skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zuck needs this least of all - people post their lives to FB via Instagram, all you need is a high quality, high cardinality object detector, and some NLP. For ads shown on e.g. Instagram or FB, there should be no impact at all.

Google could mine Photos I suppose, but there's no user graph there, and no text blurb, and no "likes", so it's less valuable. Google is also more reliant on tracking due to DoubleClick and ad exchanges. Be that as it may, Google search ads should also be unaffected.

Where this really hurts are ads shown in apps which are not controlled by Google/FB. Those would need an ID to know who you are in order to boost relevance. And that's being withdrawn. I'm not sure how much exposure FB has to that, though. I know Google is heavily exposed.
The pricing for this seems totally crazy to me. If I recall correctly, maxing out a server is like $160 a month, right?
What do you mean "very clearly?"

People with an intel background doesn't make it an NSA op. The NSA grabs top talent all the time, and companies grab them when they leave.

Im curious how you spotted the spooks :)
$0.24 per kwh is a rough estimate I've seen for NuScale. Typically initial costs for microreactors right now are around $0.25 to $0.30/kwh which is about the cost of energy created by diesel generators. Natural gas is much lower. However they hope that as we make a lot of them the cost will drop.
Thanks for the info. I’ve updated my original post to point out I was mistaken in my assumption.
Food Evaluation App
Maybe not when using Sciter, but on Chrome the differences are massive. I will try to make some screenshots later.
Sure, those people can “opt in” if they choose. The point is that it should default to not track unless the user knowingly and willingly chooses to be tracked (in exchange for services if you like).
No! I was enjoying the idea of being able to deny every app that asks. Oh well.
It shouldn't be hard to sit for a moment and think of some people who would certainly like for there not to be a treatment consisting of ~$3-5 worth of off-the-shelf, completely unpatentable medicines and vitamins.

There are absolutely some powerful vested interests in not seeing an easy treatment for this disease, or, by the same logic, pretty much any other disease either since there's nothing special about this one. (A not infrequent complaint on Hacker News.) I can't prove they're driving the discourse on treatment for COVID-19, but it sure isn't disproved by what I see happening out there.
As much as I like iOS in this regard, it’s a shame Apple felt this threatened to delay this feature. I’m sure privacy is a high priority to Apple but when it comes to money, expect them to do this more often. Privacy users are already taking things into their own hands anyway, so this only hurts the tech novices.

Edit: It’s funny how on HN, you can tell the ones who get triggered when you say something disparaging about adtech. Just interesting to see here vs other tech media outlets.
Mailgun has been good to me after switching from sendgrid. Even though I like sendgrids interface better.
MLK had a quote about injustice that seems highly relevant to this kind of thing.

I would prefer to fight the fires where they start. There are half a dozen states barreling toward a cliff because a generation of Californian's were told "just leave if you don't like it" (and if you don't like that example I could just as easily come up with an East coast one). Price out a condo in Denver if you don't believe me.
Facebook halts Oculus Quest sales in Germany amid privacy concerns
The level of police corruption is much, much higher in many other countries. Why are you singling the US out?
This was part of the design behind the N700 bullet trains of Japan. They have motors in all trains in order to distribute weight and thus braking and acceleration ability evenly across the whole train. It reduces wear on all wheels and components but as you mentioned adds complexity in the overall aparatus. They brake at stations using mechanical brakes though if I am not mistaken, the sound is pretty hard to ignore!
> Skia also uses system library for font shaping (CoreText on macOS and direct2d on windows)

Maybe that's why Chrome looks so different on both platforms.
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This is basically my biggest objection to the young people (it's weird to write that as a young person) not taking Covid19 precautions. Yeah it won't likely kill you (your morning commute is higher risk) but it has a high probability of leaving you with permanent damage that could knock an unknown amount of time off your life. This is even true for the flu by the way, just likely much less so. It's a nebulous risk that's hard to quantify, so people tend to not even consider it. It's still a risk though, and it could even be a very large risk, we really just don't know.
North Carolina State University has a little 1 MW training reactor for it's Nuclear Engineering track.

https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/nrp/about/pulstar-reactor/
24$/hour for 8 V100 to be exact.
If you just flat out ban shit without nuanced understanding

I’m sure you appreciate the irony of this given your “banning invasive tracking will be the end of civilisation” shtick.

Let’s compromise and permit advertising generally, while absolutely working as hard as possible to crush creepy and abusive practices, like secretly tracking individuals without their permission. Seems like everybody could reasonably sign up to that.
There are plenty of free alternatives to Google that don’t rely on ads and respect your privacy.
Free vitamin D? Like... Sun?
I'm more curious to learn why the image on the monitor shows a screenshot instead of an actual desktop or open program(s).
I'm not an expert, but I'm not convinced about it reducing the need to maintain a nationwide grid.

Nuclear reactors take ages to ramp up and down. It's basically going to be generating the same amount of power 24x7, but demand is going to fluctuate. The more other areas you're connected to, the more opportunity there is to send that power to someone who can use it.

Obviously there's a law of diminishing returns at some point, so maybe the grid doesn't need to be as large as possible.

There are alternatives like energy storage (batteries, etc.), but you'd have to compare all the costs and benefits.
This is the thing that's frustrated me from the beginning. So many people assume that it's like the flu, that you get sick and maybe you die but otherwise you go back to normal and there's been abundant evidence that this simply isn't the case. And I'm just some schmuck who reads a lot. We're going to see a lot of people with long-term impacts on their health from this on top of all the dead and we still have people claiming it's no big deal.
Yes, each car does little damage compared to a truck or bus. But how do the numbers compare for the total number of cars vs HTV right now? Is the ratio of cars:HTV better or worse than 1:3?
There's a handful of blood-test-by-mail sites you can use to do a vitamin D test. Cost is around $50.
Going by the spelling, isn't it pronouced day-mon?
You cannot fast-track a vaccine if there are other treatments available. Letting the word out that you can be cured from COVID-19 could make a lot of people lose much money. Both Vitamin D and the other one (it rhymes with byfroxymorophin) are cheap and out of patent.

* https://www.fda.gov/patients/fast-track-breakthrough-therapy...
I think it's fair to say that the modern web is a cancer on the human mind. We've become lost in this fake online world, and its leading us quickly to a dark place by feeding our worst impulses.

Adtech is at the root of it. We need to take our chemo and do something else with our limited lifetimes.
Someone I know is doing exactly this (well for discord) and I thought it was genius.
Well it is effectively the same thing what your doing, I think it applies to every single app either way.
Do you realize how much bullshit people buy that they do not need because of ads? People end up with much less money because of that. And the environment suffers too.

And no, without apps people would be able to discover new things. Current ads are not about facts but connecting feelings with products.
I agree. I left the page immediately when it wasn't clear what the pricing would look like. No use investing any of my time into something I don't know if I can afford or get into my work budget.
If this is true, it should have been in the news long before now. Why hasn’t it been?

EDIT: I stand corrected. It did, just not the Big 10 specific numbers.
The world would be arguably a better place if all of those services went dark tomorrow. Everything offered there can be done elsewhere by better products with less user harm, for free, today.
In IntelliJ, it is possible to open the current buffer/editor in emacs using emacsclient. You can configure Tools > External Tools in the preferences. With this, you can have the same line number centered in emacs.

There could be something similar for vi too, though I have not explored this route.

Could this be a good compromise?
There's an "Updated and Expanded" version as well.
Worst case is actually vitamin d toxicity. You can take too much.
The reason some apps are not removed after you connect them is that you can connect more than one account. For example, you can connect multiple G-Drive accounts.

That said, it's definitely confusing in its current form, so thanks for highlighting it.

The apps you suggested are definitely within reach (except for maybe Signal). We don't integrate any CMS's yet, but I think it would be quite helpful, especially for folks who tend to interface with them a lot.
You're equating ad-tech with advertising. They aren't the same thing.
This reads as just another popup you'll need to click before you can use any app. Just like cookies.
I didn't understand the "customizable unidirectional document workflow". What does it mean?
It really doesn't make that big a difference. I have single core, 515MiB VMs that idle at <1% utilization with background noise.
Most distros come with logrotate anyways.
You run an agent called the GitLab runner. You configure it with a token from your Gitlab.com group or repo (depending on where you want the runner to be available). You tag the runner and reference it by tagging CI jobs you want to run on it. The runner polls for outstanding jobs and then executes them. It is extremely flexible in how it does this. In our case, the runner manages a fleet of executors using docker+machine. I believe this is similar to how Gitlab does it internally.

See https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/
>We'll see of this is in any way or form sustainable, especially since uranium is also a finite ressource.

I believe at current consumption rates there is still several hundred years worth of uranium. Presumably Fusion will have been figured out by then or we've killed ourselves with a climate disaster or something worse.
It's not though.
They literally were requiring unpaid time at work.
By 'wrongthink' I'm refering to the insinuation that people who use such a phrase might be suspected of being 'dangerous'. Dangerous as in "More dangerous are the people who would [...]"

Use of the phrase "establishment media companies" seems like poor evidence for accusing somebody of being dangerous. But perhaps I misread your comment and the remark about red flags had nothing to do with your previous remark about dangerous people?
> We investigated using Prisma v2 as a way of auto-creating a GraphQL API that directly interfaces with a PostgreSQL database, but we immediately pivoted to other solutions as soon as we discovered that the Prisma Client is really spinning up a behind-the-scenes GraphQL rust server itself to access the db. The performance of fetching a mildly complicated query (3 joins) ended up being more than three times slower than Hasura or PostGraphile.

Do you know what Hasura is doing differently? I assumed it worked the same way as Prisma does, with an intermediate server.
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>stretch over too many files

With cscope as the front-end to vim, this problem rarely becomes unmanageable... especially if you get bindings set up and/or use NERDTree or better yet vim-vinegar ..

https://github.com/tpope/vim-vinegar
What are some free products that don't rely on ads?
I'm not super familiar with Verta.AI but reading about their product it seems pretty different. I read Verta.AI as a model deployment and tracking solution. Seldon would be the opensource comparison that immediately comes to mind. Pachyderm is more of a general pipeline and data version control system. You can do some very basic model deployment and tracking in it but we general recommend people use an external system such as Seldon and even have some published examples of how to integrate the two.

Disclosure: I founded Pachyderm.
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The how is difficult -- studies like this are part. "Do you really want to?" is a clear yes. It's called a Pigovian tax, and it's the most unambiguously "correct" way to tax things: you tax things in accordance to their harm to third-parties (and subsidize things in accordance to their benefits to third-parties).

Markets only work if we internalize the externalities, which can most efficiently be done through taxation. Pollution is one of the standard examples of an externality.
I changed the password once for someones bank account because I didn't want to keep getting their bank info every month.

That is the only time I have done that.

Add I Get a forgotten password once a week for some random account that isn't mine.
whataboutism doesn't excuse apple from paying people for hours they're required to be at work.
As a customer of Mode, why not give Taplytics a shot? :)
If you're still relying on the news to inform you, you're in trouble. The media is both biased and incompetent. I'm so disillusioned with the media in general.
Do you realize that you can have ads subsidizing free services without any tracking or using any third-party services?
Facebook Failed to Remove Militia Event Threatening Violence Despite Claims
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/08/athletes-co...

This article covered it a few weeks ago. Another before that https://www.boston.com/news/health/2020/07/27/coronavirus-he...
They're not the same thing which is why they're not as useful.

Magnet links apply to an entire collection of files, as snapshotted by the creator. There is no way to pick a single file and refer to it, immutably. It's all or nothing. Additionally, metadata besides the file contents will change the hash. This includes filenames, directory structure and piece length (chosen at snapshot time, by the creator).

All of these limitations are enough in practice to make magnets useless for widespread per-file distribution.
Just write every idea down. You'll get better at having ideas too.

http://github.com/samsquire/ideas
http://github.com/samsquire/ideas2
There is no roadmap yet. This is a call for input.
> I've been in these debates many times, and when examples are given I can usually trace the "fault" down to the framework or limits of the language.

I don't disagree, but my follow-up question with that statement is "ok, now what?"

If you've got a weak/inexperienced developer who's stuck in a framework where they have have to start grokking async/HOF/whatever to solve the problem they've encountered, where do they go from there? It's fine and good to blame the framework they're operating in to be shitty, but they a) didn't have the skills initially to make a solid decision about the framework to use, and b) are now likely stuck with it (unless they're going to do a rewrite with something else).
Can anyone here help demystify how "oral calcifediol (0.532 mg)" maps to an equivalent amount of Vitamin D in the form you can buy in a drugstore?
Compared to Slack, which sells you basically the same thing but with a "business" tag for $8 per person and month it doesn't seem like that much.

On the other hand Slack's pricing is pretty crazy.
Did you read Mach's Principle? It would not create free energy. And yes, it's quite probably people more specialized in this field would've asked this question before.
Curious what the mechanism would be for causing this condition, especially if someone is asymptomatic.
Running SSH on a non-standard port gets rid of the brute force login attempts, too.
OH no, I'm so sorry for ads now. Poor, poor ads, let's make it easy for them to be more annoying and less regulated for once after years of being intrusive, bringing malware, tracking people across portals and devices, and still being flipping unreliable.
The intel pipeline from Vietnam counterinsurgency to urban U.S. TV programming
Might protect against some ludicrous attack that we're not considering. Limiting attempts seems to me to always be a good idea.
Could you please explain downvotes?

Even entire world 0 tonnes per capita emissions today will result in 1.5°C warming [1].

How about 2°C [2]? Maybe with 0.1 tonnes per capita, 0.78 Gtonne worldwide. That's [3]

Democratic Republic of Congo 0.02 t
Somalia 0.05 t
Burundi 0.05 t
Central African Republic 0.06 t
Chad 0.07 t
Malawi 0.08 t
Rwanda 0.09 t
Niger 0.10 t

Current policies produce in 3°C warming [4]. No change is 4–5°C.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-mitigation-15c

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-mitigation-2c

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/per-capita-co2

[4] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Given the number of newspapers and blogs closing every year, it doesn't actually seem to be the case that adtech successfully pays for the "modern Web".
Maybe tiny refers to the power output. The article says it makes 50 megawatts.

Compare that to a nuclear plant near me which has two reactors that each generate 1280 megawatts.

So it would take about 25 of these to equal the power output of a traditional nuclear reactor.
Exactly. The culture is what determines good spelling.
What's "Apple's offering"?
I think it's disingenuous to argue the economics of nuclear without mentioning:

"DOE reported that it faced an estimated $494 billion in future environmental cleanup costs — a liability that roughly tripled during the previous 20 years."

https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/696956.pdf
Depression is not just being unhappy.
Services should not be able to stalk my online activity indiscriminately without my knowledge and consent.
> then discover that the self-service offering they've built simply can't satisfy the projections they've made to justify their valuation?

I suspect a lot of startups sell their investors on enterprise from the get-go. Self-serve can be seen as a foot in the door, a way to prospect potential enterprise opportunities. They watch self-serve sign-ups for a bigcorp.com domain and then hand it over to account sales and swing for the fences.

I think a big problem is differentiating your self-serve from your enterprise offering. You don't want bigcorp.com to feel happy enough with your $20/month foot in the door offering. And at the same time enterprises aren't stupid money fountains and they don't just sign $100k/year contracts unless they see major value. I think this creates a volatile business where a dozen or so enterprises make up the lions share of revenue for a startup and the thousands of self-serve customers are just kind of there like background noise.
The point of using the end statements is to make sure the programmer knows which clause is being closed.
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I believe that Marc Andreessen came out of a working class background. His father worked sales at a seed company, his mother's jobs included tax prep and Land's End customer service.

If so, I don't think he could have gotten where he is now without the involvement of Kleiner Perkins or Jim Clark, and he's much richer for it.

That's the Silicon Valley dream, yes?
Truly obese people can benefit a lot from just walking, as they're not trained enough to need high intensity exercise to keep it up.

Gyms are pretty horrible places for spreading COVID and other respiratory infections, as they involve a lot of heavy breathing in confined spaces. They are probably a worse place to be than bars. Would the increase in fitness over a 6 month period for a typical obese person really reduce the risk by more than being in the gym increases it?

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-0633_article
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-why-covid-19-ca...

Pre-COVID studies of gyms call out a very high risk factor for respiratory infections.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324993154_Infection...

There was one RCT of gym access in Norway that showed no difference, but that's because there was only one case out of over three thousand during the entire study, in either arm, so it's difficult to say that means anything at all.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.24.20138768v...
Any plausible scenarios where the pool leaks?
What decade are your servers from? A failed key authentication doesn't even involve any cryptographic operation unless they also know the hash of your public key.
When can we address only offering yearly plans for the paid user seats? We would have upgraded months ago if we could go month to month....
Thanks, this is helpful! Can you do a similar pros/cons comparison with Akiflow?
Still remember first time used original Optimizely product for my own startup. Was amazing
Devastating news.

I just spoke about his work (and what to do about it) during my recent keynote at PyConJP, I was just about to send him the video of it, now I can't. A horrible feeling.

I met David after a reading one time, a very kind and intelligent man. (Weirdly enough, Peter Theil was also there. He is a lizard creature). If he was an asshole at times, he was an asshole in the good kind of way. The world lost a gem today.
I don’t think I finished reading Debt; it was both less light hearted as you said, and I don’t think I had anywhere near the economical, historical, or anthropological background to understand completely.
Bullshit jobs was a tremendously tedious book but then that is to be expected from someone who is an anarchist; an ideology that competes with Marxism in its idiocy
Wow. That’s substantially more expensive than I was expecting. It’s been years but we always assumed ~$0.08/KWh for on-site natural gas generated electricity on US based projects.
I've also been pronouncing it like this and so far I've never been called out, maybe I just have nice friends?
30-year old optimization bug in MSVC causing incorrect code found
Here's a good rundown from Science on why hydroxychloroquine has failed large RCTs:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/three-big-studies-di...
You seem to be someone who has a very deep trust in medicine and in particular psychiatry to produce good outcomes for people.

I can respect that difference of opinion.
No, that isn't a joke.
What is life without feelings ?
their own ad network, as described in top of this comment chain.
That doesn’t make it an objective good. Just because the culture at large is under delusions and hysteria does not mean their assessment of reality maps to an objective good