skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same issue for me with the screen. It's been meticulously cared for and only ever wiped with a clean damp microfibre and there's small micro scratches, as well as marks from what I assume is it resting on the keys whilst closed. I could tolerate such issues with the old models safe in the knowledge that a replacement glass was fairly cheap - not the case anymore.

And then there's the degradation of reliability software wise. Way more regular crashes, bugs etc. Dodgy Bluetooth issues, WiFi issues, a bricked iMac after a software update, and way more (including the MacBook keyboard issue, which I'll need repairing).

And the support. I've had good experiences with Apple in the past, but a recent issue with my iMac has led to it being repaired twice, and still it's broken. I've been dealing with this since January. I've experienced faulty diagnoses, lies about consumer law rights for replacement (which they've since confirmed was incorrect on multiple occasions), they forgot to put my RAM back in, they scratched my screen, and now it clearly hasn't been assembled correctly as the speaker causes something to reverberate in the case, as if a screw's lose. My most recent interaction with a senior support advisor was the most awful of my life, and I've never dealt with such a confrontational customer support person. After finally getting a replacement machine authorised (for the second time in 2 weeks), it's been cancelled a further 2 times for "unknown reasons", leading to more delays. It's been a real nightmare.

Purely anecdotal of course, but I've had that many negative experiences with my Mac's in general recently, both hardware and software, that I feel it is not coincidental. The MacBook and Mac lineup in general is moving towards being too expensive for the joy and stability it gives me, and I'm very close to moving back to Linux after what has up until relatively recently been a very positive experience for almost a decade for me.

I really hope that the new keyboards are a sign of better things to come, but I'm not holding my breath.
For my home desktop browser, I just use uBlock Origin to block ads.

But for my phone, I set up a PiHole running on an EC2 instance and VPN into it from my phone. Blocks ads in everything, not just my web browser. The VPN is configured to only tunnel DNS lookups, not traffic, so the EC2 bandwidth bill is minimal.
How does it help with emoji? I've found CMD+Ctrl+space to already work really well.
Very true. But it's necessary to make the first point explicit so that we can make the jump from "citizens, vote with your wallet" to "citizens, ensure that the government only deploys capital in ways you agree with".
Open office plans are so disrespectful of employees. It was always a brazen move to save money on commercial real estate. Not being able to poop because your building is overcrowded was maddening to the point that I contemplated revolt.
Paper money can be converted to digital, insured, replaceable currency by being deposited in a bank. Cryptocurrency cannot.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. All your comments have been very well and politely argued (whether people agree with them or not) and this is the first time I got a pick at what palantir is actually doing. Thanks for the info.
The example given was hyperbolic but I do think it’s true that a database can be “weaponised” once it’s got the power of state violence behind it.
What is the optimization gained by having 1KB cache slots when the cacheline size on Intel and ARM is typically 64 bytes?
I mean, that seems legitimate to me. Various governments are going to continue dropping bombs. If there's a market for PGMs for U.S. operations, that means less collateral damage; whether you like to think of it that way or not.
Thank you! I'll give it a try
I think there are a few reasons this works well (a simplification):

1. Ideally, you want everybody who wants to consume your product to do so at the highest price they are willing to pay (as long as that is above the cost of production and some minimum profit margin). People willing to spend a lot of money are willing to also spend less, but people who are only willing to spend less money are not willing to spend more. Therefore you target the high-buyers first and the low-buyers second, until you reach zero.

2. Value loss over time means that there is some non-infinite window in which to sell your product in order to maximize profits. The trade-off is likely market (people wanting to purchase), selling price and exposure (how many people even know it exists) - x axis is time and y is profit.

In relation to this story, the exposure was low and the market was lower as a result. Reducing price increased exposure and therefore allowed the visibility of the product to the market out there. Don't under value word-of-mouth!

I think this is why the film and music industry need to calm down about piracy. The EU for example withheld a study because it showed that piracy didn't provably harm sales [1]. How many people have had their internet shut off, been fined or worse because of piracy - when there's no proven victim. In fact, if anecdotes like this story are anything to go by - it may even improve sales.

My anecdote: After pirating the Matrix trilogy (in a time where I had no money), I ended up buying the films on DVD twice (each film individually and then the box set). I never would have purchased these films had I first not pirated them. Similarly, I found a PDF for a book on scrum before purchasing it - and then recommending my team do the same.

Side note: I remember interviewing for a company that did this kind of analysis and automatically adjusted prices for online websites. I don't think those guys actually had any clue (it was all very young programmers and no mathematicians/machine learning people) - but in theory it's entirely possible.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/eu-study-finds-piracy...
Future of the human climate niche
Will they boot existing contact tracing apps with GPS from the App Market?
Got it.. thanks!
A thought occurred to me while reading this and the responses.

I had pretty severe burnout - who knew, working two jobs and studying full time isn't very smart - when I was very young in my career. In hindsight that was one of the best things that ever happened to me. It was even better that it happened early in my career when I didn't have dependents to care about or much of a career really.

Because of that I learned, unfortunately the hard way, that work is work and that's not your life. It took me a while, but I forced myself to stop worrying, thinking and in any way engage with work once the workday is done. I haven't taken work home in years.

Burnouts suck, the really bad ones are dangerous, too, because you lose your sense of reality, but, honestly, if people went through it once when it's relatively safe and you can rely on help to get through it, like I did, the rest of your life could/would be much better.
Please do note that Android appears to be quite weird in regards to accepting network set DNS.

My observations so far have been that Android tends to ignore any DNS set by either the network via DHCP or statically set. Android instead probes the gateway for 8.8.8.8, and happily uses that instead.

The only way I have been able to solve this has been to setup a VPN (I prefer wireguard) on the pihole. Android seems to accept this.

The above in combination with say a DDNS hostname means that I now have a permanent adblocked VPN on my android phone which isn't too bad.
This is not 100% accurate. The "standard" install will place the installation directory higher in the PATH priority.

The store version doesn't modify the path. Instead it creates app execution aliases for the executables it installs. As of version 3.8.2 it creates the following app execution aliases: idle.exe, idle3.8.exe, idle3.exe, pip.exe, pip3.8.exe, pip.exe, python.exe, python3.8.exe, python3.exe, pythonw.exe, pythonw3.8.exe, and pythonw3.exe. These can be found in the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WindowsApps directory. Prior to installation the python.exe and python3.exe app execution aliases in this directory will launch the Microsoft Store. After installation of the "store" python they will actually launch python.
I have an iOS shortcut that hits the disable endpoint, so they have a button on their phone they tap that will disable it for 30 minutes at a time.
>they were able to resolve it by contacting google.

Do they happen to be government-funded, or represent a health company as stated above? To be fair, I didn't follow up the rejection, I just assumed the rule would be set in stone and they wouldn't budge. The app was free, no ads or any method to profit from covid so I was pretty shocked.
Yep, it's for this reason I had to turn off the pi-hole. Random sites that my wife or friends would use wouldn't work, especially log-ins or authentications for various sites, and there's no easy to surface bypass ability. So now I just rely on browser based blocking.
The problem is to find an antibody that defeats just corona and not other cells, like nerves and other stuff you need
Of American cities it's third highest by international arrivals, at least by one measure.

It's behind only New York and Miami in the US, and has more international arrivals than LA, Berlin, Moscow, or Athens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_internationa...
Medicare publishes lots of data on 15,000 of them:

https://data.medicare.gov/data/nursing-home-compare
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I generally agree with a minor quibble: There isn't an identity card that can be used as a passport. There are identity cards that are sufficient for limited travel and are unrecognized elsewhere. In the relatively widespread EU++ ID card system, at least in the country I live in, ID cards can't even be used in biometric immigration gates which require passports.
> Has anyone been through this who managed to recover their optimism and creative spirit? Please help me. What can I do?

Have you tried helping someone? If not, find someone who needs help, then help them.

This seems to be a good way to hack past the kind of burnout you're talking about.

It's best if the thing a person needs help with is something you like to do (or once liked to do). It won't even seem like you're helping them, but you will be. Even better if the person needs help with something you've wanted to learn how to do but never could manage fit in.

A magical thing happens when you help someone. You forget about yourself. Maybe for only a little while, but that can really help reset what's not working in life.

There are so many ways to help people. You can help them online, pseudonymously if you prefer. You can help them publicly. You can volunteer to do something for an organization that has things that need to be done.

Kids need a lot of help. The elderly need a lot of help. Recently unemployed people need a lot of help. There are organization serving all of them, and they can all use your help.

It sounds like you have skills and experience that could help a lot of people. You may have already helped someone just by sharing your own experience that happens to overlap with someone else's.
No. At least not if another anecdote is of any value. The Grand Rapids metro area of Michigan (February and March are quite cold, April and May starts warming) is about 2.2 million as well and there are less than 100 deaths[1]. This is despite being only about 130 miles west of Detroit where infections rage.

[1] counting Kent county and all adjacent counties.
No, most people are just illogical.

The numbers show that this is <1% fatal and probably <0.1% but all it takes is one story of some 30 year old dying on the news and everybody loses their minds.

Granted, I was very scared myself before we had numbers, but I don’t know how many people are willing to actually take a look at them now that this has become sort of political. It’s like how a school shooting will get a lot of coverage, but nobody talks about how way more people are shooting themselves in the head. Emotions over facts.
what an automation!
> we just throw away our time so recklessly, so soullessly.

> No more friendships, community, family, everything is just ulterior motives.

> The reason people are in the golden handcuffs is because they always want to hold onto tomorrow - a tomorrow that may never come.

> People are so vile, greedy, self-centered - even ourselves at times.

> These are just my conclusions.

Just an observation, but these conclusions of yours seem to to revolve a lot around judging and directing resentment at other peoples' priorities and the authenticity of their motivations.

In particular, family, community and friendships are things
that help people get through their otherwise mundane workdays. For many, they're not lies or illusions, but rather, the very things that make dealing w/ occasional BS in the professional world worthwhile.

Perhaps it's a sign that you might benefit from more focus on yourself and your own process and purpose, instead of focusing on others, whose purpose and process you can't control.
A case can be made that making profitable misconduct legal DOES force businesses to misbehave because those that don't take full advantage of the law will be at a disadvantage to those who do.

Furthermore, shaming one company to change its practices voluntarily does little to help workers at other companies subjected to the same thing.

So we really should push to change the law with more urgency than we use to push any give single employer.
Should a business be open now? Actual P&L numbers
The title says "ban use of location tracking", but the article says "will not allow use of GPS data". There are many ways to extrapolate a user's precise location from non-GPS data.
The same argument is actually used w.r.t. DHS/ICE using GitHub to work on software to better track illegal immigrants.

This is software that will ostensibly cut down on errors and speed up processing times for things like asylum claims, but for some reason Github was called out as being complicit.

I think the argument against Palantir is better formed than an argument against Github based on specificity of the tool, but I think both are driven more by viral outrage than careful consideration of any moral calculus or actual hands-on knowledge of how the tools are used.
> The queen is very directed and regimented in everything she does, from her mating flight to her regular, consistent egg-laying prowess. Given her central role and even her name, it is understandable that the layman assumes the queen to be a decision-maker, of sorts. This is not the case at all.

> She is the star of the hive, because of her egg-laying abilities, but is controlled by an overall puppet master – the collection of worker bees.

Right at the start of the article my friend...
Your "calm" performance metrics will be chosen subjectively, almost certainly on the basis of a moral code which guides your decisions but which you're not objectively aware of - because you consider it so correct it would never occur to you to question it.

In fact we already do this with finance and economics. Neither are even remotely calm, unbiased, or objective.

And if someone says that in fact you can evaluate moral codes on objective criteria - not least long-term species survivability and the dimensions of the collective predictive horizon and strategic IQ - how can you be sure that alternative criteria you might prefer are any better?
When you create the bucket it shows a url along with the keys.

Not sure how unique that URL is, looking at the structure it could depend what data centre your bucket gets created in.
The name of the Seattle restaurant is actually Some Random Bar (http://www.somerandombar.com/). In this video, he shares all of his costs and revenue, then compares his total costs being open for only takeout against his fixed costs while closed.

Even with $37k in April takeout revenue, he would have lost less money (-$10k vs -$12k) by being closed.
> The problem with the touchbar is that you cannot build muscle memory with it. You have to look down to do anything with it.

At most laptop usage angles the Touch Bar is in the periphery of your vision, and I can go for buttons that are always in the same place, like the volume/brightness sliders, without having to give it a conscious glance.

You have to look up what each F# key does in each app.
Where are the bug bounty programs? That's easy. It's a crime to see how any of the app is running. Reporting a security flaw would likely see you receive a $5000 fine, and potential jail time atop of that.

They didn't bother to get the servers running before pushing out a gigantic advertising campaign shaming anyone for not using it.

... Despite it having obvious flaws from day one, that showed it was mostly a cut 'n paste of Singapore's GPL app. (Though you can't access the source. National security trumps freedom of information and promises.)
U.S. Treasury blasts records with $3T borrowing need this quarter
You missed the point. Of course the Contracts Clause applies to the states and not to the federal government. The point here is that there is no need for Contracts Clause applying to federal government to exist, because the federal government cannot do what the Contracts Clauses forbids the states anyway.

Of course, that's the theory. In practice, the federal government can do literally anything it wants as long as it uses magic incantations of "General Welfare" and "Commerce Clause", and as long as the nine guys in SCOTUS
accept that, regardless of what the authors of constitution meant for federal government to be able to do.
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> By 2020 you'll need to know how to clean up that electronic trail day in and day out. "Say you were searching for information on hats," theorizes Jaron Lanier, computer scientist, musical composer, and virtual reality pioneer, "and you saw a link about hats, but when you got to it, it was actually a weird pornography site about hat fetishes. Then it turns out there's a record that you visited this site, and now you're getting bombarded with offers from people with hat fetishes. Furthermore, your friends are being contacted in case they have hat fetishes. All of a sudden you're the hat fetish person in your social circle, and you have to go in and undo it."

Well, this happened, but it's simultaneously more pervasive and more silent than we would have suspected. The ad networks know everything about your online behavior, not just hat fetishes.
Clever!

They would still have to know that the site isn't working because of blocking, but I suppose developing the habit of "website doesn't work, press the magic button and try again" isn't so bad.

If I do PiHole just for myself I think I'll add this button. Thanks!
>Humans haven't changed much

You are correct, and humans have been greedy, manipulative, and self-centered since the beginning of time. We often don't even see it in ourselves. I'm sure many of these people who contributed to his disillusionment probably thought they weren't too bad...especially when compared with some other person!
> I remember the desperate efforts of Theresa May to pass the snoopers charter for such a long time. And when she became a PM it was on the top of her list, and she did it.

RIPA was passed in the year 2000 under a Labour government when Jack Straw was Home Secretary.
You aren't disillusioned with technology, you're disillusioned with people.

That's not an excuse for the way people behave, but it's a useful thing to keep in mind when trying to think about how to change the problems. They're behavioral, social, and organizational problems, not technical ones.

Meaningful change can only come through those avenues, then, like politics. Of course, that's an ugly field on its own... if you prefer to keep a tech lens on it, you can try to design products to push society in certain directions, but you could also work towards that without doing any sort of technological work at all.

These sorts of things are the strongest sorts of anti-libertarian arguments I know of. The "market" necessarily devolves to the people who are willing to push the boundaries the most, because it's near-impossible to know all the bad actors exhaustively in advance, and because so many people are willing to compromise - at least somewhat - in their pursuit of personal security.
"The society" is a generic term to hide behind; the society does not provide jobs, businesses do (or self-employment). Nobody provides a "dignified life", that is another vague and non-measurable term to hide behind.
> Then I worked for a tech giant, and then for a high-growth unicorn. It shocked me how dilbertesque they both were. Full of politicians, and burnt out engineers in golden handcuffs who can't wait to get out

Sorry this surprises you, OP. It's called "work" (I'm not intending to be condescending). People pay you to do something and you do it, having entered unto that mutual agreement. Nobody promised you it would be efficient or fair (yet it's much more efficient and much more fair than it was say 50 years ago).

It's not just you. It's many people. Being paid a lot to do very little seems to have some bizarre side-effects to people's psyche.

For anyone reading this, take charge of your personal life. Find people and invest your time, and causes and invest your money.

So many people lament the inequality in the world but do nothing of their own will to change it. Are we all so paralyzed we can't make personal decisions and instead cry out why our government isn't doing more?
Are there any examples of media that existed purely as fan service for an existing fan service that ended up working out extraordinarily well? It seems like an impossible task to make good art if your pure focus is on making a fanbase happy. I cant imagine that the empire strikes back put making the fanbase happy over trying to tell a good story. Looking at star trek, something like DS9 seems like it would have been impossible to create if trying to pander to the existing fanbase, but it's since established itself as among the best (or the best depending on who you are talking to) of the treks.
Yeah, there's been a couple of bad colds going around, and there's not much suggestion of excess death prior to the Jan-Feb-Mar spread of SARS-CoV-2.
The DoJ needs to bring it's antitrust division to bear on Amazon.

https://www.justice.gov/atr
Well, in the context of this post, that is irrelevant at best, or whataboutism at worst. I notice you don't offer a defense of Palantir here. Why is that?
These are elegant solutions, but they are also rather complex, and I'm sure that if we dig in deeper there are further complexities to explore.

I have no doubt that the actor model or continuations can be used to solve any problem. I do however doubt that it would turn out to be simpler than using shared state and explicit locking; or using ledger-like approaches. I also don't think it would be more complex!

I believe that problems of distributed computing are inherently hard enough that the incidental complexity from your chosen modeling approach is not likely to be a significant portion of the overall complexity.