skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree that personalization is important, I disagree with the methods Google employs to collect that data and then that they also use it against the user on the advertising side. So yeah, Google does well by trampling all over ethics and privacy.

[0]Only 22% of consumers say they are okay with having their information collected indiscriminately by websites to provide a better experience.

Which means by that metric google abuses 88% of it's users unless they go through the means to turn the features off.

Informed consent, access and ownership are all pillars a modern site experience should have when it comes to data collection -- Google fails here and so does DDG in the opposite direction by just never asking which means they can't do any personalization.

The winner here is going to be someone who can provide the better ethical and functional experience. I firmly believe in the next 15 years we will see litigation in the US around data privacy just using California as the canary and Europe recently voted to get even stricter than the GDPR.

[0]https://www.privacymonitor.com/articles/privacy-guide/
They signed but not willingly. This notion of "you signed = you consent" is ridiculous when you are in practice forced to sign.

When there is a mono/duopoly there is no choice if you want to live or do business. You are forced to accept their conditions.

I do not agree with banks, Google, Linkdln, FB, etc. yet I have been forced to sign their user agreement to have a job, to be able to buy food, etc. In no way I consent to their terms but I have been forced.

Consoles situation is bad too but you can live without a console, you can't live without a phone.

The usage of phones is not comparable with consoles. We do everything on phone/tablets/laptop and almost nothing on consoles.

That's why addressing Google / Apple Store monopolies are a priority compared to marginal things in our lives like consoles
Great idea! We could also add some AI and then connect it to the power grid, and people could earn something while watching virtual worlds on their screens and providing baseload generation to power all the machines.

What could go wrong?
So what? What percentage of Wayland desktops are on Linux? Do comments on Wayland generalize to comments on Linux? What percentage of Linux installations are on x86_64? Do comments about Linux generalize to x86_64?

No, obviously they don't. So, knock it off.
Why do you think it needs any of that? For that matter why do you think windows, mac, android, chromeOS etc. all need "explicit configuration"? They all simply set a reasonable default scale and then give you an easy way to pick a different one if you want.
I've always liked Enrico Fermi's attitude on this. When you're Enrico Fermi, you get to say things like "One data point gives you a curve. Two data points gives you the distribution about the curve."
How to set up your own Mastodon instance.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/social-network-set-mastodon-in...

Or of course there is always 4chan if you are so concerned about censorship.
It’s completely correctable. If fb/Twitter wanted to, they could track every person who saw a piece of “wrong” information, and plaster the retraction in front of their face.
I’ve decided to start my own election forecasting site that only ever gives 50/50 odds. Then I’ll just have to wait for the next 2016-style underdog win and my inevitable victory lap in the press as The Guy Who Called the Election.
How is this entitlement? They are responding to a claim:

>The value of youtube-dl wasn't the software. It was the community. It was the ability to respond, within hours, to a change made on any given site. I.e. youtube-dl stopped working? No problem, file an issue, wait a day, solved.

I don't think you need to preach to HN the value open-source maintainers provide. I think it's fair to assume most people on HN understand this.
You're making a leap from "collapse" to "elimination". Searching for "GDP collapse", the first result I get is referring to a global 4.3% predicted collapse for 2020. People seem to be taking that pretty hard.
What I don’t understand is, how did that not completely nullify the security promises of SecureBoot, rendering the whole exercise pointless in the end ?
Is that a real risk? I thought it was pretty straightforward to breed more of them. For now. The colony collapse problem is real, but I haven't heard any serious discussion of honeybees going extinct.
This is a great idea. So many Linux issues go undiagnosed because the response is so often “it works fine for me, on my <insert insanely overpowered system specs here>.”
They paid for introductions to “the big guy”.

I’m surprised HN keeps this story up given the overlap of philosophies between the tech bubble and Democrat politicians.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/343309/ability-to-...
And? I don’t think the NYP story was supposed to be a bombshell that Hunter Biden got jobs because his last name was Biden.

That may be unfair but that particular point is not even the subject of the New York Post story.

Companies hire people in useless positions all the time you know.
But I still need gunicorn, don't I? My point is that with Go, I just have to execute my single binary and I'm good to go. It doesn't prevent me from adding a reverse proxy and a loaf balancer if I want to, but I don't need gunicorn or other runners.

Also if a single line is enough, maybe adding it clearly to the doc would be nice.
Could someone just explain in simple words why everyone keeps calling this story false or debunked or whatever? Everyone keeps downvoting me and I don't know why. It seems like to debunk this story you'd have to have a journalist do some journalism and figure out why all these companies were giving hunter biden money.
This is so densely hard to respond to. The idea of rhetoric crystallizing is apt here.

Why do we need to allow someone to advocate for violence on the platform? You seem yo be making this grand slippery slope argument, that by banning this person “WHO NEXT”. It’s a nonsensical position. I don’t care who’s next because it’s fucking YouTube and all you have to do to exert your “free speech” is write a book, stage a protest, whatever.

When YouTube shut this down, they did not silence this person. They didn’t prevent you from finding this information. Arguing that all speech is being silenced is genuinely idiotic in my view and speaks to a larger persecution complex.

YouTube is not the government. If you want it to be, integrate it as a utility or something. But no, I don’t need Nazis or terrorists on YouTube. I’m not afraid of a chilling effect. And I’m genuinely thrilled they’ve been removed from a platform I frequent. Because they suck.

On the other hand, I want to see the Tiannemen Square massacre. It is valuable information. Crucial information and information that I want disseminated, preserved, and a part of the platforms I frequent.
It's an example of positive daily human interaction. Keeping minimum distance and hiding the most expressive part of the body removes a lot of that from daily life, and people do suffer from it.

The world is significantly colder this year. I can't be the only one that feels it.
That, or, of course, the Post's original reporting has been more accurate.
I was just answering your question. What did you have in mind when you asked if this could "stifle the development of search engines"?
If true, that actually is relevant to the fair use analysis outlined in 17 USC 107 (factor (3)).

The problem though is that as a tool it is subject to a different analysis, 17 USC 1201, and so it must be evaluated on the basis of whether it is intended to circumvent a copyright, and that is why many of us keep bringing up the fact that they include RIAA-focused tests: it shows that at least part of the purpose of the tool was to download music videos.
> With social media, the genie is out the bottle with that initial statement, and there's no way to set the record straight anymore, let alone in two weeks before an election.

Isn't it actually easier to correct the record with social media since you can correct it immediately and reach the people immediately? Whereas with newspapers, you'd have to wait days/weeks and have to search the tiny section they reserve for corrections?

It's what made newspapers such great tools of propaganda. You push misinformation, spread it and then "retract" quietly relatively unseen.

Edit:

> If the idea that a particular professor or candidate is sexually exploitative becomes viral, can you really undo the damage?

My point is that it's easier to "unring the bell" via social media than via newspapers. We are discussing the "previous status quo" : A newspaper writes a lie. How do you "unring the bell"? You have to wait until the next time you publish - which varies depending on whether you are a daily, weekly, monthly.

Whereas in the social media era, you can just post on facebook, twitter, etc your retraction. The retraction is immediate and can be as visible as you want it to be.
I live in place where winters are harsh. Colonies need to be well-prepared to successfully overwinter. They are amazingly robust when they are healthy, but anything that affects this preparation can easily be deadly over a period of time.

There can be many reasons. The Varroa Mite [0] is one that we have to constantly fight against, these days. The mites don't kill the entire colony, but weakens it so much that the colony can't overwinter. Or there viruses [1] that deform the bees' wings that can debilitate the colony. There are also other problems that we don't see where I live, but other beekeepers have to fight, such as the Small Hive Beetle [2].

I suspect because of the ongoing wildfires and poor air quality in this region, one of my queens stopped laying eggs mid-summer, at a time when she normally lays 1,500-2,000 eggs every day. I had to replace her. I don't know if that colony is going to survive the winter.

Some other colonies had similar problems. Yesterday a beekeeper friend told me she lost a colony and she has another one on the brink of collapsing.

Then, we also don't know who is using what type of pesticides around here. Bees can forage anywhere in the 2-3 mile radius. It's near impossible for me to know what's going on in such a wide area.

It's a constant uphill battle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa_destructor
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deformed_wing_virus
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_hive_beetle
Cybernetix.world 2020 (AI blockchain event)
Prior author of finance-related internet standards drafts here. This is quite a simplistic and Eurocentric proposal.

The core design problem I see is that, in terms of the overall use case, it may in practice already often be the case that an existing identifier, not designed for payments, is used to identify the recipient (for example, an email address, phone number or nationally issued personal or corporate identifier) and that the actual settlement method (bank transfer, paypal, bitcoin, physical goods transfer, etc.) is not specified.

However, in this design you see that the settlement method must be specified along with the recipient, which is functionally nearly equivalent to providing (http://closed-system.com/method/specific/URI) thus largely devaluing the payto:// proposal.

A 'real world' use case for global payments: "I want to transfer some value over there": where there is defined, and some value is defined, but the potentially multiple means and steps to achieve the result may be many and varied and depend upon various additional criteria or preferences (cost, speed, trust, volume and asset type limitations, accounting or regulatory requirements, requirement for confirmation of delivery, error handling potential, day of week, time of day, holiday, reversibility, etc.).

Additional design problems are that there is no transaction or invoice identification system specified which will deeply frustrate customer service/auditing/reconciliation, temporal limits are not possible to specify, and that the approach of shoving all required metadata for a transaction in to generic fields without specifying their formatting is going to cause havoc with all sorts of use cases particularly the disparate allowable character ranges of thousands of banks' various AML/KYC field requirements for SWIFT transfers.

I also note that the proposal comes from Switzerland (home of SIX/SWIFT) and that its de-facto enforcement of ISO4217 effectively holds users of the protocol hostage to that central authority in terms of which currencies/asset types they are allowed to trade in.

I would further suggest that any good faith global payment schema proposal should at least include https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat#WeChat_Pay_digital_paym... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alipay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionPay

For a deeper exploration of the transaction area see the unfinished proposal IFEX @ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/globalcitizen/ifex-protoco...

For an alternative approach to internet based financial endpoint identification see IIBAN @ https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-stanish-iiban-01

For a broader asset type identification system that does not bar innovation, see X-ISO4217-A3 @ https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-stanish-x-iso4217-a3-01
Rowing machines are in my experience much more efficient. 200W is maintainable for an hour or more with some experience. (2 minute split, for any rowers out there). 60W (3:00/500m) is genuinely difficult to pull - any effort at all will exceed that.
I spoke with onWheels a couple of years back. Great to see they want to open up their data. Will contact you separately.
In my codebase at work there are a few cases where code is (poorly duplicated) that would benefit from a proper generic solution. But I don’t expect go2 to significantly reduce our codebase size, even if we replaced the aforementioned components.

I agree that some form of static typing is critical to scale a codebase, or an ecosystem. Let’s also not forget the importance of a packaging system with robust version management. Go modules and proxy.golang.org are also critical to Go’s success at (code) scale.
Make is great if you understand how to use it. It's sort of like git in that many people just pick it up as needed and so they don't understand the underlying model, which makes it mysterious to them and causes it to break in ways they don't understand.
4 years of investigations and the best they got on so called Trump Quid Pro Quo was him asking Ukraine about this specific grift by the Biden’s.

Either he’s better at hiding his crimes than Muller and the Democrat party is able to investigate them, or gasp they can’t actually find anything because there is nothing...
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

By "linked with eugenics" I mean IQ research was used to provide the scientific basis for eugenics policies, including being designed to demonstrate that undesirable groups had lower intelligence.
Sounds awfully familiar. Sony A7ii was really frustrating camera. Used it for for few years or so. The A7rII was a lot better and A7iii is already really good. In many cases I'm just using continuous focus and reframing the picture whenever I want without any stress about missing the focus. Tthis means I can concentrate on more important aspects of the portraits than the focus. Ofc difficult lighting situations requires more care but it's still easy compared to previous models. A7r4 feels even better.

Currently it looks like Sony is leading the mirrorless AF-race by 1-2 generations unless Canon manages to bring new flag ship model with something better as the rumors suggest but let's see how that really goes.
OCaml is good for handling abstract syntax trees (strong typing, pattern matching) and its mix of imperative and functional programming don't require using borrow-checker nor monads. You can also consider Reason, if you prefer a more C-like syntax.
A sign of respect, but the NYpost was never given that option and immediately went into suppression, and it did not turn out to be false information.

Meanwhile, CNN and NYTIMES post content and retract it in higher amounts, and they never were surpressed, locked out of their account or even had twitter force to fix "itself" by now agreeing that they'd "wouldn't" remove content but now just "flag it."

That, is not respect, that is an alliance.
It's not - in Finland where the story is from.
Thanks. Wheelmap is localized in 32 languages and has places mapped in 200 countries. :)
Isn't that true for all RFCs? Isn't that the point of an RFC, to say how things should work and interoperate?

You can criticize it for not being detailed enough or it not being realistic for someone to meet the requirements, but the point of an RFC is to say how it should work, not show it working that way.
This is only true if you don't use go modules - so for recent projects you would not have this problem.
The guy who got DDT banned is the biggest mass murderer in history...because of him and associates, over 500 million pale died of malaria...
I read an opinion piece by Margret Meed (I think, memory may be off). Her claim was sanctions don't work. And all the burden falls on the powerless. All you end up doing is harming people that can't do anything and are blameless.

I haven't seen anything in the last 35 years that contradicts that.

The worse thing I've seen is the US is now so schizophrenic that countries under sanctions can't trust that making a deal with US to get sanctions lifted won't prevent them from being reimposed because some other fraction gains power.
Psychologists aren't doctors in Finland where the story is from.
As written in the Constitution, the provision granting Congress the authority to create copyright laws on its face does not include anything about fair use.

In fact, the Constitutional text is quite explicit about creators have "exclusive" rights, and at the time, fair use was not part of the (limited) intellectual property base of law in the States or the UK.

Reverting back to the original intent would likely eliminate fair use altogether.
I mean it's not like the US Federal Government makes Children's Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Day) a holiday or anything. If you've done a project in Japan, you know you have to account for that day off.
Unless you drew inspiration from them (I'm assuming no, since you just heard about them), "Acknowledgements" doesn't seem right.

"Similar Projects" would be more accurate.
All that has changed now thankfully, no more $GOPATH, put your go projects wherever you want, and there's a decent dependency system.
I think you can put your project in any directory you want with go modules
> I don't see any investigation of whether IQ can be altered through nurture (which I think it can).

Invert, always invert.

Looking at 'nurture' as a positive action may not cover all the cases of increased IQ. Generally, yes, I think that investing more time into others is going to increase the IQ score (for many reasons). I think this is a great thing we all should invest in.

However, there is the edge case where a lack of nurture will also increase it. The adversity is overcome and the person becomes more 'IQ-y' as a result. Ramanujan come to mind as a perfect example of a person overcoming large adversity to achieve great status.

These edge cases aren't particularly repeatable, of course, but they are instructive. These people are the very end of the 'long tail' of these statistical constructs and give great insight into what it takes besides pure luck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#Early_life
This is no longer the case. Now you instantiate a go module wherever you want by running “go mod init” (which just produces a trivial text file). Each module’s dependencies are now well encapsulated. There’s no longer a need for a messy globally shared GOPATH space.
"On November 13, 2019, Carmack announced that he is stepping down from the Oculus CTO role to become a "Consulting CTO" in order to allocate more time to his work on artificial general intelligence (AGI)." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack#Career)
DJI offers Lidar-focus for Cine-lenses
> Media outlets are incentivized to bring in clicks/shares/likes.

Yes, in a way, but also obviously not. If that was their only/primary driver, they'd go all click bait all the time. They wouldn't report things that aren't loved by the masses.

They clearly do, so clicks/shares/likes can't be their primary things.

I do believe that it's partially right, it's just not number one. Number one is agenda, and within the pool of stories that benefit the agenda of the company, they choose what generates most engagement.
That’s exactly the point. Your attempt to pretend paying a drug addict $83k per month is fine, nothing to see here, is definitely not the same opinion of most voters.

That alone is worth the tech companies risking their reputations and livelihoods of all their employees / partners! Trump cannot win! He’s eeeeeeeevil!!!
Which makes rolling back a bad push really interesting. Give me a append only repo with my static binaries that my compute nodes deploy from. I even went to the trouble to put Python into RPMs for this.
I had to dig up the comment you're talking about but just to put this in perspective: You are forming your current opinion about entire communities based on one comment made by one developer 10 years ago. I'm fascinated by all this open source that's out there but if you told me that a developer had to know every single open source desktop out there in order to contribute to one of them then I can't really get behind that. It's very hard to keep track of what everyone's doing all the time.

But in any case I don't understand what is contentious about that. Some pieces are shared between GNOME and XFCE, but a lot of pieces are different and applications have always needed to choose. If they weren't trying to be different they wouldn't have made a separate desktop environment with their own separate libxfce libraries and components. (To GNOME's credit, they have gotten rid of most of the "libgnome" things since then, but now an application that wants to speak to certain GNOME-specific pieces is usually expected to use their private dbus protocols, things that XFCE would never implement anyway)
Fair point. Thank you.
Since it's HN, I would think probably, yes :) I personally have received a job interview on the strength of a comment I posted here.
Even without the shims, right from the start Microsoft was requiring that OEMs allow secure boot to be disabled in settings if they wanted to pass Microsoft's "Windows Certification" requirement.
Yes 1/1000 is very commom in the Arab world.
It’s supposedly run by private individual identified in the page. It is possible that it is harvesting e-mail addresses, but does not require other info.
When a struct implements an interface one has to keep guessing that it really does so (unlike Java, C++ there is nothing in the syntax of go that would show interface inheritance as a fact), and that really doesn't help the poor guys who have to read/understand/maintain some code. Why did they do that to a language that is based on interfaces?
If this path is so obvious, then why would Google continue paying at all?

But yeah, I'm sure we all know more about Google's strategic outlook than high-level Google execs.
Yeah, ITAR restricts export of guided rocketry systems, which this qualifies as. He’s mentioned ITAR in some of his videos as one of the reasons he doesn’t distribute his firmware or schematics.