skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the content producers just advertise to you directly, why wouldn’t they? The bigger they get, the more premium viewers, the more sponsors they receive. Eventually YouTube won’t like being cut out gain and boom to YouTube premium now has ads.
For cooking times: I notice that in winter stuff takes longer to cook/fry (if I have the window open). This is of course because it’s simply colder in the kitchen! So it is very hard to make recipes precise, as they depend on all the tools, And the humidity, temperature, etc of the kitchen.
Oh, but I'm OK with paying.

I paid for netflix, lastpass and zoom. I still pay for dynalist, audible or for having my own email address.

However, I'm not OK with having a logged in google account that accumulates everything I do into their DB and AI while I use their services.

Even when you pay, they still milk your private life.

And they have proved time after time they cannot be trusted with it.
I could see it going either way: Putting nginx in front adds another hop for traffic, but indeed gives you all of nginx's performance optimizations. But either way you're obscuring the performance of your code.
Well they actually have real value as a material in industry, jewelry, but largely hold value because people say they do. You’re right that there are similarities here, and given gold is also constantly mined it’s often not a great investment. However there are thousands of years of precedent saying this rare thing holds some value; we have no such precedent with Bitcoin.
> I never had a pleasant experience using GIMP and it almost never failed to frustrate me.

Funny! I hear the same complaints about Photoshop only the amount of complaints are 10 times as much.
How much privacy concern is there to have your odometer reading recorded annually in places that already do safety inspections? I mean, I've driven an average of 3400 miles per year on my car. Violate my privacy as much as you like with that data.
Awesome talk! Finally came around watching it this weekend. I can recommend this video to everybody!
Every time I hear about somebody doing something because it's "modern" I cringe. In spite of our marketing overlords, just because something is a current trend doesn't mean it's better. That word is an attempt to appeal to the irrational and the gullible among us.
You are not even the product, you are a resource that is being harvested, processed, and packaged as a product.

Another way to think about it, a product is an output from the system, and you are just one of the inputs.
I'm genuinely curious as to how do you determine what is something worth getting upset about, when you are not the one who is upset.
It's primarily useful for theorem proving, where a nonterminating argument corresponds to circular or otherwise unfounded reasoning.

It's also useful because, in practice, we don't accidentally write code that "obviously terminates but not in the lifetime of this universe" as often as we accidentally write nonterminating code, so a lot of mistakes can still be caught by termination checking.
"desktop client" is a bit of a stretch for this 100+ MB "website in a headless browser" Electron app.
Bullshit. I pay to go to the movies, I am advertised to. Why do you think online services will maintain this “pay is for ad fee”?
Is it really that implausible that someone have have forwarded him a link to a site he has no interest in and he saw a comment he felt compelled to comment on? Since when is the number of of past comments a barometer for legitimacy? I mean Hacker News even gives you the option to post from a throwaway account.

Further the comment is simply refuting one Wired article with an earlier article Wired published on the same subject in which he participated in. It's not like some crazy idea was being posited in the comment.

Lastly Dr Stillwell has made the assertion many times that the app and data he and Dr Michal Kosinskis developed for their "MyPersonality Quiz" app at Cambridge University is neither the same app or data as Aleksandar Kogan's My Digital Life" app that Kogan developed for Global Science Research and their client SCL Elections. The "MyPersonality Quiz" app was simply based on Stillwell's earlier work.
I’ve never gotten this quote. On the face of it it seems like a high priority that the law should not respect the station of a person. If a society has made something illegal it needs to apply from the least to the greatest, or the law is unjust.
Maybe he's being downvoted because he comes off sounding like like a jerk, and perhaps the world — and the internet in particular — could use a little less cynicism?

She gave a million dollars of her own money to help start a university's research into curing a global pandemic.
Every problem can be solved in many different ways. If you think you've already got use-after-free bugs under control, then more power to you! You absolutely have to concentrate your effort on whatever your biggest problems are.

But I'll also say that if you don't have any use-after-free bugs in the history of a large C codebase... you might not even be on the lookout for them? I still have them sometimes, mainly when it comes to multiple ownership. And those are just the ones I found eventually.

So yes, different strokes for different folks, but if you make the effort to incorporate tricks like this into your "unconscious" coding style, the ongoing effort is pretty minimal. Even if you decide this trick isn't worth it, there are countless others that you might find worthwhile. I'm always on the lookout for better ways of doing things.
> It’s not clear what the purpose of content is on the internet

Something I have pointed out to others in the past, and on here too, is that the Internet existed just fine before all these ad-related sites appeared. Of course, nothing on the scale of FB, Google etc, but I'd argue that we're worse off now than before.

When you rely on advertising you then have to make sure that every piece of content works towards making the advertising worthwhile. You then maximise SEO, and clicks and focus on metrics and bullshit like engagement (whatever that means).

You have to calculate whether a blog post or article is worth doing because your sponsors now care about that: you stop making content for the love/joy/sake of the content and everything becomes bait for your ads.

20 years ago, the only ads were about punching a monkey and finding out that I was the 1 millionth visitor to a website and could click the ad to claim my prize :)
> It makes me think the solution to today's anti science bias isn't just "educate more".

"Anti-science" is just a propaganda term extremists accuse each other of being. It's a very easy tell.

Nobody is against science. What people fight about is politics. "Man can be a woman", "climate science", "masks vs no masks", "lockdowns", etc are not scientific issues, it's political issues.

"Educate more" wouldn't help because it's not a matter of science, but politics. And there are plenty of educated people on both sides.

Also, when a political group tries to use science to push their agenda, people should be wary. Pretty much all the genocides and horrors of the past 200 years have been a result of politicized science. People forget that modern white supremacy, nazism, communism, etc are all a result of politicized science. People who use terms like anti-science today are the same people who accused supporters of racial equality as being anti-science 100 years ago.

And it's been my experience that people who accuse other people of being "anti-science" have no background in science or understand the history of science. They are just political extremists who undeservedly wrap themselves around the good name of science as if it were a flag to attack their political opponents.
The guys calling themselves Nazis haven't usually been having their marches in honour of the POTUS whilst the POTUS openly states his court appointees should set aside liberal democracy's verdict on his first term, or plotting to assassinate a state governor he's clashed with.

I'm not convinced that's actual totalitarianism either, but it takes an incredible amount of cognitive dissonance to argue that flourishing of alternative sexualities is the real alarming new development towards totalitarianism...
Exactly! It doesn’t really make sense to make recipes overly precise. It also depends on the tools available, the brand of oil, etc etc. Too many fluctuating variables.
Cool. I didn't know it was that old. Happy anniversary. I've been using it almost on a daily basis in the last 8 or 9 years.
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Espressif is no longer alone in the ultra low cost hobby WiFi SoC space. Pine has started working with the Bouffalo BL602 which seems to be a fairly similar RISC-V powered part: https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/28/the-quest-for-a-blob...

It will be interesting to see which one gains critical mass in community use.
> An additional DisplayPort 1.2 output is provided via the USB C port.

For me this was the missing feature from the latest RPi. If on top of that the board can run a vanilla Linux kernel (the RPi can't from what I understand), I'm definitely buying one.
That's also fine, Coinbase is doing that, and giving generous severence packages to leaving employees as well. There will always be detractors but most people won't really care.
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> science is only reason we will have a vaccine

Applied science. Did you read it?

> for a virus that has killed a quarter-million people in the US

Contributed to their deaths, sure. But not as much as the lockdown and war (still cultural for now, thankfully) will have contributed to the death of science.
You can even do

#define free(p) do { free(p); p = NULL; } while(0)

And when you want to call the original free:

(free)(p);

The preprocessor will not substitute this occurence of free.
Yes and no. Politics has both procedural and substantive aspects. A company choosing not to participate in politics is taking a stand about the appropriate scope of political advocacy—where, when, and how politics should play a role in society.

Companies not choosing to participate in politics is not, as some urge, de facto support of the status quo. It’s quite possible that e.g. Twitter taking a stand on some issue actually sets things back, by creating a stronger opposition.
I believe Kitten is another language exploring this area.
Dolly Parton is beyond posturing and trying to look good like some social media wannabe.

Do even the most superficial research into her past and you see she is immensely generous and doesn't give fuck one what people think of her.
Just recently, Bouffalo Lab introduced BL602 which is a RISC-V WiFi-BLE chip with ESP8266 price. I guess Espressif had other plans for the competition!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24877335

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24916086

Skimming over C3 datasheet, it seems it doesn't have DAC but has one I2S. BL602 has DAC but no I2S!
Well, that didn't stop North Korea from getting their hands on Ukrainian ICBMs...
this is the meaning of life.
VSCode is Electron app, running nonstop on my Macbook, it's very fast and doesn't seem to be much more (or at all) power hungry than Xcode. Thanks to Electron it works everywhere and is the same on all platforms, that's a feature.
True in a very general sense, although you'd have to exclude religions where such things are allowed to say that accurately.

Agreed that this is the dominant narrative in global culture. However my point is that science appears to be fairly poor at building universal belief, which is something religion excelled at with scientific precision. There are advantages and disadvantages to both cultures. One disadvantage is organizing ourselves around something like global climate change where scientific consensus is near unanimous, but the culture at large is very slow to heed. Religion is very good at getting masses of people to do what they are told regardless of their best interest. Look at the American religious voter for example.

My point is that if science is more than a methodology, if it is a cultural spectacle, then it's probably wise for us all to admit that it is in fact very much like a religion. I am saying that science as a cultural reality can benefit from dropping the claim to be better than, or something other than a religion.

Don't stone me for saying so.
All Edisons apparently have been a failure, so most likely Intel won't be pursuing it.
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For those looking for simple gifts to give. The "Creator 3-in-1" sets always have tons of alternative builds and many sets are under $15 USD. A random one I found is the "Futuristic Flyer" [0] that comes with three builds and rebrickable has 32 alternative builds for it.

[0] https://rebrickable.com/sets/alternates/?q=31086
That's because Java is one of the top 3 adopted languages and is general purpose. A more relevant comparison would be between Node.js and Django, Rails or Laravel and as far as job stats go, eg. https://indeed.com, Node.js is everywhere.
The key question to me is why users privacy needs to be protected from opting in to the NYU study, but not from opting in to using the Facebook platform.
Hahahaha! Ok, I'll fall in line and quit thinking along humanist lines, sir! ;)
From reading many threads about this kind of thing: tips in the US rised in recent years. In many places if you only tip 10% you're being asked what was wrong with your food (don't dare to only tip 5%!). 15% is considered mediocre, 20% is baseline "all good". 25% starts to be on the "very good" side.
> one can no longer block Apple's telemetry and cloud stuff

Here are two workarounds:

Install Little Snitch 4.6 instead of 5: https://www.obdev.at/support/littlesnitch/245913651253917

Hacky method to disable Apple's exceptions: https://tinyapps.org/blog/202010210700_whose_computer_is_it....
it's a $1m donation to a company that was then valued at c$7 billion.

Vanderbilt University isn't a company valued at CAD$7 billion.
Send me an email (in my profile), I am interested in your perspective. PKI/Web of trust are just terminology around the usage of asymmetric key cryptography to solve certain problems.

The service relies on third parties to perform verification and issue certificates, just as the domain name certificate authorities do. The difference is that the information on the certificate can be anything, not just domain names.

Users use the Certisfy app to make use of those certificates, by making various claims against their certificates (think: location, age, name, even height:)..etc)

Think of the app as a kind of trust projection and information verification toolkit/client made for ordinary consumers.
Thanks. I don’t exactly know how it works because sometimes I can upvote and downvote and sometimes I can’t. Sometimes I see comments being downvoted literally within seconds of posting as though certain keywords are an automatic downvote.

My problem with drive-by downvoting is that it’s frustrating not know which part of the comment is rubbing someone the wrong way or is incorrect.

My 2c: downvotes can only be deployed by someone who participates in the comment thread.
Roam is a new outliner out there which created some fizz a couple of months ago.
Heh... Whatever. It's gratifying to see Lapham's Quarterly at the top of the thread. Cheers!
And the first cash machine used cheques with radioactive Carbon 14 rather than plastic cards!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6230194.stm
sounds too good to be true
> When we all know that our data of who we are and our actions is just as valuable as the ads we are forced to watch.

In a world where Facebook just makes up video impressions and neither they nor Google let you really audit their inventory, it is basically impossible to tell the difference between (1) seasonal effects, (2) data-enabled ad targeting, and (3) income-related effects. In other words, if you show an ad at the right time to a rich person, say by only targeting iPad users shortly after a new Apple product release, which is known from the user agent and does not require behavioral tracking at all, your ad will perform as well as a typical interest-targeted ad but with lower cost.

Which is to say, your data is valuable in the marketing sense that it gets people to spend more on targeted ads, but not necessarily in some secular sense that it actually increases returns. After fundamentals (like what you are selling) and the creative, most of the evidence points to trends in how rich (and poor) people use technology, like iPad users versus entry-level Android users, as being the greatest predictor of an ad's returns.

Ads customers don't really know if user profile information like their browsing behavior improves ROI because it is secularly important for the ad or because it is also correlated with greater income. It is unmeasurable for ad customers, so people claiming that they know are just lying.

At least among the ad tech companies I know, I'm told the user profile data gathering story is very valuable for ad buyers and investors, but fundamentally they do not use any behavioral data in ad targeting because they did not observe an increase in clicks - for their guaranteeably low income user channels.
Good catch, corrected.
At least on my Android device, OIDC sign ins are handled by the default browser, not a purpose-built application.
Sounds like the Bouffalo BL602 and BL604 that were recently revealed. Competition in this sector is very interesting, I hope the Espressif chip will be as open or even more open than the Bouffalo chip.
Your post shows how significant events are stripped of their meaning by the dictum that there must be some material end behind every act. But it's a decision to look at history and explain everything in terms of geopolitics. Can't people get together and do something for the glory of doing it?
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The economist is okay if you are conservative liberal with strong bias towards the "west". Russia and China are _wrong_ by default, every _war_ (Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Afghanistan, Iran... all of them failed campaigns by public standards, Afghanistan not failed(?) by US standards - Afghanistan is about global heroin control btw) is justifiable and actively supported, Banks ought to be _protected_ any social-welfare policy (before covid, in the covid era the tune has changed considerably) is brought to us by "populist devilish politicians" while every bank-saving, pro-market scheme which leaves large % of the population jobless is "made-in-heaven".

The economist like reading an old British grandmother supporting financial schemes and policies which failed more time than I can count, again and again.

By the way before 2010 the articles were better argued and these differences were not so blatant. I believe the quality has decreased considerably. Then again, these are polarized times...

There's also the good parts. The obituary, the "Charlemagne" part is often somewhat relevant.

Examples of double-standards are Brexit vs France "yello vests" movement. The British should by all means do another referendum or the politicians should mimic the 2015 Greek PM and revert the result the of the referendum because "people don't know". The French voters should stay put and accept "the result of the democratic procedures" which brought Macron to power. So... Which one is it then? Respect democracy or overturn it? ;-)

When I was a subscriber I was getting informed for various matters all over the world, so if it's the economist vs nothing, I would prefer the economist. If it's the economist vs something else, well... I don't know.
But TFA isn’t about just adapting some off the shelf quickie solution. It explains all the hoops necessary to cross the CGo barrier and use jemalloc instead of the normal Go garbage collector. ISTM once you put in that LOE, you’re in the space where a specific solution can beat a general one.
Well, Terminator 2 was 1991, and obviously filmed before that.

If we're being honest, there's a small confluence in that Soviets were often portrayed as robotic, and anxieties about Communism were often pushed onto various movie monsters: robots, aliens, zombies. I think the common denominator is "Future Shock," fear of radical changes in society (that book was 1970).
I'm reading a book by Richard Hamming and in it he discusses the methodical precision by which researches developed the first computers and programming languages. The thought, the debate, the endless thought experiments done before a single component was built.

Then on the front page of HN today there is an article about K&R and Unix, which lead to a rabbit hole of reading. Again, the thought process, the methodology, the amount of design and specification done before even beginning to build Unix.

Now compare this to the first big invention of the late 20th/early-21st century: the web browser. It was driven by a race to monopolize the internet and maximize profit, a war of standards, and the consequences of poor planning hurt us today.

`innerText` isn't just -another- quirk that wastes precious human memory, at a higher level it is also a testament to what I see is a decline in rigor among applied computer science that started in the 90's and has dominated: Hack. Ship. Patch later (maybe). Or to quote the anti-mantra: "move fast and break things."
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Thing is, it's not even the restaurant owners that are blocking a change to "all incl." prices - it's the waiters, too.

Waiting is one of the very few jobs where an untrained person can earn lots of money just by doing their job and being nice.
You could store fresher IPs after succesful connection. But that doesn't help for people who install from an older (but not expired) installer, while they're on a network with bad DNS.
The solution in TFA doesn’t do anything about use after free, does it?
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Is the implementation of this like Elixir's Phoenix LiveView?
The law, also in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to murder, physically harm others etc.

Less fancy.

Consistency is not perfect but it is better than dictators picking favorites.
The no-glare aspect is appealing. It gets tiring reading in dimly-lit rooms.
Of course there is. The obvious counter example is "people who try to adhere to the ethics". But that's hardly important, the important thing is that you now understand why "Christians" don't behave according to Christian ethics--notably because you're defining "Christians" in such a way that it includes a lot of people who don't practice Christian ethics. Mystery solved.
Credit card pins aren’t a thing in the US (debit cards require pins, however).

In theory, the merchant is supposed to look at the signature on the back of the card and compare it with the signature you write on the receipt. You can even write ID REQUIRED and then they’re supposed to check for ID.

In practice, I didn’t bother signing any of my cards for about 15 years. After two cashiers expressed annoyance at my blatant disregard for the rules (a few years apart) I started signing the cards.
Only if repetition makes it more true.

Message frequency and relevance are orthogonal.
The marginal returns of ML researchers are rapidly declining
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How much heat are we talking about here?
Or contact lenses - if someone wants a quick non invasive solution.
You mean sponsored videos ? I don't follow channels that push those. If YouTube starts adding ads to premium why would I keep paying ?
if you have a huge size of iptables list yes bpf is important, bpf is more for performance reasons otherwise iptables suits the need just fine, in this case of personal firewall, iptables shall be good(and simple) enough
I doubt it's just a phase. Pop and hip-hop with mostly electronic instruments are by far the most popular genre. I can't even remember the last Top 40 rock hit in the US, which is a big contrast to the 90s and early 00s.

Just as jazz had a peak in popularity but never really went away, I think rock is now in a similar position.