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Each of our data visualizations is connected to a data feed so that it is always up to date. They are of the "set if and forget it" variety.

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Browser Extensions Have More Power Than We Realize
How about the companies who need that sort of security audits for the software they rely on?
What scares me about C++ is that it seems even people who used it extensively for a while call themselves, "intermediate," and still find themselves in C++-shaped holes.

If something breaks and I need to fix it now, I don't want to be fighting with a language that says, "it's fine to cast that pointer, don't worry about it," or takes years to master to that level.

Maybe I'm just missing the point(er).

You can repeat this argument for any X language you want.

For me you want to work in a language that doesn't let you cut any corners by default. This is what Haskell and some other FP languages do. I can perform unsafe pointer operations in Haskell but it's going to be loud, noisy, and painful to write. As it should be!

In languages like C++/Java/etc you have to be disciplined and opt-in to maintaining the kind of code that Haskell defaults to.
This website is actually part of a bigger one called DreamResearch.net where you can find interesting info such as some investigations into what children dream.

It seems that there are some "cognitive prerequisites for dreaming", which are mostly developed around the age of 5-7, which might explain your dreams being so crazy and full of colors, as in those ages you are still developing "the ability to produce mental imagery" and "narrative skills".

https://dreams.ucsc.edu/Library/domhoff_2020b.pdf - Chapter "Dreaming Is a Gradual Cognitive Achievement"
It's patronizing to just throw out and blanket judge so many people and products just because you don't think they have value.

There is value to the consumers purchasing products - many of which are innovative and to be copied later once successful. It's a giant AB test.

There is also value to the business owners, small, medium and large.

You could apply that opinion to any product whether on shopify or even bigger open marketplaces like amazon, walmart
A few years back I toured a machine shop staffed primarily by blind individuals. The Javits–Wagner–O'Day Act requires federal agencies purchase some select goods made by the blind when possible. Roughly three hundred employees, 90%+ somewhere between legally blind and fully blind, and 1/3rd or so also deaf.

Someone more skilled than I could and should fill a book with the accessibility changes they have made over 50 years of operation. Every single inch of the place had fascinating design details. All machines were laser fenced. Vacuum work holding with audio alignment sensors. All paths had a raised curb. All readouts on CNCs were capable of displaying text one 15" tall letter at a time, or reading G-code aloud or via braille. All offices have one bright wall and one dark wall to provide high contrast for sign language interpreters.

One of the sighted employees I met works in the accessibility dept. redesigning systems to be compatible with various disabilities. He had a full lab of 3d printers, CNCS, and enough other equipment to make a makerspace jealous.

The company also did some amazing outreach through their charity. The provided dogs, housing, and general mobility training (how to navigate busses, etc.).

I should check in and see how they are coping with covid.
I believe the actual nature of dreams are not as we remember them. When we recall a dream and makes it a conscious thing we interpret it as we interpret other recollections by making a coherent story of the basic memory. So I dont’t think we can know what the brain process actually were when dreaming. Different things may coalesce into a dream process. And when it is recalled and interpreted it is formed into a meaningful but relatively arbitrary direction.
I was maybe underemphasizing the labor costs - it's a real contribution. But you are right that everything is more expensive, and it's pretty interconnected. Big contributors: fee for service incentives, administration overhead, end of life care, inefficiencies due to fragmentation and licensing, insurance inefficiency (not the profit margin, but the tracking/coding level of detail), over subscription of expensive (e.g. capital heavy) procedures, pharmaceutical costs.
> If they start penalizing uncommon workloads, this kills innovation in many areas, videogames included.

I'm not too worried about that. Nvidia has track record of releasing driver updates to address issues in end-user applications. If a legitimate application got accidentally flagged, people will report it and nvidia will whitelist them.
> GitLab’s documentation points out very clearly that the ratios they use to pay less outside of SF are not “cost of living” adjustments, but “cost of market”.

What does this even mean? The market will bear paying some of us top wages anywhere. If you offer me less because I'm in a different location, I'll just take the offer from the other SF-based company that offers me more.
What is surprising is that outside of HN everyone blame Facebook. I mean, Facebook is giving free traffic to news websites in exchange of users' longer time spent on Facebook. How could Facebook to blamed by publishes ? By users maybe, but how come by publishers?
Youtubes copyright enforcement can hit videos at random, parodies like DBZA have been lucky enough to reappear after a few months. Other channels discussing movies or really anything else that might contain a few seconds of copyrighted music in the background can suffer random bouts of silence. So there are good reasons someone might feel the need to keep a personal backup outside of youtube.
What's a fundamental feature for C++ then, if not RAII?

GC may not be the fundamental feature of Java the language, but it is certainly a fundamental feature of JVM.
What is Facebook’s value system? Is it different from other companies’ value systems?
That's why showing customers actual software quickly, getting feedback directly from them and iterating rapidly on that feedback is so incredibly important.
> Which gets to me other point in: besides the seriously unlucky residential users, who is paying these extreme prices? Factories which can't go down? Critical infrastructure?

The residential consumers in this unlucky boat were ones that explicitly opted into it. Most residential plans don't directly expose the consumer to wholesale pricing fluctuations - the consumer pays a flat rate per kwh, and the electric provider takes on the risk of their wholesale costs going above the retail rates their customers are paying.

The "known flat rate" usually get adjusted on a periodic basis, so right now the electric companies are eating the loss themselves and will have to make up for it when they next adjust the flat rate consumers pay. But on the short term, the consumer is protected from the volatility of the wholesale rate spikes and the electric company ends up on the hook to carry that debt load.

... unless you opted into one of the providers in Texas that give you "access" to wholesale rates. Because fixed rate plans have to factor in wholesale pricing uncertainty (like this exact situation), they typically have higher rates than plans pegged to wholesale. So the people in this situation took a deliberate gamble - generally they had cheaper-than-retail rates due to direct access to wholesale pricing. But they also took on the risk of wholesale pricing volatility, so it's now coming back to bite them in the current situation.

It's still seriously unlucky. But it's also wholly avoidable, and those in it have been enjoying the benefit of generally lower rates by opting into this risk exposure.
This project is cool, and it is cool to have alternatives to Electron for cases that call for something like Electron.

Something that is also cool is that Rust runs really well on the web (via WASM), which opens the door to building projects primarily with Rust and deploying them to the web with a web front-end. It will not suit every case, but in some cases it might save you from asking users to download a separate app that bundles a web browser engine.
Wait, who is complaining about colonialism anymore?
> in OO there shouldn't be user_id

I don't think that's right. There is a user_id column in the book table, so why shouldn't there be book.user_id?
My prediction is that this will just send publishers deeper into a death spiral if it continues. People won't stop sharing information, the publishers will just become even less relevant and they'll be replaced by alternatives which, even if Australia walks back this rule, will do long-term damage to the current publishers.
[company's] corporate incentive is to get you to FEEL like your getting good value out of [product]

Isn't this the entire raison d'être of marketing, in general?
here in France, a lot of people who went to work aren't back home at 6 pm, but I think they aren't really the people targeted by the measure, but rather those who go see friends to have a drink in the evening
You should write a counter blog post explaining the case, and evidence, for Facebook being a good platform. Then we could have a real debate instead of flowing along with the counterzeitgeist.
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Science Against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo
There's a city I have been visiting in my dreams for years now. It's a very different experience each time, but the streetcars are always the same[0], as well as the general impression of the place.

At this point I can identify a few areas like "old town" or "business district" or "very large square with an enormous roundabout".

[0] Mostly various types of Ganz UVs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganz_UV which is interesting, because I've only been to Budapest once in my life.
Right right. But according to public statements, the fake accounts team detects and takes action on tens of millions of fake accounts a day. So ... maybe such a directive doesn't exist?
I made a service to get around blocks like this. I didn't account for the fact that everyone would be too scared to use it-- bannings etc.
I do a similar thing, but I use "soft_undo" as it seems to include navigation jumps in it's stack so it's only one step. Think the default keybind is Cmd+U.
The design is modular such that it can support anything under the cover.

Essentially you have encoders for all of the columns, which then get piped into a mixer and then into decoders to predict the final output(s). These encoders and decoders can be any type of ML model, but our current focus is on neural networks.

So e.g. if you have say a text like "A cute cat" and the number 5 and your target is an image (let's assume you have a training set such that the model would learn to generate one with 5 cute cats) then you have:

1. Text encoder generates an embedding for (cute cat) + numerical encoder normalizes "5"
2. A mixer (which can be e.g. an FCNN or gradient booster) generates an intermediate representation.
3. A decoder that is trained to generate images takes that representation and generates an image1.

Note: above is a good illustrative example, in practice, we're good with outputting dates, numerical, categories, tags and time-series (i.e. predicting 20 steps ahead). We haven't put much work into image/text/audio/video outputs

You should be able to find more details about how we do this in the docs and most of the heavy lifting happens in the lightwood repo, the code for that is fairly readable I hope: https://github.com/mindsdb/lightwood
Assuming news orgs only want to tell the truth may be a bit too naive.
> such as creating plausible fake users

Define a 'plausible' user? Facebook just wants your phone number and uses that as the only metric to determine it's a human behind the account. And as we know, there is no shortage of phone numbers to use from places like Twilio where you can mass-generate an army of Facebook users.
Machining can be simpler if you've got a couple precision features that can be clamped to with hard fixturing. It's all about positioning the workpiece accurately so the fixed g-code program can do its thing.
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

I always thought the the problem with prediction markets is you have the incentive to make the prediction come true. And that gets ugly fast. But hell, I guess that's what all this is at the end of the day.
Pricing begins at $199/month for small publishers, increasing for publishers that have larger size/scope. Your feedback regarding availability of pricing on the website is noted and I can understand the friction caused by needing to speak with sales. It is a change that we are currently weighing.
Centralization goess against the ethos of www. It was supposed to desintermediate interactions yet we ended up with monopolies.
Amusing and mildly racist use of the name Raj in the comment, not from the original article as far as I can see. Please note that John of Delaware, his boss confirmed that principal goes to wash and said to “please proceed”
"Mystical" and "unconscious" aren't interchangeable.
HN loves to praise the digitization & automation of other industries. Why is this different?

Retail is dying, malls are bankrupt.

COVID amplified this change and small business struggles. Even big corps are losing retail to online sales, GME is a meme example lol.
> focus "here" not "there"

What does this mean? Are they removing fake accounts or not?
>Blockchains are often criticized for being speculative toys and not doing anything meaningful except for self->referential games (tokens, with yield farming, whose returns are powered by... the launch of other tokens). There >are certainly exceptions that the critics fail to recognize; I personally have benefited from ENS and even from >using ETH for payments on several occasions where all credit card options failed. But over the last few months, >it seems like we have seen a rapid burst in Ethereum applications being concretely useful for people and >interacting with the real world, and prediction markets are a key example of this.

Was hunting this week for real-world use cases for blockchains, this is one to add to the list I feel.
I mean, I think you could pretty safely cull 95% of the absolute junk on Amazon without any real loss (except to Amazon's advertising business).
I think that's your body's way of making sure you don't hurt yourself - kinda like why I can never run in dreams - body has a sleep paralysis
> Shouldn't we all cheer the fact that at least for Australia Facebook will not be handling "news' thus wont be influencing people

That conclusion does not follow from the premise. There are many ways to influence without being “the news”, and the news is at least wearing the clothes of shining a light on the hidden places of political and economic malfeasance (the fact that the term “yellow journalism” is older than any living person notwithstanding).
> though I wonder about the copyright to the headline and blurb content when other people share.

Can you copyright 10 words? What about 5? 1?
This could be considered a subset of the more general problem of trying to figure out when two points on a graph are meaningfully different, as opposed to just visually different.

In my early physics training the importance of putting error bars on data points was stressed, allowing for a visual comparison of the difference between two points in standard deviations.
Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee
I would have thought that a change in expressiveness leads to less maintainability, not more. Could you elaborate on that point?
Hmm maybe BEIS (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) having a board seat might be a good idea.

Not sure they BEIS have the experience to hold Nominet to account - but hey offer me a grade 6 and id be happy join BEIS.
I don't know if I'd call it recurring, since it's pretty rare, but: Sometimes I lose my mind in my dreams. I can feel myself losing my grip on my faculties, as if something were ripping my mind apart. It's hard to describe, visuals become distorted, things split apart into colours, my grip on reality feels slippery. I imagine having a stroke might feel that way, although I hope it's less dramatic. This is just sheer terror.

Also rare, but in a similar vein, sometimes I wake up into a dream, over and over again. I'll be in bed, relieved I'm finally awake, until I soon realize I'm still asleep and wake up again. When this repeats enough times, it becomes pretty desperate.

Otherwise, I rarely have anxiety-inducing dreams.
Seems like there is a potential business model for providing a service that will cancel a subscription on behalf of you
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My dreams are always of the sense that I'll get physically lost and die for it -- as in, I'm driving up a winding road, and I take a wrong turn, and that turn causes me to skid off past a guardrail and plummet to the ground, infinitely below. Or walking back from buying groceries, and all the signs are blank, then turning out into the woods and falling down in a pit in the sidewalk.
> And not a whiff that they are contributing back in substantial ways on the whole either

How have you achieved this conclusion when the entire article is about how corporations are contributing back, and the fear that those contributions might cause the devaluation of volunteer contributions? There’s even half a dozen visualisations to demonstrate the extent of their contributions.
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It's aggregation at most, not centralization. Hacker News and Reddit are also aggregators -- the content still exists elsewhere and can be accessed directly with ease.
Apparently all the news, government, politician stuff got removed, but all the conspiracy, 5G-allergy, anti-vax, stuff stayed up.

I wouldn't bet that banning news will reduce the noise. Instead I think it will create a vacuum for even worse noise to fill.
Yeah you would want to wait for some time, like possibly months, before drawing conclusions.
Are there any ZK libraries that developers can use to handle tricky implementations like transformations?
Integers are by far the best primary key material possible. Only for lack of discipline do they seem inferior to alternatives.

See a prior book I wrote on HN regarding this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25309248

The current domain model I am working with utilizes a global integer sequence to key all entities. This implicitly eliminates the class of bugs where the same keys of different types overlap and would otherwise mask exceptions. It also enables powerful domain modeling techniques in which the identities of things are themselves to be thought of as first class entities and referred to as a common class of thing. This is a little mind-bending at first, but it enables some really powerful abstractions that would otherwise be infeasible if we had to switch over all possible types of keys.

The benefits of an integer key vs a guid key are quite profound when you get into the academics of information theory. They provide implicit creation order of things, whereas GUIDs cannot. They are deterministic in that there will never be a collision. Their range can be made to be infinite. Integers are perfectly efficient, even if the computer representation isn't necessarily so - BigInteger types scale gracefully.
Oh I'm actually just learning unix/how to work properly in the Command line and building this personal source of knowledge up and am wondering if you'd be down to share/point me to places that are good resources (beyond, of course, the man pages)

also the tool discussed here is available via scoop for windows if we're trying it out
if they write (i mean publish) something worth reading people will eventually find their way to it.

a more sensible idea would be to let the publishers populate the ad slots next to their articles
Well something broke it at some point where it no longer worked. There's plenty of threads going back years over years where folks are befuddled about connectivity issues.

And there's that Android users were coerced to use Hangouts, which did not have XMPP. Rather than switch to Hangouts, most of my friends kept using Whatsapp and Messenger.

Ie:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/20mz48/google_xmp...

https://www.jabawok.net/?p=70
I never really paid attention to just how massive Bytedance actually is until the article mentioned some of their products.

Makes sense how they had the resources to brute force TikTok into the American consciousness so quickly.
This might be a fair point, but it seems unrelated.