skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Majority regular net users don't care about tracking

The majority of regular users don't know the extent to which they are being tracked, because they don't have a good grasp of the technology or a good idea of what's possible.
I am Mexican American, its not an assumption when you lived in the country for most of your life.

I'm not looking for a fight, I am just genuinely interested in why Americans are an under represented group of travelers in the country where I currently live and work.

So far the majority of the replies that attempted to give a reason included the fact that it is a Muslim country, despite that being as true as America being a Christian country.
Exactly. That is how side-projects usually happen, fun first then money/reputation/skill as (eventual) side-effect.
And I'd like to add that "kill shelters" are not without alternatives.

In Germany it is forbidden to euthanize animals for lack of resources or will to keep it. People often have to pay shelters to take their animals, and if they just abandon them somewhere, they may get fined or even prosecuted.

In general, Germans tend to ask shelters first, when trying to acquire a dog, cats also. It has gotten so far that shelters have more applicants than dogs they can give them, and the dogs which stay in shelters are not suited to an average dog owner (behavior, size, medical issues). We even import thousands of street/shelter dogs from all over Europe.

Cats unfortunately are too plentiful. There are always some feral/semi-feral populations who haven't been neutered. Shelters keep them, but they will often stay all their life there.

And of course, not all of the US is comparable to Germany in many regards. In Germany there aren't a lot of sparsely populated areas, and the animal protection laws are a lot tougher.
I used to write code like that during the 80 and 90's, until settling down in languages with first class support for exceptions.

So yeah, I did it for around 20 years, and don't miss it.
> eg how do exclusively gay or asexual people exist if many theories of evolution predict such a trait would have been practically weeded out of the population by now, but it keeps coming back

Evolution works on populations not individuals. Exclusively gay people are the non-breeding worker ants of humanity, they don't pass their genetics along but the do their bit for the survival of the colony. That's only if there is a genetic component to homosexuality of course, which is heavily disputed.
You don't need dual citizenship to leave, it didn't stop me.

America has been on a bad path for decades, I left long before Trump was even in the picture.
To get flying wing stabile you have to add aerodynamic twist to wings which also adds drag. Flying wing looks good, but it's not as efficient as people think. It also has some unwanted flight characteristics like jaw hunting which are missing in t-tail planes.
Well, yet another magic function.
Please make it official, so that people can have peace of mind knowing that they've got that "verified" badge. People hate having to wonder whether they're at risk of crossing an invisible, inscrutable, and constantly changing threshold. See: PayPal and AdSense account forfeitures. You could do so much better than that.
dank. this cures my itch while the OP is suffering downtime.
Unfortunately free radical aging theories are not enough. It's a tiny piece of a picture, because effectively immortal organisms still use the same mechanisms.
And it's not for some magic scavenging either.

Even telomere bound is not enough.

It's likely a set of advanced repair and local homeostasis so that feels still execute the complex maturing program correctly.

Too many senescent or damaged cells might just break the conditions... And mitochondria and cells have excellent mechanisms of dealing with reactive species they make, but sometimes chemicals leak in.

I'd be more concerned with infections and resulting damage at this point, plus toxic damage.
Including endogenous like glycation.
To me, you still seem to be implicitly assuming that the old person would be reflecting "old" perspectives. I don't necessarily disagree with this assumption, but I think you may be overlooking how much your argument depends on this. And, I am not sure that the dreamers of life extension share this assumption.

Playing devil's advocate: If one had the permanent physical and cognitive characteristics of someone in their 20s-30s, might they not continue to pass as a young person? Unless you look up their identity in some registry, you wouldn't necessarily be able to identify a cohort. Here is urban Southern California, I see plenty of "old" people in their 50s-60s who are trying to pass as young people all the time. What if they don't have to mask fading hair and eyes, sagging or blotchy skin, aching joints, gravely voices, or personality changes?

You describe a person from 200 years ago existing today, as if they step out of a time machine. But, if they have had 200 years to absorb pop culture, mannerisms, dialect, etc. then how would you know? They won't be repelled by garlic nor invisible in mirrors. They won't even be afraid of sunlight (no skin aging!) and their blood-sucking may not be distinguishable from any young go-getter's.
Isn't that a ( "the" ? ) major problem with surveillance, though ? People will change their behaviour when they know they're being observed.

This becoming the new normal is not good.
A little similar to this one, https://gist.github.com/yaxinlx/1e013fec0e3c2469f97074dbf5d2..., but with more considerations for details.
Could be my then neighbor. Started while in school and made around that sum with Glider. Went to study engineering (nothing IT) and then tried to focus on his health and reduced the wow sidejob.
I’m using a 6s too for my personal phone. Work phone is an 8 and I honestly can’t tell the difference
I highly recommend "My Cat from Hell" on animal planet. It taught me tons of stuff about cat behavior and how to make the cat/guardian relationship work.

Problems in cat behavior are conquerable, with the right strategies. It seems to be more about changing the environment with cats, rather than training, as it is with dogs.
I don't answer for Dawkins.

The difference between scientists and you is the difference between real work and hot air.

Go actually do something. Something hard, that takes real understanding, real work, and trial and error, failure and trying something else until you get somewhere no one has ever been. Something that involves more than talk.
Ask HN: What tools do you use for note-taking, progress tracking and TODO lists?
I usually work on multiple projects at once, using several computers and phones and need to get better at tracking progress I made (for my personal purposes), managing TODO lists and taking personal notes.

I'm quite unorganised in this regard and I'm looking to change this so that I can finally stop worrying that I forgot about implementing a feature or that I forgot how I solved a particular problem a few months ago.

I need to obtain inner peace to be able to focus more on solving actual problems rather than living in fear over note-keeping.

My "system" so far is like this: I keep one Markdown file per computer I work on. Each file contains:

- TODO lists for multiple projects

- personal, general TODO lists (not related to particular projects)

- my insights (regarding e.g. newly read papers or notes when learning new algorithms)

- links to materials I find interesting and want to read later (papers, tutorials, links to HN :), etc.)

All of these MD files are unorganised (TODO lists for a single project can be found at multiple places in the file, interleaved between links and unrelated notes). I tried synchronising the MD files using Git, but that seemed like an overhead for me. I think I need something that does automatically save history and it would be nice to show the date and times when a note was taken (so that a graphs of my activity could be made over time - but this is not required).

I guess I would like to have a solution that not only synchronises across all platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS), but most importantly is secure as my notes can contain sensitive information. If there is an open-source solution for this problem, I have no problem with self-hosting such system.

How do you keep your notes/TODOs/track progress?
How come a listing with full details available publically can never make it to top of Ycombinator but a medium article with gated content ranks on top?
Don't think so, most of the gamers I know, even today rather buy their games in physical mediums at places like https://www.gamestop.de/
Exactly. And in most cases I don't care. Can't open that file? That's a fatal error. Can't connect to the DB? That's a fatal error. Some file system operation failed? That's a fatal error.

In the majority of applications it's normally pretty obvious which errors you're likely to care about (the user already exists, etc.) vs the rest that you just handle at the top level. The trouble with go's error handling is it makes you care about everything, which is just a waste of time and effort because the majority of errors will be fatal anyway.
I don’t think it was over harsh (it’s about me).

Everything said there is correct. I did a terrible job and really I don’t think it’s wrong to say so. Few who backed that campaign would be likely to ever buy from me again. It’s okay to name that, it’s the truth.
Give Kidomi a try. We offer curated list of premium content devoid of any ads, trackers, social network components, or links to external sites and content (fully COPPA compliment).

Disclaimer: I work for the developer of the platform, Fingerprint Digital Inc.
I don't think whataboutism is a valid argument against antitrust regulations for big tech.
Fantastic article, thank you.

Separately thanks for Toca Boca games! We still occasionally use the radio music from Toca Tea Party for real-life picnics :)
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I have three stepkids ages 12 to 15 who are all interested in STEM, and we've been looking for a summer coding/compsci project for them. They're into games like Minecraft and Roblox. This might be a good avenue to take.

Back in the day, I actually talked to somebody in one of my C++ classes who made (IIRC) around $50k in a year running some kind of gaming server. I looked into it at the time, but it didn't seem like my cup of tea. I might revisit the idea. I suspect that these high-dollar figures are outliers, but it could be a good way to get the kids some valuable real-world experience and maybe they can make a few bucks so they have a little bit of spending money.
Seems it’s been a busy week for these reminders not to trust centralized services.

I think the the “Fediverse” will become more popular over the next few years.
Heh. I'm currently listening tho the Number Station channel there.
Some of the best coders I know are 9-5ers, with busy lives outside of anything to do with computers.

I understand where you're coming from but this is also a harmful mindset for anyone coming into the profession - I have been careful to emphasise to the people I'm tutoring to not make my mistakes and sacrifice life outside of work in the pursuit of "better" coding skills.
Wear a tight thing that holds the gut up? Like whatever power lifters wear. Maybe a belt too.
Apple asks developers to place its login button above Google, Facebook
This would be perfectly fine if founder keeps 51% of shares.

It should not be possible to have it both ways as a founder: own minority of shares and yet keep the control.

You want full control? Then do not dilute yourself.

It used to be normal for the founder(s) to have the most (but not the majority) of the shares. See Gates/Allen at Microsoft.

This meant that usually shareholder vote went their way, but there was a possibility that you could get ousted.
See Jobs at Apple circa 1985.

It should not be possible to be the absolute king of a publicly owned company while owning less than 50% of a company.
Your post-mortem implies this is not allowed at all.

Not sure why you were downvoted, I had the same impression, after reading:

...an automated service that monitors for cryptocurrency mining activity (Droplet CPU loads and Droplet create behaviors). These signals, coupled with a number of account-level signals (including payment history and current run rate compared to total payments) are used to determine if automated action is warranted to minimize the impact of potential fraudulent high-cpu-loads on other customers

This sounds like they don't permit extended high CPU loads due to the impact it can have on other customers.
World Environment Day ( June 5th )
Dear DO,
From your RCA it appears this is a type of fraud where stolen credit card is used to create a new cloud account and run up a huge charge in a short amount of time. Nowadays it could be for cryptocurrency mining (a few years ago and maybe still today, it could have been to run spambots or botnets or whatever).

I suggest your trust and safety team handle the payment fraud as a separate issue (using payment network intelligence) and resource abuse (spam or botnet) as a separate issue (by monitoring abuse reports, external underground intelligence; NOT resource monitoring or traffic monitoring).

It seems like in this case, weak muddied signals were combined to draw false-positive conclusions.

Also, it is equally important to build reputation score for good users and use that as a backstop to prevent them from getting shot by misbehaving fraud detection algorithms.

Since your business might be a lot of small customers, it is important you find a good way to easily trust a small customer with little usage and little spend. One way you could do this is by having a reasonable default cap on the resources for a new or small account. You could ratchet up this cap after verifying the payment instrument trustworthiness (through automated checks or manual verification process).

Hope this helps.
I just want to recognize that what you’ve said is the truth. I see you getting flak for it but honestly I’d expect plenty of my backers to be pissed. I failed to deliver on a lot of repeated promises. I did learn a lot, that’s for sure. Thank you for your pledge. I’m sorry I didn’t make it happen.
Unchecked exceptions... checked ones are basically a bifunctor with a wacky syntax
Stochastic Computing for Hardware Implementation of Binarized Neural Networks
Solitary, sure, but definitely not lonely! I got my 120wpm+ typing speed by chatting for hours and hours with friends online :)
I don't think it is racist to say that the racial demographics of an area are changing.

Also I think your definition of discrimination is pretty loose.
Alphabetical order right :P
If you do this in any recent game you'll get banned. If you do this in any Valve game you'll get VAC banned.
does it only work with a question that returns a single answer or it can be used to build something like https://www.thoughtspot.com/solutions/healthcare-life-scienc... ?
This is really tough. I really want the redis and cockroachdbs to make money, but on the other hand I don't want to give my customer data to everyone. I give them reluctantly to AWS because, well, I guess at least one company has to have them, and while they are probably not perfect, I reasonably trust them to keep the data safe, but I'd really rather keep this to one. We could run the software on ec2 and pay a licence (we occasionally do that) but when we don't want to maintain things ourselves, we always turn to AWS, which saddens me a lot
He's being funny.

"I always feel an immediate, unshakable sense of sadness" - presents a personal and serious context - "kind of like when you realize that bad things can happen to good people," - reinforces the seriousness and invites the reader to join the writer in worthy feelings of moral empathy - "or that Keanu Reeves will almost certainly make more money than you over arbitrary time scales." - then punctures it with base motive of bitter jealousy, so you get conflicted by the two very different versions of sadness being presented as the same thing.

Structurally, it is not far off Shakespeare's lawyer joke from King Henry VI;

JACK - when I am king,– as king I will be,–

ALL - God save your majesty!

JACK - I thank you, good people:– there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord.

DICK. - The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

This explanation however, has probably stopped it from being funny ever again, for which I humbly apologise.
It pisses me of that basically everyone who ended up with bad career prospects from their physics or similarly difficult degree switched to tech. It makes it look like there are 0 career prospects in other industries.
JP Morgan Creates a “Digital Coin”
The advisory links to https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/what-we-do/cybersec... (PDF)

I really wonder what the utility for that distribution form is, are there people printing these out? Or is there some requirement for them to generate a document ID that they could not get for plain web/HTML documents?
Quicker to load too.
Sure, if you hunt for "instrumentation amps".

Instrumentation amps are meant primarily for amplifying low voltage rather than high-bandwidth. What you're looking for is a "fully differential" amplifier.

He apparently actually built a board using an LMH6702 (roughly $3 for 1.7GHz), but then never mentions anything about it.

And, what's with the downvotes on my question? If the answer is so obvious, what's the answer oh-so-brilliant-ones?
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The tweet thread suggested using for years. So either they are giving credits long time for startups they don't even know how and what they are doing or messed up a simple logic about history of the customer.
To realize why licenses like GPL exist, instead of pushing for non-copyleft licenses.

We are slowly getting back to the shareware and PD days, specially since many kinds of FOSS applications are hard to monetize, e.g. desktop apps.
Oh yeah, loved to read this! Gaming and especially moddable games are a great entry into programming.

It wasn't exactly my entry, as I had programmed stuff before, but I learned a huge lot during my university time while writing a database site for World of Warcraft, which also had a distributed data collection mechanism by which hundreds of thousands of users could upload data gathered while playing the game to my site, where it would all be distilled into a database, of which a special, minified copy was then compiled and offered to be downloaded by the players right into the game, to be used while playing as a knowledge base. And alongside of that, people could query the database via a web frontend that used all the latest shit (it was 2007 or 2008, AJAX was a big deal back then, reactive layouts were in their infancy, but I had one, and I even wrote a 3D model viewer in the browser and something like Google Maps to view pre-rendered maps of the game world that looked like satellite images). That thing was 60k LOC Java (data processing and website), 30k LOC Lua (for the addon in the game), about 5k LOC ActionScript, some hundred lines of PHP and Bash scripts, and about 5-10k LOC of C++ for the native client to do data uploads and downloads.
I eventually sold it for about 60k€ including maintenance, and maintained it as a side project for 7 years total (most of the time I was also actively playing WoW) and then it was abandoned because the site didn't catch on enough among the competition, and the game itself assimilated lots of the functionality provided by my in-game database (which was named MobMap and did catch on massively with the players, I counted at least 1.1 million installs over it's lifetime) so that successful service became redundant over time and was eventually discontinued as well.

But that project brought me lots of experience. Different programming languages and runtime environments and contexts, operating a multi-server infrastructure all by myself, using the latest web tech before there were frameworks that did all the hard things for you, maintaining a codebase over a long period, reverse-engineering (to get some of the data out of the game you had to reverse the original game data file formats, and since they changed with every patch, that was a continued activity done by a very small community of people in obscure online wikis, to which I eventually started contributing), updating large numbers of client installs in a secure and reliable way, processing gigabytes of raw data per day into a concise database (I think it was about 50GB XML incoming per day and the final DB was 4GB MySQL - and it was pre-SSDs, so I had to work all in memory with that DB to get the insert and update speeds I needed), this project had it all, and I continue to draw from those lessons in my job today.
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Looking at the design, the first thing that occurred to me is that it looks like the frontal surface area would be increased compared to a traditional commercial jet with the same wingspan, which I would expect to negatively impact fuel efficiency. I did a bit more thinking and some reading to try to determine why this isn't the case.

For one thing, while the split fuselage in the images appears similar to that of a conventional airliner, I expect it would actually be considerably shorter than that of a jet with comparable capacity, the reason being that much of the luggage and equipment that would normally be stowed below the passenger compartment could instead be relocated to the center of the 'v'.

You would still have somewhat more frontal surface though I would think. Perhaps this could be outweighed (no pun intended) by weight savings and lower surface area. Although I wonder if some of the savings would have to come from flying more slowly, which this design might facilitate.

I don't know anything much about aeronautics though, so would love input from someone who does!
I'm jealous. I made $700 for a two year project that started when I was 15. :)

When the project started, my partner and I (that's right, the $700 was for both of us) thought that $700 was an enormous sum and that we were being very clever. (This was in 1984).

After two years (18 months of which was after my partner left for college) I finally was able to bring the project over the finish line.
That was the exact opposite of my point.

Native widgets are those of the native widget toolkit. I can use the underlying drawing libraries to draw widgets that look vastly different and implement behaviours that behave vastly differently from the native widget toolkit.

The point of native widgets is that they are the same, not that they are drawn using the same underlying technology.

So the fact that you are using platform libraries to draw those non-native widgets is not at all relevant. After all, what else are you going to be using?
Their apparent conclusion that high CPU% for a few hours or half day or whatever means "cryptocurrency miner - ban ASAP!" is naive and flawed.

Compute offload is an ancient and fairly common use case for the public cloud; my VPS (or ten..) should be able to burn 100% CPU for many hours compiling a large project, even if it means they make less profit than they would have had I instead run a static web server that sleeps on IO, imposing nearly no CPU load.

At the very least they should provide some objective, quantitative guidance on exactly how many CPU-seconds-per-hour they consider acceptable/not-abuse (or, if not CPU-seconds, then increased host power consumption, or whatever they are ultimately trying to limit to ensure they can pack a few hundred near-zero-load servers onto the same host to make glorious truly massive profits all the time).

Don't make customers guess at whether their workload will trigger some opaque but hyper-aggressive abuse automation or not.