skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple doesn't have ads and tracking they said...
Anyway that was never worth the premium for me when I can put ad blocking on Lenovo and save a few hundred €.
These aren’t exactly what you are asking about but some recent examples of what I consider to be disingenuous and manipulative:

1. The New York Times published a scathing critique of Google’s 4000 word privacy policy, neglecting anywhere to mention that their own privacy policy was 25% longer and sketchier.

2. The entire handling of the Caliphate podcast and subsequent backpedaling and retroactive reframing.

3. Similar to 2., the doubling down but silent adjustments to the 1619 project historical inaccuracies.

4. The maddening insistence on handling of Slate Star Codex author’s identity and hypocrisy as compared to Chapo Trap House.

5. The submarine propaganda piece about CP on the dark web, which was clearly an attempt to build societal consensus for mandatory backdoors in E2E messaging.

You can go back farther into obvious hits like the second Iraq War and WMD madness of course..

I generally don’t trust the New York Times.
>To decipher this message refer to the Unicode . . . . . Unicode

I wonder what the purpose of this cypher word is. So that if someone doesn't know about Unicode, they find out what it is by checking what each word means?
The red, green, and blue lines are those colors when editing, so you know what type they are. When you hit "play" and are viewing the rider ride the lines, all lines are black.
> This is literally their "we are the fastest database just turn off commits" claim

I don't recall them ever saying this.
In french it can also all be called memory. Mémoire vive (lively/quick memory) is for RAM/DRAM etc. Mémoire morte (dead memory) for ROM/eeprom... and Mémoire de masse (mass memory) for storage/disc/tape.
Intel's revenue is big enough that they must have some kind of warchest to fall back on. Obviously money isn't everything but it doesn't hurt.

They can probably still hammer AMD on both their software and documentation, i.e. roughly a quarter of their sales are to data centres.

It will be interesting to see what happens to X86 post-M1 (i.e. ARM coming of age), I suspect not much but I think the world has changed enough to have another stab at VLIW (for example) even if the cost/benefit is pretty marginal.
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They said they were the fastest.

They shipped with syncs turned off by default.

EDIT: actually it was journaling of writeconcerns. Later they backtracked and enabled it by default, but by then their reputation was cemented (or bifurcated into fast, or terrible, I suppose).

https://shekhargulati.com/2011/12/08/how-mongodb-different-w...
The most important part is its reproducible so you can keep making micro adjustments so you perfectly exploit those issues.
You can actually prevent them from starving themselves by destroying a small part in their brain.
AWS outage leaves your house dirty
> You will need to copy the link and paste it into a new tab, as it blocks HN refers.

I love that website and didn't know about that until now. Now I love it even more.
This is such a ridiculous argument.

So if a company doesn't add a feature at version 1.0 then it simply doesn't count ?
If you get accused of racism, what you should do is take the accusation seriously, assume that it is the result of genuine tension within the company, and then figure out places in your process where you were not being proactive enough about looking out for your employees and team chemistry.

Happy employees don't accuse their employers of racism. If you are being accused of racism by your employees, surely something went wrong and there are things you can identify to improve, and then commit to improving those things as part of rebuilding your integrity.
So what did you enjoy?
Strange! Anywhere I can read more about that? And ideally the study about how they figured that out!
I really enjoyed the Singing Bones podcast. Each season the narrator talks about the history, origins, and context of various fairy tales and spends an episode per season on the story tellers themselves.
Apparently [1] 2 billions of people live under 100$ a month. But my guess is that those people do not have access to a computer, or it might be quite challenging to provide an office not to far from their place with internet.

[1] https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/10/17/n...
Mostly we program in languages that read like a kind of shorthand english, and mature programmers are expected to be able to read the text fluently. WHAT comments tend to be superfluous.

Nobody sane reads 100+ character regexes fluently, so WHAT comments are totally appropriate. Any time I write a nontrivial regular expression, I always try leave an example of what it would match in a comment. I've thanked last-year me for this more times than I can count.
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I agree that getting blamed of racism means you lose no matter what you do.

However, the statement "I know I'm not a racist" is slippery. Perhaps you're not, but guess what, most racist people think the same too. I've seen explicitly racist things told to me with the same statement prefixed to it. How do you absolutely know you're not racist? Perhaps we all are at least slightly racist and should strive every day to just reduce that part of us?

This is similar to 'I know I am not a bad person' - the majority of the people subscribe to this hypothesis and I believe that is the root cause for many ills in society. I subscribe to an alternate hypothesis - "most of us are kinda bad people" - I mean most people here have burned tons of CO2 on plane trips for personal pleasure, or bought fancy cars or thought we deserve luxury when many in the world continue to suffer - all of this is bad in some definition anyway so even if we all don't promise to be saints let's at least acknowledge that we all ain't angels as a first step?
"I chose MongoDB" has been (and apparently should continue to be) an indicator that someone is either new to software -- which is fine, a lot of bootcamps teach Mongo -- or totally incompetent when it comes to databases.
Oh, would love to have been a fly on that wall. I wonder what they did for 'reporting'. mongo/document dbs are great for niche uses. I don't disagree on that. But for an overall store I don't see it.
Unfortunately Firefox is guilty of that Unpardonable Sin. Often I will open a new window to search for something and start typing my request right away, since the address/search bar should be focused on new windows. If the window takes a little bit of time to appear for some reason, the first few characters will be dropped. Frustrating. Chrome on the other hand does not exhibit this defect, even if I start typing before the window actually appears, my input is preserved.
That is the craziest line rider track I have ever seen. Really good work, kudos!
> we really must remember that

Do we? Your opinion that is poorly executed doesn't actually mean that it is.

> But we must read what they’ve written as an attempt at controlling the narrative.

And...? God forbid their wanting to control the narrative about... Themselves? I'm not seeing the problem there.

> They’re asking the world to discredit an article that (as you’ve mentioned) hasn’t been published yet. That deserves an extreme amount of scrutiny and skepticism.

But the NYT should be inherently trusted, unless I read your original comment incorrectly.

> How could I possibly defend an unread article? It’s impossible and illogical.

You literally called it "fundamental truth" in your original comment, so I'm actually a bit curious about your answer to your own question.

> I’ve been attempting to illustrate why their own attempt at damage control actually predisposes me to distrust them

Reading your comments, it seems more like a bias in favor of the NYT et al what is predisposing you to distrust them.

Of course, nothing wrong with that. If you feel like they properly represent the truth of your views, not supporting them would be incongruous. But that doesn't mean that someone who disagrees about how well they represent the truth of the matter has to share your opinion. Indeed, sharing your opinion would be incongruous in that case.

> It’s an incredibly amateurish PR move on their part, honestly.

This is not enlightened discourse. Again, just because you think it is doesn't mean that it is. Specially when using vague non-descriptions like "amateurish".

> it’s partly speculation

It's entirely speculation.
I had to look that one up.

A small outline integrated circuit (SOIC) is a surface-mounted integrated circuit (IC) package which occupies an area about 30–50% less than an equivalent dual in-line package (DIP), with a typical thickness being 70% less. They are generally available in the same pin-outs as their counterpart DIP ICs.

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

I suspect companies do these make collisions intentionally.
> There’s significant evidence of a “rebound effect” when people are given the chance to signal their virtue or pay off their guilt somehow. That is, they feel justified in behaving worse than they otherwise would have

Wikipedia article on rebound effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)
A commonly accepted notion of dignity. If the majority didn't agree, we'd still have slavery.
What does AOC mean when she says tech companies shouldn't “own” data?
Yes isn't this a rather common strategy, "Be pro-active, not reactive".

When the actual story comes out it is not such a big news any more, because it is not news any more. First impressions often last, so now the first impressions is that the story is fake.

So even if their response does amplify the story, it might amplify a good story rather than a bad one. So go even so far as to say "all publicity is good publicity"
Reminds me of Nat Alison's https://polyhedra.tessera.li/
With global push for Covid-19 vaccines, China aims to win friends and cut deals
> You don't know nuthin', dummy!" is not a great lead-in to correcting people's misconceptions.

I actually disagree. Lots of companies have to rebrand, especially when their leadership and/or product have changed.

The core problem here is that the article seems to be an attempt to fix Mongo's reputation through misleading PR (e.g. using different definitions of words than everyone else in the industry), rather than technical solutions.

It's typical of Mongo as a company, though. They don't have technical merit and try to make up for it by trying to convince us all that the sky is green.
I’m naive on this topic but what makes TSMC pretty much the only fab on the world that can do this? Do they have technology the west doesn’t? Know how? Why isn’t there a fab in the US, it can’t be just labor costs?
Thinking Like a Front-End Developer
I loved your RATIONALIZATION piece linked to in the article.
I’ll second this. My M1 Air is a freak of nature. I’m so excited for this next wave of computing. Lots of things that need setup Dev tooling wise and much work underway to get it supported but my god man... and it’s passively cooled.

I have a beast i7 gaming rig too and my M1 beats it at everything but graphics performance.

What I think Intel will continue to work their enterprise business until this “arm wave” starts to pull up. Engineers at Intel probably have some ideas.
Yes indeed, the humor in my comment didn't land. The device coupling is out of hand, like when your phone rings and the watch, computer, fridge an vacuum also buzz.
2020 is all the inspiration one needs, for this.
I am not on the street and no one asked me, but things have tradeoffs.

Do I want the right to change providers, verify, and so on? Sure. Do I want them at any cost? No.

I could get a lot of those things today, right now if I was willing to switch to a linux desktop and PureOS phone. I have tried switching to linux many times and and can say with certainty that I am willing to trade quite a bit to be able to use macOS instead of ubuntu, fedora, etc...While I haven't tried PureOS specifically, I did have an Android phone for a while and much prefer iOS.
Don’t get me wrong, there are reasons we use it. It’s just so outdated I never expected a company like yours to even get near it
I found this to be a good read, but I wish the author discussed the pros/cons of bypassing the file system and using a block device with direct I/O. I've found that with Optane drives the performance is high enough that the extra load from the file system (in terms of CPU) is significant. If the author was using a file system (which I assume is the case) which was it?
Wow this brought back a ton of memories of playing Line Rider and watching videos of amazing tracks on YouTube. My friends and I spent countless hours playing this in school, though my interest in it far outlasted theirs.

Line Rider was (is) such a great avenue for artistic and tinkering spirit. Someone else here called it a "demoscene" and that's a perfect comparison. It's a very easy game and community to get sucked into.

This track is pretty cool, and that ending is incredible. Nice to read that you were able to come back to a revived community and finish the project. I guess I'll go watch all my favorite tracks now, thanks :)

As an aside, it's great to see many here on HN who also love(d) this game. Not that I'm surprised the two communities would overlap, but there were at least a few years between the last time I built a track and the first time I came to HN. There are such strong common threads of interest across the internet.
It hasn't been an issue so far. I have recorded well over an hour at a time and had plenty of space left on the device. I haven't tried leaving it recording overnight (since the birds are in torpor then anyway). That particular phone was 64GB, which can hold something like ~4 hours of 1080p30 video.

The phone contains no apps other than the pre-installed ones, and no data other than the video I'm capturing. After moving the videos to my computer, I remove them from the phone.
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The US closed most of it's fabs decades ago, except for Intel.
This is a perspective on mental health I've never heard before. Interesting.
In modern terms - it might have caused a drop in total GDP - but it achieved growth in GDP per capita.

Not sure that's worth the cost of course.
Don’t build a startup, grow an audience
tldr - Java is safer and simpler than C++.
Here's an overly simple, impractically slow, but immediately consistent model for you: for every request from a client, ask all other nodes in the network the same query. If you get 100% consensus, return the answer, otherwise, ask again.
That's all well and good. However it still doesn't address three key factors:

* Everyone hates ads. You can try to shove it down their throats anyway by being a monopoly, but eventually this won't work anymore, since there is too much competition that doesn't rely on ad revenue and too many companies trying to block ads.

* Google doesn't have a solid revenue stream besides ads. And it's unclear how they are gonna get one. At least not in the magnitude they need to survive.

* Google faces strong competition on all fronts and all of them, except perhaps Facebook, don't count ad revenue as primary source of income. This puts Google at a substantial disadvantage, amplified by the first point: EVERYONE freakin hates ads
>>>And if I read your previous comment correctly, it wouldn't be discussed at all (because the Nazis had better uniforms?), no?

No, you didn't read that correctly. Better uniforms is a somewhat-facetious explanation for German popularity as a faction in wargames. People will naturally gravitate to the team that looks cooler. Same reason why the 501st Legion is a thing in the Star Wars fandom, but there isn't really an equivalent Rebel Alliance fangroup of similar size.[1]

That in no way suggests that Nazi atrocities should never be discussed in any medium or venue just because they were stylish. Maybe my experience was different attending Quaker schools, so quite a bit of our history classes covered various crimes against humanity in detail. I'm just saying that nobody needs to be beat over the head with historical moralizing and soul-searching in what is essentially a game of chess with more complicated rules, and the starting positions of the pieces imported from reality. There's plenty of other, better, ways to handle the morality of the history besides a computer strategy game.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501st_Legion
This is not "why Java is better for fast things". It is not.

This is "why Java is better", and the answer is "it usually is better because your programmers often suck".
Do they? I would say they struggle to exist.

There is hardly a reason to install them other than wanting free beer OS without GPL-strings attached or being a systemd hater, and then suffer a desktop experiece that feels like stuck in early 2000.

Conferences related to BSDs usually boil down to running the same code in newer hardware or filesystems.
> This is the good old C language, not C++ or Rust, so nothing can be enforced on the language level, and certain discipline is required to make sure there is no corrupt or leaked memory resulting from using this library.

I loved this. “This ain’t your fancy schmancy Tesla, it’s granddaddy’s old Ford pickup”.
My problem was more with QCD and indeed had to reach for Google to see that (I think) it's quantum chromodynamics, but thanks for that one as well.
So they want super efficient but safe code ... sounds like Rust.
When you write Java in a C like syntax : "Chronicle's system is built in what Lawrey describes as "C-like Java" and it's this that he encourages people to code low latency systems in."

I guess very limited number of constructors, and most of all the methods are static.

And they still struggle to find programmers that can code that way.
I have to assume it's just meaningless pandering, otherwise what would such a system look like?

A platform would just provide an interface but each user would supply their own database of content and connections. Either self hosted or on some third party server?

If people had to "own" their data and the platforms never had full access to it how much would user experience suffer.

Is what she saying make any sense or am I missing something?
It seems quite similar to what MySQL/PostgreSQL is doing with its WAL.

Those don't sync to disk on every write.
I wonder if this will change in the future when rust may become a more mature language. It would offer the speed and the safety needed for this kind of task.
I mean to be fair, in a single node MongoDB database (one primary, no secondaries), it would be impossible to read stale values as well. Eventual consistency only comes in when you introduce multiple nodes / secondaries. As long as you connect to the primary for reads, you'll never get stale data.
> As Brian shared with the ColorBlock ERG this morning, we don’t care what The New York Times thinks.

Yeah, if this is the level of maturity that’s in charge, it doesn’t matter if these execs personally discriminate against their black employees. They’re donezo.
#1 NYT's own privacy policy is irrelevant in context. Google's privacy policy affects most of the internet, aka, most of the world. The NYT's privacy policy affects the significantly smaller (and comparatively insignificant) number of people who read the NYT on its website.

#3 The adjustments (aka corrections) were not silent. They announced them, and the big corrections even got their own NYT articles, see e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/magazine/an-update-to-the....

#4 NYT published the identities of Slate Star Codex because it was newsworthy. The identities of the Chapo House Guys was not, because they were, and this part is crucial: open about their identities. Both of these blogs spread ideological filth, but the CHG didn't cower behind anonymity to do it like the SSC guy did.

#5 This is not submarine propaganda. CP exists on the dark web, and in fact the use of the dark web to spread CP is why so many Tor nodes chose to shut down. (This is also unrelated to putting mandatory backdoors in E2E messaging, which the NYT...opposes...)

#6 The federal government lied about the weapons...not the NYT...And WMDs did exist. Iraq still had a very large stockpile of chemical weapons when we invaded (during Bush II). They simply were intended for use against the local population, not the U.S. (See a non-NYT source: https://theintercept.com/2015/04/10/twelve-years-later-u-s-m...)
Well if you know someone who is:

“A tired old man with nothing to live for.”

The site may recommend:

“A sex doll to help him pass the time”

"A machine gun with a silencer To end his life"

"A selfdriving car To drive him to the end of his life"

"A gun to kill himself and end his suffering"

The self driving car one is pretty funny.
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Now if I could only actually block adds on chrome mobile...
Also because it's the one language / culture where throwing money actually scale somewhat n log n consistently.
You have 80 hours budget to deliver X features, no compromise or no pay, feel free to decide how to deal with testing.
I used to work on a high-speed messaging system built in Java, and garbage collection was a killer. No matter how much we tweaked the code and the GC parameters, and this eventually got escalated pretty high up in Sun itself, we'd get these occasional multi-minute pauses where the whole thing would just freeze up, buffers would fill and stuff would start dropping on the floor.

This was over 10 years ago, so things may have improved, but it would certainly give me pause about ever implementing anything time-critical in Java.
High speed trading systems, what a stupid, useless, and artificial domain. You could shutdown all of this and nobody will care in all societies.
If programmers didn't suck, we would do everything in ASM. Since programmers are humans, we need abstractions like C or C++. Java, C#, Python, Go, Objecttive-C, and other garbage collected languages are there to make programming easier.
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I don't know the details of the story, but the thing is with baseless accusations of 'racism' is that it's a perfect slander, one can never prove innocence once proclaimed guilty.
Intel is working on 3D stacking as well.

TSMC is building a plant in Arizona.
"Technology as YOU think it should be"

Romanticism is fun but not great for thinking for the future.
Some of their projects are open source with LGPL license.

https://github.com/OpenHFT
It's not a good newspaper though- reporting is worse than the WSJ; opinion page is equally dreck.

Come on people, read FT like you are supposed to. They even have an excellent gardening column when you are tired of Boris and Chinese SOE imploding.