skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The online ordering is not tied into the realtime supplychain. The inventory mgmt that walmart developed is now ubiquitous among the largest retailers. Walmart is mow on or behind the innovation curve.
if microsoft is abusing their OS market share to push edge and bing, they are doing an awfully bad job of it.
> Yes, that's what regulations do, and it is for the _benefit_ of the citizens.

Purportedly for the benefit of citizens. Whether citizens in actual fact benefit from any given regulation is specific to the given regulation and the given citizen's preferences.
You have to get going with a project that gets you excited. Automate the boring stuff is one such book!
The solution to some of these problems is obvious: ban collection of data for advertising purposes and ban targeted, cross platform advertising. You would still be allowed to advertise, but ads would have to function like magazine ads effectively where the only targeting is by site interest. This would force these social media companies (and many others) to change their business model and actually charge users directly for services which would not only shrink the user base but would make running a bot farm increasingly unaffordable at scale.
FB has turned into the Paperclip Maximizer [0]. The question I have is what do we do when we recognize that there is a paperclip maximizer among us. This is a pattern that is new with internet technology, and we’ve never had to deal with before.

I would also argue that Google Search with its SEO crap has also become a paperclip maximizer (or at least on its way to becoming one).

As a civilization, we need to start thinking about it like this before we destroy ourselves.

[0] - https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer
5nm and 14nm are marketing names, not x^2/y^2 times better statistics. If you normalize them (i.e. actually look at transistor density) you'll find the difference is much smaller than you'd expect. TSMC 5nm is indeed the better process though but it alone isn't the primary driver of what makes the M1 good. Flipping it around I'm not as sure the i9 would come out on top all other things being equal between the 2.

I'm not sure there are many engineers at Apple that truly understand what makes the M1 perform better. How people think they can just boil it down to just <x> is honestly confusing.
What if we got rid of "sharing"? Like, what if I could only read posts by my direct contacts, but there was no way for ads or posts from "friends of friends" (e.g. the bot that my conspiracy-obsessed uncle follows) to show up in my feed? Limit the reach of bots and echo chambers.
Isn't blaming English writers for writing for English children (Anglocentrism, white youth) kind of ridiculous ?
I cringe whenever I hear developers refer to themselves as Craftsman.
It is about money just not always so directly. The privacy issues and divisiveness of Facebook is a core part of their business.
Very nice. However, it took a moment to realise that you cannot drag objects to the canvas but have to click on them first. Then you can move them around.
>Does it also take into account a small business phone book (which might be stored with personal contacts on a smartphone - oops!)

Yup, the GDPR covers those business contacts, to the extent that the contacts are named individuals rather than corporate ones (i.e. the contact stored is joe.bloggs@example.net rather than sales@example.org).

There are clearly legitimate interests in doing so, though, so processing those data in that way should be permitted.
It's funny how we immediately resort to conspiracy theories about Apple and their hardware but completely forgo a substantial chance that it's the original author's human error at cause? It is much more plausible, isn't it, especially if the test results in speech actually also contradict literally every other independent test results out there?
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Yari is a Japanese lance. http://www.ninpo.org/militaryhistory/weapons/yari.html

If your complaint is about it being weeb, you need to start with complaining about the name itself.
Thanks! Since I've also written a lot of audio/video call code, it's always interesting to learn about design choices of other applications.

Do you rotate the group key regularly and/or on group events (e.g. a person leaving the group call)?

What SFU do you use, and did it require custom modifications? Or is it even a fully custom server-side solution?
Isotope: Filter and Sort Magical Layouts
West has it's own gender ratio problem, look at percentages of how many men have any success with dating apps.
>not if we don't incentivize them - we just need a social media platform to not be an advertisement platform

Which is why we need to make decentralized, federated, non-commercial social networks dead simple to set up and use (shameless plug[0]).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25270070
It's highly likely that a majority of the PC's and smartphones used by employees at Facebook HQ are made by Apple.

Delicious.
Of course in the eyes of The Atlantic, New York Times etc, the "solution" is for "the correct people" to provide "approved viewpoints".

Surely this is what the world needs - sanitized, selectively edited neoliberal pablum.
Homo naledi is a new species, not a subspecies.
Not necessarily temporary. Abandoned (but critical) code might stay on the shitlist forever if it's not worth migrating it.
How to Solve It
White Supremacy: How Big, How Bad and How Come?
Apple is doing everything they can for privacy... as long as it pushes customers in the direction of Apples as service. That is the whole point. PR and abuse of market position to further their own service.
> I think this move was a mistake. They've thrown away the benefits of a incredible wiki-based platform

Ideally, you want to cater to both the CLI centric workflows of developers/build-systems and the WebUI centric workflows of everyone else (the old system). The Mozilla blog posts mention the JAMStack so I'm guessing that the intent was to port the server-side Django apps/editors to a browser-side framework like React or one of its alternatives.

If the design and implementation of the new platform was perfectly executed then only the new functionality would be apparent; both systems are essentially "wiki-based". Platform transitions are rarely seamless as your lost content/metadata clearly shows.
Out of interest, why is the way you are handling relative paths better?
Powerlevel10k
As a student, when I ate nothing else during the day, my standard amount for dinner was 125g (so you get 4 meals out of a standard package). When combined with vegetables, it is more than enough.
> if you had headless browsers loading the ads on your site no one would be able to tell that those views were not from real users

This seems like a problem with the current model of ads being paid for by impression/click, and switching to a model where ads are being paid for the time they're being displayed (pay X to have your ad appear here for Y time) the problem goes away.

Furthermore, the current advertiisng model also suffers from this problem even beyond malicious intent. Is it fraud if a real user "looks" at the ad but actually looks away from their screen? If they mute the sound? If they don't speak the language the ad is in? Etc.
Liberalism is not a far left political position. It can lean from slightly left to quite right wing but it is neither far left nor far right.
European anti trust law is a lot simpler than US since there are a lot less details and judges get to use more common sense when judging companies. For example EU already fixed the credit card duopoly while US still hasn't managed to do anything about it. Note EU didn't broke it up, just force them to massively reduce their fees, it is very likely they will do something similar with the app store.
Go imports are done by direct github URL mostly.
It is part of the German public broadcasting but as I just learned actually not financed by the fee every German household has to pay. It is financed directly by the German state.

I will use this in the future as an example for this simpler (and cheaper) system working just fine.
No, but FB/Twitter promote people who are vain, etc. because they drive traffic.

In a system like Google Reader or FB/Twitter before algorithmic feeds, you just see what your friends post in roughly chronological order. It still has the problem that people like to post junk, but there's a natural limit on it. Algorithmic feeds however promote "hot" content, which is pretty much inevitably emotionally driven. There are a lot of possible fixes, such as rate limiters and manual review of high performing content, but they all come down to the same thing: don't let sheer virality be the driving metric. The best way to decouple virality is just to make advertising against algorithmic feeds illegal.
YouTube has just as much of a monopoly in its category if not more than Facebook (with similar influence over society) yet we dont see the level of regular attacks (I'm not here to defend either, I'm a critic, but just pointing this out). Facebook total users: about 2.7 billion (with probably 80% dominance in its category). YouTube: about 2 billion but with a ~95% video stream dominance. The difference seems to be in the politics. I don't see the Atlantic or peers coming down on YouTubes dominance and influence.

Edit: As others have pointed out in here the difference might also be financial. Facebook publishes news articles and YouTube does not. A broken up Facebook offers a fractured publishing market and better pricing for news distribution.
No, Prop 13 was in response to people being "taxed out of their homes" . Inflation, low interest rates, and turning homes into an "investment" did more to make the bubble.
You are helping the world to transition to a better money, which will have tremendous positive effect on the society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zYg4E4zbPo
The Church of Satan doesn't believe in Satan
Since I'm on an anticoagulant, I can tell you that the deal with NSAIDs is bleeding: they have anti-platelet properties which can make you more susceptible to bleeding.
New online resource shows how to take part in research to combat Covid19
This is the kind of writing that seems hyperbolic until you actually think about what's at stake. I think if you give serious consideration to the global implications of a worst-case civic outcome in the United States -- the world's largest economic and nuclear power -- you realize that terrible outcomes are possible, and maybe even likely.

I mean it's not like the bad outcomes are theoretical here. We've grown up in a blessed time, but we have relatively recent examples of how civic dysfunction can lead to genocide and massive world wars. The risk this time is similar except that (1) political destabilization is visibly happening in many nations at once, and (2) the tools of warfare and genocide are orders-of-magnitude more powerful.
Oracle Cloud Manages Covid-19 Vaccination Program in the United States
I would say yes. There is nothing that inherently connects TLA+ to distributed systems. It's just that 1. it's general enough to deal with nondeterminism and concurrency that, unlike some other formalisms, it can be easily and naturally used to specify them, and 2. distributed systems and concurrency are a very common example of subtle algorithms that engineers often encounter and are tricky to get right without help. The combination of these two aspects, as well as the fact that the inventor of TLA+, Leslie Lamport, is very well-known for his work in distributed systems, led to TLA+ being popular in that field.

The level of trickiness/subtlety of the problems you encounter can determine how much benefit you'll see from TLA+, although I believe people often underestimate it (in a way, all bugs are a result of programmers underestimating the complexity of a problem).

TLA+ is relatively easy to learn compared to a new programming language, and you can become reasonably proficient in it in two weeks of self study. The biggest difficulty is unlearning some habits from programming and internalising that while writing a mathematical specification shares some superficial similarities to programming the activities are different in most ways (and fun in very different ways).
My clock is broken; I better turn it upside down!

Derek Sivers is clearly above average, and if this is posted in good faith it is an uncharacteristic dip below his average posts.
Even answering the question, "why does this thing exist"? is often only answered in terms of its mechanism as it relates to previous choices. To be able to answer it fully, you'd have to be aware of the ad-hoc architecture that is being made-up as you go.

If you're able to envision the main decomposition and flow of the program before building (or rebuilding) it, you'll be much better off. Also be mindful of invariants or points in the process where certain constraints are met. The stuff between these points are to get you from here to there.
Looking good so far! Excited to implement it in my next project
Quick Thoughts on the Russia Hack
> The other point is that with ads and articles you have to engage with them yourself. Something can grab your attention, but you can decide to ignore it anyway.

That's a slippery slope, when we remember that researchers are constantly looking for the right hooks that edge the 'persuasion' closer to entrapment.

Doubly so when we consider neuroatypicals; While many people think of a 'seizure' as something that results in shaking movements/etc, There is a nonzero size of the population that can have seizures that are more 'internal'; the stimulus results in either a locking of focus on an item, or a sort of disoriented haze (at which point, for some, their subconscious is wide open.)

Those who take the time to study hypnotism/NLP and are more wise than intelligent understand that we are playing with fire here folks.
My preference is when violating the shitlist is a compile/build/lint error.
I think that in many cases, solving the symptom of a problem rather than the root cause makes the problem worse.

If I'm burning my hand on a hot stove, I don't want pain killers to mask the pain.
> Now that I have decent enough mastery of python to be dangerous I realize that you will get to a point where you wish you had access to all the niceties of a decent programming language.

What decent language is it, then? Or are you implying that it doesn't exist?
Containers work great for me if the target users are also familiar with them
The fix is easy and it's simple -- stop using them! Normalize it. Encourage others to do the same. Make it "cool" to not be on them/"lame" to use them.

I struggle to see how personal FB/IG/Twitter use is anything other than a net negative at this point. And it's gotten a lot more so over the last several years, IMO.
Since you seem persuaded by ends justifying means, realize that better business models are impractical because online surveillance is so easy and lucrative. One of the biggest changes correlated with the rise of web toxicity was the rise of online advertising. Maybe coincidence, but I'd love to see what happens if surveillance becomes the exception not the norm.
Ah, yeah, I had noticed the conservative aspects in the Lord of the Rings : relationship between Frodo and Sam, his gardener ; anti-industrialism...
> It has one simple goal of maximizing the number of paperclips; human life, learning, joy, and so on are not specified as goals.

Replace paperclips with dollars and you’ve got Facebook.
That’s because you don’t understand what deprecated means.

Deprecated means “still supported but its use is discouraged.” It does not mean “no longer supported.”
By fraud you mean ad fraud?
yea its a shame its used so much. i even seen it being used by someone on TED talk :/

im not going to get into any of the better arguments right now but one thing i like to ask when people say they have nothing to hide is "what kind of things are people looking for?"

I think its good to get a handle on what the person knows first before you start throwing out counter arguments. in a lot of cases people don't even know whether they have something to hide or not and are just repeating what they have heard others saying
App makers should not be allowed to collect data. Only Apple should be allowed to. And Apple should be opaque about it while running contradictory advertising about privacy and security.

Btw is it gaslighting when Apple claims privacy but gives your information away to organizations like the US and Chinese government?
Impersonator++ GAN can make anyone dance like Nathan Barnatt
AWS chief Andy Jassy on managing during Covid – and beyond
Pivot. Become a non-profit. That opens tons of doors for donations while still being able to charge revenue.

Seriously. Fight the beast.
Hopefully more hacks happen against us companies
What is meant by "canvas"? Obviously not the HTML Canvas element, right?
Does the account you posted here resemble most of the chronicled experiences you’ve encountered?
I think a majority of mergers 'just happen' because they are not challenged. To stop a merger, some regulating body needs to hear about it and take action in time. They can also investigate and dismantle monopolies after the fact, but then we see long legal battles.

Also size-based limits would be hard to create/enforce. IBM has about 350K employees wordwide. McDonalds has about 200K. Google has about 100K. Amazon 1.1M. Do you look at market cap? The industry specifically?

It's a complex problem, that's why there is no simple solution.
Good suggestion. I was thinking of putting in an RSS feed feature that would allow you to easily bring in new content, but I do want to make sure to encourage people to write down their thoughts about it too.
Well lots of Europeans use Facebook. No one will die if you block it, but there will be somewhat of a void for many services people got used to which would be gone.
Ask HN: What do you do in the downtime during a coding session?
What do you do during the downtime while you're waiting for dependencies to install in your project, or you're waiting for the CI/CD pipeline to finish, etc.?
> For Google, the biggest problem is their bundling of Chrome, YouTube, Gmail if you want to have Google certified android phone that has the Google play store.

I think it's much more than that.

Google makes apps and services. Google makes the platforms apps run on (Android, ChromeOS, Chrome [web + electron], Stadia). Google makes the services used to monetize apps (AdSense). Google makes the services used to distribute apps (Google Play Store, Stadia). Google makes the services used to find apps and services (Google Search, Google Maps, Google Play Store). And that's not to mention the deployment platforms, communication platforms, payment platforms, analytics platforms, development tools, content hosting services, etc.

They have so much control that you can't hope to compete with any of their established apps or services - no matter how much better your own product might be. All you can to is try to make something new and get big enough that Google can't take you on directly.
> I don't think there is a fix really.

Maybe not a "fix" per se, but one big step could be a ban on infini-scrolling in websites. I think having to click on "page 2," scroll to the bottom of the page again, click on "page 3," etc, would introduce enough friction to get people to stop a little earlier.

(My own personal rule on Hacker News is that I never go deeper than page 2. That helps me not spend all day on HN) ;-)
Every American should have a will
NYC-based legal tech startup launches a campaign in the midst of a deep second wave of COVID focused on getting every American adult a Will. For $49 they are offering professionally drafted will-based Estate Plans!
The M1 chip, which seems designed to run reference counted software written in Swift or Objective-C. But there are plenty of other examples (ever wonder why no one seems to be able to replicate Apple's great trackpads?).
Yeah it’s hard to sympathize with someone whose “entire persona was shifted by this event”. He abused the service and they found reason to terminate the contract, or sucks but if he didn’t ghost ticket or abuse the companion rule they would have had no recourse.
I would like to read more about accidental genius, are there any scientific papers or books you would recommend?
I guess I just don’t understand the argument. For decades everyone knew commercial breaks were just that, no one was being influenced by 30 second ads on TV. The stuff that influenced people back then is the same stuff that influences people today, social pressure and desire to fit in/attain status.

Facebook ads, if anything, should be a distraction from social pressure. People are creating the social pressure to express yourself, and it’s now manifesting in shallow ways (too much pressure). Ads is not what’s causing this.

If there’s any argument to make, and maybe I’ve been missing this the whole time, maybe you guys are saying platforms like Facebook abstract you into a living Advertisement. Thus, you must behave like an advertisement (get attention at all costs), and that is the core of their ad system, you, like a human battery in the matrix.

But, there’s no argument to be made if you realize you’re jacked into the matrix and can leave. If you’re aware, you can bounce.

Do we bear no responsibility at all here for how we behave?
Another strange one is "Browsing History: Information about content the user has viewed that is not part of the app, such as websites"

Apple requires apps to have a web site for customer support. Almost every web server logs anonymous data about visited pages. So, almost every apps need to have "Browsing History" checked??
I use VS Code on Mac for Python development all the time. It works fine.
I would say Apple have made it perfectly clear "You’ll need to identify whether each data type is linked to the user’s identity (via their account, device, or other details) by you and/or your third-party partners.".

In order words :

On side A you have the user's email address OR hashed email address.

On side B, you have other items of identifiable information ("their account", "their device", "other details").

The question is simple. Do you link side A to side B ? Yes or no.
Pretty much all of those sites should, in fact, have to explain that. Reddit in particular is a pile of garbage and it wasn't long ago that their admins went around saying things like "we know you better than you do."
There were thousands of automotive upstarts prior to the consolidation into GM, Ford and Chrysler, here's just a list of the notable ones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_automobile_man...

This doesn't even include the thousands of automotive supplier upstarts in every part of the supply chain from bolts to tires to tooling.

Similar to Silicon Valley, Detroit was also globally dominant in automotive production prior to 1929 (with 90% of production centered there).

Germany and Japan didn't get seriously into the automotive game until the post-WWII era. And China not until the 2000s. But when they did, they become competitive quite quickly.

You're naive if you don't think the same thing will happen with internet companies. Today the US only represents under 15% of automotive production globally.
>but if you had headless browsers loading the ads on your site no one would be able to tell that those views were not from real users.

There is literally nothing in the world I care about less than this.
I don’t. People were clearly already vain, reactionary, signaling-obsessed, shallow and gossipy, and the ad system isn’t (by itself) the part that makes Facebook an existential threat.

The misaligned A.I. which drives engagement — or whatever the precise metric is — with no regard for anything else, and optimises that metric ruthlessly with continuous variations to tease out the most effective way to maximise eyeball-seconds, that’s the problem.

The paperclip factory doesn’t hate you, it’s just that you’re made of stuff that can be used to make more paperclips.