skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because Facebook's ads require a panopticon of surveillance across every page with a FB like button in order to function in current form.

People are sending much more data to facebook than they realize, and are typically upset when they learn the scope of facebooks dragnet.

If Facebook only used data from the Facebook platform itself (and none of their web of acquired companies), I think people would have much fewer objections to the tracking.
Lots indeed... I was thinking they prided themselves in having all of the Dead shows.
XRP Pump and Dump
XRP currency got a huge pump and dump today. A lot of people got like me didn't know anything about investing and got screwed.
> FAST Api is a nice library, but it uses code-based api specifications. It's generates the spec from code.

Shameless plug: https://pyotr.readthedocs.io ;)
> Said one source familiar with Stadia’s first-party operations, citing another tech giant’s widely publicized failure to create video games: “Google was a terrible place to make games. Imagine Amazon, but under-resourced.”

"Google" and "under-resourced" in the same blurb is very funny.
On both examples, the user can trivially reach the desired search outcome by manually adding their location or "diy"/"for hire" to the search query, without the search engine needing to know a single thing about them.
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> With the increased focus on using our technology platform for industry partners, Jade Raymond has decided to leave Google to pursue other opportunities.

I'm glad she got out.
I think it's spread far beyond Reddit at this point.
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> Ah it seems that there is this program called keynav.

Yep, I wrote this as a direct clone of the original keynav, so I can use the same config file on both operating systems.

> For browsers I love to use these pentadactyl/vimium/... extensions. Would there be anything similar for reguar desktop applications. I get that it would be a huge effort to support all the different toolkits though.

You can bind arbitrary keys to control the grid, and the default bindings are vim-like, but it only goes down to the window level. Interesting idea though, probably doable with LD_PRELOAD stuff.
I did this to see how it was as a practical functional programming language, and I find I like the syntax and typeclass system more than Haskell's. One neat feature is that do notation had mut variables and for loops that get compiled to folds automatically. It also has Idris-style arrow notation for binding inside pure expressions. (It's also really easy to compile to C!)

The Lean runtime implements the Perseus algorithm for functional in-place updating when possible. It's a very clever reimagining of reference counting from basic principles. The loop that combines all the results from all the threads takes advantage of this and doesn't allocate intermediate arrays.
From Facebook's consent screen: "This doesn't give us access to new types of information" [emphasis mine]

I don't know whether to laugh out loud or to cry. It literally shows the consumer that - at least according to Apple - the data Facebook was collecting up until now is detailed enough to require an extra prompt.

How exactly is that supposed to reassure someone who would supposedly deny them tracking once the prompt shows?!
The video at the end of the press release explains the story.

But in tl;dr: form:

Ecole Centrale Paris campus network was managed by students. In 1995, they wanted a faster network, to play video games, and upgrade from their Token Ring network.

The Univ did not want to pay so they went to see partners, and one said "put the satellite feed on your network to justify the need for a better network. We'll pay for it, instead of having 2000 dishes and decoders.". This PoC "Network 2000" was a success. Some students restarted the project in 1998 and called it VideoLAN.

In 2001, VideoLAN and all the software projects (Server, Client, network, libraries) became GPL. VideoLan Client became VLC. Community added Windows, macOS support.

In 2008, I created the VideoLAN non-profit to escape the university and make VLC grow.
> fish is often perched on risotto

As Italian I confirm that this is The Horror, really. And yet I can have a Spanish paella with no problem.
Just because a video has a similar content ID signature to another video doesn’t mean it’s infringing either. My point is that, for better or for worse, platforms already “do it for you” if you’re a record label—there’s no reason why the App Store couldn’t do something similar for app developers.
Yes, to me this experiment hinges on following through on the treatment side. I hope to see some ongoing reporting on whether the funding that used to be spent on police enforcement, prosecution, and punishment of drug possession is actually diverted to treatment. If counties instead try to "save taxpayer money" on this I think it will end badly.
Thanks for saying that! :)
Thanks for this feedback!

You're right that I'm in an extremely lucky position, and I likely would not have experienced the success I've had so far without several unfair advantages I hold. Google taught me a lot that would be hard to learn elsewhere, and I also have enough savings that I can try and fail many times without it mattering, and very few people have that luxury.

I try to be cognizant of that in my writing and avoid making it sound like what I'm doing is easy or accessible to the average person. That said, I can only write about the experiences I've had, advantages or not. As much as possible, I try to share what I did and learned and not tell anyone else what they should do.
The VLC player is incredibly popular. And a bunch of libraries that are part of the project are also pretty well-known (less so by end users I suppose). But - I have rarely, if ever, seen uses of:

* VideoLAN Server

* VideoLAN Bridge

* VideoLAN Channel Switcher

The press release doesn't focus on them much, either. I don't see them on the project page. Can you describe what happened with them?

Also - how you've chosen projects you've started more recently (like multicat or the VLMC editor)?
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> when policies make it easier for people to rob others.

Which policies are those?
Are all the smaller social media companies like Twitter, SnapChat, TikTok, and Reddit struggling with Apple’s new rules too?
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> Dumb joke: When it turns 21, what would be the drink that VLC would like?

We're French, we don't wait the legal age to drink. :D
Our problem with automod is, we already remove activity under a certain karma for manual approval to limit spam so now instead of 0-30 things a day, it's more like 2-3 thousand a day.

It does seem to be shifting though, I'd say about 90% of it is people genuinely trying to participate in the sub now, it was about 1% Thursday morning. I'm hoping we're at, or nearing, the peak as a lot of these accounts that are actively participating in harmony with what the sub is about will start hitting the karma threshold and no longer need manual approval for everything.

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There are a lot of examples of companies owning both though:

1. Microsoft: https://kotaku.com/microsoft-now-has-23-first-party-studios-...

2. Nintendo owns many successful games on their platforms: Zelda, Mario based titles, etc.

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Counter-anecdata here: meds aren't always the best option for people. Don't bias toward taking amphetamines as the parent comment instructs you to do.

There are serious negative long-term effects from taking amphetamines regularly. Such advice as above is very one-size-fits-all, and in my view is thus really bad advice.

> Ignore the people screaming about Adderall being "literal meth" and how it will certainly kill you.

You can ignore those people because they're wrong, amphetamine is not methamphetamine. But do not ignore the people who tell you that even normal amphetamines (adderall) are not harmless. They cause harm, even at low doses.

The harm they cause may be mitigated by the benefit they bring; it may also be extremely difficult to estimate their harm in advance. Ceasing regular use of amphetamines for some people can result in subsequent YEARS of oversleeping, lethargy, and depression from dopamine receptor downregulation.

> I don't feel strung out nor is it some addiction.

Amphetamines are a highly addictive substance, if you are taking them every day it is likely that your body has developed at least some physical dependence upon them. Addiction doesn't make itself known until you stop.
Huge FastAPI fan here. I have used FastAPI and friends (tortoise ORM, fastAPI-sqlalchemy and arq) in my recent projects and it has been the most enjoyable web services writing experience in my life. I never had thought python optional typing had any use before I used fastapi.
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As much as people like to talk up the AT&T breakup, it wasn't all that effective because it just created regional monopolies with the silly local/long distance split.

Splitting up network companies and retailers might have been more interesting, but there's still the issue of having a monopoly on the last mile of copper.
This story involves drinking students and internal jokes :)
Spending your whole life betting on options won't get you anywhere compared to index funds.
Facebook makes the case for activity tracking to iOS 14 users in new pop-ups
It was created by a group of students at an urban university in a country where the legal age to drink alcohol is 18. Such conditions often lead to collections of traffic cones.
Proof of Stake’s security model is being dramatically misunderstood (2019)
Agreed! It's a perfect example of how you can make a website with "modern" features (responsive design, accessible, mobile friendly, dark mode, static pages, embeds) without it being a bloated mess.
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> Unfortunately you have been quite lucky. The phenomenon of blindly following whatever some blog post said is all too real.

Second this. I have no issues with trying to improve things, and that especially includes meta things like processes. What I take issue with is that the very word, "best", heavily implies there is one and only one "correct" way to do things.
It's not that dissimilar in the UK, or at least that was the case.
the problem is we aren't going all the way, and removing societal support from those who use their personal autonomy for that kind of self abuse. The thing is, you want the nanny state to take care of drug users instead of jailing them; this is because drug use still destroys lives anyways.
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Oh then, absolutely. I was assuming a constraint that columns couldn't be removed from the original table. But if you can, then your example is an even better solution.
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> How do you fund your work? Have you had to take a pay cut to work on VLC compared to working on similar commercial tech?

VideoLAN does not make any money outside of donations.

I have a startup, called Videolabs since 2013.
> the code generators are top notch

Possibly, but I think that Python code generation is kind of pointless. CG makes sense with compiled languages, but in Python everything can be constructed on the fly at runtime, without any loss of performance.
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Yeah. It was a game changer with respect to being very obviously lightweight + purely functional, and it was very cool to me that it was available on linux and windows. It may have been the first cross-platform app I ever used.

I forgot about those K-Lite Codec packs and all that - even back then that stuff had bloatware with it, which was why vlc was so refreshing.
Seconded on L-Theanine, definitely helps if I get jitters. I usually avoid caffeine bc of this, since the adderall at a correct dose seems to work great but socially it’s hard to avoid caffeine.
a project with similar goals is Sandstorm.io

i plan to check it out soon..
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Mass domestication of animals is also pretty recent on the scale of human existence, on the order of 10-11,000 years ago.
If regulations don't prevent them from doing so, I expect FB to pivot into Surveillance As A Service for authoritarian states.
I agree that they didn't need this in the first place, but this is the venture they started last March [1]. What changed for them in those 10 months that wasn't an obvious trend before?

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I agree, and I think they are phenomenal at that. There isn't anything else that combines the versatility, stability, and cost quite so elegantly for single Pi use cases for education or light desktop use. I use several VLC clients feeding monitors, for example, and they are fantastic.

But I also see things like 10 node clusters with a total of 40GB of RAM, a bunch of slow cores, and materials costs of $500+. That's harder for me to understand, outside of the "looks cool" metric.
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Did amazon build their own engine? I thought they licensed cryengine and slapped their brand on it?
> Can you describe what happened with them?

They are dead. VLS features are now done with DVBlast. The other are useless with modern networks.
What happened internally when you discovered that you were given a false severe grade CVE? I remember seeing many articles suggesting users uninstall VLC.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13615
You're correct, I was assuming that "static" in Rust & Go meant the same thing it meant in Java (which is different than what it means in C, of course). Thank you for clarifying.
> I would often fall into a spiral of inability to focus -> feeling bad about myself for not completing work that I was generally more than capable of doing -> even less ability to focus. I still have depression, but starting on ADHD medication all-but-removed my most frequent trigger.

I had the same issue!

I told my prescribing doctor this same thing and she trusted me enough to try out Adderall before SSRIs again. Turns out my hypothesis of my depression + anxiety largely being tied to my sense of productivity was right.

After going in for an EKG check-up on orders of the prescribing doctor, I found a fairly benign heart issue that the cardiologist believes may be the cause of my "panic attacks" (eg: my attacks may be heart racing -> panic, not panic -> heart racing!)

All of that from just treating "I feel bad because I get nothing done".