated like second-class citizens

I think I understand the sentiment here, that in the context of the workforce, it's ethical to treat people in certain roles like second-class citizens because they'd ideally be able to transition from full-time to contractor, and vice versa, based on their needs. Or maybe I'm wrong here, you tell me. But one thing is certain: step outside of yourself for a minute, and read those two comments in series. You really don't think there will be outrage when people are treated like second-class citizens? Like, ever? It seems to be a human constant, across history, that people don't like to be treated as lesser-than, and will muster up a lot of outrage if they are.

I mean, to be really honest, I feel like I'm trying to convince you that the sky is blue.
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Hi, we're currently only exposing an API that we wrote. But we have plans to integrate with other agents such as fluentd for log collection. If the use-case has enough support, we might even be supporting a REST API.
It's not doing something simple in a complicated way though. This is how the laws work for contract labor and Google is simply abiding by them.

Google hires people full time as employees and the laws for them require some things. Google also hires companies to provide services on a contract basis and the laws for them require others.

Is your contention that Google shouldn't subcontract labor for anything because Google is somehow different than every other company?
Interesting idea, but I'm bothered by the idea that social media platforms would be effectively monetizing grief in this solution.

This sort of thing, to me, points at the deficiencies of appealing to purely statistical patterns without any guard rails placed on top. After all, statistically, the most likely relevant categories after "pre-natal" are going to be surrounding children who _were_ born safely. So if you appeal just to data alone, you won't likely solve this problem because it is relatively rare.

The biggest failure, to me, is the response of the system when the user goes out of her way to say that the "pre-natal" ads are not relevant. Statistically it assumes successful birth, but that doesn't reflect her actual intent. A simple dialog tree would maybe suffice: "not relevant" -> "this specific thing is irrelevant" vs "suppress this and all related content". One signal says maybe don't show that particular brand again, and the other says to pivot the relevance model significantly away from that topical section of the ad space entirely.
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The PRD probably isn’t growing all that much from births given the societal preference for not having too many kids. HK has a birth rate of 1.2.
The UK legislation doesn't use the term: privileged. It essentially says insider information is information that, if it were public, would materially move the value of a financial instrument.

But it's only really applied against someone who uses proprietary information that they gained by dint of their position or contact with someone in a privileged position.

As with all laws like this, it's worded pretty vaguely so that the Court can use discretion.
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you say that as if the cost of getting a different job was zero, where in fact if there's only one employer around and you have a family or something similar, it's more likely to be in tens of thousands of dollars if you include future medical bills for stress-related illnesses. it's very expensive to be poor and/or out of options.
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this is really cool, I'm going to give deeper into the code tonight. Awesome work
Or was it duck goose goose? :)

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I don't understand what you're proposing, what could be handled by the MMU? If you're talking about the address shifting I don't think that would work since AFAIK MMUs don't typically have sufficient granularity to map pointers at that scale.

If you're talking about x32-style mapping then of course that works but then you still only have 32bits of address space.
Has anyone noticed DDG results getting worse lately, btw?
In theory this should be simple:

1. find a similar town that has good municipal internet
2. ask them who did it for them
3. hire those people

If everybody knows they are ignorant, you're probably OK. The big problem is in the towns where people think they have the expertise but don't.
My life is my life, not a revenue stream for these parasites to capture. Adblocking isn’t good enough. There needs to be a way to punish these people and cost them money.
Is a well nourished elderly study body reflective of the population as a whole? I believe the body is sophisticated enough, that it can, in fact, crave the nutrients, even mineral and vitamin supplements that each individual body, age group, body type, is lacking. We have known for a long time about the bodies seeking out C vitamins particularly on the not too distant long cross sea oceanic voyages of our ancestors. I consider supplementation as dietary. I'm eating something. So those thinking in this light may as well take to banning or regulating the sell of oranges and grapefruit. Also why then are we still supplementing iodine and D vitamins, amongst a few others, if they are all so ineffective? What about gender studies where people seem to inherently seek out more commonly needed nutrients by gender? I do believe there could be some harm in certain nutrients. Study subject probably would quit taking certain combination of vitamins, given if they were not expected to do so, as part of the study. Bad research technique.
D and F are are a little too close for comfort on the 'ol qwerty.
Polls are not insider information.

Polls are information about the environment where companies operate, not non-public fact regarding the plans or condition of a publicly traded company.
They'd only harm their reputation and ability to gain new clients.

There really is no need either. Early access to poll results and crosstab data excluded from public results is still extremely valuable.
"The Case Against Education" by Bryan Caplan suggests a framing in which this makes sense. He more or less argues, with data and some interesting points, that the barriers to education are not a bug, and not only a feature, but perhaps the primary economic feature of our education system.

A part of his argument is that people who get into elite schools and don't go to an elite school tend to have approximately the same life outcomes as people who go to elite schools, suggesting that the schools are just filtering for people who will be successful anyway and rubber stamping them.

Another part is that, if education's economic value was through adding value to people by exposing them to valuable ideas and skills, then there should be some correlation between how deeply exposed you are to those resources and your life outcomes, but in reality there's really only a binary between whether or not you finish the degree. 7 semesters of college seems to do nothing significant for you if you don't get a piece of paper to show people, which is very strange if college actually adds any substantial value other than as a filter.

There's more too. It's a polarizing book, but I think his framing is at least approximately correct, as it fits better with how the real world is working than any other framing of education I've seen, and if he's right, then the current paradigm of education is just fundamentally not scaleable, and really needs more fundamental restructuring than just giving it to more people.
Low-cost VPSs are great, but their uptime is usually garbage. I myself run almost everything on a 9€/mo Contabo box (6c, 16GB) and while it's nice and powerful, it gets randomly rebooted way more often than acceptable (and I've heard similar about other hosts).
For the "I'll get an angry phone call if the app is down for half an hour at 4 am" category of projects, the cost of a reliable enough VPS comes very close to the equivalent in the cloud, where you also get the benefit of pointing a finger at your provider if something goes wrong.
My own private ATDT relief was the day our phone company upgraded their systems and I could finally start using ATDT instead of ATDP, making the dial time so much shorter and significantly raising the chance to be the first dialer when someone finally logged off from any of the heavy loaded BBS lines from the redialing list.

Communications was really sucks, but we were lucky enoguh not to know it back then.
> Verizon has upgraded the FiOS network several times since 2005

The what network?

Your comment is reasonable in the abstract, but I'm sorry to say that in the specific context it's ridiculous. There is little functional difference between a municipal network that has trouble convincing residents to spring for an upgrade, and a company that will never see a profit in it.

Except that municipal network is currently offering 1Gb/1Gb with a possible future difficulty, while the Verizon network is offering 3Mb/384kb and hasn't been touched since it was deployed two decades ago.
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Nice! Now DuckDuckGo needs to just change their name to Duck Search and it can be used as a verb.

No longer will you have to say "Did you DuckDuckGo it?" and can instead say "Did you Duck it?".

Even on the domain alone I will use Duck more since I won't have to type in the full DuckDuckGo.com domain.

I _feel_ like this could really bring some measurable growth to Duck search. I _feel_ like I certainly will use it more and talk about it more. Time will tell.
Review: One of the best series in the rational fiction genre (i.e people don't randomly hold idiot balls, there's no "they're just evil" and instead people have nuanced motivations, etc).

This story has the epic fantasy and action of the Lord of the Rings, the banter of a good comedy, the rising anticipation of a good thriller and all whilst having an ever intriguing world that is being slowly revealed.

You'll like it if you've ever read Worm, Mother of Learning, or HPMOR. Though mainly I'd say it's for people who want to read truly interesting complex characters, as well as enjoys the intellectual stimulation of trying to figure out what the protagonist should do next, and are at least open to the fantasy genre.
"Illegal insider trading refers generally to buying or selling a security, in breach of a fiduciary duty or other relationship of trust and confidence, on the basis of material, nonpublic information about the security."

https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersinsiderhtm.html
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>The problem I see with companies selling private polls, is there's an incentive to release less accurate public polls

Out of genuine curiosity (I'm American and don't know all the workings of UK government), is the public actually paying for these polls (via some agency in charge of that)? If so then yeah, "the public" is a client and if they were getting shorted in favor of private clients against the contract then that'd be a problem.

On the other hand though if polling companies are just doing it as a public service or form of advertisement (aka "see how accurate our public polls are on general elections, you can also expect that kind of rigor if you pay for us to poll about your product") then I'm not sure what the public interest angle is in terms of "less accurate public polls", nor do I see an enforcement angle given that those could just be the normal cheaper ones the company does and it's private entities commissioning and paying for more extensive, expensive and accurate collection. As far as I know polling companies themselves are private entities and are just offering a service. And in practice my understanding is that a lot of "public polling" is specifically being paid for by private entities in the form of newspapers and the like that then release it, because it sells news and in turn the ads attached to them. So same thing, if the news organizations found out they were being screwed they'd sue, and if results are bad enough they won't go with that polling company again, it's a competitive area.

If the public isn't paying though then I don't see what else can be expected?
There is a choice on Google/FB/Amazon to turn off personalized ads I would presume? How good those choices are being respected or how long does it takes effect is another issue.
I always thought it'd be amusing if their logo was a goose instead of a duck...
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Not a lawyer, but if my understanding is correct, this is only relevant if it is a phase 3 drug trial by that company.

In other words, if pharma company A is doing research on a drug and is publishing stuff, and organization B is also doing similar work (and to simplify, let's say they aren't public, they're a private research lab that isn't related to company A), if org B finds evidence that company A is wrong, they can short A then publish. (and this is pretty much exactly what happened with brexit)

I don't know where exactly this gets to when shorting competitors. In other words, if Pfizer and Merck are both rushing to get the same compound/drug trialed and onto the market, and Pfizer is running ahead of Merck, but finds that their drug fails in phase 3, they obviously can't short themselves, but they might be able to short Merck, because they don't actually have any MNP about Merck's trial.

But again, I'm not really sure how that works in general.
The inspiration's only skin deep. No discussion functionality and most importantly, doesn't work without javascript.
I've been putting off Ready Player One because I could never get through Snowcrash, and everyone says "if you like Snowcrash you'll love Ready Player One". I finally got around to reading it and it was far better than I thought it would be. There was still a bit too much handwaving away the most amazing coincidences, but I thoroughly enjoyed it right through the end.
Same concept. If a UI is completely different you'll know you need to learn a whole new way things work. If a UI is close to something you're used to, then you'll trip over every single difference.
Quick suggestion: image that drive and save the image, and if it's old enough to be PATA/IDE instead of SATA then hang on to a few drives from old laptops if you still have any.
I thought DDG had its own indexer as well, and aggregated from several sources, including Bing.
Or we could all just start googling and searching for things that are completely irrelevant to us. This would fuck up the advertising models and marketers would be forced to change their practices.

So I say to you all: go and google some random shit and do some deep dives into it. Be predictably unpredictable.
The example you make here is exactly what I'm referring to when I say the "abstraction leaks". From the homepage:

> Kweb ... virtually eliminates the separation between browser and server from the programmer’s perspective.

In my opinion, we can't say the separation has been "eliminated" if I'm constantly having to ask myself "should I handle this event on the server or the client via `onImmediate`?"

What seems more likely to happen, is that inexperienced developers simply won't ask the question at all and months later the customer will ask why their dashboard page is taking 60 seconds to load. The senior engineers will be tasked to fix it only to find out that the page is making dozens or hundreds or thousands of N+1 round trips to the server.

This has been my experience being asked to come in to fix MeteorJS apps. Teams of web developers not understanding that the client/server interface is not free and that poor engineering practices have severe compound effects.
It's where you are.

There's a bridge but it was omitted for national security purposes.
if this is like splunk that doesn't make me cry unicorn blood tears every time an invoice arrives then i'm all in. unfortunately it doesn't look like it and honestly i'm not sure what it is. 'prometheus for logs' doesn't quite explain it.
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This is a tangent but Charlemont is a nice little town situated at the foot of an Applachian mountain along the very scenic route 2. It's well worth driving up and over the mountain (through Florida... the town) into North Adams if you're ever in the area.
do you have data on the hashtags? Wonder how useful it is.
This seems to happen a lot when one's experience is statistically unlikely, or when it doesn't neatly mesh with a commercial opportunity.

For instance, I am a transgender woman and I get THE WEIRDEST ads. Makes sense, since an algorithm meshing together my engagement histories from ten years of social platforms must see something quite strange.

The only appropriately targeted advertisements I get are from academics interested in studying me. Like: "are you a trans woman? Take this study and win a gift card."

When platforms attempt to monetize me, they wind up pushing the brooks brothers dress shirt deals and so on that I used to gobble up in my prior life.

I've taken my business local as a result, but the algorithmic rejection of my reality on these platforms takes a pretty consistent toll. I don't know what the solution is, but wanted to underscore that this is a broader problem.
I feel like this is similar with Facebook "making it rain" whenever you send money through their messenger. It does not matter why you send the money, they always celebrate. Very distasteful and not taking into consideration the real reason. They presented this feature at MobileHCI'17 as part of their "Delight" mantra. They don't care about 100% accuracy, as long as it works for the majority, they will not cater to the minority.
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Imagine if Google had GoogleGoogleGo as their branding from the start. Would they be where they are today?
>The correct response is not to try to advertise...

Never going to happen, they say marketers ruin everything for a reason.
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Is Houdini Ready Yet?
Yes, but the issue at hand isn't whether or not apps can or should be compiled to x32. That capability isn't going away (it happens entirely in userspace and is basically just a recompiled set of libraries).

This is a discussion about whether the kernel itself wants to run using x32 mode, which is arguably much less useful. Such a system would be limited to 4G of physical memory, etc... There aren't that many such systems left in the x86 world (that run Linux, anyway -- I'm literally working on an x86_64 port for Zephyr now, and it uses x32).
I don't think you should take anything you read on /g/ seriously, much less anything about shills. That board (like most on 4chan) is really needlessly toxic, and prolonged exposure can lead you to believe that everyone's a shill.
I work for Intel on a team that partners w/ design and manufacturing to build DFX features and tooling. It's been quite the ride to enable DFX for Foveros but it's really exciting technology.

At the end of the day I look at it like this: it's getting harder and more expensive to reduce nano-meter size, getting high yields on 5nm, 3nm and beyond is going to be a multi-billion dollar effort for everyone in the industry, with Foveros we can really squeeze water from a rock and build products on advance node tech even if overall yield isn't the greatest.

I don't think it's a shock to say that the 18 month window described by Moore's Law is probably well behind us. But new innovations like Foveros give me confidence that we still have a long road ahead of us to improve silicon performance.
I hope xhyve will become a first class supported feature that gets shipped with macOS. I see recent commits from Apple engineers https://github.com/machyve/xhyve
If you double the size of pointers (64 bit, up from 32 bit) then your program will take up more heap. This is especially significant for languages where everything is a heap allocation.
Easiest way to solve would be moving the process to BIG core on first use of unsupported feature.
Finally, someone will actually mean to type "ducking," and it won't just be autocorrect.
I run a comment reply bot on my reddit account on saturday afternoons/nights when I'm out. It just posts some highly-voted comment from a CSV. My reddit history makes no freaking sense.
Doesn't work with 3-rd party tracking (ravenjs.com, userreport.com) blocked.

And what about tags?
Fuchsia was started before Rust 1.0, and you still can't do OS dev on stable. It would have been cool, but I also don't think they inherently made the wrong choice.

That said, there's a few hundred thousands of lines of Rust in there, and more on the way. The Fuchsia team also lets some of its team contribute back to Rust development, which is far more support than having the kernel part of a microkernel be in the language, IMO. (You can see this in Futures and async/await, which Fuchsia makes heavy use of, and the team has been very helpful in driving the design and implementation to completion.)
Over the last five years or so I've noticed this movement where restaurants think it's cool to make the customer do the work. Wait in line and order, no table service, then walk to pick up your own food cafeteria style and finally to top it off bus it to the trash. Add to that have they charge you the same prices that a table-service restaurant would AND have their payment terminals setup as you describe. So I ask myself every time I unfortunately find myself in one of these restaurants, why would I tip for doing all the work? If I do tip, who is receiving the tip? I'm guessing it's not the people doing the work, i.e. the kitchen staff.
Banksy on advertising, in 2004:

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

The problem is that you can't graffiti or tear down a digital ad. Activism is nigh impossible in digital walled gardens.
Yeah, but nowadays what doesn't work without javascript...
Or, instead of wasting your time trying to trick an algorithm, just use an ad blocker.