skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually agree with OP. YouTube recommendations on my primary account are quite good.

I attribute this to careful curation of my logged-in viewing habits.

> you watched a video about the US elections

That's the problem. As a rule, I never view political, celebrity, or clickbait videos when logged in. There is such a vast amount of dreck in these categories, you're sure to be disappointed sooner or later.

If I see a political/clickbait video that catches my eye, I open it in an Incognito tab.
It loops back around
How does one actually make this claim with a straight face?
Nix and Guix have too steep of a learning curve. Maybe someday I'll be willing to invest the time to understand what's going on, but the CLI and docs just aren't good enough to go from "I know nothing" to "ah, I can install the latest <firefox,inkscape,chromium,etc.>".
It really isn't clear to me how to switch a running system's package manager to either or even if either is fit to be the system's main package manager.

I watched a video of a seasoned linux user trying to install nix and abandoning the procedure because of the lack of docs. I even downloaded a virtualbox image of NixOS and tried to update everything to the latest version: 30 minutes later only firefox was installed but it wasn't in PATH thus couldn't be executed. Never found out how to install the KDE desktop.

Guix was another beast that I tried installing as a non-root user (insisted on using `curl | bash`, which I loathe). It was never up to date and I couldn't find the package I wanted to install (so fancy new chromium wrapper.. next-browser or something).

Maybe now things are better, but back then (1-2 years ago), neither were anywhere close to modern GUI distros.
Until they make it easy to use, it's going to stay niche.
> How do you know which one to choose?

In Apple's case, you could refer back to Apple's business conduct training program, a self directed online class which ALL of us are REQUIRED to pass ANNUALLY, and which states in no uncertain terms that NOTHING of value may be paid to a government official without prior approval from higher up, and describes precisely such "facilitation fees".

And if the article is to be believed, the Apple officer in question was in charge of CREATING that class. I'm sorry; I don't think I've ever met them, but I don't see how this could possibly be excused, unless Apple Legal signed off on that bribe (stranger things have happened — Apple's then General Counsel once created a backdated paper trail for a fictitious meeting of the executive team — but still find that exceedingly unlikely).
I'm glad you shared this. I've been reading the comments here with much interest but simultaneously also a sense of impostor syndrome, for I've been running my one-man SaaS on generic LAMP since 2005, and aside from adopting jQuery early on, I haven't much touched any other piece of exciting tech that's come out since.

My old and boring stack works just fine on the VMs that it runs on, and and continues to support me and my family financially with little to no downtime and decent work/life balance.

Of course I'm aware of the cons of programming in PHP versus other languages, but after 20 years of coding in it, I like to think that my code isn't all that bad.

Still, I'm reading some comments here and feel like I'm waaay behind the tech curve with my use of such an old stack, and am somewhat scared to admit it.

Your comment brought me relief :)
It would be great if Google Earth and Google Street View zoomed like that in any direction.
It does irk me how brainless puzzles in games have become. Two games that come to mind are Skyrim (where the puzzles you face are basically "rotate these stones until they match what is shown above them on the wall") and Drake's Fortune (upon encountering a puzzle, the protagonist immediately says "hmm, this looks familiar" and insists you open up your journal where he has been sketching the exact solution between gunfights).
I clearly hang out here, and I’m not clear on exactly what Odyssey is or why someone might want it.
That would require the ability for the grid to say "no" and for industries to respond to "nos".

That's available now, if you buy power in large enough amounts. It's not popular.[1]

[1] https://seuc.senate.ca.gov/interruptibleservicecontractissue...
Reminds me of the CORS issue from few months back - https://support.google.com/docs/thread/56845119?hl=en
I wish I could explicitly tell YouTube “don’t ever recommend videos I’ve seen.”
> Snap, Flatpak, Docker, AppImage, etc are all very complex solutions that are actually quite painful to interact with.

Uh... what? You're comparing these things against Guix and Nix, which require you to learn a new language to use. Not to mention that AppImage, at least, is only complex because it kinda has to be in order to be portable, single-file, directly-executable application. Which is to say, it is only complex in its implementation so that it can be much less painful to interact with [0].

> Nix on the other hand solves the problem extremely well. You can have different complex applications running side by side with very different dependencies trees and they will not cross paths.

Which AppImage can do without you having to learn a new language, and as a bonus will even let you store those applications on entirely different media without recompilation or anything.

> Similarly, Nix is easily installed on any existing system.

AppImages work on most Linux systems, which is about as well as anyone can do with something that requires no pre-installed runtime.

[0] and it actually isn't that complex really.
We already have a bit of that. My company operates an iron foundry. It is night shift only because electric rates are cheaper at night. This is slowly catching on.

Until people have electric cars though, for most there is no point. Most of what I do with electric I will do at any price when I want to. My oven needs to work when I'm hungry. My furnace needs to keep the pipes from freezing (there is some load balance opportunities here). I turn lights on when it is dark.
> For instance, I point out in my book (Piketty 2014a, ch. 8–9) that the rise of top income shares in the United States over the 1980–2010 period is due for the most part to rising inequality of labor earnings,

Rognlie(2014) points out fatal errors in Piketty's primary analysis of wealth inequality. In summary:

“
Recent trends in both capital wealth and income are driven
almost entirely by housing, with underlying mechanisms quite different from those
emphasized in Capital.
”
http://mattrognlie.com/piketty_diminishing_returns.pdf
Your screen is now shrinking...

Anyways, great job!
That's quite a dedicated spearfishing attack.
Would triangulation solve at least the signal boost part of the equation? A car thief would have a heck of a time trying to violate the laws of physics to trick that, no?
This reminded me the beginning of Spot/Exceed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qbAfyF6IIc and Contour/TBL, both classic demos now.
I have four chromecast audio's, they're fantastic and still supported, though who knows for how long.
I think you would be surprised about the most people don't shoplift bit. I've worked at krogers and target, and I would wager most employees did. Nothing huge and not cash but some food here and a drink there and you're talking real money in a years time.

Edit: just remembered a funny anecdote, a employee was caught stealing food at krogers, but it was normal enough that they told him if he paid for it they would forget it happened. He pretended to check out and was caught stealing the same food twice so they had to fire him. It was like a 2$ sandwich.
What the best option is depends on your perspective, and your goals. Focusing just on the short term bottom line, or being more progressive than the norm for the area, or more conservative could all have different effects.
Wow! I used this api a few months ago and it was really helpful. Of course I knew it was undocumented and could break at any time; here we are.
Facebook itself, just like other online media companies, _is_ a political entity. My view is that the risk we in democratic countries face is not from political entities co-opting Facebook, it's from companies like Facebook becoming political entities in their own right. We're all well aware of how America's lobbying system works. What I think is much more insidious is companies who control the flow of information pursuing their own political agendas. Twitter and Facebook can have more influence on the political landscape by altering the algorithms they use to promote information than the equivalent of millions of dollars of lobbying. That should frighten you.
Offtopic: I was checking his bio: "Entrepreneur at Binomial, open source dev. Previously SpaceX, Valve, and Ensemble Studios/Microsoft. SIBO survivor. From New Jersey. Opinions my own. He/him."

At the end wrote "He/him".

Anyone knows what does this mean and what is this trend? Is this to clearly state your gender and how you identify yourself?
Victoria in Australia has recently passed laws making wage theft a criminal offence:

https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/wage-theft-legislation-passes...
I do not know how to objectively measure useful research funding. However, this discussion reminded me of a graph I saw on the wtfhappenedin1971.com site [1]. It's not direct measurement of R&D development, but it sure as hell doesn't paint a good picture for all the spending that's going on. I wouldn't be surprised if a similar allocation of funds was happening in medical R&D as well.

[1] https://wtfhappenedin1971home.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/ey...
Thank you very much for your feedback and time! We know that we do not cover aspects like skin tone - and we would love to somehow implement that. The problem is that to get the best statistical results, the "decision-influencing" differences between images ideally have to be reduced to just the exact condition (e.g. different breast size). Every other additional variation (e.g. skin tone) would "blur" the data.
As we need 88 picture pairs to cover all required breast conditions anyways, it is practically impossible to take any other aspects into the survey (e.g. skin tone) without completely exploding the number of pictures and blurring the data. So we apologize for that "inconvenience" - but we haven't found a better solution.
Thank you very much for your support and feedback!
AI Predicts Highest Risk U.S. Counties During Covid-19 Surge
As far as I could tell the problem was somewhat inherent in the encoding. One thing that could have been done is something like

for (int i = 0; i<n-15; ++I) {
dec.FastUnsafeRead(result);
}
for (int j = n-15; j < n; ++j) {
dec.SlowSafeRead(result);
}
No offense, but it's not really feasible on a trail with any level of traffic to wait for each passerby to put their mask on.

Just wear it as a chin-strap and it takes 2s to pull up and adjust. Accept that sometimes, your mask will be your only defense, and then hiking is almost as easy as ever before.
You'll make a fortune if you can find a way to convert 40-150 KWhr of electrical energy to heat quickly enough to make a difference in an emergency situation without causing the car to combust (or explode).

You'll make a fortune because you'll have broken the laws of physics.
Weird, i stumbled through NixOS, a dual boot grub setup, and backed by NVME with no issues and very little Linux information to start with.

Currently on NixOS btw, been a great experience from it so far.
I consider myself a fan

Thank you. That's nice to hear.

I don't think HN borders on perfection and I don't think I said anything of the sort anywhere. I said stuff like: HN does a much better job than most platforms of allowing people to genuinely express a minority view.

That's still a relative rating, not an absolute one. It does a better job than average. Your remark seems to generally agree with that, so I'm not sure I understand what the issue here is.

I have not had an easy time here and at one point I left for 18 months in part because I felt it was too rough for me here. But I was also really sick at the time and homeless and "wherever you go, there you are." My primary reasons for taking a break were not, per se, "HN is a shit show and everyone there is mean to me!"

I'm quite open about the fact that posting here as openly female was only "a bed of roses" if you are thinking of it in terms of the thorns. That opinion isn't one that is very welcome here. It gets a lot of push back.

I've had college classes in things like Social Psychology and Negotiation and Conflict Management. I know something about best practices for dealing with difficult group dynamics.

I'm not claiming there is no bias here. I'm not claiming things are always rosy and I used the word "hubbub" in my remark, above.

I don't really understand why you think I am engaging in hyperbole and attributing some kind of perfection to the site. My very first comment was basically a recipe for how to weather the downvote storm and wait and see where it goes after that.

And in my experience and opinion, it will go better if you actually follow the guidelines and don't start complaining about downvotes. As someone who attracts a lot of negative reactions on HN, my firsthand experience is that if you actually follow the guidelines and say nothing about the voting and wait and see, things will be less negative and a few hours later you may feel differently about how people are perceiving your comment because it may no longer be in the negatives and there may even be constructive engagement.

And you are less likely to experience that if you start complaining about bias and about downvotes and about people disagreeing with you.

I don't agree with you that I can't know what I know without spreadsheets full of data. I think I do know what I know based on having studied how social stuff works and having participated on a variety of forums over the years.

Metafilter is not the only forum where I had really negative experiences and was ultimately banned. It's just the only one I happened to use as an example to try to illustrate my point in one particular remark.
Indeed, precision was key: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNRnrn5DE58
Big Pharma COVID "Vaccines" Are For SYMPTOMS Not The VIRUS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jEGizsmKLg
Now there’s an idea...
I tried a sample of sumatriptan once and my head/mind felt so clear. I've been able to manage without prescription meds but have always wondered if normal people felt like that all the time.
Date and Time for Embedded Systems (Koopman/CMU 18-642)
I thought you were discussing the twitter replies, not the discussion here.

The top comment in this thread, the one I replied to, is basically "I'm happy for the guy, but why do people think Nintendo should/would contribute back?" It's the same GPL vs BSD discussion, just people aren't trying to rain on the individual's celebration.
Here's something - does anyone else's brain try to tell them that the trees are 3D? That's certainly a cool optical illusion!
That’s a surprising comment.

We are one of the easiest countries in the world to immigrate to, and have an extremely immigrant-friendly culture.
> Guix and Nix [...] require you to learn a new language

Not true.

`guix install foo`, done.

Oh, you want to define an operating system declaratively in a file? Yeah, learn the DSL that was designed to let you do just that.
There's an inherent information and therefore power imbalance as well as general unethical nature of the interactions.

I understand this article. I still want to see a penny every time my data is used/accessed/sold/etc, if anything to drive up the cost of contracts around or servicing of my data. If my data is made functionally anonymous then make it a dime payment and then a penny every time that block of data is used sold. Send it as a check to my mailing address with a letter including the legal entities involved, initial source of the data, what type or category of data they have relating to me (like PII category ex address, name, purchase history, etc), their intended use for the data (research vs marketing), and how I can contact to have my data removed from the set. Also if my data is made anonymous, provide a 1 penny check and above information for any use or sale of the data set.

Yes this regulation would kill the industry in overhead costs aimed at making the information somewhat close to the 'informed consent' required for medical approvals and breaking down how the industry works. Maybe make it so on initial sale and usage you get a check then at the start of each following year that entity pays out for annual usage.

Our data is valuable collectively to identify trends, markets, and opportunity and I'd like to know how I'm manipulated into being a part of that as well as what entities I cannot trust with any personal data. And I think this should apply to Experian/etc too. Chase wants to find out my credit score to market CC reward offers to me? Make it known and pay me the same way farms are paid for the useful manure their animals produce.
This screams "time for a serious code review" to me. Also use an array type that does overflow checking.
We built an effect system to enforce thread safety in Rx-based android apps a few years ago and published a paper on it at ASE, if you're interested: plv.colorado.edu/benno/ase18.pdf

the idea should generalize to whatever thread-pool/effect constraints you want to express, but the paper and implementation are focused on keeping UI effects on the android main thread.
They stopped selling the audios, which is definitely a bad sign.

This is what I currently use. But between it not being open enough to use easily for a lot of situations. (example as the default audio output of my laptop, there are solutions but they aren't great). And of course I never know when they will turn it off or make a change that breaks it for me.
> To put it differently: high-security systems programmers don't move their fingers more slowly on the keyboards because "going slow is better". They put checks in place, and they take as much time as is needed to do things right, but padding that time just for the sake of "slowness" helps nobody.

"Being careful" doesn't necessarily lead to slowness directly, but making the carefulness verifiable (and making that verification, by an external stakeholder, mandatory) usually does.

This approach (regulation and inspection by a government agency) is generally how society makes actors internalize otherwise external costs, but there are other variations such as government codes and standards.

Fine-grained mandatory process specification is usually the least desirable route to safety, but that's often what companies end up asking for in return for giving them a pass when the process inevitably fails to prevent a bad outcome with a large blast-radius.

However, in some specific circumstances where you don't have another means, directly enforcing slowness in some way may be your best option for at least limiting the damage caused by a failure, even if it doesn't reduce the chances of an error (though sometimes it does that too). Vehicle speed limits are one example, rate-limits on transactions (or comments) are another. In other circumstances, requiring speed (eg. monitoring with a fast response time, quick deployment of a fix) may be the right choice for limiting the damage a failure can cause.
It's not the best situation. They don't say "Ignorance is bliss" for nothing.

If you don’t say anything to the person who can increase your compensation, you might start caring less about your work, which could be noticed. Worse, you might start having feelings of resentment towards the company, manager or even your colleagues, depending how much you like them.

If you ask for a raise without mentioning your colleagues, and don't get it, you won't be too happy knowing what you know. Or to be more specific, believing what you believe, that you deserve the same compensation as your co-workers.

If you ask for a raise, don’t get it and then bring up your co-workers, I assume this would prompt your manager to give you reasons why your situation is different. But it's possible you might think these reasons are BS.

These are, of course, hypothetical scenarios, but it's not bad to consider them.
New York City wants to restrict AI in hiring
Doom on the Nintendo Game and Watch
The data was literally just released.

Moderna and Pfizer submitted for approval shortly after they released their initial Phase 3 results. Approval is expected to be expedited, but will not be instant (I've read a few weeks, assuming no problems). Oxford/AstraZeneca will likely follow the same course now that their results are available (they were waiting for enough people in their trials to become infected, same as the other Phase 3 trials).

It is widely expected that large scale distribution of these vaccines will begin in late December.
Where are the pain points using guix on void? Asking because I may be switching my desktop over to using guix on a foreign distro
Worst decision for inequality ever.

However, at the time, financing, shares, equity, small time fraud, were also harder to regulate and enforce.

Only did we learn in the 2009s that big time fraud was also overlooked.
So the thing that is the primary value proposition of the system, yeah?
I'm not sure I understand your logic.

Isn't it abuse or manipulation performed in order to accomplish theft? How is what you're describing not resulting in theft?
Incognito helps override this.
Interesting. I'll have to read up on the arguments behind this.
No, but you can press the up key to make it not end sooner.

You can also press the down key to zoom back out forever.
How do you have a placebo dose of psilocybin?! The effects are very noticable so lack of them would quickly reveal it was a placebo, I'd think. Unless it was not a blind test, in which case this would not matter.
> will this allow hardware vendors additional means to prevent me from installing Linux?

No. Pluton serves as an on-chip secure enclave for encryption keys and the like. This is unrelated to installing operating systems.
You know Substack has paid subscriptions too, right?
Ya, I was using snapper but didn't restrict the number of snapshots so I probably had more than 20

I use zfs now and have many, many, more than 20 snapshots without issue.

I wasn't using a nvme drive with btrfs, it was a sata ssd. So perhaps the higher io ops or lower latency also helps.
Concealed Weapons Permit Scandal;Grand Jury Indicts Apple Security Executive
Congress Is Eyeing Face Recognition, and Companies Want a Say
It wouldn't matter much if we did. Many are only available in some areas. Often they are in such impure forms that you can't actually use them even if you know it is there. And concentration is varied enough that you can't do precision treatment.
The “Perfect” EQ Settings: Unmasking the EQ (2010)
Interesting. The 1st version gets a cool 60 FPS on Firefox, while the 2nd version gets 30 FPS. Much less smooth. They both get 60 FPS in Chrome.
In a repo like this, tests can degrade overtime when someone just changes the test asserts to make them pass because they’ve got a deadline to get this out of the door.

It becomes difficult to even know if the test is checking the right thing since you’re completely unfamiliar with the context.
I've never seen someone here who I thought was legitimately a "shill".

I bet 99% of accusations of "shilling" are false. It seems like everyone wants to believe that the people they disagree with are being paid. It's a form of conspiratorial thinking.
Thx for the pointer. Yes, I was talking about mrna in the context of the Moderna and Pfizer+B vaccine. This was a good read on why we shouldn't fear reverse transcription. What I still don't get is how free floating mrna molecules in the bloodstream go through the same protein formation process as mrna inside cells. Will continue to search.
> where is the line between hacks like this and smart behavior?

Understanding exactly what the cause of the problem. Hacks imply a fix that "seems" to work but not understanding.