skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The overwhelming majority of people do not care about privacy. They ask why they should care if they have “nothing to hide”

I have never heard anyone say this though it's a common internet strawman. Certainly there are people who don't care much about their browser cookies or the information they share on Facebook, but it doesn't mean they have 'nothing to hide'. They just disagree on what they need to keep private.

I can't say I worry about cookies at work where I'm only browsing tech sites.
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It's not even big shiny corporate stuff: in many cases it's being replaced by junk spun content.

E.g., just this morning I was looking for advice on how to attach kitchen cabinets to drywall (not that I actually have drywall in my kitchen; I was simply curious). The experience, in common with a lot of other DIY related searches I've done recently as I work on the house, was deeply frustrating. The top result was spun to within an inch of its life, and incredibly repetitive and frustrating to read. Worse, the information was misleading to the point of being potentially hazardous if followed.

As GP has observed, the word "ruining" might be better used in place of the word "gentrifying" in this piece.
I expect features to just stop working on old.reddit as we get further away from the redesign, whether it be updates internally or full new features. This will continue until it gets unusable and then they'll kill it because 'nobody uses it!'
+1. It is not on the list and they are doing a great job in terms of community building.
I find the article and your comment strongly resonate with a comment I made some time ago on an article about GAN-generated faces:

> I guess very soon we will be able to generate "super-attractive" (as in "superstimuli") faces for virtual personas, according to targeted demographics and purpose (advertisement, youtube videos for kids, political messages and so on).

(original comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310355)

Here it's not so much about the face than about the behavior and interactions, but I think the same idea hold true.

It seems to me in the near future we may well be faced with a constant exercise in self-control in the face of the multiplication of such projects.
Sounds like a good way to get tons of websites with covertly sponsored content eg. affiliate links or paid/shill reviews.
So, what’s the alternative? Not freeing resources is a very common error; it would be nice if the compiler could help detecting it.

A possible explicit solution I can think of is to introduce a new function attribute that gives the name of their ‘cleanup’ function (so that the compiler would know fopen needs a fclose, for example) and a compiler that uses these attributes to issue a warning if a function has a path that calls a function and doesn’t either call its cleanup function or returns its result.

I don’t know whether that would cover all bases, though.
Algorithms are just encodings of their methodology of their creators. Here's an algorithm to detect foreigners in my country:

Step 1: Calculate skin tone ratio of person

Step 2: If light skinned then assign person to bin "foreigner".

This will work in 99% of cases, so by one standard its a good algorithm that requires little effort to give valid results.

However, it's just encoded the bias that light skinned people can't be citizens, and thus fails for mixed children, refugees and the thousands multigenerational dependents of expats.

No one can really say computers are unbiased. They simply do what you tell them to do. In my opinion, we computer scientists and practicing engineers understand that, but the general population has the mystique that the machine is somehow more right than a person, simply because you can't see the person(s) who programmed the machine.
Well, I am sure millions of less fortunate people in this world are glad you have no say in deciding these things. Millions of people using Whatsapp to stay in contact with their friends and family for free, many who couldn't afford to pay for the service, but shut it down because snarf21 saw an ad he didn't like.
The general public are reddits audience now not "early internet adopters". I know from running a geographically based small niche subreddit that users and post volume have gone up dramatically in the past 1-2 years.

The people who hate new reddit are a tiny minority I'm afraid to say, the majority of users on the site probably never even saw the old reddit design.
I mean, does it really make sense to target a goal of $10m valuation for a VC backed company?
Cooler Master SK650 keyboard - got rid from my wrist pains almost immediately (was using typical mechanical keyboard earlier (was higher than SK650 and even I've used gel pads I've got an awful wrist pain))

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Study that measured cold resistance among Finnish population found out that city dwellers in the south (Helsinki) had better cold resistance than people living in the north (Lappi).

People in the cities wear thin city clothes even during winters, and freeze their ass off, while people living in much colder rural regions dress sensibly and stay warm.
Also you can stack these infinitely. You can turn 1 acre into 10 acres by stacking 10 on top of each other.
Reddit is one of the last bastions where I can find original thought from real people on certain topics, like reviewing products.
Even with insurance, some of the cost will come out of the provider's pockets - as increased premiums at renewal (or even immediately, in some cases). Insurers might also force other onerous conditions on the provider as a prerequisite for continued coverage.
as a new grad there, it wasn't your fault. There should be guardrails to protect you.
I expected to see IRC communities as well.

Is there a collection of communities that aren't hosted by corporations?
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You blame companies and the market economy, but is that to mean that engineers are supposed to turn a blind eye to ethical issues in the products their employers sell? Other engineering disciplins whole-heartedly disagree.

My point is that either the statement that it's widely held that software can be biased is wrong (or more generously that the concern is not considered), or software engineers are complicit in unethical uses of their software because of known biases.
If you can quantify, roughly, such tax differences, you'll have the core of an unassailable argument.
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Me too. Mind you, I'm still trash at it, but it is really really fun.

It works pretty well on Linux as well.
the one thing I dislike about the movie is the "Christmas party". Its not from the novel, and is there primarily to elucidate some of the relationships in the novel like Bill Hayden and Jim Pridoux, but it seems very out of place in the story.
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So the whole idea here is to analyze the data dump from fb. I have checked the website, but it seems that you put efforts to reverse-engineer the logic in the dump and how it is stored.
A follow up question. Other than data dump, is there any other sources you use?
Step 1. Change meaning of GDP to include nature.
Step 2. Everyone has to eat bug sandwiches
Step 3. Camps for people who refuse to eat bug sandwiches.
Apart from HN, which sites would that engine crawl?

Every other site on the net seems to sell you something.

Would you allow Wikipedia even though it tries to make you donate via those popup-like dialogs that slide in from the top?
I think there's no alternative.

I think of it like thinking of trying to avoid the risks of flying. Sure, there have been many crashes in the last decade itself, let alone the last century. But we have only learned from them, and the future is thus much safer thanks to those experiences.

So I deal with it basically by resigning myself to the idea that I must keep backup of vitally important information, and the rest will no matter, in such an event.
Usually conforming the world at large to the middle classes' taste is in the aristocracy's interest. The have-mores can afford their own bubble.
Totally relate.

I created web things from age 12 - 30, and I used to check Hacker News throughout the day. Then I saw... another JS framework.

Here's a story I wrote: https://www.appliedideals.com/daniel-poynter

But even that story is a few years old. In early 2019 I dove into climate full time, started a nonprofit last spring. Here's that story: https://www.carbonneutralindiana.org/blog-2020-quarter-3

Intrinsic motivation? Check.
Wool. A wool undershirt, thick wool sweater and wind-proof, water-proof jacket has kept me comfortable down to about -15C. You can pickup some really nice gear on the cheap from army surplus sales in Norway at least, but I think it's the same in most NATO countries.
Yeah I'd be safe. If they were looking for me they would find me, but as soon as somebody shouts "Teh Russianz Did It!" everybody stops looking!
> but lets not assume here that Lambda is borderline to committing fraud

Why not? They've already been proven to falsify the employment rates of their students. Their marketing material is significantly off from reality.

Obviously they could be telling the companies buying the ISAs the truth though.
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No, virological warfare gets that award.

And I don't mean computer viruses.
Indeed. I think the key not that extrinsic motivation isn't long-lasting, but that excessively large incomes aren't even (or are only weakly) extrinsically motivating for most people. If the job was enabling them to make ends meet vs. not then no doubt they'd continue to be highly motivated.
This comment sounds pretty pretentious if you ask me if you're coming from the western world. If you tell me that your bad luck compounds so much here that you become incapable of actually doing anything, you're just some bourgeoisie upper class person that thinks they know what it's like to be poor. Most poor people are poor primarily because of children. Full stop. Next stop is spending excessively beyond their means. If you only make $8/hr, maybe you shouldn't own an iphone X and a contract with AT&T.

Most virtue signalling leftists think that being poor means you're entitled to comparable standards that the middle class get. That's not the case at all. You have to evaluate what you can do to cut costs. Literally live a spartan lifestyle. Do whatever it takes to inch forward or roll with the punches. Car breaks down? Bike. Can't bike in winter? Take the crappy bus. You have plenty of options in the west. You can't tell me there isn't one or more solutions to every major problem that exists here. People who get dealt bad luck often are on occasion dealing it to themselves. Have type 2 diabetes at 30? Maybe put down the big Macs. It's not as if the universe is looking at just screwing you over.

I mean the overall tl;dr here is:

"Always look on the bright side of life."

Otherwise you're no different than a boring do-nothing twitter-ite that complains constantly that the world isn't perfect.
> Yeah, I suppose that's true. It just seems like a company that focuses on another company's products seems... unpoetic. Not sure how else to phrase it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The word you're looking for is probably "prosaic".
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Prominent scientists frequently believe in quack theories outside their area of expertise.

Socialism is complete quackery from the Economics perspective, and one the belief in which has cost humanity dearly.

Marx, for just one example, repeated basic economic fallacies like the Luddites' belief that mechanization would reduce the demand for workers and reduce wages, which is literally the exact opposite of the effect of mechanization/automation, and which was demonstrated to be wrong even within Marx's own lifetime.
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I don't understand why everyone is so fixated on his income. If he was an home builder that went from an apprentice to managing entire teams on large projects I think his argument would still apply - past a certain point financial incentives aren't enough.

In the builders case, maybe he'd be writing about getting back to custom, client facing work. I think his essay applies to lots of driven, Type A people that tend to optimize for status - regardless of their field. Personally I find this very relevant.
We can already do this with non-human primates.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6439/eaav9436

I remember joking that this paper puts us marginally closer to the Men in Black memory wiping device, but in the context of this thread that joke seems a bit dark.
I went to an in person bootcamp. There was nothing they taught that wasn't available elsewhere. It cost around $20,000 just for tuition, plus I paid SF rent and living expenses. And I would do it again in a heartbeat.

The biggest benefit imo was being around smart motivated people doing the same thing. It was much easier to work from 9 am to 8 pm 6 days a week if you were around others smart motivated people doing the same. Also being able to talk to people about what you were learning helped tremendously. It helped to clear up misconceptions, develop mental models, ect. Working on group projects helped me to learn to read others code and to learn git. The network I developed has proven useful in later job searches and just in general keeping abreast of developments. It was honestly the best 6 months of my life.

Not everything was perfect obviously. My biggest gripe is the outcomes were oversold. I remember being told they had a 99% placement rating within 3 months. Each cohort was somewhere around 33 people. That would mean that around 1 person for every 3 cohorts would not get a job within 3 months. However just in my cohort, 5 did not have a job within 3 months. Within 6 months all but two had jobs, but still, 95% in 6 months is not 99% within 3. Other than outcomes I had a few gripes with how the teaching was done. Overall though it was a great experience for me.
Release my side-project and earn some extra money from it.
How does this effort relate to https://commoncrawl.org/ ?
I view it as another element of structured programming. It can be expressed as a series of "goto" statements, same as for, while, do, switch. It's just one they didn't think of back when C was being designed. If it was in from the beginning, nobody would think it strange.

That said, it's still debatable if it's useful, given that you can achieve the same thing with the

struct some_resource resource;
do {
resource = allocate(...);
if (!resource) break;
} while(0);
if (resource) dispose(resource);

I can see it as a good thing because you have the dispose statement next to the allocate statement, which makes the logic easier to follow, but the implementation may have caveats which make it actually harder to reason about, e.g. see the other thread about capture value vs capture reference - C will most probably need to capture by reference, which means that modifying "resource" later on changes the meaning of the deferred statement.
I don't know. I've never lived in a world where this stuff wasn't paid for by advertising.

I think "means to pay" is relative - Cambodian tuk-tuk drivers get cheaper, better internet access than Berliners. And they watch YouTube on it. If they didn't have access to YouTube for free there would be a huge market in producing Cambodian content for them to watch, priced appropriately for that market.
Ditto, I am also interested on any input from others who have dabbled in the field that OP mentions. Being from the Northeastern United States, I have always just picked up base layers of various thickness from L.L. Bean, like this: https://global.llbean.com/shop/Long-Underwear-Base-Layers/51...

I don't think of this as a technology or expensive, though. They are somewhat pricey, but can be worn for many winters and thus have good value.
And above all, simplify, even the charts. Make the big idea clear.
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Let me ask you some questions to zero in on your issue here.

Is coding competitive? Is cooking? Is reading? Do you think that training does not help you become a better cook or coder or reader? Were you able to read without training? Do you think the fact that you had to be taught to read poisoned the well and you cannot trust anything you have read since?
An LED that can be integrated directly into computer chips
Or maybe its none of yours or anyone else's damned business. Point is it's not incumbent on a person to explain WHY they need or want that privacy.
I think there's value in describing advertising for what it actually is, paying someone else to lie for you. You can talk about how it's necessary for businesses to let the "public know about their products", but you can't really get around this description of it. It's pretty inconsistent with the idea of free speech, but supposed defenders of free speech don't seem to have any problem with paid speech.

A lot of advertising is negative, not in the sense of attack ads, but in what it is that you agree not to say, for money. When advertisers pull "funding" when a platform doesn't censor "swear words", the lack of swear words is now an advertisement. Do we really think that there is a consistent definition of free speech which is compatible with advertising?

Freedom and anarchy are different.
That is the definition of "anti-competitive behavior." It's literally one of the textbook examples they give in antitrust 101.
Yes. On reflection, or on ramping up new developers, I think you’ll find that it is unnecessarily difficult to reason about object lifetimes.

There’s a good chance that most of the shared_ptr’s can be replaced by unique_ptr, which has less runtime overhead. More importantly, it documents the intent of the programmer regarding ownership semantics, and the timespan during which the object should be remain valid.
"Pay 100 coins to get a peck on the cheek."

Even better, "Click on 100 Facebook ads for a peck on the cheek. Write 200 Amazon reviews and I'll send you a naughty selfie.".
Presumably there were more failures than a single engineer could've been responsible for here.
If that codebase is older than C++0x, many of these std::shared_ptr could be taking the place of std::unique_ptr (which didn't exist back then; std::auto_ptr was a footgun). If you're in the mood for a refactoring, you could take a look at each one and see whether then can be replaced by std::unique_ptr, or whether they really have shared ownership semantics (which is what std::shared_ptr should be used for).
Read some 10-Qs for some big companies sometime. You might be surprised. Like I said - S&P 500 average operating margin was 10.53% a couple of years ago. And that’s crazy high - probably because of pharma stocks and the US’ dysfunctional generic drug regulation.
This is all cool ideas but sadly keeping home cool is not that easy due to problems with humidity and consequently mold. Old houses were much less airtight than modern ones. So sadly I think it’s a trade off: either modern energy efficient house with mechanical ventilation or older, rather windy and cold house.

Modernising older Homes to be energy effective appears to be a lost cause. If you make them airtight there isn’t enough air movement and if you Don’t heat them, they develop condensation problems. Maybe full refitting of insulation, doors and windows, and whole HVAC system would help but this is rather unrealistic for most owners of older homes.
Love the styling and interactivity, fun to play with!

Sadly I don't use Spotify (yet), but this is definitely the main reason I would use it :D
I find it weird that this post is not in the front page of HN considering the number of points, comments and the time it was posted
I do sometimes wonder to what extent Socrates'/Plato's/Aristotle's legacy benefited from Aristotle's connection to Alexander the Great. Had Alexander not been so famous, would those three have vanished into obscurity? The dual question of course is whether Alexander would've been so great without Aristotle's mentorship!