skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a distiniction without a difference. Ads you like are now public information campaigns, ads you don't aren't.

"The government is about to pass a bill to lock up your reproductive organs. Join the campaing to free the genetalia!" Public information or ad? Context depedent, sure, and also dependent on your views on whether the bill is actually teriffic, terrible or anywhere between the extremes.

Still an ad to make the public aware of the information.

For covid info, advertising slots are still bought. They are filled with content tha has been paid to be created to fit the format and effectively convey the message, including on an emotional level. The covid information ads still decorate media being consumed for reasons other than seeing the associated ads.

"All $whatever..." rarely works out.
There already was a discussion of adding bittorrent to VLC somehow, but IIRC they didn't want to include it in the core distribution of VLC for fear of copyright owners
Object-oriented programming: Some history, and challenges for the next 50 years [pdf]
That doesn't necessarily mean that there was a better path available to them. If Intel moved away from x86, a lot of their strategic advantages would disappear; they'd be one player among many, and they wouldn't have the vertical integration advantages of people actually making full ARM-based systems. Meanwhile there's plenty of money to be made from x86 for decades yet, from clients that put a high value on backward compatibility (which Apple don't, not in the same way - after all, they've done this twice already).
Ok, but what do you do after that?

I don't think most people can realistically use a Mac (or PC) without ever connecting to the internet.
> but post above mine was implying black.

No, in the context of the posts upthread of it, while it referenced an anti-black mass slaughter as an indicator of unwelcoming aspects of local culture, it did not imply that it was just talking about blacks.
When taking criticism, always ask if its

1) Honest
2) Will help you improve
3) Constructive
4) Political

if its any of the first 3, take it and learn from it, if its 4), avoid the politics but see if you can learn from it
Phew! Finally it's safe for Basques to visit Iceland again! :D Jokes aside, Iceland is a very interesting place, not just because of its incredible nature, but also its history and language, especially due to their very interesting and well preserved old texts, and also because they're so remote and insular. It's a treasure trove for etymologists and laypeople alike. It's also quite interesting to track the etymological differences between the nearby islets and countries, for instance on Faroe Islands. Personally I wonder about graph-driven language analysis, and it's a hobby project of mine to go deeper into that.
Do you know anything about Romas and their culture, do you know any Roma person? Because your comment talks about Asians, Irish, Italians, Mexicans, Indians and others but not about Gypsys at all.

"Lynchings, pogroms, and gas chambers" - are you serious?! What world do you live in?

And please check yourself with that racial hate on gypsy culture. Their culture is dark, mysterious, romantic, nomadic, wonderful and beautiful in its own way. It has different values from your culture (and mine) and leads to different outcomes but you shouldn't hate it.

Get yourself involved with a community or organization working with Gypsy people and maybe you'll start to understand them better instead of summarily judge them and those who know them.
I agree, that would be a good idea, as long as it wouldn't call home and sending any reports afterwards.
Vax – A game about epidemic prevention
Wait, do you think the OP has somehow discovered a 26 hour day? Everyone gets 24 hours. Take off about 8 hours for sleeping. That's what you have to play with. How you choose to divide that up is up to you but it's always used in full, no matter how you choose to use it. In this day and age the amount of time you need to dedicate to just surviving is close to zero. It's your choice to work more and not have enough time to play chess.
> There is zero reason to replace clothing as quickly as we tend to.

That's irrelevant to the topic of ads.

Clothing is of cultural and societal importance for individuals in a group and we've become rich enough to afford to essentially buy items of clothing as we please.

This runs quite deep in human society. Look at every human groups on the planet even the most isolated and 'primitive'. People wear symbols and try to make themselves more attractive.

Clothing ads are just a 'symptom'. Our behaviour runs much deeper than that.
The problem is that the threat is multifaceted.

You have the provider aggregation threat: where a service provider could track and map all known faces within reach of any of their user's glasses.

Then there app threat, where an ondevice application that does something "cool" also harvest everything that it can see.

Then there is the government actor threat: where a government piggybacks/creates a law to make sure all movements of type x are recorded.

Its a whole new dimension of fuckery, and its something I worry about.
> that's not true.... I keep using Windows

A counter-example doesn't disprove a general point.

You're describing a strong tie-in in your work environment to specific commercial software articles that are unavailable on Linux. This does not characterize most people (or even a large enough minority).

Now, you could make the argument that people interact with others using MS-Office documents, and that support for them in LibreOffice is insufficient. One could argue this both ways (as support has improved over the years and is by now passable IMHO), but that's not the same as what you're using.

In general, it _is_ true that people use the Operation System that came installed on their system. Most people are unable, or feel unable, to install an OS themselves and would not feel comfortable taking responsibility for choosing a different OS for their computing. Most do not even see this as a choice they are making.

Finally, the "foreign ecosystem" argument is circular. If you get a computer preinstalled with some operating system, and you learn how to use that, than other systems seem foreign. Few people get a Mac as a present then try to install Windows on it because it's a "foreign ecosystem"

> Doing a fully functional ports of software people use under Windows would've

It's the commercial companies which sell this kind of software that can port it.
I believe that greatly depends on how you define the idea. In my definition, the idea for Google was: "Get advertisers to pay for a free information portal." That idea doesn't seem much different to "Advertisers pay for a free newspaper", which was common practice at the time. Similarly, "Advertisers pay for free classified ads" was common, too, but it's how Facebook started out. "Pay for a car ride" = Uber also doesn't seem that new. Or how about "Rent out rooms for money" = AirBnb.

In my opinion, all of those are ideas that aren't really new. But they were executed in a new way and that made all the difference.

HomeAway was already well-known and successful at the time when AirBnb was founded. But the latter reached more potential landlords, due to their specific execution.

I remember using AltaVista for years before I ever heard about Google. So their business idea and business model wasn't new. Their initial execution was incredible, though.

And before I heard of Facebook, I was using MySpace, which was kind of the same basic idea, but pretty badly executed. Until 2 years after the iPhone came out, MySpace was actually larger than Facebook. So my guess would be that it was Facebook's superior execution of their mobile experience that crowned them.
What if people already have enough pointless junk?

My problem is not that I want to see ads that are more "relevant", it's that I don't want to see ads. I don't care what you're selling. If my problem that you're trying to solve is really that important, I'd be actively searching for a solution, not waiting to be enlightened by a targeted advert.

Adtech evangelists seem to think that my biggest problem is a burning surplus of cash that I'm just desperate to get rid of. If only I could find more products to buy so I could be liberated from the pain of having money in the bank! Er, no thanks. I'll put my spare cash towards saving for a house and retirement and the occasional luxury; save your bullshit for the people who don't know how to install Adblock.

(The other way I use my spare cash on is to pay directly for content, because almost everything that's wrong with the Internet and modern media is the fault of the current ad-driven paradigm, and only future I want to live in is one where ads are dead.)
It is lot harder technically and politically for apple to replace TSMC part of the value chain. Apple will loose a lot of brand value if it directly employees cheap Asian labour.

They could in theory move the production to U.S. however without the ecosystem of talent, suppliers and partners that Taiwan or china has it will be hard .

They already spent 10+ years improving their iPad chips, switching made sense especially given intel lack of reasonable roadmap, the effort to integrate TSMC part of the chain does not have the same value given the risks today.
I always just figured that was because it’s much easier to figure out that I was looking for a vacuum cleaner than it is to know that I’ve already purchased one and don’t need to be targeted any more. Especially if the “looking for a vacuum” signal gets spread further, to more systems/parties, than the “doesn’t need one anymore” signal does.
I also found with lichess that blitz players are a lot stronger than rapid - I'm 200 points higher on rapid than blitz and it seems that's pretty common, which has always confused me (and not hugely different time controls - 5+3 vs. 10+0)
I am in that circle, so what?
> is you cannot downgrade apps on iOS

That is very annoying. There should be at least the possibility of "return to previous good old version"

Non-hypotetical example: Latest app update breaks in some weird way on older iPhones/iPads. While developers need to figure that out, users are left unable to use their apps.
I believe the other commenter is referring to a distortion of mental perspective, not geometry, and honestly I’m buying it. It’s so strange to look at a globe upside down, even though there’s nothing unnatural about it.
>Linux doesn't have any phone home telemetry type "features" built into the OS.

Unlike macOS, You can disable ALL telemetry in under 30 seconds on Windows. There is actually even a service named "User Experience and Telemetry" that you can conveniently stop and disable in a number of ways.
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Things to keep in mind while debugging.
HN does have some policy around downvoting - you have to have ~600 "karma" before you can do it.

Reddit doesn't any restrictions at all, and of course that's a massive echo-chamber. But Facebook and Instagram only have upvotes (likes) and the communities are either massive hugboxes or ghettoes.
discover yourself first, who are you? what is that in you that is not changing or is everything changing in your experience? only trust your experience and if there is anything left after discovering yourself :) choose whatever faith that "you" like.
Well, my counterpoints are this:

1) What if, and bear with me here, what if Apple's explanation for why they are doing this is legit? What if they are successfully preventing some malware from running on macs?

2) "They don't believe you should own your computer" -- it appears Apple is planning to offer a feature that allows you to turn this behavior off.

It's easy to assume Apple has malicious intentions here. But I think there is a larger issue which is that all kinds of bad stuff can in fact run on your machine without your intention. You could try to throw anti-virus software at the problem, and that's one approach, and Apple is taking this approach. Which is the best approach? That's a much more complicated discussion.
High-fructose corn syrup is in a lot of American food.
I'm not even worried about US intelligence. They're deep in all of our butts anyway.

What concerns me is that I can't travel with confidence that my non-web activity is obscured from host governments and ISPs.
Good point. I reached a similar outcome at about 31 but the obsession was getting so much in my way of life that I stopped. I was basically opening the now instant defunct instantchess.com at any idle moment I had. At this point was more like an addiction
... in which the state still owns roughly 30% of what there is to own. (Source: Pikkety)
He he, the irony. Transylvania is a Romanian region :-)
Most national dietary guidelines encourage eating fruits and vegetables, with an emphasis on the vegetables. The sugar amount in fruit has a direct impact on the overall calories you consume but since fruit are also high in fibre, the contained sugar is not comparable to, say, a chocolate bar.
https://www.drugs.com/mtm/febuxostat.html febuxostat is a wonder drug that has saved my toes for so many years now. This is after i had a pain in my heel. a couple of days i ignored it unill i felt as if there was a stone inside the heel. plantar fasciitis was the diagnosis. taking the medication purely on a reccomendation and it worked. was supposed to get a surgery instead
Mates UI is Gnome 2 by intention. It is a matter of taste.
It's funny, because I always hear people talking about how creepy and stupid all these personalised ads are, but I have honestly never noticed. I've been blocking adverts on every device I use for almost as long as I've been using computers. I would have no idea that targeted ads are a thing if I didn't hear other people talking about them.

If people are so bothered by targeted ads, why do they continue to look at them?
>> I know they were one of the earliest investors in ASML’s EUV.

They may have been one of the earliest investors in EUV (along with TSMC, by the way), but in terms of adoption and roadmap they have been way behind both TSMC and Samsung. I don't know the exact numbers of machines but my educated guess is that TSMC and Samsung together probably have close to 10x the EUV wafer capacity compared to Intel. And have had it for much longer as well.

The problem Intel created for itself is that they have always had a very stubborn over-confidence in their own knowledge of process technology, and have driven tool manufacturers like ASML to work within Intels constraints, instead of working together to alleviate them. Their hubris has bitten them now that EUV has become economically viable compared to Intels process technology that relies heavily on triple and quadruple patterning, and very little of Intels 'old' process technology knowledge carries over to EUV.

TSMC has also had a lot of teething pains with EUV but they have been very determined to make it work, and that's paying off now.
That's Tyler Barriss' defense.
Red meat (especially rare-medium) for me is a no. I can feel the low-level gouty effects for days after in my left foot, and I have to back off the beer to compensate.
Something wrong with the linj I think
> Although, still some annoying bugs, the most annoying being when I open an application on my 1440p screen, KDE often opens it on my second monitor for no real reason.

This here is my most hated thing about KDE. I run it on Debian so my version is pretty old compared, has it been fixed in newer versions?
I have been thinking about switching to Neon, but I don't care for the Ubuntu base verses vanilla Debian.
> Linux is getting better while Windows and macOS getting worse.

Well, some things are arguably not getting better.

> Flatpak

That's part of what's getting worse: Fracturing/deterioration of the use of distribution package management, instead of improving and expanding it.

> web applications

Another part of what's getting worse: Instead of having compact apps you have to load a behemoth of some web browser/app framework, to do semi-trivial things.

There's also systemd; Gnome having taken application UI in a weird an (IMHO) unfortunate direction, and the fact (?) that the hardware resource requirements have risen significantly.
I think you don't understand it...it's not about loses it's about the stock-price.
> I have the same effective level of support which is to say none-at-all or via the community of volunteers.

I find community support for linux much much better (askubuntu, superuser and numerous blogs rather than official ms forums). Not sure if this is because I am software developer and am used to stackoverflow-like kind of support or windows "community support" is a mess.
I would like to recommend Willy Hendriks - Move First, Think Later, if it is okay with you to recommend something. It was my first real chess book and it was a very fun read. I am often intimidated by too many diagrams and endless variations in books, and he has a great way to tell a story about the psychology at the board. You do need an interest in psychology in chess to be able to enjoy the book, if it is just about the moves for you it might not be that great (there are diagrams ofcourse).

Some subjects in the 20 or 25 chapters are: Time management, the more time you spend at a move, the less merit there is, while that time might be important in the endgame. There is a chapter about chess as a game of chance, like, you play a tournament and make 5 out of 9. Next year at the same tournament, you make 4 out of 9. Did you play worse? You might think so and rationalize that thought to become some truth to you, but really, it is just one game that might have been decided by one move. The same for winning or losing rating points, which can be a plus or a minus based on just 1 game difference, that doesn't make your last 3 months bad or good.
Most national dietary guidelines are backed by weak epidemiology and are rarely corroborated by RCTs. See: the food pyramid
Underneath the x86/x64 ISA is a really different architecture. So to reach the backwards compatibility it needs a x86/x64 decoder and that is not a significant portion of the silicon as far as I know. Those instructions might be somewhat inefficient, but this is not really an issue when comparing, any ARM chip emulating will have to tackle the same problem.

If Apples chip does not need this backwards compatibility, they essentially have to do it in software when emulating. They do this with a combination of recompilation at install time and some emulation at runtime. I suspect the compilation step is one of the main contributors to this boost in speed and efficiency. Windows could do the same, optimize the executable to better fit the underlying chip.
It's funny that I could say the opposite about Rust if you asked what I enjoy most about the ecosystem - many third party libraries have outstanding documentation. Wonder why is that - in the end, it's just some folks like you and me spending their free time writing those. Why is it different for different languages then, is it the tooling like rustdoc and docs.rs or just the standards set by the community? Not sure.
We blocked ads at work and one user asked for them to be reinstated as she likes seeing them.
Apparently it is yes.
Ah, but I'm not from the US.

The US intelligence is just an example anyway. You could insert any relatively competent and well resourced nation state.
I play Starcraft for the story only, and I loved it. Still play the campaign from time to time. I feel like a savage amongst civilized men on this thread.
I’ve had some experiences getting hungry while visiting unfamiliar city centres pre-smartphone and wishing there was more public advertising of restaurants. That is to say, there’s definitely some minimal amount of advertising that I apparently want in my life.

If you don’t rely on advertising (speaking directly to possible customers) then you have to work with journalists other middle-men, whose tastes might not reflect those of your customers, or you have for a network to build, which might be too slow. Possible grateful future customers loose out here too.
EC2 isn't made to make "hosting an html page" simple, so it's not surprising it's less simple than things made for it. by picking EC2 you basically say "yes, I want to configure servers myself, and yes, I want to use a complex tool to manage on-demand servers" - which isn't impossible to do, plenty people do it, but it is more to learn.
I am not american and use a european alphabet with more characters. So if I need to handle user input or parse files with data I need unicode handling, so even for non web apps it can be needed.

And yet OCaml is French and its French authors do not feel constrained by the lack of unicode or they would have "scratched their own itch".
> on chip memory is very very quick

It is not on-chip memory, the dies are separate, they're just in the same package. They seem to use standard LPDDR4 connectivity, so I don't think its actually faster. The "unified" bit seems to matter more: having a single address space for both CPU & GPU, but this is pure speculation. I don't know if AMD or Intel APUs do this too.
You're conflating "less games" with "no games". Linux has less games available. (I guess a lot less but I haven't played in decades.)
>The issue is that there is no difference between smell-water and "new thing that solves problems", under capitalism.

Yeah, but not just capitalism. Anywhere you don't have unelected legislators imposing censorship on what they feel is good and wholesome and what isn't. Competing candidate's platform advertisements in the run-up to a union election in that union's newsletter isn't displaying a lot of capitalism and it's as true there as mop advertisements between talk-show segments on late night tv. (One or more of the candidates might be, gasp, wilfully and knowingly telling, omg, lies!)

When the ads are creating a problem that is actually difficult to solve they're revealing a problem that is not the ads themselves. It's a crisis in education and the general public's ability (or the pereception of it) to do a decent job critical thinking and bs detecting.

Making cruel fun of ridiculous fear-mongering accross society ought to be the answer to organised lying. When it isn't, getting Zuck & Jack to censor it is kind of a worrying development. Tough to get that back in the bottle even if it's initially done in support of causes you kinda like, coz you know that condition of it only being "for good", (where /you/ define good) will not last. Guaranteed. Never does.
I fly FPV drones and can confirm the propellers and motor technology has come quite far. Not to mention the leaps and bounds of flight controllers in the last few years. There seems to increasingly few things that can go wrong with my drone. Bent prop/motor shaft; no problem. Missing parts of propellers; you can still fly home. Its aerodynamics, materials and software... and most of those things are off the shelf, just an afterthought for the drone builder and pilot. Its cool to be able to shift focus to flying but agree heavily its a different craft now.
If you read the original thread, nobody complained Apple got his/her IP. Apple already has that IP from a thousand other vectors. The real issues (cleartext, being able to build a profile using Application data, etc.) aren't yet dealt with at all.
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There is a staggering amount of similarity between the two, especially at the competitive level where chess moves needs to be played very fast.

The biggest differences I see is that AoE2 is not a perfect information game, and that it needs micromanagement.