skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, that attitude sounds like a good thing. It sounds like the Spanish, or at least the Spanish that you’ve come across, haven’t been sucked in by the unforgiving ideals of capitalism. It pleases me that they’d find ways to enjoy their life that don’t involve economic efficiency
i have been sure of it for a while. it would not be difficult with only a few "collaborators".
And what so? China bans half of the Internet. It's actually harder now to find a range that is not banned that one which isn't for VPNs.
Especially when there's Telegram groups that are charging $10/mo to get into haha.

Advertising and privacy don't mix.

e: I was wrong, it's $20/mo (wip.co)
does anyone else see this title as a bit clickbaity?

I initially read this as if the CEO was actually drug trafficking, rather than the selling of encrypted chat being used to claim 'facilitation' of trafficking, which appears to be the actual charge..
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/01/26/new-gitlab-product-...
That is an unhappy medium, but consider what people already do; I'm interested in philosophy and electronic engineering. I know that for any given book on those topics I want to read, Amazon is more likely than not to just not have them, or only have them with a ridiculous price for second-hand. I don't know if it's the same for fiction readers, but I'd wager that a good proportion of the books fiction readers want to buy (books which they discover by other forms of advertising, Goodreads, word of mouth, Twitter, Reddit, etc.) are not on Amazon either. If what I suppose is true, then the only people impacted are those who find books to read only by browsing Amazon - that is, they use Amazon to discover, not to seek.
Not saying I do not believe this , but do you have a citation or an example?
No, it is not from the Quran.
Worthy of https://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/
It is a Google paper, further along in the URL one can see that it's under the offical Google github account.
Suprised no rust or elixir there.
Ketamine certainly is effective for depression, however that doesn't mean that the psychadelic effects are what does it, or that curing depression requires getting in touch with your feelings, or anything like that. Could just be a coincidence.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/19/ho...
There likely is some foul play involved in some cases yes that's for sure. For example this Beeple thing looks like it's a scam to pump a token which Beeple has a stake in so that they can then offload the token at high prices to new unsuspecting buyers.

However just on your point "Anyone can mint an NFT that points to whatever" - sure they can but those NFTs will be and should be worthless. You are able to prove an NFT came from the actual author since it would have been signed with their private key.

When all the fake demand settles we will see if there is any real demand here or not. I myself have no interest in buying any NFTs, at least not yet :).
Firefox has been on a steady trajectory of declining usability for a while now, and I'm left with the impression that the people responsible for these decisions either have no experience in the field or have never used Firefox.
This "compact density" drama may not be a huge issue in the grand scheme of things, but the paper cuts are adding up fast, and will only accelerate the migration to Chromium forks (and Chrome itself.)
I shouldn't have to hack Firefox with custom CSS to get it to behave in a reasonable way.
Most of the points that article makes are utterly irrelevant for most uses of xz, including this one.
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I was surprised to read a lot of whale meat you eat in Japan was dolphin. Not sure if it's still an issue.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-30-mn-27832...
You can do both. Usually, nails go along the outside and screws in the "field," but I'll confess that it's been 30 years since I helped my dad do it (I was a big help, I'm sure) so perhaps the state of the art has changed.
You can't really trick them into consenting either as the law specifies you need a informed consent. Just having a flag in the database that the user ticked without knowing what they agreed to does not qualify.
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> This is factually wrong, looks at CO2 emissions per capita, USA has carbon footprint double that of France.

It's closer to 3x: USA 15.7 vs France 5.2 tonnes of CO2 per capita per year (2017, not accounting for other gasses that contribute to warming) [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
> Maybe its time to setup a self-hosted backup VCS and not depend entirely on GitHub/GitLab web.

I've been wanting to do this for some time purely for git hosting (don't care about CI at all) but wasn't sure about how to make it failover...

Personally i'd be happy with a headless git server, but that's not fair on everyone else who wants the GUI to browse and organise stuff, so I want gitlab etc to deal with that. What would be nice is to have a headless backup server that allowed everyone to continue pulling/pushing from the CLI with their existing repos when gitlab is down. I can't see a smooth way of doing that since it would require messing with the git remotes, unless the solution is inverted and uses a single remote pointing at the "backup" server which then replicates to gitlab, but I don't think gitlab can be configured to change the default remote when people clone it from the UI.

I suppose this is why people just end up self hosting gitlab instead.
For those who want to use Firefox without all the Mozilla Foundation fuckups, Waterfox and Pale Moon are viable, usable, and security-updated forks who could use your support.
You can easily imagine a shiny border that cannot be emulated easily. In any case it doesn’t really matter if some people can copy the content. As long as enough users are willing to pay for premium stuff, that’s good. And it’s definitely the case, lot of people are happy paying for cosmetic content when it’s done well.
Here is a link to Oxfam's methodology[1].

First, they only track emissions that they can directly tie with consumption. The statement "fifty percent of the world’s carbon emissions are produced by the world’s richest 10%" is not supported by the study because it makes no attempt to track all of the world's carbon emissions.

Second, they assume that income == consumption == carbon emissions, which is a very bad assumption. The world's richest people do not spend their entire income every year, so using that as the basis for consumption is inaccurate. Also, assuming that every dollar spent, no matter where or by whom, has the exact same emissions associated with it is incorrect. Wealthy people are the people who can afford to put solar panels on their roofs and buy new electric cars, but by this study they are penalized for such consumption.

In general, I find that oxfam optimizes their studies for the headlines. When you dig into it, there are so many qualifiers and assumptions made that it seems clear the study was authored with an specific outcome in mind.
"The top 10% earn 5x more money than average" is not as outrageous a headline as we are used to seeing. But by multiplying by a carbon emission factor of 1, they get to write "Top 10% emits half of world's carbon", which generates way more clicks.

[1]https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10...
I am not going to disagree with you there. I would like it if we never needed guns. Unfortunately I don't know of any community that has erradicated crime and dangerous animals.
Sure we would. It's like a tooth-gap - and there's also the issue of lacking a respected military in times that are getting a lot more... interesting.

But it feels like the UK needs to do some domestic cleanup before that has a chance of happening. Seems like the UK media and political landscape has gone completely off the rails.
Most people simply have no choice unless you are willing to switch to GNU/Linux phones. Those are not 100% ready for everything yet.
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I think I'm going to bite the bullet on the quest. I plan to do some vr development so having access to one most common headsets helps. On top of that, while the vive is better, I just can't justify the cost at the minute (perhaps if the development takes off).

The base stations plus the headset and controllers are over a thousand, unless someone can correct me.
Stopped reading after seeing this: "Amazon.com $1,432B Yes, Bezos"

Bezos is not a programmer.
This is too good to go unnoticed. Have you thought about making it a desktop app?
No, I'm not making a statement about blocking, just using it as device to try and infer what's Telegram's infrastructure, I'd assume it's majority of their expenses.
When I was 11 I had already been collecting the Swedish edition of Mad for a while when I came across a copy of the American original. Back then they had a five year subscription option that I sprang for, so Mad Magazine really accompanied me from late childhood to early adulthood.

My favourite was probably Don Martin and Sergio Aragonés, but Al Jaffee would be a solid third. Art wise I think Harvey Kurtzmann is still hard to beat.
But who provided the cert? Was it the US government or was it some 3rd-party profiting off HIPAA-confusion?
She probably had an opinion that didn't align with what we should believe. Normal practice in social media nowadays.
Maybe HN users, but an increasingly overwhelming percentage of the general population prefers to download an app to do something instead of using a mobile website.
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Wonderful, thanks!

Now we are talking :-)
It seems almost disingenuous to me to miss the point of this type of interview question, because it is so obvious that the intention is “imagine a scenario where you need to do a high performance implementation of some very well-defined task, for which you don’t have a super fast utility function. Let’s use word frequency counting as an example and ignore the fact that such a problem is almost certainly already solved.” It’s implicit in the asking of the question that they aren’t actually in need of word counts on arbitrary bodies of text and need your help solving that problem. It’s a programming interview. Accept the premise and show them that you can program.
In reasonable countries these businesses still get at least some compensation. That makes it a temporary restriction, the government would not be interested in paying it forever.
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I think that sometimes a comment section can add value (like high voted comments on HN), but for a newspaper which has a very broad and undiscriminate audience, they need a better system.

I think I saw one system where you couldn't comment directly, but you could post a reaction. It would need to be approved before being visible to others first. I think such a system, while pretty labor intensive, would be preferable.
What would be your "pareto list", ie the list of the concepts, symbols, notation, etc that would get one 80% of the way with 20% of the knowledge?
That every reactor is too different maybe stems from idiotic regulations, ecohype and nimbyism streching build times so long that every time another one gets started there's a new design available.

And not from financing, although the multidecade stretches do not help that either.

EDIT: And these same delays force operation of 50 year old designs to the failure, just because building some new ones is in fact infeasible. Then those ancient reactors fail, as in Fukushima, and we're onwards on the spiral.
I've got to say I'm rather happy with Go's performance and verbosity of the unoptimized version in this micro-benchmark. For me it's just the right trade-off. Go was the right choice for my current project. I don't need it faster but wouldn't want my garbage-collected language to be substantially slower.

I suppose SBCL would be in a similar ballpark for this task, though, and would love to see an unoptimized SBCL version.
This is true but in many companies they won't give you the 4 10s option. The reason is that the company can cut 20% pay but realistically set the same targets (where possible). So the expectations don't realistically drop by 20%, just the time you have to reach them and the pay. Depending on how much you were payed to begin with you may find this a reasonable compromise.
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Upvote for now, will have to look into it later.
> temporary

I lol-ed
>Anybody who owns a legitimate business in India has no reason to do this.

Really? So none of the rich folks in India send their kids to college in the US or Europe? None of them own homes or boats or cars in those countries? They have no reason AT ALL to extract capital from India besides bribes?

While I won't even begin to try to claim India doesn't have a ton of issues socially, trying to claim anyone moving capital elsewhere made the money illegally seems like more than a bit of a stretch.
It was AWS and Google. [1]

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43865538
The trading ban is honestly good for India, crypto so far doesn't generate any profits, only losses. Any individual profit must come at the expense of someone else's losses + mining on top ensures it's a giant loss-making ponzi. Early adopters are overwhelmingly Westerners, Indians buying in now would create a net transfer wealth from India, and India can't afford it. Stated differently, crypto has a negative expected value - it destroys wealth.

Once that changes and (some) crypto starts to generate genuine profits reversing the ban would make sense, but until then, let Westerners with more money than they know what to do with play ponzi games with each other. In the West even losing everything is an inconvenience in the grand scheme of things - there's ample food, jobs and welfare. Being poor in India can mean you actually starve to death [1]

There's no reason to ban mining however.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...
> Is your service also not verified by lawyers

This is exceedingly common w/ service providers in the HIPAA compliance space. They want the benefit of sounding like an expert while washing their hands of any consequence if/when they have made a mistake.
Both perhaps, I won't try to pretend I know what the Indian legislature is thinking, but the collective harm it might be doing was not the question the root comment had asked - it framed that computation in-itself needed a moral justification to be deemed illegal, which is much more broad than the narrow task of mining bitcoin and would include math operations on computers that are currently illegal, such as distributing child pornography.

The commentator then called a critique of that lens a "strawman", despite CP and many other computations (see other comments in the thread) already being illegal.
Right, but the people who go into programming tend to fall for the Apex Fallacy.

There's probably a place nearby that needs a basic developer for writing
This is part of the issue. Audience. Mass consumer does not know and/or does not care. If that is the case, the company can easily determine that Zoidberg approach of 'Why not both' is very rational, if annoying to people like me.
> Advertising and privacy don't mix.

Targeted advertising and privacy don't mix. Context-based advertising is fine for the privacy. But it may not be fine if you don't like to be manipulated.
The article provides profiling data of the optimised Python solution. If I'm reading it right, 90% of the time (1148 milliseconds out of a total of 1280) is spent executing the _collections._count_elements and str.split methods, both of which are Python standard-library methods presumably implemented in optimized C.

Of course, they're right to optimize this way, and it's to Python's credit that it's possible to leverage this approach so successfully using only the standard-library, but I think my earlier point stands.
What a typical HNews comment - full of hyperbole, handwaving and bike shedding.

I guarantee you that the people working on FF are both very experienced and do use their own product.
> Most of the numbers I can find for Europe is from surveys of employees, not gathered from data on labour contracts.

Then you are looking at it extremely poorly without obnoxious quotes.

Most of the official stastics on productivity like the one published by Eurostat are derived from the total amount of hours worked which is estimated based on contracts.
If you interviewed for a perl job, you'd probably be disqualified for writing code that is too readable ;)
This status page is weird, it says that there is an active incident and that there is a databate latency issues, but everything is green:
https://i.imgur.com/oXSiyTG.png
The only perfect code is the one you write, all others are crap
HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (2009)
Browsers can do surprisingly much even if you don't have a internet connection. Couple local networks (even local-only networks) with browser being able to communicate them, and you can build local-first applications with just JS in the browser.

In the case of IPFS, you can have a IPFS node running locally, have a browser client communicate with it and just store the latest hash of your state (that you can backup outside of the browser too). So if the local state (in the browser) gets lost, you can restore it from the hash. Often used content can be cached in the browser but still stored in your IPFS node.
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Hi, GitLab team member here. Heads-up: GitLab.com appears to be stable again. Our engineers are monitoring and investigating the root cause of the incident.

https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/1371443832865222658
Please help me understand.

Say Monica runs a clothing shop and sells clothes (including face masks and sun glasses) to people she suspects are drug dealers.

And we are not talking a single pair of sun glasses - she is running the clothing shop 8 hours a day, every day, for many years.

Well, she facilitated criminal activity and must go to jail, right?
Absolutely. We can solve this with decentralized networks with a TrustNet so moderation is user centric rather than global. I've explored this problem in depth here: https://adecentralizedworld.com/2020/06/a-trust-and-moderati...
It is surprisingly difficult to buy decent hardware that doesn't light up like a goddamn christmas tree. I recently bought a mouse and had to filter out like half of the good candidates to avoid having a stupid LED on my desk. This past weekend I installed a new AMD CPU (my first AMD ever) and the stock cooler has this dumb ring light on it. The only way to disable it is to hook up the CPU fan to a USB port so it appears as a USB device and use some proprietary Windows software to turn it off. That's right, CPU fans are USB devices now! The motherboard I bought has some backlighting(?!) which thankfully you can disable in the BIOS, but that's such a waste of hardware. Almost every RAM cartridge looks like a flashy high-level dagger from an MMO.

What the fuck is with this trend? I just want a goddamn black box to sit there quietly in the corner.
///_hyperscript
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highly publicized succesful CEOs?

In domains that are either all IT or where IT is a key part? :)
Haha. That driving rock music is so...incongruous.
> intentional waste of energy, rather than incidental.

is it a waste if the result was useful? Why do you get to decide, rather tha whoever was paying for the electricity?
> The logical next step

The completely illogical application of the slippery slow fallacy*

The actual logical next step would be to address the large corporations that are polluting.
I don't remember where I read this (possibly even on HN at some point), but this reminds me of an interesting idea that has stuck with me over time...

Consider two broad but otherwise generally viewed as unrelated (however, not mutually exclusive) skillsets: A and B. Lots of people are great at A and lots of people are great at B, but the intersection of the two is generally small (perhaps "law" and "programming" could be reasonably argued as examples of A and B here). There are large numbers of people employed doing A, and similarly for B, often quite successfully in both cases.

Now, there's some much smaller set of individuals who have a reasonable grasp of both skillsets A and B. Recall that they're not mutually exclusive (are any skillsets, really?), just not often seen together. It seems that this set of people would be uniquely positioned to potentially provide immense value over the perhaps small (but even more marginally serviced) field of needs where A and B intersect. The value here isn't in the individual's capability for A or B in isolation, but in what they can provide where A and B cross.

I realise the above is a big generalization and perhaps hugely oversimplified, but it's interesting to think about the different, seemingly unrelated skillsets where there may be great potential from some cross-pollination of ideas to bear new fruit. I do think that "programming" in general, perhaps in some form not as it's conventionally understood today, is becoming somewhat of a new literacy, at least to the extent that there seem to be countless existing businesses or fields of inquiry that could benefit from programmers who are also experts in their traditional domains. However, one could also come up with lots of different examples for A and B above, which may not even include programming at all.
Your difference might be mainly single threaded vs multi threaded decompression. This doesn't typically transform into a real-world speedup when browsing the web, as one will typically run multiple decompression streams in parallel anyway. Zstd is definitely an improvement on Gzip, but not by that much.
I am sorry but this is bull, has been bull and continues to be bull.

If you actually read the PP and TOS, you see that:

1. Nothing you share (content, pictures etc.) will be VISIBLE on Facebook for others to see (literally what they say), but it is pretty clear that this does not include what facebook does with the data aka sell it for ads.
This is the only absolute protection that the PP/TOS affords you. They promise not the go an post your pictures or locations on some random facebook profile. That's it.

2. Naturally, they say that CURRENTLY do not share "sensitive" data with facebook for ad purposes. To quote:
"Today, Facebook does not use your WhatsApp account information to improve your Facebook product experiences or provide you more relevant Facebook ad experiences on Facebook."
But what about tomorrow? Why this wording, which appears several times in the PP/TOS?

The intention of this PP is clearly to pave the way to use Whatsapp to enrich the ad targeting in Facebooks network. This was always the goal for Facebook, and they will fight tooth and nail to get that done.

So where do we stand?
You can accept the TOS/PP, allowing Facebook to do all the nefarious things it wants, simply because Whatsapp tells you that currently, "today", your data is safe. But you explicitly allow them to do all sorts of things.

To wit, they also tell us (less prominently) that they will immediately share all data with facebook once an agreement with the Irish government is reached. However, even without that, you can count on them doing so if profit > fine.

Beyond all the bull that has been produced by FB and Whatsapp, the reality is obviously that the singular goal of this entire exercise is to syphon off as much data from Whatsapp as they can get away with, relative to the fines they will have to pay.

Anyone who agrees to this is naive.
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If you think thats clickbaity, wait until you read the DoJ press release:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/sky-global-executive-an...