skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How much would we fear any technology, whether A.I. or some other technology, how much would you fear it if we lived in a world that was a lot like Denmark or if the entire world was run sort of on the principles of one of the Scandinavian countries?"

Would be interesting to hear what HN thinks those principles are. I often find the Scandies are seen in a idealized light, everyone just thinks everything is great there. In many ways, it IS great there.

But consider:

- Margrethe Vestager, that EU lady who talks a lot about the power of tech, is Danish.

- Danes are not entirely convinced that there's a lot if social mobility there. They talk about social inheritance, where it turns out you'll probably do better if your parents did well in terms of getting educated.

- There's no minimum wage law, though de facto there's a sort of social contract between unions and business.

- It's easy to fire people, in contrast to many European countries.
> So Chinese citizens have nothing to fear

No, they will have different fears.

Or if they turn out to have much the same fears, then maybe the political system that they live under is similar too. Point is, the fear says more about that political system than it does about a technology in itself.
> “finds that less sleep than time-in-bed doesn't seem to affect them much”

The abstract of the article doesnt say this. It finds that the intervention managed to increase their average sleep length by 27 minute from 5.5 hours to ~6 hours. Thats still way bellow the recommended length. It also finds that this intervention didn’t improve their work performance.

This might be because “less sleep doesnt seem to affect them much”, but it might equally well be that it affects them tremendously and the 27 extra minutes were not enough to help them.
They probably make more than minimum wage workers at (fast food|restaurants|cleaning|etc) ? So even if they're relatively poor compared to skilled software engineers ( which is usually even more skewed because skilled ones often work for rich foreign companies that can afford a much better salary and still come out cheaper than engineers in their original country), they're still better off than minimum wage, who are the real working poor ( note that in some countries and cities minimum wage can be sufficient and wouldn't put you in the poor category)
If passive funds made this tradeoff then how would they be influenced by a company going bankrupt? They would just change the tradeoff when that becomes a problem since this is not part of the passive investment strategy.
Agreed; all of them should be general-purpose computers, neither should be subsidized by software sales and neither should be locked down.
Face Food App: Food nutrition to better eating
Hello Beta Testers,

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In this same context, we are offering you a "beta" trial version in order to collect as much feedback as possible before launching a final production version.

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So, what is Zigzag notation?

Problem: Certainly other applications do not take into account the ultra-processing and the ecological score of a product for the rating. For example, for them, if a product is not very salty and sweet but contains ingredients characteristic of ultra-processing, it could be highly rated.

Face Food solution: the method of rating food products which is based on five criteria: (Nutriscore, Additives, Processing index, Environmental index, biological dimension), the percentages of each of these criteria can be changed by you . The application already suggests 4 example notations on the configuration tab.

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FOOD SCANNER
EAT BETTER WITH A SUMMARY OF THE FOOD PRODUCT
EAT BETTER WITH A DETAILED PRODUCT SHEET
MACRO AND MICRONUTRIENTS
DETAILS ON FOOD ADDITIVES
INGREDIENT DETECTOR
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SEVERAL THEMES
MUCH MORE

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Play store web link: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.health.foodNutritio...
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The availability of the application: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, United States.
What am I supposed to do with that URL?
I don't agree with the author: technology such as A.I. as a means for exerting illiberal control on citizens is not inherently a feature of capitalism.

>how much would you fear it if we lived in a world that was a lot like Denmark or if the entire world was run sort of on the principles of one of the Scandinavian countries?

Yet they have ANPRs, larger camera networks and digital surveillance too. Not a strong argument against capitalism which in it's libertarian form would not allow for governments to effectively wield these weapons of control.

Those in power will always yield technology to increase their power over the population. We just need the societal and political technology to not allow them.
I believe Brave removes a lot of the telemetry and tracking code from Chromium, so I consider it more trustworthy.
I used “true” instead of “$True” in a power shell script. It didn’t error. It didn’t warn. It just evaluated to false.

So doesn’t behave like a strongly typed language to me.
I have used Photopea somewhat, but I have thought this is temporary as it's not open source. How long this will be available? If Adobe targets this, it wouldn't be a surprising to see this being bought off and killed.
>>What is your system time? If it's not British time you're somewhere else

I am not based in UK. Do you think I should be changing my iPhone timeline to UK? It will be a clunky workaround but doable.

>>What is your actual IP? Where is that IP based?

Would you please tell me how do I use the above command to run in my iPhone to find my actual IP? Please note that I keep my VPN on 24 * 7 so that my real IP is never sent out on the web.

>>What is the return-time between a ping (or similar) from the BBC to you and back?

It should be around 18-20msec when I last did a speedtest with the VPN on. How can I check my ping time to the BBC iPlayer site? Is there a website which will help me do this?
> FLoC doesn't compromise your privacy. It does interest inference client-side, away from bigcorp servers. It doesn't leak any information about you.

fetch("mycompany.com/" + mycompanyUsername + "/" + (await document.interestCohort()));

There. Now it's neither anonymous nor client-side anymore.
> relying on the government to fund their lifestyle

This sort of rhetoric needs to stop as well. Public funding of someone's basic needs of food and shelter isn't a lifestyle.

And anyway, a person receiving such funds probably paid for it already in taxes - usually, they're just taking out a bit from what they've already contributed to.
> "And where did computing science get its formal beginnings? In mathematics departments."

Citation needed. You might be able to argue that it had its beginning in EE departments, but CS as a field did not spring from math at all. Seriously there is a difference between formalizing something in mathematical language - which happens to almost every technical field - and having that formalization be considered an advancement in math itself. This is exactly my point about throwing everyone "technical" into the mix. After all, the formalization of chemistry requires lots of math, so Marie Curie must be on the list of mathematicians, too!
( I avoided it in the headline comment so as not to seem to shill, but if you're interested in what cause areas come out ahead, I broadly endorse, but am not affiliated with, the analysis here: https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-reviews/all-char... )
It looks like someone just scraped all of the public profiles.
And the German Army in WW2 heavily used meth ( pervitin iirc) to keep focused and going on for longer
I'm curious, what do you want to give the author with this comment? Do you think that this is constructive or helpful for what is shared here?
Those numbers were for 2019.
I bet that he is making over a million a year now.
He does seem to offer premium accounts.
"fonts can be malicious" (on iceberg) and "font hinting is Turing complete" (middle of iceberg) are the same.
I'm not sure I'm supposed to engage with throwaway accounts but here goes.

Why can't a program on the user bus send a message to a program on the system bus and vice versa? Because dbus messages cannot transit between buses. That is why.

The workaround of straddling both buses is something I recently had a good look for. To see if that was a reasonable thing to do. I couldn't find a single example of a program doing this. I think that's because it's a security bodge trying to evade the intentional isolation built into dbus. Although if I'm honest I think it's an OK workaround as you can restrict the system bus access.

The problem I keep genuinely running into is the existing programs I want to talk to (and don't control) only sit on the user bus, very very rarely the system bus because they are gui programs tied into the user session. So my program is then forced to run as the same user. And even that's not enough because they need to run under the same user session, not just the same user. This restriction is a deal-breaker for my system service-type programs and is totally avoidable when using other communication methods (which those existing programs also provide, presumably because they realise dbus is often totally unusable).

The simple way is to use a Unix socket and that's why people continue to "litter" the filesystem with them. You can even get a bit of auth with them.
The book "Weapons of math destruction" contains a myriad of real examples of big data and AI punishing people and making their situation worse, in the US, with no totalitarianism needed. For example, use of AI in credit scores or policing, where the place you live will make the AI score you worse or think you're more likely to be a criminal, therefore making it harder for you to get out of any bad situation and reinforcing the "people from this zone are bad" idea.
Indeed, it sort of assumes that working at FAANG with a pension plan and 200k+ is what the author should be striving for (the objectively better option), and I’m not sure if that’s accurate.

While there are obvious benefits to FAANGing, there’s also a lot to be said for working for a smaller team, or even yourself. Money isn’t the soul (or even main) motivator for a lot of people.
> Meme stocks are a thing born out of social media just very recently and will most likely not happen that much given that now edge funds are aware of it and have probably already deployed the appropriate counter-measures.

Tesla was called a meme stock, and it turned Elon into the World richest man (depending on the day or week) and he went on to invest in BTC and then pump DOGE in defiance of the SEC who stand on the sidelines with the credit agencies who arbitrarily enforce the 'law' and 'regulate' when it see's fit.

How exactly are you arriving at your conclusion with any reason or logic behind it?

Meme stocks, an overly used and frankly absurd notion as it is all can be seen that way since it's all just smoke and mirrors hiding a very pernicious casino business model at the end of the day, but lets say they are; what stops any of them from stopping them from what was once called 'vigilante investors' in the early 2000s?

Hell they couldn't even stop ponzi schemes like Bernie Maddof, or outright fraud like credit default swaps that allowed the World economy in 2008 to blow.

If anything it shows just how entrenched the politicla class and the financial class collude to extract wealth from Society with little to no punishment, think MF Global.
The ironic thing about the “social democratic” left’s admiration of Scandinavian countries is that in actuality, these places are the opposite of the global universality ideal. Denmark is a small, mostly homogeneous country that has immigration but strongly enforces assimilation. Making America like Denmark would require things that these same social democrats are vehemently against.
This is a valid argument for the discussion. I don't agree with it, but thanks for sharing.

What do you think are Elon Musks talents that push his SpaceX program forward?

In which area do you think that you could make a valuable contribution to the world?
I think the article is wrong.

Fears of Technology are really fear of technology misuse. Sure current system is capitalism, but you could construct a similar argument for any other system.

E.g. in contemporary authoritarian communism with same tech level, you could get automated societal purges.
War games: Battlefield strategy and the game of chess
You're confusing gecko and servo. Servo is an experimental web engine which was being developed by Mozilla to test experimental tech. Recently its dev team was laid off. Gecko is the production engine that Firefox is based on, and it's still under full steam ahead development by engineers employed by Mozilla.
Not even underdeveloped countries, I live in a G8 country and there is hardly any significant FAANG shop here.

For example if you want to work for Google in Europe it's either UK or Switzerland, which are interestingly the two developed european countries outside of the EU :)
> Bitcoin touting to be the future of money while having the same if not more problems than fiat currencies is exactly why it deserves all the scrutiny it can get.

I'm totally on board that Bitcoin should be scrutinized and examined critically.

Concerning the Cantillon effect, in the fiat system, the beneficiaries are the already rich and well connected insiders.

Recent central bank monetary interventions are major drivers of inequality by pushing up the asset prices of the rich while the poor suffer joblessness and inflation.

With Bitcoin, new units are created in fierce and open competition, and not handed out to insiders.
I saw lots ads from Adobe pop up. Can anyone help me understand why Adobe is funding a guy in the Czech Republic to give away for free a pixel perfect closed source clone of their flagship product? I also can't find the privacy policy.
Never but this will help:

https://noyb.eu/en/facebooks-gdpr-bypass-reaches-austrian-su...
And using PNG as their image format and not doing any kind of text compression. That’s the most basic thing in serving websites and they are not doing it.
He's arguing they're poorer than the average software engineer, not poorer than a factory worker.
I'd put my money on Eastern Europe or South America.
They also tend to overlook the fact that most Scandinavian countries are incredibly homogenous, which helps with adoption of socialist practices.
Copying look and feel of software was fought out in the courts by Apple and Microsoft a very long time ago. It’s allowed.
FWIW, when we heard of the incident, I think the prevailing sentiment was that America deserved it, and we are unrelated to China (in Europe).

America has made a lot of enemies and inflicted a lot of damage and terror for what seems as both good and bad reasons. After all the one-sided "interventions", I find it hard to disagree that America (not the Americans affected) deserved something in return.
I'm glad someone has written this article as the converse on HN has been overly negative. This is an article I would have probably written so I'd like to add:

> Third, private transaction retrieval requires downloading blocks to your phone and manually filtering them. If you’ve ever used the Monero CakeWallet, you’ll know it can sometimes take quite a while before everything is synced and you actually see your full balance. MobileCoin solves this by using fog, which allows for instant and private transaction retrieval without putting a heavy computational load on your phone.

MyMonero and OpenMonero is this kind of light wallet and has similar privacy guarentees. Fog is still vulnerable to timing based attacks.

> Even if you assume that Intel SGX is completely broken in every way possible, MobileCoin provides at least the same amount of privacy as Monero. The purpose of SGX is to provide defense-in-depth by potentially mitigating heuristic analysis that CryptoNote protocols are vulnerable to.

Federation fundimentally offers less privacy guarentees and relies on trusting the nodes and fog servers. Malicious actors can perform all kinds of timing attacks.

> If anyone has read through Josh Goldbard’s comments on Hacker News, you will undoubtedly understand the frustration here. In multiple instances, he simply avoids answering a question altogether in his replies. I don’t believe he is trying to hide any foul play here.

This is quite an optemistic take, even other cryptocurrencies are more transparent about their initial token sale price, companies and amount purchased, distribution schedule, etc.

The article also doesn't touch on MobileCoin's lack of credit for Monero[0] and the founding engineer's now deleted post about the Monero codebase[1].

[0]: https://nitter.dark.fail/fluffypony/status/13795592735046410...

[1]: https://nitter.dark.fail/fluffypony/status/13796045413903441...
> In general, the patch 'patch1 ∘ patch2' can be different from the patch 'patch2 ∘ patch1'.

That isn't true. In Pijul, either patch1 explicitly depends on patch2, or patch2 explicitly depends on patch1, or else these two things you said are equal.
The FOSS Game OpenTTD Went to Steam to Solve a Hard Problem
Can you cash it out? Considering how few web creators even accept BAT, I can't see it having any value of you couldn't...
The article spends most of its words trying to convince the reader to do it, and only a few paragraphs on how to do it. I was convinced in the first paragraph.

My own experience shows that hiring for your team's weaknesses can make it more effective. In 2013, I went from an operations-heavy role to a new team with little operations experience. Our TL designed and coded a new service. He was not happy with the feedback I gave through the design & code review process. Before deploying the new service to production, we met with one of the company's top engineers (Sanjay Ghemawat) for a "production readiness review". The reviewer was impressed and found only a couple of minor issues. He said that it was rare for him to review a service and find no major issues. Many of the questions he asked during the review were things that I had brought up earlier and convinced our TL to fix. Although I had not written any code on the service, I contributed operational knowledge and filled a weakness of the team.

Our TL did not acknowledge my contribution and even gave me a bad review, costing me about $80k in compensation. Now, years later, I believe that he did that to get me to leave the team. I had often pushed to fix the major problems in our project. I think he wanted to keep control and continue working on fun things and ignore the problems. Our manager went along with him, building his own empire. I left and the person who took my place had the same problem and left as soon as they could. Honesty and respectfulness are important qualities of teams and team members because they develop trust. Trust makes teams more productive. An internal study at Google concluded that teams with members who trust each other are much more productive than teams with high technical ability and low trust [0]. Lack of trust is a team weakness that we can hire to improve. We can also intentionally train and practice skills that improve team trust.

I want a systematic way to identify the strengths and weaknesses of myself, my teammates, and potential teammates. I want a questionnaire like the one in Essential Enneagram which was tested in a study with 1,000 participants [1].

I wish the large tech companies would invest in this kind of work and publish it.

[0] https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/

[1] https://drdaviddaniels.com/enneagram-test/
Kubernetes Mutating Webhook for assigning node affinity on a namespace level
If you are going to make the argument that the rich losing large sums of money doesn’t matter much, couldn’t you use the same line of reasoning to argue that the rich gaining large sums of money doesn’t matter much either?
In Germany most banks now charge "negative interest" on account balances (usually around 0,5% for >100k). This now makes the Germans most popular (non-)investment of keeping money in savings accounts even more nonsensical. The most common investment advice here (and everywhere else) now is to buy index funds/ETFs (apart from buying a house). I know almost nothing about investing, but doing something that essentially everybody else is also doing with their money does not sound like it will necessarily end well. It just makes me suspicious somehow, with nothing to back that up but a nervous feeling.
My wife and I are going to use this. Great idea, considered it myself, thanks for doing it!

It would nice to swipe on the descriptions.

It would be nice to see ratings from different site(IMDb, rotten tomatoes)

It'd be great to employ a magic link in email to sign in rather than needing a password and email confirmation. That'd help me get my non-techy friends using it quickly.
Context: Chrome is doing an origin trial on FLOC since march 30: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-pr...

To my knowledge, it's not yet available as a public web API.
Not having to install Gimp nor Krita is great, given all the disk space they occupy.

As an added bonus with Photopea I have to relearn GUI patterns nor shortcuts, I can apply what I've learned in years of PS usage.

This is an opportunity for FOSS, if the objective is to increase adoption from casual users. I wonder if the GIMP version that was made to look like PS is still a thing
That's what i'm arguing. It is an impersonal system with its own internal logic. There isn't some cabal of cigar-chomping elites who are puppeteering Capital in accordance with their greed. It's the other way around. It's their greed that's being puppeteered by the logic of Capital.
How about in Czech Republic, or EU courts? There is always a way for big companies to fight small ones.

Of course one way to defend that would be to have the company be US based or with founding US partners.
Buy a phone, get a tracker: unauthorized tracking code on Android
Why are people downvoting comments that are pointing this out? If you don't like the discussion that the article provoked then flag down the entire article, not comments.
Yup, this seems to be the case. I don’t know how this could be characterize as a leak?
It looks more like a SQL dump to me. The data doesn't seems to be too critical however.
fair. Let's hope this part of history is written some day.
With third party cookies disabled, the Google Ads scripts running on non-Google websites cannot tell you're logged into Google and what's your Google profile. All they know is someone is visiting the site. For them to decide what ads to display, interests have to be gathered through different means. This new FLoC is a way for your browser to let them know what you're interested in.
Sounds very reasonable. I should really do this more often!
Lots of them have a presence in Ireland too.
Lets run a mental experiment - tens of millions of people are going to be out of jobs when driverless cars arrive. Are they meant to get ownership stake in the conpany to replace them, lets say Uber and Waymo? Is that realistically possible?

Lets imagine it happens - how is having 30 million rent -seekers sustainable? If all the actual work is done by machines, whats the point of their owners, what do they contribute?