skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Careful - this line of argumentation can also be used to allow yourself to do some very, very evil things in life.
I've editorialised the title to a snipped I hear on the radio from a scientist working in the area
Unfortunately they do not open source their code.

Also I found this one:

"Wir gendern nicht, weil wir bei der Umerziehung des Menschen durch Sprachmanipulation nicht mitmachen wollen und weil die Mehrheit von euch dies laut Umfrage auch so sieht."
Personally I place more weight on their professional experience / portfolio and don't feel that having a pretty or flashy site is a good predictor of a developer's ability, especially when most devs are using templates anyways. But yea, all else equal a nicer site is an advantage even if a minimal one at that, not going to disagree with you there.
I contacted similar Finnish based application about similar issues, where almost everything, including all the user images could have been collected from the json api end point.

Their response was that it is not bad system or insecure because the information is only available for logged users. So the api just needs authentication header.

So all the user data could have been easily collected to own database using simple script.
here comes the lawsuit settlement: $147 Million for the lawyers, $5 million for the state and $3 million total for the users that spend 10 hours filling forms.

In other words, this is ineffective. I hope EU cripples them, not even $5B FTC fines scare them.
(Since I'm going to use a lot of terms where I don't always know the translations, I'm just going to write this one in German.)

Eine "Stadtbahn" ist eine Straßenbahn, die auf separatem Gleiskörper fährt, also nicht auf derselben Spur wie Autos. Der kritische Unterschied zwischen Stadtbahn und S-Bahn ist, dass erstere unter die BOStrab (Betriebsordnung Straßenbahn) fallen, letztere aber unter die EBO (Eisenbahn-Betriebsordnung). Das heißt insbesondere:

- Stadtbahnen fahren auf Sicht und folgen den Straßenschildern und Lichtsignalen für Straßenbahnen. S-Bahnen hingegen folgen den Schildern und Lichtsignalen für Züge und fahren ausschließlich nach Signal oder (bei Ausfall der Signale) nach per Funk erteiltem Fahrauftrag.

- Stadtbahnen verwenden das Stromnetz des jeweiligen Straßenbahnunternehmens, also in Berlin z.B. 600 V Gleichstrom. S-Bahnen sind Eisenbahnen und fahren mit Bahnstrom, also 15 kV 16,7 Hz Wechselstrom.
All PDFs on this page: https://secure2.linuxjournal.com/pdf/dljdownload.php appear to be un-paywalled now (they were not yesterday).
The use cases expand and contract year over year, iterating towards ones that create longer sessions without necessarily being dopamine like addictions

Just pointing out that people merely use a service for X minutes doesn't tell what people are doing

Over the last year the instagram service added IGTV, which can be replacing TV and youtube for some people, for example

These can be completely exempt from the messed up frustrating picture feeds and the use case of attracting likes.
Your comment is not at all clear; perhaps you could try being less euphemistic and say what it is you mean.
The Huawei CEO said HarmonyOS can replace Android on its smartphones “at any time,” but reiterated its previous commitments to Google’s platform.

https://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-harmonyos-1017511/
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Transporting bulky or heavy items can be impractical by bike or public transport, as in when shopping or moving.

People with ilnesses and/or mobility issues also come to mind.

Cars' carrying capacity and weatherproofing are useful. As long as the number is limited and their usage is shared (taxis, carsharing), their existence can be a net positive in my opinion.
Looks like it was originally this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Meng but it could easily be punned as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongmen

Neither are especially auspicious, it seems! But perhaps the first one was intended as "oh hai plz do not use unfinished OS".
There was a discussion about that here not so long ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200760
Isn't that a condom brand ?
> I am unable to find any sources on subsidies to meat directly.

Yeah, I searched around a bit (even outside of the US) and I'm having difficulty finding any proper data to back up or refute it. That's a pity, would have been nice to know either way. The best I found was data on subsidies given to individual farmers in my country (I'm not in the US), but unless I scrape the site and aggregate and categorise the data, its not really useful (and doing that is too much work for me).

> I'm all for removing subsidies to monoculture agriculture.

Absolutely. I don't even mind animal products receiving subsidies, I'm not vegetarian and certainly not vegan, but I do hope that non-animal products get a large chunk of the subsidy pie, personally.
Sounds fair. Also the Scandinavians should pay reparations to Britain and France for everything the Vikings looted. And Mali should repay Ghana for the actions of the Manden Kurufaba. And so on.
I hope they'll also attach GPU's to those machines. We switched part of our operation to local hardware because wouldn't get both the fast GPU's and the fast CPU's in the same node.

A proper solution of course would be to have the CPU intensive algorithms run on different nodes, but it's an integrated solution we pay for so we don't control that.
This seems to be a good website to advertise for trained dogs :)
Or even better, and likely faster for huge lists:

z = list(map(sum, zip(x, y)))

Even that list is superfluous; the map function returns a generator, so it's better you just need one number at a time but possibly not the whole list (e.g. loop through results until you find a certain value).
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Might well be the 25. I probably should have Googled that first, it's been a few years since I looked at it.

Point of my comment: you can teach this all you like, but it won't do any good unless you can break people out of the "I only care about the size of my pay cheque" mindset.

The money-chasing mentality is probably partly to blame for the mess we're in...
If you do data science/ML with CPU computed models (basically everything except deep networks), you get a ~2x speedup when doing e.g n-fold cross validation (n >= 64), or hyperparameter optimisation via grid search.
> On July 30th the junior senator from Missouri unveiled the “Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology Act”, or SMART Act. The bill would limit social-media usage to half an hour a day (users would be able to bypass the limit by adjusting their app settings). It would also ban addictive features, such as “infinite scroll” (when a user’s entire feed can be seen in one visit) and “autoplay” (when online videos load automatically one after another).

We should never let the government dictate UI through laws. It’s shocking that it’s even being proposed.
>>I'm surprised by how cheap the vulnerabilities market is.

I presume that it is a legal minefield, selling 0days and extortion are first cousins, at least. If you could hold a bid, no doubt an Arab country would pay $50 Mil for one...but they buy them from companies that sell "software" and services.
Google smart home devices?
It's still called Hongmeng in Chinese, though (as per article's picture).

No-one in the west knows about black societies and no-one ever heard that word. I think this is about having an 'international' name that does not sound too foreign/Chinese and that is not opened to misinformation campaigns.
Isn't c++ compilation single-threaded and linking multi-threaded? I imagine with pre-compiled headers 64 cores would be a massive overkill. I don't know, if even my 2700x wouldn't be.
Government won’t touch it directly - they’d get smashed by meat lobbyists. In Australia, the lamb industry is an aggressive advertiser. Zero chance beef lets it happen in the US. Has to come from other cost pressures. Let steak become even more of a special occasion thing because people can’t afford it all the time.
Here is a difference:

Huawei must obey all orders of their government.

Google must obey only legal orders. Legality can be challenged in the courts.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiandihui

According to wikipedia, 洪門(Hongmen) is the alternative name for Tiandihui(天地會), an illegal society in Hong Kong, which sounds similar to Hongmeng.
Uhm, the Netherlands does? In Dutch [1]. There are a few mechanisms. One is a maximum price based on a basket of comparable countries. Two is a maximum insured price based on comparable medicines with mandatory co-payments above the average. Three is insurers bargaining with apothecaries. Four is government bargaining for orphan medicines. Five is sometimes allowing apothecaries to create licensed medicine by themselves. Many of these are totally opposite the US-system afaik, with Medicare not being allowed to negotiate prices being the most glaring one.

[1] https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/geneesmiddelen/beta...
Try compiling Chromium or LLVM and tell me you don't want more than 32 cores.

Also there are plenty of embarrassingly parallel operations like 3D rendering, video editing, password cracking, and so on that would benefits. Ok usually you can use GPUs for that sort of thing but not always.
I honestly don't see it that way. Car in city center usually lead to horrible horrible traffic, especially in our old European town where the centers are usually full of narrow streets.

It then becomes annoying for everybody: As a driver, you will be stuck in traffic and pollution most of the time. As a pedestrian, you will have to always mind your surrounding to be safe and you will have to smell the horrible car exhaust.

Since our center is mostly car free, it honestly feel more convenient. Sure you have to sacrifice the convenience of being close to your car, but you can be in and out of the center in a matter of minutes, never be stuck in traffic, and being there is much more enjoyable.

Also, my city converted a lot of road into pedestrian way and they added a lot of place to sit down, take a break, ... Before that, you where always stuck in a narrow sidewalk, bumping into other people with cars going full speed less than 1,50 meters next to you... Not really a pleasant experience. Your only hope to catch a break was in the shops themselves, meaning you where trying you damnest to go from shop A to shop B as quickly as possible. It made people overall more aggressive and your experience very bad.

And finally, they added more green space which help prevent flood which started to appear in the last years because we had too many area covered in asphalt.
If it damages the world or society, then why not? Would you say that I have the right to eat pets? Humans? Animals (or plants) that are on the brink of extinction?

There are plenty of valid reasons to restrict what people are allowed to eat.
And Google phones are pooped out by unicorns?

What I mean of course is, are the workers making the components for Google products treated measurably better? My instinct suggests not, but they charge a lot more so they could probably afford to pay double what other manufacturers are paying their workers.
Great comment. I too have experienced great benefits from fasting. Humans evolved under conditions of food scarcity. I think we are actually ‘designed’ to be fasting most of the time.
I agree with the opening question but I find latter part of the argument unreasonable. You will encounter many, many services in life that require an initial payment. Pay once and then decide whether you want to keep on paying for more. This applies to restaurants, movies, hotels, taxis, etc. The initial payment for pay-walled articles is usually quite small. If you don't know where to start you can always ask a friend, read a review, or join an online community.
Or a Facebook smart home device.

Worse yet that bedroom webcam from Amazon. Idek who approved that.
I hope you are joking.

The worst things Google would do are million times less worse than least worst things Huawei has done or would do.
Besides the R&D, they hired an army of SV software engineers at top-of-market rate.
There is no evidence that markets reflect what people want. It's just religiously taken for granted.

Even though I shouldn't try to disprove anyhting that hasn't been proven in the first place. Think about this:

When anyone purchases anything there will always be a million things they would disapprove about the product (how it's produced, how its workers are treated, how environment friendly it is, how much advertisers lie about it, what the company does with profits, does the company use unfair competition practices, does the company avoid taxes and so on and so on) but purchase it anyway because there is no alternative. The critical error and monumental stupidity is to use this purchase as a signal of approval of everything the consumer actually disapproves of.
I can think of quite a few streets where one oftthe lanes were converted to bike lanes over the last few years. Still have a hard time believing they had the guts to do this to car owners. Yes, progress is slow. Especially compared to capitalistic endeavours like the recent scooter rollout. Who's it were faster, but also hate the "they are just talking" narrative.
I don't have a source at hand, so grain of salt and all that... I read somewhere that grass-fed cows also produce a lot less methane than corn-fed cows.
Welsh Wikipedia gives me hope
On the other hand it’s shocking social media companies use every psychological tool at their disposal to get people to share their private info as well as getting them to engage with them as much as possible. I’m shocked they’d do this!
In the Engadget article it was stated that:

"Huawei claims that Harmony OS' IPC performance is five times that of Google's Fuchsia, and three times that of QNX."

Which I find fascinating. If they were building this as a Fuchsia competitor and are forced now to push it to market we could see rapid innovation on both sides of the divide actually coming to market soon!
As I said, I should update it.

When I wrote it Android devices never got patched (hence the advice to switch to a FOSS rom that would be updated, rather than a frozen in time factory ROM.)

Security involves a lot more than just access to the source code. That is simply a factor in the ease of some techniques for vulnerability discovery. Back then Android had poor process isolation, significant problems with its sandbox, lax SELinux configurations, insecure software architecture (eg not using “least privilege”)

For a regular user, a stock iOS device is safer than an Android device because there is very little iOS malware in the wild. For a user at risk, then they are safer using a secured device, which by default means modified Android.

Security is not a generic “thing”. It is a continuous process that provides countermeasures against threats by mitigating risks.

If you want a device that is safe by default, will always be patched, and is not vulnerable to indiscriminate exploitation or malware embedded in apps — use iOS.

You can achieve that with a Google Android device (starting with about v8 or so). Of course you still have to be vigilant against malware laden apps.
I already do my part for the environment by not having kids. That's a much bigger impact than trying to reduce the amount of meat I eat. So I'll eat whatever I like, thank you.
Warning everytime you send or browse unharmonious messages, reapeated offenders will have their phones bricked, as this will be the most voted feature on Weibo./s

Stating that this is not for smartphones just days ago, now they decided fuck it why not?
YouTube content has to be monitored I don't have kids myself but my sisters 4 year old watches a lot of of YouTube video she has gotten him interested in insect science etc so most of his recommended videos are science for babies and kids etc
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It was about 10 years ago. I don't remember just where it was.
> Some of them are technical, but to be honest a load of them are societal. (as in, bleating like Cassandra and not being able to affect change.)

This is where I am now, where I'm comfortable making technical mistakes and know enough to avoid the most grevious pitfalls, but struggle to expand the sphere of things affected by my changes beyond a few people or single team/product. Some people get into management for this, but I've seen that management is mostly planning, budgeting, hiring/firing, and non-technical communications.
PTO invalidation happens every day but takes /years/ to process.

Until then, frivolous patent holders have free rein to coerce contracts that licence claims they know won't stand re-examination.

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/02/17/federal-circuit-affirm...
I really don't see why taxis or Uber should be allowed, at least if they are not fully electric. They are often larger than private cars, and they drive only the chauffeur and typically one grown up customer around, who could easily have walked, taken the metro or a bus. Half the time they are just waiting around for customers while the engine is on so the chauffeur can cool down or warm up inside.

A better exception would be EVs. Then lower their speed limit to 20 or 30 km/h in the city center, narrow car space to one lane in each direction, and free up the rest of the space on the streets for pedestrians, bikes, electric scooters, etc.
Thanks for your feedback :)

I have to say that my journaling is very basic as I am only a beginner (1 year). I just write down my thoughts, tell things about my day or comment about my mood of the moment.

I read great content [1] about journaling so I will try to improve the way I write in my journal.

I've never thought about implementing likert-scale type questions in the journal but it's a great idea. I put this in the roadmap [2] so I'm going to have some thinking about it.

I have planed a feature to have gratitude journaling which can be similar to likert-scale type questions but without the likert-scale. So I definitely can implement this kind of feature too :)

[1] http://benjaminhardy.com/journal/

[2] https://trello.com/b/sHBLZTeQ/gekri-product-roadmap
I hope NY State wins the lawsuit. Typically investor fraud lawsuits have higher penalties. If it was workers rights that wouldn't be a problem for them.
Yes, but immediately patched by Apple. It seems to me that in the future you simply can't own a rooted iPhone, because Apple put a $1M bounty on making that impossible.

(If you don't see where this is going: after a while all the security holes will be patched, and thus no more rooted iPhones.)
If protection from market is predicated on testing and research being expensive, it pretty much ensures that they will do their best to keep them that way to enjoy the profitable protection.
I think the mistake you're making is that the protectionist policies of (say) the US and China are not remotely comparable. In particular, the whole reason the US needs steel and aluminium tariffs is that China has used protectionism and state subsidies to build a steel and aluminium industry so far in excess of what the country consumes that the surplus has tanked global prices. This is pretty much unprecidented. The US is not the only country that objects to this; the EU wanted to put tariffs on China a few years earlier but they couldn't agree on which goods the tariffs should apply to.
I had a few hundred dollars (so not a huge debt) written off, without me doing anything. The debt was due to charges (and interest on those charges) applied on a dormant account. The thing is, I didn't know that the charges were accumulating or I would have closed the account. If they had told me, eg, after 6 months or so (seems like a reasonable amount of time to give), I would have paid the $40 or whatever and closed the account. Instead they let the charges accumulate for five years before feeling the need to contact me. So, yeah, I wasn't going to pay that! I was planning on offering to pay whatever the amount would have been after 6 months but then I got a letter stating that they won't pursue the matter. Maybe they realised how ridiculous it was that they didn't contact me sooner.

I wonder did it affect my credit rating, but where I am, credit ratings really aren't all that important compared to the US (and reset over a few years anyway).
I'm more concerned about contamination by heavy metals from car exhaust and other pollutants. The metals like nickel, cadmium and lead end up in the soil and then in the fruits and you can't wash it away. Not sure about fruit trees but I know it's a concern for tomatoes grown in urban context.

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/metals-contaminan...
You seem to be implying that respective governments are the only potential bad actors, and that both Huawei and Google would be entirely benign without such owness.

It's also highly questionable whether the legality of many US equivalents can reasonably be legally challenged. Most of the cases brought against PRISM have been dismissed (and none have been successful). If PRISM is not in fact unconstitutional, then any distinction drawn betweeen the situation in the US and China in terms of government orders is lip service.
Why is it shocking?

The government has always had a say in the UI if it was for the greater benefit of it's citizen:

- Off putting images printed on cigarette packages

- Warning stickers put on microwaves to prevent people from drying their house cats in the microwave

- Forcing speed meters in cars

- Forcing head lights of cars to be turned on after a certain hour of the day

- Lot's of "UX" regulations in casinos and other addictive establishments

- Licenses to sell alcohol which basically influences where people can find and shop alcohol

- Recently the UK has drafted a law which prohibits supermarkets to stock and display addictive unhealthy food close to the checkout tilts (Mars, Snickers, fat crisps, etc.)

Why should it be different on the internet? Social media has a damaging and addictive negative impact on society, so it need's to be regulated to protect citizens from the exploitative patterns which these companies purposefully implement to hook vulnerable people into their system.

I wonder what makes people believe that the internet should be this sort of "law free" place where anyone can implement all the exploitative behaviour which is otherwise forbidden elsewhere?
> The availability of the mobile operating system, which is open source

Where is the source?
Corn, wheat and soy are the monoculture agriculture.
More threatening to you perhaps, I'm assuming you're from USA.

USA government seem willing to use its tech sector to achieve political ends too, case in point being the interference President Trump has made in European companies in trying to win contacts for 5G by smearing Chinese companies.

In USA everything appears to serve a capitalist elite.

As, IIRC, Jerome K Jerome said "under capitalism man exploits man, under communism it's the other way around".

Under these specific instances of Western Capitalism and State Controlled Economy they seem rather close to being the same thing: a system in which an elite cadre immorally exploit the rest of society.