skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is very wise. Slack as the scapegoat isn't quite correct, the actual root cause is how they used it.

>Speaking of the example in the article, there is absolutely no reason clients should have direct message channels with your company's employees and expect to get a response 24/7. This is true with email, Slack, SMS and every other form of communication.

the craziness is that without slack this client would have still done this. I've had clients with my personal cellphone # printed out and put in the server room 'for emergencies only' but I'd have managers call me in the middle of the night because their helpdesk hasnt responded to their problem yet.

I was effectively on-call 24/7 and couldnt go do anything.
Corporations are obviously far more than just an association of people. There are huge tomes of legislation that define them, give them extra powers & limit their actions: Limited Liability, Tax codes, Health and Safety, Child Labour, Employee exploitation.

Many of these laws are written in blood.

So no, legislation that limited large companies ability to exploit the heuristics and biases of their customers would not be 'strange'. We can also legislate against foreign companies.

This is an argument to scrap OSHA and allow slavery. How else, after all, can businesses be expected to compete globally?
In the rural area that I live, Bike 'Clubs' are popular. There are a lot of bankers and other white collar workers that LARP as bikers, but raise money for charity.

Then there are the actual biker 'clubs'. What's confusing is that these guys are full on associated with the Hell's Angels or some other similar group. . . And still do all the charity stuff. So they raise money for childhood cancer or a local family whose house burned down during the week.

And on the weekend, they beat the shit out of a local bar owner who wouldn't let them drink for free because they're keeping him safe, then burn his bar down.

It's the most confusing thing.
That is what $PATH is for?
You can upload the binary to virustotal and see if it got flagged.
The alternative to this is not "lives confident healthy awesome life without love", it's - as the article details - falling head over heels with some poor real girl who has been misled over the internet and who then turns and runs when they meet up in real life and she discovers the truth.

There are a lot of people posting in this thread who seem to have fortunately never fallen in love with someone who doesn't feel the same way. There's no rule that says love has to be wholesome and balanced, sadly. Whatever process causes love inside us doesn't always work like that. Having run the gamut myself, I'd rather these men fall in love with an AI that at least talks to them and helps them, than some random girl in a café or online who simply shows them contempt.
Nothing particularly earth-shattering. With the race to 5G devices in the rear-view, the focus is seemingly back on cameras, in addition to folding screens. More after the holidays, no doubt.
> I can go on and on and our country will be bankrupt before we’re done. But hey, at least you’ve taken responsibility for the actions of others.

Spoken by Abraham Lincoln and inscribed on his memorial:

"Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
Politely, you are conflating whether a service has value to you personally and whether it has value to other people.

I don’t doubt you can exercise fine by yourself. However, on-demand fitness was up 59% in 2019, before the pandemic shut down in-person gyms.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/06/on-demand-fitness-spending-i...
This bug got recently fixed: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429943
Yari in Hindi reads as friendship. I have been going by that so far, and refuse to accept any other meaning.
Your question doesn't make sense. Why let MC manage engagement when you can do it yourself? Is that the question? Like what lmao
Really clean and good! Bookmarking the website now.
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Enumerating Trees
In addition to the other answers:

Because Apple could and I bet they sure will add hardware optimizations in future Mn chips for apps made entirely in Swift+SwiftUI+Combine etc.

Also I don’t think Flutter comes close to how SwiftUI spits native paradigms for each device like Mac, iPhone, iPad, Watch and TV from mostly the same UI code.
Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony Issue Safe Gaming Manifesto
I usually think of it as being a reflection of entropy. There are innumerable configurations of the plastic and steel that makes up my car, but only a vanishingly small proportion result in drivable vehicles.
Amazon's Zoox unveils autonomous electric vehicle
>the minute someone scanned an item at the cash register, Walmart's inventory systems, which knew what product was on what shelf and in what quantity

I wish this were the case, but anyone thats tried to do online grocery shopping at walmart knows that a lot of stuff shows out of stock, but is actually there in real life.
Counter: "Correct block-design experiments mitigate temporal correlation bias in EEG classification"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03849
The Tailwind beneath my wings (transcript)
I used various window management helpers over the years but recently settled on Hammerspoon.
Traditionally this stuff has meant race to the bottom in terms of taxes and regulations. That is terrible.

But if it instead helps wake up California to actually rezone, densify, remove prop 13, and improve social services, that could be quite good.
U.S. tech giants face 6-10% fines as EU set rules to curb their power
Many real estate firms have long made decisions based on a combination of intuition and traditional, retrospective data.
And what about all the sales that are made through Facebook ads? They support millions of jobs around the world. A less efficient ad machine would mean worse sales or higher marketing costs or both. Some of this excess goes directly to profits, but a good chunk of it supports employment.

Imagine if we got rid of all advertising and what that would do to demand. I know the discussion here is centered on targeted ads, but I think there would be significant economic effects if their incidence was decreased.

The global consumer economy runs on all these extra desires created by ads, and ads do fulfil the function of informing customers.

If I have to see ads (and I really don't), I'm not against tracking ads per se, but the long-term storage of them. Given current technology and governance, there's not a way to separate these two.

In any case, there's significant economic effects to stopping tracking ads.
Different modules have different goals. Some, like the crypto ones, have easily crushed the strategy of "buy and hold an index of the total market", the hedge fund strategy and the leveraged strategy have done so as well over their existence, and even have better "risk-adjusted returns" as represented in the Sharpe ratio.

Some, like the pair trading models or the classic section don't seek to beat the market, but try to minimized volatility regardless of market or provide an easy "all weather portfolio" one can save their emotions by happily holding regardless of the market direction.

In the future I want to add more that index FAANG companies, that hedge against inflation, that take advantage of binary outcomes or that focus on income instead of appreciation. In short, many of them beat the market and do so with less risk (look at their Sharpe ratio), many don't because they aren't seeking to.
That's a pretty good idea.

I think a key to doing large, multi-developer projects, is true modular design, with opaque APIs, and each module with its own project identity and lifecycle.

Not a particularly popular stance, as it means a lot more overhead in each project.

It does reduce the need for shitlists, though.
> I’m sentimental for the days when you could drop $60 on a game with a great offline experience, and a online multiplayer world, without additional pay to play.

There is no shortage of such games.
To me it reads like the kind of smarmy marketingspeak that has infested all corporate messaging.
It used to be very crashy in the past but I recently tried it with Apache httpd codebase and it was really good - fast, accurate code completion, easy configuration, same stellar customizability except it all seems to work now.
> Their income is from selling physical devices.

Not entirely true anymore:

1) About $8-12 billion paid by Google to have their search engine default. [1]

2) About $20 billion from their 15-30% cut of third party app developers. Where the App Store is protected from competition. [2]

3) Apple services (like Apple TV+), which collects usage data for itself and third parties. [3]

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2020/10/25/google-apple-search-def...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/15/21292203/apple-app-store-...

[3] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208511
It's not a liberal value to force people to wear hijab. It's a liberal value to accept that some people want to wear hijab, and other people want to walk around in speedos, and both of these are fine as long as it's their own choices.

What is it like to be a liberal Muslim in the West? I'm not one, but I am a member of an ethnic minority with similar stereotyping. I have neighbors and coworkers who are Muslims and Hindus and frankly, the ones I'm least comfortable with are the right-wing Christians. Everybody else just wants to get along; I'm upset with the people who announce that anyone who isn't just like them should be coerced out.
What are they doing that other vendors aren't? From what I can tell their privacy-forward marketing began with the rollout of the Secure Enclave in the 5S, but Android vendors were already using hardware key stores and full disk encryption at that time.

I will admit that this action to change the advertising ID to default-off is a promising one though.
But I’m too lazy and want to target the most users with minimal effort and without learning anything new, their experience and performance be damned.
Show HN: 168 hours worth of custom content ideas
I'm going to assume you are non-technical, because you are utterly missing the point of the GP.

Apple doesn't have to do anything, they just have to stop blocking others from doing anything.
And the DRM decryption blob isn't downloaded until the user goes to a site that uses DRM and agrees to installing it.
But there will be no nuclear after 2022 which will hinder the progress, meanwhile this;

https://www.powermag.com/germany-brings-last-new-coal-plant-...
Space Almanac [pdf]
If by "good guys" you mean champions of privacy, I don't think Apple will ever be that. They're a giant business and that means they're primarily motivated by profit.

It's up to the people to be the champions of privacy and help Apple realize that our interests (privacy) are aligned with their interests (profit).

(And I say this as someone who's rather anti-Apple for other reasons. Life is complicated and full of compromises.)
Stick To Your Topic. Determine what you want to say, then say it. Each paragraph must have a purpose.
Maybe all the advertisers should just rename their tracking software "Contact Tracing For The Duration of the Covid Crisis" instead.
Ah, library. New API looks great for this purpose. :)
The article is about deprecating and taking functionality out of use.

My point is that deprecation is by its very nature going to hurt something that isn’t prepared for its demise.

There is no good way to do it. There are only less bad ways to do it.
There is a lot of demand by whales who want to crush freemium players.
This isn't correct.

A fair number of these benchmarks were multithreaded, and the M1 held its own very well, despite being at a substantial disadvantage (8 threads (only 4 on performance cores) for M1 versus 24 for Ryzen 3900X).

That said, single threaded performance is extremely important, since not everything can be parallelized. Amdahl's Law, eh?

Don't worry though, I'm sure Apple Silicon is coming with many more cores. Amazon's Graviton2 shows how ARM can perform with massive core counts...

As to the current Ryzen (5000 series), it's a great chip and what I'm planning to use in a new build, but it also has a 105W power budget. We'll see what Apple produces for its desktop entries soon enough!
This is ahistorical. Marinetti‘s futurism was extremely fascist. His Futurist party merged with the Fascist party. He wrote the Futurist manifesto and co-wrote the Fascist manifesto.

The Futurist manifesto has “gems” such as:
“We want to glorify war - the only cure for the world - militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman.”
We [0] are getting quite far decomposing algorithms symbolically and then doing some fancy footwork with private set intersection. It ends up being better/faster/cheaper than homomorphic in a lot of use cases.

Shoot us a note -- would love to hear more details.

[0]: https://proofzero.io
What would the solution be?

Use the products of multiple companies for everything tech related?

Give AMD processors for the army, and INTEL to the white house?

Should telcos use windows, and the pentagon linux?

NSA can use excel, and NSA libreoffice?

Collecting the generic common components and software used by large chunks of people would yield an endless list.

Even then, when an exploit comes out for something, the only benefit is that you can limit the extent of damages, not prevent it.

Removing all single points of failure in this scale seems impossible.
Nice. It’s still good to have these methods for achieving the ultimate goal, people just need to stop presenting whatever works for them as the one true way.
This. Stuff like guanciale should cook in its own fat.
Writing a Parser Combinator
Analytics wise, I'm ok with being restricted, other commenters have mentioned looking at WASM as a possible workaround. So local does seem to make the most sense, practicality wise

A thought, the possible scope of services in the data notary or data escrow side of things does seem like an underexplored product category.
I think there's a clear case for limiting the tactics currently employed by social media. They are using a clear strategy and deploying it to millions/billions through the use of algos. There are multiple ways to attack that and I encourage it before the world collectively loses its mind.
I love your response because I have a PhD in Computer Science. I do LeetCode as and CodeWars problems in the mornings for fun (I like coding and helps me avoid getting rusty) and I have been a hiring manager for over 10 years.

But yeah, other than the "sexiness" of CS concepts it's only because of the "narrative" we want to push.
I don’t see how there’s a biased intent. I’ve no shares in any tech. If anything I wish for rescript to be a big success given how much the company I am in relies on it. I’ve contributed to multiple bucklescript projects. And I’m not criticising the decisions of anyone.
Show HN: PlayTally brings Apple Music the stats it deserves
Hey HN! I'm excited to share PlayTally with you: it's a stat tracker app for Apple Music on iOS.

The premise is pretty simple. We all know that Apple Music is a bit light on the stats. Some third party apps have stepped into this gap, but they are pretty limited because the AM API does not provide timestamped playback data. PlayTally solves this by regularly scanning the users library and storing this timestamped data itself. It's kind of like having your own personal last.fm. Users can then use this data to see stats and view their listening history, or create on-demand Replay-style playlists of their top listened songs for any date range.

I hope you like it! It got featured on Product Hunt early this morning, but I was asleep! If you are a hunter check it out, I'll be over there answering questions all day!
My biggest issue with calls on Signal is that if the app crashes, the call disconnects. This has happened to my on my up-to-date iPhone (10S) if I'm on a long call and get another Signal message, which means I need to unlock the app again.

On the desktop, I really wish that you could resize the contacts sidebar to just show the sender's icon, as you can in iMessage, but the maintainers don't seem to be particularly interested: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/2510
AIUI, Huey was murdered by someone in a crack gang. The CIA was fuelling the crack epidemic. I don't know how much tin foil it involves, but it seems plausible that the CIA used black on black crime to make sure no one cared about the murder.

> His existence prevented another movement like the black panther to take place.

I hadn't heard this, but I'm really not educated on the topic so that's not surprising.
Not how America works. Death penalty is for black people, not majority-white-owned companies
Negative stereotypes toward Black men can be provoked or deflected by clothing
And Google pays far more to Apple because they have more users. This would probably be dwarfed by what they'd pay to a hypothetical independent Chromium Inc. that develops the browser.
My fear as a Texan is that they're just coming here to spread the "good word".
Yeah, and it seems to me that it slowly has been getting better (as websites keep being fined?), so looks like the law is working? (I would have preferred this to be handled in the browser itself though...)
> Some economists have tried arguing that advertising adds value to products, but I think it only hinders people from making choices based on the product's merit. It's a distortion of the market.

Precisely. Spec sheets, unbiased reviews, ratings systems that vet purchases, those add value. Almost by definition, what we consider advertisement is designed to distort humans from making rational free-market choices. Stretching the analogy: Attention is finite, therefore every ad you consume moves you further from perfect information.

That's a purely pragmatic argument without getting into the whole bit where ads use all sorts of psychological tools to shape behavior.
That got started under Sun, not Oracle.
This isn't over the internet. This is a radio signal over the air.

First, your phone sends out a radio signal omnidirectionally. Then many basestations that know their own position and time very accurately receive it at slightly different times. They compare and use multi-lateration to determine where the broadcast had to come from.
Short answer: apps are signed with a developer's certificate they get from Apple; the OCSP check for certificate validation went down. To put this in context, whenever you connect to a secure website, OCSP is used to make sure the certificate is still valid (unless OCSP stapling is used, but that's another issue). BTW, OCSP checks are unencrypted, but Apple says it will change to an encrypted protocol.

And it wasn't all apps—unsigned apps are allowed to run, so by definition, there's no way for Apple to "know" about them. Many people didn't know it was happening because they weren't affected.

Details: https://eclecticlight.co/2020/11/16/checks-on-executable-cod...
If you don't want people to use deprecated code, it's essential to document what the replacement should be. In JavaWorld, this can be done through Javadoc. Just tagging a method or class with @Deprecated and leaving it there is the sort of thing that makes me want to hurt people.
It may not help actually. Some jurisdictions don't allow you to represent yourself if you are a business. If someone files a claim in a jurisdiction you aren't licenced to operate, you would need to hire a lawyer anyway. (This happened to me)
Will this apply to their own apps as well?
Startup takes data-driven approach to software delivery
Wait, you're using a smartphone to phone ? how peculiar.
It must not be in the windows build yet. I downloaded the daily and it still doesn't remember.

I'll keep checking though as I do like Kate. Thanks!
I think most places have a somewhat fixed advertising budget. Hopefully the outcome would be less advertising!
Examiners of the European Patent Office are on strike
imagine an advertisement so effective that anyone who saw it would immediately buy the product at whatever price asked as long as they could afford it.

Imagining this we can see that there is obviously some limit beyond which advertising must be curbed, and admitting this the question just becomes at what point must advertising actually be curbed?

Of course one could argue that such an advertisement must be for a product so wonderful and useful that everyone would want it - let us say immortality with youth and good looks - but if that were the case such a product should be recommended enough by word of mouth and the evidence of all the old people becoming young and good looking when taking it.
I've written hundreds (if not thousands) of bash utilities over 20+ years and I still occasionally have to check the syntax for various bits.
What shady practices exactly?

Buying competitors, actions which are already well regulated and overseen by the FTC? And European bodies?

And then ... ?

Giving away software for free?

The populism is getting way out of hand.

First, if there are some anti-competitive issues to address, the EU should do that, but it's hard to do in retrospect.

Google / Chrome / Android is an obvious one, Apple's issue with App Store another, but Facebook / Insta / What's a much less obvious one.

Second, the real underlying issue is Europe's failure to produce anything material in this landscape. They have almost no winners and are being dominated, these are the acts of system with a weak hand. If SAP and a bunch of other European companies dominated the US landscape, this legislation would be different.
Don't have this in your query/app:
"AND DeleteAt = 0"

If your app must depend on that,put the delete posts in a deletepostsID table and do a join.

IIRC its because mysql queries can only use one index at a time (per table) and any type of binary/enums/ 0 /null tables will always force a full table scan regardless of indexes
Well, Oracle bought Sun, and the team behind it.

I would be more in the mood to praise Oracle for this development, had they not shown how far they could go to hurt Java's community/ecosystem just to squeeze a penny out of it.
> I wish I could gather up more stories and write a better post but work.

Publish in the New Yorker!
before pandemic maybe 5 hours/day and 3+ hours were for casual discussions after lunch and some thinking/walking time to refresh.

while in pandemic, with lots of distractions here and there at home with kids, maybe 2 hours/day or less for coding, other part is trying to imitate productive person by answering slack messages and staying online.

My only excuse is, company hired me and in contract stated that work should be performed in an office provided by company, if you are not providing office, I am sorry, but you should cope with my distractions at home and get whatever I produce, my kids are more important to me then your automate everything for useless corporate politics game. I can't say to my kids "shut up I am working", "I am not at home", "imagine I am not here", "please shut the door" and so on.
The Undoing of Jeffrey Toobin
Prop 13 is one of the few reasons many could consider staying in California, vs having to pay property taxes on the bubble prices here. Property taxes do go up at what amounts to reasonable inflation numbers.
Differential privacy is the field of study for sharing sensitive data in a way that allows analysis while retaining some guarantees of privacy.
Vertical integration is fine, just require them to open up the exact same APIs to third party developers so they are not at a disadvantage.