skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Seems we get different ads:

From 2006 until about last summer Google only served me useless ads.

Facebook on the other hand managed to pick a number of ads that were in fact interesting. I have bought through them a couple of times which is quite amazing given that I think I easily spend 100 times more on Google properties or web properties with Google ads.
Brave acquires search engine to offer the first private alternative to Google
Reading this was very satisfying and brought a smile to my face, but I can't picture a situation where I wouldn't just staple the pages together for any document over a few pages. And if it's a document with too many pages for that, the method here introduces additional problems, namely the ability to quickly go to a specific page.
I’m interested in seeing what kind of research gets released once we find out how cheap it is to make bug patties from harvesting locust swarms.
Unrelated, I just want to applaud your chosen username. Pretty sure I'm gonna chuckle any time I see from now on. Thanks for that.
> the only reason for this removal (...)

I'm not sure about that. For all we know this might be for an upcoming MacOS 11.99 that launches in 10 years when everything runs natively.

It would be useful to know when these strings are actually being used, everything else seems speculation.
I'm on board with your socialist sensibilities when it comes to housing - but when the same effect is occurring throughout the entire economy the result is a depression.
Actually, looks like the Gateses have in the past funded the Wellcome Trust.

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Gran...
> You don't want to allow [...]

Yes I do. A Judge decided what was a fair punishment for the offense. They sat through an entire trial and made a decision about what was an appropriate sentencing.

Once that appropriate sentence has been serve there should be no further punishment. If the Judge decides the felon should never be able to work in banking they can, in most countries, make that happen.

What's the point of having a judicial system if everyone is going to take the matter in their own hands anyway?
probably APL, like all these things. It was probably used in some fashion before that, but my experience that is where it was named and standardised.

Heck, it is even mapped to an ASCII character IIRC: \ or /. Can't remember which, and on GPRS so Google takes a good 2 minutes.
Glad to see someone else referenced this book. For anyone who wants to learn more about just how difficult it is to peer into the minds of other creatures, I highly recommend this book. Also, it's filled with delightful anecdotes of animal behavior that you would only experience if you spent hundreds of hours observing an individual.
I've been working heavily in what I've dubbed the POWERStack for the past 13 months for a consulting client. Front end = power apps, back end = power automate + some cloud powershell (azure automation runbooks), database = sharepoint lists, sql (for initializing/iterating on complex lists) = local powershell.

As for Power Fx, in one particularly fun PowerAutomate flow I crafted for them, I wrote the following one liner to display a "percent complete" value for a given employee with regards to trainings they'd taken vs. trainings they were expected to have taken for OSHA compliance purposes. Parsing it is left as an exercise for the reader:

formatNumber(add(mul(float(div(sub( length(variables('TrainingsConducted')) , sub(length(split(variables('IncompleteTrainings'),';')),1)),float(length(variables('TrainingsConducted'))))),float(100)),float(0.5)),'##')

Low code, indeed.

Overall, I rate the POWERStack 8/10. It's not perfect, but it's fairly robust, not too difficult to reason about, and there are more than enough enterprise clients married to Microsoft to keep me in business for the foreseeable future. My only requests are to let me code Power Apps and Power Automate Flows fully in code-behind. I get that they're low-code tools by design, but in practice, they make things more difficult than they need to be for those of us who are quite happy to live in code, and I'd like to be able to build tools for automating the process for updating/adding functionalities to existing powerapps for those stakeholders that are on the absolutely-not-a-single-line-of-code-ever end of the development skill tree. Otherwise my business (in the Microsoft space) will remain bottlenecked by my time, and I'll have to dig elsewhere for my "set it and forget it" income stream.

If you need help building things with these tools/in this environment, feel free to reach out.
PayPal Bids $500M to Acquire Crypto Startup Curv
This sounds like an orthogonal point. (I agree with it, so it feels odd to see it presented as a rebuttal.) Surely an indented syntax could have rigor if we wanted it to?
In the US, yes. “Convicted felon” is not a protected class. Many businesses ask during your application or hiring process if you’ve ever been “convicted of a felony”. The idea is: “we don’t want a thief manning the cash registers!” There’s also the general misconception that “if you’re in, or were in, prison, it’s because you’re a bad person.” But the problem is: they served their debt to society (jail), and innocent people are jailed all the time.

If they were still a threat to society after 5 years or whatever, then they shouldn’t’ve been sentenced to just 5 years. And with innocent people being convicted, the bar to get it fixed is very high because (in some states), you have to not only prove you’re innocence, but that the prosecution messed up (such as withholding evidence). And don’t forget about prosecutorial immunity!

And if it is fixed, how do you answer that question? Yes, you were convicted, but it’s not on your record because you proved your innocence. Yes? No? Answer yes, and you’re denied. Answer no, and when they find out about it, you’re fired, and can only hope your bosses will fight for you and win.

It’s sad really.
Yes, that is excellent as well. And quite moving.
A bit meandering and muddled in some respects, but agree with the gist: Multiplication is not just repeated addition.
Growing Trends to Watch in Banking Cybersecurity
That's a great point. Let's do a real study with real people and real diets, collect their blood type, an auto immune disorders, any allergies or food intolerance. Bundle that with a relevant body photo.
I applaud the New Yorker’s lonely persistence in using the dieresis.
Sustainability for Open Source Projects: 4 Big Questions
This is actually a great article. The Times seems really split down the middle right now, you get these great articles that would fit in with the paper at its peak, and then you have some real dross. They're basically becoming their own sort of tech giant, like Google, they have tons of factions and the right hand doesn't know what the left, top, bottom, charm, strange, up, down, or left hands are doing.
Yeah, "never" was the wrong word. I forgot about that.
What if it wasn't all just historic deficits? If it was, Liberia would be a rival to america
Entertainment and porn these days are more accessible and higher quality than they ever were.
MacOS points this out in the finder for all my typescript files...
Nice! I’m also developing a clone at https://github.com/cofinley/free-roam.

Done mainly to learn latest React/Redux. It’s coming along nicely. Also hosted on GitHub pages as a type of progressive web app (https://cofinley.github.io/free-roam). I love the idea of offline apps where you bring your own data. Kind of like the Beaker Browser.
Except these "Ethics" researchers don't have the same level of skills. And involve in virtue signalling.
Fat has 9 calories per gram. Carbohydrates and protein have 4. The problem is that we strip all the fiber away from the carbs we eat and this causes all kind of problems including making them less satiating. Getting fat eating whole carbs is quite difficult. Refined carbs and sugar are bad but the idea that all carbs are bad is simplistic and wrong.

Legumes in particular are extremely filling:
https://www.azumio.com/blog/nutrition/beans-skinny-food
> Gaming is the sole demand for all consoles and GPUs

Well, no, mining cryptocurrency is a significant source of GPU demand; GPUs also have non-gaming, non-cryptocurrency utility.
my wife frowns on my doing that.
> I'm not sure why this seems to be remembered so wrongly?

It didn't work reliably on all chipsets/soundcards.
There was a big press conference 2 years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu7WJD8vpAQ
Curv Deepens Digital Asset Security for Hedera HBAR with MPC Technology
The people doing deliveries aren't the ones working in the warehouses (which are unionizing). Most of the delivery drivers work for third party contractors.

If the warehouse workers were happy with the status quo, why would they be trying to unionize in the first place?
This has not been my experience. I use it daily and after the initial load screen my graph is very responsive. They’ve fixed a lot of bugs since last year as well.
That's not the norm?
Perhaps. Small children are also exceptionally accident prone.

On the other hand, human children are incredibly curious and experiment with everything. It may not be stupidity that keeps them from following directions.
It’s still a really large discrepancy. I would guess something is broken somewhere. What is the webgl frame rate on native Mac? Have you tried running those webgl demos with chromium?
Chinese undergrads will determine outcome of AI Arms Race
In some sense it’s worse on modern systems. Modern systems are pretty good at using very little power when idle, but they can take a while to become idle. Regularly waking up hurts quite a bit.
Hopefully nobody writes Google and ethics together again
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Hi there.

Any examples from deno.land/x of what you'd expect from spies and mocks in std/testing?
A drag and drop filter builder alone and I'd fork over a subscription.
Probably not. Kernel handles the hardware. User-space deals with things like routing, mixing, resampling, fx, etc. Having that functionality outside of the kernel offers a lot more flexibility. Despite people chafing at the user-space audio API churn, it does allow advancements that would be much more difficult to do if implemented in the kernel.
people WANT to see disinformation because they don't care of the truth. they care only about the STRENGTH to do what they want to do any way, and misinformation enable them to do it.

it's completely logical for anyone who is not obssessed by "rationality" such as engineers
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I find it confusing because of all companies employing warehouse employees Amazon pays the highest $15/hr minimum wage and provides health benefits on top.

Amazon is asking for $15/hr to be made national minimum wage, but getting no support right now. Tell me again why isn’t $15/hr minimum wage getting any support?
I pay for Google One and would love it if they included no ads in with that. I bet a lot more people would take it up too.
> They don't try to say that they're not in a privileged position, just that they don't see the need to always be wanting more.

Indeed, I recognize my position is privileged, especially on a global scale.
I think it is due to the misconception of an over abundance of choice. The apps trick us into believing that there is always someone better at the next swipe. So instead of having random hook ups, it could be that people are always waiting for the perfect, and thus having less casual sex.
> There's no possible way that Google is going to make a change to their biggest money maker that would make them LESS money.

I know this sounds laughable given how toothless regulators have been thus far, but let's not forget that a) fines under GDPR have been growing and are likely to continue to do so, with ad tech in a particularly awkward spot, and b) both the EU and US governments and regulators have started nosing around big tech on a variety of fronts, including privacy and antitrust concerns.

Given that, the cost-benefit analysis becomes pretty complicated. They may feel a shift to a scheme which lowers revenues while avoiding regulatory scrutiny now makes sense.
> AFAIK, Windows runs part of the Audio subsystem outside the kernel, but these processes get special treatment by the scheduler to meet deadlines.

Assigning deadline-based scheduling priorities to the pipewire daemon wouldn't do the same job?
Wall Street's secretive 'expert networks' (2011)
Google has a long history of misdirection and slight of hand so this should be looked at through their history.

Would Google do something that causes them to make a lot less money? Likely not.

I wonder if Google is treating our computers as edge nodes running their software (i.e. chrome, js workers, etc). Because it's tracking us on our computers they don't consider it Google tracking us. Then they phone home with calculated cohorts and cohorts are always changing. It's still tracking us but in a different way.
We actually do look at network requests, but we only do this to assess page-load. Assessing this is a surprisingly hard-problem.

I don't think our UI Testing tools monitor network traffic though. I can see how that might recur - if you email a test scenario to (my HN name) AT axiom.ai, we may be able to whip up some JS, that could be turned into a no-code block, for you and others to use.
You might have a disrupted gut microbiome. People that report the kind of results you describe often have gut flora that are way out of whack. You might want to look into a SIBO test because in the long run a diet very high in meat is also inflammatory and not ideal.
You are raising good points indeed.
I'm quite surprised to see that the leading theories in many of these studies revolve around competing forms of entertainment. I'm personally more concerned with how economic difficulty, mental health, and hormonal imbalances could be causing these sort of changes in society.
I don’t want to do this. I want to buy one that is already done for me.

It’s great that it’s so easy. I’m happy that people enjoy doing it. I simply don’t want to.
In this case it could be good business sense. From The Guardian [1]: Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in 1904 and died in 1991. More than 600m copies of his books are in circulation, earning Dr Seuss Enterprises about $33m before tax in 2020, up from $9.5m in 2015, according to the company.

Forbes listed Dr Seuss as the second highest-paid dead celebrity of 2020, in part thanks to multimillion-dollar film and TV deals but mostly because of sales of his books.

It is probably prudent, from a business/investment perspective, for a publisher (or rights owner) to ring-fence works that it considers problematic, by being seen proactively to remove them from sale and stating the reason. This would tend to mitigate the chance of an intemperate backlash against the entire Dr Seuss catalogue.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/02/six-dr-seuss-b...
I know you are going to get downvoted into oblivion (and me too for that matter) but this made me chuckle for _a while_ :)
Clickable:

- https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_09_07.htm...

- https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_06_08.htm...

- https://denisegaskins.com/2008/07/01/if-it-aint-repeated-add...

(Sorry, it just bothers me when people don't use clickable links here.)
Facebook to pay $650M settlement over US privacy dispute
Kings of Leon Will Be the First Band to Release an Album as an NFT
Mobile separates a WebView component from a standalone browser app.
They’ve always had a dizzying mixture of world-class, unique reportage and writing, and idiotic filler. What’s happening now, which is new and depressing, is stuff like firing a top reporter because the Daily Beast recycled some boring complaints by a couple of teenage girls.
To my amusement, my screen reader pronounced the project name as "deep aware", which I thought was appropriate, as in, it makes you deeply aware of your real dependencies.
This is exactly what I'm afraid of. I have no specific love for namecheap (I can't even remember if I've ever used them) but I don't want to see their name dragged through the mud.

Shit like this is the downside of giving everyone a soapbox and a megaphone. There's no easy answer on how to stop misinformation.
You know who is at the end disadvantaged by affirmative action? Minorities / women.

Even if a PoC / woman is actually talented, people will subconsciously perceive them as diversity hires.

There were plenty of instances of people telling on this forum that they don't want to be seen as diversity person, but actual engineer.
If they aren't going to track us as individuals does this mean they will also not buy data on individuals?
For me its a speculative investment. For others your answer may vary. Doesn't really matter though, no one is buying it with an expectation that it wont appreciate so it can be a currency and a groundbreaking technology while still being a speculative investment.
But then, governments will choose who the winners are (and will charge for this).
> what's the proposal there?

That's what Google was afraid of: the alternative is to decide that the cost of the model isn't worth the effort (externalities < benefit) and to abandon it. Which might be the correct decision, but one that loses Google a lot of potential money.
It's low-code, not no code. Salesforce has been in this market for about 20 years with significant success.

Power Apps are irrelevant to you unless you're heavily integrated with O365. And if you are, chances are that you're in a large organization. And if that's true, you hire a certified MS partner to handle maintenance, you don't leave it to non-technical staff.

At best, like MS Excel, staff can use the tool to prototype something, and then let the consultants figure out how to create a working solution that works across the whole org.
One problem some studies suffer is over-control of confounding variables, which excludes secondary causal relationships. For example, if you control for health of arteries, you will find that (insert bad food here) known culprits for heart disease stop causing heart disease -- which would seem absurd. That's because artery health and heart disease are correlated (in this case causally related), so when you control condition one on the other, any causes vanish (completely or partially).

In this case in particular they control for BMI. If eating less meat is helpful in lowering BMI, this effect isn't captured by this result. So you have to watch out for this when taking conclusions from a study or making decisions (if you already have a low BMI then you can trust the conclusions better).
This applies to fusion, genomics for precision med, and quantum computing as well. Hopeful to see a successful outcome, tired of 20+ years of unrealistic claims.
>...a proliferation of individual user data across thousands of companies, typically gathered through third-party cookies.

Is this really the main culprit? I get the impression that a lot of the tracking work has to do with server side data gathering based on ip addresses, matching web sites, shared login data, embedded pixels and probably all sorts of other clues. I would love to be wrong about this.

If I am correct then "blocking third-party cookies" is mainly a feel-good marketing ploy.
Just a note that the split infinitive prohibition was largely a 19th century thing:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive
If you use a termination condition that has to do with convergence of iterates instead of a number of iterations (often the case), then you generally don't know beforehand the length of the finite sequences. Maybe you know a bound, but in general you might not even have that.

In an important sense, it only becomes a finite algorithm. It isn't one. You cannot write the finite sequence of instructions down. It's got loops.

To your point about approximations vs not, if you have an algorithm that, for any desired approximation accuracy can compute the square root to that accuracy in a finite number of steps, then that process is as much "the square root" as anything involving the real numbers.
Great. Now all I can think about is the Matrix human pods playing the pornhub theme as they close.
The study did examine economic difficulty. "The authors find no evidence that trends in young adults’ economic circumstances, internet use, or television watching explain the recent decline in casual sexual activity."