skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great but like tosdr.org before it, what does it tell people they already don't assume to be true? I use tosdr only to often keep ignoring what it's telling me.

Also, I'm not sure if a majority care abt privacy when the value delivered is super high. They submit to the will of the service provider, as if it was the cost of doing business without realising they could either look for alternative or exercise stricter control over what they share and how [0].

To that end, I like tools that let users take action in addition to showing what's wrong rather than simply point it out. Actions can include:

- Replace: Push the users towards alternatives and help them seamlessly take their data elsewhere.

-- Help change their usage behaviour. Most digital-wellbeing / internet de-centralization tech fall under this category?

-- Translate / Pipe data exported from one service provider and import it into another. For instance, it is tiresome to move away from wordpress to ghost.org; or from WhatsApp to Signal. Emails work great.

- Reduce: Hand-hold them as they grasp various privacy and security settings on offer and exercise them, as appropriate.

-- JumboPrivacy does this for popular social networks.

-- PrivacySettings Firefox plugin for Firefox is another example.

-- Plenty write blog posts to help others navigate arduous settings across popular web properties, and expect nothing in return.

- Restrict: Provide tools that let them control what the services can and cannot collect.

-- Application sandboxes like firejail / sandboxie, firewalls like Snitch / LuLu, DNS based content blockers like pi-hole, in-browser content blockers like uBlockOrigin are some examples.

[0] One of the first questions folks asked after an exodus-privacy (which is super nice and something I use every other month) presentation at fosdem was, 'What can I do now that you've exposed what apps on Android do with the permissions granted to them and the SDKs they embed?' exodus-privacy, as great as it is, doesn't let you take action but presents a nice overview of the dangers to your privacy due to the app you've installed. Instead, you might end up having to independently discover and install Blokada or AdAway or Pi-Hole or NetGuard or XPrivacyLua or microG or GrapheneOS or...
offtopic: Is it worth using producthunt for games? Or do we concentrate our efforts on platforms like steam, appstore and play store?
Diving is great for that - long hours spent “off-gassing” with nothing to do but talk to others on the same boat
This is very pleasing to me.
The scoring definitely needs some work – I think some factors should have more weight. Also services' data vary a lot so it's difficult to come up with a good measure for everyone. Ex: I try to take into account whether the service has had any recent data breach, so it penalizes a lot if it has but also scores rather low if it hasn't; privacy policies' length vary wildly and I think that also plays a large role... It needs some tweaking but I think with some improvements I'll reach a more accurate scoring
Thanks for the correction. I totally suck at noticing misspellings on a phone and beat myself up afterwards.
> But that's not a new thing; companies have been in the same business for years. WeWork's valuation is wildly out of proportion to its competitors.

I take issue with the "people have been doing the same thing for years" take, when most hugely successful start-ups tend to be small tweaks on established ideas. Take AirBnB. Peer-to-peer short term rentals existed on the Internet in the form of sites like VRBO since the late 90s, but AirBnB's relatively small changes (mainly ensuring that the financial transaction occurred completely on their platform) allowed for the sea change of urban short term rentals.

While I'm bearish on WeWork for the same reasons as many other people, I think there is certainly room for a consolidated business of month-to-month office rentals that offers a branded experience.
‘Based’ is slang for doing something without caring what other people think, and gained meaning from followers of Lil B, or ‘based god’: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based&amp=tr...
Look into Field-programmable analog arrays (FPAA)
It's an FPGA for opamps instead of gates.
Thing is, I've helped ship my share of GCs in games, and they're not always a problem.

UI solutions often/usually use some kind of GCed language for scripting. But the scale and scope of what UIs are dealing with are small enough that we don't see 100ms GC spikes.

Our tools and editors leverage GCed languages a lot - python, C#, lua, you name it - and as long as their logic isn't spilling into the core per-frame per-entity loops, the result is usually tollerable if not outright perfectly fine. We can afford enough RAM for our dev machines that some excess uncollected data isn't a problem.

And with the right devs you can ship a Unity title without GC related hitching. https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UnderstandingAutomaticMemory... references GC pauses in the 5-7ms range for heap sizes in the 200KB-1MB range for the iPhone 3 [1]. That's monstrously expensive - 1/3rd of my frame budget in one go at 60fps, when I frequently go after spikes as small as 1ms for optimization when they cause me to miss vsync - but possibly managable, especially if the game is more GPU-bound than CPU-bound. It certainly helps that Unity actually has some decent tools for figuring out what's going on with your GC, and that C# has value types you can use to reduce GC pressure for bulk data much more easily.

[1] Okay, these numbers are pretty clearly well out of date if we're talking about the iPhone 3, so take those numbers with a giant grain of salt, but at the same time they sound waaay more accurate than the <1ms for 18GB numbers I'm hearing elsewhere in the thread, based on more recent personal experience.
Maybe worth emailing the mods?
Hey... can you reach out to me... I'm kevin ... at datastreamer.io (trying to hide that from spam but I think you can avoid that).

I'm working on something similar at the moment for a client.

Right now I'm just starting out but I've built a privacy policy classifier that is an RNN classifier based on TensorFlow that is just an 'is this a privacy policy' classifier.

I have about 650MB of privacy policies at the moment which I fetched via a crawler. I'm just about to classify the rest of them.

I'm trying to automate the whole thing so that we have a full workflow.

Anyway... ping me to discuss.
Current OS's are fundamentally unsuitable for audiowork. macOS < Windows < Linux < other OS. None of them really do real-time processing.

It's really bad, I want a new OS where I can actually tell the scheduler what to do.

Also, check out this music composition app I'm launching soon http://ngrid.io.
How do we know it isn't just people doing the analysis if we can't actually use the AI ourselves?
And just to continue the theme, is there room for a kitchen on an airplane? Is there room for a kitchen on an intercity bus? No, that happens to be one of Amtrak's few and desperately-needed "unique business propositions." That's their moat, if they have one. It's not like they can be fast like a plane, or cheap like a bus. All that's left is "good." They can serve you a steak cooked to order. Some sense of luxury, of which hot meals are a part, is one of the few things that makes the passenger feel like Okay I'm not a total loser or hopeless aviophobe[0] for choosing this way of traveling. I can tell my incredulous friends and they'll see my point. I can brag that I woke up with Glacier National Park rolling by the windows and went down to the dining car and had French toast and met a guy who runs a tractor shop in a farming town thousands of miles removed from my life.

It's so counter-intuitive to cut that service out, I just can't help but suspect that it isn't meant as a business move at all, but rather as just another cynical salvo in the longstanding (since Reagan I guess) political effort to choke Amtrak out.

[0] There is also 'aviatophobe' but that sounds too much like 'the fear of Erlich Bachmann.'
WeWork's business model has created a new 'financial-stability risk'
Find one friend.

I’ve moved around a lot since college, and have had to build a social network from scratch a few times with varying degrees of success.

While the advice to join a social activity centered around a shared interest is solid, it’s not sufficient by itself for making friends. Bridging the gap between hanging out for a given activity to hanging out more generally to being actual friends with someone is hard.

Make one friend that is just down to show up. With at least one friend that you can consistently count on to show up, you can start inviting other potential friends to things and build out your social circle. You have to be open to rejection and to a bit of awkwardness that comes with two semi strangers hanging out. But with one anchor friend it becomes so much easier to make more and it’s the one piece of advice I wish I’d come across sooner.
Isn't MySQL owned by Oracle?

To each his own, but that would just about answer the question for me.
I spent 6 years in a job, lunched with the same few colleagues most days, thought they were good friends, knew their partners, met up out of work, that kind of thing. Left to start own business ... None of them offered any support, nor visited, nor anything. Completely floored me, I thought I had good friends at work.

One colleague, a very loose acquaintance, visited a couple of times, asked after us; I need to find that person and thank them ... [people I knew through a club, who happened to work in the same place continued to be friends however.]

Anyway, I'm now working with some of those people again, and talking with them it feels like they're friends... but in retrospect I think for them I was just like background noise to their jobs?

So, at least for me "carry on being friends" was the expectation but I was miles off.
> don't want to spend 8 years doing a Phd, then a ML bootcamp, all so they can make low 6 figures at a job that could be outsourced or H1Bed at any minute

Just wow. You are saying people with ML expertise and PhD can be replaced any minute! It just shows your own bias against certain people. I have never seen or heard anyone who brings certain deep technical expertise replaced in a minute. Hiring people is _really_ hard and hiring people with deeper technical expertise is even harder.

And whats up with 6 figure number? 6 figures go as high as 100,000-999,999USD and I am not sure if being somewhere in median of it (say $200K) will be considered low income?
WeWork debacle spells end of private company ‘glory days’, says Capital Group
I contacted them three times. One by mail, twice publicly via Twitter. I received no response. My correspondence did not request cancellation of the contract but rather an explanation. Inside sources at the company confirmed the contract and also noted leadership was forbidding them to speak publicly.
> I would do it and so would you. I would have to be an idiot not to do it.

It's smart. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be criticized. It's forcing employees and others to take risks (specifically an equity position that cannot be partially sold to hedge against company failure) that the founders are not willing to take themselves.
In this area, their mom. As i said elsewhere my oldest really couldn’t be more social. I just think our youngest isn’t catching that same wave so I’m stepping up my efforts to round out what she sees.

The problem is that it’s going to be fake, which gets back to the core of my question.
i think the idea of reducing emissions is to reach a new equilibrium as quickly as possible, and one as close as possible to our current climate which we know is pretty good.

climate change is likely not going to destroy all civilization (notwithstanding sensationalistic New York Magazine article) but adding decades or centuries of "adjustment" -- droughts, floods, crop failures, less predictable extreme weather, displacement of people in coastal regions -- is likely to be very expensive.

hard to imagine that all this cost over several generations is outweighed by oil and coal being somewhat cheaper than renewables/nuclear.
This reminded me of the TI acquisition of Burr-Brown, analogous to Oracle buying Sun. Rip.

Some early tilt rotor aircraft used analog computers for stability control.
Of some interest, the diner aesthetic has a lot to do with railroads: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-diners-look-lik...
If the NYT ain't to your liking then how about Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-prisons-idUSKBN...

And your link doesn't say anything about Trump closing black sites in Afghanistan, so I'm not sure how it's even relevant to the topic at hand.
I suppose that was a long time ago? Today Mesa is compliant a lot more than Nvidia blob.

See also: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenGL-T...
Church is so judgmental and limiting of the types of activities you can enjoy and you have to be so careful you follow the church norms. I’ll call up one of my friends and say - “hey. Let’s go out and drink, cuss, and tell lies”. I can’t very well do that with church folks. Let alone argue against church doctrine when it comes to drinking, premarital sex (I am married now), homosexuality, etc.

I grew up going to what would now be considered an “evangelical church” and going to a Christian school. Even the non crazy ones that I see on Facebook are still way too straight laced for me.
You can use Objective C on the audio thread just fine in practice. Just don’t call out.
Actual remarks by Boston Fed's Rosengren here:

https://www.bostonfed.org/news-and-events/speeches/2019/asse...
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_amplification
Yes, definitely. I mention it in Guard's own privacy policy, I don't like using it either, but reasons are: (a) it's the simplest and as far as I know one of the few free analytics tools available, (b) not having a measure of the website activity will make me effectively blind and unable to make decisions, (c) I don't send any personally identifiable event (and, for this matter, I don't send any events apart from page loaded events). I'm also open to suggestions to replace GA.
> Basecamp is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who

> have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1.

Just wow, this is gold.
> Quantum computers are analog devices!

I've read this before used disparagingly; quantum is "just analog." Is that really the case? Is quantum computing is simply the ultimate miniaturization of analog computing?

Reading the recently disclosed "quantum superiority" paper from Google[1] that was somehow leaked by NASA one could be convinced that quantum is "just analog." The paper deals in "resonance", "coupling", "filter" and "attenuator"; it reads like the description of a superheterodyne transceiver; analog RF.

This reverse-engineering story points out that the speed of analog computation is due to the effectively parallel processing of the op amps. This aligns with the description of qubits also working in parallel.

One thing is certain; classical analog computers are vastly easier to understand. An op amp is simply an electrical function. So now I'm really intrigued; Is quantum computing really "just" faster and smaller analog?

[1] The actual PDF has appeared: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19lv8p1fB47z1pEZVlfDXhop082L...
https://roblkw.com/papers/likamwa2016redeye-isca.pdf
>Specifically, edaphology is the study in how soils influence and interact on/with living things, especially those of plants. It is the study of the ecological relationship soil has with land cultivation practices and plants. //

That's a new word for me.
Oh, so this isn't even meditation vs. non-meditation... it's being in your day-to-day life vs. being away from it.

I'd like to see the long-term effects of a month-long meditation retreat vs. a month-long Carribean getaway, or something similar. I'm saying this as someone who appreciates meditation.
This is the post I've finally decided to start an alt HN account for.

I'm one of those men with no close friends. Or any friends, for what it's worth. I've had a few people in my life that I had very good friendships at a time, but all of them now live very far and we don't maintain any contact.

I'm married and my wife covers all my emotional needs. While I realize how dysfunctional such state of affairs is, I just can't bring myself to approach new people. Every time I'm in even remotely social situation, all I wanna do is to go home and be alone most of the time.
Even when I do find people with similar interests, I never pursue the connection and follow up. I do realize that total lack of social exposure makes me a dull, boring person and forming connections will become even more difficult as time goes by.

I don't know how to get out of this.
It is fun to be productive. Being the best performer on your team can make work very enjoyable. Also it is not fun to be unproductive. Being the worst performer on your team can make work very stressful.

Also it helps with promotions and therefore money if you work at a decent place. If you work on your own project your productivity matters even more.
Why we should support stricter browser extension rules
Maintaining Xwayland basically means maintaining all of Xorg except the hardware-specific drivers. And Red Hat doesn't want to maintain that code base anymore. Therefore, Xwayland will soon be abandoned, then deprecated, then removed entirely.
I'm not sure "debunks" is the word here, because reading that meta-analysis doesn't get me very far.

There's not much to it other than a simple table and it's hard to interpret. What is "global warming potential" and "total energy use"? In the studies that say recycling is better, on what grounds do they conclude that, and are the conditions they're assuming realistic?

The next step would be reading the individual studies and figuring out how they work, which is more than I'm going to do for a casual Internet conversation. The links and references would be a good starting point for someone willing to do the work, though.

And to answer your question, sharing links is generally pretty useful for people who want to dig deeper, and we should do more of it.
Why? There are plenty of people on the world who can harness the intelligence of thousands of BI systems (BI=biologically intelligent). Even if the AI is more energy efficient, I don’t think it would automatically make a difference.

Or are you thinking of something beyond “Strong AI”, where the AI is so much smarter than humans that it is smarter than the collective intelligence of thousands?

(As far as I know, no definition of “Strong AI” makes that AI by necessity smarter or faster-thinking than human AI. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc..., https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/strong-ai.asp, https://www.techopedia.com/definition/31622/strong-artificia...)
Yeah, that study is pretty worthless but anecdotally, I have been to a similar retreat and even though it was only 10 days, it was totally worth it.

10 days of not talking to anyone, meditating everyday in a group, sleeping with a schedule, eating clean, being away from acquaintances, away from smartphones, social media or electronic distractions, away from shopping and ads, away from the soulless job and the crushing commute meant I could no longer ignore or drown out those thoughts in my head keeping me up at night and I had to consume them so they no longer haunt me.

The effects were long lasting, better than what I got from meditating at home with the aid of apps, but only if you commit to living a healthy lifestyle after. If you go back to eating junk and swiping on Instagram at 2 A.M, it's on you.

Would recommend you give it a try of you can.
Indeed - although the point may still be valid.

Once you're qualified, it's natural to go off and place yourself where you can make money.

As an anecdotal example, in my local practice, there are a lot of Eastern-European and now Greek dentists. They're excellent and came here to make more than they would at home (and prop up the NHS whilst they're at it) - I do have a concern that there's likely to be an impact on dental care in their country of origin though. I know precisely that has happened with nursing.
Folding Paper Globes
That's doubtless true in some cases, but lots of the permanently no date available disks in my Netflix queue are readily available for sale new. Netflix just doesn't really care about the DVD rental business at this point.
You don't. There are tons of flexible space options and have been for a very long time. WeWork is nothing new, just an expensive and shiny veneer over existing services.
i hadn't heard of this one before. do you have a link with more info? where did you purchase from?
Plus, when the scientist who "discovered" gluten sensitivity went back to verify his results, he recanted, and said gluten wasnt to blame. He and his team now attribute it to FODMAPs, fermentable sugars. There's some overlap in the diet where foods have both, but any time someone still cites gluten, a protein, and not FODMAPs as their choice in food to avoid, I automatically mentally categorize it as diet driven by fad.

So its not fair to say that avoiding gluten might not make you feel better, but its at best an indirect effect caused by also avoiding other parts of food, not gluten itself.
A lot of modern privacy violations come from private companies like Facebook, Equifax, Google, etc.

Government or Corporation should never have access to anything like this. They _never_ use it for good.
The Whole Brain Atlas
ah, looks like admins fixed the title. this comment is in relation to the title the article uses: "All the lonely people ... are men", which is unsupported by the data in the self-same article.
Postgres's support for table partitioning got a massive boost in the last major release (11.x): https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-partitioning.htm...
NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack [pdf]
The issue is not that we all face a catastrophic cataclysm but that climate change makes the earth significantly less amenable to us. Cropland destruction, lack of drinking water and relocation of population centers due to changing coastlines are extremely expensive and preventing that would be advantageous. The earth will be just fine without us.
I'm sure "advanced" was sarcasm.
Mongodb's new storage engine was written by Keith Bostic and Dr Michael Cahill.

They are database veterans. Wiredtiger is really nicely written.
There have been a number of HN threads that have become quite, er, hostile or toxic in the past. The most recent example of this would the comment thread for this article: "Richard M. Stallman resigns" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583)
What does that mean? I have been to a retreat or two, as my name implies, but I wouldn’t know what it means to consume one’s thoughts during a retreat.
“I have seen a colleague kicked in the face; I’ve seen a nurse kicked in the chest and have to get medical treatment. I’ve seen patients spit on people and throw urine across the room,” he added

Why is our society so tolerant of this? Why should anyone, let alone an educated, working professional have to put up with this?
>and stop all this socialist stuff like public healthcare, public unemployment insurance, and public roads

I would suggest that you read theory. This is not socialism.
Some friends run an AI bootcamp and helped me finding the initial set of users to help me with labelling. Initial labelled data was generated mostly through them, both manually labelling and with the approach described in https://useguard.com/experiment Also, the model I'm using relies heavily in transfer learning and achieves very reasonable results with few labelled items (the paper in which the technique is described actually maintains that with only 100 labelled examples they reached comparable results to using 10x that data in models that use older approaches)