skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly, and I wouldn't argue any differently. I don't know a great deal about running advertisements on YouTube but the screenshots and discussion I've seen about the tools they give advertisers to target their ads would definitely make it at least plausible to me that companies re-targetted their advertising or became more careful about it in the wake of the various controversies. But that's not what the 'adpocalypse' claimed to be. The claim, made by YouTube and used to justify many of their actions, was that advertisers were completely pulling out of YouTube, and doing so in significant numbers. The reality, at least according to the earnings reported to shareholders and legally attested to in filings to the FTC, is that this has never happened. Which, really, makes a lot more sense. The quantity of content uploaded to YouTube is positively astronomical, so any claim that there is a dearth of advertiser-friendly content would be fairly suspect. Even if they pulled ads from 99% of the videos uploaded to their platform, it would still leave multiple years worth of content that could be used to carry ads every day. What might actually be a bigger problem for them isn't so much the content that is uploaded as it is the content that the public voluntarily consumes. There's more than enough educational content uploaded to the platform every day to occupy the audience, for example, but of course that's not where the majority of people are spending their time. Much of that blame probably falls at the feet of YouTube themselves given the way their recommendation systems operate.

They claim that this is backed by machine learning, but I have a hard time imagining how. I've seen many machine learning systems, but never one whose entire model whip-saws around with the schizophrenic rapidity of YouTube. Watch just one single video about something like a conspiracy theory or anti-vaccination nonsense out of cursiousity and their "machine learning system" will immediately conclude that you want to watch large quantities of those kinds of videos and your recommendations will be filled with them for quite awhile. It seems obvious to me that they're not training any kind of model to predict the viewers desires. Not even very naive Bayesian models would predict that 1 data point outweighs every single other action by a user and translates into a massive shift in interests. There seems to be a strong tendency for their systems to ignore individual preferences as much as possible in favor of funneling users into broad categories that the system knows better. I wouldn't be surprised if the way things work were that it took something like a conspiracy video, groups it with other conspiracy videos, and then just sends any viewer in that direction while ignoring the users own history, subscriptions, like/dislike status, and all other individualized signals. Given the scale, maybe YouTube simply can't afford actual personalized recommendation systems?
Do you mind linking to a source? Wikipedia has details on it, but it doesn't say anything about names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_stripe_card#Financial...
Thomas Bradwardine (1300-1349) recommends combining the two techniques. I.e. at each Loci you link together more than one item using the story mnemonic.
> Regarding your actual point, I've had a 100GB limit for the past 5 years (since I got an iPhone 6), with a 4G connection.

Congratulations. Almost every other person does not.
if a google employee suggested they check for AI confusing gorillas and black people, damore than likely be fired for thinking it up
That's exactly the issue. How is this any advantageous compared to say putting fiat USD on my Apple account and then spending that on iTunes/Appstore/In-App etc?
I used to feel the same way but I think there should be competing implementation of standards to make faster progress.

GCC vs Clang is what comes to mind. The competition from clang improved the overall quality and performance of c / c++ compilers in general
Somewhat tongue in cheek, but, learning to lose is easy, just play online and you'll get plenty of practice ;)

I think just losing regularly helps to make it easier? Maybe. I still don't like it very much! Good luck :)
I think the biggest misconception here is the belief that Bluetooth LE beacons are tracking phones. The beacons themselves operate as transmit-only and don’t receive any data and therefore don’t perform any tracking themselves. The more correct way to look at this is that the apps are tracking a user’s location, and the beacons are providing the app with information to determine the current location.

If the app’s knowledge of your location provides some service and the user is opting-in, this shouldn’t be a problem (just like I opt-in to provide Google Maps my location).

The keys here are (1) users should be aware that an app knows your location, and (2) User should have the ability to opt-in to providing my location to the app. The mobile operating systems should do a better job of making the user aware and making it very easy to opt in or out.

Maybe an ideal solution would be where (assuming the user opts-in) the OS automatically controls whether an app has the ability to use Bluetooth locationing when the GPS detects that I’m in a certain area. For example, the Target app is prevented from using Bluetooth tracking most of the time, but when my phone GPS sees that I’m in a Target store it automatically enables it while I’m there, and disables it when I leave.
> They know that it gets a pass from ordinary people. While permitting the sincere to organize in plain sight.

This is sometimes called a dog whistle. The pitch is too high for humans to hear, but the intended targets do pick up on it.
Loved the writing of this article!
> A single browser codebase hurts the maintainability of the Web platform. To the extent Chromium has a monopoly, Chromium bugs are the standard and sites will depend on them.

It's not the single browser codebase that hurts the web, any browser with noticeable (maybe 3-5%) market share causes these problems. The main issue is that today, the web as a platform is garbage. It's full of cruft, mostly useless features that cause browsers to be bloated, unmaintainable codebases nobody except 9-figure-budget entities can hope to reimplement. It's an unstable, far too complex platform that wastes billions in unnecessary maintenance work for web developers.

Much of this could have been avoided by knocking some sense into the entities that constantly propose new features and those who implement them as native browser elements instead of JS libraries where possible. Then there's the insanity of preserving unsafe behaviour as default and adding response headers and extra HTML tag attributes to avoid it, so broken sites could stay broken and everyone else had to do maintenance work. I'm not saying Google is the driving force behind this, but it reeks of the same stuff that Microsoft was doing to prevent Word, Excel file formats from becoming readable and writable for the competition.

It's too late to freeze the web platform, it needs to be replaced with something sane and stable, controlled by people with no ulterior motives.
How many processes an IDE uses is an implementation detail.

The large majority of Apple and Microsoft developer communities live on their IDEs as part of our workflow.

Scripting and automatization can be easily done from the IDE as well, thanks to macros, REPL and build integration points.

Dropping down into a UNIX like CLI is the exception, not the norm for a large community.

Ah, but what about WSL? Well, Microsoft saw a market opportunity to win developers that buy Apple computers to do Linux work, instead of buying laptops from the likes of Dell/Asus/Tuxedo/system76 to start with.

So they are making UNIX devs comfortable on a foreign platform, just like NeXT was built on top of UNIX to take a piece of the pie from the UNIX workstation market being lead by Sun.

Using the shell was never a thing for NeXTSTEP nor classical Mac OS development workflow.
Mass surveillance would be far more likely to find co-conspirators here than an internet thread full of edgelords.

Would you support it in that case?
It was, though it didn't last until the 1960s - the Married Women's Property Acts in the late 19th Century ended it.

The problem with mortgages was more quotidian sexism, I think: women weren't considered to be serious enough earners to be creditworthy for a mortgage.
I understand that it was always going to be immoral to fire bomb Dresden but the wind on that day whipped up the fires considerably and the extremity of the outcome was due to chance rather than vindictiveness. Of course I think if they’d have known the outcome of course they would have done it anyway.
Boobies on the Ethereum blockchain
https://github.com/choojs/choo
Then there are the constant pushere for social controll, who claim to do it for for decency and human kindness, but when the situation boils down the ingredients, you find its mostly because controlling other peoples lives, resources and creations is what they really want.

The radicalisation on 4chan, was produced by all those external echo chamber snuffing out that little speakers corner for weirdos. Reddit, Tumblr, all that comercial ilk, you serve so gladly, which aggregates people by doing the equivalent of a medieval mob ralley - created this nightmare.

Say it with me: "Its very cost effective, to be a radical in a attention economy. I brought this on society to earn a livelihood, and now want to shift the blame towards those places where the polarization i created, becomes most visible, be it a tavern or a brothel. Im a monster and should be hunted down by the monsters i created if there was justice to this world."

Of course if you would ever admit that, all those "nice, constructive people, wanting only the best for people" while blindly shoving there ideology forwards, no matter what the consequences, would become all edgy.
Prove it. How about with a physical experiment? How about a model with accurate predictive capabilities over a long time period?
> long t1 = System.currentTimeMillis();

>

> isThisPossible(t1 < 0);

> 5) No, it's not possible, at least something is not possible

Well, maybe not any time soon, but eventually (in Java at least) that will wrap around and therefor it's possible.
Maybe because REPLs are more powerful that an plain old command line, and specially the HN news audience should be aware of it, given that it is built on top of a Lisp variant?

Being a developer is not a synonym for being stuck with a PDP-11 concept of how a computer is supposed to be used.
This is not the argument this article is making.
Agreed, I too used to enjoy this kind of humor but after seeing what /r/The_Donald turned into it is much harder for me to laugh.
The HK government has just made an official announcement. It is NOT withdrawing the bill, but going to defer the second reading (a bill has to be given three readings in the Legislative Council to become a law) and conduct another public consultation.

It's a tactic to buy time. If the HK government can gain support from the Chinese government, it will likely push ahead with the bill again regardless of the reaction of the local population.
"Everything in the solar system orbits around that point."

Depends on exactly how pedantic you want to be. Technically everything in the solar system orbits the barycenter of the galaxy and intra-system movement is the same type of low-distance high-frequency wobbling the author chose to dismiss with regards to the motion of moons around planets.
I'm asking a general question, everybody is affected in some way or another, and no country is spared.

For instance see the multiple articles recently posted to HN about how microplastics are present even in the air we breathe, or in water in very remote, 'unspoiled' locations.

Edit : I'm interested in what others do, specific actions, like buying organic produce, avoiding tuna, filtering water, etc.

What things they do, how often, why, etc.
Yes, bigger apps take up more space in storage.
In college I took a great "Philosophy of Physics" class, where on the first day the professor asked everyone to write one page on whether the Earth revolves around the sun, and the final project was another paper on the same topic, so we could see how nuanced a question it was and how our views had evolved over the course.

With that said, I don't think there's any valid answer besides "you can define your terms and points of reference such that it does or doesn't; there's no particular physical reality to the matter".
Thanks! I heard about advanced R, but as the author is also the author of the tidyverse packages, I feared he might be inclined to use them in the examples etc. I'm glad to hear it's more generally oriented book.
Thing is, building reusable components was always a feature of SSR Web frameworks since early 2000's, so there is no need for react or vue for bundle the HTML/CSS/JS that makes a fancy calendar widget.

And with WebComponents being supported across the board, even less so.
If you want to learn more about women programmers in the 60s in the UK and why Stephanie Shirley had to open her own company (spoil: because women were actively push out of the field), Marie Hicks is the specialist.[0]
She wrote a book, Programmed Inequality.
She studied Shirley’s story of course, and did an interview of Shirley last year.[1]

The article “only the clothes changed: Women Operators in British Computing and Advertising, 1950–1970” from Hicks is a great start into her analysis of the period. It’s a very different history of computing and programmers that the one that was told just a few years ago.[2]

[0] http://marhicks.com/
[1] http://mariehicks.net/blog/?p=705
[2] http://mariehicks.net/writing/clothes.html
The BBC was made by a company called Acorn (where Wilson worked), and after the BBC they wanted to go 32-bit but were unhappy with the Motorola offerings of the time - so they designed their own brilliant low power processor for their “Archimedes” machine.

They later spun the processor division off, calling it “Acorn RISC Machines”, where Sophie Wilson still works - except, it was shortened to the acronym, ARM. Yes, that ARM.
If one is going to play the “well technically“ game then we need to describe the motion with relativistic physics rather than Newtonian physics.
That's really awful. I hope you both are doing better gradually.

How the hell was trading individually identifiable hospital admittance and treatment information not a HIPAA violation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWlNesxOGrU #ObligatoryHedberg
※ Children.

Too late to edit the typo now, sorry about that.
The commenter you answered on was talking about a terminal app for the iPad in general, how do you get to repls from that? And if you want to talk about repls, why don't you do that in your original comment? You should look at the Hacker News guidelines, which in the very first item cover your post specifically.

And you don't need to teach me about repls, I am a full time Lisp programmer :).
Also you can't just treat the solar system as a point mass if you're inside it. Earth does orbit the sun but it is also perturbed to some degree by every other mass in the universe.
First result on Google: "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims."

Isn't this unlawful intimidation in the pursuit of political aims?
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Agreed.

The flag in USA appears to be used for 'brainwashing' (compliance training). "I swear allegiance to the flag" and all that, then they use the flag as the backdrop when politicians talk to you, and use it as a symbol wherever compliance without opposition is required?!

Union Flag flyers in the UK seem to be royalist or fascists; or possibly just sportsmen.
> controlled by people with no ulterior motives.

Everyone used to think that was Google.

Anyway, if by some miracle you do find anyone that matches that description but knows where the lever is to kick everything over to a new paradigm, don't tell anyone about them, because as soon as you do they'll have more ulterior motives then you can count.
Oh please.

Heres a quote from Steven Stogratz - "Mathematics is usually portrayed as exact and impeccably rational. It is rational but not always initially. Creation is intuitive. Reason comes later"

Maxwell would not have come up with his equations of electromagnetism if he said what you are saying to Faraday.

Faraday did not understand differential equations or vector calculus. Leave alone know, how to express anything in that language. But it was his book that inspired Maxwell. It was filled with "verbal and visual" intuition expressed in non mathematical language.

Mathematician of the age did not take it seriously using exactly the kind of arguments you are using.

You cannot force/shame people to be more disciplined with their metaphors. It made Faraday hesitant to even to express his findings publicly for many years.
And during the initial development of ARM, a BBC Micro was used for writing an ARM simulator. After the successful production of the ARM chip, the BBC Micro was still used as a monitor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro_expansion_unit#ARM_E...
Word Virtualization is not in dictionary – Why is that?
'Taking something at face value' means accepting it uncritically, but sometimes skepticism is warranted.
I assume that part of it is a psychologically-motivated desire to maintain a tight reward loop for Play purchasers, with no payment-processing delays.
W3C failed to create an open platform. Browser vendors use W3C as a rubberstamp for their implementations. There's many W3C Notes and Editor Drafts with only one vendor. Just look at the latest Google firehose of new features.
I sincerely hope you don't actually think that, and did it only for the pun
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The public domain isn't recognized everywhere and licenses like Creative Commons Zero (CC0) which has a fallback of being all-permissive for regimes where a public domain won't work doesn't look out for patent treachery.

The FSF warns against using CC0 for software (see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0 for the full comments): "For works of software it [CC0] is not recommended, as CC0 has a term expressly stating it does not grant you any patent licenses."

If you really want people to be free to use the software as they wish, you can't ignore software idea patents. That naivety actually works against the users as they would be lured into dealing with the software believing it to be free but then trapped by a patent infringement lawsuit.

> But at a certain point you just have to realize that there are
> differing points of view, that is just the way things go, and
> "progress" includes all of them.

No, this is too broadly accepting and not carefully discerning as reality requires to make sage judgments nor will it help us understand the ethical underpinnings of the software freedom movement (very much related to one of the major problems in the essay -- the author frames the issue around "open source", a developmental methodology which eschews ethics and is therefore of great use to proprietors. See https://digitalcitizen.info/2019/05/10/how-free-software-and... for more on this). Proprietary software is a "differing point of view" and your statement tries to get us to accept that it is merely another acceptable alternative among many. Seeing proprietary software as some form of social progress means accepting the inherent harm of proprietary software, the very reason why the free software movement was founded in the first place. I will call proprietary software harmful and in no way progress for anything worth defending. The goal isn't to maximize one's ability to have power over someone else, it's to ensure specific and well-identified freedoms for all. Strongly copylefted free software where license terms are defended does this.
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I have always thought of 4chan, at least their 'random' board, as akin to a sort of performance art. It reminds me of the experimental film scene in the 70s and 80s in NYC. The theaters were filled with prostitutes, pimps, thugs, drug addicts, etc. The experimental films which were shown were not anything that could be shown to mainstream audiences, things like Andy Warhol's 'films' that were downright pornographic, or just a camera pointed at the Statue of Liberty for 24 hours, just experiments with the medium. Also shown were works by the likes of Alejandro Jodorowsky and others who went on to create other bizarre cult classics. While the things being done in those theaters had no real place in the mainstream, many of the people in the audience at that time as children or young adults went on to become the most popular directors and influential filmmakers of the 90s through to today. There is no question that they were grimy, deviant, subversive places where crimes of various sorts took place. But they were also important artistic and cultural crucibles, and the experiments that took place there sometimes happened upon techniques or ideas that later enriched our world. It's not always pretty to see how the sausage is made.
Because you'd be able to get humans with higher intelligence and better judgement for 10k/year in the Philippeans, than at minimum wage in the US.
> Everyone used to think that was Google.

When was that? Around the time they decided to liberate the web from the evil clutches of Microsoft/IE and ... Mozilla/FF (20%+ and growing at that time)?
> or the hand gesture. Of course, it’s also the hand gesture for a three point shot in basketball //

It's just the OK hand gesture [made with the left hand?].

Or, perhaps all scuba divers are racist.
I just noticed this on my 1.5 yr old son, when I am drawing a rectangle there’s a certain length of it that it will become a train at all other shorte lengths its a bus
Practice mindfulness to learn to prevent unwanted thoughts from distracting you, and learn to confront and accept memories that are emotionally distressing (therapy can help with this).
"Habitat-Sim with multiple processes renders detailed scenes at 10,000 frames per second (FPS) on a single GPU, compared with a typical rate of 100 FPS on other simulators."

This is a pretty ridiculous speedup. Anyone know what they did to achieve it?
> I believe that sometimes there are regulatory requirements to print receipts (as a transaction without a receipt is more likely to be cash-in-pocket tax avoidance).

Though it is quite ironic that most original receipts don't last long enough for any audit purposes. In Australia businesses need to keep all receipts for 7 years (and for individuals it's 5 years), for tax audit purposes. But I have yet to encounter a paper receipt which lasts more than 2 years.
The version without those 5 lines will now be forever out there though. Malicious peers can download the apk and get the premium version for free. This feels like a poorly thought out design on Google's part.
Exactly. I'm so sick of all these stories framed as how we should all be good sumaritans and recycle. That's not the way to do it!

This stuff has value. It's a business opportunity. If you're doing it to feel good, or to make people feel good, then what you're doing will not scale.

Different industry, but similar story: https://discardstudies.com/2019/05/06/adam-minter-how-things... (covered here on HN recently)