skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that it's such a defeatist attitude. How are we expected to fix anything if "the system" is "rigged"? If I put my conspiracy theory hat on, I would say that those in power would love it if people kept speaking of things really abstractly like that, because it guarantees nobody would actually do anything about it.
It might be a recent change but I think you can log out of individual accounts now.
It was horrifying to see how many config changes you have to do to basically beg facebook not to send back data to their server. Most of these were hidden in various corners of the documentation and I still suspect there's crap being sent back without permission. I would love nothing more than to disable the SDK entirely but we have a few hundred thousand users logged into our app via Facebook.

Here is our Android config in case anyone's interested:

<meta-data android:name="com.facebook.sdk.AutoLogAppEventsEnabled"
android:value="false"/>

<meta-data android:name="com.facebook.sdk.AdvertiserIDCollectionEnabled"
android:value="false"/>

<meta-data android:name="com.facebook.sdk.AutoInitEnabled"
android:value="false"/>
You are missing the external and unhinged nature of 'cancel culture'.-

What if I decide to buy Goya black beans, and someone takes a picture of me at the grocery store, and brands me as a affiliate of some certain political mindset of Twitter because of it... When in reality, I bought these beans because I just wanted to eat beans?

It's perfectly reasonable for an employer to fire someone for something they said. But what if they fired them solely due to public outcry; the pressure from people who aren't affiliated with their company at all, never bought any of their products before, etc.
Low-tech magazine is really worth a visit:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com
QuantInsti offers a course that is really in-depth. It’s like 4 months. All video based with live instructors, practice and tests. It’s worth the money IMHO.

Ernest Chan has written several books. He also offers live courses. He is one cool dude.

Learning to read candlestick charts and recognize patterns.

Backtesting your strategies is crucial.

Try to use data sources that haven’t introduced survivorship bias.
I've had tape over my camera on my mac pro for over 10 years and have had no problems. And no Apple I don't trust the light indicator.
I am a software engineer.

I agree with you.

There is something deeply broken about our human experience and that comes from becoming abstracted away from the ecology. It isn't just that we have to heal the plant; we also have to heal ourselves. (And frankly, if human civilization self-destructs and humans get wiped... the planet will recover just fine, eventually. Outside of maybe nukes going off everywhere).

We have come to think of ourselves as apart from the ecology rather than a part of the ecology. We think that the ecology is a factor in our economy, rather than our economy being a part of the over-all ecology. Software engineers in particular, have this weird aversion to getting their hands dirty with hardware, and so we abstract ourselves away from the hard, dirty bits. It blinds us to simpler, more practical solutions.

I think there is a place for technology, but only in terms of how it supports the direct human experience with the land, rather than getting in between. For example, I think the free and open web is highly vital to helping people share ideas and methods. Every single locale is different, but there are design patterns that may work. Seeing all the forums, subreddits, podcasts and blogs on this subject ... we already have the technology we need to pull all of this off.

And none of this involves VCs, Big Tech, or aggregators (from Stretechery, Aggregation Theory). It will be the land stewards. Those aggregation of wealth are fundamentally based upon the extraction of resources (be they from the earth or the people), and then controlling access to them. It's to the point where we have to depend upon buying into the civilization in order to live and survive, but it is breaking down and now the best we can come up with is the universal basic income. (When right there, in your backyard, you can be a part of something that nourishes you directly!)

The irony is that, the same skill and mindset software engineers use to design an appropriate architecture from a myriad of design patterns is the same kind of mental process one can analyze a site and design resilient, regenerative, and decentralized food systems.
You think state or even corporate espionage is less lucrative than someone blackmailing you because you were satisfying yourself?
That sounds painful for an ops person. When I did ops work I much preferred to have as little abstraction as possible seeing how critical each action is.

I would never want my production deployment rollback tied to my instant messenger plugin working.
I just did a quick search, here are a few relevant papers:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10704
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00271
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vondrick/transformer.pdf
I am hosting a website for a college organization on a DO droplet and managed postgres instance. Cost is fair but slightly more than offerings from Azure for example. DO has an incredible dashboard for being able to reset to backups and configure networking. I have yet to experience a reliability or performance problem that is noticable. Note that our use case is not high performance.
Perceptually, I think Rackspace was the first modern cloud provider that I'd ever heard of. Is that accurate? Were they early on the trend? Or did their name just advertise the concept really well?
> You've never heard of religious conversions? Or people losing their faith?

Are these conscious though? I always assumed faith was spontaneous. You don't just read a holy book and become a believer right? Faith stems from one's upbringing and/or deeply felt religious experiences. Whereas a non-religious book that gave you new facts about a particular topic could potentially convince you to change your mind.

I think you're right that opinions are harder to change the more fundamental to one's worldview they are.
A solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline
The theory is it would cannibalize their $10/mo plan. They have a lot of users who don’t have tons of files but value paid features. Google and Apple’s storage services are plainer offerings.
The people who can do it are still their target audience, once they try it and realize how much of a pain it is to maintain.
Contrastive Code Representation Learning
I used to use this in the days of XP. It was an amazing way to learn Linux without losing Windows for me. I was sad when I had to move on without it due to the limitations of 32bit and 4GB of RAM (of which I could only actually use 3.2GB of at the time). Strange that this abandoned relic of a time long past showed up here in HN.
My wife uses a tiny speck of Blu Tak. It’s soft so just gets squashed flat when the lid closes and it’s designed to be infinitely reusable and come off things without leaving a mark. She just pulls it off and sticks it a few cm to the side of the camera when she wants to use it. She’s been doing it for 3+ years (same piece) and it’s genius.
Personal Edition implies it won't have important collaboration features needed in organizations. And whether that will be true or not isn't the issue, less volunteers and non-profits will end up using LibreOffice, instead they could just called it Community Edition like every other FOSS project. They will end up with less volunteer contributors, but maybe that's what TDF wants, it's a pity.
Is the reason it’s not a Mac? Cause Mac video cameras are hard wired to the light and have been for many years.
Yeah, that lady from France was an expert who truly studied the art itself.

The opening words of Eric Hebborn in the follow on video are illuminating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jKbbajb5pE

Some (most?) of his works are probably hanging in museums and collections, indistinguishable from the genuine thing.
Is this about censorship and information control, or just about economic equity? Why should we be a market for China's applications when we can't do the same?
> I do personally struggle with a system of objection/dismissal based on the "well, it's a dog-eats-world" mindset.

I used to be perplexed by these responses on HN as well but they make a certain kind of sense. If you have really doubled down on science and evolution and take them to their logical extreme, Darwinism really does just reduce to "if I can eat you, I win."

It occurs to me that many posters on HN are very okay with this mindset because they are chasing big dreams in life. And if a few people get hurt while they're on their way to riches, so be it.

You see this sentiment all the time in various comment threads.
If adoption and renewal keep going this way Quibi will have 8000 users.

Friends and family maybe 1,000. Forgetful people not uninstalling after the trial probably 6000. Of those 1000 users probably varied. Some expect something. Some want every streaming service. Some want 10 minute videos. Some never unsubscribe.
On the Google Pixelbook though, a camera cover is great for closing the worrying huge gap in between the lid and the touchpad in the closed state! :D
> The most common operations are descriptive buttons.

The most common operation is trying to decide which ribbon something is supposed to be on. And it's difficult to get straight even after more than a decade, if you're just an occasional MS-Office user.
It a limitation of Windows; you can still have 16bit legacy mode code segments on amd64 processors on a 64bit OS. The issue is they exceed the maximum HANDLE table size on 64-bit windows versus what win16 expects.

It was a tradeoff to intentionally break compatibility in a pain point for them where it would be acceptable by their customer base.
Cheat Sheet for pesky SQL syntax differences across DBs (Date and Time)
Ah, then I'd clarify that gendered restrooms based on self-identification are a different option distinct from calling all existing restrooms gender neutral.
Monoculture is bad for bees even if you rotate every other year.
Yes, this is definitely an interesting question. Earlier this year I implemented a version of trellis quantization for some compression experiments that I've been tinkering with in my spare time. My code considers more possibilities than just rounding to the nearest quantization step when it deems that the bit rate savings in after entropy encoding may be worth the additional image loss (e.g., it might even completely zero a coefficient). That would violate this decoder's assumption that the original DCT coefficient must have been within a limited range around the quantization step.

I know that mozjpeg [1] features trellis quantization for JPEG encoding. I wonder how this decoder would do with that?

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg
Yeah, not "This email was sent by mistake." but "Sending this email was a mistake." Two completely different sentences.
Not in 2011, it didn't.
And that’s only because there have consistently been a majority of liberal judges.

Just this term they made decisions both forcing states to fund religious schools if they find secular private schools and in a separate decision, said that religious institutions have the right to discriminate.

Now we have a condition where my taxes must pay for people who could conceivably discriminate against me.
Show HN: I built a service to make sense of all this password sharing
Hey HN: I'm Chino, the founder of Keyring (https://joinkeyring.com./), it's my first time posting here, nice to meet you all.

Keyring lets users safely share subscriptions between household members. No passwords revealed (so that logins don't spread) and create a custom bundle of video, music, and news subscriptions between a group. We're the cable bundle for the digital generation.

Previous to founding Keyring, I launched over 160 mobile apps, +50 of which hit the App Store's top charts and have advised two startups to exit, and have angel invested in a few startups, VinoVest (https://www.vinovest.co/) and Unlimited Tomorrow (https://www.unlimitedtomorrow.com/ - alongside Tony Robbins)

Here's how it works.
Step 1: Add subscription services to your account. Step 2: Send invitations for shared access to your households'services.

We make money off with a monthly subscription that allows you to share unlimited services with a group of 5. https://joinkeyring.com/pricing

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Here's some press we've gotten:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robpegoraro/2020/07/08/this-app-wants-to-help-you-share-streaming-video-passwords-and-for-video-services-to-like-it/#4a2145ef44c0

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/keyring

https://thenextweb.com/apps/2020/07/08/this-chrome-extension-lets-you-share-your-netflix-and-spotify-accounts-with-friends/
You may want to consider the possibility that the poor hit rate could be a cause not of your inferior hiring skills, but due to the fact that you are looking for a rare combination of skills, for a job that doesn't sound very appealing:

You want someone who's technically solid, while also good at understanding problems as described by laypeople, and doing all that without understanding the business domain. Way before Chesterton's Fence, you're looking for someone who is very good at communicating human-to-human, human-to-abstract and abstract-to-software.

Tons of people can do one of the three. Lots of people can do two out of three. Three out of three is rare. That is not a "maintainer".

So a different way to approach your hiring would be to revisit the process. If you were able to direct the conversations with the business side to a person who's good at linking between them and what needs to be solved, your maintainer could be just that - a maintainer who goes through a bunch of fixes in that ugly code base.
> he couldn't beat the S&P

if someone has bought FAANG + MS + TSLA 10 years ago - would s/he beat S&P ?
Because people forget to slide the camera cover.
I assume you're paying for a static IP from your ISP, or is there some other way you're routing traffic to the server?
Assuming you get somehow reimbursed, like some companies that dont have corp issued phones?
Forget LEDs, hardware switches, and all the rest, what I want to know is why Apple is making hardware so fragile that a simple piece of tape might damage it.
Dave Chapelle would require 500 million to leave netflix.

1.7 billion sounds like a lot but netflix spends more per year on programming only.
Mac camera lights can’t be hacked. And tell you exactly when it’s in use.
> a Westphalian continent.

I know the reference you're making here, but for other readers who may not know the history, can you elaborate a bit please?
> If we are to believe Apple cares about its users, then it makes perfect sense why they don't allow slower, less power efficient, less secure and less private web engines available on iOS.

Caring would mean giving people a choice. The real reason is they're pivoting into services and other forms of recurring revenue. They don't want people building platform-independent apps that don't need Apple approval and can bill outside of their 30% cut.
How does the smart backlight can adjust luminosity without triggering the webcam's indicator then ? (genuenly curious, I don't know how it works)
So, it's catering to tablet and smartphone users rather than desktop users, who have many "devices" on their system. :-(
Yeah I would change your home page to put your "rate" with some way to denote that the interest rate + EV is better than competitors, instead of putting just the base rate.
Thanks for the industry insight. 1 and 2 make sense from an outsider's POV.

For 3, what would you envision for this test, other than normal market research / focus groups that they likely conducted? Surely you shouldn't launch the Quibi brand with just one show if the goal is a full-fledged streaming platform.
> [...] why they don't allow slower, less power efficient, less secure and less private web engines available on iOS

Do you have a source that shows how chromium/edge/firefox/etc are inferior to safari in this regard?
In case you or others missed it, the parent commenter is quoting a comment that was posted on HN's original thread announcing Dropbox in 2007, where the poster questioned if Dropbox would ever generate income.

Hindsight is of course 20/20, but this comment is often laughed at because it was so terribly bad at predicting Dropbox's success.
Most probably not privacy related, but the result of Blackberry suing Facebook over some patent stuff in Germany.
(German source: https://t3n.de/news/whatsapp-kein-chat-export-mehr-1238327/)
There is a guarantee because there’s no way to bypass the wiring to the light to power the camera.
I have switched to FB web version and uninstalled the app, this has worked very well for me. Its less engaging and I get to keep in touch with my family.
The track record of Apple keeping their camera light shine when camera is in use does not strike confidence and that's why people want to use something more advanced like tape.

Unfortunately, everybody is focused on camera and forget that way more valuable information can be leaked through microphone and other sensors.
Well, of course! But the two scenarios were due to the upthread (GGP? something) suggestion that adding gender-neutral restrooms like SF did would resolve Rowling's complaints.
Robot Game: 65C02 Language Comparison: asm, opt asm, C and Forth
As others have said, I think this is a better argument against machines emulating humanness than it is against the broader category of "general intelligence".

For me it always comes down to: If we assume the human mind to be a physical, deterministic phenomenon, then an informational, deterministic system could simulate it. It's as simple as that. To take the brute-force route, every atom in a human body could be simulated, which would include its intelligence.

Now, that says nothing about time-scale or practicality. It doesn't even say anything about whether electronic computers as we know them can achieve the physical density necessary to simulate something so complex, given the natural resources we have available. But in principle, unless you believe in the metaphysical, there's no denying that AGI is something that can exist.
Add this to the fact that the vast majority of libc functions are either obsolete or simply designed for another era, and it can become a quite daunting feat trying to write C code without shooting yourself in the face. C++ isn't in a great position either (the whole std::locale fiasco is very similar), but at least the standards since C++11 have had the guts to actually attempt fixing the warts instead of simply ignoring problems altogether.

All C standards since C99 have been ugly mishmashes of C++ features and bad ideas, one after another. What everyone was clearly asking them was to just copy-paste stuff from POSIX, and instead they came up with stupid nonsense like VLA or things nobody uses, like the [static N] syntax for arrays.
I also still find absurd someone thought it was a good idea to add stuff as critical as threads.h without asking implementers first if they liked it (fun fact no one did).

What I think is a massive indicator of how much disconnected they are from reality is the "memory safe string handling" they added in C11 with those crappy *_s functions, which a. were just annoyingly slightly different from what POSIX and Win32 had and b. used a totally lunatic error reporting system based on callbacks and `set_constraint_handler_s()` - because obviously when a call to memset_s() fails I totally want a random function to run, for what for I still don't understand after 9 years.
People just wanted the BSD's _l functions, and they gave them a memcpy() that called a random callback. No wonder C2X just wants to quietly pretend these abominations nobody ever implemented never happened.

What no one has ever had enough guts to admit is that 1. C strings, i.e. null-terminated strings, were a terrible mistake and 2. that C badly needs a new string library, or at least something that people can use without risking leaking their whole address space by accident.
Dude, I'm sorry for you.
Make Your Own ColecoVision at Home
Both is true.

My home connection has a static IP. But I'm using my old VPS with HAproxy (see my article) to either direct traffic to my solarPi or to my VPS if the Pi is down.

So in some way you could see that as 'cheating' but I discuss that in the blog.
That's circular logic.

People forget simply because camera covers are not common enough, so it's not a valid argument for why they shouldn't be more common.
Doesn't 'Meg' no more wfh or daycare but will install a private daycare for herself Whittman co ceo this company?
Ah... got it. Thank you for writing that.
Yes - it is incredibly frustrating. I keep wishing someone develops an app store that becomes a standard in enterprises.
Great news, Mac camera lights are hardwired to the camera, and have been for ten years, no code necessary!
Holding the door open for all genders is widely seen as polite and fine, for whoever arrives at the door first, man or woman. It's an optional courtesy.

Having a man "race over" to hold a door, and doing so because they're a woman where he wouldn't for another man, in a professional context, is creepy and weird.

Do you see the difference? What you're describing in the midwest is fine. But it's not what the parent was responding to. The "antagonistic social environment" with "women sneering" you're describing is a total straw-man of your own imagination.
When you state "Graph will become the base, because it does everything an RDBMS can do and some more.", you show that you fail to understand what an RDBMS is and that there is NO commercially available RDBMS around. There are significant differences between SQL DBMS's and RDBMS.

The other thing you have also forgotten, is that you can rewrite your statement as "RDBMS will become the base, because it does everything a Graph can do and some more." The last part of this "and some more" makes both statements equally false. Or if you view it in another way, equally true.

These things are tools that we have available to us so that we can solve the various problems laid before us.
I started because I wanted to learn a new skill and I was bored watching TV etc. It was somewhat accidental. My only advice is to do something that is helpful to either you or a group of people or solves a problem that you have or others have.
> The ribbon interface is one of the best things to happen to office. It was horrible to use before that.

Says who? Do you have any UI/UX study to back up that claim? Most of us on this page seem to believe the opposite is true.

> For an app as complex and feature rich as word or excel, the ribbon interface is a great way to organise commands.

Exactly the opposite. That is, a ribbon _may_ be relevant to a feature-poor application, but much less so to a feature-rich application.

> my productivity has increased tremendously. I just create a table and automatically go to the last tab to format it.

You're conflating context-sensitive UI changes with the use of ribbons. That's a different argument. Also remember that if a Table toolbar or sidebar appears, you can have the same effect - better perhaps - without ribbons.

For an app as complex and feature rich as word or excel, the ribbon interface is a great way to organise commands.

Not to mention context specific menu tabs.

Especially in Powerpoint, my productivity has increased tremendously. I just create a table and automatically go to the last tab to format it.
What’s sad is it took 3 years to find out I have a clotting disorder.

Despite many trips to Er and doctors complaining of stroke symptoms.

A simple blood thinner resolved so many problems for me.

Turns out there’s a big range of clot sizes. From micro ones that have very brief problems, to the sort that kill you in minutes. Hospitals can only really catch them when they are about to kill you, or just after.