skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend Jaron Lanier's "Who Owns The Future?" [0] on the subject. Trading data for services is not an unreasonable mechanism for value exchange, a priori, and arguably better than nothing at all (the social externalities of "engagement algorithms" notwithstanding).

Rather, I think consumers are getting a poor exchange rate, not least because they have very little agency or transparency into the nature of the transaction. It's all or nothing: cede massive economic power to a small number of centralized corporations and enjoy (admittedly significant) trickle-down utility value; or, live as a quasi-Luddite and eschew these services entirely [1].

It's also worth noting the hidden costs behind the scenes: the massive power of data consolidation, and the accompanying "winner take all" dynamics, creates near-monopoly power in which the centralized networks (Amazon in particular) can dictate terms and prices, usually through the supply side rather than the demand side as was done by trusts and monopolies of old. (This also isn't new to internet services: the centralization of purchasing data through debit/credit cards pioneered the model.)

Lastly, Lanier likes to point out the curse of normalizing the price of "free" for software and services: while consumers obviously prefer it, every consumer is also a producer in one way or another, and so will find when it's their turn to sell some digital service / creative work / non-excludable good, the market is largely intractable to actually paying for things. The "surveillance capitalism" model crowds out other business models in many cases, making a small number of centralized winners the only players with the economy of scale to make money on "free" services.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Owns_the_Future%3F

[1] Even then, one's data is often swept up indirectly through one's social graph. If I avoid using Google services, but send an email to a @gmail.com, the contents of that email are ingested and profited from all the same.
Not to mention, those are always drowsy dinner-time drinkers managing to do research into the beneficial properties of alcohol.

An irritated coffee drinker who has been told coffee can be harmful is going to have a whole lot more energy to produce a “counter study”.
Same here. Looks like wall fetishism has become a common theme in US presidential campaigns.
You can go back and look at PBS's Computer Chronicles from the mid 90's to see how much of a performance win the 68K to PowerPC transition was.

They mention in the introduction that a pre-press shop went from hours to run their bread and butter workflow to about 20 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic0dkf1iFOY

The Intel transition wasn't really a win on performance, but it was a total win for laptops from a power draw and waste heat perspective.
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I think it's still a sound investment, not for the ROI, but for a stake in controlling the future. They could mitigate the anti-trust angle a bit by getting Apple, IBM, and maybe Google onboard.

Microsoft controls a lot of lucrative business-centric markets. An advantage that seems to have helped MS Azure surpass AWS in marketshare. One of Microsoft's weaknesses is their in-ability to migrate away from x86 in any meaningful way. IBM could used Redhat to push the corporate server market away from x86 under the guise of lower operating costs, which could deal a tremendous blow to MS, leaving Amazon and Google with an opening to hit the Office and Azure market.
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I've seen the videos and went through -most- of the book exercises. This is a beautiful way to teach and think about programming and it continues to fascinate me.
Wow what a nothingburger this is, and the press took it hook line and sinker. Amazing PR
In all countries except Iran, the trade of human organs has been made illegal. Organ donation is legal, of course, but under strict regulation to ensure that it's being done ethically for everyone involved.

We had good reasons to prohibit the sale of human parts (even if the donor consents to getting paid for the transplantation). Now, we have very good reasons to protect personal data too.

Why not forbid the trade of personal data for the same reasons we banned it for our physical parts, and implement strong regulations (GDPR 2.0) to make sure that organizations only access and use our personal data for ethical, commonly-approved purposes?
> They want to be "fair" to everyone

This is the explanation I hear most often, but when you examine it, it makes no sense. Otherwise you would need everyone to make the same money, which makes no sense either. People are different, their duties are different, some jobs are better suited for remote work than others - putting everyone in the same basket is plain stupid.
> Only a few months ago

People have been expressing the exact same sentiment you are for years and years.
Nah, what's silly is the idea that we need to rationalize uses of force against citizens by private third parties. It's fundamentally stupid and should be illegal because it incentivizes incarceration.

And most people don't "seek profit" here in their day to day lives. That's zero-sum idiocy.
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This business strategy has been known to fail time and time again. Once a product is launched with the "Freemium" model, it is very difficult to switch to a subscription model without losing the majority of the customer base.

This article argues that freemium is a marketing tool, not a business model:

https://medium.com/m8-ventures/why-freemium-doesnt-work-so-w...

The M&Ms example is delightfully succinct in explaining why the transition never works.
As well, punishing someone for Engagement without malice, which you later determined to violate policy to, is a bit obtuse.
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The concept holds. Perhaps the example isn't great, I'm not sure - but since when does 'the set of numbers between 4.0 and 6.0' not include the natural number 5?
I haven't played Dishonored or Prey but if HR is any indication, then they aren't all that great. No comparison to Deus Ex.
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It doesn't work. There isn't enough money in the data for anyone to care. Your entire data load might be worth $100 a year. The only reason it funds massive industries is cost-effective aggregation by dirt-cheap computer power.

I ran the numbers on Facebook a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19462402 It comes out that they're making roughly $17/yr in annual revenue per user. Revenue, not profit. Cross checking my numbers against some other sources, it may be now more like $40 or $50/yr. Profits, the thing they could actually afford to share with you, look like maybe $10/year. So, what, Facebook is going to cut me a check for $5 every year? Google sends me another 5-spot, and a few other companies send me a dollar or less? What problem does that solve?
Why is it necessary? Do you fall asleep without coffee? Or do you just not feel productive without it?
and yet, they didn't
Regardless of the product advertisement Jabra 75 does NOT support native Bluetooth connection to computers (although Jabra is not quick to admit it) https://medium.com/@daniel_36042/jabra-we-know-our-bluetooth...
If you're going to compare it to a RTX 2080Ti then I'm going to compare it to the sort of professional work you would do with an RTX 2080Ti, not compare it to the millions of iPhones scrolling through Twitter feeds as a metric.

So much grading on a curve going on with iOS devices.
I completely agree with you. Let me just add two remarks. First, although picking 9x9 boards makes connect-four intractable for bruteforce search indeed, I would be suprised if it made it much more difficult for AlphaZero, which relies on the generalization capabilities of the network anyway. Second, using a solved game for the tutorial is a feature, not a bug. This allows precise benchmarking of the resulting agent as a ground truth is known.
> Wouldn't people that fall into the category of "free-thinkers" make for better engineers

No. However "freethinkers" can launch their own companies. It is like people say that Steve Jobs would not get hired at Apple today as if it were some great insight. It is simply company is looking for a set of skills and willing to pay money for it. SJ would rather launch a new company "Apricot' instead of working at Apple.

Besides 'freethinker' is just an euphemism and part of linkedin cliches nowadays. And the definition of free is anyway restrictive and bound to cultural and societal norms.
The problem of people not knowing that privacy is valuable.
I retrieve the email and open it in an editor. I don't render the html ... if someone sends me an email that's html only then I queue it for another day.

Then I batch process the html-only emails, using lynx locally to display the text. At no point do any of my processes download anything except the email itself, and it does that via a raw SMTP connection.

People call me paranoid ... they're probably right ... but I just do all this as a matter of course, and it barely affects my flow.
I feel like this misses the point. Infinite outcomes != all outcomes.
In my opinion, there wasn't really an option other than to optimize for a stealthy gameplay style in DX:HR since ammunition was ridiculously scarce. (Intentionally so: https://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/08/17/why-i...) There is rarely the opportunity for a stand-up gunfight, very much unlike the original Deus Ex, to break up the monotony.
If people generally liked to eat vegetables, it would not need so much propaganda.

I think the evidence that vegetables are all that healthy is not that great and the statistical effects are not large.

Phytochemicals may be hormetic stressors, or they may just be stressors most bodies can deal with, but do not actually benefit from. Antioxidants in particular seem to not live up to expectations.
I'm not saying you have to dumb things down etc. but i do say that the university today is not doing enough and this in direct connection to modern technology, internet and digital.
Just how in the world are people deploying Django apps with DEBUG = True?
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It occurs to me that a combination of Amazon products might yield a similar outcome by way of the Alexa skills system, albeit at the price of asking someone to talk to their Alexa or TV remote. Your solution sounds a little more straightforward for people unsure of technology.
Ah, I hadn’t appreciated this. Thanks for making & sharing your code!
Lmao I can confirm that Trazodone will put you OUT. I have never tried LSD or used Trazodone as a post-peak downer, but when using it for general anxiety management I found it very powerful.
And you'd think there'd be some automated pipeline that would deploy and reload nginx configs. That would be usable by all environments, from lab to prod, and would go through code review. A UI anyone can just go in and switch stuff for prod seems like a weird solution to the use case.

Nonetheless they had a problem, they fixed it and they shared the solution when they could've just kept it.
The lack of exposure to blackcurrants in the US does raise a question of wine - specifically Cabernet Sauvignon. One of the defining qualities is blackcurrant notes which are a good help when trying to detect which grape you're drinking.

Being exposed to it as a child makes it easy to detect it, but for the 99.9%+ of Americans who've never been exposed to it what do they experience? Another berry? A wine flavour they can't quite describe? Do they miss out on it altogether?
Oh agreed, but honestly what makes this so interesting is how tuned it is. I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen Intel or AMD ship an HPC CPU with on package HBM2 yet.
That's not true. Berlin's murder rate is 1.8 per 100k people. If I count right that puts them at 96th between Santa Clara, CA and Boise, ID:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/nov/30/new-yo...
Honestly, Hertz selling stock didn't seem that crazy to me. "We need more money, or we're going under." They're basically asking for new investors to make the business solvent. How is this any different than a startup asking for more investors prior to closing shop?

Frankly, not unreasonable either. The entire travel industry was destroyed overnight, so it's entirely possible they could emerge from insolvency with an infusion of capital and be just fine. I'm not putting my money on it, but it's not the most outlandish thing I've heard either.
Epyc Rome is now available on EC2 and the c5a.xlarge16 plan appears to be about the same or slightly cheaper than the Graviton 2 plan.

Being cheaper isn't enough here - Graviton needs to be faster and it needs to do that over generations. It needs to _sustain_ its position to become attractive. Intel can fix price in a heartbeat - they've done that in the past when they were behind. Intel's current fab issues does make this a great time to strike, but what about in 2 years? 3 years? 4? Intel's been behind before, but they don't stay there. Switching to Epyc Rome at the moment is an easy migration - same ISA, same memory model, vendor that isn't new to the game, etc... But Graviton needs a bigger jump, there's more investment there to port things over to ARM. Will that investment pay off over time is a much harder question to answer.
IDK what university you're talking about.

When I was a PhD student, I worked 60 to 80 hour weeks doing research and teaching. My advisor brought in much more grant money than was spent on our lab equipment/salaries (and worked even hard than we did!) Our lab ran a (pretty healthy) profit, even before considering tuition and patent royalties.

I spent some time teaching. Again, 60 hour weeks and all of my advisees landed six figure jobs after graduating.

To the extent that the sort of institution you describe exists (low accountability), those professors are probably making less than the high school teachers in the same town. For example, an assistant professor at UCMO makes $50K-$60K; a high school teacher with several years of experience and a phd in Missouri makes closer to $70K-$80K (and with a much better pension): https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=UNIVERSITY+OF+CENTRAL+MISS... And in terms of time/effort, the two jobs are pretty comparable.

The well-paid lazy professor doesn't really exist anymore, at least in STEM. Professors are either well-paid researchers expected to bring in substantial grant money (which is a hard job with long hours), or they are relatively poorly paid teachers.
I think AMP actually meets the criteria, but I doubt it's what people have in mind.
If you think Apple's fee is reasonable for developers, you've missed the point: the App Store wall is actively hostile to iOS users. It is not fucking acceptable for a company to decide how I use my personal phone. Apple has authoritatively caged its customers.

Put it another way: What if your car could only drive certain places, at the whim of your car manufacturer? One day you try to drive someplace new and your car halts, telling you, "sorry, you cannot drive here because our ransom was not paid for this location". This is how I feel as an iOS user.

Soon the fanatics will show up in Apple's defense, claiming the App Store is the most secure yadda, yadda.. Sure it is the most secure and well-vetted app store OUT OF TWO. They block other app stores who could provide better app review, more security, and alternate trust for the users. You just need a scary warning confirmation screen every time you add a new app store, explaining that the trust is being delegated from Cupertino.

Of course, Apple will not cede the App throne willingly. This needs to be regulated by the US government. Let me just phone my local congressperson and I'm sure this will be fixed in short order.. oh wait, back to my pit of despair.
if you run pi-hole you can do the same. Really useful for home networks
Sounds like the problem is lack of resources, not lack of police. Why don't you team up with your neighbors instead of trash-talking them? by your own avowal police aren't doing anything useful for your community either; what percentage of the local budget do they get, and why isn't any of that going into your community?
The app store is not a free market. If I set up a card trading store, I'm free to set any constraints I want. Maybe I want to only allow users to trade cards that were purchased at my shop. That's my right as a private enterprise. Maybe everyone will hate it and go to a different store, and that's the free market. If I somehow prevented any other card stores from existing, then we would have a monopoly
I wasn't commenting in any way on the legalities. IANAL and, frankly, I just don't think it's germane to my point.

Netsential clearly had a massive security vulnerability in their system that allowed one user to access the data of all other users. That's very much on them.

Consider a company that provides physical storage units and advertises that they are secure and can only be accessed by their owner. Then it turns out that there was a back alleyway running behind all the units that allowed any owner who had access to one unit the ability to access any other unit, without a key. I don't think anyone would suggest that would be anything other than a massive security oversight by the storage company. Yes, what the thief did was illegal and should be dealt with. But you'd have a hard time convincing me that the company itself wasn't primarily at fault for such a huge oversight in the first place. And I certainly would never use them again.
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It seems insane. I work in digitalisation in Denmark, as a developer, so I can do everything from home. We’re running at 50% as our country is slowly coming back from a lockdown, but those 50% go to the people who actually need to be at the office, so I’m in no way a priority.

I wonder what management will do with the COVID data though. Our productivity is through the roof, but they’ve just spent several hundred millions building a new open office city hall because open offices were all the rage. Must be a tough pill to swallow that all those money were wasted because people work better from home where there are far less distractions.
This isn't a ban, it's a 3 day suspension. And we don't know what content was upvoted, or why it was a against Reddit policy. We do know, however, that Reddit indeed has policies about acceptable content, and most of us seem to agree they're fairly reasonable. So I don't understand the use of the scare quotes in the title.

Why exactly should an upvote, which is publicly visible approval, be different than a comment? I mean... they're both content posted to the site. It's not unreasonable that they be subject to the same rules.

Is the outrage here that votes are supposed to be "anonymous" and this feels like an unmasking of something people felt more comfortable doing "in private"? Is that something we want to protect per se?

This seems like more outrage than meat, honestly. I'd really like to know what the comment was before deciding.
I spend more than I should there in part because of who they are as a company.

In fact, just picked up a rugged duffle bag and a few more t-shirts from them last week.
AFAIK, you can game on Surface X without much issue. There are numerous YouTube videos of popular games doing 60 FPS on descent settings.

Apple fans just seem to be in denial about being late to the game.

I have to admit, the Apple's ARM processors will likely be significantly faster per core. But they are not the driver of the switch to ARM. If anything, Chromebooks were.
Yeah, but now the governments have to manage multiple platforms. Some are writing on Android tablets, others are using Windoze. There's probably some joker still running a TRS-80 Model 100, the former favorite of the sportswriters everywhere.
This is stupid. Why not give people a way to actually say thanks without cluttering up the comments? A real thank you written by a human is much more touching and encouraging than a clapping icon with a counter on it. The article starts with a beautiful image of real thank you’s, and then immediately turns around and implies that clicking a clap button is the same thing?

These kind of things are what dehumanizes the internet, they don’t make for better human connections. It’s also basically the exact same as the current upvote icon. A way to send a message to the author privately saying thanks seems much more touching. Or even a hidden “thank you’s” list of grateful words that can be expanded on the question but that is hidden by default. Either of those would be better than this weird duplication of robotic thank you’s.
How does $10/year solve that problem? Seems more like you'll get a lot of people saying "Oh, is that all they're doing to me? Great! I guess there's no problem here!"

I mean, if people found out there was a $1000 or $10,000 vein of value to mine, yeah, people might get upset and demand a more "fair portion", but they're not going to get upset over $10/year.

The problem isn't the amount of money the companies are making on your privacy, the problem is what they are doing to make that money. I'm appalled at the damage to society they're willing to do to make that little money, but you're not going to convince anyone of any problems by focusing on the "little money" part.
Having a bad day?

I am referring to communication with "Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing" after which Hey did an implementation of a functionality which clearly is not a "basic functionality", but a 14 day demo. After that the app is approved.

Would some random developer really get such treatment from Apple?
So, if people don't vote the way the Reddit admins want, the Reddit admins will replace the voters. That is definitely a way to get only the things the Reddit admins want upvoted, upvoted. But it seems to me to be the opposite of free discourse.

I can sympathise with the admins, because a) there are a lot of terrible, toxic people b) there are a lot of bot armies. The latter is probably easiest to combat, but it is still a tough nut to crack. The former is even worse: I imagine that the most engaged users are quite often the users one wishes were least engaged.

It's a tough problem, but Orwellian punishment of wrongthink seems the wrong direction.
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You're not geographically locked from working remotely. Lots of places are hiring remote workers. I'd start applying immediately.
A "vice"? Why apply moral categories to something as innocuous as coffee?
Seems like a ridiculous requirement unless you also require you use your legal name as Facebook does. Also, in my experience, it doesn't seem to be enforced.
The value of what they provide isn't necessarily it's cost.

That's the whole reason we trade. The value of a good is different to different people. If a book is worth £5 to me, and £1 to you, then if I give you £2.50 for the book we've both gained more than we've lost.
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