skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does it mean "legally free"? What are those scary-sounding "illegally free" books? This term is not defined and it does not make any sense to me. The word "free" is already overloaded with two meanings (as in speech, as in beer), and now these people introduce confusingly the concept of "legally free".
Very interesting problem. Naively I would have thought every keystroke sounds the same aside from special keys like space or enter. Apparently this is not the case.

Like the other comment suggested, a frequency analysis might help.

Here is a good explanation you could quickly use in C++:

https://unix4lyfe.org/dct-1d/

Otherwise popular libraries like openCV have tools to convert signals, but most are focused on imaging (2d signals).
Click bait shit!

Express.co.uk has about as much credibility as Jimmy Saville as a baby sitter.
Like all scifi, "Paperclip Maximizer" is just a fable about something that already happened but you put it in the future to make it seem more interesting. (E.g. robots are just slaves; space colonization is just regular colonization; Weyland-Yutani is just the East India Company; World War 3 is just WW2; etc.)

Capitalism has always been the paperclip maximizer, for better or worse. Why did Europeans drag a bunch of Africans across the ocean to America? Well, there's this thing called "money" and Europeans were trying to maximize it, and it turned out that getting cheap labor to work in the Americas would let you trade stuff to China and collect money in Europe. It makes no actual goddamn sense, but it maximized numbers, so it happened.
The sarcasm seems lost on people.
> 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

What users actually care about protecting your propaganda based business model though? Sounds like it's pretty much your problem and you want to reduce privacy to make manipulating their behavior a bit more profitable.
I've seen a lot of tech companies with CFOs as leaders and you're 100% right. They have a certain set of tools and fix those types of problems, which usually aren't the ways to lead tech companies.
I think every company should be lead by a person who has a strong background in the company's main role. I have seen finance background CEOs get replaced and the Company began to thrive again. Its not a bad investing idea!
Hardly. EU legislation generally needs a majority from the EU parliament (directly elected) and a qualified majority from the Council.
believe we all have 100 points we divvy up into a few buckets

What would account for this tremendous fairness? A benevolent God, who plays RPGs in his spare time?
GDPR was a major shot in their own foot. This new one seems to be the right direction though
Is it safe to upgrade to Big Sur on a primary dev machine? It seems like there were a lot of bugs and issues when it first released...
I have developed a similar library before: https://github.com/rust-shell-script/bash_cmd_lib/blob/maste... which can do temp files cleanup, different levels ofreporting and redirecting all error msgs into log file automatically.
WHO says authorities investigating new Covid-19 variant in England
That's not what the doomsayers were predicting. They were expecting a detroit-style implosion since the 1970s, suggesting such an event was just a year or two around the corner.... for the last 45 years. Much different than "This city's influence will wane as other metros rise and grow"

Incidentally, Zillow has Chicago and the surrounding metro area posting the highest growth in home value (source: https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/chic...)
> But what is a fair price? That depends on the traffic, but we are positing that detection of "is this a real user" is not possible, right?

Couldn't the price just be based on the actual payoff the advertiser gets (aka increased product sales)? The publisher is incentivized to set the maximum price that the advertiser will pay, and the advertiser is incentivized to get the most bang for their buck, so at the very least they would never pay more than what the ad brings them in terms of revenue.

Over time, this should reach an equilibrium. Niche publications may have to charge low prices at the start as they build their reputation among advertisers, but I think that's a worthwhile price to pay if it means better privacy and eliminating a problematic advertising model of CPM/CPC (where fraud is possible and tracking is required to battle it).
previous

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14481535
On one hand, this "feels" useful ... on the other hand, I can't shake that unnerving feeling that this kind of exhaustiveness check should belong in tests instead.

If the issue is to help you ensure that you check your edge cases properly, and ensure you are acting within specification, then presumably you should be addressing these issues in your tests, not in production code.

Therefore the whole exercise of writing code to catch errors of this kind 'at compile-time vs runtime' is somewhat of a red herring, if not dangerous.

Having said that, I'm also guilty of frequently writing

else: error("In theory this should never happen")
Yeah, I used internet explorer until chrome. People said firefox was so much better than internet explorer, but they always felt comparable to me and I'm not a person who just switches because others tells me to. Chrome however really felt different, I switched to it when it was just a beta and had less site compatibility simply because I liked it so much more.
A simpler hack is just to give deprecated methods unwieldly and obstreporous names like: `REMOVEME_old_function_name`
We used to keep rats, and they are pretty delightful really. I discovered later that they are such sociable creatures, they really need friends of their own kind. Ours got lots of attention, could pretty much run free for most of the day, but they do get lonely.
> Do we have a total effect of ads and fake news on society? Something that's actually reliable and not propaganda itself? It seems extremely difficult to be able to differentiate between an ad letting people know that a product exists and it directly influencing your decision. Or you could consider letting people know about the product existing as influencing the person, but then it's hard to argue that ads are actually bad.

Thinking out loud, I would be curious to see a study on people who play 'Loot Box/Gacha' style games. Include both people who have been playing for a while, as well as people who 'start' playing during the study. Include non-players.

Measure their other 'vice' behaviors (i.e. Drinking alcohol, nicotine, real gambling, gentlemen's clubs, etc.) over the same time.

My hypothesis is that in those who are introduced to Gacha games, you will see an increase in other 'addictive' behavior, because the content they see will whittle away at their resistance to other addictive behaviors.
You are a different class of consumer. But you too are actively marketed at.
European Commission proposes new rules for digital platforms
> Bitcoin proponents make a big deal when some giant fund invests an experimental $100M in crypto tokens (a small fraction of a percent for the fund), but they don't seem to care about $20B of fake money from Tether (a large percentage of the total money supposedly in Bitcoin).

I'm not sure this is true. I get the impression that Bitcoin / crypto proponents see it as a problem (it's regularly discussed amongst them), but really aren't sure what they can do about it. A lot of people avoid holding it and say it's risky / a problem waiting to happen, but beyond that, I fail to see what they can do.
FWIW, I do see some similar criticisms of YouTube and its algorithms. I don’t read the Atlantic so I can’t compare scale, but it does happen.
I love this. I'd like to know a bit more about how it was fixed, but the story of diagnosing and proving the problem is great.

Sadly, Medium is now more full of crap than a herd of circus elephants, with tech blogs written by people who have nothing under their belt but a code camp, but this is a diamond in the rough.
I don’t disagree, but technology have now given us a near-zero cost of duplicating that paperclip, so both the growth rate and practical upper bound are much higher than we’ve ever imagined before.
Yes, I found this the other day: https://smartnoise.org/

Need to read more about the concept. Anyone with more good resources?
I wonder if we'll ever get to see the post-mortem of specifically the status page saying that everything's fine when not everything's fine. That's the one that interests me most.
They have the best at scoring high in their job applications.
"Pasta, he said, was a “passéist food” that “[deluded people] into thinking it [was] nutritious” and made them “heavy, brutish,” “skeptical, slow, [and] pessimistic.” "

all very (subjectively) true. As a pasta fanatic I try to eat Kamut pasta as often as possible as it leaves much less of a lethargic and carby aftermath.
> If you want to use Facebook without targeted advertising, you need to either convince them that they don't need all that money, or pay it yourself. And that's just Facebook.

I hate this argument. It's tries to find a solution to sustain the status quo in the face of change. But that's illogical because if there is a change, then the status quo is going to change too.

The only way Facebook is going to stop doing targeted advertising is if they're forced to, likely due to new regulations. If that happens, Facebook's entire business model will collapse, so they'll either have to make massive fundamental changes to how they make money, or they'll die and be taken over by a competitor.

In either case, users don't "owe" Facebook anything. Consumers are the life blood of the economy, and thinking about how consumers should change their behaviors to sustain a corporation is backwards thinking.
Emacs is fairly impenetrable for the majority of computer users. Excel is far more familiar - it looks like a normal program, has context menus, and has a conceptually simple model of execution: you say what you want a cell to be, and it just automagically becomes that value. No lisp syntax or keyboard shortcuts need to be learned, and nothing new needs to be installed.

I agree that Emacs is more extensible, but it doesn’t make itself as available to regular computer users as something like Excel does.
I've always understood Deprecated to mean "This works, but we don't want you to use it in new code, and we plan/hope to remove it in the future."
Not CRLs, or rather, not directly.

Mozilla and Chrome have schemes to send a subset of revocations from the browser vendor to the user, Mozilla's is named OneCRL, the Chrome one is CRLSets.

For most websites if your end entity leaf certificate is revoked for some mundane reason Chrome likely simply won't know or care and it'll still work, because you aren't covered by CRLSets as the data would be too huge.

The long term fix, which site owners can implement, is OCSP Must Staple. What happens there is, when you request a certificate you insist on this "extension" and the extension tells client software "This certificate is only valid if accompanied by an up-to-date OCSP response". Then you set your server software to fetch OCSP responses for its own certificate and serve those to visitors.

This means excellent privacy (PornHub's certificate issuer still knows that PornHub is PornHub, not an invasion of privacy, and PornHub still knows that PornHub visitors visited PornHub, but the issuer doesn't learn who the visitors are) while being revocable (if the issuer provides REVOKED OCSP answers then you can't show that revoked certificate to a client once the last not-REVOKED OCSP answer expires)

Unfortunately, and this is a huge shame most especially for Apache, there are a lot of HTTPS servers that got OCSP Stapling badly wrong, meaning you need newer versions of software or have to install complicated workarounds because the early implementations were so stupid.
It's not just not caring about the web - they have a very strong financial incentive to kill the web as a viable platform for applications, games etc.
I must have really different experiences than all of these people that write these articles (it seems like there has been something like this, every week on HN, for the last 10 years)

My facebook is mostly people showing pictures of stuff, sharing memes, some movie discussion groups, event planning groups. It seems like mostly just people using facebook as a proxy for real world interactions.

Twitter on the other hand is just pure toxic garbage which seems made to intentionally divide people and incite hatred and eventually violence.

I think there is a simple explanation for this: the people writing these articles are twitter users, and the people who use facebook are their outgroup.
Yeah that is Unscientific
Show HN: I made a Value Proposition generator
Slavery ended because human values made it end. A paperclip optimiser doesn’t have human values.
ebay and paypal
Good point, I do see this but it seems to be from the anti-censorship side on the right. It seems the right is focused on the YouTube algos and the left is out for Facebook influence basically since the 2016 election. In all, these media debates over which platforms are dangerous seem highly partisan. We should really be looking at them through a neutral light. What is a monopoly and what is not a monopoly.
There have been some known issues between Launchcart and Printful that have been fixed - hopefully this one is among them!

Thank you for becoming a patron of the show - just sent you the welcome email :)
I don't recommend using DFT (FFT) analysis unless you can constrain N to small sizes (<= 256 at 44.1KHz sampling rate perhaps) to reduce time aliasing. Use of wavelets may be a better fit for this application.
> the cost of housing is one-third of Bay Area prices and the absence of a state personal income tax amounts to a 13.3% raise for top earners.

This point always makes me laugh because anyone who lives in affluent TX neighborhoods knows your property tax is _enormous_ and usually makes up for a majority of state income tax you save. They still need to pay for roads and schools, right?
What does ROSS Intelligence collapse mean for the rest of the LegalTech industry
Definitely, and I feel like "some foods" varies per individual more than I hear people talk about.
Since you are a lawyer: http://codingforlawyers.com/

For example, chapter 1 discusses regex for searching (and potentially replacing) patterns in texts.
Google’s inability to protect its core revenue stream is squarely in the “not my problem” category. In fact, making internet advertising less desirable for businesses sounds like a benefit to me.

So, Apple’s decision is looking even better to me now.
The Atlantic has always been a kind of tabloid for people who fancy themselves intellectuals, especially with its cover stories. After seeming like they were really on the brink for a few years there, not really knowing how to do digital, they turned it around - apparently by doubling down on this approach. High-minded clickbait for right-thinking elites, in other words. Have a look at their "most popular articles" box and you'll frequently see some breathless, hysterical stuff.

It's a shame, too, because a majority of their content is probably still pretty good! Their pandemic coverage is a good example. But their editorial staff need engagement and they're gonna drive it by pushing the same "dark" buttons (fear, anger) that everyone else pushes these days. Ironic they're doing it in a critical article about Facebook.
Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church got $4.4M in federal PPP loans
Right. If you don't accept it was the Russians, you're a fucking Trump supporter!
Depends on your tolerance band. If it’s zero, then only on days when you hit a new ATH can you count as “at ATH”.

If you set a 10% threshold, then you’ll have many more days “at ATH”.

My point is that actual ATH (versus “near ATH”) are comparably rare.
The readfile shortcode was added because this sort of code inclusion was used previously and when converting the documentation I needed something with similar semantic. Another advantage is that it allows me to have a compilable code examples that can be easily downloaded using gitlab support for creating zip from directories[0].

More interesting are the doxysnippet shortcode[1] that provides the extraction from the source code or the custom rendering of links[2] that allows this sort of markdown links: [Overlay](docs:kirigami2;OverlayDrawer)

[0]: https://invent.kde.org/documentation/develop-kde-org/-/archi...

[1]: https://invent.kde.org/documentation/develop-kde-org/-/blob/...

[2]: https://invent.kde.org/documentation/develop-kde-org/-/blob/...
Only if you are ingesting those logs, correlating them with users and storing that data somewhere.
Amazon Fashion launches a custom clothing service, Made for You
Google just bought Neverware, the makers of CloudReady OS
EUrocrats have had twenty-five years to build a digital economy. In many ways the native digital economy in the EU is lagging Africa, India and other places that might be presumably "behind". The web is not new. Why can't Europe build something people care about?
Very true - here in Round Rock (outside Austin), it’s about 2.2% of the home value.
Prop. 13 allowed people to advocate for exclusionary development policies, capture all of the land value increment of those policies, while at the same time being totally shielded from the taxes on their windfalls. The timeline of California land use abuse was that first came zoning, downzoning, historical preservation, and all the other anti-housing controls. Then came rent control and Prop 13, both of which act to shield incumbents from the consequences of their own actions.
I think rice is the opposite.

I had a coworker say that since rice absorbs water, it can also do this during digestion.

I noticed a similar effect when I was drinking too much. I would only be hungover after having rice.

And to clarify a point, it was fried rice that cooled, meaning it wasn't watery.
> ignoring the easily noticeable conclusion that it is a performance from bad actors for obvious selfish ends

I've listened to over a hundred of these people speak and they seem genuine to me.

> I disagree. I put it to you that it is closely related.

Having so many cases dismissed certainly implies that there is no evidence. I have however read the judges' opinions, and the reasons for their findings. Within their findings, I have found no reason to believe that the vast majority of people providing testimony are just outright lying.

Within the judges' findings there's about 300 different reasons why the Trump legal team should be fired for incompetence.

But I have yet to find any reason to disbelieve the majority of affidavits. If you do have any sources/links that go into the facts that supports this opinion, I would be extremely interested in reading it.

> Creating alt accounts to continue the spam doesn't help.

At this point I have stopped making any new posts. I am only responding to replies to posts that I have already made. Once those stop, I'll be out of your hair.
I’m 100% on board with this. It seems to me that the only way out is if we reject these things on a cultural level. Being on social media should be a disgrace.
Yeah, far UVC is great for the exact reason that it's far less harmful to human skin. However, "far uvc" (207-222nm) leds are even more expensive. Many far uvc devices aren't available to general consumers (to control demand). The units that are available to the general population are incredibly expensive, at least $2k for a lamp large enough for use in a small bedroom.

https://www.ushio.com/product/care222-filtered-far-uv-c-exci...
> they start the process of buying a tablesaw but then leave for whatever reason

Is that something that people want?

Imagine someone wants to buy a table saw and their requirements changed and they no longer need it. It would be pretty annoying to have table saws follow them around the internet when they literally don't need them (and get in the way of other ads they would potentially be interested in).

It's also a privacy issue; if someone is searching for certain sensitive items they'd rather not have those follow them around for weeks down the line.
Personally I think mental clarity comes lack of immune response to all the sugar.

Ate mostly plain sweet potatoes for a month. Mental clarity sky rocketed.

Most foods make me mentally sluggish for hours. Strict keto leaves me physically weak though
Much better to annotate those functions with @deprecated and allow running in "deprecated allow mode" and a "deprecated fail mode"...

Never use profanity in your code, nor in your comments. Lets keep things professional.
Google: What caused our big global outage
GDPR is pretty cheap if treating people as merchandise isn't part of your economics.
Losing the entire history by starting with a dump is ridiculous. Authorship would be somewhat tricky (I suppose they could use username + email on file, but might run into issues where people don’t intend to make their email addresses public), but it’s not like it would be very hard to migrate the diff + message history to git. I guess they either don’t want to start the repo with a gazillion commits (actually that would be a good stress test for the system, but would make cloning harder for people who don’t know how to use --depth), or just don’t care?

Btw: now you need to clone the entire repository and run a dev server just to edit and preview a single page (let’s not get into super involved ways to clone only part of a git repo). You can avoid cloning by editing with GitHub’s web editor, but you can’t preview that way.
I'm not sure splitting off the crawler would have the effect you want it to. Crawling is hard, but actually one of the easier parts of building a search engine. There are less complete, but still pretty impressive public crawls available already, like Common Crawl.

The harder problem is what you do with the result of the crawl once you have it. You need to index it. This is one of Google's deepest moats. Being able to serve any of hundreds of billions of documents in milliseconds requires an enormous amount of infrastructure and hundreds of careers worth of difficult software engineering.

I don't see a good way to split indexing out as a separate company from the rest of the search engine. It's tightly integrated with ranking. Generally a new ranking technique requires some new information to be associated with each document in the index, e.g. some precomputed scores that describe the document's quality or fitness for different kinds of queries. At query time, you're often just weighting and comparing these scores across documents.

If you had Google's index, you'd be a long way towards being able to replicate Google's results, but I don't think that would lead to the kind of innovation you're hoping for.
I don’t agree it’s never healthy. No one is sui generis, we are all linked, and so observing others and comparing is necessary in order to see where you stand and to get better.

It’s possible to know that others are better than you at something and not be bothered by it. Obsessing over where you stand and making that too high of a priority is unhealthy, I agree there.
Not "canvas" but "Canva", referring to https://www.canva.com/
How big is a minimal python interpreter? It seems to me relative to the size of VLC adding python support shouldn't be a huge increase.