skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree everything implemented will likely be more trackable. It's already trackable as far as governments are concerned - both FB and ISPs will gladly give any data requested by governments, and tracking is one JOIN away if you didn't use a good VPN. I was just commenting that it's possible to make the payment untrackable, and not very hard.

> That only applies if I tell my real name to any of those people, which I don't.

FB also correlates by a thousands items if you use the FB app, and (at least) by IP address if you don't.

Hopefully, you never ever logged in to any other website with the same browser (or are using a super strict uBO / uMatrix policy), because that website will likely correlate you through their embedded FB pixel/like button.

> It is impossible to get off of FB without being denied access to things which are a central part of social life, e.g. events.

I guess you are in the US? That's not been my experience in other places. Everything still happens by email as well in other places. (The same cannot be said about WhatsApp - however - which cannot be escaped outside the US; If you meant "including WhatsApp" when you said FB, then I agree - though if you don't backup and don't use WhatsApp web, your copy of the conversation is still private. Metadata and the other party's is likely not.....)
The slight noise would suggest they're ray-traced... Could be Blender with the Cycles renderer (perfectly capable of doing photo-realistic renders) or any of the wide array of commercial renderers out there...
The 10-Year Hunt for the Lost McDonald's DS Game
I think you're underestimating the cost of not having good regulations. Not all regulations are bad, and not all barriers (cost or otherwise) imposed by regulation is bad -- often it's been judged that the alternative has more, often externalized, costs.

What do healtcare costs and deaths look like if we removed all our environmental regulations? What's the cost in terms of people not getting treatment for things because they don't want it to be publicly know?
Either the crew director didn't know or they didn't care but letting anyone into the crew rest area 100% get's you fired in most airlines. Airlines already have enough problems with passengers fornicating in the lavatory, if they knew there was a dark, secluded room with beds aboard just adds a whole other layer of liability.
Doesn’t it affect kernel modules though? The whole “free” vs “non-free” module thing?
Ask HN: What email client do you use?
Trying to switch away from webmail for the most part, and wondering what other people recommend.
Gimp Turns 25 Years Old as Leading Open-Source Photoshop Alternative
Are there any tv shows inked for this story? Sounds like a wolf of wall street type of deal. Only in tech.
Unrelated, but I love your theme and how snappy your blog is :)
Why is it always the case that things so many people seem to want can't happen until Apple makes them happen? The MacBook Air, the iPhone, the iPad, Airpods, an ARM laptop, the notch, multiple lenses on the phone, the eSIM?

Sci-fi enthusiasts and online concept artists were all about the in-ear wireless headphones but everyone made those ugly ass things which attach behind the head. Then Apple makes the Airpods and it turns out everyone and their uncle can manufacture shitty knock offs and good copies.

So the design idea exists, the manufacturing capability exists, but the product doesn't exist.

Then Apple comes along and makes it and half the people think it's revolutionary and half the people think that it is this copy of this other completely shitty version of the same product.

Why does it take Apple to make the first good version of anything? I like my Jabra Active 65 and I liked the Airpods before but I couldn't get the former until the latter came to be.

Maybe someone will make a fast ARM laptop now that Apple has demonstrated that it's possible. Genuinely seems like an industry of followers with one design leader.
Temperature is a huge factor influencing sleep cycle for some people, myself included. I sleep and wake much better if physical temperature and light color temperature adjust in time with my schedule, which isn't always uniform so rigidly programmable thermostats don't quite do the job.
KFC deploys autonomous 5G ‘food trucks’ in China
Great thinking. I googled "mother employment child obesity" and apparently it is so. The first result on google scholar has 200+ citations[1].

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11150-009-905...
Who is preventing whom from being saved?
I'm a volunteer for this vaccine, in the first month I have three in-patients visits, involving two inoculations, 6 blood draws, 2 Covid tests, and three nasal absorption tests. My first visit lasted a little over three hours including a very comprehensive medical history and physical exam, and time taken to ensure that I was giving truely informed consent. I interacted with three medical professionals on the first visit, sometimes in the exam room, and sometimes via phone from the exam room to protect each other from long in person indoor exposure. Like any medical visit this year, a considerable amount of PPE was used. I was given an app use daily to record my health, and a digital thermometer so that all subjects are using the same calibrated equipment. Having reported a headache two days in a row in the app, there was a remote phone call follow up by a research clinician, in addition to the planned check in phone calls that I haven't mentioned. They do pay me a very modest ammount, so I've bought myself a couple of ebooks after paying for big city parking near the research clinic. They need to pay for that office space. Before I entered the study I needed to interact with recruiters, to qualify that it was safe enough for me to participate and to ensure that they were getting people from a variety of backgrounds. They needed to be ready to respond if I had a severe adverse reaction to the the trial vaccine. There is an entirely separate independent review board that I can go to with questions. In the event that I had Covid symptoms, there is an entirely separate set of assessments, visits and samples taken.

Given the amount of work being done by this and other research labs hired Astrazeneca, and comparing this to quotes I've received for a very modest UX usability studies, it's hard to see see this an sort of money grab.
Nixon was president and the war on drugs started.
idk. IBM selling computers to the Nazi regime in the 30s is often cited a poor political decision on their part.

I’m not saying society hasn’t gotten more partisan, but businesses have been doing politics as long as they have been so powerful that their behavior can affect other people significantly. Perhaps there is another reason for this appearance of increased political activity by businesses. Possible explanation include:

- Businesses are doing worse politics now then before.

- News outlets are better at covering when a business is doing politics.

- Public opinion has shifted in what constitutes as bad politics.

- Public opinion is better reflected through better journalism.

But regardless, I don’t buy it when you say that “people were OK about companies not being political a decade ago”. Ten years ago we were in the middle of the great recession, companies were getting unfounded government bailouts and rich CEOs were being payed massive bonuses despite this. The general public was not happy about this. Receiving government bailout in a middle of a recession is very much participating in politics, we would perceive as such today, and people did so a decade ago.
I think we can all agree that the ends don't always justify the means. "Machiavellian" isn't a word of praise.
They are shown with different pronunciations. Do you mean the recordings? They sound different to my British ear.
Pretty sure that the cost of energy underpins almost everything we do or produce. I can't think of a single example that doesn't have a large energy component.
For example, health insurance is made up of the cost of paying people and creating medicines - and ultimately, it comes back to food, extracting raw materials and paying down debt, all of which are affected by the price of energy.
So dropping energy costs will eventually make most stuff cheaper (or make more money for rich people :( )
Yeah, A Farewell to Alms makes a pretty convincing argument that 1945 to 1971 was an anomaly. Ever since the advent of agriculture, income inequality has been on the rise. The Belle Epoch in France was the peak of that - then revolutions, World Wars, and Socialism happened. Once that civil unrest stopped, the trend continued back up.

(We might have recently passed Belle Epoch-levels of inequality - not sure this is an accomplishment we should brag about)
The graphs show two things: A relative increase of income for the wealthiest and a relative decrease for everyone else, specifically in the US.

The 70s and 80s mark a political shift to privatization of public service/infrastructure and deregulation of and trade-agreements for the investor market.
Turkey is (or at least was) a very popular holiday destination from the UK - and I've been loads of times. However, I did get a lot of grief at US immigration once when I was asked about all of the Turkish stamps in my passport... and had to spend twenty minutes or so explaining why I liked Turkey, which fortunately is pretty easy.
It's a traditional economic model in the arts. Most musicians and photographers put shelter over their heads and fill their bellies with nothing but "exposure".
> is a hell of a lot simpler than even getting a toy version of kubernetes up and running.

Getting it off the ground is one thing, keeping things reproducible so you can stand it back up reliably if the instance goes down is another thing. You need to know what are the relevant changes that people have made to the instance over its lifetime in order to reproduce them on the new machine. Maybe this is not what people mean by "pets vs cattle", but they seem pretty closely related if nothing else. I guess the thing I care about is "reproducibility" and for all of its complexity, Kubernetes makes the happy path pretty clear in this regard whereas with EC2 you need Ansible and a whole bunch of playbooks to reproduce things like SSH, logging, monitoring, process management, etc that Kubernetes or ECS or whatever give you out of the box. And if you find that you need to scale beyond one or two instances (not everything is a CRUD webapp, after all) especially autoscaling, then it seems like the EC2 story becomes even more complicated (you now need something to automatically invoke Ansible with the right playbooks for each node). I'm probably biased by my experience (aren't we all?) but it seems like Kubernetes or ECS/Fargate are simpler in these regards.
Changed-block tracking and differential backups in QEMU
Anyone read Piketty's Capital? I'm reading it right now and this seems to line up well with the book.
Where are you getting these numbers from? I only see 2 for Spain and 9 for Germany...
What's stopping someone from swiping an extra bag of chicken tenders? This design has the same flaw as the newspaper vending machine box. Pay once, take a bunch. Perhaps people are more honest in Shanghai compared to Western countries.
That keyboard is just an awful use of space. I would love to buy something in this form factor with a decent keyboard.
“ Labor productivity is a measure of economic performance that compares the amount of goods and services produced (output) with the number of hours worked to produce those goods and services.” [0]

It’s defined in many ways, but in the US I think it’s usually BLS. One thing that helped me when studying this stuff is that these are all based on some judgement and qualitative work and aren’t platonic terms. This used to frustrate me, but then I realized that these are really hard concepts to truly know so these seemingly arbitrary definitions because at least they allow some shared understanding. And also gets us past a lot of the standard “he said, she said” cycles of defining and trying to get reputable data.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/lpc/
> Additionally, completely dismissing the M1 as a 'marginal improvement' shows a level of anti-Apple that is clearly clouding the authors judgement.

Is there somewhere I can find some evidence that it isn't a marginal improvement?

Apple timed the release perfectly to create the impression that it was more, because its obvious competition will be Zen 3 laptops, which are right around the corner but not actually out yet. So then you get benchmarks comparing it to 14nm Intel processors based on 5-year-old technology, and 10nm Intel processors with half as many cores as the M1 because Intel's 10nm yields are so bad they can't make high core count processors, and Zen 2 laptops when the Zen 3 ones it will actually be competing with in a couple months are expected to be 20% faster. And Zen 3 desktops, which the M1 loses to badly on multi-threaded tests, but is competitive with on single threaded tests -- as expected, since modern mobile processors actually have single-thread performance which is competitive with desktops in general, but manages to amaze anyone who doesn't know that.

Which isn't to say they've done a bad job. Making something which is even competitive with modern x86-64 processors is no small feat. But the fanboys are making it out to be some kind of coup when it does, in practice, appear to be a marginal improvement. And we still don't even have many real-world benchmarks because most of the real-world applications haven't actually been ported yet.
That's nice and all but isn't facebook, google, etc the greatest tool of mind control today?
Plenty of events to choose from here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971

Highlights:

- "A new stock market index called the Nasdaq Composite debuts."

- "Starbucks, a major coffeehouse and outlet in worldwide, is founded in the U.S. State of Washington."

- "The U.S. ends its trade embargo of China."

- "President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs."

- "Southwest Airlines, a low-cost carrier, begins its first flights between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio."

- "American President Richard Nixon announces his 1972 visit to China."

- "President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system. He also imposes a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents."

- "The United Nations General Assembly admits the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (or Taiwan)."

- "Ray Tomlinson sends the first ARPANET e-mail between host computers.["

- "The People's Republic of China takes the Republic of China's seat on the United Nations Security Council (see China and the United Nations)."

- "The U.S. dollar is devalued for the second time in history."

These events can be grouped into categories:

- pro-deflationary (e.g., China rising, the first email message, Southwest)

- anti-working-class (War on Drugs)

- increasing financial speculation (NASDAQ)

- financial (end of Bretton Woods, US dollar devaluation)

- consumerism (Starbucks makes coffee cool and diverts billions from working-class savings)

I know that the site advocates the end of Bretton Woods as the main cause, but that event is just one in a spectrum of major arcs that had major emergences in the early 1970s after slow burns in the 50s and 60s.
Unlimited only if you don't take time into account. A big reason for the switch from charcoal to coal in steelmaking was running out of trees to make charcoal from.
I don’t understand how baumol’s cost thing is any different than lower supply of labor causing price of labor to rise, and why it would merit a special name or Wikipedia entry.
This is clearly because 1970 is the Unix epoch when this version of the simulation began. It took about a year for things to get sufficiently out of whack so that stuff started to diverge in a noticeable way. I hope our implementors are proud of me for making reference to the simulation that we're all in.
I fully agree. A small piece of software I'm most proud of is a very small library I wrote for an ex-employer and was lucky enough to open-source. It isn't updated in years and should nonetheless still work. Since a few years ago it is used by the Gitlab main repo.

I don't expect anything from them, they don't ask anything from me and just knowing that it is useful for such a big project is all endorsement I need.
Do you plan to do threaded forth? It does wonders for runtime word redefinition, which I would look for for a niche project of mine involving some kind of ultra portable cross-platform Forth (WASM is perfect) in a sandboxed environment (because multi-player, WASM perfect as well!)
As long as you can still buy things of real value using money, the money itself has value.
If dollars have no value, you should be willing to give away any dollars you have to anyone, no matter how they are using them, right?

Dollars don't have a direct value in gold, but there are people willing to take your dollars and exchange them for gold, it's just a ratio that varies over time, along with the value of gold and dollars.
>And have wages really gone down?

If you include things like the cost of

Homes
Healthcare
*Education

Then wages have gone wayyyy down. And then if you factor in things like employer pension plans back then.. well, crazy further.

Now if the argument is "well we have more luxuries".. I mean, sure.. but it just seems an impossible task to raise a family and pay for home/healthcare/education compared to what it was even 30 years ago.
Please, please, please listen to this person’s advice about Terraform and the like.

The last startup I was at hired a DevOps engineer to come in to completely containerize our simple Rails monolith at a time where they were just simply way too small to warrant it.

Development velocity plummeted. Deploys started to take half an hour. Features weren’t being released. The professionals our app was servicing lost trust in the engineering team.

All in the name of checking off a box on the CTO’s list of “things that Google does”.
> Who will win, a multibillion dollar industry or a couple of txt files?

I don’t want to read the whole thing because I don’t care too much, so I may be a little bit off topic here, but afaik nobody has managed to block Facebook’s sponsored posts with these lists.
ya but i am not sure anyone of the things i named will drop by 5% or more... and mean while they keep going up faster than inflation...

Cheap energy is good, but i worry more about our ability to afford those things.
Conservative economists also regard "compensation" as tricky to define. One defense of these graphs is that "real compensation" has actually increased much more than wages.

Assuming that you agree with any given definition of "real compensation", that still leaves open the question of whether wages, which are 100% fungible, can be replaced by non-fungible compensation.
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It's flex or break. The wings hang from the plane body when it is on the ground. But when it is in the air the plane body hangs from the wings. That's a large amount of weight. It also shows you just how much lift those tips generate.
No Truecaller? Very odd considering the amazingly high number of DAUs in India and the middle east. (they are based in Sweden)
yeah, and we all know how well that has worked for them
> since money has no actual value

Ah, the intrinsic value debate (which your entire argument hinges on) never gets old.

Setting that debate aside, money has market value -- it's not backed by gold, but it's backed by the power of the government, by the trust of the citizens, and by very strong social expectations. A storekeeper is more likely to accept your money than your gold.
I don't write software that is used by the masses, so I have the luxury of not needing maximum compatibility. If it works on the machines the company needs, then it's good enough. I get that some of the heavy weight libraries offer not only the speed of immediate working availability with "battle" tested compatibility (thinking web/javascript libraries specifically). However, I like learning. I like understanding why things work, or more importantly why something didn't work. If that means I have to re-learn something others already know, then so be it (that's what learning is).
I think this is an unrealistic expectation for a game. I've never played Panzer General, but I've played other strategies games and boardgames. When I choose to play the Axis, I play to understand the dynamics or limitations of the battalions/dynamics/offense/defense of the Germans in ww1 or ww2, not participate in the political realm

Imagine you ask your friend to play as the Axis so you can play the Allies, and they refuse saying "No, I don't want to play the Axis because the game rules require me to be berated with a history of evil". It's not something you expect in a boardgame, so why expect it in a computer game
is it really a deformation of capitalism if it happens within capitalism?
There’s also the problem that many of the older contributors probably aren’t reachable at the email address attached to the commit. They may even be dead in which case you’d need to find who the copyright transferred to (next of kin? Did the will give it someplace else?), and get their permission.

They certainly could mandate that all new contributions are licensed as GPL2+, not the GPL2-only a lot of it is under. Then, after an eternity, when every bit is now GPL2+ (either by relicensing or rewriting), mandate all new commits are GPL3+. Then the only way to use it would be to rip out the GPL3+ parts (if you want GPL2 terms) or to use the GPL3.

Simple!

Except not really...
That's an apples to oranges comparison (pun intended). If I forget passcode my device, why I shouldn't be allowed to reset and configure it from scratch if I am willing to lose my data?
There can be numerous situations in which this can happen like a child trying passcode repeated.

You will be happy if apple bricks your M1 laptop if you forgot the password due to any reason. What happened to spirit of HN culture?
Yes. What I read somewhere is that the early Unix team (some of whom had just come off the Multics project) got the full use of a spare minicomputer that was in the Labs, to build an early protototype of Unix (may or not be the first one), only by promising their manager that they would build text processing software on top of it that would be useful for the Labs' patent and other text processing work. And they delivered. Some of that work became a software suite called Writer's Workbench, IIRC, and some of it became the powerful Unix command line filters and such that we still love and use today, such as cut, paste, join, diff, tr and more - "more" as in "etc.", not the pager tool, although maybe that one too, ha ha.
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Use typescript then
Ian Flemming's older brother Peter was an interesting character:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fleming_(writer)

Peter Flemming worked with Colin Gubbins - who went on to run SOE - which did things far more like the fictional James Bond than MI6 ever did.
I think this is a great misunderstanding. One of the greatest contributions from Unix is the idea of programs that act as composable building blocks. You shouldn't need to reinvent every wheel to get your job done.
You say that... but you'd be surprised how chaotically the sausage is manually made in the inner workings of health care.

Provider side has it semi-sorted (at least within the same facility).

Everyone else (insurance, etc) is attempting to clean semi-structured / inaccurate data passed to them, and generate a coherent result.
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