skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are less targeted ads better in your opinion? Just curious because I've read studies that show people prefer ads that are relevant to them if they have to watch ads.
Out of curiosity what resolution and time scale is useful. Is it fair to assume the most hedge funds are relatively good at tracking recent information and the value is in older archives that's hard to collect?

Also are event streams and large connect event graphs like Forge.AI what sells actually useful?

Curious as my phd research potentially has applications for information extraction and event linking. But not entirely sure if those applications are actually valuable
Today my iPhone suggested that I look at an automated album of home cooked food from my photos.

It was working pretty well as I scrolled through and then it came up with some poop on the ground that for some reason I had taken a photo of. Kind of disconcerting.
Well, this is literally true. I don't know if people don't want to remember, but people saying that there was no evidence of WMD and that the Iraq War shouldn't happen was a conspiracy theory have, in a very real sense, blood on their hands.

"Conspiracy theory" is a category with a high false positive ratio. It's better for all of us to at least entertain them and give them a fair shot before dismissing them.
Tunnel boring machines (TBMs) bore a gross diameter hole that's then lined (often with concrete segments) for support. The net diameter of the hole behind the TBM is less than the diameter of the TBM, particularly the shield, which is the business end. Maintenance is done in place.

Fun Chunnel fact: when the TBMs driving from England and France met, they drove one below the other and abandoned it in place. The other was dismantled and removed in pieces.
> I happen to think total body count is a perfectly reasonable metric (one of many) for evaluating the risks inherent in various styles of thinking (or not thinking, as the case may be)

No. It cannot be used to evaluate "risk", without quantifying what you mean by "risk" or even having something like full information. How much was (bad)luck? How much was inevitable, regardless if it was March 20 or 21 where the SEALs had cameras on the beach, waiting for them to appear? We will never have full information to understand what was going on, but the stated reasonings behind the Iraq War, outside of the shoot-first Bush Doctrine^, were lies of convenience^^, at best. The thinking was not simple, nor were the initial motivations strictly good or bad. I would argue the outcome was bad.

^ If you don't help us find the terrorists that ran into your country, you're against US

^^ Knowing Iraq has used chemical weapons in the past, it was a bet that old weapons or evidence of them could be found...making a claim of WMDs convenient.
I think Oregon has done better than California in this regard, hasn't it, with the ban on single-family zoning?
There has to be regulation with regards to account closure in this day and age.

I'm sure large companies don't want to screw their users over and have to shut down accounts to follow some other regulation but at their scale Google does not care enough about any individual account.

That's why there has to be some set of laws ensuring people can always take their data out with them. IANAL but exporting and importing all your data to/from Google must be just a button click away even after account closure unless there's a court order.
I rarely use the Tor feature which is the VPN "fallacy". It's a widely successful anonymity network w/ no relation to Brave. If you have issue w/ Tor, then dont use Tor.
I meant to say "saving application configuration as Option<int> (either int value or None) is easier for the application to read correctly then a tuple (int value, bool present)."
I have switched to Firefox successfully, but only at home. I still use Chrome at work for webdev.
Thanks. I haven't tried the Bernanke (sounds like it's popular among left-handed folks) but I have a bottle of American Eel. It's just me, but I like really black inks. Noodler inks while quick drying aren't black enough for me. I've tried a bunch and finally landed on Rohrer & Klingner's Leipziger Schwartz. Thanks for the tip on TruRed. I have several Platinum Preppy Fines but results are still a little less fine than the Hi-Tec-C 0.3mm (likely due to higher inkflow).
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> the leader board of HN

Fwiw, the [hacker news guidelines](https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) ask that you avoid commenting on voting (like this one).

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

This pattern - posting something controversial and breaking the rules - and then blaming it on people not liking the controversial thing you said - is not uncommon. Indeed, I frequently see comments to the effect of "See Trump was right about the tech companies being monopolies but people here will downvote me because they hate Trump" sitting at the bottom of every thread when I enable "showdead".

In sum - if you want to get more votes (as you apparently care about votes) and for people to give your ideas more consideration - consider not self-sabotaging by pairing your ideas with a rule breaking comment.

Fwiw, this is the third time I've seen you bring up your rank on the HN leaderboard. It's also the third time I've heard of the HN leaderboard. I'm not sure if somebody being ranked on HN makes me more or less likely to consider their argument - probably less, because it means they spend too much time on social media - but it's not a strong effect in any case. Simply put - does literally anybody care about that leaderboard besides you?
But people don't use Brave because they care about privacy. It's the whole monetization angle that appeals to people, right?
Because there isn't a big enough market to warrant them.

Or maybe there is. The iPhone 12 Mini was just announced and will be released this month. It is nearly the size and form factor of the original SE.

Other than that, my guess is you'll be looking at phones for third-world and ultra-low-budget markets.
>93% are in tech industry.

no offense but is it surprising that the people who likely draw paychecks from those companies like them? The question is framed as "does tech company X do good for the world?"

Presumably if you're working in tech you're already self-selected to agree with that question or you're likely hypocritical enough to answer yes anyway. Seems like asking people in the oil industry if oil company X is good for the world
They lost a lot of credibility when they put an affiliate links automatically without any disclosure.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...
>I returned a 16inch MBP recently as it kept crashing on shutdown. macOS on intel is a mess and so is the T2. And I’m a fanboy.

macOS on Intel is a mess because a particular 16inch MBP "kept crashing on shutdown"? As if Windows and Linux running machines don't have cases where they keep running on shutdown?

macOS/T2 has bugs like all software, but this is not some general state of macOS/T2, which runs fine without "crashing on shutdown" for hundreds of millions of other people (including those with MBP16).

How about it's some particular production run / unit, and or some particular app?

(Which can happen for any vendor / OS)
Crash report of the I/O failure at 1984 on 15 November 2017 [pdf]
Once I buy the iPhone 12 mini I have prepared everything to de-google the last bit of it. I will only keep the old gmail address but not for logins anymore and i will erase every bit of the info. It is the last thing I want to do to be complete google free.
In technical writing within this industry, “email” is interchangeably used to mean either the protocol, an address or a message, depending on context. “If user confirmed their account by entering a confirmation code received via email or phone, that email or phone number becomes verified” is a routine sentence that will confuse no one.
I've not yet seen a lot of good research released due to it being so new.

It felt like we spent 3 months trying to convince doctors here that long covid was even a thing, then another couple helping them understand how they can help people like my wife and it is only that last couple of months that there has been a mobilisation of research and interest in this area, so good quality information is currently hard to find.

CoverScan.com moved quite early - https://coverscan.com/news-%26-updates - have done some great work and are starting to release info - my wife was part of the trial. I'm sure there are others, but these things take time.

I'm sure that we will have loads of useful data points next year, but right now even the collection of the data has been poor to understand anything other than just 'deaths' and in some countries 'recoveries' (which was generally just a measure of those that were ill enough to be hospitalised)
Thanks! Check out https://human.biodigital.com if you want to play with it yourself (free signup). You can edit the models and create your own presentations.
I read somewhere, in a reference I cannot find right now, that litigation between the government and private contractors is an important factor in high US public infrastructure costs. If there is a dispute between the government and the private contractor, the contractor is much more likely to have the upper hand in US courts than elsewhere.
the 7 train only runs at 24 trains per hour. Other systems, even ones in the US, run upwards of 30 trains per hour. For example, the Red Line in Chicago runs every two minutes during rush hour and that is capped due to the Belmont junction. It has the same terminal station layout at 95th street as Hudson Yards.

For 2.5 billion dollars, I bet they could have extended the system, not built some insane labyrinth 150 feet underground and improved signaling to run 30 trains per hour and maybe even built that 2nd station they had to cut due to cost.
Other than your own living room at home, where do you go that has a TV just hanging around free for use? Coffee shops don't. Classrooms don't (certainly not enough for every student, at least). Parks don't. Trains/busses/airplanes don't. Backseat of the parents minivan probably doesn't, either.

Like where else can you use this other than a basically permanent installation at home for this to qualify as "taken everywhere by kids"?
No, but young forests grow into old forests and while they don't hold as much CO2 they sequester it much much faster. (assuming of course that there is good regeneration after fires.)
I don’t think I’m alone as a Brave user when I say that the crypto stuff and some of their default settings aren’t the greatest, but overall still provides a compelling solution to multiple problems. So while it’s not a perfect product, and the crypto stuff still weirds me out, I find it to be the best option for my personal use case. I get chromium and it’s large library of extensions, as well as having it be decoupled from Google, and some decent Adblock and tracker blocking built in. On the downside, because of the crypto stuff, I feel like I need to double check the news a few times a year to make sure they haven’t made it mandatory, or done anything shady. Overall I’m happy with Brave, and glad to see it growing.
There was an analytics startup focused on privacy that recently launched: https://panelbear.com/

No idea if it's any good.
Yes, and I’d say more than that—tinkers who are specifically interested in tinkering with Linux desktop administration.

I’ll do a ridiculous amount of work on some hobby project, but if a system update breaks my WiFi adapter, then I’m tinkering around and facing frustrating issues with WiFi drivers, which sucks, when I really want to be tinkering around and facing frustrating issues with my hobby project, which is awesome.

It’s like: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/asfgcj/bad_screen...

Same reason I switched to AMD GPUs. Getting the Nvidia cards working on Linux is just a distraction from whatever I really want to do.
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I generate invoices using FreshBooks for years. However, I don't use many of the features so I eventually just started to create my own using a word template. Nothing fancy but gets the job done.
I (Xoogler) personally don't think Google is as evil as they color it. But the risk of The Algorithm locking me out on a whim is definitely scary. That's why I'm following more of a "have a backup plan" strategy: mostly just making sure I have copies of all I care about in other places. Gmail, Drive, Photos, etc. Sure, changing workflows and stuff would be painful, but not as much as all that PLUS losing all my data.

Sure, my gmail address is still the primary (possibly only) contact on many many places, but I think that risk would be outweighed by my domain registration accidentally lapsing, or my servers getting spamlisted, or smaller providers going out of business. Again, it would be infuriating and bothersome, but not the end of the world.

That said, I try to keep my personal account for personal stuff, and whenever I want to try something out of the "ordinary layman user" realm, like trying out dev tools or APIs, cloud products, you name it, I'll use a secondary unrelated account just in case The Algorithm finds that odd and ban-worthy.
I don't have a real answer for you, more just shades of understanding. I believe it's the case that Chromium is just more extensible and designed for reuse. Whereas Firefox is more monolithic and less able to be extended.

I don't think it has anything to do with the javascript engine per se, but more the general API surface that Chromium gives you. There might be some additional benefit that Chrome is the most used browser (currently) and so there might be some developer sentiment or familiarity with it; Chrome's popularity might push adoption for Chromium.
Chromebooks right now are in a quite huge shortage: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20201029PD205.html

> Component shortages continue to disrupt Acer's Chromebook shipments, which can fulfill only 30% of customer orders, with shipments for the remainders having to be deferred, according to the company.
As a side note regarding the money: My understanding is they had formed a studio to make a deep faked movie some time ~2019? I think? But covid rolled around and the studio dissolved. They took advantage of the contacts and assets they had initially made to produce this youtube video. They think it might be the most expensive youtube video ever made.
Could be. Pi and Mac announcements on the same day!
Perhaps the most eyebrow-raising part of the WWDC ARM transition announcement was the promise that Apple Silicon Macs would be able to run iOS software. People mostly seem to have just accepted it at face value, perhaps with the idea that "oh, there will be a touchscreen MacBook," but this doesn't really capture the breadth of what this will entail.

Apple has, of course, famously resisted the hybrid/convertible form factor, a decision largely proven right by Microsoft's advance into and subsequent retreat from a universal touch-and-pointer UI in Windows 8. The addition of trackpad support to iPadOS this year was an interesting hybrid-like evolution of Apple's tablet UI, but something as complex as MacOS is going to be a lot harder to take in the other direction without turning into Windows 8.

Whatever Apple's solution is to avoid making the Mac into a "fridge-toaster" will be unveiled alongside the new hardware, and I'm quite curious what it will be.
Did you actually look at the data? Quite a few of the big companies received very negative opinions, much more negative than I would have blindly guessed.

Vast majority of people on Hacker News also draw paychecks from these companies or similar and the sentiment is vastly different.
There was a privacy focused analytics alternative that recently launched on producthunt: https://panelbear.com

No idea if it's any good.
... though github.com is still involved in the round-trip. That is, if your self-hosted agent agent has to run a workflow in response to a push event, the event still has to come from GH's servers, because GH is still doing the job scheduling. The agent doesn't monitor for pushes itself, and the whole communication channel is specific to GH so you can't swap in another provider.
Almost half a million bikes were stolen in 2019 in NL, and there are reports of organized groups specifically targeting e-bikes now.

But in general, any bike that doesn't look like it could sell for 15 euros on the street is a target. The nicer it looks, the more likely a target.

If you're out on the streets often enough at night, you'll inevitably be approached by someone offering to sell you his bike for cheap. Hint: it's not his bike. But the nicer bikes get sent off and sold elsewhere.

Most people I know either keep their bike in their house at night, or they just accept the reality and buy old crappy bikes that they won't cry over when they go missing.

But the expensive features I would like are a comfy but light saddle, a light but sturdy frame (double butted steel tubing), belt drive, and ideally a small motor/battery combo for times when the wind really sucks. Since you asked. Christmas is coming up soon :).
I won't be able to move from Intel to ARM for the foreseeable future because I rely on Bootcamp / Parallels for Windows development, but it will still be interesting to see the new hardware. Big Sur's UI is obviously designed for touch, so I will be shocked if they don't release a touch screen Mac or a tablet that runs macOS. Now that they've worked out how to ship touchscreen Macs, hopefully that means they'll finally offer MacBook Pros without touchbars.
Or the parent was unlucky - with some faulty production units, and the general case for most people, with hundreds of millions of units sold and the highest customer satisfaction ratings, is not that.
Common people have not the time to de-google, nor the interest. Privacy is only a techies concern.
Huh, literally nothing about announcing results on TV.

How can you straight-facedly opine on the opinion when you clearly haven't read it? Instead of reading a NYT article, which is basically a partisan rag at this point, try reading the actual opinion.

And then you can quote back to me the parts about television. Except you can't, because they're not there.

> Kavanaugh just wrote an opinion last week that it is critical that election results must be called by TV networks on the night of the election.

This is a lie. Stop lying.
A major concern that will likely be a part of the threat model of everyone considering using Google VPN is that it will be tied to your Google account. Given the frequency of Google account bans with no recourse, the possibility that your surfing will be used as a new input to the “should this account be nuked?” algorithm is very real. If you are someone who depends on a Google service tied to the same account you plan to surf on, this is a pretty scary threat, even if you don’t buy the arguments made in the article.
Yes we have! HB 2001. One of my prouder YIMBY moments was turning out a bunch of people to speak with our state representative in support, on a weekday morning.
That doesn’t mean they can’t be virtualized by a third party product. We had x86 emulators on PowerPC Macs.
https://www.gaiaplatform.io/terms

>You understand and agree that WWW.GAIAPLATFORM.IO and any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall in no event be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or exemplary damages.

Limiting your liability in the event I have DIRECT damages from using your product definitely hurts the end user. I don't want to opt into it... however:

>If you do not want to be bound by our Terms your only option is not to visit, view or otherwise use the services of WWW.GAIAPLATFORM.IO

Interesting. I assume you'll be correcting these immoral terms ASAP.
Sure. The idea of identity politics isn't actually necessarily linked to ethnic identity. It's relevant to anything that is part of your identity. It's the idea that parts of your identity should inform the kinds of political coalitions you should build. it can be the "race" socially assigned to you, your sexuality, your religion, etc...

It makes some sense if you take an intersectional approach to your social analysis, but as soon as you decouple it from intersectionalism it leads to disaster.
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There's conspiracy theories and conspiracy theories.

When someone targets random people like, I don't know, parents of murdered children, when it turns out they're wrong, the failure case is absolutely devastating. The failure case when the conspiracy is "George W Bush did 9/11" is going to involve a whole lot fewer death threats to random private people.

Telling stories about powerful people matters a lot less because even if they're lies, powerful people will go along with their day. They'll be fine. So, sure, entertain stories about powerful and possibly malevolent public figures. It's when people with significant power like Jones take to telling stories about random parents of murdered children that they do serious damage.
Yup. Wise words.

I miss pre-2015 Twitter. I interacted with a lot of fellow devs across the world. Who I would often meet IRL at conferences. It was super enjoyable and valuable. Alas I unfollowed everyone and only open Twitter a couple of times a year.

FB I stopped using many many years ago which was easy. I do use Instagram for sharing vacation and new puppy photos privately. But I easily go months without checking it most of the time. I never scroll.

I go through phases on Reddit. I like r/rust and get a lot of my Rust education from posts there. Which sucks me back in, unfortunately.

I've never gotten pulled into the YouTube rabbit hole. I just click links that happen to be hosted there from time to time. I don't subscribe to much other than SmarterEveryDay and a handful of similar channels. An alternatively would be nice. I wouldn't feel bad about my YouTube usage if it wasn't Google.
If your account recovery works by sending an email... which then sets a plaintext email cookie, there's no actual auth, right?

To make this make sense, I think you are assuming but without explicitly stating the use of signed cookies? EDIT: "if it validates", I guess so.

The other bit which is not clear to me is, what is the key in the database to identify ownership of user information?

You need a linking record which looks like hash(email) -> uid (or user record or whatever) which does not seem any better than what is proposed in TFA.

OTOH if no information is stored against the user's email / uid / username then you probably don't need login or auth.
They could not have both built a station and extended the system for their budget, no.

The new signaling for the 7 will already get them to 30 trains an hour, and that will not be enough in 30 years, much less 100.
- Uses far less phone battery.
- Blocks abuses of web technology, mainly advertising tricks.
- Almost identical to Chrome now but not part of the Google monolith.
- Use Tor w/ 1 click.

Disclosure: I'm invested in $BAT, the browser's native token
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