skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Signal and I’ve encouraged my friends and family to switch as well.

But let’s be honest: WhatsApp is moving forward because they aren’t threatened by this concern or losing some users to Signal. The average user doesn’t care about anything other than easily communicating with other people at this point, and news articles like this are part of the problem.

Frankly, the sky-is-falling uproar about any and every privacy policy change from free services had burned people out and made them jaded. Tech media likes to portray every change as an egregious violation of personal privacy, yet most of this stuff is just mundane as targeting where the data never leaves the company.

The media has become the boy who cried wolf with their attempts to present every type of data collection as bad. This article doesn’t even attempt to explain what the privacy policy changes are or what it might mean. It just implies that the reader should be angry.

In 2021, everyone has heard the “if you’re not paying for it, you’re the product” line so many times that they’ve just accepted it and moved on with their lives. The media’s false equivalencies are simply accelerating it.
>How can we blame a >1% decrease in life expectancy on a disease which according to the CDC (for under 70's) has a <0.5% infection fatality rate?

Your question, as you phrased it, is nonsense, because those are wildly different units. Therefore, comparing 0.5% of one unit to 1% of another unit is meaningless.

Life expectancy is measured in years.

Infection fatality rate is measured in deaths per case.
Certainly not. They revamped the UI, but they didn't rewrite the program itself.
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Trolls prefer to use public fora in order to upset the greatest number of people possible. They don't target individuals through private correspondence.
This is a fantastic alternative to Noisly. Thank you!
Would you say you are more or less "engaged" now?
As far as having less super fun things, I found it takes me about 2 days to 1 week to "detox" from addictive distractions, my most recent distraction being the game "Hades" :) Luckily I was about to finally finish that game but I still had to consciously keep it away for a few days before I finally no longer have the temptation.
The mascot of AI Weirdness is a cyborg tomato?
Tim is so right. In addition, for friends and family a post on FB about my cat is just as news worthy as a NYT article. It is not for governments to decide what is news or not.

Keep the web free. Avoid imposing rules and taxes.

Ultimately a news organization is an internet citizen like you or me. They should not have different privileges.
I'm not sure if exhaustiveness is that useful. Rather than forcing the people who use the data-type to keep track of any changes you instead force anyone who changes the data-type to keep track of any place where it is used. If you automatically enforce exhaustiveness then you either need to freeze all your public data-types or turn every update into a breaking change.
I like the "peeling off" strategy - starting with the monolith and adding microservices from the edges.

I've been working on something that tries to make starting with a monolith in React/Node.js relatively easy. Still don't have much of the "peeling" support but that is something we're looking to add: https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp
IMO this is an unnecessary dichotomy that we're currently forced to deal with, because we don't yet have a good solution for programming the "cloud" the same way you program a for a single computer, and that ends up leaking into all the consequent decisions of modularisation, performance, code management, deployment, team organisation, etc.

(My holy grail would be programming for distributed environments as if you had one giant single-thread computer, and function calls could arbitrarily happen over IO or not, then concerns would boil down to code organisation first. I believe Erlang's OTP model or the way some features of Google Cloud Platform are organised gets us closer to this ideal, but we're not quite there yet.)
Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers
I like it. I like it a lot. I’ve had a sort of similar notion around RSS feeds in my head for a long time, and this does some of what’s in my brain, namely a different way of surfacing and commenting on relevant content. Will keep playing!
The usual model for creating awareness and providing access to a product is for the vendor of the product to pay for that service. If I have a media service such as a TV channel, Youtube channel or podcast, I charge vendors to use my channel to reach that audience. Promoting content is a valuable service, why should publishers get it for free?

So congratulations, you've convinced me. I think Facebook and Google should charge Australian news sites to carry their links in their feeds. These are after all little more than adverts.
EVERY DAY? :D
If there is a real demand for what they do then the market will absorb the drivers. If that demand is actually just artificial because of VC subsidized rides, then it will not. This is not a moral dilemma.
One bug I saw came from picking an integer id as “one more than the largest id of the current elements we have.” This worked fine until they added support for deleting elements, which also worked fine most of the time.

A common disadvantage of integer keys is that programs will have bugs and use a foo_id as a bar_id. If most ids are small integers then it is likely that a valid foo_id may be a valid bar_id, whereas uuids probably won’t collide. This can be somewhat mitigated with a sufficiently strong type system. Even in a dynamic language like lisp you can represent your ids as e.g. (foo . <id>), and only need to get the tags right on the boundary.

An advantage of integer ids is density: if your ids are likely close together, there are probably some better or more compressed data structures you can use.
vim has a very versatile undo function, including undo the last n minutes/hours/days of edits. it also has undo branches. e.g. `:earlier 5m`
While most of the post is what I would expect, the minority language censorship was unexpected. It’s another sign of China’s ethnocentrism/Han Supremacist culture play out. It’s a real shame to see this sort of enforced death of linguistic diversity.
Brave browser’s Tor feature found to leak .onion queries to ISPs
Mozilla Corp. should sent you a bill for their content that you linked, because now you are taking a free ride.
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Came here to post this. The undo tree is actually built into Vim, but I didn't know about it until I discovered Gundo a decade or so ago. I rarely use it, but it's still installed and has saved me hours of work on a few occasions.
Sadly, no. V&V in defense projects are often short on evaluating security in any meaningful way. It’s mostly theater, show you ran a couple of security assessments or have a code review process that includes checking for buffer overflows and you’re fine.
> So congratulations, you've convinced me. I think Facebook and Google should charge Australian news sites to put their links in their feeds. These are after all little more than adverts.

Anecdotally (n=1), my Australian friends have already signed up directly with email newsletters and apps of the news sources they previously would've consumed through Facebook's feed (when Facebook started blacklisting links to media websites by domain). Those news sources are going to be just fine without Facebook, and existed before Facebook was a thing.
The broader picture is that all of the money to pay the driver comes from the customer. If the driver-restaurant system isn’t creating enough value for the customer to pay them a living wage, they won’t get it. Either they’ll get a lesser wage, go out of business, or both.

That anecdote was immediately relatable to many of us who have gotten late, soggy, cold food delivery.
This article was written before Year Zero
So just to look at this from another perspective.

If I created a chase-bank.com website, and allowed users to interact with their actual Chase account through it, but I took a percentage of all transactions, it would be fine?
Widely shared Vitamin D-Covid-19 preprint removed from Lancet server
I once had a guy who ran an enterprise supplying software to the defence sector try to swing a punch at me in a meeting, so I can believe it.
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This is a great summary of the problem, upvoted.
It is possible that there are architectures other than ‘monolith’ and ‘microservices’. Component architectures are also a thing. If it doesn’t all deploy in one go, I don’t think it’s a monolith.
who care about lockdowns lol. just make private parties like everybody else
The article doesn't name the engineer but is still heavy on personal details. If China wanted to persecute said engineer they could easily find out who is responsible.
I don't write JS much but even so I'm pretty sure I've used yarn a couple of times and it Just Worked. Thanks :)
My social media bubble is one that comparatively spends a lot of thought on maintainter/contributor appreciation, and I've literally never heard that complaint.

No open source maintainer is so busy that they don't have the time to respond to a ever so rare genuine thank you with a "Thanks, glad you appreciate it!".
There's an explanation here: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Stockfish_NNUE

It uses clever integer arithmetic in the neural network, so you don't need a monster GPU to get good performance. I believe as of now it's using both the nn and the classic heuristic-based system for different situations.
IBM Explores Sale of IBM Watson Health
With your attitude you have to be willing to not use tax-funded hospitals, community-financed health insurance or state-sponsored cultural events. Not sure if I'd like to take that step. There has to be a healthy balance in the relationship between society and citizen.
5 Reader Comments Just Cost a News Website $124,000
Any language can scale. Pretty much most languages there can handle scale. It's usually bad algorithms or external services be it API & DB used poorly that impacts performance.
> Go, Python, Ruby and countless other languages only have one implementation

That's not true for all those examples: both Ruby and Python have several great implementations and Go started with specification and two implementations.
> IRC, path pieces in HTTP urls are not meant to be case-sensitive, and browsers have historically tried to "help" by re-casing URLs.

That would break with any webserver that is serving files from a case-sensitive filesystem. Which is most of them.
People care, but they are also unwilling to make any sacrifice. They would like more privacy, but would also like to continue using the services that steal their privacy. And they would also like to continue to use the for free.

When faced with "continue using the thing I like and lose privacy" vs "Pay for a similar solution", they almost always choose the first.
Sounds like a good argument for a --relax-im-just-trying-something flag for the go compiler, and taint the resulting code with it so if anyone else tries to use the code without the same flag, then the compiler/linker will complain.
Is Google running out of storage? In the last 18 months they've seemed to complete a 180 degree turn on their "store all the things" policy.
To save other people some time, the OP's link to the CIA vault is only to an Erich von Daniken-type crackpot history book that somehow ended up in the CIA archives, not to serious government-commissioned science.
My guess would be that you're too peaceful and it shows.

There are some people who will try to bully their way through life. They will apply violent behavior (e.g. breaking your phone) to get their way. The way to stop that is to make it clear that you can apply violence, too.

Most of society works by peacefully interacting with each other. But it is crucial that everyone knows that there is a threat of violence (e.g. the police) to keep everyday life peaceful.

I wonder if I am just imagining it, but I took martial arts lessons as a kid. I've always felt like just the knowledge that I could fight has caused others to deescalate and be respectful.
> I wish there was some kind of auto generated commit message. Things like:

> "Added function xyz()" or "Adjusted constant FOO to 27" or "Made lots of changes in file a.c,, b.c and c.c".

I would argue that these are not good commit messages as they do not add information not already provided by the diff itself. Commit messages should communicate the intended effect of a change that has been made, rather than being a lossy compression of a sequence of keystrokes.
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There are very few of them, and yet they control the vast majority of the country's wealth. The top 1% owns 55% of all the valuable assets in the United States. The top 10% owns 85% of all valuable assets. Most of the remaining 15% of assets are owned by pension funds and small-time landlords.

Just by taxing that top 10% (roughly people who earn over 200k/yr), the government would get access to 85% of all the nation's wealth.
It has been interesting to see how incompetently Facebook wields its own platform. Having to back-pedal after banning government Covid updates and managing to ban themselves makes them look like they have no idea what they're doing.

All Facebook has managed to achieve is to give the Australian government a good reason to dig in, to increase support for the new media code within Australia, and to gain the Australian government the support of various other governments internationally.
Littlekeyboards, and boardsource.xyz both have the parts (and assembly services if you don't want to bother).

Keycaps can be hard, chocs in particular don't have a lot of good caps. MBKs are the best feeling ones (in my opinion). They just announced ones with legends and they won't be available for months. There are other options with legends available as well, that are closer to traditional laptop keys.

https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards - A list of splits, not all support lower profile keycaps.

Reddit has the https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/ community, who might be able to point you to more information, including a layout comparer.
I think this article conflates productivity with diligence.

The most effective way I've found to improve productivity is to shift focus onto tasks that bring in more money per unit time spent performing them.

Since my daughter was born 7 months ago, I've really only been able to work about 2-3 "full" 8-hour days a week without crashing, and my wife might be able to spend 8-10 hours a week working on the business.
However, because we've simply stopped doing tasks that are "work" but don't add greatly to the business's bottom line (for example, we no longer respond to dumb requests from customers, standardise products into a single SKU where possible and shifted our marketing towards eBay's promoted listings rather than building an organic following on social media), we've actually grown slightly.

Diligence and drive are definitely important parts of what makes you productive, but it's not the be all and end all.
Ask HN: How to determine if a board seat is right for me
is there anyone here who can share their experience of serving on an executive board as non-executive advisor? I have held executive roles in the past but have no experience with non-exec roles. I'm not actively searching for this but have been offered a position and am a little bit overwhelmed with doing due-diligence and assessing the expectations and requirements in this. Other than ask my lawyer (which I will) what should I keep in mind before saying yes? thanks
I just try to accept I go through spurts of inspiration and low energy. Forcing myself to do work when I don’t want to us a recipe for burnout. It’s often unavoidable, when the situation forces it on me. But TBH I’m my own worst enemy: driving myself when I should be in a rest state.
I don't know what the OP meant, but if the customer is paying a markup for the food, then they might end up ordering less food.
Relative to other game engines, particularly proprietary ones, no. Epic is dominating the engine licensing space in large part because their tooling is better than the alternatives.
The thing that confuses me about that faulty line of thinking is why would a hacker include a license under their name with the software they use to hack you? What sort of gentleman hacker would follow this legal procedure in the process of illegally compromising your machine? It would be as if a burgler stole all of your stuff but left you a contract so you could legally give them ownership. I just don't understand the reasoning.
Exaggeration is usually the result of poorly thought through consequences. Yes, just like the internet accelerated the reach of everyone, fuelling journalism undoubtedly will accelerate discourse. And yes, if the current state of the union is someone like Alex Jones raising $100,000,000 annually - meaning 1,000,000 people contribute to him - then arguably there will be others who receive the same amount or more who are able to fluently and accurately counter whatever false narratives he pushes forward; not everything he says is "crazy" either by the way. I think however even if say 80 million people easily buy into propaganda, who don't care about the integrity or if there's truth behind those narratives, that leaves 200 million+ people who will be supporting more rational, reasonable people - closer to the fully reasonable end of the spectrum.

Perhaps there likewise need to be rules where say 70% of that $100 has to go to a local person, that person who perhaps then in part distills national news, as well as investigating/sharing about local happenings - so then that $100 million from 1 million people Alex Jones theoretically gets in your example, ends up being reduced to $30 million. And really, unless he spends those resources well, how much more reach can he really get? Platforms for advertising will still have the ability to decide who can reach the eyeballs of their users, etc - so there are further mechanisms to limit/suppress the reach of the more irrational.
HN (here)

news.google.com

Facebook

ncangler.com

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site_no=02097314

wral.com/weather

Youtube

http://phins.com/phins-news.php

There are others that I check "frequently" but not necessarily "every day" including lwn.net, various sub-reddits (/r/machinelearning, /r/semanticweb, /r/artificial, etc.), various stack exchange sites, etc.
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It's it remotely possible it's a sophisticated troll?
Really weird application of a drone. Might be a stretch
I wonder if they're getting a lot less value out of the data than they thought they would (I'm presuming data to aid in targeting is how they justify free unlimited storage)?
It depends on the jurisdiction. In the UK I believe that hot food is taxed in the same way whether it is on-premises or takeaway.

Anyway, at least in the UK and some other EU countries there is no obligation to lower the price because tax is lower (since prices to consumers are inclusive of all taxes) so if tax is indeed lower it can be a bonus for the restaurant (on top of cost savings), which makes Deliveroo's fee even less of a "robbery".
As non-australian this debate sounds very incomprehensible to me.

I understand that old media is complaining that tech is making money with their content while the authors get nothing.

To me that is the equivalent of complaining that someone else is using your house because you left the door open.

So what is the problem with locks, pay-walls, creating accounts or blocking links?

Could it possible be the case that the old media actually wants the burglars inside?
I've heard that one of the earlier versions of Oracle RDBMS (back in the 80ties) was a complete rewrite done a couple of super talented guys over a couple of years.
You normally want to use different force front and back. But there are brakes designed for bike polo and the single-handed:
https://bikerumor.com/2019/11/15/paul-pulls-both-brakes-with...
Indeed, an "oversupply" of taxis is good for consumers, but of course it is not sustainable.

Uber has been a very good thing for consumers through their own service and because they have forced taxis to improve to compete.

Taxis are fighting for their own interests that do not necessarily align with consumers' but of course it's not good for PR so they try to spin it in a different way.
The guy is unhinged but he was clearly making an analogy.
It really is incredible to me that you think that's an actual solution.

The main value Facebook and Google have to news sites isn't access from established readers, they will find the content anyway because they already know they want it. The problem is discovery and by and acquisition of new readers. That's the primary value and service social media and search platforms like facebook and google offer in this area. It's why they are primarily adverting platforms, and get most of their revenue from advertising in the first place. News organisations have been free-riding off this for years but are so desperate and entitled they want to charge their advertisers for promoting their content.
I suppose every app you work on runs the same query repeatedly? Yes, load balancing makes sense, but the author is specifically looking at requests per thread, i.e., wouldn't it be great (and more cost effective) to get as much throughput from a single thread as possible?
It has some truth but it brushes away any attempt at criticizing the C++ language and completely ignore that different languages have different level of satisfaction.
> We recently announced a new storage model, which provides schools and universities with a baseline of 100 TB of pooled storage shared across all users.

What ? I know me and my friends alone use 5TB each. And our uni has around 8000 students.

100TB for everyone combined is ridiculously low.
I'm sorry but are you serious? You tie yourself with a rope to secure you. Someone has to clean the rooftops from a too big of a snow buildup from cold places all the time. If cleaning small area of panels on rooftop where men and women all around the world work all the time you don't really deserve the modern cozy life. Time to reflect buddy.
Correct. That doesn't make monolithic systems "not distributed".

Secondly, I don't know why you say "distributed systems are an active area of research" and use this as some sort of retort.

If I say "Is a monolithic app running on two separate hosts a distributed system or not", if your answer is "We don't know, it's an active area of research" or "It's not. Only microservices are distributed"
App stores are link aggregators. They charge people to put a link to their own stuff in there and even take a cut of sales they make after that.
This discussion has cropped up before.

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24931128

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25114024

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625232
Questions:

1. If we send the links to Australian news in instant messengers, is it required for the platform to pay the publisher?

2. If 1 is yes, who would pay them if we use email?
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People aren’t going to pay for simple services like WhatsApp in 2021. It’s as simple as that.

Tech people with a high degree of suspicion and high disposable income are the exception. Even within that group, most people won’t put their money where their mouth is when given the option.
If any Google employee reads this, how do you check how much data is in a specific drive folder? I haven't found an official method.

I need to free up space, thanks to the new storage policy. It's kinda hard to track down which directories are using the most data when there is no way to check...